"You are the first one who reaches me out from the solitude, you take my hand and pull me out from the darkness called loneliness. As I eagerly grabbed your hand I didn't realize what an ill-fated tragedy was waiting for us."

-Kim Mingyu-

***

Little Mingyu was excited, he heard from his nanny that his parents would be going home today and they would stay a way longer than usual. Finally . He was eagerly waiting for his parents' arrival but even after they were physically here, not far from Little Mingyu's reach, they were still unreachable.

It broke his little heart to see his parents were so near yet so far.

They were so busy with something (definitely work related) until they didn't once check up on Mingyu's condition. Mingyu tried to reach them first, he was sitting in front of their office's door, waiting for them to finish the job and greeted him. He is their son, right? Even though he knew that he never became their priority, they still love him as a son, right?

As he was patiently waiting in front of their office's room, he heard that some people would come to his place tonight. His parents' new business partner.

The door was opened in front of him and he saw his mother who opened it.

"Mother!"

His mother looked startled by Mingyu's appearance but still nodded in his direction. She was busy with the documents in her hands, so she didn't give her full attention to her son who was already waiting there for three hours. "Hi. How are you?"

Mingyu smiled again and wanted to answer her question, but before he could open his mouth his mother said something again. "Our friends will be visiting our place for dinner, they will bring their sons. Please act friendly and polite to them, yeah?"

Then, his mother walked away from him with her eyes still glued to the documents, not seeing Mingyu at all. This act hurted him so bad, Mingyu ran away from there and cried almost all day long in the house tree that was made for him in his back garden.

He heard when his nanny searched for him, but he didn't care. He wouldn't go down and attend that damned dinner. Why should he care about his parents' agenda when they did not care about him at all? They didn't come home for 4 months and 11 days... Little Mingyu was missing them so badly.

The sky turned dark and he was still hiding in the house tree, his head hurted from crying too much and his condition was disgusting with snots and tears everywhere on his face.

"Oh! There is someone here!" Mingyu looked up from his position and saw someone was trying to get inside the house tree. Mingyu could smell a hint of vanilla and warm coconut and he was wondering who this omega was?

When the omega was present in front of him, Mingyu was shocked by how beautiful he was. His body was a little bigger than him, maybe because he was older? His skin tone was way paler than him and his eyes who were looking at him curiously made his heart beated in a very strange way. His eyes were so deep and little Mingyu was feeling something while looking at those eyes.

"I guess you are the son of this family?"

Oh.

Mingyu remembered his mother's words from before. The family who visited his house would also bring their sons. Plural? This omega was one of them?

"Yeah, what are you doing here?"

The omega took place to sit beside him in this crampy house tree.

"I'm bored to see how my parents always talk about my twin's brother at the dinner table and completely forget about me so I escaped from there with the excuse of going to the toilet. I lost my way and found this back garden where you were hiding."

Mingyu gave the omega his sad smile. "So we both are the forgotten sons from our parents."

Somehow Mingyu could understand this omega's feeling.

"You too? You are the only son of this family, right? Why did they forget about you?"

The omega looked at his eyes, he was wondering, but Mingyu didn't know what he found there but he didn't ask more and just changed the topic to something else.

"Can I know your name? You are definitely an alpha, I can smell you from below. By the way, you smell good."

It's the first time someone said that he smelled good.

"Mingyu, my name is Kim Mingyu."

Mingyu let out his hand and the omega beside him grabbed it happily.

"My name is Jeon Wonwoo."

Even his name is pretty.

Mingyu smiled.

Little Wonwoo also smiled back at the alpha. He looked at Mingyu's face and he really wanted to hug the alpha so badly, but it's not a polite move so he held himself. Little Mingyu looked like he was already crying for so long until his face was swollen, there were snots running on his nose and his eyes were so red. His body was pretty small and skinny. Wonwoo didn't know why but he felt bad for this alpha and for the things that were hurting his heart.

He somehow felt so connected with Little Mingyu and he wanted to help him even for little things.

Why did this handsome alpha ruin his handsomeness with tears and snots?

He wanted to see the best version of him.

"Do you have a phone?" Wonwoo suddenly asked and Mingyu was definitely confused by the question.

"Yes, I am, why?"

