Viewfinder Secrets 13th Shot
13th Shot
13 years ago
A black Toyota Corolla GTi16* was seen speeding thru the freeway being tailed by other cars. The woman driving the car briefly glance behind her, and cursed under her breath when she saw the other cars are gaining upon them. “Jaejoong sweetie I want you to keep your head down,” he told the child sitting quietly beside her.
She then reach over the glove compartment and took out two guns. Without taking her eyes off the road she handed one of the guns to Jaejoong, “Here, I trust you know how to use it,” she said while taking the other for herself. She had trained Jaejoong at an early age on how to defend himself should a situation arise and handling a gun is part of those training she gave her child.
“Umma, what’s happening why are they chasing us?” Jaejoong asked calmly - too calm for a child who should be bawling his eyes out in terror right now, but Jaejoong is different. From an early age he was thought by his Umma to stay calm and assess the situation first before doing something.
“They are bad men Honey. They are the ones who killed your father and now they are after us. They want to kill everyone that is connected to your father,” she said as she continues to drive.
*Bang*
*Crash*
“Shit!” the woman cursed and glance behind them to see some of the men chasing them were firing at them. She aimed her gun and fires a couple of shots to distract them a little, while she lets their car drift through the evening traffic. Jaejoong was thrown to the side of his seat when the car lost its balance and skidded unto the side bars of the road. “Jaejoong when I say jump, jump ok?” his Umma said as she fought to regain control of their vehicle. Jaejoong could only nod, trying to stay calm but failing miserably, when another bullet sped pass them and hit the dash board. Jaejoong feels panic rising in his chest when he saw that they were about to hit the mouth of a tunnel.
“Umma!!!” he cried out in terror.
“Jaejoong! Jump!” his Umma shoved him as hard as she could out of the car while she tries to escape the vehicle too. Unfortunately, the car hit the tunnel entrance before she was able to jump out. The car crashed and exploded upon impact.
Their pursuers seeing that hey have succeeded in their mission escaped the scene as fast as they could before any of the authorities arrive. Without realizing that Jaejoong might have survived the crash when he jumped off the car and was lying unconscious a few feet off of the side of the road.
Jaejoong regain consciousness and saw the carnage in front of him. He ran toward the flaming vehicle and saw his Umma lying in a pool of blood not far from crash site.
“Umma!” he cried out as he rushes towards her. Not far sirens can be heard approaching the crash site. But Jaejoong was so distraught to pay it any mind.
+++++
“How was he?” one of the nurses asked the doctor looking through the glass doors leading towards the ICU where the child is.
“Not good, multiple lacerations on both arms and legs, three fractured ribs as well as a fractured knee, multiple cuts and bruises and a major concussion,” the doctor listed looking grim at the patient’s chart. “We’ll be lucky if he survives through the night,” he said closing the chart and putting it down.
“Poor kid… How about his mother, doctor?”
The doctor could only shake his head looking grim. They both sighed and resumed their jobs, both hoping for the child’s survival.
++++
Jaejoong woke up daze trying to assess where he is.
“Oh you’re awake already,” the nurse checking out his IV exclaimed when she saw him staring at her. “Hold on let me page a doctor ok?” she said reaching for the intercom. “Maya could you call Dr. Choi and tell him his patient has is already awake! Thanks!” she disconnected and then smiled at him.
“How are you feeling?” she asked kindly.
Jaejoong just frowned but answered nonetheless, “Sore… Umm… Umma where is she?” he asked tentatively as he tries to sit up. The nurse helped him but her smile faltered when she heard him ask about his mother.
“I am sorry,” she looks away. “You mother was dead when we found,” she said softly refusing to look at the horrified expression she was sure to be written across the child’s face.
Jaejoong just sat there in complete shock, “No she can’t be dead! She can’t be,” he started hyperventilating. Then flashes of what happened came back to him, the chase, the screeching tires, the gun shots, and the crash.
