𝗠𝗘𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗬 ☄ norenmin (✓)

34

something was off with lucas lately.

several members had come to taeyong to try and convince him to talk to the other and see what's wrong with him. all the others absolutely loved lucas, there was no doubt about it. however, his recent slump proved to be detrimental to their team work and efficency.

for example, yesterday.

taeyong had selected a team of three assassins to wipe out a small group stationed not so far from their own base. the group, namely SF9, consisted of nine members and a few severly undertrained underlings. they were lacking in basically every field, engaging in petty thefts and credit card scams just to get by.

taeyong, being the leader of a group as large as NCT, decided to get rid of them for one single reason.

he deemed them useless.

going back to the mission, lucas, hendery and xiaojun were selected to wipe out the group but leave the leader, youngbin, alive so they could extract as much information from the group about their rivals as possible.

after that, youngbin was deemed useless as well which meant he should have been killed off after.

that assignment fell on lucas.

fast forward a couple hours, the trio had arrived at SF9's territory. after successfully wiping out the underlings, lucas ordered hendery and xiaojun to take care of the underbosses while he went on to find youngbin.

being the group's main interogator and an expert in emotional manipulation, it should have been easy for him.

he should have just killed him.

god, if only he did that.

maybe then xiaojun wouldn't be lying in tbe infirmary with a bullet hole in his stomach.

"guys, you go that way and take care of the others. i'll go find youngbin."

lucas called out, gripping his automatic rifle as he swiftly walked over a corpse. the pungent smell of dead bodies did nothing for the expirienced killers, bloody walls becoming an almost everyday occurance.

the two nodded, sending each other reassuring smiles as they ran off to finish this.

lucas couldn't help but grin as he watched the two obliviously in love assassins go off to kill people as if walking into the sunset together. in a weird and morbid way, he actually found it kinda cute.

he couldn't help but wish he had someone to do that with, too.

someone like jeno, perhaps.

the tan male shook his head, ridding himself of all thoughts leading back to jeno. it seemed that every single predicament he found himself in, the man simply couldn't help but think of the beautiful yet unavaliable bruinette.

not to mention the guilt he felt for giving oral pleasure to someone he knew belonged to not one but two of his members.

falling for the boy was a whole other thing.

"looking for me?"

too caught up in his thoughts to react on time, lucas looked up only to be pushed aside by someone. he grunted as his body slammed against the wall, the fresh blood staining his black leather jacket. just as he was about to get back up and deal with the person, a loud gunshot filled the ambient followed by a deafening scream and the sounds of footsteps quickly retreating into the darkness.

"xiao!"

hendery screamed, panic overtaking him as he watched the older squirm in pain as he clutched his bloody stomach. lucas stood still, frozen as hendery's loud wails mixed with xaiojun's grunts of torment. the man covered his ears, eyes squinting as loud ringing filled his head which began throbbing.

"lucas!"

"lucas do something for fuck's sake."

"YUKHEI, PLEASE HE'S GONNA DIE!"

"DO SOMETHING, NOW!"

"if he dies, it's on you."

the last part was directed at him by hendery who, in his despair and fear of losing someone he cared deeply for, needed someone to blame for his potential loss.

that's what doyoung hyung said, anyway.

"taeyong, i'm getting seriously worried."

doyoung spoke, glancing at lucas who was sitting outside the infirmary for the past three days, unmoving. his usually tan skin was missing its natural shine, seeming almost dull. his cheerful doe eyes, which always made everyone shine ten times brighter, were now nothing but dark irises ridden with guilt.

most importantly, lucas lost his laughter.

the sound one could only compare to joy itself.

he couldn't bring himself to grace them with the childlike harmony since the incident. to say that people were getting seriously uneasy was an understatement. lucas' usual happy-go-lucky attitude kept everyone afloat.

now it was as if everyone was slowly drowning in a sea of dark thoughts and negativity.

the sun had finally set after years of shining on them.

because you could only keep it together until you couldn't.

"when's lucas coming back?"

jeno had asked that question for at least a hunderd times, succesfully driving the new boy who brought his lunch insane. the platinum blonde, namely yangyang, sighed deeply as he fought back the urge to roll his eyes.

"i've told you five hundred times. i. don't. fucking. know."

jeno visibly deflated, feeling annoyed at the other's annoyance even though he knew yangyang had every right to act this way. for some reason, the blonde kept giving jeno dirty looks whenever he brought him his food, almost as if he was blaming the boy for what happened to their member.

but that had nothing to do with him.

right?

jeno wasn't so sure of that anymore.

especially after yangyang whispered something in his ear which made his stomach drop.

"maybe if you kept it in your pants, he wouldn't have to suffer like this."

feeling kinda proud of myself for updating this much ngl

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