Title : Take Me Away (chapter 10)
Type : Multi-chapter
Pairing : Kyumin (girl!Min)
Side Pairing/characters : Siwon/Sungmin, Hankyung, some SJ members are mentioned
Genre : Romance, drama
Rating : PG-13
Disclaimer : I would never own one of them, except if it was God's will (so, i can only pray..) but thank God i own this story^^
Summary : Kyuhyun has to deal with a stranger girl named Sungmin, who suddenly come to his life... and his apartment.
Chapter 10
She widens her eyes and let her jaw hanging as she turns around to see who’s grabbing her arm. “S-Siwon...” Shock is all over her face. The man before her eyes frowns at her. “Sungmin, i finally found you...”
Sungmin stand still like a statue, but manage to speak, “H-how did you f-find me?” She knows it’s not necessary question right now. But heck, she’s too shocked to even get her brain works normally. And Siwon sighs in relief.
“I just did. Let’s go home, baby... we’ve been missing you so bad. You don’t know how much your mother worried about you. And i missed you, you know that?” Siwon replies her softly yet concernedly. Sungmin shakes her head in disbelief. Did he say he missed me? What’s with his tone? Did he really miss me? And Mom... my mom... I miss her too. I’m sorry, mom, but i can’t go home. No, if i must marry the guy before my eyes now. I don’t love him. I think i love... someone else.
Siwon begins to drag Sungmin to his car, but she’s struggling. “No! What do you think you’re doing? I don’t wanna go home! Let me go, Siwon!” she tries to pry his hands.
“I’m sorry... you have to, Min.” He still holds her hands so tight, leading her to his car and avoiding eyes contact.
“You don’t have a right to do this! Now let me go or i will shout loudly!” she yells, trying to stop their steps. But when Siwon hear what she said, he immediately stop and look straight at her. Sungmin can see from his eyes that he’s getting more eager and lost his patience.
“Of course, i have a right! You’re my fiancee! You still are, Min!” Siwon’s eyes scare her, but she’s not giving up. They’re having a glare war now. She is going ready with her martial arts if it’s needed. Yeah, she can defend herself actually. Being a daughter of rich parents made her learn practical defense since young, because anything could be happening. What if someone wanted to kidnap her?
“But i don’t want to marry you! You know exactly why i went away in the first place!” she snaps at him with a unbelievably dangerous tone, trying to pull her hands from him with so much efforts but keep failing. She challenge him with her glare, but Siwon also don’t give up to turn it back.
But their glare war is suddenly interrupted when Siwon finds a hand grabbing his own. The two look at the owner of the hand. “What the hell are you doing?! Who are you? Let go off her!” Kyuhyun’s tone is dangerously low. His eyes threatens the guy before him, ready to punch him in anytime if he saw him hurting Sungmin. And Sungmin feel relieve inside, but worried at the same time. Oh, my Goodness, this is not good.
Siwon rolls his eyes in annoyance, but refuse to let go Sungmin’s hands. “Tch! I am the one who should ask, who are you?!? She’s my fiancee, and i will take her home now! You get off!” He raises his eyebrows challengingly.
Kyuhyun’s smirk immediately appears. So, this is Siwon, eh? “Well, you are not anymore, Sir! She’s mine now!” with this, Kyuhyun force Siwon to let go of Sungmin with all of his efforts.
“What the fuck!” Siwon jerks, his fist already in the air. But surprisingly, Kyuhyun catch it then punch him first after push Sungmin behind him. Siwon’s taken a back, his jaw is in pain. And that is it! It happens so fast. Without command and warning, some men in black run to the scene, the scene of a fight between their boss with a lanky guy. Two of them quickly hold Kyuhyun’s arms to prevent him attack again. The other man punch him and kick him, and punch him again, on the face, shoulder, chest, and stomach. Kyuhyun can feel his body getting bruises. He’s trying to struggle but the two men hold is very strong. Three versus one is not fair at all.
“KYUHYUUUN!!!” Sungmin cries out watching the bloody scene before her eyes. Heck, she knew this is going to happen if he tried to mess with Siwon. And it’s 9 pm already that the street is quite empty, means no help. She doesn’t care about her own safety as she runs to Kyuhyun and try to attack the man who holds his right arm. But Siwon is fast, he catch her immediately by the waist.
“Let me go, you fucking bastard!” She hit Siwon with her elbows, but again she fails to get free. “No, please, Sungmin! You must go home!” Siwon insist with some kind of pleading tone.
