As per their plan, the room in which Jeongguk spent the last few weeks was locked so no one could enter. Right now no one knows about Jeongguks awakening except for his best friends and Taehyung. There was no chance to take a risk and let the word spread out as they feared the mole was still present and might inform his boss.

Soon after they left, Jin had dragged Taehyung to his room and lead him to the safe place through his secret door, that was build in case they ever need to escape. Currently both of them were waiting patiently and hoping everything goes as planned.

"Hyung, can I ask you something?" Taehyung tapped jins shoulder, breaking the silence.

"Of course, what is it?" Jin replied and turned towards him, giving him his full attention.

"What happened to Jeongguk?"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, is there something wrong with his head, because they way he screamed that way in pain wasn't an act" Taehyung asked, recalling what happened that day, how Jeongguk had exploded on Jimin's little act and went crazy and then the next moment he was holding his head screaming in pain.

"You're right, that wasn't an act" Jin agreed, catching on what he was asking.

"W-why did he act that way?" Taehyung asked, not sure if he could ask such a personal question but if he's going to be here, he deserves to know.

"There's no point hiding it from you, you're family now" Jin replied making the younger smile at his words, it's been a while since someone asides jimin who called him his family.

"You already know that we all go way back right" Jin began and Taehyung nodded encouraging him to continue.

"We've known each other since grade 3 and trust me when I say it was heck normal back than, or that's what we thought. At school Jeongguk was always the most cheerful and energetic out of us all, always competing, dragging us to different events, finding new places. There was something that I had once found odd and that was Jeongguk spending most of his day and night out, he hardly went home and never invited us there as well"

"Why?"

"When ever we asked him he would brush it off saying that no one's home or make up a lame excuse. At that time we left it. And that's how our highschool passed away. We had all planned to study together and rent a small house for us. Everyone joined in except Jeongguk and that year we got to know about his psychotic and abusive father when one night he came unannounced covered in blood"

"What!"

"Yeah we were all shocked to find him like that, during those years his whole personality changed, he wasn't that bubbly kid we all were fond of. That day he told us how his father abused him and made him suffer" Jin's voice trembled a bit as he recalled what Jeongguk had told them.

"Like what? It can't be that bad to make him go through this... Through this trauma" Taehyung asked. Being a psychology major he tried to join in the dots.

"It was, his father blamed him for his mother's death, she was an amazing women who loved Jeongguk to death. The love she gave him he never got it from anyone else except jimin now. No one made him feel that much love for him to go crazy over." Jin smiled.

"You have no idea how excited he was the day he saw jimin, it was like we got the old Jeongguk back"

"But why did he blame Jeongguk?"

"He blamed him for his mother death, saying that if it wasn't for him and his studies she would have been alive. His mother was dealing with cancer, she was aware of her condition but hid it so Jeongguk could complete his studies as they weren't that well off but when she died his father went mad. He used to punish him ever single day. Jeongguk used to wear baggy cloths but it wasn't because he wanted to, it was because he had to, he had to cover his bruises and cuts. That man used to drown him, hit him, burn him just to release his pain he felt every single day when he saw him. Because he reminded him of her"

"How can someone do that to his own son! It wasn't his fault, she choose to not tell them!" Taehyung argued back, not believing how can someone hurt there own flesh and blood but laughed when he recalled his father was no less.

"You okay?" Jin asked confused when he saw Taehyung laugh.

"Yeah please continue Hyung" the younger brushed it off, not wanting others to know about his past yet.

"But the final straw was when he became insane"

* 7 years ago *

"A-appa please don't d-do this!" 18 year old Jeongguk begged his father, as he feared for his life.

"You deserve this!" His father yelled back as he pointed his gun towards his son who was covered in bruises, sprawled out on the floor as his father again landed another kick to his ribs making the boy grunt in pain.

"I-im your son!" Jeongguk yelled back spitting out blood.

"Don't call yourself my son from that filthy mouth of yours!" The insane man yelled back as he loaded his gun ready to end his son's life.

"E-eomma would n-never forgive y-you" Jeongguk stuttered, and groaned in pain as he felt black dots appear in front of his vision.

"She's fucking dead because of you! If you weren't born none of this would have happened, I would have been able to treat her. If you didn't exist she would have loved me dearly instead of dividing her love between you and me, giving you the greater portion!" His voice filled with jealousy and hatred.

"A-appa please it's n-not like that!" Jeongguk begged his father who was now pointing his gun towards him.

"Shut up! I hope you go to hell so you won't meet her heaven" he smirked taking off the safety.

Jeongguk closed his eyes and waited for his impending death, he smiled thinking about his mother, he'd rather smile instead of cry in front of his so called father. At least he won't live a loveless life, deprived of emotions.

"Stop smiling you fagot!" He screamed not liking the peaceful boy before him, as if he was granting him a wish.

"Oh no you won't fucker!" A new yet familiar voice screamed which cought off guard the old man who was aiming his gun towards his son.

"W-what-" before he could turn around and see who interrupted him he was pushed away from Jeongguk, his gun thrown away.

