Title: Memories
Characters: Super Junior
Rating: R
Chaptercount: 26/26
Summary: Fifteen people try to find the memories they forgot - or maybe they're just looking for each other.
A/N: A fic written on a hunch. One day I thought; "Super Junior. And vampires. This calls for a fic!" and well.. Here we are? Memories is one of the stories that I'm proud of, despite its sometimes messy storyline. It's also a story that won't be fully understood until you've read it completely. Things will be very confusing as you read, but will also get explained in future chapters. Be warned.
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“Who’s we?” Kyuhyun asked first, his voice sounding slightly disbelieving.
“Heechul hyung, Hangeng hyung, Li Yin, Misun noona and I for starters.” Sindong stated calmly, a small smile brightening his expression as he knew exactly what would come after that.
“I will go too.” Jongwoon immediately stated as expected and it wasn’t like anyone present in the room was surprised over that fact with the way he had been protecting his wife up to that point.
“Count me in as well.” Zhou Mi added to that in a soft voice, a short nod in Heechul’s direction following those words. “Someone needs to have a say over him.” It was a joke to keep the mood light and it worked, some of the members even chuckling softly. Heechul’s gaze was less happy but it was obvious he was only playing.
“Same for Ryeowook and me.” Siwon spoke after a moment, the younger vampire looking at him in surprise for a moment but nodding anyway. “Jack’s been toying with us and our lives long enough now.” he added then, his smile grim, eyes filled with a great dislike that bordered hatred.
“Guys…” Hyukjae spoke up at that point, making all eyes turn to him. He had meanwhile cleaned his face from the tears and gathered himself again. He was standing in between Jungsoo and Sang Mi, Donghae hugging him from behind, chin resting on Hyukjae’s shoulder. “There’s no need to all state it separately. We’re all going to help Hangeng hyung and Heechul hyung out in the end anyway.” His eyes were a normal brown, but he didn’t have to read minds to know he was right.
“Perhaps. But I want my sleep first.” Sungmin responded to that and Jungsoo nodded slightly. “I prefer feeding first too, I haven’t had a decent meal in years.” His eyes flashed a vivid red at the mere thought of blood and as Sang Mi inched further away from the vampire almost invisibly, Youngwoon let out a small sigh.
“We all do. Let’s rest and feed first before continuing this discussion.” he contributed gruffly, running a hand over his face. “Talking about this on an empty stomach and with a headache isn’t going to get us far.”
“There’s time anyway.” Misun agreed, speaking again for the first time in a while, a smile on her face as she eyed the brotherhood that had been recreated between the people present in the apartment. “If we’re really going to go against Jack, you’re all going to have to learn how to control your powers better and how to fight other skilled, bloodthirsty Daywalkers. He’s a skilled fighter, it’s not going to be anything like storming in and taking over just like that. Besides, he probably expects some sort of attempt from my side to take back what is mine.”
“Well he’s not too wrong there, is he?” Henry snorted, his strikingly red eyes focused on the woman for a moment as a smile started brightening up his expression. “It’s nice to see you again, noona. Really nice to see you’re still alive as well. How’s the little one?”
The question raised memories in many of the other members’ minds except for Youngwoon, Jungsoo, Hyukjae and Shindong who had been changed before Jongwoon an Misun’s daughter had been born. Donghae and Kyuhyun had not been around anymore at that time either, but they had gotten their memories from Jongwoon, so his memories of his own daughter were still vividly clear in their minds.
“She’s fine.” Jongwoon spoke upon seeing his wife’s expression grow sadder again. “She lives with her grandparents who are taking good care of her. Last time I checked on her she was doing a great job in school.” He smiled back at the younger member, before turning to Misun and slipping his arms around her, pulling her against him and whispering something to her that was too silent for anyone else in the room to understand. They left the room then, gently closing the apartment door behind them. No one doubted they’d come back.
☆.:**´¨`**:.☆
“Alright.” Heechul spoke up mere seconds after the door had closed behind the couple. “We don’t have all day so I suggest you find yourself a space to sleep so that Seasoning and I can leave.” His eyes wandered over the people present before a small amused smile appeared on his face. “Just like before, three places on the bed, two in the couch, the rest will have to take the floor and the chairs. Fight it out amongst yourselves.” he added then, more amused by that fact than he probably should be.
But the others weren’t as set on good sleeping spots as he seemed to think they would be. In seemingly no time they had settled on where to sleep with no one complaining. Hyukjae, Sang Mi and Jungsoo took over the bed this time, Hyukjae sleeping in the middle after repeated requests from the girl. Henry and Sungmin curled up next to each other on the couch whereas Siwon, Ryeowook and Hangeng just settled for free chairs to sleep on.
Kibum surprisingly lay down on the ground as if nothing was wrong, soon joined there by Donghae and Youngwoon respectively. Shindong settled himself against the wall, closing his eyes but seeming to not actually relax. Kyuhyun was the only one not to take a rest despite badly needing it, but even though no one asked, they all knew he wanted to wait for Jongwoon to return safely before going to sleep.
It was like that that Heechul and Zhou Mi left the apartment together, their friends already fast asleep despite the sometimes uncomfortable positions. Li Yin wanted to come along with them but Heechul for some reason convinced her to stay behind and look after the sleeping ones. She let them go only after demanding – and getting – a kiss that had Zhou Mi looking away for a moment to leave them to their lovey-dovey privacy.
Yet Heechul didn’t leave him waiting long, soon taking hold of his hand and dragging him outside, closing the door behind them with a soft click. He allowed the older man to drag him along until they stepped outside onto the street, which was when he gently tugged his hand free and crossed his arms in front of his chest, looking at the other.
“So tell me why you’re taking me out with you when Li Yin is much more willing and much less tired?” he calmly asked, making Heechul look at him with a contemplating look in his eyes for a short moment before he shrugged.
“Because I like you, Seasoning. Now don’t complain and walk along, we need to be in time before they close for the day and we can’t get any more blood. I don’t think Hyukjae would appreciate it if Jungsoo or Jongwoon suddenly attacked his girlfriend.” The words were said in a somewhat uninterested manner, making Zhou Mi roll his eyes.
“We can get to wherever we need to be in no time so don’t give me stupid excuses.” he muttered then, starting to walk anyway. “And we both know the kid’s not his girlfriend. She’s barely half his age. What’s going on with her anyway? What was all that talk about it not being his business to speak up about?”
Surprisingly Heechul smiled despite the somewhat rude words of the redhead, reaching out and patting his shoulder. “See, this is exactly why I brought you and not Li Yin.” he said as he gently steered the other in the right direction at the end of the street. “She already knows everything. You’re much more fun to talk to.” He chuckled softly over a joke only he knew before giving an actual answer.
“The girl’s Jungsoo’s daughter. It was a slip-up with his girlfriend back in the day. He’d have had it removed because of his career, but she said she would raise it on her own and would make sure it wouldn’t affect him. He has no clue who she is, though, which is why I didn’t allow Hyukjae to say anything. Both Jungsoo and her are better off not knowing.” With those words, he suddenly broke out into a run, so fast he became invisible to human eyes.
☆.:**´¨`**:.☆
Misun rested her head against Jongwoon’s chest, closing her eyes and letting out a small sigh of contentment. She couldn’t remember the last time she had been able to relax and unwind, to leave the worrying to someone else and just enjoy the warmth of a loving embrace. The fact that Jongwoon was the one those arms belonged to made it all the more meaningful and to her surprise she soon felt the bitter sting of tears welling up in her eyes. The realisation that she was crying made her tense up, uselessly wondering when the last time was that she had done so. She couldn’t even remember, but most probably it had been over his death.
“Jagiya…” that warm, low voice whispered to her and she felt herself tremble because of the familiarity of it all. She never thought she would be in such a position again. There was a certain limit to the amount of happiness people had in their life and she had always figured she had reached hers, but this moment proved how wrong that assumption had been. “I’m here, you’re here too. There’s no need to cry. I love you.” All words that seemed so impossible yet were very true, which was proven by the way her husband’s shirt got stained by her tears.
“It all feels so surreal, Jongie.” she whispered back, fingers curling into the fabric of his shirt and body trembling with the vastness of her emotions. “For the past ten years I lived thinking you were dead, that I’d have to go on alone, that I’d have to go back to see our daughter one day and tell her that her father died in a car accident. And yet there always was this small flicker of hope that maybe, just maybe, the reality I was working in included you after all, but it never became more than that faint splatter of hope, hidden behind layers of harsh reality. Yet now you’re here. You’re really here.”
She could hear him swallow, knew that what she was saying probably was hard for him to take, but after staying strong for so long it felt incredible to be able to break down. And at the same time it made her feel too vulnerable, too open for more heartbreak. Luckily there was no such thing as Jongwoon pulled her even closer, probably holding her as tight as he could without care. For once she was even more glad to have become a venger and therefore able to withstand the brute force her husband now possessed in his vampire form.
“I’m really here.” he said then and a small noise escaped her at the implications those words brought with them. “I’m not leaving you again, dear. They’ll have to come with something huge to get me down this time – and even though his ego may be I don’t consider Jack huge.” The intent was obviously to cheer her up and it worked, however silly the joke may have been. She chuckled softly in between the tears, slowly letting go of him to wipe her tears away. He got to it before she could however, gently running his thumbs over her cheeks to dry away the last tear tracks and sending her a small smile then. She smiled back.
“Let’s go back inside, Jongie. You need to sleep and go feed after, you look horrible.” she spoke then, voice soft, filled with warmth. The slight disgust on his face had her taking a firm hold of his hand. “If there’s one thing I learned in the past years it’s that vampires simply need blood to survive and it won’t do you any good whatsoever to abhor it. I don’t blame you for it, nor do any of the others, so don’t blame yourself for it either.” Her encouraging smile was mirrored by his grateful one and he entwined his fingers with hers as they walked back down the hallway.
☆.:**´¨`**:.☆
With his hands tucked in his pockets, he calmly strolled through the hospital, waiting patiently for the two men that had gone inside the room to come back out. He was there to look over them after all, just like he had been there for every single one of them after their change. The only one he couldn’t protect had been Jungsoo, the vampire too close to his sire at all times to even try and get in between. But now the Jimin creature was dead and he had free range to protect these boys that were his responsibility.
Right as an anxious feeling started to eat at him, the door of the room opened and the tall redhead walked out of it, followed shortly after by the smaller Heechul. They didn’t notice him just like they never had before and he felt proud of his own skills again for a split second. He had always been able to stay out of their sight, hide his presence from them with the ease of years of training and a natural talent for it. But the smile froze halfway appearing on his face when suddenly Zhou Mi reached out and slapped his friend over the back of his head, right as they walked by him.
“You’re an idiot, hyung, that’s what you are. Why would you tell those people that you help out people who can’t afford to go to the hospital? What will you do if ever they try to check up on you and find there’s no such thing? You shouldn’t lie to people.” the redhead complained to the other, making him smile in amusement. They were still the same – bickering nonstop.
“What do you mean lie to people? I AM helping people! You see, I’m helping our friends who can’t afford to go to the hospital because they will be found out. I never said that I’m helping sick or hurt people, it’s just what they assume I’m doing. Now stop complaining and take my bag, it’s heavy as hell.” the black haired vampire countered and almost immediately Zhou Mi’s arm shot out to take hold of said bag. Yet the redhead didn’t hold on to it for very long.
“Take your bag back and stop ordering me around, hyung.” he said with a frown on his face, but the huff that came out of Heechul when he realised he was forced to keep carrying his own bag was even worse. It made him smile as he slipped out of the shadows of the hospital hallway and followed after them, completely relaxed, a hundred percent sure they wouldn’t even notice him if he stamped through the hallway at full speed.
It didn’t take long for the two to speed up their pace once they were outside and he easily followed after them, entering the apartment building with them and watching them step inside the right complex. He remained outside, allowing them to settle in and find themselves a place to sleep as well. Everyone inside was asleep already which was audible by the steady breathing from the few still living people inside and the complete silence that the others emanated.
Only when he was sure both Heechul and Zhou Mi were asleep just like everyone else, he walked up to the door of the apartment, opening it with surprising ease and stepping inside. The door slid closed behind him so silent even he himself couldn’t hear it click into the lock again, which made a smile appear on his face. His eyes took in the people spread around the room on the floor, in the couch, on the bed and everywhere they had found a place suitable to lie down and close their eyes. The most endearing was probably the sight of Jongwoon and Misun curled up together, right beside where Li Yin and Heechul were sleeping back to back.
He breathed out an inaudible sigh, closing his eyes for a moment. As their grandsire and the reason why they were all gathered together in this room now, he felt an urge to make sure they’d all stay as peaceful as they were at that moment. He certainly wouldn’t allow any of them to get hurt like they had been in the past. After so many years of looking over them, they had gotten themselves a spot in his heart, no matter how well he hid it from them.
“Don’t worry my friends.” he whispered to the room filled with the sleeping forms of the vampires he had indirectly created. “I’ll help you.”
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Friday, 21 October 2011
Saturday, 15 October 2011
[FIC] Memories
Title: Memories
Characters: Super Junior
Rating: R
Chaptercount: 25/26
Summary: Fifteen people try to find the memories they forgot - or maybe they're just looking for each other.
A/N: A fic written on a hunch. One day I thought; "Super Junior. And vampires. This calls for a fic!" and well.. Here we are? Memories is one of the stories that I'm proud of, despite its sometimes messy storyline. It's also a story that won't be fully understood until you've read it completely. Things will be very confusing as you read, but will also get explained in future chapters. Be warned.
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There was a huge silence hanging in the room, people staring at Jungsoo or Hyukjae, no one particularly sure how to deal with that revelation. No one except for Misun apparently, who finally mingled in the conversation again, no sign of the generally present confusion on her expression.
“Hyukjae would you allow Jungsoo to take siredom over you for a bit so he can give you your memories back?” she asked calmly, eyes fixing on the vampire next to Sang Mi. The girl herself had gone surprisingly silent and pale, but no one really noticed with all the commotion going on. She watched Hyukjae next to her with worried eyes waiting for his answer to the question. It was a visible relief to everyone present when Hyukjae replied with a ‘Sure, why not?’ as if it was the most normal thing in the world to allow a previous enemy to take siredom over you.
Sang Mi was the only one not looking forward to that, putting a hand on the vampire’s lower arm and asking him with one look to help her out. She must’ve looked very worried and pale indeed, because his eyes immediately changed to green and he focused on no one but her for a moment.
‘Hyukjae…’ she spoke through her thoughts. ‘If you remember them will you also still remember me?’ But what she also sent through without actually wanting to let him know was ‘I love you. You’re all I have left. Please don’t leave me.’ She didn’t show any of those thoughts on her face, but he soon started smiling, reaching out to take her hand. Yet the moment their skins touched, Hyukjae’s eyes suddenly widened and he whirled around to stare at the woman that had moved closer to them, his expression changed into a snarl.
“You.” he hissed, tone so angry that Jongwoon almost immediately moved in between the vampire and his wife, ready to protect her when needed. Misun seemed clueless, but that didn’t mean she actually WAS clueless, the woman was a sly fox really. Sang Mi reached out to put a hand on Hyukjae’s shoulder, a touch that visibly relaxed him. And the moment Hyukjae relaxed, so did Jongwoon.
“Not her.” a completely different voice told them. All heads turned around to see who had spoken. Sang Mi herself turned around as well. Her eyes found one of the many men in the room, but it took a moment for the name to come back to her; Kibum. It still felt surreal to be in the same room with a famous model.
“I studied the lives of all of you to find out exactly what had happened so I would keep my stories the same as the ones that had been told to the public before. What I discovered was something that happened many more years ago. It had been kept a secret to many but as a fellow member I was assumed to know already.” The smile sent to them was dazzling, fangs not visible like on every magazine cover he graced. “Get your memories back first, Hyukjae, you’ll remember as well. You were there when they told me.”
The words spiked Sang Mi’s curiosity, yet seemed to calm down Hyukjae completely. His eyes went to Jungsoo and he hesitated only a moment longer to reach out his hand. But Jungsoo shook his head lightly, reaching out past the hand and pulling the other vampire closer by his wrist. “Back of your neck.” he explained to the surprised expression. “Homin made everyone believe it was the hand, but your hand was crushed beneath a part of the car when I changed you.” He was smart enough not to give the other time to protest before he leaned in. Hyukjae let out a hiss which broke off abruptly the moment Jungsoo’s fangs sank into his skin.
Sang Mi watched in horror as the vampire in front of her seemed to go completely rigid against the one who had just taken siredom over him. When his eyes opened again they were a dull brown, something that scared her more than anything else that had happened so far.
☆.:**´¨`**:.☆
Everyone watched anxiously as Hyukjae gathered himself and straightened up again, pulling away from Jungsoo slowly. All of a sudden he seemed to lose his footing, however, and his eyes turned to his hand in shock. The next moment he started to tremble violently and Jungsoo quickly moved closer to wrap his arms around the other tightly. No one had to read minds to know that something was not completely right with the way Hyukjae was remembering everything.
“When you tell someone to remember through the sire bond they go back just a second to the moment they were changed into vampires.” Misun spoke up softly, her eyes filled with pity for the vampire who was still trembling so hard he couldn’t even stand on his own two feet anymore, having to be kept up by Jungsoo.
It was Heechul who commented on Misun’s words with a soft: “Hyuk seems to have died more painfully than the rest of us then.” His voice was almost emotionless, but the pained expression on his face showed what he really thought about the situation.
Zhou Mi let out a sigh after Heechul’s words, watching Hyukjae go still and then straighten up again. He vividly remembered the moment he himself had regained his own memories. It certainly wasn’t the most enjoyable moment of his life, that was a given. He had gone back to a split second of never ending falling, plummeting down towards a vast ocean, only to never consciously live through the actual collision with the water. He was so lost in his memories that he didn’t notice the tears until he smelled the saltiness. Looking up, he could see Hyukjae clutching his head with his hands.
“It hurts so much.” the vampire whispered and then everything happened at once. Sang Mi threw herself at Misun, yet was intercepted by Jongwoon, who easily kept her from even touching his wife. At the same time both Siwon and Donghae closed in on the suffering vampire only to be kept away by a snarl from Jungsoo, who gathered the younger closer in his arms. Shindong was with them soon too and as the others started to growl at each other, those three seemed to exclude themselves. Zhou Mi was left standing at the side together with Henry, watching the chaos.
“Guys, guys, settle down.” It was Ryeowook who spoke and his usually timid attitude had taken a hundred-eighty degree turn as his eyes took in everyone around him with an almost deadly glare. “What has become of you? You’ve all grown so wary and distrusting. We’re allies here. The ones we should fight are not in this room at this point in time. Perhaps some have tried to do us wrong but everything those with memories have done was try and get our group back together. Why are you thinking now that everyone’s trying to hurt you? Get a grip on yourselves. If you really think someone’s playing tricks on you that must mean you consider yourself weak enough to be misled like that. Trust in yourselves a little more if you don’t trust the others.”
