Author's note: Hi readers! Sorry it took me a while to post this chapter. As a result of the poll i made in chapter 12, i am posting this partially-edited draft of the chapter that i was supposed to post. I didn't have the time nor the inspiration to add more details on this chapter, so here it is. Sorry :(

She walked closer to it to get a good look at the patient at the stretcher, but the oxygen mask blocked the patient's face and the paramedic hindered the view. And so she took a deep breath as she motioned for the paramedic to stop, allowing her to get a closer look at the patient.

She felt as if a bucket of cold water was splashed on her body when she saw the patient's face...

It was Seungho.

She held at the stretcher for support as her other hand covered to muffle her sobs.

The paramedics, baffled with her actions, asked her, “Do you know this man ma'am?”

Jin Ju looked at the paramedic as if her soul left her body, then she looked back to Seungho. He was unconscious, and he was almost unrecognizable with the big bruises and blood in his face. Jin Ju scanned his upper body, and noticed his shirt which was drenched in blood. Jin Ju's sobs grew louder seeing Seungho's condition.

One of the paramedics held her shoulders and shook her lightly. “Ma'am, do you know this man?”

With that, Jin Ju came back to her senses and nodded at the paramedic, her tears flowing uncontrollably.

One of the paramedics motioned the others to rush the stretcher inside the ER, while another paramedic came into Jin Ju's aid as that paramedic held her back for support, afraid that she might collapse anytime, and they guided her steps as they follow the stretcher.

“We found him in an abandoned warehouse, unconscious and with 2 gunshot wounds on his chest, holding tightly on this ice box containg a kidney...Unfortunately, the perpetrators left already. Now we have to get him stabilized.” The paramedic explained gently to Jin Ju as he ushered her to where Seungho was.

When the paramedic left to assist in revivng Seungho, a police who happened to hear what the paramedic and Jin Ju have been talking about approached Jin Ju. He asked Jin Ju if she knew of anyone who wanted to hurt Seungho. But Jin Ju, being oblivious of what happened to Byunghee and Seungho, could only shake her head. The officer, seeing how shaken up Jin Ju is, just nodded at her and atted her back. Before he left, he told Jin Ju that they were still trying to investigate on the matter. Jin Ju burst into tears hearing the officer's words.

Suddenly, the medical team started to roll out Seungho's stretcher and informed Jin Ju that they are taking him to the operating room together with the kidney which, to her surprise, was for Byunghee. Jin Ju just followed the team like a robot, staring at Seungo's beaten up face in confusion as she wondered how seungho found Byunghee's kidney that was in the reportedly hi-jacked ambulance.

******

Seungho received a call from an unknown number.

“You think you can run away like that, huh?! You ! You even hurt Byunghee! You ...I'll make sure you'll pay! If you want you're friend to live, pick up his kidney yourself!”

Seungho's heart beat faster when he ehard that familiar voice on the line. He looked at Byunghee who was lying unconscious in his bed, with tube and machines all over him, and back to is phone. He remembered the time when Byunghee selflessly called his client to ask for money to save his life. And now it's his turn to return the favor, Seungho thought. He took a deep breath and smiled as he eyed Byunghee. Then he slowly walked inside Byunghee's room, where he was welcomed by Jin Ju with a confused look in her face.

He immediately went to the meeting place the hooligan instructed. As he expected, a bunch of hooligans dressed in black suit and tie, with metal pipes at hand are waiting for him inside.

“I'm here for my friend's kidney. I don't want to make a ruckus. So please...” Seungho tried to settle the matter peacefully.

Out of the crowd, a man in black long sleeved polo shirt and black pants walked out.

“This is not a church for you to plead like that you wimp!”

With that, Sunggyu flicked his fingers sending the bunch of hooligans in an attack to Seungho.

Seungho did his best to block the hits and fight back, grabbing a metal pipe from one of the hooligans as his weapon. But given his lack of history to fighting, he received more hits than he gave. Good thing his hits were strong enough to put almost 2/3 of the hooligans down. In just a matter of 5 minutes, Seungho was slouching as he stood, blood drippng in his face and arms, as the few remaining hooligans surrounded him, ready to fight.

“Boys, let me finish this.”

The hooligans stepped aside giving way to Sunggyu.

Seungho was preparing for a fist fight. Sunggyu then took out the container with a label that read: “Handle With Care. Human Kidney.” Sunggyu waved it in front of Seungho's eyes, making sure he saw them.

“This is what you want right? Come and get it!” He let go of the container, sending it to the ground with a loud thump.

Seeing the kidney caused Seungho's adrenaline to rush in him sending him like a bull as he head-butted Sunggyu in his stomach.

