After the meal, Minho and Chan voluntarily took over the cleaning, while Jisung and Changbin made themselves comfortable on the sofa.

"Little one, tell me, would you mind if I'd disappeared to the gym for 2-3 hours?" Changbin asked while plucking Jisung's blonde hair. Chan was right Jisung and Minho looked hot with blond hair.

Jisung cuddled up to him and played with the fingers of Changbin's free hand.

"No, I don't mind. Maybe I'll come with you if you - if you can't see the marks on my neck anymore..." he murmured quietly.

Changbin pulled him to him and gently stroked his back.

"You haven't told anything yet how it was this morning...," Changbin said quietly, straightened up and looked questioningly at the younger one.

"Hmm..."

Jisung was silent for a moment, then took a deep breath and grabbed Changbin's hand again to be able to hold on to something.

"It was quite ok I think... The therapist is very nice. And he didn't ask all the stupid questions, but just let me talk. He gave me a new appointment for the day after tomorrow."

For a moment, Jisung stopped playing with Changbin's fingers and looked up. To his astonishment, he saw admiration and pride in Changbin's gaze.

"I'm proud of you, little one! And are you going there again?"

Jisung nodded hesitantly.

Seconds later, he felt Changbin put his finger under his chin, lift it up and kiss him.

Changbin, along with Minho, was usually rather reserved about physical contact or expressed expressions of affection. While Chan and Jisung were relatively open with their feelings and also had no problem with physical contact.

But Changbin had also been damn close to losing part of himself with Jisung. And that had also changed something in him.

Some separate tears ran down Changbin's cheeks and he tried to wipe them away before Jisung saw them, but that was in vain.

"Binnie..."

He snuggled up to the elder and put his arms around him.

"Little one..."

More and more tears ran down his cheeks. Jisung gently wiped them away and then kissed Changbin on his own.

"I'm here Binnie," he mumbled.

Changbin laboriously suppressed a sob and pressed Jisung to himself.

"I- we were so close to losing you... I don't know if we could have made it without you.... Especially Minho..."

Even more tears ran down his face.

Now Jisung couldn't hold back his tears either. He had known that his kidnapping had taken a toll on the others. But he wasn't aware of that they had suffered so much from it. All three tried to be strong and not to carry their feelings out so much because they didn't know if Jisung could handle it.

To see Changbin like that now shocked him.

He pulled the elder closer to him and gently stroked his back.

"Binnie... it's okay... I'm back...," Jisung tried to calm him down, while he himself didn't even manage to hold back his tears.

At that moment, Minho and Chan came into the living room.

Without asking questions, they sat down with the two on the sofa, hugged them and gave them love and support.

Slowly Changbin and Jisung calmed down again.

Changbin had leaned on Chan and Jisung sat half on Minho and had cuddled tightly to him.

Minho gently stroked through Jisung's blonde hair. Nobody said anything for quite a while.

But finally Changbin stood up with a sigh.

"I think I really need a round in the gym... Minho, Chan, would any of you like to come along?"

Chan shook his head. "I think I'm too tired for that today."

But Minho gladly accepted the offer. "I'd like to come with you... If that's okay with you, baby."

"Of course. One of us has to take care of Channie anyway. I'm happy to do it."

With a slight grin, he dodged Chan's fist. He tried to box Jisung, but Changbin held him tight.

"Be nice, honey. Then maybe I'll bring you something as a reward."

For a moment, Chan looked at him with his head crooked and thought about whether he should play along. Finally, he pushed his lower lip forward and looked at Changbin with big eyes.

"Channie is always nice...," he murmured.

This made the others laugh and shortly afterwards he was first kissed by Changbin, then also by Jisung and Minho.

"Off you go then! Before Channie changes his mind and is no longer nice," Jisung said with a laugh.

Grinning, Minho got up and pulled Changbin into the bedroom to get the things for the gym, while Chan pulled Jisung to him.

"And what do we want to do, my handsome?" he asked the younger one and stroked like Minho through Jisung's hair.

Jisung bit his lower lip and so peered up to Chan. "Lying in bed, cuddling and watching a movie?"

Laughing, Chan kissed him on the forehead.

"With ice cream?"

Jisung nodded happily, got up and ran into the kitchen to get the ice cream.

Chan waited until Jisung was back with it and together they went to the bedroom.

Minho and Changbin were still packing their sports equipment and talked. When Chan and Jisung came into the bedroom, they looked up in amazement.

"What's that going to be?" Minho asked with a laugh.

"Watching a movie, cuddling and eating ice cream," Jisung said satisfied, put the ice cream on the bedside table and then dropped on the bed.

"Chan definitely has a soft spot for you...," Changbin said shaking his head and had to grin.

Chan shrugged his shoulders, kissed Changbin and then cuddled up to Jisung on the bed.

"Have fun you two. We'll make our way to the gym now," said Minho, kissing Jisung and then left the bedroom with Changbin.

Chan let Jisung choose a movie and cuddled up to him. Normally he got along quite well with little sleep, but today he was just tired.

Relatively randomly, Jisung chose a film and then snuggled closer to Chan.

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