Merrrrrryyyyyy Christams ^^

So I am so glad I prepared this in advance as a Christmas Gift cuz my finals really are killing me ^^; Today I streamed SBS while stiudying (Like Study...Oh NCT Dream collab break... study...Oh NCT break...oh JRcollab break...Study...Nuest break...study...okay lets post the chap for Christmas cuz I am so proud of their perfomnces...and then I guess I will study again haha ^^;)

So uhm, 9K update (Cuz its a gift hehe), and then 1 chap left ...I can't believe it. My first fanfic...I did it. I wouldn't have imagined that I would achieve this...and I certainly wouldn't have imagined all the amount of love and support (and the amazing cizenies I met)  I received through this story.

In the beginning it started as a drabble. I wanted to do like.... 5 chapters? But thanks to everyone, each precious cizenie leaving me such sweet words and encouragment...it became the story it is today. Cizenies ! ^^ Thank you for writing this story with me!

I know how much this story received so don't be sad...there is still the sequel project (Shared Happiness) left (starts begin February) as well as the requests! (Which I will post in a different Story; Lee Family Diary- which starts after sequel prokect is closed)

So uhM...I should go back to my studies...and maybe enjoy the evning with my family ^^

As for the next and final update....Ugh I have no idea when (I am busy with finals till the 31 of January... I will try to post before that...but ugh. Dont know when exactly...Comments do speed up my ability to squeez time for writing XP ...uhm I will announce it on my twitter account ^^)

So enough talk, enjoy the awards period, enjoy your family, your own self (Veerrry important), your own cat (If you have one give it a kiss from me), your own last days of the year... And be happy and healthy till the next update X3 mwa!

Lots of love as usual,

Moonlightwish

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After what felt for a long while, the man grimaced.

“I don’t think I can help you on this one.”

The heavy silence that followed, spoke of thousand words.

Taeyong hugged Jisung closer to his chest, his so happy heart was now torn again as he couldn’t help but think that this situation seemed so unfair for his eldest son. His precious son’s face remained unmoved, but Taeyong could read it like an open book: a big disappointment, very well hidden at the eyes of worries of everyone in the room.

Kun tugged softly Mark’s shirt back over his back, looking at the silent kid with what he hoped would be a comforting smile. He felt his lover next to him shaking, and suddenly Renjun appeared to hug his Hyung, his little frame trembling as he didn’t want to cry in front of his Ge.

“What do you mean by “Thinking” you can’t help?” Jaehyun’s ice cold voice held a light threat in it.

 “The same diagnosis any doctor would give you: operating on the spine again to mend the nerves back would just end up with a high chance of paralysing him even further.” Taeil said with the same rational voice a doctor bringing back bad news would use.

“Is there no way to cure him without touching the spine?” Winwin who had come closer to comfort Taeyong couldn’t help but ask, just to be sure that there truly was no other ending to this conversation.

“You must be a doctor.” Taeil looked up towards Kun, who merely nodded at the statement. “You would know the answer better than anyone, right?”

Kun sighed. He looked back at Winwin with a mere shake of his head.

“I am sorry, but I am not willing to take that risk….” Taeil observed the disappointed reactions that appeared at the final verdict. “But I do know someone who would be willing to take them.”

At the sentence, everyone’s reaction became fierce like fire, looking up with new found resolve.

“Who?” Ten was the first one to ask the question that was dying on everyone’s lips, the King of Thailand’s composure was getting thinner and thinner by the seconds.

Taeil gave a small smile as he faked a sigh: “You may be from the business or politics world, but surely you are not ignorant of the importance of names? If I betray my allies, how would my credibility end up?”

Ten nearly smashed the white decoration vase that was on the table, were it not for Johnny who’s hands ended up on his tight in a warning signal.

“Then why did you mention it in the first place?” Hyunwon too was getting frustrated at the situation: He had received his blood price, as a safe Wonho stood next to him, yet what his sworn brother had hoped to achieved with his blood price wasn’t done so.

