Sunggyu and Woohyun cleaned up and changed and found the lady in the golden pantsuit waiting for them in Woohyun’s living room.

“The Sunflower Prince has been kidnapped.” She repeated as soon as they entered.

“Kidnapped?” Woohyun questioned with a frown.

“Yes,” The man behind her who they both recognized as Jim the unhelpful servant of the Sunflower Kingdom with the trademark blank expression and snarky attitude. “It means someone took him away without his permission and we don’t know where he is—.”

“I know what it means!” Woohyun snapped.

“Then why did you ask?” Jim muttered under his breath.

“Why are you coming to us about this?” Sunggyu questioned. “Shouldn’t you be going to the police or sending your own people out to go find him—?”

“Anyways,” The lady cut him off. “We’ll need the both of you to come with us.”

*

Sunggyu and Woohyun were guided outside where a large bright yellow limo with a huge sunflower sticking out from the top was parked.

“What the hell is this?” Sunggyu stopped a guard from ushering him into the vehicle.

“It’s a car.” Jim replied. “We use it as a mode of transportation—.”

“I know it’s a car!” Sunggyu huffed. “But is this really necessary? A limo and everything…I mean why couldn’t you just bring—.”

“We’re running out of time!” The woman in the pantsuit, apparently named “Gee” exclaimed. “The Prince could be in grave danger as we sit here doddling about!”

“Doddling?” Sunggyu snorted. “Well maybe you should’ve thought about that before you decided to drive this monstrosity of a thing that looks like the magic school bus’s older brother!”

“Hyung,” Woohyun touched his arm. “It’s not important right now. Dongwoo could be in trouble.”

“…Right.” Sunggyu sighed. “Fine, let’s go.”

*

They drove to the Sunflower kingdom at lightning fast speeds, taking insane twists and turns—and probably breaking a couple of speeding laws along the way.

Jim may have had a rather blasé expression, but his driving was anything but. Woohyun and Sunggyu had to hold onto each other in the backseat, scared for their lives. The car pulled up in front of the castle, and some servants came to open the car doors for them.

Sunggyu nervously looked up, still clutching onto Woohyun, who had his face buried in the older man’s chest.

“Oh…” He breathed a sigh of relief. “W-We made it…Woohyun-ah,” He nudged Woohyun. “We survived. We made it.”

Woohyun looked up, squinting. He glanced at Sunggyu then at the open door and the servant standing outside of the car. He nodded slowly and followed Sunggyu out of the car. He still felt himself trembling slightly from the insane ride and clutched onto Sunggyu’s arm as they walked.

“Are you ok?” Sunggyu noticed Woohyun wobbling a bit as they followed Gee and Jim through the palace doors.

“Yeah…” Woohyun breathed, leaning a little on Sunggyu who stared at him worriedly. He put an arm around Woohyun’s shoulder—and the latter immediately leaned into him, breathing shakily. “I’m…fine.” Woohyun pulled away slightly as he clutched onto Sunggyu’s arm to steady himself, yanking at his own jacket collar with his free hand.

They were led down a long hall, that had full windows covering one wall, and the other was painted a warm herb green.

Woohyun had let go of Sunggyu and was impatiently pulling off his jacket. Sunggyu noticed he was still wobbling though and his face looked awfully pale.

They stopped in front of a pair of wooden doors and Jim pulled at the silver knobs. They were expecting Dongwoo’s parents—the king and queen—waiting for them on the other side to discuss their next move regarding Dongwoo’s kidnapping, but instead, it appeared the entire kingdom was waiting on the other side of the doors.

They entered the rather packed meeting room—also continuing the color scheme of warm hues with a muted golden yellow faux finish coloring the walls.

“Surprise!” Dongwoo suddenly emerged from the crowd with the queen and king right behind him.

“What?” Sunggyu blinked. “Why are you…what’s going on here? I thought—.”

“It was just a way to get the both of you over here~” The king giggled excitably. “This is actually a party!”

“I think they can tell that much themselves dear.” The queen sighed, before smiling at Sunggyu again. “We just wanted to throw the both of you a thank you party for helping Dongwoo.”

“Help?” Sunggyu frowned. “But we didn’t really do anything…”

“Of course you did! You got the…” The queen’s face soured for a moment. “…That girl Cecile out of his life. You’ve done well for the future of this kingdom, you know?”

“Ah…” Sunggyu smiled sheepishly, rubbing the back of his neck. “That’s not much—.” Suddenly there was a thud and he turned around to see Woohyun leaning against the door way, breathing heavily and tearing his jacket off.

“Woohyun?” Sunggyu’s eyes widened. “Yah, are you—.”

Woohyun almost tripped as he hastily turned and ran out of the room, leaving his discarded jacket on the floor. Sunggyu immediately ran after him, leaving the Sunflower king and queen, Dongwoo and the entire crowd standing there in confusion.

*

Sunggyu ran out of the meeting room into the hallway, looking everywhere.

