“You weren’t kidding when you said you hated them, huh? Alright alright. Deal.” He grabbed her hand and pulled her into his body before sliding his hands up her shirt and giving her a rough squeeze. Jaws dropped but not hers. Her face passed first through shock but switched to indifference barely a moment later before adapting a nervous expression.

“Can you save that for later. I really…don’t want to be around them anymore…,” she shifted uneasily under his touch.

“Wait…what the ? No way…,” Jonghyun was at a loss. Taemin’s was wide-eyed with horror and Key’s mouth opened and closed like a fish out of water.

Gyou swung an arm around her shoulders and grinned at the boys. “Seems your prisoner here finally rebelled. You haven’t been treating her so well so she made a deal with me. She protects me from you and she gets to escape you crazy bastards while knowing you’ll all be dead. I’m going to enjoy beating the out of you statues.” He cracked his knuckles.

“What? No. You’re supposed to get me out of here as soon as possible!” She fidgeted. “I don’t want to see anymore blood or hear anymore screams! I got enough of that already!”

“Aww come on! After all they’ve done to you, you don’t want to see them suffer?”

“No thank you. I don’t want to see their faces at all.” She avoided their eye contact and stared only at Gyou or the floor.

“Seriously? Are you serious? But…,” Kibum mumbled.

She said nothing.

Gyou suggested eagerly, “How ‘bout you just wait outside the door and I’ll just beat them around a little.”

“No…then they’ll kill you without me there to get in the way or then you’ll use your bomb and then I’ll die. If I wanted to die, I’d just stay with these guys” She looked him in the eye with seriousness.

“Man, if you weren’t a hottie that knew what I was, I’d kill you ‘cause you’re so annoying,” mumbled the older man, but only Taemin and the girl could hear. Both tensed but she loosened her muscles while Taemin was shaking with emotion, hands fisted white.

“…Sorry…you can come back later and blow this place up. Just don’t do it now,” she insisted while leeching onto his arm. “Come on Gyou...,” she tugged gently. It almost looked like they were a couple (an abusive, totally wrong couple) and that converted the boys’ shock and hurt to extreme anger. “I can’t stand it here anymore.”

“You better be a good lay…”

“What did you just say?” Jonghyun choked out. Was he having a nightmare?

“Oh did I forget to mention that part of our negotiations? Yeah, I get a little something something too.”

“You better keep your end of the deal.” She said seriously.

“Will do milady.” Gyou turned to look at the still gaping boys.

'Yeah. I'm definitely dreaming.' The blond was convinced, or was trying to convince himself of it.

“Sorry boys, but your little lady has spoken. Come near us, try to attack me, lift a pinky, and I’m just going to blow you all up with this little device here and it’s bye bye to everyone. I’d be losing a pretty girl, but hey, I’d get over not having my constellation prize.”

The girl gripped his arm in protest. He smirked and her lips just to rub it in SHINee’s faces at how he just stole their prize away.

“A bomb?” Key seemed to be the only one to snap out of his swirl of anger and betrayal long enough to catch that bit of information, which was no easy feat as it was really really hard to pull himself out of his stupor while Gyou was eating HIS girl’s lips.

She turned her head away finally but Gyou didn’t seem deterred while leaving angry red marks on the skin of her neck. Impressively, she spoke, albeit stiffly, with Gyou leeched to her. “Yeah, a bomb. So if you want to live for a while longer, I suggest you let me go peacefully.” She finally looked at those boys with an indifferent expression but her nails dug into Gyou’s arm. “This guy can reform himself but you guys will just be blown to nothing.” It was a threat. The atmosphere grew tenser, if that was possible.

Onew, who had been missing from the scene so far, finally arrived and as soon as Gyou saw him, the earth man squeezed him eyes shut.

“Get away from her!” Onew shouted with panting breath.

Nothing happened. The girl still was still within Gyou’s hold. Why was nothing happening?

“See, I thought long and hard about you. I just couldn’t figure out what you were for a long long time. You have the same name as that boy. And when I watched you guys leave the campsite, she didn’t move until you told her to. It was a guess. A long shot. Since nobody’s moving. I guessed I guessed right.” A smirk was plastered across Gyou’s face.

“Why is this guy still annoyingly smug?” Taemin questioned. He was ready to pounce but didn’t know if that was the best course of action. Where was this bomb of which they spoke? Was there really one? Onew should just make that guy disarm it. But wait? Why hasn't Onew controlled this bastard yet?

The girl glanced at the leader before averting her gaze to the floor. “What’s going on here?” He had to think straight if his power wasn’t working.

Taemin stepped over and whispered a mile a minute into the leader’s ear. Onew’s face passed started serious but quickly adapted features of horror before wiping clear of any sign of emotion.

Trying again just to make sure, Onew spoke, “I said, let her go and step back.” Once again, nothing happened. Truly baffling but his face didn’t show it. He turned his command on the girl, “Step away from him now.”

As proper, her feet picked up but Gyou’s hold around her waist wasn’t letting her leave. Okay, well, at least Onew knew he didn’t lose his control over her and it was just Gyou who seemed to be immune.

After a few seconds of dead silence except for the struggles of the girl who wasn’t even aware of herself struggling, Gyou laughed.

“I’m sorry. I can’t hear you? Did you say something? My ears seem to be clogged with dirt.”

Onew’s face twisted into an ugly frown. So that’s why the command in his voice wasn’t working. And that man avoided his eye contact too. No problem. He still had touch. He stepped forward.

“Nope. Shouldn’t do that. I can see you you know. Well, not really. I can just feel you through the floor. You know what’s under these thin wood floor panels in this room?  Dirt and beautiful cement. I know exactly where everyone is standing right now. I know when you step forward. Don’t even try to approach to touch me. Don’t try to jump either. I’ll know when both of your feet leave the ground, and then everything will go KABLOO-Y if that happens. That’ll surely sting.”

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THEA's Corner <3

I lied. I sort of know what I'm doing. Kind of...sort of...maybe...yeah...
As expected, people aren't overjoyed with developments. Oh well... I still enjoyed your comments! ^^

Last day of summer course!

Posted: 22 May 2011