"Where are we going?" asked Donghae curiously, looking out through the tinted glass of the shining black Ford. It felt weird sitting with both Luca an Jake who were equally silent.

'Why arn't they speaking?' he wondered absently. True it felt weird when he looked back through the rear mirror to see 8 jet black Defenders following them. Each was filled with a deadly variety of Falcons.

"Can't anyone tell me what's going on? asked Donghae sheepishly.

Luca heaved an annoyed sigh and looked at him through the mirror.

"Rule number infinity" stormed Luca, "you are NOT fucking allowed to ask questions! especially when both your superiors are in the same place!"

"Is that true?" asked Donghae, glancing at Jake's steel blue eyes. Jake looked back at him but after a few seconds of gazing, he turned away from Donghae, looking as if he had something on his mind.

Again Donghae wondered what was wrong with him, Jake didn't feel or act the same way since that thing happened between them in the morning, Donghae suddenly started blushing uncontrollably when he remembered what exactly happened inbetween them.

Donghae glanced at the touch screen control panel resting between them. He really wanted to see what happens if he raised that tiny scale in the middle. But he qickly resisted the urge to touch it since the vehicle suddenly came to halt on a bare under -construction space of land in the middle of Seoul. The following 8 defenders that came crashing behind, parked themselves around the black Ford, making a protective circle around them.

Donghae blinked at their powerful glare of headlights that came crashing into his vicinity from all sides. He barely had any idea what was happening, but it was useless asking anyone about anything since they considered him a little better than a thin shadow among them.

Luca quickly got out and came around to open Jake's door, and without a word, Hyukjae stepped out of the car while Luca held the door respectfully. Donghae also opened the door and clambered out.

Outside, the sky was turning from a dark shade of lavender to a colour of dark Persian blue and Donghae noticed that the stars were unusually bright that night.

That's when he saw a tall man with a number of armed guards come strolling towards them. Once they got closer Donghae got a clear view of the man.

He was wearing what looked like a deadly expensive version of a tight Gucci pyjama that had a shade of violent red. A nose ring and a slash of mutilated flesh decorated his otherwise handsome face.

"Thannnkyou for accepting our payment rulezzz Maranzano" he slurred in a deep voice, while chucking out his hand which Jake studiously ignored.

"I'm glad we can finally agree on to something" said Jake in a matching bored voice.

"Ehhh Maranzano, we were both traumatized by that man, so I think the least we can do is agree and help each other is it not?"

"Unlike you" said Jake in a cold voice, taking a step forward, "I did not get traumatized as you said, I'm sorry to hear you got unnerved by him"

The man glanced at him and burst in to a booming laugh, "Aye Maranzano, you are just like what they say you're like nah? No one can get fuck-en word ahead of you no?"

"You could say that" said Hyukjae smugly.

"I'm here to watch things blow up! Me and my Wolves want to see things burnnn" shouted the man gleefully, while the guards at the back clung their weapons more tightly when the saw the Falcons stand behind Jake, weapons loaded and pointing on the ground.

"Ok" said Luca, "we all know what to do!"

'Except me' thought Donghae panicking, 'what the fuck's going on?!'

"We've got 30 minutes for this and protect your leader at all cost. Kim Ju Shin won't go down that easily" continued Luca, while Donghae glanced confusedly up at them.

"Don't worry about him" said Jake, his voice was deadly calm and Luca nodded.

Finally, he felt a hand grasp him, Donghae didn't need to look to see who it was, because he knew that touch anywhere, as if it was his own.

"Stick with me" whispered Jake, locking his eyes into Donghae. They waited till all the Falcons left with Luca who gave Donghae a judging look. After a nod at Hyukjae, Mr. Gucci Pyjamas also left with his men.

"I'll be waiting for you at the top Maranzano" he'd said before he left.

It was only them now, Donghae glanced round, lights blinked from the Seoul's tall buildings, red lights blinking from their towers. All around them, the sound of everyday traffic came blaring, while huge digital screens flashed somewhere nearby.

"Jake" whispered Donghae cautiously, "can you please tell me what's going on?"

Suddenly, Jake pulled him close and gently placed his forehead on him, making the torrent of questions instantly die down on his lips. There was fire inbetween them...

