My last story (that I wrote randomly ages ago and never posted)

Note: Story is probably bad. Well they all kind of are...


   The soft patter of the rain echoed around the dilapidated estate. Minho hated taking shortcuts but he was an hour late for practice thanks to Changmin holding him up. But he felt couldn't leave him in the state he was in. He had been crying his eyes out again. SM keeping him away from his JYJ hyungs was really getting to him again. Yunho didn't know how to calm him down. He had always been awkward around Changmin whenever he broke down. Yunho preferred to bottle up his emotions when other people were around.
  The rain got heavier and Minho cursed himself for not bringing an umbrella. Key had reminded him this morning that it was going to rain but had he listened to him?! He pulled his hood down further so that it covered his eyes and pressed on.
   As he rounded the corner he noticed a small alley cutting through the estate. It would lead him out two streets away from their practice room and cut 15 minutes out of the journey. Without a second thought he darted into the dark, damp alley. He looked up to the sky and noticed how little of it he could see. The buildings either side were so close together the rain wasn't even getting in. He lowered his hood and continued walking briskly into the alley.
   Suddenly two pairs of strong hands grabbed onto his shoulders and pulled him backwards. He let out a shocked gasp as he slammed into the wall. His breath was knocked out of him as a large fist swung around and connected with his stomach.
   "What are you doing?!" a female voice shouted out from the end of the alley. The figure ran towards the two large ones in front of him.
   "Ah, we were just...eh..." one of the began.
   "He's in our territory!!" the other butted in.
    The new arrival bent down and looked into Minho's crumpled face as he held his stomach and tried to regain his breath. "A pretty boy, eh? Well you know what boss said to do if we find any around here," she smirked as she beckoned the two men forward and stepped back.
   "Yes Ma'am!" they replied and immediately began to beat Minho to a pulp.
   "Minho?" another voice called out from a distance. A large shadow cast across the mouth of the alley as the owner of that voice paused and gazed into the alley.
   "Got a problem?!" the woman spat at the tall man now walking slowly towards the action.
   "MINHO!!" Changmin roared as he realised it was his friend being beaten. He dived forward brandishing the umbrella he had been carrying and whacking one of the men.
   The man stumbled backwards and looked towards the woman his eyes wide, "What do we do now, Lily?"
   Just as she was about to answer Changmin had pulled the other guy off of Minho and pushed him into a dumpster. The man shouted out in pain as his back crunched against the metal. He wobbled up and began limping away from the scene closely followed by the other man.
   "Minho..Minho..Talk to me! Are you ok?!" Changmin fretted as he bent down to his dongsaeng and check out his badly bruised face.
   Minho's eyes peeled open and he smiled up to his hyung. "What are you doing here?" he spluttered as some blood came out with his words.
   "I noticed you didn't have an umbrella. And I didn't want you getting sick," he smiled back weakly.
   Changmin froze. He suddenly felt a cold object up against his neck. The knife imprinted on his sun kissed skin as it pressed harder into him.
   "Oh look at the brave rescuer. In need of rescuing now, aren't we?" Lily maliciously laughed out.
   Changmin gulped and closed his eyes, willing himself not to shake.
   All of a sudden Changmin threw his head back causing Lily to stumble backwards, the knife falling from her grasped. He leaped upwards to snatch the knife before it hit the ground. He then stepped forward and rammed the blade deep into her chest. She dropped to her knees, wide eyed and looked up into her killers eyes. His hard expression sent a pang of guilt into the fire building up within her. She would have screamed, but she was in so much shock all she could do for her last few seconds was stare into those piercing brown eyes until she collapsed on the ground, spilling blood all around her.
   Changmin grabbed Minho and dragged him upwards. He turned around and helped his friend climb onto his back. After a minute of trying to get Minho balanced on him, he began to trudge forward out of the dark alley not looking back at the pool of blood that had flown out from the lifeless body and the blue eyes that will haunt his nights from this day forth.





Yeah...So that's my last crappy story. How appropriate that I actually properly die this time! ^_^ (Note: It was originally Minho who was supposed to die, then I changed my mind to Changmin but then I decided not to upset anyone and just kill off me!...again) No more this year due to exams and etc. But you never know..I might randomly write one while I'm pissed off at the amount of pointless information I must ram into my head.

Shattered

I have no idea where this one came from...I was in an odd, melancholic type mood~

Panicked thoughts erupted through Changmin's mind as he lay on the cold hard ground, "I can't breathe!! Why can't I breathe?!!!"
A sharp wind blew his brown hair to the left and sent a shiver down his otherwise motionless body. His dark eyes were wide and darting around the scenery. His brain couldn't comprehend what had happened. He didn't even know where he was. All was dark and unrecognisable.
Using most of his strength he tried to lift his hand up slowly. An agonising pain struck him and he stopped immediately. His hand now resting back on the empty ground he managed to inhale some air.
After a while his breathing became more frequent and steady. He slowly relaxed. This was not how he had ever pictured his death but lying paralysed on the hard ground surrounded by dark blurs was how it was going to be.
Slowly the darkness around him began to fade away as a sharp light slowly consumed the place around his frozen body.
"This is it.." he thought to himself, slightly disappointed but accepting his fate.
A warm hand grasped onto his cold one. It sent its warmth through his body and he tried to smile at whatever it was who was taking him from this mess. He could hear a muffled sound off in the distance as if someone was calling him. Little by little the sound got louder and louder as his head cleared up enough to allow him to hear.
"Sir...Sir...Are you ok?" the voice cried out.
"Why did this creature, this angel sound so worried? None of that matters anymore," he wondered.
"Sir....I hit you with my car...The ambulance is on its way! Sir...Can you speak to me?!" it said just as loudly as before but it seemed to scream to Changmin's ears.
He lay there, paralysed, as the sirens shrieked out in the background.
He lay there, paralysed, as he realised it wasn't death he faced.
He lay there, paralysed, as the world moved on without him.

Training~ M&D oneshot

The blood pumped out slowly, pouring into his mouth as he drank the warm substance. Feeling it slide down his throat he shivered slightly at the new feeling.
"That's enough, Jungmo," a voice called from the shadows.
Jungmo reluctantly pulled away from the shaking woman and looked over at the figure standing still just out of sight of his victim.
"Good. Now close your mouth, you're dripping blood onto the ground," the voice sniffed, disgusted. "You don't want to leave a mess behind. Or miss an opportunity for more blood."
The owner of the voice stepped out from the shadows. His dark hair shone in the moonlight as glanced down at his new apprentice crouching beside the terrified woman.
"And Jungmo, try and get a vein next time!" he sighed.
"Sorry.." Jungmo mumbled back, his hands shaking from the fresh blood now within him.
"Now," his creator said as he bent down to face the shaking woman. "I'm Heechul. I'm going to finish up this job for you tonight." He smiled wickedly and dived onto the woman, his pearl white fangs ripping open her neck and draining her of all the blood left within her.
"Hyung!" Jungmo shouted. "I thought I was going to drain someone tonight!"
Heechul straightened up, licking his blood covered lips. "Some other time, maybe..." he smirked as he patted Jungmo's head.
"Some selfish creator you are.." Jungmo muttered angrily under his breath.
A hand swiftly flicked through the air and smacked Jungmo on the head. He shouted out in protest.
"Are you forgetting about vampire's amazing hearing?" Heechul chuckled as he hit his dongsaeng again. "Come along now."
Jungmo clambered up, rubbing his head where Heechul's hand had smacked. "You know if I was still human I'd have a lump where you just hit me!" he called out angrily.
"You should thank me then!" Heechul smirked back as he drifted off into the night, his reluctant dongsaeng following suit.

Linseung oneshot~

~Down. Down.~

 ~I was falling.~ 

 ~Into the darkness.~ 

 ~It engulfed me in its clasp. I couldn't breathe. It had taken me too far this time. I can never come back from here.~ 

 ~~ 

   As Hyunseung rested his head once again on the solid floor all the memories of what had past flooded his mind. It was as it a switch was flipped and everything came back. What had happened that night. What he had done. And what he hadn't.

  A soft groan echoed out between his chapped lips. This was the last time, he promised himself. Never again, never again... 

 ~~ 

   "Oppa, what's wrong?" she called anxiously. He met her worried gaze but his blank eyes merely passed by her as if she wasn't really there. "I'm calling the doctor!"

    She leapt up from the ground where she had knelt down and ran for the phone. She picked it up and cursed under her breath as no sound emitted from the device.

   "The phone's out..Must be the electricity or something.." she mumbled to herself as she tried to flick on the light. "Yep, nothings working!"

   She glanced back down to the figure still lying on the ground. He hadn't moved an inch. He just lay there unresponsive staring blankly around the walls of the kitchen he had spent the past year in. This time as his eyes slid to hers they focused. He gasped and outstretched his hand towards his girlfriend.

 
  "Linn.." his raspy dry voice called out. Linn ran towards him and grabbed the outstretched hand, squeezing it tight.

   "Oppa..Oppa tell me what happened. Why are you like this?" she questioned, her eyes searching his glazed orbs.

   "Y-you don't remember...?"

   She shook her head and he collapsed backwards onto the cold hard floor. She screamed out as his breathing became more laboured. She began to pound on his chest then stopped suddenly. He wasn't having trouble breathing. He was crying.

