"Oi…how long do you plan on napping?"
"Hey."
"Jeez, this guy…"
"Hey! Seven-Zero-Seven! Wake up before I decide to taser you!"
Saeyoung stirred at the yelling voice, woken from a dreamless sleep that only made him feel even more groggy. His body was quick to voice all of its complaints at the same time as his back and neck cried out in pain, his bladder shot him a warning, and his stomach begged for substance even as his mouth felt like it was greasier than Saeyoung's hair felt when he didn't bathe properly for a couple of days. Shit. He felt like shit. He would like to just go back to sleep if possible. In a bed preferably, his back and neck and numb arms added. He wasn't sure he could open his eyes long enough to even locate his bed, though.
"Agent Seven!" Saeyoung started properly out of his doze at his name being barked again.
"Uh…huh?" He forced his sore eyes open and adjusted his askew glasses to see Vanderwood with his arms crossed and glaring at him. Saeyoung cried out in shock at the sight. "Ms. Vanderwood! What are you doing here already?!"
"Obviously I'm having to check on your progress again since you're taking so long." Vanderwood responded blandly. He took a look around Saeyoung's absolute mess of a room and made a face. "This place is filthy. How the hell do you live in this pigsty?"
Saeyoung's entire body once again voice how much it hated him with an added dosage of the pain from blood returning to his numbed limbs. He cringed at the feeling and ignored the question asked of him and instead asked, "How did it go with Five?"
Vanderwood sighed. "It went fine despite everything. I don't think the boss even mentioned the fight." He eyed Saeyoung. "You have to stop doting so much on your brother. It makes us both targets."
"I know that." He said, frowning as he rubbed his fingers to help stimulate the blood flow.
"If you know that then stop doing it."
"How am I living in this pigsty?" Saeyoung suddenly asked. "By God, look at this place! How am I supposed to get any kind of work done? Ms. Vanderwood, would you mind getting the vacuum? I know you love it."
Vanderwood scowled. "I'm not cleaning up after you again! Give me your status report already! The client is waiting!"
Damn. He would have to try again in a bit. He should probably actually answer Vanderwood. Saeyoung pushed off of his desk so that he spun in his chair across the floor. Oh shit, that actually didn't help his stomach at all. He stopped himself quickly.
"Hey, if you vomit I'm not cleaning it up."
"Uggggggggh why do I do this to mysellllllf…"
"Stop eating so much junk all of the time and eat some vegetables. I know you know what they are." Vanderwood walked over to the computer monitors and glanced over the work Saeyoung had been doing while Saeyoung attempted to recover. He forced himself to his feet and wandered over to the bathroom and turned on the water to drink from the spout. Not the best idea, but definitely better than some of his previous ones. His mouth felt a bit better anyway.
Once he had finished drinking he shut the door to finally use the toilet, wash his hands, and return to the conversation. Vanderwood was waiting for him looking surprisingly less annoyed than before.
Saeyoung smirked. "Go on~ Say it~"
Vanderwood let out a soft groan. "Fine. You're further than I thought you would be."
"Hehehe, you admitted it!" Saeyoung had actually gotten quite a bit of work done before he had apparently passed out. He had been awake ever since that night when Yuna had finally contacted the RFA to let them know she was safe and arrived fine. She had even told everyone that the people she met, though kind of weird, weren't bad people. They treated her kindly even though she was going to stay on her guard for a little while just in case.
Saeyoung still didn't like it at all, and most of the RFA shared his feelings. Saeyoung had decided he would work through the night with his phone turned up loud just in case Yuna called and needed help. He would immediately drop his work to track her down if he needed to. On top of that, the sooner he finished this particular job the sooner he could take on smaller and quick jobs up until after the party.
He quickly went to check his phone. It was fairly early in the morning, but he had received a couple of texts from Yuna greeting him and just telling him good night and good morning like she did many mornings. Saeyoung sighed in relief. No trouble then.
"Seven," Vanderwood called while walking back into the room. Hilariously enough he was carrying a vacuum cleaner. That meant the man planned to stay for a couple of hours. Good news meant that Saeyoung's house would get cleaned. Bad news was that he wouldn't be getting anymore sleep, "Are you still keeping an eye on that woman?"
Saeyoung made a face. "No. She's moved locations."
"That explains why you're in here, then. And why you're so productive." Vanderwood shook his head as he unwound the power cord for the vacuum. "You really are too obvious."
Saeyoung bit his tongue against challenging the man. He had to remember that Vanderwood wasn't necessarily his enemy. He would still have to be cautious, but he couldn't get on the man's bad side. He needed to be smart about his moves.
"Ah~" He jumped back into his chair and shot off a couple of texts to Yuna to also tell her good morning and lament the lack of sleeping in a proper bed. She would at least sympathize with him. "I'll take a break then~"
"You already took a break! You need to finish that work!"