"do you trust me Donghae?" asked Jake in a husky voice, looking into his eyes..breaking him..marking him...

Fire...

"I-I... ofcorse I do" stuttered Donghae, lost in Jake's touch...

Jake brushed his lips lightly on his mouth, his fingers tightening around his shoulders. Donghae moved his mouth against him, taking in his warm scent...Jake almost always smelled of steel and rain, and it calmed him down.

"You won't like what I'm gonna do" whispered Jake, "Don't try to stop me, it's the only way"

"I won't"

♧♤♧

The young officer was busy collecting the suspect voice record tapes those fell on the floor when he opened the cupboard that had them.

'Fuck it' he thought bitterly as he bent down to collect the old fashioned tapes while his friend laughed at his comical struggle to collect them. 'Fuck night duty! Fuck everything!'

"Hey Yun!" laughed his friend, almost choking on the coffee he held. "Does your lazy fat ass need any help?!"

Yun growled in response. It was true he was lazy, he was nothing like their Boss, if he ever wanted a higher position like that, Yun's name fell far behind the nominated list.

Suddenly the lights in the room flickered and dimmed, so that half of the room room was plunged into shadows.

"Scared Yun-ah? should I call your mom?" Asked his annoying friend, good thing they were friends since elementary school, or he would've whooped his fucking ass by now.

He rudely turned his back towards his friend and continued gathering the tapes and placing them neatly on the shelves.

Suddenly, he saw a particular record lying on the floor, its identification code dating back to 15 years ago.

"Jeez! look what I found! This is the job our Boss did to get into the highest position of the police! Remember? We were both in high school back then! It was that Famous Mafia case Boss solved! Damn man! I wish I could catch some bunch of Mafia men like that! What do you think they look like?"

It was then Yun noticed the eerie silence behind him, he defenetly felt someone standing behind him. That's when the the ominous smell of coppery blood hit him,

Yun whirled around, and what he saw was to be engraved in his mind for the last few moments he shared with the intimidating figure standing infront of him. His friend lay on the floor, motionless, blood splattering and flowing down from his open neck, his eyes wide open and unblinking with a permanent terrified look.

A howl omitted from Yun's throat as his brain finally registered what was happening, before his hand could move to his pistol, the figure raised his revolver and shot him continuously until Yun's legs gave out below him. He tasted blood on his mouth that was slowly creeping out from the corner of his lips. Blood was seeping out from almost everywhere in his body, corners of his vision became dark and hazy, but it did not stop him from seeing the final few seconds of the last episode of his life.

Luca walked closer towards the fallen young officer, the tape record was clutched in his bloodied hand. Bending down Luca picked it up from him and saw the boy looking at him through violent gasps and splutters.

"You wanted to know what Mafia looked like huh?" He whispered, holding the record in front of the boy's face, "hope you had a good look"

He watched as his lifeless body hit the ground with a dull thud. Getting up, he touched his earpiece.

"This is F1, ground phase complete"

Giving the two boys one last look, he walked stealthily out of the room.

◇♤◇

Kim Ju Shin walked around his beloved interrogation room. A single light was hanging down from the concrete ceiling, where it swung lazily above a small hard steel table that had two retractable chairs facing each other.

Today was a day for celebrations, as it was the 15th year anniversary of the biggest promotion he'd recieved in his entire life... for catching the kingpin of the korean-Italian Mafia. He'd ordered everyone out of the department floor for a few hours, wanting to celebrate and reminiscent alone.

He gazed proudly at the microphones and the modern technology that had seeped in through the years. But his real pride lay 15 years back, when there was only a cheap recorder with a single casset in it. This room was legendary, he'd caught a whole Mafia in this room, he'd got the information cunningly, trapping the Alexi Luciano with death threats and fales hope, catching and killing Leonard Maranzano and his wife.... victories...they're priceless.

Although the Mafia is still very active in Korea, he didn't feel the urge to catch them again,

'once is enough till you get the position you are aiming for... the rest is for the new bees' he thought as he grinned down at the shinning badges on his uniform. He certainly didn't get to be the High Inspector of Seoul for nothing... besides, he was old now.

