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With the setting sun came the sky of fire, the swallowing darkness painted the once bright sky in its dark wings.
As the muddy ground stuck to his bare feet as if it was trying to slow his pace, to cage him once
more as he kept pushing harder and harder to get away from the darkness behind him.
The shining orb gradually shied its way out from the tall trees that went so high it could hide the sky.
A thin layer of sweat covered the nape of his neck as adrenaline coursed through his veins. The
stabbing cold weather of the night was making his lungs sting as cold air bit into his lungs.
Gut-wrenching, heart pumping— after several thrusts forward his legs became tired.
But he couldn't stop now or everything would be a complete waste. So he kept pushing harder
and faster. He didn't know where, maybe he was trying for a better life. Somewhere...there
should be somewhere for him to belong. The freezing snow under his feet wasn't helping his
sore foot. His red nose and cheeks were in complete contrast to his milky white skin.
His eyes shining with a thin layer of tears as the cold made him to shed more tears. As he
continues, he feels the root of trees trip him down, His eyes were shut tight in fear of falling and
welcomed the pain that flows across his hands and knees. His breath came in short gasps as
he let out a cry of pain.
He couldn't stop, he can't stop, he can't stop.
His mind was racing faster than his exhausted legs. He leans on a tree and forces his body up
onto both of his legs. The red spots on his clothes were the only colour in the white covered
jungle with snow.
He starts running again, not paying attention to the throbbing pain in his body.The wind whipped
his silver hair back from his face. The growls behind him reminded his shaken body to sprint
faster.
I can't go back.
As he turns his head back to the far lights of flashlight behind him he suddenly feels the ground
disappearing under his steps and before he could grab onto anything his body falls down the
high hill. Stones and leaves cut through his wounded body as he rolled down. He feels the air
leaving his lungs as he finally hits the ground down there.
A whimper escapes his dry lips. With force, he pushes himself on fours as he eyed an open
cave. He gets himself to the cave with difficulty and hides his body. Leaning his back on the cold
stone he finally lets his eyes to close, as tiredness creeps his way to them.
"please..let them not find me"
He preferred freezing to death than them finding him. He doesn't know how much time has
passed but he guesses some hours since the sky is now shining once again. He opens his eyes
to whispers, his mind and body too numb to register anything that's happening.
"Is he dead?"
"I don't know, check him."
He feels them getting closer but he can't do anything. He slowly opens his eyes trying to look
who it is but everything is just a blur .
"his eyes moved, he is alive. Come help me grab him."
As two hands grab at his arms he tries with his last bit of energy to to scratch them off and by
the hiss he hears he believes that he succeeded in hurting him but his subconscious goes away
as his body falls limp again once more.
***
As his mind becomes more clear and he distinguishes the soft bed with the hard stone that he fell asleep on his eyes darts open with sheer panic he sits quickly on the bed the sudden pain
knocking out his breath.
He takes a look around him but he doesn't find it similar, it's not his room, it's none of their
rooms. He let his breath out with relief that they hadn't found him but that thought soon replaced
with another worry. Then where he is at now? He takes one more look around him.
The wooden walls were carved with different patterns such as flowers and birds, different
colourful crafts were hanging on the wall and a lot of plants were in the corner. Ironically this
place felt more alive than his own room.
The sudden noise of the door opening steals his attention as he looks at the man in front of him,
he's tall with sunkissed skin. His eyebrows in a slight frown as he looks at him.
"Why did you move? you will open your scars..it took a long time to clean them, for your
knowledge."
He came inside, closing the door behind him. The wounded boy just follows his movement with
his piercing eyes. The other let out a sigh.
"I said lay down, I don't have time to close them up again. I need to change the bandage for now
and later we will talk. Now lay down."
His mind was on an alert he needed to flee but he knew he hadn't had a chance with how bad in
a condition his body was in. And not only that, he could smell the faint scent in the air. There was no doubt that the man was an alpha. And that didn't help his anxiety that was creeping up his body, his heart beating crazy and his breath being cut into short breaths were a given sign that even the other man noticed it.
"calm down okay? It's not like I'm going to hurt you."
That didn't help him as he was still in his defense mode, he moved slowly while growling. The
older sighed before kneeling in front of the bed and suddenly a strong wave of scent filled his
nostrils. He could smell it clearly now, Jasmine and soil.
His muscles relaxed instantly unbeknownst to himself. But as soon as he understood what the
man was doing, he covered his nose furiously and stumbled back, his body going back into the
tense fight mode. Not anticipating such reaction, the older man's eyes narrowed and he stopped. Most of the time his scent is able to calm down people, jasmine is a known scent to reduce anxiety.
"I'm not going to hurt you, I even helped you. If you don't stop acting like a wild animal, I will kick
you out back in cold weather." He sighed one more time.
