Player 001 (The Frontman/In-Ho x reader

☆ ☆ In-Ho POV ☆ ☆

I knew something had changed within me. I knew as soon as I felt sympathy for her as she cried in my arms in the bathroom that day. I knew I couldn't continue the way I had before all this and it bothered me. Something had changed in me. She changed something in me. Normally I wouldn't have hesitated to let the guards kill her, but I couldn't do that. Watching them grab her filled me with a passionate rage I thought had disappeared in me a long time ago. After I had finished grieving my wife, I never thought I'd feel such anger ever again. But here I was, shooting my own workers to keep her by my side unharmed. I'd been nothing but indifferent to the players and the games since many years ago but now, as she held onto my arm, her body pressed against my back as I held my gun up shooting any of the guards left alive to keep her there I was angry. I was angry that they had put her here, put her through what they did and angry at myself for allowing it to happen. I could've taken her out of here after red light green light. I knew I could have. Only 2 of the other players would've realized she was gone, and they would've assumed she died. Once all the guards I could see were down I turned to her. Her eyes slightly filled with tears and an emotion I couldn't read on her face as she looked up at me. "Who are you?" She asked, her voice was shaking and she sounded afraid to ask "What?" The question took me back. Had she realized that my story didn't add up? Or maybe she knew all along and finally built up the nerve to ask. "Who are you? I'd been ignoring everything until a minute ago but I need you to tell me the truth." She urged and I realized I wanted to tell her. Not for any malicious reason, I wanted her to truly know me. Telling her immediately that I was in charge felt like it would end badly. I handed her the gun and she looked at me confused for a second as I grabbed onto her shoulders and leaned down to her ear "I work here. I have for years. I realized I was wrong in my perspective." I have her the simple version of the truth and as I pulled away to look at her I saw her eyes widen. Her hand twitching like she was debating if she should shoot me or not. All I can do is hope that she doesn't. She let out a breath and dropped the gun with the hand near the trigger and held it with one hand down at her side and I internally let out a sign of relief. "How did you realize that?" She asked, her voice was low to avoid the attention of the others. "Because right then" I pointed to the body of the guard who grabbed her and she looked down for a second, a visible chill running down her body. "I was angry. Angry that you had been put in here. Angry that they had the nerve to touch you." I was being honest with her. More honest than I'd been with anyone since my wife was dead when I came home from the games. She nodded silently and I reached for the gun in her hand. Her giving it up without a fight as I put the strap around my shoulders and went to one of the dead guards and grabbed another guards gun. Emptying the ammo from his pockets and putting them in my pockets walking back to her and handing her the other gun. "Is it actually possible to take it down like this? To end this forever?" She asked as she took it form my hands and put the strap around her shoulders "Very possible. Now that I think of it, I probably should've put some more safe guards in place for a situation like this. But right now, I'm glad I didn't." I nodded at her and handed her one of the extra magazines from my pocket. She looked at me, searching my face for any ounce of doubt on my face but there wasn't any. The people who were planning to go into the rest of the facility lined up on the podium the guards usually stood on, the one living guard sitting on the edge, his mask off and completely unarmed. Hyun-Gi taught everyone how to operate the gun and before we left the room I pulled y/n aside. "I don't want to sound rude, but do you know how to aim a gun?" I asked, wanting to make sure that if we got separated by anything she'd be able to handle herself. She looked at me, looking a little annoyed before she turned on her heel looking at one of the cameras in the room and aiming the gun at it. She fired one bullet and the camera shattered. I looked at her, honestly amazed. I didn't say anything and just nodded before we and the rest of the group left our room, tracking through the hallways towards the control room. While walking through a particularly open hallway there was a gunshot and everyone ducked behind the half wall at the edge of the hallway. "In-Ho." I heard y/n next to me and looked over, wanting to make sure she hadn't been shot but she just looked determined "cover me, I'm going to try and shoot them from where you are." It wasn't a question, she was telling me what she was going to do. So I just nodded and turned my gun to the guards. Aiming at one and shooting 3-4 times until I felt her on my left side. She aimed the gun carefully and shot twice, killing 2 of the 3 guards. I'd have to ask her later how she learned to shoot. Because she's good. Another person took out the 3rd guard and we continued to the control room. I took the mask from the guard we'd captured and shot him. Gi-Hun looking at me extremely angry once he'd died "What the hell was that? We'll never find it now!" He yelled at me stepping closer to me and I was going to take a step back when y/n put her hand on his chest to push him back, stepping between us. Seeing her hand on his chest made a small tick of jealousy take over my brain for a second, thinking of killing him right there and immediately shaking myself out of it. He looked at her confused and then looked back at me "Yes we will. You 3 follow me." I said pointing to Jung-Bae and started walking towards the metal door to the control room. Once we reached the stairs up to the room more guards game flooding out, there were 6 of them in different sections on the stairs and we all hid behind the walls and started shooting back at them. I remembered the way around the back of the stairs and grabbed y/n by the arm "There's another way. They won't see us coming." I assured her and she nodded. Pulling the mag out of her gun to check how much she had left before she had to reload, "I'm at about half." "That's enough." I told her and told our plan to Gi-Hun and Jong-Bae before me and y/n headed around the back way, coming out behind the guards.

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