“Sung... min!” she hears Kyuhyun still manage to speak between the fight, even trying to turn his head to her direction. It’s like he’s saying ‘Run and save yourself. Don’t worry about me’. And it makes her crying harder. His voice just stabbed her in her heart. “Just stop it, please...” she pleads while crying and struggling.
And then suddenly someone, or some people, come to the scene in perfect time. Sungmin sees Hankyung using his martial arts to Kyuhyun attackers. He can beat them easily as Kyuhyun fall down to the sidewalk, holding his sore stomach. She can barely hear Hankyung yelling something about ‘This is my area! How dare you to mess in this place!’. But it’s not really clear since she’s focusing to Kyuhyun who’s curling up there, groaning in pain.
Suddenly, she feels Siwon let go of her. “Let her go, dammit! And what do you think you’re doing here?!” It’s Yunho’s voice. She feels someone pulling her from the scene and hold her, whispering ‘It’s okay, you’re safe, Min...’.
“But Kyuhyun, Teukie-unnie!” she free herself from Leeteuk and run to Kyuhyun. Her tears are still flowing down but she doesn’t bother to wipe them away. Not when she’s fucking worried about Kyuhyun’s current condition.
She crouch in front of Kyuhyun, taking him to her embrace. “Kyuhyun! Wake up... please...” she shakes his face eagerly. She can see there’s blood dripping from the corner of his mouth, and he seems fighting to open his eyes widely. But damn, he feels pain that he keeps wincing. Kyuhyun’s vision is getting blurry that he can’t see Sungmin clearly. But he still can hear her pleading voice.
But no! Kyuhun is not a weak person. And he doesn’t want to see Sungmin crying. He open his swollen eyes painfully slowly. “I’m.. here, Min... i’m ok-ay. Don’t cry, please...” he manages to speak between his groan, curving his also swollen lips a little to ease her sadness.
Please, i can’t stand it to see you cry. It’s hurting me more when i see you cry. These bruises are nothing, as long as you’re safe and happy. I’ve promised myself that i will protect you no matter what. So, please... stop crying... or i will suffer more... Kyuhyun hopes she can catch his thoughts through his simple plea.
His plea makes her stronger a little. But then she takes him closer to her embrace, rocking their body together back and forth. “I’m sorry... i’m sorry, i made you become like this. I’m sorry that you have to get involved here in my problem... i’m sorry... i’m sorry...” Sungmin whispers to his ear repeatedly.
Kyuhyun just stay like that, closing his eyes and enjoying her warm hug. I didn’t know you feel this warm. Why do i feel like addicted to your warmness already? And your smell is so mesmerizing. Can we stay like this forever... My Princess? He subconsiously smile weakly to himself, feeling miraculously energized.
Those bruises and wounds on his body, the attack from them actually are not that severe. But still it hurts him, and it hurts Sungmin more to see him got beaten in front of her eyes. Not to mention she thinks it’s all her fault. Don’t blame her if she feels so damn worried.
After that heartbreaking scene, Sungmin feels someone calls her. “Min, it’s okay now. They are gone already. C’mon, get up.” She looks up through her teary eyes to see Hankyung smiling comfortingly at her. Leeteuk approaches her too then help to get her up, while Hankyung helping Kyuhyun. Hankyung assist him to get straight up.
“Sungmin, i will take you two home by my car, okay?” Hankyung ask firmly, then turn to Leeteuk. “Teukie, please handle the rest until i come back here. I believe in you.”
So, the three of them get to the car. Sungmin holds Kyuhyun in the back seat. He rest his head on her lap while she’s stroking his hair comfortingly. “Take care, Noona~” Henry bids good bye to her before they take to the road.
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Sungmin tell Hankyung about the incident just now while riding home. She says it was her fiance. Yeah, to admit it makes her want to puke, but in fact they are still engaged. Hankyung only can listen to her and calm her down.
Hankyung takes Kyuhyun to the bedroom, thanks to Sungmin who insisted that he must rest on the bed although Kyuhyun refuse it first. After that, Hankyung excuses himself to come back to ‘Chi’ again. “Don’t worry, Min... He’s fine. He will be okay soon. Take care of yourself, ne? I’m going now. And oh, you don’t have to go to work tomorrow. We can handle all of it.” He smiles and pat her head before stepping out from Kyuhyun apartment.