Suddenly the light in the room flickered and blacked out, making the High Inspector boil from anger as he remembered that his mobile was back in his office. He took out his walkie-talkie.

"What the FUCK! Somebody turn on that damn generator!" he yelled, but the sound proof glass walls drowned his desperate shouts to the outside world, the electric lock on the heavy steel door slid shut, obeying its emergency protocol, neatly trapping kim Ju Shin inside the room. He paced around the room like an unnamed animal until he saw the ominous flicker of the emergency lights.

"Finally" he gasped breathlessly. Some idiot's got the power working back again.

The light in in the room flickered back on, and various instruments began beeping into life. But the High Inspector stood in the middle of the room, all colour draining out from his face that had taken a dull shade of ghostly white... his body began to shake, fingers going cold and numb as he felt fine sweat breakout on his forheard. His eyes gawked unblinkingly at the two figures that separated themselves from him with a sound proof glass wall.

"I-i-it c-can't be! How? W-when!?" muttered the Inspector, his mind refusing to believe what he was actually seeing, he was going crazy, he's seeing things! He's seeing people who were supposed to be dead a long time ago.

"L-Leonard!!...A-Alex-xi!" spluttered the broken man, his hand crashing towards this chair for support as he goggled breathlessly at the worst nightmare of his entire life.

Donghae and Jake watched him, though Donghae had no idea who this man was... a thin smirk blossomed on Jake's face when he saw the man litterally gasping for air.

'He's enjoying this...' thought Donghae shaking his head

Jake calmly turned on the mic with a casual flick of the switch.

"Hello officer Kim" he said, and Donghae imediately noticed that Jake was using an unfamiliar deep voice... a voice that resonated power.

Kim's brain had no second thoughts on whom the voice belonged to,

"Leonard Maranzano" he whispered faintly, finally sitting down on the chair, his eyes still looking over from Jake to Donghae in disbelief.

"Oh, I'm not Leonard" said Jake cheerily, "I'm Hyukjae Maranzano, Leonard was my father and Natalya Maranzano was my mother, I just thought you ought to remember before you die"

Donghae watched as these words hit home on the collapsed man, he instantly started muttering to himself,

"Father?...he had a son? They had a son? Ofcourse! so they all had children! But when?!- "

Kim's half crazed eyes slowly raised and looked at Jake, he now noticed Natalya's slim figure and Leonard's dominant nature in him... his eyes slowly moved to the other boy... Aiden was the exact copy of his mother, but his eyes looked like Alexi.

Suddenly Kim Ju Shin began to laugh, his laughing turned hysterical as he watched the two boys in front of him. But raged boiled through him as well, he had worked so fucking hard to clear out the mafia! Only to find that both them had their offsprings ready to find him when they grew up.

Kim Shin lurched and threw himself at the glass wall, his sudden movement making Donghae instantly stand between this crazed man and Jake.

"Let's go Jake" he called back, just as the man glanced at him.

Kim shin knew Jake was not going to let him live, but he had the last piece of knowledge in his hands, and he knew how he should use it.

Jake watched the man as he turned and stared right at him, it actually unnerved him to see the lack of fear in his eyes.

"You do know" sneered Kim Shin slowly, the speakers catching his each word in crystal clear sound, "you do know who you're standing with do you Maranzano? Did you know that Cosa Nostra already knows how to get close to you?"

Jake stared back, unable to understand what he meant

"What the HELL do you mean!?" shouted Jake, bring down his fists crashing onto the glass wall... Donghae's heart began to beat fast ominously. "How the fuck do they know how to get close to me or whatever the fuck that was!?"

The man only looked at Donghae's face cunningly, and he burst into another cackle of vicious laughter

"I won't tell you Maranzano!" He laughed, "why should I tell you when I can enjoy myself!? when you finally realize it, burn in agony! The damage is finally done by them! burn-!"

Donghae hadn't noticed Jake opening the glass frame because he was so caught up with staying silent, but he looked up when the man stopped talking in mid sentence, a silver throwing star was embedded on his throat and blood was gushing out from the opening. Jake was pulling out another star, anger blazing through him as he aimed another one at Kim's eyes.

