Ep9. Guillotine
"Sleep on me, feel the rhythm in my chest,
just breathe,
I will stay,
so the lantern in your heart won't fade.
"Sana-
" where is she?!" Tzuyu asked hitting the table violently though bounded in chains. She had regained herself fully after an hour of being unconscious "how did i get here?" The Taiwanese asked looked sternly into the eyes of the female detective that was seated before her. Beside her was a male standing by her side having an uncongenial look. The Taiwanese got no response to her questions. It hurts. She practically hated being ignored.
"I have only few questions for you young lady." Chae-Rin begun "What's your name in full?" She asked gaining a death glare from the Taiwanese. Tzuyu scoffed and looked sideways replying not a word. Min-Jae sighed and placed his right hands on the metallic table, trying to have an eye contact with the dark haired "Listen, proving stubborn won't help. We can't let you go without knowing more about you. You can at least help us to help you" he said and pulled back as Chae-Rin took over immediately, "There are so many people who got faced with issues like this some days ago. At the end, they had no choice rather than submit wholeheartedly". Tzuyu smirked and looked straight into Chae-Rin's eyes. Circling her eyes with hers, she tried to illuminate, capture and arrest her inner spirit which would definitely be visual in split of minutes.
For the first time, Chae-Rin couldn't resist the beauty of the Taiwanese.
Tzuyu was slowly winning but worst it Min-Jae didn't understand what was ongoing.
Chae-Rin's eyes travelled from the Taiwanese translucent skin to her eyes which had turned to the shape of a cat's, a light neon green then to her thin lips. Her lips were blue with cold and her teeth chattered. Though her lips were pretty, it was the feel of them that sent Chae-Rin's mind into a sensual state of intoxication. Her lips curled. All she could see was Tzuyu and in reaction, she wanted to have her so bad. Her lips. Puling her seat backwards, Chae-Rin stood up all of a sudden gaining Min-Jae's attention who's head peeked up in untrammelled questions of her whereabouts but regarding her as boss right from the very onset, he avoided questioning her what her plans were, he jolted out some things down on his file and on spur of moment, sounds of lips hungrily slamming at each other was slowly all Min-Jae could hear. He closed his eyes and mentally insulted himself for always choosing pornography things. Because he was fond of thinking about sexual activities in his mind wherever he found himself, it didn't occur to him that the lips kissing sounded real until he flashed his eyes open, turned towards the suspected brunette and widen his eyes.
Like a joke, Chae-Rin had her shirt unbuttoned half way. Her cleavages were exposed a great deal. She was on top of Tzuyu's lap. The kissing grew closely from lips to jaw. Chae-Rin, enjoying herself, took her head up giving the Taiwanese more access. As Tzuyu bent to her neck, her fang momentarily, widened and closed. "You're so beautiful" Tzuyu said as she kissed the detective's neck, preparing her dinner in a grand style. Breathing in and out, her eyes slowly turned to neon red. Min-Jae opened his mouth wide. It was like one of the movies he would watch late at night about vampires but this was happening real. Slowly, Tzuyu opened her mouth, revealing her fang that jolted out from both sides of her mouth.
"No!" Min-Jae screamed and made a rapid move towards them but Tzuyu froze his steps with her powers. He remained still at a spot, unable to move further. He tried. He tried to save her. Looking round about, he cussed severally as his eyes wandered around "shits" he cussed again.
Chae-Rin bounded in lust only had her eyes shut, totally driven into the ecstasy of pleasure she was receiving from the deadly Taiwanese. "Ahh, your hands are so good on my body. It makes me feel.........alive" she uttered, still having her head thrown back. "No general! .....no, no" Min-Jae was thoughtless at that moment. He panicked. He breathed in and out but air wouldn't enter his lungs. Starved for air, his heart raced at tremendous speeds, and his lungs shallowly rose and fell in time. He stood there for what felt like an eternity but was actually only five minutes. Satisfaction of security was nothing but a distant memory , and an invisible force crushed him from every possible direction. Each second submerged in fear made a permanent mark on his heart, and a vivid imagination made him wander whether it was just his mind playing tricks or reality.
