HYDRARGYRUM IN VENIS FLUIT chapter 12
Title: Hydrargyrum in venis fluit CHAPTER 12
Author: Me, mjaku : D
Beta: Me? : D
Genre: Scifi, Romance, Angst, Fluff, Smut
Pairing: JongMin or Jonghyun X Taemin, Onkey, Michkhun...
Rating:PG-15
Disclaimer: I do not own any of SHINee's lovely boys or any other artist mentioned here : 3 ^^
Warnings: Smut, very OOC Super Junior?
Summary for the whole story:
When the global warming starts to destroy worlds surface, the
scientists start to create a new human super race, which would manage
to survive in the new world. They realise that all the metals would
have the immunity to the new deceases and the new human race is
born: Metal flowing alongside their blood, increasing their
strenght, speed, intelligence and giving them the most peculiar
powers of all.
Summary of the chapter: Jonghyun realises something significant from Heechul, and Taemin talks to Jonghyun. Things starts to get chaotic inside the school
Jonghyun’s life had turned black and white.
He had made a promise to himself to stay away from Taemin, solely because he was so afraid. He was afraid that his little mask would crumble and all the shit with SeKyung would have been in vain. He was afraid that if he got close to Taemin, he would lose him again.
He would lose him completely.
Jonghyun walked slowly along the corridors, avoiding eye contact with everybody and his thoughts were running miles and miles ahead of him. He had to smile a bit.
It was so ironic. Just a while ago everything was perfect. He had Taemin with him, they were happy with each other and everything was in balance. He finally got the connection with Taemin he had dreamed of since the beginning and then everything just…blew away. Just like that.
The male sighed heavily and rubbed his eyes. His dreams hadn’t gotten any better as time had ticked by. They were still as vivid as before, reminding him of his heartache in the most brutal way possible.
Jonghyun ssuddenly felt a little tinge of pain from his left arm and pressed his hand against it through the soft fabric of his shirt. His brows furrowed when he remembered the dark dragon which had left the bloody gushes along Jonghyun’s arm in a flash of silver.'
The dragon that surely wasn’t Seun… Jonghyun thought, his expression darkening considerably. The male was so deep in thought that he didn’t hear the two pairs of steps that were catching up to him. However, soon he was dragged away from his thoughts by a rather unpleasant surprise.
“Kim Jonghyun.”
The male cringed in anger as he heard the voice he had grown to despise from his heart. He turned around slowly and was presented with Sungmin and Kyuhyun side by side, their eyes fixated on him.
“Say it quickly, I’m not quite in the mood for your bullshit at the moment.” Jonghyun said with a menacing tone and Sungmin’s grinned the annoying cocky grin which seemed to be his own trademark.
“Well then, I think you will be quite happy with the fact that I’m not about to stick with you any longer than I have to. I just came to deliver a message.” The male said with lazy voice and Jonghyun’s eyes narrowed when he noticed the weird air around the two members of super junior. They were…shaken? Sungmin was better at hiding his feelings, but Kyuhyun’s darting eyes and serious expression were very clear signs that something big had happened. Jonghyun turned his brown eyes to look at Sungmin.
“Spit it out.” Jonghyun commanded and Sungmin’s eyes flashed with anger but obviously forced himself to calm down when he started to speak with collected voice.
“Heechul wants to negotiate with you about something. You need to arrive to the student councilroom exactly in…” Sungmin paused when he took in the time. “…In twenty minutes. You can decide it yourself whether you go or not, but knowing Heechul, I’d suggest that you start jogging to that direction” Sungmin said with a grin on his pale face and with that he walked past Jonghyun, Kyuhyun flanking him like a shadow.
Jonghyun just stood there, his mouth slightly agape.
He had no idea what would Heechul want to negotiate with him, and as he stood there, completely bewildered, a strange little thought crossed his mind. The male lifted his gaze just in time to see Kyuhyun and Sungmin walk around a corner and Jonghyun bit his lip, contemplating. It really was bothering him why the heck were the two males so uncharacterically nervous, but if he would follow them now, would he make it to the student council room in time?
I’m sure I have nothing to lose if I’m a little bit late… Jonghyun thought bitterly before starting to walk after Sungmin and Kyuhyun.
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One day before:
Key was getting really frustrated with all the paperwork that had been dumped to him while Onew was sick. The day before Key had found his friend from their bathroom, looking like a ghost, nose dripping with boogers. Key almost had to tie the older male to his bed before Onew actually considered taking a day off from his student council duties.
“How can he do all this and still manage to do all school tasks in time…?!” Key muttered to himself while signing some unimportant papers. Luckily he didn’t have classes on that day, so he didn’t have to worry about one big pile of homework adding to the even bigger pile of student council documents.
The door opening and closing shook Key away from his thoughts and he lifted his eyes briefly from the documents and smiled widely when he realized who it was. Something good finally….
“Nichkhun-hyung! What brings you here?” Key asked pleasantly and the older male took a seat and rubbed his brows tiredly. Key’s good mood died almost instantly when he noticed the anxiety radiating from his teacher. The younger male furrowed his brows.
“What’s wrong? Has something happened?” Key asked, ignoring the file he was going through and Nickhun let out a heavy sigh. Key noticed the dark circles under the older male’s eyes and bit his lip. Something had to be wrong if Nichkhun was looking like this.
“Well...I’m not sure how I should put this, but…I’m horribly worried. I haven’t been this worried since Super Junior decided to come here…” The male said with silent voice and Key furrowed his brows.
“Worried about what?” Key asked and the teacher lifted his eyes to meet Key’s. Then he sighed and buried his face in his hands, posture slumping.
“Super Junior hasn’t made any moves in almost a week.” Key lifted his other eyebrow, trying to get what Nichkhun meant with his words.
“Umm….Isn’t it a good thing that nothing has happened?” Key asked carefully and the older male rubbed his face in frustration.
“NO! Kim Kibum think about it! We are talking about Super Junior here! Since they have been here, there have been student deaths almost every week, if not even more often, but have you gotten reports about new people going missing?!” Nichkhun asked, his voice shaking with emotion and Key furrowed his brows.
“No, there haven’t been those in a while, but isn’t that…”
“It’s NOT a good thing! If they have forgotten their main reason for coming here which just happens to be killing the Manas who might pose a threat to them, then they are planning something that needs everything else being ignored. Do you get it?” The teacher stood up and started to pace in the small student council room and finally it hit Key.
“Oh shit. Oh shit.” the small male swore under his breath and Nichkhun turned to look at him.
“What’s wrong?” The male asked, quite surprised by Key’s outburst and the younger male stood up with shaking legs before lifting his eyes to look at Nichkhun .
“Just a while ago, Taemin’s metal was discovered. Now, Jonghyun and Taemin aren’t together anymore and he has started to seclude himself from the world and is slowly drifting towards Heechul…” Key said with wavering voice and Nichkhun’s brows furrowed when he started to put the pieces together. Key lifted his eyes to look at Nichkhun intently and gulped loudly.
“What if they are about to do something to Taemin?”
A silence fell to the room as both of the males recalled this, eyes filled with horror when they were forced to admit that it made sense.
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Key opened the door o his dorm tiredly, legs shaking with exhaustion and brows furrowed. They had ran through the whole school with Nichkhun and their worry had increased tenfold when the small brunet was nowhere to be found. Key rubbed his aching neck as he stepped to the dorm, ready to see Onew sleeping on his bed like a sick person should, but froze in place when he realized that his friend wasn’t there. Key gritted his teeth angrily as he threw his bag to the floor, all his pent up frustrations bubbling up.
