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Both of them were quiet, too quiet. Dokja looked at the sheets rather than Joonghyuk's face who was sitting next to his small figure on his bed. After some suffocating silence, Joonghyuk decided to speak up first.
"...How are you feeling?"
He didn't get a reply, after another long pause Dokja muttered with a dejected voice.
"Sorry. I have troubled you once again."
"Kim Dokja. Can you turn into your… human form?"
He cautiously asked, making sure he didn't cross his boundaries, Dokja looked confused, if he was in human form, he'd probably be raising an eyebrow.
"Why? You dislike it." He replied in a flat tone.
"That's not it. I am just not used a literal bird talking." Joonghyuk pondered over it for a moment, adding a "Please."
He didn't get any reply but silence, he sighed taking the silence as a 'no' but then heard a 'poof' ,he snapped his head to see the beautiful yet tired man.
"...Joonghyuk?"
"Huh?"
Ah. He zoned out again.
"...Are you disappointed? I can turn back int-"
"No."
"No?"
"Just stay. Until you heal."
"But-"
"Kim Dokja."
"Okay. Okay."
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Joonghyuk was taking care of Dokja's wounds one by one, carefully and attentively while the latter kept wincing in pain and hissing once in a while.
"Stop. Don't move."
"It hurts!"
"Of course it does, you fool. Why didn't you turn into your human form and run away?"
"... I was too weak."
And Joonghyuk shut his mouth, he really felt guilty and responsible for Dokja's outcome. It seemed like Dokja read his mind because he spoke up again.
"I already said it wasn't your fault."
"But I-"
"You saved me again."
"You wouldn’t have to be saved if I wouldn't have let you go."
"What's done is done, it's okay."
"... Still. I am sorry." Yoo Joonghyuk mumbled.
"If you're sorry, cook me those dumplings you made!" Kim Dokja grinned.
"You can eat them?" Yoo Joonghyuk looked at him, puzzled.
"... I am a human too." Kim Dokja shrugged.
"Right." Yoo Joonghyuk huffed.
Dokja suddenly moved a bit and he felt his wing cramping, he let out a screech.
"Ow ow ow!"
"Don't move you fool." Yoo Joonghyuk scolded the other.
"Stop calling me a fool!" The fool scowled.
"You are a fool." Yoo Joonghyuk said, deadpan.
"You are a sunfish." He huffed.
"What?" Yoo Joonghyuk stared at him with a quizzical expression.
"You look like a sunfish when you pout and scowl." Kim Dokja shrugged.
"And you'd probably look like a squid when your wings are hidden in human form." Yoo Joonghyuk smirked like an infuriating bastard he was.
"Hey!"
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As some time passed and Dokja started healing, Joonghyuk thought he had gotten a new companion who'd stick around but...
"Say that again." Joonghyuk literally growled. He was holding Dokja's wrist, his grip tightening, his frown deepening. Did Dokja really just-
"I am leaving." Dokja said once again.
"Why?" Joonghyuk wondered if he did something but he really couldn't figure it out.
"I have fully healed, I have overstayed and I know how you are trying hard to be cautious around Mia so that she doesn't find out my human form."
"No one's telling you to go and I was going to sit and talk with Mia later." It was true.
"But I can't stay, I don't want you to mess up your relationship with her." Dokja shook his head.
"It won't and why can't you stay? Is there someone waiting for you?" Yoo Joonghyuk’s expression darkened as he asked.
"No but-" Kim Dokja shook his head, trying to release himself.
"Then stay." Yoo Joonghyuk said in a firm voice.
"I can't." Kim Dokja said dejectedly.
"Why?" Yoo Joonghyuk scowled.
"Who am I to you? What am I to you for me to stay?"
"My companion."
"Huh...?"
"Stop being such a stubborn fool."
"But..."
"You said if we meet again I can wish for something. I wish for you to stay here."
"That's cheating-"
"Ahem."
"...If you are done, I want to eat. I am hungry." Mia looked at the two men and said, totally unfazed.
Dokja freaked out and Joonghyuk froze, looking akin to a gaping sunfish.
"Mia, this… Dokja- no Guwon..."
"I know, I have known for a while now." She replied nonchalantly.
"You...did?"
Mia nods. "It's pretty cool, but I am hungry, oppa can we discuss this later?"
"Right…?"
“Oh now you ave no reason to leave so don’t you dae go my oppa mopped!”
“Yoo Mia.”
“Heehee!” She ran away leaving the two bamboozled.
Joonghyuk dragged Dokja along with him, muttering about not letting him go and feeding him and that he was too skinny and what not.
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Who would have known the snow white bird would find such loving companions by ending up in a park?
Definitely not Dokja.
Definitely not Joonghyuk either.
An accident but one with a happy conclusion regardless.
“Kim Dokja, did you devour those sunflower seeds again?”
“Uhhh about that-”
“Kim. Dokja.”
“Eek!”
"Quit flying around the house, transform back! Hey! Hey!”
Yoo Mia watched, well she sure couldn't have predicted this either.
But her oppa had a companion now and who was she to complain to?
Maybe in another universe, they are companions too in some way and maybe they would go through hardships and separation and reunite in the end.
But in this universe, it's a happy ending.
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