22. Power of love
~~~ EXO Chanyeol X Punch - Stay with me OST - piano cover by Funguypiano ~~~
It was when he got of the last stage in Perth, he found out about Dee. Their manager knew before, but didn't tell him on purpose, to make him finish the concert, knowing him well enough that if he told him about her back then, he would be out of mind.
Like he was right now, sitting on the plane, which was nearing Icheon's airport at last.
"Calm down, Baek," Suho next to him, placed his hand on his knee, as he kept jumping up and down, thanks to the state he was in right now.
"I need to know, she is alright," he murmured for the millionth time, since they got on this flight.
"I'm sure she is, Baek. If you keep freaking out like this, you are not going to help to anything," Junmyeon advised him.
"I can't bear to sit still any longer," he shared with his friend, knowing they still have few minutes, before the plane descents to its final destination. As soon as the light signalling, they can unfasten their seatbelts, lightened up, he jumped up on his feet and rush through the crowd of people and immigration check, like a hurricane, with his members trying to keep up with his speed.
Thankfully their manager knew what to do and had their vans ready to take them to the hospital Dee was being treated in. He sat inside as the first one nagging the others to be faster.
He still didn't have an idea, what happened to her exactly. He only found out, she is in the hospital for two days now, because she fell unconscious due to head injury. He didn't care, that their arrival to the hospital will make a little commotion. Hyung Manager separated him from other members, letting him go on his own, so they don't draw too many eyes to them.
"We will meet you in her room," he got instructed before, they kicked him out of the car and he rushed inside of the hospital building. On the reception, he didn't even have to mention, who is he looking for and they led him to the fifth floor for VIP, which surprised him, but he supposed they knew, who's girlfriend she is and place her here, straight away.
"She is inside, she is still under the painkillers, sleeping," the nurse lady informed him and he went in, without any more delays. His eyes instantly found a sleeping figure under the floral sheets, in the bed in the centre of the room.
He found himself already standing by her side, watching her pale face, immediately noticing scratches on her cheek, which looked visibly swollen, but overall she seemed to be alright. The beeping of the monitor, letting him know about her pulse rate, gave away her current calm state.
He didn't even realize that he was holding his breath, until he made sure she is stable, with his own two eyes and let it all out. He bent down and took her hand with his, sensing her cold skin, against his warm one.
How could she during those few days get herself into the hospital?
"What happened to you, baby?" he asked her hoarsely, not recognizing his own voice. Her heartbeat remained steady while he held her, which meant only that she was still asleep. He was studying her soft features, like he did the first time he saw her closely.
He stayed like this for couple more minutes, feeling the bubble of curiosity rising inside of him, wanting to know, how could she end up here, when he heard someone in the hallway talking. He let go of her hand and went to the door, but as soon he opened them slightly, he recognized the voice of the person there, stopping in half movement, leaving the door opened and not letting the man outside know, he is there.
"... I don't want to hear any excuses, this is going to be huge problem, if it leaks out," Director Kim was talking with someone on his phone, sounding little nervous, which was something, Baekhyun never experienced with this man before.
"I want to speak to them. I want them to explain to me, what happened. I gave them clear instruction," he hissed into the speaker and Baekhyun inched closer to the wooden surface of the door, so he doesn't miss anything from this conversation.
"What the hell, does that mean, she was asking for it..." Director exploded, picking up the volume of his voice. Baekhyun frowned, checking on Dee quickly, seeing that she is still fast asleep.
"I don't care, they were to only scare her, tell her to leave, make her want to leave, for god's sake, so why the hell is she in the hospital?" the man was now whispering, realizing the things he is now discussing are confidential, but at that exact moment was Baekhyun connecting all he just heard with the situation Dee was now finding herself in. His breath increased as he had a bad feeling in his stomach that told him, there was something that went very bad and which got his girl to the hospital. He felt his fists clenching already, but he kept himself calm, allowing himself to listen to the whole story.
"I told you, not to hurt her in any way. I will deal with you later, stay hidden, I will try to keep this quiet," he ended up his call, sighing like he was having a hard time. But Baekhyun was now barely holding himself. He simply didn't want to believe, that her father had anything to do with her current state.
The door opened at last, having them both facing each other. Diector Kim looked startled for a minute, to see him there, but he regained his posture, scowling at Baekhyun.
"What are you doing here, you should be still in Australia, if that's correct. If you keep skipping your given schedule..." Baekhyun didn't let him finish his lecture, stepping closer to him, but still holding his anger in check.
"Why is she here?" he asked quietly.