“Why the HELL does everybody have to go missing TODAY?! Couldn’t you just take turns or something?! It would make it so much easier for us who have to run all around the fucking world to search for you! DID YOU FUCKING HEAR M…..”
“What are you screaming here? Were the files really so bad?” Key almost jumped out of his skin when Onew’s voice came from behind him and the younger one spun around, sighing in relief as it really was Onew, wrapped in a huge blanket which made him look very small and fragile. The older male furrowed his brows when the angry expression melted away from Key’s face, being replaced by the tired and sad one.
“What were you yelling about people going missing`?” Onew asked quietly and Key lifted his hand to rub the wrinkles on his forehead. Then he lifted his eyes to look at Onew tiredly and sighed.
“When I was going through the papers you left for me, Nichkhun came over and…He was worried. Actually, he was so worried that I couldn’t ignore it anymore. I asked what was wrong and he…told me some very disturbing news.” Key took a small pause before continuing with quiet voice.
“We realized that Taemin might be in danger, but when we tried to find him….he….I have no idea where he could have gone….He was nowhere to be found, as if he would have disappeared from the whole school and…I’m worried, Onew. What if something has happened to him while we weren’t looking?” Key’s words started to get strangled and realization flashed across Onew’s face. Then he walked forward until he was standing in front of Key, and enveloped him to a very warm hug due to the blanket Onew was wrapping securely around his long time friend. Key froze for a moment before he felt the floodgates open and tears started to fall freely from his brown orbs.
“I’m sure that Taemin is okay. He went to dance to the field last time we saw him? Well, he might have gone to sleep somebody else’s dorm or something like that. He needs some space for himself and I think that he isn’t so vulnerable anymore as he was before. The shock with Jonghyun made him stronger from what he was like previously, so you should relax and let Taemin take care of himself…” Onew said with a soothing voice and the male in his embrace started to shake even more violently than before.
“That’s the whole fucking problem!!! He doesn’t even have chances against some member of Super Junior, they are way too strong!” Key lifted his puffy eyes to look at Onew who furrowed his brows.
“Key, I’m going to say this to you as long as I have to: Taemin really is strong. It’s not because of his metal that he is strong. It’s because his heart is strong. When he came here he was that weak, bullied kid who couldn’t do anything, but when his metal was discovered and he met Jonghyun, he became stronger. And now that Jonghyun left him behind….I think that affected Taemin more than he let people see. He builded those protective walls around his heart, so he has gained wisdom from his past mistakes…” Onew said quietly and Key gripped his shirt harder.
“But because Jonghyun left him he…” Key took a little pause before lifting his eyes to Onew’s. “…He won’t dare to fall in love again. He won’t even trust anyone ever again! How is that being strong?! How will that help him against Super Junior?!” Key asked angrily, his eyes filled with frustration and Onew smiled a bit.
“It’s exactly because he is afraid of getting near people that it will keep him safe from Super Junior.”
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Jonghyun stood in front of the student council room, trying to collect himself enough to open the door. He had found out so much information on his little snooping adventure, that he was a bit overwhelmed. After a minute of contemplating he took in a slow breath before opening the door cautiously.
He was greeted with empty student council room, but soon he noticed the figure standing beside the big window and Jonghyun’s eyes narrowed when he recognized Heechul’s lanky figure in front of the glass. Jonghyun stepped to the room fully and closed the door after himself.
“I was told that you want to negotiate about something.” The male said warily and Heechul turned his face to his direction, a lazy smile on his lips.
“Yes, indeed I do, but first, I’d like to tell you something that I think you’ll find rather interesting.” Heechul turned around and walked over to one cushioned chair, making himself comfortable, before lifting his eyes back to Jonghyun.
“I offered Taemin a place in Super Junior.”
Jonghyun’s eyes widened as he stared at the older male in front of him. Why is he telling me this? The male thought frantically, but the thought was soon lost when he noticed the weird expression on Heechul’s usually so smug face. Jonghyun’s eyes narrowed.
“Why are you telling me this? What he decides to do isn’t my business anymore as you so kindly reminded me some time ago…” Jonghyun said every word dripping with venom and Heechul let out a laugh.
“Oh, and I meant what I said back then, but we encountered a little problem in Taemin’s answer.” the smile died on Heechul’s lips and he stood up slowly. When they were about an inch apart from each other, Heechul started to speak.
“You really need to die before Taemin will join us. There are no other options.” Heechul said with velvety voice and Jonghyun’s eyes narrowed once again.
“What? Did he refuse to join you? You must have screwed up big time Heechul when you have to use underhanded methods like killing me.” Jonghyun spat out of his mouth and Heechul’s eyes flashed dangerously. That was the only warning Jonghyun got before a fist landed to his face. The male staggered backwards, groaning in pain, but soon, a mocking smirk creeped it’s way to his face
“Pissed off, Heechul? It’s about time you played your cards without cheating and now we know who has the real talent in this game….” Jonghyun said with raspy voice and Heechul gritted his teeth in anger, but after a while, Heechul’s expression changed drastically and he started to laugh. Jonghyun felt his hair stand up from the eerie sound which came from the older male in front of him, and the smirk died on Jonghyun’s lips. Heechul stared straight to Jonghyun’s narrowed eyes and smirked.
“Now that you talked about playing the cards without cheating, a very strange thought crossed my mind…Meybe I’ll just…Show you all my cards without bluffing and you’ll see how wrong you were when you were suspecting that I was losing….” Heechul took a pause and Jonghyun’s hands glenched to fists. The older male was obviously enjoying the situation immensely.
“These are the options I’m offering you, Jonghyun. First option is that you get out of the picture. Just die. That way we will get Taemin and you will no longer hinder our plans. It’s a win-win situation. OR…” Heechul’s smile died and he stared at Jonghyun, his eyes flashing dangerously. “...If something so funny would happen, like if the little brunet decides to not to join us or you won’t let yourself get eliminated…” Jonghyun stared at Heechul completely frozen and the older male stared at him back.
“In that caseTaemin will die. I will kill him myself because if I can’t get him, then nobody else will either.” Heechul said with dark voice and Jonghyun’s resolve to keep calm about everything Heechul would say to him crumbled in mere seconds and he spat angrily to Heechul’s feet.
“I thought that I would never have to bring this up in this kind of situation, but you leave me no choice. Heechul. Taemin. Is. Not. HANKYUNG. You can’t make him replace Hankyung, nor you can make him Hankyung. Do you get it?!” Jonghyun stared at Heechul heatedly. “ You are doing all this in vain because no matter how much they are alike, Taemin is Taemin, not Hankyung! No matter how much you loved him and no matter how much you like Taemin, they aren’t the same person!” Jonghyun yelled heavily, and a silence fell to the room. Heechul was staring at him like Jonghyun would have just sprout six heads and eight dicks from his stomach. then Heechul finally managed to get his ability to speak back.
“H…How do you….” The older male staggered and Jonghyun stared at him coldly.
“I overheard a conversation between your comrades and everything became clear to me. Your motives, the reason you want Taemin and most importantly, what has made you like this. I’m sure you were quite different when Hankyung was still here, right Heechul?” Jonghyun said with calm voice, but soon he had to evade a angry kick which collided with a chair with enough force to send it flying to the wall and shatter to pieces. Jonghyun turned his face to look at Heechul who was panting and his eyes were bulging out of his head, making him look completely insane. The older male stared at Jonghyun, snarling.