“Woohyun!” He called out in a panic. It had been a while but he had a feeling he knew what had happened. It was the same as that day sixteen-year-old Woohyun got trapped in the haunted house. Well not exactly, but Sunggyu figured it was a panic attack. He hurried down the hallway, stopping at the corner when he spotted a figure on the ground at the end of another hall way. He ran as fast as he could, to find Woohyun sitting against the wall, his shirt completely ed. He was still breathing quite hard, but he seemed to have calmed down a bit. Sunggyu immediately sat down beside him, but made sure to give him a little space.

He swallowed, taking in Woohyun’s appearance. The younger man was sitting with his arms resting on his knees, his eyes and nose were red from crying and his breaths were uneven.

Sunggyu hesitantly reached out to wipe the tear at the corner of Woohyun’s eye, but the latter moved his head immediately.

Sunggyu bit his lip and put his hand down. “Woohyun-ah…” He noticed Woohyun had his shirt ed and figured he might be cold since his skin was bare and exposed. He reached out to button it up for him but Woohyun slapped his arm away.

“Stop it…” He uttered weakly.

Sunggyu gulped and retracted his hand. “Do you…do you need anything?”

Woohyun didn’t say anything and kept his head down. Sunggyu was left to wonder what it was that caused this. He figured it was the insane car ride since Woohyun started getting odd after that. That plus the unexpected crowd of people waiting for them in the meeting room could have made it worse. Sunggyu wondered what Woohyun used to do before—after he left. Did he just deal with this all by himself like this?  Sunggyu wanted to slap himself for even wondering that. Of course he dealt with it on his own. Sunggyu was the only one who knew about it anyways. And before he met Sunggyu, Woohyun dealt with this on his own too.

Sunggyu felt the guilt build up in his throat and he almost felt sick. He didn’t even think about that when he left. He was just scared and hurt by what Boohyun had told him. He was so consumed by those horrible words thrown at him that he didn’t stop to think what it would really mean to leave Woohyun. At that time he thoroughly believed he was the one doing Woohyun a favor, but now he was starting to realize just how much it was the opposite of that. He hurt Woohyun so much—he wondered why Woohyun still even took him back. If he was Woohyun he most certainly wouldn’t have.

“Woohyun….” Sunggyu’s voice was shaky, quiet as he stared at Woohyun’s trembling hand. “Do you want me to stay?”

Woohyun nodded, and that made Sunggyu smile a little in relief.

“Or if you want I can get you something to drink or—.”

“Please…” Woohyun mumbled, “Don’t go.”

Sunggyu sighed softly and leaned against the wall beside Woohyun.

“Just tell me what you need ok?” Sunggyu glanced at him before turning to face the window in front of them. “I’ll get anything if it’ll help you feel more comfortable.”

Woohyun didn’t say anything for a few minutes as they sat in silence, but then Woohyun shifted a little and Sunggyu immediately turned to him.

“Could you…” Woohyun suddenly started puling off his shirt completely. Sunggyu’s eyes widened and he looked around for a moment before turning back to Woohyun.

“Y-Yah, what’re you…?”

“It…it helps.” Woohyun murmured as he put his shirt down beside him and sighed softly.

Sunggyu stared at him longer than he should have. “It does?” He couldn’t help but notice the series of hickeys he had made on Woohyun’s neck from this morning. He didn’t know whether to feel embarrassed about that or what, but then quickly reminded himself that this wasn’t the time for that. “S-So you wanted me to do something?” Sunggyu cleared his throat.

Woohyun nodded slowly. “Could you…hold my hand?”

“Of course.” Sunggyu smiled softly at that and gently took Woohyun’s hand into his own, resting them on his thigh. Woohyun breathed out and he seemed to be calming down as Sunggyu soothingly his hand.

“Thanks for running after me.” Woohyun said quietly.

“No…” Sunggyu gingerly patted Woohyun’s head and smiled at him. “I’m just sorry I can’t do more for you.”

Woohyun stared at his lap, lower lip still trembling as he met Sunggyu’s eyes. “Just…if you stay with me then that’s enough.”

Sunggyu’s chest ached at Woohyun’s words and he reached out to hold Woohyun’s face in his hands. “I’m sorry.” He murmured, kissing him softly. Woohyun kept his gaze down for a moment and then looked into Sunggyu’s eyes. “I won’t…” Sunggyu choked on his words. “I won’t go again.” He rubbed Woohyun’s cheek, in a gentle manner. “I won’t leave you alone again ok?”

“Mm…” Woohyun nodded, eyes watering, blurring his vision. “P-Promise?”

Sunggyu swallowed back the lump in his throat and blinked back a tear. He nodded and clutched onto Woohyun’s hands, kissing the skin above his knuckles. And then he looked up at Woohyun with determination.

“I promise.”

*

They approached the wooden double doors again and they could hear the party in full swing on the other side. Sunggyu turned to Woohyun, resting a hand on his shoulder.

“You sure you’re ok?”

Woohyun, who was fiddling with the top buttons of his shirt, merely grunted in response, clearly too distracted with his buttons. Sunggyu sighed and grabbed Woohyun’s hands.