"I don't even know why we saved you when you clearly entered our zone. When you calm down
I will be back."
He stood up and went towards the door and exited the room. His heartbeat calmed down instantly and once again he felt the throbbing pain . He grunted as he shifted, trying to keep his ankles from paining him that now was in a bandage.
An ache lanced through him as he felt so miserable, he ran away and now was somewhere he didn't know of, with people he doesn't have a clue what they are like. He doesn't even know how
many of them are out there. He laid down on the bed and rested his elbow on his eyes, the pressure of his hand shooting a calming sensation to his stinging eyes.
He doesn't have a choice, he can't escape right now, not with this condition he needs to wait to
become better and then he will run for it. He stays like that for a short amount of time before the
door creaks once again as the man enters. This time he doesn't budge and stays still.
"good, you're calm, I will change your bandage now I don't want them infected."
He came and sat down on the bed picking up a jar with red liquid like Betadine and cotton. After
cleaning the wounds on his leg and lower stomach he banged them once again and threw the used cotton into the trash can.
"You better lay still or you are going to open the wounds, I'm too tired to fix them again...cat got
your tongue?"
"okay.." He answers in a hushed whisper.
"As I said we're not going to hurt you, If we wanted to we already had plenty of time to do so."
"I know..thank you."
He needs to survive and acting as a brat won't help him to do so, he will go along for now until
he can rest and recover.
"don't go outside of the room, we will bring you food, and when it's time we will talk with you. For
now rest and don't move. One more thing... What's your name?"
He hesitated for a bit but there was no use in lying.
"Kim Sunoo"
"hmm.. okay"
He stood up and left the room once again leaving him alone for the rest of the day. The movement of the sun in the sky informed him of the passing of the time. He didn't have anything besides laying down and that left him no choice to think about everything that had happened.
It was finally coming down on him. He had escaped that hellish house. Those monsters he used to call family, his pack. The heavy weight on his chest was much lighter now, knowing that at
least for now he was far away from them, from those hands that left fire hand prints on his body.
The pain his body is facing now can't even come close to what his body experienced before.
He ran far away, so far away. It's been a week since he ran. He used a car to drive him away
before he finished all his money and he had no choice but to run with his own two feet. And last
night suddenly he saw them again, they had come to find him. He doesn't know how he survived
the fall and the cold of the winter. If it wasn't for the man earlier, he might have slept to his death
in the freezing cave. He can't trust them but for now it should be okay.
***
For the next couple of days, the only visitor he has is the man that bandaged him. He would bring him food, change his bandage and would leave again. He knows there are other people in the house as well, he could smell them on the tan skin boy. So he had a pack.
His wounds were healing gradually and he could sit and move with not a lot of pain. The door
creaked open, he looked towards the door anticipating the familiar boy, but this time it was
someone new. He stood there with shoulder length blonde hair tied up with a green band.
"you're awake, good to see you well... Our head leader wants you to come join us to talk. I came
to bring you there."
He came inside holding my arm helping me on my feet. He smells like lavender, a beta? He couldn't guess really well.
"I'm Jake by the way. I heard you are not talkative. Well no choice, you need to talk this time or
else bye bye."
He said with a not so friendly smile. It was his first time outside the room. It was a cozy but enormous wooden house full with plants, yellow, green and orange lamps, and lots of painting
on the wall. But he didn't feel at ease. He bared his nails in secret, for the good chance to attack
and run away.
As they stepped into the hall, he came across five figures already sitting down on the crimson
sofas. In the middle was a young looking boy, his brown cat eyes looking at him carefully, he
couldn't pinpoint his scent due to all the different smells in the air. He pinched his nose in distress not liking the scents slightest. The young boy suddenly talks.
"finally got to meet you..Kim Sunoo?"
Jake guided him to sit down, he didn't spare a glance to the other people in the room and
contained eye contact with the boy that he assumed was the head leader.
"Do you not know how to talk?" He said with a raised eyebrow. Sunoo sighed to himself.
"Yes, my name is Kim Sunoo." Satisfied that he finally spoke, the boy leaned back.
"Yang Jungwon.. now, why were you in our territory? Do you not know it's considered a threat to wander around without permission?"
"I didn't come here by any means. I accidentally fell down the hill and the cave was the only
hideout that I could find."
"Hiding from what? You must have a reason to hide." Sunoo clenched his teeth together. What if they give him back to his old pack?
"I see no reason to tell."
"what do you mean no reason?!"
"Sunghoon hyung please sit.. I will talk."
With that, the other that interrupted the conversation sat down, frown visible on his face.
"Well, you entered our territory, came into our house and rested for several days. I guess it's fair enough to know the reason. My two members..or should I say Jay hyung were too kind to bring
you back here. "
Jay, the alpha that had been checking him from time to time. He closed his eyes in annoyance.