“Don’t you dare to talk about Hankyung. Don’t you dare to say his name. Don’t you dare to even THINk about him when you know absolutely NOTHING about him. DON’T YOU DARE TO TAINT HIS MEMORY YOU FUCKING PILE OF SHIT!” Heechul leaped forward, aiming to Jonghyun’s throat and the younger one dodged again, but just barely. Jonghyun turned to look to Heechul’s crazed eyes and gritted his teeth in frustration.
“You talk about me tainting his memory, but it’s you who cannot let go of him! I know it must have been traumatic for you, but the circuimstances are the ones that count! And I’m sure that Hankyung has forgiven you already when he saw that you were truly mourning over him. Heechul, you need to see that Taemin isn’t going to be Hankyung!” Jonghyun pleaded desperately, seeing how Heechul’s expression turned from furious to sad. The older male looked to space, his brows furrowing.
“I….I never thought that they would make me kill him because we had the same metal….I never thought that…I never thought that Hankyung wouldn’t resist. I never thought that he would say he loves me….I never thought that my heart would just rip to pieces…” Heechul’s voice started to crack while he spoke and Jonghyun looked at the object of his seething, calming down a bit when he saw the distress in those dark orbs.
“Heechul, I want you to understand that you taking Taemin away from me is the same as how they took Hankyung away from you. If you try to take him, I’ll guard him with my life as long as I have to and when my life isn’t enough any longer, I’ll just have to….live with him as a ghost or something. But as long as I live, you can’t get him.” Jonghyun’s voice was laced with certainty and Heechul looked up with watery eyes. Jonghyun looked back at him and was about to drop his defending posture, when something changed in Heechul’s face. The older male straightened up and stared at Jonghyun with empty eyes.
“Then I’ll just have to kill you. “ Jonghyun had about two milliseconds to jump aside when Heechul leaped forward and this time the young male was too slow. Heechul’s fist collided with his elbow, and a sickening crack sounded in the room and Jonghyun groaned in pain. He started to wobble away from the crazed sub-leader, and stopped by the door that led to the corridor, realizing that it was futile to try to run for it. Heechul had gained the upper hand.
“You will never succeed in what you’re trying to do. It’s too late.” With that, Heechul got ready to land the finishing blow, but the older male never noticed the flash in Jonghyun’s eyes and the slight move of his fingers when a silvery sword had already pierced Heechul’s left arm.
The older male was frozen in place for two seconds, before he started to actually grasp the situation.
Jonghyun gringed at the earpiercing scream which Heechul let out and inspected his dislodged elbow carefully. Fuck, he’s have to just push it back to it’s original place and it would not be painless. Jonghyun lifted his eyes away from his arm and looked to Heechul’s slumped form on the floor. The younger male walked over to the male and Heechul lifted his eyes to glare at Jonghyun.
“When….When did you manage to get so much time to hide your sword here without me noticing?” Heechul asked with bewildered voice and Jonghyun paid him no attention, pulling the sword out of Heechul’s arm without any warnings, emiting a scream of pain from the older male. Jonghyun swinged his silvery katana and Heechul’s screams intensified to almost painful levels when Jonghyun’s sword eliminated his other arm too.
“When I talked to you back there you were so distracted by your own fury and anguish that you never noticed that I extracted Sirena out of me and ushered it further away from me, ready to strike when the right situation would rise. “ Jonghyun said solemnly, ignoring the pained pants from the man on the ground and turning around towards the door. Before leaving the room he turned to look at Heechul.
“Sirena has the ability to paralyze everything it pierces so you can’t even use your metal right now. I hope you take this as a lesson that even if you had good cards, it doesn’t ensue that you will win the game.” Jonghyun walked to the corridor, leaving Heechul sitting on the ground, eyes darting everywhere, the pain searing through everything, making his thoughts sharp as knives. Heechul stared at the door and grinned insanely.
“You are fucking DEAD KIM JONGHYUN! FUCKING DEAD! I’LL KILL YOU LIKE AN ANIMAL!” He screamed and started to laugh like crazy.
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Taemin walked to the school building, his brows furrowed and steps very fast. When Heechul had voiced out the proposition to join Super Junior, something had clicked inside the brunet and instead of escaping to Onew and Key’s dorm, he had made his way towards the woods which were located just beside the school. He had been sitting there for a long time, he wasn’t sure how long he was there. Hours and days seemed to lose their meaning as Taemin had had silent conversations with the dark mercury dragon which had appeared immediately when the brunette entered the forest.
And then the brunette had felt the pull.
Taemin recognized it immediately as Heechul, but something in the way the pull descended on him made shivers run up and down Taemin’s spine. This wasn’t the normal magnetic pull he had felt near Heechul.
No, this was purely malicious. It was the urge to kill something.
The brunet hurried along the corridors, searching for something abnormal, but everything seemed to be just fine. The students were walking around casually, talking and laughing like always. Hadn’t they felt it?!
Then Taemin noticed the thing that was wrong in the picture.
The Super Junior members were there. Almost everyone of them, and they weren’t having conversations or walking around like the other students. They were just standing there, and all of the eyes were fixated on him.
The brunet tried to look casual as he strode along the corridor and when he rounded the corner, he yelped in shock as he was pulled to a secluded classroom, a hand covering his mouth.
“Be quiet, or they will notice!” Taemin’s eyes widened as he recognized the voice that was talking to him, and his struggling ceased. The hand disappeared from covering his mouth and after a minute of contemplating, the brunet turned around slowly, looking at Jonghyun emotionlessly.
“What do you want?” the brunet asked with strangled voice and Jonghyun stared at him for a while before sighing heavily. His shoulder was hurting like a bitch from the blow he received from Heechul and it made concentrating horribly difficult, but after a moment of thinking, Jonghyun lifted his eyes to meet Taemin's and opened his mouth.
“I think I’ll go straight to the point because we don’t have much time. You need to get out of here. Out of the school.” Jonghyun whispered and Taemin furrowed his brows. What had brought this on?
“What do you mean? Why should I do that?” The brunet asked warily and Jonghyun gritted his teeth and started to rub his face tiredly.
“We don’t have time for lengthy explanations, you just need to get the hell out of here! I had a little…conversation with Heechul just now, and you must have felt that he isn’t entirely happy and he wants us. Dead.” the older male whispered fast and Taemin narrowed his eyes.
“Why would I believe y…”
“They will kill you! If you don’t join Super Junior they will kill you!” Jonghyun finally snapped and Taemin stared at him.
“….What? Why would they…” The brunet started but Jonghyun stopped him.
“Taemin, you were given two options, join Super Junior or die, but I want to give you the third option: Run. Get out of here. Hide in the woods, stay there for as long as you can manage, stay there as long as you are sure that Super Junior has left the School and then come back.” Jonghyun whispered erratically, but the bewilderment only grew on Taemin’s pale face.
“I don’t understand. Heechul…..I know he has a past, but he has never done anything to hurt me. Quite the oppos…”
“Of course he haven’t hurt you because he needs you alive and well to join their ranks! Please Taemin. You need to make the choice, because if you stay here and don’t go with them, you will get killed.” Jonghyun started to plead, gazing to Taemin’s brown orbs, which had changed from emotionless to scared.
“I don’t….I can’t!I understand where you are coming from, but I really don’t understand all this! Why can’t I just stay here and…talk to Heechul and make him believe that I’m really not worth all this! that I really don’t want to leave…” Taemin whispered, his face filled with horror and Jonghyun grabbed his shoulders angrily and forced the brunet to look him in the eye.
“Why is it so difficult for you to just leave! If you stay here, you are DEAD. If you don’t join them, you are DEAD. What the hell is keeping you so glued up to this place that you are willing to give your life aw…” ‘
“You.”
