Fenrir looked up at the mountain of stairs as he uncertainly sniffed the first step in cowardly inspection as he attempted to build up the courage to tackle the tall structure.

The pup jumped onto the first step, scuttling its small body onto the flat surface. After evaluating the struggle of the very first level, Fenrir dishearteningly looked up to see the mountain that was yet to be tackled and whined as he began his harsh journey.

After an effortful struggle, the dog managed to lift its small body to the very top where it took a moment to pant at its work, before he began sniffing the air for a certain individual. As it managed to lock onto a familiar scent, he began making his way as his small feet took him in the search for his master.

As the small creature made it to the end of the corridor where he was lead by the scent, he sniffled the air for any trace of the girl before he managed to locate it to a room.

He happily jumped up and down before he squeezed his small body between the gap of the ajar door, forcing his form to paddle in. He immediately noticed the distracted girl as she amused herself with watch TV, and began attracting her attention by barking with its small yelps, nearly startling the unexpected female.

"Fenrir?! Oh my god, where did you come from?" She quickly moved to the edge of the bed to scoop the creature up in her hand and bring him to her level where he could rest against her chest. "Buddy, where have you been?" The dog gave small barks as he furiously wagged his tail at the sight of the girl.

The female affectionately stroked the pup and seemed to have lost track of time before she noticed her door opening to reveal the male that had taken up the duty of searching for the lost animal.

Alex prepared to go in before his attention was caught, as he inspected the newly mended door with a suspicious gaze. The boy focused back on the girl before moving closer. (Y/n) stiffened at the cold air that he emitted and tried to shuffle away from him while holding onto the squirming dog for comfort, making her intentions fairly obvious to the boy.

"You always try to stay away from me." The girl gulped as she could feel her heartbeat increasing with every step he approached. "No matter how much I try to keep you away from someone else, you still move away from me."

"Alex, what's all this about? What are you talking-" The girl quickly halted her words as she felt the boy's hand grasping the back of her head as her face was pulled to linger mere inches away from the boy's. "Alex stop!"

"That door was broken. Who fixed it?" He intently watched for the girl's answer, viewing for any sort of reaction that would allow him a clue for who it could have been.

"What's gotten into you?! Why does it even matter?! Let me go!" The girl tried to pull out of the boy's grasp, only for her face to be placed in the male's hands.

"Was it Bako?" The girl froze in place at the initiative guess he made, giving him the confirming answer he desired. "I see..."

(Y/n) shoved the boy off as she shuffled as far back as possible. "Alex what's wrong with you?!"

"Stop talking with the others." The girl stared at the boy in bewilderment before an unintentional laugh came out of her lips.

"You're not serious, right?" The boy gave her a look that didn't seem to be humoured by the claim. (Y/n) watched for any other response that would give her a different perspective on his claim, only to be graced with his neutralistic features.

"They've all tried to harm you in one way or another. Yet you keep on giving them chances. Stop." The girl shook his hands off and speedily retracted to give him a stricken glare.

"How I act towards them isn't your concern." However, her answer didn't sit well with the boy as he growled at the uncongenial reply.

"Then why are you afraid of me? What the hell have I ever done to you?" He demandingly grabbed her arm and intently watched for her response to his urging question.

"Look at me Alex! I'm not even able to get out of the bed because of these cuffs. I can go on about what you've done to me, but it's what you're not doing that's making me lose hope in you!" The girl tugged against the cuffs that were beginning to give her painful bruises from her attempts to rip them away from the wooden frame. "It's the same problem with the others, but at least they seem regretful over it."

The boy glanced towards the handcuffs that mercilessly bonded her to one spot. He seemed to be deeply thinking over the binding restraints before he dismissively turned back to the girl. "You'll try to do something."

"What the hell can I possibly do?! I have all of you, as well as Oberon, monitoring me like a child. I just want to be released, why can't any of you understand that?" She desperately gazed at the boy with a pleading expression, attempting to strike some sort of sympathy on her side from the male.

"If you stay in one place, nothing can touch you. At least until the other go." (Y/n) squirmed away at the clean cut threat and engendered on her rising anxiety. "That's why I'll keep you where you'll be the safest. With me. Away from everyone else." The female felt herself retracting as she curled up closer to her body and attempted to look past the boy's false sense of rectification.

"Damn it, what do I have to say to get it through your damn head? You are the problem!" Alex twitched slightly as the words filtered through his conscience. "I don't want you! All I've wanted from the beginning was to be left alone...why the hell do you keep bringing this stupid pledge you made when we were just kids?"

The boy gave her a solemn look as he took the girl's free hand and pushed her palm against his head to place the female's warmth in his senses. "I want to be with you. I want everybody else to disappear and let me guard you in peace." (Y/n) ripped her hand away from the tender male, startling him with the rash action.

"Stop it! Do you hear yourself? What you want is impossible Alex, you can't just shelter me like this." The boy let his gaze fall to the ground as though trying to block off every word that seeped out of the girl and remained convinced of his ideology.