It was hard to stay in place, but Zhou Mi managed, letting his eyes skim the smaller man as he spoke. There was a certain edge to Ryeowook’s voice that had never been there before and a coldness behind his kind exterior that spoke of years spent living a hard vampire’s life. He looked around the room again then to see if anyone had actually listened to the vampire, only to see everyone looking at Ryeowook with the same mixture of amazement and shock he had felt himself when he had heard the kid’s words.
“Now stop staring at me.” Ryeowook gruffly continued when he noticed all eyes were on him, turning around to look at the group of three that were still huddled together. “Hyukjae hyung, you okay?” The only reply he got was a small nod from said person, who looked even more pale than he had done before, the tear tracks still glistering on his cheeks. “So please tell us what Kibummie was talking to you about just before, we’re all very curious I’m sure.”
☆.:**´¨`**:.☆
“That’s not something for him to tell.” Heechul calmly interrupted the whole exchange, sending a wry smile Hyukjae’s way. The still extremely pale vampire smiled back almost invisibly, closing his eyes for a moment and slowly regaining himself again. It was obvious that something had completely knocked him off his feet in a rather negative way. But at least the atmosphere in the room had settled back to a more amiable setting and Jongwoon had put down the no longer trying to kill his wife Sang Mi. Everything had gone back to the cautious but familiar group theme they were used to from earlier.
“And exactly why is it not for him to tell?” a still surprisingly feisty Ryeowook demanded to know in the middle of all that peace, which made the until then silent Siwon speak up.
“Calm down, Ryeowook-ah. If they don’t want to tell that’s their choice. No use making a fuss over everything now.” he spoke in a calming manner, motioning along with his hands. The younger turned to look at him with a frown but after a moment’s consideration seemed to decide that keeping silent again was indeed not such a bad idea.
It was the religious man’s turn then to be the centre of attention, but he didn’t seem to notice. Without much consideration for the whole situation, he simply walked over to Hyukjae and pulled him into a hug. “You okay, Hyukkie?” he asked with a small smile as he patted the other’s back.
“Yeah, I’m fine.” Hyukjae replied but the way he allowed the hug to last a little longer showed how much he needed it – and also that he remembered who they were now. “You’re not going to turn into Storm again, right?” he then continued, his voice growing slightly playful. “X-men is cool and all but not so much in real life.”
“Says the one with the green glowing eyes.” Siwon snorted as he let go.
“They happen to be the eyes of my best friend you better watch your words.” Donghae joined in the banter as well, sticking out his tongue at Siwon who merely laughed and pulled Donghae closer to give him a hug too.
“I’ve always thought you were a little soft hyung.” a sudden voice had them all remembering that ‘oh yeah, Kibum’s still here too.’ “You should get a little more aggressive. Give him a hit on his head or something, that’s what I always do.” The next moment Donghae let out a snarl of pain and Siwon was staring wide-eyed at his own hands before looking up at Donghae . The latter was frowning at him by then, turning to look at Kibum a moment later, who was eyeing it all without understanding.
“If you hold siredom over him you could at least tell us, Kibum. And next time you want to hit me, just do so yourself like always. Siwon’s too strong, it actually hurts.” he commented dryly, to which the model frowned in his turn.
“I don’t…” he started, before turning to Siwon. “Sit down.” he stated, eyes growing bigger in surprise as the elder did exactly that. “What? How?” he asked in surprise, yet his expression suddenly cleared as he seemed to remember something. “Hyung, I’m sorry, I didn’t know.” He left a moment of silence, glancing at Heechul once before hesitantly muttering “I give you your freedom back.”
Siwon sat down a moment longer before crawling up. “Okay, that was weird.” he muttered with a frown. “Sorry for hitting you, Hae.”
“It’s quite alright.” said fellow band member reassured him, reaching out to pat his shoulder. It was at that point that Hyukjae suddenly moved and hugged Jungsoo, like the latter had been planning to earlier before Hyukjae moved away.
“Hyung…” he spoke softly, with so much emotion in his voice that it silenced everyone into a kind of amazed silence as they all remembered their own love for some of the people present.
☆.:**´¨`**:.☆
“So what’s next?” Shindong broke that silence after a while, his sight on the future abandoning him at that moment. There seemed to be no future yet for them, at least not one that he could see. A soft sigh escaped him when he realised no one else seemed to have an idea, but before he could suggest something random – just to at least suggest something – Hangeng spoke up.
“I think we should just all decide for ourselves what’s next. It’s not because we’re back together now that we have to stay together. It’d be nice to stay in contact, but we’re not obliged to stay together. it’s not like we’ll still be able to produce music together or anything. He glanced around the room with a small smile, taking in the familiar faces. “I have to admit it’s nice to see you all again. It’s been a really long time since all fifteen of us were in one room together.”
The smile he showed upon saying that was so genuine and warm that for a moment Shindong found himself forgetting the long years of being a vampire. In his memories, he went back to that glorious time almost twenty years ago when they were last together with all fifteen of them. Back then definitely were happier times than what they were in at this point of time.
“First and foremost I think we need to feed and rest, though.” Jungsoo spoke up at that point, making him look up again and focus on the others once more. “It’s been hard on all of you, I’m sure. Jongwoon looks like he’s going to devour a whole city soon and Sungmin’s definitely going to pass out if he doesn’t get any rest in soon.”Agreeing murmurs sounded up from those present and some even nodded, Shindong one of those who merely inclined his head a moment.
“And even if we’d be fit enough, the sun is still up so many of us can’t even risk going out at this point.” Sungmin added to that with a mirthless chuckle. “I’d rather not BE toast for breakfast.” He glanced at the curtains for a moment and seemed to repress a shudder. Kibum was the only one to understand how close he had been to that scene all but a day ago. It felt like weeks had passed already since that moment in which they hid under the cover the younger had provided.
Shindong breathed out air he didn’t know he was holding in, his breathing ceasing again after that as he tucked his hands in the pockets of his pants and looked at the other people present. There were many faces he hadn’t seen in years and – having recovered his memories of those earlier days – he’d love to catch up with, but on the other hand they all felt like strangers to him, a little like what he thought it must feel to them as well.
“Well I suggest those who need sleep can take a rest here.” Heechul offered being the owner of the apartment they were currently residing in. “Seasoning and I will go stack up on blood packs so those in desperate need of it can feed later. The Daywalkers can go their own way whenever they want, the Nightwelps I guess can leave at dusk.” There surprisingly came no protest from the one he had pointed out as Seasoning, the redhead merely leaning against the wall with his arms crossed in front of his chest.
“What will you do after that?” someone asked, but Shindong didn’t get to see who it was when a sudden scene invaded his head and he had to close his eyes to see it more clearly. He stood like that watching the images flash by for what seemed like an eternity but really only was a split second. There was a short moment of hesitation in him and then he replied to the question before anyone else could, slowly opening his eyes as he did so.
“We’re going to take back the Facility.”
Characters: Super Junior
Rating: R
Chaptercount: 25/26
Summary: Fifteen people try to find the memories they forgot - or maybe they're just looking for each other.
A/N: A fic written on a hunch. One day I thought; "Super Junior. And vampires. This calls for a fic!" and well.. Here we are? Memories is one of the stories that I'm proud of, despite its sometimes messy storyline. It's also a story that won't be fully understood until you've read it completely. Things will be very confusing as you read, but will also get explained in future chapters. Be warned.
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There was a huge silence hanging in the room, people staring at Jungsoo or Hyukjae, no one particularly sure how to deal with that revelation. No one except for Misun apparently, who finally mingled in the conversation again, no sign of the generally present confusion on her expression.
“Hyukjae would you allow Jungsoo to take siredom over you for a bit so he can give you your memories back?” she asked calmly, eyes fixing on the vampire next to Sang Mi. The girl herself had gone surprisingly silent and pale, but no one really noticed with all the commotion going on. She watched Hyukjae next to her with worried eyes waiting for his answer to the question. It was a visible relief to everyone present when Hyukjae replied with a ‘Sure, why not?’ as if it was the most normal thing in the world to allow a previous enemy to take siredom over you.
Sang Mi was the only one not looking forward to that, putting a hand on the vampire’s lower arm and asking him with one look to help her out. She must’ve looked very worried and pale indeed, because his eyes immediately changed to green and he focused on no one but her for a moment.
‘Hyukjae…’ she spoke through her thoughts. ‘If you remember them will you also still remember me?’ But what she also sent through without actually wanting to let him know was ‘I love you. You’re all I have left. Please don’t leave me.’ She didn’t show any of those thoughts on her face, but he soon started smiling, reaching out to take her hand. Yet the moment their skins touched, Hyukjae’s eyes suddenly widened and he whirled around to stare at the woman that had moved closer to them, his expression changed into a snarl.
“You.” he hissed, tone so angry that Jongwoon almost immediately moved in between the vampire and his wife, ready to protect her when needed. Misun seemed clueless, but that didn’t mean she actually WAS clueless, the woman was a sly fox really. Sang Mi reached out to put a hand on Hyukjae’s shoulder, a touch that visibly relaxed him. And the moment Hyukjae relaxed, so did Jongwoon.
“Not her.” a completely different voice told them. All heads turned around to see who had spoken. Sang Mi herself turned around as well. Her eyes found one of the many men in the room, but it took a moment for the name to come back to her; Kibum. It still felt surreal to be in the same room with a famous model.
“I studied the lives of all of you to find out exactly what had happened so I would keep my stories the same as the ones that had been told to the public before. What I discovered was something that happened many more years ago. It had been kept a secret to many but as a fellow member I was assumed to know already.” The smile sent to them was dazzling, fangs not visible like on every magazine cover he graced. “Get your memories back first, Hyukjae, you’ll remember as well. You were there when they told me.”
The words spiked Sang Mi’s curiosity, yet seemed to calm down Hyukjae completely. His eyes went to Jungsoo and he hesitated only a moment longer to reach out his hand. But Jungsoo shook his head lightly, reaching out past the hand and pulling the other vampire closer by his wrist. “Back of your neck.” he explained to the surprised expression. “Homin made everyone believe it was the hand, but your hand was crushed beneath a part of the car when I changed you.” He was smart enough not to give the other time to protest before he leaned in. Hyukjae let out a hiss which broke off abruptly the moment Jungsoo’s fangs sank into his skin.
Sang Mi watched in horror as the vampire in front of her seemed to go completely rigid against the one who had just taken siredom over him. When his eyes opened again they were a dull brown, something that scared her more than anything else that had happened so far.
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Everyone watched anxiously as Hyukjae gathered himself and straightened up again, pulling away from Jungsoo slowly. All of a sudden he seemed to lose his footing, however, and his eyes turned to his hand in shock. The next moment he started to tremble violently and Jungsoo quickly moved closer to wrap his arms around the other tightly. No one had to read minds to know that something was not completely right with the way Hyukjae was remembering everything.
“When you tell someone to remember through the sire bond they go back just a second to the moment they were changed into vampires.” Misun spoke up softly, her eyes filled with pity for the vampire who was still trembling so hard he couldn’t even stand on his own two feet anymore, having to be kept up by Jungsoo.
It was Heechul who commented on Misun’s words with a soft: “Hyuk seems to have died more painfully than the rest of us then.” His voice was almost emotionless, but the pained expression on his face showed what he really thought about the situation.
Zhou Mi let out a sigh after Heechul’s words, watching Hyukjae go still and then straighten up again. He vividly remembered the moment he himself had regained his own memories. It certainly wasn’t the most enjoyable moment of his life, that was a given. He had gone back to a split second of never ending falling, plummeting down towards a vast ocean, only to never consciously live through the actual collision with the water. He was so lost in his memories that he didn’t notice the tears until he smelled the saltiness. Looking up, he could see Hyukjae clutching his head with his hands.
“It hurts so much.” the vampire whispered and then everything happened at once. Sang Mi threw herself at Misun, yet was intercepted by Jongwoon, who easily kept her from even touching his wife. At the same time both Siwon and Donghae closed in on the suffering vampire only to be kept away by a snarl from Jungsoo, who gathered the younger closer in his arms. Shindong was with them soon too and as the others started to growl at each other, those three seemed to exclude themselves. Zhou Mi was left standing at the side together with Henry, watching the chaos.
“Guys, guys, settle down.” It was Ryeowook who spoke and his usually timid attitude had taken a hundred-eighty degree turn as his eyes took in everyone around him with an almost deadly glare. “What has become of you? You’ve all grown so wary and distrusting. We’re allies here. The ones we should fight are not in this room at this point in time. Perhaps some have tried to do us wrong but everything those with memories have done was try and get our group back together. Why are you thinking now that everyone’s trying to hurt you? Get a grip on yourselves. If you really think someone’s playing tricks on you that must mean you consider yourself weak enough to be misled like that. Trust in yourselves a little more if you don’t trust the others.”
It was hard to stay in place, but Zhou Mi managed, letting his eyes skim the smaller man as he spoke. There was a certain edge to Ryeowook’s voice that had never been there before and a coldness behind his kind exterior that spoke of years spent living a hard vampire’s life. He looked around the room again then to see if anyone had actually listened to the vampire, only to see everyone looking at Ryeowook with the same mixture of amazement and shock he had felt himself when he had heard the kid’s words.
“Now stop staring at me.” Ryeowook gruffly continued when he noticed all eyes were on him, turning around to look at the group of three that were still huddled together. “Hyukjae hyung, you okay?” The only reply he got was a small nod from said person, who looked even more pale than he had done before, the tear tracks still glistering on his cheeks. “So please tell us what Kibummie was talking to you about just before, we’re all very curious I’m sure.”
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“That’s not something for him to tell.” Heechul calmly interrupted the whole exchange, sending a wry smile Hyukjae’s way. The still extremely pale vampire smiled back almost invisibly, closing his eyes for a moment and slowly regaining himself again. It was obvious that something had completely knocked him off his feet in a rather negative way. But at least the atmosphere in the room had settled back to a more amiable setting and Jongwoon had put down the no longer trying to kill his wife Sang Mi. Everything had gone back to the cautious but familiar group theme they were used to from earlier.
“And exactly why is it not for him to tell?” a still surprisingly feisty Ryeowook demanded to know in the middle of all that peace, which made the until then silent Siwon speak up.
“Calm down, Ryeowook-ah. If they don’t want to tell that’s their choice. No use making a fuss over everything now.” he spoke in a calming manner, motioning along with his hands. The younger turned to look at him with a frown but after a moment’s consideration seemed to decide that keeping silent again was indeed not such a bad idea.
It was the religious man’s turn then to be the centre of attention, but he didn’t seem to notice. Without much consideration for the whole situation, he simply walked over to Hyukjae and pulled him into a hug. “You okay, Hyukkie?” he asked with a small smile as he patted the other’s back.
“Yeah, I’m fine.” Hyukjae replied but the way he allowed the hug to last a little longer showed how much he needed it – and also that he remembered who they were now. “You’re not going to turn into Storm again, right?” he then continued, his voice growing slightly playful. “X-men is cool and all but not so much in real life.”
“Says the one with the green glowing eyes.” Siwon snorted as he let go.
“They happen to be the eyes of my best friend you better watch your words.” Donghae joined in the banter as well, sticking out his tongue at Siwon who merely laughed and pulled Donghae closer to give him a hug too.
“I’ve always thought you were a little soft hyung.” a sudden voice had them all remembering that ‘oh yeah, Kibum’s still here too.’ “You should get a little more aggressive. Give him a hit on his head or something, that’s what I always do.” The next moment Donghae let out a snarl of pain and Siwon was staring wide-eyed at his own hands before looking up at Donghae . The latter was frowning at him by then, turning to look at Kibum a moment later, who was eyeing it all without understanding.
“If you hold siredom over him you could at least tell us, Kibum. And next time you want to hit me, just do so yourself like always. Siwon’s too strong, it actually hurts.” he commented dryly, to which the model frowned in his turn.
“I don’t…” he started, before turning to Siwon. “Sit down.” he stated, eyes growing bigger in surprise as the elder did exactly that. “What? How?” he asked in surprise, yet his expression suddenly cleared as he seemed to remember something. “Hyung, I’m sorry, I didn’t know.” He left a moment of silence, glancing at Heechul once before hesitantly muttering “I give you your freedom back.”
Siwon sat down a moment longer before crawling up. “Okay, that was weird.” he muttered with a frown. “Sorry for hitting you, Hae.”
“It’s quite alright.” said fellow band member reassured him, reaching out to pat his shoulder. It was at that point that Hyukjae suddenly moved and hugged Jungsoo, like the latter had been planning to earlier before Hyukjae moved away.
“Hyung…” he spoke softly, with so much emotion in his voice that it silenced everyone into a kind of amazed silence as they all remembered their own love for some of the people present.
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“So what’s next?” Shindong broke that silence after a while, his sight on the future abandoning him at that moment. There seemed to be no future yet for them, at least not one that he could see. A soft sigh escaped him when he realised no one else seemed to have an idea, but before he could suggest something random – just to at least suggest something – Hangeng spoke up.
“I think we should just all decide for ourselves what’s next. It’s not because we’re back together now that we have to stay together. It’d be nice to stay in contact, but we’re not obliged to stay together. it’s not like we’ll still be able to produce music together or anything. He glanced around the room with a small smile, taking in the familiar faces. “I have to admit it’s nice to see you all again. It’s been a really long time since all fifteen of us were in one room together.”
The smile he showed upon saying that was so genuine and warm that for a moment Shindong found himself forgetting the long years of being a vampire. In his memories, he went back to that glorious time almost twenty years ago when they were last together with all fifteen of them. Back then definitely were happier times than what they were in at this point of time.
“First and foremost I think we need to feed and rest, though.” Jungsoo spoke up at that point, making him look up again and focus on the others once more. “It’s been hard on all of you, I’m sure. Jongwoon looks like he’s going to devour a whole city soon and Sungmin’s definitely going to pass out if he doesn’t get any rest in soon.”Agreeing murmurs sounded up from those present and some even nodded, Shindong one of those who merely inclined his head a moment.
“And even if we’d be fit enough, the sun is still up so many of us can’t even risk going out at this point.” Sungmin added to that with a mirthless chuckle. “I’d rather not BE toast for breakfast.” He glanced at the curtains for a moment and seemed to repress a shudder. Kibum was the only one to understand how close he had been to that scene all but a day ago. It felt like weeks had passed already since that moment in which they hid under the cover the younger had provided.
Shindong breathed out air he didn’t know he was holding in, his breathing ceasing again after that as he tucked his hands in the pockets of his pants and looked at the other people present. There were many faces he hadn’t seen in years and – having recovered his memories of those earlier days – he’d love to catch up with, but on the other hand they all felt like strangers to him, a little like what he thought it must feel to them as well.
