Death's Caress - kyungjeong

Seven

It'd been about an hour since Kyungil had disappeared and YiJeong was still standing in the same spot. He'd been lost in his thoughts the moment his last question had slipped out. Why was kyungil so angry? It wasn't like yijeong hadn't kissed people before, so why the sudden outburst?

"so you're still here?" he heard a voice call out. so now, not only was Kyungil gone, Dokyung was back. YiJeong turned around to face the man and the sight was not disappointing at all. His left eye was hardly open and was taking on a nasty color of purple. His nose still had dried blood surrounding his nostrils, almost as if it'd just stopped bleeding earlier. His hair was standing every which way and he just looked like an overall mess.

"Where's your thing?" Dokyun asked briskly. "Not here to protect you is it?"

"Why do you even bother anymore Dokyun? You don't even need to check on me anymore, i'm not a child. Can't you just go away and not bother to come back?" YiJeong just wanted some peace. 

"no, i'm here because you deserve what's about to come to you, you little brat. I don't know what you had with you yesterday but today it's just the two of us." Dokyun said as he started advancing on the younger male. "This time we can have a fair fight and you can get what you deserve for ever even being born."

And YiJeong just stood there. Dokyun was correct, he deserved everything he was about to receive. And he wouldn't call out for help either, he would just take it.

"Why so quiet? Nothing to say?" Dokyun taunted.

"You're right," YiJeong said lowly,"So why would I fight with you, or even fight back when I know I deserve it."

"Oh come on, don't give in so easy. Part of the reason i should enjoy this is because you usually defy me and you should continue to. I need to target all my anger into this, because you should feel the pain I did." Dokyun finished before sending the first blow. He smacked YiJeong across the face before pushing the younger man down. "come on, scream, let me know how much it hurts."

He continued to kick and punch the smaller male until he became short of breath due to his own injuries. "You're lucky your thing really did a number on me, otherwise i'd continue." He kicked YiJeong one last time before spitting on the floor next to his face,"it's gonna be a lot worse next time."

As Dokyun turned to leave the house YiJeong spoke up,"Thank you." 

"It was my absolute pleasure."

-

Kyungil had calmed a significant amount when he finally reentered the house, but all of that calmness flew out the window when he saw a battered YiJeong laying on the floor asleep. He rushed over to the unconscious boy and dropped down to his knees before wrapping his arms around YiJeongs smaller frame and shaking his lightly. "YiJeong what the hell happened?"

YiJeong remained asleep, mentally and physically exhausted from the beating he'd taken earlier. Meanwhile, Kyungil began to clean up all of the cuts and bruises before moving the boy to his bedroom to allow him to properly rest. He had a suspect in mind when it came to who beat him but he didn't want to deal with that just yet. First he needed to make sure Jeong was okay.

"Why the hell didn't you call out to me? I could've prevented this." but Kyungil knew the answer already. YiJeong had told him earlier not to intervene if the man hit him, so obviously the younger man wouldn't try to stop him. If anything he'd willingly let it happen. And that scared Kyungil. How would he be able to help YiJeong in the future if the boy won't call out to him.

"You're so hard to understand Jeong."

-

When YiJeong finally roused some hours later he already knew the wrath he was bound to face, so he pretended to still be asleep. However, it was quite hard to do that when his body was in a significant amount of pain.

"you've got some explaining to do," he heard a voice from beside him say. Yet he ignored it anyways because he was tired of arguing.

"YiJeong, now is not the time to play games! tell me what happened." The reaper demanded.

And again, silence.

"why am I even bothering? i'll be back in a few hours." Kyungil said, admitting defeat.

"wait," YiJeong called out, finally breaking his short silence. he turned over slowly to face the reaper,"why do you keep leaving me?"

-
so when I said i'd be gone some months I didn't know I was being serious lmao
in the time ive been gone, i've graduated hs, visited my college so many times, and started working more hours at my job. my writing hasn't had room to improve because I haven't written in so long so I apologize for the sloppiness as well as the terrible flow. i've completely forgotten the plot for this and honestly at this point I don't care. i'll figure it out. anyways my birthday is in less than a week and i am so excited! i'll be 18 wooo!