⚠️⚠️ TW FOR VIOLENCE ⚠️⚠️

Yeosang paces the small room, running a hand through his hair. With every passing day, he becomes more and more restless trapped here, and becomes more desperate to leave, not to go back home, but to search for his missing family members.

He stares at the door, glaring at it. Oh how he wishes he has the strength to kick it down.

Yeosang suddenly starts walking towards the door, not knowing what he's doing but feels his arm lifting up slowly and landing on the silver handle. Taking a shaky breath, he slowly turns the knob until he hears a soft click.

His eyes widen, and he abruptly lets go of the handle, as if it had burnt him. The door is ajar now, displaying only a mere centimetre of what is on the other side.

Why is the door unlocked? How long had it been unlocked, did they know it was unlocked? Yeosang holds his breath, expecting something to be out there, like a trap testing to see what he would do if he could leave.

With a silent prayer, he pulls open the door, not stepping out of the room yet, just observing the hallway.

It suddenly registers in his brain that he can leave, only if he doesn't get caught that is. Nevertheless he is still able to finally leave the room.

He steps out of the room, breathing a sigh of relief. For someone who was kidnapped, he knows that his time in the room wasn't that long, but it did feel like he was there for months, and all he knew was that he never wants to go in there again.

The feeling of suffocation was unbearable, along with the feeling of boredom and loneliness. All those and more had affected him a lot.

He starts to walk through the hallway, towards the stairs going up, determined to leave the place. He looks back to the room, the door is wide open and increases his pace, quickly going up the stairs.

He walks through the hallway which has more rooms than downstairs, all of them closed. Yeosang sees the front door, and his heart beats faster.

Finally. He thinks, unable to stop his smile, a feeling of victory bubbling up inside of him. Until it stops sharply.

This was too easy...

There must be a catch.

He looks around, searching for some type of trap, anything that could hinder his escape.

Behind him, Yeosang hears a thud, then another one. He quickly turns back, hands lifted in a fighting position in defence but no one is there. He hears it again and realises that the sound is coming from a door, someone was banging on the door.

His legs drag him to he door, he doesn't want to know who's banging on it but he ends up in front of it anyway. His heart thuds against his chest.

To be completely honest, he's scared of what's behind the door, it's none of his business and when he's got freedom right under his nose, he doesn't even know why he turned back.

But his heart drops when he hears crying.

"Save me"

The voice is soft, very feminine and Yeosang's heart has reached his stomach when he realises who's voice it is.

"Yeojin!" Yeosang shouts, running to the door, shaking the handle hurriedly. It's locked but that doesn't stop him from taking a few steps backwards and slamming his shoulder into the door.

He clutches his shoulder in pain, glaring at the still locked door. Tears run down his cheeks rapidly, one by one, splashing into the floor as he leans against the wall, falling into the floor.

Why is she here? Wooyoung said he doesn't know where she is... he lied to me. Yeosang's anger fuels throughout his body as he promises to kill Wooyoung the next time he sees him.

After calming down the tears, he crawls to the door, placing both hands on it. "Yeojin, it's me, Yeosang. I'm going to get you out of here, don't worry, move away from the door so I can open it".

He waits a few seconds before taking a few steps back, and trying to open the door again, this time with as much force as he could.

When the door opens he stumbles a bit but quickly regains his balance to search for his sister.

He looks around the room and his eyes land on her small figure in the floor, crying. Yeosang rushes to her, holding her face up to look at him. His tears started to fall again as relief washes over him, she is okay, no injuries or any of the sort.

"I'm here, don't worry" he says, pulling her into a hug, her tears made his shoulder wet but he couldn't care less. His tears fall onto her hair.

He lets go and stands up, "come on, there's no one here right? Let's go, quickly"

But she doesn't move from her place, her sobs becoming heavier. Why wasn't she getting up? He thinks, does she feel too weak to even move?

"Yeojin why aren't you getting up?" He frowns as she doesn't even look up at him.

But when she lifts her arms, Yeosang's heart crumbles into a million pieces.

