I'm 24, Idk. Just some oneshots and stories I've decided to share with the world. You can also find me on Wattpad as MayRose713 where I write longer stories. I do apologize for the darker and more sensitive content though. I write a lot of my own past traumas and experiences
Warnings in the Series Masterlist as well as any other information needed
Here's the next chapter for you guys which was mainly written at the airport and on the plane, so sorry if it doesn't read very smoothly. Also I hit 1,000 followers while on my trip! Thank you guys!!
Notes:
Also a few things I wanna talk about. Poor Seungmin not being able to join the boys at Gov Ball, I love him so much and really want him to get better soon. His foot has been a problem for so long now, it breaks my heart.
Who's ready for the SKZOO Everywhere All Around the World pop ups? The Dallas one is happening literally the 5 days leading up to my birthday so I've scratched all my birthday plans to try and go to that.
And can we talk about Han's gecko? Oh my god she is so pretty. Though it took me about a day of thinking about why they would name her Richard. And then I actually looked at how Han spelled it in Hangul on Bubble as 리자드 and realized it's literally just Lizard. SMH
Chapter 6
“This might feel a little weird.” Minho sits on the rolling chair, in front of the female omega on the table in the medical bay.
She’s in another one of Hyunjin’s long shirts, it pushed slightly up so her injured thigh is visible. Felix sits next to her for both comfort and reassurance.
“Don’t worry, it’ll just feel like pinching or tugging.” The younger male tries to make her feel better, smelling the anxiety in her scent. “It won’t hurt, just feel odd.”
Y/n lets the beta take out her stitches. She tenses at first but they were both right, it doesn’t hurt, just feels weird. She relaxes letting Minho do what he needs to while she thinks back on the last few days.
She's been enjoying having the company of the omegas and occasionally the betas. She’s still been staying on the quieter side only really speaking when she absolutely needs to, but just being in the presence of the five of them has made her stay with the pack enjoyable.
Around the alphas she stays cautious which none of them blame her for. The three make sure to give her space and let her choose where she wants to sit whenever all together.
Even during the movie day, she at first didn’t join, choosing to stay in the guest room. Quickly getting bored though and went searching for the pack, shocked to not find them in the living room only to then do some exploring to find a basement with a theater room. She lingered in the doorway for a while noticing that each omega and beta had an alpha with them, curled up on the raised couches.
Jeongin had noticed her scent first having been closest to the door and looked over the room before realizing why she was hesitating. He moved Felix off of him, making the omega whine as he moved to join Chan, Jisung and Minho on one of the other couches. It was then that Felix realized Y/n was there and got up to lead her to the couch he was on.
By dinner time all four omegas ended up on one couch together. At first Y/n had left a gap between her and the boys but eventually she ended up with her legs in Felix’s lap which the pack saw as a big jump in progress with her.
“And we’re done.” Minho takes his gloves off after having rubbed some antibiotic cream over the wound.
Y/n looks down at her thigh, it looks so much better without the stitches in it but she can tell it’s gonna leave a nasty scar. It doesn’t hurt anymore whenever Minho messes with it but her leg still feels weak when she walks. They’ve reassured her it would only be temporary though.
“Have you made your decision yet?” Felix speaks low, scared of the answer he’s gonna get. “About if you want to stay with us?”
She looks at the omega’s sorrowful expression and regrets having to actually speak up. “I-I think I want to go h-home.”
Felix’s face drops for a split second before he forces a smile. “If that’s what you want we’ll take you to your family.”
“Do you want to leave as soon as possible or do you wanna stay here for a few more days?” Minho keeps his expression neutral so as to not show his dismay of her wanting to leave.
“S-soon as possible.” She almost whispers as she looks away from them not wanting them to see it’s almost just as hard on her as it is for them.
She also doesn’t want to admit that she knows if she stays a little longer then she’ll not want to leave in the end. She’s already gotten too attached to the omegas and somewhat the betas. But staying as an escaped arena omega could cause problems for the pack and she doesn’t want to do that. Especially with them living so close to the compound.
Minho nods and stands up, pushing the rolling tray to the side. “I’ll let the alphas know so they can call your parents… Why don’t you guys go join the other two and do something for a bit. We’ll come get you when we have a plan.”
Felix perks up at that and takes Y/n with him to go find Hyunjin and Jisung. He’s decided not to say anything to the two just yet about her wanting to go home. He’ll leave it to their older mates to tell the pack.
The beta finishes cleaning up in the medical bay once they're gone before going to Chan and Changbin’s office and studio where they’ve been working from home since the female omega had shown up. He gives a firm knock before letting himself in. The two don’t ever mind getting interrupted especially if it’s important.
Luckily they were just sitting around messing with the mixing board for a track that was recorded at their actual recording studio. They both turn in their chairs as Minho walks in, shutting and locking the door behind him meaning it’s serious.
“What’s wrong?” Chan sits up getting into alpha mode.
The beta holds his hand up to show he can calm down. “I just wanted to let you guys know I took out Y/n’s stitches just now.”
“That’s good.” Changbin’s eyes light up, glad to hear the girl's thigh is finally better.
“It is.” Minho sighs as he takes a seat on the couch in the room where the pack is allowed to come and watch them work. “Lixie asked her if she made her decision about staying.”
Both alphas breath hitches slightly before Chan leans forward resting his arms on his knees. “And?”
“She wants to go home… as soon as possible.”
Chan nods, devastated, while Changbin slumps in his chair.
“We knew this was coming.” The head alpha reminds them even though he was secretly hoping she would stay.
“At first, yeah.” Changbin sighs. “I was hoping she would get used to it here and would want to stay.”
“The omegas are gonna be heartbroken. They’ve really grown fond of her.” Chan thinks about how everyone is going to react.
“Seungmin and Jeongin too.” Minho reminds them of the two youngest. “Even though she’s still cautious around you alphas, Innie really likes her. He’s been sleeping on the couch for several nights now.”
“And I know Minnie’s attached after she spoke to him first.” Changbin explains having noticed how the younger ones have been acting.
“How did Lix react when she said she wanted to leave?” Chan finally asks.
“I could tell it broke him a bit.” The beta leans his head against his hand remembering how the younger male had reacted in the med bay. “But he put up a front for her before they went to join the other two. I told them we’d come find them once we’ve got a plan.”
Changbin turns to the desk where his and Chan’s laptops sit. “I guess we should give her family a call then.”
Chan pulls his phone out of his pockets as they pull up Y/n’s family information.
The younger two stay and listen to Chan’s side of the phone call with the omega's dad.
“Her dad said it would be best if we bring her over within the next few hours before the big winter storm hits tonight.”
“So soon?” The younger alpha groans.
“It’s what she’s wanting.” Minho sighs. “But I was kind of hoping for another night too. I forgot about the snow coming in later.”
“So how are we gonna do this?” Changbin asks. “We all know she won’t want to be in the car with any of us without the omegas. And it’s not safe for any of them except for Felix. It’s really not even safe for her.”
“Felix and I will take her.” Chan decides before turning to the beta. “It might be best for you to come with us. Between you and Seungmin you can keep your emotions more in check and scent stable about everything.”
“And the others?” Minho asks. “They’re all gonna want to come if we tell them we’re taking her to her parents.”
“So then we don’t tell them.” Changbin leans back against his chair. “Innie still has his afternoon and evening classes today. With finals in two weeks they won’t cancel classes unless they absolutely have to and they should be done before the storm starts. So he’ll still be leaving about four o’clock to go to the university. Seungmin’s already at his classes and won’t be back until after Jeongin leaves.”
“So we just need to leave during that hour the youngest are both gone.” Chan sees where the younger alpha is going with all of this. “And you’ll be able to keep Hyunjin and Jisung occupied enough?”
“At least long enough to let you guys get on the road before Minnie gets back. Once he’s back I’ll probably have to come clean to them.”
“Let’s give them the next few hours before we tell Y/n and Felix. Wait until right before we leave to tell the two.” Minho looks to the pack alpha to see if he agrees.
Chan nods before turning back towards the mixing board. “If we tell Lixie now he’ll just be sad the entire time before she leaves which will catch Ji and Hyun’s attention.”
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Chan and Minho watch as Felix and Y/n walk down the stairs. All the omegas had been in Hyunjin’s room where Changbin told the two Minho needed them and stayed with the older two. It had been the first and only time Y/n had been upstairs.
“What’s up?” Felix is confused seeing the pack alpha as the girl hides a little bit behind him.
“I talked to your dad, Y/n.” Chan speaks to her even though she is refusing to look at him. “Min said you are wanting to go home as soon as possible so we agreed we should take you now.”
Felix whines at this. “So soon?”
“It’s what she’s wanting, baby.” Chan feels bad but he knew this is how the male omega would react. “Plus with the snow storm coming in tonight, we don’t know how bad it will be or if the roads will be closed the next few days. So we need to go now.”
“But Seungmin and Jeongin aren’t here for all of us to go.”
“It’s just gonna be us four going, Lixie.” Minho finally speaks up, making Y/n look up, shocked. “Chan, Changbin and I all agreed this was the best solution.”
“Hyunjin and Jisung can’t go out in public like you can.” Chan reminds him. “So Binnie’s keeping them occupied right now and it’s best we go before the youngest two get back. They’ll all be mad in the end but it’s for the best.”
The male omega sighs but doesn’t argue any more even though he has a lot he wants to say. Instead he moves to the coat closet. Y/n’s wearing a pair of his sweatpants with one of Seungmin's shirts so he grabs his jacket for himself and one of Minho’s jackets for her. If the beta minds it, he isn’t showing it as the older two grabs their own jackets. Felix also grabs her a pair of his own shoes before handing the items to her and helps put them on.
Once everyone is bundled up, they head out into the cold where Felix leads Y/n to the back seat of the car Chan unlocks as they follow a bit behind them. The male omega makes sure she’s in and buckled before going around to the other side. He made sure she would be behind Minho in the passenger seat hoping the beta’s calmer scent would help her during the drive to her house. As well as she can then see what Chan is doing as he drives.
“All good?” He asks her quietly as she fidgets a bit in the seat.
She just gives a small nod as the older two get in the front seats. Chan doesn’t say anything, just looking back at them in the review mirror before starting the car and puts the address into the gps on his phone. They drive down the long driveway which shocks Y/n as she can’t believe how rich the pack must be with their large house that’s pretty well hidden in the surrounding trees. The driveway leads to a closed gate where they stop as Chan presses a button on the center dash which opens it.
Once on the main road the girl can’t help but silently freak out as they start driving by the arena. She grabs Felix’s hand as it gets closer realizing she has been too trusting of a pack to not send her back to the hunt.
“Hey.” The male omega calls out, squeezing her hand, which catches Chan and Minho's attention as he carefully nudges her chin to look at him, releasing calming pheromones. “You’re not going back there.”
Minho turns around in his seat to face them both just as they drive past the entrance to the arena, trying to help by intensifying his own calming scent. “It’s okay, we just have to drive by it.”
Chan keeps looking at her in the mirror feeling guilty for causing her to panic by driving past the compound. He should have thought about it and figured out a different route to avoid her having to see it.
Once the building is no longer in view, Y/n finally calms down and relaxes in her seat, watching out the window at the passing terrain and cloudy sky. They all stay silent not wanting to scare her, Chan not even risking playing any music.
The drive is only about twenty minutes before the GPS has them pulling up to a house Y/n hasn’t seen in what feels like years when really it’s only been months. She stares up at it as the car gets put in park next to a black truck and they all wait for her to make the first move.
Taking a deep breath the female omega turns to Felix who has been holding her hand the entire car ride and nods to him that she’s ready. He smiles and unbuckles both of them before opening his door and she clings to his hand, sliding across the seat to exit through his door not wanting to let go of the comfort he is giving.
“You ready?” Felix asks her as Minho comes around the car to them, closing the door behind her once she’s out and Chan starts heading up the path to the front door.
The alpha rings the doorbell and patiently waits as the other three take their time coming up the path. It doesn’t take long for a beta man in his late forties, to open the door, eyebrows furrowed and clearly on alert.
“Yes?”
“Mr. L/n?” Chan asks, waiting for confirmation that they are at the right house as the man nods his head yes. “I’m Christopher Bang Chan from the Stray Kids pack, we spoke on the phone earlier today about your daughter.”
Y/n’s father’s eyes light up as he looks past the alpha to see his little girl he never thought he’d get to see again. “Y/n!”
The girl looks up at her dad and starts to tear up as she lets go of Felix’s hand and runs up the path, right past Chan, and into her dad’s arms.
She cries into his chest as he holds her tightly, he kisses the top of her head. “Hi sweetheart.”
“I-I’ve missed you s-so much.” She all but sobs which breaks the three onlookers' hearts at the scene before them.
Mr. L/n looks back up to the alpha who has now been joined by the other two, Felix leaning against Chan and Minho keeping a hand on the younger's back. “I can’t thank you guys enough for bringing her back home to me.”
“It was nothing, sir.” The alpha bows his head a little, when his phone rings and pulls it out to see Seungmin calling. “Excuse me.”
Chan walks away a little to take the phone call. Y/n turns in her fathers arms as he leaves so she can face the other two.
“I guess this is goodbye, sunshine.” Felix gives a teary smile as he steps up to her, her father letting her go so she can talk to them. “You be careful, okay?”
She nods, wiping her tears before basically falling into his arms. “Bye Lixie.”
The male omega melts at both her embrace and the nickname as he buries his face into her hair. “I’ll miss you.”
“Me too.” She whispers before pulling away which he reluctantly lets her.
She turns towards Minho who gives her a sad smile. “Are you going to be okay?”
She nods, taking in a deep breath wondering if it would be weird to hug him or not. Sensing that her brain is overworking as usual he lightly grabs her hand pulling her towards him as he wraps his arm around her shoulders.
“Keep in touch with us.” He says, sliding a piece of paper into her hand as he leans down to talk into her ear. “That’s got all of our numbers on it. Even the alphas… you don’t know have to message all of us, we just wanted to give you the option. I know the omegas will want to hear from you though. The rest of us will be satisfied just knowing you’re still talking to them and that you’re doing good.”
“Thank you.” She looks up at him. “A-and for saving me.” She then remembered the fact she’s wearing the pack's clothes and pulls away. “Oh… y-your jacket.”
“Keep it.” He stops her seeing as she is about to take it off, zipping the jacket back up, making sure she’s warm. “None of us minded giving you some clothes. And now you’ll have stuff to remember us by.”
“I’ll r-remember you guys.” She blushes a little. “But thank you.”
He ruffles her hair as Chan walks back up to all of them, staying a little bit away so as to not overwhelm the girl.
“Sorry to have to rush the goodbyes…” The alpha gives a soft smile as Y/n moves back over to her dad and turns to the other two. “But we’ve got some very angry mates at home we are going to need to do some explaining to.”
“Knew this would happen.” Felix mumbles though makes sure it’s loud enough for the older to hear.
“Thank you guys again for bringing her home.” Y/n’s dad says once again. “Chan, you have my number so don’t be a stranger.”
“Will do, sir.”
“Bye Y/n.” Felix waves again before the three walk back to the car.
She watches from the porch until they’re all in the car where the male omega waves to her again as Chan starts the car and pulls out of the driveway. Felix watches until they can’t see the house or her anymore, making him wonder if they’ll ever see her again.
“You okay baby?” Chan looks at the youngest through the rearview mirror.
“Yeah.” He sighs, leaning his head against the window. “Just so you know, I'm telling the others it was all your guys' idea to take Y/n home without them and that I only went for her comfort.”
“We know Lixie.” Minho smiles a little. “We plan to take full responsibility for leaving them all behind and not letting them say bye to her.”
“Good.”
A/N:
This could technically end here but do not worry guys, there will be more.
Warnings in the Series Masterlist as well as any other information needed
Sorry that I've been MIA for a while, life has been a lot for the last few months. If you haven't read it yet, Too Much will explain a bit of what I've been dealing with. But I'm taking a 2 week vacation so I'm getting some writing done finally. Enjoy the chapter
Chapter 5
Y/n lays in the guest bed unsure what to do, having trouble sleeping. She’s been moved there from the med bay and told that either Felix or Minho as well as one of the omegas will be in the next room during the night if she needs anything. She’s not sure who’s on the rotation tonight as she turns in the bed once again not feeling tired. All the sleep she had been getting from healing has caused her to feel restless now.
Deciding on laying on her back the girl strains her ears to hear purring from the room next door. She doesn’t recognize the loud purrs coming from the other side of the wall meaning it must be Minho’s night instead of Felix’s and she’s either hearing Hyunjin or Jisung. Biting her lip she considers if she should go bother one of them.
“Are you in pain?” She hears, causing her to sit up quickly and looks at Minho standing in the doorway.
Y/n stares at the beta in shock for a second before shaking her head no.
“I’ve been listening to you toss and turn for the last hour.” He steps into the room watching her closely. “Are you sure you’re not hurting?”
She takes a second, moving her leg as if she has to make sure herself that she isn’t in pain before shaking her head again.
“I can practically hear your brain working overtime. Wanna talk about what’s got your mind so occupied this late at night?” He looks her over for a moment as if contemplating what he should say next as she just stares at him. “I could also always go get one of the omegas for you if you would prefer? Jisung is asleep in the next room, but I can also wake Felix or Hyunjin. I’m sure Seungmin wouldn’t hate me too much either if I told him you were wanting him.”
When she still doesn’t speak to him he sighs looking around for a moment before deciding to just take matters into his own hands and turns towards the door. “I’ll go wake Ji for you.”
“Don’t.” She finally says and he turns to look at her. “Don’t bother Jisung.”
“So she speaks.” Minho smiles, taking note this is the first time she hasn’t stuttered. “Please let me get one of the omegas for you, it’s clear you’re needing some comfort or something.”
She shakes her head no, looking away while chewing on her bottom lip.
The beta sighs while rubbing his face a little. “At least let me take you to one of them then? I can tuck you in with Ji and go to my own room if you’d like. Or Felix is in Hyunjin’s room, let me put you in their bed. I just don’t like that you’re awake and alone in here.”
Y/n considers the options while looking up at him seeing he seems desperate. “J-Jisung.”
Minho lets out a sigh and gestures for her to follow him. She walks so quietly behind him that he has to crane his head back to make sure she was following. She looks towards the living room and pauses when she notices the youngest alpha sleeping on the couch.
“Innie fell asleep during the movie he and Hyunjin were watching.” Minho explains having realized she had stopped. “He doesn’t like to be picked up saying that just because he’s the youngest he shouldn’t be treated like the baby of the pack, so we usually just leave him when he falls asleep early.”
The omega gives one last glance at Jeongin, her heart fluttering a little at the sight of the sleeping male before going into the room Jisung is currently sound asleep in. Minho moves to the side he had been sleeping on and pulls the covers back for her to slide into the bed. It doesn’t take long for the male omega to wrap his arms around her the second she is next to him causing her to tense up for a second before melting into his scent.
“Is there anything you need before I go upstairs?” The older male watches her as he places the covers around the two.
She looks at him for a second before looking over Jisung a little seeing how there is so much room as the younger male doesn’t know the concept of personal space. This makes Minho wonder if he should make Jisung move so Y/n has room.
“W-will you s-stay?” She speaks so low that he almost doesn’t hear it as his eyes flicker to hers seeing the slight plead in her eyes.
“Are you sure?”
Y/n nods her head. Minho looks at her for a moment to make sure she isn’t going to change her mind before climbing into the bed on Jisung's other side, wrapping an arm around his waist.
“Try and sleep Y/n.” He mutters listening to her breathing for a little bit. After a while he thinks she’s still awake but when he sits up to look at her he realizes her breathing had even out as much as it is able to with her ribs.
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“Channie, Min!” Felix yells from the doorway of the empty guest room before running back to the kitchen where the two oldest are cooking breakfast. “Y/n, she’s gone.”
The pack alpha drops the spatula he was using to flip pancakes on a griddle and turns to the younger male. “What do you mean she’s gone?”
“She’s not in the guest room.” The male omega looks ready to cry.
“WHAT?”
Jeongin sits up on the couch from where he was still laying from falling asleep the night before.
“Guys, relax.” Minho speaks while still turned to the stove making bacon and eggs. “She’s with Jisung.”
Felix doesn’t even wait for an explanation, he just runs back down the hall to the other guest room opening the door to find Y/n curled up in Jisungs arms. He lets out a sigh, visibly relaxing at seeing that she didn’t run away in the night. Without thinking, he goes and joins them, curling up next to the other male.
Meanwhile in the kitchen Chan calms down after seeing the youngest omega go into the guest room to join the other two. He flips the pancakes he had going on the griddle before they burn then turns to Minho. Jeongin is still staring at the open bedroom door.
