Heyheyhey! YoSoo fam!

Sorry it took so long, lets just say I have major self confidence issues when it comes to my writings. Eventually, this story will turn out the way I want it. In the meantime I gotta pull a double shift on Black Friday and my birthday is on the 28th. Whoo~ Please enjoy!

Today was the day Wang Yo was going to be released from the hospital.

Ha Jin had gotten the call from the hospital, stating that he was well fit to recover at home and that she can pick him up later in the afternoon. In the last two days, Go Ha Jin had been working day and night to get some extra money in her pocket. Not necessarily for the massive bit of debt she had, but so she could get Wang Yo a little more settled in her home. She had taken the time when she wasn't working to clean up the place and give him his own little space since she could no longer afford a two bedroom, only a one bedroom, he was going to end up in the living room on the couch. But good for him that the couch was comfortable and Ha Jin didn't want to sell it.

It was going to be weird since he was technically a complete stranger, not to mention a stranger from the past. Still hard to believe she'll admit, but she couldn't deny herself helping him. It was her weakness to help everyone and probably get nothing in return. Just like when her friend ran off with her ex-boyfriend…

"Ha Jin!" someone called and Ha Jin suddenly straightened.

"Yes!" she called as Mari came over looking rather annoyed. Ha Jin straightened even more as the girl about her age came over, looking rather like she was about to spill the biggest rant. Ha Jin sighed, already feeling tired. She hadn't really slept for two days thanks to pulling doubles and agreeing to odd jobs that gave her instant cash.

"Why are you still here? Shouldn't you be getting off?" Mari asked, and Ha Jin blinked, looking at her watch and noticing the time.

"Oh my god, I'm going to be late!" she said, quickly excusing herself to the locker room to change out of the uniform. Mari followed close behind.

"Ya, where exactly are you off to in a hurry? Tell me it's not another job, why are you even working so hard? If it's about that debt that your douche of a boyfriend and bitch of a friend left you because I swear if I ever see them I will give them a beating so bad-"

Ha Jin tuned out the rest of Mari's rant.

Mari was coworker with her at the makeup shop. They weren't exactly friends but Mari acted like a big older sister to her. It was nice to have someone worry about her, but Ha Jin still wasn't quite over her friend's betrayal so she was still having a hard time trusting people again. She brushed out her hair in the mirror, making sure it was down this time before applying a light colored lipstick. Mari was still talking and Ha Jin grabbed her purse and a shopping bag out of her locker before shutting and locking it. Mari stopped then, noticing the bag.

"You went shopping?" Ha Jin looked down at the bag before shaking her head.

"No, just some old clothes for someone i'm seeing in the hospital," Ha Jin said, not wanting to reveal they were her ex-boyfriend's clothes that she bought him but never wore. Wang Yo looked to be about his size? She brought a few options just in case they didn't fit. Mari's expression suddenly lit up before snapping her fingers.

"The man you saved right?" Ha Jin nodded slowly. "Wow, you really are an angel from the heavens, giving him clothes and saving his life," she said looking almost amazed and Ha Jin just shook her head.

"Ah no… it's just I feel bad and-"

"He's handsome isn't he? Will I be expecting new of you guys dating soon?" Mari grinned rather unashamed of herself. Ha Jin flushed before scoffing out a laugh.

"Hey, who do you think I am? Boyfriend? He's just some guy i'm taking care of," Ha Jin retaliated before Mari rose an eyebrow.

"Take care of? … Oh my… Ha Jin, you're not seriously-" Mari started but Ha Jin was already out the door. Mari didn't need to know that she was letting a random guy live with her. God it was already bad enough as it is without that adding to it. "We're going out for Soju and discussing this later Go Ha Jin! You can't run away!" Mari shouted as she left the store and Ha Jin hurried to the hospital.

When Ha Jin arrived to Yo's room the first thing she noticed was that Wang Yo didn't look good at all. He looked like he had restless nights and didn't recover at all in the last two days she was gone. When she last talked to him he was a bit drugged up but coherent enough to speak with her. His silence didn't seem normal. She looked outside the room and saw a doctor who was just on his way to another room. "Excuse me doctor. Is he ok? He looks like he got worse," Ha Jin asked, motioning to Wang Yo's room. The doctor looked up towards Yo's room and he glanced down at some folders in his hand.

