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「put your hands in mine and feel this emptiness there's no beat in my chest 'cause there's nothin' left 」
♫hollywood undead; believe
✩ h o n g j o o n g ✩
"I have been informed that we have a problem, Hongjoong."
Hongjoong clenched his hand at his chest when Seonghwa spoke slowly from behind the wooden desk, and the thin hair at the back of his neck was rising as he shivered with fear.
The older's eyes were cutting into his, demanding him to keep his attention in place, and Hongjoong stood still with both feet on the ground - but with fire burning under him.
"You can fuck Joshua all you want, God knows that boy is so needy for attention," Seonghwa then said, rolling his eyes just slightly at the mention of the blonde. "But, if you ever leave marks on him again, you are going to regret it."
Standing there in the big cold office, Hongjoong had never felt so helpless and useless, as he did in that horrifying moment of being confronted by the devil in the black suit. His lips quivered, when he forced the words to come out. "I-I'm sorry... I-I won't touch him ever again..."
"Oh but angel, I know you will," Seonghwa chuckled with a strange look in his eyes, and a smirk on his lips. "And it's fine, as long as you remember what I just told you."
When Seonghwa suddenly got up from his seat, Hongjoong took a step back in surprise, and the older looked at him with a brow raised - as if he was completely baffled by the reaction.
"Come," he said way too calmly. "I want to show you something."
"W-what?"
"Something very special. I call it The Sanctuary."
Hongjoong followed in silence, not by free will - but did he even have a choice at this point? Behind them were two of Seonghwa's bodyguards, dressed in black from head to toe and with a mask covering their faces. Broad shoulders, and with guns hanging at their hips, Hongjoong didn't stand at chance against them.
While walking, he chewed on the words Seonghwa had spoken when they left the office. Even without knowing what it was yet, Hongjoong knew that Seonghwa could call it whatever he wanted to - it would be far from a sanctuary no matter what...
✩
Down into the basement, in the furthest part of the building where only one door was built in at the end of a long narrow corridor, the darkness was about to consume him whole.
The door was unlocked and opened, and Seonghwa's men waited outside while the older led Hongjoong inside. There was no windows, no natural light at all - and at the walls a few red lamps lit up slowly, and revealed the horror that was hidden inside the dark painted walls.
