banghim ✧ detained

Fifteen

Himchan shut his eyes as the loud sound echoed throughout the empty lot. He expected to feel pain, or his own warm blood flow down his body. Yet he felt neither.

He looked at Yongnam's face. A smile was plastered on him. Himchan realized and turned around. A horrified expression instantly appeared on his face.
Yongguk stood there, his eyes wide with shock. He slowly moved his hands toward his torso before bringing them up to his face. Crimson red blood painted his hands. Yongguk looked at Himchan before falling backwards.
Himchan ran over to Yongguk, holding him before his back could hit the ground.

Daehyun skid over the floor stopping slightly before where Himchan was.

"Yongguk... Yongguk you're okay, right?" Himchan raised the bottom edge of Yongguk's top, revealing the bullet wound.

"Himchan, it's hurts." Yongguk said to the other with a whispered voice.
"I-It'll be already."
Himchan, his hands trembling, applied pressure to the wound, hoping to stop the overflowing blood.
Himchan's salty tears fell to Yongguk's exposed torso.
The sharp smell filled Himchan's senses.
Yongguk placed his hands on top of Himchan's,"It's no use."
Himchan looked up, seeing Daehyun,"What are you doing just standing there? Call a fucking ambulance."
Daehyun, with little hesitation, did as Himchan commanded.
Himchan held up Yongguk's head to his leaned one,"It'll be okay. I promise. Just wait a little more."

"There's no use in trying to save him. I hit his vital organs. He should bleed not long from now." Yongnam said, chuckling at the end.
"Shut up!" Himchan fired two shots, one missing Yongnam's leg by a millimeter and the other hitting him on his left side, sending him to the floor.
Himchan put the gun down. He buried his head into Yongguk's neck. "It'll be okay. It'll be okay. It'll be okay."
"Himchan... Thank you, for everything-" "Don't talk like you're going to die."
The taller man softly laughed,"I can't survive in this stat-"
Himchan silenced Yongguk by quickly kissing him, earning Daehyun a confused state. "Himchan, you're..."

"Don't say that. Please. I promised you."
Yongguk coughed, the thick, red liquid choking him from inside.
"Himchan let me finish, please." Himchan looked away slightly before looking back at the man.
"Thank you; you gave me a reason to have a desire to live, the way you treated me coldly, which eventually turned to warmth. I was happy enough with just hearing your voice or seeing you smile. You're the first person who made me feel loved-"
"If I make you have the desire to live then don't die, goddamnit!"
Himchan choked on his own sobs.

"To be honest, I dreamt of going on a normal date with you. One where we could look at each other without cell bars separating us, where you wouldn't need an excuse to be with me."

"Yongguk, please..."

Yongguk pulled himself up towards Himchan ear,"Even if you broke your promise, I still love you, Kim Himchan."

Yongguk's body became heavy on Himchan's arms. Himchan lowered his arms, looking at Yongguk's face. His eyes watered more than before. He screamed and cried. "Yongguk, wake up. Please."

A wailing siren was heard from the distance, as it became louder as it grew closer.

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The now night sky darkened the area, surrounded by black vans, ambulances, and exactly three police cars.
Himchan sat in the back of the ambulance, a bandage wrapped around his leg and a thin, green blanket hanging over his shoulders.
Yongnam was arrested, along with Soon-bae and anyone else that had been a accomplice with him.
Himchan stepped out of the ambulance. He walked over to the lot. He looked down before crouching near Yongguk's body, which was now covered by a white blanket stained in Yongguk's own blood. He placed a single dandelion, that he had previously picked off the ground, on the white blanket.
Himchan lost in thought, flinched when Daehyun's hand groped his shoulder.
"You and Yongguk were..." "Yes, we were." Daehyun didn't know what exactly to think. "Daehyun." "Yes?" "Where do I go now? Jae-eun, Jin-soo, Yongguk... They're all gone. I have no one to go to now." Without giving Daehyun a chance to answer, Himchan stood up.

He walked away towards his car, which he drove home with.

He stared in his bathroom mirror. Dried blood practically painted his face. He turned on the faucet, letting the cold water to turn warm. He wet his hands before rubbing his face after. The slightly now orange colored water ran down the curves of the sink.

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Four years had passed.

Himchan was promoted to a higher rank while Kim was arrested  direct contact and have being a accomplice with Yongnam.
Yongnam was arrested for suspect in serial murder, kidnapping, and domestic abuse and was charged to death in prison without parole. Soon-bae was, however, sentenced eight years.
It was also the day of Yongnam's excitation.
He smiled as he was brought into a room he wouldn't walk out of alive.

Himchan straightened out his clothes and fixed his messy hair.

Himchan walked down a stone path white roses in hand. Grave stones lined up against the cement decorated with half dead flowers.
He walked to a tree and sat down, leaning on its trunk. He laid the white roses next to him and leaned his head back on the bark.
"I'm back, Yongguk. Yongnam's gone, they executed him about two hours ago." Himchan pulled in his legs, having them against his chest, he rested his chin on his knees. "I've been sleeping more. I still think about you everyday, and how happy being with you made me. Even if it's been twenty years, I'll still love you."
Himchan adjusted himself against the tree.

"Hey, Yongguk," Himchan looked down at the roses,"what's Heaven like?"

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