How could he remain calm? They were total strangers for now, but this was his, sworn brother.

He wouldn’t let this go.

“This person would help me if I pay the correct price to him, it’s a price I could afford under a condition.” Taeil sighed internally in relief that his bait had worked. He was right. The kid in front of him was a weakness point of everyone present in the room, including his sworn brother of MonstaX.

“And that is?” Hyunwon knew that it couldn’t be money or power. Meaning that it could be something he could offer.

“If Blackstar offers me protection against Blackblood I fear that this will only mean that I will have to look out for hired assassins instead of my ex-members. The higher ups would let this go, but someone else is dead setting on seeing me and my son gone.”

Taeil was a doctor, he wouldn’t let people suffer. But today, for his precious Hansol, he would be the bad person and use an innocent child to bargain for his son’s life.

“Explain.” Winwin was deadly annoyed by the turn of events but seeing the kid that was silently standing next to Black Owl, he had already made the connection: they weren’t the only one’s willing to pay a high price to assure their family’s happiness.

 “There is a member in the organisation that wants me dead. The higher ups value him, which is why even if they would be willing to set aside our feud in favour of not going to war with Blackstar, they will still use their resources to get me dead. If that person dies however…”

“You want us to kill him?” Hyungwon’s body was tense. Killing a member of BlackBlood…as if going against them by protecting an ex-member of them wasn’t already asking for problems.

Taeil merely gave a small smile in response: “More to make it look like an accident.”

“Who do you think we would be fooling? BlackBlood ain’t the type to toy with!” Wonho couldn’t help but snort, as he knew by Hyunwon’s look in the eyes that he was getting torn by doing his sworn brother duties or protecting s of MonstaX.

“I am from BlackBlood. Wouldn’t I know better whether its possible or not possible to fool them?” Taeil gave them a wry smile in response to their scepticism.

“You have a plan?” Jaehyun who had his husband attached to his arm (Because he would have maybe strangled the man in front of him if he didn’t do so) asked with an impatient glare.

“If you could infiltrate their base and leave a present of mine in this person’s room…he would ‘naturally’ die of a heart-attack.” Taeil’s eyes became ice-cold, as the amount of people he had killed in his life didn’t surpass the fingers on his righthand. All of them had committed the same sin: Trying to kill him and his precious son!

“Infiltrate BlackBlood?” Hyunwon raised an eyebrow in an attempt to convey that he could as well have asked to give him the moon.

“What, not confident you could if you had the plans and security details?” Taeil asked in a challenging tone.

Hyunwon stilled. “They would have changed it, since an ex-member of them fled the organisation.”

“They couldn’t be that stupid.” Wonho muttered in affirmation.

“It doesn’t matter if they changed it. I still have the plans and details of it.” Taeil gave them an unimpressed look, voice full of confidence.

“How?” Winwin wanted to know how come this would be possible.

“I became a “Black” member thanks to my teacher who was a “Black” member himself. And what few people know is that he was the secret founder of the organisation, until he gave it away to the current leader. My master didn’t trust anyone besides me, and he only wished for me to escape it. How else was I able to do so if I had not all the confident information of all security plans and backup places with me?”

Well that explained how he was able to escape them, Hyunwon thought with surprise.

“And nobody knows about this?” Winwin asked with a hidden doubt laced in his voice.

“Nobody…till now.” BlackOwl shrugged.

“Why does he want you dead?” Jaehyun asked with doubts as well. This couldn’t be this easy, right?

“He was the eldest disciple of my master. Now that my master is dead, he doesn’t care of hiding his hatred about me.”

“Then he must be no easy person to defeat?” Jaehyun gave him a cold smile in response.

“He was never able to surpass me and hated me for it. Why would it be any different now?” Taeil lightly snorted at the memory of that spiteful man.

