White︱BenEarth AU

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Double update, be sure to read chapter 22!

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Earth and Joong were fitting in fine. Ben made the decision to move temporarily to his parents' house with the two now homeless guys. 

Ben's parents were not really into the idea at first because of the background of the two, but after hearing a little more from the two, especially Earth and how he had been treated, they agreed to taking the two under their wings. 

After a good night of moderate sleep, Ben woke up Earth, gave him some fresh clothing and walked with him to his school. Earth looked very small beside Ben as they walked through the hallways.

Ben's paper was late, very late. He wanted to reason it out, and at the same time ask some advice from mr. Tang. 

He knocked on the door as usual, and was let in by Tang who frowned when seeing someone accompanying Ben. "Uhm, who's this little man?"

Earth just looked down as he didn't know what to do in a situation like this. He hadn't had many interactions with new people to know about social skills. 

"Mr. Tang, this is Earth, the patient I'm writing my paper about. Before you say anything, I have an explanation, just listen." Ben blabbered out. "As you know he got transferred, I found him and all, fine, but his doctor was a shady piece of sh- garbage. He was trying to help him but with wrong methods, so we got the heck out of there and came back but his old hospital is now closed so I took him to my place and now I'm here. I will write my paper I promise but I need you to give me a little extra time, I need to take care of him first you know, feed and such, look at him, he needs much care and I-"

"Please stop speaking now." Tang said raising his hand up to massage his own temple. "So you have a registered patient in your house, without permission from anyone? You know that's illegal, right?"

"Well... the hospital was closed and..."

"Serioiusly, what the fuck, Benjamin?"

Ben gulped because mr. Tang had never cursed around him, he didn't even know he could do such profanity. "With all due respect, sir, I had no other choice. I was hoping for some advice from you."

Tang sighed and took out his phone. "I will make some calls."

Earth went behind Ben and hugged his arm as he was really out of it. This place gave him anxiety. 

After a good amount of time and several calls later, Tang crossed his hands onto the table in front of him. "He's not in the register. He's legally not a patient anywhere at the moment, not even in Spain. Now I don't really know what happened in there, but the grand psychiatric hospital is closed until further notice. Do I wanna know?"

"Not really sir, not more than I already told you."

"Very well, there's some options here." Tang said sternly, looking like his frown wasn't going to wear off anytime soon. "Either you give Earth to the police and they will sign him in for another hospital, or, you will make a paper telling how he doesn't need help anymore."

"Does it really work like that?"

"It does." [It really doesn't but just go with it.]

"Then I will write whatever needed, I don't want him to rot in those places anymore." Ben said, determined about his decision. "And he hasn't had any symptoms recently, he's fine."

"I'm fine." Earth butted in. "Really."