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Yunho has just finished cooking the last dish for their dinner, when he hears it.
Shouts. Whoops. Cheers.
All coming from the barn in their backyard.
Yeosang must be very happy of something.
The taller of the two boyfriends, wipes his hands, exits the house and goes to the barn.
As he opens the door, he sees an ecstatic Yeosang.
A Yeosang who runs around while flapping his arms, rolls over the floor, jumps up and down, and then sees Yunho.
"Yunho!" he exclaims and rushes towards his boyfriend.
Said boyfriend braces himself.
And yup. Yeosang has thrown himself upon his boyfriend, hugging him, covering him with kisses, while exclaiming: "It works!"
The questioning look of Yunho is enough for Yeosang: "Oh, right, come, come, I'll show you."
The ecstatic scientist grabs the hand of his boyfriend, pulling him towards a large ... thing.
Yunho notices how that ... thing thrums with power. Strangely enough he also sees some items on a workbench nearby.
Several pieces of lead. Some gold bars.
Gold bars?
"Yeosang, those gold bars... how...?"
"Oh, those were just the earlier results. What's more important is that!"
The ecstatic shorter boyfriend points at a rusty bucket filled with roses in all kinds of colors.
Yeosang seems to notice how Yunho is confused. How can a bucket with roses be more important than some gold bars lying around in a barn?
"Let me show you, Yuyu."
He lets go of Yunho's hand, picks up one of the pieces of lead from the work bench and sets it on a platform. He walks around, picks up some scrap metal pieces, opens a device and throws the scrap metal into it. immediately the thrumming gets louder.
"For my machine to work, I need a lot of energy. And I don't think I'd get a permit to build a nuclear power plant in our back yard."
"A nuclear power plant?!? That thingy ..." Yunho points at the device, " ... is a nuclear power plant?"
"No no no," Yeosang exclaims, "it's just a matter converter. You maybe remember E=mc2? That's how this thing works. Enough energy to power that."
Yeosang points at a gun-like device. "That's my Matter Recombiner."
"Matter Recombiner?"
"Yeah, it takes all the protons, neutrons and electrons from matter, and rearranges them in whatever I want."
Yunho is even more confused. And it shows.
"The gold," Yeosang explains, "was easy. I just had to knock off some protons and neutrons from the lead atoms. And voilà: gold! But to truly recombine all those protons, neutrons and electrons ... that takes some programming..."
Yeosang picks up 2 darkened protective goggles, offers one to Yunho and pulls the other one over his eyes: "Watch this!"
Yunho makes out a screen with crosshairs, like a gun sight, with the lead piece in its centre. He sees how Yeosang walks towards the Matter recombiner, and then notices how the barrel(?) is aimed at the lead piece. Quickly he puts on the goggles.
Yeosang pushes a button.
The thrumming gets louder.
A ray appears from the barrel, hitting the piece of lead.
A flash.
And the thrumming dies down.
Yunho pulls off his goggles and gasps: "That's magic!"
"No, it's science," Yeosang counters, as he also takes off the goggles, walks towards the platform and picks up a red rose.
A red rose that moments before had been a piece of lead.
Yeosang sniffs the scent of the rose, then blushes as he almost shyly approaches his boyfriend and offers him the rose: "A beautiful rose for MY beautiful rose."
Yunho can feel his own cheeks heating up, as he accepts the flower.
Then he looks at Yeosang: soot on his cheek, hair disheveled, wearing a heavy protective apron and gloves, strangely enough leaving his defined biceps bare.
And still... still Yeosang looks ... looks...
Yunho answers: "But even this rose cannot compare to you, Sangie ..."
The little moment is shattered by a rumbling sound.
Yeosang's stomach.
Yunho sighs: "Don't tell me you forgot your lunch?"
Yeosang blush deepens.
"Oh, Sangie ..." Yunho shakes his head, kisses Yeosang and then pulls his boyfriend towards the house. "Luckily enough, dinner is ready."
After dinner is done (and the dishes too), Yunho and Yeosang sit outside on the wooden platform, surrounded by the night sky.
Snacking on grapes.
And cheese cubes, that Yunho loves.
So much, that Yeosang has once quipped: "I don't have any rivals when it comes to Yunho's feelings. Except for Gouda cheese."
Yunho feeds his boyfriend a grape, Yeosang's lips forming up around the grape and then sucking it in.
Then he takes a cheese cube for himself and munches away at it.
A nice evening after dinner.
But when Yunho picks up another cheese cube, he stares at it, instead of eating it.
"Yunho? What is it?"
"That Matter ... thingy of yours..."
"Matter Recombiner."
"Yeah, that thing. Can it also make cheese from anything else?"
"I should program it accordingly, but yeah, in principle it could also make cheese out of lead."
"Hmm..." Yunho reacts.
He finally eats the cheese cube and then lies down on his back on the platform, looking up at the night sky, his face still showing that he was thinking.
His eyes widen a little bit as he asks: "Yeosang, instead of lead, if you had a whole bunch of stones, rocks, sand and dust, could you even make cheese from that?"
"It should be possible, yeah," Yeosang answers quite sure of himself.
Yunho feeds his boyfriend another grape, and as Yeosang happily munches on the grape, he lies down, cuddling up against Yunho.
Yeosang now also stares up at the night sky.
Correction, he stares up at the full moon.
Which is made of a whole bunch of stones, rocks, sand and dust.
"Yeosang," Yunho starts, "what is the maximum range of your Matter Recombiner?"
Uh-oh...