“Were there any problems last night?”
“No, not really.” He shakes his head. “I heard her tossing and turning and offered to wake one of the omegas for her. Eventually convinced her to lay with Sungie where she fell asleep pretty easily after that.”
“And you stayed too?” Chan just wants to know how trusting the girl is becoming of the betas.
“She asked me to.”
“Good.” Chan whispers as he focuses on what he’s doing.
“Where is she?” Hyunjin walks down the stairs looking around, seeing only the three of them.
“Laying in bed with Jisungie.” Jeongin points to the guest room, his chin resting on the back of the couch to watch the hallway. “And probably now Felix.”
“There is omega cuddling going on and no one invited me?” The male pouts as he heads to the room.
“Tell them breakfast is almost ready while you’re in there.” Minho calls out as he places the last of the bacon on one of the plates laid out on the counter. “Innie, can you get the other two please?”
Jeongin groans as he gets up to search for the last two pack members who aren’t downstairs yet.
Meanwhile Hyunjin walks into the guest room seeing Jisung holding Y/n close to him and Felix holding onto the other male. Hyunjin quietly takes a picture of the three of them before moving to the bed and lays on top of Felix.
“Hyun.” He whines at the weight of the older male on top of him.
“It’s what you get for not inviting me to omega cuddles.”
“You were still asleep upstairs.” Felix pushes him off of him which the older obliges not wanting to hurt his back as the older wiggles between him and the other male omega.
“Will you two shut up.” Jisung throws an arm behind him to hit the two. “We’re trying to sleep.”
“Too bad.” Hyunjin leans over him to see the girl still sleeping. “It’s time for breakfast so you need to get up.”
Jisung whines as he untangles himself from Y/n, she not even flinching.
Hyunjin frowns seeing the girl not moving. “She is alive, right?”
Felix shoots up out of the bed and moves around so he can kneel on the floor next to her. He moves the hair out of her face to see her cheeks are pale and her breathing is shallow. “Go get Minho.”
He presses two fingers over the pulse point on her neck just above her mating gland as Hyunjin and Jisung leave to go get the oldest beta. He feels her heartbeat is fast just as her eyes flutter open and it takes her a second before she pulls away from Felix, freaking out, looking around confused as she sits up.
“Hey.” The male omega holds his hands up to show he isn’t a threat. “It’s okay Y/n. You just weren’t waking up, was just checking you over.”
Minho rushes in before she can even gather her thoughts, his hand going to her head to check for a fever. She flinches away at first before actually letting him feel her head then cheek.
He sighs in relief feeling that her temperature is normal, holding her cheek for a second having noticed a bit of sweat around her hairline. “Thought maybe your leg might be infected, making you sick.” He lifts the hem of Hyunjin's shirt she’s wearing just enough to see the bandage. “Can I look at it?”
Y/n watches his every move but lets him unwrap her thigh to look at the stitches. As he does that Felix is still kneeling next to the bed looking at her making her turn to him.
“Was it a nightmare?” He finally asks, not able to come up with any other reason as to what happened.
The omega hesitates before nodding her head yes, hoping he won’t try and pry.
“You’re okay.” Felix whispers as he pushes some hair behind her ear understanding what she’s feeling. Suddenly she whimpers, turning back to Minho.
“Sorry.” He whispers, having pulled the skin of her thigh taut to check on how well the stitches has let her wound heal. “You’ve healed pretty well. It’s still gonna be sore for a bit but we should be able to take the stitches out in a day or two.”
Y/n nods knowing she’ll have to make her decision whether she’ll stay with the pack or go back to her family.
“Are you hungry for breakfast?” Minho brings the girl out of her thoughts having seen she was overthinking.
Felix notices what the beta is trying to do and smiles. “Why don’t you join us in the dining room today?” He pulls her up out of the bed, excited, as she hasn’t exactly left the guest room since the day she was placed in it.
They’ve been bringing food to her in the other guest room every meal, usually one or two of them staying so she wasn’t alone. Her joining Jisung in bed the night before was the first time she left the guest room in days.
Deciding to not really give her a choice as she’ll just overthink it, Minho points to the wooden piece of furniture against the far wall. “There’s some clothes in the dresser if you want to change. Meet us in the dining room.”
The two walk out to find the rest of the pack setting the dining table with all the food the two oldest had been cooking all morning, Seungmin and Changbin having joined them now with a few bottles of juice.
“They actually stopped you guys to do a vehicle check?” Chan asked.
“What’s going on?” Felix raises his brows seeing Changbin a bit pissed off.
“We went to the corner store to get some juice this morning since I noticed Y/n’s been liking the orange juice when we give it to her.” Seungmin explains. “We got stopped on the way back by police.”
“They said it was just a routine check for unregistered omegas so when they saw just us in the car they let us go.” Changbin sighs, rubbing his head. “They’ve never done this before.”
“They’ve never had an omega escape an arena before.” Chan looks around concerned. “The only times we’ve ever been approached by authorities is when we have Felix with us and they wanted to see our registration papers showing that we own him.”
“Stupid, bullshit papers.” Felix grumbles as he takes the plates from the counter to set around the table.
Hyunjin rubs the omega’s back as he hates only being allowed to leave with Chan since as the pack alpha, he “owns” him, so it's his name on Felix’s papers. But he can’t complain too much as he’s actually able to leave because of it, unlike Hyunjin and Jisung who have never been registered and can’t actually go out in public.
“Do you think they’ll start doing house searches of the ones surrounding the arena?” Jisung worries, his lip bleeding a little as he’s been biting it since the two had gotten home explaining what happened.
“They have no reason to unless someone accuses us of hiding an unregistered omega.” Minho explains. “And the only ones who know we do also have unregistered omegas.”
“Plus we have Felix listed as a bought omega with the city.” Chan reminds them. “If someone tries to accuse us that we are, they'll see the paperwork and not believe the accusation.”
“But they have an escaped omega on the loose.” Jeongin speaks up from where he’s been quietly listening. “That’s reason enough to search the surrounding homes.”
Hyunjin lets out a snort. “That would mean they’d have to admit to losing an omega to the public and I can promise you that’s the last thing they wanna do.”
“Hyunjin’s right.” Changbin agrees. “They don’t want this to be public knowledge otherwise it would be on the news about an escaped omega and they’d be searching all the houses in a mile radius looking for Y/n.”
“They’re keeping it on the downlow which is good for us.” Chan nods before looking at all three omegas. “But to be on the safe side, rules are gonna be stricter on you guys.”
“We don’t mind.” Jisung sits down. “I think we can all agree we would rather be stuck in the house 24/7 than going out and possibly getting caught. I think Jinnie and I will be fine not even going and staying in the car on short runs to the grocery stores.”
“It’s getting to be winter anyways.” Hyunjin also sits. “Would much rather be here with the heat on or by the fire than out in the snow.”
“I think it would be best for you guys to not even go out on the property.” Minho tells them and all three alphas agree. “Just until things calm down.”
“Well let’s change the subject for now.” Seungmin interrupts having been making a plate. “I’ll go take Y/n her breakfast, who wants to join?”
“She’s actually going to join us today.” Felix stops him. “She’s just changing right now.”
“Really?” Jeongin gets excited as he hasn’t gotten to interact or be around the girl as much as he wishes to be.
“How’d you guys convince her to join us?” Changbin sits down next to Jisung. “She hasn’t been wanting to leave the guest room.”
Just as the oldest beta goes to speak a door opening is heard and small footsteps patter towards them as Y/n appears wearing a pair of Jisung’s sweatpants and one of Felix’s shirts. She stops when all eyes turn to her and she gets embarrassed refusing to make eye contact with anyone.
“Good morning Y/n.” Seungmin walks up to her and gives her the plate he was originally going to take to her. “Sit wherever you want pup.”
She hesitates looking around the table as the pack moves around her trying to act normal so as to not make her uncomfortable. After a second she moves to take the seat next to Hyunjin who smiles at her and pours her a cup of orange juice.
Seungmin takes the seat on her other side so she would have two people she was comfortable with on both sides of her. Everyone started having their own conversations, Hyunjin and Seungmin talking with her. Well more like they’re talking while she listens to them both. Occasionally Felix would add in and even Jeongin at one point.
“Y/n?” Jisung gets her attention from across the table and she looks up a bit shocked. “Do you wanna join us for a movie day? It’s kind of a tradition we have. We all lounge around and watch movies during the first snow of winter.”
This shocks the girl as she turns to look out the window seeing it is indeed starting to snow.
“You don’t have to.” Minho reminds her, he feels a bit bad that he and Felix already didn’t give her an option about breakfast and doesn’t want to push her further. “If you want to do something else you’re more than welcome to.”
“We just wanted to give you the option to join us.” Jeongin speaks up. “In case you didn’t want to be alone, you’d know where to find us.”
She nods in understanding not sure what to decide just yet but will let the day play out and figure it out.
hey there! Just dropping in to tell you how OBSESSED I am with your fic “escaped the hunt” it’s SO ADDICTING. I love it so much!! I’m so excited for the next parts!! Thank youuuu
Thank you for reading. I'm happy you love my book so much. I've had a lot going on recently, "Too Much" will give you a glimpse into what's my life been like for the last year. I've got plans for both "Escaped the Hunt" and "Beautifully Cruel World" it's just finding the time to sit down and write that's the problem at the moment
MayRose713 Masterlist
Best Friend Bang Chan x Female Reader ft the rest of stray kids
SMAU & Written fic, hurt/comfort
Warnings: none unless you consider family manipulation
Summary: Y/n has been dealing with a lot by herself for too long. She acts like everything is okay, like it all doesn't bother her but it eventually gets to be too much.
A/N: I'm not usually one who does the fake text screenshots fics but this has been something on my mind for the last week and I needed to get it written out and I didn't know how else to execute it except like this. This is all really more for me to get my thoughts and feelings out and to rant. But as my readers know, I write things based on my own experiences usually.
"So, is she joining?" I.N asks from the living room where he is setting up pillows and blankets for their movie night.
"No." Chan sighs putting his phone in his pocket. "Her dad is in the hospital so she's gotta take stuff to him and take care of her younger siblings."
"Is he okay?" The youngest stops everything he is doing. "Does she need anything? Should we go help her?"
"She's okay Innie." Chan smiles at how caring the kids have always been, especially when it comes to Y/n. "She said her dad might have surgery tomorrow but she'll let me know if she needs anything. I think right now she's just needing to keep herself busy which taking care of those three kids will do."
I.N nods hesitantly but the older man knows her the best so if he says she's okay then he has no other reason but to believe it.
Next Day
"You okay Hyung?" Han asks from the couch in the recording studio having heard the older male let out and aggravated huff.
"Yeah, was just checking in on Y/n. Her dads in surgery."
"That's good." Changbin speaks while messing with the soundboard. "At least it was something surgery could fix."
"Did she say how long it's gonna take?" Han stands up to look at Chan's phone.
"She isn't sure." Chan shows them the texts.
"Her step mom went to a nail appointment when her dad is having surgery?" Changbin raises an eyebrow.
"I thought that was odd too." Chan furrows his brows and sighs. "Y/n was telling me last night too that her step mom is like never around either."
They read the text messages from the night before, the younger two of 3Racha getting concerned.
"I'm not over reacting right? This all seems weird?"
"Very." They both agree.
Changbin leans back in his chair. "It makes sense now why she wasn't at work the other day when Hyunjin went to surprise her."
"She wasn't?" Chan is shocked by this information.
"He said her manger told him that she had already left for the day."
"She must of changed her schedule so she could take care of her siblings more." Han thinks of the only explanation. "Which I mean isn't the worst thing. She hated her old schedule since she closed almost every night."
"Still, she shouldn't have to change her schedule to take care of her siblings." Chan tries to stay calm. "Their mother should be doing it... I would understand making dinner a night or two to help out but everyday for months? And her step mom is only home three nights a week? If even that since she wasn't home last night or at the hospital like she should be."
"Maybe we're reading into this too much?" Changbin tries to be reasonable. "I mean, we don't know the full truth of it. Y/n's probably distraught because of her dad being in the hospital. Maybe she mixed up the days?"
"Changbin's probably right." Han places a comforting hand on the oldest shoulder. "Let's just let her calm down after a few days and her dads back home and talk to her about it all."
Chan nods.
A few days later
"Chan?" Felix walks into the studio holding some boxes he usually puts desserts in. "Can you drive me to Y/n's work? Seungmin was gonna drive me but he forgot about a last minute vocal lesson he and I.N scheduled. I made her dad some get well brownies and cookies I wanna give her."
Chan looks at his phone seeing it 7:30 pm. "Yeah, it's Friday so she normally works until nine."
Felix smiles as Chan packs up his laptop and a few other things before they head to the parking garage behind the company building and get into the older males car.
It only takes about twenty minutes to get to the beauty store their best friend works at. They put on their hats and face masks before heading in going straight to the back where the salon is. But they stop in shock when they don't see Y/n at her usual station.
"Chris, Felix!" Sage, Y/n's work sibling comes out of the shampoo room. "What are you guys doing here?"
"Hey Sage, Y/n in the back?" Felix smiles and holds up the boxes of deserts. "I brought her goodies for her dad."
The girl looks at them both in shock. "I thought she would have told you. She changed her schedule last month. She left at six."
"Hyunjin did say something about her having changed her schedule but I thought it was just on the weekends." Chan sighs.
Sage shakes her head. "She's still working two to eight on Wednesdays and ten to three on Sundays. But she's now working one to seven on Thursdays and ten to six on Fridays and Saturdays. I'm shocked she didn't tell you guys."
"Did she say why she changed it?" Felix asks, concerned.
"Something about taking care of her younger three siblings." She looks to the boxes Felix is still holding. "If you want I can put the treats in our mini fridge and make sure she gets them in the morning."
"Thank you but we'll just take them to her house, she doesn't live too far from us anyways." Felix smiles and they wave bye to Sage before walking out of the beauty store.
They get back into the car and start heading to Y/n's house.
"Why do you think she wouldn't have told us she changed her work schedule?" Felix asks wanting to break the silence.
"I don't know Lix." Chan sighs. "But I don't like how she's changing her life up to take care of her younger siblings."
"I don't thinks it's anything too serious." Felix scrolls on his phone. "I mean she hated her old schedule anyways, she was working until close four out of her five shifts. Now maybe she'll be able to join us some nights unlike she was able to before because she worked so damn late."
"Not if she's having to take care of her siblings because her step mom is never there to do so." Chan answers as they pull up to the house seeing one of the cars missing.
They park in the drive way, getting out going up to the front door and ring the doorbell. They hear the two dogs barking their heads off and a girls scream.
"Cayla, stop screaming." They hear Y/n's voice through the door just as they hear it unlock and the door starts opening. "And I told you to unload the damn dishwasher so I can do the dishes."
Once the door is fully open she turns and stands in shock seeing the two boys at her door.
"Hi." Felix smiles and holds up the boxes. "I brought brownies and cookies for you and your dad."
"Awe, thanks Lixie." She smiles and hugs him before taking the boxes and hugs Chan too. "Come in, sorry for the havoc."
The two walk in and toe off their shoes as Y/n walks to the kitchen and they can hear the tv on in the living room. They both say hi to the corgi and lab, petting the two dogs.
"Dad, Chris and Felix are here and they brought you Lix's homemade brownies and cookies."
"Hey Mr. L/n." Chan smiles and waves at the man lounging on the couch looking like he's still in pain from his surgery. "How are you feeling?"
"I'm doing better than I was a few days ago."
"That's good to hear." Chan moves to sit with him as Y/n and Felix put some of the brownies and cookies on a plate for her dad.
"Ooo, desserts." Nicole, Y/n's youngest sister runs down the stairs.
"Not for you." She grabs the boxes before the ten year old could snatch them. "And go get your sister and tell her if she doesn't have the dishwasher unloaded before Chris and Felix leaves then I'm unloading it and she's doing the dishes, or she's loosing her tv again."
The youngest runs back upstairs.
"Had your hands full huh?" Felix laughs.
"You could say that."
He watches as she gives her dad the plate and a glass of milk and lets him talk with Chan as she comes back into the kitchen to finish cleaning up from dinner.
"Hey..." Felix says as he starts helping her put the food in containers. "Why didn't you tell any of us you changed your schedule at work? We went over there first thinking you were closing tonight like usual and Sage told us you had left at six today. And Hyunjin went last Saturday to surprise you and again, you were already gone for the day."
"Sorry, I thought I had texted you guys the new schedule but it must of slipped my mind." She explains as she fills the pot with water and soap before placing it next to the sink.
"You'll be able to hang out with us in the evenings more now right?"
"We'll see... Won't be until my dad is better at least, and it'll depend on the night. Gotta cook dinners and stuff and make sure the kids don't drive him insane after all." She half jokes.
Before Felix can say anything though, Owen, her younger brother walks out grabbing a set of car keys. "I'm heading to the gym."
"Like hell you are." She walks up to the boy and plucks the keys out of his hand, the height difference is almost laughable as she is significantly older than him but she is so much shorter. "You got your driving privileges taken for a month because of your little stunt the other day."
"You're not my parent, I don't have to listen to what you say."
"Hey." Their dad calls from the couch. "She is the only adult here that isn't out of commission, so you all listen to her. And those orders didn't come from her, they come from me, your dad and mom too. You talk to her like that again and you can say bye to that gaming computer too."
Owen rolls his eyes and storms back into his room and the two boys watch in disbelief as another screech like scream is heard upstairs.
"God damn it girls!" Y/n yells. "If I have to tell you both to stop screaming one more time you two are separating."
"Have they been acting out a lot recently?" Chan asks the room.
"Unfortunately." Y/n's dad rubs his temples. "Though Cayla's been acting out for almost a year now, been mean and argumentative about anything that is said. You could not even be talking to her and she'll still have something mean to say. Nicole has only recently started to learn from her but hasn't gotten too bad. Owen is just like that whenever he gets punished, hates everyone and the world."
"Sorry, you're having to witness all of this." Y/n sighs as she wipes down the counters.
"It's fine." Felix smiles and finishes helping her in the kitchen when a cat jumps on the counter and buts her head against his arm. "Hey Tiki."
Y/n shakes her head watching him pet the cat. "You are the only other person besides my dad and I she likes. She doesn't even like the kids."
"You still need to have Lee Know meet her, he's like a cat whisperer." He jokes as Chan stands up.
"Lix let's head out, let them handle everything and let Mr. L/n rest."
Felix nods and hugs Y/n.
"Chris." Her dad gets the males attention. "Make sure she gets out more. She does so much around here and I really appreciate what she does but she's twenty four, she also needs to live a life too. She shouldn't be only leaving the house to go to work every day then come home to take care of kids who aren't even hers. I know she only does it to help me out but maybe you and the boys can convince her to hang out more."
"We'll try sir."
"Bye." She hugs Chan not having heard the conversation between the two men as she walks the two Australians to the door and she yells up the stairs. "Alright Cayla, I guess you're doing the dishes."
"Noooo." The girl screams running down the stairs as the two walk out the front door. "That's not fair, you didn't give me any time to do it."
"You had since you got home from school at three twenty to do it. It is almost nine a clock, more than enough time. You're doing the dishes or no more tv since you where watching that instead of doing your chores like you're supposed to."
Chan clenches his jaw as they shut the door behind them.
Few weeks later
Sunday night
Y/n walks back stage to the boy's dressing room where she can hear them laughing and enjoying the leftover high from the concert.
"Y/n!" They all yell when she walks in and engulf her in a big group hug.
"You guys did great tonight!" She smiles and hugs all of them individually. "And Binnie! You showed you abs."
"Yeah." He blushes and rubs the back of his neck.
"And Jinnie." She hugs the tallest male. 'Thanks for making all of us cry. I had no idea you were feeling like that this year."
"Alright." Seungmin calls out. "We're not crying anymore tonight. So lets clean up and go celebrate the end of our tour."
"You're coming with us right?" Hyunjin asks as she pulls away from the hug.
"I-I don't know, I mean it's late and I don't want to intrude."
"You don't intrude." Lee Know says and moves to her, picking her up and throwing her over his shoulder as they walk out of the dressing room. "You don't have a choice, you're coming with us."
"Lee Minho." Y/n squeals and hits his back. "Put me down. This is kidnapping."
"Well Chan already had our manager kidnap you once tonight so why not again." I.N laughs, moving in front of them to open the door.
"I just texted your dad." Chan holds up his phone. "Told him you'll be home in the morning."
They all pile into two vans and go back to the hotel where they all gather in Chan's room after everyone showered and a manager brings them all food. They're all sitting around the room, laughing. Y/n sits on the bed between Felix and Han.
