2 • A Thousand Miles
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Daesung's POV
I walked down the near empty street to our house, well to be exact our dormitory, but its so big so I may as well call it a house.
There were still a few people scattered here and there, not a surprise though, a city like Seoul never sleeps.
My sharp sense of hearing caught the sound of rat scurrying around the bins and the subway trains. And I swear I could hear someone making out in a dark corner somewhere...
"Hyung." The voice behind me called, actually made me jump. I was busy straining my senses to longer distance that I accidentally tuned off everything around me.
"Kkamjjakiya." I said, placing a hand over my heart. "Yah, stop jumping on me! You wanna get smacked?" I grumbled, showing him my fist.
Seungri bursted out laughing. "Hyung, y-you should've seen your f-face. You're as white as ghost." He said between his laughs.
I smacked his head hard. "That's what you get for snooping around." I said and continued walking, leaving him rubbing his head.
"Hyung, I swear one day you'll going to kill me with a concussion." He whined, trailing behind me.
"Good." I muttered.
I looked to my left and right before crossing the road. Well, not like it was necessary but, let's say I'd like to act normal, or human in this case.
Seungri snorted. "Really hyung? You can take a nuclear bomb and still live, why do you worry about being hit by a car?
"Because that's what human do." Seungri rolled his eyes.
"But you're not, so stop pretending to be one." He stopped on his track and tapped his chin, "and you're not one of us either. For god's sake hyung, I may be an assassin and you didn't even realize I'm following you!"
Its my turn to roll my eyes. "Ordinary assassins won't have any chance against me." I stated in a-matter-of-factly voice.
"And before you flatter yourself more, I know you've been following me. I just don't bother to check whether its true. You haven't disguised properly. I can smell you three blocks from here."
Seungri smelled his underarms, making me snort.
"Yah, how did you?" And then he widened his and faked a gasp.
I blinked, feeling my eyes turned red.
"Don't ever think that. I'm not one of those mutts." I snapped, continuing my steps.
Seungri hugged himself. "Oh, hyung! You pervert! Oh my innocence!!" He whined child-like before he burst out laughing.
I rolled my eyes. "Innocence my ass. Call me pervert one more time and you won't live to see the next century."
"What are you doing out here anyway? Looking for a one night stand?" I sneered, reaching at the building.
Of course, he was sent to spy after me. But Jiyong won't let him out that easily.
I looked up to the hundreds of floors. Our house was up there, literally at the top floor, the penthouse.
Seungri stood beside me, copying my act as he shrugged. "That, and well, Jiyong hyung asked me to find you."
I know that.
"And keep you off this building grounds. Oh well, you're here. So we might as well turn around and go hang out somewhere else." He added, pointing at the other direction.
This is not going to be good.
"Why?" I asked flatly.
"You know why." Its my turn to shrug.
"Hyung, why did you go there? You know Taeyang hyung forbade us to go there." He asked. I turned to him. His eyes showed concerns, and amusement. This little prick.
I stifled back a sigh. "Because its stupid. What kind of person neglecting his lover-for-life for some sort of, what, old prophecies?" I shook my head.
"Right..." Seungri trailed off, his fingers rubbing his chin as he hummed thoughtfully.
"Whatever I'm going in." I said, stepping forward, but stopped when a hand held my shoulder in a firm grip. I turned to face Seungri who now had a blank look on.
"Jiyong hyung asked me to keep you outside of the building." He stated.
"And if I refused?"
Something flickered through his eyes before it went back to their usual grey.
"I'll stop you."
"You can't stop me. You're not that strong." I replied with a deadpan face.
He was taken aback, but he quickly covered it.
"I can, hyung, don't underestimate me."
Before he could see it, I pulled his hand and used my superhuman speed to circle him. Standing behind him now, I grabbed his hair and slammed his face on the concrete ground, cracking the pavement and his skull.
I felt my eyes shifted back to its natural blue as I ran up to the top floor.
"I'm h-" I opened the door and before I know it I was pinned on the wall, fingers circled my neck and the fingernails were stabbing on my pulse.
"How. Dare. You. Disobey. Me." Taeyang's eyes were bright red.
I was choking, and I swear I heard my pulse thudding in my ears. I never been so scared of losing my beating pulse before. Well, of course considering that I live longer than the average human, but if he grip harder I'm sure I'll turn into a pile of ashes. I haven't meet my mate yet, for the goddess's sake!