 ~~ 

   "O-oppa.." she choked out. He opened his eyes a fraction and the raw eyes met her tear filled ones.

   "I'm not even able to cry any more.." he whispered out.

   "What happened? Why are you crying?" she sobbed out.

   He placed his hand on her face and began stroking her cheek, wiping every tear that fell. "I..I can't.." he mumbled as he tore his eyes away from her once again.

   "Let's go see the doctor. I think there is something wrong with you," she said as she cleared her throat. Placing a hand behind his back she helped him to his feet. He stood there unsteadily at first but she kept a firm grip so he wouldn't fall. Eventually he had composed himself enough to slowly limp forward.

 ~~

   The door slid open with a slight groan as if it was a chore for it to open itself to let the two people out. Linn frowned. The door had never made that sound before, she thought. Soon her attention was drawn back to her boyfriend as he stumbled out the doorstep.

   "Oppa be caref-"

   "I'm fine.." he cut her off.

   "I just thought..Never mind!" she tried to smile but gave up after seeing the tired weak expression on Hyunseung's face. The bright sunlight lit up his features and made it obvious to her that she was doing the right thing. He needed a doctor.

   "Let's go," she said half to herself.

 ~~

   Linn gasped and turned to face her pale boyfriend.

   "W-what's going on-n..?" she exclaimed.

   The streets were completely empty of people. The shops were empty of stock. The path and road seemed old. It was worn and even cracked in places. The sun glowed bright red in the sky and the sky was pale white even though there was no clouds.

   "Oppa..? Wha- How..?" she panicked as she spun around and buildings started to grow in front of her very eyes. They swarmed up around them.

   She felt like she was being suffocated. The air had grown thin and her eyes were going out of focus. She grasped Hyunseung tightly.

  "I'm so sorry.." he repeated over in her ear.

   "Wae?" she chocked out. "What is this p-place?"

   "This..this is my nightmare," he swallowed hard before continuing. "I- I'm trapped here since.."

   She looked up at him and felt her last breath approaching. A force was dragging her backwards away from this place.
  

   "...since I killed you..." he whispered out as his girlfriend collapsed in his lap just as she did that night. The night they both died.

   "I'm in hell.." he cried out as her body disappeared from his hands. He lay back on the cold ground once again and waited for the nightmare to begin again.
~

Shauna unnie's birthday story!! ^_^

(First of all let me apologise..I think it's too short for my daebak unnie! Also I don't really know Big Bang that much so excuse me if the characters are nothing like the real people! >.< )

HAPPY BIRTHDAY UNNIE!!!!! TAEYANG LOVES YOU SO MUCH!!!! Your now old~ ;P You can legally drive and have sex! (Taeyang is very pleased!)

Enjoy~

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They came in the night. Their shadows creeped past the barricades, gently caressing the walls. Not a sound could be heard from them, not even a whisper of a breath.
A dog howled in the distance as the half milky white moon lit their path.
Tonight was the night.
~
A pair of gloved hands pressed onto the pane of glass. They slid down soundlessly and pinched the window frame. After a moment they withdrew from their position and the figure nodded at the dark shapes surrounding it.
A taller figure emerged and they produced a small silver object from behind. There was a small *click* sound as the silver object emitted a bright green beam. The window slid open and the figure placed the silver object back.
The first figure then smoothly climbed in and disappeared into the large building.
~
Ten minutes later a loud siren went off. All the light surrounding the large building flickered on. The four figures who had stayed patiently waiting outside looked around, confused. They were all clothed in black to keep a low profile but with the lights on they stuck out like a sore thumb.
"Go!" one of them shouted and they all split up. One dived into the window, closely followed by the tallest, the other two stealthily ran back past the barricades and out of sight.
~
"Forth floor!" the smaller man muttered as he reached the lift. He impatiently pressed the button repeatedly as he waited for the doors to open.
"No!" the taller man shouted, rounding the corner to see the door slid open. He dived forward and knocked the smaller man in through the open door to the stairway.
"What are you-" he hissed before the taller man put a hand over his mouth. Both of them lay crumpled on the ground as they heard voices from outside.
"Hyung.." one of them whined, "Why do we have to leave at this time? Aren't we not supposed to be looking for the intruders..?"
Jonghyun walked past the door, dragging Key behind him. Neither of them noticed the two men tangled on the ground.
"Somebody else will find them!" Jonghyun replied impatiently. "Now come ON!! Let's have some fun!"
Their laughter faded into the background as the hurried away.
The small man leaped from the ground and straightened himself up. "Thanks.." he mumbled.
"GD, have you forgotten everything we were taught in training?" the taller man chuckled while he picked himself up.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Never take the lift because someone could be in it, or trap you in it..I got it TOP!" GD replied, waving his hands in the air. "Now let's go!"
They both began sprinting up the stairs with their eyes fixed on the door marked four.
~~~
"Take my hand," he whispered gently.
She stood there, wide eyed. She never thought that this would actually become a reality. They had talked about it so much but she had given up on the idea of it working out.
As the sirens blared out around them, Onew stumbled back into the room. "Umm..My bad!" he mumbled apologetically. "I kind of tripped and well..."
"No time for this," at this point the man grabbed the girl's hand and began to run for the nearest exit. "Come on Shauna!"
"TAEYANG!!" she squealed in fright at his sudden action.
~
Taeyang ran out from the dark room that had imprisoned Shauna for the past few months and into the blinding light of the corridor. His fingers pressed tightly around hers as they rounded the corner.
"WAIT!" Onew screamed behind them. "Wrong way.."
Taeyang threw his eyes up into the air and all three turned back.
"Not so fast!" spat out an annoyed voice a little further up the corridor. Sica stood there with her hands on her hips and an angry expression on her face. "Where do you think you're going with MY best friend?!!"
Onew screamed as she lunged forward, her nails digging into his shirt.
"Out of my way dubu!!" she snapped.
Onew continued to stand there shielding the other two. "Back...second left..." he muttered in-between Sica's screams of annoyance.
Taeyang jumped into action, he nodded quickly and the two made their way back down the corridor. The sound of Sica's shrieks echoing behind them.
"Uh oh.." Shauna whispered and stopped dead in her tracks.
"What?" Taeyang replied, concerned, then followed he gaze to see what now faced them.
~
"AHHHHH!!!!" Shindong yelled out as he ran towards the couple.
"What is-" Shauna began.
*BANG* The second door on the left burst open just as Shindong was running by it. It swung open and knocked him sidewards. A dark shape flew out from the doorway and kicked Shindong making him fall flat on the ground. The sledgehammer he was carrying smacked on the floor beside him, the wooden handle hitting his head and knocking him out cold.
"For a big guy that was easy!" GD laughed.
"Now, what trouble have you guys gotten into?" TOP smirked at the couple.
"Blame a certain clumsy person who helped us get in here in the first place.." Taeyang muttered displeased.
"What? Did he trip over and set of the alarm?" GD asked through giggles.
"Probably.." Taeyang shrugged.
"Come on, let's get out of here!" Shauna said, jolting the men back to reality. They all nodded and rushed into the door to the stairs.
~
A hand flew out and punched TOP in the cheek with a loud crunching sound. All four people stopped and spun around only to see Heechul jump and land the other side of them.
"What the..?!" TOP mumbled as he spat out a bit of blood.
"I now posses the almighty ninja power of the Dark Purple Line Club! You cannot defeat me!" Heechul cried out. He was wide eyed and hopping up and down with his fists in the air, refusing to take his gaze of the four.
Taeyang ran forward and Shauna squealed as Heechul's fist connected with his stomach. He fell down, gasping for air. The other two men snapped into action, TOP aimed for Heechul's face as GD went for his stomach. TOP's fist was blocked as quick as lightning and with Heechul's other hand he grabbed GD's foot and pull him forward, sending him down the stairs with a crash. Every punch TOP sent at him was quickly deflected and he hopped closer to Shauna.
She screamed as the deranged man edged next to her. Suddenly he fell forward and stumbled across the banister, falling down four floors and smashing onto the ground below. Taeyang smiled up from the floor as he pulled his leg back beside him and got up. Shauna ran into his arms and he held her close as she began shaking.
"Don't worry," he soothed, "we will get out of here now."
GD rejoined them slowly, hopping on one foot. "Think I might have broken my foot," he cursed angrily. TOP leaned down and his injured friend climbed onto his back.
~
"Someone's down there," GD whispered and they all stopped in the middle of the second staircase.
"Who?" Taeyang whispered back, readying himself for another battle as Shauna peered over the banister.
"Some red haired guy..." she trailed off.
Taemin stood there at the bottom of the stairs, looking closely at Heechul on the ground. "He's going to be pissed when he finds out someone broke his robot!" he tutted before leaving again.
"Well that makes sense," TOP sighed.
~
The four finally reached the ground floor. They edged their way carefully over to the door. Taeyang peeked out and gestured to the rest that it was all clear. They all sneaked out, trying to get to the exit as quick as possible.
Taeyang ran forward and grabbed the handle of the front door. "Locked!" he cursed.
"Well what did you expect?" they spun around to see a bored Changmin sitting behind the main desk, spinning around in the chair.
He stood up just as Taeyang made his way towards him. "Nahh.." he shrugged. "The kitchen being open and empty is more important to me than bothering to fight with you." With that he left the smaller man standing there confused and walked off to get food.
"Never mind him.." Shauna rolled her eyes. "He's always been weird. Now! How did you get in here in the first place?"
"The window!" the three men all cried in unison.
~
"Yah!" a voice called sharply. "What are you doing at my window?!"
Jaejoong climbed in from the outside. "Find your own window next time! I can't have everyone know that my Yunnie takes off the second lock on this one or he'll get in trouble and I will not be a funny bunny, honey!" He marched out of the room as the others exchanged weird looks.
"Okkk..." TOP broke the silence. "He'a weirder than GD!"
"Yah!" his injured friend playfully hit him on the shoulder.
"Let's go," Taeyang chuckled.
~
"Where the hell.." GD couldn't finish off his sentence as the black jeep pulled up in front of them.
"Of course somebody had to get a bit carried away!" Daesung smirked as jumped out and helped TOP put the injured GD into the passengers seat before clambering back in followed by TOP.
"You ok?" Taeyang whispered, looking into Shauna's moonlit face.
She nodded slowly. "Now I am."
He smiled and wrapped his arms carefully around his yeobo's waist and kissed her softly on her lips. They both then climbed into the back of the jeep and held each other close as they drove off.
~~~~~~~~~~~

