Run Away Royalty Sookai/Taegyu

Chapter 53

"Baby steps?.." Hueningkai sniffles and lifted his head from his knees to look at soobin. He was offering  his hand to hueningkai, not asking, but offering it. It was an option.

Hueningkai stared at soobin hand and bit his lip, pondering the idea before making eye contact with soobins warm eyes, lovingly smiling towards him. He didn't seem impatient or bothered, which made hueningkai  feel a bit better.

Hueningkai slowly locked his hand into soobins, not feeling gross upon touching. Actually enjoying it, but then again, nothing soobin did could make hueningkai think he was gross, only himself.

Soobin smiled with a sweet breathy giggle of happiness as he savored the first hueningkai-initiated skinship  in a while.

Soobin then cautiously lifted his other hand and gently smoothed his finger over hueningkais tears and bruises.

Hueningkai didn't flinch under soobins fingers, and felt better with the soft way of soothing.

"Baby steps.." Soobin repeated with a smile before kissing hueningkai forehead.

"I told you to not let him in! that's going to be his last memory of beomgyu if he dies you know!!!" yeonjun was lecturing the nurse outside of the medical room.

When he heard that taehyun had been allowed to see beomgyu, he had rushed from patrol immediately to care for his friends.

"Is carrying him in there bloody and fresh from fighting really a better last memory?" the nurse had quickly made her point and yeonjun surrendered.

".....Then How did it go?" yeonjun crossed his arms, changing the subject.

The nurse stared into the room window with yeonjun and sighed. "For the moment? he's stable, I'm observing his state while the doctors take a rest, it's been a long process just keeping him stable."

Yeonjun looked toward a red tuft of hair peeking from behind beomgyu on the bed. From his angle, it was all he could see of Taehyun, but he knew he was cuddled closely to beomgyu.

"I asked for a sandwich from the kitchen. No tomato. You're hungry after all of that, right?" Taehyuns smiled and tried to mumbled a tear off of his lip, sliding his finger down beomgyus beautiful features.

It was so peaceful, at least Taehyun was pretending it was, for the sake of his own health. He knew it wasn't healthy to do this. Either way....he couldn't help it.

"Can't you just complain about how much it hurt? Or how my breath stinks again? How I hog the bed in the morning?" Taehyun gave a pained laugh at the irony of him begging to be complained to.

"I told you, I don't like stubborn princes. Dying would be pretty stubborn your highness, we have so many more lessons to get to. We have to practice your ballroom dancing for soobin and hueningkais wedding, yeah?"

Taehyun tried to imagine it, a beautiful night with lights, music, a banquet, and their friends happily getting married. Beomgyu looking astounding and dancing with him as he laughed shyly. Complaining of how Taehyun danced too fast. Oh....it would be so much fun...and then he would ask....he'd kneel down and ask the stubborn prince....

Taehyuns whimpers became strained sobs trying to hide in his throat so desperately. He clutched beomgyus hand and put his face against beomgyus, gently caressing his hair.

"I was going to give you a ring....just like you wanted- you stupid, stubborn prince...."

"What happened to- the man?" Hueningkai managed to gather courage to ask, sitting at the table beside soobin.

They were sharing the pancakes and holding hands as baby steps on the table. Soobin kept making Hueningkai flush pink and grow shy when he planted a kiss on his hand, which was why it was hard to ask a dark question.

"I killed him. Mercilessly. I couldn't have that man threatening my husband while I'm alive, now could I?" Soobin didn't even bat an eye as he spoke, taking a satisfied bite of his hueningkai-made pancake. He regretted nothing about killing that man. Only that it wasn't more painful.

Hueningkai didn't know how to respond, but felt relief and gratitude to soobin, he couldn't ever imagine what he ever did to deserve soobin.

"Thursday." Hueningkai kept a straight face as he took a bite from his pancake like nothing happened.

"What?" Soobin swallowed and furrowed his brows to Hueningkai
"Thursday? What's Thursday?"

Hueningkai lifted his head and smiled. "Our wedding." Hueningkai giggled at the shock on soobins face.

"W-what? You decided? Why Thursday?!" Soobins palms were already sweating with the sudden decision.

"Because I want my best friend there. Since my husband can't be my best man. Beomgyu has to be my best man, from the cries down the hallway on the way here, I'm assuming I don't have long to invite him." Hueningkai kept a bittersweet smile on, feeling both empathy and sadness.

He knew what nearly dying felt like. For a moment, he's sure he had died. Even if he was unconscious, he felt so sad knowing beomgyu could be in that place.

"Beomgyu....wait, what happened?!" Soobin had lnt recovered his idea of what happened yesterday and realized the outcome.

Hueningkai got scared as soobin shot up from his seat, knocking down his plate.

The nurses tried to stop soobin in his sudden panic. Two princes' health was too much too lose

"No, out of my way, OUT OF MY WAY HES MY BROTHER!!" Soobin shoved past the nurses and broke into the room to see Taehyun snap awake at his entrance.

"Soobin? You just now come?" Taehyun rubbed his eyes and sat up to see him.

"I didn't know! Beomgyu- hey I didn't know okay? Forgive me? Hueningkai said you have to be at our wedding, Thursday ok? Be ready by then alright?" Soobin took beomgyus other hand, warning a surprised look from Taehyun.

They hadn't exactly acted brotherly before, so Taehyun was actually shocked at soobins hysteric reaction.

"Were brothers now!! You did a great job as a prince! You have to help me rule alright? I'm sorry I left the responsibility to you!- god...you only just got here and you already had the training and-" soobin jumped at beomgyus hands moving.

He didn't make any words, just slight dry breaths while shaking his head no. Taehyun and Soobin were both calling in nurses and doctors immediately as he woke.

"I-Ill be there- I'll- Mn-" beomgyu winced and tried to sit up but Taehyun was back from the door to him in an instant.

"NO- DONT! DONT MOVE! GOD PLEASE DONT MOVE BEOMGYU DAMN YOU DONT MOVE STOP IT YOU STUBBORN PRINCE!!" Taehyun gently held beomgyu don't, not taking much effort as the doctors flooded in to make sure.

"It's alright- it's fine Taehyun." Beomgyus voice was hoarse, but he really did seem alright, in little pain, and moving, conscious. Taehyun learned from their many mistakes to not get too cocky though, and insisted he hold still.