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45 Notes: This chapter contains um, torture. I kind of tried to hold back on the graphicness (even though I *DID* give this an R rating, I don't want my friends to think I'm a sicko. lawl. even if I am!) but idk... it might gross some of you pansies out, so. :P ya been warned.
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Key grew impatient, watching Onew sitting there with that unfortunately blank expression, even when a bleeding human was there in his lap and he was being completely drained. Then, finally, Onew made his decision - knocking Taemin onto the floor. Well, that's where he would have fallen, if Jonghyun didn't catch him.
Key rolled his eyes, "So you're bonded."
"What I am is none of your business." Onew said quietly.
Key narrowed his eyes, but then blinked them and looked calm once again. "If you think we're going to give you someone else to eat, you're wrong."
"I'd rather die than play your games."
Jonghyun smiled at that, "Great. Cause I'd rather you die than play his games too."
"Jonghyun!" Key glared at him, his fuse growing shorter by the second. That wasn't lost on Jonghyun, who didn't much like the idea of Key exploding, so he was quiet after that - carefully lying Taemin on the floor.
Key's attention went back to Onew, "Did you ever consider apologizing?"
Onew laughed, "I know you better than that. You wouldn't accept it, even if I was sorry."
"It might make me feel a little better, though." Key said, looking nonchalant and checking under his nails for blood.
Taemin groaned on the floor, and Onew glared at him. "Let that stupid kid go."
It was Key's turn to laugh, "Oh please~. We're not getting anything from you." Key looked down at Taemin, "Might as well get it from him." Even as he said it, he wrinkled his nose. What Onew was doing associating with a child like that, he wouldn't imagine.
'Just look at how that cheap eyeliner is all over his cheeks.' he thought, pouting. 'God, why do people think it's cute to dress like that?' He wrinkled his nose, looking more annoyed still. 'And that fucking pretty boy face.'
Taemin's eyes opened and he looked straight to Key, as if he sensed the hate. Key's expression quickly changed to a bored one. "Speaking of."
Key caught the worried expression on Onew's face, and it was enough to make him perfectly okay with the cheaply dressed teen bleeding all over his hotel room floor. 'But oh God I swear if he starts snot crying, I'll snap his neck...'
Taemin tightly shut his eyes, and Key half expected him to tap his heels together and chant that there was no place like home.
"Tell us who Minho is and we'll let you go." Key said flatly.
"It's a lie." Onew said fast, "They'll kill you if you tell them."
Key chuckled, and decided to confess. "Possibly, but one way is going to make it much less painful."
Taemin sobbed, "My head.."
"Is at least still pretty, but I'll break every bone in your precious little face if you don't hurry up and speak."
"I won't tell you unless you let me go." Taemin said in a breath.
Key stood up, dragging the chair back to the table where it belonged and speaking in a flat voice. "Jonggie, will you get me my dagger?"
"One sec." Jonghyun answered, disappearing into another room.
Taemin was pulling himself to his feet, though Key didn't seem to mind. He spoke almost conversationally now, "It's not that I'm necessarily going to hurt whoever Minho is. Seeing you both trying so hard to protect him sure makes it tempting of course. You could at least try to lie about who he is. I mean honestly. You're not leading me on, right? I mean, if you are, joke's on you - well, because, you're gonna die."
As Taemin jetted for the door, Key laughed and caught him by the shirt, throwing him to the ground at Onew's feet. "I swear, humans are so adorably stupid." He scoffed, looking down at Taemin. "I bet you're some vampire wannabe, huh?"
Jonghyun stepped next to Key, handing him his dagger. "Here."
"Mmkay, I'm gonna make this simple." Key knelt down at Taemin's side, pressing the blade of the knife against his cheek. Taemin immediately cried out, reaching his hands to grab Key's wrist in order to escape the blade, but Jonghyun fast knelt down at his head, grabbing his hands.
Key sighed, barely piercing Taemin's skin with the blade and drawing it up in a shallow cut towards his eye. "Tell me who Minho is." he had to raise his voice to be heard over Taemin's sudden sobbing, "or I'll cut out your eye." The point of the dagger brushed over Taemin's eyelashes, prompting him to scream. "I'LL TELL YOU!"
"Don't!" Onew yelled, only just now beginning to struggle crazily against the rope.
"Minho is my neighbor." Taemin said between sobs.
Key rolled his eyes, looking impatient. "Not good enough, human." he complained, deeply grazing Taemin's shoulder when he stabbed his dagger into the floor right by it, causing him to screech horribly.
Onew broke the chair apart, falling from it as he did, but kicking Key off of Taemin while he did so.
Jonghyun, who was much more worried about Onew than Taemin, let him go - rushing to grab Onew and pull him from Key.
Taemin was at least fast, and scrambled quickly to his feet to run for the door. Key got up, and managed to grab Taemin's shirt, which was good for nothing but ripping it half off of him before he ran out.
Key angrily held the fabric of his shirt, then punched the wall. "Stupid! Fucking! Cheap! Clothes!"
"Shit." Jonghyun cursed, and threw Onew down, running from the room after Taemin and damn glad he had that excuse to escape.
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Notes: I swear I had no intention on torturing Taemin at every available opportunity when I started this fic. It just kind of happened. I apologize, Taemin fans.