N0 B0DY, N0 CRIM3 | Bang Chan

Red-handed

When Seungmin and I.N entered the warehouse, they were greeted by the smell of pancakes. I.N had been out showing Seungmin one of his latest inventions. The scent of smoke clung to their clothes and to their bodies. Something had gone wrong at some point and backfired. I.N was desperate to find water to wash the remaining smoke out of his throat. 

The two didn't waste any time heading towards the kitchen. When they got there, they stopped in their tracks. Felix and Kiera both had a plate of pancakes. The two were laughing at something that Felix had said. 

"Felix, what the hell do you think you're doing?" 

Felix's hand froze halfway to his mouth. A drop of maple syrup dripped onto the booth table. Kiera went silent and glanced down at her pile of pancakes. She hadn't expected something like this to happen. 

"Chan is going to be pissed!" Seungmin went on. "He told you to leave her alone." 

"How was I supposed to do that? She was lonely and hungry!" Felix spun around in his chair to face Seungmin. 

I.N stepped around Seungmin and grabbed a bottle of water out of the fridge. Seungmin's arms crossed over his chest. He stared at Felix waiting for him to continue justifying his reason for letting Kiera out of her room. 

"You're all acting like she's a criminal! She hasn't done anything wrong. Just because her father is an asshole, it doesn't mean she is!" 

"Oh, really? That's funny because Chan's father was an asshole too and look how Chan turned out! The murders, the manipulation, the deception, it runs in the family. You can't run from your bloodline no matter how hard you try. Sooner or later, it catches up with you." 

The hair on the back of Kiera's neck stood up. She glanced over to the side. The man that wasn't speaking had his eyes narrowed at her. She ignored him and turned back towards Felix who was still arguing with Seungmin. 

"Chan got you this job, you should be grateful." 

"I'm not saying I'm not grateful, I'm just stating facts. At the end of the day, we're all assholes. Chan just happens to be at the top of the list. He told you to leave her alone for a reason. Are you going to defend her for everything now?" Seungmin moved further into the room and let the door shut behind him. "Where the fuck is Han?" 

"Sleeping." 

"Doesn't anyone know how to do their fucking jobs?" 

The door swung open again with so much force that the handle slammed into the wall. Everyone jumped at the sound of it. The room went silent at once. Chan glanced around the room with furrowed eyebrows. His eyes darkened when they landed on Kiera. "What the hell is going on in here?" 

"Felix took Kiera out of her room," Seungmin mumbled. 

"Pup, is that true?" 

"Well...yeah." 

"You two," he glanced down at Kiera and Felix, "come with me." 

Felix sighed and removed himself from the booth. Kiera got up to follow him, but her legs felt like jelly. Ever since she had seen Chan, as Felix called him, she wanted to stay as far away from him as she possibly could. Here she was now, forcing herself to walk after him. 

Felix slipped his hand into Kiera's and gently pulled her along. The three of them walked through the hallway in silence. Anxiety gnawed away at Kiera. Her stomach churned with all the 'what if' scenarios. Felix wasn't a bad person for taking her out of the room she was locked in. If anything, he was her savior. 

After walking a little longer, Chan popped open a wooden door, and gestured for the two of them to walk inside. Kiera recognized the room instantly. It was the same room where she had been interrogated by Han and Lee Know the day before. The two of them walked inside and Chan shut the door behind them. 

Chan cleared his throat and glared over at Felix. Felix curled into himself. His eyes went to the floor as guilt flooded through him. He had been through Chan's lectures before, but they still made him feel like shit. 

"What did I tell you before I left earlier?" Chan's arms crossed over his chest. He was still wearing the same black sleeveless shirt and jeans that he wore when he visited Kiera's room. 

"You told me to leave Kiera alone." 

"And did you?" 

Felix shook his head with slumped shoulders. 

"Stop it!" Kiera snapped. 

Chan blinked caught off guard. Felix's head snapped up to look at Kiera. She placed her hands on her hips as her eyes found Chan's. "Are you always this much of an asshole to him?" 

"Excuse me?" 

"He didn't do anything wrong! He felt bad because you locked me up! Yesterday, you had one of your stupid henchmen nearly try and kill me. It's not a crime to have basic human empathy!" Kiera's blood was boiling. Sure, she might have been kidnapped, but Felix had been the only one who had shown her some compassion. 

Felix coughed, "I'd stop it if I were you. Channie doesn't like it when people tell him that he's wrong. He doesn't like when people talk back to him either." 

Kiera's hands clenched into fists. Her eyes met Chan's and her voice began to rise. "Well, I don't like when people kidnap me, and torture me for information, so fuck him." 

Within seconds, Chan approached Kiera and had a handful of her hair. He jerked her head up to look at him. She was too angry to back down from the fight. She glared and kept eye contact with him. 

His breath was warm on her face as he spoke. "I'm not going to sit here and deal with your prissy attitude. You might have been treated like a princess in the white house, but that's not how it works here. You're being very mouthy and I don't like spoiled rotten brats." 

"If that's an issue, maybe you should learn how to make me shut up." 

He tightened his grasp on her hair. She blinked back the tears that pricked in her eyes from the sharp pain of her scalp being pulled. He clicked his tongue and shook his head. 

"Maybe I fucking will." 

Without another word, he snapped his fingers. Beside him, Felix's head perked up. He shoved his hands into his pockets and began digging around. When he found what he was looking for, he ripped off the plastic, and handed the rainbow lollipop to Chan. 

Chan's hand moved from Kiera's hair to her jaw. His finger dug into the sides of her cheeks. Her mouth slightly opened and he shoved the lollipop inside. Her eyes widened at the sugary sweet burst of flavor on her tongue. 

"Now sit down in that chair and shut the fuck up before I gag you."