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[FILL] late night talking
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: canon compliant, idolverse musings, diaspora feelings
Permission to remix: Yes
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When Joshua first gets the phone call, he’s a bit confused. They’re off for Chuseok, for once, all sent back home to their families. All of them who have families who are reachable by train, anyways. Jeonghan had offered to stay back (although he made it sound like it was a benefit to him, as always), but once Joshua had insisted he would be fine enough times for Jeonghan to back off, he’d changed his tune a bit. Started talking about how he was missing his sister growing up, how he might even call up his old high school friends while he had the chance. Trying to make it seem like this had been his plan all along. Joshua knows him too well for that. He’d let Jeonghan pretend, though. It wasn’t worth the effort of trying to force Jeonghan to acknowledge his soft heart. Let him pretend to be selfish, Joshua had thought. It made him feel less bad about how much he wanted Jeonghan to stay.
Joshua had wanted to go - well, was it even home, anymore? In any case, he’d wanted to go back to LA, or even have his mother fly in, just for the week. But then his grandmother had fallen sick, too sick to travel, and there was no one else to take care of her. His mother had said maybe it wasn’t the best time to visit, given that she would probably be in the hospital for the bulk of the week. Joshua was an adult, so he nodded and smiled understandingly and told his mom it was okay, her response somewhat staticky through FaceTime and thousands of miles of distance. But he’s also her child, so after she finally hung up he had to take several ragged breaths, squeezing his eyes shut to prevent any tears from falling.
It’s fine.
Really.
Minghao and Jun have gone back to China for the week, so it really just is him but - it’s fine. It’s only a week.
Which is why, once again, Joshua is confused to see his phone light up with a call from Jeonghan at 5 am. Joshua is awake this early, despite the break, because he’d never really slept at all. But Jeonghan should be sleeping in until at least noon, free from daily schedules and dance practices and recording sessions. Barring that, if he is awake at dawn it should be because he’s having a wild night on the town with his old friends. So why-
Joshua realizes that in the time he spent thinking about this his phone has gone dark. He scrambles to unlock his phone in the darkness of his room and presses down on Jeonghan’s name under “recent calls.” The phone rings exactly once before Jeonghan picks up.
“Shuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…I’m sorry, did I wake you?”
“No, no. I’ve been awake. Why are you awake?”
“We’ve been at…” Jeonghan takes a moment to count out loud, finally arriving at his answer of “seven bars. And then one house party, but that was really just for us to wind down.”
It’s at this point that Joshua realizes that Jeonghan is spectacularly drunk. He tries not to think about what it means that Jeonghan’s first instinct upon returning from a night of drunken revelry was to call Joshua about it.
“Are you still there? Go enjoy the party, you didn’t have to call me. It’s been two days.”
“It’s been two days,” Jeonghan repeats, softly.
In the background, Joshua can hear the signs of a party persisting long past its expiration date. He makes a note to head out to the convenience store to pick up a hangover drink for Jeonghan, who is grumpy when he has to stay up too late even when he isn’t also nursing a hangover. Then he remembers. Jeonghan is in Seoul, but he’s not close enough for Joshua to barge into his room at 2 pm (enough time for Jeonghan to sleep in, but just early enough that Joshua can still be a little annoying about it) and press a Condition into his palm.
“It’s strange,” Jeonghan continues, not able to see Joshua’s moment of contemplation.
“What’s strange?”
“It’s only been two days but…doesn’t it feel like much longer?”
Joshua hums in assent. He doesn’t dare to say anything else. If pressed, he would have said Jeonghan might have started to miss him five, six days in. He expected an enthusiastic reunion, of course. But not…this. Maybe he should have, though. After years of spending nearly every waking moment together (and some sleeping moments too), maybe they didn’t know how to be without being together.
“I keep turning to see your reactions to everything and then I remember you’re not there at all.”
“My reactions to everything, huh? What kind of wild night did you have, anyways?”
Jeonghan dives into a story about how his high school friends had tried to put all their drink orders on his tab, seeing as he was a “bigshot celebrity,” and how unfair Jeonghan found this seeing as half of his friends were investment bankers or lawyers and he had to share his income with twelve other people. A small part of Joshua wonders why this conversation couldn’t have waited until they’re all back at the dorms. He doesn’t usually enjoy being ambushed with phone calls, with no time to prepare for the tenor of the conversation. That part of him is vastly subsumed by the comfort Joshua feels at listening to the familiar cadences of Jeonghan’s false outrage, of the way Jeonghan laughs at Joshua’s interjections.
At some point, their conversation devolves into talking for its own sake. They repeat stories they’ve already told, gossip about the strange dance Seokmin, Minghao, and Mingyu seem to be performing around each other with no consciousness of what they’re doing, discuss their plans to take a vacation with Seungcheol and absolutely no cameras.
Eventually, Joshua can feel himself drifting off to sleep, and from the way Jeonghan’s voice has become slower and heavier he can tell Jeonghan is doing the same. He checks the time, on instinct after years of insomnia. How long did it take to fall asleep this time?
7 am. It might have been earlier, had Jeonghan actually been there to wrap his arms around Joshua. Had there been the soft sounds of Seungcheol and Wonwoo staying up far too late to game in the living room, or Mingyu shuffling around in the kitchen to make himself an elaborate late night snack.
As Joshua mutters a drowsy “Good night, Jeonghan,” and falls backwards into blissful sleep, he hears another person’s voice on the other end.
“Jeonghan, we’re heading up to bed. Who have you been talking to for all this time? We did karaoke without you.”
“I just missed my-”
That’s the last thing he hears.
Re: [FILL] late night talking
i love this progression from jihan can you please just be normal for once without doing this insane dance around what you WANT to the most tender but understated moment (ofc jeonghan is drunk and joshu is just down the worst but. we take what we can get). IT'S BEEN TWO DAYS.
i like how you fit so much backstory into these scenes and give really effective glimpses into their dynamic/history together. "He’d let Jeonghan pretend, though." can be something soooo love language... but ESPECIALLY when it comes to jeonghan... i also think it's so cool how you sort of flipped the pov of the prompt like.. joshua IS lonely but jeonghan is the one who misses him enough to call!
i'm so happy you took on this fill AND I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO MORE SEBTINS FROM YOUUUU
p.s. joshua hong who does not appreciate unexpected phone calls... that's capricorn representation babiee
Re: [FILL] late night talking
Re: [FILL] late night talking
Also, the hint of 97z is delicious hehe. I feel so warm now, thank you for sharing this!