The Assassin | Dreamcatcher

Chapter 29

Handong watches from the shadows of the warehouse as SuA returns solemnly, visibly limping and in discomfort.

When SuA gets close enough, she emerges from the shadows into the moonlight.

SuA's eyes widen when she sees her and gasps. "You scared me!"

"What were you doing out?" She asks directly.

"Oh, er...One of the team members was celebrating their birthday--"

"And one of them hurt your leg?" She returns wryly with heavy sarcasm. "What. Were. You. Doing?"

"I, er, er." SuA is reluctant to tell her, fearing her reaction. "Tried to see Siyeon." She recalled dropping hurriedly to the ground in a blind panic from two metres high, the moment she realised Siyeon had her hand out to pull her line out of the wall.

"Siyeon, huh?" Handong takes her by the arm to lead her into the warehouse and upstairs towards her gym.

Fear rises in SuA's throat, knowing from her ice-calm voice that she shouldn't have said that. But lying to Handong is impossible, so it was better to tell the truth, even if the consequences were dire. 

Handong pulls her into the room and heads straight for the ring. "Fight with me."

"Is this my punishment?" SuA whimpers.

"Consider it a warning, you naughty girl. Where did you find out that Siyeon was alive from?"

"From the spy in Kim and Lee." She admits as Handong gives her a pair of hand wraps.

"I'll be having a talk with them as well." She winds the fabric over her own fists. SuA can't help but grimace as she imagines those fists beating her down and the fury that would be behind them.

"Oh, really?" She says weakly and quickly stretches, following Handong's lead.

"Yes." Handong sets a timer on her phone. "We'll fight for five minutes. The aim is to incapacitate, in any way. So, dirty tricks are allowed." She smiles and starts the timer before dropping her phone and assuming a defensive stance. "Do your worst."

SuA is afraid of Handong, but she has to follow orders, even ones like these where she knows that  she was going to be the one coming out worse.

She rushes forward and leaps into the air to give her downward punch more momentum, but Handong easily side-steps and responds almost immediately with a kick to the chest.

SuA's hands rush back up to protect her body and Handong strikes her fist out for her face with impossibly-fast speed. Sher strikes SuA's cheek at full force and pushes her back as the knock dazes her.

She falls to the ground and scrambles back to her feet as Handong attacked her again in the face. Her body falls, but she doesn't even get up before Handong's hitting her again, no mercy evident in her actions. Try as she might, it's impossible to keep her guard up as the woman pummels any part of her exposed. 

SuA takes this all with many screams and whimpers of pain that Handong doesn't seem to hear as she beats her.

"Please stop!" She begs with a sob, scrunched up in a ball.

The timer goes off and SuA lets out a muffled cry, terrified that Handong would actually kill her in her frenzy.

Handong does stop and stands over her, breathing heavily, a crazy look in her eyes. The woman definitely lost control. She turns away and SuA uncurls slowly, feeling pain in every part of her body as well as the blood coating her face.

"That's it for tonight." Handong says, the control returning to her voice. "I hope you've learnt your lesson."

"Yes, Handong." SuA grovels and hurries to her feet and wobbles out of the ring and back to the dormitory she shares with the other assassins. "I won't see Siyeon again." She promises herself, full of fear from her experience with Handong.

Was the woman really that angry with her? Was she really that unhinged?

She troubled this over, hobbling slowly back downstairs to her room. Once inside, she slams the door and moves to the bathroom.

As she runs a bath, she sits staring at the floor, feeling hopeless.

The woman she loved despised her and the company she was in wasn't much better to her. Siyeon was who made her happy, made her forget that at the end of each day she would have to call Handong and report all she'd learnt.

Shaking herself out of her daze, SuA turns the taps off and slips into the bath fully clothed and watched as blood seeped through the water.

What was going to happen now?

A/N:
Again, not really an exciting chapter, sorry.

When I drafted this story, I split it into 3 Google Docs and this is the final chapter on the second document.
But the first chapter of the third document doesn't really seem like it's supposed to go after this one. I wrote this all so long ago (six+ months?) that I've forgotten lol So I have some work to do before next week

Just to let everyone know, there is about ten chapters left of this story.

Hope you all have a nice day and stay safe.