He clutches his chest when he felt it tightening, ‘No Umma has got to be alive. No Umma… no… no… I… I can’t breathe….’ Black spots dances across his vision and the last thing he saw was the nurse shouting onto the intercom saying something about a code blue and then he pass out.
++++
“Just as I expected, the strain his ribs sustained affected his lungs. We have to keep him immobile at least for a week to give his ribs enough time to recover. As for his blood pressure, at least we were able to stabilize it, if not we could have lost him,” he said writing notes again in the patient’s chart.
“So far since we were able to get him to breath again hopefully there won’t be any damages to his brain functions. Bomi, I am assigning you to keep a close watch on him tonight. Make sure to call me if anything were to happen again,” with that said the doctor left to continue his rounds.
++++
A month after
*groan*
Big doe-like eyes flutter open to stare at white ceiling of his hospital room. The nurse attending him smiled down at him and asked if he was ok. Like the first time she pages his attending doctor immediately, but unlike last time he didn’t ask anything he just stared at the nurse in confusion.
When the doctor came he started examining him and asked some questions.
++++
*sigh*
“What’s wrong doctor?” the nurse asked seeing the doctor exit the ICU where the boy had been living in for close to 2 months already.
“Nothing, it’s just that it is so frustrating seeing one of my patients suffering this much,”
“Why? What’s wrong with him?”
“Well apparently due to the entire trauma he had experience his mind made a mental block on his memories. In other words he has partial amnesia. He remembers who he is and how old he his but other than that nothing,”
“Poor thing,” both doctor and nurse could only stare at the child sitting on his hospital bed with pity in their eyes. Both sympathizing with him and the life that he would surely have to face.
++++
Present Seoul Yunho’s 40 Pyung Apartment
“He has a very high fever due to flu but otherwise he is ok. If he woke up make sure he drinks plenty of fluids to replenish what he had lost, for now I’ll leave this IV drip to help hydrate him. In the case of his fever spiking up just submerge him in the tub with cold water. So you need to check his temperature every hour,” Dr. Lee handed Yunho an ear thermometer. “If his temperature didn’t lower down even with the help of cold water call me, for now just keep replacing the cold compress on him forehead,” Dr. Lee wrote some more on the patient’s chart and took out his prescription pad and wrote down the needed prescriptions.
Yunho just sat beside Jaejoong carding his raven locks. “Here are the prescriptions he needs,” Dr. Lee handed Yunho the prescription.
“Thank you, doctor. I’ll call you if something happens,” Yunho said standing up and escorting the doctor toward the door.
“DongHae,” Yunho called his assistant who was stationed outside his door. “Bring Dr. Lee back to his office and pick up Jaejoong’s prescription,” he said handing the prescription to DongHae along with his debit card.
“Yes, boss,” DongHae accepted the card and prescription and faced the doctor, “This way, Doc,” he said leading the doctor towards the exit.
Yunho sighed and closes the door to his room. He padded to where Jaejoong was lying and sat down beside him again. “Don’t scare me like that,” he said softly as he caressed Jaejoong’s face lovingly. His mind drifted to what Changmin had said during the photo shoot.
“Hyung, I just don’t want you both to get hurt. This obsession you have for him isn’t healthy,"
“He was right. I have an unhealthy obsession on you as well as let my emotions rule me whenever we meet. But Jae I can’t help it. Did you know that you were my driving force? The one who drives me to do my best as well as do my worse. Just your mere existence drives me to the point of insanity,” he shifted and took Jaejoong’s hand in his and kissed it.
“When I learned that you forgot about me that, pushed me over the edge. It drove me to do those horrible things. I thought that you betrayed me and so I did the only thing I do to people who betray me, I hurt them until I knew and experience the pain that I feel. The pain of betrayal,” he traces the palm of Jaejoong’s hand in a contemplative manner.
