"Your highness! You can't go through there!" Jongdae follows the prince, heading into a small hallway hidden in the castle. 

"Prince! You could get lost or hurt in here!" Jongdae shouts, desperately trying to keep up. Minseok had discovered the passageways only 5 minutes ago, and had ran away from Jongdae to explore.

"But I have you to save me" Minseok says, suddenly appearing in front of Jongdae. Jongdae's heart threatens to burst at the Prince being so close to him, but he manages to keep a straight face.

"So if I leave you will follow?" Jongdae hopes, and Minseok shakes his head laughing.

"You wouldn't leave me in here!" Minseok starts walking again and Jongdae pauses, before realizing the Prince is right. He would never leave the Prince alone. 

"Okay, wait up!"

"Your highness!" Jongdae shouts, looking around desperately. He had looked away for a second and his Prince had disappeared with a bang. 

"You're supposed to protect him, not lose him" Jongdae scolds himself, walking around the small, dark space. He had known Minseok for years, having grown up in the castle as a Secretaries son.

 They had walked further into the hidden passageways of the castle, not noticing the increasing amount of deterioration through the halls as they moved further. Then suddenly, the Prince was gone. 

"Prince!" Jongdae keeps shouting, until he hears a voice.

"I've asked you for years to call me Minseok. Or Xiumin." The voice is coming from somewhere below him, and Jongdae instantly kneels down, looking around in the dim.

"I think I fell down a hole or something" Minseok states, his voice wavering slightly.

"Are you hurt?" Jongdae says quickly, worried.

"Only a little, I hurt my leg" Jongdae feels around before he finds a broken part of the flooring. Reaching down into the hole, Jongdae's hand brushes against Minseok's cheek by accident.

"AH" Minseok smacks his hand, screaming something about bugs.

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