Awestruck with what happened, Baekhyun and Sooyoung was glued on their positions but quick to panic when they heard noises coming outside. Sooyoung recognized one's voice as one of the guards paid to watch out for Chanyeol. She made Baekhyun sat up from the bed and pretend like what a real doctor and intern will do. Good thing Baekhyun was still holding the wet towel on his hands so he was able to act like he was just cleaning the patient that's why he's close to him. Aside from the given protocol, no one's allowed to be near at the patient unless he will be needing a bath, an injection of foods, vitamins, etc. otherwise, hospital personnels were supposed to step back away from the patient.

"Who are you?" The armored guy asked, eyeing Baekhyun like he was ready to attack in no time because it was the first time he saw someone with Dr. Sooyoung.

"Second Lieutenant. . ." Sooyoung called. Yes, they hired not just a simple guard. They're armored armies of South Korea. "He's Hyun, he's my intern. I'm sorry if I didn't notified you about him. It's his first day and you were not around when I was about to introduce him to you."

The said officer bobbed his head and whispered something on his companion. "Okay. You're supposed to finish your rounds in ten minutes. Finish giving Mr. Park a bath and quickly step outside of his room. Do you understand?" Both of them nodded and that made the two armored men step outside of the room.

Sighing, Baekhyun and Sooyoung felt relieved. They thought they will be caught red-handed. Baekhyun was still emotional after what Chanyeol did so he wasn't yet ready to face the repercussions of their actions yet. For now, he was just happy over what Chanyeol did today.

"It was the first time he reacted upon someone trying to make him," Sooyoung started, she walked behind Baekhyun while watching the midget continue on cleaning his husband's skin. "No one, not even the one who admitted him here was able to make him move his reflexes. Just you, Baekhyun. And you know what?"

Baekhyun hummed, still watching his husband's peaceful slumber. Two years of not hearing anything from him was not an excuse for him to forget how his husband actually looks like. He memorized everything about Chanyeol and it's making something inside him throb upon realizing that there were so many changes on his husband's physical appearances. His lips used to be plumped and pinkish before, but now, it's chopped. Baekhyun wanted to have a taste of his husband's lips but there's something stopping him.

"It's a good thing, Baekhyun. It only means he still remembers you despite that he's in coma state. We still haven't finalized it yet if he has an amnesia or what but seeing how he reacted with your voice was enough for me to understand that even if he's not functioning, you're still here," she pointed on her chest where her heart was located. "Baekhyun, don't worry, I'll help you with this. Even if it will be dangerous for the both of us, I care for Chanyeol. He is my patient and seeing him comatose and sleeping for two years already was enough. Now that he was transferred under our supervision, we will make everything to get him better and I hope you will help me on this. You were his only chance to survive, Baekhyun."

Baekhyun didn't realized he was crying with Sooyoung's words. As soon as he finished drying his husband's fingers, he gently gripped it and started caressing his face. "I will. I will do everything just to make you out of here, Chanyeol. Even if it'll cause harm in my side, even if it'll be risky for us, I'll do it. I'll be the strong foundation of our family this time. I will fight for our family."

And that was the exact time when Sooyoung shed a tear. It was breaking her but at the same time makes her complete as a doctor. Before she became a doctor, she pledged to herself that she will give all her best to cure her future patients even if it'll be risky or harmful for her. That's what doctors are supposed to do right? Make their patients better not worsen their conditions.

"Sooyoung, may I ask one last question?" Baekhyun knows how inconsiderate of him to talk to the said doctor without even having an eye-to-eye contact with her but he was just seizing the moment because he wasn't certain when will be the next time he will have a glance of his husband once again. Maybe tomorrow, maybe the day after tomorrow, maybe next week, maybe next month. No one knows.

"What is it?"

"Is it included on the protocol that you're not allowed to disclose anything about the person who admitted him?" This should be done the first thing a while ago but it skipped Baekhyun's mind the moment he saw his husband's sleeping face and its heaving up and down chest. The awful scenario made every questions he has with him vanished and the only thing that matters to him that time was that his husband was really here, in front of his own eyes.

Sooyoung shook her head. Five minutes. "Actually, the one who's visiting Chanyeol is a man on his late 50s and we're not allowed to ask him personal questions regarding his correlations towards your husband. Besides, the only information we know about him was that his family name is Jung. That's all. Only the highest personnel of Gukil knows his real name and other informations about him. We're all taught that Chanyeol was a comatose patient for two years due to the impactful effect it caused him when he hit his head on a wooden table at Toronto, Canada last June 11, 2015. That's all."

"That was the exact information Sehun told me," Baekhyun looked at Sooyoung with pleading eyes. "Am I allowed to kiss him?"

Sooyoung bit her lower lip because of Baekhyun's cuteness. It was something uncalled though. "Of course. He is your husband."

Baekhyun mumbled a soft Thank you and planted his lips on his husband's chopped ones for a matter of seconds. Albeit that it was breaking him inside knowing that he has to go already, but just like what Sooyoung said: step by step. "I'm going home now. Don't worry about your foods, I'll tell Sooyoung about it. I'll lecture Dr. Sooyoung," he chuckled freely. Something foreign to him ever since he lost his husband and daughter. "Chanyeol, please get better soon, okay? We will still find our daughter. We will still build sandcastles in different beaches, that's your promise to Baekhee, right? You'll still witness how our kids will grow. And most of all. . ." His voice broke. "I need my husband beside me. I miss you so much. I love you. Always had. Always will. To the moon and back, right?"

