#jongsayu

           The sun was up and here he was playing mind games with a stupidly smart alien girl. This is why he kept his mouth shut before. Before he could think more, she started talking again, “You should know when I’m lying, so I’ll say it outright. I know everything. So can you just confirm things so we can get back to avoiding each other and having sex sometimes?”

           He felt like she just lured him into a false sense of security but he couldn’t deny that she wasn’t lying. Though, he thought she would be more upset when she found out everything, maybe it was over shadowed by the injuries. Jonghyun looked straight at her and said, “Well if you know everything why are we even still talking about it.”

           “What did you have a plan of action or something in place? I think I can help.”

           She had a point. They might as well work together for once. He looked down at his shirt and made a face at the blood there. “Well we could go back to the bar and see if Jessica shows up again.”

           “What so she can threaten us to death? I knew she was the mastermind I didn’t think she would go around telling the key players.”

           He chuckled, “Well it’s not very accurate but I think she could probably talk anyone into a coma. She was pretty happy to tell me all about it.”

           “So Jessica came to you directly and told you outright that she was the one that set this whole thing up?” Sayu ate some more of her noodles and continued, “I thought it was strange you knew about it before I did, I mean, I have some pride in what I do after all.” Jonghyun drew his brows together, skeptical. Still, she kept on, “That explains why you were on edge too, she sent Joon here just as she spoke to you to make you freak out. So it was all Jessica.”

           “What a fucking minute, did you just lie to me a minute ago?” Bondeds can’t lie, right? That was always a thing. She didn’t know about Jessica? No she had to; this was word games or something.

           Sayu smiled, “You said I was a good liar, don’t change your mind just because we’re bonded.” She looked so smug he wanted to hit her. Sayu stood with her bowl and continued, “I’m assuming Jessica wants to kill me to get back at you and now I’m certain she was the one that set up those guys to bond us then separate us. Since she told you in order to make you angry and now I know she sent Joon here as part of the plot. I just don’t know why she picked me of all people. Which is what I intend to ask her when I meet her in a little while.”

           She started to walk towards the kitchen and Jonghyun shot up after her. “What? Don’t! What if she just offs you right there?”

           “I am risking it, but I don’t think she will. If she did it now it wouldn’t have as great an effect, right? Since you haven’t… well my blood would strengthen our bond, so she optimally would wait until then.”

           “Just, no.”

           Sayu drank from her bowl as she stood next to the sink then dumped out the rest. She continued, “I don’t see why you would be opposed to this course of action. It’s the most direct and effective.”

           Jonghyun leaned on the counter next to her, “I’m going with you.”

           “The sun is going to be up still so I would advise against that.”

           “Then we’ll wait until nightfall, ‘cause fuck your plan it’s stupid.”

           “I’m going alone because she isn’t likely to talk with you around. You’re right, she could kill me now. But you’d be better off for it in the long run. I know you’ve thought about it.” She turned to him, thinning her lips before she said, “If my plan goes south then everyone still alive gets what they want.”

           That statement was so true it hurt.

                Sayu didn’t open her eyes as she answered him sleepily, “I don’t have to get up to talk to you, and I will answer to the best of my abilities.” She yawned and covered her mouth with her blanket temporarily.

                She couldn’t see it, but Jonghyun rolled his eyes at her. He decided this was enough attention and continued, “Fine, was a vampire named Jessica ever one of your stupid traitor informants?”

                Sayu opened her eyes to peek at him, making a pouting face. “Giving me information that should be public does not make her a traitor.”

                “So she was.” His face was steady and serious. If this meant what he thought it meant… he would need to know more details if it was true.

                She closed her eyes and burrowed into her covers, pulling them tighter around her shoulders, “Mmhm, but I haven’t seen…“ When she paused she sat up suddenly, “What made you so mad about that?”

                He glared at her, “You should have told me that sooner! Shit.” Jonghyun stood up and went over to her computer on the table. He opened it while sitting down and waited for it to boot up.

