Blaze

Run to Trouble

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Kris had gone out to buy some snacks so it was just Namjoo and Tao in the room they'd rented for the night. Namjoo was sitting across from the three folded up futons at the end of the room trying to put the medicine on her cut. Tao let out a snort when Namjoo hesitated to touch the deep cut with the swab she'd already dipped into the medicine. As expected she turned to send him a glare.

"You put up an attitude with everything, but you're afraid of tending to a cut?" Tao asked placing an arm over the knee he had up.

"Why don't you go interest yourself with watching those cats outside," Namjoo retorted.

"Tsh..." he snorted before getting up. He walked over to her and snatched the swab out of her hand. "I'll show you how this is done, you amateur."

Namjoo turned her head to the side with a small snort, "I don't know what you're talking about, you criminal."

Tao tightly gripped onto her arm causing her to let out a shout before he pulled her arm toward him. He glanced at the deep cut and glanced at Namjoo before lightly dabbing the swab around the clotted blood around it.

"Ah...ah!" she screamed in an attempt to pull her arm away. "It hurts!"

But no matter how much she struggled he didn't let go. "If you don't clean it, you're going to have to amputate your arm. I bet you he's used that knife for countless things."

"Liar! That much won't lead me to losing an arm. You think I'd believe you?" Namjoo refuted.

"Uh-huh, keep talking," he muttered.

"Yah, I bet I've done more schooling than you. Don't think that I'll..." Namjoo cut her own sentence off with her own deafened scream when Tao touched the cut again with the swab.

This time she lashed her arm out and knocked him in the face with her hand before she grabbed the swab from him.

"Forget it! You just go do whatever you want!" Namjoo began to move away from him.

"Ow..." he muttered rubbing his face suddenly irritated and somewhat angry with how she'd beat him for just trying to help.

Reaching forward he grabbed her hand to take the swab back, but Namjoo struggled and flung her free hand out. She placed it by the curve of his neck and shoulder in an act to push him away. They screamed and shouted at each other before he eventually grabbed her free hand tugging her toward him. Silence finally engulfed the entire room when Namjoo's forehead stopped just inches under his eyes.

Tao could almost smell the rosey scent of the soap she used flowing from her skin. Her hands fit into his just right and he could feel himself heat up from embarrassment or from whatever it was that was getting to him. Slightly tilting his head down he looked down to see those wide surprised eyes before the door opened and Kris stared back at them. He finally let go of her and they pushed each other away before Namjoo's phone went off. While he watched her move to answer the phone he thought he heard Kris clear his throat and turned away from Namjoo to glance over at him.

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"It's me," Victoria said.

"Oh. I know."

"Where are you?"

Namjoo glanced up from the ground and glanced around. "Resting somewhere."

"Go back to Seoul. Lay, Chorong, and I are going to be heading back, so lets go back together."

"Why so soon?"

"Lets re-gather in Seoul and think about what to do next. Stalking around Wonju might just be a waste of time. Lets go talk to Donghae and come up with a new solution."