Run, Cause You Have Nowhere To Go; Chapter 12
Title: Run, Cause You Have Nowhere To Go
Status: Chapter 12/12
Author: xxqod
Pairing: Jonghyun/Taemin, Onew/Key
Rating: PG-15, hinting towards NC-17 (?)
Summary: Heartbroken he flees from his own house. Not knowing where to go, only knowing to get away as far as possible.
A/N: For inucrazzes ! I hope you'll like the ending! I personally am content with how it turned out. xD
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"You'll think they like it?" Jinki asks Key as they are finally home, Jinki's home, and cuddle together on the couch. "Of course they will! Almighty Key never fails anyone!" Kibum brings his chest out, looking all proud and Jinki chuckles at him. "So…How will we spend this Christmas day?" He is confused when Kibum breaks free from his hold and disappears in the kitchen, but not before motioning to Jinki to follow him.
The kitchen has a nice Christmas like atmosphere to it, candles are lit and the table is set like they're at some high class restaurant. Jinki gasps in surprise and now it's Kibum's turn to chuckle. "I'll hope you like it." His face is cupped by a pair of hands, trailing his jaw and Jinki's eyes are staring straight at him with the most gentle feeling. He kisses Kibum on the cheeks before pressing a kiss to his mouth. Key happily winds his arms around Jinki's neck as he keeps getting attacked by those lips. He giggles when Onew begins placing kisses all over his face tracing his features and murmuring how much he loves him and how beautiful he is.
The beeping of the stove breaks them apart as Kibum holds his hands in front of Jinki's face, blocking him from kissing him further. He opens the oven, Jinki still holding onto his waist and pressing himself against his back. Lips place butterfly kisses along his neck and Kibum almost drops the plate as his concentration isn't longer on the cooking. Jinki sniffs in the air, "Is that…chicken I smell?" He grins widely when Kibum gives him a court nod, "It's a new recipe I found." He hears chairs scraping across the wooden floor and Jinki is already seated, holding his fork and knife ready to dive in. "Can you wait till I have everything placed on the table?" Kibum rolls his eyes at Jinki's childish behaviour, but he smiles the next moment. Bringing out the side dishes he asks Jinki to choose a wine which would go well with the food. That's more Jinki's forte as he is a couple of years older and has drunk before.
The cork makes a plopping sound when the bottle is opened and Key carefully fills the wine glasses.
He sits down in the chair opposite of Jinki and clicks their glasses together. "Merry Christmas, Jinki." "Merry Christmas to you too, Kibum." They silently sip from their drinks. But as Key fills their plates with food, Jinki who has been thinking quite a time, opens his mouth. "Kibum, you know… I loved you since way back." Key looks up with an unreadable expression and Jinki hesitates to continue, suddenly losing all courage. He drops his head, gaze fixed on his lap. "I…I loved you ever since middle school." He looks at Kibum who smiles at him, happiness surrounding him like an aura. "Jinki, that's the most sappiest thing I ever heard, but I love you for it." He reaches over the table and pushes a piece of chicken in Jinki's mouth, shutting him up and preventing him from further stammering. "Let's eat before it gets cold."
The chicken disappears all together, mostly in Jinki's stomach, but Key wasn't one to eat a lot of chicken, so he didn't mind. Jinki pats his full stomach and sighs contently. "We still have dessert." A minute later two sorbets are in front of them, with all the fruits and strawberry syrup, waiting to be eaten. "Home-made!" Key declares proudly, "What are you waiting for?" Jinki scoops some ice and fruit on the spoon and puts it into his mouth. A smile of pure happiness adores his face when the taste reaches his taste buds. He stands up pulling Key in a hug, who confused pats the other on his back. "This is the best sorbet I've ever had! I can't even believe you did all that trouble for me!"
"It's Christmas, Jinki. I just want to show you how much I care for you by making you this dinner. Let's eat?" He yelps when Jinki pulls him down on his own lap, scooping up some ice cream and waiting for Kibum to take the bite. He feels happy when Kibum blushes at their actions. He feeds certainly half of the sorbet to Kibum, Kibum finally grabbing the spoon from his hand, and saying it's his turn to be fed.