"Okay, I just wanna bring up how quickly you are putting out the Do It album." Y/n says before taking another bite of her pizza. "I mean you guys just released Karma."
"I don't know why you're so surprised." Han speaks, mouth full. "We were sending you clips of the new songs for the album all during the tour."
"I know, but I thought maybe it was to be released beginning of next year." She laughs. "Like I said, you just released Karma. And finished a year long world tour. Do you guys ever take a break?"
"Coming from the girl who has only seen us once since we got back from Europe." Seungmin throws a pillow at her.
"I've seen you all more than once since you've gotten back."
"We don't mean individually." Changbin speaks. "You haven't hung out with us all together since the day after we had gotten back from tour."
"And even individually we haven't seen you all that much." Hyunjin seems a bit upset. "We've had to come see you at work and even then you changed your schedule without telling us."
"I'm sorry guys, I've just been busy." She puts her plate to the side.
"Busy taking care of kids that aren't yours." Chan says not caring if he's being rude about it.
"Wait..." Lee Know sits up straighter. "You've been taking care of your step siblings? That's why we don't see you anymore?"
"My step mom got a new job so I've just been helping out a bit."
"Y/n." Felix grabs her hand. "When Chan and I came over that one night it seemed more like you're raising those kids than just helping out."
"It's not like that guys." She leans against the male.
A few days later
The doorbell rings and Y/n opens it to find the Stray Kids manager holding two large boxes from Fans Shop. "Specially delivery for Y/n."
"Those boys." She rolls her eyes but takes the packages with a smile. "Thank you."
"Anytime Y/n."
She takes the packages to the kitchen and starts open them as her dad comes out. "What do you have there?"
"From the boys of course." She smiles as she opens the first box and it consists of all of the merch the eight of them had designed themselves.
"They truly spoil you." He helps her cutting the tape on the second package. "I'm guessing this is their new Skzoos?"
"More than likely." Y/n laughs as he pulls out the first Skzoo, it being a big one holding a smaller version of itself.
"Where are you gonna put these ones?"
"I'll figure it out." She smiles, happy that her boy always think of her and love having their manager deliver her new Skzoos every time there's a new set.
"What's happening?" Cayla asks as she comes into the kitchen seeing the packages and shakes her head. "That is so unnecessary?"
"What?" Y/n looks at her younger sister confused.
"The stuff they send you is unnecessary. You don't need all of that stuff." Cayla continues.
"That's enough Cayla." Mr. L/n gives his middle daughter a stern look.
"I'm just speaking the truth."
"No, you're being mean for no reason." He states.
"Everyone thinks her stuff is unnecessary. Nicole does, mom does. Because it is." Cayla acts like what she is saying is nothing. "She doesn't need any of that stuff, she already has so many stuffed animals."
"Alright, then you can go take all your Kpop posters off your walls and put them together with all your albums and photocards and put them in a tub."
"NOOO!" She yells with a screech.
"If my stuff is unnecessary then so is yours." Y/n says refusing to look at the girl. "You don't need any of that either."
"That different."
"The only difference is Y/n doesn't ask for this stuff." Their dad explains. "Her friends care and love her enough to gift them to her to make her happy. Where as you demand Y/n to get you new albums for the girl groups you like, you don't even ask. So if she doesn't need her stuff, then you definitely don't need your stuff."
"But it's different." Cayla is whining and yelling. "My stuff makes me happy."
"And mine doesn't?"
"I don't know, you just don't seem like a passionate person." Cayla throws her arms up as if it's obvious. "You're just always so depressing."
"How do you not know that the stuff Y/n is given makes her happy?" Mr. L/n is in disbelief that this is even a conversation that is happening. "It's pretty obvious she loves those Skzoos and that they make her happy or otherwise she wouldn't have kept them all. Plus I'm sure they help her when the boys are on tour and she can't see them."
"Well how am I supposed to know that?" The girl scoffs. "I don't even know why you guys are even getting upset about this, it wasn't like my comment was to you guys?"
"Then who was it to because they're is no one else down here?" Y/n gestures around her showing that it's just the three of them.
"I was just saying it to myself."
"And it was an unnecessary comment." Their dad says and laughs when Cayla makes a face. "Yeah, your comment was unnecessary. There was absolutely no reason for you to have said it."
"So what, I just can't talk now?" She scoffs and rolls her eyes.
"No, but you need to keep comments like that to yourself." He tries to make a point. "Just because you think it, doesn't mean you need to say it out loud and hurt peoples feelings."
"I can't say anything without you two taking it the wrong way." She slams her foot down. "You two are just so sensitive."
"No, you're just mean." Y/n finally says.
"No, you guys are just too sensitive and this is why none of us like either of you." She screams. "We all just want you guys gone, we hate you."
"You want us gone?" Mr. L/n scoffs. "This is my house, if anything it's you guys who will have to leave. I'll just divorce your mom and you guys can go somewhere else. Is that what you want?"
"Mom makes more money than you anyways."
"Then why are you guys still here? Why am I still paying all the bills and everything?"
Y/n shakes her head and grabs her stuff, taking them upstairs, tired of the spoiled brats her siblings have become.
A Week later
Tuesday
"Hey." Chan stands up with a smile as Y/n approaches the table hidden in the back of the restaurant, hugging her before pulling away and playing with the tips of her hair. "Like the red hair."
"Thanks." She smiles and combs her hand through her hair. "Got tired of the purple and since I was meeting you here, Sage did my hair since its next door."
"I think the red suits you better."
"You used to say that about the purple too when I was younger." They both sit down.
"That was back when you wore darker clothes." He hands her the tablet for her to order her hotpot on. "Now I think the red is better."
"And if I dye my hair green you'll probably say the same thing." She rolls her eyes looking over the tablet, seeing he's already picked out what he wants. "You and getting the least spicy soup base."
"I'm sorry, but I like to be able to taste my hotpot and not have my mouth on fire while doing it." He laughs watching her put in the spiciest soup then pick her meats and vegies.
He gives her a few minutes and once they've sent their order to the kitchen he takes in a deep breath.
"Wanna talk about what happened last week?"
"I thought we already talked about it." Y/n looks at him confused.
"Mmm, not really." Chan looks at her and sighs. "Listen, I don't exactly know what's going on at your house. And yeah, it might not be my business, but just based on the things you've said and how little we see you now, I'm concerned. We all are."
"Chan, I promise, if it was anything bad I would tell you."
"Okay." He nods in acceptance. "But maybe you could try letting us see you more? You used to come over to one of our dorms at least once a week."
She sighs and smiles. "Yeah, I can manage to do that."
"Good, because you need to get out and have some fun too."
It doesn't take long for the waiter to come out with their hotpots and just as they are diving into a nice conversation about the boys and what they've been up to in preparation for the next comeback, Y/n's phone rings.
"Sorry." She says before putting her phone to her ear. "What do you need Owen?'
"When will you be home?" Chan could hear her younger brother on the other side of the phone since they are in a quiet part of the building.
"I don't know." Y/n pinches the bridge of her nose. "I'm with a friend right now, I don't know how long we'll be."
"We'll I have to go somewhere." The boy sounds irritated. "And I have to leave as soon as you get home because I can't leave now since the trucks not here."
Chan watches her roll her eyes and shake her head. "Owen, I'm having a meal with a friend right, something dad knew about for a few days and said it was fine that I had the truck. If you need to be somewhere so badly, ask mom to take you then."
"But..." Owen didn't get to finish before she hung up the phone with a sigh.
"All good?" Chan tilts his head, now seeing just how tired she seems.
"Yeah, Owen is just pissed he can't drive somewhere right now because I have my dads truck that he usually drives." She goes back to eating as if it was something that happens quite a bit.
"Why are you driving your dads truck?" He has even more questions. "What's wrong with your car?"
"She's having issues. Doesn't always like to start and the air doesn't work."
"It's winter and your unable to use heat in your car and it doesn't always start?" The older male is shocked he is just now finding out some of her problems.
"That's why I'm driving my dads truck." She shrugs as if it's no big deal. "I took her to try and get it fixed but it was way to expensive and we aren't sure if it will actually fix the issues in the end and will probably have to spend even more on it. So I'm saving up to buy a new car instead."
"You know I could have helped you." Chan reaches across to hold her hand and rubs a thumb across her knuckles. "Could help you with car payments so you can buy one now." She gives him a look and he knows she would never accept that offer. "Okay, then you could always have used one of our cars. Most of us carpool with each other anyways."
"Yeah, like I'm gonna drive Changbin's Lambo." She scoffs then bites her lip. "I'm doing okay Chan. I'm managing just fine and my dad's helping me."
Chan looks her over before pulling out his phone. "I want you to listen to song we're releasing in the Do It album that Han and I kind of wrote for you."
"You guys already sent me the songs for the album, remember?"
"Not this one." He scrolls through is files. "Originally we were gonna put Phoenix on this album but if you remember we released it in Karma's instead. So we had to replace it with something."
He set is phone on the table facing toward her and she looks at the title. "Holiday?"
"Just listen." He hits play and she stays silent while listening to it.
She listen's carefully, and he notices her expression change at Lee Know's last lines of the song. He watches her take a breath as he takes his phone back. "So?"
"I think you guys need to listen to your own song." She laughs and he gives her a dead pan look. "Okay, I know Lee Know's last line was supposed to be a jab at me."
"You always said you wondered what everyone would do if you just disappeared one day." He watches her carefully. "You wondered if anyone would actually go looking for you even though you didn't want anyone to try and find you."
"Then you would give me a lecture that you would try to find me and that I better not try to disappear even though I reassured you not to worry because I would come back eventually." She sighs and picks at her cuticles. "Are you trying to say I'm in need of a break or something?"
"Or something." He smiles and shrugs his shoulders. "Listen, we've got a few days of no schedules next week and we've all agreed to we're gonna relax and spend time together."
"Do you guys not spend enough time together?"
"Not in the way we should." He shakes his head. "We want you to join us. Most of them will start their break on Sunday but 3Racha still has to finish up some stuff so ours don't actually start until Monday. But we though you should join us. You'll be off Monday and Tuesday and you work late Wednesday so stay with us those few days. We'll make sure you make it to work that day and maybe you could hang out with some of the others Sunday night."
"I don't know Chan." She pulls her phone out and pulls up the app that has the whole families schedules and tasks. "That quite a few days I'll be gone, I have to make dinner, plus Mondays are usually when I do all my chores and stuff."
"I think they'll be able to manage it for just a few days without you." He gives her a serious look. "You need a few days away, and I know your dad will be able to get everything handled just fine."
"I'll think about it."
Sunday night
Chan walks into the dorm and starts sliding off his shoes when he pauses seeing a pair of Y/n's shoes then notices her car keys on the rack. Her cars, not her dad's truck keys.
"Y/n?" He calls out as he walks farther into the dorm and I.N comes out of the kitchen, drying his hands having been washing the dishes.
"She's asleep in your bed." The youngest nods towards the hallway. "Gave her your Wolf Chan teddy bear to sleep with."
"When did she come over?"
"Uhh..." I.N looks at the time real quick. "About three hours ago. I offered to let you know so maybe you could come home sooner but she didn't want me to."
"Is she okay?" Chan looks towards his door.
"I'm not sure." I.N shrugs. "I could tell she was putting up an act but it was obvious she had been crying before she came over. When I asked she said she didn't want to talk about it tonight." He then pulls out his phone to show the older male the texts. "She did say she's needing to be somewhere where she's wanted."
"Something must of happened at home tonight." Chan furrows his brows. "She drove her car here tonight."
"Her car?" I.N is shocked and looks towards the key rack not having noticed it before. "But her car doesn't have heat, and it's freezing tonight."
"Yeah..." Chan sighs before turning back to his roommate. "I'll go take care of her, thank you for doing what you could the last few hours."
I.N nods and lets Chan go see their friend. Opening the door to his room the bedside lamp is on low and he can see Y/n cuddled up under his blankets clutching Wolf Chan for dear life. He quietly changes and puts on a pair of pajama pants and upon closer look at the girl he notices her tear stained cheeks meaning she must of cried herself to sleep.
He slowly slides into the bed beside her and he looks at her and tenderly places a hand on her cheek, rubbing his thumb just under her eye.
"Channie?" She whispers as her eyes flutter open.
"Hey baby girl."
At the old nickname he used to use for her she instantly breaks down, tears flowing again as a sob racks her body. She curls her body around the stuffed wolf making herself as small as possible.
"Hey..." The male wraps his arms around her pulling her to his chest as he tries to shush her cries. "It's okay, shh, it's okay baby, I've got you."
He lets her cry for a few minutes, patiently waiting until she calms down enough to speak. Once he doesn't feel her body shaking as badly anymore he pulls away slightly and wipes her tears with his thumb making her look at him.
"What's wrong?" He coos at her. "What happened at home?"
Y/n sniffles hating how well he knows her. They had been friends since they were teenagers after all.
"I couldn't take it anymore." She whimpers, her hands clenching Wolf Chan so hard her knuckles are turning white. "It was too much, I had enough. And now she's being a bitch?"
"Your step mom?"
She nods as she takes in a deep breath. "My dad had enough and served her with divorce papers. Apparently she wasn't just helping her friend with her Only Fans, but she created her own account and has been posting stuff on there for the last few months."
"Knowing your dad he would not have been happy about that." Chan huffs already hating where this is going.
"He was furious." She mutters. "Well she had the audacity to ask me if I would live with her in the kids after the divorce finalized."
He scoffs at this squeezing her really tight for a second. "Just so you can cook and clean and look after her kids while she's selling her body?"
"Yeah." Y/n's breath is shaky. "Well she wanted to originally try to fix the tension between Cayla and I after how Cayla was being mean making me cry and feel like shit because of the Skzoos you guys send me. But after I told my step mom I wasn't going to live with them because of how horrible Cayla is and because I wasn't going to be free live in child care for her. Which isn't even really free because she said I was gonna need to pay more in rent to help her out."
Chan huffs at all of this but lets the girl continue.
"Well she didn't even try to have Cayla take reasonability for her actions and in fact Cayla has just been worse now and my step mom has been cold to me." Y/n sniffs again and tries to wipe her tears again but they just keep coming. "She's stopped telling me things that I would need to know to prepare dinners and run the house. Like her brother was going to be in town so the plan was to all go out to dinner with him. Well I had to work an hour later that day so I called them asking if I had time to go home and change before we all go together or if I should head straight to the restaurant from work. She says, and I quote 'I guess I forgot to tell you, he told me a few days ago that he isn't coming anymore.'"
She takes in a deep breath. "Now I get forgetting sometimes but she had several days to have told me and because she didn't I didn't have a plan for dinner that night so she suggested it just be a left over night. We didn't have enough leftovers though because it was the beginning of a new week so we had just eaten all of what was left of the leftovers from the prier week. Then this last Thursday. Evan, you know, my younger brother who is in college?" Chan nods remembering him. "Well it was his nineteenth birthday. And you know how sometimes we celebrate birthdays on the weekend if it falls on a weekday. And I figured that would especially be the case since he's living at the university."
"Well she didn't tell me the plan was to go out to dinner with him on Thursday and so I had put dinner in the crockpot for either my dad or I to finish depending on who got home first. And it wasn't until I got the notification from our family tracking app that my step mom and kids all left the house and I check and see them at a restaurant with Evan and my dad driving over from work. So I called my dad and he tells me that he had forgotten to tell me but they had decided the day prier to go to dinner all together on Evan's birthday. My dad was apologizing because he had forgotten himself and was actually heading home originally after work but my step mom called and reminded him."
"My dad apologized, trying to take the blame for me not knowing, that he should have told me." Y/n then laughs a little. "The thing is, my step mom was actually home on Thursday. She with out a doubt would have seen that I had dinner going in the crockpot and still didn't bother to tell me. Could have sent a simple text saying 'I guess you don't know since the crockpot is going but we're having Evan's birthday dinner tonight. Meet us at this restaurant after you get off. And we'll just have what's in the crock pot for dinner tomorrow.' But no, she doesn't text me or even acknowledge that I didn't know."
"That's fucked up." Chan finally speaks.
"Yeah, it really is." The girl agrees. "I was already on the edge of being done after that. Was thinking of just saying fuck it, I'm not cooking or running the house for my step mom anymore if she isn't going to let me know of the stuff that I need to know to keep it running smoothly... Then the girls practically threw me over the edge yesterday."
"Oh no." He whispers.
"My step mom obviously wasn't home yesterday, was at her friends apartment like usual. And like usual the girls where being mean and not listening and just being how they always are that my step mom just allows because she says the girls are just in a mental state right now where they don't want to listen to my dad and I and acts like its fine that they don't want to." Y/n takes in a deep breath. "Well, even though I organize the chore chart and stuff for the kids none of the chores on there are ones I actually decided the kids need to do, it was all things my step mom told me to put on there. But Cayla especially acts like the chart is all my doing so she hates it because she hates me. And I'm not exaggerating, she's told my dad and I that she hates us."
"That's fucked up." Chan shakes his head.
"Well the rule, from my step mom, the kids aren't allowed to watch tv, play on their computers or whatever until their chores are done. Something that was really enforced after what you and Felix experienced that night you guys dropped off those desserts for my dad. And a part of it now is that if whoever's turn it is to unload the dishwasher doesn't have it done before dinner then I will be unloading it and they will be doing the dishes because it's not fair to me that I have to wait on them to do it when they have plenty of time to do it. Well Nicole hadn't done part of her chores yesterday so I was just enforcing the rule that she can't do other stuff until it's done. Part of it was she still needed to unload the dishwasher and I guess instead of doing the chores she went and complained to Cayla about it or whatever. So after dinner I unloaded the dishwasher and told Nicole she would be washing the dishes."
"Cayla must have had a lot to say about that."
"Oh yeah." Y/n's lips thin out into a line. "Well first Nicole was complaining about how her and Cayla had stuff they need to do and how they couldn't do it because I was making her wash the dishes instead. And I told her that she should have unloaded the dishwasher when she was supposed to and how it's not fair to me to have to wait on her to do it when there is stuff I want to do too. Then Cayla walks down asking what was going on and I told her it wasn't her business because it wasn't. She said that it was rich of me to say that because I butt in to their conversations all the time that isn't any of my business. You know, when I tell them to stop calling each other names or being mean to each other. Then Cayla says that if she isn't allowed to then I shouldn’t be allowed to either and that's why mom doesn't say anything in font of me anymore because they all agree I just need to stop talking. So I said fine, I'll stop talking, I'll stop doing everything for them now. Told them I wasn't going to make them dinners anymore or wash their clothes anymore during the week when they forget to put some of it in the loads my dad does on the weekends. Nicole said that I wouldn't so I told her to watch me. So when my dad got out of the shower I told him what happened and told him to tell my step mom I will no longer be talking to the girls like they want as well as not making dinners. And I told him that my step mom doesn't do anything in the house and that she is more than capable to make dinners for everyone since she is the only adult that is able to work from home so she can step up."
"Damn Y/n." Chan laughs a little and hugs her tightly. "I'm proud of your for standing up for yourself." He then thinks about it realizing she only went up to yesterday, but yet I.N said it was obvious she had been crying before she came over today, plus she had cried herself to sleep. "There's more isn't there?"
She nods her head slowly and he can feel that tears were about to flow again. "My step mom told my dad I was being childish for not wanting to talk to the girls anymore even though I'm just doing what they want... She also said that if she has to cook again then she wasn't going to cater to my food restrictions. My dad said it was fine because I don't have too many restrictions as long as I was told with enough time before hand so I can plan out my own dinner... She made Thai noodles with a peanut sauce for dinner tonight and didn't tell me saying 'she didn't have any time to tell me today.'"
"But you're allergic to nuts." Chan pulls back in shock.
"Yeah, and she still served me a plate without saying anything. Luckily I knew what it was before I ate it." Her lip trembles as her eyes get glossy again. "My dad didn't realize it until I told him it was a peanut sauce and he asked my step mom if she told me before hand when she said she didn't have time to. She had ample opportunity to tell me today but she chose not to. She did this on purpose." Y/n looks up when she hears the door open fully and I.N rushes in, having been listening through the slightly open door, and attaches himself to her back wanting to hold her too. She gives a wet laugh at feeling the usually touch-averse boy wrap his arms around her before continuing. "My dad told her what she did was fucked up after dinner and she said it's fucked up that I refuse to cook for children, then emphasized the world children."
