Miracles From Heaven - [TAEBIN FF]

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Taehyun was still resting, sound asleep on his bed. A day has passed since the horrors of the night, and there were no signs of him waking up.

Soobin wasn't too worried

Yet.

Some patients take longer to wake up after surgeries, and one of the surgeons did stop by to let him know Taehyun lost quite a bit of blood from coughing, so it was no wonder that he was so exhausted.

He just didn't have anything else to do. Well, aside from working on his seminar paper, which he was totally focused on.

It was nearing 2pm when Soobin suddenly heard the soft rustle of sheets, and looked up from his screen to see Taehyun blinking his eyes open, confusion etched on his face as he raised his arms to stretch himself.

"What happened?" he mumbled.

It took Soobin everything to not freak out from relief hearing Taehyun speak, meaning he was awake.

And alive.

Because Jungkook's words definitely had Soobin overthinking his dynamic with Taehyun.

Am I really that attached to him? It's only been a few days since we've known each other? Or did he find me—

"Soobin?"

He snapped out of his thoughts when Taehyun addressed him more assertively.

"Huh?"

"I asked you a question," Taehyun said.

"Oh... what was the question, sorry I zoned out."

Taehyun mentally sighed.

"I asked what happened?"

"Oh."

Soobin was unsure if he should tell him.

"Come on, it can't be as bad as the one time the doctors told me I almost overdosed due to the false medicine," Taehyun said, nonchalantly.

How he managed to speak so casually about his near death experiences was a mystery to be solved another day.

"You nearly had a heart failure."

There.

Soobin had said it.

And he saw the slight shift in Taehyun's eyes as he said that, looking around uncomfortably and... worriedly.

"Oh... is that why I kept tasting blood?"

"Probably. I thought it might have been tuberculosis, so I asked Jungkook to run some tests on you. They all came back negative."

Taehyun sighed.

"You made me get my hopes up..."

Soobin knew what he meant. Taehyun was probably well aware that there was some kind of lingering condition in him that was making it difficult for his body to battle the neverending skin cancer, one that was not his albinism.