Chapter 9 - The Hostage

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Yizhuo woke up with things clattering and loud footsteps. She couldn't even determine if it's still dawn or morning. It was just too dark. She heard more noises of plastic being rubbed and a bunch of metals dropping. It was from Injoon who seem to be gathering a lot of different weapons. He's topless, his jacket was used to cover her cold feet.

He sneezed and dropped a gun, causing it to fire on the wall. Yizhuo jolted up and pulled her knees to her chest in fear. This reckless man.

He sneezed once again and grabbed the weapons once again then sneezed once again. It's because he used his jacket as Yizhuo's blanket, that's why he caught cold. Why did he sacrifice catching cold just to keep her warm? Yizhuo didn't know for sure.

"Injoon?" She spoke with her calm and sweet voice. Injoon turned around and saw Ningning in her. Everything about her is Ningning. He even recalled the gunshot scar on her head.

"You're Injoon right? Not Renjun. You're evil. Jeno told me everything about you." Ningning shivered when Injoon looked her directly in the eyes. "Yes, we've met. This is the real me. This is me in this world." He said gesturing at the scary weapons that was loaded. He grabbed the smallest gun he saw and pointed it on Ningning.

She raised both of her hands in surrender right away. Her knees started to weaken and she couldn't help her tears coming. "What do you want from me?" She asked.

"To be my hostage, silly." He smirked, moving forward to caress her soft hair. "I've been keeping you alive for a reason." He said and pushed her flat on the bed, straddling her in between his legs. "I still like my Ningning better, but you're not bad. You look just like her." He said forcing his lips on hers, pointing the gun on her jaw, keeping her nice and steady without fighting back.

Ningning always dreamed of how it would be like for Renjun to kiss her first. For their lips to touch again, but this was not how she pictured it. This is something else. It's scary, the way she can just die when he accidentally pulls the trigger. This is not how she pictured it to be.

Injoon pulled away and stared at her lips with hooded eyes filled with lust. "You're not bad. You taste just like her. You're just as scared as her, but I like it. I like how you tremble as I point a gun you. It's almost as if you also felt how to be shot by it. She hates guns and gunshots you know." He said caressing her long hair.

"Please let me go. Please take me back to where I was before. I'm scared." She cried trembling in fear. This is not the Renjun she knew. The resemblance was perfect, but this is not her world. She doesn't want to stay here any longer.

"As much as I want to chat, we need to go now. Lucas and everybody is going to look for me. My work here is done. They're now United, looking for me. Ready to kill me. We need to go where we're safe. Maybe Ningning would fulfill her promise and take me to that world again." He said grabbing his jacket and Yizhuo.

Who's United?

Who's going to kill him?

He forced her on a car and threw the guns on the backseat. "Hold on for something." He said as he stepped on the gas to speed up. Who are they running away from at this time of the day?

Who's Lucas?

Jeno definitely forgot to mention him, whoever he is. He seems scary since Injoon's running away from him like a scared cat. Whoever he is, he must be someone far more worse than Injoon. A mouse ran only runs away from the cat.

Even though she doesn't trust Injoon and practically hate him, she strangely didn't want him to get caught. Even if the police would get involved with this, they still can't help her find her way back home. Nobody else would believe her if she explains how she got here.

For some reason, she wanted Injoon to stay alive. As long as he's alive, there's a chance that he might soften and bring her back to the world she belong in. There's nobody else who's been playing hide and sick in these two worlds but him. Only he knows the secret.

He parked at an old ruins where everything was grey and green. There's fire everywhere and dead bodies. Injoon came out and brought a heavy machine gun with him. Ningning was told to stay in the car. It was a mess. A big mess.

A pile of dead bodies surrounding the building. They're burnt and doesn't smell good. Injoon stepped on them without any respect. He must've forgotten that those bodies lived at some point. They were just rags for him to step on.

He went inside and saw every member if NCT pack their stuff and leave the building. Everybody was leaving. He saw Kun inside Lucas' office looking for one thing, the code.

"It doesn't matter now." Injoon spoke that startled Kun.

He smiled when he saw Injoon. The real Injoon who seem to know what he's doing. "We don't have much time. They're at the conference room. It's not that far from here." Kun said as he trashes the whole places.

"Nooooooooooooo!" They heard a high pitched voice scream. It was Yiyang who's hair now looks like a mess and her dress looks like a rag. She looks crazy. "Stop it! He's not keeping the code on a piece of paper or anything. He just knows it. So you really think he's that dumb?" She said as she pulled Kun's hands away from Lucas' stuffs.

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Lucas was pissed as he entered his headquarters trashed. Everybody already left. Everyone is a traitor after all. They get what they want and leave.

He entered his office and saw Yiyang screaming.

"Stop it! He's not keeping the code on a piece of paper or anything. He just knows it. So you really think he's that dumb?" She said as she pulled Kun's hands away from his stuff. Injoon was also there.