"No!" Min-Jae gasp for air "no, no, no, no" he shook his head to and fro and Unanticipatedly, within a minute, Tzuyu opened her mouth widely as she gripped Chae-Rin's head and bit her neck deeply.
"Mm" Chae-Rin moaned silently as the pains she felt knew no bounds. Life was slowly going out of her. Without mercy, Tzuyu bit deeper into her flesh.
Flickered.
Tzuyu flung her eyes open. The first thing she'd saw was a portrait of her late sister. Thinking she had purposely visited and manipulated her dreams, the Taiwanese closed her eyes to sleep back when the thoughts of Sana came, mesmerising her. Instantly, she jolted up and looked at the wall clock. Tick. Tick. Tock. Her eyes flickered like an energetic butterfly and tried to recall what had happened before her sleep.
"Don't think too much. Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff. The more you over think, the less you will understand" Sunmi said, hands grinding her cat's fur. Tzuyu turned to her, the blonde haired could see how darkened her eyes had grew. "Where's Sana?" Tzuyu asked her. She looked at the TV screen while she spoke. "The cops took her." Sunmi said as Tzuyu looked away and covered her face with both of her palms. Her mind was going crazy. "We both went out for a picnic and you'd fainted because of this", Raising a piece of paper up before her, Tzuyu collected it rapidly and read through it's content. Slowly, her breathings were audible to Sunmi. She was becoming angry, her eyes had turned to neon green.
"Calm down" Sunmi begun, not sure if that was the best way to soften issues. The person who had always done the magic of calming Tzuyu done was Momo and neither was she in a good state of mind to comfort someone when she seeks for it.
Gulping, Tzuyu turned to the side mirror, staring into her aggressive reflection. Her eyes had grew deep dark and round about. Her lips, sore and dry. "where is Momo and ChungHa?" She asked as Sunmi pouted and kissed her cat. "At either Momo or ChungHa's house talking about Momo and us". Tzuyu sighed at Sunmi's sarcastic reply. Sunmi was just like that.
Sarcasm full proof.
Tzuyu tried to think about how she'd captured the Japanese on the first night and two thoughts mocked her. One, of which remains the fact that, she would have let her keep running or she would have killed her immediately she'd got into her car. These thoughts needed answers with whys that gave literal mocks to Tzuyu. " you know what?" Sunmi begun interrupting her drilling thoughts "what if you go back to sleep? Probably, you could get better" she suggested and Tzuyu scoffed, picked up her jacket off the armchair. Studying Tzuyu's next move, Sunmi stood up and walked straight to the door. The Taiwanese picking up her car keys, approached the door as Sunmi seemed as an hindrance to her going out. "Let her go" Sunmi said with her eyes withering. Tzuyu inhaled and exhaled much. "Not yet", Tzuyu replied and got out of the house, living the peeved young lady behind.
Outside, it started to rain heavily. The pitter patter of the rain made Tzuyu to dash into her car immediately she'd gotten out of the car. She sat for some moment thinking. The tiny strokes of heavy rain hitting every sides of her car, but that never bothered her since it wasn't new. Why hadn't she move? She felt guilty. Guilty of rudely walking out on her soulmate, Sunmi. Though, everyone who studied Tzuyu and her gang would say they always try to be possessive over one and other since they're all powerful but love unites them in an unusual way which always stands uniquely perfect. But, their indifference can hunt them down in a split of seconds and keep them away from each other.
The Taiwanese relaxed her head backwards as she closed her eyes, inhaled and exhaled deeply " I'm sorry Sunmi". She muttered those words and huffed a great deal into the serene air.
Lights from her Aston Martin Valkyrie brightened. The car engine heated as Tzuyu drove out of her premises.
