restrained affinity

━fourteen.

Discombobulated Nepenthe
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It has been 2 hours since that shooting happened. You are still trapped inside that room, unable to go outside due to all those dangerous things. Until someone patted you. On your shoulder, you looked up with red eyes as you saw who it is.

"Ran..?" you mumbled. Seeing a blurry figure right in front of you. It is Ran, but he's gotten all bloody. That's why you gasped and backed up.

"Let's go." he stated, offering a hand to you. Reaching out for your grip as he saw you resting behind the table. You looked up to him with confusion. As you saw how he was bleeding out. You couldn't tell whether it's his blood or it's another. You can't expect less from a criminal. The rusty stench of blood ascending from him. The fact that you were either bothered or livid about how he got those blood. But you couldn't ask him that for various reasons.

"Where's Rindou?" you asked as you took and reached out for his hands. For you to be able to stand up. Although you have stayed in one position for 2 hours straight. Your joints started to hurt. You nearly got yourself to fall but then he caught you.

"Careful." he smiled. As you fallen on his arms with no expectations of that happening. You just intended to get up, not to fall. You wanted to push him, but in you couldn't. Considering how your legs couldn't walk yet, due to stayed in position for too long. You couldn't push him away.

In some other way he thought of carrying you on his back. He leaned over on his other knee while the other supports his body. This just means that you must ride his back until the destination you were destined to go earlier. Though you were having second thoughts.

"Accepting help from him means that I forgive him or I owe him something." you thought to yourself as you held on tight to the table. Thinking how he was offering help to you,

"Just go, y/n. I'm not doing this for any other reasons but to help you." he declared with his gaze and figure fixated on how he will carry you on his back. But with your stubborn thinking and your toxic mind said no. He sighed and stood up. "Look, this has nothing to do with our own problems. I am offering help to you, because you are my sister."

"Sister? I was never." you insisted. Knwoing the fact that you were not related by blood or anything. That you didn't really came from the Haitani bloodline. You were confused about how they still accepted you and managed to protect you after knowing that you were fictitious. You remembered something that can answer your question. "Possibly, they helped me because I was needed to retrieve those files that they needed from my father."

"I don't give a damn about what my old man told you, you are our sister, y/n. By blood or not." he proclaimed. Non self-proclaimed since Rindou thinks the same. He did not care about how you weren't related by blood. You were the same person that they once cared about. You couldn't utter any more words.

You tried to walk towards him. As he again fixed himself that he mist carry you until the end of the hallway. To the elevator, and back at Rindou's room. They can't afford to give you your own room for several reasons. First and main reason is because you won't be staying there for long. Considering the fact that only a few days you'll be free again.

So as result. He carried you until the both of you reaches the destination. With no words. Both fell in a deep black out. Ran wanted to talk to you and apologize for certain things. But he can't just get the right words. Until you said it first.

"Bother stating your apologies, is a waste of time." you spatted with real deep meaning. Means that when he starts to apologize, would be just a waste of time. Because it is either you will forgive them or you most certainly won't.