"Want to exchange our numbers?" Wonwoo pulled out his phone. "So next time, whenever you want to cry, you can call me. Don't cry alone in this dark and empty place. My parents didn't really care where I go and what I do so I can go to your place if you called, as long as you open the door for me. I will accompany you."

Little Mingyu was looking at him for so long, he didn't say anything. He looked like he wanted to cry again.

Oh no.

Did Wonwoo say the wrong things?

For Little Mingyu, it was the first time someone really asked him if he wanted to be accompanied by. Even though he was already nine years old, he didn't have a lot of friends since he was homeschooling, the only people he interacted with was only his teacher who came to his house to teach him or his nanny. But they both will be gone after their duty end. Mingyu was only their responsibility to take care, but they never really asked him something outside their working hours.

So whenever he wanted to cry, he always cried alone here on this dark and empty house tree. Because loneliness was his only friend.

But a stranger found him here, he reached his hand to him, and out of duty, he asked him something he never got from anyone else.

So, someone finally found him.

It felt good to be found, it gave him a very good feeling.

Mingyu smiled brightly, he no longer wanted to cry.

"Hyung, please be my friend. I will do anything to keep you as my friend!" Mingyu said cheerily and Wonwoo smiled back.

And it was their beginning.

The thing was, not only Little Mingyu was found by Little Wonwoo, but it also came vice versa. Wonwoo, even though he had his brother and his parents near him everyday, he also felt so lonely. No one in his house he could talk to without feeling irritated. His shining and bright twin brother always gave him this envious feeling, his parents who always looked at his brother first than him also did not give him a comfortable feeling. He couldn't talk and act like he wanted to.

But with this alpha kid named Mingyu, he could be a ten years old child that can talk, play, and act at his age. After two months of contacting each other with messages and phone calls and once a week he will visit Mingyu's house to play, he felt so comfortable with him. It's weird how he could feel so connected to Mingyu as if it meant to be.

Also for Little Mingyu, the only thing he was expecting every single day was only an older omega whose name is Jeon Wonwoo. His messages, his voice, his appearance whenever he visited Mingyu's house. It made him live eagerly, it made him wake from his bed with a smile on his face, it made him less expecting his parents to exist in his life which he knew would never come.

Without him realizing it, his world was full of the sweet vanilla and warm coconut scent.

Today he brought a new toy. He wanted to show it off to his Hyung because today he was supposed to visit his house. But Wonwoo didn't come and also didn't give him any notices so Mingyu was restless all day long. He called again and again until one time, someone answered his calls.

It's not Wonwoo. The voice was different.

"Hello... Mingyu?"

"Who is this?"

"You play with my brother all the time but you never once want to know who his twin brother is?"

Ah, Wonwoo's twin older brother.

Who was his name? Wonwoo didn't really like talking about him whenever they talked. And Mingyu kinda understood why, once, he poured all his feelings for his brother and his parents and how they acted to his little friend, Mingyu. Wonwoo was also facing the same loneliness with him, that's why Mingyu and Wonwoo could understand each other better.

"Wonho."

Ah, right.

"Wonho Hyung, can I know, is Wonwoo Hyung, okay? He was supposed to go to my house to play today."

Mingyu heard a loud sigh. "Wonwoo is sick right now, he can't visit you."

What? Wonwoo Hyung is sick?

An uneasy feeling started creeping from his heart, Mingyu was worried about him. "Hyung, can I visit your home?"

There was a loud silence and then Wonho said something again. "Yeah, of course you can. Come here."

Mingyu fastly ended the call and asked his nanny to search for a Vietnamese food called Pho. His Wonwoo Hyung really liked that food and because he was sick, he needed to eat something like that. Mingyu hurriedly prepared himself and not two hours later he was presented at the Jeon's family house.

Wonwoo's parents greeted him well at the front door and said thank you for his kind act.

That was the first time he visited the house and he kept visiting it for at least the next three months.

The relationship between him and Wonwoo's family was great.

Later he understood that his parents' technology company could give a perfect benefit for Wonwoo's parents' automotive company which was currently facing some problem related to the automatization of machines in their production fields. And Wonwoo's parents' company was big enough to give his parent's company big exposures. The collaboration between these two companies will shake the industry hard. That's why they kept meeting each other to discuss business.

But in the end, Little Mingyu didn't care about the things that made his parents busy as hell and forgot about him again and again. He didn't care about what was happening in both of the families, all he cared about was only his Wonwoo Hyung.

