Present day 

"Why are you up so early?" Kyungsoo said, stumbling out of his room to find Yixing in the kitchen 
"I could ask you the same question" Yixing replied with a smile turning around to start cooking breakfast 
"I heard you moving about. You woke me up!" Kyungsoo whined making Yixing laugh a little as he took a seat. 

"Sorry about that. I thought I slept in and I was late for work so I was rushing about to get ready for work... turns out my clock was ahead by an hour" he explained, looking through the cupboards as Kyungsoo watched him. 

This morning felt like any other. As usual the others would begin to gradually wake up and filter into the kitchen where Yixing would be welcoming them with breakfast. Completely normal. Then Kris would start of the morning conversations about what they were going to do today whilst Kyungsoo sat there listening just as intently and Yixing would be on the side watching them as well. 

Except today Yixing was not on the side watching them. Instead, as soon as the others were away eating breakfast he was back in his room getting ready. It would be easy to tell the others he was going to work that's what he usually did when he was going to meet Yunho and the others. Today would be no different. 

He just ran the slight chance of not coming back. What he was going to do in meeting Yunho today was extremely risky. Yixing ran the chance of not coming back alive. Today could very well be the last time he saw everyone... but he didn't care. He was determined to get the others out of this mess. At least if Yunho killed him, he could die having felt like he had finally done something useful with his life. 

"What are you doing?" came Joonmyun's voice 
"J-just getting ready to go to work" Yixing replied 
"What, today?"
"Yeah... they asked me to come in because another worker has gone away on maternity leave" Yixing explained and watched to see if Joonmyun would believe him or not. 

"Just make sure you tell the others where you're going" he muttered and left the room, Yixing watching him walk away before he finished getting ready. If only he could have patched things up with Joonmyun before he left. 

"I-I'll be back around normal time" he said, walking towards the door 
"Don't wait up for me. I'm pretty sure Joonmyun and Kyungsoo could cook up something if you feel like you're about to starve to death" he added and with that exited the apartment, not looking back once. 

"He was in a hurry to get to work" Baekhyun said once Yixing had exited the apartment 
"I don't think I've ever seen anyone that excited to get to work" Jongin added before Sehun came running out of his bedroom. 

"And where are you off to?" Joonmyun asked 
"I've got something to do" Sehun replied and with that ran out the apartment whilst everyone, besides Kris, stared at him with confused expressions. What the heck was going on with everyone running out of the place this morning? 

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Luhan was not a big fan of school. Let's face it nobody is, who in their right mind loves waking up early to go school? Nobody that's who! It was just so boring and so repetitive. He needed something more exciting to happen in his life!

"Come on, come on" he muttered to himself, waiting for his friends to turn up. If they didn't turn up anytime soon he was going to be late for school! 

Sighing, Luhan started looking around, willing his friends to hurry up. That was when he noticed Sehun walking down the road. It had been a while since he had last seen him! Luhan was almost tempted to go over and say hello to him before he saw that Sehun was following someone. He was following the guy in front of him of who himself was scurrying down the road and looking around to see if he had been caught. 

Luhan should have told himself to stay where he was and ignore the situation. This was Sehun's buisiness and he shouldn't interfere with it.

That being said though, Sehun was always there butting his way in whenever Luhan had trouble, so why couldn't Luhan go see what was going on with him? 

Deciding that it wouldn't exactly hurt if he missed just one day off of school, Luhan quickly looked both ways of the road before running over, keeping some distance between himself and Sehun before he began doing some following of his own. 

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"You think you can get out of this so easily? Are you stupid?" Yunho asked pinning Yixing up against the wall 
"You think that can waltz in here and tell me that you wan't out?" he asked 
"We are the ones who have been waiting for you to get your job done. We're so close and then you have the audacity to come here and tell us you want to give up? Are you crazy!" he spat and smacked Yixing across the face, about to say something before they heard a loud thump. 

"What was that?" Yunho asked, a pause before Jaejoong appeared 
"It seems as though somebody was following our dear Yixing here. A friend of his. I simply took care of him" Jaejoong replied as Yixing's eyes widened. 

"Wh-who was it? What did you do to him?" he asked before Yunho smacked him again 
"Enough!" he shouted and threw Yixing to the floor. 

"I've had enough of all this stalling. No longer am I waiting and no longer am I putting up with you trying to keep us away from them" he continued, grabbing a gun and holding it up against Yixing's temple. 

"Now, you are going to tell me where they are. All of them. I don't want anymore pieces of misinformation or so help me I'm not afraid to kill them, you and anyone else you hold dear to you"...

Until the next chapter...