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I can't breathe!

It's suffocating!

The water was icy. The more she struggled to swim out the more she felt her body sink deeper into the whirlwind of the swift river. The water filled her ears and clogged her nose numbing all her senses. The world above the surface became blurrier as the consciousness began slipping out of her body. The river pulled the remaining life out of her.

She heard a faint calling of her name.

Mommy...

"Mommy!" Taesoo gasped sharply and sat straight. Her eyes bulged out and her forehead was covered in cold sweat. Breathing got difficult for a few seconds The same old nightmare she had been experiencing since childhood. Even after thirteen years, she could feel the chills in her bones.

Slowly she began grasping her surroundings. The sounds became clearer. She found herself sitting at their college library, which was now empty. Various anatomy books were sprawled on the table. She recalled she had been studying extra hours for her upcoming semester. 

"Hey, Taesoo." Her Australian friend gently placed a hand on her shoulder, "Are you okay? I saw you choking in sleep." The addressed girl looked up to her friend who had a genuine look of concern.

"Yes... I am." Soo breathed out. "Your lab is over?" She asked seeing her friend was still in her lab coat, the stethoscope lazily hung around her neck. The girl was a pretty figure with curly blonde hair. She had flushed cheeks with some freckles along her t-zone.

Taesoo didn't remember what happened that day. She tried to ask her parents but they dismissed her saying someone had thrown her off the bridge where she almost drowned but was saved by her Doctor Father. But that didn't answer why she sometimes saw the water crimson instead of dirty blue. Maybe there was more to the story because her mother was not an ordinary woman. Although she had left her past life thirteen years ago, that didn't erase the fact that she was once the living nightmare of the underworld.

"It's almost dark. We should get going." Her friend suggested as Taesoo packed her belongings.

"Jane, I am really sorry. I don't think I can accompany you. I have somewhere to be." She apologetically smiled.

"No problem. See ya later!" The blonde skipped out of the library.

Taesoo didn't want to deal with the things she couldn't possibly change. The childhood trauma was a part of her life and she had to cope with it. In a few years, she would graduate with an MBBS degree and then begin her internship in Saviour, like her father and uncle. Traumas would eventually fade... wouldn't they?

The club blazed in some American pop. The negotiation was hard but Kim Taesoo managed to get the upper hand. The fifty-year-old man looked ready enough to jump into her pants. What a pedophilic person! It was almost nine-thirty when she walked out of the club and the alley was deserted. She hugged herself from the cold wind that was very common in Australia in June. The gun was safely tucked in her waist. Some honks of cars were heard from far distance. She looked around to spot her ride but got distracted by a squeak. A mouse scampered into the drain. She began walking towards the main road when she was blocked by five youths. All were Australians.

"Isn't that the Korean chick?" One of them chuckled.

"Yeah, Ken, the Miss Would-be-doctor. She is one of the hotties I would like to fuck you know." Another guy with silver hair laughed.

Taesoo took a deep breath and smiled with a tight lip. It wasn't the first time for her. People often picked up on her in the club premises. "How about you leave me alone and do your work?" She spoke in English and tried to walk past them but the one named Ken dared to pin her against the wall. The rough texture poked her back through the layers of clothes.

She scrunched her nose smelling the stench of alcohol from his mouth. "Ken, or whatever, I'll give you five seconds to run." Ken ignored her threats and traced the line of her jaw. Taesoo's eyes hardened as she continued counting five seconds in her head.

Just when he reached her cleavage, Soo held his wrist and twisted it. Ken howled in agony. In the next few minutes, all five of them lay groaning on the ground.

"W-who a-are you?" A brown-haired guy stuttered, still clutching his crotch.

"My father is a Doctor and my mother is a Gangster but I am... both." She smirked at the guy and walked towards a car, now waiting for her.

"Is the work done?"

"Yes, it is." She got into the back seat with the person inside and closed the door. She lazily leaned on the seat and stretched her body, "Please tell your men to clean the mess."

"Sure, Let me drop you home. Your parents must be worried." Jungkook sneered at his niece.