If only both Wonwoo and Mingyu were old enough to understand that behind a big move of the company's act such as a merger, acquisition, or business combination (in this case, it's business combination that will happen), there would be something they disposed of in general.

It was the previous head of production.

It was Jinmoo.

Since the ineffectiveness occurred in the production area that will be changed to a better technology from Mingyu parents' company, the head of production needed to take the responsibility. There was something wrong with the communication between Wonwoo's parents and the head of production, so in the eyes of the one who was in charge of the production of Wonwoo parents' company for over 30 years, he was fired arbitrarily.

In his eyes, he gave everything to Wonwoo's parent company in the past 30 years and they just kicked him like that after finding something more efficient and effective to replace his job. The Kim and Jeon's family didn't know that the man's life was going downhill after that layoff letter.

They didn't know that Jinmoo needed this job so badly to pay for his only daughter's treatment. His daughter was only seventeen and she was diagnosed with kidney failure so she needed to take dialysis every single week and it cost so much, their daughter's condition was also getting weak every single day and she badly needed an operation. It cost a lot until Jinmoo and his wife used all of their savings. It was also hard for Jinmoo to search for a new job at the age of 53. So they didn't have any income anymore, they tried to hang on for another 3 months after the laid off.

The daughter's operation went wrong because they could only afford to perform it in a small hospital rather than a big hospital with more advanced technology to save their daughter. The pain of losing their only daughter was too deep and undescribable. Jinmoo's wife was suffering so much from the pain, and one day Jinmoo found that his wife had ended her life to end her suffering. To follow her daughter and leave Jinmoo alone.

The pain, the loneliness, the guilt were eating him up alive until he lost his senses, until it became a nasty hatred.

He blamed it all for Wonwoo and Mingyu's parents.

It was their fault at the beginning.

His life was falling apart because of them.

So he knew where he should channel all of his pain, anger, and hatred.

He wanted revenge, he wanted to make their life miserable too.

They have children too, right?

They need to know how painful it was to lose their flesh and blood.

***

"You never go to an amusement park?"

Little Wonwoo was shocked by the information he heard.

"No one invited me to go there." Little Mingyu was sulky while still playing with Wonho's robot. After he visited the house three months ago, he became close to not only Wonwoo but also everyone in this house. Wonwoo and Wonho's parents, Auntie Im, and also Wonho. Now they were playing together in Wonho's black and white room.

And Wonho..

He looked perfectly the same as Wonwoo (Mingyu would have a hard time to differentiate them just from their photo), but they had a different vibe. Wonwoo was more chatty than Wonho, the omega's brother was a bright child and could say anything to make other people feel better. But the alpha brother was more quiet and observant, he also had this cold demeanor, but he was kind . He always gave Mingyu his toys and showed him his astronomy books.

But whenever Wonho was getting too close to Mingyu, Wonwoo would get mad.

"Don't touch what's mine!"

Mingyu remembered what Wonwoo said to Wonho when Wonho played alone with Mingyu.

"You already have our parents, don't take my friend too!"

Little Mingyu didn't know back then that Wonwoo had an inferiority complex to his brother and his protectiveness of Mingyu was because he felt that someone was finally his and not his brother's. For the first time someone was choosing him over his brother. So he protected Mingyu a lot. Wonho seemed to know that and backed off, so he could only observe alone when Wonwoo was playing with Mingyu in their house.

"This needs to be fixed, we will go to the amusement park!"

"It will be hard to have the parents' permission, though." Wonho opened his mouth for the first time that afternoon and Wonwoo rolled his eyes at him.

"Party pooper."

Wonho only shrugged his shoulders. "But I can help, you want my help? Our parents listen to me very well."

Wonwoo gave his brother full attention. "What do you want from me?"

Wonho laughed. "I don't want anything, I just offer my help. Why are you always thinking negatively of me, little brother."

"Don't call me little brother, I'm only younger than you by 3 minutes!"

Little Mingyu was a year younger than these two brothers who had the same face but argued a lot in front of him. Even though Wonwoo seemed to hate his brother so much, he could see that he wasn't. He faked that, deep down he loved his brother so much. Whenever Wonho wasn't present around him, he would grumble about his brother, about his perfectionist demeanor, about his too cold act, about the perfect scores in all his exam's subjects, about everything, but Mingyu could see the love in his eyes.

