《Hunting for Happiness》~ATEEZ

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So after everything was talked out now between the pirates and Seonghwa, Wooyoung spoke up with an important point. San was still injured somewhere. He told Seonghwa that San was holding onto his own waist before and they were about to help him if he didn't push them off all the time.

"What do you mean he's injured? Is it bad?" Seongwha immediately began to panic after hearing those words from Wooyoung. His eyes widened and started to get watery again until someone spoke up again.

"Yeah, I believe he is injured. He clenched onto his waist very strongly and he cried out in pain. Would you mind if I would look after it? Maybe it isn't a injury, maybe he just got a cramp or anything." Wooyoung offered the worried boy.

All Seonghwa could do was nodding. He felt like no words would come out of his mouth, so he didn't even tried to speak. After thinking that everything was going to be okay, San had to be in pain again. It was about time that San could finally get happy, he deserved it after everything happened to him in his short life.

Yunho offered to carry San in the medicine's room of the ship where the whole medical stuff was and a bed you could lay down. After laying San softly down on the bed and sitting next to him, Yunho wanted to help Wooyoung to look after the new found friend of them.

Grabbing a scissor and cutting off the shirt from Sans yet sleeping body, Wooyoung and Yunho immediately saw a big blue, purple and yellow colored bruise on his waist while in the middle of the big bruise was a stabbing wound, looking like it was caused from a pocketknife. The wound was still bleeding a little and also was looking not too old.

On top of the injury was laying a bloody tissue which had the meaning of sucking all the flowing blood off. San had actually tried to stop it from bleeding and succeeded for a short time until he fell not long ago which caused the wound to bleed out again and the boy to feel the stinging pain again.

"Wooyoung, is he going to be okay? It isn't that bad, right? It's not infected or anything yet." Yunho asked the other pirate while looking at the bleeding wound again.

Not answering the question he was being asked, he immediately run to get some cream and some bandages for the poor boy, to look after the wound. But first of all he had to clear the stab wound with some alcohol which would wake up the resting boy. It would hurt him a lot because the wound was still open but Wooyoung couldn't risk that Sans wound would get infected. That would be much worse than the pain he would feel now.

"Yunho in need you to hold Sans hand okay. I need to clear the injury but it will hurt him a lot and he will wake up, maybe even screaming in pain but I need to do it otherwise it could get much worser for him. Try calming him down when he wakes up and dont be mad at him if he will squeeze your hand painfully." Wooyoung said waiting for a nod from the tall boy sitting besides him.

"I will and I won't be mad dont worry. I want to help him too. Do it." He proudly announced and was already holding Sans hand to support the injured boy laying next to him.

A few seconds later the whole ship was filled with the painfully screams of the I hired boy who immediately woke up after Wooyoung started to clean the injury on his weak body, which caused the other boys on the ship to run towards the room where the three boys were in.

"What are they doing to him! San you are okay?! San asnwer me!!" Seonghwa instantly panicked because of the cruel yelling from his best friend. He even thought that they might killed San and was going beyond mad at them until he ran inside the room only to find the two strangers with his best friend sitting in the room while Wooyoung was bandaging the injury on Sans waist.

Still holding Sans hand, Yunho spoke softly with him that he was a brave boy and that he did really good and even patted his head slightly to calm down Sans nerves after all the pain he had felt a few moments ago. The green haired boys face was pale and sunken but his eyes were sparkling somehow, thankfully.

San was looking at Wooyoung and them at Yunho only to whisper a quiet and short 'thank you' while a shy and awkwardly smile appeared on his face, looking down on his feet. The two healers laughed sweetly at the cute sight in front of them and were very happy that they had helped San.

Still standing there shocked and confused, Seonghwa wanted to know what's going on in there but decided that he should let San rest and ask him later what happened.

A tall, brown haired boy appeared behind Seonghwa and rested his hand on the smallers boy shoulder, wanting to comfort him somehow.

"He's fine Seonghwa. They just cleaned his wound. Let him rest a bit. You should probably eat and drink something. I'm afraid that you might pass out because of lacking these two things. Come with us, San will be okay. Yeosang will look after him." He finally found the words to calm Seonghwa down and get him to eat and drink something.

Now following Mingi and the rest of the boys except San and Yeosang, they all sat down by a table which were filled with food and drinks, which possibly caused Seonghwas mouth to water and his stomach to grumble at the delicious sight in front of him.

"Fill your plate and eat up please. We are really worried about you and your friend and we won't judge you. Take whatever and as much you want." The Captain explained to Seonghwa who was smiling genuinely.

He had to admit it, he wasnt really hungry. Even though he had eaten for the last time like a week ago, his stomach was hurting so bad that he wasnt really that hungry but he took some food and ate it anyway. It was quiet delicious and he wanted more so he started eating more and more. While drinking his 4th jar of water, he noticed that San probably hadn't eaten something either.

Seongwa knew his best friend so he also knew that he was eating less than Seonghwa himself what had always worried the older one of them and he also often tried to force San to eat but always failed at it. The young boy could be really stubborn if he wanted to.

"D-did San e-eat anything? Or at least d-drank something?" Seonghwa stuttered out, not being used to talk to others yet while having a meal together.

The five pirates looked at each other like if they were thinking about it but then the captain spoke up and told the worried friend that San hadn't drank anything and just took a small bite from an apple and nothing more. That caused Seonghwa to sigh out loud, not knowing how he could get San to eat and drink.

The pirates looked at him with a knowing expression on their faces like they knew San was a light eater and wouldn't eat very much. They could tell that just by looking at him. Seonghwa was also very skinny but San was too skinny. They didn't knew how he could survive all the punches and abusive actions he had suffered from. He looked like he could break if someone would touch him wrongly.

After eating up in silence while the tension felt somehow very awkward, Yeosang showed up, behind him a limping and scared looking San who was holding, no, clenching onto Yeosangs hand. The visual boy lead the green haired one to the seat next to his best friend, Seonghwa and walked to his own seat, next to Jongho to eat at least a bit.

San was of course not eating nor speaking but just looking down, not daring to look at anything other than the table in front of him. Quietly taking Seonghwas hand in his while breathing deeply, he looked up and searched for something until his eyes stopped by Wooyoung and Yunho.

"Thank chu help I" San mumbled but loud enough for everyone to hear him. The two boys smiled at the statement San gave a few seconds ago and nodded their heads welcoming.

"San, that's not completely right but I'm so proud of you. I'm sorry. I'll never leave your side again, I promise." Seonghwa told his friend who was still holding his hand. Smiling shyly, San leaned in and gave Seonghwa a big and tight hug until he felt his injury hurting again. He didn't dared to let out a cry of pain because he didn't wanted to worry all the boys which were all sitting on the table with him so he sucked it up.

After a long lovely moment of the two best friends hugging each other, they all told San to eat and drink which he hesitantly accepted but wasn't eating a lot at all. His stomach hurted as much like Seonghwas did, so he didn't wanted to eat that much, while not being very hungry. Unlike Seonghwa, when San started eating he did stopped after short time again, just eating a slice of bread while drinking one jar of water.
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