Again, Unbeta-ed. Translations at the end.

            "Chin up, hooded eyes, please! Good, good, now turn around and look over your shoulder, bedroom eyes! Perfect! You are finished for today!"

            Sighing Chanyeol thanked everyone on set, left for the dressing room, where the rest of EXO was waiting for him. Since that day five years ago they weren't the same anymore. They had searched for Tao for hours until they went to Lee Sooman to demand answers. He only told them that he thought it was sad what happened, but that he wasn't the one who tipped off the reporters. Regarding the forced ion he didn't say anything. The next day Zitao's resignation letter came, stamped at the airport and Chanyeol knew that he would never see the other one again.

            Since that moment EXO was broken. In the duration of one year first left YiFan and then LuHan. The next year YiXing. All of them continued their careers in China. After all of the Chinese members were gone Minseok left as well. Chanyeol and some of the other remaining members suspected he also left for China to be with Luhan but no one knew for sure.

            Shortly after Minsoek left they found out that Joonmyun had been the one who tipped off the media about ZiTao's case. Chanyeol had been mad, so, so mad, Jongdae, Kyungsoo and Jongin all three had to restrain him, otherwise he would have beat their leader up for sure. He had stopped talking to him entirely and the others were reluctant as well. Soon Joonmyun had left as well, but only because it wasn't possible for them to work together again. Six people remained and Lee SooMan tried everything to keep them as famous as before all this happened. They were too famous to dissolve them. They just made too much money.

            "I can't believe we're in Greece! I want to go to the ocean...", Baekhyun whined while he put his things away.

            "We can do that. The beach is just five minutes away by food from our hotel. And we don't have any program left for today, do we?", Chen said as he looked at the small map they had received from their manager if they wanted to walk around their hotel.

            They weren't famous enough to be spotted here, apparently.

            Jongin looked over their schedule, shook his head.

            "No, nothing left today. Tomorrow we have to get up at four because they want the next shoot to be during sunrise. I don't understand why they don't just use a blue-screen, but whatever. We still have some hours left before we should go to bed today."

            Baekhyun jumped around happily while they waited for Chanyeol to get ready.

            After bringing their stuff to their hotel and changing they headed to the beach that was packed. Baekhyun and Sehun ran directly to the ocean where they pulled off their shoes to walk in the warm water, and even Kyungsoo laughed at their antics. Jongin spotted a free table in one of the many taverns, to Jongdae's delight, because he craved to taste the Greek food ever since they arrived. It was all he talked about for the past few days.

            They sat down and waited for someone to come to take their orders. A tall young man came over and said something in Greek no one of them could understand. When they didn't react he called someone else over.

            "Έ, Σάβα, έλα. Σε χριάζομαι. Δέν καταλαβάινουν ελληνικά. Μήλα τους αγγλικά."

            "Έρχομαι, ένα λεπτό."*

            The young man turned around and as soon as he saw who was sitting there all color left his face and the empty glass he had been holding shattered on the floor. All six of them looked over to him and they couldn't believe their own eyes.

            "...Tao?"

            The second the name was said the Chinese turned around and ran away. Chanyeol jumped up and ran after him. He wouldn't lose the younger one. Not again. After a few moments he managed to catch his wrist and pulled the smaller into his arms.

            "Let me go, Chanyeol!", he sobbed.

            He wanted to see him so bad and now that he was there ZiTao didn't know what to think or do.

            "The I will! I thought I would never see you again!", he growled with his deep voice, making Tao shudder in the embrace.

            Slowly he rose his arms, clenched his fists in the back of Chanyeol's shirt.

            "I missed you...", he mumbled.

            Ten minutes later Chanyeol pulled the reluctant ZiTao back to the others. His colleague still waited there and Tao explained shortly who they were. Afterwards the Greek guy left them alone.

            ZiTao sat down next to Chanyeol, who didn't let him go, and looked around the table.

            "Where are the others?", he asked, just to say something.

            The silence between the seven of them made him crazy.

            "You don't know?", Jongdae asked incredulously.

            "What should I know? I don't know anything about EXO or K-Pop at all since I left. I... didn't want to be reminded."

            He knew that he would have to tell them what happened but he didn't want to do this here.

            "We are the last ones. YiFan and LuHan left the same year, YiXing and Minsoek the next. Then we found out that Joonmyun was the one who tipped you off and he had to leave as well because no one of us wanted to continue working with him."

            "Jonnmyun? Why? Why did he do that to me? I thought he liked me..."

            Chanyeol his thumb where he held ZiTao's hand.

            "We actually don't know. When we asked him he just said it was for the better. That you weren't good for EXO. That he had made us a favor. Though we don't know what that means exactly."

            "He really hated me, huh..."

            "Tao, what happened with you?"

            "I'd rather not tell you here. I finish in two hours. Tell me the name of your hotel and I'll come over."

            Sehun already started to search for the map when Chanyeol spoke up:

            "Not happening. I will wait and bring him with me. I won't leave you out of my sight anymore."

            ZiTao stood up and looked around for a second.

            "This isn't my table normally, but do you want something to drink? It's on me."

            Exactly as said, two hours later Chanyeol had his hand securely around ZiTao's and brought him over. Because they were seven people with their manager, who luckily was in a meeting right now, SM had loaned a whole house for them. EXO were sitting in the living room already and Chanyeol pulled him down next to him on one of the couches.

