× ♚;; breath ❜ ( soo hyuk & gain )
Stop. Could he possibly give such an order to someone he didn't know? To someone he had met mere moments before? Would she even dare to listen? Would she even turn around and return to his side with that single word? To that small figure that seemed to both linger and grow farther apart from him at the same time - he wanted to call out to her. Infatuation? Gratitude? In any case, he wanted, in that moment, to simply bring her back to where she had been mere moments before.
Moving himself would be, quite obviously, impossible for the moment. Back pressed against the brick wall of an alley building, the leader kept the edge of his palm digging into the now-bandaged wound in his abdomen, as if such actions would somehow ease the pain. A stabbing - perhaps he should have anticipated such an action especially considering the lack of conflict centered around the Hearts. The fiercest storms came in the quietest times, after all.
Unsurprisingly, he had managed to retaliate quickly enough to keep the assassin from completing his job. A swift pull of the trigger was all it took to defend himself - but of course, it all fell together too late to prevent some degree of injury. Perhaps it was his simple carelessness that brought him to allow himself some freedom for the night. After all, constantly traveling with body guards could only last for so long with such consistency.
To make it worse, he had been left in the hands of a passing stranger. Who she was, where she was from, and what her purpose was he could not discover. A few dazed minutes of the "King" lingering in and out of consciousness was all it took for the woman to treat his wound and walk away wordlessly. And now, finally, right as his eyes could finally focus through the stinging pain, all he could see was her fading silhouette, walking away from him into the city lights.
He couldn't give up. He couldn't simply let her slip away from his fingers. Why? Unfortunately, that wasn't a question he could provide an answer with at the moment. In fact, he refused to let such doubts cloud his immediate goal.
"Stop." The single word came with an airy tone, despite his deep voice. "Don't go." Eyelids flickered, the cold layer of sweat dripping down from his face as he attempted to claw his way to the stranger.
