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Jeno manages to get her safely out of the room, as he lifts Minju up in his arms and dashes towards the rooftops so that she could get some fresh air. Jisung already has the production crew waiting a little longer as he tries to request some more time for Minju to rest before shooting again. Minju barely breathes as the pain in her chest is uncontrollable, as she holds onto Jeno for support. He safely places her down on the bench of the rooftop, before checking her pulse. Already known what to do, he hands her a paper bag so that she can start to breathing into it and finding her state of peace.
Minju frantically grabs the bag, and holds onto Jeno's hand during that process without noticing it, as she breathes heavily into the bag. The bag gets filled then scrunches back tightly, repeating itself as Minju finds her rhythm of breathing. After a few more times, she finally reaches to a point where the pain starts to disappear and everything starts to become clear once more. Jeno just stares quietly at her, and lets her hold his hand as if it's the only thing he can do for her.
She removes the bag from her lips as she finally inhales the fresher air around her. The sky is bright blue with no clouds surrounding the sun, and an airplane seems to slowly soar past the two as they sit like this without another word. Minju realizes that her hand is holding onto Jeno's and she slowly lets go as Jeno speaks up quietly which makes her jump, "I remember when we first met."
Minju smiles to the instant memory that pops into her head when they first met at the hospital rooftop. Back then, her memories were flooding with all the pain that she received from Xiyeon, and the same thing happens to her today. She frowns slowly after, when she realizes that as she tries to distract her with the plants around them. Jeno continues to speak mindlessly, "I can't feel anything. Sometimes I wish I can remember what pain felt like. It's the only thing that I miss the most, because then I know that I shouldn't do something against that pains me."
Minju doesn't reply back to what he says as he then hands her a water bottle that isn't chilled. She didn't even realize how dry her throat was, and how it burns like the desert sand against her throat. She remembers that she didn't even take a sip of water that Jungwoo offered her. Jeno then stands up as he places his hands inside his pocket, as he turns his back around and towards the door, "Drink that and come down so that we can finish. You still have a lot of training to finish after the shoot. I don't need you to faint on me right now."
She nods quietly at his comment, before she sees him disappearing after he leaves the rooftop. Minju takes a sip of the bottle as she remembers that Jungwoo confessed to her, but it didn't even sting her one bit. But the moment she let go of Jeno's hand, that's when she felt the most emptiest as she never really got a chance to feel how soft and gentle Jeno's hand felt despite always punching something....is she becoming crazy...or normal?
The set soon wraps up as Minju completes a few of the shootings early without any NG's. As the movie set starts to clean up their cameras and lights, Minju heads towards NC901 office to drop off some snacks for the other members. She carefully knocks on the door to see if anyone is inside, only to be greeted by only Jeno sleeping on the couch. She remembers how many times Jeno needed to show her how to do the tricks, not to mention to pretend to fall every time her foot was near him for the action shots. Minju realizes how tired Jeno must have been but he never complained once during the filming in contrast to his reaction. She tries not to make much noise as she was shuffling around the desks as quietly as she can in the process. Jeno still sleeps without even moving from his current position, and she is surprised to see that the other doesn't make any noise when he sleeps.
Behind her, Jaemin walks while whistling quietly into the room as well, and he notices the actress struggling around to place the snacks on everyone's desk. He whispers slowly to not scare her with his sudden presence, "Jeno seems to pretty knocked out. The rest of the members are eating dinner right now; you can join us if you want."
The actress jumps a little despite of his whispering, and she bites her lip quietly to not make any noise. Minju turns around to face him with her head shaking in response. "It's a team dinner. I don't want to interrupt. Also, please take one of the these snacks so you can eat it for dessert."
As much as Minju would want to eat, it feels awkward for actually being at the dinner without Jeno around. Taking her response, Jaemin smiles softly and bows his head, before leaving the room soon after he grabs his phone and the snack from his desk. She watches carefully to see Jaemin leaving, and then makes her way slowly towards Jeno. She doesn't want to wake up the man, who is sleeping soundly without a word. She finds a jacket scattered around a chair nearby, and covers his stomach with it so that he wouldn't catch a cold. She also places a little sticky note on his hand and walks away quietly out of the room.
