Daylight (Part 2)

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Part 1

After that, the doors opened and, before Kibum could look at anything, he was thrown inside and the doors closed. The first thing he notices was the smell, something like… He opened his eyes to make sure: grass. So many years without seeing any grass. He let his fingers feel the texture of grass, closed his eyes again, finally noticing the sun and how amazingly hot he felt against his skin. He could feel the pure air into his lungs. It felt like freedom.

“Key, Sweetie, I need you to start now”.

And now he felt like a bird in a cage: illusion of freedom. He got up and looked around properly now: he saw plantation walls, with grass everyone, it was pretty and dangerous. Kibum didn’t need to get into there to know what that was: a labyrinth. It had an open space so he could enter, but it didn’t have any way out, not by sight at least. He took a deep breath and walked slowly until he was inside the labyrinth.

He walked for hours at least. Or so it felt like hours, he couldn’t know. The sun didn’t move, which means it was a fake sun, and he felt like a bird in a cage once again. Of course it wasn’t a open space, if that place had a open space Jinki could, probably, locate them. But the older said that he couldn’t find his coordinates, only his mind. He knew where he was, like the country, the city, but not the actual place.

He was tired of walking already, it felt like the corridors multiplied every time he rounded a corner and he would be lost there forever. At least he could sleep and see Jinki, so maybe the days lost there wouldn’t be so horrible. He could deal with an eternity beside Jinki. He couldn’t stop the small smile and the blush in his cheeks every time he thought about Jinki. His heart started to beat so fast that he thought that it would break his chest to get out. Maybe that was what people called love. Liking someone enough to marry them. He could marry Jinki. The thought made him feel butterflies in his stomach.

After some more time, he was so tired that not even thinking about Jinki made the situation better. He was starving and sleepy, and his arms and legs still hurt for the other day, so walking wasn’t that pleasant. He needed to think in a way to get out there without use water, air and fire. He didn’t want the punishment, maybe if he weren’t already hurt, but right now he couldn’t take it.

“Maybe I’m not capable of, you know?” He said out loud, looking up to the sky, where he bet were the cameras filming the test.

No answer.

“I don’t even know what I’m supposed to do, I only know that I can’t use water or air or fire, but what I-- oh”.

He remembered now. Jinki said people like him were powered by nature. So if the nature gave him 3 powers, it could have given him four. Air. Fire. Water. It had another one. The fourth.

Ground.

It was so obvious.

This whole place was full of ground. Dirt. And plants. So, if he wanted to get out, he needed to control one of them. Or all of them. He thought about Jinki and the hope of getting out there. It wasn’t accessing his powers, he needed a really strong emotion, so he thought about freedom.

He wanted to get out there. He wanted to go to the place where Jinki said people test their powers without pain or without getting hurt. He wanted to have a choice to come and go. He wanted to feel the sun on his skin.

The real sun. And smell the grass. Or the beach. Or both. He wanted to get out there.

He didn’t wanted to be the bird in a cage, but a phoenix flying freely. He closed his eyes and suddenly he was out. Up in the sky. The ground beneath his feet was solid. Up there he could see the end, and then made his way till there.

And after this everything was black.

Daylight

“You look tired again,” Jinki said, sitting beside him with a smile.

“I am, actually, I think I’ve passed out.” Kibum said with an easy smile.

“You don’t seem… Sad today.” Jinki put a hand around his waist.

“I am not,” Kibum pulled Jinki until they were on the ground, lying next to each other again. “Jinki, I want to get out”.

Jinki turned until they were facing each other again. It was easy to lay down next to Jinki and only look into his eyes.

“I want you to get away as well, but it’s not easy.” Jinki was running his hand in Kibum’s arms. “I need a way to find your coordinates”.

“I know a way,” Kibum smiled to him. “How fast can you get there?”

“It depends, I’m pretty sure we’re in the same state, I only need the coordinates.” Jinki had this worried expression that made Kibum’s heart go crazy. “I don’t want you to get hurt. We were trying to find a way of finding you without putting you in risk”.

“Maybe I could get hurt now, but after that I would never get hurt again, think about that.” Kibum said, bringing him to a messy hug on the ground. “It’s a long term reward’.

“I don’t want you to get hurt ever,” Jinki said, kissing his forehead, “I hate to think that you’re getting hurt there. That right now you’re actually passed out and there’s nothing I can do besides being here for you.”

“That’s awesome, you know, I like having you here. And I trust you to be here with me.” Kibum took himself right beside Jinki and felt strong arms holding him, “I’m powered by four”.

“What?”

“They made a test, I can make ground as well.” Kibum said.

“You’re… Really powerful,” Jinki said carefully, “That’s why they keep you so hidden. It’s only fear that someone can take the place down, it’s fear that someone could take you down, Kibum. I need you to… I need you to stay low, ok? I’m really afraid of what they can do with you”.

