ENHYPEN mini fics

17; sunoo (villain-hero au)

Sunoo hummed as he sat in his jail cell and rubbed his knuckles to soothe the pain in them. He looked over at his cellmate, knocked unconscious on the ground and snickered. He stood up and kicked his foot. He hadn't moved for a while after hitting the ground. The two of them had gotten into a fight, like they usually do, and fed up with his bullying, Sunoo punched him hard in the nose. It knocked him right out and he fell.

"Hey. You alive?" Sunoo asked, kicking him again.

The man flinched, but didn't wake.

"Damn, you are alive. Shame."

"Inmate Kim Sunoo," a security guard said from the outside of the cell. "You've been called for interrogation."

Sunoo looked at the two guards that came to take him and sighed. "Another one? Didn't I give the police enough information last time?"

"It's not the police."

A smirk grew on his face. "Ah, I know who's here."

He walked over to the door of the cell and stuck his hands through the gap for the guard to put the cuffs on him. The door opened and he stepped out, the guards taking both sides of him. They took him to the interrogation room and he sat down at the table. They locked his cuffs to the table and left the room.

Sunoo smiled as he looked across the table from him to a familiar face. "Hello, hero. Nice to see you again."

"I'm not here for pleasantries, Sunoo," she said with her arms crossed.

"Of course you aren't, but it's basic manners, isn't it? Besides, we used to be friends. Can't you greet me like you used to?"

"Used to be. We're not friends anymore."

Sunoo observed her and sat back in the chair. "No, we most certainly are not. Why are you here?"

"The police sent me. They figured I could get more information out of you since we were close at one point."

Sunoo smiled. "Close is an understatement to what we had, but do go on. What I'm hearing is they weren't satisfied with the information I gave them."

"No. They weren't. They want names. You were avoiding giving them a name to your accomplice in the police chief's murder."

Sunoo laughed. "First of all, I wasn't the one that murdered him. I was the accomplice, really. Believe it or not, even if I did switch sides before he died, I didn't do it. Second of all-" He leaned forward and smirked as he made eye contact with the hero in front of him- "you already know who did it."

The hero cleared her throat. "I most certainly do not."

"Oh, come on. You were there, weren't you? You know who did it. Why can't you give them a name?"

She shifted uncomfortably in her seat and looked around the room. "Look, I don't care if you just make one up or give me names of other villains. Just give me a name."

"Make one up? I don't have to make one up. I have the name. The problem here is, does the person whose name I know want me to expose them?"

"Sunoo..."

His expression darkened as he lowered his voice. "What will happen to your squeaky clean reputation if I just expose you right now?"

The hero flinched and leaned toward him. "Sunoo, don't."

"I took the blame for you. I helped you wash the blood off your hands after you killed him. I lied to the cops because I still care about you for some damn reason and yet here you are making shitty demands of me and refusing to come clean." Sunoo clenched his jaw. "I don't give a fuck if it ruins your life, it probably already is. I bet you have nightmares about it, don't you? And every night when you're scared and crying after waking up from that dream, I bet it hurts even more when you try to reach for me and I'm not there. You killed him and you put me in here. You made your bed and now you have to live with it."

The hero's eyes welled up with tears. "I'm sorry, I had to. You know what happened and I just... I couldn't go to jail for it."

"Yeah, I do know what happened but that's not the issue here. You used me as a scapegoat. I hope you're proud of yourself and I hope you know you'll have to live with it for the rest of your life even after I get executed for doing it."

The hero shook her head. "I won't let them do that."

"Too late for that. They already decided on it. It'll be on your birthday actually, how ironic."

"W-Wait, but they can't just... There isn't enough hard evidence to even prove you did it."

"Love, I don't think they even care." Sunoo sat back in his chair and sighed. "Well, at least the one good thing coming out of that is I wouldn't have to deal with seeing your face anymore. I know I became a villain, but damn, you really did ruin my life."

The security guards walked back into the room.

"Times up. Let's go."

They unlocked Sunoo from the table and stood him up.

"Have the life you deserve," Sunoo said to the hero before they left the room.