White︱BenEarth AU

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For once, Earth felt relatively safe.

Now that he was resting against Ben's chest as they sat on the floor of a small room.

Ben led Earth and Joong to his hotel room, not letting go of Earth's hand at any time. He had explained everything to Earth. He explained what Dome had said, and how it would be better for Earth's well-being to do what he did. He explained how sorry he was, that he regretted it immediately after walking out.

And surprisingly, Earth understood.

He forgave Ben.

He was just glad he was back now. He just wanted to be close to him, and had been resting against Ben for the last couple hours now. It didn't seem to bother Ben at all as he soothingly caressed Earth's hair, keeping him secure in his embrace.

"Don't you think we will be in trouble?" Joong asked as he walked into the room after getting a bottle of water from the small fridge next to Ben's hotel bed.

"Trouble?"

Joong nodded. "Me and Earth are still registered as patients. We can not just walk around like nothing happened, someone will butt in."

"Ah, that's right." Ben sighed and stopped touching Earth's hair, making the shorter whine out in protest. "We should get back home anyways, I have no money to stay here for any longer. We will see what we can do there, go back to Earth's old hospital..."

"No." Earth was quick to protest to that idea. "I don't wanna go back." He mumbled against Ben's shirt. 

"Even if your condition isn't normal, it's still a case of schizophrenia, there's really not much choice." Ben said in thought, trying to think of any possible outcome. 

"But... y-you said you would get me out of there." Earth gulped and finally raised his head up from Ben's chest. His eyes weren't as puffy as before as he had rested, but he was still painfully skinny. Ben had tried to get him to eat something, but the other didn't want to let go of him so he couldn't do much. 

Ben let out a hum. "And I will, I tend to keep my promises."

"You said you wouldn't leave me..."

"And here I am, I didn't leave you."

With that, they made their way to the next leaving flight. The flight went rather smoothly, except for Joong being dead afraid of heights, so he ended up getting a panic attack, but he relaxed after some time.

It was a safe landing, and soon they were already standing in front of the doors of Earth's old hospital. The only problem was, that there was a giant note on the door that said; "On sale!"

"It's... closed?" Earth questioned. "W-What will we do n-now?"

"I... don't know." Ben said truthfully, sighing in annoyance as he sat down onto the stairs and rested his head between his hands. "If this place is closed down, everything is gone, also your medical records." He reasoned out. He wasn't sure if that was the case, surely it wasn't, but the files were old. Earth's files were most likely thrown away because he wasn't a patient here anymore, or they were given to the grand hospital while transferring.  

So there was no place for him to go.

"You can stay at my place for now." Ben said after a while of thinking. "Both of you."