“I thought I have succeeded in getting you back through that, but I was wrong. The only thing that I have accomplished is drive you further away from me,” he smiled a little though his eyes started tearing up, “Honestly I wasn’t expecting you to fight me tooth and nail. I thought for sure I have broken you. But you have proven to me wrong again, and that you were made of a better material than any other person, and for that I am grateful. Jaejoong, mianhe … I am so sorry for everything I did. Please give me another chance,” Yunho clutches Jaejoong’s hand as he sobs.
“Please… I love you,”
+++++
DongHae was driving through the city on his way back to Yunho’s condo, after bringing Dr. Lee back to his office and picking up Jaejoong’s prescription, when his mobile rang. He smiled when he saw the name on the caller ID.
“Hi Babe,” he answered in a singsong voice.
“Hae,” the other end said.
DongHae’s expression turned serious when he heard the stressed tone in his lover’s voice. “What wrong Teukie?” he asked.
“Where are you now?” Leetuek asked.
“I am on my way back to the Boss’ condo,” he answered, “Why?”
DongHae could hear his lover sigh from the other end before taking a deep breath as if he was gathering his wits. “Siwon called me. He said that Han Geng-ssi is here in Seoul,” that turned DongHae’s blood into ice. Both he and Leetuek knew of their boss’ history with the said Chinese man, and both knew that Han Geng being here in Seoul spells nothing but trouble.
“I’ll tell Boss about it. You have don’t worry, go home and wait for me ok?” DongHae reassured his lover.
“Ok I’ll be waiting. See you at home,” Leetuek said.
“Wait!” DongHae said before his lover hangs up.
“What?”
“Teukie… Love you…” DongHae said with a goofy smile on his lips.
“Pabo!” Leetuek said already picturing the dorky grin plastered on his lovers face right now. “Love you too,” he said softly and hangs up.
DongHae’s smile disappeared out of his face once he turns around the corner that leads to where his Boss’ condo is located.
‘I hope this time everything would be resolve,’
+++++
“I’ll be waiting! I’ll be waiting right here so you have to comeback! I’ll be waiting until you come back! Please come back!”
“Please come back…”
“Please!” Yunho was startled when he heard the plea and felt Jaejoong grab his shirt. He put away his laptop and sat beside Jaejoong.
“Jaejoong?” he asked trying to get a response from the unconscious man lying on his bed. He took the thermometer and stuck it inside Jaejoong’s ear to check his temperature. He curse under his breath when he saw that it reached 129’F/39’C. Taking off his glasses he rushed toward the bathroom to fill the tub with cold water and went back to carry Jaejoong.
He pause for a moment when he saw his predicament. ‘Now the problem is how to get Jaejoong into the bathroom without taking the IV off,’ muttering a quick apology towards the unconscious man he heaved Jaejoong up on his shoulders and rolled the IV stand into the bathroom. Once inside he sat Jaejoong onto the closed toilet seat and began to undress the man.
Gulping up his saliva from his suddenly parched throat he began to mutter, ‘I am not gonna jump him. I am not gonna jump him. Oh Fuck! He is sick for Christ sake! He needs me to help him to alleviate his sickness not aggravate it! Get a grip Jung Yunho you’re stronger than this!’
*groan*
“Please!”
That woke up Yunho from his perverted thoughts and he quickly divested Jaejoong of his pajama and submerged him onto the water. ‘That was close!’ Yunho sighed in relief. He then began rubbing a sponge onto Jaejoong’s face, neck and chest to cool the parts that wasn’t submerged in water. Yunho gulped again as he run the sponge onto Jaejoong’s chest and collar bone. ‘Damn It! Jung Yunho! Get your head off the gutter you moron!’ he berated himself.
“Yunnie…” Yunho was brought back again to reality when he heard that soft voice. He was shock to have heard that name again. He hadn’t heard that name since he was a little kid and he thought he would never hear it ever again, specially coming from those sweet lips.