"Grab his gun Joon now!" Yoongi screamed after pushing Jeongguks father away.

His father got up and marched towards them, tackled yoongi on the floor, his arms around his neck as he tried to strangle him.

"The gun!" Yoongi yelled as he struggled to get the man off of him. His hands wrapped around Jeongguks father's harsher ones that were clutched around his neck.
Namjoon didn't know what to do. He started to panic fearing he would loose yoongi. so he did the only thing he could think off, ignoring all the consequences.

*Bang!*

A loud shot echoed through the, now, silent room. Only the ragged breathings of the four males and the small dieing whines could be heard as they took a moment to take in what just happened.

Jeongguk laid there, sprawled over the cold floor as he saw his father's life drain out of his body. Yoongi pushed his body, that had a bullet hole on the back of his head from above him and moved back.

"I-im sorry Jeonggu-" Namjoon stuttered, panicked as he realized he killed his best friend's father.

"No, thank you" Jeongguk breathed out, smiled ng towards his friend for saving his life.

All of them rushed towards Jeongguk and hugged him thanking god for arriving right on time.

"Take him out to Hoseok and jin now! We need to leave before the police arrives, I'll get all the evidences" yoongi stated as he made his way towards the gun and anything that could be useful for them.

"W-why?" Jeongguk asked confused to see yoongi in such a different face.

"Because in this world, the innocent ones are locked up"

*Ended*

"W-what happened then?" Taehyung asked, not believing what he just heard.

"We all went back to our hideout and by noon we we're off to soul, Busan wasn't a place for is anymore"

"But how did you...did you end like this"

"Yoongi, Hoseok and Namjoon we're already part of the underground. They already had a team it was small but powerful. We only went to high school because they were all orphans and needed a way to survive"

"H-hyung but h-how?"

"That day we told Jeongguk about everything and gave him an alternative to either live behind bars and in a asylum or live a free life but make others fear for theirs and he choose to live fearlessly"

"And that lead you to become the king of underground"

"Yes because the one who welcomed us was the previous one and he found us on the streets and offered us a place to live. During that time he got close to Jeongguk and treated him like his own son and later on when he passed away Jeongguk was crowned"

"I guess that's why he wants jimin to stay near him all the time, he fears to loose someone he loves again"

"Yeah and that's why the day he came back happy for the very first time we all promised to support him and get him that boy if it makes him this much happy"

"He became a softie for Chim" Taehyung teased, trying to lighten up the mood.

"Yeah but if that day yoongi wasn't informed by one of his men who was to keep an eye on Jeongguk, he would have been dead"

Jimin's (pov)

"P-please don't do this!" Jimin begged when Edwin came down and dragged the boy out of the cell.

"Times up and it's late" Edwin growled, annoyed by the resistance the pink haired boy was showing.

"No! Let Minnie stay!" Jimin started to thrash around harshly hoping the said male would let him be but to his surprise Edwin released his hold only to wrap his arms around his waist, harshly to hold him in his place.

And indeed, as soon as he felt the harsh hold around his waist, he halted his movement, fearing for his Bubs life.

"Let him go!" Yoongi yelled from across the bars, a bit confused why jimin stopped struggling.

"If I knew this position would make you stop, I would've tried it a bit more sooner" Edwin smirked as he peaked down towards the small boy who was silently crying, his tears cascading down his rosy cheeks, making his skin itch due to the amount of times he cried.

"I'll g-go willingly, p-please loose your h-hold Mr, y-you can hold m-minnies hand" jimin bargained defeated, making ever person in the room look at the pink haired boy shocked for his sudden submission.

"Hmm I guess you realized that struggling is pointless" he smirked and loosened his hold around jimin and grabbed his soft hands.

"Y-yes, can Minnie s-sleep?" Jimin asked, shaking his head every once in a while, trying to keep himself away from falling into little space at this moment.

"Of course you can"Edwin responded Immediately, for once happy that jimin was having a civil conversation with him.

"T-thank you"

"You! Go tell the maids to prepare a warm bath for him and bring in some snacks as well. Then let him sleep" he ordered to one of his men who Immediately ran upstairs.

"If you need anything else, whatever it is let me know and I'll get that for you, okay?" Edwin asked the younger nicely to which jimin just gave him a slight nod.

"Good night Mr." Jimin greeted him and after giving one last longing look towards a worried yoongi he made his way up, vanishing from within his sight.

A/n
It's Taehyungs Birthday! 💜
Our Tae turned 23 today💃

And......

Jimin released his song "PROMISE" that he promised us he will release, and OMG! He has to most angelic, soft and sweetest voice😣💜
Why do you do this to us jimishie 🤤

And lastly I updated a bit before than I planned because I'm going to be traveling all the way to Boston to spend New year's Eve with my family back there so I won't be able to update, I hope you all understand 💜

So in Advance
A Happy New Year to you all 💜
I hope this new year brings a lot of joy and success to all of you and try to spend more time with your family and enjoy the start of this new upcoming year 😊

I love all of you guys 💜