Immortals
Chapter 2: It's just a drink
“You are Carina correct?” He had walked up when you’d taken your mask off to get a drink. His eyes were the color of dark liquor the kind that men usually enjoyed with a reddish hint to them.
“Ha ha very funny.” You said in Korean but he didn’t seem to hear.
“Yes. I didn’t expect someone from the East to be so fluent in Latin.” The pretty Italian voice came out of your mouth speaking fluent Latin. Wait what the? Okay that was weird. You thought to yourself.
“My mother is Italian.” He lied and took a sip of wine.
“I see.” you said and smiled at him as he grabbed your arm and led you to dance.
Next thing you knew, you were running. The gown you were in had been beautiful but after getting snagged on everything and causing yourself to fall it was in tatters. You could feel yourrself trying to scream but it fell short because of raw vocal chords. The only thing escaping a very weak Latin phrase.
“Aduiva me.” You pleaded. You had survived the maze outside of the old villa and the things chasing behind you hadn’t caught up yet but you knew it wasn’t over. The woods. If you could just make it through the woods you would be okay. You picked up the pace ignoring your bleeding feet after seeing the light of an old cottage ahead rushing through the door and giving a sigh of relief when Jiyong seemed to not be able to get in the door but when you turned around it was like you were in another time period and another country….
“Beautiful isn’t it?” The English was spoken with a barely present eastern accent from behind where you stood and you were met with the image of Daesung in a civil war era suit. Looking down you realized your dress had turned into something straight out of Gone With the Wind and was now a deep royal blue.
“ ije mwo?!” You groaned.
“My older brother is going to be glad to hear you came Miss Walker. It is his birthday after all and he has grown quite fond of you.” He continued like he hadn’t heard a word you said.
“Walker? What are you talking about? I’m Alex. Alex Park.” You refuted speaking Korean but it was like you weren’t speaking at all. You waved a hand in front of his face but there was no response to it.
“If memory serves you’ve grown quite fond of me too. Your father and mine seem to be spending a lot of time together lately. I wonder what for.“ A sweet southern voice spoke to him before you took a sip of wine.
“Adeline. I missed you. Daesung you wouldn’t be trying to steal this beautiful girl away from me before I’ve had my birthday dance, would you?” Youngbae accused grabbing your gloved hand and laying a kiss to your knuckles. His eyes were far more intimately watching you than the gesture called for and you felt your skin warm in response. What you hadn’t seen was the look of pure rage or the change in the younger man’s eyes.
“Now why would I do that brother? Adeline seems to only have eyes for you tonight anyway.” Daesung said taking a sip of wine that seemed a little too red to your eyes but you brushed it off.
“Say it with me. Al-ex. Not Adeline. Can you even hear me? Oh for crying out loud.” You switched to English and threw your hands up in the air letting out an annoyed sigh when there was still no response.
“Not at all. He couldn’t steal me away from you on your birthday if he tried.” The words came out of your mouth in a jovial Southern drawl that sounded more like your mother than you as you bounced your head refuting the earlier statement. You felt a curl of hair brush your shoulder and fall down at your chest blushing again when Daesung and Youngbae’s eyes followed the movement. YB was quick to lift it away revealing a blonde curl of hair rather than your straight dark locks. What the hell is going on? This feels too real to be a dream. You mused but you were drawn back when you felt his fingers brush along the skin above your collar bone. He moved closer as he tucked the curl behind your ear and then led you onto the floor dancing in elegant flourish and sweeping you off your feet. The celebration was interrupted by the sounds of bombs and gunshots in the background. Then the party goers faded away to you running for your life through the ruins of the once beautiful plantation home, no not just you, Adeline. The two of you ran hand in hand through the house. Her face was covered in ash and her hands bloody from finding her family during what she’d thought was a Yankee raid but actually turned out to be a vampire’s feeding. It was all her fault. She had let those brothers into her home and even foolishly let one of them into her heart.
“Adeline you cannot seriously think to run from me forever. I will find you. I know the flutter of you heartbeat better than you do. Would you like to know what it sounds like?” Daesungs’s voice echoed behind the two of you as you ducked into the parlor. You ran through another door and landed ungracefully in an upscale apartment gasping for breath with Adeline nowhere to be found. You faintly heard screaming on the other side of the door but it was lock and you didn’t have to see her to know she was dead.
You woke up with a loud scream and cold sweat beading off your forehead as your alarm screamed in your ear.
