Escape (Minho x Reader)

Retracing

A loud thud comes from outside of my bedroom door. I ignore it. Just wanting to fall back asleep as whatever I'm hugging and laying on is super warm and comfortable.

"Shut the fuck up! You'll wake her- oh wait no them. You'll wake them" Someone whispers, obviously having opened my door.

Them?

I continue to ignore the people snooping and smuggle closer to what is keeping me comfy.

Whatever it is moves.

I freeze, waiting to see what else happens before freaking out.

Instead of movement I hear the snap of a photo being taken.

"Bro come on! You should have made sure your phone was on silent!" Someone whisper yells.

That was definitely Changbin.

What is he doing in my room?

"I thought I did!" Another whisper yells in response.

And that was for sure Jisung.

What is happening right now?

"We have to wake them up" Changbin says quietly.

"Do we really?? Look at them! I've never seen him look so at ease and she looks like she feels so safe!" Jisung responds, whining a little.

Their banter causes me to accidentally giggle out loud. Oops.

"Is she awake?" They rhetorically ask in unison.

Welp, no choice in hiding it now.

I stretch out and pretend I'm just now waking up and I haven't heard anything. Squinting my eyes I take a look around my room and spot the two knuckleheads staring at me like a deer in headlights.

Still pretending I haven't been awake for at least 15 minutes I plop back down and continue to do waking up things. Stretch, look around, yawn, rub my eyes, cuddle into this comfy thing.

"Good morning sunshine, did you sleep okay?" Changbin says softly, taking a seat on the edge of my bed.

Reluctantly I sit up and hold my face in my hands, "mhm."

I look beside me and am met with a peaceful looking Minho cuddled into my side.

I'm awake now.

Looking at him but not moving I go through like 3 facial expressions. Stunned, then surprised, and then confused. Why's he in my bed??

I look to the other two people in my room confused as hell and point to Minho.

They shrug their shoulders and stare back at him.

I nudge him trying to wake him up because obviously we are needed.

It takes a few hard nudges for him to wake.

"Huh, are you okay?" He says, sitting up with his eyes closed and brows high.

Damn, bro is tired as hell.

"I'm fine, two goofs just came in to wake us up" I inform him, laughing at his current state.

He opens his eyes and furrows his brows, "goofs? Wake us up? For wha-ohhhhh."

Now I'm the one furrowing my brows in confusion.

"Oh, Chan was supposed to tell everyone the plan today but only told the three of us. We didn't press him though because he finally had been asleep for more than 3 hours and hadn't stirred" Minho explains, getting out of my bed and stretching.

"So what exactly are we doing today?" I ask, also getting up and stretching.

"Retracing your steps to try and locate the second base" Jisung answers, going through my clothes.

"Today? Alrighty then" I rhetorically ask.

Really? I mean, the sooner the better I guess.

*Time Skip*

Jisung picked out my clothes for me so I'd match the theme for going out with them. They always wear normal clothes, mostly trendy stuff, when they're doing work related things during the day. So we're all wearing various cuts and colors of jeans, a hoodie with an undershirt, and converse or vans. It's cold so we need to be bundled to get this done better.

Minho took us to where he found me and from there I tried remembering how I got there.

It's really difficult. Especially since I took a lot of alleys and turns.

I've been at this for almost an hour. None of the boys have complained which is weird to me.

I know it took me a long time to get where Minho found me, and I know what direction I came from. I don't know where exactly I went in between that. Which is insanely frustrating.

Looking around me I try to picture everything at night and rainy. When I was running I remember I tried to stay out of streetlights. So in order to keep that same theme, I try to avoid where I think the light from them would fall if it was night time.

Eventually I get to an area that seems a little familiar. It's a sketchy part of town, and the structures and road quality is different than where we just were.

I look around at the unkempt streets and architecture, knowing I'm close. My heart beat quickens from both fear and exhaustion. However, I keep looking.

When I've looked long enough the beginning of my escape comes to mind.

All the alleys I took, the roads I passed, the corner I turned initially. I remember.

"We're almost there" I let them know, my voice barely above a whisper.

Minho let's the others know what I said. He's been right next to me the entire time so he's the only one that heard me.

I continue to lead them on my path. Quickening now that I'm more familiar with my surroundings.

The clouds cover the sun and it dims. This makes the side street we're on even more recognizable.

The building is across the street.

I stop just before the exit of the alleyway we're in.

"There. Look down the alley in front of us and near the ground you should see two rectangular windows. On that same side are double doors. That's where I came out of. My cell was the window right next to those doors" I inform them, pointing around trying to pretend like I'm helping them figure out where to go, as if we're just some lost civilians.

"Save this location on all of your phones. We will wait 2 days and then I'll send two of you to survey it. Two of us will go one night, then two the next, and so on. Get it, got it, good?" Chan instructs, also looking around as if we're lost.

"Get it, got it, good" we all respond.

I scan my eyes over the building once more and spot a familiar person.

Without being too obvious I squint and look harder at the guy walking out of the doors and to the street.

Who is that? He doesn't look like anyone they had working in this building. It was only the higher ups and a few people in training.

I look away so as not to draw attention before looking back at him. He's walking our way across the street.

I side eye him and attempt to move a little bit closer to get a better view.

As I do this realization hits me.

That's Jay.

"How is he alive? I thought... I killed him"