Elements of Reality

VII

Rested on a spare hospital bed beside Hoseok's, Aurora was tucked tightly into the blankets, sleep pooling on her eyelids. The night was filled with the soft sounds of her sleeping, slow and steady breaths accompanied by the beeping of Hoseok's monitors. The wind swooped up, over the heights as it rushed and rustled through the trees outside, gradually ebbing away into silence. 

Hoseok sat upright in his bed, eyes cast out the open window as the cool midnight breeze entangled itself through his fiery orange hair. No matter how many times he tried to lay down and close his eyes, he couldn't fall asleep. He figured it was the fear slowly taking over his mind, creeping over him like a suffocating shadow he couldn't run from. He was scared. Not only scared about the creatures hunting him down, but scared that he might not be good enough to save the universe. After all, it was a lot to ask from a simple college student. 

Eyes flickering away from the window, Hoseok cast his gaze to the male seated beside him. Head rested over the side of Hoseok's bed, Yoongi's breaths came softly through his parted lips. Under the soft glow of the moonlight, his porcelain skin was all the more ethereal, moon shaped birthmark just visible under his tousled hair. Hoseok found it almost adorable seeing the male sleep so soundly. 

Sitting himself up a little more, Hoseok pulled the blanket to his chest, shivering a little in the cold. 

Ironic right? 

He was the barer of energy, yet he always found himself getting cold. 

With eyes that simply wouldn't close and a heart that wouldn't stop its heavy beating, Hoseok found the dark space of the hospital room almost tormenting. He wished to drift off into a dream. He wished to sleep.

Deciding that just sitting there and staring up at the hospital roof was pointless, Hoseok remembered there was one thing he could entertain himself with. Hair falling softly over his eyes, Hoseok bent over to the end of his bed, snatching up a familiar object before returning to his comfortable position. Curling his fingers around the book in his hands, Hoseok opened the leather cover once again, flipping his way through the old coffee stained pages before his eyes landed upon a new entry of the book of elements. 

"That's odd." Hoseok mumbled, raising a brow as he focused on the paper, "This page wasn't here before..." His eyes scanned over the title of the page, the fresh ink imprinting itself in his mind, "Andromeda?" he tilted his head to the side, "Isn't that the Milky Way Galaxy's neighbour?" he spoke.

Hoseok swore he almost jumped out of his skin when he felt the mattress of the bed begin to move. Snapping his eyes to the movement, Hoseok let out a drastic sigh of relief when he realised it was only Yoongi stirring in his sleep, placing a hand over his beating heart. 

Letting out a soft yawn, Yoongi lifted his head from the side of the bed, stretching his arms high above himself before leaning back into his plastic chair, "Did I miss something?" he muttered, eyes lidded with sleep as he turned to the orange haired male.