“Well I suggest those who need sleep can take a rest here.” Heechul offered being the owner of the apartment they were currently residing in. “Seasoning and I will go stack up on blood packs so those in desperate need of it can feed later. The Daywalkers can go their own way whenever they want, the Nightwelps I guess can leave at dusk.” There surprisingly came no protest from the one he had pointed out as Seasoning, the redhead merely leaning against the wall with his arms crossed in front of his chest.
“What will you do after that?” someone asked, but Shindong didn’t get to see who it was when a sudden scene invaded his head and he had to close his eyes to see it more clearly. He stood like that watching the images flash by for what seemed like an eternity but really only was a split second. There was a short moment of hesitation in him and then he replied to the question before anyone else could, slowly opening his eyes as he did so.
“We’re going to take back the Facility.”
Tuesday, 30 August 2011
[FIC] Memories
Title: Memories
Characters: Super Junior
Rating: R
Chaptercount: 24/26
Summary: Fifteen people try to find the memories they forgot - or maybe they're just looking for each other.
A/N: A fic written on a hunch. One day I thought; "Super Junior. And vampires. This calls for a fic!" and well.. Here we are? Memories is one of the stories that I'm proud of, despite its sometimes messy storyline. It's also a story that won't be fully understood until you've read it completely. Things will be very confusing as you read, but will also get explained in future chapters. Be warned.
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The silence lasted for a while, everyone trying to figure out on their own just how important the new information would be for them. It was obvious to all of them now that there was so much more behind the whole thing than they had initially thought. It wasn’t hard to imagine how much they would be affected by what they had just heard. Homin was capable of understanding that at least, so he turned to the only person who had remained completely still during the whole explanation – curtsey of his friend.
Surprisingly the thoughts coming from the unmoving form were very clear and not at all disconnected like he was used from his own victims. ‘Remember and move.’ he sent the silent order to the unmoving guy, ignoring the look Misun immediately sent him. He watched the eldest out of the group – aside from him – shift in place and then slowly sit up, but didn’t stay behind to see what happened next. Mere moments later he was out of the apartment door, hopefully without anyone noticing.
To his surprise, there was someone following after him and it wasn’t Misun. Instead, the until now rather silent Youngwoon came after him. A hand on his arm was the only thing keeping him from walking off just like that. When he turned around he looked into the dark eyes of one of the oldest members present.
The oldest of his newly created vampires, but also – he suddenly realised – the first in line when it came to heritage. Possibly this vampire had just gotten a power since Kyuhyun had killed Jimin. It took one look past the completely calm exterior to see the completely empty inside of the man. And suddenly Homin realised that he had indeed not heard a single thought coming from the strong man for a while.
“You’re not going anywhere.” Youngwoon spoke, his voice almost a whisper. “Not today and not any day.” The man smiled without emotion, making Homin feel like he was being overpowered. It was unnerving to not hear a single thought for the first time in years. In fact, it was unnerving to see all the people sharing his gifts gathered together.
Only one of them had to to figure out his weak spot and he’d be done for. What he needed was for them to learn how to use their gifts so that he’d be able to live on in peace. A sudden increase of pressure on his wrist made him go back to the present.
“I’m not going anywhere.” he replied, much more calm than he felt. “I’m just giving them some time. Shouldn’t you go inside as well? Your friend woke up with his memories.” He nodded with a smile at the door that had fallen closed behind them. Youngwoon looked back shortly, before turning to look at him again.
“I’m constantly seeing images in my head that are not things I can see. Therefore you will have to stay and explain it to me.” Youngwoon smiled that dangerously empty smile again.
“Why did you not tell the others? They were all honestly proclaiming their powers yet you kept quiet.” Homin immediately shot back, seizing the opportunity to corner the other. However Youngwoon remained unaffected by the accusation.
“Because it only just started happening. I thought it was the doing of one of them, but I guess not seeing how you respond to it.” The smile disappeared suddenly and Youngwoon turned around again to look at the door. His forehead creased in a frown before he sighed. “Heechul will never change, will he?” he muttered, but he obviously wasn’t angry – much.
“Youngwoon...” Homin started, immediately gaining the other’s attention. “No matter what your memories are of those you just saw in there, all that was over fifteen years ago. They need you now. Especially the one who just woke up; he’ll need you the most. And if you don’t help him, Kyuhyun will do more things he’ll regret. All of you, you belong together now even more than you used to in the past. I will help you guys if everyone allows me to, but first of all you need to help each other.”
The silence that fell between them was only interrupted by the rumble of people talking inside. Youngwoon was listening to the voices, but obviously also considering the things that had just been said to him. After a while, he suddenly nodded, taking a step towards the door.
“If you run, we will find you, don’t doubt that.” he stated as he reached for the handle. “And I’ll make sure it won’t be pretty.” With that, the eldest of vampires was left in a small hallway, discarded like a piece of trash.
☆.:**´¨`**:.☆
At the unspoken order, everything had blackened in front of Jungsoo’s eyes for a moment, before he felt his body sit up. His eyes opened almost automatically and he found himself looking at the people that were once his band members. None of them had noticed yet that he was awake, but that changed when he couldn’t stop the wave of regret washing through him. Immediately Jongwoon’s head whipped around and then everyone else looked as well.
The commotion that followed could best be described as fourteen guys having no clue what to say, but all talking anyway. Until Heechul suddenly started to move, walking over to Jungsoo and punching him without a warning. Several members gasped, some took a step forward in shock, but they all decided to stay out of it once Li Yin interfered.
“That one was for paralysing my girlfriend.” Heechul spoke calmly. “This one is for being such an idiot.” Instead of punching the other a second time, however, he pulled the nine days older male into a tight hug. “I missed that self-blaming look of yours, Jungsoo. It looks better on you than the arrogant grin you had before. Keep this expression for a while longer, okay? But do discard the feelings behind it. We need your leader brain right now. You couldn’t help it either. We’ll just find a way to work things out from where we are now. Leave the past be, none of us were in the right state of mind anyway.
Apparently that was a speech that settled Jungsoo’s feelings because he smiled lightly, although with a sad hint to it. The next moment he finally reached out to hug the other back. The tie that Jongwoon had held up depriving him of his emotions was obviously gone now. Everyone was so focused on the two eldest near the bed that they didn’t notice Youngwoon coming back in.
It wasn’t until said person suddenly called out Jongwoon’s name that all the heads turned again, right in time to see Jongwoon apparently had passed out in Youngwoon’s arms. Mere moments later Kyuhyun was standing next to them as well, having woken up the moment Jongwoon’s hold over him faltered. He took the unmoving body out of Youngwoon’s arms, stopping Misun with a mere word when she tried to get closer.
It was then that Youngwoon suddenly looked up and the moment his eyes found Jungsoo’s, the latter felt his body relax, a smile almost instantly appearing on his face. There was only a slight hesitance before Youngwoon smiled back and it was so familiar and comforting that he found it in himself to get up from the bed.
“Kyuhyun.” he said then, waiting for the vampire to look at him. He did after a moment, although obviously trying his best not to. Jungsoo merely smiled once their eyes met and opened his arms slightly, offering a hug. A split second long he feared the younger was going to get angry at him, but then the cold exterior broke and suddenly he was holding a half a head taller male, violently shaking in his arms.
“Ssh, it’s okay.” he muttered softly, patting the younger’s back and finding every bit of love he had in himself for the other. “It’s going to be okay.” Everyone else just looked at them, having no clue what was going on between the two o them. “It’s alright, Kyuhyun, it’s all okay.” They didn’t even seem to talk anymore after that as Kyuhyun just buried himself against his leader and Jungsoo merely held the other tightly.
It was only when the youngest of the two stopped trembling that Jungsoo looked up at the others, showing them a hesitant smile. “Hey guys.” he muttered, lifting one hand in greeting, the other still wrapped around Kyuhyun’s back. “It’s been a while.” He smiled a little wider then, his dimple showing as he let his eyes wander over his thirteen old friends and their three female companions. “I hope I didn’t cause too much problems?”
When those words left his mouth, Donghae suddenly stepped forward from behind the others, walking over to the eldest and wrapping his arms around both Kyuhyun and Jungsoo. It was a small gesture but they all knew how many emotions were behind it, the three of them clinging so close together and Donghae mumbling hushed reassurances to Kyuhyun. Jungsoo was slightly surprised, yet merely smiled a little wider then, happy to be accepted back in just like that.
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“What’s going on?” Hyukjae muttered to Sang Mi, who was still loyally standing on his left. “Why are they clinging together like that? What is the problem?” He tore his eyes away from the scene with some difficulty, looking up at the girl. “Why is the young kid crying, he seemed rather tough before?” The girl eyed him in surprise for a moment, before seeming to realise that his mindreading abilities had left him now that the danger was gone.
“I don’t know either, Hyukjae.” she replied just as softly, putting a hand on his shoulder and giving it a gentle squeeze. He felt himself lean into the touch, Sang Mi being the only person he knew, the only person he was sure of. Everyone else in the room with him were strangers, even though he was pretty sure they wouldn’t harm him, it still felt uncomfortable.
“Kyuhyun killed people in the past.” a voice suddenly spoke up on their right and Hyukjae turned his head to see Youngwoon standing there. “When he wasn’t aware yet of his own power. He used to have a girlfriend before we were all changed. One day he saw her with her new husband, a really nice guy who was very good for her. He got jealous and said something stupid, the next moment the words came true, the man died. It had happened a few times before and it was that day that he realised the sudden deaths or injuries weren’t mere coincidence.”
Hyukjae stared at the bigger male, wondering how he knew so many things – how everyone knew so many things while he was so clueless. Youngwoon turned to look at him then and their eyes met for a moment. He suddenly felt as if this guy in front of him could see right through him, which wouldn’t really have surprised him, honestly.
“I see images of the past.” Youngwoon confessed then, voice low. “Apparently I got the ability when the woman died. Being the first she changed I inherited part of her powers.” He frowned, looking over to Jungsoo again shortly before sighing. “I don’t even want to know what will happen if Homin should ever die.”
“Will that thing die anyway?” Sang Mi hissed, her hatred for said person obvious. When the two guys looked at her in surprise at that, she blushed slightly. “What? I really don’t like him. He just used everyone as puppets for his own survival.” She motioned a hand at the group. “And look at all of you now, almost scared of each other. I don’t get how you’re not even angry at him!”
Those words had the two of them frowning, thinking over the reasons why they were – indeed – not the least bit angry. In fact, thinking it over it became more suspicious than it had already been and they looked at each other to see if they felt the same. Right then, someone on Sang Mi’s left leaned closer and Hyukjae looked in the guy’s direction. Hangeng was his name, if he remembered quite well.
“We all got our powers from him. He’s using the ability Li Yin has to keep us calm. He made us all decide to just not care about what he did. There’s nothing much we can do about that. Whenever we do get angry from now on, he will make us decide on calming down every time again.” Hangeng calmly explained. He didn’t seem quite bothered by the idea, but it made Hyukjae incredibly uncomfortable and Youngwoon seemed to get angry anyway.
“That little piece of..” he muttered, but suddenly his eyes hazed over and he seemed to be out of it for a split second before coming back to the present. “He doesn’t mean bad with us anymore, though.” he then altered his words, still seeming slightly dazed. “Damn these powers will take some getting used to. I keep seeing scenes in my mind that don’t even add up to anything. But Homin.. I think right now he’s trying to help us. I think he feels a little sorry. If only a little.”
“Well that’s just great.” Sang Mi huffed. “It’s just a little too late for that, though. That stupid idiot destroyed everyone’s lives and now he’s feeling sorry?” She snorted, shaking her head, but before she could say anything else, movement from the three hugging guys made them all look up for a moment to see if everything was still okay.
☆.:**´¨`**:.☆
Donghae finally let go of his dongsaeng when he was completely sure Kyuhyun had calmed down. The usually so snarky boy seemed to be completely different from his usual self and it worried him how he had noticed the actual tears on the other’s cheeks. But he knew whatever was going on was between the two of them, so he straightened up a little and sent Jungsoo another small smile. Right as the leader smiled back at him, Kyuhyun spoke up.
“I’m sorry, hyung.” he whispered barely audible. “I never meant to hurt you. My anger just got the best of me and then suddenly it happened and…” He stopped there, seeming unable to finish his sentence, as if he was afraid that the rest of his words would piss the other off. But that didn’t seem to be the case, instead Jungsoo smiled at him and patted his shoulder.
“It’s okay, Kyuhyun-ah.” he replied just as softly. “I know you didn’t intend to hurt me. There was no way you could know. Besides; I’m slightly stupid for falling in love with that anyway.” He smiled lightly, exchanging one more look with the maknae before turning away and looking at the other members. He was over at Youngwoon in no time, almost immediately wrapping the other in a hug and allowing himself to be hugged back.
Donghae watched as Hyukjae slowly moved away from the two, moving to a more secluded part of the living room so Jungsoo wouldn’t suddenly storm at him for a hug as well. It hurt him how Hyukjae was so clueless still of everything they had been through together. He tried to imagine what it would be like, seeing this group of people without knowing anything of the past years spent together in unity. Suddenly a dull feeling came over him and he quietly focused on the leader again, just like everyone else was doing at that moment.
Jungsoo let go of Youngwoon not long after, giving him another smile and a pat before turning to the next best person, Hangeng. There were words mumbled in between the hugging and with one member Jungsoo lingered a little longer than with the other. When he reached Jongwoon, the two merely nodded at each other at first, Jungsoo seeming hesitant, Jongwoon downright unwilling, but in the end the leader stepped closer and hugged the other man anyway.
It went on like that, Jungsoo going past Shindong, Ryeowook and Henry. Donghae noticed he suddenly became aware of Kibum moments later, the original maknae allowing Jungsoo to wrap him in a hug as well, patting him awkwardly on the back and muttering something that surprisingly none of them understood. It didn’t take long for Jungsoo to let go again and move on to the next person.
When he was done hugging everyone, Jungsoo looked around once and then finally walked up to Hyukjae, his smile ever so bright with a dimple showing and everything. Donghae felt happy seeing that, knowing how scared the leader had been to be accepted. But Jungsoo hadn’t counted on Hyukjae’s inability to remember. So when he went to Hyukjae with open arms, the younger backed away, a frown on his face.
“I’m sorry, I don’t know who you are.” Hyukjae explained and Donghae could see Jungsoo’s face fall, expression growing shocked, maybe even a little hurt. He quickly walked up to the two, putting a hand on Jungsoo’s shoulder.
“He doesn’t remember, hyung.” he said then, smiling lightly at Hyukjae who seemed rather lost. “Apparently the only way to make him remember was via his original sire, the one who changed him, but she… Yeah.” Jungsoo’s eyes looked at him then, before going back to Hyukjae, confusion obvious in his expression. Right as Donghae wanted to explain it better, the leader spoke up however.
“But I am the one who changed him.”
Characters: Super Junior
Rating: R
Chaptercount: 24/26
Summary: Fifteen people try to find the memories they forgot - or maybe they're just looking for each other.
A/N: A fic written on a hunch. One day I thought; "Super Junior. And vampires. This calls for a fic!" and well.. Here we are? Memories is one of the stories that I'm proud of, despite its sometimes messy storyline. It's also a story that won't be fully understood until you've read it completely. Things will be very confusing as you read, but will also get explained in future chapters. Be warned.
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The silence lasted for a while, everyone trying to figure out on their own just how important the new information would be for them. It was obvious to all of them now that there was so much more behind the whole thing than they had initially thought. It wasn’t hard to imagine how much they would be affected by what they had just heard. Homin was capable of understanding that at least, so he turned to the only person who had remained completely still during the whole explanation – curtsey of his friend.
Surprisingly the thoughts coming from the unmoving form were very clear and not at all disconnected like he was used from his own victims. ‘Remember and move.’ he sent the silent order to the unmoving guy, ignoring the look Misun immediately sent him. He watched the eldest out of the group – aside from him – shift in place and then slowly sit up, but didn’t stay behind to see what happened next. Mere moments later he was out of the apartment door, hopefully without anyone noticing.
To his surprise, there was someone following after him and it wasn’t Misun. Instead, the until now rather silent Youngwoon came after him. A hand on his arm was the only thing keeping him from walking off just like that. When he turned around he looked into the dark eyes of one of the oldest members present.
The oldest of his newly created vampires, but also – he suddenly realised – the first in line when it came to heritage. Possibly this vampire had just gotten a power since Kyuhyun had killed Jimin. It took one look past the completely calm exterior to see the completely empty inside of the man. And suddenly Homin realised that he had indeed not heard a single thought coming from the strong man for a while.
“You’re not going anywhere.” Youngwoon spoke, his voice almost a whisper. “Not today and not any day.” The man smiled without emotion, making Homin feel like he was being overpowered. It was unnerving to not hear a single thought for the first time in years. In fact, it was unnerving to see all the people sharing his gifts gathered together.
Only one of them had to to figure out his weak spot and he’d be done for. What he needed was for them to learn how to use their gifts so that he’d be able to live on in peace. A sudden increase of pressure on his wrist made him go back to the present.
“I’m not going anywhere.” he replied, much more calm than he felt. “I’m just giving them some time. Shouldn’t you go inside as well? Your friend woke up with his memories.” He nodded with a smile at the door that had fallen closed behind them. Youngwoon looked back shortly, before turning to look at him again.
“I’m constantly seeing images in my head that are not things I can see. Therefore you will have to stay and explain it to me.” Youngwoon smiled that dangerously empty smile again.
“Why did you not tell the others? They were all honestly proclaiming their powers yet you kept quiet.” Homin immediately shot back, seizing the opportunity to corner the other. However Youngwoon remained unaffected by the accusation.
“Because it only just started happening. I thought it was the doing of one of them, but I guess not seeing how you respond to it.” The smile disappeared suddenly and Youngwoon turned around again to look at the door. His forehead creased in a frown before he sighed. “Heechul will never change, will he?” he muttered, but he obviously wasn’t angry – much.
“Youngwoon...” Homin started, immediately gaining the other’s attention. “No matter what your memories are of those you just saw in there, all that was over fifteen years ago. They need you now. Especially the one who just woke up; he’ll need you the most. And if you don’t help him, Kyuhyun will do more things he’ll regret. All of you, you belong together now even more than you used to in the past. I will help you guys if everyone allows me to, but first of all you need to help each other.”
The silence that fell between them was only interrupted by the rumble of people talking inside. Youngwoon was listening to the voices, but obviously also considering the things that had just been said to him. After a while, he suddenly nodded, taking a step towards the door.
“If you run, we will find you, don’t doubt that.” he stated as he reached for the handle. “And I’ll make sure it won’t be pretty.” With that, the eldest of vampires was left in a small hallway, discarded like a piece of trash.
