3rd POV

"It was 4 years ago" Tae started all the members taking that as their cue to sit and listen. "Taehyon and I were walking home from school, everything seemed like normal when a car pulled up" he said in a' I couldn't care less' tone though his body showed otherwise every part of him looked tense. "It was a nice car and when the man in the back of it offered to drive us home we took it" he finished.

"Wait! You took a ride from a complete stranger? Exactly what kind of fairytale story did you grow-" yoongi started before he was cut off. " He wasn't a stranger at all, he was my uncle. He's my fathers younger brother, he wasn't around much when I was little but came back around about a year or two before this" Tae explained. The others nodded in understanding waiting for him to continue.

"We trusted him he'd never given us a reason not to. So when he offered us soda to drink we accepted without hesitation, especially since our mother never let us have it" Tae said gritting his teeth a bit in recollection of the memory. Seeing where this might be going the others tensed up fear of what happened next creeping in. "Needless to say he'd spiked it with some drugs and we passed out not even 2 minutes after" he said twirling his bangs in his finger.

An 'I knew it' expression crossing the faces of the others. "Woke up in a basement cliche' set up I know, my leg chained to the wall, stripped of my clothes and cradled in my brothers arms as he'd awoken first" he said letting his hand fall from his hair. "I still remember the face of enjoyment plastered on that bastards face as he looked at our confused and betrayed faces" he said clenching his fist enough to draw blood.

The members were speechless none knowing what to say or how to react to what they'd just been told. Too many emotions running through their head as they watched Tae relive such painful memories. "I-I don't understand, w-why did he do that to you?" Jungkook stuttered out disbelief etched on his face. "Well apparently the plan was to sell us to some cult enthusiast dip shit who he'd gotten tangled up with while doing business behind my fathers back." Tae spat fury in his eyes.

"I never met said man thank god but he would send people over to" Tae stopped at this point closing his eyes taking a moment to breath "t-to 'prep' us" he said letting out a broken sigh. "Prep? For what?" Namjoon asked not comprehending this at all. "For what ever cracked up shit they do, they kept going on and on about how lucky we were being chosen for the ceremony and big our part was." Tae said rage building as tears fell "Even our uncle went on and on saying he loved us and knew this was for the best" he said starting to tremble.

"How the hell could he love us and do that to us" he said stopping as he was engulfed in someone's warm embrace. Realizing his state of distress he composed himself almost immediately pulling Jin off of him. "If you can't continue it's ok, we understand" Jin said trying to hide the hurt expression as Tae pushes him away. "No, I already started. Just the memories seem so much rawer then I thought they would" Tae said wiping his face dry.

"Anyway there began our week of hell...... stuff happened I'd rather not recount but just know that the tattoo you asked about was one of the last steps in the process, that's what they said anyway. It was also one of the most excruciating feelings I'd ever experienced in my life. Everything that led up to it seemed like a paper cut in comparison. The reason for it being it was no ordinary tattoo, it was also in a place that tends to be an incredibly sensitive area.

"The pain from that finally sent us over the edge, we'd found some comfort in each other and in the hope that our parents would come rescue us. All that ripped away with the marking engraved on our skin, how could we ever dismiss that horror when we had such a painful reminder. And it only got worse, we were made to sit in our own blood and feces over that time period so of course they got infected only magnifying the pain.

I'd honestly given up on the hope that our parents would realize it was him, he would tape our mouths shut and take my fathers calls right in front of us. We witnessed the first call from him distraught over our disappearance and the ones calling about how our mother had fallen ill from all the stress. Not to mention the ones that irked us the most when he'd say he was doing everything possible to help search for us. Making me want to scream my lungs out." The members stayed silent each trying to process this unreal story they were being told. Two and two just didn't fit together when he was with them he seemed fine not something plagued by this level of pain and horror.

