Mission failed (Choi Seung-hyun fanfic)

~ Cats and mice ~

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Hello readers, I'm so deeply sorry for not updating for such a long time. I had a really bad author block and I wasn't really sure how to continue this fanfic. But I got some clear ideas now and hopefully I'll be updating more frequently. I'm going to dedicate this chapter to one of my raders who sent me an encouraging message today so I decided to update (although I didn't mention that in my reply but I hope she won't mind). Thank you so much!! :)

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I adore you all and I hope you enjoy this next, a bit short, chapter! <3

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"Where are we going?" I asked the two of them that were sitting in front. Youngbae was driving, pretty wildly if I may add, and Seung-hyun was in the passenger seat. None of them gave me an answer, which meant none of them really knew. "Great." I mumbled under my voice. "Why?" Seung-hyun asked after only a minute, not looking at anyone in particular. I thought he was asking me so I furrowed my eyebrows thinking how that was a rather stupid question but before I could say anything Youngbae spoke up. "I found the folder. One of the assassins was supposed to go to Korea tomorrow to inform the Organization on the newest events. I was a bit suspicious about why he had to personally go there so I assumed he had the folder. I was right." He said. "And so were you." He added with anger in his voice. I wasn't sure what they were talking about, but I was pretty sure I knew what folder they reffered to. I took the backpack that Youngbae left in the back seat with me and opened it, looking through it. Aside from the folder I found all our cash and our cell phones, plus a gun that I recognized as Seung-hyun's. I took the folder and read it thoroughly this time. It had a detailed description of the night of the accident. It even said that since Youngbae survived that Seung-hyun would assume the blame, and Youngbae would act according to the Organization's will to get his revenge. Apparently the Organization knew in advance that Seung-hyun would stray from their leadership. Probably because they tried to kill his best friend. The folder contained every little piece of the puzzle except for the names of the ones behind all of this mess. It said how Rina died, and her body was burned in the car beyond recognition. I shivered, what a tragedy. It even mentioned the name of the civilian who saw the accident and pulled Youngbae from the car. After a couple of minutes Seung-hyun spoke up again. "Do you have the folder?" Seung-hyun asked him. "Yes." I answered instead. Seung-hyun looked behind at me and I showed him the backpack. Then he looked back at Youngbae. "The assassin?" he asked. Youngbae raised his eyebrows. "What about him?" he asked. Seung-hyun cleared his throat before asking. "Did you kill him?" Youngbae smirked. "You're kidding me right?" he said looking one moment at Seung-hyun and another at the road. Suddenly I felt sick to my stomach, this was so not the conversation I wanted to hear. "We would've never been able to escape if I let him live!" he exclaimed. I looked out the window trying not to think again about how my life has turned upside down. Last fall I was still in high school and my only problem was chemistry and physics and now it's almost Christmas and I'm in a car with one hit-man and one ex hit-man running away from more hit-man. What a mess. "Why are we even discussing this?" Youngbae asked obviously confused. "That's not how I do things anymore Youngbae." Seung-hyun explained to him. Youngbae looked at him in disbelief and smirked. "Yeah well, I do. And thanks to me we're alive." He said proudly. My head started to hurt the more I listened to him. "You could've just leave him unconscious." I muttered hatefully after a while. He hit the break and stopped the car, looking at me angrily through the rear-view mirror. I noticed that my hateful feeling for him were fully reciprocated. "Right, so when he wakes up he could tell everyone that I found the folder and I helped you escape. And then we'd have every last men from the Organization after our asses." He replied harshly. I wasn't going to stand down, he was such an idiot and I couldn't stand to look at him, let alone hear his voice. "Then what about the guards in front of our hotel rooms? Are they not going to say anything?" I screamed back at him, I was losing my patience with this guy, he made me so irritated. "No, because they're dead." He said with a smirk. "No they're not, there was no blood, and I didn't hear gunshots!" As soon as I said that I felt utterly stupid, there are other ways to kill someone, and now that I thought about it I remembered one of the guards on the floor had opened eyes, and his head was lying in a weird position...as though his neck was broken. As I realized my mistake I looked back into the rear-view mirror straight into Youngbae's eyes. He was smiling, as though he knew what I was thinking. I felt sick to my stomach. I opened the doors of the car and ran out towards the trees and bushes. I stood over them wanting to throw up but I couldn't, probably because I haven't eaten much