He adored his brother but he didn't want to tell it to him because everyone was already talking about his perfection.

Wonho, on the other hand, loves his little brother a little bit too much.

If he can choose one name that he loves the most, it's not his father nor his mother.

It's his twin brother.

It's Wonwoo.

They shared the same wombs, they breathed on this world almost at the same time, even though they were both born with different second gender, but he could feel all the connection with Wonwoo. Whenever he was sick, Wonho was sick too. He could feel his pain very well, physically and mentally . So he knew what Wonwoo felt inside, somehow he could feel it also.

He felt guilty for his brother who was born 3 minutes later than him, to be born in the body of an omega, and also couldn't reach the perfect score in all exam's subject as him. He understood his pain, he understood how mad he was with him all this time. He also understood that whatever he could say to him was useless because the source of his pain was him . If he could do something, he also wanted his parents to also give his brother some of his spotlight, he wanted them to love him as much as he was being loved by them.

If he could give his life so Wonwoo would have the love from their parents, he could give it away.

All this time, Wonho was always walking in the egg shells whenever he was with Wonwoo. He didn't want to bother him so he wouldn't get hurt more, the pain on his plate was enough. So when Wonwoo found Mingyu, he was relieved. Finally, Wonwoo could open up himself to someone. Someone that could make him smile and laugh freely. Someone who was comfortable enough for him to share all his deepest feelings and thoughts, because finally Wonwoo wasn't keeping that alone.

He shared his pain to someone else and they both looked like each other's consolation.

If Wonwoo must end up with an alpha in the far future, Wonho wanted it to be Mingyu.

They were perfect for each other.

There was this special connection between them that Wonho couldn't name yet but Wonho was sure they were fated to be in each other's life. Wonho can see that. It's his another special ability.

So Wonho was thankful for Mingyu's existence too.

He loved that kid as much as Wonwoo loved him.

"Mingyu, you really want to go to the amusement park?" Wonwoo asked Mingyu again. Mingyu's eyes lit in excitement.

"Yes, Hyung! You said roller coasters were fun, I want to try that too."

Wonwoo contemplated. "It was fun, indeed. Hmm... Wonho... "

Wonho smiled, finally he could help Wonwoo in something.

Three days later, they came to the biggest amusement park in this city. Of course Wonho could make their parents agree with that. He was their favorite child. They were accompanied by his mother's men to guard them. Wonho asked for not too many people to follow them because he wanted Wonwoo and Mingyu to be more free, so his mother only gave three people.

It was supposed to be enough.

But Wonho didn't expect that there would be a couple of eyes who kept following them, observing all of their movement and calculating the perfect time to abduct all the sons of Kim and Jeon family.

The chance was given to him when the Kim's heir was going to the toilet alone, his friends and the guards were waiting outside. Jinmoo was waiting for him in the inside the toilet, as if wanted to support his act, the toilet was empty. Only Kim's son and him were there.

He easily knocked the little alpha by his hands and dragged him outside to his truck with the back door. He carried this kid on his back as if he was a parent whose child was sick enough and just wanted to go home from the amusement park.

Once they were in his truck, he searched for this kid's phone and unlocked it with his devices. He searched for one name in the contact and sent the other kid a message, faking himself as if he was Mingyu.

Wonwoo Hyung, can you and Wonho Hyung come to the parking area? But please, just the two of you. I'm so ashamed if the adults found me in this state.

I'm not feeling well from the roller coaster, I keep vomiting. I didn't want to be heard by your guards so I ran to the parking area. Please come here.

When Wonwoo opened up Mingyu's message he was so panicked. He showed the message to Wonho and he didn't like the look on Wonho's face. "What?"

"Don't you find it weird?"

"Huh? Weird? No. We should go there, he wasn't feeling well and didn't want to be seen by the adults." Wonwoo whispered to his brother.

Wonho gave a judgy look. "Why?"

"Don't know, but he was crying alone in the house tree for hours before. Maybe he didn't want to be found in a bad state with adults he didn't trust."

"We are the adults he trusts?"

Wonwoo rolled his eyes toward his brother. "How can we be an adult? We are his friends. Let's go."

"So you consider me as his friend too?"

