Jimin kept running and running even tho she didn't know where actually she headed to. She still couldn't get a view of any road, people, or houses near her. All she could see is just trees, accompanied by the sound of crickets.

The several scratches on her legs stung, but when she could hear how Minjeong's breath started becoming ragged, Jimin ran faster to the unknown.

"Please, Minjeong! Bear it for me!", Jimin shouted as she ran, realizing both Minjeong's eyes closed. "Fucking NIS! Where the hell are they!", Jimin teared up, somehow losing hope.

But it all changed when she heard the rustling sound on her, and as she looked up, she could see a chopper, with one man's head peeking downwards towards her and Minjeong.

It was her chief.

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nineteen:
in my dreams

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Minjeong looks around her surroundings. It was dark, cold, and suffocating. In her hand is a metal bat, the same one Kris always used to hit her to death. Also, the same one that killed Yunjin brutally right in front of her eyes.

"Jimin?", Minjeong called for the older woman but got no answer.

There is no Jimin in here, where is she?

As she's about to walk to find the woman she loves, the clanking sound from her feet succeeds in gaining her attention as she averted her eyes down, realizing that she's back in chains.

So, Kris got her again?

"Minjeong!", that familiar voice that Minjeong missed for a while made the woman lift up her head again as she shifted her eyes towards the source of that voice.

Then, she saw it. She saw Yunjin, still on her chain, somewhere in the darkness, a few meters away from Minjeong.

"Yunjin!", Minjeong shouted back to her. The other woman's head was flowing blood, and Minjeong's chest went up and down from the panic.

"Yunjin!", Minjeong shouted again.

"Minjeong! Run—", Yunjin couldn't finish her words when Kris appeared out of nowhere behind the American, punching her face with his fist before a wide grin flashed sadistically.

"Yunjin! No!!", Minjeong shouted historically as she watched Yunjin beaten up to death.

No, not again. Minjeong would save her best friend. She won't let her die again.

As she tried to walk, the chains on her legs vanished away into particles of dust before Minjeong walked closer to where Kris was still enjoying beating up her friend.

Minjeong was determined. She lifted up the metal bat, and all she could think was revenge.

Blood splattered everywhere as Minjeong hit him with wild abandon. She doesn't care if this sadistic maniac will die. She will make sure that he'll die. 

Hit after another hit, the man's skull split open. But Minjeong starts to grin happily watching him dying and begging her to stop. But, does she care? After all the suffering he did to her and Yunjin?

Oh, yes. He makes Jimin suffer too.

Minjeong remembered that the older woman got shot because of him too.

"Die", Minjeong said in her low voice as she hit again. Bloods gushing out from his head, mouth, and nose.

She'll do the same as what he did to Yunjin.

She'll beat him until his brain is out too.

Like what he did to Yunjin.

*****

Jimin's eyes shot open before she immediately sat up. Then, she realized the tube that was attached to her left hand, before the pain in her shoulder slowly ate her up. "Ouch!", she winced as the gunshot wound knocked her back to her senses.

"You woke up?", the voice made Jimin turn her head and she saw Aeri and Ningning smiling pitifully at her. "Thank god, you've made it", a tear rolled down the Japanese cheek, but she immediately wiped it away with her hand.

"What happened?", Jimin asked in confusion, couldn't remember a single thing about how she ended up in the hospital. "Where's Minjeong?", her brows furrows in concern.

"I don't know who it is, but it might be one of your coworkers. They told us that you passed out right after you got on the chopper", Ningning said with an apologetic smile. "He's dead, Jimin. You don't need to worry anymore about you and Minjeong's safety", Aeri continued the Chinese words.

So, he is dead?

"But, where's Minjeong? Is Taeyeon fine? Did she get hurt? And how the hell did he could send someone to the safe house? Where are the guards? How did they get up to our apartments—"

"That's a lot for me to answer, huh?", Aeri chuckled sadly before she took her seat right beside Jimin's hospital bed.

"They lured your whole team somewhere else, and because of that, the number of security here that night decreased", Aeri explained with her head down. "He... shot everyone down, and kidnapped both of you to Jeju", she continued.

"But— You don't need to worry about Taeyeon. She is fine, they don't know where her safehouse is located at. She's also here in the hospital, with Minjeong".

Jimin could finally sigh in relief as she heard the news. At last, the massacre is over. No more Kris, and finally Minjeong could live normally like the others. "Then, how is Minjeong?".

"Not good", Ningning answered her this time.

Jimin could feel how her heart beat faster as Ningning continued. "Ten broken ribs, a cracked skull, internal bleeding. She was merely alive from all the emergency treatment", Ninging sighed heavily. "The doctor almost announced her death not until her heart started to beat again", Ningning smiled sadly.

"She almost die, Jimin. Almost. But, thank god, you are there with her", Aeri said as she looked at her best friend's frozen state.

"Aeri, can you get me a wheelchair?", Jimin wiped away the tears that rolled down her cheek.

"The reporters are out there, Jimin. They were shocked when they knew you were admitted to the hospital with two gunshot wounds", Aeri argued but Jimin immediately shook her head softly.

"I don't care. Minjeong almost die on my back. I want to see her, Aeri. Please...", Jimin begged.

The couple looked into each other's eyes for a few seconds before they let out a tiny sigh, looking back at Jimin with the same sad smile. "I'll bring you the wheelchair, and we'll bring you to the ICU. Stay here for a while with Ning", Aeri said as she stood up from her seat, giving a light tap on her friend's shoulder.