"H-hyung," I managed to say.
"Yah, Youngbae, let him go. He's turning purple." Jiyong said from behind him. He looked worried but stood at a safe distance.
I wanted to scream 'don't stand there looking like an idiot and come help me' but of course I can't because I had just enraged the Prince of darkness and now I'm going to die, virgin.
"Like hell I will." Taeyang hissed and gripped harder, holding me up to the air. My feet was hanging loosely.
TOP walked out leisurely from his room to the kitchen, his hair sticking out to different directions. I tried to call him for some help but what I managed to let out was a squeak.
He opened the fridge and pulled out a wine bottle, poured the red liquid onto his glass and yawned. I squeaked again and this time I got his attention. He smirked. That asshole just smirked at me while I'm halfway to the Hades realm.
My ears throbbed as I felt the blood gathered in my head. I thought I was really going to die. But then TOP tapped on Taeyang's shoulder.
"Let him go or you'll need to answer your Father later. I'm not going with you this time." He said. Taeyang's eyes turned from red to almost all black before he released me. I fell onto the hard floor.
I lie on my back gasping for air as the blood rushed through my veins, again. Thank goddess for another chance!
"Thanks hyung." I gasped.
TOP chuckled and just waved his hand. He walked to the couch and flopped down, going through random channels.
Taeyang of course, retreated back to his suite, I guess, because I heard him slamming the door. Geez, I was only visiting, what's the problem?
Jiyong came and helped me up. "What the hell were you thinking?" He yelled.
"Nothing!" I yelled back.
"I know you're an idiot but can you be more stupid? He's going to murder you and you're going to feel sorry for your ass for getting yourself killed because of your stupid acts."
I waved my hand in dismissal. "Not now hyung. Not now."
"I'm not done talking." He said, his arms crossed, but then he looked around, remembering something.
"Where's Seungri?" He asked as I slumped on the couch next to TOP, snatching his glass of red liquid and downing it in a big gulp.
He frowned. "Get yourself a glass." He snapped.
"Sorry." I said, not feeling sorry at all.
"I asked him to follow you." Jiyong said, standing between the couch and the TV.
He received "Hyung I can't see!" from me and "Yah, get the hell out of here or I'll stake you!" from TOP.
"Not until you tell me where Seungri is." He glowered at me.
"He's fine."
"There were hunters in this area, Daesung." He said in a low, threatening voice.
As on cue, the door swung open and there stood Seungri with a blood stained shirt.
"What did I miss?" He shouted. Jiyong glared at me and I shrugged.
"Told you he's fine."
"What the hell happened to you?!" Jiyong asked, practically yelling at top of his lungs. Lucky, we're at the top floor, and no neighbor. We owned the whole floor and half of the floor downstairs, so we have no problems having a war up here without waking up half of the poor humans in this building who's trying to sleep.
"Accidents happens." Seungri just shrug, walked past the angry Jiyong, and flopped down next to me.
"What's on?" He asked, raising his legs and crossing them on top of the coffee table.
"The Werewolf Boy." I snorted, watching as the human tried to kill the young man or should I say, werewolf.
What would the fangirls say if they knew that Joongki was a real werewolf. I smirked at the thought.
"Go wash yourself, both of you, you stink." TOP said without taking his eyes off the big screen.
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Taeyang's PoV
I stood by the glass wall that overlooked the sea of concretes around us. The surroundings were very dark, and the buildings had little lights that made it looked like they were fireflies rather than bricks and stones that were inhabited by humans.
I sighed as I pinched the bridge of my nose. That idiot Daesung really got on my nerves this time by ignoring my orders. Did he forgot that I had the power to end his life for once?
I shook my head.
Not that I would really kill him. He was my friend, my brother. We've been through a lot together for as long as I remember. But I was also his prince, and he should obey me.
I understand that he, all of them, worried about me. A vampire shouldn't stay away from his mate for too long, because it may kills the bond they had between them, resulting a Mateless Vampire. Mateless Vampires will slowly die later after the bond was torn.
You see, mate was as important as blood.
They- my brothers, TOP, Jiyong, Daesung and Seungri survived all these centuries without their mates, but that's because the goddess haven't let them cross paths yet. Once they meet their other halves, they have to stay together or be a Mateless Vamp.
I for another thing, have to stay within at least a mile near my mate, because I had found her. But that's the problem. I can't. Not without hurting her, or me.