"JEON WONHO!" Wonwoo slapped his brother's back and Wonho just laughed from that.

"Ok, ok."

Wonho stepped into the guards. "Sirs, can you buy us food while we are waiting for our friend to get out of the toilet? We are hungry."

One of the guards with the scar on his face nods. "Ok, what do you want?"

Wonho told them to buy a lot of food with places that were quite far from each other and made three of them walk separately leaving him and Wonwoo alone in front of the toilet. He assured them that they would be okay and wouldn't go anywhere.

After the disappearance of the guards, Wonho walked side by side with him to the parking area to meet Mingyu who was probably still vomiting there.

"Wonho, it's rare to see you in purple clothes."

Wonho laughed a little when Wonwoo started the conversation when they walked. "You hate the color of black and white because of me, right? I want you to hate me less today. I used the clothes in your favorite color."

Wonwoo scoffed. "I still hate you either way."

Both of the twins reached the parking area in no time and searched for Mingyu, they weren't aware that the same couple of eyes were already seeing them with a smirk on his face. He walked carefully toward them when they walked between the cars and he fastly grabbed them and knocked them in the necks. Because the position was hidden, he easily carried them away to the truck and once he made sure three of them were inside his truck, he threw aways all of their phones and drove the truck away.

It was the beginning of the misery.

For all of them.

***

[Trigger warning, heavy contents of abduction, torture, mention of killing]

***

"Hyung, where are we?"

Little Mingyu was the last one to awake several hours later, he was so confused when he saw almost nothing in his eyesight. It's so dark here.

By how bad the smell is, he assumed that this place was also so dirty.

"Wonwoo Hyung? Hyung?" He wanted to cry because suddenly he felt terrified. He was so panicked by the realization and someone embraced him right away.

"Shhh shh, it's okay, I'm here, Min." It's Wonwoo Hyung, his smell is so fragrant in this smelly place. He tried to calm him with his pheromone and it worked after several minutes.

The blindness scared him to death, but as long as he could smell Wonwoo's pheromone he felt safe because he was here with him.

"What is happening?"

"We were abducted by someone."

It's Wonho Hyung's voice.

"Three of us?"

"Yes."

"Where are we?" Mingyu asked a stupid question but he wanted to ask it.

Wonwoo was the one who answered him. "We also don't know. We were as confused as you were when we both woke up."

TUK TUK TUK

"Someone is coming."

Three of them were death terrified, because they all knew that the kidnapper was the one who visited them. Because the darkness limited their sight, they could only hear him from the sound of his walk.

Someone opened the iron door and they could see a little of light.

An old man brought a candle in his hand and went inside. He closed the door in front of him and locked it. Unexpectedly, Wonwoo was the one who attacked the man when they still could see something. But his attack was unsuccessful and the next thing they all could hear a loud scream from Wonwoo's mouth.

The man was bringing a sharp knife with him and it slightly wounded Wonwoo's hand.

"Wonwoo Hyung!" Mingyu rushed to Wonwoo and checked his wounded hand. It was on his palm, the cut wasn't deep but the blood kept dripping. Wonho tore the bottom of his clothes and wrapped the pieces of fabric in Wonwoo's hand to stop the bleeding.

"Well, well, you all look like a good kid."

The kidnaper suddenly talked and he lit up his candle. The only source of light in this room was only from the candle. The man sat not too far from the candle on the ground and looked at them emotionlessly.

In Wonho, Wonwoo, and Mingyu's eyes, that moment was an exact picture that they would have if they watched a horror movie. But, it was their reality. Could you imagine how terrified they were?

"Why did you do this to us? What did we do wrong till you kidnap us like this?" Wonho tried to talk to him in a calm manner. He was always calm.

The man laughed hysterically as if Wonho's question was so funny to his ears. That time the children were learning that the man wasn't sane enough. They must be careful. "Of course it's not your fault! It's your parents fault and now I want to have some revenge."

Wonwoo's hand was in so much pain and somehow Mingyu could sense that so he released his calming pheromone to calm the omega. It worked.

"Since I'm bored, and we had nothing to do here, let me tell you my story. I will talk until this candle's light is off. Listen to my story kids."

Three of them wanted to do something to escape from this man, they believed they could defeat him because it was three versus one. But the man brought a knife and they could hear at least three dogs barking outside this place that seemed to be a basement. If they escaped from here, the dog would be waiting for them outside.

