ILLICIT ° nct dream, wayv + srg

Chapter Twenty-two: Personal Information

Dedicated to:
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For Koeun, every event that followed the ambush passed by like a blur. A literal blur.

Once she was guided out of the horrible scene of Lucas falling unconscious on the ground, and into the black truck that the X-Force had decided to use, half of her face was immediately covered by a white handkerchief as soon as the door closed. The suddenness caused her to fight back but her arms and already held by them, stopping her.

Seeing that she wasn't inhaling the chloroform, Renjun, the one who placed the handkerchief on her, shushed her to sleep. "Koeun, you need to breathe."

In the end, she didn't have a choice but to let it take over her and drifted to wonderland. The last thing she saw was Renjun's apologetic eyes while the rest of them being in hysteria as the truck sped down the path.

Throughout the ride, she had woken up a few times like when she felt being carried out of the truck and heard a helicopter in the background, and when she had a peek of the boys having a verbal fight while Chenle treated Jaemin's arm. Now, she was completely awake in a room with nothing but a creaky steel bed, two chairs and a window.

"Hey." Renjun looked away from the crazy wall he was beginning to rebuild to see Jaemin approaching his side.

"Shouldn't you be resting?" He motioned at the patched-up wound on Jaemin's sleeveless arm. Chenle had to remove it's sleeve so it wouldn't be a bother.

"I think I had enough rest." Jaemin answered him. "Anyway, I just wanted to ask you how Koeun is doing."

Hearing this, the other two, Jisung and Chenle, who was helping Renjun with the crazy wall, paused from their work to intervene the two. "Koeun?" Jisung asked.

"Yes." Jaemin averted his attention to them.

"The good news she's already awake." Chenle replied. "The bad news is she hasn't spoken to any of us."

"Why is that?" Jaemin slightly furrowed his eyebrows.

Jisung noticed the last photo in the table and decided to pin it on the wall while Chenle shrugged. "I'm not sure, but the ambush last night is my biggest guess."

With that said, all of them turned quiet for a short moment, feeling bad and pitiful towards Koeun. They didn't mean it to happen to her, although they knew something like that was going to happen either way. They just didn't expect it would be too harsh for the girl.

"Alright," Jaemin decided to break the silence. "someone needs to go inside her room and talk to her about it."

"Who's going to do it?" Renjun asked them.

All three of them didn't bother to think it thoroughly and gave him a look. "Who do you think?" Jisung asked back.

Seeing them looking at his way, Renjun instantly realized what they meant and gaped. "Me?" He found it funny and chuckled a little. "Why does it have to be me? It's always me."

"That's the point!" Jaemin exclaimed. "You're the closest to her amongst us, that's why it should be you."

"It won't be that hard," Jisung stated. "right?"

Renjun gave him a look. "I wish. It's not that easy, you know. I don't know what she's thinking right now."

"That's why you have to go in there to find out." Chenle pointed out.

"And what if she kills me?" Renjun urged his point. "Who knows how mad she is at us right now." He saw how the three of them narrowed their eyes at him and he instantly surrendered. "Alright, you know what? I'll talk to her-"