Come at me, don't hurt them anymore;
they are... my friends...

(Juri's POV)

I nestled into my makeshift sofa bed while the guys took the cold, hard floor. I couldn't help but feel bad that they gave up so much for me; first their ultimate freedom away from those evil scientists who are after their new DNA. Now the agents of SMCreate are hot on their tails, and its all my fault.

They hadn't done anything to deserve this, yet they still treated me like their little sister. I just couldn't do anything of assistance to them...

What if I ran away, wouldn't they be safe then?

If I led the agents towards me and give them enough time to stall away... 

They would be safe then, right?

***

(Baekhyun's POV)

I shifted and turned in my mattress, glancing upwards with my arm under my head. My eye lids closed slowly, but a rustling noise jolts me back up. 

Maybe I just need a walk...

As I stood up gradually, I scanned around the room, at the rest of the members. Chanyeol with his thumb in his mouth, Kai in a superman pose on the horizontal mattress, Suho with his mouth wide open, D.O with his sternly straight sleeping position, Sehun in a messed up place with his blanket strewn over his legs and Juri-

Wait, the bed was empty.

She wasn't there.

My first instincts clicked towards the door, it was swung wide open.

She..

"Ran away... -"

DOOR SLAMS

***

(Juri's POV)

Without a doubt, out I ran, I didn't look back. Each step met with potruding twigs that delievered cuts and wounds around my ankle. The darkness, it was overclouding me, everywhere. It was consuming, it drained me bit by bit.

Groggily I stumbled towards a faint light, was there someone?

It was the end, was it?

Wait, why am I running?

If I'm gone, who's going to be there to protect them.

Instinctively I delivered a stinging whack across my cheek, what in the world am I thinking?

I thought running would be the best choice, no, it makes it worse. Okay, I'll go back and get the boys to relocate first before I turn myself in. This way the agents won't be able to find them right?

...

...

...

Black, everything was turning black... What's happening?

Is there anyone... Someone... Anyone? Was that... someone...?

"Help me... Baek- hyun..."

***

"The bait is here now, boss, all we need to do now is to wait."

***

A blinding light aroused me, the burned through my soul, the light was scarring. That warming light that I felt before, where had it gone to now?

All I saw now: a desolate land with a still river. And me: tied to a tree, in need of resuing. I brought more trouble than help this time didn't I?

This was it, everyone is going to hate me for being so fickle minded. 

"Juri!"

"Warm..." The sun's warmth, that familiar feeling, it cradled me like a little child.

"Baek- ...hyun... ?"

***

cliffhanger for the next chapter,
it's gna be awkward soon because all along, i've been using the members name's as the title.
soon, i'll be out of names to use!

titles will soon be changed. :)

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what's Baek's relationship with Juri <;
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