Siwon dropped his suit and loosened his tie. He threw his suitcase somewhere at the corner of his sofa and walked tiredly to the kitchen. He poured himself a glass of cold water, drinks it while
leaning to his fridge.
A job as a loan officer at a bank was unexpectedly tiring, though his job only requires him to accept people requests for loans or decline. Dealing with people was hard. He had to turn down a
plea from an old guy today.
He sighed and rubbed the back of his head.
Something tickled his senses. Something was wrong. He stepped lightly to the front door and looked to the dark street. Nothing was out of the ordinary. Siwon created an electricity spark in
his palm and played with it, checking if the Chrysalis in his blood still working well.
"I still have it."
Siwon cracked his neck. He checked his phone, every time he felt uneasy, he calls to Eeteuk at the house and that was he going to do when his window splattered. A canister flew in and
dropped to the floor.
"Holy-!" Siwon knew what that was, he retreated to the wall, he tried to turn into lightning, blasting through his roof and escape but the canister exploded. Bright white light and smoke came
out from it.
The blinding light created a silent noise, deafening Siwon?s ears. He fell to the floor. Blinded and deaf, Siwon tried to get on his feet. The smoke made his brain hurts, his heart ran faster and
everything became disoriented.
They found me!
Siwon sedated hard, making him confused and couldn?t tell left from right.
That canister was a bomb. The organization called it Pandora, made especially for handling the Gifted. It contains a smoke that messes with human nerves, making them confused to a point of
losing their minds temporarily. The light and the deafening sound was ultra-sonic wave, attacking human balance system and ruins it.
The door house torn off and the agents came in with gas mask, their rifle at ready.
In the confusion, Siwon threw himself out of the window, fell on the soft grass in front of his house and ran. Stumbling here and there, he tried to go as far as he could from his house. He fell
again and again. A tranquilizer hit his thigh, adding to the pain. He clenched his teeth but useless. His body stopped moving.
"We got him, Sir," an agent reported.
His superior, brown hair, straight shoulder, walked to him. ?See? We don?t need Hyoyeon?s army. We don?t need the Princess if we have the right strategy.?
"Yes, Sir."
"Pack him up. It's time for my show. Junsu's show."
**
Jessica finished her morning bath. She comfortably slipped in to Tiffany's clothes Yuri gave her and went out her room. Yuri's room door was opened, she was not there. So was Taeyeon and
Tiffany's room, no sound heard from it. The second floor was empty.
Jessica decided to stroll around the second floor, counting the doors.
"There are twenty rooms here," she nodded.
If Eeteuk's twelve other friends were still at the house instead of working somewhere else, this house would be so hectic. Jessica smiled.
She spotted Eeteuk's room. There were clacking and radio static noise came from it. Jessica curled her lips, curious to know what the sound was but then she sighed and shook her head. She
had not been there long enough to interfere in anything yet. Besides, the visions about Eeteuk scared her so she climbed down the stairs instead.
At the living room, Tiffany was dusting the rug while Taeyeon was busy at the kitchen.
Jessica smiled. She already used to the life at the house now. Taeyeon and Yuri took turns to cook every two days. Tiffany and Eeteuk were in charge of cleaning the whole house plus doing
laundry.
Jessica, realized her own skill at kitchen utensils, offered Tiffany a hand.
"Uh, no, no. You still have your training with Yuri, she's outside by the gazebo," Tiffany smiled.
Jessica nodded and went to the back of the house. The gazebo was empty, Yuri wasn't there. Jessica sat down at the gazebo wall fence and looked around at the park surrounding the gazebo.
The flowers were nice. There were roses, lilies and blue flowers she didn't know their names. Jessica smiled. This house is perfect.
A lightning struck the prairie behind the gazebo, surprising Jessica. Yuri came back.
"Yuri."
Yuri nodded, "hey."
"Where have you been?"
Yuri showed Jessica a plastic bag, "buying bagels."
"You bought bagels by travelling with...lightning??
Yuri hopped to the gazebo, "yeah, it faster that way." Yuri offered Jessica a bagel.
"I would love to learn that."
"You can't even aim where you shot you're lightning yet, this is still a long way to go," Yuri said.
Jessica pouted.
"It's the same principle actually. Just focused on the electricity inside you, but instead shooting them out, you make them throw you up," Yuri took a bite at her bagel.
Jessica nodded and munched her own bagel.
"Oh," Yuri pulled a wood bracelet from her pocket, "here."
"What is this?" Jessica took the bracelet. It was a simple bracelet made of wood and tree root. There was a small wooden plate with Jessica?s name carved on it.