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At the unspoken order, everything had blackened in front of Jungsoo’s eyes for a moment, before he felt his body sit up. His eyes opened almost automatically and he found himself looking at the people that were once his band members. None of them had noticed yet that he was awake, but that changed when he couldn’t stop the wave of regret washing through him. Immediately Jongwoon’s head whipped around and then everyone else looked as well.
The commotion that followed could best be described as fourteen guys having no clue what to say, but all talking anyway. Until Heechul suddenly started to move, walking over to Jungsoo and punching him without a warning. Several members gasped, some took a step forward in shock, but they all decided to stay out of it once Li Yin interfered.
“That one was for paralysing my girlfriend.” Heechul spoke calmly. “This one is for being such an idiot.” Instead of punching the other a second time, however, he pulled the nine days older male into a tight hug. “I missed that self-blaming look of yours, Jungsoo. It looks better on you than the arrogant grin you had before. Keep this expression for a while longer, okay? But do discard the feelings behind it. We need your leader brain right now. You couldn’t help it either. We’ll just find a way to work things out from where we are now. Leave the past be, none of us were in the right state of mind anyway.
Apparently that was a speech that settled Jungsoo’s feelings because he smiled lightly, although with a sad hint to it. The next moment he finally reached out to hug the other back. The tie that Jongwoon had held up depriving him of his emotions was obviously gone now. Everyone was so focused on the two eldest near the bed that they didn’t notice Youngwoon coming back in.
It wasn’t until said person suddenly called out Jongwoon’s name that all the heads turned again, right in time to see Jongwoon apparently had passed out in Youngwoon’s arms. Mere moments later Kyuhyun was standing next to them as well, having woken up the moment Jongwoon’s hold over him faltered. He took the unmoving body out of Youngwoon’s arms, stopping Misun with a mere word when she tried to get closer.
It was then that Youngwoon suddenly looked up and the moment his eyes found Jungsoo’s, the latter felt his body relax, a smile almost instantly appearing on his face. There was only a slight hesitance before Youngwoon smiled back and it was so familiar and comforting that he found it in himself to get up from the bed.
“Kyuhyun.” he said then, waiting for the vampire to look at him. He did after a moment, although obviously trying his best not to. Jungsoo merely smiled once their eyes met and opened his arms slightly, offering a hug. A split second long he feared the younger was going to get angry at him, but then the cold exterior broke and suddenly he was holding a half a head taller male, violently shaking in his arms.
“Ssh, it’s okay.” he muttered softly, patting the younger’s back and finding every bit of love he had in himself for the other. “It’s going to be okay.” Everyone else just looked at them, having no clue what was going on between the two o them. “It’s alright, Kyuhyun, it’s all okay.” They didn’t even seem to talk anymore after that as Kyuhyun just buried himself against his leader and Jungsoo merely held the other tightly.
It was only when the youngest of the two stopped trembling that Jungsoo looked up at the others, showing them a hesitant smile. “Hey guys.” he muttered, lifting one hand in greeting, the other still wrapped around Kyuhyun’s back. “It’s been a while.” He smiled a little wider then, his dimple showing as he let his eyes wander over his thirteen old friends and their three female companions. “I hope I didn’t cause too much problems?”
When those words left his mouth, Donghae suddenly stepped forward from behind the others, walking over to the eldest and wrapping his arms around both Kyuhyun and Jungsoo. It was a small gesture but they all knew how many emotions were behind it, the three of them clinging so close together and Donghae mumbling hushed reassurances to Kyuhyun. Jungsoo was slightly surprised, yet merely smiled a little wider then, happy to be accepted back in just like that.
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“What’s going on?” Hyukjae muttered to Sang Mi, who was still loyally standing on his left. “Why are they clinging together like that? What is the problem?” He tore his eyes away from the scene with some difficulty, looking up at the girl. “Why is the young kid crying, he seemed rather tough before?” The girl eyed him in surprise for a moment, before seeming to realise that his mindreading abilities had left him now that the danger was gone.
“I don’t know either, Hyukjae.” she replied just as softly, putting a hand on his shoulder and giving it a gentle squeeze. He felt himself lean into the touch, Sang Mi being the only person he knew, the only person he was sure of. Everyone else in the room with him were strangers, even though he was pretty sure they wouldn’t harm him, it still felt uncomfortable.
“Kyuhyun killed people in the past.” a voice suddenly spoke up on their right and Hyukjae turned his head to see Youngwoon standing there. “When he wasn’t aware yet of his own power. He used to have a girlfriend before we were all changed. One day he saw her with her new husband, a really nice guy who was very good for her. He got jealous and said something stupid, the next moment the words came true, the man died. It had happened a few times before and it was that day that he realised the sudden deaths or injuries weren’t mere coincidence.”
Hyukjae stared at the bigger male, wondering how he knew so many things – how everyone knew so many things while he was so clueless. Youngwoon turned to look at him then and their eyes met for a moment. He suddenly felt as if this guy in front of him could see right through him, which wouldn’t really have surprised him, honestly.
“I see images of the past.” Youngwoon confessed then, voice low. “Apparently I got the ability when the woman died. Being the first she changed I inherited part of her powers.” He frowned, looking over to Jungsoo again shortly before sighing. “I don’t even want to know what will happen if Homin should ever die.”
“Will that thing die anyway?” Sang Mi hissed, her hatred for said person obvious. When the two guys looked at her in surprise at that, she blushed slightly. “What? I really don’t like him. He just used everyone as puppets for his own survival.” She motioned a hand at the group. “And look at all of you now, almost scared of each other. I don’t get how you’re not even angry at him!”
Those words had the two of them frowning, thinking over the reasons why they were – indeed – not the least bit angry. In fact, thinking it over it became more suspicious than it had already been and they looked at each other to see if they felt the same. Right then, someone on Sang Mi’s left leaned closer and Hyukjae looked in the guy’s direction. Hangeng was his name, if he remembered quite well.
“We all got our powers from him. He’s using the ability Li Yin has to keep us calm. He made us all decide to just not care about what he did. There’s nothing much we can do about that. Whenever we do get angry from now on, he will make us decide on calming down every time again.” Hangeng calmly explained. He didn’t seem quite bothered by the idea, but it made Hyukjae incredibly uncomfortable and Youngwoon seemed to get angry anyway.
“That little piece of..” he muttered, but suddenly his eyes hazed over and he seemed to be out of it for a split second before coming back to the present. “He doesn’t mean bad with us anymore, though.” he then altered his words, still seeming slightly dazed. “Damn these powers will take some getting used to. I keep seeing scenes in my mind that don’t even add up to anything. But Homin.. I think right now he’s trying to help us. I think he feels a little sorry. If only a little.”
“Well that’s just great.” Sang Mi huffed. “It’s just a little too late for that, though. That stupid idiot destroyed everyone’s lives and now he’s feeling sorry?” She snorted, shaking her head, but before she could say anything else, movement from the three hugging guys made them all look up for a moment to see if everything was still okay.
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Donghae finally let go of his dongsaeng when he was completely sure Kyuhyun had calmed down. The usually so snarky boy seemed to be completely different from his usual self and it worried him how he had noticed the actual tears on the other’s cheeks. But he knew whatever was going on was between the two of them, so he straightened up a little and sent Jungsoo another small smile. Right as the leader smiled back at him, Kyuhyun spoke up.
“I’m sorry, hyung.” he whispered barely audible. “I never meant to hurt you. My anger just got the best of me and then suddenly it happened and…” He stopped there, seeming unable to finish his sentence, as if he was afraid that the rest of his words would piss the other off. But that didn’t seem to be the case, instead Jungsoo smiled at him and patted his shoulder.
“It’s okay, Kyuhyun-ah.” he replied just as softly. “I know you didn’t intend to hurt me. There was no way you could know. Besides; I’m slightly stupid for falling in love with that anyway.” He smiled lightly, exchanging one more look with the maknae before turning away and looking at the other members. He was over at Youngwoon in no time, almost immediately wrapping the other in a hug and allowing himself to be hugged back.
Donghae watched as Hyukjae slowly moved away from the two, moving to a more secluded part of the living room so Jungsoo wouldn’t suddenly storm at him for a hug as well. It hurt him how Hyukjae was so clueless still of everything they had been through together. He tried to imagine what it would be like, seeing this group of people without knowing anything of the past years spent together in unity. Suddenly a dull feeling came over him and he quietly focused on the leader again, just like everyone else was doing at that moment.
Jungsoo let go of Youngwoon not long after, giving him another smile and a pat before turning to the next best person, Hangeng. There were words mumbled in between the hugging and with one member Jungsoo lingered a little longer than with the other. When he reached Jongwoon, the two merely nodded at each other at first, Jungsoo seeming hesitant, Jongwoon downright unwilling, but in the end the leader stepped closer and hugged the other man anyway.
It went on like that, Jungsoo going past Shindong, Ryeowook and Henry. Donghae noticed he suddenly became aware of Kibum moments later, the original maknae allowing Jungsoo to wrap him in a hug as well, patting him awkwardly on the back and muttering something that surprisingly none of them understood. It didn’t take long for Jungsoo to let go again and move on to the next person.
When he was done hugging everyone, Jungsoo looked around once and then finally walked up to Hyukjae, his smile ever so bright with a dimple showing and everything. Donghae felt happy seeing that, knowing how scared the leader had been to be accepted. But Jungsoo hadn’t counted on Hyukjae’s inability to remember. So when he went to Hyukjae with open arms, the younger backed away, a frown on his face.
“I’m sorry, I don’t know who you are.” Hyukjae explained and Donghae could see Jungsoo’s face fall, expression growing shocked, maybe even a little hurt. He quickly walked up to the two, putting a hand on Jungsoo’s shoulder.
“He doesn’t remember, hyung.” he said then, smiling lightly at Hyukjae who seemed rather lost. “Apparently the only way to make him remember was via his original sire, the one who changed him, but she… Yeah.” Jungsoo’s eyes looked at him then, before going back to Hyukjae, confusion obvious in his expression. Right as Donghae wanted to explain it better, the leader spoke up however.
“But I am the one who changed him.”
[FIC] Memories
Title: Memories
Characters: Super Junior
Rating: R
Chaptercount: 23/26
Summary: Fifteen people try to find the memories they forgot - or maybe they're just looking for each other.
A/N: A fic written on a hunch. One day I thought; "Super Junior. And vampires. This calls for a fic!" and well.. Here we are? Memories is one of the stories that I'm proud of, despite its sometimes messy storyline. It's also a story that won't be fully understood until you've read it completely. Things will be very confusing as you read, but will also get explained in future chapters. Be warned.
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A deafening silence fell over the people around and Hyukjae frowned slightly, looking from one to the other as they slowly let go and spread out a little more again. The first one to realise what was going on was the maknae of the group, who had remained surprisingly silent up till then, “I... think he doesn’t remember us yet.” Henry mumbled, making everyone else think about the option.
“He never will.” Homin spoke up at that, after having kept aside for quite a while by then. Immediately the mood in the room grew a little colder again, but it was not as bad as it had been. “He has been reading your minds for a while now. The only memories he has of that band are your own, but he can’t see himself in them because he’s convinced he was never there. The only way for him to regain his memories was by letting his first sire give them back, but some smartpants decided to kill her before we could tell her to do so.” He sent a not-so-subtle glare in the direction of the sleeping Kyuhyun but got interrupted by Misun at that.
“Homin that’s fine now, please stop this superiority act. I’m growing tired of it. It’s not like you’re the only capable person in this room. They also know what they’re doing, despite what you may think.” she stated coldly, turning around then to walk to the members. “Okay, guys, I’ll do my best to explain this clear enough so you can understand everything.”
Hyukjae almost breathed a sigh of relief, knowing he’d be able to trust Misun’s words. Maybe she didn’t always say everything, but at least the things she did say were always true - or had been so far.
“Homin is the oldest vampire there is.” she started. “And because of that, was at one point also the only one left with powers like his. But he had seen his brothers die because they held on to their strength too much, and for that, he wanted to share his in hopes of living longer. The old vampires can only pass on their abilities to one other person only, so they have to be careful with who they pick, because the powers will be spread throughout their offspring - or so we call it. Every person changed by one of you can have powers too.” Misun stopped for a moment to allow the information to sink in as the members looked like they needed it.
“The reason he chose Jimin is because he knew she would change no one but you guys and he knew you would probably not change anyone who had plans to take over the world.” At that point, Homin wanted to interrupt but a mere glare from Misun made him shut up again, making Hyukjae wonder just how this woman had so much power over the old and unbeatable vampire. The two seemed to consider it normal, however, so he hoped she would explain that part too at some point.
“So here’s the deal.. Jimin was one of your fangirls - a Yesung biased as they would say at the time. When Homin changed her after your concert, he was not included in her hate. She hunted for all of you, took you out one by one in the most various ways so that she’d never be found out by normal humans. In the end, only Jongwoon was left and she did her best to keep him and his family alive. But the car accident was unexpected.” Misun turned to look at Jongwoon and Hyukjae wondered for how long they had been together, but he didn’t ask, letting her continue her explanation instead.
“Jimin sent all the ones she had sired towards the scene of the accident, hoping they would be in time. Jungsoo reached the scene first. He dragged me out of the car before tending to Jongwoon because I was still conscious at that moment. Luckily our daughter was at her grandparents. Even though I was wounded, I was fine, but Jungsoo came to tell me not much later that Jongwoon had not survived. Little did I know that he had changed him into a vampire in order to keep him from dying. The only reason I survived was because I felt I should live for our daughter.” Hyukjae found himself wondering who their daughter might be, glancing at Li Yin shortly before discarding that idea.
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Donghae eyed the woman talking to them. He did not remember her, but she seemed to have been close to them all the time. When she talked about Jongwoon’s car accident he suddenly got a flash of an image - possibly coming from Homin - and then everything was clear as crystal. He didn’t say a word however, waiting for Misun to continue talking. And she did, apparently having found the rhythm in her story.
“I struggled to get better the first year after the accident, being kept in a hospital where my revalidation was done. Our daughter came to visit me once, but I refused to see her after that, as she looked too much like my deceased husband. I mourned, at some point refusing to live on even, which was about the time when I met Jack.”
The name sparked some memories inside of Donghae, but he had no clue what to connect them to, so instead of trying to figure out his own mind, he kept listening to Misun’s explanation, hoping that would give him more of an idea of who the Jack person would be.
“He had come in contact with vampires before and told me all about them. He sought me out because of my job, asking me to help him find a way to make them more able to walk in the sun and less needy of blood, so they could live without harming humans so much.” Misun smiled bitterly at a past memory.
“He brought me to what is now the Facility, back then a mere bunker where he had a few vampires locked in to test my remedies on. Some of them died during the process but he eased my guilt saying they should have been dead already anyway. We were about one year into the Daywalker project when Hangeng entered the Facility. I knew he didn’t know about me because I only became Jongwoon’s girlfriend after he disappeared, but even when I asked him about Super Junior or anything from his past, he had no clue what I was talking about.”
Misun exchanged a short glance with Hangeng at that and they smiled shortly at each other. The two obviously went far back, Donghae realised at that moment. How long ago would their meeting have been? If this really was a whole scam like he felt it to be at first, then would his friend be involved in it as well? More and more, he started to realise that it was all very real. Every word said to him since he regained his memories. And still Misun continued.
“That’s when I realised Jack made our Daywalkers wipe the vampires’ memories when bringing them in. That’s also when I started to doubt that all of you had really died. Li Yin came in as a nurse not much after Hangeng but when Heechul was plucked from the streets as well not that much later, I finally started to believe what earlier had only been suspicions. Suddenly I felt hope that maybe some of you - if not all - had not died, but merely been changed.” She smiled lightly.
“I thought about the possibility that my husband may still have been alive and that it might also take years before I found him, so that’s when I came up with the idea of vengers - a way to make humans live as long as vampires. And right as I started looking for vampires to help me with my idea, Homin showed up.” Her eyes flashed to the vampire who was standing so still it looked as if he were dead.
“He told me about vampires and the way they worked. He showed me everything there was to know about them, cooperating in every test I wanted to do until I developed a way that would make it possible to get all the strengths of a vampire yet none of its weaknesses. That’s when he offered an exchange. He’d help me with my project, make sure it’d go well, if I helped him by using the Daywalker treatment on him.”
“Now there’s something most don’t know about Daywalkers, but when they were created, Jack demanded a way to have them taken out easily, in case they’d ever decide to stand up against us. By injecting the needle into the neck in the same spot every time, it will create a vulnerable spot there which – if attacked in the right way – will cause those vampires to turn into ashes. However, even though Jack demanded this, when Hangeng entered for changing, I told his nurse – Li Yin – to do it in different places every time.”
Donghae vividly remembered the way the two Daywalkers coming along with Ryeowook had dissolved into ashes because of a single movement from the latter. Now he had gotten his explanation for that and his eyes went to Youngwoon, who was obviously thinking about those same memories.
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In a corner of the room, Jongwoon stood watching his wife. His hold on the two vampires was still there, but he had woken them up so they could listen along, even though he was keeping their feelings away from them still. He decided they deserved to be able to hear the explanations as well. But it was getting harder and harder to hold himself in check, with the feelings of three people running through him, none of those people very calm.
Yet he managed, keeping the image of his wife in front of his eyes, telling himself he didn’t want to hurt her. Misun was oblivious to his struggle, however, keeping her eyes moving over the other members as she talked with no indication that she was actually seeing them. She seemed more lost in her memories as she told the story and somehow he was convinced that the ancient vampire was feeling the same things along with her. It irked him.
“Homin knew about this, which is why he went through the trouble of getting to know me instead of simply entering the Facility and having the change done to him that way.” Misun spoke up again, smoothly continuing her story. “I took his deal because I could use the help and we went on with our earlier experiments, turning him into a Daywalker first. It worked, of course, since I had done it plenty of times in the past. For the other experiment, turning me into a half-vampire, we needed several tries.” There was a short exchange of glances between Misun and Homin, both of them the only ones to know what would come next.
“The first three times we started with preparations when Homin would suddenly stop and tell me where it would go wrong. I’d then take another look at my calculations and we’d start again. It worked the fourth time, and I was the first venger in existence. But what neither of us could have foreseen was the way it linked us together. By using his venom for my unnatural change, I had not made him my sire, but the effects had gone the other way around.”
At that, Jongwoon wasn’t able to hold back a growl, and it wasn’t until several people turned to look at him that he realised it had been rather loud. His wife was one of the few not looking at him, however, which made him even more anxious. His whole body was tensed up, the muscles in his arms bulging with the strength with which he was clenching his fists.