"Last hand"
"My ass"
Momo laughed boisterously. "You're so funny", she added in between her laughs. ChungHa rearranged her cards and continued to play while Momo had the time of her life, laughing out. The dark haired just smiled internally. It's been long since she saw her best friend smile so happily. Gone were those days when they seemed so close, wide and free like little children. Now, almost everything gets at them, of which ChungHa thinks their love for each other needs to be reinforced. After awhile, it seemed like Momo's long termed laughter had subsided. " ChungHa~" she said stressing on the last letter 'a', "you're so funny. I literally wonder why you don't wish to become a comedian who makes people laugh. I mean, you'll be very rich and famous" Momo stated as ChungHa rolled her eyes, "i guess everyone have whatever they wish to become in life. It's a matter of choice", she said. ChungHa stretched herself as she stood up, Momo's eyes following her in suit, "hope not what am thinking?" She said and ChungHa winked at her "not yet". She said and both girls guffawed aloud in unison.
"I need to cool off" ChungHa said as Momo nodded "i know exactly where". Both girls smiled at each other.
At the cheongsam police agency...
Tzuyu got to the station and requested to meet with her captive, Sana. She was being directed to Chae-Rin's desk but on her way, she walked along the pavements that led straight ahead Chae-Rin's office as directed. Lee Si-Yeon was coming out of her board scanning a paper when she jolted her head up and saw the brunette. As her job, she had studied her clearly. She'd sensed traits of danger in the young lady. Her years of psychology and criminal instinct were no joke. Tzuyu bypassed her as she paused and turned to the look at Taiwanese who walked ahead calmly.
"What's wrong? Why staring at her like that?" Irene asked as Lee Si-Yeon calmly looked Irene's way with a strict face, "there's something about her i could relate to. If you may excuse me", Si-Yeon said and walked away.
Irene's folded arm gave her the urge to turn towards Lee Si-Yeon's fading figure that had embraced the darkness's that led to the blackyard. She sighed heavily. Lee Si-Yeon was just a new intake basically because of her brilliance, her captivating story as a vampire and with the fact that she could read minds and capture them with the glide of her words. She sighed and huffed. Her hands packing a handful of her hair and swilling them up and down, she sighed for the 100th time.
Tzuyu pressed a button as the door parted, paving way for her to enter. Immediately she got into a large fine looking hall, she paused as a sharp sound had penetrated into her ear. She held both of her ears with her hands trying to cover them. Fighting it to be one of her sister's attack on her, she struggled to cover herself with her powers but the force seemed strong. Defeated. She fell to the floor on her feet and growled aloud. This was beyond her dead sister's power.
The piercing sounds subsided but Tzuyu still remained on her spot. Merging out from a door, Tzuyu heard as clicking sounds continued to approach her and as it drew closer, she got alerted. The clicking sound of the heels stopped, "Sorry about the inconveniences" the voice said making Tzuyu burn in anger. Her head jolted up, blood rolling out of both her ears. The young lady before her smiled, arms folded up. "Hi" the dark haired started off with. She looked sideways of Tzuyu's ear mockingly, "oh, you losing alot of blood already". Tzuyu became tasty, tasty for vergences. Her eyes searched throughout her body until she'd got the worst shock. " she's a vampire too?" Tzuyu asked internally, surprised at it. "Yes i am a good bad vampire....slayer and plus, "we're five-by-five, you know?", she shrugged "As long as you don't go scratching at me or humping my leg".
Tzuyu grew more angry at the lady's free posture and growled, nurturing her breathes. "I...there's something i'm forgetting. Oh! Oh! My bad", she said placing a right hand on her chest, blinking her eyes rapidly like a butterfly wings flap, "my name is Si....Yeon~" She whispered like an airwave. Tzuyu gasped for air and struggled to stand up but fell on each trail. "You could remain like that for nowwwww~" Si-Yeon said with so much mockery in her voice. The Taiwanese had grew very weak, so she remained on her spot, groaning and trying to breathe.
From a distance, heels clicked forward, approaching them. Tzuyu lifted her head up as another lady had made an appearance. She seemed familiar but Tzuyu couldn't quickly recall where they'd met.
