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Eunhyuk pulled her closer, his hands tightening around her waist as she slowly slid off her chair onto his lap. He pulled away from the kiss and pulled on her hairband, taking it off and throwing it off somewhere. While she removed his glasses and kept it on the table, his hands slowly went up, brushing his fingers through her hair pulling her in again. Instead of a kiss, he tilted his head and bit her neck gently, lightly sucking on it while his other hand got a handful of her bottom. Small gasps and moans left her mouth as he slid his hands under her shirt. He pulled back and looked at her face. He could feel her pressing closer to him when she slowly opened her eyes, her pupils dilated. Eunhyuk let his hands roam on her bare back, moving up to her bra hook. The next step would be undoing it and from the looks of it, Y/N wasn't against it anyway.

But a loud scream put a halt on their action. It came from the staircase, and the voice was very familiar. It was Eunyu.

Y/N quickly got up from his lap and looked at the door, and then back at him. She turned to leave and take a look at what was happening when Eunhyuk stopped her, grabbing her wrist lightly. Both of them stared at each other for a while and then he cleared his throat, "You need to fix your hair."

A blush spread across her cheeks and she started fixing her appearance, while Eunhyuk ran out of the control room with his glasses. Taking a long breath, she walked out and saw Eunyu standing with a shocked expression. Eunhyuk was standing close to her and then bent down on the ground...checking on someone's...body.

Y/N quickly went to the area and observed the face. It was a young boy with messy hair, probably still in school. And then she noticed the blood splattered all over the floor - his blood.

"He's breathing," Eunhyuk said, "Bring him in."

"What do you think you're doing!" Seokhyeon revolted against his decision once again, "He could turn-"

"And if he doesn't? Are you okay with letting a healthy person die?" Y/N said looking at him, with a frown on her face.

"You don't know how to respect your elders!" he said, gritting his teeth as she noticed his hands clench. He had the guts to talk back, but didn't when it came to hurting people. As a result, his wife has to take all the beatings. Y/N would've felt some kind of sympathy but...she learned her lesson from the past. He was only powerful against his wife because she was always a coward in front of him. From the looks of it, this man was also a coward so any kind of step taken by the wife would've probably been enough to stop the physical abuse. Or there was another option to leave him. But looking at the kind of background they came from, it didn't look like she had much option.

As much as she hated to put his wife into that position, she couldn't take his nasty remarks all the time. She wasn't going to give him any kind of power against herself.

"Earn it," she said, "That's why I respect a lot of people in this building but not you." She sneered and took in his appearance with a disgusted face, "You don't deserve my respect." The man grumbled and was about to talk again, but stopped when Yikyung sent off a glare towards him.

Eunhyuk and a few others moved the boy in one of the rooms. Y/N sighed and looked at two others who came in along with him. One carried a sword and the other had hair with highlights. "Oh my god, Jisu?!" Y/N gasped looking at her.

The girl snapped her head up, eyes widening after hearing the familiar voice. She hurried towards Y/N and hugged her. "I'm so glad you're okay. W-We looked for you, but your room was locked-" Jisu said.

"Yeah...all of this happened when I was about to go out. Are you okay? Looks like..." she took in her appearance and said, "you fought some monsters."

"Yes, the guy I came in with helped me."

"We never really talked huh," Y/N chuckled, "But..it feels nice to see someone familiar to be...alive." She smiled bitterly, and then said, "Get some rest. I'm sure you're exhausted."

Jisu left the area, when Eunyu came and stood beside her. She had water dripping off her face. While Y/N was busy talking with Jisu, she got refreshed and right now, looked pretty fine. I mean, fine enough to observe her with a smirk on her face.

"Guess I don't need to ask about your health," Y/N said.

"Mhm," she hummed, continuing to look at her face.

"You're making me uncomfortable. What do you need?" Y/N asked, "Stop smiling like that."

"I guess your persistence worked huh?" she said.

"Hm?"

"You guys were fast. Too fast, I mean, Eunhyuk isn't easy to impress."

Y/N's cheeks reddened from the realization. She was...talking about that. What happened minutes ago.

"No we...aren't," she said and cleared her throat.

"Do you not know or you're just pretending to be oblivious," Eunyu eyes racked on her face, "Flushed face, swollen lips."