What calmed him down was not his own self-control or some harshly needed words from his wife, but a wave of understanding surging through the ties that bound him to Kyuhyun. The younger probably was the only one to really understand how hard it had been for him to see his wife like that and then have to hear how she was bound to another. Kyuhyun had, after all, killed his once-upon-a-time girlfriend’s husband when he found out about him, something that had haunted him ever since he had done it.
Jongwoon felt his muscles slowly relax, the strain on his hold over himself disappearing with the continuous understanding he felt. He started focusing on Kyuhyun then, sending back the same kind of understanding to calm both their hearts, and the gratefulness he got in return was more than worth his efforts. Throughout their whole exchange, Misun remained oblivious to his pain, however, as she kept talking.
“No one knew that I had changed, however, and because my heart was still beating, no one would find out either, I made sure of that. But my plans changed when Li Yin came to me one day around the time that Siwon and Ryeowook entered the Facility. Heechul and her had spent a lot of time together and she had found in him someone she wanted to spend her life with. She came to me to ask for permission to get changed into a vampire.”
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When his girlfriend’s name was mentioned, Heechul’s head shot up and he turned to look at said person. She was standing farther away than he had thought, so he reached out a hand to her. Almost immediately she was by his side, curling into his side. He had always known she changed into a venger only at the beginnings of their relationship, but he had never known her reasons. Even though he’d rather hear them from herself, he wasn’t going to interrupt Misun’s story.
“I told her it would only work nicely if she would also take the painful Daywalker treatment afterwards, but she didn’t complain. It was then that I realised she was as serious about it as I had been, so I offered her the option of becoming a venger. Having been close to both of them, Hangeng offered his help and by doing so, he regained his memories of the past. We’re not exactly sure why or how it happened, but it did.”
Heechul knew what was coming next in the story, as he still vividly remembered the difficult choices he had to make throughout those next months. Having Li Yin by his side had been wonderful, but he had never been one to stay in one place for long – especially not when it was forced. And when Hangeng gave him his memories back as well, he was certainly not going to stick around to watch that Jack dude misuse his friends.
“That was five years ago. After that, Zhou Mi showed up soon as well. Several months into the whole Daywalker program, Heechul decided to leave. He was not up for being someone’s lapdog, being used to go around and catch bad vampires. Jack was not happy about it, but even he knew that there was no use trying to get him back by force. So he trained Zhou Mi to be the best Daywalker we had in order to be able to get Heechul back one day. He never really was anywhere near good enough for that – no offence Mi – but Jack believed he was.
Things stayed quite low, but then Youngwoon and Donghae entered around the same time and when Hangeng heard of what Jack planned to do with them, he started protesting. You see, the Facility started out as a place where vampires would get treated so they wouldn’t need to drink blood as often and could live a more normal life. But over the years, Jack’s ate for the race grew and he slowly started to have everyone brainwashed, memories getting wiped from the start, treatments becoming more ruthless.
The moment Hyukjae entered, Hangeng and Jack got into a big fight and Jack decided to get Hangeng’s memories wiped again too. For some reason – I guess Li Yin might have been in between that – he stalled a little, which gave me time to find out about it. but didn’t make it in time to stop the whole thing. Luckily the two of them had made up their plan already anyway, based on Li Yin’s siredom over him.
From then on, things went from bad to worse, however. Jack tried getting more control and I told the nurses to give the patients some more freedom. Sang Mi listened best, letting Hyukjae wander around a lot. One of those days he helped Donghae and Youngwoon escape, around the same time as Hangeng got his memories back. Jack sent a trio of Daywalkers after them, Ryeowook being one of them. That’s kind of where the search for all the Super Junior members started, I guess.
Not long after, Hangeng and Li Yin left, which Jack saw as a sign. He took over the Facility completely, leaving me with no real power. I stayed, however, in case anyone would still need me, and that turned out to be the case a few weeks later when Hyukjae, Siwon and Sang Mi finally left too. That’s when Heechul called and we came straight away. When I realised who we were dealing with, I told Zhou Mi to call for Homin straight away as I didn’t know how things would work out.”
Characters: Super Junior
Rating: R
Chaptercount: 23/26
Summary: Fifteen people try to find the memories they forgot - or maybe they're just looking for each other.
A/N: A fic written on a hunch. One day I thought; "Super Junior. And vampires. This calls for a fic!" and well.. Here we are? Memories is one of the stories that I'm proud of, despite its sometimes messy storyline. It's also a story that won't be fully understood until you've read it completely. Things will be very confusing as you read, but will also get explained in future chapters. Be warned.
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A deafening silence fell over the people around and Hyukjae frowned slightly, looking from one to the other as they slowly let go and spread out a little more again. The first one to realise what was going on was the maknae of the group, who had remained surprisingly silent up till then, “I... think he doesn’t remember us yet.” Henry mumbled, making everyone else think about the option.
“He never will.” Homin spoke up at that, after having kept aside for quite a while by then. Immediately the mood in the room grew a little colder again, but it was not as bad as it had been. “He has been reading your minds for a while now. The only memories he has of that band are your own, but he can’t see himself in them because he’s convinced he was never there. The only way for him to regain his memories was by letting his first sire give them back, but some smartpants decided to kill her before we could tell her to do so.” He sent a not-so-subtle glare in the direction of the sleeping Kyuhyun but got interrupted by Misun at that.
“Homin that’s fine now, please stop this superiority act. I’m growing tired of it. It’s not like you’re the only capable person in this room. They also know what they’re doing, despite what you may think.” she stated coldly, turning around then to walk to the members. “Okay, guys, I’ll do my best to explain this clear enough so you can understand everything.”
Hyukjae almost breathed a sigh of relief, knowing he’d be able to trust Misun’s words. Maybe she didn’t always say everything, but at least the things she did say were always true - or had been so far.
“Homin is the oldest vampire there is.” she started. “And because of that, was at one point also the only one left with powers like his. But he had seen his brothers die because they held on to their strength too much, and for that, he wanted to share his in hopes of living longer. The old vampires can only pass on their abilities to one other person only, so they have to be careful with who they pick, because the powers will be spread throughout their offspring - or so we call it. Every person changed by one of you can have powers too.” Misun stopped for a moment to allow the information to sink in as the members looked like they needed it.
“The reason he chose Jimin is because he knew she would change no one but you guys and he knew you would probably not change anyone who had plans to take over the world.” At that point, Homin wanted to interrupt but a mere glare from Misun made him shut up again, making Hyukjae wonder just how this woman had so much power over the old and unbeatable vampire. The two seemed to consider it normal, however, so he hoped she would explain that part too at some point.
“So here’s the deal.. Jimin was one of your fangirls - a Yesung biased as they would say at the time. When Homin changed her after your concert, he was not included in her hate. She hunted for all of you, took you out one by one in the most various ways so that she’d never be found out by normal humans. In the end, only Jongwoon was left and she did her best to keep him and his family alive. But the car accident was unexpected.” Misun turned to look at Jongwoon and Hyukjae wondered for how long they had been together, but he didn’t ask, letting her continue her explanation instead.
“Jimin sent all the ones she had sired towards the scene of the accident, hoping they would be in time. Jungsoo reached the scene first. He dragged me out of the car before tending to Jongwoon because I was still conscious at that moment. Luckily our daughter was at her grandparents. Even though I was wounded, I was fine, but Jungsoo came to tell me not much later that Jongwoon had not survived. Little did I know that he had changed him into a vampire in order to keep him from dying. The only reason I survived was because I felt I should live for our daughter.” Hyukjae found himself wondering who their daughter might be, glancing at Li Yin shortly before discarding that idea.
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Donghae eyed the woman talking to them. He did not remember her, but she seemed to have been close to them all the time. When she talked about Jongwoon’s car accident he suddenly got a flash of an image - possibly coming from Homin - and then everything was clear as crystal. He didn’t say a word however, waiting for Misun to continue talking. And she did, apparently having found the rhythm in her story.
“I struggled to get better the first year after the accident, being kept in a hospital where my revalidation was done. Our daughter came to visit me once, but I refused to see her after that, as she looked too much like my deceased husband. I mourned, at some point refusing to live on even, which was about the time when I met Jack.”
The name sparked some memories inside of Donghae, but he had no clue what to connect them to, so instead of trying to figure out his own mind, he kept listening to Misun’s explanation, hoping that would give him more of an idea of who the Jack person would be.
“He had come in contact with vampires before and told me all about them. He sought me out because of my job, asking me to help him find a way to make them more able to walk in the sun and less needy of blood, so they could live without harming humans so much.” Misun smiled bitterly at a past memory.
“He brought me to what is now the Facility, back then a mere bunker where he had a few vampires locked in to test my remedies on. Some of them died during the process but he eased my guilt saying they should have been dead already anyway. We were about one year into the Daywalker project when Hangeng entered the Facility. I knew he didn’t know about me because I only became Jongwoon’s girlfriend after he disappeared, but even when I asked him about Super Junior or anything from his past, he had no clue what I was talking about.”
Misun exchanged a short glance with Hangeng at that and they smiled shortly at each other. The two obviously went far back, Donghae realised at that moment. How long ago would their meeting have been? If this really was a whole scam like he felt it to be at first, then would his friend be involved in it as well? More and more, he started to realise that it was all very real. Every word said to him since he regained his memories. And still Misun continued.
“That’s when I realised Jack made our Daywalkers wipe the vampires’ memories when bringing them in. That’s also when I started to doubt that all of you had really died. Li Yin came in as a nurse not much after Hangeng but when Heechul was plucked from the streets as well not that much later, I finally started to believe what earlier had only been suspicions. Suddenly I felt hope that maybe some of you - if not all - had not died, but merely been changed.” She smiled lightly.
“I thought about the possibility that my husband may still have been alive and that it might also take years before I found him, so that’s when I came up with the idea of vengers - a way to make humans live as long as vampires. And right as I started looking for vampires to help me with my idea, Homin showed up.” Her eyes flashed to the vampire who was standing so still it looked as if he were dead.
“He told me about vampires and the way they worked. He showed me everything there was to know about them, cooperating in every test I wanted to do until I developed a way that would make it possible to get all the strengths of a vampire yet none of its weaknesses. That’s when he offered an exchange. He’d help me with my project, make sure it’d go well, if I helped him by using the Daywalker treatment on him.”
“Now there’s something most don’t know about Daywalkers, but when they were created, Jack demanded a way to have them taken out easily, in case they’d ever decide to stand up against us. By injecting the needle into the neck in the same spot every time, it will create a vulnerable spot there which – if attacked in the right way – will cause those vampires to turn into ashes. However, even though Jack demanded this, when Hangeng entered for changing, I told his nurse – Li Yin – to do it in different places every time.”
Donghae vividly remembered the way the two Daywalkers coming along with Ryeowook had dissolved into ashes because of a single movement from the latter. Now he had gotten his explanation for that and his eyes went to Youngwoon, who was obviously thinking about those same memories.
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In a corner of the room, Jongwoon stood watching his wife. His hold on the two vampires was still there, but he had woken them up so they could listen along, even though he was keeping their feelings away from them still. He decided they deserved to be able to hear the explanations as well. But it was getting harder and harder to hold himself in check, with the feelings of three people running through him, none of those people very calm.
Yet he managed, keeping the image of his wife in front of his eyes, telling himself he didn’t want to hurt her. Misun was oblivious to his struggle, however, keeping her eyes moving over the other members as she talked with no indication that she was actually seeing them. She seemed more lost in her memories as she told the story and somehow he was convinced that the ancient vampire was feeling the same things along with her. It irked him.
“Homin knew about this, which is why he went through the trouble of getting to know me instead of simply entering the Facility and having the change done to him that way.” Misun spoke up again, smoothly continuing her story. “I took his deal because I could use the help and we went on with our earlier experiments, turning him into a Daywalker first. It worked, of course, since I had done it plenty of times in the past. For the other experiment, turning me into a half-vampire, we needed several tries.” There was a short exchange of glances between Misun and Homin, both of them the only ones to know what would come next.
“The first three times we started with preparations when Homin would suddenly stop and tell me where it would go wrong. I’d then take another look at my calculations and we’d start again. It worked the fourth time, and I was the first venger in existence. But what neither of us could have foreseen was the way it linked us together. By using his venom for my unnatural change, I had not made him my sire, but the effects had gone the other way around.”
At that, Jongwoon wasn’t able to hold back a growl, and it wasn’t until several people turned to look at him that he realised it had been rather loud. His wife was one of the few not looking at him, however, which made him even more anxious. His whole body was tensed up, the muscles in his arms bulging with the strength with which he was clenching his fists.
What calmed him down was not his own self-control or some harshly needed words from his wife, but a wave of understanding surging through the ties that bound him to Kyuhyun. The younger probably was the only one to really understand how hard it had been for him to see his wife like that and then have to hear how she was bound to another. Kyuhyun had, after all, killed his once-upon-a-time girlfriend’s husband when he found out about him, something that had haunted him ever since he had done it.
Jongwoon felt his muscles slowly relax, the strain on his hold over himself disappearing with the continuous understanding he felt. He started focusing on Kyuhyun then, sending back the same kind of understanding to calm both their hearts, and the gratefulness he got in return was more than worth his efforts. Throughout their whole exchange, Misun remained oblivious to his pain, however, as she kept talking.
“No one knew that I had changed, however, and because my heart was still beating, no one would find out either, I made sure of that. But my plans changed when Li Yin came to me one day around the time that Siwon and Ryeowook entered the Facility. Heechul and her had spent a lot of time together and she had found in him someone she wanted to spend her life with. She came to me to ask for permission to get changed into a vampire.”
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When his girlfriend’s name was mentioned, Heechul’s head shot up and he turned to look at said person. She was standing farther away than he had thought, so he reached out a hand to her. Almost immediately she was by his side, curling into his side. He had always known she changed into a venger only at the beginnings of their relationship, but he had never known her reasons. Even though he’d rather hear them from herself, he wasn’t going to interrupt Misun’s story.
“I told her it would only work nicely if she would also take the painful Daywalker treatment afterwards, but she didn’t complain. It was then that I realised she was as serious about it as I had been, so I offered her the option of becoming a venger. Having been close to both of them, Hangeng offered his help and by doing so, he regained his memories of the past. We’re not exactly sure why or how it happened, but it did.”
Heechul knew what was coming next in the story, as he still vividly remembered the difficult choices he had to make throughout those next months. Having Li Yin by his side had been wonderful, but he had never been one to stay in one place for long – especially not when it was forced. And when Hangeng gave him his memories back as well, he was certainly not going to stick around to watch that Jack dude misuse his friends.
“That was five years ago. After that, Zhou Mi showed up soon as well. Several months into the whole Daywalker program, Heechul decided to leave. He was not up for being someone’s lapdog, being used to go around and catch bad vampires. Jack was not happy about it, but even he knew that there was no use trying to get him back by force. So he trained Zhou Mi to be the best Daywalker we had in order to be able to get Heechul back one day. He never really was anywhere near good enough for that – no offence Mi – but Jack believed he was.
Things stayed quite low, but then Youngwoon and Donghae entered around the same time and when Hangeng heard of what Jack planned to do with them, he started protesting. You see, the Facility started out as a place where vampires would get treated so they wouldn’t need to drink blood as often and could live a more normal life. But over the years, Jack’s ate for the race grew and he slowly started to have everyone brainwashed, memories getting wiped from the start, treatments becoming more ruthless.
The moment Hyukjae entered, Hangeng and Jack got into a big fight and Jack decided to get Hangeng’s memories wiped again too. For some reason – I guess Li Yin might have been in between that – he stalled a little, which gave me time to find out about it. but didn’t make it in time to stop the whole thing. Luckily the two of them had made up their plan already anyway, based on Li Yin’s siredom over him.
From then on, things went from bad to worse, however. Jack tried getting more control and I told the nurses to give the patients some more freedom. Sang Mi listened best, letting Hyukjae wander around a lot. One of those days he helped Donghae and Youngwoon escape, around the same time as Hangeng got his memories back. Jack sent a trio of Daywalkers after them, Ryeowook being one of them. That’s kind of where the search for all the Super Junior members started, I guess.
Not long after, Hangeng and Li Yin left, which Jack saw as a sign. He took over the Facility completely, leaving me with no real power. I stayed, however, in case anyone would still need me, and that turned out to be the case a few weeks later when Hyukjae, Siwon and Sang Mi finally left too. That’s when Heechul called and we came straight away. When I realised who we were dealing with, I told Zhou Mi to call for Homin straight away as I didn’t know how things would work out.”
[FIC] Memories
Title: Memories
Characters: Super Junior
Rating: R
Chaptercount: 22/26
Summary: Fifteen people try to find the memories they forgot - or maybe they're just looking for each other.
A/N: A fic written on a hunch. One day I thought; "Super Junior. And vampires. This calls for a fic!" and well.. Here we are? Memories is one of the stories that I'm proud of, despite its sometimes messy storyline. It's also a story that won't be fully understood until you've read it completely. Things will be very confusing as you read, but will also get explained in future chapters. Be warned.
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“It’s time to let go of him now, Jimin dear.” Homin said as he slowly pulled the woman away from her still unconscious ‘pet.’ She let out a protesting sound, frowning yet complying to the hands that pulled her away from Jungsoo. They were in Heechul’s apartment, hiding out there for those who could not stand the sunlight yet. Outside, the sky was slowly getting lighter, humans waking up from their sleep with no idea of what had happened that night in a forest not too far away.
Zhou Mi and Kibum had arrived at the apartment an hour later than the others, the first with a more coloured complex again, the latter with a dazed composure that most of them knew from when they just remembered everything. Sungmin had then allowed Henry to become his sire again in order to make him remember. Hangeng had easily sired Shindong in order to give him his actual memories back as well and to take siredom away from Jimin at the same time. The only two to not remember yet were Jungsoo an Hyukjae – one of them kept asleep by Jongwoon, the other being fussed over by Sang Mi.
“You’ve had enough time to say goodbye now, Jimin dear.” Homin then repeated. “This is his life and his decision.” And just like that, those who could sense it saw the tie binding Jungsoo to the woman disappear. Not half a second later Jongwoon sank down on his knees again, clutching at his chest in obvious pain. Misun was next to him in moments, one arm around his shoulders, one hand on his, worriedly asking if he was alright. He seemed to use her voice to focus on and compose himself, because he soon managed a small nod.
Meanwhile Homin had let Jimin lie down next to Jungsoo and ordered her to sleep as well. He then turned around to look at the group of people crowding the not too big living room. “Well..” he then spoke, grin intact on his face. “That was the most fun I’ve had in years!” He looked around the room, but all the grim expressions told him they thought differently. “Oh, cheer up guys. No one died, so you should be happy all ended well.” To that, a growl came and Heechul looked up from where he was crouched next to his still unmoving girlfriend.
“No one died YET.” he then corrected, both his voice and expression set on ‘not amused.’
