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-나는 그들의 것, 그들의 내 꺼야-

"the p-plague has started to spread in the v-village..." she stuttered out, bringing a hand to go through her hair and she wiped off the sweat on her forehead, she was panting like she couldn't breathe

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her words shook something deep in me

the plague has gotten to the village? i thought we were safe...

i thought we could wait it out in the village...

"how do you know?" jeonghan stood abruptly got up from his seat, his chair falling to the floor

"there were people lying in the street... their fingertips were turning black and they were s-sick..." she said, still breathing heavily

"are you okay?" i asked her, "you didn't get too close, did you?" i continued

if she gets sick that means we all get sick; meaning we could die from the disease and our normal lives would come to an end

even if some of us survive by some miracle, things wouldn't be the same as before

out undisturbed, calm, lives would be over no matter the outcome

"no... i'm fine, i kept my distance from them" she answered, "w-where's me br-" she stopped talking when she saw dorian sitting down

"oh- hello sir" she bowed to him, flustered to be seen in such a state

"it's quite alright, just call me dorian" he said with a small smile on his face

-author's pov-

sofia looked around the room again, looking to see if there was anyone else there

she was flustered to be seen panting with her hair a mess, by a man that looked to be of high standing. it would have been rude of her to not greet him properly

she would have been punished by him if she ignored him or disrespected him in anyway and there would be nothing her brother could do about it

"chan oppa, where is my brother?" she asked as she stepped into the small house, she tucked the loose hair behind her ear, trying to fix her appearance in front of a strange man

"he's in the other room, you can go see him now if you want" he responded

"of course, if you'll excuse me" she bowed again and walked through a small door into another room

everyone else was left speechless at her previous words, the sickness has spread through their village, they could be in grave danger

it's not like they can travel to live somewhere else, people in other villages and towns are also sick with the illness and in places with higher populations it spreads quicker and there are more that are sick; they also can't travel because the lord of the land won't allow them to

they are stuck to live the rest of their short lives there, whether they had a choice or not

the village they lived in was small, it only had about two hundred people living there

everyone there knows each other and they knew everybody, whether it was on good terms or bad ones

most people in the village chose to keep their distance from them. they were seen as strange because they were foreigners and because they weren't born and raised in the village like them, but most of the time the people were still polite towards them

there were only a few people that didn't like them and they all kept their distance and looked at them sideways if they ever crossed paths

this village was where they have lived for years, they knew these people, they've seen the children in the village grow up and they've gotten close to the elders

and now they could be dying...

"i think, i should get going" dorian sat up from his seat in front of myungho's easel, "we can finish the painting tomorrow, if you wish" myungho responded, standing up

"sir, it would be best if you please keep your distance from the physician's building" he continued

"yes, that would be wise. i'll be back tomorrow myungho, and thank you for your time" dorian smiled and walked out the door after bowing

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-two days later-

-jeonghan's pov-

time has passed and the sickness has spread throughout the entire village, roughly 40% of the people have been infected and majority of them have died from it

i lost someone dear to me...

there was a little girl i've known since she was but a few days old. she was four years old... she hadn't even experienced life

she was a charming child and she would have had a bright future if it wasn't taken away from her

i used to greet her everyday and after laboring tirelessly in the fields she would always ask me how my day was. if i had done anything interesting or if the others were teasing me

she used to say that she would marry me when she was of age

she died...

a lot of people have died and most of us have lost someone

"dorian, you're back" i greeted him as he walked into our house again

it was near midnight and he has been coming in for the last three nights so that myungho could finish the painting. it's been a slow progress for myungho, he wants the painting to be perfect. he's afraid i will be his last because of the bubonic plague

"yes, and i might be coming in for a few more nights" he chuckled as he put his coat on one of the chairs

"myungho, are you ecstatic? we are almost done" he cheered with a small smile on his face

"hm, yes. i can't wait anymore to finish. my arms are getting tired" he chuckled lightly in response as he shook hands with dorian. myungho looked pale and he fooled tired from a long day at the lord's manor

without another word dorian sat down in front of myungho's easel again, just like any of the last few nights, it's become a routine by now for them. myungho picked up his brush and dabbed it in the paint by his side, bringing the brush up to the canvas and began to paint

"i think, i'll head to the other room" i bowed to them and walked into the other room

the room was dark and you couldn't see much, there were only three candles lighting up the room and you could only make out a few faces

"guys?" i spoke out into the dark room

i could make out a figure walking towards me, she placed a hand on my shoulder

"what's going on? jieun are you feeling alright?" i asked her, (a/n by the way, four of the members have family living there, like seungcheol's brother, jeonghan's sister, soonyoung's sister and vernon's sister. also i don't know jeonghan's sister's real name so i just used jieun)

"sofia, isn't feeling well" she said with sadness in her voice

"what? what's wrong with her?" i held both her shoulders, my eyebrows furrowing with concern

"s-she has a fever and she's pale, she has chills and she's getting swelling under her arms... she has the plague" she had a few tears in her eyes

all of us are family to each other. all seventeen of us that live under the same roof care about each other as if we were truly family

so when one of us becomes ill, we all immediately become worried about their well being

jieun's words made me freeze

the worst thing that could of happened has become reality

sofia is sick with the plague and most likely we will all contract it and die from it as well

-myungho's pov-

i coughed a little as i cleaned up one of my brushes

"myungho, are you feeling alright?" dorian asked from his seat in front of me, "yes sir, you mustn't worry about me" i responded with a small smile

i wasn't alright. since the night sofia came in running telling us that the plague had gotten to the town, i haven't been feeling too well

"do you want to take a small break?" he asked, moving from his pose and looking at me

"no sir, it is quite alright, besides i'm about to finally finish the painting" i looked at the almost completed canvas in front of me

it was a masterpiece

i took great care into this painting. if it's my last, i want it to be perfect

it might as well be my last. i'm probably sick from the plague from the symptoms i started developing today

i coughed again, bringing a handkerchief to my mouth, pulling it away and seeing blood covering it

i just had to get that insipid disease

from the corner of my eye, i could see dorian tensing up, almost like he was reacting to the blood

-dorian's pov-

they're sick... they're all sick

this could be the best thing that could happen to me in millennia

if the sickness spreads to the entire village and if the people die with my blood in their bodies, it will be easy to get my army

it'll be so easy to take over this miserable country if i have my very own army of vampires

myungho coughed and i could smell the blood that was on the handkerchief from outside of their residence

this is perfect...

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-two days later-

it was true, all of them had contracted the plague and a few of them had even died. seungcheol's brother perished and so did jeonghan's sister along with soonyoung's older sister. too bad, she was really pretty, i was contemplating whether i should force her to wed me. too bad she's dead

it turned out that sofia was the first one to get it and it spread like wildfire inside this small house

to be completely honest i had become quite fond of these humans, they were decent people. but it was too late now to really care if they died or not. it's too late to take back what i brought to this village

i brought death to this village by bringing a corpse of a plague victim and putting it near a few houses

i wasn't sure this little stunt of mine would work and it still might not, but if i successfully turn these fools, i'll turn the entire village

and then i can take over this country without trying too much. i hate the royal family, i might serve them but i despise them nonetheless

if i'm found out, kai might try to kill me because i would be going agains the natural order of the human world. i would be changing it completely and people might find out that vampires exist

and if i'm brave enough, i might even go against kai and try to kill him as well

it was the middle of the night and i was outside of their home, from the outside i could smell their blood and i could tell they were all near deaths door

i walked in without making a sound and started what i came to do in this village

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