"You said it yourself that I'm already ahead~"
"No, you're just actually on target compared to being behind like you always are." Saeyoung chose to ignore that and checked out the RFA chatroom considering Yuna was actually there.
[You have entered the chatroom!]
You: omg…
You: it's already morning T-T
You: I'm so tired!
Yuna: Did you work all night? TnT
You: Yes…
You: TTATT
500: You need to rest once in a while please…
500: TTnTT
You: yeah…
You: I actually did fall asleep at some point.
You: The maid woke me up a little bit ago.
Jumin Han: You only woke up now?
You: ya
ZEN: Have you seen what V wrote last night?
You: What? V was here?!
You: brb
[You have left the chatroom!]
Saeyoung frowned as he looked through the couple of chatrooms he had missed last night. He was stunned to see that V had indeed been on and he had missed it. Why hadn't he called Saeyoung at all? He had called him so many times! No wait.
Saeyoung simultaneously rooted around for one of his other phones as he read the chatroom that he had missed. V was apparently shocked to hear that Yuna was going to this "Mint Eye" place and expressed great concern about it. He even asked her to leave right away and not to bother with them. Checking out his other phones Saeyoung groaned aloud over the roar of the vacuum as he saw that V had called him repeatedly. Fuck! He had been so focused on his RFA phone he had forgotten that V preferred to use a different line with him. He took a moment to try to call the man, but he received an error message stating the user was out of range. This phone tag game was ridiculous.
He logged back onto the current chatroom.
Yuna: I'm more worried about V.
ZEN: Well, he has been out of touch lately…
Yuna: I'm still waiting to meet him again. It's been a long time.
ZEN: Since before you became my manager.
Yuna: Yeah!
[You have entered the chatroom!]
You: what…?
You: What the heck is this?
500: Did V try to call you?
You: Yeah. I missed it T-T
You: He called on one of my other phones that was on vibrate. Didn't wake me up.
ZEN: You must have really been out of it;;
[Yoosung has entered the chatroom!
[Jaehee Kang has entered the chatroom!]
Yoosung: What is this?
Yoosung: V was here?
Jaehee Kang: Hello everyone…
ZEN: Morning, Jaehee.
Yuna: Good morning!
Jaehee Kang: It's good to see you are chipper and well, Yuna.
Yuna: I had a great sleep! :3
You: Don't rub it in T-T
Yuna: Sorry, Luciel~
Yuna: I wish I could help you sleep better.
Yuna: I know a good tea mixture that always knocks me out that I think you would love!
You: lolol share it with me
Yuna: Come visit the apartment and I'll make it for you personally~ ;3c
You: :3
Jumin Han: Excuse me, but we were discussing something more important than Luciel's terrible sleeping schedule.
Yuna: Oh, sorry.
ZEN: OTL
ZEN: It's too early for this…
Yoosung: 222
Jaehee Kang: ;;;
Jaehee Kang: Yuna, it appears that even V is concerned about this Mint Eye place.
Jaehee Kang: Can you please give us an update about how you are?
Yuna: Again, I'm perfectly fine! I'm still more worried about V than myself.
Jumin Han: What has happened there? You said you were going to attempt to be on your guard more.
Yuna: Well that's just because the people here look suspicious.
Yoosung: How so?
Yuna: Like
Yuna: They wear these cloaks and stuff
Yuna: And I hear them mumbling weird phrases and codewords to each other…
500: Sounds like a cult;;;
You: omg Yuna plz…
Yuna: Well yeah I'm definitely thinking it's more of a cult. But I'm not too worried yet.
ZEN: You just said yourself that it's a cult! How are you not worried?!
Yuna: Real talk?
Yuna: You guys have recommended me some weird freaking guests.
Yuna: A cult honestly would not be the strangest thing on my list of people I'm talking to.
Yuna: =_=
ZEN: …
You: …
500: She has a point.
Yoosung: Not all of our guest recommendations are weird!
Yuna: That's not the point.
Jumin Han: How have they been treating you? Are they putting any sort of curses on you? Trapping you?
Yuna: Lol Jumin what books do you read?
Jumin Han: The usual. Black magic books.
Yuna: Ah yes, totally normal.
You: lolol
Yoosung: omg;;
ZEN: Putting aside his weird-ass reading habit, answer the questions Yuna!
Yuna: Calm down;;
Yuna: You become such a mother hen when you're worried, Zen lol
ZEN: Because you're so careless sometimes!
ZEN: Honestly your parents are right for worrying about you so much!
Jaehee Kang: I have to agree.
500: If my child did something like this, I would worry too.
Yoosung: My heart wouldn't be able to take it!
Yuna: All y'all need to just chill out~
Yuna: Besides I've already talked to my parents last night.
Jumin Han: I'm curious to hear their opinion of your situation.
Yuna: I didn't tell them ;3c
ZEN: Y U N A
Yuna: Hush, mother.
