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Taehyung knew this was his last chance. he was running, in the middle of night, in a part of the city he barely knew. the fact that that it was raining heavily did not make it easier. He had been running for what felt like hours, and his body was aching, desperate for rest. But Taehyung could not stop, he kept running, kept pushing himself, because he knew that even if he stopped for a minute, they would catch up to him.He was running into random streets , making random turns, having no idea where he was heading.
After some time, his body couldn't take it anymore and he crumbled to the floor, breathing heavily. However, the rest only lasted for a minute, because he heard noises.
They caught up.
Taehyung pushed himself to his feet, and went into one of the nearest streets, only to find that it was a dead end. the noises got closer, and a desperate sob left him. He darted into an old building and started climbing the stairs as fast as he could, until he got into the terrace. When he heard the sound of footsteps and ragged breaths behind him, he finally realised he could no longer run.
This was it, this was his end.
The rain was dropping heavily, and it was freezing cold, but Taehyung was oddly comforted by it.he started walking towards the edge of the terrace and looked at the view. It was beautiful, the terrace overlooked the entire city, which was glowing at night, illuminated by lights from houses and vehicles.
People were living their lives, oblivious to his presence and his pain. he had no regrets about leaving this city, his life.
But he will regret if he allowed himself to live.
He heard shouts from behind him and turned around to find his pursuers, standing in front of him, smug smiles on their faces, finally cornering him after hours of chasing.
"What happened bitch? No where to run?" one of them spat out.
Tears threatened to break out of Taehyung's eyes, but he did not allow himself to cry. The men just smirked at him.
"You should have realised by now, that you will never be able to run away from that place, not alive at least." Taehyung smiled, he had realised this.
"you think i did not know? i knew it, when I woke up in my room, i knew it when i escaped. the thing is" he said, wiping his tears off, " that death is a better option right now."
He climbed the railing, and before his captors could make any move, he jumped.
the fall did not kill him on impact. But he was dying. Taehyung knew it. And he felt no regrets.
He actually wanted the wounds to consume him, so that he could be free. So he waited,writhing on the ground, for death to consume him.
Unfortunately, his peace was being disturbed. he felt someone trying to wipe his wounds, with a damp cloth.
oh no, have they decided to treat me and take me back?
taehyung wanted to push them away, but he could not move, his whole body unresponsive.
stop wiping my face, stop....Wait a minute, that wasn't cloth......was that a....tongue?
Was someone licking him? before he could register that thought, however, a sudden sharp pain hit him, sharper than all his other wounds.... right at his neck.
it felt just like teeth sinking in...
oh my god... I was being bitten! Out of all the ways I imagined myself to die in, certainly being eaten by dogs was not on the list.
His eyes shot open, meeting a pair of dark red eyes looking into his own, before darkness engulfed him.
When he gained consciousness, Taehyung seemed to be lying on top of some type of comfortable mattress. His head was still pounding, and his arms, legs and ribs were in pain. He tried to move, but stopped as soon as a sharp pain shot up his chest. He involuntarily let out a small whine, his eyes still closed.
He barely made out someone talking to him. " Are you awake? Hello, can you hear me? Don't move! You are going to hurt yourself." the voice became clearer little by little, and taehyung slowly opened his eyes, only for them to be screwed shut again due to the blinding light. the voice continued talking to him, but taehyung could not register anything, and he once again slipped into oblivion.
Min yoongi walked towards the small hut, where soekjin had kept him.
His mate.
A small smile crept onto his otherwise stoic face. He had been on the lookout for his mate for five years, ever since he presented as an alpha, but none of the omegas, or even betas he saw had any effect on him. he had started to lose hope in ever finding a mate, and had started to prepare himself for living a lonely life. That is when he stumbled onto him, lying down on the road, barely alive, during one of his night trips to the city.
As soon as he saw the small figure, he did not know what had gotten into him, as his legs pushed him towards the limp figure. One look at the pale, yet beautiful face, something in him snapped. He knew it was him.
This human was his mate.
Yoongi shifted to his wolf form and he slowly started licking his wounds, and the human squirmed. Yoongi realised his mate was dying, and his instincts screamed at him to mark him, and so he did.
He claimed him then and there.
The human's eyes shot open and Yoongi looked into a pair of brown eyes before his mate lost consciousness. Yoongi panicked and still in his wolf form managed to get the limp form onto his back and ran back towards his pack, towards his healer. His marking the human had saved his life, soekjin said, and Yoongi was thankful towards his instincts.
The human hadn't shifted yet, but the presence of wolf blood, in his own, had enabled him to heal faster. Yoongi sat with the human all day, looking at the beautiful, peaceful features of his mate.ended up sleeping there most days too.
The first time he got up, Yoongi was there, and had tried to talk to him, only ending up watching in disappointment as the other drifted back into unconsciousness. He wanted to be there when his mate woke up. He reached the hut and entered it,nodding towards soekjin, not bothering with formalities as he was impatient to see his mate.
As soon as he entered the room however, the sight that met the Alpha's eyes was unexpected. His mate was awake, but was shaking uncontrollably, tears pouring down his face.
"what happened? are you okay?" yoongi asked,panicking, and the human's head shot up, his eyes widening, and his shaking stopped momentarily. Yoongi started to smile, only for it to halt midway when his mate suddenly started screaming at him.
Someone entered his room and started talking to him. Taehyung's head shot up and his eyes met a short, pale skinned person looking at him. He did not recognize this place, or the guy, but he knew why he was here.
they were always here only for one reason.
Another customer.
