Myungsoo’s POV

Tonight’s the night. We already let too much time go by. We have to act tonight. Only one day has passed since I rediscovered Sunggyu’s place where he does his urgent business. Since that one day, Hoya, Woohyun, and I planned what we were going to do. At most, we were going to beat them up and leave them unconscious. At least, we hoped to get out of there undetected, but we all knew that that wasn’t going to be a possibility. Not if Dongwoo was in on this, too. Who knows how many people Sunggyu actually has working with him.

Too much time has passed, though. It’s already day number three for when Sungyeol and Cecelia got kidnapped and day number one for Allie. I don’t know much about kidnapping and I don’t know what Sunggyu is going to do to them, but I feel like saving them is of the utmost priority right now. It is the utmost priority. Only when I know that they are safe will I be able to have a good night’s sleep. Last night’s was even worse because I know that Allie’s in his hands and also because I know what’s coming tonight.

For the majority of today, we spent it changing the batteries in the camera that we set outside of the cottage that hooked back to a laptop here and recorded everything. We set up the camera last night before we left. Watching it today, I swear I saw someone go to the window a couple of times and I swear it was Allie, although, she never stayed at the window for more than a couple of seconds. At least it gave me knowledge of where someone is in the house. That’s one down. Just two more to go.

“Are you sure you want to do this?” Woohyun asks.

“Why wouldn’t I?” I coldly ask as I look at myself in the mirror. It feels like we’re going to be robbing the place since we’re all dressed in black. Hopefully the night will provide even more protection from the danger that’s possibly looming ahead.

“Well, I didn’t know if you wanted to wait a little longer to rescue them, to actually make sure that they’re in this place.”

“Don’t you understand?” I ask turning to face Woohyun angrily. “We can’t waste any more time. We just can’t.”

“I understand your urgency and all, but is it going to be okay?”

“I told you that I’d die for them,” I growl. “Why more do I have to say? Aren’t you the one who told me that you liked Allie? Don’t you want to save her?”

“I do want to save her, Myungsoo,” Woohyun says. “I do, I want to do everything in my power to save her, save Cecelia, and save Sungyeol, but aren’t you going into this too irrationally? Shouldn’t you get your head on first and think of a cohesive plan before we do anything?”

“Do you not understand that if we waste time things are just going to get worst?” I ask him. “Do you not understand that if we wait, I’m never going to get my head on straight because I know that he has them. It’s now or never Woohyun, are you coming?”

“You know I’ll help you with anything,” Woohyun quietly says.

“Then we should get going,” I say as I make my way out of my room and down the stairs to meet Hoya who is ready for action. “Do you have everything?” I ask him.

“I have it,” he says taking the duffle bag off of his shoulder and opening it up.

The three of us all get guns, not with the purpose to kill, but just with the intent to protect ourselves at any means possible. We don’t know if Sunggyu and Sungjong have a gun, we don’t know if they have anything to protect themselves. I do know that Sunggyu can fight, but Sungjong only has brains, he has nothing else. However, he does have the brains to plan a contraption just in case we were coming to save them.

Also, the three of us get earpieces to communicate with each other. If we’re going to rescue them in the strange house, then we have to be prepared, no matter what the cost might be and also because Hoya’s brother works with the government. Besides earpieces, we attach small microphones to our black clothing and they blend right in.

“Are you ready for this?” I ask as I put my hand on the doorknob to go out into the sleek black car that should already be waiting for us.

“More than ever,” Hoya says.

“Let’s just rescue the three,” Woohyun says.

I yank open the door and let the other two go through first. I turn back to look at one of the maids standing there. “Remember this,” I tell her. “None of you guys know what’s happening, but besides that, if you don’t hear from us for a day, then call the police and send them to the address that I so conveniently wrote down on my desk.”

With that, I close the door and make the way to the car. The war against Sunggyu ends tonight. I will rescue them.

Allie’s POV

I wake up to a strange sensation happening on my arms and legs. I open my eyes immediately and see that I’m being tied up.

“What are you doing?” I ask.

“Sorry noona,” I hear Sungjong say. Why is he saying sorry?

