Frozen Heart

Value of Love

Upon making himself comfortable again with his refreshed state and knowing that everyone else was done showering and changing to their pajamas, Wonshik gathered some midnight snacks for a midnight movie marathon. He reserved the hurt on the maknae's face, on the corner of his mind, once he was neglected by the leader. In thought of trying to ease the youngest's pain, he invited everyone to retreat at the living room. One by one, still full with energy despite a whole day of playing, emerges out of their room and find their most comfortable spot in the living room, except that the most invited person didn't show up.

Sanghyuk chooses the movie he wanted to watch. The four of them has no will to argue or point out why the maknae wanted to watch a disney movie, well, Sanghyuk is still young they thought. And that only added hurt to each of their hearts, the maknae is still young to be hurt like this.

The movie ended and the snacks were almost eaten too. Jaehwan lost the feel of watching another movie anymore. He grab the box of card hidden behind a miniature of one piece and hinted his four brothers that he wanted to play, in the midst of the silent night.

The five of them circled their position facing each other. Jaehwan started distributing uno cards to each of them. When he finally gave them and himself 10 cards, he flipped open the first card on top of the remaining deck of cards lying on the carpeted floor, starting the game.

They played through the span of couple of hours without noticing that they became loud as the game is becoming intense. Loud enough -for the noise of their laughters, battlings over someone cheating and making themselves allied, exchanging cards, putting up a new rule they haven't settled before starting the game to save oneself- to roam across every part of the dorm, but not loud enough to fully escape the dorm.

In the middle of their noises, there will be halt silence when they need to think carefully of what card they should move or turn or throw, and one of those silence they heard a faint click sound indicating a knob was twisted open. They look in unison at the direction of where the sudden noise came from and the five of them have the same looks on their faces almost making themselves quintoplets, at least to say that.

A twisted knob opened a door from one of the rooms and expelled out a Hakyeon with messy hair and restless face, annoyance evident from his expresssion.

“If you all do not want to sleep then let the others!” Hakyeon said with hoarse voice and turned around to go back inside his room when Jaehwan spoke.

“Hakyeon-hyung! C'mon let's play!” Jaehwan invited his hyung to join them quickly.

Hakyeon look at the younger and adjusted his gaze to look at the whole picture of the five members indian sitted formation playing cards before he decided to walk to the door of their dorm without even giving Jaehwan an answer to his invitation.

“Hyung wait!” Jaehwan was about to stand up and stop Hakyeon from leaving but Wonshik grab a hold of Jaehwan's upperarm to halt him. Jaehwan turn to his side and gave ‘what?’ look to Wonshik. The rapper only look straight to Jaehwan's eyes conveying his message without even voicing it. Jaehwan nodded upon understanding what Wonshik wanted to say to him.

“Hyung...where will you go?” Wonshik asked expecting an answer from the leader.

“You don't have to ask.”

Wonshik was left frozen with Hakyeon's coldness.

“We...need to know hyung.” Sanghyuk added.

Hakyeon narrowed his eyes, brows almost met, and an evil grin widens at his lips simultaneously loosening the frown of his brows slightly making his expression soft if without the grin. Hakyeon let out a sarcastic sigh and raised his right brow. “Well...somewhere quiet.” He answered indicating the members where so noisy even not fully saying it out loud in words.

“We-...we're about to end this game anyway...you don't have to go.” Hongbin quickly supplied to give Hakyeon hint that he doesn't really need to leave. “...and its cold outside.” Hongbin finished his sentence with a concern.

“The cold never bothered me anymore...you all had been cold to me since then.”

The answer came to them like hail storm burning their ears, a peak of an ice berg thrown at them piercing their hearts and a swift of blizzard air leaving them frozen.

Hakyeon succeeded on leaving the dorm with no any hindrances from the members.

When they heard the door was click opened and shut closed immediately, they look at each other with knowing looks.

They started putting down the cards and Jaehwan collected them and set aside bringing it back to where it came from.

“Someone needs to follow him...” Taekwoon suggested.

Silence envelopes the dorm stretching it to even longer quietness almost ear-splitting disturbed only by the tick's and tock's of the clock.

They lost track of time for how long it has been too quiet since the dorm was loud and full of laughters just a while ago, but now, the dorm felt like it was Arendelle at all and Elsa was Hakyeon when she (he) left the castle (left the dorm).

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A/N:

In relevance to Hakyeon’s condition, he’s totally fine now and he’s so, so much stunning with his yellow shirt tuck in his pants in their airport runway. How could they always make airport as if a red carpet was laid down their way!

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Bapvixx6
#1
Chapter 27: I literally cried because I thought I was the only that notice how they treat hakyeon it use to make me so mad that they wouldn’t want to be his partner or let him touch then or look like he bothered them and while over starlights would say oh they’re just teasing I couldn’t help but not like the teasing I didn’t wanna feel that way towards the members but I could help but feel angry and sad there was one show where they literally high five when they didn’t have hakyeon as their partner then they did Rock Paper Scissors to see who had to be hakyeons part and who ever didn’t would smile and laugh like ughh but that was a while back fyi I love each and everyone of vixx equally I’m not one of them solo Stans that hate every member but my bias [ I bias hakyeon hongbin and hyuk] and I’ve notices it’s gotten better it just use to make me sad how they use to act towards hakyeon to the point I wouldn’t finish the show they where on
sunshine_starlight
#2
Chapter 27: As a hardcore Starlight, I've felt really bad for Yeonie and although he pretends like he doesn't take all the insults to heart, it still reflects in his face. Many times, or too many times, I was angry because he was discriminated for so many things, and especially his skin complexion. Though the boys claim to be simply teasing him, the hurt is still real and it hurts me to see him being mistreated too. I remember him asking to the camera in One Fine Day, "Am I too easy? Is that why they tease me too much?” that really broke me. They refused to be grouped with him. Refused to listen to him. Refused to do anything he ever suggested, whereas he's the leader. And no one could replace him.