                She was getting out of the bed, pulling the blanket with her and over her shoulders to come towards him, complaining, “I have a lot of contacts you don’t know about. Are you going to require a list?” Sayu sounded offended and reached for her computer to close it. Jonghyun moved it away from her before she could and stood up, taking the computer with him. “Just what are you looking for in there that I wouldn’t tell you?”

                “Fuck if I know but I’ll find something.” He tried to step around her and she moved in his way. Jonghyun lightly said, “Move.”

                “You will find a lot of something, why can’t you ask me what you want to know? Is it about Jessica?” When she said her name there was a flare of anger that rushed her from him, “Why are you so mad?”

                “It’s none of your business.” He made to move around her again so he could leave, but she moved with him. He scowled at her, “Stop that.” Jonghyun pushed her aside and started towards the door.

                “Give it back!” She bumped into the wall then chased after him, grabbing his shirt and tripping over her blanket at the same time. He kept going forward but felt a tiny resistance when she pulled on him. Jonghyun spun around, annoyed, and jerked her hand off him.

                He leaned down to her now crouching position on the floor and pushed her by her shoulder into the side of the bed. She fell back to sit on the floor and he showed his fangs in her face, growling. Sayu froze and he stood straight then stormed out of the room, slamming the door shut behind him. “You better not fucking follow me!” He called from the hallway, when he didn’t hear any movement, he left the door.

            By the time Jonghyun was almost home, Sayu seemed to be okay. Still, he was almost there, might as well check on her properly. He would have called, but they had to throw out her cell phone because Hiyori had used it to call someone else in the Council. Which meant it became traceable. He bought a new one for her but he had it with him, lot of good that did right now.

            The cab pulled up to the house and he paid the man then watched him leave. Then he rushed to the door and swung it open. “Sayu what the hell.” Stepping inside further, he slammed the door as loud as he could. There wasn’t a response. Jonghyun started mumbling expletives and went to their bedroom, but she wasn’t there either. He checked each room and she just wasn’t in the house.

            “Jessica.” He let the accusation sit there for a minute, balling up his fists, but then calmed a little. If something had really happened, it wouldn’t be over. Sayu would still be wound up and he would know if there was something wrong. Wouldn’t he? It wasn’t like it was a sixth sense. Maybe it’s so weak it’s untraceable. He concentrated harder to find her exact feelings.

            Content? Happy? It didn’t make sense. Thought without any clue to where she could have gone and still be okay, he couldn’t do anything about it besides wait for her to come back. Or be contacted with some sort of stupid ransom fucking note like before. Fuck this girl.

            Just as he was fuming over her disappearance he felt her feelings change. She was excited, thrilled even. And then feeling pleasure. He felt himself getting hard just thinking about her, something fun was happening. She’s obviously not in danger. Jonghyun shrugged and went to take care of himself, might as well enjoy it.

                        An hour later, Sayu opened the door to their bedroom and Jonghyun was sitting on her side of the bed, using her computer to do who knows what. “Hey! You can’t use that!” She walked over to him and slammed it shut, taking it from him while he snickered. “What are you doing going through my stuff?” She glared at him, clutching her lap top to her chest with her purse still hanging from her elbow. Sayu wore leggings and a skirt, a laced top and her new jacket.

            “You look cute. Who got to undress you?” He smiled, but she could feel a pang of jealousy, anger, he was completely serious and trying to hide it.

            She stared at him for a minute, trying to figure out how to respond, cooling down her anger. Oh, this was about that. It was a small revenge. “You went out, so I did too. Is there a problem with that?”

            “There is when I don’t want you going out.”

            “We haven’t discussed that.”

            “We need to. You also need to tell me what the fuck scared you earlier.”

            She looked confused for a second and then something like an ‘aha!’ moment. “Oh, Joon came by. He dropped off a card. I assume he’s congratulating you ironically on our bonding. I put it there.” Sayu began to relax and walked to the tiny table in the room to set the laptop down, away from Jonghyun’s grasp. She picked up the card and handed it to him.

            Jonghyun took the card and flicked it over his shoulder to land somewhere on the bed. “So you didn’t go out with him then who did you fuck?”

