Title: What Bandaged Fingers Mean
Author : sophie_yaru ( http://community.livejournal.com/w_complexity/387.html )
Pairings: HoMin (Yunho x Changmin)
Rating: PG
Warnings: None that I can think of
Genre: Fluff
Summary: Yunho has been in the USA and is returning to Korea. Changmin has missed him and has been up late at night working on something. Poster Credits to myself.
Disclaimer : Plot and story belongs to sophie_yaru ( http://community.livejournal.com/w_complexity/387.html ) I own nothing. Enjoy!!
Changmin worked furiously at his desk, his back hunched as he set his whole concentration on the object he held. His fingers worked with speed and accuracy, snipping here and sewing there. The accuracy had come at a cost of thousands of mistakes and of the hours he had spent working on his 'project'.
He froze when he thought he had heard a noise emit from the room next to his. His whole body stayed stiffened as he strained his ears to hear any other noises. As he waited his eyes flickered to his door, checking to make sure he had locked it. He had. When no other noise was heard he nodded quietly to himself and quickly finished what he had been working on.
But the noise had unnerved him and several times his fingers slipped, causing injuries to himself. Finally when he was done he stood up and being as quiet as the dead he put verything away, making sure that he left no trace behind to give clues to what he had been doing.
He then looked down at his hands, analyzed the damage done to them and then with a small sigh, reached for the bandages.
~~~
"Morning~Morning! Wakey~ Wakey!" A squeaky, shrilling singing voice penetrated throughout the quiet house.
Changmin groaned and pulled his pillow around his head, trying to muffle out the dolphin's voice. Waking up was the last thing he wanted to do.
BANG. BANG. BAM. "Owwie!" Junsu's voice cried out from right in front of Changmin's door. "Hey Changmin, why's your door locked?" Junsu asked.
Changmin mentally slapped himself, finding no strength to carry out the action physically. He had meant to unlock the door before falling asleep, but it seem sleep had claimed him first. He turned and tried to dig himself deeper into the covers, hoping the duckbutt would give up and leave him alone.
There was a silence and a small smile crowned Changmin's face as he was about to go back to sleep.
"JAEJOONG! JAE JAE!! UMMA!!" Junsu's voice rose octaves higher, until Changmin could have sworn that it could be hear all throughout Korea. "CHANGMIN HAS HIS DOOR LOCKED!!"
Changmin groaned in frustration.
"UMMA!" Junsu continued to wail. "I THOUGHT YOU SAID THAT'S NOT ALLOWED!!!"
"Gaaah!" Changmin threw his covers and pillow away from him and jumped out of the bed. He unlocked his door and yanked it open, revealing a Junsu that had his mouth opened, ready to continue yelling.
Changmin did not even think twice before one of his socks found their way to Junsu's mouth. He angrily stuffed the sock into shocked, gagging Junsu. "SHUT THE FRIGGIN UP STUPID! THE ONLY DOOR THATS LOCKED IS THE DOOR TO YOUR INTELLIGENCE!!"
"Leave him alone Changmin, don't take it out on Junsu just because you were up late doing who knows what." A sleepy looking Yoochun warned Changmin as he helped Junsu dislodge the dirty sock and rubbed Junsu's back soothingly.
Changmin could not retort anything and stormed back into his room, slamming the door. He did not want them to ask him about what HAD kept him up.
Out on the hallway yoochun led Junsu to the bathroom and handed him a toothbrush and toothpaste. "He just misses Yunho." Yoochun murmurred as he watched Junsu scrub his mouth clean.
~~~
Yunho contained a yawn as he exited the airplane. A stewardess had to chase him down to give him his luggage. Yunho had blinked from his beneath his glasses and then apologize to the woman before continuing on to a taxi. One on the taxi he relaxed and a small smile graced his face as he told himself he was back home.
~~~
Changmin's fingers drummed the desk impatiently as his eyes practically threw lase rbeams at the digital clock that was in front of him. He would be home soon.
He glanced down at his fingers and smiled. He didnt mind the bandages around them, it had been worth it.
