Due to the unstoppable giant person and patient he is, the new nurses assigned to check up on Chanyeol had to inject him some liquid that will make him sleepy. He was adamant on making Baekhyun stay with him for one more day but the latter one already called it a day by asking the newly assigned hospital personnels to calm his husband. Albeit that it was hard on his part, he watched as how Chanyeol's body started to weaken and his eyelids started to feel heavy on his side. After doing what they were told to do, the nurses went out because Baekhyun asked them to give him some alone time with Chanyeol first.

"Don't worry, when I come back, I'll take you with me," he whispered while caressing the face of his sleeping husband. "It won't take me that long, Chanyeol."

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With heavy chest, Baekhyun entered his house and from the front porch, he can already hear the kids' noise coming inside. He smiled. It's been days since he last saw his kids and hearing their voices from afar makes Baekhyun keep going. It were Chanyeol and their children the ones making him strong despite the endless battle he was fighting for.

"Uncle Baekhyun is here!" It was Xun who saw Baekhyun first and he waved a hand to his uncle when the brunet locked gazes with him. "Hi, Uncle Baek! You're home already!" He ran towards Baekhyun's direction while his arms were open widely in the air asking the midget to carry him.

"I know," Baekhyun patted Xun's head. Not long ago, Baekhee follow together with her brother who settled on standing next to their door. "Hi, Sweetie," he sweetly smiled to his daughter while holding Xun on his left arm. "How are you?"

"I'm fine, Dad!" Baekhee gave Baekhyun a quick peck before returning to the house together with the sweaty Xun. Afterwards, Baekhyun met Chanhee's eyes. It was unreadable. Chanhee was like Sehun, hard to read. His eyes were void of any emotions but you can clearly see on how his forehead was creased and eyebrows were knitted that he was thinking of something on his own.

"Hey. . ."

"Hi, Dad," Chanhee curtly said and welcomed Baekhyun with a warm hug. What he said next made Baekhyun stop and he felt it made him stronger even more. Although he hasn't talked to them yet that he found Chanyeol already, Baekhyun was sure that Chanhee understands their situation right now. Among the two, Chanhee is the observant one. He doesn't need confirmations with his suspicions, he confirms it by looking thoroughly at that person. "Everything will be fine soon, Dad. You know you can always count on me, right?"

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Luhan was busy serving a delicious dish for Baekhyun when Kyungsoo went inside the kitchen with grocery bags on his hands. Shock was the only evident on his almost popping out eyeballs when he saw the brunet waiting patiently (and cutely) for their doe-eyed friend to serve him his foods. "What are you doing here, Baekhyun?"

Baekhyun hissed at Kyungsoo's questions, having a smug grin on his face, his forefinger started tapping the wooden glass as if he's examining Kyungsoo's face. "The last time I checked, it was my house, Kyungsoo," he said as a matter of fact with his playful tone. He hopes Kyungsoo can understand that he was just half-joking.

"Aysh," Kyungsoo crumpled his hair which made Luhan chuckle while watching the two. "I've changed for the better, Baekhyun. I'm trying to kill my bitch side yet here you are, provoking it to be back again."

"Sorry 'bout that," Baekhyun chuckled, he mumbled a soft Thanks to Luhan when he served him a plate of white pasta Kyungsoo made earlier. "I already quitted my so-called-job in Gukil."

Kyungsoo was shocked but Luhan wasn't. When Kyungsoo arrived earlier, Baekhyun already told Luhan about it, but, he hasn't told him yet the reason why he did. "What?! Why?! Are you out of your mind?! And Luhan? You know about this?"

Luhan waved his hands. "No, no. He just told me awhile ago. I was shocked, too. He was about to tell me the reason when you interrupted us."

Kyungsoo took the glass of water Luhan was holding. Sharing utensils and foods together with his friends wasn't Kyungsoo's doings. Only with Jongin. But hearing Baekhyun's stupid news made him forget that he hates sharing saliva with others aside from his hot and sexy husband. "God, you're letting go Chanyeol with that."

