Like a cat

Chapter 9: Recovering~~

As they sat in the back of the van, Youngjae snuggled into JB's chest, purring. He had made Jinyoung drive, as Jaebum was still obviously tired and now on the verge of collapsing. Facing Sooyoung had apparently taken a lot of energy, as well as the shoot and using his powers.

Jarbum was happy to have his kitty at his side, and feeling better now that the others knew and accepted him. He realized that they were the couple of which both parties had supernatural features.

With the comfortable warmth of Youngjae next to him, and the comforting sound of his purring, he fell into an uneasy sleep.

He drifted out of his dreams, unsure of what was real or not.

high pitched laughing....his parents hovering over him...Youngjae....blood...running....car seats....fire, flickering in the depths of his mind....bodies, dead, lying on a unfamiliar floor....warmth...hands, shaking him...a voice, yelling, "Wake up! Hyung! Im Jaebum, wake up!!"

JB woke with a start, finding himself staring into Youngjaes worried, chocolate brown eyes.

"What happened?!" Youngjae asked, scanning JB's face.

Confused, Jaebum said, "What do you mean?"

Youngjae winced. "You started screaming and thrashing around, Jinyoung pulled over, but your screams just kept getting worse and higher, so I woke you up."

Oh. His dreams.

Bits and pieces began flooding his mind again, almost paralyzing him.

In a voice not mich more than a gasp, JB said, "If I use my power to much in a certain amount of time, I start hallucinating, and if I use it only a little more than I should, I hallucinate in my sleep. It usually doesn't last that long, but if you are on the verge of killing yourself or falling into a coma, you could start hallucinating and easily die from that. Which is why I've never used my power that much. This is only the second time this has happened to me, while, on average, it usually happenes to ones like me around 15 times by the age I'm at now. I've been extra careful, which isn't that hard usually."

"What was the first one?" asked Jackson.

"It was in highschool, not long after I discovered what I could do. My friend accidentally ate a poisonous berry when we were walking in the woods after school. I had to heal him, and it saved his life. He luckily didn't remember anything. That night was the first time I had hallucinations, and the last up untill now."

They all gaped at him.

"You can heal people?" Yugyeom asked, his voice quavering.

Jaebum nodded.

"Wait." Mark said. All eyes turned to him, as he usually didn't ask many questions, and if he did, they were good and observant ones.

"You said not long after you discovered your powers. How did you find out? I though you knew since you were born, like Youngjae."

JB shook his head. "No, it's not obvious, and you don't instinctively know. Plus, your powers might develop later in life. I'm not quite sure when my did. It started at school, when I would get really mad. The wind would get really violent. It started changing with my moods. At first, I thought it was a coincidence, but I started experimenting, and I realized what I could do. So one time I was practicing, and I accidentally directed my power at a plant. It started to grow, and I realized what happened."

The van was silent.

Youngjae shuffled around, placing his head into JB's neck, his exhaled air hitting Jaebum's exposed skin.