Asthenia ~ Part Two

Asthenia ~ Part Two

(I got annoyed with what I had written so I decided to split off the bit I was happy with and continue with the other part, trying to improve it somehow...Maybe I should really plan a fanfic before I start writing it..?)




It had been two weeks since that nightmare but Minho still heard the dark malevolent voice echo in his head and the soft whimpers seemed to never leave his mind. Linn knew something was wrong. If he seemed bad on the first day, the next one was awful! He had totally switched off. Drew away from everything. Something had happen. And Linn had to know what.
One dark Tuesday night she decided to approach him. She knew where he would be, it was where he spent most of his time. He sat upon a moss-covered step that led up to the abandoned caretakers cabin. It was a secluded spot. Perfect.

~~

"Minho..?" she called gently. He didn't look up. He knew it was her, she sometimes visited the spot, knowing he would be there with his usual distant look in his eyes. "Come with me."
He glanced up at her, slightly taken aback. Usually she would just sit with him as he tried to recall all the memories, or maybe they were delusions. Linn stretched out her hand in front of him and patiently waited for him to decide.
Eventually his warm fingers grasped around her palm and he stood up. Nodding at her slowly he mumbled "Where..?"
"You'll see."
He raised an eyebrow and she just smiled and dragged him away from his personal prison.

~~

"I've been researching," she informed him. He cocked his head to the side and she quickly added, "You."
"Oh.." he whispered.
"Yes. It seems Choi Minho is a difficult person to come by. But not impossible! After a long time searching I eventually found this."
She placed a small bundle of sheets in his hands. He looked down at them closely. Snapping his head up he shouted out, "Where did you get this?!"

~~

"You really know the best people to hang out with, don't you?!" I spat sarcastically at him. I shouldn't be this hard on him. I know I shouldn't. But I couldn't stop myself. All this anger that had built up from..
"Hyung, I'm so so sorry," he gasped between his silent tears. I hadn't noticed he was crying. I should have. Now I've just made it worse.

~~

"I'm s-sorry," she whispered, taken aback by his sudden anger. "I didn't think it was that.."
"It is!" he snapped. "It is...."
At that he dropped the papers on the ground and ran from the room.

I have to get out. I have to find him.

"Yah!" Linn shouted after him. "You're a B5 remember!"
But her warning was too weak to penetrate his determined mind. As soon as he reached the metal gates that barred the facility from the rest of the world he realised that this wasn't going to be as easy as he had thought. He leaped forward onto the smooth large bars and began the slow process of climbing up.
Shouts from not too far away started ringing out but he ignored them and continued. A loud siren rang out and he fell to the ground as the electricity switch was turned on.
He lay motionless as the guards gathered around him.
"Stupid kid.." one of them muttered.

~~
"Minho oppa!" Linn gasped. It was the first time in two weeks she had seen him. Ever since the day he tried to run he had disappeared from everyone's knowledge. That's just how things work here. Nobody asks questions, nobody thinks at all.
Linn ran forward and stopped just short of him. She looked up into the brown eyes and the worry that had led to sleepless nights for her resurfaced. His eyes were blank, distant, confused.
"Umm..me?" he mumbled slowly pointing a slender finger at his chest. "Minho?"
He glanced down at the blond girl in front of him.

~~

"MINHO!!!" he screamed. Who was he? And why was he screaming like that?

Asthenia ~ Part One

Linnie~ Welcome home! ;P

(This is named after a song none of you know. It's by Blink-182 and I listened to it a lot while writing this so I thought I might as well call it that! Plus I googled it and it means "weakness" which I think is pretty cool.~)

"Wake up!" the loud voice boomed as a hand slapped the sleeping boy's head. The boy groaned and turned over, not wanting to get up.  

"Hyung!!" the voice had screamed. 

He jumped from his bed and looked around tentatively. The others shot him confused looks. 
"What the hell is up with the new guy?" one of them mumbled to another who shrugged apathetically and walked off. 

~~ 

As the hall emptied the boy stood there in a daze.  

Was he crying?

Endless thoughts of what had happened racked his brain but no matter how hard he tried he couldn't remember. At all. He wasn't even sure if there was anything to remember in the first place. But something felt odd. Different. And he would get sudden flashes of images in his head. Ones that left him in a state of shock.

~~ 

 "Aren't you supposed to be going somewhere?" a voice called gently from behind him.
He whipped his head around to see a blond girl standing there, hands on her hips and a curious expression on her face. 

"Umm.." he stumbled across any response. "Am I?" 

The girl stared at him in shock. "You-you do realise what kind of a place this is?" she exclaimed. "You can't just wander aimlessly around here. They won't like that at all." 

"Who?" he wondered.
Again she shot him that look, the one that made him feel like an alien on a distant planet. "Are you serious?!!" His innocent confused eyes met hers and she took a step back. "Omo. You really don't know.."  

Sharp footsteps were audible approaching them. The boy looked past the blond girl to where they were coming from. The sound seemed strangely familiar, like he had heard it in a dream.
The girl gasped and grabbed his arm, pulling him off down the corridor away from the footsteps. 

After a few minutes spent running from hall to hall the girl slid open a door and darted into the dark room, pulling the boy with her. They stood there for a moment, gasping for breath and listening out for the footsteps. When they heard nothing they both sighed with relief. 

"You..you're the new guy right?" she said looking up into his deep, lost looking, brown eyes.
"I..I must be..I can't really remember.." he frowned. 

She gazed at him curiously. "What do you mean you can't remember?" 

"I woke up here and well..I don't know how I got here or what happened before..Just some snaps of what might have.." he whispered as the reality of his situation finally hit him. 

The girl bit her lip. She had heard this same story before, more than once. 

~~ 

"W-what's your name? Do you know that much?" she finally broke the silence that had formed.
The boy paused, racking his brain for a response. Suddenly she noticed that his eyes had began to tear up and he was clearly fighting hard to keep himself under control. His hands began to shake and he shook his head. 

"Oh.." she felt pity on the boy. He was a bit older than her but she could see that he was lost and needed help. She looked up into his glazed eyes and smiled brightly. "Don't worry," she soothed. "I'll help you remember." 

He couldn't help but to smile down at her. He hadn't known this girl for an hour and already she was willing to help him. He was relieved but part of him felt as if he might not want to know what had happened. 

"Thank you," he whispered after taking time to calm himself down. 

"No problem," she beamed. "Oh, and I'm Linn by the way." 

~~ 

"This is the dorm you woke up in, right?" Linn called out to the boy following close behind her.
He looked around slowly and then nodded. 

"Yes, there is where I woke up." He pointed to the only bed in the room that didn't have neatly folded sheets.
"Could have guessed that.." Linn muttered. "You always have to fold your bed sheets neatly like the rest. Or..well..never mind about that.." 

He looked at her curiously, wondering whether he really should be curious about what it was she was keeping from him.
She glanced back and noticed his furrowed brows. Smiling brightly to try lighten the mood she called, "Well, let's see if there's any clues here to who you are!"
He nodded in reply and joined her in searching the bed and it's surroundings. 

Suddenly he gasped. Linn turned around quickly and dropped the book she had been leafing through as she noticed a small piece of paper in the boy's shaking hands.
"Yes.." he whispered. "This is it." His grip on the paper loosened and it fell downwards. 

Linn reached out and grabbed it before it fluttered to the ground. The paper read:

~Choi Minho~ 

~9/12/91~ 

~Dorm 7~ 

~Full term B5~ 

 "Oh."
That's all she could say. 

Minho, Choi Minho. 

Her suspicion had been confirmed, he was like those few others. She stared at the paper again. 

"B5.." she sighed. 

~~ 

"MINHO!!!" he screamed. But I couldn't get to him. Not in time. 

~~ 

"W-what does that m-m-mean?" he stuttered pointing to the B5.
Linn looked up into his dark eyes. She gave him a weak smile. She couldn't lie. 

