ink • soonhoon (completed)

• six •

"soonyoung what is up with you?" his friend and worker, dokyeom, asked and soonyoung just sighed.

"nothing, why?" soonyoung replied and dokyeom rolled his eyes, soonyoung was obviously lying.

"dude c'mon! tell me what's up," dokyeom said and soonyoung just looked to him not sure if he should tell him or if he'd just end up getting clowned over it.

"fine. i met this one guy on my way to open the other night and he looked like a zombie and i asked him if he was okay and he was really cold and told me to leave him alone and so i let him walk off but lucky me he comes into the cafe a day or two later and i tell him to come again and he says no! then he comes in again anyways but before i could get to him and talk to him this weird scary looking guy in a suit talked to him and said something which made him very obviously scared and i haven't seen him since! it's been almost two weeks!" soonyoung ranted and dokyeom just slowly dried the mugs with a towel as he put them up. there was a slight part of him who wish he hadn't asked soonyoung.

"woah.. why do you care about him so much though? im not trying to be rude but .. he's a stranger." dokyeom asked and soonyoung just dropped his head and sighed.

"i dunno.. i just wanna know more about him and what if that one guy killed him!" soonyoung said and dokyeom just placed the towel and mug down and just stared at him.

"you.. you are really something else kwon soonyoung." dokyeom said and soonyoung just nodded.

"yeah i know," soonyoung replied and dokyeom just chuckled a bit.

"i'm sure your stranger is just fine! he's probably just busy with work and doesn't have time to come in," dokyeom reassured and soonyoung nodded hoping it was true. soonyoung would have to hope that was the truth for now.

yet it wasn't the truth. jihoon was in a state of shut down constantly. he was exhausted from lack of sleep, every time he slept seungcheol showed up in his dream which made jihoon not want to close his eyes ever again. wonwoo and mingyu were hard at work and jihoon began to feel somewhat comfortable with seungkwan and his calm nature.

"how are you feeling hoon?" seungkwan asked as he walked into jihoon's room. jihoon shrugged.

"tired." jihoon replied coldly and seungkwan nodded.

"wanna go for a walk today? not somewhere public just in the woods behind the building. it might be nice to leave your room," seungkwan asked as he adjusted jihoon's drip iv and jihoon shook his head.

"it's safe here." jihoon answered and seungkwan sighed a bit.

"okay, just let me know if you want to go and we can go together. do you want something to eat? i was about to make myself some lunch." seungkwan asked and jihoon nodded reluctantly, he didn't feel like eating but if he said no then seungkwan would begin to worry and make him food anyway.

"wanna go to the kitchen with me? we'll still be safe there." seungkwan said and jihoon nodded again. he was okay with staying inside the building but was petrified to go outside.

the two walked to the kitchen as jihoon held onto the pole of his iv drip and walked with it. seungkwan pulled up his sleeves as he began to cook and jihoon hopped up onto the counter and watched.

"jihoon!" wonwoo chimed as he turned the corner into the kitchen and spotted jihoon. jihoon just grinned.

"hi woo," jihoon replied and wonwoo smiled.

"mingyu's been hard at work! he even called some of his foreign friends who are coming today. they flew in last week but kept calm to not cause any alarms but today they're coming to see us," wonwoo said and jihoon nodded along as he listened, were they truly this serious about protecting him?

"do you want some food too wonwoo?" seungkwan asked and wonwoo nodded, seungkwan's cooking was quite delicious.

"can i ask you something woo?" jihoon asked and the others all sort of froze. jihoon hadn't talked more than a couple words at once the whole time he had been staying with the boys but for him to initiate a conversation made them sort of alarmed. wonwoo nodded and jihoon sort of looked down at his hands.

"why are you all going to such drastic measures to protect me?" jihoon asked and wonwoo let out a sigh.

"i've seen too many innocent men and women dead from becoming seungcheol's obsession. he used them once then discarded them as if they didn't matter, he even did it to my brother. whenever you survived unlike the others then i knew i had to protect you. call it a shitty redemption act but it's almost like im saving my brother through you. i want you to live and escape the yakuza and i want to watch choi seungcheol suffer. mingyu has always despised seungcheol and once he hurt someone as kind as you he had enough, he's determined to take down seungcheol and keep you safe. that's why jihoon," wonwoo explained and jihoon felt a lump in his throat as he couldn't speak a single word.

"thank you." jihoon managed to mutter and wonwoo just smiled.

• author's notes •

blegh i don't like this chap my writing be bad

-lilly