“Oh don’t worry about her. The venom will lose its power when the sun rises. She’ll be fine. Probably the most unharmed one out of you all.” Homin replied calmly, amusement still obvious.
“Well yoodledeeday.” Heechul mocked, but his shoulders visibly relaxed and he gave his girlfriend’s hand a soft squeeze. “So anyway, mister vampire encyclopaedia…” he then spoke up again. “Who are you exactly and why am I letting you in my house when you’re the sire of the one who had a plot to kill us all? Why should I trust you?”
“Because now that you’re vampires, I have no more reason to harm you. It’s not like your blood tastes any good.” There was a soft chuckle coming from the vampire before he turned serious again, his eyes still glowing that unnerving soft blue. “My name is Homin, or at least it is in this era and region. I’m the oldest vampire you’ll find in the world.”
“That explains your length then.” Heechul huffed. “Or the absence of it. Misun, how do you know this guy? Where did you even find him?” Upon hearing her name, Misun seemed to focus more on the conversation, but she didn’t reply, her eyes still on Jongwoon who didn’t look fine yet. To that, Heechul suddenly jumped up on his feet, looking ready to attack anyone who got in his way. “Is anyone going to tell me what the hell is going on and how we all got here or do I have to kill for that to happen?” he then growled.
“Calm down, Heechul. I’ll explain soon, but you’re not the only one here who worries about someone he loves.” Misun spoke seemingly out of nowhere. She helped Jongwoon up from the ground and guided him to an empty couch, where he sank down with closed eyes. It was only then that she turned to the others, sitting down on the couch’s armrest as she did so. Homin could see how she immediately held everyone’s attention at that moment.
“So…” she started. “Homin’s the one who ordered Jimin to change you all into vampires.”
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“Say what!? What the hell?” Heechul immediately burst out, getting into a defensive stand. Hangeng was at his side merely seconds later. It didn’t take long for everyone who could to get up and stand next to them, anger visible on their faces as well. Homin remained surprisingly calm under the accusing stares, smiling at them as if Misun had just told them he had given them presents.
“Don’t get worked up, guys.” he said then, his eyes flashing blue for a moment. Immediately the mood in the room calmed down again, the only thing left breaking the silence being the ragged breaths coming from Jongwoon.
“He doesn’t mean any of you any harm.” Misun spoke up at that moment. “At least not anymore. And it was never anything personal.” She smiled lightly, but obviously no one was buying that excuse, even if she was the one giving it.
“How can it not be personal if he changed all of them?” Sang Mi was smart enough to ask at that moment. Homin’s eyes moved to her and the next moment a wave of energy rippled through the room, making the vampire stagger back a few steps. He merely smiled at that, however, his eyes moving from Sang Mi to Hyukjae, expression amused.
“Oh I see you already found your inspiration.” he then spoke. “Well I’m sorry to say this, but she’ll...” Before he could finish that sentence, Hyukjae interrupted with a loud ‘NO!’ that caused the others to turn to him in surprise. His eyes were glowing green again, but this time the colour gradually changed into a dangerous khaki, the darkness of the colour making his irises look like endless pools in the middle of the white.
“It’s true.” Homin continued as if the glare was nothing to worry about. “Ask Shindong, he knows as well. It’s not like I made this up.” Hyukjae didn’t even turn to look at Shindong when the latter nodded, but he seemed to deflate in an instant. At that, Jongwoon, who had eyed it all from the couch with mixed feelings finally spoke up as well.
“So you can order people around, read minds, see the future, control people’s feelings,... Why would I not be surprised if you could also do a load of telepathic crap, then you can do all of what we can.” he stated rather coldly.
“You forgot paralyzing vampires with my venom.” Homin replied to that, grin too amused for the current situation. “And who knows what else I might have passed on without realising it?” To everyone’s surprise it was Kyuhyun speaking up at that.
“So you made her change us to pass on your special abilities which I’m sure every vampire ancient like you has meanwhile gathered?” the young man bit at the older one, eyes cold, expression neutral. “Why not do it yourself? Why get a lapdog?” Jongwoon looked up at his friend for a short moment, before immediately getting up. It seemed like he had heard something in the younger’s voice that no one else had - or they at least didn’t know what it meant.
“Don’t let this get to you, Kyu-yah.” he said softly, although everyone in the room could hear him anyway. “You don’t want to make a mistake now.”
“What do you know about it?” Kyuhyun shouted all of a sudden, which caused Jimin to wake up, sitting up in the blink of an eye and looking at them in confusion. “You...” Kyuhyun immediately hissed upon seeing her. “For hurting my friends and for enslaving my hyung, I will never forgive you. I wish you’d just die.”
“No!” It was finally Homin’s time to lose his cool, but before the word had even left his mouth, Jimin’s eyes glazed over and the next moment she dissolved into ashes. Kyuhyun seemed unaffected by this, his eyes going to Homin as if to single out his next victim, but the elder immediately defended himself with a short “be silent!” that effectively had Kyuhyun shutting his mouth.
The other members, who had been staring at the ashes in shock, now turned their eyes to Kyuhyun and that seemed to throw the second-to-youngest off more than anything. The fire left him as he inched closer to Jongwoon, the one who had been about to stop him if Homin hadn’t been first. It was almost endearing to see the elder put his arms around the younger protectively, but there was no time for such pleasantries. Not really.
“He loved her. What gave you the right to take that away from him?” Jongwoon asked calmly, not a bit of blame in his voice. Homin was about to protest that he didn’t love that woman at all when Kyuhyun answered. “Haerin loved him too. What gave her the right to take him away from her?”
“So you’re just taking revenge? That makes you just as bad as her.” Jongwoon mumbled, still holding the other close, maybe even closer as if he knew what was going to come next.
“I’m already worse than her.” Kyuhyun breathed, but before his emotions could get the best of him, Jongwoon reached out with his power, tied the knots together and gently lulled the other to sleep.
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“What gives you the right?” Sang Mi started angrily, her eyes focused on Jongwoon, but Hyukjae stopped her immediately, shutting her up with a single look. She still glared at Jongwoon who was already laying Kyuhyun down on the spot he had previously occupied on the couch. No one moved after that as they all seemed to wait for someone else to start talking, but no one did. The most baffling thing probably was that none of them seemed exceptionally fazed by the death of their once-upon-a-time sire.
“So...” Jongwoon then calmly said. “So far what we’re sure of is that Hyukjae can read minds, Shindong can see the future, Jungsoo can paralyze people with his venom and Kyuhyun can order people around.” he then summed up.
“That’s not a special power, I can do that too.” Heechul immediately protested.
“But can you make them die on command too?” Kangin spoke up then, making Heechul frown.
“I don’t know.” the latter mused at that, before turning to Hangeng on his left. “Geng-ah, drop dead.” The Chinese man immediately proceeded to sink down into a formless heap, making Heechul’s eyes widen in surprise and shock. He immediately moved over to the other man’s side, sinking down on his knees and starting to shake his friend’s shoulders. “Yah! Geng! That was a joke! Come back alive you!” he almost shrieked. It didn’t take long for Hangeng to open his eyes again with a big grin on his face.
“Yah, Kim Heechul, do you really think I’d die for you?” he said, sitting up only to be pushed back down again by the other.
“That was so not funny, Chinaman. I swear one day I’ll really kill you.” Heechul then huffed, getting up to join his girlfriend’s side once more. Li Yin still remained unmoving throughout it all.
“Obviously Heechul and I have nothing.” Hangeng then calmly spoke with the smile still on his face, standing up again and turning to the others. His teasing had obviously lightened the mood.
“I can hear people’s thoughts when they’re connected to me over quite long distances.” Zhou Mi then spoke up. “And apparently I can also send messages over long distances, but that needs some working on.” He grinned slightly.
“I can hear human’s thoughts when I drink their blood for as long as it’s in my veins.” Hyukjae then added to that, one hand on Sang Mi’s arm to keep her from intervening.
“I can make people sleep by taking all their emotions away from them.” Jongwoon spoke up after that, trying to set the example as well. “I can also choose to keep them awake but that takes more effort. Everything Kyuhyun and Jungsoo should feel right now will be felt by me instead. So please be gentle with them.”
“I can see the future, but only the current one. If people have a change of mind, the future will change too, so what I see doesn’t always come true.” Shindong then specified his own power. There was a short silence after that, people eyeing each other to see who’d go next, before Siwon spoke up.
“When I get really upset or angry, I can make heavy storms happen, and people will not be able to get close to me.” he said, his usual calm self still. “There might be more, but I never saw a need to try it out, so I wouldn’t know.” He smiled, looking up at the few members standing straight still. Somewhere along the conversation he had seated himself on the armrest of the couch Li Yin was lying on.
“I can survive without drinking blood.” Henry said all of a sudden. “Not really sure if that’s some power like yours, though.”
“Actually he just can’t drink blood at all. If he tries he pukes everything back out. At first I thought we could all survive without blood and be less strong as a result, but I tried and after a few days I already felt like murdering half a city. Seeing more people with weird abilities, I guess this really is his.” Sungmin added to that, frowning a little. “I myself have none as far as I know.”
“I can see energy lines when one of you uses your powers. I’m also immune to them.” Misun suddenly spoke up at that. “And to Homin’s powers as well. I had no chance so far to test out if it’s because I’m a venger or if it’s part of my power.” She calmly walked over to Jongwoon and intertwined her fingers with his.
“I can become invisible.” Kibum’s voice seemed to come out of nowhere, making everyone look around in surprise when they realised they indeed had no idea where he was. “Well not exactly invisible, people just seem to forget I’m around. I’m right here you know...” At those words, the others finally seemed to find him, leaning against the wall. “And I didn’t really want to say that.”
“I know.” Misun hummed knowingly. “That was Li Yin. She can influence people’s decisions.” Upon hearing his girlfriend’s name, Heechul immediately looked back at her, hoping to find her able to talk to him again.
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Li Yin was lying on the couch for a while now, unable to move yet unable to completely shut off from everything as well. She was forced to listen as the others held conversations that were of no use. It wasn’t as if getting angry at Homin was going to change anything. She had been fortunate enough to have not lost her power when she was paralyzed, because the whole fight might have ended differently then. The reason why no one had died was mostly her influence.
First she had made Jimin keep Henry out of the fight, then she had pushed Jongwoon to merely knock out Sungmin and Ryeowook instead of killing them like he had planned to at first. But it hadn’t stopped at that. She made everyone take exactly those decisions that would lead to the least casualties and then there she was, listening to them arguing over that stupid ancient vampire.
It needed only a slight nudge for Kyuhyun to kill the stupid woman. Later on it would take a little more effort to make Jungsoo forget about her, but she would manage. And it was nice to know that whatever happened, at least Heechul would be by her side like he was now. She listened as the scene unfolded, finding every power she got to hear about quite intriguing.
But what was most intriguing was that Kibum obviously didn’t feel like sharing his, staying in the background and merely listening to his friends. So once again it took a little nudging for her to make him speak up, but surprisingly he realised that it wasn’t his own doing. And even more surprisingly she was found out by Misun. It was then that all Heechul’s attention shifted back to her. Everyone’s attention did, actually. She tried to break free from the iron grip that had been holding her for a long time now, but it didn’t work.
“Sunrise is not for a few minutes still.” Homin spoke up at that moment, making her groan inwardly. She then tried once again to break through the barriers, this time using all her strength. Suddenly the weight seemed to be lifted from her and she could feel her limbs responding again. The first thing she did was reach out and take Heechul’s hand, squeezing it softly. His eyes widened and she couldn’t help smiling when he looked at her.
“Hello gorgeous.” she then spoke softly, smiling into the kiss that followed. She could feel the conflict within him and was pleased to see that she needed no urging for him to pick the option where he pulled her into a tight hug.
“You okay?” he whispered then, making her nod slowly. “Oh God I was so worried.” he continued at that, frowning slightly. “Don’t ever do that to me again.”
“Say that to your old friend.” she replied softly, running a hand through his hair before looking up at the others. They had all been obviously watching them, but she didn’t mind showing them her soft side. If Heechul didn’t mind either, that meant there was no reason to feel awkward. Suddenly the silence was interrupted by a choked sob, however, making everyone look for the one crying at that moment, only to find Ryeowook hiding his face in his hands.
“I missed you guys.” he tried to explain himself with a tear-stricken voice. “In the years you all died one by one I really missed you. And now those feelings are all coming back to me. I finally found you again, but we’re standing here like strangers and it feels so WRONG. I don’t really know why I’m crying either, I’m sorry. I just feel so relieved and so disappointed at the same time. Kyuhyun sounds so angry at everything and Jungsoo hyung looks so lifeless. Everyone is so different. I don’t really feel like I found my friends again.”
He sounded so honest and sad that even Li Yin herself felt bad for him. The first to reach the younger, however, was Jongwoon, wrapping his dongsaeng in a tight hug. Henry was there only a split second later, throwing his arms around both his hyungs and squeezing them together.
“Wook-ah. Cute little Wook-ah.” Jongwoon then whispered, his own voice thick with emotions as well. If anyone would understand what it had been like to lose his best friends one by one, it would be those two and Kyuhyun, Li Yin realised, as they had lived the longest and had seen all the others disappear. Of course Ryeowook was the first to crack out of that group, always having been the more emotional one.
Yet the other members had also not forgotten what they had all been about once, and soon the three hugging friends got swarmed by people hugging them. Every awake once-member of Super Junior was eventually dragged into the group hug and Li Yin felt how even Heechul let go of her hand to join in. It was when they had all been standing there in a rare moment of unity that Hyukjae spoke up.
“This is all nice and heart-warming, guys, but why are you involving me in this?”
Characters: Super Junior
Rating: R
Chaptercount: 22/26
Summary: Fifteen people try to find the memories they forgot - or maybe they're just looking for each other.
A/N: A fic written on a hunch. One day I thought; "Super Junior. And vampires. This calls for a fic!" and well.. Here we are? Memories is one of the stories that I'm proud of, despite its sometimes messy storyline. It's also a story that won't be fully understood until you've read it completely. Things will be very confusing as you read, but will also get explained in future chapters. Be warned.
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“It’s time to let go of him now, Jimin dear.” Homin said as he slowly pulled the woman away from her still unconscious ‘pet.’ She let out a protesting sound, frowning yet complying to the hands that pulled her away from Jungsoo. They were in Heechul’s apartment, hiding out there for those who could not stand the sunlight yet. Outside, the sky was slowly getting lighter, humans waking up from their sleep with no idea of what had happened that night in a forest not too far away.
Zhou Mi and Kibum had arrived at the apartment an hour later than the others, the first with a more coloured complex again, the latter with a dazed composure that most of them knew from when they just remembered everything. Sungmin had then allowed Henry to become his sire again in order to make him remember. Hangeng had easily sired Shindong in order to give him his actual memories back as well and to take siredom away from Jimin at the same time. The only two to not remember yet were Jungsoo an Hyukjae – one of them kept asleep by Jongwoon, the other being fussed over by Sang Mi.
“You’ve had enough time to say goodbye now, Jimin dear.” Homin then repeated. “This is his life and his decision.” And just like that, those who could sense it saw the tie binding Jungsoo to the woman disappear. Not half a second later Jongwoon sank down on his knees again, clutching at his chest in obvious pain. Misun was next to him in moments, one arm around his shoulders, one hand on his, worriedly asking if he was alright. He seemed to use her voice to focus on and compose himself, because he soon managed a small nod.
Meanwhile Homin had let Jimin lie down next to Jungsoo and ordered her to sleep as well. He then turned around to look at the group of people crowding the not too big living room. “Well..” he then spoke, grin intact on his face. “That was the most fun I’ve had in years!” He looked around the room, but all the grim expressions told him they thought differently. “Oh, cheer up guys. No one died, so you should be happy all ended well.” To that, a growl came and Heechul looked up from where he was crouched next to his still unmoving girlfriend.
“No one died YET.” he then corrected, both his voice and expression set on ‘not amused.’
“Oh don’t worry about her. The venom will lose its power when the sun rises. She’ll be fine. Probably the most unharmed one out of you all.” Homin replied calmly, amusement still obvious.
“Well yoodledeeday.” Heechul mocked, but his shoulders visibly relaxed and he gave his girlfriend’s hand a soft squeeze. “So anyway, mister vampire encyclopaedia…” he then spoke up again. “Who are you exactly and why am I letting you in my house when you’re the sire of the one who had a plot to kill us all? Why should I trust you?”
“Because now that you’re vampires, I have no more reason to harm you. It’s not like your blood tastes any good.” There was a soft chuckle coming from the vampire before he turned serious again, his eyes still glowing that unnerving soft blue. “My name is Homin, or at least it is in this era and region. I’m the oldest vampire you’ll find in the world.”
“That explains your length then.” Heechul huffed. “Or the absence of it. Misun, how do you know this guy? Where did you even find him?” Upon hearing her name, Misun seemed to focus more on the conversation, but she didn’t reply, her eyes still on Jongwoon who didn’t look fine yet. To that, Heechul suddenly jumped up on his feet, looking ready to attack anyone who got in his way. “Is anyone going to tell me what the hell is going on and how we all got here or do I have to kill for that to happen?” he then growled.
“Calm down, Heechul. I’ll explain soon, but you’re not the only one here who worries about someone he loves.” Misun spoke seemingly out of nowhere. She helped Jongwoon up from the ground and guided him to an empty couch, where he sank down with closed eyes. It was only then that she turned to the others, sitting down on the couch’s armrest as she did so. Homin could see how she immediately held everyone’s attention at that moment.
“So…” she started. “Homin’s the one who ordered Jimin to change you all into vampires.”
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“Say what!? What the hell?” Heechul immediately burst out, getting into a defensive stand. Hangeng was at his side merely seconds later. It didn’t take long for everyone who could to get up and stand next to them, anger visible on their faces as well. Homin remained surprisingly calm under the accusing stares, smiling at them as if Misun had just told them he had given them presents.
“Don’t get worked up, guys.” he said then, his eyes flashing blue for a moment. Immediately the mood in the room calmed down again, the only thing left breaking the silence being the ragged breaths coming from Jongwoon.
“He doesn’t mean any of you any harm.” Misun spoke up at that moment. “At least not anymore. And it was never anything personal.” She smiled lightly, but obviously no one was buying that excuse, even if she was the one giving it.
“How can it not be personal if he changed all of them?” Sang Mi was smart enough to ask at that moment. Homin’s eyes moved to her and the next moment a wave of energy rippled through the room, making the vampire stagger back a few steps. He merely smiled at that, however, his eyes moving from Sang Mi to Hyukjae, expression amused.
“Oh I see you already found your inspiration.” he then spoke. “Well I’m sorry to say this, but she’ll...” Before he could finish that sentence, Hyukjae interrupted with a loud ‘NO!’ that caused the others to turn to him in surprise. His eyes were glowing green again, but this time the colour gradually changed into a dangerous khaki, the darkness of the colour making his irises look like endless pools in the middle of the white.