Connected to her arms were chains, large and heavy, just by looking at them he could tell that it took a lot of effort to move. How had he missed those huge chains connected to her hands?

He kneels back to her, eyes frantically searching for where the chains led to. They were so long and he couldn't find what her chains were attached to.

Grabbing her shoulders, he shakes her gently in order to get her to look at him. "Yeojin, tell me, who did this to you? Was it Wooyoung?"

She doesn't say anything but just points to the right. Yeosang turns his head so fast he's certain he heard a crack.

The right side of the room was dark, he could barely see anything, so he slowly walked over there, fearing what he would find, when he sees it, he stops in his tracks, heart stopping.

To say he was shocked is an understatement. He can't believe what he is seeing.

Wooyoung is stood there, his expression is blank but the way his eyes pierce Yeosang's, making him shiver.

Never releasing the eye contact they held, Wooyoung lifts his hands up, displaying the cuffs on his wrists. His chains connect to the ones on his sisters hands.

Yeosang is frozen, no matter how hard he tries, he can't make himself move, only watch. What is he supposed to do? Find a key and unlock both of them? Unlock his sister then run away with her?

Wooyoung suddenly grabs his chains and pulls them forward, pulling Yeojin with them, she squirms as she is pulled towards him. He continues pulling until she is in front of him, both of them facing Yeosang, her back towards Wooyoung.

He doesn't expect a tear to roll down Wooyoung's cheek and he becomes even more confused when they don't stop falling, but that tiny bit of pity he felt immediately disappears when he grabs Yeojin's arm, squeezing it tightly, making her cry out in pain, fingers digging hard enough to draw blood.

Yeosang is snapped out of his frozen state as he runs towards them, ripping off Wooyoung's grip on his sister. He shoves him onto the floor, and climbs on top of him, grabbing his shirt.

"What the fuck are you doing, don't fucking touch my sister" he growls, throwing a punch to his face, making the other groan in pain.

He decided he didn't have time to beat Wooyoung up, that was for another day. Her rushes to his sister, who is clutching her arm in pain. He takes her arm and examines it. 

"Does it hu-" Yeosang looks at her arm again. The chains are gone, he furrows his eyebrows. How did those chains disappear, are they still attached to Wooyoung?

He looks up to where Wooyoung was to check, but he's not there anymore. He blinks in confusion, what is happening?

His sister points a shaky hand to the left and Yeosang is almost too scared to look.

He slowly turns his head to the left to see Wooyoung standing up, chains still on him. But he isn't attached to anyone, someone behind him is holding the chains, controlling his every move.

He hears the dark shadow behind Wooyoung chuckling, the sound making his toes curl in discomfort.

Wooyoung is suddenly pushed to the ground, making him kneel, chains rustling loudly beside him.

"Wooyoung what have you done? Was this your stupid idea? To kidnap royals then let them escape?" He kicks his back, making him fall forward a bit, his head is hung low, refusing to look up.

Yeosang is horrified at what he's seeing but like before, he's frozen. He doesn't know what to do.

"Do you want us to get caught, huh?" He is kicked again. "I'm going to have to handle this myself then, we can't let them escape again, do you know how we're going to make sure we they can't escape?" There is a long silence as no one dares to say a thing.

"We kill them"

Yeojin whimpers behind Yeosang, grabbing his arm. But he can't move, no matter how hard he tries, he is in too much shock to move.

"Les rois have a good price for whoever can kill the remaining royals, and dare I say that it's better that what Eden is offering."

He chuckles again, this time the sound echoes through the whole room, ringing in his ears and going down his back, making him shiver.

"Come on Wooyoung, since you love money so much, this could make us rich, we have two weak royals, who can't even run away while the door is open." He looks directly into Yeosang's eyes, "kill them both"

Wooyoung's chains are pulled upwards, forcefully making him stand and he is pushed towards the two.

Wooyoung's eyes are bloodshot, and a few tears are still falling off his face. As he walks towards him, Yeosang still can't get himself to move.

"Get the girl first"

Suddenly Yeosang's grip on his sister is ripped off as Wooyoung pulls her away from him.

"NO!" He screams, running towards her.