THAWING FIRE • VHOPE

C42 - There must be some way to stop them!

C42 - There must be some way to stop them!

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Hoseok

"Taehyung?" I say, peeking inside the damaged car, recognizing one of the faces there, trying to balance my hurt arm which I used to cover my face when the windshield broke.

Taehyung doesn't move. Just lays still on the shoulder a woman, eyelashes fluttering slightly but he's not moving.

He looks so peaceful.

(I really missed him.)

If this is any other situation, I would've let him sleep and not try to wake him up.

For he is so beautiful when his eyes are closed, and so unaware of the world.

Such innocent beauty that only the heavens can offer.

But this is a matter of life and death, so I'm trying to wake him up.

What is he doing in this car? Who are these people with him?

I look at the front seat and see that the driver's​ head is smashed into the windshield. Poor guy.

The two other people beside Taehyung are unconscious as him and haven't stirred since I arrived here after the crash.

Right. Our cars crashed.

Remorsefully, I... accidentally bumped their car because I don't fucking know how to drive this flying shit, goddamn it.

(Uncle Kris made me come here for he said he was going to help the other doctors fight below.)

"They need you," he had​ told me before he left.

And I knew exactly what he had meant.

He wanted me to use my ability.

Looking back at his tumbled car from a distance, I bite my lip and think of excuses to answer when the time comes he'll ask me about it.

Good thing, though, that the cars which we were inside of fell in the forest and not on the main grounds of the Institute where a war is currently happening, explosions everywhere, deafening me.

The car that I was driving had tumbled over that I almost thought my head would burst when I had fallen. Luckily, the car Taehyung and the others are in still stands unmoved, like it hasn't been tossed over for many times. But its head is currently spewing smoke and I don't feel good about it anymore.

I look back at uncle's car from afar and it's already in fire.

Shit.

Using my able hand, I quickly pull the broken car door and it separates from the car so I toss it away. I try to pull Taehyung's hand and he stirs!

"Taehyung!" I call him. "Wake up!"

His eyes slowly flutter open and he's staring at me now, lips slightly gaping.

"H-hoseok?" he mutters, almost whispering. "What are you doing here?"

His voice is cracking in each syllables like he has been crying.

"Yes, it's me," I say and pull his hand. It's soft, and I don't want to let go anymore.

I smile at him and he smiles back.

"I... I missed you," he says, looking right at me.

"Me, too," I say, holding back my grin. "I missed you, too."

I glance back at the other car, the flame growing bigger, flying embers already crackling. "Let's get out of here. It's gonna explode any minute now."