Hello people! Yes I am back once more with this next instalment of Dreaming of a demon! I Know that I haven't been here or updated in months, but it wasn't because of writers block, I was having some problems with my personal life and my flame I held for writing just got extinguished. But not to worry! I feel much better and glad myself that I am back to writing I hope everyone else is too! Thank you to all of my reviewers who gave me feedback all the while I was away!
Dreaming of a demon 13 - Finding the truth
When Hwoarang woke up the next morning, he , not the type of cold you get when your lover has stolen all of the covers in the middle of the night...It was a cold, empty space in Hwoarang arms where Jin should have been that was bothering him. At first he passed it off as nothing, assuming that Jin had let the red head sleep in and was downstairs in the kitchen area waiting for him.
But the red head felt otherwise when he finally got dressed and headed downstairs; Jin was nowhere in sight and Mack and Ling were gathered around Sara who currently had a bag of Bird's eye frozen peas placed gingerly on her head. Hwoarang didn't have to be a genius to know that something was wrong.
"What the fuck happened to you?" Hwoarang asked, Sara didn't answer, she was too busy taking off the bag of frozen peas off of her head and wincing as she carefully felt the bruise forming there, Ling however answered for her instead, looking extremely upset that her girlfriend was hurt. "She won't tell us anything! Just that someone tried to break in last night and attacked her, so either her attacker had a change of heart and put her on the sofa, which is unlikely, or she fell on the sofa, which is even more unlikely" Ling sighed exasperate and slouched on the sofa while Mack just shrugged as he sat on the arm rest of the sofa.
Sara growled and gritted her teeth angrily as she placed the frozen peas back on her head, wincing as she put them on a little too hard from her irritation. "Look, your all talking as though I'm not here in the room with you, I was surprised and I was knocked unconscious that's all, I'm perfectly fine now…" Mack sighed and shook his head in disbelief at this; Sara was too stubborn for her own good sometimes. The black haired boy stood up and after placing a hand on Sara' shoulder, and walked off to the kitchen to get some breakfast, Ling after making sure Sara was okay, Followed Mack to get toast and Coffee for the both of them.
Hwoarang was staring at Sara, then he sat down next to her "Where's Jin" Hwoarang asked bluntly, in fact, it was so blunt that Sara jumped a little in surprise at the question. "Wha? What? Where's he gone? Wait don't tell me you've lost him already!" Sara said laughing weakly, but Hwoarang didn't laugh back at her bad joke, he just continued to stare at her, and it was making her feel very uncomfortable. Sara sighed and shook her head gently "I don't know where Jin is Hwoarang, why are you asking me?" Hwoarang didn't say anything, he just stared at her with a frown on his face; Sara stared right back, knowing the red head didn't have much patience to keep the staring act up for long.
Eventually Hwoarang broke his gaze and sat cursing under his breath for a moment before sitting up and moving across the room and sitting down. Sara wanted to smile in satisfaction at her little victory over the red head, but as soon as she started smiling, she remembered why Hwoarang had asked her and it faded quickly. Just then Ling arrived back, complete with coffee and toast, Sara took a cup from Ling and sipped the coffee gratefully; glad to have something else to concentrate on other than Hwoarang. She kissed Ling on the forehead, and to Sara's surprise, she blushed a little, Sara turned and saw Mack and Mia, who had just come down (And had been de-briefed by Mack about there relationship) smiling at them with an 'I knew it' smile. The brunette women just rolled her eyes. Stuck her tongue out at the two of them, and then returned to her coffee.
Hwoarang however was glaring at her heatedly from across the room, Mack noticed this and decided to approach the red head "Hey Hwoarang, I don't know why your tryin' to burn a hole in Sara's head, and part of me is saying I really don't want to find out, but whatever she did, she did it for a good reason, for everyone here, she always does" Hwoarang didn't answer Mack, he just transferred his heated glare from Sara to Mack, who blinked and raised his arms, as though to defend himself. "Look man, I'm only sayin' there's no need to put all this glarin' shit on me" then with that Mack went back over to Mia and sat down with her to eat his breakfast and chat with her.
