All For Show : Markhyuck

Chapter 52

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As Mark entered the apartment he was concerned to see Donghyuck's shoes in the hallway, but all the lights off. Donghyuck always had one of the lights on when he was in the apartment alone.

As Mark ventured further into the apartment, he called out Donghyuck's name, "DOnghyuck? I'm home, love!"

Where is Donghyuck?

Mark turned towards their shared bedroom only to find the door locked. "Donghyuck? Haechan-ie? Why is the door locked? Can you let me in?"

Hearing no answer, Mark began to get worried, "Love, please, if you don't let me in I'm going to let myself in."

Soon enough Donghyuck heard the jingling of keys and the soft creak of the door as Mark let himself in. He knew Mark couldn't see him, but he knew that Mark knew something was up.

"Donghyuck?"

Mark gently lifted the blanket off Donghyuck's face and frowned when he saw how red and puffy his face was. That meant he had been crying. Mark hated it when Donghyuck cried.

"Oh, love, what happened?"

Donghyuck just shook his head and buried his face in the pillow again.

Mark didn't hesitate to sit up against the headboard and move Donghyuck so that he was sitting between Mark's legs, his head lying on Mark's chest.

"Donghyuckie, baby, what happened?"

"It's stupid..."

"It's obviously not stupid if it made you so upset. Love, please, you can always talk to me, I will, never, ever think anything that made you this upset is stupid. Just let me help you."

"It's stupid, Mark, please..."

"I already told you, Donghyuck. It. Is. Not. Stupid. Got it? Please, Haechan, let hyung help you."

Mark rarely pulled the hyung card unless Donghyuck needed to be reassured that he was safe and loved by him. Now was just one of those unfortunate times.

"I-It's just that...I feel like I'm not good enough, y'know? Nothing that I'm feeling makes sense. It's all contradicting each other. I feel numb but I can feel sadness and anger perfectly clearly. They keep bouncing around in my head. It's too much I just want it to stop hyung, please."

As soon as Donghyuck had sobbed out a broken, "Hyung, please" Mark's heart broke more than it already had. He knew that Donghyuck never calls him hyung unless he was desperate or in pain, and now he knew it was getting to be way way way too much for Donghyuck.

The dam broke all at once. Donghyuck was sobbing and close to screaming into Mark's chest as he pleaded for him to just make it all stop. "Hyung, make it stop, make it stop. I badly want to just give up and leave everything behind but at the same time I don't and I'm terrified to. It's the same with asking for help. I shouldn't even be freaking out like this anyway, I'm an adult for fuck's sake. I'm poison, and I always fuck things up and hurt the people I care about. I don't know what to do or what to feel, and I can't handle it."..."

"Shh, baby, Hyung is here, Hyung is here for you, baby, Hyung is right here for you..."

Mark cradled Donghyuck's head against his chest and rubbed his back with the other hand, whispering comforts that only Donghyuck could hear. He kissed the top of Donghyuck's head countless times and after each, he whispered, "Hyung is here", or "Hyung loves you".