I truly hope that it is really as what they're claiming, that it's all simple teasing and no personal hatred. I wish for VIXX's happiness, as all 6 of them together and I hope they understand the real value of Cha Hakyeon's love. And thank you for such emotional storyline, author-nim. From the way you narrated, I believe that you perhaps you found the mistreating towards Yeonie to be unfair and hurting and this was your way of defending him. I cried a lot but I loved your work from the bottom of my heart.

Once again thank you and FIGHTING for your future undertakings as well!
sapphiresapphirine
#3
Chapter 26: In all honesty, there have been a few times that I cried because of how Hakyeon has been treated by s. Everything seemed to be so good in the beginning, but then, as if overnight, everyone started to outcast him and only ever complained or say negative things about him. Not to mention the hate or mistreatment he sometimes got from those outside of the VIXX members.
So many people say that the members love Hakyeon and are only teasing him, but I swear I saw real hurt on his face on more than one occasion, and if it was that bad on-camera, I couldn't imagine what happened off-camera.

That said, I was monitoring them closely the past year, and it seems that the relationships have gotten better than it was before. Of course, they haven't been on many shows as a group, so I can't really say, but a lot of the interactions I've seen have given me hope that VIXX are at a better place than they were before (I'm still iffy on Hongbin, but I'm still watching). I just hope that it will continue like this or get better as this year unfolds.

My point of all this is, I really didn't want to read this story because I knew I would cry. I did, several times, because it's a very believable concept that may have actually occurred (which would explain why the members are much nicer and more patient with Hakyeon since 2017/late 2016), is possibly occurring now (after all, we don't really know what goes on off-camera between them), or may occur in the future. Some part of me hopes that Hakyeon did or will "turn his back" on the others in some way (and care from afar, because I doubt he'd really desert them), so that they got/get a reality check and/or he realized/s that yes, he should put himself before anyone else, or at least not invest his whole heart and soul into people that only push him away.

Maybe I sound a bit harsh. I don't mean to. It's just that I was the same way, and though it hurt, and still hurts, I find not investing my heart and soul into anyone, while still caring for them (if that makes sense), is safer and hurts less than to be betrayed and frequently hurt by the ones you thought were your friends, family, brothers, sisters, or eternal presence that you couldn't imagine out of your life.... (the examples just examples; they all don't apply to me. :P)

But I wouldn't have felt right not reading this, so here I am. You did a wonderful job, especially since you said this was your first story. It made me cry, yes, but it made me happy that at least in this fictional world, VIXX has a happy open-ended resolution. I especially liked the way you wrote Jaehwan. Maybe people seem to forget that he has a serious side to him and can act like a hyung as well, but I loved the "just to remind you" part. He does have his moments where something sweet or emotional suddenly becomes sarcastic and/or, for lack of better word, "bratty." So awesome job on that!
I'm also happy that it seems not everyone is blind to the fact that Hakyeon might actually be hurt at times, and may have been (or is still) under-appreciated by the members at least at some point.

Oh, and just in case I may have given the wrong impression, I don't hold grudges against the other members. In fact, I easily move on from things if I see changes. For example, in all honesty, I liked everyone at first, but once things started going crazy, I despised Hongbin and Sanghyuk the most because they treated Hakyeon the worst (this was at the time Taekwoon and Wonshik were my bias, not Hakyeon, so I wasn't playing favorites). However, I noticed Hakyeon and Sanghyuk's relationship improved after the dissing war in 2016, to the point that now Sanghyuk actually lets Hakyeon do as he pleases to him for a while, so Sanghyuk has returned to being that softspot in my heart (which I am happy about. I loved ChaSang interactions during 2012 and some of 2013. It always warmed my heart, even now. And I love their interactions now. Although not the same as before, which is kind of sad, it's still sweet).
Hongbin, on the other hand, is really confusing me. One minute he's nice and actually plays with Hakyeon, and the next, he's very mean toward him (such as not giving a message to Hakyeon for their 5th anniversary, and begging Sanghyuk to tell him what to say to Hakyeon during his birthday special).
Because of that, I am still cautious and don't expect too much from Hongbin, but I am still looking out for any general improvements like I did with Sanghyuk and the other members.

Great job! Lovely story. ^ ^
xandra_summer #4
Chapter 26: Thank you so much for this wonderful story.......
I just feel sometimes it really happen...
I cried but i also feel refresh because you really feel the worth of someone or something if its no longer with you. .....
lunaticJTW
#5
Chapter 27: I love this so much!!!1! I was so immune to character deaths that those didn't make me cry but you ??? How ??? Why was my heart more broken when they fought like yshzhz pls
lunaticJTW
#6
Chapter 26: I have one thing to remind y'all vixx

E l e c t r i c b i l l
6xthday
#7
Chapter 26: Thank you very much for this wonderful story authornim!!!!!!
MaknaeJuls
#8
Chapter 26: "Hakyeon will get there with Taekwoon, Jaehwan, Wonshik, Hongbin and Sanghyuk on both his sides. The process is as important as what awaits for them in the end of the tunnel."

I need to quote this authornim, it's soooo lovely and sweet. The most beautiful ending for a no ship fic like this. You did a great job in this fic authornim.

Thank you for this story. As you always say, lovelots with the heart <3
Chinkeefeb
#9
Chapter 26: Such a sweetest ending authornim thank you for this fic and great job authornim :>>>