"Jake that's enough!" shouted Donghae, trying to drag him to the door but with no avail, "let's just get out of here"

But Hyukjae refused to leave, casting an evil glance at the man caged in the room his eyes looking like a fierce storm. He struggled under Donghae's iron-like grip.

"HE KILLED MY PARENTS!" Jake screamed, trying to get past Donghae as he dragged him out of the room.

"I know, but calm down will you?" said Donghae, "that guy's gonna die anyways!"

So why did you fucking stop me!?" he shouted, running his fingers through his raven black hair, "I fucking told you not to stop me LEE DONGHAE!"

He broke out of Donghae's grasp, and turned, glaring at him.

"You killed him like a human Jake" said Donghae in a slow and patient voice, "I just didn't want you falling into the same status as him. He was an animal"

♡♤♡

When both of them got out of the building, no one suspected them, a couple of female officers smiled at Donghae from the help desk. For their information, both of them were visiting Jake's uncle who happened to be a cop, all thanks to Avian technology. Jake still fumed with annoyance as they met the Wolves positioned with Falcons at the top of a run down building.

"Did you get it?" asked Jake once he saw Luca who nodded in response.

"here you go" said the leader of Wolves, pressing a small remote controller into Jake's hand. "I'll give you the honor of doing it. Let's start the show Maranzano"

Jake glanced down at the small red button in his palm, a silent battle of wills running inside his mind.

'Should I do it? But he killed my mom and dad!' He felt his fingers trying to press down the button.

'But I don't want to do it!' He thought, trying to forget Donghae's voice telling him not to go any lower than he already has. His hands slipped with sweat on the small remort control.

Donghae didn't bother glancing at at what was happening between Hyukjae and the other man, all he wanted was to go home. He turned around and started walking slowly away when suddenly, it almost felt like something banged next to his eardrums, making a irritable beeping sound at the base of his ears, it all happened in a split second, the police station that was there a second ago had disappeared, where it stood, now lay a flaming graveyard... flames licking everything in its wake, while black smoke drifted like a huge orange mushroom towards the dark sky. lights in the buildings all around them flickered once and came back.

Donghae looked at Jake across the distance... his fingers were still pressed against the red button, and there was a stricken yet lost look on his face. He was breathing hard, as if trying to decipher what happened.

Luca sighed and the crazy guy in the pyjamas whooped in delight at the disgusting scene before them.

'So many innocent lives!, so many people who had done nothing wrong...just for one fucking life' thought Donghae as his mind tried to register what just happened,

He suddenly heard wailing noises of sirens of ambulances and police cars...

Everything slowed down, and Donghae's eyes drifted back to Jake, and his steel blue eyes gazed back at him half pleadingly, but Donghae noticed one prominent emotion behind his eyes: regret...

'Jake how could you!?' he wanted scream silently, before he turned around and stormed away. Anything to get away from him and that terrifying scene while tears continued to fall down from his eyes.

♡♧♡

A cold numbness ran through his body as he watched Donghae stormed away from him. He couldn't believe how one look from Donghae can make him feel as if the world was falling apart...

'I didn't mean to Donghae I swear-' thought Jake desperately

He closed his eyes and breathed hard, he felt so guilty that it felt like a physical weight boreing down on his shoulders. Donghae's sad accusatory gaze weighing it down even more.

Luca bowed his head and the Falcons silently waited for his commands.

His vision became hazy and disoriented. Jake turned and ran after Donghae.

He found him sitting stonily inside the car, his eyes fixed at nothing, fingers clenched into fists until their knuckles have gone white and shaky. He'd honestly never seen Donghae in such a temper.

He got in the car and sat at the other extreme corner of the maroon leather seat. A few minutes passed and Luca also came and ignited the engine. Still, Donghae refused to acknowledge him. Jake's eyes drifted to the rear mirror and caught Donghae's eyes looking straight at him through it, they held that gaze for a long time, until Jake touched the screen inbetween them and trailed his finger upwards lightly against the screen.

He watched as the tinted, sound proof glass raised itself smoothly inbetween the front and the back seats, separating them from Luca's view and earshot.

"Donghae" said Jake shakily, watching Donghae's lips form into a thin line.