“Here, let me help.” Woohyun dropped his arms to his sides as Sunggyu attempted to fix his shirt. “Dummy, you buttoned it all wrong.”

“How?” Woohyun frowned, and then looked down at his shirt. Only then did he realize he had missed a button. “Ah…”

“Just the whole thing and start over.” Sunggyu told him and started doing just that.

“Ah wait hyung I can do it myself.” Woohyun tried to tell him, but Sunggyu ignored him and continued ing his shirt.

“Just let me do it.”

“But hyung~” Woohyun whined, playfully. It was clear he was enjoying it and Sunggyu rolled his eyes, though he was smiling a bit.

Sunggyu undid the other man’s shirt completely and took a moment to appreciate the view of Woohyun’s very attractive upper body. Sunggyu absently his lips, as he noticed something.

“Why are your s so small?”

Woohyun blinked in disbelief. “…W-What?”

“How did I not notice that before?” Sunggyu was shamelessly staring at Woohyun’s s now and even pulled his shirt open more to see them better.

“S-Stop it.” Woohyun blushed and tried to pull away.

“No, let me see~” Sunggyu laughed, as he not-so-accidentally pulled Woohyun’s shirt off his shoulder.

“Hyung stop~” Woohyun whined, but Sunggyu just found it kind of cute and leaned closer and kissed his cheek. Woohyun stared at him with wide eyes. “W-What’re you doing?”

“What do you mean?” Sunggyu tilted his head, feigning innocence.

Woohyun pouted. “Y-You just…!”

“I just what?” Sunggyu chuckled and tickled under Woohyun’s chin. “Hm? What did I do Woohyunnie?

“S-Stop it.” Woohyun shoved him away in embarrassment. “You’re being weird.”

But Sunggyu merely grabbed onto the open flaps of his shirt and pulled him closer. “Mm…” He leaned into the crook of Woohyun’s neck. “I think you like it though?”

Woohyun bit his lip, slightly frustrated that he couldn’t even protest because Sunggyu was kind of right. Ok maybe more than kind of—but that didn’t mean it was ok for Sunggyu to back him into the nearby wall and suddenly start kissing him.

“Wait…” Woohyun gasped softly, as Sunggyu’s nose brushed against his jawbone. Sunggyu’s lips were pressed to Woohyun’s neck now and he couldn’t help but feel like his legs were turning to jelly. Especially since Sunggyu was not so innocently pulling Woohyun’s shirt over his shoulder. Then Sunggyu pressed his thumb to Woohyun’s , eliciting a slight whimper from the younger.

“What…” Woohyun breathed. “W-What are you doing? We—.”

But Sunggyu just kissed him again to shut him up—and boy did it ever. Woohyun closed his eyes immediately melting into Sunggyu’s mouth. The way Sunggyu tongue tasted and felt in his mouth was just too amazing and he didn’t understand how someone could taste that good. All he knew was that he desperately needed more.

He tugged at Sunggyu’s shirt collar eagerly, but then Sunggyu suddenly bit down on his lip. He whimpered and pulled away.

“Why’d you do that?!”

Sunggyu grinned, rubbing his thumb along Woohyun’s slightly pink lower lip. “You need to learn to be patient.”

“I am patient!” Woohyun stated defiantly.

“Too bad I’m not.” They both froze at the sound of the third voice behind them.

Sunggyu whipped around so fast, Woohyun swore he exceeded the speed of light.

Fortunately it was just Jim, the servant standing there with a bored look.

“Couldn’t you have knocked?” Woohyun frowned.

Jim looked back at the double doors than at Woohyun with an unchanged, dry look.

“This is a hallway.”

Sunggyu sighed, and ran a hand through his hair. “A-Anyways…did you need something or…?”

“Yes. The King and Queen were concerned about where the both of you ran off to and sent me to look for you. I will return and explain to them that despite the fact that there was a lovely party being thrown in your honor, the two of you would rather each other outside in the hall—.”

“W-We weren’t doing that!” Woohyun gasped in horror.

Sunggyu grabbed Jim’s arm, laughing awkwardly. “I-I don’t think its necessary to tell them such a thing, is it?”

“Then what should I tell them?” Jim questioned, blankly. “That you two couldn’t keep it in your pants and—.”

“No!” Sunggyu sighed. “Just…you don’t need to tell them anything. I’ll explain that we uh…that we just needed to use the restroom.”

“Ah because of your diarrhea problems—.”

“I-I don’t have diarrhea problems!” Sunggyu stammered. “Just…don’t tell them anything, ok?”

Jim stared at him for a moment. “I think I deserve some compensation for such a task.”

“Compensation? All you have to do is not talk! Its not that hard!” Sunggyu huffed. But Jim was holding his palm out with a face that said he wasn’t going to budge. Sunggyu groaned and got out his wallet. “How much do you want?”

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Sunggyu getting handsy in the hallway. But Jim ain't buying. Idk what I'm saying sorry.

Anyways the winter ball is coming up soon and then maybe the plot might finally pick up probably not though.