They exchanged punches, Seungho's punches giving more impact to the leader expected. In no time, they were both a panting mess, Sunggyu's face looking more terrible than Seungho's.

Seungho was about to give his last blow to Sunggyu's face when...

BANG!

And the next thing he knew, a sharp, stinging pain was coursing through his right chest already. His body collapsed on top of Sunggyu.

Sunggyu roughly pushed Seungho's body out of his, sending Seungho on his back on the ground. Seungho stared blankly at his surroundings, and found one of the hooligans pointing a gun at him, with the nozzle still smoking from the previous shot. The leader laughed evily yet weakly as he pulled himself to stand up.

“Y-you . You..think you're better than me?” the fear and intimidation was clearly evident in Sunggyu's voice as he looked cautiously at Seungho.

Seungho looked blankly at the hooligan who shot him before shifting his gaze to the trembling Sunggyu. Sunggyu smirked back at him, and with wiggling hands he aimed at Seungho's chest. Unfortunately, Sunggyu's hands were shaking terribly due to the mixture of fear of Seungho's incredible strenght and exhaustion, sending the bullet to Seungho's left shoulder.

Seungho could only shout in pain as the bullet traverse his flesh. Sunggyu laughed evily at Seungho's defeated state.

Suddenly, Sunggyu gave Seungho a death glare.

“I'm disappointed. I thought you were some bad-, though man. It seems like only one bullet can take you down.”

Sunggyu raised the gun towards Seungho again, then pointed it at his chest.

“I pity you. You are a big disappointment: to me and Byunghee...Too bad.”

With that Sunggyu sudenly shifted the gun and pointed it at the container with the kidney.

Seungho's eyes widened at the scene. His adrenaline rushed in, making him suddenly stand up. Taking a deep breath, Seungho immediately pushed his body towards the container and was about to grab the container...when....

...Seungho heard the gun fire.

The next thing he knew, a piercing, burning pain coursed from his back through his left chest. His body fell on the ground with a loud thud, his back facing Sunggyu.

With his remaining strenght left, he reached for the container and weakly pulled it closer to him. When he saw the container unharmed, a weak smile crept out of his face.

Suddenly, Sunggyu's evil laugh filled the entire warehouse.

“At least you get to join Byunghee in hell. Hahahahahaha!” With that, Sunggyu and his gang started to walk away.

Hearing Sunggyu's words pained Seungho's heart. Thoughts of Byunghee dying suddenly came to his mind. With one hand he held the container close to his chest, despite the sharp, piercing pain in his upper torso, while he used his other hand to push himself to stand up.

But with his gunshot wounds and his beaten up body, his plan to even push himself up failed, making him collapse to the ground.

Tears escaped Seungho's eyes as he held the container close to his chestand closed his eyes, the hope of saving Byunghee becoming bleak for him.

'Please God, let Byunghee live.'

That was all Seungho had in mind at that moment.

With that, he just let his self off and lost consciousness.

A concerned citizen who heard the gunshots reported the incident to the police, to which the police immediately responded. When the police came to the source of the gunshots, they didn't see anyone. Whn they walked inside, they got surprised with the scene: a man was curled up in a ball, lying on his own pool of blood in the middle of the warehouse. When the approached the man, they found an ice chest under the victim's body...And when they opened the ice box, they were surprised to see a kidney inside. They read the label of the ice box and found that it is for a certain hospital. So they called the ambulance immediately, and sent both the man and the kidney to the hospital.

******

When Byunghee woke up, he found Jin Ju sleeping beside him. He lifted his hand to touch Jin Ju, but his movements made Jin Ju wake up that instant. With fluffy eyes, looked at Byunghee and smiled at him with teary eyes.

“You're awake.”

“Hey.” Byunghee said weakly. He started looking around, looking for a familiar face.

“Where's Seungho?” Jin Ju's grimaced and, to GO's surprise, she started crying again.

“Hey...What happened?” Byunghee

“Seungho..he...he...”

Jin Ju already bawled her eyes out before she could continue. Byunghee hugged her and burried her head in his chest. When Jin Ju calmed down a bit, she told Byunghee about Seungho.

Byunghee's eyes were immediately wet with tears when he found out.

“I..i want to see him. Where is he? I want to see him...” Byunghee's words were calm, as if he was just trying to give a statement...Jin Ju's tears let out again when she saw the confused and pained lok in Byunghee.

“But byunghee, you're still not-”

“Please Jin Ju! I want to see him!” Byunghee's tear-stained eyes focused on Jin Ju's, pleading for her to let him go. Jin Ju, seeing that eagerness in Byunghee, wasn't able to do anything but to comply to Byunghee's request. led him to Seungho's room.