            “Why is that important?”

            “Because,” he hesitated, then flashed anger, “I don’t have to explain just don’t go fucking guys.”

            “Oh so you want a sexually frustrated woman living in a house with three available, male, vampires? I suggest you come up with something else.”

            “We fuck.”

            Sayu stared at him for a minute; the time that went by was pretty long for a suggestion like that to have no response. Right now, neither of them was paying attention to feelings, but it seemed like she wanted him to say that so he did. She did want him. Now it was time to take action.

            “Are you asking me out?” Sayu smirked.

I really want to rename this thing since it's getting so long but what? lol

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            He didn’t want any of this. Not ever. Jonghyun was feeling pretty wasted, actually, and started to think about his current predicament. He was drinking at a bar, on top of the severely drunk human he just ate. Onew and Minho were still out doing whatever, which suited him fine for the moment. Normally he would try to mock Onew or defend Minho, somewhat, but tonight he just didn’t care.

            This bond thing was more important right now. On one hand it would be better if they didn’t have a semi-internet-famous human hanging around, especially one as troublesome as Sayu. On the other hand, he was starting to believe her death would truly be something he’d not want to come to pass. He might miss her.

            In fact, with his dazed introspection, he did kind of miss her. He fixed his bangs out of habit after he finished his drink, slamming the glass on the bar just to make a loud noise. Annoying, this whole thing was too annoying. Why any vampire would do this on purpose was beyond him and even if he wanted something like this he definitely wouldn’t have picked that human over, say, someone sexier or without so many damn character flaws.

            It was nice she was shorter than him though, he had to admit. Someone sat next to him and he could smell the blood after a second of registering. He lazily glanced to his side and saw Jessica staring at him. He rolled his eyes, why did all these women have to have “that staring problem?”

            She smirked and tilted her head a little, “How’s your bonded doing? I heard she had a rough time recently.” Her usual elegance sat on top of the bar stool and she flicked her long, blond hair back over her shoulder. She laughed slightly when Jonghyun stared at her for far too long without saying anything. “Oh come on, do you really think that whole thing was just an accident? And yesterday, man I wanted more to have happened but Hiyori told me it wasn’t any fun after she passed out. You’re going to have a lot of work to do to-“

            “Figures,” he muttered and waved to the bartender to refill his glass. He wasn’t looking at her anymore but he could just imagine that shit-eating grin. She was loving this. And if what she said was true, it was all her doing. And she was successfully making his life even more hell than it was and he was getting pissed that she was winning. “What happened to just trying to kill me?”

            “You know it’s far better to torture your enemy before truly dealing a blow. Or wait, no you don’t do that. You just go for the kill, right?” Jessica sounded more attitude than amused now, and as he glanced over, she was also staring death at him. “So how is she?”

            Jonghyun looked confused, really there was no way of really answering that question, they hadn’t done anything. He wanted to, honestly why wouldn’t he, but he was afraid of what would happen. How much closer would they get. Would it be like with Onew and would she suffer like he did when he was human. When he thought about her, he felt scared, not terror but nervous and uneasy and frightened.

            He stood up and glared at her, asking in as much a threatening way when so drunk, “What did you do?”

            When she woke up, he was already gone. It was late, but she needed the sleep so she forgave herself. Sayu was usually an early riser, a morning person. Maybe that would lose meaning to her if she spent more time with her vampire. Her vampire. The implications of this thought seemed to not particularly bother her, so much as turn up some feelings within her.

            They still hadn’t talked about the bond. They hadn’t shared anything more than a bed and vague feelings when they really paid attention. She found herself thinking more about him, little flutters of anxiety brushed over her when she thought about him being a vampire. And what vampires usually do with their bondeds. Sayu pushed her thoughts away, cross that bridge when it comes.

            Well, sex would be cool. No, later. Think about it later. She grinned to herself and finally pushed herself out of bed. Maybe some coffee, write an article. Try to be normal for a few hours. She was certain their bond was weak, really weak, probably because of the events that happened. And haven’t happened. She had been writing about the whole experience, but she was sure she can’t publish any of it. It just comforts her to do it.

