Love is Stronger than Blood (Snowdrop Oneshots)

34- desperation

If Hanna had been in the dorm during episode 16.

Just for context, Gal's an agent in this.

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Gal Sangsik's voice was replaced by an automated woman's on the radio, before he could even produce the hard evidence that the North and South were teaming up for the election.

Disappointed murmurs rose up from the assembled students.

"He didn't even get to finish what he was saying," Hyeryeong said.

Jang Hanna and Lee Kangmu exchanged concerned looks before Hanna pulled out her radio and quickly left the room. Kangmu followed her to an empty room down the hallway.

Hanna was pacing back and forth, her radio on but nothing coming through the static. "Gal? Agent Sangsik! Do you read me? Answer me, dammit!"

She froze as she saw Kangmu standing in the doorway.

"What are you doing here? You should be with the students and Pi."

Kangmu avoided her question. "Is Gal answering?"

"Anniyo..." she twisted the knob on the radio, but still no answer. "Something must have happened to him."

"He must've been caught," Kangmu muttered.

Hanna threw down the radio onto one of the beds before storming over to the window and carefully pulling back the curtain a few inches to see outside, though she dropped it and turned away when one of the searchlights roamed over it. She ran a hand through her short hair, her other hand clenching into a fist at her side.

"This is my fault. I asked him to help me look into the election scheme. I got him in too deep."

"You can't focus on that now," Kangmu said, taking a step towards her. "We need to get out of here alive first, and then we can find a way to get Sangsik out."

"How?" she demanded, slamming her hand on the table. "Gal was our lifeline, and now he's most likely locked up and being tortured! How are we supposed to get out-"

"Sooho and his comrades got out undetected," Kangmu reminded her.

"There were only five of them," Hanna said. "There are over thirty of us still here."

"Then we have no choice," Kangmu said. "We have to fight them."

Hanna's jaw dropped open in shock. "Fight them? Are you insane? They'll kill all of us!"

"They'll kill everyone regardless," Kangmu said, giving her a steely look. "Wouldn't you rather go down fighting?"

Hanna stared back at him, time seeming to slow down with every beat of her heart.

She shook her head, unwilling to answer that. She snatched back up the radio, turning it on again.

"Agent Gal! Sangsik, you gae-sae-ggi! Can you hear me?"

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"I'll live quietly for the rest of my life," Kangmu swore into the phone. "I'll make false statements if you need me to. 'The ANSP has persistently strived to save the students from the vicious armed Northern spies.'"