lately. The two of them followed after me. "Annabelle are you ok?" Seung-hyun asked me. "Keep him away from me." I said hatefully pointing at Youngbae who was approaching us. Seung-hyun raised his hand showing Youngbae not to come any closer. He laughed. "So you went from one master to another. You really are just a petty dog Seung-hyun." He said and laughed again. Merely his voice was making me sick. Not only couldn't I stand him but I never hated anyone like this before. I also felt angry like never before. I clenched my fists and shoved Seung-hyun aside walking over to Youngbae. He looked down at me with that smirk he was always wearing, it was disgusting. "You should stop wearing that smirk, it doesn't suit you." I raised my hand and slapped him as hard as I could, his face turned to a side and his smirk instantly disappeared. Then he slowly turned his head back to face me. His expression showed pure rage plus something else, that I couldn't quite figure out. I was sure he was going to hit me back, but I didn't back away. I was never going to show weakness in front of him again. He grabbed my wrist and squeezed it painfully. He was looking at me angrily and started to shake all over, like he was having a breakdown. "Are you just going to stand there?" I called out to Seung-hyun, but not leaving my eyes off of Youngbae for a single second. After I didn't get an answer I turned to look at Seung-hyun. He also seemed a bit shocked. Was slapping Youngbae really that big a deal? Seung-hyun cleared his throat. "We should get going, they're probably on our tracks already." He said. I looked back at Youngbae who let go of my wrist looking at me angrily for another second before he turned around and walked back into the car. The rest of the drive was pretty awkward, no one dared to say anything and we avoided to look each other in the eyes. We stopped in front of a cheap motel somewhere by the road, ready to depart if anything bad occurs. As we made our way to the reception I pulled Seung-hyun to a side because I wanted to talk to him. "What was that all about?" I asked confused. "That what you said, and did... it was the very same thing Rina did and said when we first met her." He said to me slowly. I raised my eyebrows in surprise and then slowly looked down. "Oh..." was the only thing I managed to say. Seung-hyun ruffled my hair in comfort. "Let's go." He said and I nodded following after him. We asked for two separate rooms but the motel had only a few rooms and all except one were already taken. We got into the room, it had a king sized bed and a couch that looked very old and uncomfortable. Visually exhausted, I threw myself over the bed. "I hate sleeping, but I'm so tired!" I exhaled. Youngbae approached the bed and sat on it. "Who hates sleeping?" he asked lying on the bed next to me. I immediately pulled myself up looking at him hatefully. "People with a conscience." I mumbled irritated. He looked at me with the same hateful look and then got up from the bed taking one of the pillows. "I guess I'm on the couch." He said and threw himself on it. "Annabelle's been having bad dreams lately, so she avoids sleeping, without me knowing." Seung-hyun said disapprovingly. First I rolled my eyes because I didn't want Seung-hyun to tell him anything concerning me. But when I noticed Seung-hyun's disapproving look I gave him my best puppy eyes hoping he'd forget that ever happened. He smiled and pulled me in an embrace. I looked up at him waiting for a kiss but as he bend down to kiss me Youngbae spoke up. "Gross!" he commented and threw the pillow on us. I looked at him and rolled my eyes. "Go sleep in the bathtub then!" I said irritated and threw the pillow back at him. He rolled his eyes to me and turned to the other side, which only made me more irritated. I got into the bed under the covers and Seung-hyun laid next to me. I cuddled up to his side and closed my eyes. I was so tired but I was afraid to fall asleep. Seung-hyun though fell asleep in a couple of minutes, while that idiot kept turning around on the sofa and mumbling how uncomfortable it was. He was totally going on my nerves. After half an hour he finally fell asleep too, leaving me in complete silence. I tried to fall asleep but I couldn't, I was completely exhausted but still the fear of the nightmares kept me awake. After another hour I got up and went to drink a glass of water. As I got back I noticed Youngbae shivering from the cold. Idiot didn't even bother to cover himself in the middle of winter. I rolled my eyes and went looking for an extra blanket. I found one in a closet and slowly approached the couch again. I threw the blanket over him and pulled it over his shoulder. I honestly didn't even know why I was bothering about him, he definitely didn't deserve it. But something was telling me there was more to this guy than what I saw today. Suddenly he grabbed my wrist and I gasped in surprise. He opened his eyes and looked at me. Then he slowly released my hand. "Thanks." He said. I gave him a nod but I didn't answer, hoping he'll completely forget this happened in the morning. I went back to bed and pulled myself closer to Seung-hyun's side. He turned the other way so I put my arm around him. Finally after a while I fell asleep soundlessly.