"Thank you for covering up Si" the female said to the other, earning a wide smile of satisfaction. "The pleasure is mine" Si-Yeon replied and turned to look down at Tzuyu who'd quickly looked away. "Is she so weak?" The female standing with Si-Yeon asked as the purpled hair nodded her head "yup. Sort of. Not of totality. She's a powerful vampire which lot of tranquilizers and that's what she's using to sustain herself if not, she would have being unconscious by now" Si-Yeon reported, "Chae unnie, i think we should make use of the holy-", " no" interrupting her, Chae-Rin turned away from Si-Yeon's side and faced the seeming lifeless Tzuyu laying on the floor. She bent down towards the Taiwanese. "She has terrible powers that can kill within a spilt of seconds and it's no exaggeration! She's a poisonous vampire" Si-Yeon announced feeling unsecured as Chae-Rin had bent down to Tzuyu. The eyes of Chae-Rin scanned every external parts of Tzuyu, seeing marks all over her skin. She gasped for air and closed her eyes, opening them back, she looked at the brunette's eyes "my name is Chae-Rin." She begun, then gulped, sparing a minute of total silence, "Sorry about the inconveniences but you'll have to stay here for the meantime".
Tzuyu looked up at Chae-Rin's eyes,
She had a quick flashback of her dreams and how she'd bitten Chae-Rin to death.....
.........Flashback out.
Inhaling deeply, Tzuyu tried sitting up when she fell back to the floor. " where's she?", Tzuyu asked in a wry voice. "Pardon? Who is she? We literally have so many 'shes' here", Chae-Rin said while starring and watching the brunette endure her pains in exhaustion. " Tell me everything about you"
Tzuyu faintly looked up at Chae-Rin with so much blood covered on the floor, on her face and body. She scoffed, "Where's Sana?"
Si-Yeon had enough and held out the holy water to sprinkle them on Tzuyu when Chae-Rin held her hands "let's end it here! Once and for all sunbaenim!" Si-Yeon yelled as Chae-Rin dragged the holy water bottle off her hand. Her eyes had gone wild. It took Chae some courage to face a vampire slayer. "We have a whole lot of things to know from her first and talking about killing her," Chae-Rin said stylishly, swerving her gaze from Si-Yeon back to Tzuyu, "i will do that with all pleasure".
The girls chuckled aloud like little children who had nothing to worry about. Their legs kicking in and out of the water for sports, thereby causing sprinkles of water around the pool side. ChungHa took a sip of her chilled vanilla and dived into the water. Momo had enough and soon felt cold, so she got out of the pool, still on her bikini. Walking back to the vinyl Strap, she pulled out a towel from a tree branch, drying off her wet hair.
It took three minutes more of time before ChungHa merged out of the pool, picking up a hair drier from the table and turned the device on as she blew the electrical wind to her hair. Momo applied a little lotion on her skin as she soon relaxed her back on the chaise lounge holding her phone up to take a picture. "cute", Momo said and ChungHa chuckled as she sat on one of the chaise lounge. Picking up the lotion Momo had used, ChungHa applied a little on her cheek and kissed the air.
Stargazing. Both girls had their eyes looking at the sky. Alot of thoughts ran through the mind of the girls. ChungHa cleared her throat, gaining a side looked from Momo. " is everything alright?" She asked calmly. ChungHa smiled "yes, just ...." She smiled "forget it". Momo complied and smiled, looking confidently at the sky. Stealing a quick glance at the dark haired, ChungHa smiled and turned back to facing the sky. Huffing into the air, she asked " Who about Taeyong?". That name gave an instant feeling she never wanted to feel. No one could get her so emotional as Taeyong, even his name, the thought of him did the magic. She only wished he was a better pair for her. "I don't wanna talk about him Chung", Momo replied after awhile of silence. She sighed because after the moment ChungHa had mentioned his name, all that painted a big picture across her mind was the handsome face of her boyfriend. She hated it, ChungHa never stopped to talk about him and how heavenly he looks. "Hey~ Taeyong subaenim is cute, so are you. He's intelligent and so are you. Both of you are deserving of each other" ChungHa said as it not only ignited her pampered anger but caused her to lose up her moral and jolt up from the chaise lounge, making a turn to walk into the living room".
Emotions. The very thing that make us human. You can have happiness, pride, excitement, relief. Every emotion considered good. But what would you be if you didn't feel hurt, or pain, or despair? You can't have the good without the bad. There is no light without darkness. The trick is to balance them, so the bad doesn't seem so terrible, and you can truly appreciate the good.
