I'm Also A We // Hyunlix

The Sum Of Seven, Part IV

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F E L I X

Once Felix's eyes have adjusted to the light, he can make out Baekhyun stepping into the room, and closing the door behind himself. He looks calm, collected, arms behind his back, and not at all surprised to find them here. "You shouldn't be here," he says, and there's something different about him, unfamiliar.

A chill runs over Felix's body as he realizes that he doesn't recognize the man in front of him. That the Baekhyun he's met before has been fake, a mask.

None of them reply.

"You'd really think no one would catch you on the security cameras? You really didn't wonder how you made it this far without anyone stopping you?" He tsks, and he looks a little like someone who dreamed of becoming an actor, playing his part as if he's a Bond villain.

He's met with another wall of silence. Baekhyun tilts his head. "How many of you are here?"

Minho steps forward, his chin up, and Felix is not the only one who steps behind him on instinct. "Enough."

Baekhyun nods once. "You came for Hyunjin?"

Minho takes another step forward, and his posture changes slightly, the tension leaving his body, his hands unclenching. Felix knows what he's doing, can feel it as much as see it.

Felix wonders if Baekhyun can see it too. If he knows that this is Minho at his most dangerous.

"We're here to take him home." Minho's voice is clear, almost soft. Not the threat it actually is.

Baekhyun scoffs, and then he does something complicated with his face as if he's slipping into his mask again. "He's here for an important surgery, guys. He needs the rest. We're taking good care of him, I promise."

"Fucking liar," Seungmin curses, not out loud, not so that Baekhyun can hear, but Felix hears it, his head whipping around to him. Dread travels down his spine. Baekhyun sounds so sincere, like the guy they met a few months ago when he was introduced to be on their team. Felix had liked him.

"He can rest much better at home." Minho doesn't budge when Baekhyun takes a step toward him, still with his arms behind his back. Two people pretending to be unbothered by whatever is happening here. The rest of them watch, barely daring to breathe.

"And what. You think you can just take him out of here? And no one will bat an eye?" Another scoff and Felix is not the only one whose rage is fired up by it.

Seungmin steps forward, taking over Minho's body seamlessly, speaking now through him. "Yes, that's exactly what we think will happen," he starts, sounding so sure. "Because we think you made sure that no one disturbs your little villain role-play. What did you do? Send the security guy home? Made sure the nurses are busy somewhere else?"

Something ticks in Baekhyun's jaw.

"No one's coming so you can tell your boss you took "care of the problem", right?" Seungmin mimics the parenthesis, his words dripping with acid.

"Easy," Changbin warns, stretching the word when Seungmin takes another step.

Baekhyun's face changes again. His lips stretch into a smile. "Maybe."

And then he rushes forward, his hands coming from behind his back, and Minho is back in his own body, his boxing reflexes kicking in, barely avoiding whatever Baekhyun is holding in his hand.

"Hyung!" It's Jisung who shouts, who rushes forward now, and that's a mistake, because Minho looks back, trying to step in between Baekhyun and Jisung.

Felix feels the sting before he realizes that it's not him who has the syringe rammed into. He looks over to where Minho flinches and then goes to his knees, Baekhyun over him, the needle still in the back of Minho's neck.