He heard the doorbell ring and he stood up quickly, knocking down the chair to the ground. He didn't waste time picking it back up and instead rushed out of his room, already knowing who it was.
~~~
Yunho braced himself as the three members crowded around him, their faces all enthusiastic with his return. But his eyes brushed past them, looking for the fourth member.
Junsu and Jaejoong pulled him towards the living room and settled him down on the couch, with them quickly sitting besdie him.
"So how was America?" Junsu asked, bouncing up and down, showing his joy.
"Not Korea." Yunho said. 'Not home, not where he was.' he thought and he sighed without realizing it.
"Are you tired?" Jaejoong asked him. "The management scheduled you for a radio show, along with me and Changmin, but if you tired I could -"
"I'm fine, I'm fine." Yunho assured him. 'I'll be spending time with him, what is more important than that?'
~~~
Changmin ran into the living room, his long legs almost tangling up with themselves in his rush to get to him. He felt his heart give a beg squeeze within his chest as he saw him sitting between Junsu and Jaejoong on the couch.
"Yunho."
Yunho looked up and smiled, getting up from the couch and opening up his arms, an invitation.
Changmin rushed into the strong, warm arms of the man he had missed with all of his heart. Yunho's arms tightened around him, holding him closer in their embrace.
Changmin's own arms wrapped themselves around Yunho, never wanting to let go, never wanting to say good bye to him again, for whatever reason. He burrowed his face into Yunho's neck, inhaling Yunho's sweet musky scent.
This felt right. This was what he had been looking for all these days. He wished a fool's wish and wished time could stop on this moment.
"Changmin!" Jaejoong' shcoked voice broke that fragile wish, reminding Changmin that those kind of wishes were impossible.
"What happened to your hands?" Jaejoong asked.
'Drat.' Changmin had been so excited with Yunho' return that he had been careless about hiding his bandaged hands.
As Yunho pulled away from Changmin, having heard Jaejoong' concerned question, Changmin tried to pull his hands to where no one could see them, in a desperate attempt to say 'nothing is wrong, you're seeing things.'
But Yunho's hands found his arms and Yunho used his steel grip to prevent Changmin from doing such things.
Yunho brought his hands up, so they could all see. Changmin heard Junsu's gasp, the overreacting duckhead, and saw the smile on Yunho's face slip into a frown.
"It's just some cuts." Changmin tried to sound indifferent so it wouldn't become a big deal.
Jaejoong though was not about to let him be. He appeared right beside Yunho and took Changmin's hands from Yunho so he could scrutinize them himself, his dainty face showing his displeasure. "It's not just some cuts, its a lot of them! And your fingers are all swelled up!"
Changmin yanked his hands away. Jaejoong said it like it was a bad thing. Changmin was actually proud of the stat his fingers were in. They showed the hard work he had put to use. He felt his stomach churn when Jaejoong turned to Yunho and placed his hand on Yunho's arm.
A bit too affectionately.
"Maybe we should let Changmin stay home tomorrow, so the swelling can go down." Jaejoong suggested to the leader-shii.
Yunho said nothing, a frown still on his face and deep in his own thoughts.
Jaejoong playfully shoved Yunho, making him snap out of his reverie. "I'm sure the radio won't mind." Jaejoong continued, thinking the frown was because Yunho did not agree. "Beside's we could make it a YunJae Radio Special."
Changmin felt his mouth open. He knew it was childish but he was tired and cranky. He had missed his Yunho. He had been looking forward to this day ever since he saw Yunho step into the airplane to go to the USA. And he had worked hard, endlessly at night. And now his Yunho was angry at him for stupid swollen fingers and Jaejoong wanted a YunJae Radio Special when Changmin had been planning on spending Yunho's first day with him?
He gritted his teeth and turned around angrily. He stormed back to his room, slamming the poor abused door and falling into his bed, his eyes blinking so he wouldn't cry.
It was most deffinetly so, childish. But he had cried himself to sleep so many times feeling lonely, with only a forlorn, raggedy Bambi by his side.
Bambi. Changmin lifted his head and stared at Bambi and what he had worked so hard on. He felt bitter and reached out to take the object he had made and stood up, thinking it now stupid, it reminding him of being childish and anting to get rid of it.
