Last Breath - Part 12
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The blond vampire pulled Taemin by his arm into his own bedroom, where the only light in the house seemed to be on. Seunghyun and Daesung were there, as well as another vampire who looked young and had dark circles under his eyes. They all sat on the floor. Daesung was using Taemin's pillow case to wipe Seunghyun's mysteriously bloodied nose.
"So it's really just this one?" Daesung asked.
"Yep. I was just asking him where the other ones were."
The one with dark circles under his eyes yawned, and said, "Let me guess, he won't tell you."
"He'll tell me." The blond said confidently, clutching Taemin's arm tightly and turning to him. "I don't care who your daddy was. I don't even care that you put a scar on my childe's face. Do you know what I care about?"
Taemin was still taking in the information that this was Key's sire, when the blond pushed him against the wall. It wasn't a violent push. Just a calm, 'you go here.' type of maneuver. "I care about you messing around with my business. Nobody messes with my business." He lifted a hand, gently flicking Taemin's nose. "Do you understand?"
"What you were.. or what you are doing.. it isn't right."
The blond vampire raised a brow, "Hhhmmm."
Taemin glanced to the other vampires, who seemed to be watching with great interest, apart from Seunghyun - who had the type of expression that reminded Taemin of watching one of those 'when nothing else is on..' shows.
Then he looked back to the blond, and said, "Vampires shouldn't be.. using humans like they're things, killing them for entertainment. Humans and vampires can get along."
First Daesung left, then the dark circled vamp, and Seunghyun even smirked (though Taemin was too busy watching the blond's expression to notice that.) The blond took a moment, laughed a slow and short laugh, and said, "And so, who are you to judge which vampires live and die?"
"Nobody." Taemin quickly answered, frowning. "But as long as humans can't defend themselves against you..."
"So then, you think humans would just accept the existance of vampires?"
"Why not?"
The blond laughed freely now, "Is this all from your little horror movies and shit? Or are you just plain stupid?"
"He's just saying crazy shit cause he's scared." Seunghyun suspected out loud.
"Hm. That's right." The blond tapped a finger against Taemin's chest, "We can hear that loud and clear."
Taemin's eyes watered, and he dropped his gaze to the floor. "Even though I'm scared, I really don't know why.. vampires have to have it this way.."
"Enough." The blond said, looking serious now. "You gonna tell me where the other hunters are, or are we gonna make our own little horror movie in here?"
"I can't--"
"We're going to find them one way or another. One way is the one where we beat you senseless until they show up to rescue you like they're so good at. Another is you talking. So?"
"I'm not new to torture." Taemin said almost lifelessly, "And we are good at rescuing each other."
The blond smiled, and patted Taemin's shoulder before turning to the others. "Break one of his fingers every five minutes until I get back. Don't stop, not even if he tells you where the hunters are. Start with the right hand."
Taemin lifted his head, "No.."
"Roger~." Daesung saluted the blond.
Seunghyun stood up, seeming rather satisfied as he stepped towards Taemin.
"You wanna change your mind, you better do it before I leave." the blond said.
"Jonghyun!" Taemin yelled, "Where's Jonghyun!?"
The blond looked angry, glaring at Taemin. "Not going to save you this time." As he turned to walk out, Taemin started to rush after him, but Seunghyun grabbed him and swung him around, punching him for a second time in the stomach. Taemin quickly dropped to his knees, but he didn't just groan this time. He crawled toward the door, listening to the other three laugh at him again until one of them, probably Seunghyun, dropped their foot onto his back and he was pinned to the floor.
"Break one." Seunghyun's voice said. Taemin turned his head to see the other two still sitting, looking at each other to see who would move. Finally, the one with dark circles did, standing and stepping over, only to kneel down next to him. "Shouldn't we put something in his mouth?"
"I don't give a fuck." was Seunghyun's reply.
Taemin moved his hands protectively under his chin, "No!"
When the vampire reached out, grabbing onto his finger and starting to pull it away from him, Taemin did all he could think to do. He leaned over and bit the vampire's hand as hard as he was able to, which was apparently very hard. He felt the skin break under his teeth, and the blood squirting into his mouth. The vampire screamed loud.
"What the fuck?" Seunghyun asked, and a second after he did, the door opened.
As the dark circle-eyed vampire jerked his hand away, clutching it, Taemin tried to spit out the blood that he'd all too unfortunately already swallowed most of.
"He bit me!" the vampire was yelling, "He bit me!"
Taemin was still spitting when Seunghyun's foot moved and kicked him until he laid on his back. "You shit." he cursed, and he lifted his foot, and Taemin's eyes widened as he realized it was about to stomp down on his face. Then, before it could, he rolled away. He winced when he heard the foot slam into the floor.
"Don't kill him." the blond vampire said, in a mildly scolding tone.
Taemin was pulling himself to his feet when Seunghyun moved, fist clenched and ready to pound his face in. As he swung it, Taemin was fast to knock it away, angrily yelling, "Leave me alone!!!" before he swung a fist himself, which slammed successfully against the stunned Seunghyun's cheek.
"What the hell is he!?" The dark circle-eyed one asked.
"Drinking vampire blood made him stronger." the blond vampire said smoothly, and stepped closer to Taemin. "But he's still not as strong as us, and it'll fade off soon." He reached out suddenly, grabbing onto Taemin's pinky and snapping the bone. Taemin screamed and fell to his knees again. It wasn't the first time he'd had a finger broken. Somehow, it hurt more than he remembered.
"There. I started it for you."
Before the blond left again, he told the dark circle-eyed vampire that he could take some blood.
"Wait," Taemin said, tears rolling from his eyes, "Please. Let's talk about this."
The door shut.
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