She curls up between the two men and sobs. "I never agreed to cook for everyone every day. I still have the texts from months ago when i asked her to send me some recipes my dad and I can easily do on the weekends when she was gone. Then that next week she didn't cook at all during the weekdays and started spending more time at her friends instead so I just started cooking every day. And half the time those stupid kids wouldn't even eat it, and not because I made them something they didn't like, I always made stuff my step mom had made before and I knew they liked. They just started to refuse to eat it because I was the one who cooked it. Cayla literally refused to eat the packaged ramen I made us all one night because I already had so many dishes to do from baking all day for Nicole's bake sale and I didn't want to add a lot more. So I made us all packaged ramen and she wouldn't eat it claiming she didn't like it even though it was the same pack she had made herself two days before, but it was just because I made it. Guess what, she at the same fucking pack the next day."
"Hey, hey." Chan sooths. "Calm down, there's no reason for you to get worked up over this."
"Yeah." I.N says over her shoulder. "Your step mom is being a petty bitch and none of it is your fault."
"You stood up for yourself and we are so proud of you for that." Chan kisses her head. "She has no right to expect you to take care of her kids. HER kids. You did what is best for you and that's what matters."
"And you know. you can always come live here." I.N squeezes her.
"I can't just leave my dad. Once the divorce is finalized he'll be alone."
"Then just until the divorce is finalized." Chan negotiates. "We'll help you with getting to work, even if we have to have a manager drive you since you won't be able to last the winter in that car of yours. And once your step mom and step siblings are gone, you can go back to your dads so he doesn't have to be alone anymore. But there is no way in hell you are going to stay there when she is acting like this to you."
She nods in acceptance and lets the two hold her until she falls asleep.
Thank you if you read all the way through, this was really just more for myself to rant but I spent 3 days writing this so I wasn't just going to leave it in my drafts. And hopefully there is someone out there who was in need of reading this too
Warnings in the Series Masterlist as well as any other information needed
Sorry for the wait, been dealing with a lot since the start of the new year and my friend came and visited me fore a few days. Hope you all enjoy this chapter.
Chapter 4
Y/n wakes, startled. She looks around expecting to see the warm medical room she has gotten used to waking in. Instead she sees colorless walls around her: cold, flickering fluorescent lights, and several beds lining the room, none of them with blankets. It takes her a moment to realize she’s in the medical wing of the arena confusing her as she wonders if she dreamt about a pack taking her in.
It doesn’t take her long to realize she isn’t cuffed to the bed like usual and slides off of it. As soon as her bare feet touch the floor there’s pain in her thigh. She looks down seeing it wrapped up under her medical gown, remembering being shot when she tried escaping. Meaning she did make it out of the compound at one point. But was she actually caught by guards and she was just so out of it that her mind came up with a fake pack saving her to keep her mind sane? Or was she saved by a pack and they returned her to the arena?
The omega knew that second thought was crazy as the pack seemed so nice and wanting to help, meaning they had to have been a figment of her imagination as there’s no one out there like that willing to help an omega. With that, a wave of sadness overtakes her as she had enjoyed the omegas she imagined and had taken comfort in them, as well as the betas.
She carefully limps across the room to the door, trying to keep quiet as she doesn’t know who could be in the hallway. The pain is bearable at least but as soon as she reaches the wall she uses it to help hold herself up and give her leg some relief. She holds her breath as she peeks out the door seeing that the coast is clear.
Y/n waits a few minutes listening for movement anywhere nearby but doesn’t hear any. Deciding to risk it, she limps out into the hall hoping she can figure out how to get out of the building like last time. The only difference is this time they think she’s still passed out.
She nears an open door hearing voices coming from it making her stop in hesitation. Maybe if she walks by as swiftly as possible as if she belongs there they won’t pay much attention to her.
She takes a deep breath and starts walking when a loud bang from behind her causes her to turn and see a large, muscular alpha standing there. He’s shocked to see her, causing him to have dropped a box of something. Freaking out, Y/n stumbles past the door knowing the noise caught the attention of whoever is in the room too.
“Hey.” The alpha calls out and she starts to run as best as she can with her injury.
She sprints through the halls hearing footsteps following behind her as well as several male voices. She spots double doors ahead of her with an exit sign above it and she could almost cry but knows she isn’t out of it just yet.
Y/n pushes through the door and the cold fresh air fills her lungs painfully as she runs out into the field surrounding the compound. The grass is coated in some frost and you can feel in the air a snow storm is coming soon.
“Hey, stop!” A deep voice calls behind her and she turns to see two people running out the doors.
She gasps as they are a lot faster than her because of her leg. And her turning to look behind her causes the omega to trip and fall to the ground. A second later a hand is on her back, alpha scent strong and she curls in on herself, her lungs on fire and her leg throbbing.
“Please.” She doesn’t know what she’s begging for. Death? Them to just leave her where she is?
They turn her over so she’s laying on her back in the grass and sees Felix and Seungmin above her with a light grey sky behind them. She looks at them confused and is starting to think she’s imagining things again.
Tears running down her cheeks. “Y-you’re not real.”
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“Do you think it’s normal for Y/n to be sleeping this much?” Felix glances at the hallway once again as he, Jeongin and Seungmin sit in their gaming room playing League of Legends.
“Channie hyung and Minho hyung don’t seem to be concerned about it.” Jeongin speaks, not once taking his eyes off the screen. “Said it’s a mix of recovering from the drugs and injuries plus her body is finally feeling more at ease than she had been before in the arena.”
“Still, she didn’t wake up for four days and it’s been another four now and all she does is sleep all day.” The omega whines. “When she does wake up it isn’t for very long, only to use the bathroom and eat.”
“Lix, you had done the same thing when you first got here.” Seungmin reminds him. “You were in and out for a whole week.”
“I don’t remember that.” Felix huffs.
“Probably because you were sleeping the entire time.” The alpha laughs earning him to be hit in the face by a pillow. He gives Felix a glare before noticing how he isn’t even paying attention but is instead looking at the doorway once again making Jeongin sigh. “Look, as long as the hyungs aren’t worried then there's no need for you to be.”
Felix stays quiet not liking the whole situation and his mates don’t understand as they didn’t go through what he and Y/n did. He tries to go back to gaming but he gets antsy needing to do something for the girl.
A bang from the hallway causes all three to turn and see the female omega stumbling past the door.
“Y/n?” They scramble out of their chairs to follow her.
“Hey.” Changbin calls out as he walks past the room following the girl being joined by the other three.
“What’s going on?” Jeongin asks the older alpha.
“I don’t know, I was doing laundry when I saw her.” Changbin explains as they follow the girl who’s now sprinting through the hallway towards the side of the house. “When she looked at me she seemed not only afraid but out of it, like she doesn’t know where she is.”
“We’ll follow her.” Felix speaks up. “You guys go get Minho and Chan. And maybe the other omegas too.”
Felix and Seungmin continue to run after the girl as the other two go to inform the rest of the pack on what is happening. Y/n reaches the emergency double doors they have on the sides of the house so the omegas have quick ways to escape if anyone from the hunt comes to do a search of their pack house.
The two follow her out the doors, she’s not very fast with her leg so she isn’t far in front of them.
“Y/n! Stop!” Felix calls out to her and she turns to look behind her. Just as Changbin had said, not only is she scared but she looks out of it and confused.
Her turning to look at them causes her to trip and fall and they rush to her side. Seungmin places a hand on her back as Felix checks to make sure her thigh is okay and didn’t reopen her wound. Luckily it looks good.
“Please.” She begs weakly as she curls in on herself, her breathing jagged.
They look at each other and Felix helps her turn over onto her back and she looks at them, her eyes giving them a sad look.
“Y-you’re not real.” She whispers before closing her eyes and tears fall down the sides of her face.
“We’re real, Y/n.” Seungmin wipes away some tears before looking at the male omega. “I think she was sleep walking. You did that at first too.”
Felix nods and places a comforting hand on her head. “Yeah, I remember that. Thought I was back at the hunt a few times.”
She opens her eyes again and looks up at them again. “F-Felix?”
“It’s me.” The boy nods and runs his hand through her tangled hair. “I’m real, and so is Seungmin. Everything is real. You were sleep walking.”
She looks around her a little, seeing grass surrounded by a forest, a beautiful garden nearby. “I-I was back th-there.” She hiccups through sobs. “It-it felt so real.”
“I know, but it wasn’t. You’re not in that place anymore.” He coos at her before noticing goosebumps on her arms and legs. “Let's get you back inside, it’s cold out here and you’re only in a shirt. Are you okay if Seungmin picks you up?”
“W-want y-you.” She holds on to his arm.
“Lix can’t pick you up, pup.” The beta wipes some more tears from her cheeks. “He’s got a bad back. So can I do it?”
Y/n sniffles before nodding and reaches up to him. Seungmin slides his arms under the bend of her legs and behind her back carefully picking her up and she wraps her arms around his neck. She snuggles into his chest as he stands up, taking in his scent that's mixed with Felix’s and an alpha’s. Felix follows and they start walking around to the back of the house where they see the rest of the pack rushing out the backdoors.
“She’s okay.” Seungmin reassures all of them, Minho comes up and pushes her shirt up her thigh a little, sighing in relief to see the bandage is clean of blood, just dirty, meaning her wound is still stitched closed.
The female omega looks up at everyone before shrinking in on herself and hides her face in Seungmin’s chest when she smells the three alphas. One of them is whose scent clings to Seungmin and Felix, another she recognizes as Chan’s from when she first woke up and the last one is the alpha she encountered in the hallway, the large muscular one who seems intimidating.
“She was sleep walking like I used to.” Felix explains to the others as the betas take Y/n back inside. “She thought she was back at the compound, even convinced herself that we were figments of her imagination.”
“I figured it was something like that after Changbin and Jeongin came and got us.” Chan pushes some of Felix’s long hair behind his ear.
“We managed through it with you and we will again with her.” Changbin gives a reassuring smile.
They all head back into the house, Hyunjin running ahead to get a new shirt for the girl. The alphas stay behind in the living room as the omegas go to join Seungmin and Minho in the medical bay. Y/n’s sitting on the bed again as Minho cleans her leg and rewraps it in new bandages.
“I brought you a clean shirt to change into.” Hyunjin places it next to her and she looks at it before looking down at the current one she’s wearing, seeing dirt and grass stains on it from tripping in the field. “And… if you’re up for fully meeting the alphas, they have information on your family.”
She looks up at the older omega in uncertainty before looking to Felix for help.
“It’s up to you if you want to meet them or not.” Felix puts a hand on her arm. “I can promise you that they won’t do anything you might be uncomfortable with,”
“And we’ll all stay with you the entire time.” Jisung sits on the rolling stool scooting it closer to her on the bed. “We’ve agreed that an omega will be with you at all times now that you’re more awake.”
“Or a beta if you’re okay with that too.” Felix smiles looking at the two who have been staying quiet. “Since you’ve been comfortable with Minho and Seungmin so far.”
“We also understand if you still want one of them three with you even with us.” Seungmin speaks up. “We won’t be upset, we all just want you to be comfortable while you’re here.”
She takes a second to think it over before nodding her head and looks at Hyunjin again. “I-I’ll meet them.”
Minho moves to the door, opening it. “We’ll let you get changed into the new shirt while we tell the alphas. Come out whenever you are ready.”
They all file out, Felix hesitating for a moment wanting to make sure if she needs anything but when she doesn’t say or do anything he walks out with the rest. They all migrate to the living room where the alphas are all sitting and waiting on the couch.
“Is she okay?” Jeongin sits up straight when he notices the others.
“Did she reopen her wound again?” Changbin fidgets, having felt guilty for scaring the girl earlier, causing her to run and possibly getting hurt again.
“She’s good.” Felix speaks as they all sit on the couch. “And her leg is fine, it wasn’t bleeding when Seungmin and I got to her. The bandages were just dirty from falling in the field.”
“I cleaned and rewrapped her leg.” Minho leans against the back of the couch. “It looks like it’s healing pretty well, even after popping the stitches when she first woke up.”
“She’s willing to properly meet you guys.” Jisung has a hopeful gaze.
“We told her that you guys found information on her family.” Hyunjin explains. “She is changing now and will be out here afterwards.”
“Alright.” Chan nods, deciding to somewhat take charge of the matter. “To keep from scaring her, us three will stay on this side of the couch and let her choose where she wants to sit on that side with you guys.” He motions to the different parts of the living room. “And I want her to understand that we aren’t trying to just push her off to be someone else's problem. That we are just giving her options, that she is welcome to stay here with us as long as she likes but we have located her family if she wants to reunite with them.”
Everyone nods in agreement just as the door to the medical bay creeks open and out limps the female omega. Felix is quick to stand, moving over to help the girl walk so she isn’t putting too much pressure on her leg. She might be healing well but he and Minho have been worried that the bullet could have caused some nerve damage.
Everyone else doesn’t move as they watch the two make their way into the living room, the male letting her decide where to sit, her choosing to sit next to Jisung and Felix sits on her other side. She keeps her head down until a hand is placed on her knee and she turns to see Minho leaning over Jisung to get her attention.
“Y/n, meet our alphas.” The beta says as he motions across the living room to the other couch when she finally looks up to acknowledge them. “You kind of already met, Chan, our pack alpha when you first woke up.” The oldest male gives a soft smile and wave. “Changbin is who you saw earlier in the hallway.”
“Didn’t mean to scare you.” The second alpha also gives a smile. “I was just as shocked to see you as you were to see me.”
“And lastly, our youngest member of the pack, Jeongin.” Minho motions to the alpha, who she recognizes his scent from Seungmin and Felix.
Y/n bows her head to the three of them before looking at Felix in uneasiness. He gives her a small smile with a nod in reassurance and gently grabs her hand just as Chan scoots forward on the other couch a little and rests his arms on his thighs.
“Y/n.” The oldest alpha speaks softly and she looks up at him through her lashes. “We did some searching and we found your parents.”
“They actually don’t live that far from here.” Changbin speaks up. “It's only about a twenty minute drive. And the rest of your moms pack is in the surrounding neighborhoods.”
They watch as her eyes widen a bit in shock, looking at the three of them in disbelief.
“We can promise that you are safe here.” Felix squeezes her hand. “But we will take you to your family if you want to go once you’re healed.”
“Or you can stay here too if that’s what you’re wanting.” Jeongin speaks to her for the first time. “We have plenty of space, and you’d be able to have your own room.”
“You don’t have to decide now.” Hyunjin leans over to properly look at her. “We just want you to know that you have options while you’re still healing.”
“Min said as long as you don’t do anything strenuous to pop your stitches again, he should be able to take them out soon.” Jisung smiles.
“I estimate about a week.” Minho says to the room.
Y/n takes in a small deep breath, as well as she can with her cracked ribs, and nods her head in understanding.
Seungmin lounges back on the couch. “In the meantime we want to get you out of the med bay at least, so if you’re okay with it we can set up one of the two guest rooms down here for you.”
“Felix and Minho have been sleeping in the other one since you’ve arrived.” Chan explains. “So if you want one of them or the other omegas or betas, they can continue switching off sleeping in there so you have someone down here if you need something.”
The female nods her head again making them all relieved she doesn’t seem as afraid of them all.
She bites her bottom lip before fully looking up at the alphas. “A-are you going to co-contact them?”
Everyone’s shocked for a moment that she spoke but Changbin recovers first. “Not unless you want us to.”
“That’ll be your decision too.” Chan nods. “If you decide you want to go home then we’ll call your parents letting them know you escaped the arena and that we’re bringing you back to them.”
“If you want to stay with us…” Hyunjin gives her a small smile when she turns to him. “Then we won’t tell them unless you want to contact them. We won’t keep you from seeing them if that's what you want.”
Jisung then nudges her shoulder so she’ll look at him. “If you do want to go to your family though, you have to promise to keep in contact with us though.”
“You don’t have to.” Minho rolls his eyes at the omega’s comment. “But we would appreciate it if you did, so we know you are safe and okay.”
“We’ll still be thinking about you even when you’re gone.” Seungmin tells her. “You’re one of us no matter what you choose.”
Felix doesn’t say anything, just cuddles up closer to Y/n which causes her to tear up a little as she leans against him too. “Th-thank you.”
The alphas melt at the sight. “You don’t ever have to thank us, Y/n.” Chan whispers.
Yes, I do have an Ao3 account. It's under MayRose713 as well. I've had it for a while but only recently, in the last few months, decided to post anything on it when I started figuring out Escaped the Hunt so I started posting Beautifully Cruel World on there too, why the chapters are behind on BCW. I'm also on Wattpad under the same name, but I only have BCW posted on it, I haven't posted Escaped the Hunt on there though and haven't decided yet if I ever will post it to Wattpad but for now if you see it posted there it is not me posting it.
Warnings in the Series Masterlist as well as any other information needed
Happy New Years!!! I hope everyone had great holidays. Here's a little present for you guys. Though you might want to prepare yourselves... this is a doozy
Chapter 29
The female omega sits in the car in the parking lot of the town's community center. She didn’t know where else to go as she hasn’t fully wandered through town before but there's a lot of signs pointing to the community center so she figured that would be the best bet as her mates volunteer there all the time.
After parking she realizes just how stupid she was for leaving alone. She’s an omega. But at least this time she’s a claimed omega unlike when she was harassed by that alpha at the mall with Jeongin and Hyunjin. And because of it she has a faint smell of the ones who have marked her so far. She hopes that with how well known they are in the town their faint scents on her will keep any alphas from approaching her.
Taking a deep breath Y/n calms herself down from crying, upset that her alpha would keep her locked in the house like her grandfather did and even told Seeun to lie to her about not coming to get her. She knows Chan’s going to be mad at her for leaving without any of them, breaking their number one rule but at this point she doesn’t care as he’s broken her trust.
Finally building up the courage to get out of the car she starts walking down the sidewalk after checking the side mirror that her eyes aren’t too red and cheeks aren’t tear stained. Her chest tightens as she walks past a group of alphas and betas but none of them bat an eye at her making her relax. Looking around at the different little shops taking note of which ones she’ll want to visit after she explores the town a little more. There's a few clothing stores she wants to browse, stores that have some decor she might want to add to her room after Hyunjin is done painting it, and a crystal shop that looks interesting.
The bakery Felix and Jeongin had gotten soup for her from when she was sick catches her eye and she decides to stop in there. The soup was pretty good and she wouldn’t mind trying other things.
“Welcome to God’s Menu, how can I help you?” The girl at the counter smiles, her nametag reading Mina.
“Umm…” Y/n looks at the menu before looking at the case of baked goods, all of them looking tasty, the amount of options overwhelming her a little.
“You must be new in town.” Mina gives a small chuckle making Y/n’s cheeks flush in embarrassment. “Oh, don’t take that the wrong way sweetheart, just most people already know what they want when they come in here plus I haven’t seen you around before.”
“My mates had gotten me soup from here when I was sick last week so I was wanting to try some other treats.” She then realizes the worker is actually also an omega making her relax a bit. “What would you recommend?”
“I think I can pick a few items you’d like.” She gives her a wink grabbing tongs and a box. “Is there anything you’re allergic to or don’t like?”
“Allergic to, no. There isn’t a lot that I’ve tried so I wouldn’t know if I don’t like something but I’m open to trying anything.”
“Easiest customer yet.” Mina starts grabbing several different cookies, a croissant, two cupcakes and more. “If you don’t mind me asking, who are your mates? Do they live in Stayville or are you all visiting?”
“They’ve lived here for a while.” Y/n feels her phone vibrating in her back pocket of her jean shorts and silences it assuming it’s one of the boys. “I’m not sure if you’d know them but they do volunteer around town a lot.”
Mina pauses and looks up at the other omega in awe. “Are you the new omega that joined Chan’s pack? Y/n?” Earning a shy nod from said girl. “Felix and Jeongin told me about you when they came in for your soup. You’re even cuter than I imagined.”
Y/n unconsciously starts to play with the pendant on the collar around her neck as the older omega gushes over her. “Do you know them well?”
“Oh yeah, I’ve known Chan since we were teenagers.” Mina smiles brightly while she packages up the box and grabs a cup and pours one of the smoothies from the machine behind her. “The others come in quite a bit, especially Jisung and Hyunjin, occasionally Changbin.”
The older female places everything on the counter in front of Y/n who starts pulling the cash Changbin gave her out of her pocket. “How much?”
“On the house, sweetie.” Mina waves the money away. “It’s been a while since I’ve given Felix or Jisung any free treats and Chan’s new omega deserves to try new things.”
“Thank you.”
“Of course. Just promise to come with the others more often.” Mina then realizes something. “Actually, where are your mates? I know it’s a rule for Jisung and Felix to be escorted by one of the others and I’m sure that rule applies to you too. Please tell me they know you’re here.”
“Yeah, of course they do.” Y/n lies as she picks up her box of baked goods and smoothie. “Changbin and Jisung are a few stores down, they told me I could go ahead and come here.”
