Close To You

Chapter II

The first thing Mix feels when he opened his eyes was horrible, the throbbing feeling to his head and it's enough to make him snap his eyes open and jolt up, wincing in pain when he does so. He tries to breathe in and out and think back to a possible reason for discomfort, remembers that he's in the black market, lost himself then suddenly there's a soldiers that blocked his way until he passed out.

Damn, he had forgotten that he could've died today. Pushing himself up in a seated position, Mix goes rigid when his eyesight finished adjusting. He blinks.

"You awake." He heard someone in a cold voice.

The doctor slowly shook his head and saw the man was sitting next to him. Behind it, he could see the sunlight coming through the window.

"I didn't know that a terrorist was so weak that he fainted at the market."

Mix could sense that this man was mocking him.

He rolled his eyes at that, he did not know he's still accused at the sin that he doesn't even do. It's not like he's innocent, he's far from it. But he's really, really tired of this conversation.

"Time to get up, don't act like a prince here. The Captain wants to see you in the interrogation room."

Again, Mix was in the verge of anger right now that he wanted to bury this guy alive in front of him.

Mix slowly getting up from the bed, once he fully stand, the taller man turned around and walked over the door. But before he pushed the front door open, the doctor suddenly called him.

"Hey, you said I'm a weak, right?" Mix said, there's a smug smile forming on his face.

The soldier shook his head, raising his eyebrows but before he opens his mouth to speak Mix was quick enough to punches his face.

Mix began to run.

Mix ran like his life depended on it

It did in fact.

He was breathless and sweating, but he didn't dare to stop. He didn't know where exactly he would go since he wasn't familiar in this place, he was just running as fast as he could so that he doesn't get caught of the soldier that he punched earlier.

He looked at behind him and spotted the soldier few feet away from him, he sped up.

Oh shit.

"Stop right there!" The soldier called out but Mix didn't budge as he ran even faster.

Mix was vibrating from adrenaline. He felt jacked up and so damn exhausted at the same time but he still kept going. Then suddenly, he spotted a man, facing his back.

Mix felt a triumph.

His vision was getting blurry, his limbs began to ache and he's struggling to breathe, but he refused to stop, believing he was approaching a safe territory. Mix continued to run feeling hopeful.

Mix managed to approach him, he was now in front of the man. He tried to calm himself down as he put his hands over his knees.

"H-hey." He managed to say.

Mix doesn't know what he's doing. Indeed. He hugged the man without a thought.

"Fuck, you saved me! Thank you, thank you!"

The doctor smiled, not wanting to let go his arms from the hug as he felt warmth. As he heard the man cleared his throat, Mix suddenly released his arms from the hug, still smiling.

The moment when the man turned around, Mix's smile slowly fade away. He felt like his world was falling apart.

The man was also wearing a military suit. A fucking military suit.

Means that this man was also one of those soldier who wanted to kill him.

"N-no!" Mix said in disbelief. "There's no way that, that you're also one of them!"

The soldier gave him a confused look, couldn't fathom what the man was babbling about.

Suddenly, the other soldier was also approached them, joining the conversation.

"You're so damn fast!" He exclaimed in breathless way.

"What happened in here?" The other soldier asked.

Tawan shook his head as he heard the said voice, eyes widen and immediately saluted, "Captain!"

Mix felt like his world was falling apart again as what the soldier had said. No. He wanted to throw himself away from the river. Captain? Really? He felt ashamed as what he did to this man earlier.

He wanted to speak, really, he wants to explain himself but his brain was suddenly short-circuiting.

Mix was snapped out of his thoughts when he heard the soldier beside him, he rolled his eyes again, doesn't know how many times he does that, really.

"I'm not a terrorist!" Mix hissed in anger. "Are you moron? Why can't you fucking understand?!"

The Captain remained silent, lost in his own thoughts.

"Do you have a gun on your pocket, Captain?" Tawan spat, glaring at Mix, "Had you forgotten what you did to me earlier? Hah, you punched my handsome face! I'll bury you alive. We have lots of rivers and mountains in here. I'll make sure they won't know where to find for your corpse."

This man was really something.

Mix glared back. "You think you scared me? Before you bury me alive, I'll make sure that I did that to you first!"

Tawan shook his head in mock amusement. "Do you really think you would do that to me when you're in our territory? No way, we don't show mercy to our enemies."

"Then, show me what you've got." Mix shrugged in disinterest.

Tawan huffed in anger, looking back at his Captain, "Captain, what do you think with this sly cat? Do we need to bury him alive? I suggest burying him," Tawan offered, "So it would be nice and clean."

"I suggest you shut your fucking mouth." Mix fired back. "No one asked you."

"How dare y-"

"Enough." The Captain snapped out of nowhere, causing the two to shut their mouth. "You," he looked at Mix then stepped at him closer, "Follow me."

Then he left before Mix could respond.