Yuna: The people here have been treating me well, actually.
Yuna: Like they brought me breakfast this morning and gave me a beautiful bedroom with a large bed and everything.
Yuna: Though the weirdest part is probably the fact that I'm not allowed to leave the floor I'm on without the correspondent I've been talking to.
You: Who is that?
Yuna: No idea. Everyone just calls her the "Savior".
Yuna: She wears one of those kind of masquerade mask things. She's super beautiful though. Kind of familiar, actually?
Yuna: Wonder if I met her before and that's why she's so kind to me. Can't recall where, though.
500: Will you send me and Luciel the email now so that we can have your coordinates?
ZEN: Or, I DON'T KNOW, give them the address?
500: That works too.
You: lol did you forget that was an option?
500: Shut up.
You: +u+
500: …yes…
You: I luv u
Yuna: I luv u 2, 5~
500: …
Yoosung: Who could this Savior be?
Yoosung: Is she nice?
Yuna: Yeah! Though I haven't seen her since last night. We're supposed to meet in a little while. She wanted to take a walk with me.
ZEN: THE ADDRESS, YUNA
Yuna: It's FINE already
Yuna: jfc I'll send the email to you guys, okay? You can track it whenever if it calms the fire in all of your collective pants.
Jumin Han: We are worried for you because you are doing something very stupid.
Yuna: It's not stupid. It's my job.
Yuna: I know you know what it means to do your job, Jumin Han.
Jaehee Kang: Even V has asked you not to get involved, though.
Yoosung: I'm more concerned about how V knows about that place at all.
Jumin Han: That is a good point.
Yoosung: Is he involved with it maybe?
You: lol no way~
Yoosung: Does nobody else find this to be weird?
500: Maybe V also got an email before…?
Yoosung: But you saw the chatroom!
Yoosung: He acted like he knew all about it!
Yoosung: He keeps asking us to trust him, but how can we trust him about knowing about this weird place?
Yuna: I don't know how V knows this place
Yuna: But I'm going to go. I have a walking date with a lovely lady.
Yuna: I sent the email, so I hope you all calm down now.
Yuna: Bye.
[Yuna has left the chatroom!]
You: …Did she seem angry to you all?
ZEN: Definitely angry.
ZEN: Jumin, you pissed off my cute manager!
ZEN: 8C
Jumin Han: Only by telling her the truth. Were you not agreeing with me?
ZEN: You didn't have to be so cruel in your words!
You: to be fair Yuna is being reckless…
500: That'll endear you to her.
You: It's the truth, though!
ZEN: At least she finally sent the email.
You: Oh! Right! I'm going to go check on that.
You: See you later everyone! Five, if you come over bring food. I'm dying.
500: …
500: ¬_¬ …
You: 3
[You have left the chatroom!]
Saeyoung placed aside his phone immediately to log onto his email and scan through what he had received. A lot of it was the typical nonsense, but he paused at the email from Yuna and opened the original attachment. He itched to already get started on tracking down the owner of the email, but he also debated just tracking Yuna's phone. He didn't really even need the email anymore if Yuna was already there. But all of it was time-consuming and Vanderwood would only be distracted by cleaning for so long. The fact the man was actually letting him get away with not working at the moment was a temporary miracle.
He ran a hand into his hair, frowning. Yoosung had a point about V, he thought. How did V know about Mint Eye? He had seemed very frantic about it too, which was unlike the V that he was now. Even calling Saeyoung so excessively was concerning. He needed to get in contact with the man soon.
But work was still priority. He really needed to get it done so it was freaking done and over with. But he also wanted to call Yuna to talk to her personally. She seemed pissed off, though. Maybe it wasn't the best idea to contact her yet. And wasn't she going on a walk with this "Savior" person?
Everything seemed weird. Saeyoung didn't know how much of it was his sick body, his exhausted brain, and his lack of food and how much of it was actually the situation with V and Yuna and Mint Eye. He needed to do some research.
He hoped that Saeran would get there soon. His brother would help to steady him. Saeran was always good at keeping priorities straight where Saeyoung usually found himself flailing in his rushing thoughts. He would allow himself to really take a break and maybe go crash on the couch for a little while until Vanderwood was done cleaning. Then he would throw himself back into the fray again.
He decided to go take a shower first. Maybe the hot water would help him. It certainly was good at waking him up and cleaning his mouth out as he rubbed at his eyes. He wondered what kind of tea Yuna had been talking about. He briefly allowed himself to imagine leaving the shower and dressing to find Yuna out in the kitchen waiting with some hot cups of tea. She might have her curly hair tied in a loose ponytail. She would no doubt give him that beautiful smile. He could see it so easily.
He sighed. He was in deep already. He would have to be very careful like Vanderwood had said. He couldn't get any closer than he already was. At least he could imagine what he wants in his head. His thoughts were safe there. No mind reading technology yet.
He hoped Yuna really was safe.
