Kept

Better

Hyunjin POV

He was alive.

He was in my bed, cocooned in my arms.

He was warm to the touch again and his lips were so soft...

And....

And he loved me.

I smiled, burrowing my face in his hair, drawing in the smell of him, terrified to let go of him, in case it was all a farce, a bizarre coping mechanism my brain had thought up.

Dr. Kim assured me I was sane before he left, looking gaunt and exhausted. It was as if he'd poured his own lifeforce into Chan, leaving himself weak enough that Jeongin had carried him out of my room with a concerned look on his face. 

Jeongin didn't get concerned. 

It made me think he must really care about Seungmin...

The others had stayed long enough to ensure Chan had been breathing, Jisung clung to him, sobbing in relief, muttering low words of brotherly affection,  apologizing to me worried I would think he wanted Chan after all, before Minho peeled him away...

He was odd, that one- but somehow, spectacularly matched my best friend. Felix and Changbin checked on me, seeing if I needed anything before they left and dumbfounded, I'd simply shook my head no.

I sighed, hugging Chan even closer, my eyes closing as I surrounded myself with him.

"Baby..." He asked, his voice muffled where his face was buried in my chest, those lips pressing lightly over my pecs, like he couldn't get close enough to me. "Are you sure...that didn't hurt?" He asked, motioning to my neck and the tiny, nearly healed marks from his new...fangs.

"I told you- It was... not painful." I offered, unable to tell him the truth that It had felt like nirvana-almost...

Almost better than sex.

"Not painful, at all?" he worried, turning his eyes upward, looking at me with big eyes, his fingertips feather light against the pinkish healing dots.

"Gods, Chan..." I sighed, turning myself over to the way his touch had me melting for him. "Okay it was amazing actually." I confessed. "I don't how to tell you, but it was like... almost... orgasmic." I explained.

 He looked away, choking on nothing. "Oh. That's unexpected." He considered.

"Chan- this whole fucking thing is so insanely unexpected and surreal that my vampire boyfriend's bite feeling good is probably the most normal thing."

He giggled. "I love you...you called me boyfriend."

"Mate? True love...are those better?" I teased, squeezing him closer.

His tongue snaked out, lapping over my pecs, his teeth catching my nipple lightly, teasing. His fangs had retracted after he fed, leaving him looking exactly as he had before, only perhaps less tired.

"Chan..." I warned... I didn't think it was a good idea to go further... since he'd been... well... not very alive only an hour before. "We probably shouldn't."