"A bracelet."
Jessica couldn?t help but smiling wide, "I know what it is, but what is it for?"
"For you," Yuri looked away from Jessica and her voice got softer, "it couldn't beat Taeyeon and Fany's necklaces though but...."
"You made this?"
"Yep. It matches with mine," Yuri raised her wrist and the same bracelet wrapped there but instead of Jessica's name it says Yuri on it.
Jessica burst into laughter.
"Ya!" Yuri shouted, "don't laugh!"
Jessica waved her arm around saying she wasn't but she couldn't help it.
"If you think it's ridiculous then give it back!" Yuri threatened.
Jessica stood up and took a step back, "no, I'm sorry! I like it, let me have it," she put on the bracelet.
Yuri turned away again and quickly finished her bagel.
"You made it just in one night?"
Yuri didn't answer.
"You made it just because I said I want matching accessories with someone?"
Yuri still didn't react.
"Yuri-ah," Jessica called her. Yuri flinched. The first time she heard Jessica called her so casually.
"Yuri-ah," she called again.
"What?" Yuri still didn't look back but Jessica talked to her back anyway.
"Thank you."
Yuri coughed and felt her face heating up.
"Guys!? Taeyeon called from the kitchen, "Oppa needs us."
**
"You're not going to school today, Hyunnie?" asked Mother.
"I will, just dropping by to see Yoona," Seohyun smiled.
She visited the orphanage before school to see how it was doing. The broken roof had been fixed, although the tree at the courtyard was still there, charred black, to remind them that the
night of the raid did really happen.
Seohyun walked across the courtyard and peeked from the window. The children were singing and in front of the class, Yoona was playing guitar.
Seohyun somewhat relieved. She was afraid the children will endure the trauma longer than she thought.
Suddenly the door opened and Yoona came out smiling.
"Look, everyone, Seohyun-unnie is here!"
The children clapped their hands and cheered.
"Why don't you play some piano? We could sing a happy song for them."
Seohyun move backward, "I'm late for my school."
Yoona pulled her hand, "just one song."
Seohyun caved in. She sat down in front of a keyboard.
"Okay, here we go!"
Yoona played her guitar and Seohyun followed with her piano. The children were laughing and singing. Some of them stood up on their desk and danced. Seohyun couldn't help but laughed too.
Yoona came close to her and whispered, "we make a good couple."
"What!?" Seohyun made a mistake on her keyboard note, surprised.
"Band," Yoona smiled, "a good band."
Yoona walked to the back of the classroom, singing louder and the children sang even louder.
"I don't mind being a couple," Seohyun mumbled.
"What?" Yoona asked.
"Nothing," Seohyun quickly answered.
Yoona narrowed her eyes, "I knew you said some--my phone," Yoona heard her phone ringing.
Seohyun sighed. "Just say it! Just say that you like her and want her to be your girlff--aargh! Why is it so hard to say that?" Seohyun smacked her own head.
"Hyunnie?"
"Yes!"
"I got to go... um... can you cover for me? It's important."
"Yes, no problem," Seohyun nodded.
"Thanks!" Yoona grabbed her bag and rushed out the classroom.
"Hh... I'm a coward," Seohyun sighed, "hold on! I've got to go to school!"
**
Taeyeon, Tiffany, Yuri, Jessica and Eeteuk gathered in front of the TV, everyone holding their breakfast, fried rice a la Taeyeon.
"What's up, Oppa?" asked Tiffany.
Eeteuk cleared his throat. "The organization got Siwon."
"What?" Tiffany choked on her fried rice.
"I was monitoring the organization radio earlier and apparently, Siwon's house raided last night," Eeteuk turned serious.
Jessica nodded, so the clacking and the weird noises she heard from Eeteuk's room was radio scanner sound.
"Remember when I said that the scanner was a two way street between us and the organization?" Yuri whispered.
"Yeah."
"This is it," Yuri cleared her throat, "we could know their moves and in the same time they can control where we go, by capturing Siwon for instance."
"Who's Siwon?" she asked.
"Remember the Thirteen I mentioned in my story? He's one of them," said Yuri.
"So it might be a trap."
"It is a trap."
"What are we going to do, Oppa?" asked Tiffany.
"We're going to get him, of course. He's still here in Seoul, at their HQ apparently."
Yuri nodded.
"Siwon's still at their HQ? That's weird. They usually transferred the captive to the facility," Taeyeon said.
"What is the facility?" Jessica asked again.
"I'll explain later," said Yuri.
"That's why I need your help Taeyeon."
"Help?"
"We're going to their HQ."