"What I want?" He softly spoke out to the female as he connected sights with her, allowing (Y/n) to notice the fiery fierceness that continued to spark on his persistence. "I want you to accept me. I want to protect you. I want you to stay with me. I want everybody else to leave us. I want to spend my time with you. I want to get rid of everyone that's taking your attention away from me. I want to rip off the hands that touch you." The immure girl stared at the male as gradual concern and fear crept into her mind while the air around the boy thickened with malice and toxicity. "I want you to stop interacting with others. They don't deserve your attention. I want your hands to touch only me. No one else deserves to be held by you. I want your smile to be directed only to me. It's too precious to be wasted on all of these worthless people."

(Y/n)'s eyes reflexively widened as each necessity slowly caused cold sensations to spread through her form as she slowly started shaking her head at each demand. The girl shuffled further away as her instincts attempted to create a physical gap between them that would hopefully translate to emotional proximity. With each inch she gained in distance, he proceeded to fill in the gap between them.

"All that is very possible (Y/n). And I'll make it happen." The boy extended his hand out towards the stunted female, aiming to comfortingly run his fingers gently across her cheek. However, as he neared the shaking girl, his hand was immediately stopped as a pair of small and sharp teeth bit down on it, stopping the boy in his tracks. Alex looked at the interfering pup as it trembled in fear at the possibilities of what the dominant male could do to scourge him for his attack, but kept a threatening expression as it continued to securely clamp down on the boy's flesh to protect his master.

Alex kept unbreakable eye contact with the pup as he showed features that gave little notion to what he was thinking. To the girl's wonder and the creature's shock, the male began smiling tenderly towards the animal and used his free hand to scoop the dog up and hold him in his surprisingly placate hold. Fenrir slightly whimpered at the unexpected care he was being carried with and sniffled towards the male.

"...I'm quite jealous of you Fenrir. (Y/n) doesn't push you away. She's so sweet to you and accepts your help...she allows you to protect her while she wants nothing to do with me." He placed the pup's head against his as he attempted to make connections with the dog that would allow him to avoid the rejections the female would give him. "What can I do to make her happy?"

(Y/n) watched the boy as he solemnly gazed at the dog as though trying to comprehend the pup's logic that seemed to cause a connection with the girl. The female exhaled as her senses began to relax as the worrying danger seemed to have passed. "...How about you start by doing me a favour, OK?" Alex perked up at her request and shuffled closer to focus on her words. "Since I'm sure you've got no motivation for unlocking me from this bed, right?" The boy glanced away as his only response to her last desperate attempt to coax him for aid, she sighed before proceeding with her next offer. "Then could you please take Fenrir and Oberon out tomorrow? They've been stuck in the house for quite a while now and they're becoming agitated...could you do at least that for me?" The male was slightly surprised at the simplicity of the asking and almost felt as though he had understood it incorrectly but eventually eagerly nodded his head as he lightly smiled at her. "S-so could you please take Fenrir with you now? He seems a bit hungry."

Alex looked towards the dog that was silently moping as his little tummy began vibrating with quiet rumbles. "Would you like something to eat too?" The girl shook her head dismissively, seemingly to arouse the boy's suspicions.

"I see..." (Y/n) gulped before the male switched back to his neutralistic demeanour and understandingly nodded. "I'll do as you wish (Y/n)." As he reluctantly left the room, the female exhaled with relief as she relaxed into the pillows that hugged her body like a comforting surface.

'That would be a first...'

Bako impatiently awaited for the dreaded door to be opened by his assailant. He gave another light knock, keeping on high alert as he expected a shiny blade to poke out of the entrance the moment the door creakes open. However, despite the duration of time he allowed for the call to be answered, no individual came to respond to his visit.

Figuring no one would come to open the door for him, the male took in a deep and calming breath to settle his drumming heart, and hesitantly gripped the handle to slowly turn it so as to not alarm the person within. As he pushed the door open to reveal the darkness and isolated tone of the room, he spotted the figure of its resident.

Jin had his back turned to the entrance as he fixed his gaze on the TV that seemed to only hold the purpose of background noise as he had his earphones in and was in a tranced state.

As the azure male stepped inside, the distracted boy lifted his head a slight degree before taking off the speakers in his ears as he maintained a turned position, away from his visitor. "Do you have a death wish...?"

Bako gulped at the unsettlingly calm demeanour the male spoke out with, and felt his body releasing adrenaline at the position he was placed -unable to read his opposer's expression for any hinting danger-. "I don't know. Maybe I do...but I'm not here to fight with you. I want to talk about (Y/n)." Jin glanced back to fully regard the boy after his attention was drawn by the mention of the girl's name. "I want you to give her some freedom and get rid of the cuffs."

Jin flinched at the sound of the request before glaring down at the ground to avoid eye contact with the larger male. "I can't..."

"Why not?" Bako furiously scowled at him as the boy proceeded to shake his head.

"She'll do something the moment I release her." Bako tusked in annoyance at the boy's doubts.

"All (Y/n) wants is some freedom, just give her that much." Jin continued to sternly shake his head once again as he curled up into his knees.

"(Y/n) is not ready to be released...I need to trust her that she won't trying and do something." Bako grunted at the unyielding stubbornness from the male and searched in his mind for an alternative solution to the problem.

