White Noise - Part 39
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After a very annoying pit stop where Key spent forever eating a shop keeper and then carefully picking out a new outfit for himself, he parked near The Council. "Well," Key said, "Are you sure you don't want to go with a plan that involves more crossdressing? You don't have to be embarrassed just because I'll laugh at you."
Onew, in the passenger's seat, turned to Key with a scowl, "Remember when I broke your nose?"
"Must have forgot.. let's see.. were you wearing a skirt then?"
Key, readily, caught Onew's fist as it flew towards his face. "Try to remember that we're working together for the moment, as painful as the thought is." Key said, shoving his door open. "And be fucking careful getting out of this car."
The moment that Key's door slammed shut, Onew called him on his cell phone. He could still see Key walking towards The Council building as he answered the phone. "No, I don't know where he is yet, genius."
"I'm telling you, if I get caught, I'll make sure The Council knows who was helping me."
"Precisely why you won't get caught." Key said before hanging up on Onew, off to do his work.
***
Doing absolutely nothing was surprisingly bad, considering all the torture Minho had to deal with lately. He laid back in bed, thinking too much. Thinking mostly about Onew, he found. He did try to think of something else, anything else, but thoughts always traveled back to Onew.
Onew was evil, and, bad. It's what he kept trying to tell himself, anyway. But when he thought about telling Onew that he wouldn't bond with him, it felt ridiculous. Not only because staying with Siwon here at The Council was awful, but because, he missed his bond with Onew.
Or just, Onew in general.
He put his hand next to him, on the mattress of the bed, and remembered how Onew's would feel over top of it.
But their bond was broken, and these feelings just shouldn't exist.
Onew is a man, and a vampire, and a murderer. He'd seen Onew murder, and how was he supposed to forgive him for that? Onew could give him a nice smile and melt his heart, and it was all okay?
Or maybe, as a voice in his head said to him, he just needed to learn that there were some things about vampires he really couldn't understand. Onew, who had been such an innocent snow-loving human, could be a victim himself, somehow slave to his urges..
The thought felt right to him, but was Onew justified if in fact he wasn't a monster - just, living in the needy body of one?
Minho's deep, confusing and torturous thoughts were interrupted when the door swung open, and Key of all people stood there. He tensed, gripping the bed. Key simply asked, "Where's Siwon?"
"He went out." Minho answered.
Key huffed, "I need to talk to him~. How long ago did he leave?"
"Not all that long ago." Minho said, though he couldn't be sure.
"Fantastic." was Key's fakely sarcastic response, "Well you've been absolutely useless. Enjoy the nothing that you were up to."
Minho frowned, and the door closed.
***
"The coast is mostly clear," Key said into his phone, "And Siwon is out. Minho's alone, for now. Do I get a thank you~?"
Onew simply hung up on him, and Key shrugged, returning his phone to his pocket and heading out down a new hall.
"That was an interesting conversation, hm?" Jessica's all-too-familiar voice said from behind him, and he quickly spun to see her, frowning. "What are you doing here?"
"There's an auction tonight.." Jessica said, stepping closer to him. "You know I love those."
"Oh, did you get lost?"
"No. I just noticed something kind of fishy and decided to follow it." Jessica said, feigning a sweet smile.
"Forget what you heard." Key said, "If you tell anyone, they won't believe you anyway."
"I don't need something like that to mess around with you, sweetheart." Jessica said, flipping her long blond hair over her shoulder. "I have something much more interesting."
"Sure you do." was Key's response, and he turned away from her.
"It's name is Jonghyun, and it has all of it's human memories." Jessica said simply.
Key turned quickly back around. "How the fuck do you know that?"
"Please. I've known that."
"Try proving it then."
"Not a problem." Jessica said lightly, and turned away herself.
Key scowled and turned away, clenching his fists as he headed off in the opposite direction.
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