Lucas didn't hesitate but point a gun at Injoon. He's been a useful wild animal, but wild animals are fascinating to hunt. He was about to pull the trigger when Kun took Yiyang, pointing a gun at her as well.

"Kill him and I won't hesitate to kill the girl you love." He threatened Lucas who got flustered and dropped his gun.

"Please! Please don't." He pleaded raising his hands up, trembling like a helpless cat. No matter how big he is, he didn't know how he would protect Yiyang.

"Kill him now. We all did our parts. Kill him! Point a gun at him and pull the trigger." Kun whispered at Yiyang so Lucas won't hear him. He gave a spare gun to Yiyang and helped her point it at Lucas.

Lucas was now shocked. He felt like a fool for falling for this girl. In the end, everybody's just a traitor. Even the girl he loves.

Injoon and Kun escaped while Yiyang pointed the gun at Lucas. "Shoot him!" The two yelled while running away.

"Shoot him!" Kun repeated but Yiyang trembled. She couldn't shoot the only man that showed him love.

She immediately dropped the gun and ran towards Lucas' embrace. "I'm sorry. I have betrayed you! I'm not worthy of you or your dreams." Lucas wrapped his hands around her still trembling. The idea of his beloved girlfriend pointing a gun at him got him terrified.

"It's okay! You didn't pull the trigger. It's okay, I'm here. I'm still here." He tried to comfort her. All he wanted to do was protect her in this cruel world.

Meanwhile everybody was now on the run. Mark Lee decided to drive as fast as he can since Seulgi's not in the car. She's with Taeyong. He wanted to hide his friend somewhere safe.

The only problem now are the checkpoints. Everybody's checking who's leaving and who's entering each and every  nearby town.

"We're on a dead end here." Jeno told the rest. "We need to come up with a plan. A real one. Something that would allow us to escape this shit." He said while looking up, thinking of an effective way of getting everyone distracted for a while.

Something that would stop the manhunt for a long time and focus on something more important. While looking up, he saw a billboard of his favorite actress, Lami. He sighed, wanting to watch the next episode of her drama instead of hiding and running away from the authorities.

His eyes widened at the idea. "Stop the car, I have a plan." He said and wore a baseball cap to hide his face. He got out of the car and started running towards the direction of a nearby hospital.

He saw some reflector and some flash in one nurse station and watched the live shooting. There he found the most beautiful, actress of the year, Lami.

"Cut!" The director yelled startling her. "Why are you acting like you haven't red the scrip yet? I've seen you practice this thing hundreds of times. I'm tired of you repeating it because of your excitement. Why can't you do it right? Why can you do anything right this whole week?" He asked which made her shed tears in front of the staffs and bystanders.

The hospital crew are now talking shit about the director for being too offensive and loud.

"Break time." the director said in annoyance.

Jeno watched as Lami went straight to the restroom by herself.

He couldn't believe that that's how they treat actors and actresses in real life.

"That's too harsh!" The fans yelled at him.

"I made her cry so she won't have trouble crying. She has to cry in this episode." He told their audience and they agreed. They did witness how hard she was trying to cry but couldn't.

That's not right for Jeno though. He believes in people's rights with their own body. He doesn't care if Lami's an actress or not, all he knows is that, nobody should force someone to feel something that they don't feel. He went through a door that says 'Authorized Personnel Only' and turned the power off of the entire hospital.

Everybody was in panic. The emergency lights turned on but it was still pretty dark. Dark enough for him to love freely. He went towards the Ladies' room and saw Lami curled up in a ball at one corner.

"I can take you away from here." He whispered, only loud enough for her to hear, and as soon as she heard that voice, she stood up right away.

"Jeno?" She asked walking forward. At this point it was Jeno who was flustered. How did she knew him? He's someone irrelevant, she's an actress.

"Jeno!" Lami repeated moving closer and faster removing his baseball cap. She teared up, wrapping her arms around her. "Jeno! Please take me away from here. Please take me away from here." She cried.

Jeno had to rush and take her with him. He yanked her away from the building and looked for Mark Lee's car. "Hide for now. There's going be a big scandal in history. We can escape then." He said and took Lami on a alley where there's no other people but the two of them. He grabbed a sweatpants inside his bag and a hoodie. "Change. I won't look." He ordered.

Lami changed her clothes quick. "Done." She said throwing her clothes on the side. Jeno let her leave traces of her so she would be suspected missing.

Jeno took her to a cheap motel wherein there's no security and no identification card needed.

Inside the room, while Jeno was trying to come up with a plan on how he's going to pull this off without being caught, Lami aggressively sat on his lap and kissed him. "I'm so glad you saved me. I have no idea what's happening. Everything didn't make sense. I'm so glad you're here." She said then continued kissing him. Roughly this time.

Jeno was enjoying himself even though he has no idea what's happening. His favorite actress is kissing him. It was like a dream. And if this is just a dream, he didn't want to wake up.

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A/N: Hi. Is anybody still reading?

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