GO's vision were immediately blurred at the sight of his friend hooked up in a heart machine and a mechanical ventilator.

He could hear Jin Ju's sobs from behind him.

Jin Ju parked the wheelchair beside Seungho's bed, and GO immediately took Seungho's hand and pressed it against his tear-stained cheeks, allowing his tears to flow freely on Seungho's hand hoping that seungho would feel them and hopefully would wake him up. Jin Ju tried to muffle her sobs, but her heartache was too much making her sibs louder. She eventually went to the other side of the bed and sat beside Seungho as she held tightly on his hands, not minding the IV drip attached to him. They remained silent for some time, allowing their emotions to flow freely as they savor that moment with Seungho...cause it may be the last time he's breathing.

“You crazy idiot! What did you do, huh?! Why did you end up like this, huh?! Why!” GO's couldn't help but scold at his friend. Jin Ju's sobs grew louder hearing GO's desperate cries..

GO cried his heart out as he held Seungho's hands against his cheek. “Look at you now!....You should just...let me die...” Byunghee continue to lament.

Suddenly, they both got shocked when they saw Seungho slowly opening his eyes.

“Seung?”

He just blinked for a while, then smiled probably identfying who the people around him are. GO and Jin Ju smiled back in happiness when they saw him smile. GO clasped on seunghos hand tighter, while Jin Ju sobbed harder as she kissed her boyfriend's hand.

Jin Ju immediately went out to call the doctor, leaving Byunghee and Seungho alone in the room.

Byunghee couldn't help but let his eyes bawl out as he looked at his friend - his brother – who now lays weak and helpless in this bed because of his efforts to save Byunghee.

Seungho smiled at Byunghee. With all his strenght, he tried to pull up his hands and brush the tears off Byunghee's cheeks.

Byunghee caught his hand and lightly pressed it against his cheek, feeling his friend's cold hand.

“Seungho-ah...”

Seungho just smiled at him.

“T-Thank you...you didn't have to this this much.” Bunghee muttered with a smile on his face as his tears continued to flow like an open dam.

Seungho just smiled at him. He looked at Byunghee, hoping to say a lot to him; but his mouth did not listen to him. He just looked at Byunghee silently, tears escaping his left eye as he looked at Byunghee. Byunghee just smiled at him as he brushed the tears off Seungho's cheeks.

Seungho started to blink slowly, and Byunghee thought it was time for Seungho to get back to sleep.

But suddenly, the cardiac monitor started going crazy...

“Seungho?”

Seungho's eyelids were drooping already and his head was slowly falling to the side.

”No..NO! Seungho!”

Bunghee panicked as he watch Seungho's eyelids struggling to remain open as the cardiac monitor beeped like crazy. He pushed his wheelchair near the emergency button, until his wound (from the kidney transplant) ached like crazy. He pressed hard on the emergency button, breathing hard as the immense pain from the wound and his nervousness get mixed up inside him. He pushed the wheelchair near Seungho's side, grasping Seungho's hands tightly as he tried to keep him awake.

“Seungho, come on...The doctors are coming, hang in there...” He tried to keep Seungho awake by shaking his hand lightly. Seungho gave all his strenght to grasp Byunghee's hand back,trying to show Byunghee that he was trying to hold on. Seungho's breaths were getting more laborious, making Byunghee more nervous. Byunghee looked at Seungho's eyes that were half closed already. Seungho looked back at his friend, and smiled at him weakly. Byunghee smiled back at him and held Seungho's hands tighter.

“Hang on Seungho...” Byunghee told Seungho as tears continued to stain his face.

The door suddenly swung open, revealing Jin Ju.

“Seung?”

Byunghee gave her a desperate look before he looked back at Seungho. Seeing Byunghee's devastated look and hearing the cardiac monitor going crazy, she ran immediately to Seungho's side and held his hands.

Seungho, with choppy breaths and drooping eyelids, slowly turned his head to Jin Ju and gave her a weak smile...

”No Seungho...please...” Jin Ju mumbled as she bawled her eyes out.

Seungho's eyes closed slowly, and his grip on the two hands loosened. The cardiac monitor beeped indicating a flat line....

“Seungho! Please NO! NO!!” GO held his friends palms against his cheeks tight, but Seungho's head fell limply on the side, with his eyes closed.

The medical staff came storming in, pushing Byunghee and Jin Ju to the side.

The team tried to do CPR several times but he did not respond. They defibrilated Seungho several times, but the flat line did not change. Bunghee and Jin Ju could only watch from the side as the medical staff tried different ways to revive Seungho.