Australia was just as Felix had said he'd imagined it to be. Even though Minho was almost certain he'd never left his home country, he could safely say he'd never seen anywhere as beautiful as the grounds of the Unite safe house were. There was thousands of safe houses dotted around the globe, Chan had explained when they had arrived there ten minutes ago, this one was bought specifically with Chan in mind.
"Is it like you remembered it?" Minho had heard Chan ask Felix softly as they embraced when the group first stepped through the door.
"I couldn't remember it," Felix spoke in wonder, "but it's beautiful."
Felix was correct. Calling the house beautiful could even be seen as an insult, compared to the grey and dingy apartments that lined the streets back home, Minho could easily say that it was the most picturesque place he had ever seen. Just the outside was perfect, the back garden was giant with a pool and a table and chairs. Inside was extravagant, on the ceiling in the hall hung a huge chandelier that sparkled under the light cast by the skylight over the other side of the room. The lounge was huge with luxurious looking sofa's and Minho swore that freedom had never felt or looked so good despite the fact that he hadn't had much experience with the concept of freedom.
They settled down a bit and Minho finally got his chance to speak to Chan, Jisung was all but attached to his side as the younger boy tried to adjust to the amount of changes that were happening in such a short space of time. He looked exhausted and Minho couldn't blame him but the boy still had a smile on his face as they sat down next to Chan.
"So Minho who's this?" Chan smiled mischievously and Minho beamed back at him.
"This is Jisung, my boyfriend," Minho grinned with pride as Jisung offers Chan a small wave.
"Ah, it's very very nice to meet you Jisung, how did this all come about?" the Australian asked curiously and Minho only then realised how ridiculous their story was. He turned to Jisung who leant his head on his shoulder and Minho launched in to the story.
"We were running away from the HQ and it was a session where we'd put flyers around the neighbourhood, as Jinnie and Lix were running they were pulling people along who had the flyers in their hands and they missed someone so I grabbed his hand and pulled him," Minho spoke before he was interrupted by Jisung.
"What Minho hyung didn't realise was that when he was running he called me Jisungie, you can imagine how confused I was but I remembered him in that moment so I just followed, he only realised when we got into the van," Jisung chuckled.
"Really?" Chan laughed at Minho who looked as baffled as he felt.
"I did that?" he asked Jisung who simply broke into fits of laughter at him before the doorbell rang. In confusion, everyone turned around to face Chan but the boy simply grinned with an excited look on his face as he ran to open the door.
"Ah I have two people to introduce you all too! They've been living with us!" Chan called.
The room fell silent as they awaited the arrival of the two mysterious boys that Chan was talking about. As soon as they entered into the room, Minho heard a choking noise from where Hyunjin was stood by Felix.
"Minnie? Innie?" Hyunjin's voice cracked and the two other boys stared at him as if they couldn't believe he was real and like there was no one else in the room. Tension spread around the room and was thick but not uncomfortable, it simply felt like shock.
"Oh my God Hyunjin?" Seungmin spoke quietly, "Hyunjin," he repeated again before he dropped the hand of Jeongin who was still frozen in his place and ran towards the taller boy.
They both squealed as Seungmin crashed into Hyunjin and they wrapped their arms tightly around each other for a brief second before sharing a chaste kiss as their tears that fell down their cheeks mingled. Instantly turning around, they noticed that Jeongin was crouched on the floor sobbing. Panicking, Hyunjin ran over to him and put his arm around the boy, "Innie, Innie are you okay?"
Seungmin joined them as Jeongin whispered to Hyunjin that he couldn't deal with that much joy. Chan coughed slightly then and motioned for the rest of the boys to join him outside which they did willingly to give the three others some privacy.
When they reached the garden, the three couples sat around a round table and basked in the warm comfort of the Australian sunlight as they drank in the freedom that they finally had. Minho pulled Jisung on to his lap when the other two couples began a conversation and he lay a soft kiss on the side of Jisung's neck making the boy squirm because of how ticklish it was.
"What are we gonna do with our freedom Sungie?" Minho asked his boyfriend and Jisung turned slightly to face him.
"We can make new memories and go on cute dates, you can finally get some cats, I can try and find my family and remake the songs I've forgotten about, the possibilities are endless hyung," the boy spoke with a grin on his face.
"And I'll be by your side every step of the way."
The nine boys spent the night together then. They swam in the pool and had water fights, Chan ordered them chicken, Hyunjin spent the entire night getting thousands of cuddles from his boyfriends who had been terrified they'd never see him again, Chan, Changbin and Jisung bonded over the fact that they all wanted to make music and at the end of the night Minho got to cuddle Jisung until they both fell asleep.
"I love you so much Sung," Minho had whispered into the youngest's ear and before placing a gentle kiss to his lips.
"I love you even more hyung." Jisung nuzzled into his boyfriend's neck.
"I'm glad I found you," Minho whispered.
"You'll never ever lose me again, we've got our whole lives to spend together now," the youngest breathed into the night air and Minho liked the sound of that.
The idea of spending his entire life with Jisung made him feel like he'd just found a pot of gold yet he was certain that no gold would ever shine as bright as the light did in Jisung's eyes. It was a light that Minho would never let be diminished again.
When Minho finally fell asleep with the love of his life snuggled tightly into his arms he dreamt of the future. He dreamt of a life with Jisung just as the younger had described to him in the garden earlier that day, it was full of love and unlimited amounts of hope. Jisung would find his family and introduce them to his new family, they'd live here in Australia and hope that one day they could return home to a country that would accept them but even if nothing ever changed it wouldn't matter. Home wasn't a country or a building or a town, home was where you felt comfortable and safe.
Home was wherever Jisung was so by default, Minho was already home.
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thank you so so so so much for reading this story!! it means so much that anyone would read and enjoy this so thank you so much!! i'm kind of sad that it's come to an end but i'm also happy i could give the happy ending that the characters deserved and hopefully the ending lived up to any expectations!! again, thank you so so so much for reading this!!!! - mae
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