8 sips of Poison | Stray Kids Mafia AU (part 2 of 8 sips of Wine)

Circus

Bucharest, Romania

-Okay, is everybody ready? Chan asked once more, shaking his hands anxiously.

All the team nodded and gathered in a circle.

-Stick to the plan! he raised his voice, almost leaving Hyunjin deaf. If I catch any of you pulling some funny business behind my bag, I'll change the roommate agreement and separate you all. That's right. Neither of us will receive dick for two weeks.

-Is this who we are? What motives us? No dick? Seungmin seemed disappointed.

-Says the-

-The guy who got fucked on the hood of the car! Seungmin cut Minho off. We know! All of us! Whoever snitched will face my wrath later. Now let's put up a show!

When the lights turned odd and the spotlight fell on the middle of the stage, the thousands of people there stopped talking and watched how the curtains made way for an elephant to walk with heavy steps towards them.

On top of it, there was Changbin, holding on his back two people: Minho and Felix on top of him, holding himself up with his legs in the air and arms clutching to the older's shoulders.

Felix jumped on the ground, and took the mic from Seungmin.

The two of them greeted the public, Felix in English and Seungmin in Romanian, then ran backstage to prepare for their own tricks while leaving Minho with his big ass kitten to entertain people.

The lion followed Minho and twirled for the spectators to admire him.

It even took Minho's hand and bowed.

The lion had been raised between those thin walls of the circus tent. That was actually his last performance before being freed.

Felix decided he wouldn't let animals suffer any more. He knew better than anyone how was to be locked up in a cage.

The lion was already trained, knew the tricks by heart and to be honest it may have been scared of Minho as well.

The point is that they made a hell of a show as an opening and left the stage paw in hand, bathed in applause.

Jeongin entered the stage after Changbin's number and took 8 knives to show them to the public.

He then started juggling with them like Felix taught them to.

The number of bandages on his hands were enough to show how hard he had worked to learn how to do it.

He smiled as he managed to catch them all one by one and dragged Chan on the stage to pass them to him.

He skipped childishly to a target and glued his back to it, waiting for his boyfriend to aim.

He was eager to see "the throat slicer" at work.

Chan threw one by one, hearing the audience's gasps becoming louder and louder.

At the last one Jeongin turned his head to see the blame cutting a strain of his hair. He saw his reflection in the blade and felt a thrilling shiver travel down his spine.

Seungmin ran to the center of the stage, bowed and called Jisung to join him. He squeezed his shoulders a bit and whispered in his ear.

-You are the one that told, didn't you?

-It was worth it, Jisung laughed.

-Get in the box! he pushed him inside a wooden box and locked it with chains.

He took a number of 6 swords and showed them to the people before sticking one by one into the box.

He had a mad smirk on his face.

He was probably imagining how would Jisung look like on a stick.

A few moments later, a woman from the crowd got up as the spotlight moved on her.

She took her hat and wig off and revealed herself as Jisung in disguise.

Everyone remained speechless.

Changbin got inside the cannon and praid one last time before Chan fired it up.

He flew across the tent as the lights moved on Felix who was climbing a scale.

He straightened his back in front of the rope and took a deep breath. Then he began to walk on it.

He felt a bit rusted from the lack of practice, but he remembered each time he had to swing on electric wires to save his ass from the Mafia and the police and he burst into a chuckle.

He finally realised that he didn't need the circus to feel in his element.

He was already pulling stunts and living at his fullest during those missions.

Climbing buildings, fighting on top of cars and airplanes, dealing with the members' fights. Every day was an adventure. A stunt to pull.

And he loved every moment of it.

Because he was free. Stray Kids weren't keeping him locked. They were free and wild. And they loved him.

Even more... The love of his life was waiting at the trapeze to catch him after the younger would do his trick.

He entrusted Hyunjin with that. He knew he would catch him.

A man with a hoodie covering his face turned to whisper in one of his bodyguards' eat something and the latter got up mid performance and shoot a bullet up.

Hyunjin turned his head one second to spot Oneus before he felt Felix's hands slipping through his fingers.

With nothing less than horror and tears in his eyes he watched how Felix let go of the trapeze and fell to the ground, their eyes never leaving each other's side.

His worst fear has come to life...