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"He's had multiple abrasions, critical internal bleeding in the brain, a broken rib as well as a broken arm" The doctor says softly to Mr and Mrs Jung, her long dark hair pulled back in ponytail. The older woman felt tears well up in her eyes at the mention of all her son's injuries. Her husband attempts to comfort her by wrapping his arm around her shoulder and rubbing up and down her arm in steady pace.

"He's gonna be ok though, right?" Mr Jung asks with hopeful eyes, his wife looks up at the doctor as well, a few tears managing to fall down to her cheeks.

"Of course. He just needs a lot of recovery time. We'll continue to run extensive CTs, but you should know, the damage to your son's hippocampus was fairly severe"

"And what does that mean exactly?"

"While he'll retain a great deal of his semantic memory; his name, his family. Episodic recall is far less reliable. It's likely he won't even remember the people he's met in the last few months"

Mr Jung nods in understanding and holds his spouse tightly as she breaks down into tears. Even though the doctor assured her that Wooyoung would be ok she still felt so heartbroken. As a mother, hearing that your child was in that sort of state was probably one of the most terrifying situations.

"We'll do everything we can to aid him in re-attaining his memories" The doctor tries her best to console them before leaving to attend to other matters. Wooyoung was still unconscious but his parents were allowed to come in and see him.
"Oh, my baby..." Mrs Jung utters as she walks into the hospital room after a nurse holds the door open for them.

He layed on the bed, his eyes closed and lips pale. He had a white gauze of some sort wrapped around his head. His right arm casted in white plaster. A few small purple bruises on his other arm and his temple.

She rushes over to the unconscious boy and gently takes his hand. He had an IV drip connected to the back of his hand. "You'll be ok Wooyoung, just hang in there" She whispers and struggles to hold back more tears from falling.

Later during the day Seonghwa came bursting into the hospital room with Yeosang close behind him.

"Hey! Only family is allowed to see him right now!" A nurse yells as she runs into the room as well.

"Yah! I'm his family too, what the hell" Seonghwa yells out in annoyance.

"It's fine, they can stay" Mrs Jung calls out solemnly to the panicked nurse. She nods in understanding before leaving the room and shutting the door behind her.

Seonghwa rolls his eyes at her before looking at his unconscious bestfriend. His eyes soften when he takes in Wooyoung's pale looking state. "Aish- how did this even happen?" He mutters as he softly brushes Wooyoung's warm cheek.

"He fell down the stairs and two of his friends found him, bleeding out, at the bottom of the stairs when they came to hang out" She tries her best to elaborate.

"San and Yunho" Yeosang whispers. "Is he gonna be ok?"

"Yeah. He'll be ok" She mutters with a tight lipped smile.

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"Are you saying he won't remember us?" San asks with disbelief but was soon washed with a wave of relief. He won't remember us...

Yeosang nods, he couldn't even believe it himself. Yunho just stood awestruck at the news. He didn't know whether to cry or celebrate. It was as though some kind of god had seen how desperate he and San was and decided to deliver.

They were both convinced that they were going to be locked up for the rest of their days. Wooyoung would wake up and frame them just as he'd possibly done to Hiuna.

San falls back unto Yunho's couch and the taller had to holds the wall to stop himself from collapsing to the floor. "What?" Yeosang asks when he sees their relieved expressions. "Aren't you guys supposed to be sad. He won't remember any of us"

"W-we are sad" San felt himself tear up but it wasn't for the reason Yeosang thought when he saw the tears fall, it was because he so happy.

Yeosang smiles sadly at him and pats his knee. "It'll be ok, Seonghwa said he'll let me know when he wakes up so then I'll relay it to you guys" He says softly before getting up to leave. "I've gotta go now, see you later"

With that he was gone.

"We're not going to prison" San mutters.

"No" Yunho mutters back.

"We're not going to prison.. we're not going to prison!" The shorter kept saying, each sentence louder than the last. He start jumping all around the room and laughing loudly while tears still fell.

Yunho couldn't help but find the scene really amusing. Was he laughing or crying? He couldn't tell.

Wooyoung finally woke up later that evening and, just as the doctor had mentioned, he couldn't remember a thing of how he ended up in the hospital. He couldn't even recall his own birthday party which was a few weeks ago.

