It was dark when Jisung woke up. At first, he didn't really realize where he was.

It smelled like disinfectant and somewhere near by him a monitor beeped quietly.

For a few terrible seconds, he thought he was still being held somewhere.

But then his eyes slowly got used to the dim light and finally he realized that he was lying in a hospital bed.

Next to him, someone sat sunk together on a chair. He had to look twice to realize that it was Changbin who was sitting next to him.

Tears gathered in his eyes while he carefully raised his hand and gently stroked Bin's hair.

He hadn't thought that he would see him again.

Which led him to think in panic about whether he was sleeping and his mind was just pretending to be in the hospital.

As much as he could, he pinched himself in the leg and was incredibly relieved to feel the pain.

He tried to straighten up, but his whole body felt sore and exhausted.

He tried again with his teeth bitten together, but the second attempt didn't really work either.

Angry, he shook his head.

He didn't understand why his body didn't want to obey him.

"Binnie, I need your help," he wanted to say, but little more than a croaking came out of his mouth.

In the next moment, scraps of memories shot through his head.

Minho who lay shot and bleeding on the ground. He had tried to crawl to him to stay with him, but with the drugs in his blood, he hadn't really been helpful.

Minho, who tried to cheer him up and eventually lost consciousness.

Jisung felt his heart race and he gasped in panic. He didn't know where Minho was, or if he was still alive.

He heard the monitor beeping like crazy and it took a moment for him to understand that this was his heartbeat.

He tried to breathe deeply in and out and get his heartbeat back under control, but he only felt tingling around his mouth and he realized that he was about to lose consciousness again.

He shook his head in panic, he had to stay awake and find out where Minho was.

The darkness came closer when he suddenly felt him being hugged by someone.

He felt lips lie on his and slowly the darkness began to disappear.

A few moments later, he could see clearly again and realized that he was lying in Changbin's arm and that the elder had kissed him.

Changbin was actually someone who had a good grip on his emotions and preferred not to wear it so much to the outside. But now tears poured down his cheeks.

Again and again he stroked through Jisung's hair and murmured soothing words to him, which didn't really make sense.

Jisung gently put a hand on his cheek.

"Minho?"

He much more whispered than anything else, but Changbin would have understood him without words.

He carefully let go of Jisung and got up.

Jisung followed him with his gaze and was surprised to find that there was a second bed in the room in which two people seemed to sleep snuggled closely together.

Only when Changbin went over to the two and gently woke them up, Jisung understood who was lying in bed.

Minho found it difficult to wake up. He felt incredibly tired. He tried to understand why he had woken up, but his eyes closed again before he understood what was going on.

Seconds later, he scared up again because someone shook him carefully. Words penetrated his ears and his tired, somewhat confused his brain tried to understand what he was told.

"Jisung is awake!!!"

After understanding what had just been told to him, he jerked off the bed and first fell down on the floor lengthwise.

"Minho," he heard Jisung's worried voice.

With bitten teeth and Changbin's help, he got up and finally made it over to Jisung's bed.

With tears in his eyes, he stared at his fiancé, who in turn stared at him.

"Come on, go hug him!"

Changbin stood behind Minho to support him and wiped tears off his face.

Somewhat cumbersome and with Changbin's help, Minho finally managed to climb on the bed to Jisung and pulled him tightly into his arms.

His shoulder hurt like crazy, but nothing would stop him from holding Jisung.

He kissed him gently. On the forehead, cheeks, nose and finally on the mouth.

Tears ran down their faces, but it didn't matter.

Jisung wanted to ask and tell Minho so much, but all that came over his lips was a quiet "Minho."

He looked at him as if he had never heard anything more beautiful and kissed him again.

"I'm here baby, I'm here! You are safe!"

He pulled Jisung even closer to himself and ignored the pain in his shoulder.

It didn't take long for the two to fall asleep, exhausted from crying and reassured by the closeness of each other.

And although Changbin's tears were still running down his face, he couldn't help but smile.

He carefully pulled up the duvet so that they were both covered.

Finally, he also turned away from the two and carefully climbed into bed to Chan. For minutes, he thought about waking Chan up.

He knew that he definitely had to tell a nurse that Jisung had woken up. But for a moment he wanted to give the two peace and closeness before any nurses or doctors wanted to come and look at Jisung.

Although probably not too much would be done at night.

He gently stroked Chan's arm and kissed him.

"Baby, wake up."

Chan has always been the one with the lightest sleep out of all of them. But today it Changbin took longer than usual to wake him up.

The last few days had simply been very exhausting for all of them and Changbin knew that Chan was also struggling with feelings of guilt.

"Baby, Ji woke up!"

Chan slowly opened his eyes and tried to understand why Changbin and not Minho was in bed with him.

Seconds later, he scared up.

"What about Minho?! Did something happen? Where is he?!"

Changbin had to grin and pointed over to Jisung's bed.

Chan rubbed his eyes and only understood in the second attempt that Minho was in bed with Jisung.

"He woke up. He didn't say anything except 'Minho', but he woke up."

Chan stared at Changbin in disbelief.

"He woke up? Just like that?"

Changbin nodded with a smile and attracted Chan to himself.

"Do you think we can sleep a little before we let them know that he woke up? We are all pretty done and could use some sleep."

"Well, at night they will hardly examine him. Doctors are now only called in an emergency. So yes, let's sleep a little."

Chan cuddled up on Changbin, kissed him and closed his eyes.

"Sleep well, angel. I love you!" he muttered.

"Sleep well, baby. I love you too!"

And for the first time in days, they all slept deep and firmly.

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