“It’s true.” Homin continued as if the glare was nothing to worry about. “Ask Shindong, he knows as well. It’s not like I made this up.” Hyukjae didn’t even turn to look at Shindong when the latter nodded, but he seemed to deflate in an instant. At that, Jongwoon, who had eyed it all from the couch with mixed feelings finally spoke up as well.
“So you can order people around, read minds, see the future, control people’s feelings,... Why would I not be surprised if you could also do a load of telepathic crap, then you can do all of what we can.” he stated rather coldly.
“You forgot paralyzing vampires with my venom.” Homin replied to that, grin too amused for the current situation. “And who knows what else I might have passed on without realising it?” To everyone’s surprise it was Kyuhyun speaking up at that.
“So you made her change us to pass on your special abilities which I’m sure every vampire ancient like you has meanwhile gathered?” the young man bit at the older one, eyes cold, expression neutral. “Why not do it yourself? Why get a lapdog?” Jongwoon looked up at his friend for a short moment, before immediately getting up. It seemed like he had heard something in the younger’s voice that no one else had - or they at least didn’t know what it meant.
“Don’t let this get to you, Kyu-yah.” he said softly, although everyone in the room could hear him anyway. “You don’t want to make a mistake now.”
“What do you know about it?” Kyuhyun shouted all of a sudden, which caused Jimin to wake up, sitting up in the blink of an eye and looking at them in confusion. “You...” Kyuhyun immediately hissed upon seeing her. “For hurting my friends and for enslaving my hyung, I will never forgive you. I wish you’d just die.”
“No!” It was finally Homin’s time to lose his cool, but before the word had even left his mouth, Jimin’s eyes glazed over and the next moment she dissolved into ashes. Kyuhyun seemed unaffected by this, his eyes going to Homin as if to single out his next victim, but the elder immediately defended himself with a short “be silent!” that effectively had Kyuhyun shutting his mouth.
The other members, who had been staring at the ashes in shock, now turned their eyes to Kyuhyun and that seemed to throw the second-to-youngest off more than anything. The fire left him as he inched closer to Jongwoon, the one who had been about to stop him if Homin hadn’t been first. It was almost endearing to see the elder put his arms around the younger protectively, but there was no time for such pleasantries. Not really.
“He loved her. What gave you the right to take that away from him?” Jongwoon asked calmly, not a bit of blame in his voice. Homin was about to protest that he didn’t love that woman at all when Kyuhyun answered. “Haerin loved him too. What gave her the right to take him away from her?”
“So you’re just taking revenge? That makes you just as bad as her.” Jongwoon mumbled, still holding the other close, maybe even closer as if he knew what was going to come next.
“I’m already worse than her.” Kyuhyun breathed, but before his emotions could get the best of him, Jongwoon reached out with his power, tied the knots together and gently lulled the other to sleep.
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“What gives you the right?” Sang Mi started angrily, her eyes focused on Jongwoon, but Hyukjae stopped her immediately, shutting her up with a single look. She still glared at Jongwoon who was already laying Kyuhyun down on the spot he had previously occupied on the couch. No one moved after that as they all seemed to wait for someone else to start talking, but no one did. The most baffling thing probably was that none of them seemed exceptionally fazed by the death of their once-upon-a-time sire.
“So...” Jongwoon then calmly said. “So far what we’re sure of is that Hyukjae can read minds, Shindong can see the future, Jungsoo can paralyze people with his venom and Kyuhyun can order people around.” he then summed up.
“That’s not a special power, I can do that too.” Heechul immediately protested.
“But can you make them die on command too?” Kangin spoke up then, making Heechul frown.
“I don’t know.” the latter mused at that, before turning to Hangeng on his left. “Geng-ah, drop dead.” The Chinese man immediately proceeded to sink down into a formless heap, making Heechul’s eyes widen in surprise and shock. He immediately moved over to the other man’s side, sinking down on his knees and starting to shake his friend’s shoulders. “Yah! Geng! That was a joke! Come back alive you!” he almost shrieked. It didn’t take long for Hangeng to open his eyes again with a big grin on his face.
“Yah, Kim Heechul, do you really think I’d die for you?” he said, sitting up only to be pushed back down again by the other.
“That was so not funny, Chinaman. I swear one day I’ll really kill you.” Heechul then huffed, getting up to join his girlfriend’s side once more. Li Yin still remained unmoving throughout it all.
“Obviously Heechul and I have nothing.” Hangeng then calmly spoke with the smile still on his face, standing up again and turning to the others. His teasing had obviously lightened the mood.
“I can hear people’s thoughts when they’re connected to me over quite long distances.” Zhou Mi then spoke up. “And apparently I can also send messages over long distances, but that needs some working on.” He grinned slightly.
“I can hear human’s thoughts when I drink their blood for as long as it’s in my veins.” Hyukjae then added to that, one hand on Sang Mi’s arm to keep her from intervening.
“I can make people sleep by taking all their emotions away from them.” Jongwoon spoke up after that, trying to set the example as well. “I can also choose to keep them awake but that takes more effort. Everything Kyuhyun and Jungsoo should feel right now will be felt by me instead. So please be gentle with them.”
“I can see the future, but only the current one. If people have a change of mind, the future will change too, so what I see doesn’t always come true.” Shindong then specified his own power. There was a short silence after that, people eyeing each other to see who’d go next, before Siwon spoke up.
“When I get really upset or angry, I can make heavy storms happen, and people will not be able to get close to me.” he said, his usual calm self still. “There might be more, but I never saw a need to try it out, so I wouldn’t know.” He smiled, looking up at the few members standing straight still. Somewhere along the conversation he had seated himself on the armrest of the couch Li Yin was lying on.
“I can survive without drinking blood.” Henry said all of a sudden. “Not really sure if that’s some power like yours, though.”
“Actually he just can’t drink blood at all. If he tries he pukes everything back out. At first I thought we could all survive without blood and be less strong as a result, but I tried and after a few days I already felt like murdering half a city. Seeing more people with weird abilities, I guess this really is his.” Sungmin added to that, frowning a little. “I myself have none as far as I know.”
“I can see energy lines when one of you uses your powers. I’m also immune to them.” Misun suddenly spoke up at that. “And to Homin’s powers as well. I had no chance so far to test out if it’s because I’m a venger or if it’s part of my power.” She calmly walked over to Jongwoon and intertwined her fingers with his.
“I can become invisible.” Kibum’s voice seemed to come out of nowhere, making everyone look around in surprise when they realised they indeed had no idea where he was. “Well not exactly invisible, people just seem to forget I’m around. I’m right here you know...” At those words, the others finally seemed to find him, leaning against the wall. “And I didn’t really want to say that.”
“I know.” Misun hummed knowingly. “That was Li Yin. She can influence people’s decisions.” Upon hearing his girlfriend’s name, Heechul immediately looked back at her, hoping to find her able to talk to him again.
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Li Yin was lying on the couch for a while now, unable to move yet unable to completely shut off from everything as well. She was forced to listen as the others held conversations that were of no use. It wasn’t as if getting angry at Homin was going to change anything. She had been fortunate enough to have not lost her power when she was paralyzed, because the whole fight might have ended differently then. The reason why no one had died was mostly her influence.
First she had made Jimin keep Henry out of the fight, then she had pushed Jongwoon to merely knock out Sungmin and Ryeowook instead of killing them like he had planned to at first. But it hadn’t stopped at that. She made everyone take exactly those decisions that would lead to the least casualties and then there she was, listening to them arguing over that stupid ancient vampire.
It needed only a slight nudge for Kyuhyun to kill the stupid woman. Later on it would take a little more effort to make Jungsoo forget about her, but she would manage. And it was nice to know that whatever happened, at least Heechul would be by her side like he was now. She listened as the scene unfolded, finding every power she got to hear about quite intriguing.
But what was most intriguing was that Kibum obviously didn’t feel like sharing his, staying in the background and merely listening to his friends. So once again it took a little nudging for her to make him speak up, but surprisingly he realised that it wasn’t his own doing. And even more surprisingly she was found out by Misun. It was then that all Heechul’s attention shifted back to her. Everyone’s attention did, actually. She tried to break free from the iron grip that had been holding her for a long time now, but it didn’t work.
“Sunrise is not for a few minutes still.” Homin spoke up at that moment, making her groan inwardly. She then tried once again to break through the barriers, this time using all her strength. Suddenly the weight seemed to be lifted from her and she could feel her limbs responding again. The first thing she did was reach out and take Heechul’s hand, squeezing it softly. His eyes widened and she couldn’t help smiling when he looked at her.
“Hello gorgeous.” she then spoke softly, smiling into the kiss that followed. She could feel the conflict within him and was pleased to see that she needed no urging for him to pick the option where he pulled her into a tight hug.
“You okay?” he whispered then, making her nod slowly. “Oh God I was so worried.” he continued at that, frowning slightly. “Don’t ever do that to me again.”
“Say that to your old friend.” she replied softly, running a hand through his hair before looking up at the others. They had all been obviously watching them, but she didn’t mind showing them her soft side. If Heechul didn’t mind either, that meant there was no reason to feel awkward. Suddenly the silence was interrupted by a choked sob, however, making everyone look for the one crying at that moment, only to find Ryeowook hiding his face in his hands.
“I missed you guys.” he tried to explain himself with a tear-stricken voice. “In the years you all died one by one I really missed you. And now those feelings are all coming back to me. I finally found you again, but we’re standing here like strangers and it feels so WRONG. I don’t really know why I’m crying either, I’m sorry. I just feel so relieved and so disappointed at the same time. Kyuhyun sounds so angry at everything and Jungsoo hyung looks so lifeless. Everyone is so different. I don’t really feel like I found my friends again.”
He sounded so honest and sad that even Li Yin herself felt bad for him. The first to reach the younger, however, was Jongwoon, wrapping his dongsaeng in a tight hug. Henry was there only a split second later, throwing his arms around both his hyungs and squeezing them together.
“Wook-ah. Cute little Wook-ah.” Jongwoon then whispered, his own voice thick with emotions as well. If anyone would understand what it had been like to lose his best friends one by one, it would be those two and Kyuhyun, Li Yin realised, as they had lived the longest and had seen all the others disappear. Of course Ryeowook was the first to crack out of that group, always having been the more emotional one.
Yet the other members had also not forgotten what they had all been about once, and soon the three hugging friends got swarmed by people hugging them. Every awake once-member of Super Junior was eventually dragged into the group hug and Li Yin felt how even Heechul let go of her hand to join in. It was when they had all been standing there in a rare moment of unity that Hyukjae spoke up.
“This is all nice and heart-warming, guys, but why are you involving me in this?”
[FIC] Memories
Title: Memories
Characters: Super Junior
Rating: R
Chaptercount: 21/26
Summary: Fifteen people try to find the memories they forgot - or maybe they're just looking for each other.
A/N: A fic written on a hunch. One day I thought; "Super Junior. And vampires. This calls for a fic!" and well.. Here we are? Memories is one of the stories that I'm proud of, despite its sometimes messy storyline. It's also a story that won't be fully understood until you've read it completely. Things will be very confusing as you read, but will also get explained in future chapters. Be warned.
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Misun had acted out of an instinct more than common sense. When Jongwoon had kissed her, she suddenly found all the tiny, desperate shreds of hope jump up from where they had been trampled. Her husband was alive and kicking and he was on her side now. Telling him to break his sire’s power over him had been a long shot, but seeing it work, watching that tie to the cloaked figure snap with the explosion of power, that was something she had even been afraid to dream of. Suddenly she had found her life back and in the euphoria of that moment, she could only kiss him back.
But it didn’t take long for reality to strike her, when she felt the energy in the room shift and almost shivered at the tingly sensation that was Hyukjae’s mind stretching to listen in on others’ thoughts. She let go then, but couldn’t help staring at Jongwoon in awe for a bit longer, a smile tugging up the corners of her mouth. “Later.” she said then, and he repeated the same thing after her, questioningly. “We’ll talk later. Now we have to help our friends.” He nodded to that, turning to look at the situation in the room.
In a corner, Shindong lay limply on the floor, knocked out by the vicinity of Hyukjae’s mental and physical push. Youngwoon, Heechul and Henry were closing in on the cloaked figure, so she immediately shouted at them not to kill him. Her attention was pulled by Hangeng moments later, however, right as the cloaked stranger was sent flying through the room by another one of Hyukjae’s mental hits. It was true that she had told him they’d need him in the battle, but maybe she should’ve also told him to at least be a little careful with the others.
She turned to Hangeng, immediately noticing Li Yin in his arms whose eyes were vivid with rage but who couldn’t move. A ripple of energy already went through the room right at that moment, so she didn’t have time to worry about that. “Hangeng, go take Heechul’s place. Tell him to come here and take care of his girlfriend. They need to go outside with Siwon and Sang Mi.” she told him, motioning Jongwoon to take over Li Yin for a moment. Right then, she could see movement to her right and she looked up to see Sungmin crawl back up on his feet. She was at his side in a blink, helping him up, smiling shortly to show him she was on his side. He was wobbly at first – obviously Jongwoon had not held back – but then stood steady soon after.
“Sungmin, can you take Ryeowook over there outside?” she asked him gently, but with some urge. Behind them she could feel power and energy building up, obviously Hyukjae and the woman were not going soft on each other. “Henry’s safe. He’s back on our side. We need to get out of here if we can. Go!” He obliged to her then, starting to walk away from her to get Ryeowook. She didn’t stay to watch, knowing he would take care of the younger male well.
Instead, she went over to the group holding the stranger. She silently moved to the captive, taking only one look at his eyes to confirm her suspicions. “Youngwoon, Henry, take him outside. Make sure he doesn’t get away. Find Jongwoon and tell him to knock this one out.” she told them, the two taking her orders after a short nod from Hangeng. She then focused on the latter right as a huge blast of energy was reflected by Hyukjae, throwing the woman backwards.
“Where’s Zhou Mi? What the hell is taking him so long?” she growled.
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Zhou Mi was sitting on a rock near the entrance of the room in which everything was going on. He felt kind of useless as he watched Misun and the others take their places and move inside, but then focused on the task she had given him. On his left, Kibum shifted uncomfortably and he felt sorry for the younger who was helping people he didn’t even have any actual memories of - except for the ones he made over the past few hours. But then again, Kibum had always been a bit of a martyr no matter what his connection to them.
He closed his eyes then, trying to remember what it was that Misun had told him. He searched for the hidden spot in his mind and then released all his mental energy on it, shouting out a silent plea for help to the one person who might be able to help them now. In the middle of his concentration, a tremble suddenly went through the ground, making him open his eyes. Kibum shrugged at him, a sign that he didn’t have a clue either. They stared at each other for a moment, before he went back to concentrating.
Moments later he trembled again, but he then realised it wasn’t the ground anymore and really him. He tried not to open his eyes this time, simply trying to find focus. What came next was an ice cold feeling at the back of his neck and suddenly he knew he had been heard. The coldness changed to a soft warmth that clouded his mind as he tried to sink away in it. That’s when a sharp pain struck his cheek and he tumbled right back into awareness, eyes opening in shock.
“Get your act together. The ground has stopped trembling by now.” Kibum told him with a roll of his eyes. He remembered hat gesture as something more Heechul-like, not something Kibum would do. “Misun told you to try and find the guy. Are you terribly stupid or do you just pretend to be?” The younger huffed, before his eyes suddenly widened. “You’re getting terribly pale. Fast. Do you need blood? I know it tastes like crap but I can’t offer you any other than mine..” he immediately stated, worry obvious in his voice despite all the annoyance.
“What? No, I’m fine.” he protested, right as he felt something icy slide up his back again. The next moment there was the awareness that something was approaching him and then suddenly a man appeared in front of them, eyes narrowed. Kibum jumped up immediately, but Zhou Mi took hold of the younger’s hand to keep him from attacking. The stranger eyed them for a moment, giving them a pensive look, before suddenly smiling. It was only then that Zhou Mi noticed the eyes glowing a bright blue.
“It’s you.” the stranger spoke then, nodding slightly. “Very nice to see you. You called? Is something going o- Oh my, apparently so. It’s been a long time since I felt energy levels this high. You must all be here. So what’s the problem?” His voice was light and cheerful, as if he wasn’t bothered about Kibum’s hostility at all.
“Misun told me to tell you that your pet went rabid” Zhou Mi relayed the woman’s words, right as several of their friends came out of the holes leading to the underground room. “And if you don’t do something about it, your two pets might just kill each other.” he then added as an afterthought, before another heavy tremble wrecked through his body.
“That was an impressive effort, kid.” the newcomer said upon noticing the shivering. “But next time don’t do more than you can take with your blood level. I suggest you get some blood in your system again before you pass out and make us have to do the job for you.” The man smiled then. “Now let me go get my children out of each other’s hair. Rowdy bunch.” He grinned, before looking at Kibum shortly. “You. While I’m gone, help this one get some blood. After that; remember.”
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Jongwoon, Siwon, Heechul, Sang Mi and Li Yin reached their two friends right as the unfamiliar man entered the room. Sungmin and Ryeowook came out right at that moment as well, but paid him no attention. The whole group gathered around the two who had been there all along, expecting to find their answers there.
“Who was that?” Heechul managed to ask while fussing over his still immobilised girlfriend. Siwon and Sang Mi however, immediately added an interested: “Was that him?” Zhou Mi nodded, eyes seeming unfocused and distant.
“I need to feed.” he said then as he got up. Immediately Kibum did so as well, hovering around the other and sending suspicious glares into the dark forest. It seemed for a moment that Siwon was going to say something, but Kibum cut him off with a “You all stay here, we’ll be okay.” that seemed reasonable enough. The next moment the model and the redhead disappeared into the forest. Siwon watched them go with a frown, but no matter how much he wanted to, he couldn’t follow them at that moment to make sure they were alright.
“God damn it, I swear I’m going to kill that woman.” Heechul suddenly cursed, when nothing he did seemed to make Li Yin able to move again. What caught his eye next was Henry and Youngwoon dragging the cloaked stranger towards them; the one who had put his girlfriend in her uncomfortable position to begin with. He immediately stalked over to them, but luckily Hangeng came out of the room as well, intercepting his seething friend before he could attack the cloaked vampire.
Heechul growled as his chest slammed against Hangeng’s unmovable arm, but he would never go against his friend’s better judgement. That didn’t help him from glaring at the stranger as he was dragged closer. “Get that…whatever it is out of my girlfriend! If she’s not moving like a normal person in five seconds I’m going to go back inside, get that deranged little sire-lady of yours and tear her apart in front of your eyes. And you’ll come next.” Heechul’s eyes were a vivid red, his rage obvious, but the cloaked stranger merely let out a hoarse laugh, unimpressed.
