chapter fourteen.

sorry for the filler chapter, but I realize how long it's been since I have updated this. I appreciate you waiting. I'm sorry if this is a waste of your time, I have been lacking in inspiration for this story, hence why I put it to the side for so long.

Oh also, I did not explain, but Taehyung is a white Labrador hybrid.

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Taehyung and Jungkook were seated on the couch, while Bora and Myung talked in the kitchen. It was two days since Taehyung had been cornered at the store, and He had not said many things to Myung, not even Jungkook. He seemed utterly traumatized by the experience, never leaving Jungkook's side; now knowing only bad things seem to happen when he does.

Jungkook played with Taehyung's faulty ear, listening in on the conversation deeply, trying to hear what they were saying. Taehyung had started snoring, so he simply guessed the boy had gone into slumber, after sitting on his lap for so long.

"That hybrid is so cute, what about him and Jungkook though? Are they getting closer? Yeah? I'm glad. Taehyung had always struggled with making friends." Jungkook heard Bora say to Myung.

"Well, every since he was brought into the pet shop, I was afraid that nobody would adopt him, even though he's the sweetest little thing. People don't see hybrids that way, and clearly his last owner saw him differently as well. He cut a piece of his ear and if you look on his feet his has plenty of cigarette burns. Poor kid, nobody should deserve that." Myung told her girlfriend, scooting a tad closer and wrapping an arm around her waist.

Jungkook ran a hand gently through Taehyung's hair, ruffling it. He truly did feel bad for the hybrid.

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"Master, do you need me to clean anything?" Taehyung asked, fixing a book that had fallen out of place on Jungkook's desk. Jungkook just shook his head, patting the seat beside him. Taehyung plopped onto the bed, bouncing until he stilled from the movement.

"What do you need, master?" Taehyung asks cutely. Jungkook just rose an eyebrow at him.

"Your past owner, he did this to your ear, right? So.. can you tell me a bit about him? Only if you feel comfortable enough to of course. I would not want to push you into anything that makes you uncomfortable saying." Jungkook smiled gently at the hybrid.

"Oh okay! I remember once when I was helping my old master to clean the kitchen before an important dinner between my master and his friend~"

"Taehyung, hurry up with the dishes. Sayeon will be here soon. I want this place spotless. I need to make a good impression on her, I'm marrying her for the company, you know?" He told the hybrid, who nodded enthusiastically. He scrubbed the soapy sponge into the china plates. His arm was tired, but he wanted to help his master with anything he could.

"Okay master! But- you could have told me this earlier. I would've had everything spotless, every little corner." Taehyung told the man, who looked displeased with the working hybrid.

"You are acting like this is my fault, Taehyung. Here I am, giving a roof over your head, food in your belly, and affection. And there you are, complaining again about how you have to wash dishes, is that so hard Taehyung? You did not even come from a poor family hmm? You have been spoiled your whole life." He tsked, leaving the room.

Taehyung came from a puppy mill, one for hybrids of course. He was cramped into a cage that he could barely walk in, with his sister. She was younger, and taken when she was born. She was put with another family because their mother had been getting sick. Taehyung's mother was the sweetest person he knew. She was forced to mate with males her whole life, never being bought or taken out of her cage. She died in that cage, the one she was born in.

You might think, it could be illegal to do that to a human, well the hybrids usually stayed in their dog form in the puppy mills, never wanting to take up too much room. Taehyung was cramped in with his mother and a few different male dogs, he was finally taken from the cage and put into another cage. Where he was bought by Hyuk, his first owner.

Taehyung stared at his clean dish, placing it aside once drying it. He had completed his task. He walked over to the living room, where Hyuk was. He was looking into a mirror that hung on a wall. He fixed his tie and straightened his hair.

"Taehyung- I think you should go into your room or something." Hyuk told him, knowing that Sayeon would be there soon. He did not want a stupid puppy hybrid running around like an annoying child. Taehyung was very young, maybe thirteen, it was not kept track of. He was worthless, anyways, a mere slave.

"B-But- Hyuk." Taehyung began. Hyuk just walked forward and grabbed the boy's shirt collar, dragging him to the backyard door, a sliding one. The backyard was a fenced off yard, lots of land behind it, it was muddy from recent rain, and it looked like it was about to rain once more as well, the clouds darkening. Trees surrounding the yard, even a horse, black of color running in the fields. Taehyung liked to chase the horse, he's get scolded at and hit when he did by his owner, but he still liked to. The horse seemed to like him as well.

Hyuk pushed him outside, sliding the door closed and locking it. He pulled the curtains over the clear door, so that Sayeon would not see him if he tried to peek in. Taehyung was left outside some nights alone. E would sit there, whining at the door, but he stopped his cries after a while, not wanting to bother Hyuk.

So, that day. Taehyung sat under a tree, the black horse grazing beside him. It started to rain. Usually, the next day, Hyuk would let him back inside.

This time, Hyuk left Taehyung outside for three days.

Taehyung cried himself to sleep in the cold

He tried to run, but his collar had a shock in it.

He sat, in dried mud, starving body, a cold winter night.

For two nights, and three days.