“Alright hun, enjoy the treats and stay as long as you’d like. If anyone bothers you just let me know.”
“Thank you again, Mina.” Y/n walks over to one of the tables in the corner knowing that the lunch rush will probably be coming in soon and wants to keep herself as inconspicuous as possible.
The omega decides to eat the croissant first as she had skipped breakfast finding that it’s ham and cheese filled. It’s delicious just as she had expected before looking through the different desserts in the box. She assumes the two cupcakes are red velvet and carrot cake and there has to be a dozen cookies, all of them different flavors.
She grabs one with cinnamon on top pretty sure it’s a snickerdoodle cookie having always wanted to try one. She bites into it and almost groans at how good it tastes, reminding herself to ask Felix if he can make her some.
That thought gives her a bitter taste in her mouth as she thinks about going back to the pack. She knows she should go back, talk things out with Chan but the thought of it makes her sick to her stomach. He’s going to yell at her for breaking his number one rule and she wonders if he’ll hear her out and listen to how she feels or if he’s going to be like every other alpha she knows, believing that they’re always in the right.
“Y/n?”
Her head snaps up to see the last person she had ever expected to be in this town.
“Mom? Wh-what are you doing here? I thought you would still be in rehab?”
“I am.” The girl’s mother motions to the two vans parked outside the bakery that has ‘District 9 Recovery’ written on the side of them. “After I was finished at the detox facility I got transferred to a recovery village just outside of Stayville. On certain days we’re selected to be allowed to come into town.” She shakes her head confused. “What are you doing here though? I had tried calling you after I was allowed my phone at night but the calls went straight to voicemail. When I’ve talked to your grandparents they tell me you’re fine and are just ignoring my calls because you’re upset with me.”
“It’s a lot more complicated than that.” Y/n looks over at the counter where Mina is watching the two talk as she’s taking orders for the other recovery patients. “Why don’t you go get yourself a coffee and we’ll talk. That is if you have time to.”
“Of course I do. I’ll be right back.” Her mom walks over to wait in line where Mina looks at Y/n once again.
Y/n gives the other omega a nod and a smile that everything is okay and that she doesn’t need to worry. The older woman comes back over after getting her coffee sitting across from her daughter.
“What do you want to know first?”
“What are you doing here?” She looks Y/n over carefully. “I thought you were staying with grandma and grandpa. And why do you smell like an omega? I know they wouldn’t have let you forget to get your suppressant injection. You’re looking a bit pudgy like one too.” She then looks at the box of desserts. “Those don’t help either.”
Y/n looks down at herself with a frown, it’s true that since stopping the injection she’s filled out her curves more like a female omega is supposed to. She didn’t think she had gained that much weight though but perhaps with all the food and treats Minho and Felix have been making she has gained more than she thought.
“Well… I’m here because your parents held me against my will in their basement after you left.” Y/n takes a shaky breath in. “Your dad hit me and pushed me down the stairs. I escaped when they were going to let me out to set up for your sister's birthday but I just ran and he told me the family would be better off without me.”
“So you ran away to some random town? Where are you even staying? It’s not like you know anyone here.”
“My fated mates live here.” Her mom’s eyes widened. “We saw your parents and the rest of the family at Jeju Island where your dad hit me again in front of one of my alphas, the police were called and a report filed. I have a restraining order against them now.”
“Wait, wait… You’re fated mates?” The older woman shakes her head in disbelief. “Y/n, honey those don’t exist anymore, especially not for omegas. And how can you be so stupid to stop your injections? This pack? They’re taking advantage of you and you fell for it.”
“No.” Y/n shakes her head wanting to think that her mom is just being her usual self, trying to make her feel stupid and less than but then she remembers what happened with Chan and wonders if maybe her mom is right. “They-they are my fated mates. They could smell I was an omega even before the injection was out of my system.”
“Well with the weight you’ve gained they could have just guessed you were an omega and you took the bait.”
“My mates are good people. They wouldn’t do that.” She shakes her head again, tears brimming her eyes a little. “They volunteer here in town helping everyone. They care and love each other very much, more than I’ve ever seen from anyone in our pack. And they love me, something I haven't experienced from our family ever, except for Hyuk. They don’t expect anything from me except to be myself.”
“I’ll let you live out your little fantasy Y/n, but don’t come crying to me when they turn out exactly as I said.”
Y/n stands, done with the conversation, grabbing the box and her drink. “Bye mother. Try staying sober after you get out this time. You’ve lost your husband and now both of your children because of your problem. Soon you won’t have anyone left.”
“You don’t get to speak to me like that.” Her mom calls after her as she walks out of the bakery.
Even though the omega wants to say more she knows she needs to just leave and walks out without another word. Looking around she decides to just head back to the community center and figure out what to do there. She shouldn’t have been surprised to see Changbin and Jisung standing at the cars waiting for her.
“Angel.” Jisung runs up to her engulfing her in his arms before pulling back placing a hand on her cheek looking at her closely. “Are you okay?”
“Yeah.” Y/n nods with a forced smile before handing the box of baked goods to him. “Here.”
The beta takes the box confused but doesn’t get to say anything as she walks over to Changbin who wraps his arms around her. “We’ve been trying to call you. Your phone said you were in town but it couldn’t pinpoint your exact location. We saw the car and decided to just wait, hoping you’d come back soon.”
“I’m sorry.” The girl sniffles, pulling away from the alpha to wipe her eyes. “It’s just…”
“We know.” Changbin crouches down to be face to face with her. “I talked to Seungmin and trust me, we aren’t happy with Chan either. But we have to go back home. Jeongin started his rut early.”
“What?” She gaps at him. “No, he wasn’t supposed to start just yet. God, he must be biting at the bit without me there, he was really wanting me to help.”
“Hey, calm down.” Changbin puts his hands on her shoulders. “His anger at Chan is what caused him to start early. He’s got Felix and Hyunjin at least but I’m sure he is wanting you too.”
“Come on.” Jisung guides her to the back of their car. “We’ll drive you home and will come back with one of the others tomorrow to get the car you drove.”
She nods, getting in the back seat as they both get in the front. “I’m sorry for leaving without anyone.”
“Don’t apologize, pretty girl.” The older male pulls out of the parking lot heading back to the house. “None of us are mad at you for leaving, not even Minho or the others. You had every right to leave like you did.”
“Did you at least have fun?” Jisung turns to look back at her and holds up the box she shoved in his hands. “I see you checked out God’s Menu, how’d you like it?”
“It was really good. I liked the snickerdoodle cookie, first time I ever had that.” She tries to seem nonchalant. “I met Mina too, she’s really nice.”
“Speaking of Mina.” Changbin looks at her through the rearview mirror. “She texted me just before we saw you walking up. She said you were arguing with a beta woman. Who?”
Y/n looks down at her lap and mumbles. “It was my mom.”
This causes the alpha to slam on the breaks and turn around to look at her. “Your mom? Here?”
“She’s at District 9 Recovery. I guess they let them come to town occasionally.” She looks at both of them. “It’s fine, I left when she started getting nasty and even if she does tell her parents I’m here, they can’t come here without breaking the restraining order and I won’t hesitate this time to call the police on them myself.”
Changbin sighs and starts driving again, placing a hand on Jisung’s thigh unsure how to feel about everything. He understands Chan’s want to keep her safe at the house but he also knows they can’t just keep her there. At least from here on out she won’t be leaving without one of them by her side.
She practically sprints out of the car the moment they pull up to the house, not even waiting for the vehicle to stop. She burst through the door not actually paying attention to anyone, looking for the youngest male.
“Y/n.” Seungmin grabs her by the shoulders.
“Where’s Innie?”
“He’s upstairs, in his room with Felix.” She tries to move but the beta doesn’t let her, Hyunjin coming up to stop her as well.
“Whoa, calm down.” Hyunjin nudges her chin to look up at him. “Are you okay, princess?”
She doesn’t get to say a word before Minho comes storming in, grabbing her and looking her over. “Are you hurt? Did anyone touch you?”
“I’m fine, please, I just want to see Jeongin. I want to help him.”
“Not after this morning.” The alpha shakes his head. “We’ll revisit this conversation tomorrow after assessing how you are doing mentally and decide then if you’ll be fit enough to help him.”
“Min.” She whines.
“No kitten, not today at least. But I promise you’ll get to help him before his rut is over.” He explains as Changbin and Jisung finally walk into the house.
“Where’s Chan?” Changbin looks around at all of them, noticing the pack alpha is missing.
“His room.” Seungmin grunts, clenching his jaw.
“Felix wanted to know the moment you got home. I’ll go switch out with him.” Hyunjin says, starting to head up the stairs and Changbin follows to talk to Chan.
“Are you sure you’re not hurt?” Minho fusses again as he holds her arms out to make sure wasn’t grabbed or bruised at any point while she was gone.
“Min.” Jisung walks over ready to calm the alpha. “You know if she was hurt Binnie and I would have told you.”
“Yeah.” The alpha sighs and rubs Y/n’s cheek with one of his knuckles looking her in the eyes. “You know we’re gonna have to discuss what happened this morning, right?”
“Yeah.” She looks down. “I… I just don’t want to see him right now.”
“None of us do at the moment.” Seungmin mutters.
“We had decided that once you had gotten back we’d all just take the time to unwind for a bit and Chan agreed to stay in his room until dinner at least.” The oldest male explains. “If you still aren’t ready to talk then, we won’t blame you but you also have to understand that we’re gonna be more hesitant about letting you help Innie until it's talked about.”
“And no matter what we’re gonna be having a pack meeting after Jeongin’s rut is over.” Seungmins speaks up. “Everyone is mad or upset about the situation so it’s something we all need to hash out.”
“Y/n.” Felix comes running down the stairs, his hair a mess and clothes a little disheveled having obviously put them back on quickly.
She opens her arms for him to hug her, he nuzzles his face in her neck running one hand through her hair the other rubbing her back. “Hi Lixie.”
“I’m so glad you came back, sunshine.” Felix mumbles before looking at Minho. “Innie wants you to take Chan’s place for his rut, if you’re okay with that.”
“I am.” Minho nods, looking at the clock in the living room. “I’ll relieve Hyunjin after dinner.”
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Most of the pack sit around the table as Minho sets the take out down in the middle. Hyunjin is still with Jeongin and the older alpha plans to take the younger food after dinner and the beta will get to eat once they switch out. They all have been keeping watch of the quiet girl who’s been staying cuddled up with Felix and Jisung which comes to no surprise to the rest. Even now she clings to Jisung’s arm as they quietly whisper to each other, Felix on her other side as Changbin spoons food onto their plates.
“Y/n.” Chan’s relieved voice travels through the room glad to see his omega came back home despite how he acted.
The two next to her growl as they eye the alpha, everyone taking note at how she lowers her head to look at her lap. Chan holds his hands up at their deadly glares.
“I’m just glad she came home, guys.”
Everyone but the omega watches as he moves to sit at the head of the table. It becomes almost awkward as everyone eats in silence as the sound of forks scraping across plates is the only sound that fills the room. Jisung notices though how Y/n has barely even taken a bite of her food, having just been pushing everything around on the plate.
“Do you not like it?” The beta whispers to her trying not to gain anyone else's attention but everyone of course hears him talk with how quiet the room is.
“It’s fine.”
“Then what’s wrong?” Jisung bites his lip worried. “You need to eat, angel.”
“Not hungry.” She whispers the lie. “I ate a lot at the bakery.”
Jisung knows she’s trying to deceive them though as the box from Mina was still almost completely full. He turns to Changbin, unsure what to do.
“Y/n, what’s wrong?”
“Just not hungry.” She mumbles, pushing her plate away from her.
“Babygirl, you need to eat.” Chan tries to keep his voice gentle but knows he needs to intervene especially as she stays quiet and doesn’t move. “Y/n.”
“Chan.” Minho growls. “Don’t.”
“No, she needs to eat.” The pack alpha sits up straight meaning business. “She can be mad or upset with me all she wants, I don’t care. I know I fucked up. But I’m not going to sit by and let her starve herself because of it.”
“That’s not why.” Y/n hugs herself looking at the table, on the verge of tears as she seems to be trying to make herself seem smaller.
“Y/n.” Felix rubs her back as he moves his head to be in front of her face, trying to get her to look at him. “What’s going on?”
She doesn’t speak again, biting her lip looking like she wants to say something but can’t. Changbin notices how her hands squeeze her sides as she hugs herself and he can only assume why she’s doing this. He stands, moving around the table and pulls her chair away from it so he can crouch in front of her.
“Did your mom say something?” The alpha puts his hands on her thighs and he knows he’s right when her eyes go wide for a second.
“Her mom?” Chan’s head whips to them. “You saw your mom in town?”
“Don’t.” Seungmin hisses at him before turning back to look at the girl.
Minho comes over to kneel next to Changbin, both alphas needing to get to the bottom of this. “Kitten, what’s wrong?”
“Just… shouldn’t eat so much.” She whispers, still refusing to look at any of them.
“Y/n.” Jisung whispers in concern.
“Hey.” Changbin nudges her chin up to make her look at them. “Whatever your mom said to you to make you feel like this, is wrong. You’re beautiful just the way you are. You’re my pretty girl.”
She shakes her head no, biting her lip harder as tears fall down her cheeks. “I’m pudgy.”
In an instant Chan is up, causing his chair to fall backwards before he’s storming out of the house, fists clenched tight by his sides. The noise making them all flinch and turn just as the door slams behind the alpha.
“I-I’m sorry.” Her lower lip trembles.
“There’s no need for apologies baby.” Felix grabs her hand. “He’s just mad at himself because he wants to comfort you but knows he can’t because of his actions this morning.”
“He’s just going to go calm himself down, he’ll be back.” Seungmin explains. “But pup, what your mom said is untrue, you are not pudgy.”
“You are beautiful just the way you are.” Jisung lays his chin on Changbin’s shoulder so she can see him better.
“You look like how an omega should look.” Felix chimes in. “Don’t listen to your mother.”
“And what matters is that you are healthy and happy.” Minho smiles before standing up and Changbin follows so they can push her chair back up to the table. “Now eat or I’ll spoon feed you.”
“He will do it, so I would just listen.” Changbin warns her as he puts her plate back in front of her.
A/N: I originally had the intentions of her reconciling with her mom and try having her be present in later chapters but as I was writing I just couldn't get it to happen. All I wanted was to write the things I never said to my own mother but couldn't even write that either.
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Chapter 3
“Hey.” Hyunjin pokes his head into the room seeing the female has been moved back over to the bed, probably with the help of Minho. He fully comes in holding a bowl. “We made you some soup.”
“Perfect.” Felix smiles as he quickly grabs the bowl and brings it over to Y/n. “Something not too heavy on your stomach since who knows when you last ate.”
The omega looks at the soup Felix places on the table tray on the bed as she realizes just how hungry she is. She’s pretty sure the last time she ate anything was the morning before the hunt. She looks up at Hyunjin who is lingering by the door and gives him a nod in thank you.
“No problem…” The male trails off realizing they still don’t know her name. “Umm… I don’t want to keep having to call you princess, is there a name we can call you?”
She looks down, not making any eye contact as she thinks about it. She shrugs her shoulders while biting her lip still not feeling confident to speak yet.
Felix whimpers looking at her wide eyed. “Please tell me you are shrugging your shoulders because you don’t know what else to do and not because you don’t know your name.”
She blushes while nodding before deciding to take a bite of the soup. The two older omegas watch her eat, not sure what else to do until Minho, who’s finally finished cleaning up the room, comes up to her and places a pen and paper on the table tray making her stop eating and look up at him.
“Can you maybe write it?”
She hesitates before picking up the pen, feeling weird in her hand as she hasn’t written anything in so long, carefully writing her name out on the paper making sure it’s eligible. All three of them look at the paper.
“Y/n.” Hyunjin reads it out loud, smiling, making her blush as she’s been used to only being referred to as O13 for the last few months. “That’s a pretty name.”
Now that the older omega is closer to her she reaches out to grab his left hand pulling it to her so she can look at his inner wrist. He furrows his eyebrows in confusion before looking to Felix for help.
“Like I said, he was never an arena omega.” Felix chuckles a little as she stares at Hyunjin's ink free wrist in disbelief.
“It’s true.” Hyunjin sets his other hand over hers where she’s holding onto his wrist. “Chan and Changbin have been looking out for me since the moment I presented as an omega. Same with Jisung, Chan took him in even before he presented because it was easy to tell he would be one.”
“All omegas are kept safe here from any kind of harm.” Minho finally takes a seat by the bed now that he has nothing to keep him busy and is hoping she’ll get used to him more. It was already an improvement when she let him carry her to the bed earlier. “Well, kept safe from everything but each other at least.”
Y/n furrows her brows as she looks at Felix and Hyunjin in confusion which makes them both laugh a little. She finally lets go of the older of the two's wrist.
“Hyun and Jisung didn’t get along at first.” Felix leans into Hyunjin a little. “They fought with each other for about a good year?”
Hyunjin nods his head that the youngest male is correct. “Ji was upset he was no longer the only omega in the pack to get all the attention.”
“What was your excuse?” The beta crosses his arms over his chest with a slight smirk.
“I didn’t know how to interact with other omegas.” Hyunjin says as if it’s obvious.
Y/n gives a barely noticeable smile watching them interact, never having seen something like that before. Felix saw it though, making his scent sweeten hoping the girl will come around soon.
“WHAT?!”
All four of them turn towards the door after hearing the yell followed by hurried footsteps approaching the room.
“Shit.” Minho hisses as he stands up and quickly moves in front of the door just as it opens and another omega rushes in, overly excited, running right into the older male who wraps his arms around him. “Calm down, Ji.”
“You’re awake.” Jisung is looking at Y/n with bright eyes over Minho’s shoulder not even noticing her cowering a little.
“Jisung.” Minho uses a firm voice to get the younger’s attention finally. “You smell like beta.”
“So do you.”
The beta rolls his eyes. “I mean you smell heavily of Seungmin.”
It takes a moment for Jisung to register before looking at Y/n who is watching everything in fear. “Oh.” He blushes and rubs the back of his neck. “Sorry.”
“Y/n, this is Jisung.” Felix grabs her hand in reassurance. She flinches at first but doesn’t pull away. “He’s our other omega we were telling you about.”
“Hi.” He waves awkwardly as Minho lets him go. “Sorry to have scared you. I was just excited when Chan told us you’re awake. And sorry if I smell too much like our other beta. We were hanging out. I can leave if his scent is too much.”
She hesitates as the overly excited omega practically vibrates where he stands. Looking to Felix for guidance she squeezes his hand unsure what she’s supposed to do, or want.
“It’s okay. If Seungmin’s scent on him is too much for you then you’re allowed to ask for him to leave.” Felix gives her a smile watching her closely as she looks back at Jisung and sniffs a little. “I can promise you though that even though he seems like a lot, Jisung is really great to have around.”
Y/n nods as she grabs the pen again and writes on the paper in front of her before giving it to Felix to read.
“You can stay, Ji.”
The omega's eyes brighten before he’s rushing over to steal the seat Minho had previously occupied so he can sit with his other two mates and talk with the girl. Minho watches all of them with a smile enjoying the site of the four omegas, even if Y/n is still cautious and a bit jumpy as the males talk around her.
“Y/n.” The beta moves next to her bed and flips the paper on the table tray over to the blank side. “Why don’t you write down any information you have about your family. Parents names, pack name, where they were last living. I’ll give it to the alphas so they can do some research and try and track them down.”
He waits for her to write down everything she knows before taking the paper, folding it before turning to the boys. “You guys can stay and do whatever it is you omegas like to do to bond but remember Y/n still needs to rest, so don’t get too overly excited in here.” He then turns to Felix and pushes some hair out of his face. “Show her how to use the call button on the bed that notifies our phones for if she ever needs anything.”
“I will.” Felix leans into Minho's hand before the older male leaves the omegas in the medical bay.
As soon as the door shuts behind him, Chan stands up from one of the bar stools where he has been waiting as patiently as he can for any of them to come back out. He looks back and forth between Minho and the door waiting to see if anyone else comes out.
“She’s fine.” The beta smirks at his concerned alpha. “She let us eventually stitch her thigh back up and was eating the soup. Now the boys are just keeping her company. She seems to be attached to Felix after she saw his arena number on his wrist and he explained things to her. I think she tolerates Hyunjin just because the shirt she’s wearing is his so his scent is the only familiar and comforting thing to her right now. And she didn’t send Jisung away when we told her she was allowed to since he smelled heavily of Seungmin.”
“She’s acclimating, that’s good.” Chan sighs as he sits back on the stool not seeming as tense now. “Has she said anything about what happened that night?”
