Safe Heaven

Chapter 24

Krystal's Point of View

The first thing that I thought when I saw Sehun lying there in his own blood was how stupid he was. When Kwon Haesun tried to shoot me in my chest he failed, and I automatically knew it was because of his damned jacket that he had given to me before everything had started. How dare had he given me this bulletproof jacket when I had specifically told him not to die on me? That stubborn kid, he'll get it later.

At the moment I was very preoccupied with this old man hovered over me. He was really determined to get rid of me. And over here, all this while I thought he didn't have the heart to even love his own family members. But I guess everyone has a soft spot. Deep down inside you could say that Sehun was mine.

I bent over and sent the man a flying kick, expecting myself to land ever so gracefully on my two feet. But ah, today was full of many surprises, no?

He was skilled for an old man, he really was. He grab hold onto one of my legs and twisted them, a loud cry escaping from my lips the next second. The pain was absolutely excruciating. I fell onto the solid ground, a loud thud filling the still air, and it was like I couldn't move at all as I watch Kwon Haesun lean over me and pulled something shinny from his back pocket.

It was a knife.

Run! My inner self said. But did I got up and ran? Fuck no. My ankle hurt so bad that all my system wanted to do was shut down and not function anymore. People say when you're close to death, you see your whole life flashing through your eye in the matter of seconds. I call that bullshit. All I see now was white, and all I felt now was the thumping of my heart against my ribcage. The distant sound of my haggard breathing seemed so close to my ears as my eyes searched for Sehun's body, and there he was across the room, unmoving and frozen.

At least when I die, the last thing I would see was him right?

Wrong.

I wasn't going to die.

At the corner of my eyes, I see my dad and a man I hadn't quite seen before. But it wasn't hard to guess who this man was from the striking features that his son had taken down upon him.

I watched him as he shot him from afar, while Kwon Haesun was close to stabbing me in my heart. And when I saw his body dropping lifelessly onto the ground next to me, I could only think of how lifelessly his eyes looked as his soul was taken away from his body.

My father ran towards me and the next few seconds were a blur as my eyes drooped slowly, the darkness welcoming as my body couldn't hold the pain anymore.

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"Do you know what's a safe heaven dear?"My mother asked me as she set my favourite storybook aside, which happened to be 'The Little Mermaid'. It had been one of those nights where my mother would read me to sleep, but being the hyperactive child I was, I had wanted more than just fairytales and stories. I wanted something real and true, something that my mother herself had experienced before.

"What's that, mommy? Is it a place?" A curious 3-year-old me asked.

A light chuckle escaped her thin lips. My mother had been a beautiful petite lady in her late 30s, being a gymnast back in the days definitely helped her sustain her slim figure. She had long black hair that reached her back, pointed nose and those large eyes I had inherited. All in all, as a small child I had thought that my mom was the queen of this world.

She had been very beautiful.

"Once upon a time, I was alone, desperate and very tired. Then your father happened. You know those stories I read for you before you sleep every night? Those knights in a shining armor? Your daddy was just like one of those, but he meant much more for me, sweetie."

"He's your safe heaven?" I questioned, putting the pieces upon each other quickly.

As my mother smoothed my hair and the tucked the blanket closer to my chest for me, she smiled shyly at me and I just knew it from the gleam across her eyes.

My dad was everything for her, and at that moment I had wondered if my mother was everything for him as well.

"Yes honey, your dad had been and will always be my safe heaven."

That was just how much my mother had loved my father; she even gave her life to save his.

I could feel the side of my face getting wet, the overwhelmed feeling washing over me ever so quickly. I realised I had been in a dream, and I needed to wake up in search of my father. After all these years I never knew but now that my mother's murderer was gone, I really needed to hear those words coming from my father's lips.

I could feel my fingers twitched under me, and soft mummers surrounding me. Slowly but surely, I began to open my eyelids, trying to get used to the light entering the open window across my bed. Everything was just so white and suffocating, the first thing that came to my mind was to get the hell out of this confined room and get my dad.

I pushed the white covers off me and pulled out the iv drip from my wrist, ignoring that callings from the people inside my room. I dashed outside, foot bare across the white tiles of hospital, searching for my father in hopes of getting my answer.

It was hard and I wobbled on the first few tries plus the bandage on my right ankle didn't helped much, but somehow rather I managed to break into a sprint, looking for the familiar face of my father's. It had been blurry, and I was still drowsy from the medicine, so it wasn't much of a surprise when I had bumped into someone's chest. I glanced up and came face to face with a worried-looking Sehun, and the only thing I could think of was "Bless the heavens."

"Baby," He paused, his eyes scanning through my body, as if to look for any fatal injuries, like the one on his head. "What's the matter?" He questioned, but I just shook my head, unable to decipher any other words except for "Take me to my father."

Him, understanding my sense of urgency, took my in his arms easily and jogged, already having an idea of where my father would be at. I giggled like a five year old, liking the fact that he was carrying me and said to him, "Quicker Sehun! Quicker!"

He smiles at my childish act and nuzzled his nose against my neck and muttered a soft "Okay."

After another five minutes passed, I finally spot my dad next to who I assumed was Sehun's dad. My father looked at me in surprise, not expecting for me to wake up this quick.

"Mr. Jung, she requested to me to see you immediately." Sehun explains, and sets me onto the cold hospital ground but still keeping a hand onto my waist to keep me up straight.

"Dad," I breathed out, cutting straight to the chase.

"What's mom to you?"

I stared dead into my father's eyes, and he smiled when he hears me asking this, as if already foreknowing that I would ask him this question.

"My safe heaven, princess. Your mother was my safe heaven."

I couldn't hold it in anymore, and so I let the cold façade go, a tear slipping out from my eye.

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A/N : Hey everyone!!! One more chapter to go (?) Woohoo i'm gonna miss this story //ugly sobbing// It's currently close to 2am so yeah i'm out. Thanks for reading and commenting hehe.