"It means...It means.." she took a large breath before continuing. "It means that you are being held here. That they can use whatever..force..is necessary to keep you here..." She trailed off. 

"What happened?" Minho thought aloud. "All I remember is the screams.." 

Suddenly his arms shot out and his large hands clasped around Linn's arms. His nails slightly digging into her, he pulled her over directly in front of him. "Help me," his voice was filled with desperation. "Something happened. Something bad. I have to know what!" 

She tried to pull back gently from his tightening grip. "I will." 

"Promise?" he almost shouted at her. 

"I p-promise." 

"Thank you." 

Before Linn could break free from him he pulled her into a hug. She stood there for a moment in shock as his arms held her close. After a while he let go and looked down in sudden embarrassment from his rash actions. 

"Sorry.." he muttered quietly.  

~~~~~

"Do you think that this is enough?!!" the voice spat at me. "Get back to the gutter you dog! There's no place for you here. And take your little bitch too!"
He shoved me away and then smashed his fist into the back of the boy in front of me. He looked familiar. 

The boy let out a yelp of pain and fell to the ground. The man laughed, "Maybe we'll take this bitch for ourselves. Seems like fun, doesn't he?" The others around him who had watched earlier now nodded, twisted smiled on each of their faces.
It filled me with disgust. 

"No!" I shouted as I reached forward to grab onto my fallen friend. A hand whipped out and snatched my outstretched arm and twisted it behind my back.
"Oh well you have asked for it," the man called maliciously. "Let the fun begin!" 

~~~ 

Protectors Part 2

6 Years Later

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"No!" Taemin slammed the fridge door shut as he turned to give his wife a cold stare.
"But oppa! I really feel like I should repay you people back for all you did!" Roi shouted in protest.
"That was our job to do so," he explained.
Roi put her hands on her hips and replied "So am I just part of the job to you then?"
Taemin smiled as he walked over to her and kissed her gently on the forehead, "Have you ever really thought that?"
Roi pouted and turned away, trying to look away from Taemin's cute expression that was melting her retaliation. He looked down at her in amusement.
"Are you trying to ignore me?" he smirked.
No reply.
Taemin slid his arms around her waist, pulling her right up against him. As he still received no reaction he bent his head down so that his cheek was next to her ear.
"I can change that," he whispered, making his lips brush against her ear. Slowly he began to plant soft kisses around her cheek, carefully making his way to her lips.
"Appa?"
Taemin and Roi both jumped as they heard the little voice coming from the door. They spun around to see the small figure of their four year old daughter staring up at them, her eyes wide with surprise.
"Mina! What's my little baby doing up at this time?" Taemin said as he bounced over to her and swung her up high then held onto her close. "Come on now, back to bed." And he began to walk back towards her room.
Mina yawned cutely as she rested her head on her appa's shoulder. "But I don't want to go back to bed."
Taemin tutted, "No, no. You have to go to bed so you can grow up big and strong! And me and your umma have a game to play."
"Can I play?" Mina squeaked out.
"Ah no. It's one of those silly grown up games. You wouldn't like it! You would think it was boring," he whispered as he placed her gently back into her bed, pulling the light pink covers over her.
"Oh...like taxes?.." she mumbled as she began to drift off.
Taemin kissed her head, Mina pulled her teddies close. "Exactly," he said, stroking her hair, "One of those boring grown up things."

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Minho grabbed hold of Linn's arm.
"I don't care how many times you bring it up, I'm not allowing it!" he said with a stern expression.
"Wae?!" Linn shouted, staring up into his eyes.
He looked down at her for a moment, locking eyes, before breaking away. "You know why..." he sighed.
"Oppa, I want a proper answer this time. Whenever I mention this you just disagree and never give me a reason," Linn said, placing her hands up on his shoulders. "I know there's risks..I know I could get hurt, but oppa I..."
"Risks?!!" Minho interrupted, looking down at her, his eyes blazing. "Hurt?!! Linn-ah do you think that's all? You could be totally destroyed! Everything you know and love just..gone!"
Linn stood there quietly as Minho collapsed onto the couch then continued, "I never want you to go through anything like that. I don't even want you to think of..."
"I still let you go on missions," Linn whispered.
"That's different. And don't try deny it! I've always been a protector, I know how to handle myself. Anyway, I've gone on far less missions since you arrived. I don't want you to worry. I stopped accepting more missions when we got married and ever since the twins were born I've only accepted the ones where my help was absolutely necessary," he explained.
He was right, she couldn't object, she knew it was the truth. She slowly walked over and joined her husband on the couch. His arm stretched out around her and pulled her close.
"You're the most precious thing in the world. If I ever lost you I could never live properly again. I would despise myself until the end of time," he whispered as he leaned his head on hers. "I just love you too much to let you go and risk anything happening to you."

~~~~~~~

The sharp ringing of the phone bolted Minho up from his sleep. Throwing Linn's arms off him he reached for the phone.
Linn groaned and turned away as she heard the soft mumbling of the quiet conversation.
"This one must be urgent," she said at the sight of Minho jumping up and running over to their walk-in wardrobe.
"I'm afraid so. I might be gone for a while, will you be ok?" he replied as he walked out, fully dressed with his emergency bag slung over one shoulder.
"As always," she smiled weakly. Minho gave his wife a goodbye kiss and made his way out of the room.
Linn followed him into the kid's rooms as he gave Hyunmin and Bomi a kiss goodbye and a reassuring "Appa will be back soon."
They opened the front door of their apartment to see directly across the hall Taemin embracing Roi saying a final goodbye. Only on very important missions were both of them called.
A small groan was heard from the end of the hall.
"Here comes the boss," Taemin chuckled.

The tall figure of Changmin was visible approaching them carrying a little sleepy boy in his arms.
"You don't mind, right?" he asked as he came to a stop in front of them.
Linn opened up their front door wider, "There's a spare bed in Hyunmin's room as always."
"Hynbae, you'll be good, won't you?"
Hyunbae nodded and ran back into his Appa's arms. He always hated whenever he had to leave him.
Changmin chuckled quietly as he held his only child close.
"I love you Appa," Hyunbae mumbled into Changmin's shoulder.
"I love you too," he replied as he pushed the boy away from him. "I want you to keep this safe for me until I return."
Hyunbae stared at his Appa in shock as he put a silver necklace around the six year old's neck. It was a necklace that he had never seen his Appa without.

Changmin cleared his throat as he kissed his son. Tears threatening to surface, he gave the boy one last hug before handing him over to Linn. He waved and gave a weak smile as he watched his son being led into the apartment. He let out a sigh of relief then turned away and walked briskly down the hall, his expression changing as the boss mask slipped in place, hiding the caring, gentle appa deep within.

Taemin and Minho exchanged worried looks as they walked together out of the protector's apartment building.
"Somethings different. Very different," Minho muttered quietly to his friend.
Taemin nodded, "There definitely is something we are not being told. What is he hiding?.."
"He's been hiding a lot of things and keeping to himself. It's all since.." Minho broke off. He didn't need to say anything further, they both knew Changmin's reasons.

~~~~~~~~~

"Yah! Get down!" a voice screamed while they edged their way through the warehouses.
A small siren rang out and they all dropped to the ground.
"Cover has been blown. You know what to do now," Changmin yelled as he loaded his gun. Giving Minho and Taemin a slight smirk he left the cover of the maze of containers around the warehouses that they had been hiding in and ran swiftly towards the action.
The two quickly followed. Best friends, they had always stuck together during missions. Behind their professional masked expressions they were worried. They had never seen Changmin so reckless. And now, he was no where to be seen.
Taemin then noticed a familiar shadow entering a small gap to the left of them. He pointed it out to his hyung and they both stealthily edged away from the fight that was beginning to break out and after Changmin.

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A ripple of laughter echoed around the wide space. The two men could hear the fight going on outside and it made them smile contently with every gunshot fired. The taller of the two was sprawled on an armchair, laughing manically and playing with a sharp knife. The other was busy gathering documents, a serious expression rooted on his face.
"Relax," the taller man called out. "It's not like they're gonna survive. They're outnumbered!"
The smaller man glared at him. "How can you just underestimate them?! Do you not remember the last time?!..Six years ago..Although the roles were reversed that time. We were attacking them.."
"Yeah and we walked away fine, didn't we?"
"You just about did!"
At this comment the taller man's expression hardened. "I don't know what you're talking about there.." he said, crossing his arms, displeased.
"Oh really?" the other smiled. "Well I recall you almost getting killed..by a woman!"
"Heechul," he said in a threatening tone, "I thought we weren't going to mention that bitch again. Especially since she took out half of our men!"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah..Well aren't you glad you managed to kill her before I dragged you out of there?"
"That's the only thing I'm happy about when I think of that day.." he mumbled.