“He wants to see you,” the other guy says.

“You know, I never got your name.”

“Dongwoo,” he quickly replies. “It’s not like you’re even going to know it for long anyway.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

“You’ll get it in due time,” Dongwoo says as he quickly puts a gag into my mouth and covers my eyes with a blindfold.

I feel myself being carried throughout the house. It’s just like the time they kidnapped me, I don’t know where I’m going, but I at least know who the people are, Sungjong and Dongwoo.

Sungjong and Dongwoo, somehow those names sound familiar… They’re the names from Myungsoo’s story, they’re friends with Myungsoo, or at least used to be friends with him. I highly doubt that he’s going to want to be friends after what’s happening here. I can’t ask them anything about it, though, because of the gag in my mouth. I’m unable to do anything, even mutter a sound to help me in my escape. They’re just thankful that I don’t choke with it. Or maybe they want me to choke with it.

I feel the one carrying me going down some stairs, are we on the first level? Was I on the second level? Are we going to the basement? So many questions swirl around in my head and none of them can be answered until this stupid gag is taken out of my mouth and when this blindfold is taken off of my eyes. I guess it’s Dongwoo carrying me because honestly, Sungjong looks kind of weak. If Myungsoo knew that he was going to do something like kidnap me, I’m sure Myungsoo could beat him up in no time. Maybe that’s why he called him only after I was secured in their van, so I wouldn’t be able to do anything and so Myungsoo wouldn’t be able to do anything.

Suddenly, I feel that I’m dropped onto a chair; they’re tying me to the chair now. “Excellent,” I hear a voice say. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the voice belongs to Kim Sunggyu. What is he doing here? He’s probably the one behind it, that’s it.

I don’t make things harder for them, though. I’ve watched plenty of movies and heard plenty of stories saying that the more a person acts up, the worse it is later. Things are already pretty bad; I don’t want things to get even worse. It makes me wonder what Myungsoo is doing right now. Is he searching places in attempts to find me? Has he called every source possible? Flaunted his wealth around just to find us? Does he even care that we’re gone? Of course he cares why am I even thinking about that?

“When did you get her?” It’s Sungyeol. Sungyeol is down here and he’s talking, that must mean that Cecelia is here somewhere. She has to be here. “Why did you have to bring her? She’s not the one that you want.” The one that he wants?

“She’s bait of course, the same as you guys,” Sunggyu says. He sounds like a cold and heartless person.

“I could’ve been the bait!” Sungyeol yells. I hear a chair smack against concrete floor. So does that mean that we’re in the basement and that Sungyeol is tied up to a chair, too? “You didn’t have to capture them.”

“Well, of course I would want to capture his wife,” Sunggyu says. “If they love each other then no doubt he would quickly come here. If Sungjong’s calculations are correct, they should be coming any time to rescue you guys.”

“Hyung, my calculations are always correct,” Sungjong says. “I’ve checked them five times over. He’s probably having a fit right now.”

“But I’m sure he already knows where the place is.” Even with the blindfold over my eyes I can sense that Sunggyu has a smirk on his face. He just seems like that type of person. “Anyway, he’s going to come to rescue you guys and he’s going to be falling right into my trap.”

“Well of course you have a trap you sick small-eyed freak!” Sungyeol yells. I can tell from the vibe in the room that Sunggyu isn’t happy.

“You will regret saying that,” Sunggyu says, his voice is barely above a whisper. That just makes this whole situation even creepier. “Oh, yes, you will regret that so much.” Even though I can’t say anything and I can’t see anything, I imagine Sunggyu as a totally e saying that. Is it wrong that in a serious situation like this I’m thinking about that? I have to keep my sanity somehow, unless I’ve already lost it.

Myungsoo’s POV

The three of us arrive at the house and like we planned, we park the car somewhat far away from the house, but closer so we have a chance to run and escape if need be. “Ready?” I ask looking at Woohyun who is in the passenger’s seat and Hoya who is in the back. Both of them shake their heads while I unlock the doors. “Let’s go.”

