Glitch [nct]

eighteen*

The sound of an alarm filled the quiet cyber room. I looked at the surveillance outside the room and saw Jaehyun standing outside. I stood up from the swivel chair and opened the door.

"Doyoung's not here." I told him, peeking from the door.

"I'm not here because of him." I stared at him, confused at what he just said.

"Uh, yeah?..." I trailed.

"I'm here for you, Taeyong told me to accompany you today." He said.

"Oh. Well, you might want to... change your clothes?" I didn't notice it at first but his clothes were a little dirty and got some blood stains on it. I didn't question him about it and just told him I'm going to wait in the living room.

Jungwoo was in the living room when I got there. He was watching The Incredibles 2, constantly telling me to hangout with him more often.

"You going somewhere?" I asked, seeing that he was dressed up in an expensive suit.

"You mean 'went'. I went to a club last night, had a mission." I bobbed my head to his statement.

"Looks like you had fun." I teased when I noticed the hickey just below his ear.

He scoffed, "If you think flirting with drunk underaged girls and getting information from them is fun, then you take my mission next time. Let's see if you'd last."

I playfully slapped his shoulder, "Chill. I was just kidding." He rolled his eyes and continued to watch the movie. I noticed Jaehyun walking down the stairs and quickly followed him. I awkwardly waved at him and he proceeded to walk downstairs. He picked out car keys from a drawer. I followed him as he opened a passenger seat of a heavily tinted car. I scratched my head and sat inside anyway.

I already texted Changmin earlier that the Boss allowed me to go out, I don't mention Taeyong's real name in front of him. I showed Jaehyun the place we would meet Changmin and he scrunched his eyebrows.

"Why?", I asked him after seeing his reaction.

"That is far away from most cemeteries in the area. He won't set us up right?" I bit my lower lip. Where is my brother?

"I don't think so. I'm going to turn on the piercing just in case." He nodded and continued driving.

"You're a smooth driver unlike Ten. That guy wants the reaper to visit him early." I commented.

"I drive since I do some missions alone. Ten's like that since he is an undercover drag racer too, aside from being the doctor in the gang." My mouth formed a small 'o'.

"Quick question if you don't mind."

He nodded, "Go on."

"Since we're somehow on the flow of getting to know each other... When did you become an assassin?... Don't feel pressured to answer!"

He turned his head to me while driving. The road to the place was somehow deserted, a few cars here and there. "To be honest, I don't exactly remember. I don't even remember my own birthday. Good thing Doyoung knows simple things like that."

"You need to know that some of us in NCT didn't want this kind of lifestyle. We needed to survive, thus embracing the 'bad' to make ourselves comfortable. I'm an assassin, I can't undo the things I've done or even bring back the life of my so-called victims. Even though all of them are corrupt within and some people want them gone, they're still human who are bound to make unforgivable mistakes sooner or later. I'm just there to prevent them from doing too much that would eventually hurt innocent lives." He continued.

Hearing his statement, some things kind of made sense. Although what he does is somehow cruel, to the person and to their family. But what can he do? What can we all do? We can't undo the things we've done before. The only thing that stays is regret.