“They already hurt me”.

“It’s because you’re locked out for so long. Kibum, babe, sometimes they really sell people like you to be used as weapons.” Jinki kissed his hair now, almost like he was trying to comfort him, “They sell them to really bad people who torture not only for tests, but for pleasure. They use people as weapons to kill others. They destroy their poor souls, and Kibum, if they decided to sell you, we could never find you again. Those places are really… Blinded out for anyone, that’s how no one stopped them yet, so now that they know you’re powered by four, that means you’re expensive.” Jinki sound really disgusted now, holding him so tight that he couldn’t barely breath.

“I didn’t… Jinki, what we are going to do?” Kibum said.

“I’ll talk to the others, make a plan, okay? You’ll help us to find you,” Jinki smiled, losing the hug so he could look directly at Kibum’s eyes, “And no one will ever hurt you again. I promise. And you’ll have a beautiful and happy life just like you deserve, ok?”

“All of us?”

“Oh… There’s more people there?”

‘Yes, many kids. They always said that I couldn’t talk to them or about them, that I had to act like they didn’t exist, but Jinki, right now, I need them to have freedom as well”.

“You’re right! I’ll warn my people about that too, and we’ll be ready to help all of you, ok?”

Kibum blinked a little, and then leaned down to press a light kiss in the older's lips. The kiss was fast and sweet, just like first kisses should be. And then Jinki broke the kiss, releasing Kibum and sitting with wide open eyes and a blush all over his face.

“Don’t do this.” Jinki whispered. Kibum was taken aback, sitting next to him and feeling the rejection so hard take he could almost cry right there. Jinki seemed to notice, so he was suddenly right there, right in front of Kibum, his hands in each side of the younger’s face. “Don’t get me wrong, I do want you, I really do,” As if to prove his point, Jinki gave him another fast kiss. Kibum felt his heart almost melt and then Jinki was gone again. “I do want you, but right now I don’t feel like it’s the right moment. You’re so alone for so long that I don’t feel like you can decide if you really want me right now or if you only like me because I’m the only one here, you know?” Jinki smiled to him, “I believe and respect your feelings, but I need you to get out and have freedom before you decide if you want me or not, otherwise, I would feel like i’m abusing you”.

“But you’re not,” Kibum was shocked now, eyes wide open. “I kissed you, you’re not.. It’s not like you’re taking advantage of me”.

“I know, babe, I know you kissed me,” Jinki smiled to him, “You just don’t have any other reference to make this decision now, you know? You’ve been kidnapped for years now, and no one gave you love and support for so long that’s easy for you to like me just because I’m doing this.” Jinki kissed him on the cheek, “Don’t worry, though, when you’re out, I’ll be there next to you, and if it’s meant to be, it’ll be.”

“You and me?”

“Yes. Both of us, I swear”.

“Can I have another kiss?” Kibum asked. Maybe it should be frustrating, but Jinki was right. He should focus on getting out, and then he would love Jinki. Every single day. And no one would stop them.

Both of them. Jinki and him.

Jinki kissed his cheek, laughing.

And suddenly the dream was out. It didn’t fade out, like it usually did, Kibum was just woken up abruptly. Jiyong was there, looking furious just like Kibum always saw him looking at others, but never at him.

“Key, who is Jinki?”

“What do you mean?” Kibum tried, smiling a little, “Who is Jinki?”

“I’m not stupid, Key.” Jiyong said, looking directly at him, “You passed out after using your ground power for the first time, and then we brought you here, to watch your dream properly, because you’re passing out a lot, and we need you healthy to use your powers, and, Key, what a surprise to listen you talking about this “Jinki” guy so much.”

Kibum looked around and noticed that he wasn’t in his room, but in a lab. He had wires coonected to him everywhere, with something like a machine in his head.

“And then we noticed that you’ve talked about this Jinki before and no one from your family was named Jinki.” Jiyong nodded and smiled to him. This smile was cold as stone. “So we decided to look through your dreams, we’ve had the machines here for people powered by psychic, but we’ve never thought that was it would be necessary to use in your or anyone else’s head, anyone powered by elements, since we have this amazing shield protecting the whole building-- and look, we were wrong”.

A guy showed him blurred pictures of him and Jinki in the dream. Hugging. Laying down together. Kissing. Kibum felt his cheeks burn and couldn’t help but smile.

“Who is Jinki? He is powered by psychic, I bet, so that’s how he found you, am I right?” Jiyong waited a little, almost like he wanted an answer, but Kibum didn’t say anything. “Ok, so he found you and kept… Showing up in your dreams. Why?”

Kibum looked around the room and then back to Jiyong.

“Do you care about him?” Jiyong asked, but it felt like more an affirmation. “You do, don’t you? He shows up in your dreams, says sweet nothings into your ear and you forget all about me, isn’t it like that? Because you’ve never looked at me like this”.

