【Ａｓｐｈｙｘｉａ】 seongjoong

Extraction

Seonghwa gasped as his back hit the wall. Reaching up, he gripped the two hands that were grasping at his throat. The only thing that he could see in front of him were two brightly Ghoulish eyes staring back at him as the air rapidly left his lungs. Struggling, the agent tried to pry himself free.

For one locked up, this Ghoul was surprisingly strong. Coupled with the fact that Seonghwa had been taken by surprise and the pain in his back, he had few options of getting out of this situation. Thinking quickly, Seonghwa reared his head back as far as he could given the wall's proximity and rocketed himself forward with all the momentum he could muster. His head made contact with the Ghoul with a 'thwack' while the agent pushed forward.

The captive cried out in pain as the two's foreheads collided, and the Ghoul shuffled a few steps backward, stunned, as the hands holding Seonghwa back released their grip. The Ghoul moaned as it held its forehead where the impact happened. Seonghwa, now free, reached into his holster for his gun. He quickly pointed it at the crouched-over occupant in the room.

"Stay back!" Seonghwa cried as he prepared to fire his weapon. He slid a foot towards the still open door, hoping that he could slip away and close the opening before the turned and hunched over Ghoul could flip back around. The last thing he would need is to kill a Ghoul in lockdown and start an investigation unnecessarily. "Just stay there and don't move."

At the sound of the agent's voice, the Ghoul's shoulders drew up tightly by its ears. The groaning stopped, and the prisoner seemed frozen. Seonghwa, taking advantage of the pause, cautiously took another step backward and towards the door. Seeing no movement from the Ghoul, the agent slowly continued to work his way towards the exit. Just as the man was near the door to escape, the Ghoul straightened and turned around just the slightest bit. Seonghwa froze.

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Mingi tapped his foot impatiently as he stared at the home screen of his phone.

No new notifications.

Sighing, the boy leaned back on the couch. His eyes glanced at the clock hanging on the wall before groaning. He threw an arm over his eyes and slid farther down in his seat.

Only fifteen minutes had passed since the operation had started.

He hated this—the waiting.

Mingi shifted his eyes to look at the small blinking tablet that Seonghwa had given him. Four red dots slowly moving greeted his vision. Locations. It was a feeble peace offering to get Mingi to stay back home he realized now. Yes, he knew that his friends and boyfriend were moving but it didn't tell them the state of their health. Actually, the tablet really didn't tell him anything. Not any facility movement or about any Ghouls being housed that could be potentially dangerous.

Sighing once more, Mingi stood up from the couch and walked over to the window. It was dark out, a stark contrast to the harsh lighting in Yunho's apartment. Utopia was located on one of a side alley streets and usually saw more foottraffic from shoppers than actual cars but they could still be heard off into the distance.

Since he grew up away from the city, Mingi had found that sound annoying at first. It was as if people here never rested and were always going somewhere. Now, he found a sort of comfort in the mundane noise that broke the deafening silence and was grateful for it at the moment. Anything to keep him at least a little distracted from the waiting and his destructive thoughts. 

Just as Mingi was losing himself to the calm of the night, he heard the sound of a car door close. Curious, the brunette focused his attention back out of the window. The alley was mostly dark with a single lamp post providing minimal light but Mingi was still able to make out the slender figures of two men walking away from a black town car.