Jinki is actually so clumsy to get some ice cream on his shirt and the corner of his mouth, even when Kibum is certain the spoon was fully into his mouth. Key grins when he leans down and licks the spilt ice cream from Jinki's shirt. Jinki sputters and flails, but Kibum licks the corner of his mouth, running his tongue over Jinki's bottom lip in the progress. Onew feels himself getting excited and he tries to manoeuvre Kibum away from him, but he only ends up with Key's legs on either side of him and a body fully pressed against his. Kibum shivers when Jinki moves and "Oh…" He moves again and Key makes a strangled noise in the back of his throat. His eyes are dark as his hands find their way to Kibum's butt and hold onto it while he stands up. Key clings onto his neck, legs folded around his waist, "What are you doing?" "Bedroom." Jinki mutters and they make it somehow, Jinki tripping the last step and they fall on the bed. Kibum moans at cold of Jinki's hands under his shirt engaging in a sinful activity. His shirt is gone in no time and Jinki kisses his body while whispering 'I love you' with every touch. Kibum feels the warmth spreading and tugs Jinki up, and kisses him deep.
Taemin skips to the front door, opening it with the key Jonghyun has given him, happily to be back again. Jonghyun smiling at him for his cute antics. Taemin kicks his shoes off and gasps are heard from the living room. "Hyung! You have to see this!" Jonghyun curiously follows him and his eyes widen at all the beautiful Christmas decorations, the sweet scent of pine tree filling his nose and 'Wait…Isn't that the tree from my backyard?' He stumbles to the glass door and cries when he sees an short chopped off trunk where his magnificent pine tree should have been. Taemin calls for him again and he turns to the fireplace, where Taemin has his hands down the red stockings hanging there. "Look! It's a note from Kibum-hyung!" He waves the pink note around and reads it to Jonghyun.
"Dear Jonghyun, I know I should have asked your permission for cutting down your precious pine tree, but the ax! Man, that thing was so awesome and it went fluently through the trunk XD! But it was a pain to haul it in, but I managed somehow. Jinki did the other decorations, with my instructions on where to place what. And the food only needs heating. I prepared it already. I wonder if you already noticed the surprise gifts. *wink wink* There are four in total, two containing more parts and one can be found under the tree, the other you have to find out for yourself. Love, Kibum."
Jonghyun has no idea what kind of surprise Kibum means. But he has no time to ponder on that mystery, Taemin already seated on the floor near the Christmas tree and happily smiling. "Hyung! Presents!" Grabbing some pillows of the couch he sits down on them next to Taemin and he wonders why Kibum did all the trouble of searching so many gifts for them and they're rather large too. 'This must be one of the surprises.' "Jonghyun, can I open them?" Taemin gives his best puppy look and Jonghyun can only nod his head. The first bow is almost of the present when Jonghyun's stomach growls violently. Jonghyun flushes and Taemin giggles, putting the present away and pulling Jonghyun up. "Hyung, if you're hungry you should just say so. I'll heat the food."
They sit besides each other while eating the food Kibum prepared. It really tastes good and they surrender into feeding each other, like they did with the ice cream, only this time not smearing the food over their faces. "Hyung, do you know what Kibum-hyung meant with that surprise we have to find out ourselves?" "I don't know Taemin…" They finish their dinner, neither bothering to clear the table, they can do that tomorrow.
Taemin happily flops down on the pillows still lying by the Christmas tree. He beams at Jonghyun when he sits next to him, reaching out to hold Taemin's waist. "You can open them, I don't want to move too much." A slight pout is visible on Taemin's face, but he is too happy, since he finally can open the presents. He first picks the largest one with his name on it, prying the bow of it and opening the lid. He gasps at the suit, it's almost a smoking, it looks dignified, but it is also very stylish. A note falls on the floor when he folds the suit out. "I thought you might need one. ~Key." He is puzzled, but happy either way, "Hyung! I never had a real suit before!" He bounces up and down and Jonghyun pulls him closer, ruffling his hair. "Next present." This time Jonghyun's name is on it, the box contains two tickets for a famous play. "Thought you would want to go on a date soon. ~Jinki." Taemin looks at him when Jonghyun blushes. "What's that present hyung?" "Oh, just something small from Jinki, I'll let you see it tomorrow." 'Now I understand why Taemin got that suit. And this should also be a surprise. That leaves two more.'
