Jeno woke in a cold sweat, breathing heavily. He leaned his head back and closed his eyes. He had never had a dream that had affected him this much before. Everything was still so vivid in his mind, sticking to him like a bad memory. He sighed as his breathing began to steady and looked down in his lap. Renjun must have readjusted in his sleep, because he was no longer laying over his legs. Rather, he was sitting in Jeno's lap, hugging him like a koala. The younger smiled and moved his arms to run a hand through Renjuns soft hair. When he did, he felt a cold sting in his arm. It had a strange burning sensation and when he flinched from the pain, the movement only seemed to make it worse. He groaned and dropped his arms, figuring nothing would make it stop.

It was then that he felt someones gaze on him. He turned and was met with the calm eyes of Taeil, who was watching him carefully from where he sat. Noticing the youngers eyes on him, he nodded and stood before walking over. He crouched beside Jeno and gently grabbed his left arm. Jeno winced and Taeil calmly pulled something out of his pocket before looking at Jeno's pained expression.

"What did you dream about." He said simply as he began to press lightly on Jeno's arm with the object. The younger sighed as he felt the pain leaving his arm.

"I.. I dreamed about Chenle." Taeil's eyes widened. He avoided Jeno's eyes and looked down.

"What exactly happened.." Jeno furrowed his brows.

"Well.. It was just like the last time. He was in a field-"

"Last time?" Taeil cut him off.

"Yes. I dreamt about him before just last night." Taeil nodded slowly. Jeno continued. "He was in a field framed with trees, purple wild flowers were scattered here and there. A small stream ran softly through the clearing. Both times I went there wasn't a cloud in the sky. We soke with eachother about Jisung and the revolution, but something weird happened at the end.." He looked at Taeil who had stopped what he was doing and was now listening intently. "The field disappeared, and it was just darkness. He was still there though and he seemed to be the only thing connecting me to some sort of saftey and reality. I reached out to him, but I couldn't qiut get to him.. He said something as the dream ended. He told me I would save everyone, and that I was the only way...."

There was a long pause of silence and Jeno noticed Taeil was no longer the only one listening. Ten, who was leaning on Johnny, had his eyes locked on the two while Lucas watched through judging eyes. Taeyong looked up from the knife he was sharpening and Yangyang turned from talking to Hendary to look at them.

"Is that all?" Taeil asked, taking some of the tension out of the air with his words.

"Yes." Jeno said softly, noticing Renjun shift in his lap from the noise. Taeil nodded slowly and quickly finished tending to Jeno's cold arms before retreating back to his spot beside Kun and Yuta, who were to engrossed in there game to notice what had happened. Everyone else began going back to there own things, acting like nothing had ever happened. Jeno felt a chill go down his spine from the slight tension and eerie silence that filled the air. What was so wrong with his dream? It wasn't really Chenle, right? That would be impossible. He shook his head and felt Renjun move in his lap. He looked down to see the older now facing him calmly. He blinked slowly before hugging Jeno tighter and burying his head into the youngers chest.

"Renjun.." He began, searching for the right words, but Renjun beat him to it.

"J-Jeno you're such an idiot sometimes.. You killed him. You killed Na Jaemin.."

4 words Jeno never thought he would hear.

You killed Na Jaemin.

It played in his head like a broken record.

You killed Na Jaemin.

You couldn't protect Zhong Chenle.

You killed Renjun's father.

He hugged the older boy in his lap even tighter as he felt the boys body shake with hard sobs. He felt horrible. Guilt filled his head and heart as Renjun let it all out, crying into his chest.

"I'm sorry.. He was trying to hurt us... In the moment it felt right.. I'm so sorry..." Renjun looked up and saw Jeno vigorously wiping away couple tears that fell from his face. Renjun reached up and grabbed Jeno's hand away, allowing the tears to fall.

"It's okay to cry Jeno.." Renjun whispered. He burried his face into Jeno's chest once more and Jeno in turn burried his face in the boys soft hair. They sat like that for a while, content in eachothers arms, letting everything out.

And from a roof, a short ways off, a boy was watching.

He sniffed a bit as a tear ran down his cheek.

"See." Chanyeol hissed in his ear. "They don't care about you enough to look for you! They're just fine without you." He spat, his words like fangs sinking into Jaemin's mind, their venom clouding his judgement.

"So Jaemin, will you stay?" Jaemin's face changed from sadness to anger as he glared down at the boys.

"Of course."

-tbc-

AN: sorry for the short chapter. It's kinda just filler and I'm also sorry it took me so long to update. We had an unreasonable amount of projects the last two weeks so.. Also I promise the next chapter will have more story bits! Okay, I LOVE YOU GLAMOROUS CHICKENS!!
(Also happy Halloween!)