The two snapped out of their nostalgia as they heard the sound of a gun being cocked behind them. Before either could react the cold tip of the gun pressed into the back of Heechul's head.
"That's enough from you two," a cold bitter voice echoed out.
"Oh, the boss himself coming on a mission! Now that's rare! I heard you barely leave the safety of your agency, Changmin. Even less then our lazy Heechul! Now we must be something special.."
"Quiet TOP!" Heechul spat, anger building up within him as his right hand man seemed to find this situation amusing.
TOP chuckled, watching Changmin closely. Although his voice spoke coldly and emotionless, TOP could see the pain that the Protectors boss' eyes were filled with along with a kind of..hunger.
Suddenly TOP flung his knife at Changmin. It sunk deeply into his left thigh.
Changmin fell to the ground, dropping his gun and shouted out in pain. The two men above him laughing at the sight.

~~~~~~~~~

Minho broke into a run, closely followed by Taemin. They recognised the pained voice that was now screaming in agony up ahead.
The maze of shelves ended and they found themselves in a wide space which seemed to have been used as an office. Ten metres away from them they saw him. Lying in a growing pool of his own blood and screaming as a tall blond man twisted a knife deeper into his thigh.
"Yah!" Heechul shouted when he noticed Minho and Taemin.
At this they both raised their guns at him and approached slowly.
"Back off" Taemin roared out at TOP who hadn't even glanced up at them. "I said Back OFF!" he repeated as he shoved his gun into the blond hair.
TOP laughed as he spun around and slowly walked towards Heechul. "Now," he whispered.

Heechul carefully reached down to his pocket and pressed the blue alarm button while Minho and Taemin's attention was focused on their bleeding boss.
All of a sudden twenty guys jumped out of nowhere, guns in all of their hands pointing at Taemin and Minho.
"You know what to do," Heechul called out to his men.
They nodded and circled around Taemin and Minho, backing them into each other. The demented grins spread across their faces hinted at what was to come next.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Something isn't right.." Roi said worriedly as her and Linn sat together watching the kids. Minhye was bouncing up and down on her knee. Taehyun and Hyunmin were smashing toy cars into each other while Mina and Bomi were dressing up the teddies in Minhye's clothes. Hyunbae sat to the side, scribbling something on paper with his fingers clinging tightly to the lily that hung from his appa's chain.
"I know," Linn sighed. "He did say he was going to be a while, but usually there's a phone call or an email or something!"
"Do.." Roi lowered her voice, glancing over at Hyunbae. "Do you think anything happened?"
"I think so..I can just feel it.."

That night Linn had just put the kids to bed when Roi knocked on the door.
"I think we should do something useful this time." she proposed as they entered the living room.
Linn nodded, "I can't stand it! Just waiting here, doing nothing."
"Well first we have to find out where it was they went and for what reason."
They sat there briefly, thinking. Suddenly Roi clicked her fingers. "I've got it! Tae left his laptop. And I have a fare idea what his password would be," she said. "I'll be back in a minute."

Fifteen minutes later they had managed to guess the password correctly and were scanning through the hundreds of documents hidden within Tae's laptop. Eventually they found one named "Operation H", the date on it said that he had downloaded it the day they left.
"This must be it then."
There faces dropped in horror as they read who it was the Protectors were after.
"T-them!! The ones who..who.." Linn gasped
"Tried to get us!" Roi exclaimed.
They shut the laptop quickly and knew what they had to do now.

"Has something happened?"
The two spun around to see Hyunbae standing in the doorway, a worried look in his face. "My appa..will he be coming back?"
"Of course he will!" Roi cried out, walking over to ruffle the little boy's hair. "Now why would you think something silly like that?"
"My umma never came back," he whispered.
"Well.." Roi started awkwardly.
"Your appa always comes back, doesn't he?" Linn quickly continued. "He's just very busy with this one. He'll be back, don't you worry."
Hyunbae nodded slowly. "Will he be back for my birthday next week?"
"He wouldn't miss it for the world!" Roi smiled.
"Now back to bed," Linn called and Hyunbae did as he was told, walking back to the room slowly, clutching the chain.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Are you sure this isn't too much?" Linn asked again.
"Yes, yes!" Jaejoong laughed. "Me and Yunnie will have fun minding all these kiddies!"
Yunho nodded wildly, his eyes lighting up with the idea of looking after such kypota babies.
Hyunbae looked up at the two, "Tell my appa to get his butt home NOW!"
The two laughed as Hyunbae made them pinky promise before they left.

The sun was disappearing in the growing dusk as they arrived at the industrial estate. The large buildings grouped together around the stacks of containers made it hard for the two to know what direction to go. They had parked the car ten minutes away in a sheltered forest area.
Roi grabbed Linn and dragged her behind the nearest container.
"What?!" Linn whispered angrily as her head banged against the hard metal.
"Guards. They must be circling the area," she whispered back.
"Damn it. That definitely means something went on around here."
Roi nodded slowly, "At least Yunho gave us some of his old weapons from back when he was a Protector."
"Hopefully we won't need them," Linn tried to reassure herself.
The sound of two sets of footsteps made them jump. Quickly and as quietly as possible they started to move deep into the maze of containers.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The door slammed.
Minho sighed as he looked around to see the mess they had gotten into. He was tied to a chair with a throbbing headache as a result of a large bruise in the shape of the end of a pistol. His eyes began to focus and panic shot down through him.
"Taemin?! Changmin?!" he called out, barely keeping his voice steady.
He heard a groan from directly behind him.
"Hyung.." Taemin slowly mumbled out.
Minho sighed, half relieved. He turned around as far as he could limited by the rope confining him to the chair. Taemin was tied up back to back with him.
"Are you ok?" he whispered.
"I-I think I just got a knock on the head..you?" Taemin replied.
"Same."
"How are we gonna get out of this mess hyung?"
A laugh echoed out from the corner. Heechul stepped out of the shadow. "You two are adorable! You don't actually think you could possibly get away from this?"

~~~~~~~~~~

"Wake up!" TOP shouted as he slapped Changmin.
Changmin groaned and he lifted his head up, taking in all around him. He was in a different room. This one was smaller and darker. TOP sat down in front of him smirking at the wretched look of the Protector's boss. Blood stain trousers reminded Changmin of what had happened.
"We didn't want you to die yet. That'd be no fun at all," he explained after following Changmin's gaze. "So we patched you up."
"What do you want from me?" he spat out.
TOP laughed. "What did you want with us in this first place? We weren't after anyone under your protection then all of a sudden you all come barging in and try gun us down. Now why would that be?"
Changmin stared coldly back, refusing to open his mouth.
"That's how it's gonna be, eh? Thought so.." TOP muttered as he slammed his fist into Changmin's left thigh, exactly where the knife had sunk into.
Changmin tried to stop a scream escaping from his chapped lips. Shutting his eyes tight, he lifted his head upwards and concentrated on picturing his family. How perfect they had looked all together. This only made him angry. It made him want to shout out at TOP. It had been him who had ruined it all.

TOP sat back in his seat, watching Changmin closely. How the man was taking all the pain, for what reason though..
"You know.." he sighed out. "I don't understand you Protectors. You think you're so great. It's not like you're actually saving the world! All you're doing is protecting some idiots that got themselves messed up in something.."
Changmin ignored his words. Repeating over in his head the memories of happy times.
"At least you're not all perfect. We had a great mole deep within your organisation supplying us with information. It's how we knew where to go that night six years ago," TOP saw Changmin twitch slightly and he knew he was gonna crack soon. "Oh, that was one good mole! They really knew how to deal with what was given to them. Worked very hard. Knew how to please us. Well, pleased me."
Changmin opened his eyes. He was confused. "What the hell was this guy up to?" he thought.
TOP smiled, "She died that night. I just had to kill her."
Changmin looked at him with disbelief, it couldn't have been her..no..
"And she really seemed like something more than just sex. Oh, Lily.."
At that Changmin bolted up. And screamed at him, ignoring the pain as he pulled against the ropes binding him. A look of horror in his eyes. "No, no. This can't be true!" he thought as his head couldn't comprehend this.
"Yeah..I found out she was cheating on me with you. So I made sure she didn't walk out of there that night alive," he bitterly muttered.
"She..Lily..No.." Changmin couldn't form a full sentence.
TOP got up and walked over to the door. "I guess she fooled us all in the end," he said as he shut the door behind him.

"No.." Changmin whispered in the now empty room.
Paranoia set in and he began to think over their whole relationship. Those times when she wasn't there. Where had she gone? Was everything a lie? What had he ever meant to her? And..Hyunbae?
He hung his head low and began to sob. His empty heart feeling like it was ready to burst from his chest at any moment.
"This was all a waste."

