Last Breath - Part 7
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"Well it wasn't snowing," Onew was saying as he stepped into bedroom, damp and carrying two full plastic bags of "sick stuff". He paused shortly after he walked through the door. He'd been gone less than an hour, as he said he would be, but Minho was peacefully sleeping.
He set the bags down in the floor and stepped closer, taking the remote first and turning the TV off. Minho was unmoving, save for his deep breaths. Onew frowned a little, reaching out and lightly touching his forehead. Minho flinched, but stayed asleep. Onew quickly pulled his hand back, looking at it with a scowl. He did feel especially cold. The weather pretty much made the warmth that Minho's blood had given him disappear. He must be freezing to Minho.
He wondered if his cold body around Minho's when the human woke up from his nightmares had caused this illness to begin with. He wrinkled his nose and angrily walked from the room, moving into the bathroom. He jerked off his coat and dropped it carelessly onto the floor, then climbed onto the couch, wrapping the throw that went over the back of it around himself. Then he sat there, not knowing what to do, just feeling grumpy.
He made Minho sick.
He growled in frustration, jerking the throw suddenly over his head.
He loved someone, but all he could do was hurt him.
Holding the blanket tight over his face, he yelled into it. The sound was muffled of course, and unsatisfying.
He tossed the blanket off the couch, baring his fangs at it as if it had caused all his pain, but before he could attack the helpless fabric, it occurred to him that he'd never really done anything nice for Minho, apart from save him from trouble he'd caused.
Anger settled into sadness, and he stood up from the couch to walk back into the bedroom. Minho was sleeping still, and looked every bit as peaceful as he usually did when he slept, but Onew could feel that his dream was reaching that unpleasant point again.
Rather than climbing into bed to give him a not so comforting embrace, Onew grabbed one of the bags he'd brought in with him, deciding that he could - at least - have soup ready for him.
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Minho woke up suddenly, jumping into reality with wide eyes. As thoughts of the dead faded from his mind, he looked around the room in horror. Onew wasn't holding him when he woke from this nightmare. Onew was nowhere. Had he not come back?
He calmed when he noticed a bag on the floor, and again when he noticed the TV had been turned off. Then there was a smell. A good, yummy smell.
When he sat up, his hand crushed a bag of cookies that Onew had brought him to munch on while he recovered from the blood loss. He was cursing that when Onew leaned into the doorway.
"You missed me?" Onew asked.
Minho looked up at him, relieved to see him there. "How long have you been back?"
Onew shrugged, "A while. Did you go to sleep right after I left?"
Minho shook his head, "I must have passed out watching TV..." he frowned, "I think I'm sick."
"Who would have thought?" Onew asked, raising a brow. "There's medicine. You have to take some before you go to sleep. I'm making soup for you."
"It smells good."
"Yes." Onew said confidently, "I'm good at this."
"Can I help you finish?" Minho suddenly asked.
"No," Onew said, frowning. "Are you stupid? You need to rest."
Minho didn't need to announce the strange feeling he had.. how he was overly happy to see Onew, as if the nightmare he'd just been stuck in had tried to take the vampire away. As if waking up with the fear of him gone was the worst thing in the world. Minho wanted to stay with Onew now. Even a room apart was too far.
As Onew figured that out, he frowned. "Did you have a nightmare about me?"
"I don't really remember now," Minho confessed. After a moment of embarrassing silence, he added, "Can you blame me? I'm screwed if something happens to you."
"You can lay on the couch." Onew said decidedly.
"Thanks for your permission." Minho said a bit sarcastically, pulling himself up from the bed. He didn’t feel dizzy any more, so apparently the sugary juice or cookies helped. He had to grab a tissue fast when a sudden sneeze came again. He groaned, grabbing the whole box to carry with him into the living room.
Onew took the comforter and a pillow from the bed, then quietly followed Minho to the couch. After he helped Minho get comfortable, he hurried back to the kitchen area to stir the soup that was left on the stove.
It turned out, shortly after, that Onew was good at making soup. Or following the recipe that he’d surely taken from somewhere. Well, he thought, the seasoning was a little heavy handed - but for his sickened state, the burst of flavor was kind of nice. And well, you can’t really go wrong with warm soup when you’re sick.
"Thank you." he told Onew, who sat next to the couch watching him eagerly.
"Should I bring the TV back in here?" Onew asked with a smirk.
"No." Minho said, "We can.. talk."
Onew raised a brow, but nodded, and then smiled. "Then let’s talk."
Minho smiled a little, and asked, "Can you do the vampire voice?"
"I vant to suck your blood?"
Minho laughed, which made Onew laugh, "It’s really funny?"
"Yeah," Minho answered, "It’s funny."
"I’m funny." Onew grinned a grin full of fangy pride. "And, I vant to suck your blood.."
Minho laughed again, but warned, "Don’t over do it."
"I vant to eat your soup."
"Hehe, now you’re just being a dork."
"You’re still laughing."
"It’s still funny.."
With the way they talked after that, laughing over such stupid things, it was hard for Minho to actually finish the soup. It took a while, and it was cold by the time it was gone, but he didn’t exactly mind. Sick or stressed or whatever, at that moment, everything seemed okay to him.
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