“So, all I have to do is deliver your present in his room and hide it?” Hyunwon who had made his decision asked.

“Ye-”

“I refuse.”

Everyone turned around to Mark’s interruption, surprised face at the kid’s cold voice.

“Minnie?”

“Mark, love, what do you mean?” Taeyong panicked quickly as he recognised with one quick glance his son’s stubborn appearance.

Taeil himself was the most surprised: Why did it suddenly turn out like this? How could the kid refuse his offer and accept being a cripple for the rest of his life?

Taeil hadn’t even intended to not heal him, but he needed Hansol to be first safe ah!

“I said I refuse.” Mark glanced at everyone with a warning look: “If any of you accept this or try something behind my back, then I still won’t accept any treatment!”

“Da Ge!” Lucas panickily tried to understand what was going on while Jaehyun’s and Ten’s panicked “Mark!”, achieved no result as their son merely ran away towards his room.

Renjun and Lucas ran, to catch up with him, worried expression on their eyes as they left the adults in the living room.

Taeyong sighed, eyes droopy as he had still seen the deep sadness hidden in his son’s eyes.

He gave a small smile of understanding. “Its no use. He made his decision.”

“Tae?” Winwin asked in panic as he still didn’t understand why his precious godson was acting like this;

Tae smiled sadly: “Do you think I would agree if you had to go do something dangerous to recover my leg? Just when you already did me a huge favour of curing my son?”

Winwin looked towards Hyungwon with a flash of understanding in his eyes.

“What do you mean?” Jaehyun didn’t understand the situation at all.

Taeyon sighed again. “He became his hyung.”, he nodded towards Hyunwon who was taken by surprise, “And he just brought Black Owl to cure Jisung. He did him the favour he wanted the most. There is no way he would treat him poorly and ask him to go ahead and be in danger just for curing his leg.”

“What do you mean just for curing his leg! There is no way I will allow-” Jaehyun’s rant was stopped by Kun who gave him a light squeez in the shoulder: “It’s not an equal exchange to my stepson’s eyes: His leg versus his Hyung’s life, right Tae?”

Taeyong sadly nodded, not surprised that the observant Kun had been able to understand Mark’s actions.

“It’s not a worthwhile exchange in my eyes either.” Hyunwon broke the heavy silence as he turned to the surprised faces of everyone. Wonho sighed as he knew what was to come.

“I will pick your present up tomorrow with the plans. Give me a week.”

“Hyunwon-shi, I don’t think-” Winwin didn’t want to discourage the kid, but he knew how Mark could be stubborn as Taeyong on certain matters.

“I knew what I got myself into the moment I swore our oath. Danger isn’t a worthwhile thing compared to my swornbrother’s leg. If he wants to play stubborn then he should know that I am not planning on having an easy life; I am a member of MonstaX. Danger is in my everyday life, and if I can’t afford facing it to save my swornbrother’s leg, then I better quite right here, right now.”  And with that Hyuwon didn’t bother to stay, as he made his way back to the elevator.

Wonho gave them all a big smile; “He made his mind. Please inform Mark on my behalf that he made a wrong decision picking up this tall as a sworn brother if he intended to be the stubborn one of the pair.”

And with that the still smiling member of Monstax followed his fellow member to the exit.

Taeil sighed internally in relief. Guilt would have eaten him up from inside if they had truly refused the offer. He didn’t regret it; For Hansol’s security there was no price to big to pay for.

But he was glad he had made the right bet: the kid seemed cherished enough by his sworn brother to be worth making this gamble.

“Then that settles it.” a very satisfied Ten, who was now a lot more reassured about his son’s sworn brother’s disposition concluded the deal, as Taeyong’s relieved tears painted his cheeks.

Winwin merely gave a small smile, but his heart felt ten times lighter then before, as he proposed to bring Black Owl back, guiding him out of the penthouse.

“Good people will always have good endings.” Kun smiled as he tried to console the still red eyed Taeyong, rubbing his back in comfort.