A silence fell to the classroom and they could hear the talking of other students from behind the door. Jonghyun was gaping and he was starting to have huge internal battles with itself in mere seconds. Was Taemin meaning the thing Jonghyun thought he meant…?
“Taemin, why…”
“I don’t know. I would have gone with them. I would have left immediately with Heechul, but then this one thought crossed my mind…” the brunet kept his eyes glued to the floor under him, hands fidgeting with the hem of his shirt.
“I…I still…My heart is here. Even though I tried to think past my feelings and think about the positive things in leaving, I was forced to admit the fact that I can’t move on, Jonghyun!” Taemin splurted out of his mouth in one big wordpuke and avoided the older male’s eyes.
“I can’t fucking think past the fact that I’d never see you again. I’d never see you laugh, smile, goof around and do those other things that made me so immensely happy. I could never look at you and feel that when you are somewhere where I can see you, the world is perfect. I….It makes me so furious that when I should be angry at you, I’m just…planting my ass right here and get ready for the day that you MIGHT come back to me. My heart is ignoring all the rational sense and I’m getting ready to just…wait for the day that you turn gay again!” Taemin flailed his arms wildly and Jonghyun just gaped at him. Every cell in his body was just screaming and running around crazily and the male had no idea what he was supposed to do. Finally he got a hold of his vocal chords and leaned heavily to the wall.
“T-The thing with Sekyung…It…It was a fake.” Jonghyun whispered out of his mouth and looked how Taemin’s expression went slack. Then the brunet shook his head slightly.
“Jonghyun, when I said those things I didn’t mean that you should suddenly start to…”
“No, Just listen at me Taemin!” Jonghyun snapped and the brunet fell silent. The older male sighed and rubbed his face, trying to search for the right words.
“To Super Junior, you are the thing that they are after. They don’t care how much bodies and anger they leave after them and everything that crosses their way must be eliminated. To them, I was one of those obstacles. Because when I was with you, you would never agree to their proposition. They thought of me as an…anchor that kept you here. And naturally, they need to remove the anchor to get you without a pinpoint. And there SeKyung comes to the picture.” Taemin looked at Jonghyun carefully, almost afraid of the tense expression on the older male’s face.
“They lured me to the dorm. They threatened me that if I would not act my part as I should, they would kill you. They were watching every move. Mine, and yours. They…Taemin, this sounds farfetched, and so bizarre that I’m not surprised if you just laugh at me for making up something like this, but…it’s the truth. I never wanted this. I wanted to protect you with things that were going to hurt you. I had to hurt you to avoid you getting killed. I said to myself that you would be okay, and you would move on without me. It would be completely fine, as long as you were alive but….but now that I can see that you clearly haven’t moved on and it hurts me…It hurts me to know that I just..tortured you and..”Jonghyun was silenced when Taemin’s finger came to rest on his lips. the brunet looked empty, like his thoughts would have been sucked out of him, but his eyes were portraying everything Jonghyun needed to know.
The brunet was looking at him, his eyes happy, in some funny way which made him look sad. The brown orbs looked at Jonghyun, trying to search for any signs of lie, but when he found none, his eyes filled with tears and with agonizingly slow pace walked over to the older male and pressed his forehead against the firm shoulder.
Jonghyun felt how his heart swell from the pure happiness he was feeling. He embraced Taemin gently and felt a lump form in his throat. Taemin was there. Taemin believed him. Taemin wanted to be with him even after what had happened.
“I’m so sorry, Taemin…” Jonghyun whispered to the brown tuft of hair and closed his eyes, feeling the moisture gather to the corners of his eyes and drop to his cheeks. Taemin gripped his shirt tighter and let out a small sob.
They stood like that for long time, but then Jonghyun heard hurried steps walk past the classroom and his attention was drawn to the problem at hand. Slowly he entangled himself from the brunet and brought their foreheads together, staring to the beautiful eyes longingly.
“We can’t stay here very long. You need to escape…” Jonghyun whispered and Taemin nodded nervously after a while.
“Jonghyun…when you see Heechul, don’t kill him.” Taemin said with strangled voice and Jonghyun furrowed his brows and smiled bitterly.
“Taemin, Heechul has practically declared a war against the campus. I can’t promise to you that…”
“Please…” Jonghyun felt how his resolve crumbled in mere seconds when Taemin’s face looked straight to him, eyes pleading and the older male bit his lip, bringing his hands to cup Taemin’s cheeks.
“Don’t look like that when I really can’t promise you anything…” Jonghyun whispered with raspy voice and Taemin put his hand to rest on Jonghyun’s.
“I believe what you said about Heechul, but I…I’d like to talk to him. Just once and make everything clear. I really don’t believe that he is bad. I have seen the side of Heechul that I think nobody else has ever seen, and he really is as pure from his heart as we are….Jonghyun, please…” Taemin pleaded with silent voice and the older male had to turn his head to the other direction before sighing heavily and looking at the brunet with tired eyes.
“I….I’ll try. But in that condition that you promise to do as I say.” Jonghyun said and Taemin smiled at him happily.
“Thank you, I will!” Taemin said and Jonghyun smiled back at him and planted a soft kiss on his forehead before going to listen at the corridor through the door.
“Right now the most important thing is to get you somewhere safe. The members were patrolling on the corridors and waiting for instructions, because we weren’t the only ones that felt the rage Heechul let out of his body…”Jonghyun said and Taemin nodded nervously. “They know that something big has happened and soon Heechul will give the commands and if you are still here, you won’t make it.”
“Will you come with me?” Taemin whispered strangledly and Jonghyun felt his heart melt. He walked over to the brunet and enveloped him in a firm hug.
“I will go there and arrange some kind of distraction so that you can get safely out of here. When I’m done, I will follow you.” Jonghyun said and Taemin nodded. When Jonghyun started to walk towards the door, a sudden feeling grasped Taemin’s chest and he grabbed Jonghyun’s arm. The older male turned to look at his lover. Taemin was looking at the taller boy scaredly and gulped.
“You promise to follow me immediately when you are done? Truly promise?” The brunet whispered and Jonghyun smiled reassuringly.
“I promise. I’ll see you in a few.”
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When Jonghyun stepped to the corridor, his plan was already foming steadily in his head. Without looking completely out of place, he started to walk along the corridor, counting how many members of Super Junior were there and he smirked when he noticed that every member had the same distance to the next one. Jonghyun walked casually past them, ignoring the stared he was receiving from Kyuhyun and Sungmin and exactly in the middle of the wide aisle, he drew his sword and in one big rush, he let his power explode around him: The effect was immediate.
The walls in the corridor were mainly glass to make the small aisle seem a lot bigger. When the energy wave hit the glass, the whole corridor blew up. Glass was flying everywhere and the Super Junior members covered their head in surprise and the screaming students ensured that Taemin could slip out of the abandoned classroom without anybody noticing. Jonghyun almost jumped in the air when he realized he had succeeded, but his joy was temporary as the malicious pull which had gotten quite familiar arrived to the same corridor and Jonghyun froze when he realized that he had been a little bit too late.
Heechul stood in the other and of the hallway, eyes glaring, and a mocking smirk spreading to his lips. Jonghyun gritted his teeth. Fuck, Heechul had seen Taemin leave for the main entrance…!
“LEE TAEMIN IS TRYING TO ESCAPE THROUGH THE MAIN DOORS! STOP HIM AND KILL HIM IMMEDIATELY!” Heechul’s voice echoed in the corridor and the other members from Super Junior rose up quickly and sprung after the small brunet. Jonghyun turned his eyes to look at the person he despised the most at the moment and smirked unhappily.
