Please, Love Me

Chapter 9

CHAEYOUNG POV:

I could hear Mina just... going through everyone before me. I could hear her footsteps coming closer and closer and I just... Didn't know what to do. I only had so many more days of life life, unless I got a chemical supplement, but we all knew that I wasn't getting one of those. I waited for my lover. Already teary eyed. I just wanted her to love me again, but I could only guess that the pain of losing me again was probably... pure distraught.

I eventually heard her footsteps soften for just a moment before they sped up again and I saw her face. My Mina's face... Stone cold, but I could see it in her eyes. She was so broken, and I broke with her knowing that I caused the pain, that this... was because I couldn't live.

"Mina..." I croaked out, tearing up because this was never what I wanted.

"Move." Mina said, her voice so... void of the love I usually heard.

"You are NOT killing your sister, and my sister's wife," I said firmly.

I hadn't wanted it to come to this. I wanted someone before me to have stopped Mina, or for Mina to have come to her own senses, but here I was. I was standing before my lover, nearing my death day.

"Yes... I.. am." Mina said, gritting between her words.

I stood there ready to cry. It was like she was gone, and my hands were shaking, unsure if I was supposed to hug her and beg her to stop, or if I was supposed to fight her now.

Damn. I don't even have much time left until I deteriorate again. I just wanted to be with her...

"I just... want to be with you..." I said.

SANA POV:

I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't mildly terrified for my future. I just knew that Mina was probably going through each and every one of us with a need to get to me. It was already said over our radios that she did in fact NEED to kill me first according to command and it wasn't like Tzuyu was dead. I'd assume if Tzuyu died, I'd go mad.

Mina was my sister, but not knowing what was going to happen or what she could do was terrifying. I loved her so much and it hurt that her love for me couldn't win against the command to kill me. I really do wonder... I know she's hurt because Chaeyoung doesn't have much time left but I thought that as family... We'd make it.

I understand a little though. I can't imagine life without Tzuyu. Also, remembering how she was without Chaeyoung was honestly scarring. I always questioned what was going on inside her head for her to act the way she did. I wondered how pained she felt. I couldn't blame her at all for giving into pain once upon learning that Chaeyoung wasn't going to survive.

I knew she was coming my way when I heard the door begin to shake violently. What I didn't expect was to hear was Chaeyoung's desperate voice on the other side. She was obviously fighting with Mina about my life.

"She's your sister!" Chaeyoung yelled.

"And she's to die," Mina said, responding in a voice cold.

"Mina, please, don't," Chaeyoung said, her voice cracking in hurt.

"Don't what?!" Mina yelled right back.

"Don't lose me this early," Chaeyoung responded, and I could hear her about to cry.

"L-Lose you..?" Mina asked as if she was fighting something within herself.

"We still have a week, and maybe longer depending on how fast I deteriorate..." Chaeyoung said, "Are you really gonna have this be the way I see you before I die..?"