"It's not like that. . ." Baekhyun mumbled while swirling the pasta on his fork, not looking at the two pairs of eyes bored on him. "I have my reasons."

"And that is?" Kyungsoo and Luhan asked in unison.

"I already met the one who brought Chanyeol here. He told me I have to stay away from him or else, my friendsㅡwhich were clearly you guysㅡwill be in harm. He also said that he still needed to make Chanyeol pay him back. About that, I'm not sure if Chanyeol's indebted of money or what. That's the last words he said after punching me," he narrated.

"That explains the bruise on the side of your lips," Luhan said, funny because the said bruise caught his attention rather than the fact that Baekhyun has already met the perpetrator behind Chanyeol's lost.

"I don't get it why you have to stay away from Chanyeol when clearly, this was the time you needed to be next to him the most," Kyungsoo enunciated. He tried shaking Baekhyun's body couple of times hoping to shaken his mind also but to no further avail, he just found himself tired of it. "Baekhyun, seriously? What's going in your mind? We already let the fact that you didn't told us right away that Chanyeol was already awake and you didn't even waited for our opinions before acting like a hero without any plan, but this? You're already sleeping on a soft mattress yet you chose to settle on sleeping on the ice cold floor. I hope you'll give us more adequate, fairish, and satisfactory reason as to why your heedless ass is here."

"I don't want to put you guys in harmㅡ"

"ㅡGod forbid, Baekhyun. We will never be in harm if you'll just tell us. There's no need to leave Chanyeol alone out there. We don't know if today will be the last time we will see him."

"Calm down, Kyungsoo," Luhan meddled, pressing Kyungsoo's shoulders but he got shoved away. "You know what? In times like this, being a hard-headed person won't doㅡ"

"ㅡand being a foolish person that Baekhyun is will bring us into a better situation? Is that what you mean, Luhan?" Kyungsoo didn't intended to sound rude, its just frustrating him to the tiniest part of himself. "I'm sorry. I wasㅡ"

"ㅡwere you guys fighting?" Jongin, together with Sehun entered the kitchen. Kyungsoo had to roll his eyes towards his husband's very obvious question to which Jongin just nudged him. A sign that he has to stop bitching.

"Who is it?" Three words and it's enough for Baekhyun, Kyungsoo, and Luhan to understand what does Sehun means with that. Ever since the three started conversing, Jongin and Sehun were already eavesdropping. Kyungsoo thought the two didn't trailed with him behind, instead, played with the kids but boy was wrong. They followed him when Mark said that his Uncle Baekhyun was already home.

With shaking hands, Baekhyun locked up gazes with Sehun. "J-Jung Jae Bum."

For a moment, Sehun furrowed his eyebrows because the name's familiar with him but quick to gasp when he realized who it is. "Jung Jae Bum? He's Jessica's father."

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"Mr. Park! You can't!" The third nurse on duty tried taking Chanyeol back to his hospital bed but Chanyeol was too strong for her own strength so the giant was able to escape from the place that has been his home for nearing a month already. Upon realizing that Baekhyun left him, Chanyeol was on hysteric state. He won't calm down so the first nurse on duty called her subordinates, too bad, their strengths added together compared to Chanyeol's strength was nothing.

Chanyeol hailed a cab and when the driver asked him the location where he needed to go, he suddenly remembered that he doesn't know where does Baekhyun lives. "Can you please help me find Hyun's house?"

"I think I can help you with that but you have to tell me the full name of that person first, Sir," the driver stopped on the side of the road and faced Chanyeol. "We can't track his whereabouts if you won't give me his full name."

"Ah! Park Baekhyun! Park Baekhyun is the name!" Chanyeol said in enthusiasm, he almost felt scared because he forgot that Baekhyun once told him his full name.