“Shall we take this outside, Heechul?”
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Author: Me, mjaku : D
Beta: Me? : D
Genre: Scifi, Romance, Angst, Fluff, Smut
Pairing: JongMin or Jonghyun X Taemin, Onkey, Michkhun...
Rating:PG-15
Disclaimer: I do not own any of SHINee's lovely boys or any other artist mentioned here : 3 ^^
Warnings: Smut, very OOC Super Junior?
Summary for the whole story:
When the global warming starts to destroy worlds surface, the
scientists start to create a new human super race, which would manage
to survive in the new world. They realise that all the metals would
have the immunity to the new deceases and the new human race is
born: Metal flowing alongside their blood, increasing their
strenght, speed, intelligence and giving them the most peculiar
powers of all.
Summary of the chapter: Jonghyun realises something significant from Heechul, and Taemin talks to Jonghyun. Things starts to get chaotic inside the school
Jonghyun’s life had turned black and white.
He had made a promise to himself to stay away from Taemin, solely because he was so afraid. He was afraid that his little mask would crumble and all the shit with SeKyung would have been in vain. He was afraid that if he got close to Taemin, he would lose him again.
He would lose him completely.
Jonghyun walked slowly along the corridors, avoiding eye contact with everybody and his thoughts were running miles and miles ahead of him. He had to smile a bit.
It was so ironic. Just a while ago everything was perfect. He had Taemin with him, they were happy with each other and everything was in balance. He finally got the connection with Taemin he had dreamed of since the beginning and then everything just…blew away. Just like that.
The male sighed heavily and rubbed his eyes. His dreams hadn’t gotten any better as time had ticked by. They were still as vivid as before, reminding him of his heartache in the most brutal way possible.
Jonghyun ssuddenly felt a little tinge of pain from his left arm and pressed his hand against it through the soft fabric of his shirt. His brows furrowed when he remembered the dark dragon which had left the bloody gushes along Jonghyun’s arm in a flash of silver.'
The dragon that surely wasn’t Seun… Jonghyun thought, his expression darkening considerably. The male was so deep in thought that he didn’t hear the two pairs of steps that were catching up to him. However, soon he was dragged away from his thoughts by a rather unpleasant surprise.
“Kim Jonghyun.”
The male cringed in anger as he heard the voice he had grown to despise from his heart. He turned around slowly and was presented with Sungmin and Kyuhyun side by side, their eyes fixated on him.
“Say it quickly, I’m not quite in the mood for your bullshit at the moment.” Jonghyun said with a menacing tone and Sungmin’s grinned the annoying cocky grin which seemed to be his own trademark.
“Well then, I think you will be quite happy with the fact that I’m not about to stick with you any longer than I have to. I just came to deliver a message.” The male said with lazy voice and Jonghyun’s eyes narrowed when he noticed the weird air around the two members of super junior. They were…shaken? Sungmin was better at hiding his feelings, but Kyuhyun’s darting eyes and serious expression were very clear signs that something big had happened. Jonghyun turned his brown eyes to look at Sungmin.
“Spit it out.” Jonghyun commanded and Sungmin’s eyes flashed with anger but obviously forced himself to calm down when he started to speak with collected voice.
“Heechul wants to negotiate with you about something. You need to arrive to the student councilroom exactly in…” Sungmin paused when he took in the time. “…In twenty minutes. You can decide it yourself whether you go or not, but knowing Heechul, I’d suggest that you start jogging to that direction” Sungmin said with a grin on his pale face and with that he walked past Jonghyun, Kyuhyun flanking him like a shadow.
Jonghyun just stood there, his mouth slightly agape.
He had no idea what would Heechul want to negotiate with him, and as he stood there, completely bewildered, a strange little thought crossed his mind. The male lifted his gaze just in time to see Kyuhyun and Sungmin walk around a corner and Jonghyun bit his lip, contemplating. It really was bothering him why the heck were the two males so uncharacterically nervous, but if he would follow them now, would he make it to the student council room in time?
I’m sure I have nothing to lose if I’m a little bit late… Jonghyun thought bitterly before starting to walk after Sungmin and Kyuhyun.
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One day before:
Key was getting really frustrated with all the paperwork that had been dumped to him while Onew was sick. The day before Key had found his friend from their bathroom, looking like a ghost, nose dripping with boogers. Key almost had to tie the older male to his bed before Onew actually considered taking a day off from his student council duties.
“How can he do all this and still manage to do all school tasks in time…?!” Key muttered to himself while signing some unimportant papers. Luckily he didn’t have classes on that day, so he didn’t have to worry about one big pile of homework adding to the even bigger pile of student council documents.
The door opening and closing shook Key away from his thoughts and he lifted his eyes briefly from the documents and smiled widely when he realized who it was. Something good finally….
“Nichkhun-hyung! What brings you here?” Key asked pleasantly and the older male took a seat and rubbed his brows tiredly. Key’s good mood died almost instantly when he noticed the anxiety radiating from his teacher. The younger male furrowed his brows.
“What’s wrong? Has something happened?” Key asked, ignoring the file he was going through and Nickhun let out a heavy sigh. Key noticed the dark circles under the older male’s eyes and bit his lip. Something had to be wrong if Nichkhun was looking like this.
“Well...I’m not sure how I should put this, but…I’m horribly worried. I haven’t been this worried since Super Junior decided to come here…” The male said with silent voice and Key furrowed his brows.
“Worried about what?” Key asked and the teacher lifted his eyes to meet Key’s. Then he sighed and buried his face in his hands, posture slumping.
“Super Junior hasn’t made any moves in almost a week.” Key lifted his other eyebrow, trying to get what Nichkhun meant with his words.
“Umm….Isn’t it a good thing that nothing has happened?” Key asked carefully and the older male rubbed his face in frustration.
“NO! Kim Kibum think about it! We are talking about Super Junior here! Since they have been here, there have been student deaths almost every week, if not even more often, but have you gotten reports about new people going missing?!” Nichkhun asked, his voice shaking with emotion and Key furrowed his brows.
“No, there haven’t been those in a while, but isn’t that…”
“It’s NOT a good thing! If they have forgotten their main reason for coming here which just happens to be killing the Manas who might pose a threat to them, then they are planning something that needs everything else being ignored. Do you get it?” The teacher stood up and started to pace in the small student council room and finally it hit Key.
“Oh shit. Oh shit.” the small male swore under his breath and Nichkhun turned to look at him.
“What’s wrong?” The male asked, quite surprised by Key’s outburst and the younger male stood up with shaking legs before lifting his eyes to look at Nichkhun .
“Just a while ago, Taemin’s metal was discovered. Now, Jonghyun and Taemin aren’t together anymore and he has started to seclude himself from the world and is slowly drifting towards Heechul…” Key said with wavering voice and Nichkhun’s brows furrowed when he started to put the pieces together. Key lifted his eyes to look at Nichkhun intently and gulped loudly.
“What if they are about to do something to Taemin?”
A silence fell to the room as both of the males recalled this, eyes filled with horror when they were forced to admit that it made sense.
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Key opened the door o his dorm tiredly, legs shaking with exhaustion and brows furrowed. They had ran through the whole school with Nichkhun and their worry had increased tenfold when the small brunet was nowhere to be found. Key rubbed his aching neck as he stepped to the dorm, ready to see Onew sleeping on his bed like a sick person should, but froze in place when he realized that his friend wasn’t there. Key gritted his teeth angrily as he threw his bag to the floor, all his pent up frustrations bubbling up.