They need to be extra careful, so they unwillingly listen to the man's story.

The man was named Choi Jinmoo.

"Because of your parents, I lost everything! I gave everything to your family for thirty fucking years and they sent me away just like that? I lost my job, I lost my money, I lost my family! Now it is my turn to make them feel the way I am, they need to know the pain of losing kids they love so much."

So he wants revenge.

An anger started to build up inside Wonwoo and he badly wanted to pour out what he was currently thinking.

"You are only a pathetic person! Why do you do this to us? What is our fault that makes you release all your anger to us? You do this to weak children because you can't take revenge on our parents without using us, right? Our parents are too powerful and you are just a weak person."

Wonwoo definitely said something wrong because the man suddenly stood up and walked in their direction. Both Wonho and Mingyu moved to cover him up and the man laughed seeing the sight.

"Ha! You deserve death first, who is your name?"

Death?

Wonho's heart beat faster when he heard those words from his kidnapper. He wanted to at least kill one of us to avenge his only daughter's death. He didn't seek money or anything from this action. He was someone who was already losing everything, he could do anything because he didn't have anything anymore.

He was so dangerous.

So at the end, this was not only his plan to torture our parents by kidnapping us, but also... to kill us.

Wonho sensed the danger and now he was panicked because Wonwoo couldn't shut his mouth and made the psycho kidnapper angrier.

Brother, please, it's not the right time to be the sassy kid you are!

"Jeon Wonwoo. Remember me, I won't ever bow down to you!" His little brother definitely challenged the man and Wonho really didn't like it.

"Ha, the omega's one is the bravest one." Jinmoo laughed.

Jinmoo walked closer to Wonwoo and Wonho almost wanted to throw hand to protect his omega's brother. He wouldn't see his brother's death today, tomorrow, or foreve r. He would protect him no matter what.

But the man stopped right away.

"But I won't kill you today, it will be too easy. I will kill you after ten days. I need to see your desperate expression when I lock you up long enough until you all lose your mind and beg me."

The suffering would be long.

Wonho noted to himself but glad that the man didn't kill his brother right away. He took his candle and lit off the only source of the light in this cold and dark basement. Then they could hear the sound of him walking away from them and closed the door, locked them, right away. He didn't give any chance for the three kids to move to fight for their freedom.

"Wonwoo, Mingyu, this is a very dangerous situation. You two need to be always extra careful with the man." Wonho tried to locate Wonho and Mingyu's location by his touch. They almost couldn't see anything in this dark room. "He was hurting so badly he couldn't think straight, he could kill us right away. He only wanted revenge."

"But he can't do this to us. Why didn't he do that to our parents?" Wonwoo talked again.

"Because like you said, he couldn't, because he wasn't strong enough to beat our parents so he used us. Our life is in danger right now."

"I agree with you, Hyung " Mingyu finally talked. "I saw his eyes for a brief moment and he looked crazy. I'm scared."

Wonho nodded. "I'm also scared, Mingyu. But we need to get out of this place. I don't know if he ever gave us something to eat or he wanted to see us die from hunger, but he planned to lock us for a long time. So the faster we can run away, the faster we can save our lives."

"The dogs are waiting for us once we get out of this basement." Wonwoo was also aware of the existence of the dogs and Wonho nodded.

"It's three of us, we could do something to the dogs, but we need to defeat Jinmoo first."

On day one, they were all so full of hope that they could escape and defeat the kidnapper. But time was ticking and day one turned to be day two, day three, and day four.

As each day went by, their hope was also fading little by little.

They could stand the dog food the kidnapper gave them every once a day, they could stand the dirtiness of their body and the surroundings, but one thing that they couldn't take.

It's the darkness.

They couldn't see anything, they didn't know how much time was spent in that damn basement, they didn't know if they were sleeping or awake because it was so all the same.

Only darkness.

Jinmoo knew how to torture them, so he never visited them again after the day one, he never bring the candle again . Three of the children were waiting for him to come, not because of him, but because of the candle he brought. The food and drink was brought to them by the little space under the door, he really fed them like feeding a dog. The crazier part was, they tried to search a little bit of light on the outside from the little space under the iron door but that crazy man blocked it with something heavy whenever he didn't need the hole to give the kids food and drink.