"You're his guardian correct?" She nodded. "Nothing serious happened, but his stomach wound gained an infection so we gave him antibiotics for it. However, he reacted a bit negatively and started hallucinating some," he said glancing through some papers in the folder "He recovered rather quickly, but he also refused to eat so we've been feeding him fluids," he finished, shutting the folder. Ha Jin looked worried.

"So is he even well enough to leave?" she asked rather hesitantly and the doctor merely gave her a reassuring smile.

"He'll be fine, but I think what he needs more is to leave this hospital. He's been staring out that window for the last few days like a bird trapped in a cage," he said before excusing himself to see other patients. Ha Jin thanked him as he left and headed back into Yo's room. He looked at her as she entered and his expression turned angry.

"Where have you been?" he asked, giving her a glare. She flinched slightly, feeling a twang of guilt in her chest.

"I've been busy working," she said honestly and he just huffed and looked away. She could understand his anger. She promised that she would help him out, but she left him alone for a few days. And since he was from another time… god. If it was her, she would have been so scared. She never would leave the room. She walked over and handed him the bag. "Congratulations on your release!" she said, trying to cheer up the mood a bit. He glanced at her then the bag, obvious confusion on her eyes. She merely held it out to him until he took it and looked inside. "I hope they fit, we can go shopping for right stuff later… when I save up a bit more," she said as he pulled out the shirt and pants and looked over them. "I know they aren't clothes from your… um… time? But you'll have to dress appropriately here otherwise we'll gain a lot of unwanted attention,"

"I didn't expect clothes from Goryeo," he said simply standing to head to the bathroom to change.

"Goryeo?" she asked and he just slammed the door. She sighed. She was way too tired for this, but she had to make it up to him somehow. "Goryeo…" she tilted her head, pondering. "He's from that era?" She remembered her history teacher in junior high drilling them about King Taejo who established the Goryeo dynasty. Wang Geon? Yeah, sounded right. And the next king after that was the Crown Prince then after him…? "Oh why can't I suddenly remember their names…?" she muttered.

The sound of the door opening interrupted Ha Jin from her thoughts and she turned to see Wang Yo dressed up in the clothes she provided him. He looked a bit uncomfortable but Ha Jin thought he looked pretty good. The clothes she gave him looked like they fit rather well. "Ready? Let's go!" she said looking rather pleased and Yo followed close behind.

The world outside was intimidating, but now that he was able to look at it clearly it wasn't all that bad. Just minus the steel boxes moving at high speeds and the crowds of people everywhere. Ha Jin was chatting away, talking about this and that and Yo really wasn't listening, too busy staring at the fact that there were moving pictures. What? How…? Unfamiliar music played from the air and the smell of food was also quite overwhelming. His stomach began to protest in hunger.

They stopped by a small restaurant and Yo looked at it up and down before Ha Jin grabbed him and forced him to come inside. "I'm going to buy us some takeout to hold us over until dinner, anything in particular you don't want to eat?" she asked him and Yo's mouth snapped shut as the smell of fresh food made his mouth water. His stomach really began to protest and he flinched, grabbing at it in embarrassment. Ha Jin laughed and nodded her head. "Alright, I got an idea," she said before telling him to stay where he was and don't go anywhere while she went up to order.

He stood there feeling very out of place and caught a few people staring at him. He gave them the same look he would give those beneath him at the palace and for a few people it worked. They looked away. Others just laughed in his face. The nerve! If this was the palace… he paused. That's right. This wasn't the palace. He was in the future. Here there were no palace rules, no brothers he had to compete with. There was no throne he had to claim for honor, no stars in the sky that told him his destiny. Here… in this future he could do anything he wanted.

The slap rang through the room and his skin itched at the pain.

"How could you lose an opportunity like that?! If someone tried to take what's yours you tear at his throat to protect it if you must!"

His mother's voice hissed in his head and Yo felt his chest tighten making it difficult for him to breathe. He rubbed at his chest, feeling a wave of nausea as well as intense heat. He gasped slightly, getting a few looks and he pushed through people, determined to get out of the restaurant.