“Why the HELL does everybody have to go missing TODAY?! Couldn’t you just take turns or something?! It would make it so much easier for us who have to run all around the fucking world to search for you! DID YOU FUCKING HEAR M…..”
“What are you screaming here? Were the files really so bad?” Key almost jumped out of his skin when Onew’s voice came from behind him and the younger one spun around, sighing in relief as it really was Onew, wrapped in a huge blanket which made him look very small and fragile. The older male furrowed his brows when the angry expression melted away from Key’s face, being replaced by the tired and sad one.
“What were you yelling about people going missing`?” Onew asked quietly and Key lifted his hand to rub the wrinkles on his forehead. Then he lifted his eyes to look at Onew tiredly and sighed.
“When I was going through the papers you left for me, Nichkhun came over and…He was worried. Actually, he was so worried that I couldn’t ignore it anymore. I asked what was wrong and he…told me some very disturbing news.” Key took a small pause before continuing with quiet voice.
“We realized that Taemin might be in danger, but when we tried to find him….he….I have no idea where he could have gone….He was nowhere to be found, as if he would have disappeared from the whole school and…I’m worried, Onew. What if something has happened to him while we weren’t looking?” Key’s words started to get strangled and realization flashed across Onew’s face. Then he walked forward until he was standing in front of Key, and enveloped him to a very warm hug due to the blanket Onew was wrapping securely around his long time friend. Key froze for a moment before he felt the floodgates open and tears started to fall freely from his brown orbs.
“I’m sure that Taemin is okay. He went to dance to the field last time we saw him? Well, he might have gone to sleep somebody else’s dorm or something like that. He needs some space for himself and I think that he isn’t so vulnerable anymore as he was before. The shock with Jonghyun made him stronger from what he was like previously, so you should relax and let Taemin take care of himself…” Onew said with a soothing voice and the male in his embrace started to shake even more violently than before.
“That’s the whole fucking problem!!! He doesn’t even have chances against some member of Super Junior, they are way too strong!” Key lifted his puffy eyes to look at Onew who furrowed his brows.
“Key, I’m going to say this to you as long as I have to: Taemin really is strong. It’s not because of his metal that he is strong. It’s because his heart is strong. When he came here he was that weak, bullied kid who couldn’t do anything, but when his metal was discovered and he met Jonghyun, he became stronger. And now that Jonghyun left him behind….I think that affected Taemin more than he let people see. He builded those protective walls around his heart, so he has gained wisdom from his past mistakes…” Onew said quietly and Key gripped his shirt harder.
“But because Jonghyun left him he…” Key took a little pause before lifting his eyes to Onew’s. “…He won’t dare to fall in love again. He won’t even trust anyone ever again! How is that being strong?! How will that help him against Super Junior?!” Key asked angrily, his eyes filled with frustration and Onew smiled a bit.
“It’s exactly because he is afraid of getting near people that it will keep him safe from Super Junior.”
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Jonghyun stood in front of the student council room, trying to collect himself enough to open the door. He had found out so much information on his little snooping adventure, that he was a bit overwhelmed. After a minute of contemplating he took in a slow breath before opening the door cautiously.
He was greeted with empty student council room, but soon he noticed the figure standing beside the big window and Jonghyun’s eyes narrowed when he recognized Heechul’s lanky figure in front of the glass. Jonghyun stepped to the room fully and closed the door after himself.
“I was told that you want to negotiate about something.” The male said warily and Heechul turned his face to his direction, a lazy smile on his lips.
“Yes, indeed I do, but first, I’d like to tell you something that I think you’ll find rather interesting.” Heechul turned around and walked over to one cushioned chair, making himself comfortable, before lifting his eyes back to Jonghyun.
“I offered Taemin a place in Super Junior.”
Jonghyun’s eyes widened as he stared at the older male in front of him. Why is he telling me this? The male thought frantically, but the thought was soon lost when he noticed the weird expression on Heechul’s usually so smug face. Jonghyun’s eyes narrowed.
“Why are you telling me this? What he decides to do isn’t my business anymore as you so kindly reminded me some time ago…” Jonghyun said every word dripping with venom and Heechul let out a laugh.
“Oh, and I meant what I said back then, but we encountered a little problem in Taemin’s answer.” the smile died on Heechul’s lips and he stood up slowly. When they were about an inch apart from each other, Heechul started to speak.
“You really need to die before Taemin will join us. There are no other options.” Heechul said with velvety voice and Jonghyun’s eyes narrowed once again.
“What? Did he refuse to join you? You must have screwed up big time Heechul when you have to use underhanded methods like killing me.” Jonghyun spat out of his mouth and Heechul’s eyes flashed dangerously. That was the only warning Jonghyun got before a fist landed to his face. The male staggered backwards, groaning in pain, but soon, a mocking smirk creeped it’s way to his face
“Pissed off, Heechul? It’s about time you played your cards without cheating and now we know who has the real talent in this game….” Jonghyun said with raspy voice and Heechul gritted his teeth in anger, but after a while, Heechul’s expression changed drastically and he started to laugh. Jonghyun felt his hair stand up from the eerie sound which came from the older male in front of him, and the smirk died on Jonghyun’s lips. Heechul stared straight to Jonghyun’s narrowed eyes and smirked.
“Now that you talked about playing the cards without cheating, a very strange thought crossed my mind…Meybe I’ll just…Show you all my cards without bluffing and you’ll see how wrong you were when you were suspecting that I was losing….” Heechul took a pause and Jonghyun’s hands glenched to fists. The older male was obviously enjoying the situation immensely.
“These are the options I’m offering you, Jonghyun. First option is that you get out of the picture. Just die. That way we will get Taemin and you will no longer hinder our plans. It’s a win-win situation. OR…” Heechul’s smile died and he stared at Jonghyun, his eyes flashing dangerously. “...If something so funny would happen, like if the little brunet decides to not to join us or you won’t let yourself get eliminated…” Jonghyun stared at Heechul completely frozen and the older male stared at him back.
“In that caseTaemin will die. I will kill him myself because if I can’t get him, then nobody else will either.” Heechul said with dark voice and Jonghyun’s resolve to keep calm about everything Heechul would say to him crumbled in mere seconds and he spat angrily to Heechul’s feet.
“I thought that I would never have to bring this up in this kind of situation, but you leave me no choice. Heechul. Taemin. Is. Not. HANKYUNG. You can’t make him replace Hankyung, nor you can make him Hankyung. Do you get it?!” Jonghyun stared at Heechul heatedly. “ You are doing all this in vain because no matter how much they are alike, Taemin is Taemin, not Hankyung! No matter how much you loved him and no matter how much you like Taemin, they aren’t the same person!” Jonghyun yelled heavily, and a silence fell to the room. Heechul was staring at him like Jonghyun would have just sprout six heads and eight dicks from his stomach. then Heechul finally managed to get his ability to speak back.
“H…How do you….” The older male staggered and Jonghyun stared at him coldly.
“I overheard a conversation between your comrades and everything became clear to me. Your motives, the reason you want Taemin and most importantly, what has made you like this. I’m sure you were quite different when Hankyung was still here, right Heechul?” Jonghyun said with calm voice, but soon he had to evade a angry kick which collided with a chair with enough force to send it flying to the wall and shatter to pieces. Jonghyun turned his face to look at Heechul who was panting and his eyes were bulging out of his head, making him look completely insane. The older male stared at Jonghyun, snarling.
“Don’t you dare to talk about Hankyung. Don’t you dare to say his name. Don’t you dare to even THINk about him when you know absolutely NOTHING about him. DON’T YOU DARE TO TAINT HIS MEMORY YOU FUCKING PILE OF SHIT!” Heechul leaped forward, aiming to Jonghyun’s throat and the younger one dodged again, but just barely. Jonghyun turned to look to Heechul’s crazed eyes and gritted his teeth in frustration.
