𝑩𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒍 //𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒚 𝑲𝒊𝒅𝒔 𝑭𝑭//

~𝟮𝟵~

As soon as the guard put Lee Know in the holding cell with us and locked the door behind him, I walked up to him. I gently took his wrist and led him to sit down on the bench in the cell. I bent down slightly and started examining his wounds. A few times he tried to pull away or swat my hands away. I just kept coming back. Until he grabbed my hands, making me look him in the eye.

"I'm fine. What's more important is, are you? That guy yanked you back pretty hard."

I pulled my hands away and turned my back on him. I heard him get up behind me.

"Why does this keep happening?" he asked, making me turn around. I gave him a confused look.

"Whenever we get hurt, you're always the first to check up on us and try to help. But whenever you are hurting, you close yourself off. You distance yourself. Why? Is it something we did?... Something I did?"

I looked up at him as he asked the question but looked back down again. I could feel all the eyes in the cell on me. I knew the answer, I just didn't know how to say it.

"I... It's..." I sighed. "I'm afraid."

"Afraid? Why?"

I stayed silent. He gently took my hands, bending down slightly to be at eye level with me.

"I'm afraid... That you'll see who I really am. And that you'll all leave. Underneath my confidence and my smiles, I hide a very different version of myself. I'm afraid that if I let my guard down and let you help me, you'll see who I really am, and you'll leave me. Like everyone always has."

I dropped my head again, wrapping my arms around myself. Then I felt Lee Know wrap his arms around my shoulders, pulling me against himself. I heard all the other boys gather around as well. They all joined in on the hug, enveloping me in warmth. We pulled away when someone cleared their throat.

"Good to see you are all safe. And you don't look as bad as I thought, Agent Noyes," the commander said. I furrowed my brows.

"What is that-"

"Anyway, you all probably want to get to bed. Let's get you all out of here. Officer."

The commander called over the guard who locked us in the cell. He opened it and the boys started walking out. I waited for them all to leave before stepping up to the door. The commander stopped me.

"Sorry, Agent Noyes. You have to stay here for the night."

"What for?" Chan asked.

"She assaulted an agent. You can't expect them to just let her go."

"But Sir-"

"Not another word about it. It's final. Now come on. You all must be tired."

The boys all ignored the commander, looking at me through the bars as the officer locked it again. My eyes locked with Hyunjin. He looked so sad.

"It's okay. I'll be fine. I'll see you all tomorrow. Go. Get some sleep."

The boys still wouldn't budge. Not even Chan who would usually see reason.

"If you all want to spend the night with her, you can keep disobeying me. Then you can all stay here for as long as you want."

That didn't seem to faze the boys at all. I looked at them with pleading eyes, clinging onto the bars.

"Please. Just go."

"Or you can all just give me your badges right now. Get it over with."

That snapped the boys out of it. They reluctantly started moving away from the bars. All of them besides Hyunjin and Lee Know.