“Remember, quiet,” Woohyun emphasizes putting a finger to his lips.

Slowly, the three of us make our way to the entrance of the house. Finally, after who knows how long, I get to see the inside of this house. I just wonder what’s inside, what lies behind these walls? I hope it’s Allie, Cecelia, and Sungyeol.

Thanks to Hoya’s brother’s government experience, actually his whole family works for the government, Hoya opens the door with ease. Taking large steps as quietly as possible to cover a lot of ground; the three of us slowly look at one another.

“Earpieces on, microphones on,” I say as all of us check the stuff. “Let’s split up.”

“Where are we going?” Hoya whispers.

“I’ll go this way,” I say tilting my head in one direction. “Woohyun, you go upstairs, Hoya, you take that way.”

The three of us nod in agreement as we start walking towards our respective places hoping not to make a sound. It’s about ten at night and we have no idea if people are sleeping or if they’re somehow waiting for us, if they knew that we were coming.

I walk in my direction and look everywhere that I can careful enough not to make too much noise. It totally feels like we’re robbing the place rather than this being a rescue mission.

I look through open doors and slightly open ones that are closed wide enough so I can sneak through and take a quick glance in and then jump out.

It’s then that I see another strange doorway. It looks like there is a light on. Is that the basement? Is someone in the basement? As I reach out to put my hand on the doorknob, the earpiece starts bringing in static practically making me jump out of my skin.

“I found Cecelia. This is Woohyun and I found Cecelia,” Woohyun announces.

“Is she safe?” I whisper back.

“She seems to be sleeping right now. I’m going to carry her to the vehicle and then come back.”

“Okay,” Hoya and I say in unison. One person is found, now there are just two more to go.

Slowly, I open the door and I hear voices down below.

“Of course he’s going to come, why wouldn’t he?” that voice is unmistakably Sunggyu’s. “You’re his wife, aren’t you? And you are his best friend; he would come and rescue you guys. Sungjong’s calculations are never wrong.”

“Never,” the younger one repeats after him. So they are down there.

“Allie and Sungyeol are found,” I whisper into the microphone so Hoya and Woohyun can hear. “In the basement, in the direction that I went. Come find me first and we’ll go down together. I know Sunggyu and Sungjong are down there. I don’t know about anyone else.”

Within five minutes, the other two come over and we just look at each other. No words are needed to be spoken to realize what is about to happen to us. We just take one look at each other before I start going down the stairs. Now that we’re all together, I don’t mind how loud we are now.

Allie’s POV

I hear heavy footsteps on stairs and my attention gets turned to them, despite not being able to see or hear. I bet everyone else’s attention turned to it, too.

“Well, well, well,” Sunggyu says, “look at who we have here. Kim Myungsoo, Nam Woohyun, Lee Howon, I never thought I’d see you guys again.”

He came. Myungsoo came and Woohyun came to save us, but this Howon guy, is it a person that Myungsoo knew in the past, too? Hearing that Myungsoo is here to save us makes me happy, it makes me really happy knowing that he really cares about me.

“What is wrong with you?” Myungsoo yells at Sunggyu.

“What is wrong with me? Shouldn’t you look at yourself first?”

“Why did you have to kidnap them?”

“Why? Don’t you know why?”

“How in the world should I know?” Myungsoo asks. “It’s me who should be mad at you. You ruined my life a year ago.”

“Um, you ruined your own life,” Sunggyu says. I can only imagine what’s going on right now. “You walked right into my trap, Kim Myungsoo.”

“What trap?” Myungsoo asks.

Suddenly I hear guns. Wait, guns? I don’t know who the sound is coming from. Is it from Myungsoo’s side? Is it from Sunggyu’s side? I’m so confused right now. I don’t know what’s going on anymore. At least I had some sort of sense, but since I’m unable to talk or see, it provides a disadvantage. “I’m going to take everything of yours,” Sunggyu growls.

“You already did,” Myungsoo says. For some reason, I automatically think that he’s talking about Uee. He really can’t let her go, right? “And I’m here to take them back,” Myungsoo finishes. Wait, he’s here to take them back? so then does he mean Sungyeol, Cecelia, and me?