“You talk about me tainting his memory, but it’s you who cannot let go of him! I know it must have been traumatic for you, but the circuimstances are the ones that count! And I’m sure that Hankyung has forgiven you already when he saw that you were truly mourning over him. Heechul, you need to see that Taemin isn’t going to be Hankyung!” Jonghyun pleaded desperately, seeing how Heechul’s expression turned from furious to sad. The older male looked to space, his brows furrowing.
“I….I never thought that they would make me kill him because we had the same metal….I never thought that…I never thought that Hankyung wouldn’t resist. I never thought that he would say he loves me….I never thought that my heart would just rip to pieces…” Heechul’s voice started to crack while he spoke and Jonghyun looked at the object of his seething, calming down a bit when he saw the distress in those dark orbs.
“Heechul, I want you to understand that you taking Taemin away from me is the same as how they took Hankyung away from you. If you try to take him, I’ll guard him with my life as long as I have to and when my life isn’t enough any longer, I’ll just have to….live with him as a ghost or something. But as long as I live, you can’t get him.” Jonghyun’s voice was laced with certainty and Heechul looked up with watery eyes. Jonghyun looked back at him and was about to drop his defending posture, when something changed in Heechul’s face. The older male straightened up and stared at Jonghyun with empty eyes.
“Then I’ll just have to kill you. “ Jonghyun had about two milliseconds to jump aside when Heechul leaped forward and this time the young male was too slow. Heechul’s fist collided with his elbow, and a sickening crack sounded in the room and Jonghyun groaned in pain. He started to wobble away from the crazed sub-leader, and stopped by the door that led to the corridor, realizing that it was futile to try to run for it. Heechul had gained the upper hand.
“You will never succeed in what you’re trying to do. It’s too late.” With that, Heechul got ready to land the finishing blow, but the older male never noticed the flash in Jonghyun’s eyes and the slight move of his fingers when a silvery sword had already pierced Heechul’s left arm.
The older male was frozen in place for two seconds, before he started to actually grasp the situation.
Jonghyun gringed at the earpiercing scream which Heechul let out and inspected his dislodged elbow carefully. Fuck, he’s have to just push it back to it’s original place and it would not be painless. Jonghyun lifted his eyes away from his arm and looked to Heechul’s slumped form on the floor. The younger male walked over to the male and Heechul lifted his eyes to glare at Jonghyun.
“When….When did you manage to get so much time to hide your sword here without me noticing?” Heechul asked with bewildered voice and Jonghyun paid him no attention, pulling the sword out of Heechul’s arm without any warnings, emiting a scream of pain from the older male. Jonghyun swinged his silvery katana and Heechul’s screams intensified to almost painful levels when Jonghyun’s sword eliminated his other arm too.
“When I talked to you back there you were so distracted by your own fury and anguish that you never noticed that I extracted Sirena out of me and ushered it further away from me, ready to strike when the right situation would rise. “ Jonghyun said solemnly, ignoring the pained pants from the man on the ground and turning around towards the door. Before leaving the room he turned to look at Heechul.
“Sirena has the ability to paralyze everything it pierces so you can’t even use your metal right now. I hope you take this as a lesson that even if you had good cards, it doesn’t ensue that you will win the game.” Jonghyun walked to the corridor, leaving Heechul sitting on the ground, eyes darting everywhere, the pain searing through everything, making his thoughts sharp as knives. Heechul stared at the door and grinned insanely.
“You are fucking DEAD KIM JONGHYUN! FUCKING DEAD! I’LL KILL YOU LIKE AN ANIMAL!” He screamed and started to laugh like crazy.
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Taemin walked to the school building, his brows furrowed and steps very fast. When Heechul had voiced out the proposition to join Super Junior, something had clicked inside the brunet and instead of escaping to Onew and Key’s dorm, he had made his way towards the woods which were located just beside the school. He had been sitting there for a long time, he wasn’t sure how long he was there. Hours and days seemed to lose their meaning as Taemin had had silent conversations with the dark mercury dragon which had appeared immediately when the brunette entered the forest.
And then the brunette had felt the pull.
Taemin recognized it immediately as Heechul, but something in the way the pull descended on him made shivers run up and down Taemin’s spine. This wasn’t the normal magnetic pull he had felt near Heechul.
No, this was purely malicious. It was the urge to kill something.
The brunet hurried along the corridors, searching for something abnormal, but everything seemed to be just fine. The students were walking around casually, talking and laughing like always. Hadn’t they felt it?!
Then Taemin noticed the thing that was wrong in the picture.
The Super Junior members were there. Almost everyone of them, and they weren’t having conversations or walking around like the other students. They were just standing there, and all of the eyes were fixated on him.
The brunet tried to look casual as he strode along the corridor and when he rounded the corner, he yelped in shock as he was pulled to a secluded classroom, a hand covering his mouth.
“Be quiet, or they will notice!” Taemin’s eyes widened as he recognized the voice that was talking to him, and his struggling ceased. The hand disappeared from covering his mouth and after a minute of contemplating, the brunet turned around slowly, looking at Jonghyun emotionlessly.
“What do you want?” the brunet asked with strangled voice and Jonghyun stared at him for a while before sighing heavily. His shoulder was hurting like a bitch from the blow he received from Heechul and it made concentrating horribly difficult, but after a moment of thinking, Jonghyun lifted his eyes to meet Taemin's and opened his mouth.
“I think I’ll go straight to the point because we don’t have much time. You need to get out of here. Out of the school.” Jonghyun whispered and Taemin furrowed his brows. What had brought this on?
“What do you mean? Why should I do that?” The brunet asked warily and Jonghyun gritted his teeth and started to rub his face tiredly.
“We don’t have time for lengthy explanations, you just need to get the hell out of here! I had a little…conversation with Heechul just now, and you must have felt that he isn’t entirely happy and he wants us. Dead.” the older male whispered fast and Taemin narrowed his eyes.
“Why would I believe y…”
“They will kill you! If you don’t join Super Junior they will kill you!” Jonghyun finally snapped and Taemin stared at him.
“….What? Why would they…” The brunet started but Jonghyun stopped him.
“Taemin, you were given two options, join Super Junior or die, but I want to give you the third option: Run. Get out of here. Hide in the woods, stay there for as long as you can manage, stay there as long as you are sure that Super Junior has left the School and then come back.” Jonghyun whispered erratically, but the bewilderment only grew on Taemin’s pale face.
“I don’t understand. Heechul…..I know he has a past, but he has never done anything to hurt me. Quite the oppos…”
“Of course he haven’t hurt you because he needs you alive and well to join their ranks! Please Taemin. You need to make the choice, because if you stay here and don’t go with them, you will get killed.” Jonghyun started to plead, gazing to Taemin’s brown orbs, which had changed from emotionless to scared.
“I don’t….I can’t!I understand where you are coming from, but I really don’t understand all this! Why can’t I just stay here and…talk to Heechul and make him believe that I’m really not worth all this! that I really don’t want to leave…” Taemin whispered, his face filled with horror and Jonghyun grabbed his shoulders angrily and forced the brunet to look him in the eye.
“Why is it so difficult for you to just leave! If you stay here, you are DEAD. If you don’t join them, you are DEAD. What the hell is keeping you so glued up to this place that you are willing to give your life aw…” ‘
“You.”
