name: abduction
rating: pg-13 (may change way later)
warnings: kidnapping. rape (later chapter).
pairings: soohyun / kiseop ; kevin / kibum ; more to come
summary: woo sung hyun was kidnapped at the age of seven, leaving behind his parents, older sister, and best friend kim kibum. ten years later, in kibum's senior year, he is shocked to meet a new student that goes by the name of kevin shin and resembles his childhood best friend.
“Hyung, I wanna help you with the sand castle.”
Little Sunghyun gave his best friend a toothy smile, revealing his gap where he had recently lost a tooth to the tooth fairy. His round eyes twinkled when the older of the two nodded, patting a spot in the cool sand next to him for the boy to occupy. Without hesitation, Kibum watched his small friend join him and use his tiny hands to help clump sand together to add the different parts of the castle. He began to start on the tall tower where Sunghyun squealed and insisted the princess was, jumping and clapping happily when Kibum finally gave in on the suggestion. He smoothed his hands over the cylinder they made, pushing his fingers against the sand to make incisions at the top and little designs. They were almost done when Sunghyun stood and said that he would be right back; that he was going to go across the street to his apartment and get some drinks for them. He said to tell his sitter where he went just in case she came looking right before he ran off, a little skip in his step.
Kibum watched as his friend ran towards his house and looked away before the boy jumped off the sidewalk to cross the street so he could continue where they left off-the moat. He carved his way through the sand that Sunghyun had helped clump around the castle, throwing leaves in the narrow crevasses to make it seem like water. He immersed himself in his work, loosing track of time. He was very surprised when his mother came over to the sand pit, draping a jacket over his shoulders, and praised his work, telling him that it was marvelous that he had done it all on his own.
“Umma, Hyunnie helped me. He said he was coming right back with drinks.”
Kibum kept patting at the cool sand, blind to his mother’s bewildered stare. “Kibum, Kevin left hours ago; it’s already eight. Let’s go home before you get a cold. We can call Kevin and you can ask him what happened.” Even though he was surprised and little disappointed, Kibum stood and brushed himself off before he grasped his mother’s hand and walked to their own apartment, just half a block away from Sunghyun’s.
That night, Kibum’s mother had called the Woos, going into a fit of distraught when a crying, hysterical Mrs. Woo answered, begging and pleading for her to say that Sunghyun was with them. She glanced at Kibum, who watched from the entrance of the kitchen, able to hear the frantic screams from the phone as he looked on. “Kibum said that he had gone back home to get them some drinks, but that must’ve been a little over three or four hours ago. Did you call the police? What did they say? I see. I’m sure others will help; Sunghyun was a much loved boy here. Yes, Kibum and I will be there soon. Try to calm down; I’ll see you in a few minutes. Bye.”
“Umma, is Hyunnie okay?” Kibum looked legitly worried as his mother walked towards him, her slim hands coming out to rest on his shoulders.
“Baby, listen carefully. Sung Hyun went missing after he left the park today and now we have to go see his mommy and help find him.”
Kibum stared at his mother long and hard as every word she spoke sunk into his young mind, hitting him slowly. “Hyunnie…is gone? Mommy…Hyunnie went home to get us drinks. He…he went to get us drinks and we were gonna finish our castle.” He left his mother standing in the kitchen saying that he was going to bed and that he would see Hyunnie tomorrow and ask him why he didn’t come back with drinks. That night he snuggled with his bear and hugged his knees to his chest as tears involuntarily seeped from his eyes.
Days went by and nothing that was connected to Woo Sung Hyun’s disappearance was found. Police and investigators searched houses, dumpsters, and even started asking family members and friends that lived in other cities questions to the boy’s whereabouts. When nothing came up after three days of nonstop searching, they were about to call the search off when one detective took the initiative to check a dumpster that resided close to the outer premises of the complex.
That was where the charred remains of a small body was found. Pathologists performed an autopsy, declaring that anything that would give way as to who the child was had been taken out or possibly crushed and destroyed; they agreed that it could only be the Woo child since it had been months since the last abduction. The news broke the Woo family apart, sending the parents into bitter depression along with the sister that was later found to be mentally distressed and soon passed away from self inflictions. The parents of the children were later found to be dead in a fatal car accident the night of Woo Sung Hyun’s ninth birthday.
In all this time, young Kibum grew up. Every day, though, he could be found standing or sitting at the sand box that he and his best friend played in, where their unfinished castle had soon been forgotten by other children. The day after Woo Sung’s abduction, Kibum had sat next to the sand castle, insisting that Hyunnie would be back to finish with him, but one day turned into a week and soon a week turned into months. The day they found out the news of Woo Sung’s death, Kibum denied it and said the boy was at home with his parents and sister-he never went back over after his best friend’s mother told him her son moved away, playing along with poor Kibum’s slipping sanity as a child.
