Felix woke up in the middle of the night.

Somehow he had managed to nearly lie on top of Minho in his sleep, but actually that didn't really bother him. The warmth of the older felt incredibly good and would normally have ensured that he would have gone back to sleep quickly.

But today it didn't work.

He felt a crazy inner restlessness that couldn't even pushed away by Minho's closeness.

Carefully, so as not to wake the older, he pushed himself down from him and sat up. It was still dark outside and he couldn't hear anything that possibly could have woken him up.

Felix looked around thoughtfully, but he couldn't really see much in the dark room.

For minutes he just sat there until he reached for his cell phone to see if he had received any urgent messages.

But there was nothing either. No messages, no calls.

Sighing softly, the blue-haired shook his head. It was only almost three o'clock in the morning, enough time to cuddle up to Minho again and continue sleeping.

And yet he still felt so restless that it was difficult for him to just lie down again.

For seconds he stared at the glowing screen of his smartphone, which didn't really help him either.

More out of a feeling, he put his ringtone on loud, before he finally snuggled up to Minho again.

Who grumbled and pulled Felix into his arms. "Everything okay, baby?" Minho mumbled, pressing his lips against Felix's temple.

"I don't know," Felix whispered, feeling a thick lump in his throat. He nervously pressed his fingers in to Minho's arm.

"I'm here."

Minho softly caressed Felix's back. Spread small kisses on his face and whispered reinforcing, sometimes somewhat seductive words to him. Showed Felix with his calm, loving manner that he was really there for him.

At some point, Felix fell asleep in the safe arms of the older.

The restlessness, however, didn't want to let him go and followed him in to his sleep.

The shrill ringing of his phone pulled them out of their sleep. Scared, Felix drove up and looked around the bedroom in a daze. It was already getting light outside.

It took a while for Felix to realize that his phone was ringing.

Suddenly the bad feeling was back. With a pounding heart, he reached for his phone and accepted the call. "Hello?"

"Is there Lee Felix?"

His heart was beating up to his neck. The voice of the caller sounded insanely official and he couldn't explain to himself who could want to speak him at this hour in official matters.

He had to clear his throat before he could answer. "Yes, that's me."

Meanwhile, Minho had also sat up sleepily and looked at Felix with his head tilted.

"You are Hwang Hyunjin's registered emergency contact. He was injured at night while working and is now in the hospital."

Without Felix being able to prevent it, tears ran down his cheeks. "Injured? Oh my God- what hospital?! I'll be right there!"

Concerned, Minho moved closer to Felix and put a hand on his thigh.

"In the University Hospital."

From then on, Felix's memories were blurred. He hadn't even been able to really explain to Minho what had happened, the sobs had shaken him too hard. They had both dressed hectically, because for nothing in the world Minho would have let Felix drive to the hospital alone.

Arriving at the hospital, Felix managed to ask for Hyunjin without bursting into tears again and was also directly told the room.

On the way there, he struggled with the tears again and gratefully grabbed Minho's hand, which the older had offered with a compassionate smile.

Impatience and fear led a bitter battle in Felix. He wanted to see Hyunjin and take him in his arms, but had absolutely no idea what to expect. Which made his hands tremble and he had to take several deep breaths before he could knock on the door.

Without waiting for an answer, Felix opened the door and then hesitantly went in.

The older seemed to be sleeping. He was lying turned away from Felix and Minho, his face towards the window and breathing evenly.

From their position, it wasn't possible to say at all that Hyunjin had been hurt in any way. It just looked like he was lying in bed and sleeping.

Felix turned uncertainly to Minho, who nodded to him in encouraging and gently pushed him towards the bed.

With hesitant steps, Felix circled the bed, but then stopped still in shock.

Hyunjin's beautiful face had been defaced. His lip was burst and his lower jaw defaced a huge dark blue hematoma.

Suddenly the tears were back in his eyes and his hands were shaking again.

Through the not completely closed hospital shirt, the edges of a bandage around the entire upper body could be seen.

That was the moment when Felix felt insanely sick and he couldn't stop the tears from running down his cheeks.

"Jinnie..." he whispered, kneeling next to the bed and carefully grabbed the older's hand.

Just the gentle touch of Felix hand caused Hyunjin to scare out of his sleep and he opened his eyes in panic.

And although Felix was seized by panic and thought for seconds about pulling his hand away, he finally left his hand where it was and gently stroked the back of the older's hand with his thumb.

