heeseung gently pushed the boy's hood back, exposing his cold bitten nose and cheeks. brown eyes searched his face anxiously.
"it's okay. we're safe." heeseung murmured, holding his smaller hands in his own to warm them.
"w-what do we do now?"
"we'r...
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When Heeseung and Jungwon were led underground, they didn't know how to react. They were definitely somewhere similar to the safe haven that was described, it was just hidden away more so than they had thought.
Heeseung swallowed hard as they stood in a circular room, more soldier like guards everywhere. They ran their hands over Heeseung, confiscating his knife.
"Check them for injuries." A guard ordered.
Heeseung was stunned into submission in a sense as other people checked him and Jungwon briefly. He assumed they were medics.
Heeseung threw his head back and gritted his teeth when they probed the area over his ribs, accidentally knocking his head against the wall behind him.
"You've got quite a lot of bruising." the medic comments. "I'm assuming you had a fall of some sort?"
He flushed when the medics lifted his shirt but he couldn't do much in protest with guns still trained on him. He kept his hands up.
"From what I see of all this bruising, you're lucky only two are broken."
"T-Two?"
"Yep. Cracked is a better description, but they're definitely busted up." the medic gave him an encouraging smile. "Don't worry. We'll get you all healed in no time."
He focused his gaze on Jungwon, a guard checking his wrists.
"Hey. I got one."
"What is it?"
"He's an Exxon."
Heeseung hadn't heard the term used before but he was sure they were referring to Jungwon being a giver. He saw the way the guard's eyes narrowed and then he made a short motion with his hand.
The other man closed his arm around Jungwon's upper arm, prepared to lead him somewhere. Panic shot through his body in an instant.
Heeseung lunged at him.
He tried to pry the man's hand off of Jungwon, managing to succeed since he had taken him off guard.
"Hey!" someone shouted, deep and intimidating.
Heeseung was pulled back and the guard grabbed Jungwon. Heeseung pushed himself forward again, latching onto the guard and trying to pull him away from Jungwon. The other guard also grabbed his arm. It quickly became a group struggle.
"Don't take him away!" Heeseung shouted.
He wrapped his arm around Jungwon's torso, trying to keep him close but the guards untangled him roughly. He kept his hand curled in Jungwon's shirt.
"Heeseung!" Jungwon reached for him.
Heeseung threw all sanity out the window and sank his teeth into one guard's arm. The man yelped and drew away, allowing him to cling onto Jungwon again.