“Y/n are you alright?” Autumn came fumbling through the door with her hair up in curlers and an old ratty t-shirt serving as the only cover on her body.
“Yeah, I’m fine. Just had this crazy nightmare that’s all.”I told her then laughed as Lilly came slowly fumbling through the door with her hair in a crumpled mess.
“You know you’ve been really weird since that day at the club.” She yawned out rubbing her eyes before speaking normally. “I bet it has to do with your boss. You know you still haven’t gone out for that drink.” She said accusingly.
“Al-a Lilly. I told him I would. I just didn’t say when.” I muttered. Honestly I wasn’t looking forward to it. Especially after the dream I just had. There was something off about him. Even if he wasn’t one of five centuries old blood suckers.
*************************************Big Bang POV****************************************
“Come on man it’s your birthday we have to make a toast.” Seungri said grinning at Youngbae.
“Look it has been almost five centuries do we have to do this every time?” Youngbae asked rolling his eyes but still grinning.
“Ne. Every single time.” The youngest of them grinned back and poured up a shot.
“What should we toast to?” Daesung asked.
“How about to Yang? without him we would still be yumogmin and on the outs with the coven.” Youngbae said as a joke and they all busted out laughing.
“I think you meant Chaerin, Hyung. She talked him into letting us back. He’s the one who threw us out in the first place. Or did you forget this…. ‘I never want to see the five of you in this country again. You are bulhaeng and a danger to the coven you come back and I will kill you myself!’ ” Jiyong said adopting a nasally tone that sounded just like the coven leader’s voice and they all cracked up.
“Then how about to the new hunt. This one looks like it is going to shape up to be the most interesting jangnangam we’ve had in a long time.” T.O.P suggested when his laughter slowed down enough for him to speak.
“To the new hunt and to Taeyang. Happy birthday Hyung. geonbae!” Seungri stood up and gave the toast.
“Geonbae!” They all echoed and clinked glasses together.
“Ne. Uli salang hajimarayo with this one Seungri al-assda? I’m actually excited for this. Does she even work today?” Youngbae coughed out at the strong taste and tossed a chip at Seungri.
“He’s not in love. He’s just annoyed because she blew him off the other night.” Jiyong said laughing. Then took a shot of tequila.
“She didn’t blow me off. She was with her friends and said next time.” Seungri muttered gritting his teeth.
“We have to be smart about this anyway and make sure she isn’t going to be missed. Did you hear about that girl from 2ne1?” Ji asked then crunched down on a dip covered chip. “She got herself caught by someone and scrrrick.” Jiyong made the motion of getting your head chopped off with the chip his hand.
“That’s why they are down to three? How is Yang planning to explain that one?” T.O.P asked.
“They are saying she left for another company when her contract ran out.” Youngbae replied and shrugged not that Daesung could see it but he heard the rustle of fabric just fine.
“Do they know who killed Minzy?” Seungri asked being brought back to the table.
“No clue. Daesung weren’t you close to her for a while?” Jiyong asked crunching down on another chip.
“Mwo? It was Minzy? And you really think I would kill one of our own? Jiyong-ah, jinjja? Minzy was young and foolish but she didn’t deserve that. Whatever happened had nothing to do with me and if I find out who did it I will kill them myself. She was one of my few good friends.” Daesung said moving his hair out of his eyes so they could see how serious he thought this was. Daesung probably should have gotten his hair cut but it wasn’t necessary with his elevated senses and the light bothered his eyes to the point of blinding him when they weren’t covered. Honestly he barely tolerated this type of thing for his friends. Everything was too loud and it smelled of booze, mixed perfume and desperate emotions like the stink of jilted lovers and the too sweet smell of drunken lust waving around the air. Every one of his senses was heightened from the mundane things like sound and touch to the extrasensory abilities like sensing magnetic fields and ghosts. He even knew the exact moment the waitress entered the room because her perfume stuck out over the mixture of other smells in the club.
“je uidoga ani eoss-eoyo. I meant maybe you knew who would have done this. Not many people know how to kill us and the majority that do are actually our kind.” Jiyong said raising his hands in surrender.
“Can we just not talk about it? Besides that American waitress just walked in on the north side and the speaker is starting to hurt my ears again.” Daesung said flopping his hair back in place and leaning back to get the light out of his eyes. They knew not to bother him when he did that this was hard enough on him without them adding to the noises and they all knew what happened when he was overwhelmed. It was still weird how he could tell the magnetic fields like that but they had all learned to accept that his senses were beyond that of any other vampire on the planet. Even going as far as seeing ghosts and auras in some cases but he didn’t bother with his eyesight for that very reason.