Y/N was pretty surprised from her blunt response, but mostly embarrassed. It was Eunhyuk's sister here. The one who wanted her to leave her brother alone. She didn't know whether it was a good sign or not, but Eunyu looked pretty chilled about this new...information. She didn't know how to tell her what really was going on though, right? They weren't doing this because they like each other but quite the opposite. Well, opposite in case of Eunhyuk as she thinks. He wanted her to get away. "I don't even know why I'm standing here listening to you." She started hurrying out of the area.

"You going to my brother again?" Eunyu teased.

"No!" Y/N shouted realizing, and turned back on her heels, walking towards the nursery.

[ TIME SKIP ]

The boy was flinching while he was sleeping. It was astonishing for Y/N how he fell from such a height and managed to stay alive. Surely, he was something else. Not human.

When Eunyu walked in, she decided to leave the room and take a short nap. Eunhyuk woke her up later and told her to gather along with the others in the nursery.

Needless to say, even though the boy looked harmless, there was no guarantee that he won't turn into a monster later and attack the residents. But then again, he was still doing fine. Even if he was a monster, he was different than the others. It felt like he had some kind of control over it. So they gathered in the nursery and as expected, Seokhyeon was the first one to talk about killing him.

Eunhyuk brought in a box along with some pens and kept it on a table.

"What is that?" Seokhyeon asked.

Holding up a notepad Eunhyuk said, "Each of you take a piece of paper. If you think we should oust Hyunsu, draw a circle. And if you don't think we should, draw an X. Then put the paper in this box."

"Obviously he will be kicked out then. Why bother?" Seokhyeon commented, "Just do a show of hands. I want him out. Who wants him out?!" He started shouting for the people to raise their hands. Ofcourse, no one was intimidated by the man and chose to stay silent without giving a reaction. He looked at his wife and grumbled, "Why don't you raise your hand?"

His wife was hesitant to answer. Even though she had to face consequences, she chose to stand by her own opinion. And that was probably what made Y/N feel that there was a chance for the woman to escape from his grasp. But that was not possible in reality though, right? For her to actually make it out of this hell, Seokhyeon has to die. And Y/N has enough brains to know what everyone was going to choose, including his wife.

"I want him out," Eunyu's voice came through, as she entered the room holding her hand up.

"You're not old enough to vote," Seokhyeon said.

"Age doesn't matter," she said.

"How dare you talk back. When an adult says something then you should shut up and agree," he said glaring at her. Eunyu cussed him in sign language and walked away to a corner.

"Playing the adult card again," Y/N sighed.

"What did you say?!"

"I said you play the adult card way too often," Y/N said looking at him and chuckled, "What? You're going to hit me like you hit your wife?"

Everyone gasped, while Jisu tried to pinch her and signaled her to quiet down. Seokhyeon was furious. Y/N looked around the room and realized her little outburst took everyone by surprise. Well, since the cat is out of the box now, she decided to talk anyway.

"Why are you guys staring at me? We all know about this, don't we? We just don't meddle into their matter and decide to keep it to ourselves," Seokhyeon got up from his chair, and started walking towards her but got stopped by his wife. He slapped her away and started cursing at her. "See?" Y/N said, "That's what you do. You can only hit your wife, and take all your anger out on her-"

"Get out," Eunhyuk said.

"What?" Y/N turned towards him in surprise, "I'm not the one-"

"We didn't come here to fight amongst ourselves. If you can't mind your own business then get out."

Y/N felt frustrated. Why was everyone always quiet? She wasn't even doing something wrong. Why did she have to be the one kicked out. Glaring at Seokhyeon who taunted her, she silently walked out of the room.

And then stopped by her tracks. "What are you doing...outside?" she asked staring at him, "Hyunsu right? They're...talking about you now. You should get in-"

"To hear the obvious results?" he muttered in a low tone.

"You don't know that. Everyone is scared of you but...not everyone is as bad as you think," Y/N said, "Just inform me the results maybe." He looked up at her doe-eyed as she gave him an awkward smile, "As you can see, no one really has the balls to call him out and I don't want to talk to them."

He nodded his head and looked down at the floor. Patting his back lightly, Y/N walked into her assigned spare room and shut the door. Sometimes Eunhyuk really pissed her off.

Well, the correct word should be 'hurt'.