nana is a renowned serial killer in seoul, korea. nobody has caught them, they don't even know who it could possibly be. that was until detective in training lee jeno gives the case a try.
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there were rapid pounds against jeno's apartment door when he was in the middle of going through some newspaper clippings. it made him jump up from his seat then groan in frustration since that caused his knee to bump into his desk, resulting in his cup of tea to spill all over the clippings.
"i swear, johnny better have a damn good excuse for knocking that hard on my door at freaking midnight." he muttered angrily to himself, as he stormed over to the door.
jeno swung the door open ready to give johnny a whole lecture on how he should knock a little lighter, but stopped when he saw jaemin in a horrid state. the male was still in his work uniform, but his dress shirt was unbuttoned down to his mid torso. his hair was tousled crazily and his skin looked deathly pale.
jaemin also looked out of breath, taking in large intakes of air while trying to keep his composure stable.
"je...no--" then jaemin was out like a light, collapsing into jeno's arm like a rag doll.
"jaemin? oh my god--" jeno panicked as he brought the younger in and closed the door behind him.
with a bit of a struggle, jeno hooked his arms underneath jaemin's knees and upper back then carried him into his bedroom. he laid the unconscious male onto his bed and went to check his temperature. jaemin's head was burning up under jeno's touch.
running off into his kitchen to get a bowl, he filled it up with cold water then stopped by his bathroom to pick up a small washcloth. after gathering all of that, he went over to jaemin and gently wiped his face with the cool washcloth.
"h-hot...too...hot..." jaemin started to wriggle around trying to unbutton the rest of his shirt, but had trouble doing it since he couldn't even unbutton the first one.
"here i'll do it." even though his face was burning up, jeno took off jaemin's top for him.
"it's still to hot!" he whined.
"okay okay! calm down, i'll wipe you down with some cold water. does that sound good?"
jaemin nodded in response and jeno had to take a second to adore how utterly endearing he was.
"sit up for me?" jeno asked softly, ready to assist in sitting the younger up.
slowly, jaemin lifted himself up in a sitting position with the help of jeno. the elder climbed onto the bed with the bowl and cloth in hand, and sat in front of jaemin's crossed legs. he wringed the cloth then started to rub it over jaemin's scorching hot skin.
the younger winced when he first felt it come in contact with his skin, but relaxed after.
"i'll get you some medicine after cooling you down. is that okay?" jeno looked up at jaemin for a moment to see his response, which was a soft sounding 'it's okay' back.
he let his eyes linger one the boy's face for a while longer, just noticing how tired he looked. even though his bangs covered his lidded eyes, jeno could tell jaemin was looking right back at him. so, he stopped his staring and went back to his task at hand.
while wiping jaemin down, he noticed small bruises on the male's skin. they were mostly centered around his chest to neck area, but jeno decided not to question it for now.
"you feeling better?"
"a little."
with one final wipe down jaemin's arm, he put the cloth back into the bowl of water and got off the bed. jaemin took that as an okay to lay down so that's what he did, though he kept himself a bit propped up on the pillow so he could take the medicine later.
jeno reaches over jaemin's body to retrieve the bowl and walked out to change out the water. while he did that, jaemin laid silently on jeno's bed trying to remember what happened back at the bar when he gained that adrenaline rush.
unfortunately for him, all he got was blurred images and sounds from that moment. nothing vivid enough for interpretation.
once jeno got back, the male was balancing a whole bunch of things in his arms. jaemin was actually surprised that he didn't drop anything on his way in.
he watched as jeno placed everything down on the nightstand and for some reason, jaemin's eyes wandered up to the latter's face.
the male still had his glasses on and he looked as tired as jaemin felt. which was pretty bad.
"here, take this. it should help you sleep too." jeno handed him a pill along with a glass of water.
"thanks." he took the pill and water, and swallowed it in one go before handing jeno back the glass.
"um...would you mind me tying up your hair, so that it won't get wet when i put the washcloth on your forehead?"
"go ahead."
"alright, i hope you like little bow scrunchies because that's all i have."
jaemin chuckled, "why do you have bow scrunchies in the first place?"
"my baby cousin. she comes here from time to time, and i gotta be prepared when she visits." the elder answered, tying up jaemin's bangs.
"i bet she loves you huh?"
"i guess you can say that she sure loves drawing on my face when i accidentally fall asleep on her while watching the little mermaid."
"that's cute. i'm sure she'll grow up to be a fine young woman."
"she sure will."
jeno folded up the washcloth into a rectangle and placed it onto jaemin's forehead.
the sight of jaemin with his bangs tied up in a cute bow scrunchie while his cheeks were colored tickle me pink, made jeno's heart do backflips in his chest. jaemin was just too precious outside of his confident flirty persona. he just wanted to wrap jaemin in a big warm hug and never let go.
to say the least, he really liked this side of jaemin as well.
"are you going to kiss me goodnight or what, handsome?"
and now, jeno was matching with jaemin as his own cheeks turned the pinkish color.
he silently obliged to jaemin's request and pressed a tender kiss onto the boy's cheek.
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double update cause i felt like torturing my friends' souls