"One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside." ChungHa said, looking up at the sky with wide smiles, "Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf." She added as she slowly turned to look at Momo whose back was still facing her. "I understand everything you're going through in your relationship but believe me, Taeyong is the perfect suit for your coldness". Momo inhaled as instant sweats took over her cold arching body sides. "Give him a second chance Momo".
" I'm tired. I'm tired of second chance." Momo stated still backing ChungHa. Throwing her hands up in the air due to frustration, she gulped; "I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them." She sniffed as tears clouded her eyes, she couldn't believe how vulnerable she appeared at the mention of 'Taeyong'. She gasped for air, the cold wind taking advantage of her measures, "ChungHa, I'm suffering in my relationship. To be frank, you know all of my pains Chung. You know how much i love him. You know i crazy i am towards Taeyong" Momo said with tears rolling down her cheek as she gently wiped them off confidently, "it's not like, I'm being bad but, i can't. I can't anymore. If he can't love me and treat me like his woman then I'm not his worth". On hearing this, ChungHa stood up from her chaise and walked up to her, facing her. Both of her hands placed on Momo's shoulder. " listen to me Mo", cutting her off, Momo interrupted "No Chung. I'm not listening because i get hurt at the end. You don't know what it feels like to love a person who doesn't treat you well. I love Taeyong. I love him so much but he can't just....make me scream. He can't love me a little harder than i do. He can't touch me. He can't make love to me. He can't fuck me ChungHa. He finds me weird in bed. He hates seeing me naked" she busted out crying like a baby before her mother. "It's so painful that the man i love sees me as a ghoul" She cried, ChungHa pulled her in for a warm hug.
"Momo, without joy every sweet thing is bitter; cake is guilt, wind is cold, rain is depressing. With joy they are uplifting; cake is rich, wind is refreshing, rain is cleansing. Every small thing in life is a moment able to nourish the soul if we let joy in. Live with awe, humbleness, present in each moment and the gifts of life will fill you to the brim, so much that your joy will overflow and make better the lives of all around you."
ChungHa sighed as she watched the sleepy Momo who was lying comfortably on her bed. The signs of heartbroken tears written all over her eyes, though closed. It is almost as though she was both her adult self and childish self simultaneously. As if she never fully managed to grow up, part of her left behind in childhood, possibly because her emotions, so tightly reined in, could not manage to grow or mature. She still seems to retain the innocence (yet not the naivety) and on occasion the emotions of her childish self, a young girl with outstanding deductive and analytical powers yet still, at heart, a child. A normal child with a sense of adventure, perhaps more pride than most, and maybe...emotion. ChungHa found herself wondering why Momo had locked up her emotions and threw away the key, and hoping she could find this key and return it to her, so she can express emotion once again.
...From the bedside table came the sound of her Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus. fashioned telephone, so authentic that Livvy scanned the room for an antique, something that wouldn't look out of place in an old movie. She moved around the room, her quiet steps lost under the din. Behind her was a trail of disturbance in the picture of Halloween with their 'used to be' teams; small plumes of particles erupting like mini mushroom clouds. After a few moments she stopped at the heavy wooden table and slid her hand underneath - there was something taped there in plastic. Ignoring the sensation, she picked up the phone to answer the call.
"Hello?" She voiced out from the other side of the line as the caller spoke up. "ChungHa, where are you? I've being calling Momo but it's being diverting on each call". ChungHa hits her forehead " I'm sorry Sunmi, I'm at Momo's house. What's up?", she asked. "I got bad news", Sunmi announced as ChungHa became utterly calm, " what news?"
"Tzuyu's being arrested.
Turning to the mini TV on the beside table, a reporter was interviewing a G.O.C (general of cops), in person of Kwang byun hyuk. "What do you have to say about the Victorious finding of Miss Sana Maxwell Minatozaki's return?", A pale skinned news reporter asked as various microphone aided to hear from him.
"First of all, i mostly want thank all cops.....". Out of anger and pain, ChungHa turned the mini TV off and buried her face in her palms. " Not what?"
"The secrets you tell me I'll take to my grave,
There's bones in my closet, but you hang stuff anyway"
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