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"Where the hell did you came from?" That was what welcomed Baekhyun upon entering his house. He was surprised seeing the whole squad complete inside his home. Will they have a gathering or what? Baekhyun wasn't informed but nonetheless, he'd still love to prepare foods for them since he was in a great mood today!

It was already nearing seven in the evening when he came back to his house and it took him an hour before going home because he forgot that he didn't brought his car with him when he went to Myeondong.

"Did we have a gathering? Why I wasn't informed?" He asked, clueless. He gave Baekhee, Xun, Chanhee, Mark, and Jisung a kiss on their cheeks and went back on talking to the grumpy Kyungsoo in front of him. "Kyungsoo?"

"Baek, I thought you'll fetch Baekhee and Chanhee in our house? What happened?" That was when Baekhyun realized why Kyungsoo bitched on him. It's because he forgot to tell them where did he went! It's their order to him to tell them wherever he will go and Baekhyun didn't felt suffocated of it. In fact, he liked having people who cares about him.

"Sorry, Luhan. I bumped with a friend. . ." And that's when Baekhyun started telling him everything up to the part wherein Chanyeol made a reflex towards him. ". . . That explains why I'm happy today."

"Bitch!!!!!" Kyungsoo was ready to launch on him but ended up hugging Baekhyun. "I'm so happy for you. We came here to talk about our plans but it seems like you made a move without even telling us," it was a rare case to see Kyungsoo pouting that's why Baekhyun pinched his sides. "What was that for?"

"You're scaring him," Kai said and draped his arms over his husband's shoulders.

"Dr. Sooyoung didn't told me about that," Dr. Kim interrupted.

"Ah! Xiumin, she told me she was about to tell you but you were away. Maybe once you came back to your duty, she'll tell you," Baekhyun said, glowing in happiness. "I'll prepare some snacks for you guys! Hold on!"

They watched Baekhyun's retreating back and for the first time since the last two years, they felt uplifted seeing Baekhyun happy. He's never been this genuinely happy ever since Eunji went missing and ever since they lost information about Chanyeol. They can't do anything to ruin his mood right now, after hearing the news, they all wanted to stabilize the happy Baekhyun he is so they made a plan on how will they be able to take Chanyeol back to their hands.

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"Here," Baekhyun got startled when a glass of beer was offered to him. He was alone in the front porch of their house while the others were inside the kitchen and celebrating. Excusing himself for a while, he went out for a breather. Today has been the most eventful day for him ever since the last two years.

"It's cold here. Stay inside or might as well put some jackets with you," Sehun took his thick sweater away from his body and made it enveloped Baekhyun's body. "You can't be sick. We're just starting the war."

Baekhyun chuckled and opened the tip of the beer. Ever since he lost his husband and his daughter taking alcohol was just the same as taking water daily for Baekhyun. "Why are you here? Luhan might see us and he'll feel jealous once again," Baekhyun was aware of that but he never confronted Luhan about it because he doesn't want to make a big fuss of it. He truly loves Sehun, but just a brother and it was already crystal clear to them that Sehun already moved on. Way back years ago.

"He's drunk already. Kyungsoo hyung and Lu were talking nonsense inside so I went out. Too much of a handy. Seriously," Sehun whined. He took the empty space next to Baekhyun and his gazes fell on Baekhyun's face while the other one was busy looking into the starry night sky. "What are you thinking?"

Baekhyun shrugged and took a sip of the beer. "I don't know. I can't explain it, Sehun. Even though I already got a glimpse of him, I still felt incomplete. There's a part of me asking myself how did we ended up in a situation like this? This should've not been happening if I wasn't a careless husband to him."

"Great," Sehun chuckled bitterly. "You stopped blaming yourself towards your missing daughter for a while and now you were here, blaming yourself again for Chanyeol hyung's condition."

Baekhyun tightly gripped the bottled beer on his hand. "You don't understand it, Sehun. It was hard for me. I can't help but to blame myself for every misfortunes happening in my family. I am their father, I am his husband. I'm supposed to be their foundation to be strong but how can they be when their own root is a weakling too? Maybe this won't went far like this if I became stronger before. Maybe Chanyeol won't gone comatose if I didn't became selfish."

"Don't you ever think that maybe, this wasn't anyone from your family's fault at all?" What Sehun said made Baekhyun look at him, puzzled. "I don't know. I believe someone should be blamed for this and that's definitely not you nor Chanyeol hyung and your adoptive kids."

a/n: as an author, what makes me keep going on writing an update is the fact that there are people sparing a little of their time for this. i'm writing a 2,000-words update for the whole week and it will only take my readers less than twenty minutes to read it. don't get me wrong, it's not actually a big deal to me. what am i implying with this? i'm writing to express myself and the only thing i would like to ask from my readers were their reactions. COMMENTS. i'd like to know if i made you guys satisfied or dissatisfied with the recent update. i just wanted also to know what's your reactions towards the update. i wanted to be motivated and these days? i'm sure, i'm in hella need of inspiration. anyways, happy reading. kokobop.