"Im human too! I make mistakes!"

"No. There are no mistakes,"

What was he thinking? He could do whatever he wanted? No. He couldn't. He had his birthright to get back to. He needed to get back. He opened the door to the restaurant and started gasping on the sidewalk, trying to regain his bearings but his mother's voice rang in his ears drowning out all the other noises in the world. He wanted to scream; to pound at his chest and tell it to stop giving him so much pain, but it kept getting worse and Yo felt tears prickle in his eyes as it got harder to breathe.

"Your highness?" a familiar voice suddenly spoke through the noises in his head and it became silent. He glanced up, seeing dirt covered clothes and a haggard familiar face that looked like he had been living on the streets for too long. Yo blinked, disbelief and surprise overtaking his features as the two of them stared at one another.

"Ji Mong?" he called out quietly, not trusting his own voice. The man before him suddenly flinched and turned to run away. "Hey!" he shouted, not hearing the door to the restaurant open as Ha Jin's voice called out to him. He ran after the man, determined to catch up to him. His body was still aching from the earlier pain, but he pushed through it, determined to catch up to Ji Mong. He would be the one that he would find in the future, Ji Mong knew everything. He would know how he got here and how to get back!

He saw Ji Mong running across the street and when he tried to follow he was stopped by loud beeping as the traffic flow continued covering the clear street with those steel machines. Yo cursed and looked across the street as the sight of Ji Mong disappeared into the crowd. Damn! He was so close! Why did Ji Mong run away like that?

"Yo!" Ha Jin shouted as she ran over to him looking concerned. "Whats going on? Why did you run like that?" she asked, and he looked at her feeling exhausted and confused.

"Let's just go..." he said simply and Ha Jin nodded, deciding that he'll talk about it when he's ready. On their walk back she grabbed at his forearm, giving him a reassuring squeeze.

He pulled away.

They arrive at her house some time later and Ha Jin let him in, telling him to sit down at the table while she got their dinner set up. He sat down without a word and looked to be in deep thought. Ha Jin kept making glances at him as she took out all the food she ordered and set it down on the table so they could grab at it. He looked exhausted and tense and there were shadows under his eyes that showed he did not sleep well at all while in the hospital. She felt guilt push at her, scolding herself for not visiting daily while he was obviously suffering. What kind of hero was she if she saved his life but could not take care of him when he obviously needed help?

Even if he swears up and down that he doesn't need it.

She sat down at the table and placed a large bowl of white rice in front of him. She pushed some beef up towards him and motioned to it, wanting him to start eating. He eventually grabbed at it with his chopsticks and took a bite. She watched with baited breath as he paused for a second before his whole face shifted and his chopsticks already reaching for more meat and vegetables.

Watching him eat made her sigh in relief and she smiled at him before scolding him slightly that he was going to choke it he ate any faster. He coughed suddenly and stared at her. She laughed and he continued to eat, a bit slower. She joined him after a moment, feeling quite proud that he still had an appetite.

Later as she was cleaning up and doing some dishes she glanced back to see that he was lying on the couch staring at the TV that she turned on a moment ago. It was on SBS and playing some historical drama that she couldn't remember the name of. She wasn't a big fan of historical dramas as they were always quite depressing, and considering everything that happened in her life she needed something a little less depressing.

"How exactly does this work?" Yo finally asked as Ha Jin finished the dishes and dried her hands. She came over and realized that he had moved closer to the TV trying to understand how it worked. She shook her head.

"I can't really explain, but through technology we can watch pre-recorded things or things happening live around the world through this box," she explained and he just looked at her before staring at the screen again.

"So this… isn't real?" he asked and she shook her head.

"No, its all acting, a show that they put on for entertainment purposes," she said and he just stared as the main female in the show started crying over someone's death.

"So a box that acts as a mirror… for shows?" he said, still trying to process the information. Man, who knew it would be hard to explain how a TV worked to someone who didn't even know about electricity.

"Er… yeah, something like that," she said, switching the channel to the news so she could see what the weather was like in the morning. "Ah… it's going to rain," she said feeling good and bad about it. Rain was nice when she was at home, but heading out for the day it was terrible. Yo tensed at the mention of rain but didn't say anything about it.