"I'm not sure myself. I heard one of the new girl trainees found her in the dark alley, where she was probably robbed," Director's explanation was too quick and detailed, that all not convincing Baekhyun at all. Dee wasn't a girl, who would be easily chased to the corner by a simple robber, he remembered the way she dealt with him, when he jumped her out of nowhere. Dawn was tough girl, she knows how to react, when something like this occurs .
"Why do I have a feeling, you have something to do with it?" he murmured calmly, but burning inside. He already knew her father did something, but still wanted to give him the choice to explain himself.
"Don't jump into conclusion, like you always do, mister Byun," Director warned him, not letting his stiff expression move one bit.
"The thing is my conclusions are always right," he growled, inching close to the man standing there, in his perfect expensive suit. "According to what I just understood, from the phone call you made, it was you, who made her like this," he spat out, finally seeing his mask breaking, when he realized, Baek eavesdropped his conversation with someone, who was most definitely hired to do the dirty work.
"I don't know..." Director Kim was about to pretend, he doesn't have a clue, what is Beekhyun pointing at.
"You sure don't have any boundaries. Did you send a thugs at her, you sick bastard?" his tone was now dangerously shaking, from the raging anger within him. Director stayed silent, being taken back, not knowing what to say. He squeezed his eyelids together, before he looked at Baekhyun again.
"They weren't supposed to hurt her, the thing got out of hand..." that was as far Baekhyun let him speak, before he swung his right fist, directed at his jaw. Baekhyun hit him hard to his face, that it sent Director stumbling backwards in the corridor. Baekhyun didn't stay still for another second, following that imitation of a man, ready to punch him again, when two pairs of arms got hold of him, not letting him get to the Director. He didn't realized rest of the members just arrived and witnessed him losing control. But he didn't care at the moment, he wanted to hurt him, to make him feel, what she feels.
"Baekhyun, what a hell? Stop right now, you will get yourself in trouble, If you continue like this," he barely heard Junmyeon's worried voice, from somewhere behind him, along with two other ones, which he guessed belonged to those, who were struggling to hold him.
"Let me go..." Baekhyun hissed, though his clenched teeth. "I'm not going to slips this anymore, you sick bastard..." he was fighting with the arms, which were not allowing him to beat the hell out of her father.
"I will make you regret this..." Baekhyun said, panting heavily. He saw his enemy not looking at him anymore, instead of it, he was staring with weird glassy eyes inside the room, so he did the same, just to see Dee has already awaken.
"Dawn, you are awake," he let out, relaxing in the arms, that were locked around him, feeling like his legs were about give up under his weight, when he saw her suddenly smiling face, as she diverted her gaze at him.
"Long time no see," she spoke quietly, still fixing her eyes at him. Her lips were shaped into a beautiful smile, which was only meant to him. He was sure about it, despite the fact, he practically turned her confession down. His heart went crazy, as soon as he saw her being in a good state, even though she was still in the hospital bed.
This time he wanted to get away from his prisoners, to get to her, but they were still holding him tightly.
"Guys..." he murmured.
"Let him go," Suho appeared next to them, checking that Dee is the reason he wanted to break free. He forgot about the man, who was the cause of this mess and went back inside, stopping by her side. He was so excited to see her, not even thinking about the fact, that he shouldn't be that enthusiastic.
"You freaking scared the hell out of me, don't ever do this to me. The flight back to Korea was the worst nightmare," he scolded her, automatically taking her hand in his, playing with her fingers. He sensed how she tensed, but her smile grew even wider, if that was possible.
"You came back earlier," she pointed out, not bothering to hide how happy she was, to see him here. He wasn't thinking about his actions and sat down on the edge of her bed, to be closer to her and see her face properly.
"Did you really think, that I would just shrug my shoulders, when they told me about you?" he frowned at her, enjoying sight of blush in her cheeks. That brought attention to her injured face, he impulsively lifted free hand and gently traced tips of his fingers over the swollen scratches, feeling the anger taking its place again.
"Who did this to you?" he asked softly.
"It was my fault, I was provoking them and then I tripped over a brick on the ground and hit my head too badly..." he couldn't believe, she was trying to take the blame for her father's actions. Did she already know? Just the thought made his heart ache. He didn't want her to know more, than she needed, he won't let her heart fall apart again.
"The ones you provoke, who were they?" he pressed at her, not letting her finish the attempt to tell him, she did that to herself.
"They didn't really introduce themselves," she mumbled.
"Don't worry I will make sure to get those bastards, along with their leader," he promised her.
