Love is Stronger than Blood (Snowdrop Oneshots)

37- firefight

Kinda like the deafening silence ones but instead replace the silence with gunshots.

A Hanmu-centric breakdown of the first few scenes of episode 5.

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"Stay away!" Lee Kangmu ordered, pushing Jang Hanna and Kim Seungjun behind him. "The students will get hurt!"

The heavily-armed ANSP team slowly backed away from their target, while a few college girls living in the dorm they were currently in cowered in the presence of their loaded firearms.

"Hey, it's all right," Kangmu said to the poor girl being held at gunpoint by the spy. "Don't be scared. It's all right."

Hanna remembered that girl. She'd been in the dry sauna with her dormmates the night they'd chased Taedong River 1 to this very dorm. He'd been hiding in there somewhere, but they never found him.

Well, they'd found him now. Too late.

Her revolver was cocked and loaded, ready to fire, but she wasn't about to risk the life of an innocent college girl.

"Drop the guns in three seconds, or she's dead," Lim Sooho threatened, pointing his pistol at the face of the student he held in a chokehold.

"Hana..." Sooho counted.

One of the girls screamed and made a break for the stairs.

"Dul..."

Two more armed soldiers appeared behind a wooden pillar, their guns aimed right at Sooho, but there was nothing Kangmu could do to tell them to back off without the spy noticing.

"Lim Sooho," he said.

Sooho put the barrel of his gun to the girl's temple. Hanna moved her finger to rest on the trigger of her revolver.

One of the gunmen behind the wooden pillar moved his AK-47 from Soo-ho to point at Hanna. No one but Kangmu noticed, his eyes going wide.

"Set."

A gunshot sounded, but Hanna barely registered it as she was tackled to the ground by Kangmu. Before they hit the ground, she heard a sickening striking noise and a pained grunt.

As for Kangmu, as soon as he saw the gun pointed at Hanna, he didn't stop to think. He jumped in front of her, grabbing her shoulders and pushing her down. They crashed through some decorative wooden paneling as the bullet entered his shoulder, tumbling to the polished stone floor of the dorm lobby and rolling to a stop.

Fire and acid burned in Kangmu's right shoulder as he lay on the ground, nearly immobilized with shock and pain. The students screamed and ran in all directions as more gunshots rang through the air.

Hanna forced herself up, bullets flying all around her, and grabbed Kangmu, hauling him to cover behind the pedestal of a bronze bust. While they weren't completely safe, the pedestal protected them from any more bullets, at least for the time being. There was a hole in Kangmu's grey jacket, and the cloth surrounding it was quickly becoming stained red with blood. She was too panicked to scold him for being an idiot and getting himself shot.

Someone's voice sounded in her radio, but Hanna didn't care. She took off her gloves, placed her revolver on the ground, and pressed his shoulder between her hands, trying to stem the bleeding from the bullet wound.