Reasons to Stay // Hyunin

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"Boss...just let us go please, I won't tell anyone about anything. I just want to be a normal person and live happily with Lee Know..." Hannie whimpered as he and Lee Know were struggling in the hands of a strong gangster and "Posh" Eun himself.

Eun laughed sarcastically at the child's pleas. "Kid. You still have the nerve to call me 'Boss'?" He grasped Han's wrists tighter, causing the boy to wince. "Let-me- go..."

He glanced at his lovely Lee Know who was now lying limp in the henchman's arms, having fainted from fear and exhaustion. Han wished he could faint and take a break too. But then who knows what would happen to them. "Han Jisung you've got to hold on a little longer..." he clenched his teeth and uselessly struggled with all his effort.

"You know the rules and you played them. I don't care about what you want. You betrayed me and you're not getting out of it." Eun growled, and Hannie bowed his head and blinked back tears. He didn't want his story to end this way.

Suddenly he heard a 'pow' and a shout, his body was jolted forward and thrown to the ground. Han looked back behind him and he saw that the man had let go of Lee Know and was fighting Eun?! "KID RUN!" the older man screamed and Han's gang instincts caused him not to question. He tried dragging Lee Know. It wouldn't work. "Wake up...wake up..." he mumbled but his hyung was out like a light.

"I SAID, RUN!" the man couldn't fend off Eun any longer, but he noticed that Han couldn't leave without Lee Know. Thoughts raced around in the old gangster's mind...

Innocence.

The children were filled with innocence. All they wanted was to live a happy life. The man didn't know the background of the boys because he was at a different base but they weren't born to be gangsters. They had to have a better purpose in life.

He looked at his boss's angry face in front of him, cussing and spitting at him, and the two struggled to the edge of the rooftop. He shoved Eun's head onto the top of the wall and flung his legs over.

It was only a matter of seconds as the leader of the global mafia was falling to his death, his screams echoing and a "CRACK!" confirming that he was no longer on this earth. The man stared down, then stepped back and looked at his hands. He was scared. His head turned slowly to look at the boy Han, who was staring back at him, frightened.

Without a word, the older gangster slung Lee Know over his shoulder and started to the door back to the stairway. "Come on," he said to Hannie, who quickly followed.

They didn't say anything, only the man running and Han following quickly behind. They went down a few back streets and ended up in an alley with no homeless people. The man set Lee Know down gently and leaned him against a wall. "Better for you guys to hide now. I have to go," he said hurriedly and ruffled Hannie's hair. "Be a good boy and live a good life," he tried to smile.

"Thank you sir..." Han wanted to say, but the man was already gone.

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"#0208's at the hospital now, under the best treatment." Jong informed Hyunjin back at the base.

Hyunjin made a mental sigh of relief. "Okay, good." he answered. Jong expected to say more. "So we're just leaving the case now??" he asked, confused.

"Yes." Hyunjin said shortly with no explanation.

"But-" Jong stuttered. "This has been Boss Eun's top mission for over 8 years. What's the reason behind you're decision?!"

Hyunjin turned to face the man. "I decide not to waste our time on these things. Master wanted to chase Jeongin down because he was afraid Jeongin would be a witness and expose the organisation. Obviously not. If they had done their research, they would have known it was a lot better for us if we just left Jeongin alone. He's not some one who would talk about those things, he probably just forget it and move on. Now he's being attacked so much that Bang Chan is in the picture and that's not pretty. I need to send someone to Jeongin and convince him that he doesn't need to talk about the gang and nothing will happen. It'll be hard to get him alone though."

"...as you say," Jong responded and quietly left the room. Hyunjin liked the man's complacency.

Hyunjin pulled out his phone for no reason. It was just a habit. But after holding it in his hands and staring off into space, Hyunjin remembered something: He has I.N's phone number. Hyunjin felt that he could use that for something but at the same time, he couldn't. With Jeongin's Chan-hyung around all the time now, what could he do? The gang had made things too complicated.

Instead he decided to text someone that he'd actually quite forgotten about the past few days.

Han

where are you and LK

He had no idea what had happened to the two after the Ramen shop and annoying enough, Hyunjin didn't know who had killed Eun, although the reason of death had been revealed through media. Hyunjin watched TV and videos.

"The infamous gangster boss known as 'Posh' Eun's body has been reportedly found at the base of hotel in ______ City. It is immediately noted that his death was a result of falling from the hotel's roof. Whether it was a suicide or a murder, is a different question.

"We're greatly looking into the possibility of a murder because this man Eun, is the head of a global mafia organisation and it doesn't seem right that he would end his life in such a position. However, the supposed night of his death was met with severe weather conditions, and if any trace of other people on the roof at the time of the happenings were once there, they are now gone."

What a coincidence the Boss should be in the same city where the 4 boys had escaped to. He had to admit, with so many gangsters in one city that night, it was ironic that they had not caught their target who was quite the naive boy, and instead had lost their oh-so-great leader.

A position Hyunjin now wished he could get out of.