All of a sudden I found myself back in my old house. I knew immediately that I was dreaming, and I knew how it would end. Everything happened just like last time, Seung-hyun made me breakfast, he watched me as I ate it, then we kissed and he started choking. And suddenly I found myself surrounded by my family and friends and all of them were choking around me. "Bitch!" My best friends Isabella shouted at me. "Murderer!" my mom added. "Killer!" my sister said. All of them looked at me with hatred and verdict. They kept insulting me until their words were the only thing I could hear. I tried to find comfort in Seung-hyun's eyes but he avoided to look at me. When he finally raised his gaze he gave me a disgust look. "It's all your fault, I hate you!" he hissed. I woke up screaming and sat in the bed, it was still dark outside which meant I couldn't have slept more than a few hours. Seung-hyun woke up immediately, picking himself up and shushing me. "Hey, it's ok. You're awake now." he said. I was afraid to look at him because the memory of his fierce eyes while he said those awful words was still clearly carved in my mind. On the other side Youngbae got up in a flash too, he pulled out a gun from under the pillow and pointed it at the doors. "What the hell?" he yelled noticing that there was no one there. I was too shaken to care what he was doing but I noticed the pity look in his eyes as he looked at me and realized what was going on. "Damn, you told me she had bad dreams, not fucking nightmares from which she wakes up screaming." He said to Seung-hyun but he kept looking at me. I shivered from terror and lack of sleep. I tried to calm down the best I could but it was useless, the dream was still very vivid in my mind and I felt tears falling down my cheeks. I buried my face in Seung-hyun's chest and started sobbing. He was still hugging me and started to slowly cradle me in his embrace. When I managed to calm down a little he took my chin and made me look at him. As soon as I saw his eyes I knew the Seung-hyun from my dreams is nowhere by me in real life. It was like two completely different people with the same face. "Do you want some water?" he asked gently. I nodded wiping away the last few tears. He got up and went in the kitchen. "You ok?" Youngbae asked trying to sound indifferent but I noticed a slight tone of concern. I nodded. "Yeah, sorry for this, we should've warned you." I said shamefully. Why did this have to happen in front of him? That fact just irritated me more and I turned my back to him. "Do you know the cause of these dreams?" he asked. I didn't want to talk to him about this. I hoped Seung-hyun would come back soon so I could avoid all these questions. "I already told you, conscience. Not everyone is fit to be a killer." I said insolently. He got up and walked to the doors, visually bothered by my words. "I'll be outside." He said picking up a pack of cigarettes from the windowsill and going outside. A minute later Seung-hyun came back. "Where's Youngbae?" he asked. I pointed at the doors. "Smoking his problems away." I commented with arrogance. Seung-hyun let out a sigh. "It'd be easier if you two got along you know?" he told me. I shrugged, even if I could I didn't really want to get along with that person. If Seung-hyun didn't notice that until now he probably never will. "Please?" he asked giving me his adorable puppy eyes. "What do you want me to do?" I asked confused and honestly bored. Why are we even discussing this? "Go talk to him?" he asked and made his eyes even more adorable. This was so unfair! How can he look so cute while asking me something so bothersome? I sulked. "Fine!" I said and snatched the glass from his hand. I took a long sip and then gave it back to him as I made my way outside.