Flower Knights (A SVT BTS Fanfic)

9: Escape

"You haven't smiled like that since they left"

My heart stopped once more.

I heard someone whisper that. Someone whispered that for sure, or said it under their breath.

Normal people would not be able to hear that, but I had taken the risk and gotten my hearing improved with a new-found technology so that I could eavesdrop easily.

But my blood ran cold when I heard that, and I froze. It took me a moment to realise how much this meant, and how dangerous this was. Someone knew about Bangtan, and someone knew about how much they had hurt me. Someone here knew them.

It took all the willpower in me to force myself to turn.

But I couldn't pinpoint anyone in particular who would have been talking to me. There was no one nearby, and everyone from Seventeen was either out of the room or near the entrance, too far from me to have whispered something so close.

Was I going crazy?

"Chiyo, are you coming with us?" Seokmin smiles at me again as he turns from the entrance and walks closer. I jolted out of my thoughts.

"Huh?" I asked, "Going where?"

But before Seokmin could answer me, the bright lights of the room turn off all at once, dowsing the room in a pitch black darkness. A sharp siren rang out through the whole building and I heard stifles of panic come from just outside the room from Seventeen.

"Chiyo, what's this siren for?" Seokmin asks in worry, as I grabbed his shoulder in panic.

My heart, that only just stopped from shock moments before, sped up far too quickly with the sound of this siren.

Memoralia had different sirens for different things.

There was one for fire, one for us to gear up and be ready to defend, one to remove all traces of this being a training ground and to change into school uniforms to keep up the guise of Memoralia being a prestigious school. There were others was to signify that someone had intruded, and for us to defend certain places, or get ready certain weapons or strategies to capture these invaders.

But...this one... This siren was for an intruder, but it wasnt for us to fight.

This siren was to warn all of us to lock down, because even the most trained of us may not be able to rival our visitors. 

The last time this siren sounded...It was for seven boys already within our midst.

The last time this siren sounded, I refused to lock down. I refused to believe it.

The last time it sounded, I ignored all orders and chose to leave the doors open. It was this very room too. This same place. I was convinced they wouldn't hurt me, or hurt the other trainees who were with me. I convinced the few I trusted to stay with me, and believe Bangtan.

They did. They believed in Bangtan, and so did I.

And they died. Because of me. They died because they believed in me and they died to protect me against the 7 boys I tried so hard to protect. I tried so hard to protect all of them, but in the end it was the ones I trusted the most who destroyed everything.