"Then go and talk with her. She can't earn your trust and you can't earn her's, until you guys talk." Jin retracted further into himself as he proceeded to deny the idea presented to him. "You can't just stay here and hope everything will fix itself for you. You need to stop moping like some abused little puppy because it's (Y/n) who's suffering the most right now."

Jin shamefully hid his face in his kneecaps as guilt seeped in through his conscience to settle in his thoughts. "I can't...I can't look at her...she doesn't want me." Bako lowered his gaze as he perplexingly lingered on his assumptions before taking a few paces further into the room.

"What happened? Why are you both on such bad terms." The boy in regard slightly flinched at the reminder of their soured relationship and the actions that caused it.

"I almost hurt her...I made her afraid of me when I wanted to know who had caused her all the harm...I guess I should have looked at myself before I acted..." The boy's abstruse explanation allowed for Bako to automatically fill in the gaps before begrudgingly forming a picture of the male's meaning. "She doesn't want to see me."

The larger male exhaled his frustration as he felt his nerves towards the boy, snapping. "No. (Y/n) doesn't want the you that holds this much bloodlust. She needs a friend right now, and admittedly you're probably one of the only people gentle enough to let her comfortably talk to you. That is when you're not being controlled by your temper." The boy allowed his words to flow around in his head before he attempted to dismiss them. "That's why I can't be having you snapping out of nowhere and scaring her again...she doesn't need more of that."

The emerald eyed boy seemed slightly befuddled at the last comment before he felt a foot purposefully pressing against his back in an annoying manner. "What are you doing? Stop." Jin looked back to call out the nuisance before Bako continued to teasingly test him with the pushes.

"Then punch me." The dormant boy spun around to stare up at his mocker with an unexpected expression as the male kept serious features.

"What?"

"It's best you let your anger and annoyance out on me than (Y/n). Because I'm not risking you causing her more grief the moment you see her and pull a knife out to threaten her." Jin looked disgracefully down to think over the realistic danger before he was once more shaken by the boy's foot.

"I said stop. I'm not going to attack you."

"Why? You seemed pretty passionate about it with our previous meet up. What's wrong? Is it because you don't have your knife to give you an upper hand." Jin distinctly growled in irritation as he shoved the boy's tedious foot away, only for him to continue with the same challenging action.

"Stop!"

"Then hit me if you're so annoyed."

"No! Just leave me alone!"

"Come on! Aren't you at least annoyed that I tried to hurt (Y/n)?" Jin huffed out in great aggravation before threateningly shoving the male's legs away.

"Get away from me! I don't want to deal with you right now!"

"Don't I deserve some punishment Jin? I nearly harmed (Y/n), and in the end all I got was a scolding. Does that seem fair?!" While Bako was inwardly despising himself with each reminder of his own short comings Jin continued to be further driven into a pool or aggression.

"I said stop!" Jin swivelled around to glare up at the boy before his foot bumped his shoulder.

"No! What are you gonna do about it?!" Bako felt the impact of a fist connecting with his face, forcing him to slightly stumble back. The azure boy looked at the male he enraged before he smirked to himself and gestured for the boy to give him his all.

Jin bolted at him as he continued elbowing and punching his frustration out. "I hate you...I hate you for what you've done to her!" He continued assaulting the willing boy as Bako took each impact, as the boy's pent up aggression seeped through every hit. "I wish I can just kill you! But (Y/n) would only fear me even more!" With each strike he made to the boy's organs and face, Jin felt a relieving sensation as a great load was lifted off of his mind while Bako took each hit with only grunts of pain as his only complaint. The attacker forced the boy to stabile himself against the wall, continuing to bombard him with words and hits.

After a few minutes of the male's venting behaviour, the brunet's hits slowly weakened as he no longer had the stamina or fury to spur his actions on. Soon he gave one last, light punch to the boy's clenched jaw before beginning to pant as his sporadic manner simmered down. Bako wiped away a trail of blood that ran down his chin before painfully scoffing at the tired boy.

"Now I see why you use weapons. You can't throw a critical punch for s**t." The opposing boy reciprocated with a sneer as he regained his breath and energy from the attacks. "Have you taken all your anger out so I can allow you to see (Y/n)?"

Jin doubtfully shifted his solemn gaze to the ground. "I don't want to frighten (Y/n) anymore..." As Jin kept his distracted features, he felt a hand gripping the back of his shirt while the larger male began dragging him out of the door.

"Yep, you'll be fine." Jin immediately began wriggling and shuffling as his voice cracked with uncertainty.

"W-wait! I-I don't f-feel ready! A-at least one more movie! You can join me too-please give me some time! I'm too scared to visit her!" Bako rolled his eyes at the reluctance while he effortlessly dragged the male towards their next visit.

A/n:
The art I want to show is by a fan who's been really nice and supportive (not discounting the rest of you of course) who made these drawings quite a while ago. So this art is by garbageinthetardis who drew the boys as well as did something really awesome by drawing some of the side characters which was a really nice touch that I appreciated. Thank you so much!