Calling her manager, she waits outside the station to remember how Jeno had helped her earlier with Jungwoo as well. She makes the courage to text Jisung and carefully asks, "What does Mr. Lee like to eat?'
Jisung is a pretty fast responder as he replies back immediately, "Hm..he likes ice cream for sure. It's something he can sense a little for once so he enjoys it."
"What kind of ice cream?"
"That, I don't know because his tastes varies from time to time."
She sends him a heart emoji before turning off her phone to see her manager waving tiredly at her. Heading towards the car, she tries to think of an idea to find the perfect ice cream for Mr. Stuck up.
Jeno soon wakes up a little past an hour, as the sun already disappeared from the sky. The moon shines against the window, and he sits up with his head spinning from sitting up too fast. The nauseous feeling finds its way around Jeno's body from time to time. He stares quietly at the jacket, wondering why Renjun's unwashed swat jacket was on top of him. He also looks around to find a sticky note posted onto his hand, as he squints in the darkness to read the faint writing.
"Mr. Lee. Thank you for working with me today. You seemed pretty tired so I am leaving first without saying goodbye. Shooting is moved to next week as I convinced them so we can get more practice. Oh and thank you for the earlier incident as well... See you tomorrow. -Minju."
He doesn't realize he's halfway towards an actual smile, until the door opens with a bam! The light on Jaemin's desk is turned on so he can make out whose standing at the doorway. But, he took off his contact lenses earlier to sleep so his vision is blurring on him. With an instant thought of being one of his members, he stands up and says with a laugh, "Turn on the lights. Stop standing like that."
But the person doesn't respond as Jeno slowly realizes that it isn't one of his members. The person is dressed in all black, especially accessorized with a black mask and a black hat to cover their face. The person is holding something of a hammer as Jeno makes out in a quick second as they approach Jeno immediately to attack. Jeno dodges the person's lunge as he manages to kick the attacker's stomach before he could get slashed with the hammer. He fights back with the attacker, but is thrown to the ground as he gets punched on the shoulder. He looks around to look for a piece of weapon to use to protect himself, and the hammer is so close to hitting him on the forehead. He manages to hold the other's wrist to prevent him to hitting him any further, and uses his strength to start defending himself from the punches thrown by the latter's other hand.
He barely can make out the other's face as the mask perfectly hides their nose, and the hat's bill is able to defend the attacker's eyes. He groans angrily as his strength is losing out on him but he hears the other speak in a low voice, "You touch Kim Minju again and I will rip your head off."
How does this person know about Minju and him working together? Is he someone that Jeno knows? Maybe a staff member on the set? While the two men struggle to fight each other, Jeno realizes that someone is nearing the doors as he tries to his best to not lose against his opponent. But if it's an accomplice, Jeno knew he couldn't hold on much longer. But, his mind starts to get distracted with multiple questions but the light turns on, and Jisung screams loudly, "HYUNG!"
Jeno looks over at Jisung with an unknown smile, who starts to run towards him. The attacker pushes Jeno away and he makes a run towards the window, smashing the blinds and the window with his hammer and jumps out of the building. Jisung widens his eyes and stops running as Donghyuck reaches the crime scene with a loud comment, "You got to be shitting me!!!! We just replaced the windows last year. And this building is four stories high!"
Jeno scrambles to his feet, and stares down at the main floor as the attacker makes his way with a limp from the station towards the street. There, he could see a black van awaiting for him, but everything else is a hazy mess as his eyes cannot clearly see anything. Jaemin, Chenle, and Renjun soon arrive to the scene as they all gasp in unison as they see the scattered glass everywhere.
Jisung scans to make sure if there are any wounds found on the captain's body, but Jeno's body doesn't seem to have been punched by the hammer. Donghyuck is texting Minhyung the updated news as Jeno finds his way to sit on the sofa of where he was sleeping earlier. Renjun scratches his own head, as Jeno feels himself getting angrier each second as the heat on his body start to rise. Jisung takes account on this, as he slowly tries to soothe the captain down. Jaemin rushes towards the door, on the lines of checking the security cameras. Chenle follows after him without another word, and Renjun sits at his desk with his head on the table.
Jeno swears he heard that voice before.....someone that he knows personally. But who could it be?
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