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[August 26] [Super Junior] juniper
Title: juniper
Day/Theme: August 26 / the call of sea, stars, and sky
Series: Super Junior
Character/Pairing: Sungmin/Ryeowook/Kyuhyun
Rating: T
Once, he’d picked up a book in a secondhand store – it was a small, hardbound thing with barely worn pages and the name Basho still stenciled in gold. Rarely used pieces told so many things about the original owners. He’d deduced that they were not fans of poetry, and that they cared little for writings on nature. There was nothing in the brevity of Basho’s words that called to them, no metaphors for the sea and sky that prompted further perusal of the book.
He barely opened it, too. It was probably still in his bookshelf, back in his old room at his parents’ house in Incheon. He thought of this book as Sungmin recited poetry to him in the bathroom while waiting for Kyuhyun to wake up. Ryeowook had Kyuhyun’s head propped up on his lap, smoothing Kyuhyun’s bangs away from his forehead. He could still see the beginnings of a flesh wound near Kyuhyun’s scalp, so he scooped up some water in his palm and spread it over the skin, watching it seep into the opening like water to soil.
Juniper, Ryeowook wrote into the air above Kyuhyun’s forehead. Sungmin looked up with an inquiring eye, but Ryeowook was saved from the explanation when Kyuhyun groaned and moved his fingers.
“So dramatic,” Sungmin said, sounding annoyed, and Ryeowook kicked his leg.
Ryeowook reached over to grab the water he’d brought with him, and he let Kyuhyun drink before he asked, “How are you feeling?”
“He hit me,” Kyuhyun said, eyebrows furrowed as he watched Sungmin get out of the tub with distrustful eyes, “and he hit you too.” He looked like he wanted to do more than to narrate the events to Ryeowook, wanted to push Sungmin back down to the tub and strangle him under the water until he was limp and unresponsive in his hands, but Sungmin wiggled his fingers as if to remind him who was the one with better reflexes.
“Yes, we’ve already established that,” Sungmin said, still cross, “I hit you and didn’t kill you, aren’t you glad about that?”
Kyuhyun stared at him, inching closer to Ryeowook. “You’re insane,” he said, “you are so screwed up I have no idea how you can sleep at night or talk to your mother. I wonder how many people you hit on a daily basis.”
“Sungmin,” Ryeowook said, warningly, and Sungmin bit back the retort that was threatening to spill out of his mouth, a long string of words that would only cause more tension. Would stalling even help? There was no use to attempt to fix this relationship without having to put up a veil of ignorance.
“Why am I in the bathroom?” Kyuhyun said, after a moment. Ryeowook stared up at Sungmin, lips thinned into a displeased smile, and Sungmin shrugged.
“It seemed appropriate at that time,” Sungmin said, smiling at Ryeowook that told him exactly what he meant.
“You’re such a liar,” someone said, and it was not Ryeowook. It was Kyuhyun.
Day/Theme: August 26 / the call of sea, stars, and sky
Series: Super Junior
Character/Pairing: Sungmin/Ryeowook/Kyuhyun
Rating: T
Once, he’d picked up a book in a secondhand store – it was a small, hardbound thing with barely worn pages and the name Basho still stenciled in gold. Rarely used pieces told so many things about the original owners. He’d deduced that they were not fans of poetry, and that they cared little for writings on nature. There was nothing in the brevity of Basho’s words that called to them, no metaphors for the sea and sky that prompted further perusal of the book.
He barely opened it, too. It was probably still in his bookshelf, back in his old room at his parents’ house in Incheon. He thought of this book as Sungmin recited poetry to him in the bathroom while waiting for Kyuhyun to wake up. Ryeowook had Kyuhyun’s head propped up on his lap, smoothing Kyuhyun’s bangs away from his forehead. He could still see the beginnings of a flesh wound near Kyuhyun’s scalp, so he scooped up some water in his palm and spread it over the skin, watching it seep into the opening like water to soil.
Juniper, Ryeowook wrote into the air above Kyuhyun’s forehead. Sungmin looked up with an inquiring eye, but Ryeowook was saved from the explanation when Kyuhyun groaned and moved his fingers.
“So dramatic,” Sungmin said, sounding annoyed, and Ryeowook kicked his leg.
Ryeowook reached over to grab the water he’d brought with him, and he let Kyuhyun drink before he asked, “How are you feeling?”
“He hit me,” Kyuhyun said, eyebrows furrowed as he watched Sungmin get out of the tub with distrustful eyes, “and he hit you too.” He looked like he wanted to do more than to narrate the events to Ryeowook, wanted to push Sungmin back down to the tub and strangle him under the water until he was limp and unresponsive in his hands, but Sungmin wiggled his fingers as if to remind him who was the one with better reflexes.
“Yes, we’ve already established that,” Sungmin said, still cross, “I hit you and didn’t kill you, aren’t you glad about that?”
Kyuhyun stared at him, inching closer to Ryeowook. “You’re insane,” he said, “you are so screwed up I have no idea how you can sleep at night or talk to your mother. I wonder how many people you hit on a daily basis.”
“Sungmin,” Ryeowook said, warningly, and Sungmin bit back the retort that was threatening to spill out of his mouth, a long string of words that would only cause more tension. Would stalling even help? There was no use to attempt to fix this relationship without having to put up a veil of ignorance.
“Why am I in the bathroom?” Kyuhyun said, after a moment. Ryeowook stared up at Sungmin, lips thinned into a displeased smile, and Sungmin shrugged.
“It seemed appropriate at that time,” Sungmin said, smiling at Ryeowook that told him exactly what he meant.
“You’re such a liar,” someone said, and it was not Ryeowook. It was Kyuhyun.