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It was their actual first attempt at escaping, and they failed miserably. They were terribly outnumbered and they were barely armed. The hideout they were confined in, were as confusing as a maze. It didn't take the separatists much effort to round them up and throw them back into their small cell.

Daeyoung turned to look at Sijin as his friend seemed in a daze.

"Yoo Sijin... you all right? I thought I heard some bones break earlier." He turned to look at Sijin's right arm as it laid limp on his side.

"Don't remind me," Sijin said in a monotone voice. "The pain don't bother me much as long as I don't think about it. And don't worry about me too much. You're not in any better shape than I am."

He chuckled to himself. During the skirmish earlier, one of the Russian separatists had rammed him against the wall a bit too hard. It dislocated his right arm in the process.

"I'm fine. We're fine. We've been in much worse situation than this before. This is nothing."

Sijin sighed. "Sure..."

"We're going to get out of here. I promise you."

It was something he said to make light of the situation they were in. But perhaps it was also his own wish that somehow they would be able to escape from this predicament.

He never thought that wish would be fulfilled by the most unlikeliest of 'allies'.

xxx

He glanced up as he heard voices. His grasp in Russian was not very good... but he had a feeling that the two men standing in front of them were not going to take them out for tea. The rifles on their hands told him enough of what was to come...

In which what happened later surprised him a lot. There was a third man, and the man casually sneaked behind the two before shooting the men down. The third man knelt before the two fallen men as he searched their bodies to fish out a stack of keys.

Was there a dispute between the separatists?, he wondered. But then the man pulled down his face covers and every question he might have had in his mind was suddenly answered.

xxx

"How's the report?"

Daeyoung glanced up as Sijin cheekily grinned in front of him. He rolled his eyes at him.

"I'm just about to reach the part where we actually escaped... and now you finally asked about the progress? You're seriously leaving me to write this report by myself, aren't you?"

Sijin pouted at him. "Aww... don't fret so much. I'll pitch in a bit. You're about to write in things about Ahn Jeongjun, right? I'll take over on writing that part. Move over,"

He got up from his chair as Sijin sat in front of the computer. He stared at his friend sceptically. "Are you seriously going to finish the rest of the report by yourself?" he asked.

Sijin gave him a quick glance. "Only this part. I still have to depend on you to add in the last part of the report. Help me out over here?"

"I helped you out a bit too much already. Do you know how much I struggled to write about the things that happened to us back then? I even have to make up stuff that didn't happen as well!"

His friend just waved his good hand at him. "Don't be so fussy..." Sijin started to say before continuing to type on the computer. Daeyoung had to shake his head at his friend.

"You're really going to mention about Captain Ahn in this report?"

Sijin nodded. "Yeah," he replied, not letting his eyes off from the monitor. "It might not mean much but I wanted to make sure the higher ups know what our 'friend' did for us. It might even do him good too; if one day he could consider changing his allegiance and coming to stay here permanently. I'm going to write this part to the best of my ability!"

Daeyoung chuckled.

"You're really fond of Captain Ahn, aren't you?" he asked, despite already knowing the answer. "How's your trip with Dr. Kang? Did you have fun?"

Sijin giggled in response. Suddenly he felt that he didn't want to find out more about the things that happened to Sijin during his trip.

xxx

They walked out of the underground prison to find the place relatively empty. The rest of the separatists have already left, and what remained of the group that stayed behind were lying dead in the corners. Both of them turned their attentions towards Ahn Jeongjun.

"Did you... do all this?" Sijin started to ask the man.

Captain Ahn immediately waved them off. "Don't give me too much credit for this. I only took down a few of those separatists that didn't leave this place fast enough. My only plan was getting the two of you out of this place, nothing more than that."

"But what happened to the rest of the militia? Why did they leave?" Daeyoung started to ask as well.

The man just shrugged. "I snuck into their ranks a few weeks ago to gain their trusts. It didn't take long for me to get the plan to work. With the recent uproar between the Ukrainian government and the Russians, the group was already feeling restless. It wasn't so hard to convince them that their location has been found out by certain intelligence organisations and that they had to move."

Sijin smiled. "Regardless, I am very grateful."