Jiyong took one of the pictures and waved it in front of his face. In the picture, Kibum was smiling looking at Jinki, who was holding his face in his hands, smiling as well.

“And now you won’t talk to me?” Jiyong’s voice was getting louder and louder until he was screaming. Jiyong only screamed when he was really mad, and Kibum felt his whole body freeze. “Fucking, tell me now, WHO IS JINKI: IS HE POWERED BY PSYCHIC? HAVE YOU MET HIM BEFORE?”

Silence.

“If you don’t answer now, I’ll put you in the cell, Key”.

The cell. Kibum had already gone there before. It was an awful place, a literal cell, like a bird cage, trapped in the ceiling of the labs and whoever stays there gets to see all the tests. Someone could think it was an easy punishment, but it was actually terrible: the person had to hear all the screams of pain, tears and fights going on below, and if they did any sound, they got whipped or hurt some other way, only eating one time in every other day and getting only a pot of water, like a dog.

But he couldn’t tell him anything about Jinki. If he had a choice, he chose for Jinki to stay free and happy than there with him. Even if that meant only seeing him in dreams, it was better. Jiyong couldn’t find him.

“So you’re choosing the cell, isn’t it?” Jiyong asked. “You like this… Random so much that you’ll be punished because of him. This makes me so mad.” Jiyong touched his face with both hands, but it didn’t felt like Jinki’s. They were cold. “I want to wreck you because of this, but I need you alive. You’re powered by four, so I need to have you” Jiyong kissed his cheek.

Kibum was disgusted immediately. That was ok, the cell, he would try to sleep and find Jinki again. Jink would hold him, make him ok, kiss his cheeks to erase Jiyong’s path there and they would have some hours together. Thinking about this made Kibum’s heart so happy. Any time with Jinki was valid and really amazing. He felt them unwrapping him of the bed, taking the machine off and then suddenly he felt something in his arm. He was used to the feeling of a needle - he never asked any questions, they always gave him all kinds of medicines, and now he only wanted to go to the cell, sleep and find Jinki.

“So, this is special, Key, we’ve never used this with you before.” Jiyong said, smiling at him, “This is a very powerful medicine, and do you know what it does?” Kibum shook his head with a frown, no one ever told him what the medicines did. “It Inhibits your sleep.”

Kibum froze again, looking at him with pleading eyes.

“Please, no,” Kibum finally said, feeling like someone had just punched him in the stomach “Don’t do this, I can’t go days without sleep or food, it will… Kill me, you said you wanted me healthy.”

“You’ll have food, don’t worry, a little bowl just like a dog.” He said. “But you’ll not sleep and not meet this man again, ‘cause you’re mine, Kibum, remember that name?” Listening Jiyong calling him Kibum always felt wrong, but right now it was even worse. “Yeah, Key, no one will ever take you from me.”

Daylight

The cage was like hell. Kibum didn’t know how long he was there, but it was long enough. In the beginning he was ok, he couldn’t sleep because of the medicine and he thought that he wouldn’t get tired as well. But no, he was really tired now. He was sleepy, but the drug kept him awake. His mind wasn’t even making sense anymore.

At first, he heard people talking about him. How special he was because he was powered by four, but somehow he didn’t feel special at all. Jiyong had said, with a smile in his voice, that everything would be ok when they ended the research of a way to block Key’s mind, and then he would be his forever. Kibum didn’t want to be Jiyong’s or anyone’s. Not even Jinki’s. He wanted to be free. He wanted to have choices and to go wherever he wanted to. Use his powers when and how he wanted.

And then the tests begun. First it was a girl, he could tell she was young just by hearing her voice. She was scared, not talking much, and just doing whatever they asked her to. He was glad that her tests were fine, she didn’t scream or anything, she was powered by water and could make ice. Kibum didn’t know if he could make ice, probably yes. Not all those powered by water could make ice. He looked at the ceiling and closed his eyes.

The next three people were just as calm: tests. No scream. No speaking. But then another girl came, she was crying, he noticed fast. Jiyong was talking about her and she was touching things, he could hear the metals hitting the table.

“Stop that now,” Jiyong said roughly, “Did I let you touch anything?”

“No,” was the trembling answer. Kibum focused on her voice trying to find out how old she was.

“So why are you touching?” Jiyong asked and had no answer, “Yeah, that’s what I thought” .

This girl screamed. She seemed to be young, maybe a kid, she screamed and cried during the whole thing, and Kibum felt nauseous. Hearing someone be in that level or fear and pain, and to do nothing was hard for him. The cage wasn’t big enough for him to lay down, he had to let his legs pass in between bar spaces, so they were hanging out in the ceiling, just like his arms. It wasn’t comfortable but it was the best position right now, so he didn’t see anything below. He could look, but why would he want to? Listening was bad enough for him.

