Player 001 (The Frontman/In-Ho x reader

☆ ☆ Y/n POV ☆ ☆

I opened my eyes to In-Han standing in front of me, smiling at me sweetly "it's good to see you again" his voice sounded reassuring which brought a smile to my face "It's good to see you too, it's been too long" I took a step towards him and wrapped my arms around his neck and his arms fell around my waist resting on my back as we hugged each other. When we let go I looked at the surroundings around us, just a plain black area. That's weird. I could've sworn we were somewhere. I turned back to look at him and he was sitting there with one of the red guards behind him, his hands resting on the back of his hair, tear marks staining his cheeks "I'm sorry." His voice was low and soft as the guard pulled the trigger.

I sat up in my bunk, breath heavy and panicked, I hit my head lightly on the bunk above mine...shit. I sat there for a few seconds, still slightly hyperventilating as I waited to see if I'd woken In-Ho up with my bump on the bottom of his bed "y/n?" I heard him questioning in a whisper, his voice deeper than it was earlier in the day, hearing movement above me. Goddamnit. I saw his legs swing over the side of his bed as he took 2 steps down the stairs and sat down on the stair next to my bunk and looked over at me "Are you okay? Did something happen?" I saw his eyes glide over every last one of my panicked features as he looked at me worried "No, No, nothing happened. I'm okay, I'm sorry for waking you, it was just a bad dream." I laid myself back down, turning my body to the side to keep looking at him. "Can I ask what it was about?" He questioned wiping some of the sweat from my forehead I hadn't realized was there "just..." I thought how to tell him without blatantly telling him I had a dream about him not even 2 hours after meeting him. "Just about someone dying" I gave no details to him to not seem weird. He nodded understanding and grabbed one of my hands, running his thumb over the back of my hand soothingly "It's okay. It's been quiet, everyone seems to be sleeping. But I'll sit here and watch to make sure of it, okay? You get some more rest." He looked through the room and then back to me as he spoke and I nodded, my eyes already closing because of the tiredness dragging them down.

When I woke up and opened my eyes I saw In-Ho still holding my hand, his thumb still rubbing the back of my hand only lighter now. When he noticed I'm awake he gave me a small smile "All safe. No trouble." He nodded to me as I gave a small smile back "Thank you. You didn't have to do that." I sat up and he let go of my hand so I could properly stretch "it's no problem really. And it seemed to help, you didn't wake up sweating again" he laughed lightly and I laughed in response "fair point."  He went the rest of the way down the stairs as I got out of my bunk and noticed a few other people awake around the room. 3 guards entered the room through the large metal door and the intercom came to life "Players, please get your meals from the guards at the front of the room." I turned and saw Gi-Hun and Jung-Bae sitting up in their beds and getting up to get food from the guards as people started to line up and we all joined them in the line. One by one we all got our food and we all went to sit down by our beds "How'd everyone sleep?" In-Ho asked the group looking around at everyone "Do I really have to answer that?" I asked a smile spreading across my face and the other 2 men looked at us confused "No, I know you didn't sleep too great. Everyone else?" He turned to Gi-Hun first and he gave a simple 'good' before continuing to eat and then he turned to Jung-Bae "Alright, those mattresses are thin." He complained and Gi-Hun just nodded in response. The rest of our meal was spent in comfortable silence, while I kept sneaking glances at In-Ho hoping he wouldn't notice me. He was handsome, I had to admit. Once we all finished our food we returned the empty trays to the guards before the intercom struck to life again "Players, please line up to be escorted to the game haul for your second game." Everyone in the room began to line up and walk through the insane winding room again to the same metal door we were at the day before. When we walked in Gi-Hun's face immediately filled with panic "It's not Dalgona." He sounded confused "What? What do you mean? What is it then?" Jong-Bae pressed for more of an explanation "I don't know. They must've changed the games from last time. This doesn't look like anything we did last time. I shook my head "Well now what are we supposed to do?" I followed up trying to figure out what it could be based on the room around us "Play the game. We don't have much of a choice." In-Ho interrupted and we all just nodded in defeat. When the metal doors closed behind all the players the intercom spoke again "Players, please get into groups of 5 for the next game. I will now repeat the instructions." We all looked at each other confused "so we need one more person" I started looking around the room for someone else to join us and saw a woman with black and brown hair looking around confused. As soon as I saw her I started walking towards her "Hey, do you need a group?" I lightly touched her shoulder to get her attention and she nodded and before I could ask her to join us she looked at me "I'm pregnant. I don't want to drag you guys down with me." She looked sad and I grabbed her arm "Hey, that's alright. If you need help I can help you." I tried to reassure her and she nodded slightly to herself before following me back to the group "What's your name?" I asked before we rejoined the boys "Jun-Hee" she smiled up at me and i introduced myself as we reached the boys "Everyone, this is Jun-Hee" I smiled at them and they all said hello and introduced themselves before we sat down on the ground.

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