The other presents are pretty normal, some accessories from Key, and useful things, like a calendar for this year, from Jinki. The last present is the one Taemin already half-opened before they decided to eat. Taemin hands him the box since his name is on it. Jonghyun pulls the last knot and his face becomes red as he sees the contents of the box. When Taemin reaches over to peer over his shoulder he hastily closes it, but Taemin is fast in confiscating the box. He pulls the lid off and stares… and stares some more. Jonghyun covers his head, only looking when he feels paper against his arm and takes the note from Taemin. "So…I thought this would come in handy ;) Nice surprise eh? I can't always protect my precious son and with you I think he will be perfectly fine. But! Harm him and I'll come kill you! Enjoy it and thank me later! ~Your Almighty Key."
"Hyung, what does he mean "I can't always protect my precious son?" And what are these things?" Jonghyun groans in frustration and crumbles the paper in his hand, taking a look at Taemin, who stands there with the box containing condoms, flavoured condoms, lube and -this is the part where Jonghyun really wants to bash his head against the wall- sex toys. Trust Kibum to pick such a gift for them…
Jonghyun faces flushes various shades of red when he explains Taemin that stuff is used in sexual activities' "Oh…" Taemin drops the box and hides his face in his hands and for a moment Jonghyun is scared he will cry or say he doesn't want to be in a relationship with him. 'Hell, we didn't even properly kiss or make things official! Why must Kibum do this to me?!' He is close to tearing his hair out when Taemin lifts his head a little bit, a nice pink colour on his cheeks. He looks like he wants to say something, but he looks up to the tree instead, forgetting the gifts of Kibum instantly when he sees all these green plants or branches hanging from the ceiling. He points and Jonghyun follows his arm, heart sinking when he sees all the mistletoe.
The mistletoe makes a route over the ceiling and Jonghyun sees it ending in front of his bedroom door, but he isn’t surprised if his whole room would be filled with it. "Hyung, is that…mistletoe?" Taemin's voice shakes a little and Jonghyun doesn’t even want to taint him. So pure. He looks in awe at Taemin. "Yes, it is." "So…does that mean we have to kiss?" Jonghyun shrugs, it's a tradition, but Taemin's willingness is of more concern. "We don't have to." The look of relieve doesn't go unnoticed to Jonghyun and he isn't sure if he should ask Taemin what he wanted to ask him a week ago.
"Jinki? Do you think they made progress?" Kibum lifts his head from Onew's chest, where he had been laying for the past half hour. Jinki mumbles in his sleep and Kibum traces his features with a finger. 'He's so cute.' He presses their naked bodies closer, the delighted feeling when he realizes their bodies fit perfectly together. An arm wraps around him in a protective manner and Kibum matches his breath his Jinki's, slumbering back to sleep.
It's already far past midnight, so it's the second day of Christmas. Jonghyun has put all their presents away as Taemin went to shower after that awkward gift opening and mistletoe spotting incident. In the bedroom Jonghyun changed to his pajama's, consisting of his boxers and a low cut tank top and he is glad there aren't as many mistletoes as he had expected. He pauses in front of the bathroom door on his way out, listening to any sounds from the inside when a door opens and he falls. It's like a bad (or good?) déjà vu from before, Taemin in only a towel now on top of Jonghyun who cries silently in pain as his already bruised body comes in contact with the floor. Taemin pushes himself up and uses one hand to hold his head, the spinning slowly subsiding. He sits on Jonghyun's stomach without realizing it, scrunching his face in an attempt to make the dizziness go away.
