Reasons to Stay // Hyunin

~30~

Meanwhile, Minsung was back at the hotel looking over Hannie's laptop. "How long did you plan to stay here-"

RIIING RIIING!! Lee Know and Han both directed their attention to the hotel room phone sounding on the night table. Han hopped over and quickly picked up, "Hello?"

"Hi this is front desk," a lady answered hurriedly on the other end, "there's something going on and we're asking everyone to stay in their hotel room with the lights off. Exiting and entering the hotel building has been shut down. Please don't worry, everything will be fine soon."

Han and Lee Know, gang escapees, were certainly frightened over sudden weird happenings like this. "What's happening ma'am-" Han was about to say but she had hung up, probably having to call other numbers quickly. Lee Know went over to the door and slowly turned off the lights. The two were silent in the dark, even afraid to move.

"The dongsaengs are outside," Lee Know breathed. "Call them."

Han obeyed without another word and took out his phone but then stopped. "What if calling him will put him in danger?"

"Um, text them then," Lee Know said frantically. Han listened to him and texted the boy, but there was no response or even "read" in the next 15 minutes. Then suddenly his phone rang. It was Hyunjin.

"Hyunjin?" Han picked up right away.

"Han Jisung. You two traitors. Really thought you could get around Eun...how foolish."

Han widened his eyes in terror as he recognised Ah-Lim's voice. Lee Know sat down beside Han on the bed and quietly held his hand. "Where's Hyunjin," the older calmly commanded.

There was silence on the other end, then a snicker as the gangster knew who's voice it was. "Lee Know, isn't it." He laughed sarcastically. "Well if you wanna know where your boys are..." There was some shuffling, then they heard Jinnie's shaky voice, "H-hyung we're okay. Stay where you are, I'll k-keep Innie safe."

"YOU-" Lee Know shouted but the other end had hung up, leading to silence again. "What do we do?" whispered Hannie desperately.

They heard someone knocking on the door, and in fear became even more dead quiet. The knocking kept coming, and a little child's voice was heard in the hallway, "Somebody please let me in," pitiful and crying. They heard her knock on other doors, but no doors were open. "My mommy is in the store and I can't get in the room, please help me, I'm scared," she whimpered. After a round of knocking frantically on other doors,

Han crept over to their door and peaked out the eye hole. Indeed there was a crying little girl, wandering from door to door and knocking, crying. "Baby...should we let her in?"

"No." Lee Know was stern. Han argued quietly, "Hyung. She's a child."

Lee Know shook his head firmly. "We've already made too many slips. Remember we thought escaping here was good enough, we researched so much but apparently its not even enough. Come sit here and be quiet."

"Baby. She's just a kid."

"I don't care. You wanna stay safe?"

"Lee Know-hyung..."

"..."

The two heard the child's pitiful cries turn into wails as no one would open their door for her. Hannie's heart was wrenched in two as he wanted to help the child. "I'm gonna let her in real fast."

"...fine..."

The moment Han opened the door he was knocked over by a large figure who wrestled him to the ground and covered his mouth, pinning arms behind his back. Another figure was on Lee Know like a hound, Lee Know swearing under his breath and "I knew it."

The door was slammed shut, no little girl in sight. "Boss, are we doing it right here, in this room?" The man holding Lee Know down asked the other man. Han felt his sweat as he assumed that the man holding him could only be "Posh" Eun himself.

"No," Eun's deep voice snarled. "Bring them to the top. My men are guarding each floor."

Lee Know struggled as Han let himself be lead, feeling helpless. "YOWCH!" he heard the other man yell because Lee Know had bit his arm. "BOSS HE'S BITING ME!"

"Live with it," Eun grunted as the two struggled the boys to the elevator. Han felt terrible that he had fallen into the trap even with Lee Know's repeating warnings. He closed his eyes tightly and leaned onto the elevator wall as he felt it going up, up, and hearing the other two struggling and the gangster's constant cussing at Lee Know's uncooperativeness. The elevator doors finally slid open, leading to the stairway with a door leading to the roof the hotel.

It had begun to rain hard and the 4 of them were drenched before they even got to the edge. Lee Know, forced to look over the edge, had lost his ability to fight back as his fear of heights caused him to sit down and shrivel next to the roof wall in mental pain while the man kept his hands tight.

"Han." Eun almost spit out the name. "What is the meaning of this?" Han didn't answer so he continued gruffly, "Well I guess that since you can't even complete what I told you to do, then we getting rid of both of you. You traitor..."

"B-boss..." Han was used to calling him this.

"You still have the nerve to call me that. If I'm your 'boss' you would listen, wouldn't you?!" he yelled, then lowered his voice and spoke into Hannie's ear, "Unless you had other reasons to come here? Talk and I'll see if you can redeem yourself..."

"Wh-what do you mean?" Han asked, frightened as could be afraid to look anyone in the eye, afraid that Lee Know hated him. It had all been Han's fault. And now neither of them even knew if they would live another hour.

"Posh" Eun tightened his hold on Han's wrists and growled so that only the boy could hear:

"You complete your mission right now, you save your ass."