"I don't understand you had to have made it out somehow" jimin said every inch of his being hoping there was some fairytale ending about how he was saved before anything more happened. "Yea, I suppose I wouldn't be here if not. My uncle was creepily running his fingers through our hair as he'd done numerous times before waiting for the guy he was selling us to arrive. So when the door bell rang he nor I thought anything of it. He seemed overjoyed and I felt nothing I hadn't in two days since the tattoos. I shut down gave into the voice telling me I'd feel better if I did and he was right" Tae finished looking off into space

"He?" Hoseok asked a question that didn't get an answer as Tae continued his story as if he'd heard nothing. "We could hear commotion upstairs and an all too familiar voice roared through the house as my father yelled at my uncle about having done deals behind his back with the people he'd believe might've taken his sons. It wasn't the fist time he came over but my uncle always went to great length to keep us hidden. This time though there was no tape on our mouths and he hadn't bothered closing the sound proofed door leading to the basement. All signs were green we could call out for him and he would save us, but we didn't" Tae said playing with his fingers.

"Huh? Wa- why not?" Jungkook asked "Like I said we'd already given up, he could have been reaching for me and I'd have looked away. Nothing mattered anymore our pride had been stripped away, mentally... well someone we once trusted our family put us there, preyed upon us like some meaningless toy. Nothing could fix that, I had no desire to be saved anymore. To be quite honest I was looking forward to the grand death I was promised, I wanted nothing more than to disappear." "T-Tae" yoongi stuttered out heart sympathizing but also bleeding for Taehyung.

"Any way as my father has told me the stench from the room traveled up the stairs, my uncles reaction to him asking about it made him investigate further leading him directly to us. His expression when he saw us is forever burned into my memory, my father is an extremely strong man with pride to spare. Even if he was strict he always made sure we knew it came from a place of love. But there were certain things I'd never seen him do, crying was one of them. The moment he laid eyes on us he'd cried he wore the most broken expression on his face. To him he'd failed us, though truthfully I'd never harbored any resentment for it.

What happened next actually made me wish I'd felt enough to display a smile on my face. My uncle who he'd been holding on to went flying toward the nearest wall and in an instant my father had a gun pointed at him, his pain filled eyes now filled with rage. My uncle begged and pleaded even pulling the 'we're family' card which earned him a bullet in his head right between his eyebrows. My father had shot without hesitation and without mercy as he tried to hold in his tears."

"And that's my story. Years of therapy, counseling and suicide attempts later and here I am. Perfectly damaged and broken no help needed from you guys though you seemed quite eager to do so anyway. Well, you got your tragic story I hope your happy. Now just go!" He yelled shaking everyone from the trance. "The hell? You think this would make us happy? I feel worse than I did before who in their right minds would be happy after hearing that?!" Hoseok yelled back.

"Can't you see we're trying to be here for you, I know you have every right to be angry but please let us help" Jin pleaded. "Why? I spent long enough doing what you want. Wearing a mask exuding fake emotions trying to please you. Look where that got me, though it's true what I said you all saved me back then. But if I'm honest if I knew this is how things would have turned out I'd have rather rotted in that hell till I withered away completely. Your so called 'help' was a curse you gave me the one thing someone like me should never have." Tae said looking toward making sure that each one eyes reached his as tears spilled down his cheeks.

"You gave me HOPE. A want for something, a desire to be better than I was, that I could put the past behind me. Then you shattered it, stole away the dream I'd been trying so hard to hold onto. So no I don't want your help nor is your presence in my house welcome any longer. Please, please just leave" he said crouching down into a ball no longer able to withhold his sobs.

The members crippled with despair did as he'd asked and made their way to pack anything they'd left in the rooms and called taxis to take them back to the hotel. They listened to a horrific story and all placed blame onto it for what happened to Tae. But he'd just set the record straight so there would be no confusion, yes what his uncle did broke him but what they did shattered every piece of him after putting it back together. So in truth they were the bad guys, there was no sudden event that made Taehyung change. Everything was shaped by them and when it came time to put the finished touches on their creation they abandoned him, terrorizing him at every turn till he could no longer withstand the demons he'd already possessed.

Omg I actually did it I didn't think I'd update for like a week. Anyway I hope you guys like it to be honest I knew the situation would have something to do with the uncle but I had no idea what was gonna happen so I hope it reaches your expectations🤒. As I said I'd be including some of there newest album down the line or you spot what it was in this chapter comment if here😂😂.
Anyways, Enjoy. I purple all you angst loving weirdos 💜💜💜💜

P.S it's not the last time the tattoos will be mentioned