“You better not try anything, Myungsoo. You’re surrounded,” Sunggyu says.

“I could say the same thing for you,” Woohyun says.

Suddenly, I hear punches and yelling and groaning and I don’t know what sound is coming from what person. While there is chaos, I feel the gag being removed from my mouth and the bonds being untied. “Don’t worry.” It’s Myungsoo’s voice in my ear. “We found Cecelia upstairs. She’s sitting in the car. Run, go with Sungyeol and run, okay?” I nod my head yes as he slowly takes off the blindfold. “Ready? Go!” he yells.

Quickly, Sungyeol grabs my hand as we make our way towards the stairs and run for it.

“Grab them!” Sunggyu yells. I look behind and see Dongwoo attempting to get out of the fight, but Howon pulls him right back in and puches him across the face before he’s even able to do anything. He’s buying us more time to escape.

“We can’t sit around forever!” Sungyeol yells as he quickly drags me along.

I look back one last time before running out of the room and see Myungsoo going to Sunggyu. Out of nowhere, Sunggyu suddenly has a gun. “Myungsoo!” I yell before I’m completely taken away by Sungyeol.

Myungsoo’s POV

I hear Allie call my name. I watch her as Sungyeol takes her and then I see the gun that Sunggyu has up in front of my face. “I told you to watch it, L,” Sunggyu says.

“Well I could say the same thing to you,” I retort.

“Take a look around you, your people are down.”

“So are yours.”

That is true. Both Dongwoo and Sungjong are down and so are Hoya and Woohyun. I’m not sure if anything is broken on either of them, but now isn’t exactly the time to be worrying about that. Sunggyu is holding a gun in my face. I have to do something to stop him, I have to think quickly. It’s coming down to what it’s always been. Him verses me.

“Why don’t you know!” Sunggyu yells waving the gun around.

“How am I supposed to know?” I yell at back at him. “How am I supposed to know why you’re targeting the people important to me? How am I supposed to know why you claim Allie as yours? How am I supposed to know anything?”

“I loved Allie,” Sunggyu says.

“Fourteen years ago,” I mutter.

“It doesn’t matter; love is love, no matter what age. We were in elementary school and she was your friend even though I loved her. You stole everything away from me.”

“I stole everything away from you?” I ask him. “I stole Allie, you stole Uee. Plain and simple, we’re even.” I go to walk away, but Sunggyu grabs my shoulders and spins me back around giving me a punch in the face that sends me down onto the ground.

I pick myself up and wipe the blood that is now flowing from the side of my lips. “You stole much more than that.”

“Oh, really?” I ask. “What more did I steal?” We both stare at each other. In reality, I really don’t know what else he’s talking about, but there has to be something. There has to be something that I missed.

“Well actually,” Sunggyu says laughing to himself, it’s quite an evil laugh he has there, “your parents are actually the one that stole it from me. Specifically your mother.”

“My mother?” I ask. “I know this problem is with me, but why bring my parents into it?”

“I know how you’ve never liked your parents, L,” Sunggyu says in a sickly sweet voice that makes me want to throw up. “So why not just join the club and hate them together?”

“What are you talking about?” I yell at him. I’m utterly confused and he’s not offering any help whatsoever. “Just because you’re mad at my parents doesn’t mean that you have to steal everything from me!”

“Yes it does!” Sunggyu yells pointing his gun again. “I want to steal everything of yours. Everything that you cherish, I want it to become mine.”

“I cherish nothing!” I say. “I cherish Allie, Ceceila, and Sungyeol and now they’re safe. What else do you have to take from me?” The anger that I’ve kept in the past few days suddenly starts releasing itself. Now, I have no control over what I may do.

“Your house, your name, everything!” Sunggyu yells. “You don’t get it yet, do you?” I shake my head. “I’m your brother, L.” It feels like I just got smacked with a ton of bricks. “I’m your half-brother. We share the same father and your mother took everything from me!” It feels like everything is spinning, all of this is happening way too fast. “Your mother pushed me and my mother out of our father’s life; she threw us onto the streets! Ever since that day, I swore that I wasn’t going to play nice anymore. I swore to myself that if the day ever came when I could kill Kim Myungsoo, I would jump on that change.”