            "Well? What happened? How did you live since you left us?"

            "That day... I waited for everyone to fall asleep before I packed a few thinks. Not much, just some essentials and stuff of emotional value.", he explained while playing with a silver necklace around his neck, which Chanyeol recognized as the one he gave him.

            "Then I went to the next bank and got all my money. I knew that the reporters or you would follow me if I went somewhere else to the bank and I didn't want that. I left because I hoped without me they would leave you alone. That my scandal wouldn't affect your career.", he explained.

            "Well, I went to the airport, send my resignation letter from there for you to know that I wouldn't be in the country anymore, if you were looking for me, and booked the first flight I could get. Which landed me in England. I stayed there for a year in a backpacker hostel and worked for a place to sleep and food. Nobody recognized me and I met many nice and interesting people. I got especially close with one of my coworkers who was from Greece and asked if I wanted to go with him. That's how I ended up here. The guy married last year and left for his wife's village, but I like it here. I didn't want to leave."

            The others had listened without interrupting. It was unbelievable how the boy who had been afraid to shower alone had managed to live like this for five years.

            "I missed you so much!", Chanyeol expressed, pulled ZiTao onto his lap and hugged him tightly.

            ZiTao looked up slightly startled, but melted into the hug almost instantly.

            "I missed you as well. So bad...", he mumbled into the older one's neck.

            A few moments there was silence, the others were just watching. Then, Kyungsoo got up.

            "Guys we have to wake up tomorrow at four, let's go to bed. Tao, you can sleep in my bed, I will squeeze in with Baekhyun.", he said, although all of them knew that ZiTao would sleep in a bed with their tallest.

            All five of the others left the room until only Chanyeol and ZiTao were left.

            "Let's get into my room before our manager shows up and throws a fit because you are here.", Chanyeol mumbled into the younger one's hair.

            ZiTao nodded, but before he could stand up Chanyeol moved his hands under his and stood up, his arms holding ZiTao up securely. The younger one yelped and secured his legs around Chanyeol's waist and his arms around the older one's neck to not fall down.

            "You are crazy.", he mumbled while he was carried to their room.

            "I'm not crazy. I just don't want to let you go again."

            Carefully Chanyeol let ZiTao down on the bed, kneeled in front of him.

            "Do you have the slightest idea how concerned I've been all these years? I never stopped looking for you. The only reason I stayed in EXO was my fear you might come back one day and I'm not there anymore. I would have left long ago, otherwise. And do you know what my biggest regret was all those years?"

            ZiTao, who had listened carefully all this time, shook his head.

            "My biggest regret was that I never told you how much I love you."

            A small sob left ZiTao's lips and he spread his arms for a hug while tears streamed down his face.

            When his face was burrowed between the older one's neck and shoulder he cried:

            "I loved you too, all this time. I just felt so dirty and filthy. I was scared I was just a in your eyes, after all."

            "Never, never, never.", Chanyeol repeatedly mumbled into ZiTao's hair.

            "I wanted to get you out of this so bad! It hurt to see you hurt and at the same time I was jealous of every person who touched you that wasn't me. Once, I even wanted to pull you away from Sehun because he was too close to you, in my opinion.", he chuckled.

            A few minutes they just sat there, ZiTao securely in Chanyeol's embrace while the latter mumbled sweet nothings into his hair. It smelled like vanilla. Then Tao asked:

            "What will we do now? I can't come back and you have EXO."

            "I already told you, I won't leave you out of my sight again. If you are happy here, I will stay here with you."

            At this words ZiTao pushed a bit away from the big-eared man.

            "What? You can't leave EXO just like that because of me! You can't just throw over your life because of me!"

            An exasperated sigh left Chanyeol's lips and he grabbed for the younger one's hands, intertwined their fingers.

            "I knew from the moment you were gone that I would stay with you if I ever found you again. I've been carrying a resignation letter with me ever since. Only the date has to be added."

            With furrowed eyebrows ZiTao looked at the other until he pulled a folded letter from his suitcase and gave it to the black haired to read. After a few moments he looked up again, tears in the corners of his eyes, again.

            "You really want to leave for me."

           "Actually, no. I'm leaving for myself. Because I can't be without you. The last years were torture without you. I love you, Tao."

            A shaky laugh was heard.

            "I love you as well. Just, please don't call me that anymore. That name is history. I'm ZiTao. Just a normal man fighting his way through life. No idol and no star. Or Σάβα*², if you prefer that.", he grinned.

            Confusion set on Chanyeol's face.

            "What kind of name is that?"

            ZiTao laughed.

            "I don't want to be called Tao anymore and they can't pronounce my Chinese name. Thus they just gave me a Greek one. You will probably get one as well. If you'll stay here with me.", he explained.

            Chanyeol shrugged.

            "They can call me 'clown' for all I care. As long as I'm by your side I'm happy."

            A small happy smile spread on ZiTao's lips as he pulled the other down for a first chaste kiss, sure that many more would follow.

Only the epilogue left.

Translations:

            *"Hey, Sawa, come over. I need you. They don't understand Greek. Speak English with them."

            "I'm coming, one second."

            *²Sawa [name]