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This one is for kaz who came up with this idea, thank you oomf. I won't traumatize you I swear (this aged like milk, I ruined it)
"If you score this I'll let you fondle my ba" the confusion on jungwoos face is priceless. He shakes his head and acts like his coach didn't just utter such words.
Jaehyun shouts on the top of his lungs "what the fuck was that?" His teammates have reached the peak of their irritation and so has jungwoo. He wishes to snap back but doesn't want the chances of getting kicked off to be slimmer than they already are. He gets on his knees, the teary eyed failure crossed his hands together.
"I'm sorry hyung, I was thrown off by what you said but that's no excuse for my mistake" jungwoo could not handle being scolded by his teammate. He wanted this situation to be over with as soon as possible. Jaehyun deep down can't stand to be angry with jungwoo any longer. He wipes his tears and grabs jungwoos hand, igniting fear in jungwoos as he pulls him up and hugs him. He pats his back and rubs it as a substitute for an apology. Jaehyuns temper has always gotten the best of him. Jaehyun pushes him off, looks into the other direction and scoffs. He rubs his temples, showing clear signs of distress. "I have to uh- sort out some paperwork but an apology isn't what I want, improvement is what I'm looking for." He looks up at him "don't take it personally, I haven't insulted you, only your skills"
As jungwoo walks home he encounters three gangsters under the neon lights of his mundane hometown. Well, used to be mundane until the debt collectors showed up. Before they died tragically in a car accident, his parents were living as normally as they could, leaving their life of crime behind them. One evening, the two were supposed to attend a Highschool reunion together when they got into a car accident.
Naive little jungwoo thought to himself, "maybe I could avenge them", he had been looking into their past and thought he could wield some of the power that they wield but no. He was fragile, vulnerable and unfortunately past enemies of his family found him. They beat him up one night, black and blue. He tried his hardest to resist but he couldn't, he might be a soccer player but he's never had the energy to fight with his peers, physically— at least, but tonight, things will change.
"Yo!" One of them shouts at jungwoo then takes of his engagement ring. A bulkier looking man takes off his hat and puts it in the hand of a guy who could be no younger than 15. "Where's my fucking money kkamdoongie?" The roughest faced one of the lot shouts out and punches jungwoo right in the face. Jungwoo drops to the floor and quickly gets up with a smile plastered on his face. "I'm gonna fight back this time" jungwoos throws a punch will all his might. He misses so he kicks one of them down and pushes two of them together. Unfortunately jungwoo isn't strong enough to take all of them. "You're gonna pay for this!" The gangster yells as he gets back up, he swings a punch and is stopped by jungwoos coach, jaehyun.
"Jaehyun??" Jaehyun punches the gangster and puts something in jungwoos hand as he defends him against the lot. "You-" jaehyun thumps one of them down "forgot your jockstrap" one of them pulls out a knife as jaehyun turns around to face jungwoo. "Look!" Jaehyun turns around with a giggly smile on his face, blindsided by the knife coming his way he shifts his weight to the left side and twists the hand of the perpetrator. The cracking noises makes jungwoo shiver. Jaehyun looks over "go home! Now!" Jungwoo looks around and starts to pace towards his front door. He struggles to grab the keys out of his pockets only to realize that they're not there. Jaehyun gets beaten to a pulp but continues to hold his ground. His eyes dizzy as he tries to fight all of them off but before he drops, he sees jungwoo right before he gets off the phone with the police.
"Catch!" Jaehyun throws jungwoos keys to him and luckily those two years jungwoo spent in basketball camp paid off. Jungwoo puts his keys in his bag and glances up at jaehyun. "Please!" Jungwoo yells out. Jaehyun is uncontrollably shaking, they've cornered him, brought him to a near death situation and now the attention has shifted to someone more vulnerable. If they were able to bring jaehyun to such a position, imagine what they'll do to jungwoo.
They each slowly turn around, staring at the docile eyed boy who could barely handle this fight on his own. Nightmarishly grinning, they each begin to pull out their weapons. The one in the middle has a spiked bat, his pal next to him gots a chainsaw like a slasher movie villain, the third main man just holds a run of the mill kitchen knife, and the rest vary in intensity. "Cmon, let's massacre him" the chainsaw man nods and giggles. Jungwoo slowly begins to walk away backwards. "We've waited patiently but ya know what the next best thing is, being able to see of your insides. From the guts of your stomach" they follow the boy "to the mucky goo of your nearly empty brains, to your unbeaten heart" tears downpour out of jungwoos eyes, he's never felt so much fear in his life before.
"Ahh, that's too far" knife man says. "We just want him dead" a masked man holding an illegal gun says in a much faster, "let's get this over with" typa tone. Jungwoo drops to his knees. "I'm sorry!" Sobbing, unstable and heartbroken. Jungwoo finds it in him to continue apologizing. "Please spare him if you decide to kill me" the uncontrollable laughter is polarizing jaehyun. He can't bear to hear such mockery towards jungwoo over something as simple as love. The emotion that binds us all, the sole light in this world. An emotion stronger than anger, a partial cause of grief. Jaehyuns behavior is oddly philosophical but that's what makes him, him.
There are two guns nearby jaehyun. Instead of pulling the trigger, jaehyun shifts his injured weight towards a metallic, cheap, western imported pistol and throws it. It hits the head of a gangster, a stream of outrage implodes amongst the land. “Who the fuc-“ jaehyun, bleeding out makes an attempt to bend his legs up. He fails and is back to his previous position, body spread out on the pavement. Making it easily accessible for the criminals to vandalize him, cannibalize him and do whatever they’d like. Jaehyun wonders if they’re running an organ harvesting scheme, it makes perfect sense with their behavior but then his mind returns to the state of danger he’s in. Jungwoo fears jaehyun might get killed but he doesn’t wanna put himself in anymore danger. He slowly starts to back out of the crime scene. Only for the cops to show up.
“Put your hands up!” Jungwoo shakily raises his arms even though he’s innocent “I’m innocent! It was me who called the police” the cops take out their gun and walk past jungwoo. The gangsters each drop their weapons one by one. Jungwoo drops to the ground as he hears the array of weaponry fall. He doesn’t look behind him, which winded up worry that they might still shoot. Jungwoo struggles to walk over to jaehyun. They’ll be alright? Who knows.