At some point he was so tired that he didn’t even knew how his body was still awake. He couldn’t hear anything more, only his thoughts. Sometimes he heard screams, and couldn’t tell if they were his own or whoever was being tested now. When he closed his eyes he could see colors dancing in the dark, when he opened the colors were still there. He wanted to sleep. Dream with Jinki. He wanted a hug.

He wanted to sleep but also wanted to stay awake. He wanted to let everyone that he heard today out. He wanted so many things, and nothing. His brain was a confusion of colors and memories. Screams and kisses. Hugs and tests. Fire and water. Ground and air. He was weak now, but felt stronger than ever. It was almost like he had been sleeping all those years, numb. But then he met Jinki and he was different. He showed him that the world hadn’t to be so… White. And cold. Seeing such a different reality showed all the flaws in his. Why didn’t he think about that before? His tired brain asked no one. How did he live so many years there being tested, being punished, every day without even knowing what those tests meant? How could he live being powered by nature without even knowing what that means?

How could he be so strong but still be locked there? He opened his eyes and watched the colors dancing between the cage’s bars. If he was the most powerful person in this whole building, why was he was still locked down there?

Kibum thought about this place, he didn’t know much: it had bedrooms, corridors and tests rooms. It had maybe four floors. Every time they took him somewhere, they took an elevator, but it had no numbers in it, only a screen that you could tap the floor you wanted. He had never gone higher than the fourth floor. The dorm was on the second floor. If he wanted to run away he had to think about some things: helping the others open their cells, the cameras that were everywhere, the guards and where they were. Because if they could get out, he needed to lead them somewhere, what if this building was in the middle of nothing?

He needed Jinki’s help and for that to happen he needed to open the communications. Jinki said that the building had all minds protected under something like a shield and he couldn’t access it. But, somehow, Kibum’s mind was still out there. Why?

His thoughts were brutally disrupted when the cage started to be taken down. Kibum sat up and waited until he was face to face to Jiyong.

“Hello, Sweetie, how was your day?” He asked touching Kibum’s face lightly.

Kibum looked at him and then turned his face away, bringing his legs bent close to his chest, trying to force space between them.

“So you’re still like this? Key, you make me so sad, you know that?” Jiyong said, shaking his head slowly, “I didn’t want to hurt you, but you’re leaving me no choice, you know? That’s what you want?”

“If you want to,” Kibum said, “I’ll not say anything, so if that means you’re going to hurt me, so be it”.

“When did you become this aggressive, hm? Was it Jinki?” Jiyong took a deep breath, “Give him more of the dreamless medicine and put him down.”

“Are you sure?” One of the white coat guys asked, sounding a little in shock.

“He wants to play a freaking rebel, so be it,” Jiyong said smiling, “Let him in the worst cell that you can find”.

Daylight

The first thing Kibum did when was thrown into the cell was to try and make ice. This place still had cameras, but he thought that, since he was incapable of sleeping, no one would care about him training his powers. The thing is: he would be without sleep now that he refused to talk about Jinki, so he had to use all his tiredness as strength to keep going.

Conjuring his powers wasn’t easy, he noticed. In every test he could only use his powers when triggered to have big emotions. Always something between the lines of despair, fear or tiredness. But there were two times that he used them after being happy with Jinki, so to try out his powers he started to think about good things.

His parents and the good memories of them playing with him. He remembered sitting down with his father and watching the stars, learning all of their meanings. His mother kissing his forehead and reading books with him.

And that made water happen. He noticed that some of the water was escaping under the door, so he concentrated enough to make some ice and put it there, and then filled up his room until it had water up to the ceiling. He found out that he could stay underwater for some time, more than a normal human being, and then he used air and fire to make the water evaporate. He didn’t feel the fire, it would lick his skin like a caress and not hurt at all. If he used the air in the right way, he could fly around and not just float immobile. The ground power was the most fun to play with, he could build things like sand castles and use water to destroy it. He could make beautiful things using all of his powers.

It was crazy to think that with the same hands he could model a small mountain with a waterfall and watch this for a long time, and he also could kill someone. He didn’t know how long he was down there until they gave him his third plate of food. And when they brought food they, also, used to give him a new dose of the medicine. It was a lonely place. This cell was humid and kinda of dark, he couldn’t make light, but he was okay with the dark. The dark reminded him of Jinki.

Thinking of Jinki also made his power easier to control. Good emotions were the best to make everything happen. Maybe if Jiyong knew that he would be a better person… Or maybe not. Probably not, but Kibum liked to have faith in people.

At some point his body reached a level of tiredness that he couldn’t ignore anymore. It was hard to move and he stayed still, laying on the bed. He didn’t know if it was possible or not, but he may have passed out at some point. He was in the dark.

Not the dark room, but his mind’s dark. He recognized this place.

“JINKI,” He screaming on the top of his lungs, running around, “JINKI, PLEASE!”

“KIBUM!”

And suddenly he was in the older’s arms after so much time.

