“Why are we allowing this to happen?”

“Would you prefer them to be angry? Would you prefer Experiment 10 to tell his peers everything? Experiment 00 is a distraction for him, and a good one at that.”

“But sir, these are two men, they don't know what they're-”

“You heard me. Now, get back to work.”

Yixing almost fell forward as he started walking again, the door he had leaned against opening soon after he had gotten to Yifan’s door at the end of the hall. He had just exited the office, asking the doctors if he could bring Yifan out of the labs, to which they reluctantly agreed. He had left with a smile on his face, and a blush on his cheeks. His hands cradled against his chest and he had leaned against the office door, and that’s when he heard the conversation. He let his hand rest on the cold metal handle to Yifan’s room, his eyebrows furrowed as he stared down at the white linoleum floor beneath his feet. They knew. The doctors knew that he and Yifan kissed. They knew they were doing a lot more than kissing the night before. And, they didn’t care, as long as Yixing wasn’t telling the others. He shook his head before opening the door, finding Yifan sitting at his desk with his legs crossed. “Yifan,” he called out, and the taller man immediately turned around, a pen in his hand. “Can you come with me?”

The man’s eyes were wider than Yixing had ever seen before, and his pen fell from his hand to the metal desk. “Come with you where?”

“We’re going to go on a walk, is that okay?”

Yixing had never seen Yifan move so fast, but the elder man was by his side in a matter of milliseconds. His large hand cradled Yixing’s, and Yifan nodded like an excited puppy. Yixing could get very used to such an expression on the giant’s face.

i'm very, very sorry that i only posted a single chapter with this update. this week has been horrible, and it's pretty hard to write a fic like this when you're crying every other hour... i'm sure we all know what i'm referring to.

i'm on winter break for the next two weeks, though, so expect at least a few more chapters out of me in that time.

i honestly have no clue where this fic is going. i have no plan for it, i'm just writing to write.