[CONTENTID2]It Can Never Be You - Finished[/CONTENTID2]

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The plan was fully in place. Thunder had arranged with a couple of his friends that he could trust to smuggle the prisoner and himself out of the area. He had already planned a cabin in the woods for them, and Joon could choose from there to stay with Thunder or to venture back to his homeland. Joon hadn’t said, but he had already made his decision. He was slowly falling for Thunder – slowly, and yet so quickly given the still fairly recent occurrence that Mir’s death had been.

He certainly hadn’t gotten over the other. He was just going to seize his only chance at a possibility of a semblance of a happy life. Thunder was clearly determined to give that to him, and who was Joon to deny him when he had nothing to go back home for? Just a place full of memories.

It was the dead of night and one of Thunder’s friends was watching him until the time was right. He waited for the signal, the shouts, for the dark haired boy with the mysterious dark circles under his eyes to seize him about the middle and drag him from the cell and into the open world. Just as he was going over the next step in the plan, there was a yell. Joon bolted upright, this was too soon! He wasn’t ready! He hadn’t reviewed the plan fully – he wasn’t prepared yet! But as war often is, there is always that unexpected factor that comes to ruin everything. None of them were to know the yell was merely from a guard who had nearly gotten bitten by a snake, and not the signal at all.

But Joon was still slung over the slight boy’s bony shoulder like he weighed no more than a feather and then they were off. He heard the boy beneath him give a yelp of surprise when the scene they encountered was not what it was meant to be. Several guards, not of the ones they were supposed to be meeting, all staring at them in surprise next to the body of a dead snake. They ran, Joon bouncing uselessly like a sack of meal until he was slung into the cart.

“Joon!” Thunder shouted, racing toward him to join him on the cart as it had already begun to move. Joon panicked  - wait! This wasn’t the way it was supposed to work! Thunder was supposed to be with him before they started moving!

“Thunder!” he shrieked like a child, heart a