The driver took couple of taps before he found out a Facebook account with Park Baekhyun as its name, he clicked it and made Chanyeol see if it's the person he's been talking about. "Is he the one?"

Chanyeol nodded, awestruck at first on how his caretaker looked so ethereal on his Facebook display photo. "Y-yeah. . ."

The driver was about to enter the address written on Baekhyun's Facebook account when he realized something. He had to look again on the picture and placed his mobile phone next to Chanyeol's face. "Isn't it you the one he was with in the picture?"

True to be told, it was him. But if Chanyeol was clueless, he will freak out. Instead, he gave a cunning smile as answer to the driver. "I look a like his husband but it's not me the one he was with on his Facebook display photo."

"Oh. . . I'm so sorry for not minding my own business."

"It's fine!" He beamed, being mistaken as Baekhyun's husband made Chanyeol's cheeks flush in crimson red. He likes it. "Was it far from here? I mean, his home?"

"Not really," the driver answered while looking and clicking thoroughly at the navigator application. "It's a ten-minute ride from here."

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In no time, Chanyeol arrived at his destination. Baekhyun's house was median in size but he can hear noises from the outside. He sees kids running from the living room of the house while from where he was standing, he can see (on the dining area) Baekhyun, Kyungsoo, Sehun and two other guys sharing a feast this night. The person beside Sehun is forking a meat to him so he assumed he was his husband while the person next to Kyungsoo was pouring water on his glass while Kyungsoo wipes the side of his lips, so he assumed (again) that he is Kyungsoo's husband. Whilst Baekhyun, he was just playing with his foods, not minding the two lovely couple around, just absentmindedly looking on his plate full of foods. Chanyeol felt a piercing on his chest when he saw a tear drop on Baekhyun's eyes.

"He must be sad," he mumbled, stepping on the bushes just to be able to see more of his caretaker's face. "He must be missing his husband a lot and seeing those lovey-dovey couples was not helping at all."

Baekhyun wiped the other tear that fell from his eye and took the glass of water in one gulp, Sehun, Luhan, Kyungsoo and Jongin stopped from whatever they're doing when Baekhyun removed the napkin on his lap. "I'm still full and not feeling well, I'm heading out first," and then he left without waiting for the others to respond.

On the other side, Chanyeol's face was crestfallen when Baekhyun was nowhere to be found. He assumed the brunet already went to his room just by judging on how a room upstairs flickered open. There, he saw Baekhyun standing at the veranda of his room. He was calmly looking at the sky when a tear fell from his eyes again but this time, he didn't wiped it already, instead, he lets tear drops fall to his porcelain skin.

"I hope I can comfort him," Chanyeol chanter.

From his view, Sehun joined Baekhyun on the veranda and he said words Chanyeol can't hear but it made Baekhyun cry harder, this time, on Sehun's broad chest already. Sehun started rubbing Baekhyun's back and not long ago, they already made an entrance on Baekhyun's room. It seems like Sehun brought Baekhyun to his bed first and then he came back, closing the veranda, taking away Chanyeol's view of his caretaker's room.

Chanyeol was about to walk back when a little girl standing on the gate caught him. "Who are you? Are you a thief?!"

"No! No! Am not!" Chanyeol stood away from the bushes and his eyes met the light from the equipment the little girl was holding. He had to close his eyes first when the little girl stepped closer but still not moving the flashlight. "Hey, your flashlight's hurting my eyes."

"Sorry," the little girl chuckled and she turned off the light of it. When the stranger moved to where the street light was located, she clearly saw his face. "D-Daddy Chanyeol?!"

a/n: guuuuuush! i'm getting the feels on writing this story once again! am i being overly dramatic? because to be honestly speaking, i've thought this story as a whole dramatic journey. lmao so sorry if you don't like dramas but i love imagining such! anyways, this update was supposed to be posted last monday but i'm just a poor soul that doesn't have money to afford a data connection so yeaaaah? happy 10,000 reads! please vote and leave comments if you have time. :)

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