“Jinki, oh God, Jinki, I’ve missed this”.

Jinki was hugging him tightly while kissing his hair.

“Kibum, I’ve missed you… I thought… We thought… You were gone and oh, God, I thought the worse”.

“I’m alive,” Kibum said, moving away from the hug a little bit so he could look Jinki in the eyes, “They’ve found out about you, gave me drugs to keep me awake but I think that my body couldn’t take it anymore, I think I’ve passed out”.

“Babe, you’ve been awake since the last time I saw you?”

“yeah”

“15 days,” Jinki hugged him again “I want to kill them”.

“I want to get out, we don’t have much time here, they know about you and they’ll… I’ll be awaken soon, so we need to think fast, ok?” Jinki nodded, looking at him intensely. “So I was thinking… If we can break this shield so you can locate this building, and if it’s close, how fast can you get here? I’m afraid that we are in some kind of desert, you know? How can I run with those people to nowhere? I need a place to take them.”

“We’ve been training this,” Jinki smiled to him “We have some people powered by psychic that can teleport, not my case, I can only travel with my mind, not my body, but they can, so if you call me, and we have the coordinates, we’ll be there in minutes to help you all”.

Kibum nodded a little, and then smiled to him.

“I trust you,” He said truthfully, “I really trust you, I don’t know if a should, but I do, please, don’t prove me wrong”.

“I would never,” Jinki kissed his cheek “Never, I promise”.

“I’ll look for the shield’s source, it’s a machine, right?”

“Probably,” Jinki shrugged “It could be a person, a really strong person powered by psychic, but It didn’t feel like that. If it was a person I should be able to feel this person’s mind, but I can’t, so it’s probably a machine”.

“It’s easy to find this machine, I get?”

“It’s really easy because it’s a big machine that has a shield in it.” Jinki smiled a little “Really, if the shield is on, the machine’s screen will have a shield drawn on it, ok?”

“Ok, Jinki, I-”

The light killed the dark and he was awake abruptly again. He was in a bed again, wires everywhere, and the mind machine again.

“You passed out.” Jiyong said to him. “I know you saw that Jinki again. I’m tired of warning you, Key.“ He looked around, and then took a deep breath.

“They said you’re weak because of the lack of sleep and hunger, so you’ll sleep in this machine that supposedly stops your dreams, and this man right here, our most powerful powered by psychic guy, will watch your mind as well, ok?” Jiyong said to the boy, he was young and looked kinda scared. Kibum tried to smile to him, but the guy was looking down. He was really thin and asian, like Kibum.

“Keep in mind that if you dream about this man again, we’ll know and you’ll be punished.” Jiyong said easily. “Good dreams”.

When Jiyong left the room, a white coat guy was still there, working, the boy was looking at him now, no expression in his face and Kibum let his body rest. He probably slept, he thought when opened his eyes after some time. It was a dreamless sleep, he didn’t try to call Jinki. He needed to rest a lot now and didn’t need to be taken down again. Right there, in that room full of psychic machines, was 50% of chance of the shield machine be there as well. So if he could stay there was the best choice ever.

Now the room was empty, aside from the boy, still looking at him.

“Hello” He said, smiling a little.

“Hey,” The boy answered “They said that I couldn’t speak with you.”

“Oh well” Kibum smiled to him, and then only moved his lips without let out any sound “you are powered by psychic, so you can create a sound barrier, maybe?”

The boy seemed to think a little, then he looked around, and smiled a little.

“I’m trying, I’m not that great with my powers yet”.

“I’m Kibum” .

“I’m Taemin”.

“You look young, I’m sorry you’re here, but I can take you out”.,

Taemin looked shocked for a second there and then shook his head.

“It’s not possible, it is? Right now then can’t hear us, but they can still see us, if we do anything, they knock us down and then torture us”.

“But, Taemin, we’re much more than they are” Kibum looked around “It’s just… We are separated. We need to be together. I have someone outside, that’s why you’re here, and I can call him to come help us but to do this right now I need to break the shield that it’s keeping this place out of the mind map”.

“And if we die?”

“Ok, I don’t want to force you to do anything, ok? But think about this: you can die trying or live here forever being tests or you can be sell to be used as weapon, it’s your choice. I’ll try to sleep a little, then you have time to think.”

He drifted of to a dreamless nap. He found out that sleep without dream was good to rest, but it left a hole inside his heart. It was almost like he was missing a big part of his life, so when he opened his eyes, decided that he wanted to dream awake as well.

“You’re right” Taemin said at the same time he opened his eyes “We should try. If we do, maybe I can find my family again.”

“I think my family is dead” Kibum said, sadly “But I have this guy, Jinki, and that’s it”.

“What you need?”

“First let’s see… i’m powered by four, so I can stop people, but I have to physically go to the rooms and open one by one, but you… Powered by psychic, I bet you can get into people’s minds”.