Minho presses his lips together in a thin line and shakes his head no. “She won’t speak. I’m starting to wonder if it’s because she’s too scared to or if she physically can’t.” He puts the folded up paper on the counter in front of the alpha. “She wrote her name though, it’s Y/n. And we told her that we’ll help her find her family to go back to once she’s healed. She wrote down information that’ll hopefully help you and Changbin search for them.”
Chan unfolds the paper and looks it over. “Once Bin and Innie are done in the gym we’ll see what we can find.”
Minho nods and looks around a little confused. “Where’s Minnie?”
“Upstairs.” Chan glances up at the banister that overlooks the living room. “When he and Sungie came back in from the garden I told them how Y/n is awake. You already know how Jisung reacted but Seungmin didn’t say anything and just went upstairs.”
“Did he seem upset or mad?”
“No.” Chan sighs. “I don’t know what’s going on in his head but he just seemed numb to the information. His scent stayed the same and he just went upstairs.” He notices Minho’s worried look as he looks up at the second floor landing as well. “Hey, you and the omegas focus on the girl, we’ll figure out Seungmin. No need to worry.”
Minho nods with a sigh before turning towards the door of the med bay when it opens again and out walks Hyunjin and Jisung. “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing.” Jisung holds his hands up to calm down the two older males who are quickly walking over to them. “Y/n and Lix fell asleep.”
Hyunjin opens the door a little bit more so the two can peek in. Y/n lays there sound asleep on the bed, her head turned towards Felix where he lays hunched over in the chair, his head resting on his arms on the bed. One of his hands holding hers.
Chan frowns which shocks the two omegas and Hyunjin speaks up. “It’s cute. And Felix is finally sleeping peacefully for the first time in days.”
“Sleeping like that isn’t good for his back though.” Chan sighs knowing when the boy wakes up his back is going to ache more than it normally does. But he also knows that if he moves Felix he’ll wake up and be restless.
“Just leave them be.”
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The next morning Seungmin lays on Felix’s bed while he waits for the omega to get out of the shower. His back was hurting from sleeping hunched over Y/n’s medical bed so he’s relaxing his muscles with a hot shower and the beta had offered to help him use the massage gun since everyone else is still sleeping.
Seungmin sits up when the omega’s phone goes off next to him on the bed. He takes in a sharp breath when he sees a notification from the medical bay. The call button they have set up on the bed only notifies Felix, Minho and Chan’s phones. They were going to set up so it also notifies Jisung and Hyunjin as the girl has gotten used to the other two but it hasn’t been done yet.
Seungmin chews on his lip as he strains to listen to the rest of the house trying to gauge if Minho or Chan woke up due to the notification but the other rooms are quiet except for the sounds of Jisung’s and Hyunjin's light purrs. He debates if he should tell Felix or go and wake up the two oldest pack mates when another notification sounds on the youngest omega’s phone.
Seungmin decides to go find out himself just how urgent it is, leaving Felix’s room and rushes downstairs. The door was left slightly open after Felix left this morning and he peers through the crack seeing the girl sitting up in bed, fidgeting with the blankets, seeming anxious. Her head whips to look at the door when she smells the beta’s scent giving him away. She recognizes his scent from Jisung.
“Hey.” He pushes the door open a bit more to let himself in. “I saw the notifications on Felix’s phone, are you okay?” She stares at him, her hands closing tighter around the blanket in her lap as she chews on her bottom lip. “Do I need to go get Minho or one of the omegas?”
She sits there for a second before whispering, barely audible. “B-Bathroom.”
“Oh.” Seungmin is shocked as he was told that she still hadn’t spoken yet. “Right, you still can’t walk with your stitches… Is it okay if I help you?”
Y/n hesitates debating on if he was safe enough but she so badly needs to pee that at this point she doesn’t even fully care. She nods her head yes and watches him closely as he walks over to her. She pushes the blankets off of her and swings her legs off the side of the bed as he gently places a hand on her arm causing her to flinch making him retreat.
“If you aren’t comfortable I can go get one of the others.” He starts to step away to do exactly that until he feels her hand grab his wrist making him look at her.
She almost looks like she's pleading to him to help her and he nods moving back to her. He helps her stand up and as she places weight on her injured leg, her knee buckles a little making him have to catch her as he wraps an arm around her waist.
“Just lean your weight against me.”
He waits until he feels her lean against him before slowly helping her walk towards the bathroom connected to the room. Once to the doorway, he flicks the light on and helps her get a hold on the bar lining the walls of the room.
“Got it from here?” She nods, her cheeks flushed in embarrassment. “When you’re done either open the door or knock or something. I’ll stay right outside.”
He closes the door and stands against the wall waiting for a few minutes. He knows she’ll probably take longer than the average person with her injuries right now but after five minutes he starts to get concerned.
“S-Seungm-min?” Her voice comes from the other side of the door just as he thought about knocking. He’s shocked to hear her speak again, and his name of all things.
He opens the door to find her standing near it against the wall with the help of the bar, balancing on her good leg. He moves to her and waits for her to lean against him again before leading her back to the bed, pulling the blankets over her once she’s settled.
“Do you need anything else?” She shakes her head no already looking ready to fall asleep again. “When the omegas wake up I’ll tell them to come check on you again.”
She gives him a small smile as he retreats to the door. He gives her one last glance before leaving the room, making sure to keep the door cracked a little so they can hear for her. When he turns he’s startled to see Felix leaning against the opposite wall, his hair still wet from his shower.
“Fuck, Felix.”
“You were gone when I got out of the shower then I saw the notifications on my phone from her call button.” He gets off the wall so they can head back upstairs.
“Yeah. She just needed to use the bathroom so I helped her walk.” The omega nods but doesn’t say much more letting Seungmin decide if he should tell him what happened. “She spoke.”
Felix stops midstep on the stairs whipping his head to look at the younger male. “She did? What did she say?”
“She only said bathroom at first then after she was done she stuttered out my name to let me know she was done.” The beta furrowed his brows a little, looking down at the steps. “I don’t even know how she knew my name. I had forgotten to introduce myself.”
“I do.” Felix smiles. “And I think it’s the only reason she let you help her. When Jisung joined us yesterday, he smelled heavily of you. She recognized your scent this morning from him. Ji trusts you enough to have had your scent on him so she concluded you were safe enough to help her.”
Seungmin's heart flutters at the revelation as he looks back at the medical bay door. Felix smirks and whacks his harm lightly. “Come on pabo, you promised to help massage my back.”
A/N 1: There's going to be a bit of a break before the next chapter as I get through Holiday season. It will be Beautifully Cruel World chapter 29 that gets posted next I just don't know when then sometime after that will be Chapter 4.
A/N 2: I had meant to share this fun fact in one of the first two chapters but had forgotten about it. The reason for her having O13 on her wrist is because I actually have 013 tattooed on my inner left wrist that I got done about 3 years ago, I just changed the zero to an O for this fic. Yes it is meant to be like the Stranger Things tattoo and the reason it's a 13 is because I was born on Friday the 13th.
Warnings in the Series Masterlist as well as any other information needed
I don't think you guys are prepared for this chapter but here you go and happy Pepero Day
Chapter 28
Y/n bounces around the kitchen waiting for the message from Seeun that he’s in front of the house. She’s excited to have her best friend meet her mates. Well at least half of them. Changbin has taken Jisung to some store he’s been wanting to go to in town. Hyunjin is still painting her room and has locked himself in there with Jeongin who has been extra clingy during his pre-rut and has been overly protective of the girl, knowing he wouldn’t let her go with her best friend if he stayed around to meet him.. Felix lays with Seungmin on the couch on their phones, occasionally looking at the girl with fondness. Chan and Minho are in the pack alpha’s room going over paperwork on his computer.
“So what do you and Seeun have planned for today?” Felix asks, hoping to distract the girl a little as she’s getting antsy.
“I don’t know.” She moves over to the living room to talk with the two. “I think we’re gonna walk around town mainly, go in and out of stores, probably grab some lunch. Binnie gave me some cash and said to get whatever I want, so.”
“Of course he did.” Seungmin chuckles, scrolling on his phone with one hand and running his other through Felix’s hair. “Bin spoils all of us, even if we have our own money. Maybe you guys will run into him and Jisung while you’re out.”
“I hope so.” The female omega checks her phone for the hundredth time, still waiting for word from her best friend.
Y/n starts to get a bit worried as it's already ten thirty and Seeun had said he would pick her up at about ten o'clock. Bitting her lip she decides to text him.
Y/n
Hey, are you almost here or did you get lost?
You always were the worst at directions.
Seeun
Sorry Y/nn, something came up. Another time.
She frowns at her phone but understands that things happen.
“You okay pup?” Seungmin smells her scent sour and puts his phone down, sitting him and the other omega up.
“Yeah.” She lies nodding her head as she keeps her head down. “Seeun had something come up and isn’t coming anymore.”
“I’m sorry baby.” Felix gets up and hugs her. She hugs him back, hiding her face in his chest as he looks at Seungmin over her head.
“Things happen.” She mumbles.
“Why don’t the three of us go do something then?” The beta stands up placing a hand on her back. “Let's go into town and have lunch, maybe meet up with Bin and Sungie and give you a proper tour.”
She nods and sniffs as she lets go of Felix. “I’d like that.”
“Come on, help me pick out an outfit.” The older of the three grabs her hand to take her upstairs to his room.
Seungmin smiles and follows them up but goes to Chan’s room and knocks.
“Come in.” The two alphas are sitting at Chan's desk and they turn to look at Seungmin.
“I’m taking Y/n and Lix into town, maybe meet up with Bin and Sungie.”
Minho furrows his brows and looks at the time on his phone. “What happened with Seeun? I thought he was supposed to be here by now.”
“Something came up I guess.” The beta shrugs. “She’s upset about it so we’re gonna cheer her up.”
“I think it’d be better if you guys don’t go.” Chan speaks up, turning back to his computer. “You guys can do something here instead.”
Both males look at their pack alpha confused. “What are you saying?” Minho shakes his head before turning back to Seungmin. “Go ahead, make sure she has a good time.”
“No.” Chan turns with a firm stare. “She doesn’t leave this house.”
“You can’t keep her here, Chan.” Seungmin raises his voice. “Why are you so hellbent on her not leaving?”
“It’s not safe.” Chan growls. “Jeju proved that. We were so far away from her family and they still found her, causing her to backtrack on her progress with us. If they can find her there then who says they can’t find her here in Stayville. She doesn’t leave this house.”
“And you’re acting just like her grandparents.” Seungmin yells. “You’re holding her here against her will just like they did. She just wants to go to town and have some fun, Chan. If I didn’t know any better I would think you told Seeun not to come and to lie to her.”
Chan stays silent and clenches his jaw.
“Chan?” Minho looks at him wide eyed and stands up. “You didn’t… Please tell me you didn’t fucking do that.”
The pack alpha sighs, leaning back in his desk chair. “It’s not safe for her. She’s not going and that’s final.”
Seungmin goes to yell at him again when they hear footsteps running past the door and turn just as Felix stops in the doorway looking down the hall.
“Y/n!” The male omega yells before turning to the three clearly angry. “You have no right to decide this, Chan.”
Felix then runs after the girl calling her name. The three follow along running down the stairs and stop on the front porch with Felix as they watch Y/n drive off in one of the cars.
“I’m going after her.” Chan turns, going back into the house to grab one of the set of keys hanging on the hook by the door.
“Like hell you are.” Felix yells slamming the door behind him, Seungmin and Minho. “You’re not fucking going anywhere near her.”
“She just broke one of our biggest rules.” Chan thrusts an arm out towards the door, fuming in anger. “She left without one of us and we have no idea where the hell she’s going.”
“And it’s your fault she felt the need to do that.” Seungmin joins in. “You say you’re wanting to protect her from her family but yet you are acting just like them. Dictating her life, keeping her here against her will. You’re just as bad as they are. So yeah, I don’t blame her for fucking running away. We’ll be lucky if she comes back.”
“What they hell is going on with all the yelling and why are you all so angry?” Hyunjin comes down the stairs, paint on his clothes and Jeongin follows along behind him.
“Chan told Seeun not to come get Y/n and to lie to her.” Minho crosses his arms over his chest still glaring at the pack alpha. “Then tried telling Seungmin he and Felix can’t take her to town instead because she’s not allowed to leave the house.”
“Chan?” Jeongin looks at the older alpha in disbelief.
“Now Y/n’s runaway and we don’t know where she’s going.” Felix whimpers. “Or if she’s even going to come back.”
“What the hell?” Hyunjin joins them in glaring at Chan.
Seungmin’s phone starts ringing and answers Changbin's call who's been trying to get ahold of the other two alphas having felt everyone's anger through the bonds but the older two had left their phones upstairs. The beta steps into the other room to explain the situation.
“I’m just trying to protect her.” Chan gets defensive.
“By doing the same thing her grandfather did to her?” Jeongin growls, his eyes narrowing in on the pack alpha. “She ran away from him and now she’s running away from you.” He pokes his finger against Chan’s chest. “And we have to get punished for your actions.”
“Innie.” Minho warns, watching the youngest alpha.
“Watch it pup.” Chan gives a low grumble.
“You watch it.” Jeongin snarls, pushing Chan causing Minho to grab the younger.
“Jeongin.” Minho feels how hot his skin is and smells his intensified scent. “Fuck, you’re starting your rut.”
“Get off me.” Jeongin tries getting out of Minho's hold but the older alpha is stronger. “I’m not supposed to fully start my rut for another two days.”
“Well your anger has made you start early.” Minho picks him up, throwing him over his shoulder. “Let’s go bubs. Lix!”
Felix follows the two and Jeongin continues to growl while glaring at the pack alpha. “If she comes back home you better stay the fuck away from her or so help me.”
“Innie's anger just kick started his rut early.” Seungmin explains on the phone to Changbin and Jisung, having been watching from the doorway of the kitchen. “We’ll handle things here. Try tracking Y/n’s phone and see if you can find her.”
The beta hangs up the phone and looks at Chan who sits on the bench in the foyer with his head in his hands.
“I’m sorry.” The alpha mutters.
“You better be.” Hyunjin scoffs, crossing his arms and leans against the wall across from Chan, glaring daggers. If looks could kill, Chan would have been murdered by all of them several times over by now.
“Hopefully Changbin and Jisung find her, for your sake.” Seungmin mutters.
“If they can’t I’ll go look for her myself.” The alpha sighs. “I won’t come back until I do.”
A/N: Next chapter is... a lot. I'm honestly shocked I even wrote it in a day. It won't be getting posted for a bit though but next week will be a new chapter of Escaped The Hunt then a break until sometime in December or January depending on my holiday schedules.
Warnings in the Series Masterlist as well as any other information needed
Chapter 2
“Felix is finally sleeping.” Chan sighs as he descends the stairs seeing Minho on the couch. “Hyunjin is practically laying on top of him to make sure he doesn’t get out of bed.”
“I may have put some herbs in his oatmeal to help a little.” The beta smirks as he flips through the channels on the tv. “You try sleeping with him when he’s getting up every thirty minutes to check on the girl.”
“You forget it’s my bed he crawls into whenever he’s having nightmares. He doesn't stop checking to make sure I haven't left him while he’s asleep.” Chan rubs his temples as he looks around the area. “Where are the others? It’s too quiet.”
“Ummm, I believe Changbin and Jeongin are in the home gym and Jisung wasn’t able to sit still, wanting to see the omega, so Seungmin pulled him outside, probably to go to the garden.”
“Just as long as they don’t go near that hill.” Chan moves to the back windows and looks at the garden where he can see the two, Jisung sitting on one of the benches, Seungmin throwing a baseball against one of the walls surrounding the gardens.
“You’ve been reminding everyone several times a day since the girl showed up.” Minho doesn’t even look at the alpha. “I think they know by now.”
“Is there anything new with her yet?”
“Not since she woke up briefly three nights ago and threw up before passing out again.” The younger of the two gives up on trying to find something to watch and turns off the tv. “But that would have just been a reaction from the drugs she was given at the arena combined with the sedation.”
“They should be out of her system by now, right?” The alpha moves to sit with Minho on the couch. “It’s been four days. It took three before they were fully out of Felix’s system.”
“That is if they gave her the same drugs he was given.” Minho finally turns to the oldest. “Different arenas could mean different drugs and dosages. Especially with it being a newer arena, we’ve already seen how incompetent the guards have been with going into our territory all the time and now losing an omega. Might have given them higher dosages to keep them from fighting back as much.”
“How are her wounds?”
“Healing for the most part.” The beta takes a deep breath. “She’s still mostly bruised, her breathing falters occasionally, probably from the cracked ribs. And her thigh is looking good, as long as she doesn’t do anything strenuous it’ll heal perfectly, just leave a scar. Which I’m not too worried about her doing anything too crazy.”
Chan opens his mouth to speak but doesn’t get to before a loud bang and a crash is heard from the medical room causing the two to bolt up. “I think you spoke too soon, Min.”
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Y/n stirs awake and looks around her groggily, confused as she sees a warmly lit up medical room. She blinks a few times before remembering escaping the arena and bolts up in the bed, looking around not recognizing where she is. The room doesn’t look anything like the medical bay she remembers being brought to the first day she was taken to the arena where they stripped her down for inspection. But then again she hasn’t been to most parts of the compound either.
She throws the blankets off of her seeing she’s only in a large shirt and her thigh is bandaged from the bullet they shot her with when she ran past the guards out of the arena. She moves to get out of the bed when something pulls at her arm and she looks to find an IV in her inner arm attached to a bag of fluids. She yanks it out without a second thought, sure that the liquid being pumped in her system were the same drugs they’ve been giving her since the first day she was brought to the arena.
She stands up and listens carefully for any sounds outside the room but doesn't hear any. A small breeze catches her attention, seeing a slightly opened window causing relief to flood her as she has a way to escape. She steps forwards but doesn’t make it far as pain shoots up her thigh when she tries walking on her injured leg causing her to cry out and lose her balance. She tries catching herself on a movable cart next to her with some implements only to cause it to crash down with her, its contents clanging on the tiled floor, scattering around her after falling on her injured thigh. She hisses as she grabs her thigh only to feel a warm liquid coating her hand through the bandage knowing she’s reopened it when she fell.
The scent of an alpha and a beta just outside the door catches her attention as she pushes herself against the wall next to the bed when the door opens revealing two men. They stop in shock seeing the scene before them. Medical tools scattered around the floor, the bed empty and messed up and the IV drip discarded. The metallic scent catches the alpha’s attention as his eyes first see the blood smeared on the ground that leads to the frightened omega cowering against the wall.
“Shit, your stitches.” He steps forward to help her followed closely by the other.
Y/n continues to push herself backwards until she gets herself stuck in a corner with no way to escape with them towering over her. She doesn’t look up at them, keeps her head lowered as tears brim her eyes. The alpha’s scent he’s pushing out that's meant to calm her only nauseates her as she whimpers in both pain and fear.
“Chan, leave.”
“But…”
“Leave.” The beta growls as he kneels on the floor. “Go wake Felix.”
Chan hesitates before finally walking out of the room, she watches him, her eyes never leaving his form until he can’t be seen anymore, leaving her to then turn to the beta.
“I’m not going to hurt you.” He holds up his hands to show he doesn’t have anything to harm her with. “My name is Minho, I was the one who had taken the bullet out of your thigh and stitched you up.” He tries to move closer to her again only to cause her to try and back up more even though she has nowhere to go, making him stop. “You must have torn open your stitches when you fell. I’m guessing it hurt when you tried putting pressure on your leg. I’m sure that it still hurts.”
The omega continues to stare at him in fear as she clutches her bleeding thigh wishing for it to stop but knows the only way is to stitch it back up again.
“I would really like to help you if you’ll let me.” The beta continues to keep his voice calm and scent neutral. “You aren’t at the compound anymore, if you didn’t know.” This causes her to look away from him and around the room seeing the lone medical table and separate bed she was in. The room is brighter and has a warmer feeling than any of the ones at the arena and she actually had a blanket in the bed and wasn’t strapped down like she would have been if she was still at the compound.
She then looks at the bag from the IV drip making him look at it too. “It was just fluids. And we previously had a blood transfusion going too. You had lost a lot out in the woods the other night.”
Y/n looks back at him again before three scents outside the door catches her attention. The alpha from before and two omegas, one of which she realizes has the same scent as the one she can smell on the shirt she’s wearing. Minho turns his head to the door when it slowly opens, revealing a tired looking male omega. He whimpers a little at the sight before him, the girl bleeding and cowering on the floor.
“Hey.” He whispers as he slowly makes his way in the room. “I’m Felix. There’s another omega in the hall who would like to come in and help if you’re okay with that?”