"Hey, Dee, what are you doing here, do you have any idea, how sick worried we were?" rest of the guys made their way inside, popping the bubble, he and Dee were in. Dee turned her smiling face, to see her visitors and he found it hard to peel his gaze away from her.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to spoil your time in Australia," he wanted to tell her to stop apologizing, for something her dad did to her, but held himself back. He looked back to the door, noticing that her father was still standing there, with bleeding corner of the lip, where his fist hit him, just minute ago.
"I never saw Baekhyun freaking out so much," Chanyelon made himself comfortable in the end of her bed, blabbering as always.
"Few times it looked like, he is going to jump of the plane and glide on the wings of love to you," Chen didn't let slip his opportunity to make a joke, Baekhyun only rolled his eyes, settling his gaze back at Dee, who was now avoiding his eyes and he immediately realized why. She remembered, what happened between them, before he left her here alone.
He let the others fool around for another ten minutes and then he kicked them out, with excuse Dee needs to relax. During that time, Director Kim stayed, until his assistant came to tell him, there are reporters down in the lobby. That was cue for EXO members to leave too, but Baek insisted to stay, even though their manager, wanted him to sneak out too.
He is not going to leave her alone ever again.
"You should go as well," she said from her sitting position in the head of the bed, with her legs crossed, under the blanket. She looked so vulnerable in the hospital gown, making him want to protect her with his own body.
"I'm not leaving you," he stated, jumping on her bed, endowed her with wide smile. She gave him a straight look, but corners of her mouth twitched, as she pressed her lips together, to stop herself from returning his smile.
"What is the point, there is none you can show off our fake relationship to and I don't need to be impressed by you. I'm okay on my own," she shook her head and gave him cold shoulder. "And if you are here to pity me, then come closer, so I can smack you," she frowned at him, making him chuckle.
"Looks like the bang on your head wasn't bad enough to erase your savage side," he murmured, making sure for her to hear it. He was pleased to hear her snort in disapproval.
"You are cute," he informed her, watching her mad expression changing into embarrassed.
"Stop it," she let out.
"What?" he acted clueless.
"Don't waste your charms on me, when you are damn aware, that I succumbed to you already," she sounded mad, even folding her arms on her chest and diverting her eyes away from him.
He didn't want to do anything else, than to cross the length of the bed between them and kiss he hard, but he can't be foolish anymore. There is no space for it. He couldn't tell her, he liked her too, when he was about to finish her dad a make her life hard again. He couldn't do that to her, on top of everything.
He was fighting with himself, not knowing what to do now, when he has her in front him again, he didn't think about it, on the way here, going all kind of crazy at the time.
"Dawn..." He breathed out, knowing there is nothing he can say to console her.
"Don't..." she shook her head, refusing to give him even a side glance. He noticed her lower lip trebling and fingers digging into her own arm, as she tried remain calm, not wanting to show him, how much does this bother her.
He had it hard too, seeing her like this was driving him insane. Untill she couldn't resist anymore and bore her glassy eyes in his, he lost his determination completely.
"Dee, do you think if I didn't care about you, I would be here now? You said it yourself, no one is here, to pretend for. Many times there were the occasions, when we were alone and I couldn't stop myself from touching you and kissing you. Do you really think I'd do all that, if I didn't care for you at all?" she widened her eyes at him, while he lost his mind, telling her everything that was hidden in his heart.
"I like you too, you fool," he ended up telling her completely everything with soft voice, sensing her shock, when she stopped breathing. He moved on the bed, right in front of her, taking her hand for several time today, enjoying the feeling of her skin against his. "The reason, I can't let this go anywhere further is, that I don't want to hurt you, when the time comes," he whispered, while she sat straight to lean closer to him.
"You... you like me?" she stuttered, only hearing those words, not the rest of it. He nodded, giving his all to the gaze, he delved into her.
The moment her lips spread into the most beautiful smile he ever seen and on her cheek rolled one lonely tear, he knew that what he must do, will be much harder now.
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Hope you all liked this one😍
I enjoyed writing from Baek's POV... It just gives another side to the story... Anyways, let me know whatcha think 😊
You have probably noticed, that I've started to post another story, staring our fabulous leadernim, along that story which is in progress, means its not finished or anything, I will post another one... called Kill or be killed... I think I have mentioned it before. But that story is almost finished... meaning, it has another two or three chapter coming up and its done.
The reason I'm mentioning this here, is that you dont think I will have too much to handle etc. I won't because the only story I'm now fully on is FALL (and another one which is in Czech written section)
anywayyyysss...
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