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"This one?" Linn called exhaustedly.
"Why would it be that one?!" Roi snapped.
"Roi~ah! We've been at this all night!" Linn moaned. "It's almost dawn and we still haven't found the right warehouse."
Roi sighed and looked around. After a moments thought she gave in. "I guess we'll look through this one then rest for a while. I want to ring and check on the kids."
"Yunho and Jaejoong will be fine with them," Linn reassured.
"Well...I'm gonna ring anyway, to wish Hyunbae a happy birthday."
"Omo!" Linn exclaimed. "I forgot he's turning seven today. We better find them and go back quickly then. I don't want this to be the worst birthday ever."
Roi nodded and they both climbed up and into the dust covered window that someone luckily left open.

~~~~~~~~~~~

"Getting anywhere?"
"I think I've managed to loosen the one around my left foot."
"I can't seem to be able to move them at all!"
Taemin chuckled at this complaint. "You have fat feet hyung!"
"Yah!" Minho shouted but then he joined in the laughter. They had both had been through so much, knocked out, tied up that now the exhaustion was setting in and even in these circumstances anything made them break into laughter. Anyone else looking from the outside would swear the two had gone mad.
"Oh what's the use.." Taemin sighed, slumping back against his chair in defeat.

Suddenly they heard a bang as a door slammed at the bottom of the room hidden in shadows. They both stiffened as they knew what was coming next. They had spent their whole Protector lives being prepared for a situation that would end like this. But regardless of that, they didn't want to die.
A familiar high pitched squeal followed by a small "Ouch!" echoed from the darkness. The two men looked over at the direction of the noises, confused.
Then they heard it. A small, angry whisper, "I told you to make sure the door closed gently!"
"It wasn't my fault! Roi, the door slipped out of my fingers."

With this the two men called out the names of their wives, their hearts lift up from the previous despair. They ran as soon as they heard the familiar voices. Tears pricking their cheeks they grabbed their spouse tightly.
Minho smiled widely and began kissing each tear that fell down onto Linn's cheeks. Taemin buried his head deep into Roi's shoulder before looking up into her relieved eyes and crushing his lips against hers.
After a while the Linn and Roi stepped back to take in their surroundings. They almost screamed when they noticed the large, dark bruises on the men's faces.
"What the HELL.." Roi began to shout but cut off when the door closest to them burst open.
"What do we have here?" a guard called out as he strolled into the room, an AK-47 perched in his hands. "Now the boss won't be pleased to hear about this.."
He walked closer to the four of them and laughed at the sight of the two men trying to break out of the ropes to protect their wives.
"You know..there is a way that I could just let the two women free," he smirked. "Without letting anyone know you were here in the first place."
His hand reached out to stroke Roi's cheek and then Taemin flung out his loosened foot sending the guard straight onto the floor. Roi and Linn took this to be their time to shine. They took out their concealed pistols and jumped onto the guard while he was still down.
He groaned as they stamped down onto his back.
"Fuck!" he shouted out. "Do you Protectors train your family and all?!"
The two tied men laughed slightly. Their wives were in a league of their own!

~~~~~~~~~~

TOP took his place back on the seat facing Changmin. The dark room refusing to acknowledge that it was approaching midday. Relaxing back he stared into the dark, hollow eyes that fixed their gaze at the dirt covered floor.
"So...decided to open up a bit to us?" TOP spoke softly. "You have no one left after all. What's the point in keeping things to yourself now?"
Changmin didn't move. He just kept his head down and waited.
"Is this really how it's gonna be?" TOP sighed and when he got no answer he whistled loudly.
The door swung open again and some figures entered. Changmin still refused to look up to see who it was. Nothing mattered anymore to him.
A small sob escaped the lips of one of the shadows above him. Everything seemed to suddenly snap together. A flame rose up in his eyes as he raised his head to see the two people in front of him. A blond woman gripping tightly onto the small, shaking boy. Hyunbae.

"Now who do we have here..?" TOP sniggered. "Do you know him?" He turned to Changmin who retreated to his previous position.
"No," he said coldly. Although he regained his indifferent look, he couldn't hold down the light that was blazing strong in his eyes.
"Really?" TOP sighed. "Well then there's no need of the little brat. Hostage, you know what to do."
The woman, Hostage, nodded as she reached behind her and pulled out a dessert eagle and placed it on the terrified boy's temple.
"Well he doesn't seem to care for this boy. So we definitely have no use for him," TOP said, searching Changmin's face.

"Kill him."

The boy screamed loudly at these words and Changmin could no longer keep with his act.
"NO!!" he roared wrestling against his restraints and flinging his head up to meet the cold eyes of TOP. "Kill me instead. Kill ME!"
TOP raised an eyebrow. "Kill you. Instead of some little street kid? Why should we?"
"He's my son! And you know it! You can drop the act!"
"Oh really..?" he laughed.
"Just let him go. I'll do anything. Just..just.." he broke off.
"Hostage you can leave," he called but then added after seeing Changmin's relief "leave the boy with me."
Hostage let go of Hyunbae and left the room, swinging the dessert eagle around her fingers.

"Now..do you want to go to your appa?" TOP said lowering down to Hyunbae's level. As the little boy nodded he smiled and pushed him onto the ground. "Stay in that corner," he growled.
Hyunbae fell hard onto the cold, dirty floor and remained there, sobbing in the shadows as TOP approached his appa.

~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Wow! These bloody ropes really just won't.." Linn muttered. "Finally!" The ropes fell on the ground and the two men were finally both free.
"Well that didn't take forever!" Minho teased as he grabbed hold of Linn and squeezed her tightly against him.
During the past while that both Roi and Linn had attempted to untie the complicated knots, Taemin grew very restless. As soon as he was set free he dived at Roi, knocking them both down to the ground. They both hugged each other close, giggling on the floor.

As an afterthought Taemin looked up. "Where's Changmin?"

The door creaked open again. This time it was Heechul and Hostage who stood there.
"I never knew TOP was such a good actor.." Hostage broke off.
"What the hell?!!" Heechul shouted as he saw the two free men and one of his guards knocked out cold to the side.
Hostage raised her desert eagle. "Looks like these need to learn a lesson boss," she said as she threw a pistol at him. He copied her stance and they both made their way towards the four.

At the same time Linn and Roi raised their pistols. Roi had a spare one, which she tossed into Taemin's hand. Minho leaped over to the unconscious guard and snatched up the AK-47.
"I think we know who is at an advantage here," he smirked.
"We'll see about that," Heechul muttered.

All hell kicked off as they battled. Each of them jumping to dodge the flying bullets that ricocheted around the room. One bullet whizzed right by Roi's head and she screamed with shock. Taemin raced over to his wife to see what had happened. He gave her a reassuring, "Your fine. I'll protect you."
"Ah!" Taemin's arm was hit. He shouted out in anger at himself being caught of guard. He gazed down at his wound, "Just a threw and threw. Practically a graze! Nothing to worry about."
Roi threw her eyes up. "Looks like I'll have to protect you instead!" she smirked.

~~~~~~~~~

Thud.
Changmin spat out the blood that was flooding into his mouth, just before his cheek was greeted by another fist.
"Enough?" TOP raised an eyebrow.
Changmin refused to answer. He kept a firm gaze on his terrified son crouching in the corner. He didn't want Hyunbae to see this but he realised that it was either his life or his son's and there was no choice in his mind.

TOP sighed, "I guess not then." He reached down to his belt and drew out his knife. The sharp blade that had penetrated Changmin's skin already traced down his bare chest. Every now and again TOP would press down the knife until blood began to drip. At the sight of each droplet Hyunbae moaned as if it was him who was being harmed.
Changmin gritted his teeth and stayed as still as possible as TOP applied even more pressure onto the knife, making it slice into his skin, bring forth more blood.
"How is he still taking this?" TOP thought to himself.

"I'm getting bored with you," he groaned turning on his heels to face the shaking child.
"No! I said I'll do anything," Changmin begged.
"Why aren't you screaming?" he blurted out. "Everyone screams. How are you so different?"
"Just him seeing me like this is enough suffering. I..I could never put him through anymore. Please." he pleaded. "Please..Just do what you set out to do already."
TOP faced him. The look of abject despair on Changmin's face made a slight feeling of guilt creep up within him. It was time.

He walked slowly towards the broken man and raised the blood stained knife.

"Hyunbae. Appa will always love you no matter what," he called out to the little boy, his voice shaking as tears began to stream down his bruised cheeks.

"Appa.."

TOP plunged the knife in. Changmin gasped and Hyunbae screamed at top of his lungs.

~~~~~~~~~~~~

"What was that?!" Minho cried. "It sounded like a kid!"
Taemin finished tying Hostage and Heechul up beside the guard and stood up. "Let's go have a look."

The four made their way out the corridor and followed the sound of the high pitched scream to a large metal door. Minho pulled at it. It wouldn't budge. The other three joined in and after tugging at the jammed handle they managed to slide open the door.

"Hyunbae?!" they all shouted.