He needs to tell them.
"I ran away from my pack. I was running from them when I found the cave."
"your pack?! why?"
"That, I won't answer. I see no reason."
By that Jungwon stands up coming towards him now he could distinguish his scent that took him off guard. A fresh smell of grass, a beta! Their leader was beta?
"you have no smell..are you a beta?"
The boy says as sniffs the air, Sunoo can feel the flash of ache going through his heart.
"Yes, I'm a beta."
"Sunoo, I need to know the reason why you ran away...you know we can't just trust strangers."
He could just tell them a bit, not all the truth was necessary. He didn't want to be used again.
"that pack is a traditional one, no outside world for most of the pack members..old fashioned and.. yeah just very traditional, not very loving and hurtful sometimes. That's why I ran away."
"they hurt..you?"
"uh well I'll go outside so change your clothes when you are done I'll be back."
Daniel said as he left. Sunoo stood up and slowly took off his own clothes. The wounds sent a pang of pain making him exhale in pain. Slowly, he changed into a brown baggy pants and dark green long sleeve shirt on top of it, a more baggy lighter green t-shirt. When he was done he announced it so the boy on the other side of the door could hear it. He entered again and looked at me.
"it suits you. Ah well sit down, you shouldn't stand for a long time."
"Sorry if my pack seemed a bit cold. They are cool people, they're just a bit strict." Compared to his own pack this was the nicest he has ever seen.
"don't worry, you guys have helped me a lot."
He seemed to put some stuff in their places as he started to talk.
"Well Jungwon hyung is very kind yet a mindful leader. Jay hyung has the softest heart even though he doesn't seem like it and Jake hyung sometimes can be a little mean with what he says but he is a good person he was with Jay hyung when they brought you here."
"hmm.." He sat down and continued, he didn't know why the boy suddenly was talking about them.
"Sunghoon hyung and Heeseung hyung are a bit.. um.. stiff? When it comes to new people, but
they are the sweetest once you know them. And Ni-ki, well he isn't here yet but he, as well, is calm kid."
After he was done talking he looked at Sunoo. So they sent him to me to make me talk about myself?
"well?"
"what?"
"What about you? How was your pack?" So they did huh.
"I already told Jungwon, didn't I?"
"yeah but you are going to stay here shouldn't I know who you are? It's just fair." Sunoo
clenched his pants with his fist.
"I don't have much to say about who I am." Daniel let out an unsatisfied voice as he sniffed the air.
"You said you are a beta right? How come you don't have any scent? Even betas have a faint smell."
Sunoo could feel the pain again sizzling in his chest. Why are they so nosy?
"It's really faint, you can't detect it because of my mark."
"oh you have already been marked? Wouldn't it hurt your bond with your mate that you have escaped?"
Sunoo could feel his nails showing as his frustration increased with the boy in front of him.
The blood pounded in his ears as his heart thudded in his chest. His hands shook. His feet tingle and His vision disfigured, as if he were looking through a fish-eye lens. Why couldn't he stop talking? He felt like he was suffocated.
"he.. he wasn't my.."
Before he could finish, he had a hand in his hair and that was his last straw as he swung his hand and accidentally scratched the boy's hand. Daniel let out a cry of pain as he stepped back.
"What's wrong with you?! I wanted to fix your hair. you have quite long hair so I thought maybe
I'll braid it to look more clean." He said loudly.
The door opened furiously as someone entered and went straight to Daniel, checking his wounded hand before looking up at Sunoo with anger. He didn't know when but he was suddenly slammed into the wall as the person pinned him.
"what the fuck did you do?!"
Sunoo's eyebrows are knitted in a frown as his clouded mind just reminds him of the past.
He closed his eyes as his body tensed when a figure hugged him from behind and smelled his
neck slowly. It sent shivers through his whole body as a wet feeling was on his neck.
Another hand from in front of him went through his lock of hair Brushing them through the small
braided section that had a gold chain in it.
"Your hair is so beautiful. Oh why are you crying?"
The man said as he fisted his hand and pulled his hair harshly to the ground. He let out a gasp as the air knocked out of his lungs. He pulls him on the floor with his hair. Sunoo's hand tries to grasp at the hand.
"Let me go..it hurts."
The other man laughs as he gets thrown on the bed. The woman who was already on the bed let out an amused laugh as he dragged his sharp nails on his skin.
"our little Omega..are ready to give your blue orbs to us?"
As he remembers, he is shaken out of his thoughts by the angry alpha in front of him. He locks eyes with the boy, he just notices that he is crying. He remembers him, the boy. Heeseung, right? The one that he was sure saw a flash of light in his eyes. The lights that you only see when you meet your true mate.