Blaze

Team Assemble

Tao and Kris were in the hostpial, but only Kris was in the ER. This was really some news.

"Why don't you go see Kris?" Suho suggested. "I'll go see Tao."

"Why?" Namjoo glanced at him.

"We'll get out of here faster this way," Suho excused.

Namjoo glanced at him warily, as if he was up to something before walking toward the automatic glass doors. Turning away from her Suho started down the hall in search of Tao who was sitting somewhere in the lobby.

Tao was easily identifiable among the heads of the other patients. His dark black hair stood out uniquely along with that strong gaze of his. He seemed to be looking at the bulletin board ahead as if to memorize all the advertisements, yet at the same time he seemed to be looking at nothing at all.

"Am I supposed to be your guardian?" Suho questioned sitting beside him. "I heard you gave my number away."

"Tshh..." Tao snorted. "You think I wanted Donghae to come? You're easier to push around."

Suho smiled enlightened by the fact that Tao didn't seem too pushed down by Kris' injury.

"What happened?" Suho wondered.

Tao's eyes drifted toward the floor as if guilty. "I got angry."

"So..." Suho let his voice drone on for a few seconds, "you decided to hurt Kris? Did you punch him? Did it feel good?"

Tao side eyed him to which Suho slightly laughed.

"It's ok," Suho nodded coolly and crossed his arms as he leaned back. "Fights happen, just gotta get over it."

"If it was that easy." Tao quietly uttered.

Suho turned to look at him and said enthusaistically, "It can." When Tao turned to him he added brightly, "You control yourself, not the other way around. And you start by apologizing."

Tao shifted away dejecting his suggestion.

"Come on Tao," Suho went on. "First step to making things easy, is realizing you're wrong, which you're already doing. Second step, what do you think you're supposed to do?"

Tao shot a glare at him through the corner o fhis eye, "Don't treat me like a child."

Smugly smiling Suho continued, "Then you already know what you're supposed to do."

Suho waited patiently for Tao to react, but his phone first answered. Pulling it out of his pocket he answered.

"Donghae," Suho greeted.

"There's an emergency."

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Down the hallway Namjoo paused in steps when she saw brochures about childcare and pregnancy sitting in cups plastered to the wall. There was a picture of a proud happy mother gazing down at her infant, as if it was the most precious thing. Part of her wondered if she'd be able to look like that.

Namjoo peered around the busy ER as she walked in. Every beep of the monitors hit her ears as she slowly trudged in. The nurses were all busy and curled up in their work, the patients quietly waiting to be diagnosed and checked on. Her eyes passed over an injured man with a nurse patching up his wound.

"Here for me?" A voice made her turn.

Kris was sitting on a bed with a bandage on his forehead and a bandage wrapped around his right hand up to his wrist. He waved at her quite happily and she thought he didn't look very injured.

"Are you ok?" She asked walking toward him.

"Now I am," he replied in that witty voice of his meant to annoy her.