DYNASTY ⮚ NCT FANFICTION

O5

"A tattoo?" Ten was standing in front of the new girl. He was surprised when at noon he heard a knock on the door, usually, they were all having lunch or sleeping if they had night shifts. But what surprised him, even more, was the person standing behind the door.

"Why didn't you tell us before?" The most shocking thing out of all –alongside the fact that she had informed him that the fighters decided to call her Bambi –was that she came to tell him that she had a strange tattoo on her hip.

"I didn't know it," she said, biting the side of her cheek. "I saw my naked body for the first time in ages yesterday, Ten. I lived like a corpse in a freezer, it's not my fault," Bambi justified herself reminding him that she didn't have a normal life.

Ten nodded, and mouthed 'Yeah, of course. Sorry.' Just to move to the side and let her come inside the room, closing the door behind them.

"Can I see it?" Ten asked.

The girl bit her lower lip, she knew he had to if she –they– wanted to know more about the people who held her prisoner, but it wasn't easy for her to show her body to a stranger, even if it was just a bit.

She had spent one hour crying the other day while her eyes scanned over her bruised, burned and marked skin. She just wanted to rip the skin off of her and let it bleed.

"It's okay if you don't want to," Ten whispered, getting her point even if she never said it out loud.

She shook her head. She had to do it, she had to be strong.

"Just," she sighed. "Please don't be disgusted, it's not the best sight to see," she confessed, looking at him in the eyes. Ten was the one that scared her the most the day before, but at the same time, she thought that his eyes already saw deep into her soul, and there was no way he could get scared of her body. A shell somebody else ruined.

"I won't, Bambi," he answered.

She nodded and then slowly started to lift the big sweater up on her chest, leaving uncovered the piece of skin on her right hips, she then pulled down the waistband of the pants, finally revealing the tattoo.

Ten mouth sprung open, his breath stuck in his throat and for a moment Bambi thought it was due to her body. But when Ten moved closer, reaching out for the tattoo with his hands, she got that it wasn't for that.

Ten was right about everything.

"Is it that bad? You're scaring me."

Ten shook his head and then moved away from her.

He didn't answer her question as he wandered around the room looking for something.

It couldn't be it, it couldn't. He kept telling in his mind.

"Ten?" She called for him, the way he acted was starting to give her anxiety. "Isn't that just the symbol of infinity?"

"No, Bambi, it's not," he whispered, his gaze falling to the ground. Then he moved closer to the opposite wall, where a holographic screen appeared. And started to draw horizontally.

"S," he mumbled, doing the first half, "and S," he repeated, completing the figure, forming the same symbol of her tattoo.

She furrowed, she knew just like before.

"Infinity," he finished.

"I don't understand," the girl whispered, she felt stupid but if there was any meaning behind that two letters she didn't have the information to get it.

Ten turned around, and let out a loud breath.

"Simon Says, this game will never end."

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