Open Window (OnHo) - Part 43
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SO nervous about this part. Please don't hate me. D: Anyway, since there's so much action (kind of all happening at once) it was really hard to write. :( I hope everyone follows.... wahh~.
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Onew hid beneath a thin blanket, down in the floor behind the driver's seat. Even if the sunlight wasn't hitting him directly, he felt hot and icky and weak. He needed to rest. It'd be better for Minho if he rested. Even if he wanted to though, Taemin's driving wasn't exactly easy to sleep through.
"Noodle, they're going too fast." he whined, "It's scary."
"Don't lose them." Onew demanded, "You don't know what they plan to do with Minho."
Taemin nervously pressed harder on the gas pedal, trying to keep up.
***
Hot, and icky, and weak.
Minho's leaned his head back over the seat, closing his eyes and swallowing hard, his throat dry. A cool hand touched his forehead and his eyes shot open onto Krystal.
"Not good." Krystal said, seeming worried. "Don't worry, it isn't much longer. You can sleep as soon as we get there."
"I don't want to sleep." Minho said quickly, moving Krystal's hand from his forehead and straightening up. "I'd be fine if you'd have left me where I was."
Krystal frowned, "I wish that was true."
Minho decided not to show how weak he was feeling. He stared forward, sat straight, and was once again quiet. He was continuously urged to peek in the mirror, and make sure the van wasn't too far behind, but for whatever man reason in his head, that would be a sign of weakness.
They rode silently into the city.
***
"There's a lot of cars." Taemin said, pouting. He'd had to slow down tremendously to handle the vehicle in the busier streets. There were more than a few cars between him and the van with Minho.
Onew's eyes were hooded, his voice tired. "Just don't lose them."
"I'm scared I'll cause an accident." Taemin said.
"Do I need to give you something else to be scared of?" Onew growled, and the threat was meaningful. Eating Taemin didn't seem unappealing right now, as weak as he felt. When Taemin didn't respond, he sighed. "You need to know, they have guns."
"Guns?" Taemin gulped.
"Get me close to wherever they park, stay down, and don't come out."
"Onew.." Taemin whined, and Onew decided he didn't like those times where Taemin used his name, no matter how odd it was to be called 'Noodle'.
"Don't be scared." Onew muttered so quietly, it was a wonder if Taemin even heard.
***
The van drove into a parking garage, going up floor after floor. Jessica sighed, "About time." They were on the fourth floor when they stopped. Krystal took her gun back from Jessica, and smiled encouragingly at Minho before she hopped out. "Here we are~."
Minho got out behind her, keeping a good distance and watching the gun.
The driver didn't get out, but Jessica did, her heels loud on the floor.
When two young men walked towards them, Minho only glanced, because he was more interested in the gun. He didn't recognize them as Key and Jonghyun.
"Oh look. You actually did it." Key said, smiling at Minho. "Put the gun away, Krystal. He's not going anywhere. You're just scaring him."
"We were followed." Krystal said, "They aren't that far behind us."
"You handle them." Jessica ordered, "Krystal and I will take the human somewhere safe."
"Oh," Key laughed, "Yeah, about that.."
Jonghyun closed the already short distance between Krystal and himself, grabbing her wrist and twisting until she dropped the gun. His other hand reached to her neck, holding her throat in a tight, suffocating grip.
Jessica's reaction was instant, enraged. "What the fuck do you think you're doing!?" she demanded, shoving Minho out of her way as she rushed to save her bonded. Key came between them then, grabbing Jessica's shoulder and stabbing a dagger through her chest simultaneously. The noise she made was more frustrated than anything else. She reached out, scratching her nails across Key's face, before he twisted the blade and jerked it out of her. She fell back.
Minho was horrified, backed against the van. As much as, at the moment, he didn't like the two girls he didn't think they deserved to die - he watched Krystal's face as she tried to breath around Jonghyun's hand. "Stop.." he said, too quiet.
The van that flew onto the floor then would have run over Jessica if Taemin hadn't slammed on the brakes. The front of the car hovered just over her head.
Taemin ducked under the seat, but Onew burst out of the van, scowling first at Key. "You."
"Onew, he's going to kill her!" Minho shouted, referring of course to Krystal.
Onew looked to the pair in time to see Jonghyun squeeze and twist his hand ever so slightly, causing a horrid crack noise.
Jessica had just been getting back to her feet, but froze wide eyed, falling right back down again. Minho yelled too, and couldn't stop himself from running at Jonghyun.
It was Key that held him back, cackling. "So it's true that you liked her? How sad."
Krystal's body fell lifelessly to the floor, staring at Minho as he struggled to pull away from Key. "You killed her!" he yelled.
Onew started towards Key, but Key lifted his dagger to Minho's neck. "Nuh-uh, Onew. You do what I say now. You know I have no problem killing him."
Minho stilled, Onew stilled.
"Why did you kill her?" Jessica asked, with hardly any of a voice, just a breath as she stared at Krystal's fallen body. Jessica's chest seemed to bleed steadily.
"Oh please. You were trying to hide Minho from The Council, you knew something like this could happen." Key laughed, "Was it fun? Was it worth it?"
Onew scowled, and would usually perhaps think Jessica deserved to lose her bonded, but not when Key was holding onto Minho with that knife dangerously close to his neck. At that moment, he thought no one deserved to lose their bonded.
"Lee Taemin needs to get out of the car~." Key half-sang.
"No." Onew said.
"No?" Jonghyun glared, "You don't get to tell us no."
"You have me and Minho, and that's all you really want."
Jonghyun snarled, outraged, "Stop pretending you care about some nobody human!! As if you've ever really cared about anyone!!"
Key rolled his eyes, "So over this drama. Eyeliner can stay if you bring yourself the fuck on." He pulled the trembling, near crying Minho closer to him, and turned, dragging the human towards a door that would lead inside the building.
Onew was staring, very hard, at Jonghyun.
Jonghyun was glaring at him, looking like he was having a very hard time not attacking.
So Onew asked, "Do you remember?"
"All of it." Jonghyun answered, his angry tone breaking with just a hint of sadness.
Now Onew snarled at him, "Good. You deserve every second of pain that I caused you."
For a moment, Jonghyun's expression was almost as heartbroken as Jessica's the moment that Krystal's neck snapped under his grip. Then, he growled at Onew, and said "Move.", pushing him towards the door that Key and Minho disappeared through.
Taemin sobbed under the steering wheel.
Jessica wouldn't be able to take her eyes off of Krystal's body for a long time.
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