So soon? he just woke up and they send customers to him? Taehyung felt scared, he was not ready for this. So he did the only thing he could, he shouted for help, though by now he knew there was no use. no one would hear him.
No one who cared anyway.
"Don't come near me! Don't you... don't you dare! I will not... i can't... allow you... you to come near me you understand? Stay away! Don't touch me! Stay away.... please! I can't do this....... please someone please help me... Help me.....help... please" he voice had reduced to mere whimpers towards the end, and he started sobbing.
He curled into a small ball, trying to pull up the sheets over him as far as possible.
he knew it now. he had been sold to someone. they had gotten rid of him. he sobbed uncontrollably, fear tightening his lungs, causing him difficulty in breathing.
He knew his pleading was of no use.It had never been.
customers paid for sex, not for a bawling kid. No one cared whether he wanted anything.
They had paid, and they wanted sex.
They would use him and thrown him away, again, after their needs were met. That had been his life for the past year anyway.
Why would it be any different now?
Yoongi looked at his mate, his heart sinking.
Why is he reacting this way?
" I will not hurt you. Why would I ever hurt you? Please calm down.... please.. Let me explain" yoongi said, taking a tep towards the bed.
The human flinched in response, and ended up falling to the floor, and he let out a loud whimper of pain. But before the alpha could react, seokjin entered the room, took one look at the human, and pushed the alpha outside.
" Wait outside yoongi." The alpha growled at him, fangs coming out, eyes glowing red. Soekjin sighed." You know I will not hurt him, and right now you are scaring him. Stay out ...please."
Yoongi slumped into himself, and went out of the room, completely confused as to why the human was reacting in such a way. Seokjin slowly moved towards the trembling lump on the floor. He tried to touch the other's leg, but hastened to remove it when the human writhed under him, sobbing and pleading him to "stay away...please." he finally had no choice and injected a sedative into him finally managing to calm him down.
This was worse than what he expected.
Yoongi had to know.
Yoongi stood up with a force that toppled the chair down, when seokjin left his mate's room.
"What happened?" he asked, worry etched on his face. seokjin just sighed and moved to the couch, face completely void of any emotion.
yoongi knew this face.
it was the bad news face.
the healer gestured for the alpha to take a seat as well. Yoongi picked up the chair, sitting with a sigh when the omega gave him a pointed look, and continued staring at the omega, waiting for an explanation.
"yoongi, i need you to listen to this calmly. i wanted to tell this to you for a long time, but i did not know how you would react. i just realised that you need to know. "
yoongi kept looking at him, his eyes narrowing, but stayed silent.
something was wrong, and he needed to know.
"the human, he was brought in a very bad condition." the omega sighed heavily."He has been through a lot, Yoongi." Yoongi started to interrupt but seokjin stopped him.
"No, I am not talking about his latest injuries." the omega took a deep breath.
"As i was inspecting his body, i noticed many other scars, old ones." another sigh, and the healer looked up to meet the alpha's eyes. "I have a feeling that he was beaten regularly, yoongi."
Yoongi's eyes changed colour, glowing red from the dark brown, and he gave out a snarl. Seokjin suddenly regretted not having his mate with him. he dreaded what would happen if he told the entire story, and he quietly gave out a distress call to his mate through the bond.
If this made him mad, what i am going to say will destroy him.
"And that is not all, yoongi, your mate..... well.... he..." the omega hesitated, fearing the alpha's reaction.
yoongi, on the other, got annoyed by the omega's mumbling.
"what is it?" he asked.
No reply. Seokjin just stared at the ground, biting his lips harshly.
every moment longer makes me feel more sick.
"Omega!" the alpha erupted, and seokjin flinched, expecting this to happen. "Rell me what is wrong with my mate!" he shouted, dominance oozing out of his voice and the omega cowered in fear, submitting.
"The human, your mate, was sexually abused."
"He was raped not just once..... but many times."he whispered, his voice wavering.
Blood boiling,the alpha snapped, shifting into his wolf form, and lunged at the omega.
The omega closed his eyes, waiting to be ripped apart, but the attack never came.
He opened his eyes, only to sigh in relief as he noticed that his mate was there, also in his wolf form, and had tackled the other alpha down, fangs out. Yoongi snapped out of his anger and shifted back to human form, and namjoon followed. "what the hell yoongi? who do you think you are, coming here and attacking my mate?" he growled, moving towards seokjin, who immediately nuzzled closer to the alpha, still shaking in fear.
"I... I am sorry. I did not mean to...My wolf... it just went haywire." yoongi mumbled.
Namjoon, however, was having nothing of it. "I don't care! Just get away from my mate. Right now." he growled.
An alpha was dangerous when his mate was endangered, and yoongi knew better than to argue. he left the hut , head down before shifting and taking off into the woods.
Namjoon turned to look at his mate, who still was pale, but had calmed in the presence of his alpha. "What happened?" he asked calmly, hand coming to push the omega's hair away from his face gently.
Seokjin managed to give him a shaky smile. "i delivered the worst news i could have possibly ever told to Yoongi. and he understandably snapped."
Namjoon looked clueless, and so his mate explained everything to him.
after the healer was done, Namjoon shook his head, lost in thought.
"That is horrible. How is the human? " seokjin slumped into his mate, trying to close his eyes and forget about everything.
"I had to inject him with a sedative to calm him down. He was delirious."
Namjoon just sighed. "When will he wake up?" he asked.
"in about two hours" the omega replied.
" Well i have an idea on how to calm the human down." he smiled at the omega, who vaguely had an idea of where things were heading.
He nodded at his alpha, moving closer to his embrace.a minute later the healer sighed again.
"I am dreading the moment when he realises he is no longer a human."