A few hours after Wooyoung was dragged out of his room by his boss, he walks in again, holding his last meal of the day. He looks sulky, as if he had been given a long lecture.

Yeosang is standing up when he walks in, turning around after hearing the door open, then having his food shoved in his hands. Before he could even say anything, Wooyoung storms off, slamming the door.

"Wait!" He shouts, then sighs, he probably didn't even hear him.

He sets his food onto his bed, since there are no other pieces of furniture in the room. He starts to eat but stops when he hears the sound of the door being unlocked.

Looking up, his eyes met with Wooyoung's, who seems annoyed at Yeosang. "What?" He says impatiently, raising his eyebrows.

Yeosang is confused. "What?"

Wooyoung groans loudly "you told me to wait now what do you want!" He hits his head on the door in annoyance.

Oh he heard that? Jeez he doesn't have to be so rude about it. Yeosang thinks, sending him a glare. He still answers him anyway.

"Can I ask for something?"

Wooyoung raises his eyebrows "what do you want? I'm not getting you anything like a tv if that's what you're asking" he says and Yeosang rolls his eyes.

"No not that, I- could you get me a clock?"

Before Wooyoung could question him, Yeosang continues talking.

"It's not much I'm asking and I really don't want to fight over this but please. I have no indication of the time, it's gets frustrating sometimes, I'm just asking for a clock of some sort"

His words are genuine and Wooyoung hates the way his pleading eyes bore into his soul. I mean, what harm could a clock do?

"Fine. I'll see what I can do"

Yeosang gasps, which makes Wooyoung look at him. He is smiling. "Thank you" He says, flashing his teeth.

He wishes he could lie and say his heart didn't skip a beat looking at his smile. But the fact that he's only seen the prince sad, angry or annoyed, his smile was a nice change.

~

He comes back a few minutes later, Yeosang has finished his food. Wooyoung noticed he eats really quickly. Maybe it's because he barely gets any food. For some reason, guilt bubbles up inside of him.

Which makes it even more strange to see Yeosang's face light up when he hands him a watch.

He takes the watch, looking at it as if it was a bar of gold. Then he looks up to Wooyoung, smiling at him as if he'd just told him he could go home.

There it goes again, he can't help the way his heart starts to pump faster when the prince looks up to him so gratefully.

Wooyoung quickly grabs Yeosang's empty plate and leaves, quickly locking the door behind him.

He leans on the door and lets out a long breath. Closing his eyes, his hand moves to his chest, which is still beating like crazy.

Just a few hours ago, he was beating him up and now, he had just given him a watch without even thinking twice about it?

Is this what a good deed felt like? Being a bad guy meant that he was very inexperienced in this field.

Somehow seeing a genuine smile felt so refreshing to Wooyoung, he has to see it again. No. He shakes his head. What am I thinking? He quickly runs off, away from the door.

~

Yeosang stares at the watch in his hand. It's 8:30 pm right now.

He laughs in disbelief, because he thought he would've at least had to be on his knees for this, but Wooyoung just... gave it.

He puts it on and stares at his wrist, just watching the hands slowly move.

He stays like that for almost half an hour, laying down on his bed, just staring at the watch. Is this Wooyoung's? There's no way he bought one so this must be his.

Yeosang doesn't know what to do with this information but he touches the watch, lightly tapping on the glass, smiling softly and it's only a matter of time before he falls asleep.

~

When Yeosang wakes up, he immediately checks the time. 7:34. He had a really long sleep. He can't help the corners of his mouth turning up, but he just can't believe he knows the time now.

It may seem useless wanting to know the time when you're in a room you can't leave. But Yeosang doesn't even have a window in his room for him to even guess what the time was. Especially after a nap, he had no indication of how long he slept, what time it was. It got so frustrating.

When Wooyoung walks in with breakfast, it's exactly 8:00.

But instead of walking in with just breakfast, he is also holding something else, which intrigues Yeosang so he walks up to him. Books. Wooyoung sets his food down then hands him a big stack of books.

"I figured you're extremely bored here, so I got you stuff to read. I don't even know if you read but I got a bunch of random things, magazines, fiction, non fiction" he mumbles and fiddles around with the books. "You don't have to read these if you don't want to, I just-"

"Thank you"

Wooyoung looks up to see him smiling again. He gulps and watches Yeosang marvel at the books.

"Seriously. Thank you for this"

He has to look away, Wooyoung can't stand the way Yeosang is looming at him right now. As if he had just took him out and set him free. He wishes he could do that. He doesn't want his gratitude, he of all people deserves it the least.

Scared his voice will betray him, he simply nods, his eyes tracing the prince's face. They land on his jaw, where a deep bruise is visible.

Guilt overpowers him again and he can't stop the apology from leaking out.

"I'm sorry about yesterday, I went too far" he blurts out, pointing at his jaw.

He wants to smack himself, why did I have to apologise! He closes his eyes tightly then opens them to see Yeosang smiling. Again.

"It's not you're fault, I also let my anger get ahead of me. Let's not let it happen again" he says with a soft smile.

Wooyoung would rather have Yeosang beat him up again rather than his undeserving forgiveness.

He nods the quickly leaves, letting Yeosang alone time with his new books.

Yeosang stares at the books on his bed. There are seven. He completely forgets about his breakfast when he picks up a random book, reading it immediately.

To feel excitement after this long has made Yeosang extremely grateful. He didn't even ask for these but Wooyoung gave them.

Wooyoung allowed him to feel something positive after too long. Maybe because it's been over a month since he's felt excited or amusement, but he feels thankful. Putting away all the horrible thing he's done, this one nice thing he did makes Yeosang forgive him for all of it. He doesn't even know why...

Why?

~

Why...

Why did he give Yeosang books to read? Why?

Wooyoung bangs his head against the wall in frustration, he regrets it now. Yeosang didn't even ask for the damn books but he had to go all heroic and give him stuff to entertain himself with because 'he figured he was bored' all alone in that room.

He scoffs. He must be the nicest kidnapper known to man.

What kind of captive smiles so brightly at the one who's made their life hell?

His hands ghost over his chest. He doesn't have to feel it to know that his heart is beating wildly. The smile that did this to him. Maybe after seeing it when he gave the watch, he needed to see it again.

Just to see him smile, instead of frown, he did something n-nice.

~Idk if it's just me but I feel like this is dragging on a bit... please let me know