            Sayu walked out of their bedroom in her pajamas, a tank top and loose Capri pants. There was no one around. She called out, “Anyone home?” There was no answer. When she went into the kitchen, there was a note on the fridge. It looked like Minho’s writing since he drew a smiley face with fangs. They went out to eat, help herself to anything, they would bring back dinner.

            She shrugged and looked around for coffee and made herself some eggs. Mentally noting that she would require more food than ramen noodles and eggs, which is all they seemed to have. Sayu started wandering in thought again as she ate at their little table. Jonghyun still thought of her dying and feeling happy about it, she was sure. Not that it was something she could blame him for, just the feeling of that made her feel completely at his mercy.

            Sayu wasn’t the type of girl to beg for her life or anything, he knew that. Even more so she was so relieved to see him rescue her, but then felt complete dread knowing he could have just been there to fix his problem. For a long time it felt like it was exactly that. His pure distaste for bonds in general was apparent even before this happened. She had many conversations with him about it. He never talked about his reasons, but his deflections to certain questions helped her draw her own conclusion with his feelings on the matter.

            Jonghyun hates bonds. He hates the idea and what it does. She’s not sure if he hates the idea of keeping a human around, since he met with her and didn’t try to seclude her for an easy meal, or if he doesn’t like the relationship between a vampire and a human. He said something about a previous girlfriend he had, in passing, so he couldn’t have an aversion to relationships in general either.

            All her thoughts on Jonghyun, she felt an increasing hotness between her legs. Once she was focusing on him, she became excited and there was a sensation of euphoria. Suddenly this bond thing just got really, very interesting.

            Sayu stared at her reflection in the mirror, inspecting. She only had those same clothes from her… captivity. They were clean now, at least. There was a scar on her arm, covered by her long-sleeves, the place where Jonghyun’s fangs scraped across her. She imagined what she looked like then, judging from his face when he understood what just happened, the realization of a previous threat to her life when they first met. Why was he even there…

             No don’t think about it. It’s irrelevant. Breathe in, breathe out. At least you have this. For now. No, stop it. She leaned on the sink and looked down into the basin. It was clean, pristine, water droplets hung out on the sides, a small pool gathered around the drain. Sayu looked back into the mirror. This won’t do.

            She came out of the bathroom, it was light out so Jonghyun was sleeping and she tried not to wake him. Money, food, clothes. Sure she could get back before dark, Sayu left the hotel room after leaving a note just in case.

            “Jonghyun, I went out to get supplies and things. I will text your phone once I buy one, so call me when you get up. I should be back before dark if I know what’s good for me. XD Sayu/IU.”

            She drew a smiley but her face was blank.

            Her blog brought in enough profit she worked with her agency just for the extra contacts and editors. Her captors had thought well enough to take her stuff with them, she wondered how much was left if they were able to get access to her accounts. Sayu was quite well-off before… all this. Maybe she would have to start over. Jonghyun had shoved a plastic bag in her chest before they left that building, it held her belongings that were valuable and the rest had been tossed.

            She stepped out of the hotel, squinting. It had been a couple weeks since she had really seen sunlight and it was amazing how much she missed it. First stop, ATM. Sayu punched in her numbers and checked the balance, not entirely empty, but would need some serious recovery time. Those guys probably didn’t figure out how to get cash out of it or she’d be completely broke. Jonghyun had a few contacts of his own and was able to track them this way; at least it was pretty fortunate those guys weren’t very careful.

            Taking out the cash she needed, she went into the nearest electronics store and bought the cell phone. She was texting Jonghyun the number when someone approached her, tapping her shoulder.

            “Sayu?” She turned and froze at the voice. She really didn’t want anyone she knew around her right now, and here was a bonded contact she knew, looking worried. “Is it you? I’ve been trying to call. Did you lose your phone?”

            “Yes, that is exactly what happened,” she said, pressing the send button, mid-message.”What did you want to tell me?” Sayu smiled, her polite way spreading a smile to her contact. Hopefully this would be short.