kaisoo; Home is where you are [Flashfic]

[darkyulate]

Title: Home is where you are
Pairing: D.O./Kai
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 675
Summary: This story is about Jongin, the problem child who finds a way home in Kyungsoo's arms
Notes: Unbeta-ed :^)

Kim Jongin is a man who does not know where to go or where he has come from. Born as an orphan, he has lived his life wondering if his mother ever loved him. He wonders if his father had abandoned them before his birth. He thinks about all these things until he cannot sleep anymore. And then he meets Do Kyungsoo, another orphan in the orphanage, wide-eyed with a warm smile but wiser than any of the children. He had told Jongin not think about those that he does not know of because they will never have an answer. He taught Jongin to think of himself, to find happiness for himself. Which is why, ten years later, with the money he has earned from his part time job, Jongin runs away from the orphanage. He does not take Kyungsoo with him, he does not tell anyone. But he does leave a note to tell Kyungsoo that he is grateful for all the things he has done. After all, without Kyungsoo, he wouldn't find direction in his life. And that's where things go wrong. Jongin, just a few days after he leaves, finds himself involved in all kinds of wrong things. Gangs, drugs, girls (some boys) and many more. Little by little, Jongin ruins his life and before he knows it, a long time has passed and the lessons from the wide-eyed boy he'd met at the orphanage had been forgotten. But he does remember them, eventually. It is on a day in the hospital. He'd been stabbed in a gang fight and his leader had almost regretfully allowed him to be taken in to the hospital because they couldn't do anything for him anymore. He thinks about the wide-eyed boy and his words, his words of making a life for his own and how this life isn't what he wanted. He wants to know if its too late. And he laughs (and chokes on it because of his wound), because he can see the smile on that boy's face, eyes crinkling and turning into crescents telling him that no, it is never too late. Nothing is ever too late. And Jongin smiles for the first time in a long time. When Jongin quits the gang, they let him go without any problems. He is relieved at that. And he goes in searching of the boy whose name he can't even remember. He finds him in the outskirts of Seoul, living by the beach where the breeze is cool and the sand is soft on his feet. The wide-eyed boy is no longer a kid but a man who opens the door to greet Jongin with the same heart shaped smile he had on when they first met. "Come in," the man tells Jongin and Jongin feels his heart pick up speed at the way it sounds a lot like 'I've been waiting for you'. "I'm Kyungsoo and you must be Jongin." Jongin smiles bashfully because he knows after all these years that this man —no, Kyungsoo— had not forgotten him at all. "I heard you were looking for me," Kyungsoo says rather than asks as he ushers Jongin to sit and Jongin wants to tell him everything, from how he ran away and ended up ruining his life but now he's trying to live again, trying to find where he belongs —trying to find a home. Jongin opens his mouth but nothing comes out. Kyungsoo looks at him and smiles softly, moving closer to wrap Jongin's hands in his. "You're welcome to stay here if you've got nowhere to go," is all he says and then Jongin's crying, tears falling like rain on his cheeks and he gets pulled into Kyungsoo's arm, arms circling his thin frail body and he cries even more. He cries because this, in Kyungsoo's arms, in his warm house makes him feel safe, makes him feel like he belongs. This feeling in his heart, as ‏Kyungsoo holds him and whispers words of love in his ears, feels like home.

a/n: This was originally a tweetfic and I intended it to stay that way but sehandwich asked me to post it so I'm posting it for her. LOL AND THIS HAPPENED BECAUSE A FRIEND OF MINE FELT LIKE SHE WAS CHEATING ON A CERTAIN BIAS AND HAHAHAHA I was giving her very #hugot advice about going back to where you came from lol what is that even. ANYWAY I HAVE AN EXAM TOMORROW AND I BARELY STUDIED HAHAHAHAHA /o\ I AM GOING GONE GONE GONE o/
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