“Nothing I can do about her.” he croaked, voice cold and hard. “The effect will wear off one day, I guess. I don’t really know since no one’s ever survived it long enough to test that.” He grinned at those words, his eyes sparkling with a fighting spirit that rivalled Heechul’s, but his aura was three times as cold. Heechul roared in rage and lashed out at the guy, but Hangeng quickly pushed him backwards so they couldn’t harm each other.
“Jongwoon, put that one asleep.” he meanwhile ordered the vampire who had silently watched the whole conversation. “And maybe you could calm Chul down a little or something? He’ll need his common sense when Misun comes back out.” The appointed vampire didn’t move, but suddenly Henry yawned and not long after Heechul seemed to calm down a bit too. Jongwoon sighed then, calmly walking closer to his previous sire. The wicked expression in the other’s eyes didn’t bother him, but the things he might possibly find behind the facial mask did. And when he calmly tore the cloth aside, they all gasped in shock.
There, in front of their eyes, sat Jungsoo. Wicked grin, dangerous eyes, but still Jungsoo. Said vampire suddenly growled from deep down in his throat and tried to bite Jongwoon, but luckily the latter was faster. In the blink of an eye, the murderous ex-leader of their group went limp and he would’ve face-planted himself onto the ground if it weren’t for his two captors still holdings his arms in a secure grip. No one spoke anymore, everyone was staring at their passed out leader.
“Well…” Siwon suddenly mumbled, making all of them look up at him. “That was unexpected.” He smiled mirthlessly, but even that soon died away as he frowned at his friends.
“Not really.” Hangeng then interjected. “Misun obviously knew about this.” He huffed, but didn’t seem as offended as Heechul, who let out an annoyed growl. “Misun obviously knows about a lot of things, but she refuses to let others know about them too.” he grumpily stated. “Like how that piece of weird over there apparently is her husband.” His flaming eyes went to Jongwoon who was still staring at Jungsoo’s unmoving body, but none of them had expected the look of utter pain on his face as he sank down on his knees next to the leader.
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Jimin frowned as she found herself unable to move any of her limbs anymore. When she realised what the reason for that probably was, her eyes went wide and she desperately started fighting against the invisible bounds that held her. It was of no use. She was powerless against this enemy. The only comfort she had was that Hyukjae seemed to be in the same situation as her, standing just as frozen a mere few metres away from her.
But she didn’t get much time to celebrate that fact, as right then the owner of the voice that had called her stepped into view. She froze, even more than because of the previously given order. The glowing blue eyes were so vivid they made her want to cringe away. They were like a constant reminder of how everything started, how her world was turned upside down that one fateful night when she had been on her way home from a concert she had always wanted to see.
Ironic how her biggest dream had turned into her biggest nightmare in the end. All because they left her waiting at an exit for hours only to never see anyone show up there. She had been disappointed, hurt mostly, as she started on her way home, and then there was an alley where eyes glowed blue and purple and her innocence was taken away from her. Pain had been very present that night. And an excruciating hatred for those who had been the reason for her to walk through that alley at such late hours.
She had never forgiven them for it. In fact, she had forced them into the nightmare with her. It didn’t take that much effort, just some sabotaging and a few bites here and there. Pushing Kangin off a cliff during his army service, sabotaging Leeteuk, Eunhyuk and Shindong’s car when coming home from a show recording, plucking Donghae out of his apartment and making it look like suicide, attacking Kyuhyun after the burial of his friends, making Hangeng and Zhou Mi’s plane crash on their way back to China, surprising Kibum and Siwon after one of their many church services, ‘saving’ Heechul during the unexpected shooting where he almost died, pulling Ryeowook out of the composing studio after it exploded, changing Sungmin while he was on one of his mountain climbing trips and lastly attacking Henry on one of his walks through the forest.
But not Jongwoon. Not Jongwoon with his pregnant wife and his cute smile. Not Yesung who had stolen her heart from day one with his gorgeous voice. And now look at her. That same Jongwoon died in a car accident not much later and Jungsoo only barely made it in time to change him. That same Jongwoon planned for ten years to find his friends and destroy whoever brought this upon them after she gave him Kyuhyun as company.
She wanted nothing more than to kill all of them now, kill the stupid little excuses for men that they were. But maybe she would spare Jungsoo, who had stayed by her side even when she allowed him to go. Jungsoo who loved her despite everything. Even though he didn’t say it with quite that many words, she heard it in his voice and felt it in his touches.
“Jimin.” that dreadful voice then spoke, interrupting her thoughts, reducing her to a scared mess again. “So many years and you’re still angry? So many years and still so much hate.” There was a hand put on her shoulder that strangely comforted her, made her want to hide away in those arms, despite knowing who was behind them. She heard herself wail slightly and the next moment the arms did wrap around her. She hid in them like a scared little girl.
“Jimin, dear, there’s no need to be angry at them. They did nothing wrong. If you want to be angry, I should be on the receiving end.” She hummed something distantly agreeing, not really caring what he was talking about but just wanting him to hold her tight. She allowed her mind to be overwhelmed by the presence of her sire.
“Hyukjae..” that same voice then spoke a name she hated so much, even though she didn’t quite remember anymore why now. “Relax. No one’s going to hurt you anymore except for yourself. If you keep this mindreading thing up, your head will hurt a lot later on.” Jimin wasn’t exactly sure how or what, but she could feel the air going thinner, as if released from a huge energy. The next moment a silent order reached her and she sank away into sleep not long after.
Characters: Super Junior
Rating: R
Chaptercount: 21/26
Summary: Fifteen people try to find the memories they forgot - or maybe they're just looking for each other.
A/N: A fic written on a hunch. One day I thought; "Super Junior. And vampires. This calls for a fic!" and well.. Here we are? Memories is one of the stories that I'm proud of, despite its sometimes messy storyline. It's also a story that won't be fully understood until you've read it completely. Things will be very confusing as you read, but will also get explained in future chapters. Be warned.
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Misun had acted out of an instinct more than common sense. When Jongwoon had kissed her, she suddenly found all the tiny, desperate shreds of hope jump up from where they had been trampled. Her husband was alive and kicking and he was on her side now. Telling him to break his sire’s power over him had been a long shot, but seeing it work, watching that tie to the cloaked figure snap with the explosion of power, that was something she had even been afraid to dream of. Suddenly she had found her life back and in the euphoria of that moment, she could only kiss him back.
But it didn’t take long for reality to strike her, when she felt the energy in the room shift and almost shivered at the tingly sensation that was Hyukjae’s mind stretching to listen in on others’ thoughts. She let go then, but couldn’t help staring at Jongwoon in awe for a bit longer, a smile tugging up the corners of her mouth. “Later.” she said then, and he repeated the same thing after her, questioningly. “We’ll talk later. Now we have to help our friends.” He nodded to that, turning to look at the situation in the room.
In a corner, Shindong lay limply on the floor, knocked out by the vicinity of Hyukjae’s mental and physical push. Youngwoon, Heechul and Henry were closing in on the cloaked figure, so she immediately shouted at them not to kill him. Her attention was pulled by Hangeng moments later, however, right as the cloaked stranger was sent flying through the room by another one of Hyukjae’s mental hits. It was true that she had told him they’d need him in the battle, but maybe she should’ve also told him to at least be a little careful with the others.
She turned to Hangeng, immediately noticing Li Yin in his arms whose eyes were vivid with rage but who couldn’t move. A ripple of energy already went through the room right at that moment, so she didn’t have time to worry about that. “Hangeng, go take Heechul’s place. Tell him to come here and take care of his girlfriend. They need to go outside with Siwon and Sang Mi.” she told him, motioning Jongwoon to take over Li Yin for a moment. Right then, she could see movement to her right and she looked up to see Sungmin crawl back up on his feet. She was at his side in a blink, helping him up, smiling shortly to show him she was on his side. He was wobbly at first – obviously Jongwoon had not held back – but then stood steady soon after.
“Sungmin, can you take Ryeowook over there outside?” she asked him gently, but with some urge. Behind them she could feel power and energy building up, obviously Hyukjae and the woman were not going soft on each other. “Henry’s safe. He’s back on our side. We need to get out of here if we can. Go!” He obliged to her then, starting to walk away from her to get Ryeowook. She didn’t stay to watch, knowing he would take care of the younger male well.
Instead, she went over to the group holding the stranger. She silently moved to the captive, taking only one look at his eyes to confirm her suspicions. “Youngwoon, Henry, take him outside. Make sure he doesn’t get away. Find Jongwoon and tell him to knock this one out.” she told them, the two taking her orders after a short nod from Hangeng. She then focused on the latter right as a huge blast of energy was reflected by Hyukjae, throwing the woman backwards.
“Where’s Zhou Mi? What the hell is taking him so long?” she growled.
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Zhou Mi was sitting on a rock near the entrance of the room in which everything was going on. He felt kind of useless as he watched Misun and the others take their places and move inside, but then focused on the task she had given him. On his left, Kibum shifted uncomfortably and he felt sorry for the younger who was helping people he didn’t even have any actual memories of - except for the ones he made over the past few hours. But then again, Kibum had always been a bit of a martyr no matter what his connection to them.
He closed his eyes then, trying to remember what it was that Misun had told him. He searched for the hidden spot in his mind and then released all his mental energy on it, shouting out a silent plea for help to the one person who might be able to help them now. In the middle of his concentration, a tremble suddenly went through the ground, making him open his eyes. Kibum shrugged at him, a sign that he didn’t have a clue either. They stared at each other for a moment, before he went back to concentrating.
Moments later he trembled again, but he then realised it wasn’t the ground anymore and really him. He tried not to open his eyes this time, simply trying to find focus. What came next was an ice cold feeling at the back of his neck and suddenly he knew he had been heard. The coldness changed to a soft warmth that clouded his mind as he tried to sink away in it. That’s when a sharp pain struck his cheek and he tumbled right back into awareness, eyes opening in shock.
“Get your act together. The ground has stopped trembling by now.” Kibum told him with a roll of his eyes. He remembered hat gesture as something more Heechul-like, not something Kibum would do. “Misun told you to try and find the guy. Are you terribly stupid or do you just pretend to be?” The younger huffed, before his eyes suddenly widened. “You’re getting terribly pale. Fast. Do you need blood? I know it tastes like crap but I can’t offer you any other than mine..” he immediately stated, worry obvious in his voice despite all the annoyance.
“What? No, I’m fine.” he protested, right as he felt something icy slide up his back again. The next moment there was the awareness that something was approaching him and then suddenly a man appeared in front of them, eyes narrowed. Kibum jumped up immediately, but Zhou Mi took hold of the younger’s hand to keep him from attacking. The stranger eyed them for a moment, giving them a pensive look, before suddenly smiling. It was only then that Zhou Mi noticed the eyes glowing a bright blue.
“It’s you.” the stranger spoke then, nodding slightly. “Very nice to see you. You called? Is something going o- Oh my, apparently so. It’s been a long time since I felt energy levels this high. You must all be here. So what’s the problem?” His voice was light and cheerful, as if he wasn’t bothered about Kibum’s hostility at all.
“Misun told me to tell you that your pet went rabid” Zhou Mi relayed the woman’s words, right as several of their friends came out of the holes leading to the underground room. “And if you don’t do something about it, your two pets might just kill each other.” he then added as an afterthought, before another heavy tremble wrecked through his body.
“That was an impressive effort, kid.” the newcomer said upon noticing the shivering. “But next time don’t do more than you can take with your blood level. I suggest you get some blood in your system again before you pass out and make us have to do the job for you.” The man smiled then. “Now let me go get my children out of each other’s hair. Rowdy bunch.” He grinned, before looking at Kibum shortly. “You. While I’m gone, help this one get some blood. After that; remember.”
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Jongwoon, Siwon, Heechul, Sang Mi and Li Yin reached their two friends right as the unfamiliar man entered the room. Sungmin and Ryeowook came out right at that moment as well, but paid him no attention. The whole group gathered around the two who had been there all along, expecting to find their answers there.
“Who was that?” Heechul managed to ask while fussing over his still immobilised girlfriend. Siwon and Sang Mi however, immediately added an interested: “Was that him?” Zhou Mi nodded, eyes seeming unfocused and distant.
“I need to feed.” he said then as he got up. Immediately Kibum did so as well, hovering around the other and sending suspicious glares into the dark forest. It seemed for a moment that Siwon was going to say something, but Kibum cut him off with a “You all stay here, we’ll be okay.” that seemed reasonable enough. The next moment the model and the redhead disappeared into the forest. Siwon watched them go with a frown, but no matter how much he wanted to, he couldn’t follow them at that moment to make sure they were alright.
“God damn it, I swear I’m going to kill that woman.” Heechul suddenly cursed, when nothing he did seemed to make Li Yin able to move again. What caught his eye next was Henry and Youngwoon dragging the cloaked stranger towards them; the one who had put his girlfriend in her uncomfortable position to begin with. He immediately stalked over to them, but luckily Hangeng came out of the room as well, intercepting his seething friend before he could attack the cloaked vampire.
Heechul growled as his chest slammed against Hangeng’s unmovable arm, but he would never go against his friend’s better judgement. That didn’t help him from glaring at the stranger as he was dragged closer. “Get that…whatever it is out of my girlfriend! If she’s not moving like a normal person in five seconds I’m going to go back inside, get that deranged little sire-lady of yours and tear her apart in front of your eyes. And you’ll come next.” Heechul’s eyes were a vivid red, his rage obvious, but the cloaked stranger merely let out a hoarse laugh, unimpressed.
“Nothing I can do about her.” he croaked, voice cold and hard. “The effect will wear off one day, I guess. I don’t really know since no one’s ever survived it long enough to test that.” He grinned at those words, his eyes sparkling with a fighting spirit that rivalled Heechul’s, but his aura was three times as cold. Heechul roared in rage and lashed out at the guy, but Hangeng quickly pushed him backwards so they couldn’t harm each other.
“Jongwoon, put that one asleep.” he meanwhile ordered the vampire who had silently watched the whole conversation. “And maybe you could calm Chul down a little or something? He’ll need his common sense when Misun comes back out.” The appointed vampire didn’t move, but suddenly Henry yawned and not long after Heechul seemed to calm down a bit too. Jongwoon sighed then, calmly walking closer to his previous sire. The wicked expression in the other’s eyes didn’t bother him, but the things he might possibly find behind the facial mask did. And when he calmly tore the cloth aside, they all gasped in shock.
There, in front of their eyes, sat Jungsoo. Wicked grin, dangerous eyes, but still Jungsoo. Said vampire suddenly growled from deep down in his throat and tried to bite Jongwoon, but luckily the latter was faster. In the blink of an eye, the murderous ex-leader of their group went limp and he would’ve face-planted himself onto the ground if it weren’t for his two captors still holdings his arms in a secure grip. No one spoke anymore, everyone was staring at their passed out leader.
“Well…” Siwon suddenly mumbled, making all of them look up at him. “That was unexpected.” He smiled mirthlessly, but even that soon died away as he frowned at his friends.
“Not really.” Hangeng then interjected. “Misun obviously knew about this.” He huffed, but didn’t seem as offended as Heechul, who let out an annoyed growl. “Misun obviously knows about a lot of things, but she refuses to let others know about them too.” he grumpily stated. “Like how that piece of weird over there apparently is her husband.” His flaming eyes went to Jongwoon who was still staring at Jungsoo’s unmoving body, but none of them had expected the look of utter pain on his face as he sank down on his knees next to the leader.
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Jimin frowned as she found herself unable to move any of her limbs anymore. When she realised what the reason for that probably was, her eyes went wide and she desperately started fighting against the invisible bounds that held her. It was of no use. She was powerless against this enemy. The only comfort she had was that Hyukjae seemed to be in the same situation as her, standing just as frozen a mere few metres away from her.
But she didn’t get much time to celebrate that fact, as right then the owner of the voice that had called her stepped into view. She froze, even more than because of the previously given order. The glowing blue eyes were so vivid they made her want to cringe away. They were like a constant reminder of how everything started, how her world was turned upside down that one fateful night when she had been on her way home from a concert she had always wanted to see.
Ironic how her biggest dream had turned into her biggest nightmare in the end. All because they left her waiting at an exit for hours only to never see anyone show up there. She had been disappointed, hurt mostly, as she started on her way home, and then there was an alley where eyes glowed blue and purple and her innocence was taken away from her. Pain had been very present that night. And an excruciating hatred for those who had been the reason for her to walk through that alley at such late hours.
She had never forgiven them for it. In fact, she had forced them into the nightmare with her. It didn’t take that much effort, just some sabotaging and a few bites here and there. Pushing Kangin off a cliff during his army service, sabotaging Leeteuk, Eunhyuk and Shindong’s car when coming home from a show recording, plucking Donghae out of his apartment and making it look like suicide, attacking Kyuhyun after the burial of his friends, making Hangeng and Zhou Mi’s plane crash on their way back to China, surprising Kibum and Siwon after one of their many church services, ‘saving’ Heechul during the unexpected shooting where he almost died, pulling Ryeowook out of the composing studio after it exploded, changing Sungmin while he was on one of his mountain climbing trips and lastly attacking Henry on one of his walks through the forest.
But not Jongwoon. Not Jongwoon with his pregnant wife and his cute smile. Not Yesung who had stolen her heart from day one with his gorgeous voice. And now look at her. That same Jongwoon died in a car accident not much later and Jungsoo only barely made it in time to change him. That same Jongwoon planned for ten years to find his friends and destroy whoever brought this upon them after she gave him Kyuhyun as company.
She wanted nothing more than to kill all of them now, kill the stupid little excuses for men that they were. But maybe she would spare Jungsoo, who had stayed by her side even when she allowed him to go. Jungsoo who loved her despite everything. Even though he didn’t say it with quite that many words, she heard it in his voice and felt it in his touches.
“Jimin.” that dreadful voice then spoke, interrupting her thoughts, reducing her to a scared mess again. “So many years and you’re still angry? So many years and still so much hate.” There was a hand put on her shoulder that strangely comforted her, made her want to hide away in those arms, despite knowing who was behind them. She heard herself wail slightly and the next moment the arms did wrap around her. She hid in them like a scared little girl.
“Jimin, dear, there’s no need to be angry at them. They did nothing wrong. If you want to be angry, I should be on the receiving end.” She hummed something distantly agreeing, not really caring what he was talking about but just wanting him to hold her tight. She allowed her mind to be overwhelmed by the presence of her sire.
“Hyukjae..” that same voice then spoke a name she hated so much, even though she didn’t quite remember anymore why now. “Relax. No one’s going to hurt you anymore except for yourself. If you keep this mindreading thing up, your head will hurt a lot later on.” Jimin wasn’t exactly sure how or what, but she could feel the air going thinner, as if released from a huge energy. The next moment a silent order reached her and she sank away into sleep not long after.
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