All that Morning Hwoarang refused to eat or talk to anyone and it began to worry Sara a tiny bit, but in her mind she knew it must be the red head's way of retaliating, and trying to get answers out of Sara, but the brunette women wasn't having any of it, for she was just as stubborn as Hwoarang.
Ling, however had been trying to tempt the red head in to eating by wafting egg toasties and coffee under his nose, but to no avail, the red head just glared at the, folded his arms and turned his head away from the food. Ling sighed and in the end, she gave up, eating the toasties and coffee herself. "Geez Hwoarang!" Ling called from the kitchen as she ate the toasties by the counter. "Your more stubborn than an ass you know that?"
Sara nearly choked to death on her coffee at this comment, as she tried hard not to burst out laughing, she knew if she did, the red head across the room from her would not doubt lose his patience, and would not be a happy bunny. "Ling! That isn't a nice thing to say!" Sara said as soon as she managed to regain her composure, Ling just snickered and grinned at her from the kitchen, before sticking her tongue out at the red head.
Hwoarang just ignored Ling and stood up walking past Ling out into the back yard, no doubt to release some of his frustrated anger by training. Ling had finished her food by now and came back to sit next to Sara "It must be something to do with Jin, I haven't seen him all morning…Have you seen him Sara-Chan?" Sara swallowed hard and shook her head, refusing to meet Ling's eyes in case her girlfriend could see her guilt in her eyes. Ling continued, not noticing this. "Maybe you should go and Talk to Hwoarang? I mean, no one else seems to get much of a response out of him except a glare! So maybe you can try!"
The brunette women's eyes widened at her girlfriends request. "Eh...I Dunno Ling...I don't think Hwoarang is in the mood to be talking to anyone right now, let alone me, for some reason..." Sara broke off as the Chinese teenager gave her an adorable puppy dog eyes look. The older women rolled her eyes at this before throwing her hands up in despair. "Alright! All right! I give in! I'll go and talk to him okay? Now stop giving me that look!" Ling tried to feign innocence but Sara wasn't having any of it and kissed Ling once more before going off in search of certain pissed off red head...
Hwoarang was more than pissed of with Sara, in fact he was absolutely fuming, when he heard the door to the back yard open, he didn't need to turn to know that it was Sara that had come out side to see him...
Sara watched Hwoarang practise his Teak Wan Do techniques for a while before she decided she'd better confront him "Hwoarang?" She called out cautiously, stepping forward a little, The Red headed Korean didn't answer he didn't even acknowledge her presence as she stepped closer to him.
"Hwo, please, talk to me I know you must be worried about Jin but-"She was cut off suddenly as Hwoarang's foot came flying towards her face, she dodged it in time by performing a back flip, but she wasn't fast enough due to her injuries from the previous fight with Jin, she didn't back flip very far and ended up getting Hwoarang's fist in her gut, knocking her back a few feet and the wind out of her. She collapsed in a heap on the ground.
Sara was gasping her air as Hwoarang stood; looming over her, his face was twisted in anger. "Don't you fucking tell me how the hell I feel Sara! Don't you fucking dare!" Hwoarang shouted his hands at his sides; his fingers curled up into fists and were shaking.
Sra didn't answer him, and then, just as soon as he'd lashed out, Hwoarang's anger left him, and his head and shoulders drooped. Sara felt her guilt rise, Hwoarang looked so lost... Hwoarang towered above the brunette women and sighed deeply "Look Sara I know something bad happened with Jin and you were involved in it, heh I even have a theory, do you want to hear it"
Sara blinked as she slowly and painfully picked herself up from the ground and stood facing him, a blank expression on her face, she was holding her stomach slightly, but otherwise looked passive "Okay then let's hear it" she said quietly Hwoarang sighed and took a deep breath, locks of his hair falling into his face but he ignored it.