TOP turned around to see the four people standing in the doorway. He pulled out a pistol that was tucked into his belt and raised it up to them.
Taemin divided into the room and grabbed the distraught child. At the same time the other three pulled the trigger of their guns and each bullet sank into TOP before he could shoot his own weapon.
He collapsed onto the dirty ground, revealing to the others what he had been standing over blocking from their view.

~~~~~~~~~~~~


Minho gripped Hyunbae's shoulder as the little boy bent down. He carefully placed the bunch of lilies on the grave right beside the headstone marked "Shim".
"Everything will be fine from now on ok?" Roi whispered to him and wiped away the tears that were falling down his cheeks.

"All we were doing was getting ice cream. And then..then..he was just gone! We never knew that blond woman was with them..If we did.." Yunho whispered.
"We know. Don't worry. It wasn't your fault," Taemin sighed. "No one could have known any of this would have happened."
"Come on. Let's just comfort him. We'll get nothing out of standing over here blaming ourselves," Jaejoong mumbled.

Linn bent down to Hyunbae's level. "We have to go now, ok?" she gently spoke. "We can come back here later if you want. We have to go to the hospital now."
Hyunbae slowly nodded even though he wished to stay. Taking Linn's outstretched hand with his one free hand. The other was clinging onto the silver necklace that he hadn't taken off since he was first given it. He had promised to look after it and that is what he was doing.

The group moved slowly away from the grave and the large marble headstone now with the bunch of lilies placed beside it. The headstone marked "Lily".

"I'll tell appa about the flowers. Lilies are his favourite."

Random one I wrote Roi ages ago....

Once upon a time in a forest far far away there lived small children. They were the forgotten children,the ones who got left behind.

The oldest of them all took charge of everything. He was their leader. The middle kid was the weird one. And the last one was the cutest little kid the world has ever seen. The two older boys always looked after him. Yunho, Kiseop and Taemin!

One day they were wandering around the forest. Yunho was collecting the firewood, too big for the other two to lift. Kiseop was.supposed to be looking for any sign of food but was afraid of everything he found and so didn't go near it. At one point Yunho looked around to find Kiseop staring at a large bush with berries all over it. Kiseop just stood there. Yunho walked over to him and wacked him on the head.

"Yah! You're supposed to be collecting food! Look that's food!" he shouted.

Kiseop mumbled in reply "B-b-but what if there's some animal in there! It might reach out and grab me and pull me in and and.."

Yunho looked down at him and shook his head."Nothing like that will ever happen!" he said putting an arm around Kiseop and pushing him forward.

Suddenly they heard a loud scream from behind them. They spun round. "Where did Tae go?" Kiseop shrieked.

Yunho dropped the firewood and began running towards where the scream came from.

"How could I have been so stupid to let him leave my sight!" he thought.

Kiseop began to panic. He feared following the scream but then again didn't want to be left alone."Wait!" he shouted as he ran to catch up with Yunho.

Finally they reached the place where Tae's scream came from. There he was tiny and cute being held buy two older boys. He was crying as he tried to struggle free from their grip. Yunho ran at the two boys .And kicked one of them away. The other turned around in shock and began to counter every move Yunho was doing. Kiseop stood at the side rooted to the spot in fear. Tae was being held again by the boy who was kicked down.

Suddenly a large pinecone came flying from the largest tree and hit Yunho on his back. He spun around and saw another boy in the tree. He jumped down and landed right beside Kiseop, giving him a death glare Kiseop screamed and ran to hide behind a tree. The boy laughed.

"Who are you and what do you want with Taemin?!" Yunho roared.

The boy smirked."It doesn't matter. We have been in this forest for as long as you have. And yet you've never noticed before."

"So whydid you randomly decide to attack Tae then?!"

"He took something of ours."

They looked at Tae.

"What did you take?" Yunho shouted.

Tae began to shake."I-I didn't mean to.I didn't know!" he cried out as he held out a small gold bag."It was just lying there..and it looked so pretty!" he mumbled.

"Well it wasn't yours!" the boy shouted "Minho take it off him."

The boy who held Tae reached down and grapped the bag.

"You can let the little kid go now. As long as he really has learned his lesson!" the boy spat.

Tae nodded.

"Ok then.Let him go." the boy commanded.

Minho threw Tae on the ground. Tae fell into a large mud pit. The boys laughed Yunho looked at them in disguist as he helped Tae up. He threw his fist forward aiming at Minho. The other boy who had held Tae ran and knocked Yunho down. He continued to hit him until the other boy shouted "That's enough Eli!" He then retreated to his side.

Yunho lay on the ground,blood dripping from his nose. He looked up and saw hand now outstretched to him. He took it and got up.

"I didn't think it would go this far" the boy mumbled.

Yunho looked at him for a moment. He was slightly taller than him but he looked younger.

"They hurt Tae" was all that was ricocheting around his head. He punched the boy in the stomach. He fell to the ground.

"Quick run!" Yunho shouted as he grabbed Tae's hand.

Eli and Minho jumped at them but they managed to run off. Kiseop ran from behind the tree and joined Yunho and Tae.

The boy called from behind them "Let them go."

"But he hit.." Minho shouted.

"I guess I deserved that!"the boy laughed slightly.

"But Changmin! Your just gonna let them get away with all that! The little one did steal our.." Eli began complaining.

"Yes yes I know! But we have it back now anyway!" Changmin said. "And I doubt they even realised the thing inside it was the one thing that'll enable you to take over the world!" he called as the walked away with Eli and Minho in the opposite direct to the others.

Yunho shook his head."That guy is weirder than Kiseop" he sighed as he turned to find Kiseop stuffing his face with leaves.

"What?" Kiseop stared.

"Ok maybe he's not as weird as Kiseop!"Yunho laughed as he walked away holding Tae under his arm.

He looked down at him. He still had mud and tears all over his cheeks. He bent down and wiped them away.

"It's all ok now Tae!" he soothed.

"Thanks" Tae sniffed and then hugged him.

Kiseop then ran to join in the hug, tripped and fell into a hole. In the background an evil laugh was heard.

Roi-ah's birthday story!! ^^

Roi~ah’s Birthday Story! ^^

Intro

Taemin woke as the telephone went off beside him. It was 3.25am the bright screen informed him as below that the

caller ID flashed “Unknown number”.

He sighed and clicked the hang up button. It wasn’t the time for him to be answering phone calls, especially ones from an unknown caller.

He lay back into the soft pillow. Soon he fell back to sleep as the tiredness of the performance just a few hours previously caught up with him.

Part 1

It had been three long years. Enough time for him to forget. But he hadn’t.

All it had taken was two minutes. He noticed her first. She had been walking through the street surrounded by a group of friends, taking pictures and jumping excitedly. The typical tourists.

And then he saw her smile. A cute little grin that spread wide across her face. A sparkle in her eye shone brightly and that’s when it happened.

She met his gaze.

For a moment they stayed like that, transfixed in each other’s stare. Until one of her friends dragged her away from where she stood.

“Yah!” she squealed in protest.

“Roi~ah, come ON! Everyone has already gone into the shop,” her friend shouted.

She glanced back over her shoulder at the deep red cheeks of Taemin while he stood motionless. And then she was gone.

Roi, Taemin heard ricocheting around his head. He stood still in a daze.

What is wrong with me? He wondered, I’ve seen pretty girls before but this one she’s...she’s....different... She’s Roi...

Inside him he felt a strange sensation creep up within him. His heart felt like it was being tugged around his chest. He looked down and saw that his hands were shaking violently.

I must have her, his first thought. Straight away followed by, What if she doesn’t want me?

In all his confusion Taemin hadn’t noticed that his legs had already made up their mind and were crossing the road for him.

A large speaker system blared out one of his songs through the record store as the door shut behind him.

This might not be a good idea, he thought as he carefully looked around for fangirls about to pounce on him and more importantly her.

He edged through the aisles swiftly, scanning every cm for her.

Where did she go?!

Suddenly he heard a loud scream, coming from a few metres behind him. It was quickly followed by a

chorus of “Oh my GOD! It’s Taemin oppa!”

He wheeled around on his heels to see a large group of young girls running for him.

Taemin looked around in panic as the girls approached quickly. Before he could dart around the next shelf they had engulfed him. Hands were pressing all around him and each high pitched screamed seemed to stab his ears.

He tried to back away from them but they had circled all around him, tugging at his hair and snapping pictures of Taemin’s disgruntled expression.

“Aigoo ~ Taeminnie so

KYPOTA!” they all squealed as his famous pout surfaced.

He couldn’t move at this point. He could barely even breathe.

If Minho hyung was here he could rescue me, he thought. He could probably find me the pretty girl as well, Roi.

At this point Taemin got so claustrophobic, feeling so powerless against the large group of fangirls.

There is no escape!

A tear rolled down his soft cheek as realisation set in.

I’ve lost her.

The tear was follow

ed by a flood as he openly wept in front of the girls. Instead of helping the distressed teen they screamed and took more photos.

A large pair of hands pushed back the girls and grabbed Taemin from their clutches.

The shops security guard led the still weeping Taemin into the back room. He pushed him gently into a chair beside the manager’s desk and left to make sure the troublesome fangirls went.

The manager gave the teen a sympathetic smile as he pushed the phone towards him.

“So sorry for the inconvenience, sir. Would you like to like to call someone to come pick you up?” he gently asked.

Taemin sniffed and no

dded as he dried his tear stained cheeks.

“Ok. I’ll go get you a glass of water,” the manager said as he left Taemin alone in the room.

He brought the phone forward and typed in the first number that came into his head.

“Hello?” a voice answered by the third ring.

“H-hyung, help m-me,” he said through sharp breaths.

“Taemin~ah?! What’s wrong? Where are you?” the voice said, filled with panic and worry.

“I’ll tell you w-when you get here,” he whispered as he informed his hyung where he was.