Kyuhyun lays there on the bed, feeling exhausted and sleepy. He’s thinking about where Sungmin will sleep tonight if the bed is occupied by him. But his thought is interrupted by her coming. Sungmin brings cold water and towel to treat his wounds. She place the bowl on the drawer and sit on the edge of the bed beside him.
Suddenly, the atmosphere become awkwardly silent. She treats his wounds carefully and silently, without a word. Kyuhyun watch her intently, but she still avoid his gaze. He can still trace the dried tears on her cheeks with puffy eyes, making he curses on his mind. He can never forgive himself if she was being hurt by Siwon back then. But hell, she’s indeed hurt anyway. She must be terrified to see the least person she wants to see on earth so suddenly.
Kyuhyun tries to hold back his wince when she tap his corner lips. But it makes her turn her gaze to his eyes, as if asking ‘Is that hurt? Sorry’. Their eyes finally meet after long minutes in silent. Kyuhyun takes this chance to take her wrist. “Hey... Are you okay?” he asks her softly.
Sungmin locks her eyes to his for a few seconds. They are not moving at all. She has mix feeling until she doesn’t know how to answer him. of course she’s not okay, but the reasons are too chaotic. She was scared to see Siwon all of a sudden. If Kyuhyun did not appear in the right time, she might be in her house right now, and got scolded by her parents, then prepared the wedding all over again.
She’s so damn terrified to lose her life right now, being surrounded by the people who love and appreciate her. And mostly, she doesn’t want to be separated with Kyuhyun. She has used to have him as housemate, see him everyday, talk to him, share stories, laugh together. She can’t imagine to be away with him. She can’t let Siwon to take it all away from her.
And seeing he was being beaten right in front of her eyes made her realize that she doesn’t want to lose him, because she knows she will be suffered if it happened. Her imagination was going too far that she thought Kyuhyun might be dead right there. Even to think about it makes her feel weaker and breathless. No, she just cannot lose him. And now she feels so damn affraid and worried if Siwon or her family will find her again anytime.
Kyuhyun’s slight squeeze on her hand wakes her up from her thought. She focus to his eyes again for a second, but she quickly look away and pull her hand from him. She can see her vision become blurry again as the the tears are urging to spill out from her eyes. And in a second, they are really falling down as if they don’t care about the owner who fights to hold them back. She abruptly wipe them furiously.
Kyuhyun doesn’t fail to notice it, of course. He’s panicked, then trying to sit up but end up failing. His abdomen feels so numb because of the punches. He wince in pain, then get attention from her again. “Hey, what are you doing? Please, don’t move a lot...” She says in a cracked voice, pushing him to lay down again.
“I-I’m o-kay...” He stutters, holding back the pain. She sighs in tiredness. “Kyuhyun... i... thank you~” She kinda feel ashamed. He helped her a lot that she doesn’t know how to pay him back.
She never let him to answer her. Instead, she dash out of the room with the bowl and towel on her hand, bowing her head. She has no words to say to him again. And she doesn’t want him to see her crying over him.
I am such a burden, aren’t i? I’m sorry to bother you for the umpteenth time. But now i feel so damn worried about your condition yet i’m scared. I’m scared that Siwon will come again someday and snatch me away from you. She cries and sobs silently in the kitchen, sitting on the floor and burying her face in her knees.
Meanwhile, Kyuhyun has been left dumbfounded. He tells himself to let her be. Because heck, he feels so tired and exhausted. He needs to go sleep immediately. And soon he drifts off to dreamland.
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When she can feel herself calm down, Sungmin decides to look at him again in the bedroom. She watch him sleeping tiredly, his right hand on his forehead while the other is on stomach. He looks peacefully like a baby. She smiles bitterly to herself, thinking that it’s all her fault that he has to suffer like that.
Then suddenly, she feels the urge to protect him instead. She approach him and join him laying there on his left side. She looks up at him intently. She moves closer to him slowly and grip on his arm. Soon, she finds herself hugging his arm while burying her face on it, feeling his body this close to her own. Let me protect you just for tonight, My Prince...
~~~TBC~~~
A/N: hello again, friends!! i'm sorry if this chapter is not as good as you've expected. I'm not confident either with this, but i'm working hard to improve my writing skill chapter by chapter. And sorry if this is too short (but it's 2400+ words -___-)
anyway, i still hope you like it! and comments will make me happy :))
PS: I'm so grateful today that many good things happen to me. The best thing is i just have been informed that i will start my new job next month.. Thank God ^__^
THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO MY FAN FICTIONS *bows*