"I think that for some reason, go knows what, you two had a fight, then when he beat you he took of, but I don't know why, I want to know…I have a right Sara!" Sara swallowed hard, she knew the red head was right, but when she opened her mouth, nothing came out, instead she shook her head, slowly she looked at Hwoarang, and shook her head again.
"I don't know Hwo…" Hwoarang glared and grabbed her by the arm tightly, making Sara squirm in discomfort as she struggled to move her arm out of the red heads grip, but he held onto her arm like steel vice. "Bullshit Sara! I know you know what happened last night with Jin! Tell me Sara!!"
The brunette woman was panicking now, as she tried to twist out of Hwoarang's grip she said something she shouldn't have "No! I told Jin I wouldn't!" Sara realized what she had just dais and clapped her free hand over her mouth; she now backed away from the red headed Korean, who had let go of her arm in shock. "Shit! Hwo I didn't say that!" Sara cried, making a valiant but bad attempt at making Hwoarang forget what she'd just said, but Hwoarang wasn't going to forget, this, was too important.
"Sara..." Hwoarang whispered, his face was pale "What did Jin say?" Hwoarang asked quietly, feeling strangely calm for a moment, but knowing it was only the calm before the storm. Sara seemed unsure for a moment, and then she sighed and walked over to a small bench on the other side of the yard, and seated herself there. Hwoarang slowly followed her, all his anger that he'd and pent up against her gone, and sat next to her waiting.
"He...He said that I couldn't tell you...because he knew you would ruin his plans..." A tear fell down Sara's face gently and Hwoarang instantly felt genuinely guilty for attacking her only a moment ago.
Sara took another deep breath; it was becoming a little bit easier for her to speak now, she wiped her tears away and started again "You're not going to leave me alone about this are you? Heh, you're as stubborn as he is...Jin said, that he was going to go and hand himself over to his grandfather, so to ensure everyone else's safety…He sacrificed himself for us, for you Hwo..." Hwoarang didn't move or speak when she said this, Hwoarang's mind was still trying to get all this to sink in.
Sara sighed and placed her hand gently on his "I tried so hard Hwoarang, I tried to talk him out of it but he wasn't listening to me, he promised me he wouldn't tell anyone where we were…but I wouldn't let him go that easily, so we fought, he beat me, left me on the sofa and left..." Sara looked up at Hwoarang, who now looked more like a stone sculpture than a human being. "I'm so sorry Hwoarang, I tried, and I really did..."
Hwoarang still didn't say anything, he just stared ahead, out in to the sunny yard, where a few roses around the plain stone patio had burst into bloom, for a moment Sara was sure that the red headed Korean had totally stopped breathing altogether. The Hwoarang stood up suddenly and probably have run back into the house if Sra hadn't grabbed a hold on his wrist at the last moment.
"Hwoarang, listen to me! Don't interfere of all of Jin's plan will be ruined! You'll ruin everything he's sacrificing for you own safety! I know this is going to sound cold, but leave him!" Hwoarang glared at her heatedly, as he wrenched his arm out of her half-hearted grip.
"Why? Why the fuck would he do this?" Sra sighed and lowered her head sadly.
"Because…he loves you Hwoarang…he loves you more than he loves himself…and he's risking his own life to ensure that you'd be safe..." Sara whispered this quietly, but Hwoarang heard her all the same, and again Hwoarang tried to walk back inside, but Sra called after him.
"Hwoarang don't follow him! It will just lead you into more trouble that it's worth; trouble Jin doesn't want you to be in!" Hwoarang stopped and spun around so fast Sara nearly slammed into him, but she stopped her self just in time, Hwoarang's face was paler than normal, then quite suddenly, Hwoarang slumped into Sara's arms, Sara instantly hugged him as the red head's shoulders began to shake. "I...I can't lose him Sara I can't..." Hwoarang whispered to her gently as she held him. Sara nodded at this, but she knew that none of this was over…Not by a long shot...
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