You might think 'why don't you meet her and tell her about being mates?' Yeah, as if it was that easy. The thing is she's a human.
Secondly, she's a freaking human, and what does a freaking human do? They're busy staying alive in this cruel world and surely don't give a shit about vampires. I doubt they even believe we exist. Even if she do believe we exist that's doesn't count either. Because? Well here's the cause: the worse part. She doesn't remember me.
My ears catching what was happening around me. A sound of siren, cats meowing, dogs barking, all of those typical boring sounds at night. If I listened very carefully though, I could hear the sound of the the humans snoring and sighing in their sleep. Sometimes I enjoyed lurking at the darker side of their little dream world, watching their dreams like a theater play.
That's what I do with her, but I don't creep in to her dreams of course.
I transported her from her dreams to my memories. Its one of the special abilities I had. I specially chose the dream that she have been having, all the way from past these years and centuries, back from where we'd start, where our life together begun. All because of hoping to regain some memory of us back to her beautiful mind.
Though, it always ended horribly these times.
She ran away every time. I guess none of the dreams managed to knock down the barriers that shut our memories off.
I know for sure that it was hurting her. Its the curse within her that managed to keep her off me all these years. It's what kept us apart. I couldn't get too near or too far, because by doing that it would hurt either one of us, or both of us.
These past months had been hard enough for me, where I was forced to travel around the world with my group, leaving my mate at Korea. And though she was fine, it was I who was hurting.
There's not a single night that I wouldn't feel the burning sensation in my heart, and it felt like a freaking heart attack. So every night I'll meet her in our dream, its the only way to avoid the regular 'heart attack'. It was able to ease my pain a little but had hurt her instead, and I'll wake up feeling pained more than ever because I know that I've been causing her pain.
I don't mind hurting, I would take a thousand stakes for her. Just like what she'd done for me. I would die for her. I'd do anything, to stir her away from this suffering.
But the Fates were bitches. They were playing with us, knowing that we're star crossed lovers. I tried to find ways to reunite with my beloved, but the researches always led to the same answer. Sacrifice.
One word I can't force her into.
I walked to the huge bed and lie down, feeling the soft material on my skin, but couldn't get any comfort from it. I closed my eyes and let my mind wander, up the street, to the little apartment she was staying.
I pictured myself standing outside her bedroom door. I walked inside and sat at her side of the bed, watching her as her chest rise and fall in slow steady breaths.
I took a deep breath and touched her mind. She was dreaming about her dog and my eyes flickered to him.
The little white fluffy thing was lying next to her and was looking at me with that puppy eyes. I reached out across Hyuna's sleeping form to pet him and he whimpered.
"I'm not going to hurt you." I assured as I patted his head slowly. He wagged his tail and looked up to sniff my hand.
I chuckled. "Do you like your new owner?" He licked my palm. "I take that as a yes."
"Take care of her for me, will you?" I said to the dog, feeling funny for talking to him.
Hyuna stirred and turned her head my way as she murmured something in her sleep. I smiled as I tucked a strand of stray hair behind her ear.
"I love you too, Love. I'll find a way to unite us. I promise." I kissed her forehead and opened my eyes to the dark surroundings of my own room.
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a/n
Hi!
It's been a crazy week and honestly I don't know how to put up with my crazy schedules and short time anymore (I know everyone has their own struggle in their lives, but I can't help but to pity myself.) I mean, I'm only one person, with a pair of hands and legs and one brain! And I am expected to do all the works! *sighs*
But anyway..
THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE READS!
Chapter one "Rewind" has up to 30 reads and honestly, (really!) I don't think I could get even 5 reads for one chapter! And I don't think I'd even get any comments too!! (Special thanks to @swiftlyfree and @nerdysquarepants! I know I've mentioned these two awesome people at the very top short a/n but I can't help it. Their comments helps me boost my confidence to update more.)
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU SO MUCH!
I hope you guys sticks with me until the very last chapter mehh :p
And oh, before I forget.. I include some new Korean words in here, and I thought some of you might want to know the meanings.. So here we go:
Hyung- older brother
Kkamjjakiya- 'you startled me' or 'oh my gosh, you scared me' or etc (whichever has the same meaning as the above)
And again, I'm not Korean, but I do watch Korean movies and dramas. But please, if you think my translations are wrong, don't be shy to correct me. You're helping me big time! ;)
Until the next update!
-Charlotte xx
(Updated 04.24.15)
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