The Rebels are Crazy - EXO fanfiction

12. Trust

'Well, do your thing. Escape. I honestly don't care,' he says.
'Then why did you take me to your apartment?' I ask him. Confusion is starting to build up in me.
'Because I didn't choose for this either.'  

'So why don't you escape?' I ask Luhan. He pulls up his sleeve and shows me a scar on his arm.
'They can track me anywhere and since it's on my wrist, they can kill me with it.' I look up at his tear filled eyes.
'I can help,' I tell him. 'Please let me help. Please let me try to help,' I beg him.
'You can try. I'm dead anyway,' he tells me. The tears on his cheeks make my eyes wet too. This man has been through so much and his friends don't even know the truth. They think he's a traitor. Why do I trust him? I don't know. I just feel like I can trust him.

'So what do we do? They'll kill her there,' Chanyeol says, almost in disbelieve.
'We don't do anything,' Floyd says.
'He? What's wrong with you? You're her brother! Out of all people, you should be the one who wants to do something!' Baekhyun spits at him as he stands up, ready to attack.
'Nothing is wrong with me! I've seen her save herself thousands of times! I know she can escape this too,' Floyd yells at Baekhyun. Baekhyun sits back down with a filthy look on his face.
'So you're just going to let your sister die?' he asks. He gets hit on the back of the head right away. Xiumin sends him a warning glare, telling him he'll go all out on him if he needs to.
'Lay, what's going on with you?' Chen suddenly asks. Lay has been sitting on the couch, not doing anything, while the rest of  them was arguing around the kitchen table.
'Something is off,' he says.

'It hurts, please Mali make it stop,' Luhan cries out. Blood is covering his arm. The white bathroom tiles are decorated with red spots.
'Just a bit longer Luhan, you can do it,' I tell him. And then the tracker is on the ground. I push the flesh of Luhan's wrist back together and stitch it up. 'You did it.' Luhan looks at the stitches on his wrist and laughs in pain.
'You're amazing Mali,' he says with a big smile on his face.
'I know, now let's get out of here,' I tell him with a grin on my face.
'Sounds good to me,' he replies before stomping the tracker to bits. We casually exit the building and look around at where to go. Funny how Tyler's bar always seems so awfully close. And with awfully close I mean one block away. That's a five minute walk.
'We're going to Tyler's. I can make a call there,' I tell Luhan.
'Are you going to call EXO?' he asks. I nod. He takes my hands and bows slightly for me. 'Than I think we should part our ways here. Thank you for your help, but I am certain that those guys don't want me around anymore.'
'You honestly think you have a choice?' I ask him in disbelieve. 'We're both on the run and you're weak from blood loss. You are staying by my side until you get better.'

'Stop being so nervous Lay! This is nothing like you,' Kai snaps at Lay who has been walking in the same pattern for hours.
'I'm sorry,' he says and takes a seat on the couch next to Baekhyun. Only to start bobbing his leg up and down.
'Dammit Lay!' Beakhyun snaps. Lay gets back up again.
'I'm sorry! I can't help it!' Lay yells back. Everyone seems take back by his outburst. Lay, who is usually so calm and collected, shouted at them in anger. Not to get their attention or to motivate them, no, out of anger. That's nothing like Lay. Suho is the only one who dares to speak up.
'Calm down Lay. We're all worried,' he tells Lay, but it doesn't seem to calm him in any way.
'But this is different!' he yells back. He shows them the back of his hand. The maze that is also on Mali's hand.
'Fuck, I didn't realize Luhan was telling the truth,' Chen says under his breath.
'That bastard. He ruined everything! We were this close to freeing Seoul,' Xiumin says in a haze of anger. The others do seem to agree with his statement. Luhan was the first to leave and after that the whole plan collapsed.

'Hey, could I make a call?' I ask the bartender with my sweetest smile. He points at a phone cell in the back of the bar. Me and Luhan walk over there quickly. As fast as humanly possible, I type in my brother's number and make the call.

'Mali is calling!' Floyd yells out. The ten boys all sit around the holoscreen when Mali's face pops up, but she's not alone. She's with the traitor.
'What is Luhan doing there?' Sehun asks with disgust in his voice.
'Oh thank God,' Mali breathes out with a smile, 'you're all fine. Hey, I need someone to pick us up from Tyler's.'
'Us?' D.O. asks her.
'Yes, us. Luhan and me.' Filthy faces are made to Luhan. 'Look, I'll explain everything later, but just pick us up please. We can trust him, I promise.'

'Please, we just need you guys to pick us up. Otherwise we're dead,' I tell the guys on the screen. Luhan seems uncomfortable, but that's logical when he's just been called a traitor by people that used to love him. That used to be family to him.
'Okay, Chanyeol and I will come pick you up,' Floyd says, 'we'll be there in a bit.' The screen closes. Luhan and I take a booth and stay there until Floyd and Chanyeol come.
'I told you they'd hate me. You should've let me walk,' Luhan says with pain sounding through his words. He is so deeply hurt by this whole situation.
'I doubt they hate you.' He looks up surprised. 'I think you just need to explain everything to them. Just be honest.'
'I guess that's the only thing I can do right now,' he says and stares at his hands on the table, 'thank you for trusting me by the way.'
'Don't thank me for that. I trust everyone until they prove me to be unworthy of my trust.'
'Isn't that a bit stupid? I mean, you're in quite a bad situation. Anyone you trust could hurt you or kill you.' I let out a small chuckle.
'I know and I've tried not trusting anyone and that almost got me killed too.'
'You shouldn't trust me.'
'You've given me no reason not to.'
'I've given them enough reason to not trust me.'
'But you've given me no reason not to and that's what we're talking about now.' He lets out a big sigh. 'Do you trust me?' I ask him.
'I can't say that,' he replies.
'Okay, than I'm willing to do whatever it takes to gain your trust,' I tell him.