「Stalker Unknown || Saeyoung Choi x Reader」

「nine」

"P-please, Hye," you desperately begged. "It's not too late to stop."

His lips tilted up in a horrid smirk, obviously amused by your pleas. "Why should I stop? After all, my plan worked; Saeyoung is gone and you're mine to bring to paradise."

Realizing that he was far too gone to reason with, you gathered all your strength and attempted to pull away from his hold on your wrists but his grip only tightened further, his nails digging into your flesh. Tears of helplessness and fear stung in your eyes. This wasn't how you wanted this to end, but what other possibility was there? Saeyoung and Vanderwood were already miles away chasing a ghost in the wind. The stalker won.

In one swift moment, Hye pulled you up from the couch so suddenly that you lost your balance and hit the floor. Your head collided with the wooden floor causing a wave of colors to wash over your vision, but you refused to lose consciousness.

He attempted to reach for you again with the attention of dragging you out of the apartment and to his car. To his surprise, you weren't going to let him win without putting up a fight. You slapped, scratched, and even tried to bite him as the two of you grappled for control. Even his pure strength was having trouble reigning you under his control with your adrenaline and instincts taking over your body.

It didn't take him long to realize that bringing you to Mint Eye unharmed would be an impossible task. You weren't planning on going quietly. Grabbing the nearest heavy object he could find, Hye raised it over his head.

"I'm sorry, [name]. All your pain will be gone when we get there."

You froze. Every last bit of adrenaline you once had was seemingly all spent. Your mind screamed at you to move away, but your body was frozen in place like a movie on pause. There was no way you could fight him any longer. Realizing that, you did something you should've done from the moment he revealed who he truly was:

"Someone help me!" you screamed as you covered your head with your hands and braced for impact. Except, the impact never came.

Before Hye could knock you out, the door to the apartment was suddenly thrown open. Saeyoung and Vanderwood rushed in, the shock of suddenly seeing them both rendered Hye unable to move. His mind didn't even have enough time to register what was going on until Vanderwood had tackled him to the ground, ensuring he'd stay down with the help of his taser.

Saeyoung was by your side almost immediately, his arms wrapped around you and cradling your shaking form as you desperately tried to wrap your mind around what just went down.

You pressed your face into his chest and sniffled into his shirt. There was no need to cry anymore; the stalker was taken care of. He wouldn't be able to scare you anymore.

You were safe. Hye didn't take you away. Saeyoung saved you. But how did he know?

"H-how did you get here so fast?" you inquired, your voice wavering. "I-I thought you were on your way to Mint Eye?"

He slowly ran his hand through your hair, never before as grateful as he was now that you were well. "We were about to leave, but I realized something," he said with a small chuckle.

"What?"

"I never told him that Mint Eye is a cult, but that's what he referred to it as. Either it was a lucky guess or a fatal mistake. I decided to wait outside of the apartment for a while to see which one of those were the case."

You just sat there and gazed up at him, utterly stunned. It was such a small slip up - one that you didn't notice at all - yet he picked up on it nearly right away. It wasn't just his abilities that were amazing; he was amazing.

"That boyfriend of yours is something else," Vanderwood told you after moving away from the unconscious Hye. "He's the most irritating, yet most intelligent person I've ever met."

"Yeah, I definitely know that," you said with a smile as you nuzzled your face into Saeyoung's neck. He managed to save the day once again.

"Here," Vanderwood called as he threw you your cell phone that was sitting on the table beside him. You caught it and shot him a curious look. "Call the police only after 707 and I both leave."

"C-can't you both stay here with me until they arrive?"

Saeyoung placed a soft kiss on your temple and shook his head. "I'm sorry, but we can't risk having a run in with the cops, especially not with our history with the agency."

Vanderwood approached you and placed his taser in front of you. "He shouldn't be waking up for a while, but keep this in case he does. Don't be afraid to use it if you need to; your own safety is more important."

"Aww, look at Mary Vanderwood all concerned," Saeyoung teased, briefly going back to his usual self.

* * *

They didn't waste any more time. Soon, they left the apartment and following their orders, you called the police. It only took a few minutes for them to show up and when they did, Hye was only just starting to wake up. He made another attempt to grab you just as the police entered the apartment, giving you all the evidence you needed to prove you were the victim.

As expected, they questioned you. Questioned why you were in his apartment with a taser and why this whole ordeal started in the first place. It took nearly an hour to continuously explain the story over and over again - with a few twisted truths, of course - until they were content with it.

They didn't seem too pleased that you failed to notify the police of the messages you'd been receiving. They didn't even seem pleased by your story of you tasing him when he attacked you, but there were no consequences for your act of self-defense. You were off the hook and Hye would soon be behind bars.

You felt a pang in your chest as you watched the police escort Hye out of the apartment with his hands cuffed behind his back. Ultimately, it was your fault he ended up like this. You didn't give him the affection that he both wanted and needed.

In the end, you created the very same monster you were so afraid of.