The darkness terrified three of them but Mingyu was affected the most. He was so scared, he couldn't stop trembling. But Wonwoo was aware of that so he always embraced the alpha and tried his best to calm him. And in this moment of darkness, Mingyu could only smell Wonwoo's pheromone.

It was like his source of light.

It was like the only sign that he was still alive, because he could sense the sweet vanilla and warm coconut.

He depended on Wonwoo's scent to feel alive.

But his condition was getting worse from the instant fear he experienced, he fell into a sickness. A severe one because he couldn't stop trembling and his body's heat was too high. He experienced a high fever and he couldn't consume anything.

That was the moment he realized he would die here.

"No, no, Mingyu!" Wonwoo was crying, he hugged Mingyu tight.

Wonwoo could handle all the torture he was facing right now but once he felt that Mingyu was almost dead on his embrace, he was death terrified. Panic started to soar from his heart and he couldn't breath.

Wonho quickly went near them and checked on both Wonwoo and Mingyu's condition, still in the darkness.

"He won't make it." Wonho told Wonwoo and Wonwoo screamed.

"NO!"

Wonwoo stood up and tried to search for the door's direction. Once he found it he screamed from the little hole.

"SIR, MY FRIEND IS SICK!!!! PLEASE HELP US!!!!!!!!" He cried, he begged so badly, he didn't want Mingyu to die here. "PLEASE I WILL DO EVERYTHING!!!!!!! GIVE US A MEDICINE PLEASE!!!"

Ten years of Wonho knowing Wonwoo, this is the first time he saw Wonwoo begged that hard. That time, Wonho understood that Mingyu's existence in Wonwoo's life was so important. His begging, his crying, how his pheromone releasing his inner feeling show it all clear. As clear as crystal.

They were only ten years kid, they didn't know the concept of love romantically but if they knew it earlier, Wonho would know that his little brother was loving an alpha named Kim Mingyu so much.

TUK TUK TUK

For the first time after four days, the man walked to their basement again. But he didn't go inside, he only talked from the outside.

"I was right, huh? At the end you will beg me." The man sounded like he was winning something. What a psychopath.

"Yes, yes, I'm Wonwoo, I will beg and do anything but please give me medicine, my friend is having a high fever." Wonwoo cried hard and Wonho hurted seeing that.

"Wonwoo Hyung..." Mingyu was too weak to move and to talk but he cried too.

"It's not fun if I'm the only one who gives you something, you need to give me something too."

This sounds bad.

Wonho tried to forbid Wonwoo to agree with that crazy man's idea but his brother was desperate to save Mingyu. "Yes, what can I do to you?"

"I will save you, Wonwoo."

"What?"

"I won't kill you, I want you to get out of this place after I kill your brother and your alpha and you need to tell both of the families what I did to you all, I want them to suffer and hear that from their own son's mouth."

No, no one will die here.

The hope that once disappeared to the darkness once again appeared in his heart and Wonwoo believed they all will be saved. Their parents would save them.

"Aha, you are an omega, right? I will take something important from you too."

"Wonwoo, don't do this." Wonho tried to warn him because this really sounded dangerous.

"Instead of your life, I will make you a defective omega. I have something in my bag right now to ruin the future of a beautiful omega like you. You won't have your heat, so you can't get pregnant. Your family won't have any descendants and I'm winning perfectly."

Wonho and Mingyu's heart both dropped and they wanted to scream no to the only omega's in the room. But Wonwoo smiled, he looked at Mingyu with so much love in his eyes.

I want to save him, no matter what it takes.

"I don't care about any of it, if you can give me a medicine that can save Mingyu, I don't mind becoming a defective omega."

The man laughed so hard, Mingyu in his weakness tried to reach the door but it's too late. The door was opened and in fast Wonwoo was snatched in front of them.

Mingyu screamed and cried.

No, don't hurt Wonwoo.

Don't hurt my friend.

Before everything turned into another darkness, this time, he lost his consciousness to the sickness.

It's been four days since they had locked, without proper food and proper clothes, they had been locked in the dark for so long and only a tiny light was something they hoped for every single day.

They battled with so many things in this cold and empty basement.

Their depression, their sickness, and their will to just give up.

And they were only nine and ten years old kids.

To be continued