꒰ ETERNAL ꒱ - JOOKYUN ˎˊ˗

💫 || five.

EDITED - 10 JUN 2020

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changkyun soon sat at the other end of the bathtub, joining jooheon. he felt too vulnerable, exposing all of his scars and wounds that were covering his whole body, but the warm water was making him feel relaxed. it was how he wanted to feel all the time. warm, relaxed, at ease. he wanted all the pain to disappear.

"do you know what i was wondering when i was younger?" jooheon asked, looking at changkyun with a smile.

"tell me," changkyun smiled back, remembering how delusional jooheon was about many things when he was younger. things hadn't changed a lot since then. but it all seemed much more fun when jooheon was still young and innocent, instead of ruining his life like he did.

"do your wings get heavier when they are wet? like clothes do..."

changkyun chuckled. "they do. they get really heavy."

jooheon let out a quiet "oh". during the fifteen years he knew changkyun he wasn't really that interested in what being a guardian angel was exactly like, therefore, he didn't know a lot. he felt like he was never that interested in changkyun either.

just a year or two ago he actually started actively questioning the things happening to and around changkyun. until then he was just really excited about the thought of having someone to keep him safe and look after him, taking it completely for granted. he still was.

when the water went cold, the two got out of the tub. jooheon carefully wrapped changkyun in a towel, making sure that it wasn't too tight against the places of his open wounds. (a while ago he decided to buy a bigger towel than the ones he had because he knew that changkyun was still uncomfortable in front of him.)

after taking care of changkyun, the older wrapped a towel around his waist and they went to the living room, sitting on the couch.

they were watching random things on the tv, switching through channels a lot as jooheon was gently drying changkyun's head with a towel. at some point when he was already dry, jooheon went over to the kitchen to take beer and returned, receiving a glare from changkyun.

of course, jooheon didn't really care, or at least didn't know he had a reason to care, so he just drank in peace, still searching for something interesting to watch.

soon enough, changkyun felt his head spinning. he didn't hear much of what was happening around himself nor he could focus his gaze on anything. it was what usually happened when jooheon drank but now it was affecting him more since he was weaker now.

he was sure that he had a high fever and exactly that was going to be the end of him. he wasn't strong enough to fight a fever.

and jooheon, the cause of all of this, was sitting right next to him, making everything even worse.

"jooheon," changkyun weakly said, barely keeping his head up. "please, stop drinking." he rested his hand on jooheon's thigh, hinting at him to leave his bottle aside.

he had to tell him before it was too late. but just when he opened his mouth, ready to say something, he felt himself losing consciousness. he sighed as he gave up fighting against it. his vision had turned all black already and his hands and legs had gone numb. he closed his eyes.

"are you okay?" jooheon left his beer somewhere on the ground, grabbing the angel by the shoulders.

changkyun let out a small, kind of mocking, laugh. "i'm sorry, jooheon," he whispered.