Last Breath - Part 30
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Onew woke up after a sharp pain to his head, and scowled as his eyes opened to see Jonghyun standing over him. With a groan, he sat up, asking "What happened?"
"I kicked you in the head." Jonghyun said bluntly, "If I knew it was gonna wake you up, I'd have waited."
"That's not what I meant." Onew said angrily, standing up. He looked around and recognized a cell at The Council. The walls and even the door were thick stone, as was the door that shut them in. There was no way out from the inside. There wasn't any furniture, either.
"Oh. Yeah. Apparently you know why I have human memories, and you're supposed to tell me why."
"I don't know that." Onew said, wrinkling his nose.
"Then you must have just told them you did so they wouldn't kill you." Jonghyun said, and nodded, "I'll be sure to tell them that when they come back."
"Yeah, you do that." Onew said, and stepped over to a wall, sitting back against it.
"You looked like shit when you got here." Jonghyun said, "You healed fast, but someone must have kicked your ass pretty bad."
"Fuck." Onew cringed, leaning his head back against the wall. "They got Minho."
Jonghyun crossed the room from Onew, sitting down against the wall just as he did, and scowling. "Tch.."
Onew's eyes flickered over to Jonghyun, but he quickly returned to the world of his own self-concern, and stared at the floor.
It seemed like a surprisingly long time before Jonghyun spoke, glaring at Onew, "I hope he dies."
Onew bared his fangs at Jonghyun, "Do you want to fight with me?"
"Do I look like I have something better to do?"
Onew lifted a brow, considering, and then said, "Then I'll ignore you." and shut his eyes.
"Tch." Jonghyun said again, "Just like you used to."
"At least pretend you don't remember that time." Onew said, opening his eyes to glare at Jonghyun.
"Why should I? I'm getting tortured for it now anyway."
"Because it's annoying."
"Annoying?" Jonghyun scoffed, "You're not even going to pretend to feel guilty, are you? Yeah, Minho's lucky to have you."
"Minho will never end up like you." Onew snapped, glaring daggers at Jonghyun.
Jonghyun looked at Onew, hurt obvious, "Yeah? He's better than me?"
"From the very beginning, Minho was better than you. Even now, Minho's a human and he's better than you. Even now, you're fucked up and have nothing." Onew was shaking with anger, or some emotion, that he thought was sure to bother Minho and make the nightmares he could feel him having all the worse.
He tried to contain it. But as he looked at Jonghyun, he couldn't contain it.
"I should have known there was something wrong with you now before. For a vampire, you look so fucking human. Why are you looking at me like that? Do you expect me to say sorry? Or lie and say I cared about you? You were nothing but an accident, and if I ever cared about you, you fucked it all up when you followed Key around after he stole you from me, even though you supposedly remembered everything.."
Onew stood up, looking down at Jonghyun who hid his eyes behind a hand, and he knew the pose all too well. "You can still cry like that? Am I hurting your feelings? Well did you ever think for a minute about my feelings, Jonghyun? I fuck up, but doesn't anyone ever even think for a second that it hurts me too? Before the first time you and your boyfriend attacked me, did you ever stop to think of how much pain I'd be in to see you like that? And to think, that whole time, you knew everything."
Jonghyun stood up then, wiping off his eyes even as tears continued dripping down his face, and facing Onew with an angry expression. "You would have killed me."
"If you were a normal vampire, you'd know why."
"Then let Minho die."
Onew scowled, balling up fists.
"See?" Jonghyun asked, and let out a small, humorless laugh. "There were ways. You threw me away."
"I tried to, and I couldn't. I tried because I cared about you, and I couldn't because I cared about myself more, and every time I see you now, I hate it, because fine, I do care, I care a lot, and I should have killed you before this."
Jonghyun sniffled, and Onew shed his own tears, and they were quiet for a long moment before Jonghyun lunged forward, knocking Onew to the floor and biting into his neck.
Onew grabbed onto Jonghyun's back, nails digging into him, and he bit through Jonghyun's t-shirt to have at his shoulder.
They grappled across the floor, tearing into each other with all of their strength, until they'd drained each other of blood. Jonghyun was the first one to close his eyes, and Onew, panting, stared at him with tearful eyes before he passed out next to him.
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