*********************************Reader POV*******************************************
“I can’t believe you guys talked me into coming here on my night off.” You shook your head as they led you into the club where you worked. If you hadn’t known the bouncer at the door you probably would never have gotten in this quickly. Truth be told you hated coming in the front. It was too loud and one of the speakers had a hum that no one else but you seemed to notice kind of like a dog whistle really.
“Oh just shut up and dance!” Autumn hollered over the noise.
“What?!” Lilly yelled back obviously confused.
“She said ‘she likes your pants!’“ you yelled as a joke.
“Oh shut up and dance, got it!” Lilly yelled back and grabbed a shot off a tray as the waitress walked by. You just laughed and grabbed a shot of your own tossing it back and moving towards an open spot on the dance floor. It was about three or four songs later when the music died down enough for you all to hear each other and the hum of the speaker died down so that the DJs could switch out their shifts.
“Hey. y/n were you serious about that drink with your boss?” Autumn huffed out scrunching her hair up on her neck and fanning herself to cool down.
“No. Why?” You replied back ruffling your own hair to air it out and pausing midstep before picking the dace back up full swing.
“Well you might want to tell them that Sugar.” Lily said giggling a little bit with Autumn and turning you around to see a white blonde head of hair being shoved through the crowd by his friends as well.
“You aren’t working?” Seungri asked with a look of confused embarrassment on his face then turned back with a glare at the other three. You had to admit it was kind of cute even if you were still a little weirded out by all of them because of the dream from last night.
“Ani. naega chumchuneun geo. You aren’t with your girlfriend.” You replied back remembering the girl that had come over and latched onto his arm from the other night when he’d asked you for the drink.
“Mwo? Girlfriend?” He said tilting his head in confusion.
“Ne. Girlfriend. My how easily men forget when a pretty face is involved. I guess idols are the same way.” You turned away from him and went back to dancing with your friends. Seungri ducked in between you and Lilly earning a raised eyebrow and crossed arms but you waved her off.
“So you have been avoiding me?”
“Ani. you are my boss. I work here. We see each other.” You shrugged making sure to keep the right beat.
“You know that’s not what I mean. I mean you have been trying to find reasons not to drink with me. Are you afraid?”
“Afraid? Of you? Wae?” You couldn’t believe how absurd that thought had been.
“Of what I know.” He smirked confident that he had your attention this time.
“Ne? what is it that?” I asked loudly unable to hide the snort of a laugh or the sarcasm.
“I know you are at least curious about me.” He had somehow moved closer but you didn’t back down.
“geulaeseo? You are a mamber of Big Bang I doubt there is one person in here not curious.” You retorted and continued to dance with him but acting uninterested until he wrapped his hands around your waist and pulled you flush to him before whispering in your ear. What chilled you more was that you heard him perfectly this time.
“I also know you broke that guy’s wrist the other night. I heard the bone snap.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about. i michin jis-iya. do you hear yourself right now? He was twice my size.” You stumbled out looking for Lilly and Autumn in the crowd but they were too far away.
“Tell the truth.” There was an extra edge to his voice almost like it grew huskier and more commanding.
“I didn’t break his wrist. Here.” I repeated and grabbed two shots of tequila off a passing tray tossing one back roughly and shivering a bit when the burn slid down my throat.
“We had our drinks. geulaeseo if you’ll excuse me this suddenly became not fun. Annyeong Seungri-ah.” You shoved past him and found Autumn dancing with Youngbae.
“I will see you guys at home. Just be careful. I don’t trust them.” You snapped in English not caring that he could probably understand you.
“Y/N? Wait up!” Autumn ran after me but didn’t catch up until I stopped outside and Lilly came bumbling out seconds later.
“What happened? I thought you were having a good time.” Lilly huffed out.“Not here.” I replied when my eyes landed on the five of them in the door frame.
Notes
Okay next part in the immortals series. I think I am getting back on track with this. (Thank god) I have been trying to work through the kinks for a while and it wasn’t going anywhere. Anyhow this one is going to shed some light on what the past few centuries were like before the guys came back to Korea in 2006 and became Big Bang without going as deeply as some of the chapters will. I am still trying to work out those kinks too. I plan on going into some of the stuff mentioned in this chapter more deeply so bear with me on that as well. Also I apologize for pouring salt in the Minzy wound here but it is relevant to the story.