 Taeyong nodded and Jaehyun gave back a soft smile at his husband.

“Well I am glad our son did select a good swornbrother for his Hyung.” Johnny teased his lover slightly, who merely huffed at the slight jab: “He still shouldn’t use the seal like he want’s to, don’t try to spoil him again!”

Johnny grinned: “He still did a good job though?”

Ten sighed: “You are an annoying man.”

“Your Annoying Man.”

Jaehyun coughed at the cheesy statement, which was merely replied with the advocate’s teasing;  “Don’t think I don’t know how cheesier you are with your own husband! Why are you playing the hypocrite?”

“Ya!” an indignant Jaehyun threw the couch pillow towards Johnny direction, which was easily catched by the advocate as a blushing Kun and still teary eyed Taeyong smiled.

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Hyungwon stayed silent during their car ride; waiting for the scolding that would await him both from Wonho or Kihyun (Who had with no doubt followed their discussion through their micromics attached and well-hidden on their clothes).

The scolding didn’t come, and Hyungwon wondered to which point had he angered both of them to not be scolded as usual.

“Even with the plans and a fake natural death, there are too much factors that could lead BlackBlood to us.” Wonho was the first one to speak, his voice grim and worried.

That’s a big understatement.” Kihyun’s sarcastic voice made Hyungwon’s eyes shut close, ready to receive the angered lecture that would follow.

“It’s best to wait for Shonwu Hyung  and organise a strategic meeting, if possible with the most reliable and experienced elders. We have to avoid news getting leaked to those dogs of BlackStar. They could use this against us, so better be careful with who we trust.”

Wonho snorted: “Thanks to my accident we are fully aware who those people are, ah. Such a disguise in blessing.”

Hyungwon blinked as his two members continued to talk casually, no sign of anger or annoyance to be spotted for miles away.

“You guys are not angry?” The question was out before he knew it, and both of his Hyung’s turned their attention towards him.

“You are causing trouble as usual. What else can we say?” Kihyun’s voice sounded sulky while Wonho chuckled: “What Hyung is trying to say…is that we both know you had no choice. Such a good Sworn Brother, if you had truly not accepted it, we would have scolded you for doing so!”

“He is not bad.” Kihyun muttered with recusant; he was still sulky Hyungwon had done the sworn brother’s oath behind his back, but truly after having back save from Hong Kong and after hearing the boy’s resolve to give up his own health in favour of Hyungwon…he would be ungrateful if he didn’t thank the Heavens of giving Hyungwon such a good partner.

“Yeah, worthy of being a MonstaX sworn brother.” Wonho smiled as he patted Hyungwon’s shoulder;

“Don’t worry. If that Black Owl’s plans are genuine and the mission works…imagine the havoc we could wreck by selling those plans to some of BlackBlood’s enemies!” Wonho’s eyes turned expectant of such a possible scenario and even Kihyun’s blood started to boil at such a possibility .

“That would be totally worth a risk. We could even use this as a distraction for those scums and incite them to do some bad moves.” Kihyun’s brain started to imagine plan after plan on how to get rid of BlackStar’s higher ups using this rare opportunity and he wondered briefly, if MonstaX rise would in the future all be due to a sworn brother oath.

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Taemin entered the elevator with a tense Boa – who he knew by the way she re-arranged her perfectly fine hair was a tad bit excited- and a relaxed Johnny, who once again reminded him lightly what they agreed on.

“Are you looking down on our conduct, Mr.Seo?” Boa couldn’t help but feel lightly offended.

Johnny gave her a complicated smile as he sighed: “He just had a very bad experience with his biological mother, which nearly costed him his hyung’s life. Me and my family don’t want him to reject his other side of the family without giving you any chance.”

At this Boa’s sharp eyes softened as she couldn’t help but murmur, glaring at her boss: “What kind of taste did you have to mingle with such a disgraceful woman?”