He stared at Jaejoong when he saw the sick man’s eyes starting to flutter revealing glassy doe like eyes. “Yunnie…”
+++++
“Yunnie! I’ll be waiting so please come back! ”
“Yunnie…”Jaejoong look around listlessly around the bathroom his fevered mind not registering his surroundings in his delirious state. His eyes landed onto Yunho and he smiled, “Yunnie…” he reaches out and caressed Yunho’s face.
“I must be dreaming…” he said softly while bringing his hand down and staring out the small window beside the tub. Yunho just remained silent. “This would have been embarrassing to admit in person if I weren’t dreaming,” he said and faced Yunho again. “Yunnie… remember my promise to wait for you?” Yunho could only nod.
“I… I waited for you,” Jaejoong said looking down onto his lap not seeing Yunho’s stunned look. “I waited…” Jaejoong said in voice full of dejection. He felt disappointed, upset, and most of all hurt that his best friend didn’t come back. Didn’t Yunho remember his promise? Why did Yunho leave him? Is he tired of him? Doesn’t he want to be Jaejoong’s friend anymore? Those questions and feelings are the only things that are predominant in Jaejoong’s fevered mind. For him the fact that Yunho is right in front of him is nothing but a mere illusion.
He suddenly faced Yunho with agony written clear as day on his lovely face. “Did you know I have waited for you? But you never came back!” Jaejoong said to Yunho staring intently at him. He took Yunho’s hand in his and placed it upon his chest, “In here, there is only you,” he said staring at Yunho with forlorn eyes. “There is nothing in here but you,” he said clutching the hand in his. “How could you leave me like that? How could not return as promised!” he said softly releasing Yunho’s hand.
“Jaejoong… I…” Yunho tried to explain but was cut off by Jaejoong.
“You know what I think of you right now? You are the kind of person who is like a chocolate bunny. One time Umma gave me a chocolate bunny for Easter. I was so excited and happy because it is so beautiful. I place the bunny on my desk so I could gaze at it every time I do my homework. But after being exposed under the heat of my lamp it melted. When morning came I saw the melted chocolate on my desk where I placed the bunny that night. I was so upset because I wasn’t able to enjoy it. I cried for days on end lamenting over my chocolate bunny. Umma even bought me a new one but I don’t want it. For me the fantasy, the illusion was shattered the moment the bunny melted. You are like that for the moment that you left me and never came back the fantasy was broken and all that is left is the melted goo of reality,” Jaejoong sighed.
“Jaejoong… It’s not too late. You could still have that bunny. Please Jaejoong give me,” Yunho shook his head, “give us another chance,” Yunho pleaded clutching Jaejoong’s hand in his.
Jaejoong just shook his head. “Mianhe Yunho but… I… I can’t not right now. Too much painful memories have over shadowed my feelings for you that I can't just ignore. I tried to, but I can’t. At least not right now, it is still too soon,”
Yunho was so frustrated that he let his emotions dictate him again. “Why Jaejoong? Haven’t you played me enough already? Do you actually enjoy seeing me suffer more?” Yunho gritted his teeth and lunged at Jaejoong with another brutal kiss.
Jaejoong just sat there frozen and daze, ‘I can’t give in. This is only an illusion that would shatter the moment it end. Just like the bunny. But this chocolate is so sweet that it burns my tongue and make my head spin. How much more can I endure of this sweet torture. If only I could stay a little bit longer…’
+++++
Somewhere in Seoul somebody snuck inside Han Kyung’s room and took the disk Kibum had downloaded from Changmin’s computer.
Tsuzuku…
A/N: Waa!!! After countless revisions thank god I am done with this part! ~_^V I hope this part answers your questions. As for those who knew Totally Captivated I hope I didn’t disappoint you.
*Sorry that is the only car that I am sure to have existed 13 years ago that could be afforded by middle class families. Hehe. ^_^;;;
14th Shot