"Taemin, look." Taemin looks up to see the mistletoe and he wants to stand up and walk away when his arm gets hold by Jonghyun. "Taemin…Can I…Kiss you?" He blushes hard as he hears Jonghyun's question, "Ye-No.. I mean.." He stutters. Realization dawns on Jonghyun, "Taemin, are you actually thinking about using Key's gift? Are you embarrassed?" The whining noise affirms his suspicion and he grins. 'So much angst for nothing…' he pulls Taemin down by his neck and kisses him on the lips. The pushes at his shoulders can't do anything to him, he's way too happy just kissing Taemin. Jonghyun releases his hold and Taemin breathes in deep. His eyes are filled with want and Jonghyun licks his lips thinking about that slender body underneath him and those eyes looking at him and only him.
This time it's Taemin who brings their lips together if a little bit shy, but he soon grows confident as Jonghyun makes an approving sound. He nibbles on Jonghyun's bottom lip and Jonghyun presses his nails in Taemin's sides when their tongues slide against each other, taking in the taste. A mewl escapes Taemin when Jonghyun works wonders on his neck leaving small red marks.
Jonghyun smirks against Taemin's collarbone when he hears the cute sounds emitting from above him. He trails his tongue down the chest, loving the way the other reacts to him. His hands slide unconsciously from Taemin's waist to the towel around his hips, lightly tugging at it before it comes off.
"Ah! Hyung!" Taemin tries to get the towel back to cover himself up but Jonghyun throws it to the other side of the hallway, grinning at the pout on Taemin's face. He sits up fast and lifts Taemin bridal style opening the door to his bedroom, but the hand on the door post stops him from walking further. He looks up and sees the mistletoe. "Eh, didn't know you where that naughty?" He withdraws his arm supporting Taemin's legs and presses him flush against the wall. Hips fitting and rolling together teasingly and lack of oxygen is prominent as neither wants to break apart from the needy kisses.
Somehow they manage to find the bed, all clothes miraculously gone now, Jonghyun carefully laying them down while kissing the living daylights out of Taemin. Taemin returns the favor by running his hands up and down Jonghyun's firm body, the obvious result of working out. He hears the grunts and his hands brush dangerously close to that one place. Jonghyun is suddenly breathing in his ear, his laboured breath matching Taemin's, "Tease. Just do it." His breath hitches as cold hands wrap around him, slowly setting a pace.
The excitement he feels drowns out the pain from his wounds and Jonghyun can only think about those hands caressing him. He snakes an arm under Taemin rolling them on the sides facing each other. His other hand goes downwards over Taemin's flat tummy and he likes the way Taemin buries his head into his shoulder when he returns the favour of cold hands doing unimaginable things. His cheek rest against Taemin's and he starts whispering sweet nothings and I love you's, as the pleasure builds up.
Taemin is lost in pure bliss and the feeling of Jonghyun whispering in his ear and his hands leaving touches all over him. It feels like his whole body is on fire. He stops his actions on Jonghyun, who is too far off (in his own world) to notice anyway. He rolls them back, Jonghyun again hovering over him. They lock eyes and Jonghyun slides his tongue against Taemin's lips before kissing him deep. They break and Jonghyun is back to whispering in his ear. He notices how Taemin begins to shake uncontrollably, desperately clinging to him. "Taemin-ah~" His voice comes out in a low husky purr and Taemin stiffens, a silent 'I love you too' spilling from his lips as he goes limp. Jonghyun smiles and brushes the damp hair out of Taemin's face kissing his forehead and gasps as the hands are back, this time warm. Taemin is still floating in his high, "Hyung, we didn't try Kibum-hyung's gifts yet~." And Jonghyun swears the innocent is all an act in it together. Not that he minds as his mind clouds over with lust, a thin layer of sweat adorning his skin and heavenly sounds coming from his mouth.
It's a sunny day and the sun shines brightly and the snow outside reflects the light into the room, but the couple is asleep worn out from the earlier engagements, dreaming of each other. The relationship still isn't confirmed between them, but who needs to ask the cliché when they both said 'I love you' and are currently cuddling in each other's arms?
He runs, the tears dry on his cheeks, this time not away from but into the arms of the person he loves. Leaving his home he has found a home where he truly belongs. Love can hurt, but it also brings the happiness of knowing there is always somewhere to go.
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A/N: So it ended. xD That only lasts the epilogue, and me with lack of sleep. ^^ Comments are love! ^^
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