"It's me, baby. You're in the hospital," Felix whispered.

It took a moment for the information to get to Hyunjin.

At some point on the way to the hospital he had woken up, but his pain had been so severe that they had immediately given him strong painkillers. His memories were fragmented at best and he hadn't really noticed anything about the whole emergency procedure.

"How... how did you get here?" Hyunjin's voice sounded hoarse, almost croaking.

"They called me. I'm your emergency contact, don't you remember?" Hesitantly, Felix got up and sat down next to Hyunjin on the bed.

"How could I forget that," Hyunjin mumbled, and a vague smile sneaked onto his lips.

Of course, Felix was his emergency contact. Although it was actually more out of fun, they had saved each other as an emergency contact when it had been really bad again with Felix's parents at some point. Felix hadn't wanted his parents to be informed if something happened to him and Hyunjin's parents lived too far away to be able to reach their son quickly.

Groaning, Hyunjin slid to the side until he felt the fall protection of the bed in his back and patted on the free space in front of him. He urgently needed some closeness and secureness. And even if he was in the hospital, he would achieve it the fastest with Felix in his arms.

Only when Felix looked over him questioningly and Minho came around the bed, Hyunjin realized that Felix hadn't gotten to the hospital alone.

"Oh, hey Min."

"Hey, Jinnie. Baby, give me the key to your apartment, I'll get change for him."

The look that Felix gave Minho as he reached into his pocket was full of love and affection. Instead of simply handing Minho the key, he pulled his boyfriend closer and kissed him lovingly. "You're the best! Thank you, baby!"

"Gladly! Watch out for him so nothing else happens!", Minho growled softly and winked at Hyunjin.

Only after the door had closed behind Minho, Felix kicked his shoes off and carefully lay down next to Hyunjin.

"Will you tell me what happened?" He asked quietly.

Silently, Hyunjin wrapped his arm around his best friend and pulled him closer. He skillfully ignored the pain that this caused him, because Felix's closeness brought him much more love and comfort than the movement caused him pain.

It was hard for him to talk about what had happened. Not because he didn't trust Felix, but because on the one hand he hadn't processed the whole thing himself, and on the other hand it didn't just affect him. And yet he knew that he would probably feel better if he talked to Felix about it.

Before he began to speak, he buried his face against Felix's neck. "A patient was raped... in one of the bathrooms... and I burst into it... the guy apparently didn't liked that...", he whispered and noticed how tears gathered in his eyes.

Felix became very rigid in his arms and Hyunjin realized that the younger didn't knew how to react.

"Who was raped...?" Felix finally whispered.

"Not Chan... another, very cute, younger patient. I think the guy wanted to try that before, but another patient had noticed and prevented it," Hyunjin explained quietly, pushed his trembling hand under Felix's sweater until he could feel the velvety skin of the younger.

The mention of Chan made him ponder. And with that, the memories of Chan kissing him came back.

All the beautiful, exciting feelings had been suppressed by the terrible events that had happened afterwards.

But the thoughts of Chan brought it back up again and Hyunjin's heart began to beat much faster. The memories of the kiss had an intoxicating effect on him and now pushed the memories of the later events into the background. At least for now.

His hand wandered faster over Felix's stomach, which made the younger one notice something was going on in Hyunjin's mind. "Everything okay?" he asked worriedly.

"He kissed me," Hyunjin whispered so softly that Felix thought he had misheard it.

"He did WHAT?!"

Instantly Hyunjin blushed bright red and buried his face deeper into the crook of Felix's neck.

"He kissed me," he mumbled, only slightly louder than before.

For some terrible seconds, Felix feared that the guy who had beaten Hyunjin had also kissed him. "WHO?!"

"Chan of course..."

But Felix's question catapulted Hyunjin directly back to the moment when he burst into the bathroom. The excitement disappeared almost instantly and the gentle smile that had played around his lips was wiped away.

"I'm sorry..." Felix whispered.

But Hyunjin wasn't angry at him at all and understood the confusion of the younger.

Nevertheless, he would have liked to keep the memory of the kiss alive longer to be able to dwell longer in the thoughts of the moment.

Silently he snuggled up to Felix. And although he now felt a clear difference to what it was like to be in Chan's arms, he still felt a lot of safety and an incredible amount of love in his best friend's arms.

Felix's fingers gently stroked through his hair and finally Hyunjin fell asleep. Got the recovery he needed badly.

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