A silence fell to the classroom and they could hear the talking of other students from behind the door. Jonghyun was gaping and he was starting to have huge internal battles with itself in mere seconds. Was Taemin meaning the thing Jonghyun thought he meant…?
“Taemin, why…”
“I don’t know. I would have gone with them. I would have left immediately with Heechul, but then this one thought crossed my mind…” the brunet kept his eyes glued to the floor under him, hands fidgeting with the hem of his shirt.
“I…I still…My heart is here. Even though I tried to think past my feelings and think about the positive things in leaving, I was forced to admit the fact that I can’t move on, Jonghyun!” Taemin splurted out of his mouth in one big wordpuke and avoided the older male’s eyes.
“I can’t fucking think past the fact that I’d never see you again. I’d never see you laugh, smile, goof around and do those other things that made me so immensely happy. I could never look at you and feel that when you are somewhere where I can see you, the world is perfect. I….It makes me so furious that when I should be angry at you, I’m just…planting my ass right here and get ready for the day that you MIGHT come back to me. My heart is ignoring all the rational sense and I’m getting ready to just…wait for the day that you turn gay again!” Taemin flailed his arms wildly and Jonghyun just gaped at him. Every cell in his body was just screaming and running around crazily and the male had no idea what he was supposed to do. Finally he got a hold of his vocal chords and leaned heavily to the wall.
“T-The thing with Sekyung…It…It was a fake.” Jonghyun whispered out of his mouth and looked how Taemin’s expression went slack. Then the brunet shook his head slightly.
“Jonghyun, when I said those things I didn’t mean that you should suddenly start to…”
“No, Just listen at me Taemin!” Jonghyun snapped and the brunet fell silent. The older male sighed and rubbed his face, trying to search for the right words.
“To Super Junior, you are the thing that they are after. They don’t care how much bodies and anger they leave after them and everything that crosses their way must be eliminated. To them, I was one of those obstacles. Because when I was with you, you would never agree to their proposition. They thought of me as an…anchor that kept you here. And naturally, they need to remove the anchor to get you without a pinpoint. And there SeKyung comes to the picture.” Taemin looked at Jonghyun carefully, almost afraid of the tense expression on the older male’s face.
“They lured me to the dorm. They threatened me that if I would not act my part as I should, they would kill you. They were watching every move. Mine, and yours. They…Taemin, this sounds farfetched, and so bizarre that I’m not surprised if you just laugh at me for making up something like this, but…it’s the truth. I never wanted this. I wanted to protect you with things that were going to hurt you. I had to hurt you to avoid you getting killed. I said to myself that you would be okay, and you would move on without me. It would be completely fine, as long as you were alive but….but now that I can see that you clearly haven’t moved on and it hurts me…It hurts me to know that I just..tortured you and..”Jonghyun was silenced when Taemin’s finger came to rest on his lips. the brunet looked empty, like his thoughts would have been sucked out of him, but his eyes were portraying everything Jonghyun needed to know.
The brunet was looking at him, his eyes happy, in some funny way which made him look sad. The brown orbs looked at Jonghyun, trying to search for any signs of lie, but when he found none, his eyes filled with tears and with agonizingly slow pace walked over to the older male and pressed his forehead against the firm shoulder.
Jonghyun felt how his heart swell from the pure happiness he was feeling. He embraced Taemin gently and felt a lump form in his throat. Taemin was there. Taemin believed him. Taemin wanted to be with him even after what had happened.
“I’m so sorry, Taemin…” Jonghyun whispered to the brown tuft of hair and closed his eyes, feeling the moisture gather to the corners of his eyes and drop to his cheeks. Taemin gripped his shirt tighter and let out a small sob.
They stood like that for long time, but then Jonghyun heard hurried steps walk past the classroom and his attention was drawn to the problem at hand. Slowly he entangled himself from the brunet and brought their foreheads together, staring to the beautiful eyes longingly.
“We can’t stay here very long. You need to escape…” Jonghyun whispered and Taemin nodded nervously after a while.
“Jonghyun…when you see Heechul, don’t kill him.” Taemin said with strangled voice and Jonghyun furrowed his brows and smiled bitterly.
“Taemin, Heechul has practically declared a war against the campus. I can’t promise to you that…”
“Please…” Jonghyun felt how his resolve crumbled in mere seconds when Taemin’s face looked straight to him, eyes pleading and the older male bit his lip, bringing his hands to cup Taemin’s cheeks.
“Don’t look like that when I really can’t promise you anything…” Jonghyun whispered with raspy voice and Taemin put his hand to rest on Jonghyun’s.
“I believe what you said about Heechul, but I…I’d like to talk to him. Just once and make everything clear. I really don’t believe that he is bad. I have seen the side of Heechul that I think nobody else has ever seen, and he really is as pure from his heart as we are….Jonghyun, please…” Taemin pleaded with silent voice and the older male had to turn his head to the other direction before sighing heavily and looking at the brunet with tired eyes.
“I….I’ll try. But in that condition that you promise to do as I say.” Jonghyun said and Taemin smiled at him happily.
“Thank you, I will!” Taemin said and Jonghyun smiled back at him and planted a soft kiss on his forehead before going to listen at the corridor through the door.
“Right now the most important thing is to get you somewhere safe. The members were patrolling on the corridors and waiting for instructions, because we weren’t the only ones that felt the rage Heechul let out of his body…”Jonghyun said and Taemin nodded nervously. “They know that something big has happened and soon Heechul will give the commands and if you are still here, you won’t make it.”
“Will you come with me?” Taemin whispered strangledly and Jonghyun felt his heart melt. He walked over to the brunet and enveloped him in a firm hug.
“I will go there and arrange some kind of distraction so that you can get safely out of here. When I’m done, I will follow you.” Jonghyun said and Taemin nodded. When Jonghyun started to walk towards the door, a sudden feeling grasped Taemin’s chest and he grabbed Jonghyun’s arm. The older male turned to look at his lover. Taemin was looking at the taller boy scaredly and gulped.
“You promise to follow me immediately when you are done? Truly promise?” The brunet whispered and Jonghyun smiled reassuringly.
“I promise. I’ll see you in a few.”
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When Jonghyun stepped to the corridor, his plan was already foming steadily in his head. Without looking completely out of place, he started to walk along the corridor, counting how many members of Super Junior were there and he smirked when he noticed that every member had the same distance to the next one. Jonghyun walked casually past them, ignoring the stared he was receiving from Kyuhyun and Sungmin and exactly in the middle of the wide aisle, he drew his sword and in one big rush, he let his power explode around him: The effect was immediate.
The walls in the corridor were mainly glass to make the small aisle seem a lot bigger. When the energy wave hit the glass, the whole corridor blew up. Glass was flying everywhere and the Super Junior members covered their head in surprise and the screaming students ensured that Taemin could slip out of the abandoned classroom without anybody noticing. Jonghyun almost jumped in the air when he realized he had succeeded, but his joy was temporary as the malicious pull which had gotten quite familiar arrived to the same corridor and Jonghyun froze when he realized that he had been a little bit too late.
Heechul stood in the other and of the hallway, eyes glaring, and a mocking smirk spreading to his lips. Jonghyun gritted his teeth. Fuck, Heechul had seen Taemin leave for the main entrance…!
“LEE TAEMIN IS TRYING TO ESCAPE THROUGH THE MAIN DOORS! STOP HIM AND KILL HIM IMMEDIATELY!” Heechul’s voice echoed in the corridor and the other members from Super Junior rose up quickly and sprung after the small brunet. Jonghyun turned his eyes to look at the person he despised the most at the moment and smirked unhappily.
“Shall we take this outside, Heechul?”
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