“Yeah” Taemin shrugged “but I‘ve never done this to so many people before, I’ll probably fail” .

“Think about good things” Kibum smiled to him “It’s the best way to trigger your powers when you’re not used yet. We’ll stop the shield machine, and I’ll try to call Jinki with my mind and you’ll talk to the other people here”.

“But what… What i’m gonna say?”

“The truth: that we if are united we can get out, and that they should use their powers to escape the rooms and… And use this power to get out. To help others. Can you do that?”

“I think so” Taemin smiled to him “what’s that machine?”

“Well, we need a big machine with a screen that have a shield on it, can you see something like that?”

Taemin looked around twice until he nodded.

“I think I’ve found it”.

“Great, now I need you to tear apart this wires of me, but discreetly, they can’t notice what’s going on from the cameras, ok?”

Taemin started to try to loosen the wires one by one.

“Did noticed that they’re so certain that we never going against them that they put the two of together?” Kibum asked “Or rooms don’t even have proof of powers walls or doors”.

“That’s because we’re too weak, no?”

“No, it’s because the best way of torture that they do here it’s inside our minds, you know? They make we believe that we’re weak, and that we would never be capable of scape, but you see, you said that you were weak, but right now you’re holding this sound barrier for what? A couple of hours?”

Taemin stopped everything and looked shocked to him, eyes wide open almost like a deer caught by highlights, and Kibum smiled to him.

“Do you believe in my now, Taemin? We can do this”.

The youngers nodded, and then took of all the wires. Kibum set up immediately, and they both raced toward the machine.

“We don’t have that much of time to think about buttons” Kibum murmured and then pulled all the wires, turning the machine off. “Taemin, go!”

And he closed his own eyes, screaming Jinki’s name in this mind. He didn’t need to be sleeping, he thought, he only needed to make Jinki find him. Beside him, Taemin was with eyes wide open watching the door, and in his mind he was telling everyone to rebel against this place. Just like Kibum had said. Suddenly, bunch of guards break in with guns and shot against them, with Kibum used the air to change the direction of the bullets. Taemin seemed to be so taken by surprise that Kibum sensed they with closed eyes.

“C’mon, Jiyong it’s probably being being woken up now to come here and we need to get to the room floors before they activate the machine”.

They ran to the stairs, and Kibum wisely made an ice path that they slid on until the second floor. When they got there, Kibum couldn't stop his smile. Everyone was out of their rooms, he could see guards’ bodies in the ground while people opened some of the still closed doors. He saw some kids with probably 6 or 7 years old holding each other with wide open eyes. He saw girls with murderous eyes and crying boys feeling lost there.

“HEY” Kibum screamed but nobody listened, que looked around and then make a really high podium and screamed again “HEY EVERYONE” people noticed him now and everyone started to stop and look at him. When everyone was in silence he nodded “OK! Now We have to organize to get out, ok? Jiyong it’s probably reconnecting the shield machine now and we will not be capable of spread a message like Taemin did before, ok? So let’s do like this: everyone powered by air in the left, everyone powered by fire in the other: you guys are deadly, so you in front: fire people, fire everywhere, air people, make his fire even worse. Water behind the air people and help them to don’t hurt themselves with the fire, it’s possible a water wall?” Most of people said yes so he nodded “ok, now ground and psychic people behind everyone, you’ll close the path, ok? Powered by ground do walls and everything you can to stop everyone to came behind us, while powered by psychic if you can teleport, it’s time to get people out here, first you go for the kids, ok? Remember: Some guards are powered by fire as well, so we need that the psychic people took this one down, or you can do this?” Some of people said yes “and now: maybe have people outside to help us, I’ve tried call them, I don’t know if they found us, if they did, you can trust them ok? And one more thing: they don’t have guards powered by psychic, that’s why they needed a machine to lock the building and needed Taemin to watch my sleep, NOW LET’S GO! WE CAN DO THIS!”

They organized really easily and started to move towards the stairs, the build didn’t had windows, which would make easier to get out. The guards were taken down one by one, some of them got a little hurt, but they were too many. When they get by the main door, Kibum remembered something.

“And the people down there?” He pulled Taemin that was passing “Taemin, and the people down there?”

“I talked with everyone in the building, I think, they will come behind us.”

“But they are less than us” kibum screamed “and if the guards could overpower them?”

Kibum saw people running outside and noticed that had people there, maybe Jinki’s friends. He wanted to run too, but the people down there needed help as well.

“You want to call someone to go down there with us?” Taemin asked.

“No, I can go alone, run free, Taemin, thank you”.

Kibum turned to look to the stairs that lead down there. When he found them, made the same thing with the ice and slid down there fast. Most of the doors were open, but some of them don’t. He approached people that were trying to open those doors with worried expression.

“Why this can’t open?’

“They’re powered proof doors. All doors down here are, but those are proof to anything but psychic, and we don’t have any powered by psychic here” The girl explained.

