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Head above water > Avril Lavigne

Sound of silence > Dami Im

Hanul

It has been 3 years since we moved to Musang country. Life has been good for both Lilly and me. I started in a company selling medical equipment and worked myself up to area manager. Lilly now looked like a seven-year-old, she still has her sea-green eyes.

She is the top student in the year group and studies very hard. She has made quite a few friends; she was happy and bubbly.

Lately, though I noticed that her appetite has decreased and that she is tired and listless. The pediatricians that Aunt May recommended can find anything wrong with her. I have already started planning to return to Jade city next week so that we can go see Tetsu and Ken.

Today she is having a bad day again.

"Moddy, can we please go to Pirate Park?"

I know this is her favourite park, it has a wooden climbing structure in the shape of an old pirate ship. The area is very safe for children. There were so many trees providing shade and a beautiful green lawn that was so lush it felt like walking on clouds.

Sitting on the park bench she just looked at her schoolmates running around and being silly. Every now and then I can hear a soft giggle from her.

"Don't you want to play with your friends today pumpkin?"

"No, I'm a bit tired, but the sun feels so good on my face. Can we sit for a little while longer please" I nodded as she continued her people-watching. She was right though the sun did feel good on your face.

Suddenly she perked up and looked off to her left, I tried to see what she was looking at but there was nothing out of the ordinary.

She returned her focus to me "Moddy I'm hungry."

"Okay, what do you want to eat pumpkin?" happy about this request.

"I want some cup noodles from the convenience store across the street." She said pointing to the store. Just glad that she wanted to eat something, I asked one of the moms that I knew to keep an eye on her for me as I ran to get her noodles.

It took me more than 10 minutes to make and pay for the noodles, and it felt like a lifetime. Crossing the street to get back to Lilly, I saw a man with dark hair and broad shoulders, dressed in a dark turtleneck shirt, black cargo pants, and combat boots sitting next to Lilly, talking to her.

Why did this person feel so familiar to me? My eyes glided over the defined shoulders and back again. Our eyes met as he slowly turned around and I knew why.

MINHO!

Why, how did he find us?

He got up and took Lilly by her hand. At that moment everything froze. The only thing that came to mind was that Minho was taking my baby. Everything fell from my hands as I started to run towards them.

"No, Lilly please No!"

All of a sudden, an unknown woman pushed a microphone in my face, there was a man with one of those TV news cameras behind her. Trying to bypass her to get to my daughter I realized I was surrounded by a crowd.

Helplessly I looked on as my daughter got into a car with Minho, she turned to me before getting in and I could see the words forming on her lips at the same time as I heard them through our link.

"I'm sorry Moddy, but I have to go now."

"Why?" I asked as Minho looked at me again. He looked down at Lilly and back up at me, one word tore from his clenched teeth "MINE!". He quickly got into the car and sped off with our daughter.

An itch started to crawl over my skin, it felt like something was moving inside me trying to break out and rip my body to pieces. I lifted my head towards the sky and gave an animalistic roar scratching at my neck till it started bleeding.

The crowd around him started moving away in fright as more and more animalistic roars ripped from my throat. I felt a sting and burning sensation in my neck before everything went black.

A very muscular man caught Hanul before his body could hit the sidewalk. Looking at the cameraman he gave a very slight nod.

"CUT, that's a wrap people" a male voice yelled off to the side. "I want to thank all the extras for their hard work to make this scene successful, unfortunately, our male lead was so engrossed in his role that he fainted from exhaustion, please report to Ms. Park Rosé for your acting fee for this movie."

Hanul was taken to a crew van.

"Keep him sedated we can't afford for him to shift here." The leader of the Nightshade team said. He held one finger in the air indicating that he was listening to orders coming through the earpiece.

"Yes Sir, Asset A is currently contained." "Understood sir, asset A will be moved to a secure location, Nightshade 1 out"

Moving his index finger in a circular movement the team got in the vehicles and sped off to an undisclosed destination.

In the car sitting next to Lilly, Minho was clenching and unclenching his fists. His eyes kept shifting between his beautiful sky-blue eyes and golden cat eyes. Linex (his dragon) was trying to take control of Minho's body, "we have to turn back Minho that is our mate, why did we not know this before? TURN BACK NOW!!!!"

Minho was having a hard time calming Linex down. "Linex, you need to calm down, we have always felt drawn to Hanul and now we know why, but we have to stay away for a bit to keep him safe can you do that for me buddy?"

Linex growled inside Minho's mind, while walking in circles like a nesting cat, finally settling down with a huff. "I will allow this only for a bit Minho, but if I feel that it is taking too long, I will take control and go fetch our mate. Do you understand young one?"

Minho felt a warm small hand of Lilly in his, and both he and Linex relaxed. "Daddy will Moddy be, okay?"

"I don't know pumpkin, I don't know."