Last Man Standing. nct

29 People Remaining (2)

Doyoung, one of the jokesters, stands up from his seat once his cuffs are removed. He looks shaken and worried, terrified out of his mind. He picked up his bag and moved towards the door opening it up looking into the dark hallway, a moment later he vanished into the darkness. His pounding footsteps were heard as he jogged away.

Suyang took a deep breath fidgeting in her seat.

“Now we wait for two minutes. Next will be seat number 2, Irene and so on down the row and then we return back to the top.” Suho says.

The routine continued ruthlessly as if he was sending people into an open hell. It might’ve been done by a blink of any eye, but when it was Rain’s turn, Johnny noticed that the same sheet of paper that was used to write that awful message was now being placed on top of Xiaojun’s table. That small sign gave Johnny enough hope to believe that it was a secret message meant for her lover. Of course not everyone would participate in this gruesome game. Johnny just needed to find out those that weren’t going to play so that he could form some sort of alliance.  It didn’t matter who would be in it, as long as he knew that they wouldn’t play.

Suyang of course would be part of the alliance, if he could get Taeil and Kun then it would be better. Maybe even Sungchan and his group of friends, but Johnny and them weren’t very close. Who else could he count on to not join this sick game?

“Next Haechan,”

Maybe it was all in Johnny’s head, but he saw the younger boy look at him with hopeful eyes. Maybe Haechan too can join his alliance group. It wouldn’t hurt to include him, after all Haechan was smart. Now the only problem was where could they meet, would anyone be waiting outside, to talk sense or would they all start hiding?

Irene, Yuta and Jaehyun all left the same way, with indifferent attitudes towards Suho and the trio of soldiers. Irene, Johnny knew her to be a bit of an airhead, but amongst her friends consisting of Joy and Seulgi, Irene seemed to have more brains then them. When Suho said that there are others willing to kill, Johnny suspected that maybe Yuta would be the only one to participate, but after Jaehyun’s question, Johnny knew that that was the next level threat. Although everyone in the 19:00 bus always knew that Jaehyun and his group of friends were tight in some sort of way, maybe he wouldn’t kill them, maybe he would form his own alliance and get the hell out (simply because when the rest of his crew got out they looked seemingly calm. Johnny wasn’t betting on that though.) He didn’t trust Yeri, Winwin, Lucas, Taeyong and Jungwoo who was sitting behind him, and most certainly not Jaehyun himself. Another threat was Irene, she was pretty yeah but the lifeless look on her face when she left really rang sirens in Johnny’s head. She would definitely kill and with her group of friends, they would possibly be those legally dumb blondes thing- Johnny thought.

However, Yuta had no crew and that scared Johnny. One quote that Johnny kept close whenever he saw Yuta was that: When you have nothing to lose, you become dangerous. It didn’t help that Yuta looked like he had nothing to lose, it only freighted Johnny more. Yuta would most likely participate in this.

Time passed.

A few people cried when they left.

No one could blame them.

Two minutes passed and Jisung was called next, Chanyeol opened up his cuff and walked away. Meanwhile, Jisung timidly got up already with swollen eyes from quietly crying. His hiccups drew more attention and he tried to control himself but he couldn’t. Right there his voice broke and his eyes ran with tears again. He was gonna die. He had no faith in himself. His eyes couldn’t handle it anymore, before he reached the door he spotted Wendy’s corpse on the floor with the knife painfully wedged deeply on her forehead. He wished to be as brave and remove the knife, but the only thought in his head was how he was going to die out there. That only caused him to have fits of high rolling tears.