“Actually” They all turned to see Taemin smiling at them “I just checked to see if everyone was good up there, and you see, Kibum, I think your friend it’s there, and I came here because I couldn’t just leave you like this after you helped me to see that I could have a better life” He smiled “Now, those doors, hum?”

They all turned away from the doors, and Taemin, with a flourish movement of hand opened all the doors. People started to run off there, guards where get down there now, and Kibum saw the war happened, even without a plan of attack, people were taking the guards down. Kibum runned looking all the doors, in one of the rooms had a small girl crying.

“Hey, come here, let’s get you out here, ok?”

She looked at him.

“I can’t move” and he recognized his voice immediately. It was the girl’s that touched everything during the tests when he was on the cage.

“Why you can’t move? What’s your name?”

“Lily”

She showed him that her hands were attached in the bed with handcuffs.

“Ok, you’re powered by what?”

“Four.”

Kibum smiled to her, and used fire to break everything. And then hugged her, carrying her outside that place. Lily was really small and thin, probable had around 5 years old and certainly was too young to use her powers. He used air to fly up, back to the main door, and hiding her face against his chest, so she couldn’t see all the bodies.

“KIBUM” he heard the scream and the door closed, keeping him inside. He turned to see Jiyong looking at him with a mad expression. He had a gun in his hand, pointed to them and eyes of someone that could shot at any moment. It didn’t come as a surprise to find out that Jiyong wasn’t powered. That’s why he wanted their powers so much: he didn’t have his own.

“Jiyong, you’ve lost” Kibum said, holding her tightly “Let me out, end this”.

“You’re crazy? You! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! You destroyed everything! All my years of hard work”.

Lily started to cry against his chest and Kibum shocked his head.

“You kidnaped us. All of us. You’ve made me going through hell here, ok? All of us. You broke our dreams and self-esteem, you’ve made us believe that we’re weak and that all of this was the only way of living, but it’s not. You’re crazy, and I’m letting you rule my life anymore!”

Kibum screamed and used the ground to make a cage trapping Jiyong in. The man tried to shoot, but Kibum used air do turn the bullet away and locked him in this ground cage with fire in their bars.

“Because you like cages so much” Kibum smiled to him and then turned, opening the door and getting out. He could see some people helping others round the place. The build was in a desert area, how he had guessed, but he could see a city if he looked up.

A boy came to him, smiling “She is ok? I’m a nurse in Colorful, you need me to have a look on her?”

Colorful. What?

“Sure.”

When he passed the Lily to the nurse he started to room around, his body was so tired and he needed to rests, but he also needed to find Jinki first. People were receiving water and medical treatments there, and then they were teleported. Everyone looked happy and… He only wanted to find Jinki. It was almost like a war scenario, but they had won. It was easy to predict the victory considering the bunch of people that was in that place.

“Kibum?”

He turned fest when he heard the familiar voice. Jinki was there. Smiling that bright smile that was even brighter in the real world. It could outshine the sun.

“Jinki?”

And when Jinki run to hug him, Kibum felt tears in his eyes, and gentle kisses in this forehead.

“I’ve found you, I was so worried, Kibum”.

Crying against Jinki’s chest, he was finally ok. He could have emotions now, and be a little weak. He could fall and Jinki would, certainly, catch him.

“I thought, for a moment, that I couldn’t make it. I thought I would die, and everyone would die as well, and- I -”

“Sh, that’s ok, relax” Jinki ran his fingers through Kibum’s hair “I’m here, you’re not alone, you can relax, nothing bad it’s going to happen anymore”.

Kibum felt his body release all the tension and suddenly everything was dark.

Daylight

Kibum wake up with a start, and he needed a couple of minutes to remember everything. He looked around: he was in a pretty room, it was white, ok, but had one baby blue wall right in front of his face, have television, and a computer in a table. He wasn’t attached to the bed, he had only a single wire connecting him to a medicine bag. Had a windows, he smiled sitting and turned to see the city outside. It was a good place. Someone knocked in the door and then opened.

“Oh, Hi, you’re awake, good!” The person smiled to him, and showed a clipboard “I’m a nurse him in Colorful, my name is Minho, I just came to check if everything is ok? You need anything? In your file say that you’re… Powered by four and was anemic, ok. This” he pointed to the bag “it’s a IV drip, since you were passed out and couldn’t eat”.

“Ok.. Where it’s Jinki?”

“He is a little busy but he will be here soon, do you want to watch some television?”

“I think that would be nice, thanks”.

Minho left the television on in some channel that he never heard about. He wasn’t in Korea that was sure. It was passing a funny movie about some emotions lost inside a little girl’s mind. Kibum smiled fondly thinking that Jinki was almost like that. It was different to wake up and don’t feel fear. Don’t have to worry about how bad would be the day. To think that everything was ok now and that he could do whatever he wanted. it was an amazingly good feeling and he was… In love with the idea. He wanted to see the world, see everything he had missed in those years alone. But he also wanted Jinki, be with him. Together. Jinki did had a point when he said that they needed to know each other better, and in a better situation to know if that was actually love, but Kibum was almost sure. It was like someone up there had put Jinki in his life to brighten his days.