"What language is this?" he said pointing to the words on the screen as it displayed some major news.

"Hangul," she said realizing that back then they used chinese characters. Hangul hadn't been created yet. "It's actually simple, i'll teach you some of the basics later if you want," she said and he just moved his attention to the bookshelf by her TV. Some of it was old textbooks from school, but he picked one up anyway and started browsing through it. "Well, I have to work early tomorrow, so i'll let you rest, you can use the TV using these buttons," she said, showing him how it worked. He nodded, but seemed more entertained by her textbook. "You'll be sleeping in here, because there is no other room, and we'll have to lay down a few ground rules so we're both comfortable alright?" she said.

"If you're worried about me going into your room, don't flatter yourself, you're not that pretty," he said and Ha Jin scoffed.

"Wow, you really are something," she said before heading to get him a spare blanket and pillow for the couch. He had switched the TV back to the historical drama, probably to have something familiar in the background and she placed the pillow and blanket on the couch. "Good Night," she said, heading to her room and shutting the door.

She laid in bed moments later, hearing the soft hum of the TV but nothing more. She was used to living alone and now that she had someone living with her, it felt kind of weird. There wasn't anything she could do about it now but hope for the best. She got up a few moments later to get herself a glass of water and paused when she saw Yo passed out on the couch. The book that he was reading was on the floor and his hand was near it like he had passed out trying to read it. She moved over to turn the TV off and put his arm back up when he shifted on the couch, moving to lay on his back. She set the blanket over him then and glanced at his sleeping face.

He had a lot of stress over the last couple of days so she was going to try and make sure that he didn't need to feel like that anymore. No one deserves that. "Sleep well," she whispered with a smile before sneaking back to her room and shutting the door.

Couldn't time go any faster?

Ha Jin kept glancing at her watch and clicking her heels against the tile with impatience. The store wasn't as busy because of the rain and Ha Jin didn't want to leave Wang Yo alone in her home any longer than he needed to. She asked if he needed anything before he left and all he did was ask her about the park that she saved him at. It was an odd question, but Ha Jin took out her phone and showed him the map of how to get there.

"We can go there one day if you want," she said and he shook his head staring at the map with great intensity. Perhaps she should invest in getting him a phone…?

"Ha Jin! Why are you so impatient today?" Mari asked as she came over, snapping Ha Jin out of her thoughts.

"Sorry, I have some things to take care of, so I'm a bit on edge," she said. Not true, but she was worried since Wang Yo didn't know anything. She did her best to explain everything to him like how to use the microwave if he was hungry for some leftovers and thankfully he was aware of the shower although he still seemed amazed by the pipe system. She did leave him a meal to eat later, but still…

"Sounds to me like it's a new pet or something," Mari said and Ha Jin just laughed, shaking her head.

"No, just… things going on, you know," Ha Jin said, trying to will herself to relax. Mari seemed understanding and before she asked any more questions a customer came through the door and she ran over all smiles and customer service friendly. Ha Jin rubbed the back of her neck and glanced at her watch again.

Just a few more hours… everything will be fine.

She ran home faster than she ever did before with a strange excitement as she carried a bag of groceries. Tonight she was going to have Wang Yo try the ramen that she mentioned to him last time in the hospital. She was excited and eager to have him try her cooking. Which was weird of her to think, but Ha Jin didn't want to disappoint her guest. When she walked into her house she noticed right away that the front door was unlocked. Odd.

"Yo! I'm home!" she shouted inside putting her groceries in the kitchen. She was greeted with silence and she looked around. Immediately she noticed that the TV was on and the food she left him was picked at. He seemed like he was still here but as Ha Jin looked around, she saw that he was nowhere in sight. Panic filled in her chest and she went outside looking for him. He didn't take a walk did he? Was he lost? "What do I do?" she muttered pulling out her phone and debating who she should call and what should she do. Then she remembered that he had asked her about that park earlier. "He didn't…" but he might have.

She started running.

Annnnd a cliffhanger. Oops. Lots of things going on in this chapter. Who knows whats going to happen next~