She stares at him with uncertainty but doesn’t seem to be trying to get away from them. Felix takes this as a good sign turning back to the door motioning for someone to come in and a tall omega walks in. “This is Hyunjin.”
“Hey princess.” He smiles and the girl takes in a deep breath relaxing a bit at both omega’s calming pheromones. “Min, why don’t you step away from her.”
Minho looks at the two, not wanting to leave the girl bleeding on the floor but gets up anyway deciding that the two know what they’re doing. She watches him move away from her, going to the counter full of medical supplies as Felix and Hyunjin come closer.
Felix kneels in front of her, holding his hands up as she watches his every movement. “We’re gonna need to stitch your thigh back up.” He looks down at her bloodied leg. “But Minho is gonna have to do it, I’ve got some medical training but nothing like him.”
“We’ll stay if you want.” Hyunjin sits down on the bed to make himself less threatening. “We won’t leave you alone with anyone if you don’t want that.”
Y/n gulps and looks at the beta again who isn’t paying attention to them and is instead setting stuff up to help her. She hesitates before nodding, causing Felix and Hyunjin to let out sighs of relief.
“Can we touch you?” Felix moves a little closer. “We need to get you over to the table but it might be hard for you to do it by yourself.”
She doesn’t say anything and instead places her hands on the wall behind her and slowly stands up on her own. She wobbles a little causing Felix to stand and try to help her only resulting in her flinching back farther against the wall making him step back again and hold his hands up.
“That’s probably not a good idea.” Minho says not even turning to see her and she just gives a small glare, now determined to not need any of their help.
She tries to take a step forward but her leg gives out causing her to fall to the floor once again with a cry of pain. Felix moves forward to help her but she scrambles backwards away from him.
“Please let us help you.” Felix pleads, worry evident in his eyes.
“Fuck it.” Hyunjin sighs and stands up moving to her even though she cowers and gently picks her up. She gasps in shock and fear, moving a bit in his arms until he places her on the metal table next to the beta before stepping back with his hand ups. “Relax, I’m done.”
The other two glare at the older male omega for making such a rash decision in touching her when she clearly didn’t want it.
“Hyung, why don’t you go make some food with Chan. She needs to eat.” Felix nudges him away from the table before speaking louder so the alpha outside of the room can hear him. “And Chan needs to stop lingering in the hallway.”
Hyunjin hesitates before giving in, knowing he pushed it by picking the girl up and this is just Felix’s nice way of telling him to fuck off because of it.
Y/n watches him leave not sure what to think. It scared her when he grabbed her, but Hyunjin in the room was the only thing that felt familiar since she’s been wearing a shirt with his scent on it this whole time. Even after he’s gone though his scent is still there, but not from the shirt she’s wearing but from Felix.
Minho brings a rolling tray over to her making sure she’s able to see everything on it in clear view as he puts gloves on and holds up his hands to her.
“I’m gonna need to touch you to get this stitched back closed, okay?” He makes slow movements, undoing the previous bandage then grabs a cloth and as gently as possible wipes away the blood on her thigh that is keeping him from seeing the wound fully, apologizing as he does so.
She finches a little but doesn’t try to fully get away until he grabs a needle injection making her eyes widen and she tries pushing herself back off the table only to be met with the male omega behind her stopping her.
“It’s just lidocaine.” Minho puts it back down on the tray and holds up his hands again. “I need to numb the area.”
She frantically shakes her head no still trying to figure out how to get off the table but with both men on either side of her she can’t.
“Hey, relax.” Felix intensifies his scent for her. “Min can stitch you up without it.” He looks at the beta for confirmation.
Minho hesitates looking at the frightened girl who is staring at the needle. “Yeah, I can… But it’s gonna hurt a lot more if I do it without numbing you first.”
Her breathing is heavy and occasionally falters because of her ribs as she still stares at the needle making Minho sigh already knowing she won’t give in to the numbing. He slowly grabs the injection while watching her and shows her as he undoes the needle off of it and holds both of them up in his hands before walking over to the counter, placing both parts down and comes back without it.
“We’ll do it without a local anesthetic then.” He grabs a towel and places it on her lap. “For you to bite down on, it’s gonna hurt.”
Y/n’s shaky hands grab the towel slowly as Felix and Minho both grab rolling chairs to sit on both sides of her and Minho turns on the overhead light pointing it at her thigh. Felix leans on the table and holds his hand out a little without actually touching her.
“If you need to squeeze my hand, go ahead.”
She continues to watch the beta closely as he once again wipes down her wound before grabbing a curved needle and ties a weird thread to it before placing a steady hand on her upper thigh and looks at her face. “Bite down on the towel.”
She moves the towel to her mouth and bites down on it as Minho starts stitching her up. She takes in a sharp breath from the pain and lays back with her eyes closed tight, trying not to move her leg as she feels him squeeze it when she moves too much. After a moment she grabs Felix’s hand and holds onto it as tightly as she can, groaning from the pain.
“You’re doing good.” Felix whispers as he holds her hand with both of his, hoping Minho can finish up quickly.
After several long, agonizing minutes of Minho apologizing and Felix giving her encouraging words, it's finally over.
“I just need to wrap it up again.” Minho says as he looks at her breathing heavily, laying flat on the table. She takes the towel out of her mouth but continues holding Felix’s hands in her other as she tries to calm down a bit as the beta bends her knee and wraps her thigh, looking up at her face occasionally to make sure she’s okay every time her leg twitches. “And we’re done.”
Minho steps away from her as he cleans everything up. Felix doesn’t move until she starts to sit up and he puts a hand behind her back but doesn’t touch her just in case. Once she’s sat back up she breathes for a few minutes looking at her wrapped leg before realizing she’s still holding the omega's hand and quickly pulls hers out as if he had burned her.
“Sorry.” He mumbles before reaching over her to grab a foam tube like thing to put under her knee. But just as he grabs the tube she grabs his arm making him freeze and look at her. “What’s wrong?”
Y/n of course stays silent though and he sees her staring down at his wrist. He looks at where she’s staring, his sleeve on his left arm rode up a bit showing his L143 tattoo. He holds his breath and lets her pull his arm closer to her before turning to Minho who’s watching everything.
After a moment she puts her left wrist next to his so their tattoos are together before she lifts her head up to face Felix. He gives her a sad look and nods seeing all the emotions and questions she has in her eyes.
“I was an arena omega as well.” He speaks softly. “The alpha from earlier, Chan, he saved me. It’s a long story but I promise you you’re safe here.” He can see she has so many questions but he knows she won’t be asking anytime soon so he’ll try to explain as much as he can. “Besides Hyunjin we have another omega, Jisung. Neither of them were ever sent to the arenas so they’ve always avoided the hunts, having been protected by the pack.”
She then looks over at Minho who has finished cleaning up the supplies he used letting them sanitize and is just silently watching them as he leans on the counter. “Minho helped me when I first came here too.”
“Lix had a lot of similar injuries that you have.” Minho says softly. “Bruised and cut up too, back injury, typical abuse you see from the hunts. He was in and out of it for the first three days as we waited for the drugs to get out of his system. You were out for four.”
“I was terrified when I woke up here too.” Felix tries holding her hand again and sighs when she lets him and sits back on the chair. “It was about three years ago. Even though Chan bought me after the hunt, I was scared of him when I woke up. I was always told that alphas buy omegas but you are still never truly free of the abuse and torment. But this pack is different. I met Hyunjin and Jisung and when I realized they’ve been hidden here for years, being kept out of the system, I knew it was different.”
“We also won’t keep you here if you don’t want to.” The beta speaks up. “If you want to try and locate your family and think they’ll help you then we’ll take you to them once you’re healed. If not, you are more than welcome to stay here.”
“We have three overly protective alphas who will do anything for you and another beta besides Min.” Felix beams as he speaks about his pack. “And the neighboring packs have a few unregistered omegas as well. We all help and protect each other here. There are a lot of people who will make sure you never have to go back there.”
She gives a small nod in understanding as she wonders if she can possibly locate her family again.
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Chapter 1
Chan groans when his phone goes off with an alert from the motion detectors around the border of his territory. It’s been happening more often recently. He looks at the security app to see it’s one of the motion detectors from the northern side going off again and he huffs out a sigh.
“Guards again?” Changbin asks from where he sits at the other end of the couch on his laptop.
“Probably.” Chan mutters as he continues looking at the app, waiting for another sensor to go off indicating that the intruder crossed back over the territory line after seeing the signs the pack have placed on the trees indicating that it’s private property. “It’s from the northern border so the only explanation is it being a guard having gone too far from the compound.”
“I understand it's a new arena but you would think they’d train their guards better than to patrol too far from the compound and cross into our territory all the time.” Changbin sighs as he waits for Chan to confirm that the intruder is gone.
“I’ll go back up there again tomorrow and tell them if they do this again I’m setting up traps on our borders and they can’t do shit if any of their guards get hurt in one of them.” Chan grumbles still watching the sensors on his phone.
“There shouldn’t be a fucking arena there anyways.” Changbin growls, tossing his laptop off his lap and onto the couch. “That land was mutual roaming grounds for all of the surrounding packs.”
“There was nothing we could do to stop the government from taking that land. It didn’t actually belong to any of our packs.” Chan sighs tired from having to have this conversation all the time. “Hongjoong, Gun-il, Jae-beom and I have been looking for new lands we can claim. BamBam told Jae-beom and I that the packs, Twice, Itzy, and BTOB have quite a bit of unclaimed territory further south that we could take. We won’t have as much land as we do here but we’ll be away from the arenas at least. Minho thinks the BTS Pack is over that way too. So we’ll have a lot of our allies at least.”
Changbin nods glad that their allies have their backs in helping them get away from their current situation. “Has the guard finally left yet?”
Chan furrows his brows and clenches his jaw as he refreshes his security app, showing no new sensors going off since the first one.
“No, let’s go check it out.”
The two males get up and walk out the back door towards the northern border of their territory. Half way through the backyard Chan’s phone goes off indicating a new sensor has been triggered. But it isn’t the northern border motion detector, but one they have at the top of the hill to indicate either someone has come too far onto their lands, or if one of their omegas goes up the hill when they’re not supposed to.
“The hill’s sensor just went off.” The oldest male growls now angry that people are coming this far into their territory without permission.
“They really can’t pay attention to fucking signs can they?” Changbin huffs and throws his arms up.
“Hyung!” Jeongin jogs up to them from the house. “The sensors.”
“We know, pup. We’re heading there now.” Chan knows the youngest must have heard the security system inside beeping when the omega’s safety sensor went off and came running as fast as he could. “We have an intruder from the north.”
Jeongin growls as they walk through the dark field towards the hill. As they get closer there's a yelp from farther to their left then the stench of blood that makes their stomachs drop.
“Did they get hurt?” Jeongin looks at the two older males, confused.
Changbin, without thinking, runs ahead wanting to scare whoever made it this far. Just as he gets to the tree line at the bottom of the hill he hears leaves rustling and the smell of blood is stronger. Too strong. It’s when he hears a barely audible female whine does he see the curled up body under the crescent moon’s light. “Over here!”
The body moves a little as he runs over and slides to a stop next to it not expecting to see a girl heavily bleeding from her thigh. Through the stench he can smell her omega’s scent.
“Shit.” He curses as he hears the other two getting closer and applies pressure to her thigh making her whimper but her pants are soaked through with blood as well as the leaves around her. “She’s an omega, and she’s lost a lot of blood.”
Chan kneels over the girl’s head seeing Changbin’s hands covered in the crimson liquid and looks to Jeongin who is standing there horrified. “Call the house and tell them to set up the medical bay.” Once he sees the pup pull out his phone he turns back to the girl, placing a gentle hand on her cheek. “Can you hear me? We’re gonna help you, you’re safe now.”
“Min?” Jeongin is frantic on the phone. “Chan says to set up the med bay… No, we’re all fine but we’ve found an omega… Yeah, get Lix… And hyung, she’s bleeding a lot…”
Chan feels her move her head a little and look at her eyes seeing them foggy and unfocused. “Hey, stay with me.”
“Hyung, we need to move her. Now.” Jeongin says, hanging up the call after Minho heard Chan in the background and knew the girl wouldn’t last much longer if she wasn’t brought back to the house immediately.
“I’ve got her.” Changbin wraps his jacket over her thigh to help slow the bleeding before placing his arms under her shoulders and knees and lifts her making sure her thigh is pressed against his torso. The smallest of whimpers coming from her lips.
“Let’s go.” Chan nods and they all start running back to the house.
She goes limp in Changbin's arms, scaring him for a moment but keeps his composure as he can see and feel her still breathing. He doesn’t stop glancing down at her until they rush through the back door and see the doors to the medical bay thrown open and the fluorescent lights shining into the main area.
“Put her on the table.” Felix rushes them into the room where Minho is putting on gloves as Changbin places her on the metal table in the center of the room.
“She passed out not long after I had picked her up.” Changbin explains as Felix is already cutting off the jacket that was tied around her thigh then her pant leg revealing what looks to be a bullet wound.
“Fuck.” Minho curses as he grabs a few tools, the others standing near her head watching. “Lix, get fluids going. We don’t know what her blood type is so we won’t be able to set up a transfusion until possibly later. I’m gonna have to find this damn bullet.”
The younger one sticks an IV into her arm as Minho ties a tourniquet around her upper thigh as tight as he can get it.
“Guys.” Felix whimpers as he has the underside of her arm facing up showing O13 tattooed on her left inner wrist. “She’s from the hunt.”
“I had a suspicion.” Chan groans looking at the tattoo in malice. “But I’ve never heard of anyone being able to escape one of the arenas before.”
“As far as we know, she is the first.” Jeongin whispers.
Minho wipes away as much blood as he can before he stretches open the wound a little to try and find the bullet with a pair of forceps. He doesn’t get to do much digging before the girl bolts upright, reaching down to stop him as she squints her eyes in the blinding lights of the room. “Hold her down.”
Chan and Changbin jump quickly to push her onto her back again at the barked out order. She struggles a little until she is fully laying on her back but even with the two holding down her upper body she’s still moving her legs not allowing Minho to work.
“We’re trying to help you.” Chan hopes she is aware enough to understand that they aren’t going to actually harm her. But of course she doesn’t stop thrashing.
“Sedate her.” Minho looks at Felix whose eyes widen and whimpers.
“But it could cause a reaction with whatever she might have been given before.”
“It’ll be better than her continuing to fight us and possibly bleeding out.” Minho is stern. “Sedate her. We’ll deal with any kind of reaction she might have later.”
Felix reluctantly grabs a needle and a sedative before administering it into her upper arm. It takes a moment before her movements weaken and after a minute she finally goes limp. The two holding her down hesitate before slowly releasing her. Everyone sighs once they’ve let go of her and she doesn't move.
“What’s going on in here?” Seungmin stands in the doorway, his mouth agape, Jisung behind him rubbing his eye, obviously having been woken up from sleep.
“Go back to bed, guys.” Chan ushers them out as Minho immediately gets back to work before it’s too late.
“Do you think they actually drugged her with stuff?” Jeongin asks no one in particular after the oldest has left with the other two.
Felix who is still standing on the other side of the table watching Minho finally pull the bullet out of her thigh starts absentmindedly rubbing his inner left wrist. “They did it to me all the time.”
Jeongin’s expression softens as he goes over to the male omega and wraps his arms around him who leans into the youngest's embrace. Everyone in the pack knows what Felix has gone through and how it still affects him. The hunt is a very touchy subject for him and he likes to avoid it as much as he can.
Minho looks up at the two and knows Felix needs to be kept occupied for the moment. “Lix, test for her blood type and see what we have for a transfusion.”
The omega nods before getting to work as the older stitches up the girl’s thigh.
“I’m gonna go shower and change.” Changbin looks down at his blood covered clothes. “And probably burn these.”
“Good idea.” Jeongin nods before looking at the still form on the metal table. “She can't stay in those clothes either.”
“Go get one of Hyunjin's shirts.” Felix says as he tests her blood. “I’ll change her after we get her cleaned up. We don’t know how long she’s gonna be knocked out so if she’s just in a baggy shirt we can keep her modest but still have better access to check her wounds periodically.”
“Why one of Jinnies?” Changbin raises an eyebrow as they watch the two work.
“You know I would have normally said yours or Chans but if she’s from the hunt she’s not gonna want to wake up wearing a shirt that smells like an alpha.” Felix sighs. “And out of us omegas Hyun is the tallest so he’ll have shirts that will be bigger for her to wear like a dress.”
The two nod before leaving the room.
“You could have said to get mine or Seungmins.” Minho retorts as he ties off her suture.
“She probably won't be too fond of a beta’s scent either.” The younger of the two moves to their fridge they keep blood in and grabs a bag. “You remember how I acted when I was brought here the first night.”
“Yeah.” Minho whispers as he starts gently wiping away the blood on her thigh as Felix gets the blood transfusion going.
Meanwhile, Jeongin goes upstairs to Hyunjin’s room to find the omega still sound asleep. He’s not surprised, he would be the only one to be able to sleep through all the commotion that has been happening for the last hour.
“Innie?” Hyunjin stirs as Jeongin searches through the closet looking for the biggest shirt, even though any of them would be pretty big on the girl. “Aren’t I usually the one rifling through your closet? What are you doing?”
“Lixie told me to get one of your shirts for the omega we have in the med bay.”
“Omega?” Hyunjin shoots up as Jeongin finds the shirt he was looking for. “Why didn’t anyone wake me?”
“To be fair, we’ve been a little busy with her. Besides, Ji and Minnie managed to be woken by just the sound of us frantically keeping her alive.” The youngest starts to leave knowing the other will follow. “It’s not our fault you sleep like the dead.”
“Still, someone could have woken me.”
“I did, just now.” They both make it to the bottom of the stairs and Jeongin starts to head to the med bay and the moment Hyunjin gets a whiff of her scent mixed with blood he starts to run after the young alpha but doesn’t make it far.
“Woah.” Chan stops him. “I know you want to see her but you know the rules.”
“Unless I am the one needing attention, only alphas are allowed in the room with Felix and Minho.” Hyunjin whines. “But hyung, she’s an omega.”
“And if she’s from the hunt wouldn’t it be better for us to be in there instead of you alphas stinking up the room?” Jisung argues once again.
“She’s an arena omega?" Hyunjin's eyes widen as he looks between his pack alpha and doors that are keeping him from seeing the girl. “How?”
Ever since Chan had bought Felix from one of the arenas in the city the pack had all agreed none of the alphas would ever sign back up to participate since they’ve all done their required one rut in an arena.
“We think she escaped.” Chan rubs the bridge of his nose. “She set off the northern border sensor and we found her at the bottom of the hill.”
“Please hyung, let us see her!” Jisung whimpers and even seungmin fidgets wanting to see the new omega.
“Alright.” Chan sighs looking at all of them. “Once she’s cleaned up you guys can go see her, but after that no one is going in there except for Felix and Minho to tend to her. Try to keep the scents at a minimum in there so as to not overwhelm her when she wakes up.”
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“Min.” Felix whimpers making the beta turn to see the girl now that Felix has taken her dirty clothes off of her revealing the amount of bruising and cuts littering her body.
Minho sighs and feels at her ribs where the worst of her bruising is while Felix cleans up the cuts on her face then the rest of her body and checks for infection.
“She’s got a cracked rib for sure.”
“She must have been a part of the selection for yesterday's games.” The omega’s hand shakes as he cleans up her skin.
“Lixie, if you need to take a moment it’s okay.” The older male grabs his hand, stopping the tremor. “I can finish from here.”
Felix shakes his head no while taking in a deep breath. “I just wanna get her cleaned up and off this table and comfortable in the bed.”
Minho watches him for a moment before nodding and helps clean her up before Felix gets the baggy shirt on her and reattaches the tubes for the fluids and blood transfusion back into the IV in her arm. He then picks the leaves out of her hair and brushes it as best as he can.
The beta moves her from the exam table over to the small medical bed in the room. Felix makes sure she’s warm as he tucks the blankets around her and pushes some hair out of her face.
“Chan said everyone wants to see her before it’s gonna be only you and I allowed in here until she wakes up.” The beta watches him knowing how hard all of this is. “I’m sorry I made you sedate her. But you have to understand that if you didn-”
“I know.” Felix sighs as he steps back from the bed and looks at the older male. “I just know how they like to drug the omegas every day, kept us docile. And sometimes whatever they gave us the day we were to participate in the hunt would cause a reaction with the previous drugs. So if she did participate in yesterday's games like we think, the sedation can make her really sick.”
“And we’ll take care of her, don’t worry.” Minho moves to him and cradles his cheek.