“Are you free to talk to me?” Jinki asked opening the door with a smile.

“Jinki! I- Oh, It’s so weird to actually see you”.

“I could say the same” Jinki approached the bed and sit on the edge “I was so…. Happy when you called me and we could locate you. All of your colleagues are being taken care of, who had family alive we’re bring them back and who didn’t we’re helping them to find a place, if they want they can stay here in Colorful or go away”.

“Colorful?”

“Sorry I didn’t tell you our name, I was worried that if they find a way to look into your mind they would find out about us and… We are pretty big, everyone know Colorful.”

“I’m not mad, considering that they really found a way to look inside my mind” He laughed a little “Colorful seems like a good place”.

“We are like a school, you know? We help people to understand their powers, and who wants to live here, we have bunch of rooms. And who wants to help, we train nurses to deal with powered people and we always looking for teaches and everything. We look for powered people by their minds, sometimes, to talk with them about the possibilities. We do this in their minds because sometimes they’re or really far or in a situation like yours and we can’t approach in real life. That’s how I’ve found you.”

“Looking somebody else” Kibums smiled.

“Yeah, I was in a machine, because he was in Japan, but you’re close… Your mind was always there, but so dark and hidden. That day, I’ve found you because I was in the machine. I never use the machine, I don’t usually need, not even to that long mind travel, but… I don’t know how life works sometimes…I’m glad that I used the machine that day.”

Kibum nodded a little, still tired. He yawned, looking the TV again.

“I’m so happy that we’re out. I can’t believe that someone it’s capable of doing things like that… They had kids there, Jinki. KIds. Really little kids.”

“We saw, by the way, Lily had found her parents, they’re alive. She was kidnaped while coming back to school with a auntie”.

“Good, she deserves a better life than that”.

“All of us, Kibum” Jinki smiled to him. “Now what do you want?”

“Right now?” He laughed a little, finish this movie with you laid here with me”.

“Sounds great to me” Jinki moved so he would lie next to Kibum, was a couple bed and had bunch of space for both of them, but still the older was really close to him, holding him close with a arm. Hugging him and bringing him so close that they felt almost like one.

“And after all that?”

“I don’t know, maybe I’ll stay here” Kibum said “Or I could travel a little, know the world. Would you come with me?”

“No, I need to run this place” Jinki said, but kissed his nose when saw the deception in Kibum’s eyes “But I think you should go and alone. Know yourself it’s the best way of knowing your power, your limits and your body. It would be amazing for you.”

“And if I want to come back?”

“Colorful will always be with open doors for you, Kibum.”

“And you?”

Jinki didn’t answer, he just gave him a kiss on the lips, as that was enough of an answer, and it was. because in the end, Kibum know only one thing: he could go everywhere and Jinki would always go with him. In his dreams.

The end

Epilogue
5 years later

The doorbell rang around 3 AM and Jinki was the only one still awake. He was waiting for Kibum to call him, so he could find him. For all those years that the other man traveled, they had talked and shared beautiful moments in dreams. In the end, they always had each other, even if so far from each other. He opened the door and was attacked by a hug. They always had beautiful moments in his dreams, like they used to have when Kibum was… In that bad old place. They used to lay down alone, and talk for hours. Or just hug. When the time passed, Jinki noticed that, even if was hard for him to believe, their feelings were right and real since the beginning. It’s hard to understand love sometimes, how can love be so right in a crazy situation like that? But it was. Sometimes he wanted to give up everything and run to find Kibum anywhere he was, but Colorful was important.

“SURPRISE!!!”

“Kibum?”

The man smiled to him with bright eyes.

“The one and only, missed my real me?”

Jinki only smiled and kissed him. They kissed like that in front of Colorful door for a couple of minutes. And then Jinki hugged him. It was good holding the other in dreams? Yeah, but the real world was, still, incomparable.

“Oh god, I love you” Kibum said against his chest. Was the first time he ever said it. Was special and Jinki could say that he was waiting the right moment to say it “I’ve missed you like this so much”.

“Me too, I love you too” Jinki kissed his whole face and then laughed when someone whistled from a window above them.

“CAN I TAKE PICTURES?”

“SHUT UP TAEMIN” Jinki screamed back and listened the laugh of the younger man echoing in the night.

“He probably took the pictures anyway” Kibum warned him with an easy smile.

“He probably filmed, the brat” Jinki couldn’t stop kissing him, and nothing would make him blue right now “so, how long you’ll stay?”

Kibum gave him a knowing smile back. His eyes shining with hope.

“Forever”.

The end