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Chapter 13: Why Do I feel Like This is Déjà Vu?

"Mommy," Mikazuki tugged on her pinkie

Xiaoyu yawned "Hmm?" she took Mikazuki's tiny hand into hers "Honey… its two o' clock in the morning…"

"The monster was in my room again. He told me he was gonna take me away." He pouted, tears stinging at his eyes.

Hwoarang tightened his grip around Xiaoyu's waist "There's no such thing as monsters, buddy, go back to sleep."

"It's okay, I'll be right back." She said softly moved Hwoarang's arm and threw on her sleep shirt.

She opened his bedroom door, Mikazuki gripped her shirt tightly as she flipped the light switch, smiling as she theatrically checked his closet and under the bed. "See, honey," she picked him up and laid him down in the bed "nothing's in here. If my super-strong little man is afraid of something that does exist then how is he supposed to protect me, hmm?" she tickled his ribs.

Mikazuki replied between giggles "Okay, I'm not scared anymore!"

She tucked him in and gave him a kiss when held his arms out to her "I love you, sweetheart."

"I love you, too, mommy. Sorry I got so scared." He said with a small guilty pout.

"Don't be sorry, honey. It's natural to be scared sometimes. Next time just tell the monster he's not real and you're not scared anymore."

"Okay." He smiled and rolled to his side when she turned off his light.

Xiaoyu crawled back into her bed after moving her shirt.

"Did you tell the monster hi for me?" Hwoarang rolled to his back and caressed her face.

"You just did." She giggled, pressing her lips to his.

"Ha, ha," he said between kisses.

She sat down on his stomach, rubbing his warm chest. She suddenly got the creepy crawlies, she felt the over whelming sense that someone was watching them. She pulled the blanket around them, and cuddled over him.

He cocked an eyebrow, "Don't tell me you're scared now too?"

"Just a little creeped out from what Mikazuki said."

"Aw, come on, Xiao, you're too old to believe in monsters." He rubbed her back.

She shook her head "Not monsters. Something else." She tapped her chin.

"All I'm saying is that it's stupid to be afraid of anything. You know I'd die for you and the kids," He ran his hand down her back and stopped at the outer-side of her thigh "as long as I'm here you have nothing to worry about."

Something about that statement brought tears to her eyes, overwhelming pain that sunk her heart like a boulder being thrown into a lake. …And she was tied to it.

Hwoarang noticed she was upset, he smiled despite the fact he knew he'd been the cause. In his opinion, she was unbearably cute when she got worked up over nothing. "Sh, it's okay, baby. I'm sorry, I forgot that you're a softy."

She hit his shoulder "Jerk."

"I know," he placed butterfly kisses all over her "that's why you're so crazy over me."

She sighed and just gripped him tighter, trying to hide a smile that graced her face.

He kissed her lightly on the lips.

Hwoarang walked into the apartment, pushing a double-baby stroller in hand and a fistful of groceries in the other, and to top it all off he had another grocery bag in his mouth. Mikazuki followed shortly after, struggling to carry a box of cereal that was almost as big as he was.

Xiaoyu let out a long, rib aching laugh before she took the box from Mikazuki and the bag from Hwoarang's mouth. She put them on the kitchen counter.

"Fuck house cleaning," Hwoarang said, as if he was creeped out "you are coming with me next time."

"Why's that?" she started un-bagging the groceries "They give you too much trouble?"

He stuck his hand in a bag, shaking his head vigorously "Nah, it was the flippin' females on the way into the store, in the store, and even on the way back."

She giggled, poking him "It's just because that's the only chance they'll ever have to talk to a super handsome, sensitive guy like you."

He tickled her back.

"Oh!" she said suddenly and walked out of the room for a minute. When she returned, she had something in her hand "Mikazuki, how many times do I have to tell you not to bring things from outside into the house!" she deeply inhaled after her scornful sentence, holding up a single long, black feather "They're really dirty." She threw it into the trash then washed her hands.

Mikazuki hid behind Hwoarang's legs "That's from the scary monster, mommy! I told you he was real!"

Xiaoyu stopped in her tracks. Glancing back into the trash can, she thought she had seen it before but wasn't sure until her son confirmed it. The monster is real. "Hwoarang," she said, panic was obvious in her voice.

He took Mikazuki and the twins in the living room. Jie and Iseul were put inside the playpen. He looked at Mikazuki again "Stay here and watch your brother and sister, okay?"

Xiaoyu shut their bedroom door after Hwoarang entered, tears in her eyes, "That feather, my nightmares, they're real."

She had told him enough of her dreams to get the point, but he tried to make it look like he just thought it was a creepy coincidence "Come on, Ling, this is getting ridiculous. It's nothing-"

"It's not nothing!" she shouted, balling her fists "It's Jin. Whatever Jin became has made him more powerful. But it's depleted when heirs are put into the picture. He used to tell me that he was worried that his father's evil nature would engulf his heart entirely. He knew that when it did happen, his father would come for him. To kill him. To regain his full power. The older Jin got, the more powerful he got. He probably destroyed Kazuya a long time ago. But now all he's missing is the final link to the bloodline. Mikazuki."

He wrapped his arms around her, he didn't want to believe it. But he had no choice but to. He remained silent.

"What do we do?" she nuzzled her head into his chest.

"I don't know. All we can do is wait for the bastard to show up. I'll have to find a way to keep him from hurting Mikazuki. You and the kids are the most important things in my life. -Than anything I've ever known. I'll do whatever it takes to keep you safe." He tightened his grip around Xiaoyu.

That's the end of chapter 12! Hope y'all liked it. Honestly, I scared myself when I came up with the concept that Xiaoyu finds a feather in Mikazuki's room and finds out that her nightmares really are true and Jin wants to kill their son. I found it rather eerie.