Never | Lee Haechan

Broke his cage

"Enduring life together is making me a little bit happier
We'll be connected without end, can't live without you,"

- NCT U, Without U

Playlist

Wishes - Jamie Miller
Silence- Marshmallow, Khalid
Kiss me - Ed Sheeran

Disclaimer: ⚠️ mentions of blood, abuse, trauma, violence and suicide

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Jiae rushed to their room and closed it behind her, locking it to make sure no one would interrupt them. She needed the answer from him. Whether it be his neatly buried deep emotions or something absolutely gruesome. She needed to know cause it bugged her.

She wanted to know him and his reasons. And she'd have to work for it. After all this, it's not that she wasn't 'close enough' to ask him anymore. The raven head really would've let him be if they weren't as intertwined as they were. It effects her and their relationship so she had the right to ask at least.

Haechan stood at the center of the room and turned around to the sight of her with an annoyed expression. "Leave Jiae, just leave,"

"Why are you running?" she asked and he turned his head to her to meet her eyes. Rage blared through them.

"Be fucking for real Jiae, you just put me down in front of everyone. What do you expect me to do? Dance?" The boy raised both brows and scoffed at her.

"You casually exposed my past with Beomgyu when I clearly was trying to avoid it. With the way you're acting I'm struggling to fight what he told me about you," she argued back. But she knew now that was her low blow. They were both raging and their words kept hitting a lower bar of insensitivity.

"Oh...oh?"

He chuckled deeply and satirically as the brunette approached her calmly yet he looked like he'd go off the handle any moment. His eyes, sharpened with a dark tone. The kind of eyes that would make her shudder in fear as he came up to her until she was backed away against the wall.

He m was so close that their faces were inches away and she flinched when both his hands slowly rested on either side of her body, but as good distance away from it. The gesture made a chill run down her spine.

"I'm sorry I-I didn't mean it that way," she apologised earnestly, eyes being stuck downwards.

"No, look at me," he demanded but she struggled to do so. Nonetheless, she did slowly look up, expecting an enraged glare but she was met with something worse. She didn't think anything could be worse but here she was- a broken pair of eyes stared at her, so blank yet held so much in them. That pool of honey that swirled deeper and deeper to an infinite portal.

"Do you really think...I'd blow up a bunch of...innocent children? Do you think so? Jiae....you really think I'd do that? For fun?" He asked as if the questions were more for himself than for her.

All she could do was stare at him for a few solid seconds before getting her quivering lips to speak, "I....don't believe it. You know I don't. I just...wanna know why cause I don't believe you're fucked up, Hyuck,"

"You wanna know why....?" He asked but his voice dropped to a tiny little whisper. A minute ago he was furious but now he looked like a lost little child. It was the glimpse of the one she saw at the basement a few months ago. His eyes seemed to haze out, the pain without the rage left in the open for Jiae to see. Vulnerable, with his wounds all exposed.