Taemin blushed furiously as he gave a soft excuse of not knowing better.

“Are you sure you don’t want Kai to be here as well?” Boa felt it was such a pity that the teenager was currently in LA with his class for a school trip, yet Taemin shook his head: “Its fine. I am sure,” he gave a side look at Johnny, “That there will be plenty opportunities for them to meet anyway.”

Johnny shrugged to indicate he had nothing particular against it and Boa sighed: “Fine. If you say so.”

The elevator’s doors opened and they both entered the finely decorated penthouse, as the smell of freshly made cookies and pie lingered in the air.

Johnny’s eyes shined at the prospect of eating Taeyong’s sweet, while he guided their guest into the living room, where a very casually dressed Taeil was discussing with Kun over the table full of plants and herbs, the both of them too engrossed in their discussion to even notice their arrival.

“This is Doctor Moon. The one currently in charge of healing Jisung’s dissease. And this is Doctor Qian, Jisung’s Appa and the one that has been taking care of his medical care until now.” Johnny introduced them as both men looked up at the sudden interruption.

Taeil gave a small nod, while Kun gave them a charming smile, before both of them ignored them in favour of discussing their notes on a to difficult subject for Johnny to understand.

“Don’t mind them, they have been like this since Jisung’s first treatment finished an hour ago.” Jaehyun who had been silently sitting on a relaxing chair in the nook of the library with reports over NCT’s progress in Thailand stood up.

“Long time no see, Mr. Lee.” Taemin gave him a small smile, while shaking his hand, as NCT’s clothing brand had collaborated several times with them during fashion shows.

“If my memory serves me correctly, it has been since GIVENCY’s charity gala. I will never forget Mrs. Kwon’s diamond dress.”

Boa smiled; that dress was one of her favourites, and Taemin had specially designed it for her, picking the diamonds personally one by one. She was very proud of it.

“Mr. Lee sure has a keen eye.” She gave him her most blinding smile and suddenly Kun appeared, lacing an arm around him as he sweetly smiled: “My Husband indeed has a very keen eye.”

Boa giggled, nevertheless proud that she had made the man feel threatened and Jaehyun too chuckled as even though a jealous Kun was rare, it was the most endearing thing ever.

“Mrs. Kwon’s husband is just in front of you Boabei. He designed her dress as a token of love.” He whispered discretely into his lover’s ears who blinked his eyes in surprise before giving him a slight pout. Jaehyun kissed it away on his cheeks, the light peck full of love as he whispered: “I would love to give you a better token of love, one which would be unmatched in the world.”

Kun blushed lightly, murmering he only needed him to stay by his side, which only made Jaheyun determined with his orginal plan.

Winwin suddenly appeared, his hands holding a tray full of cookies and red-fruits pies, not surprised at the appearance of the two new faces.

“This is Mr.Dong. He is Taeyong-shi’s brother.” Winwin gave them a mysterious smile, putting the tray on the table as Taeil was finished organising the herbs and plants away in his medical bag.

“Nice meeting you.” Taemin received a firm handshake while Boa couldn’t help but sense a threat of danger.

Interessting, she thought.

“Please take a place.” Johnny invited them to sit, while Taeyong appeared in the room with a can of coffee and can of fruit smoothie, followed by Yuta who had a tray of glasses and cups along with can of Tea.

Both men were surprised at the early arrival of their guesst and Johnny quickly introduced them.

“Thank you. For everything.” Taemin wasn’t sure what to say.

He was thankful that his son had been happy and protected, while he had been in the dark about his existence. He was happy that his family had given him a chance to meet even though they had no reason too, especially after that bad experience with his biological mother. He was also thankful that his newly discovered identity hadn’t seemed to perturb his family.

There were no words for expressing such thankfulness but Taemin tried.

Taeyong nodded shyly, still a bit worried about Taemin’s impact but he gave him a small smile as he invited Tae