When the news of Woo Sung’s sister’s death got to Kibum a year after his best friend died, he asked who she was; completely cutting any ties she had with Woo Sung. When he was nine and heard about the parents of Woo Sung Hyun dying, he shrugged it off, saying something about his best friend needing to come back and stop playing games, that now his parents were losing their minds. He kept his head up and thoughts clear, but even so, he made himself believe that his best friend would be back to finish the sand castle with him. His family just looked on from their apartment each day as Kibum sat across the street at the park, watching and waiting for Woo Sung Hyun. Even when he grew into his teens and entered high school, he still believed, one day, his best friend would return to help him finish their sand castle.
“Class, today I would like you to welcome our new student, Shin Sung Hyun.”
Kibum paid no attention to the teacher, too busy doodling on his desk until that name, that name resounded in his ear. Sung Hyun. Hyun. Hyunnie... He clenched his eyes shut when the name wouldn’t stop repeating in his head. He hadn’t heard that name for years and when some random kid came to his school with the same name, he just had to start having hallucinations. Opening his eyes slowly, he looked to the front of the room, wanting to know who to avoid, but when his eyes landed on the brunette standing next to their teacher, he couldn’t look away: he had large, brown eyes; silky dark hair that barely framed his porcelain face. In all actuality, he looked like a girl. Just like Hyunnie…
“Hi, everybody; my name is Shin Sung Hyun but you can call me Kevin.”
Kevin. Right. Kibum would have to stay away from this Kevin guy. That’s what he decided when the boy took a seat next to one of the other recent new guys. Kibum listened to the small talk of the girls behind him, almost all of them discussing how cute and adorable this Kevin was even if his name was American and he definitely looked Asian.
Throughout the day Kibum heard a lot about the new kid. Things that had to do with him being an orphan and being adopted by one of the college professors, Dr. Shin Soohyun of the music department. Stupid, simple things like that. But the biggest shock came to him when he was called up to the Principal’s office.
“Kim Ki Bum to the Principal’s office, please.”
Kibum sighed, pushing his hair back from his desk and tossing his bag over his right shoulder. He was in math class so it wasn’t that big of a deal that he would be missing it. On the way to the office he stopped by his locker to toss his stuff inside, too lazy to really carry a shoulder bag around with him if he was going to miss this class period, the last period of the day - given that there was still an hour left.
“Yes? You needed me?” He asked as he opened the wooden door to the office, mentally groaning when he saw the new guy sitting in front of the principal’s desk, a cheeky smile on his face.
“Hello, Kibum, it’s been a while since I’ve had to call you up here. How is your family and the company?”
“They’re well. It’s well. Nothing new.”
“That’s splendid.”
Kibum nodded before taking a step into the office and closing the door. The principal was a nice man, jolly and rosy with the few pounds he’s gained since the winter vacation. He’s never disliked the man but he knew that the guy was always out for the Kim Family’s Holiday Donation for the school and for any small amounts of money the family was willing to give. They only agreed to it because it was for the school that Kibum willingly attended.
“I actually called you up here to meet one of our new students, Shin Sung Hyun, or Kevin. I heard he’s in your homeroom.”
Kibum spared at glance at the boy that patiently sat there, listening and watching the two of them with his large eyes. Maybe he was supposed to be in remedial classes. “He is.”
“I’d like you to show him around the school and let him shadow you until he falls into step. He’s not from around here and he has some personal reasons as to why he lives with one of our Professors from our sister college. He’s a bright kid; his GPA is as high as yours and he’s also skipped a grade so I figured the two of you could become aquaintances.”
“Mr. Lee, I feel that you’re rambling,” Kibum muttered, flinching when the new kid silently chuckled.
“Oh, right, just please show him around until he feels comfortable. You don’t mind do you, Kibum?”
“I don’t mind.”
That was how he ended up with the new kid trailing behind him, his silent, innocent aura annoying enough to make Kibum turn on his heel in the middle of the hall and stare the kid down. “This is the one-hundred hall; where every math class known to man can be found. If you’re going to have my schedule for a while, this is where your last class will be. Got that, Sung Hyun?” Kibum turned back around, slightly regretting the harsh tone he had used on the kid, but this wasn’t his ideal way of skipping a class.
“Uh, excuse me.”
After a step or two, Kibum stopped abruptly to the small voice behind him, turning back around to see that the boy hadn’t moved. “What’s wrong now?”
For the first time since he met shin Sung Hyun, he smiled, a real smile, a smile that made Kibum’s head hurt and heart weakly clinch:
“Sung Hyun sounds weird coming from you, can you just call me Kevin?”
A/N: Sorry, this should have been up yesterday but I ended up working a double at work then sleeping for six hours.