𝐆𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢 (𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐙! 𝐟𝐟)

𝙲𝙷. 𝟹𝟹 ☯︎︎ 𝙾𝚛 𝙽𝚘𝚝

♊︎Year 5067, Month 6, Day 23, Time 5:50 pm♊︎

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"Hey, HEY! Kurenai! What the hell was that back there?" San pulls on Gemini's arms, forcing her to swivel around to look at him just as they arrive in front of the restrooms. She spins, facing him with an expression of irritation far beyond what he's ever seen on her face.

"Don't. Touch. Me." Gemini practically exudes anger through her pores, roughly pushing away San's hand. When she realizes how she reacted, the clone mentally cursed herself, sighing. "Just— just leave me alone while I go into the restroom."

She turns sharply on her heels, pushing open the door to the women's restroom with much more force than necessary and leaving San standing alone in the hall. It takes him a moment to recover from the sudden outburst, hearing the voices of his members on his earpiece that he had tuned out since he stepped into the hall with Gemini.

"Who the hell is calling me at this time? Fix-on, I swear if it's a goddamn prank call from you." He hears the hacker threaten Mingi— the only one not doing anything currently besides Jongho.

"What? Why would I do that?" The model tries to defend himself. San hears Hongjoong grunt in frustration followed by the faint sound of a ringtone in the back.

"Cipher, who's calling—?"

"Shush!" Hongjoong silences San to answer the call. "Hello?" A moment of silence passes, followed by a small gasp from the blue-haired man. "Okay, okay. Hold on, I'll get you connected."

The cryptic dialogue confuses all of the members of the team, and their confusion only worsens when they hear another voice added to their earpieces after a long moment of Hongjoong's typing, filling their ears with sharp breaths and pants.

"Who—?"

"Hongjoong?" A familiar voice fills their ears, sounding desperate and tired. "Hongjoong, please don't hang up! You've got to help me!"

"Who is this?" San hears Hongjoong asks feeling his own stomach knot up in anticipation for the voices answer.

"I-it's me. It's— It's Kurenai!"

"Kurenai." He hears himself echo, the knot that was forming at his mouth moving up to his throat. Prior to hearing her voice, his mind was a warbled mess. He was unable to focus on a single thought because it would easily get replaced with another, but as the woman's voice trickled into his head, filling up the places that needed patching, he could finally focus. On her, her voice, and the desperation that filled it. "Kurenai, what happened? Where are you?"

"Where is she?" Mingi butts in on the earpiece, confused. "She's with you, isn't she? She was supposed to have left with you. Did you lose her?"

"Guys, what's going on?" Jongho finally tunes into the conversation after keeping silent for quite some time. It's then that they hear a crash followed by a loud groan that startles them all.

"Kure—?"

"I'm fine! I'm fine." She assures them, panting heavily into the phone. "Are all of you there? Is she there?"

"I mean, we're all here. We're on a mission." Hongjoong replies.

"On a mission?"