A knock on the door causes them to turn and see Chan poking his head in. “Everyones getting antsy to see her.”
“They can come in.” Minho says pulling away from the male omega as the rest of the pack makes their way in, all eyes going to the girl on the bed.
“She’s so small.” Jisung whimpers as he goes to Felix and they hug each other.
“And she’s an arena omega?” Hyunjin asks and watches Minho as he pulls her left arm out from under the blanket and gasps when he reveals the tattooed number on the inside of her wrist.
“O13?” Seungmin looks at the alphas confused.
“The arena is called the Oscar Arena.” Changbin grumbles with his arms crossed over his chest. “The O probably represents that.”
“But the arena has only been here for a few months.” Jeongin looks at her wrist more closely. “And she doesn’t seem much younger than me.”
“Was she transferred from another arena to the Oscar one?” Jisung looks at all of his packmates from the youngest male omega’s arms.
Felix shakes his head. “Theres no sign of a previous tattoo removal to give her the new arena number.”
Minho looks at her wrist for a moment longer before placing it back on the bed and pulls the blankets back over her. “Or she presented late or had managed to stay unregistered until a few months ago.”
“We’re gonna keep her right?” Hyunjin gives them all hopeful eyes.
“She’s not a pet.” Seungmin gets closer to the girl, looking over her beaten and battered form. “But what are we going to do with her?”
“We’re not sending her back.” Felix goes wide eyed.
“Relax.” Chan steps forward to defuse the situation. “We aren’t going to send her anywhere. It will be her choice in the end.”
“What do you mean?” Jisung looks up with worry.
“We aren’t going to make her stay if she doesn’t want to.” Chan touches both of the omega’s cheeks and rubs his thumb soothingly over their skin. “If she stays or not will be her decision when she wakes up.”
“She shouldn’t be going anywhere with her injuries.” Minho interjects.
Chan sighs. “I know that, calm down.” He looks each and every one of his pack mates over. “We’ve been through this with an arena omega before.” Felix whimpers a little, making the alpha pull him to his chest. “We know she’ll be scared when she wakes up. Lixie will explain to her that she is safe here while she heals and after that she can decide what to do. We’ll take her anywhere she wants to go, I’m sure her family is still out there willing to take her in now that she’s escaped.”
“What if they’re not?” Hyunjin moves to the girl's side and moves her hair out of her face.
“We’ll figure it out.” Chan reassures all of them. “For now, she’s asleep and safe. And we should go to bed too, it’s late.”
Everyone nods and starts filing out of the room except for Minho, Chan and Felix.
“You too Lix.”
“But what if she wakes?” The omega gives sad puppy eyes.
“Hey.” Minho grabs his hand. “Why don’t we sleep in the guest room next door? We’ll be able to hear her if she wakes up.”
Felix hesitates, looking at the girl before nodding his head and squeezes the beta’s hand back.
Minho leads him out of the med bay and Chan follows them into the guest room.
“Please get some sleep.” Chan kisses Felix’s head.
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Prologue
The hunt. Everyone learns about it their whole childhood. Many fear it. By the time you’re sixteen you’ve usually presented as one of the three sub-genders, Alpha, Beta and if you’re unlucky, Omega. In the parts of the world where the hunt is legal, the day you turn sixteen you are required to register your sub-gender. Omegas are taken from their homes and sent to the closest arena where they are kept to participate in the hunt at least once a month for the rest of their lives. Many don’t live past thirty. The only omegas who do, either live in parts of the world where the hunt is illegal or they were bought by an alpha who enjoyed them during the hunt and had enough money to be able to buy them and register them as a “free” omega. But even then the omega lives a life that is far from luxurious.
At the age of eighteen every alpha is required to participate in the hunt for at least one of their ruts. After that they can choose to continue signing up to have a chance each month to be randomly chosen to come back. Or they can never sign up again and stay as far away from it as they can. But they also lose the chance of being able to buy an omega for their pack. Betas can participate if they would like but aren’t required to. Most usually like to watch the games instead.
At first the hunt was frowned upon by most countries, used mainly as population control. Especially when the omega population spiked to an all time high fortyish years ago. But even before then omegas were never treated as equals, seen more as possessions and objects than as people. But as time went on the hunts became more popular causing alphas and betas to travel from different countries to participate. Most countries have legalized the hunt and now it's hard to go anywhere without seeing advertisements to sign up at a nearby arena for a chance to play. This causes for more arenas to be built closer together to help keep up with the amount of people wanting to play and be able to occupy all the omegas locked there.
It’s hard nowadays to be able to find anyone who is against the hunt.
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A young female runs through the dark woods that seems to go on forever. A bullet wound sending searing sharp pains from her thigh to her hip but she keeps going. Branches hit her face from the surrounding trees and bushes. There’s shouting from behind her but it sounds far enough away that she believes she can actually get away from the hell she comes from.
She looks behind her to check if lights can be seen from the guard’s flashlights that are chasing her. To her relief none are seen but before she can turn to see where she’s going she trips over a tree root. She tumbles down a hill, leaves flying up as she rolls over herself. She cries out in pain when her injured leg lands on a sharp rock lodged in the ground.
She curls in on herself once she finally stops rolling at the bottom of the hill. She knows someone had to have heard her yell. The smell of blood is worse as she moves her hand to the bullet wound in her thigh and feels warm liquid gushing out. If they can’t find her from her yelp of pain someone will be able to track the stench of her blood. That is if she doesn’t bleed out first, but either way she might as well be considered dead.
She escaped, no one has ever escaped the hunt before. When they find her, if they don’t immediately kill her, they’ll torture her, making her wish she had bled out.
“Over here!” A loud voice calls out not far from her and several footsteps come running.
The girl tries to look around her but her vision is too blurry to make anything out in the dark. She does feel the disturbance of the dirt and leaves though when someone slides next to her.
“Shit.” The same voice from before says as they touch her thigh making her whimper in pain and fear. “She’s an omega, and she’s lost a lot of blood.”
Movement near her head makes her look up to see a large blurry figure kneeling over her but she feels like she isn’t fully there, unable to try and figure out if they were a guard or not.
“Call the house and tell them to set up the medical bay.” The new person says before she faintly feels a hand get placed on her cheek. “Can you hear me? We’re gonna help you, you’re safe now.”
She faintly shakes her head as ringing starts in her ears, her vision darkening on the edges.
“Hey, stay with me.” The voice above her is frantic.
“Hyung, we need to move her. Now.” A new voice says but they sound so far away.
“I’ve got her.” The original voice speaks as she feels arms go under her and she’s lifted off the ground. She’s not sure if she even made a noise when she felt her leg throb as something covers it and is pressed against someone's body.
The girl must have passed out as she suddenly feels something stabbing her thigh and she shoots up trying to push whatever it is away but she can’t see, the lights around her are too bright. She squints trying to see but all there is are blinding lights and several shadows around her.
“Hold her down.” A new, stern voice calls out and she feels two sets of arms pushing her on her back again and holding her in place even as she thrashes to try and escape.
“We’re trying to help you.” A voice from the woods says but she doesn’t listen as she continues thrashing.
She’s an omega. No one helps omegas anymore.
“Sedate her.” The hard voice that told them to hold her down speaks again.
“But it could cause a reaction with whatever she might have been given before.” A deep voice whimpers.
“It’ll be better than her continuing to fight us and possibly bleeding out.” The first voice says. “Sedate her. We’ll deal with any kind of reaction she might have later.”
A prick is felt in her arm as something cold is injected into her body and at first she tries to continue to fight the arms holding her down but soon her body feels weak and she goes limp. First her body feels numb then she realizes the voices sound like they are in another room before everything just kind of stops. The voices, the pain, the feeling of being held down just all goes away.
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Summary:
The moment someone presents as an omega they are taken away to join the hunt. The hunt is where rutting alphas hunt omegas for sport, occasionally betas take part in the games too. Once an omega is taken to an arena against his or her will, that’s it, they live there forever unless a rich enough alpha enjoys them so much during the hunt they buy them. The main thing the hunts take pride in is that no one escapes without being bought. Until now.
Series Warnings:
Fem reader, Poly OT8 x Reader, A/B/O, MxF, MxM, Possessive SKZ, Protective SKZ, anxiety, depression, violence, cursing, fluff, comfort, angst, pet names, Smut, abo dynamics/werewolf themes (marking, aggression, etc), drug use, mentions of abuse/torture, mentions of blood, mentions of noncon, mentions of death, fear
please remember the names and faces used here are just that, names and faces, and in no way reflect the real people the characters are based after. The actions, views, personalities and characteristics of these characters do not in any way shape or form reflect their real selves. This story is all for fun so please keep it that way. No hate.
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Bit of a shorter chapter so I apologize for it. Also let me know if I should start posting Escaped The Hunt even though I haven't finished this yet.
Chapter 27
“Y/n!” Chan calls for his omega and she skips down the stairs but stops when she sees the whole pack sitting in the living room. “Come here, baby girl.”
She hesitates as she looks at everyone and Changbin opens his arms making her slowly walk over to him before he pulls her to sit on his lap facing everyone.
“What’s going on?”
“Relax pretty girl, you’re not in trouble.” The head alpha squeezes her waist until her body untenses.
“It’s just a normal pack meeting.” Felix gives her a big smile and she sighs in relief having thought she either did something wrong or something happened. “We have them pretty often, especially when one of the alphas are about to start their rut, and we’ll have them before your heats too.”
“Sorry to freak you out, forgot that this would be your first official pack meeting.” Chan reaches over Seungmin and squeezes her hand.
“Someones about to start their rut?” Y/n looks over all four alphas unsure who as she’s never been around an alpha during their rut, not even during a pre-rut.
It’s when she looks at Jeongin who is fidgeting in his seat and avoiding eye contact does she remember the conversation she had with him and Seungmin about how the youngest alpha goes feral during his rut. She didn’t realize they meant his would be starting soon.
“Innie will be starting his rut within the next few days or so.” Felix pulls the youngest mate to him who melts in his embrace.
“He always for sure likes having me, Lix and Chan during his ruts.” Hyunjin speaks up. “But during the process he sometimes wants someone else as well.”
“Would you be okay if he chooses you?” Seungmin touches her hand lightly.
“You don’t have to agree if you aren’t comfortable. You’re allowed to opt out.” Changbin squeezes her hips again.
“It’s why we have these meetings beforehand.” Jisung smiles. “So we can all be on the same page before it starts and discuss any reasons for opting out.”
“You guys have opted out before?” The omega is shocked by this having assumed she wouldn’t have any choice.
“Of course, kitten.” Minho gives her a worrying look. “Everyone has a choice, including you. Sungie opted out of several of our ruts before because he just couldn’t mentally handle it at the time.”
“Changbin and Seungmin opted out of my rut once.” Chan explains. “Bin had just finished his and Minnie had taken the brunt of it.”
“You’re allowed to opt out for any reason.” Jeongin finally speaks up but is looking at the floor instead of any of them. “I opted out of my own rut for the first one I had with the pack.”
“What?” She’s confused and looks at Chan for more information since he’s got a smirk.
“When Jeongin had his first rut with us was when he first presented.” The pack alpha chuckles. “At the time he only had my claiming bite but Lix and I were in Australia when he presented. We all thought he was a beta, including Innie.”
“It was a shock for all of us.” Jeongin mumbles as the male omega holds him.
“We had all offered to be with him during it.” Seungmin looks at the youngest with passion. “But he refused saying he wasn’t going to have his first time with all of us be during a stupid rut when he has no control. So he locked himself in his room for several days.”
“Channie and I tried getting back as soon as possible when Min called us.” Felix nuzzles into Jeongins neck. “But we weren’t able to get an earlier flight sadly.”
“You spent your rut alone even though you had all your mates willing to go through it with you?” Y/n squirms a little in Changbin’s lap wanting to go hug the youngest alpha but isn’t sure if he’ll accept it at the moment.
“Us alphas understood why he didn’t want to.” Minho explains. “We know what it’s like during our ruts, all we want is to fuck our mates.”
“Wow, way to put it lightly Min.” Jisung hits his arm making Minho glare at him.
“But it’s different when all you want is to give your fated mates claiming bites but have no control over what you’re doing fully.” Jeongin finally looks up. “And since there weren’t fully signs that I was an alpha beforehand we didn’t get to sit down all together to talk everything out like it’s supposed to be done.”
“Jinnie had almost convinced Jeongin to let him join since they had known each other the longest, but just hadn’t given each other claiming bites yet.” Changbin points out. “But in the end Innie wouldn’t budge with his decision.”
“You didn’t have a pre-rut or anything?”
“Jeongin doesn’t have a usual type of pre-rut, we’ve learned.” Jisung curls up into Minho.
“I’m sure you’ve heard that alphas are normally a bit irritable right before their rut?” Chan smiles as he looks at the youngest alpha. “Yeah, he gets overly affectionate with everyone which I’m sure you’ve noticed he only really does that with Felix, you and maybe Jisung.”
The girl nods but now that she’s watching Jeongin, he’s been laying against Felix for a lot longer than he normally would.
“We say it’s like a calm before the storm.” Changbin jokes. “Especially since he goes…”
“Feral.” Seungmin finishes when Changbin trails off. “He goes fucking feral during his rut.” It takes the beta a moment to realize everyone else is glaring at him for announcing that. “What? He does. And I’ve already told her that he does a few days ago so me saying it now isn’t going to change her decision on if she’ll join or opt out.”
“It’s true. Innie does get feral during it.” Chan sighs, still slightly glaring at Seungmin.
“You should know he completely destroyed everything in his room during his first rut.” Minho pulls Jisung more into his arms and lays back against the couch a little bit more.
“We think it was more because he spent it alone though.” Hyunjin reassures her. “He hasn’t done as much damage since, so.”
“As much damage?” She eyes all of them warily.
“There’s still ripped sheets and pillows of course.” Jisung shrugs his shoulders. “And always bruising after words.”
“Listen, we’re not telling you all of this to scare you pup.” Chan leans in front of Seungmin again and nudges the omega’s chin to look at him. “We just want you to know the full extent of what could happen so you can decide if you are comfortable with helping or not.”
“I know.” She nods her head. “I’m not scared, promise.” She then turns to look at Felix and Jeongin again with a small smile. “But I want to know Innie, do you want me to join? I want to know now while you still have a clear head because I know that what you say during your rut could be something you aren’t actually wanting when your brain is all fuzzy.”
He looks up at her with a bit of a blush. “I’ve been thinking about that myself actually. I didn’t want any of the others during my first rut because I wasn’t claimed by any of them or had a claim on them yet. I only had been with Chan and he was out of the country. But for some reason it’s different with you.”
“How so Jeonginnie?” Felix sits them both up a bit.
“With you all during my pre-rut I just want to curl up and be with you guys.” Jeongin looks down at his hands. “But my alpha has been telling me to just take Y/n and lock her in my room and don’t let anyone in. It’s actually been a bit hard seeing her sitting in Bin’s lap without wanting to just tear her away from him.”
Minho laughs a bit. “That's your true alpha surfacing, Innie. I felt that with Jisung during my first rut with the pack."
“I did too with Felix and Jisung.” Chan smiles.
“And me with Seungmin and Hyunjin.” Changbin speaks up. “It’s completely normal. It’s just like how you’ve always kind of favored Hyunjin, Felix and Chan during your ruts.”
“And just as the rest of us favors one or two for sure every rut.” Chan pulls Seungmin into his arms who tries to pull away but Chan is too strong.
Changbin then leans forward to whisper in Y/n’s ear. “Why don’t you go to him, pretty girl. He looks ready to get his claws on you.”
She looks back at the alpha and he pushes her lightly off of his lap catching the youngest male's attention as he sits up fully, looking ready to pounce. Instead he just reaches a hand out and she takes it before he’s roughly pulling her onto his lap and curling her around his body making her giggle.
“Hi Innie.”
“Jeeze Jeongin, be gentle.” Minho says as he moves his hand off of Jisung to rub Y/n’s arm only to get growled at by the alpha.
“Mine.” The youngest growls, making Minho flinch away as it’s the first time Jeongin has ever done something like that.
“Calm down In.” Felix rubs his arm and wraps himself around both of them which Jeongin allows. “So does this mean you want her to join you?”
Jeongin looks at Y/n with wary eyes. “If you want to then I do too.”
“I’ll be there.” She smiles, making him nuzzle into her hair as he holds her close to him and snuggles back into the other omega a bit.
“You have to remember though that this is her first time with an alpha during a rut.” Chan, always the voice of reason, speaks up. “I know you won't like it but she won’t be able to stay with you your entire rut, we’ll still switch out when we believe it's time.”
“I know.” He whispers. “My alpha won't like it but I think if you remove her when I’m sleeping or something then I’ll less likely fight back.”
“Alright, now that everyone is in agreement for Jeongin’s rut, we have one more thing to discuss.” Chan says before looking down at Seungmin in his arms then at Hyunjin. “Betas had something they wanted to bring up with the pack?”
“Yes and no.” Hyunjin answers confusing everyone but Seungmin. “It’s more Y/n wanted to bring something up.”
“Y/nnie?” Minho looks at said girl who is being held captive by the youngest alpha and other omega still.
“Umm.” She blushes when everyone looks at her and hides herself in Jeongin’s chest.
Seungmin sighs and gets out of the alphas hold. “She told us about a friend of hers that she got back in contact with who was the only one outside of her family and doctors who knew she was an omega.”
“He’s wanting to pick her up and take her into town to hang out one day.” Hyunjin continues to explain.
“He?” Jeongin growls, squeezing the girl in his arms tightly.
“His family and our friends said we were basically twins.” She whimpers, feeling like she’s in trouble with everyone, her scent souring.
“Hey, calm down.” Felix whispers, but she’s not sure if it was towards her or to the alpha who’s got her in a death grip.
“He’s a beta.” Seungmin eyes all the alphas who don’t seem too fond of this development. “She’s allowed in town with Jinnie and I, this wouldn’t be different.”
“You guys are pack.” Chan points out with authority in his voice.
Hyunjin moves to the edge of the couch. “She’s known him since they were twelve, he’s known her longer than us and has protected her all this time.”
The two betas can see that the alphas still aren’t convinced and Hyunjin looks to Felix in desperation.
“Would you let Minhyuk take her out for a day?” Felix looks Chan straight in the eyes.
“Of course, he’s her brother.”
“And her friend is like her twin.” Jisung forces his way out of Minho’s hold.
Minho turns to Chan. “They aren’t wrong.”
Chan still doesn’t seem convinced and Jeongin's tight hold on Y/n shows he isn’t either.
“We want his number and to talk to him first.” Changbin finally speaks up, deciding to take charge in the situation. “Then we’ll decide if he can come over for us to properly meet him and that he understands our rules before he takes you for the day.”
Y/n squeals a little and jumps out of Jeongin’s arms in excitement as she pulls her phone from her back pocket. “Thank you. I’ll send you guys his number now and warn him that it’s you guys. His name is Seeun and I promise you won't regret this.”
All four of their phones go off with a text from her with Seeun’s number. Jeingin grumbles from where he lays against Felix as he looks at it. Minho and Chan give each other a look before looking at Changbin, still not thrilled about all of this.
“Also, Y/n, go pack whatever you need for the next few days as you are being kicked out of your room.” Hyunjin stands up wrapping an arm around her.
“You got the rest of the paints?”
“Binnie took me this morning!” He pulls her to go upstairs.
“I call she sleeps in my room.” Jisung jumps up out of Minho’s lap running after them.
“YAH!” Felix pushes Jeongin off of him to run after them. “No fair, I want her to sleep with me.”
“I’m the one painting her room.” Hyunjin calls back to them. “If it’s anyone she sleeps with it’s me.”
The four alphas stay put looking at each other with Seungmin, making the beta roll his eyes. “Come on guys, seriously, she’s just wanting to spend time with her friend.”
Chan sighs. “We know, we’re just worried about her being away from us.”
“You can’t keep her stuck in the house forever.” Seungmin stands up to go join the others upstairs to fight over who the female omega is to sleep with while her room is being painted.
A/n: I've started posting Escaped The Hunt, it's on my masterlist
I promise I'm not dead. I've just had some major writers block. I've got about half of chapter 27 of Beautifully Cruel World done and just haven't been able to finish it no matter how many times I've sat down to do so. So then I tried working on my new story, Escape The Hunt, which I'll hopefully get to start posting soon but even that I'm stumped on. I tried motivating myself by reading 5 books in the span of 2 weeks but that didn't help much. I recommend reading Alchemised by SenLinYu though. That book tore my soul out, it was soo good. But I promise I'm trying to write and will hopefully be able to give you guys something soon