But as he was walking across the room and toward the wastebasket the door opened and Yunho walked in.
Changmin froze, turning his body so he would shield what he held in his hands from Yunho's gaze.
Yunho came in alone and once the door was closed again, he stood there, observing Changmin.
"That was a bit childish, storming out of the living room. If something disturbed you, you should have told us, don't you think so Changmin-shii?"
What was up with him addressing him so formally? Changmin looked at Yunho's face. He was acting like U-know, TVXQ's leader, instead of Yunho, Changmin's best friend and lover.
So he was mad at him. Changmin hid his fear by being rude. "Well, what's it to you?" He retorted back. "If you don't mind I'd like to get some sleep for tomorrow's radio show. I'm so sorry to dissapoint the fans but there won't be any YunJae Special tommorow."
"Is that why you're mad?" Yunho asked and sighed. Changmin hated how the sigh and the stance Yunho took reminded him of a scolding parent and a child.
"What if it is? You're mad at me too, so what difference does it make?"
"I'm mad at you?" Yunho sounded suprised. "And how the hell did you come up with that one?"
"You're tone. And your face. When Jaejoong pointed out my fingers you got mad at me. Don't try to deny it, I saw you're face."
Yunho sighed again, but this time he sounded exhausted. He pushed his hair back and Changmin noticed how tired he looked. He felt a twinge of guilt.
Yunho sat on the edge of the bed and looked at Changmin. "I'm not mad at you, Changmin."
"I said don't try to deny i-"
"Im mad at myself." Yunho's statement caused Changmin to close his mouth, dumbfounded. "I feel like I fail you when I see that you're hurt and I wasn't there to prevent you from being hurt."
"Oh, Yunho." Changmin walked to Yunho and hugged him, forgetting about what he held.
"I don't think I could ever be mad at you, Changmin. Frustrated, yes, especially when you get those silly YunJae notions of yours. YunJae may I remind you is make-believe, HoMin on the other hand, " Yunho paused his hands reaching out to grab Changmin's. "Is Real."
Yunho pulled Changmin close to him, and gave him a soft, gentle kiss.
Changmin's face got red, but it was his lips that still burned with the sensation.
"Oh? What's this?" Yunho asked as he took the object from Changmin.
Changmin's eyes widened and he tried to get it back, not wanting to embarress himself. Yunho though held the animal out of changmin's reach as he looked at it.
"Is this bambi?" Yunho asked looking at Changmin, curiously.
"Y-Yes, uhh I mean N-no! I mean.. It is bambi but it isn't your duaghter bambi, its.." Changmin paused, a bit uncomfortable.
Yunho gave a whistle of appreciation. "Did you make this Changmin? Is that why you're fingers are all-"
"Yeah." Changmin softly said.
"It's really good, it looks like a real Bambi. You have talent Changmin!" Yunho said.
Changmin smiled warily. "Really?" He asked. "Because... It's for you."
Yunho looked at Changmin quietly which made Changmin start getting nervous.
"I'm not trying to replace your bambi!" He quickly defended himself afraid that Yunho would feel insulted. "It's just I was thinking that I could keep your bambi when you're not with me and you could keep the new bambi, and think of... me." He finished lamely and ducked his head.
"I know you're not trying to replace my daughter," Yunho said and softly made Changmin look into his eyes. "I'm happy because You've made me my new daughter, an addition to OUR family. You won't mind if I call it Minnie?"
Changmin shook his head, happy that Yunho had liked the welcome back present.
"Good. Now how about we test our new snuggle baby and snuggle together for a nap?" Yunho asked and Changmin could tell by his weary voice that Yunho was truly tired.
So he nodded and he snuggled next to Yunho, falling asleep.
And just as he was about to drift into dreamland he remembered the other two objects in his desk and smiled mischievously. If Junsu tried to mess with his sleep again... or Jaejoong tried to actually make YunJae happen, the two voodoo dolls within his drawers would provide amusement.
He giggled and allowed himself to fall asleep, feeling that even though time would never stop, that as long as he had Yunho by his side he wouldn't mind.
~~~
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