“Ok, ok! I’ll be there in ten minutes!” he replied hurriedly as he hung

up.

Taemin let out a sigh of relief. He was going to be fine now.

The manager reappeared with a glass of water and Taemin slowly drank the cool liquid to calm himself down.

He should be feeling fine now. It was all over. But there was a deep worry creeping up within him.

Have I lost her forever?

A few minutes later the manager entered with a tall man standing behind him.

“Taeminnie!” the tall man called as he rushed over to his friend.

“Minho hung, you got here faster that I thought possible!” Taemin gasped.

Minho shrugged as he examined his friend’s swollen eyes, a worried look across his face. “Never mind that! Are you ok? The manager said that there was some ‘situation’. Taemin~ah, what happened?”

Taemin stood up from his seat and put a hand on his hyung’s shoulder. “I’ll tell you all later,” he said and then turned to the manager and bowed low, “Thank you for all of your help.”

The two left the record store and got into the car.

As they drove Minho cleared his throat, “So are you going to tell me what happened now?”

Taemin let out a long sigh, looking out the window as he said the first thing that popped into his head. “Hyung, what is love?”

Minho almost crashed the car as the maknae spoke.

“Emmm...” he stumbled upon the right words to say.

What the hell is up with this kid all of a sudden?! He thought to himself. Taemin crying...Questions about love...What happened?

“I mean. How do you...How do you really know if you’re in love? What sets it apart from other feelings?”

Minho stole a glance over at the teen who was still looking longingly out the window.

“I-I don’t know if I’m the person you should ask these things to...” he mumbled, embarrassed.

Taemin nodded in reply.

“What happened to you?” Minho asked after a while to break the awkward silence that had engulfed the car.

Part 2

The bright sunlight shone in from the window as the curtains were violently pulled open.

“Yah! Wake up you two!” Jonghyun shouted as Taemin bolted up from his bed and Minho lay motionless across the room.

It had been a very restless night for Taemin. His mind had refused to relax enough for him to sleep properly. It was nearly 6am by the time he had fallen into a deep enough sleep. For the two and a bit hours previous he would wake as soon as he drifted off a bit.

The day passed in one big haze for Taemin. By the time he had completed his schedule he collapsed on his bed, exhausted.

“What’s wrong with me?!” he wondered aloud, “Why am I losing sleep over –“

He stopped as Minho entered their shared room. He paused and looked over at Taemin sprawled on his bed.

“Is something wrong?” he asked as he sat acro

ss from Taemin on his own bed.

“Oh nothing, nothing,” he replied quickly.

“Was it that phone call last night?...You didn’t expect me to sleep through that shrill ringtone!” he added seeing Taemin’s shocked expression.

“That-that was an unknown caller. I didn’t answer it,” he stuttered.

“Ah, I see. Then what is bothering you?” Minho quizzed refusing to drop the subject.

“I don’t know..I guess..It’s just..” Taemin took a deep breath then blurted out, “the phone call made be start thinking again about that day. The whole thing replayed in my head. Her. Roi.”

“Oh,” Minho was taken aback by this answer.

Whatever he had been expecting, it wasn’t this.

“Hyung, I thought I could eventually forget. But it has been three years. Three years! And she still invades my mind. I have to find her.”

“Again? Taemin~ah you tried this before and it just made you even more frustrated! All you know is her name, well, in fact you don’t even know if that is her name.”

“Her friend called her that,” Taemin snapped. “And how do you know that it will turn out like the last time? You can’t predict the future!”

Minho sighed, “I just don’t want to see you get so upset like the last time. You’re 20 now, not a little kid. You have to let go eventually.”

Taemin jumped up suddenly. “Hyung, since I’m not a kid anymore I can do what I want. I’m going to

find her and nobody will hold me back from that!” he shouted as he stormed out of the room and out the front door avoiding the shocked looks from his other members.

Without thinking he got into his car and began to drive away.

A few hours later and darkness had engulfed the road Taemin was driving down. His eyes were drooping and he knew he had to stop soon or else he was going to crash the car. A hotel appeared down the road and he decided it would be a good idea to stop there for the night.

He pulled up the car and stepped out into the night breeze. He

shivered as he walked towards the main door. The place looked abandoned but it was worth a shot trying to see if it was open.

The dust covered the door made it difficult for him to see inside it. He tried pushing the handle but the door wouldn’t budge. It was abandoned.

He sighed as he walked back to his car. Maybe I’ll just sleep in here tonight, he thought as he shut the door.

A hand traced his chest. It moved in slow circles making his skin crawl. The nail slightly scratching his skin through his light t-shirt. But Taemin didn’t mind.

The hand had now reached his collar. It tugged at it and ripped it slowly making his bare chest visible for the whole world. The nails now scratched the pale skin, leaving slight red marks everywhere they moved.

Suddenly it stopped. Taemin wanted to call out and ask why but he was so relaxed he couldn’t do anything. The hand moved away from him momentarily then swiped down on his skin, slicing his bare chest, right above his heart.

Taemin tried to move away, shout or at least put his hands out to protect him but he was paralysed.

The hand continued to draw back then sla

sh his skin, getting deeper and deeper with each cut. He could feel his warm blood pumping running down his stomach.

Out of nowhere he could hear his phone ringing. Jerking awake and hitting his head of the roof of his car Taemin reached down for his phone in the passenger’s seat.

Rubbing his head where he had hit it he looked down at the small screen. Shining brightly it read “3.25am” and below that “Unknown number”. He went to click the hang up button when he stopped.

Wait, I turned off my phone when I left the dorm. How is this happening? He wondered.

Looking down at his chest he noticed that the top of his t-shirt was ripped and there was blood stains on it. He ran his hand down around where his heart was. There were large red marks covering the places where he was slashed in his dream.

I have to ring my hyungs, he thought as he reached for the phone only to find it was still ringing.

After a moment’s thought he answered it.

“Hello?” he whispered into it.

No reply.

“Hello!” he shouted being to get frustrated thinking it must be some weird joke somebody was pulling.

Finally he heard a small cry coming from the phone. It sounded like somebody was in pain.

“Who is this?” he demanded.

A small sob was his reply.

“A-are you ok?” he gently asked. What if it was someone who needed help?

A harsh whisper replied “You’ve finally arrived”

Taemin looked at his phone. He had to have imagined that. It was beyond weird.

“Come in Mr. Lee. We have been waiting for you,” the voice called out.

Taemin peeked outside the window and noticed that the lights had turned on in the hotel. The main door now wide open, eerily inviting him in.

“We can give you anything you desire, Taemin. Forget about your hyungs, they don’t believe in the power of love but we do,” the voice now seemed to be no longer coming from his phone but instead his head. It had developed a soft, calming tone that echoed around Taemin’s head.

“Maybe..Maybe I’ll just go have a look,” he said as he left the car and made his way to the entrance.

I’m probably still just dreaming.

The reception was lit brightly up and he had to blink a few times for his eyes to adjust. As soon as they had he noticed a small figure beside him. It was a little old woman with long nails and wiry grey hair.

Was it her who had scratched me?

“Now, right this way Mr. Lee,” she said, grabbing his arm and guiding him through the corridors before Taemin could protest.

They reached a large room and she pushed him forwards into the darkness. He stumbled with the un

suspected force from the little woman. He looked around as she carefully locked the door behind them.

“Mr. Lee, we can get you what you want. What your heart desires,” her voice seemed to multiply as she spoke.

“W-we?” Taemin spluttered out.

Out of the shadows more small figures emerged. They were circling around him as he backed away to the door.

“What do you want from me?”

The crowd continued to approach him and the old woman replied “We won’t be looking for much from you Mr. Lee only your soul.”

“My soul?!!!” he gasped.

“Well we are giving you your heart’s desire. Do you not wish to get the girl? The pretty girl you haven’t stopped thinking about. The one you call Roi?” they all said in unison.

Taemin reached back and tugged at the handle to find it was locked. Sweat began to fall from his brow as he panicked.

The hands reached for him and pulled him to the centre of the room. There was flashing of lights and shouts as they tugged at his clothes.

Just a nightmare, just a nightmare. Why does it feel so real though?

“Why are you doing this to me?” He cried out and received harsh laughing as his only reply.

He never felt so lost and alone. Nobody knew where he was and he was about to be ripped apart by some strange small figures.

This is it. This is the end.

A pair of hands parted the crowd and grabbed Taemin from their clutches. The darkness seemed to disappear as the hands held him firmly. A sense of relief filled him when the warm hands guided him through the hotel and out into the car park.

As soon as he exited through the door the light from within the hotel disappeared and everything seemed to be exactly as he had seen it the first time, dusty and abandoned.

The heat left him as the hands let go of him.

He spun around to see who had rescued him and there she stood.

“You!!” Taemin cried out, his jaw dropping. “How..How..What!”

Roi giggled as she looked up at his cute confused expression. “I’m psychic!”

“Really?” Taemin gasped.

“When it comes to you it seems I am,” she shrugged.

“I’ve been looking for you,” he mumbled shyly.

“Me too,” she whispered.

The two stood there for a moment, gazing into each other’s eyes just as they had the first time they met.

“I’m Taemin,” he whispered.

“I know,” Roi giggled. She looked up at his sparkling eyes and shivered as a gust of wind blew.

Taemin grabbed her by the hand. “Come on. Let’s get out of here.”

They made their way to his car, Taemin going into gentleman’s mode and opening the door for her.

As they drove away from

the dark, creepy hotel a thought popped up in Taemin’s head.

“How did you get there so fast?” he wondered.

“In a spaceship of course!” she replied.

“Ah..Thought so..” he said as he pulled into an empty rest stop.

If this really is a dream, I might as well enjoy it.

“Why are we stopping here?” Roi asked.

Taemin turned to face her puzzled expression with a mischievous smile. “Well, we’re in the middle of nowhere and...” he laughed quietly, “You’re all mine now!”