“Brother?” I ask looking at him in disbelief. The reality still hasn’t set in yet. “Kill?”

“Kim Myungsoo, I want you dead, to put it simply,” Sunggyu says as he aims the gun at me. “I just want you to disappear from the face of this earth and never come back. You got it?”

Sunggyu raises the gun and takes aim. I stand there frozen at the spot.

Allie’s POV

Sungyeol and I successfully make it to a car that’s a little down the road. Quickly, Sungyeol unlocks the door with the code password, we get inside, and we quickly relock it. I see Cecelia sleeping peacefully on the seat and I can’t help but pick her up and hold her in my arms as I start to cry.

“Shh,” Sungyeol says coming up next to me, putting his arm around me for comfort. “It’s okay, we’re safe now.”

I abruptly look out the car window and towards the house. “Did you hear that?” I ask. Sungyeol shakes his head. “There it is, I heard it again.” It doesn’t take me a second more to realize what the sound I just heard is. “Gunshots,” I whisper.

I open the car door and start running towards the house. Sungyeol runs after me and he catches up since he’s much faster. “No, Allie, you can’t,” he says holding me back.

“But they’re inside,” I say. “And I definitely heard two.”

“You don’t know what’s going on inside of there. Do you want to die?” Sungyeol yells at me. “Do you want to leave Cecelia?”

I think about it and realize that if I died, then Cecelia would be left with no one since we no longer have parents. Would she be sent to an orphanage? What would happen to her? There’s no way that I would be able to do such a thing. Slowly, I collapse into Sungyeol’s embrace on the gravel and start crying again.

“They’re inside, Sungyeol,” I cry into his chest. “What if he’s dead? We finally get reunited only to find out that he died. How am I ever going to live with myself?”

“I don’t think it’s going to be a problem,” Sungyeol says.

“What do you mean not a problem?” I ask crying even harder. “He died and it’s all because of me.”

“Who died?” I hear a voice say. Immediately I look up and see Myungsoo kneeling before me.

“Myungsoo?” I ask. “Y-y-you’re alright?”

“Of course I’m alright,” he says with a smile and he takes me into his arms. “Haven’t I said before I was going to protect you? Haven’t I said that I’m going to be here for you?”

“But…g-g-gunshots,” I say.

“You have to thank Woohyun-hyung for saving my life. Don’t worry, he only has a bullet in his leg, he’s not dead,” Myungsoo says clarifying. “But you can thank him when you’re better. We should stop at the hospital first. A hospital that’s far away so no one knows who we are,” he says attempting to make a joke about it. I lightly smile. “There’s the smile that I love so much. Guys, let’s go.”

The car starts moving after everyone’s in it. Myungsoo is still holding onto me, so I don’t know who’s driving and frankly, at this point, it doesn’t matter. “It’s all over,” Myungsoo whispers to me as he my hair and attempts to stop me from crying any more. “It’s all over, you can sleep in peace. It’s okay.”

Instead of falling asleep because I’m afraid that I’ll have nightmares, I just cuddle up more next to Myungsoo, feeling safety once more.

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So, Sunggyu is Myungsoo's half-brother, what does Myungsoo feel about this? How is Myungsoo going to ask his parents about it? What's going to happen now that Myungsoo, Woohyun, and Hoya have rescued the three and know that Dongwoo, Sungjong, and Sunggyu work together? Will Sunggyu attempt to pull anything else?

And I have a poll. It's the very first one for this story. Don't take the poll the wrong way, I'm NOT planning on ending this fanfic just yet but if I have ideas, then I should shape them, if you would want a sequel, so that everything doesn't happen now. I should at least save some things for the sequel...unless I were to time jump in the sequel, but it all depends on if you guys want a sequel or not or just want me to make this story have a lot of chapters. Remember to vote below :)

Anyway, Chapter 19 is competed and up. Thanks for reading. Hope you enjoyed :D