News of his hospitalization spread on the internet like wild fire. Everyone showing their concern by creating a trending hashtag on Twitter. #gwswooyoung

Seonghwa and Yeosang had finally made their relationship public. And, of course, they were many people who opposed it but there were just as many people who supported them.

Many fans began speculating that Yuto and Wooseok might be dating seeing as they were spotted on multiple occasions in public together or making posts about each other.

Since Christmas was around the corner, Hongjoong and Mingi had decided to go on their vacation together. They still hadn't made their 'relationship' official but everyone knew they were practically dating, if not secretly married...

San and Yunho had both concluded to both themselves that they were going to stay away from Wooyoung. The last thing they wanted was to repeat history. But alas, they could only avoid the inevitable for so long because according to Seonghwa, the celebrity has been asking for them.

"He kept mentioning that he really wants to meet the guys who saved his life" Seonghwa had said.

They both tried dodging the meet up but they both knew it was bound to happen. The weather was cold and frosty as was the usual December weather. The air was almost numbingly cold which causes San to pull the hood of his black coat further over his head.

He was currently on his way to the hospital to finally 'meet' the one person he was dreading meeting. Part of him kept thinking up different horrible scenarios upon their meet. What if he looks at us and remembers what happened that evening? What if he actually remembers but he's just playing us, pretending like he doesn't remember, toying with us.

He didn't want to think about it but it was a possibility. Yunho had agreed to meet him at the hospital so he headed there by himself despite his growing nerves.

He walks through the front doors and was instantly greeted with a rush of warm air. He sighs in content as he pulls back his hood, revealing his newly dyed blonde hair. His paranoid ass did some research and found out that sometimes color could be a trigger for semantic memory recollection and so being the cheap person he was he had immediately sprinted to the nearest drug store to grab some box dye.

His hair ended up not looking half bad. He was convinced all his hair would've fallen off from the bleach but thankfully he still had hair on his head.

He was glad when he spots Yunho sitting in the waiting room and the older looked equally as anxious as he was. "Hey" He says with a shaky voice and Yunho flashes him a small nervous smile.

"Hey, ready?" He stands up and San nods even though he didn't really believe that himself.

They both approached the nurse at the receptionists desk and gave her their names. Their names were already put down as visitors for Wooyoung so she immediately led them towards his room.

Each step towards Wooyoung made Yunho's stomach drop deeper and deeper. The nurse stopped at a door and began opening it. She poked her head briefly inside, "Wooyoung you've got 2 visitors here for you" She says sweetly.

"Let them in" Wooyoung's calls out. Though his voice sounded groggy and a bit raspier than usual, it was still him nonetheless.

She pushes the door open for them and they walk in then she closes the door after their entrance leaving the 3 boys. alone.

Wooyoung looks at them with blank eyes for few seconds and San was almost sure that his memories had come back to him but Wooyoung smiles softly at them.

It was the first time that either of them had seen Wooyoung since the incident so they were taken back by his appearance. He looked pale which was a complete contrast to his usual tan complexion. His once bright eyes looked duller and the large purple and yellow bruise by his right eye wasn't exactly helping either.

He still had white gauze wrapped around his head and his arm casted. "So I finally get to meet my saviours" He rasps in almost a whisper due to his dry throat.

San simply smiles back, not trusting his own voice. "Yeah.." was all Yunho managed to utter.

Wooyoung's smile falls and he looks down at his hands, his face covered with guilt. "Apparently you guys are my friends. Sorry I can't remember you" He says as though it was his own fault for his brain trauma although that wouldn't be too far from the truth.

"N-no it's fine. Just get better, that's all that matters" San shakes his head and stutters out.

Wooyoung nods and smiles at them again before ushering them to come closer and quit standing at the door like royal guards. "Come closer, I don't bite I promise" He says softly, his usual charming smile painted on. San felt his heart leap at that deceiving smile that got he and Yunho in this mess in the first place.

No, I won't fall for it again...

They both look at each other briefly before obliging and moving a bit closer to the injured male. "You guys don't talk much, do you?" Wooyoung comments teasingly while cocking his head to the side, silently taking in their tense behavior.

"We talk when we have to" San says pointedly.

"And what's your name?" Wooyoung looks at him with dark yet daring eyes.

"San"

"How about you?" He looks to the taller.

"...Yunho"

"Well... it's nice to meet you both"

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So this happened 🤡😂