Promise

21: My Story

Everyone was gathered down in the living space of the warehouse, each in their own place that they claimed earlier that afternoon. All eyes were on Wooyoung who hadn't stopped talking for nearly an hour, telling them all as many details as he could remember about being taken away about a day and a half ago at this point. Names, locations, smells, descriptions of various things, as much of the conversations that took place that he could remember, how he escaped, and how he perceived the gang he was caught up in. He and San had each given their side of the story as to what exactly happened when they were trying to achieve their mission.

No one else said anything, listening in pure silence. The expressions on each of their faces varied, from focus to getting to the bottom of what happened, to being worried about their newest member. Every once and a while a surge of anger went through the room, mostly due to San's reactions, though Jongho played into it as well. While most of the attention was on Wooyoung for obvious reasons, Yunho found himself looking to San quite often, ensuring that he was doing alright. He understood in every way what the younger is going through, Mingi has been taken from him before in a somewhat similar situation, and while that may have been many years ago, he didn't want San to react the way he had. And so far he surprisingly hadn't.

"I think that's everything." Wooyoung muttered, shaking his head as he leaned back into the couch. In turn he caused San to lean back given the way his arm was around his shoulders. It was like they were literally attached at the hip. "I can't really think of anything else right now."

"That's totally fine. Thank you for telling us everything you did." Hongjoong was fast to reassure, holding eye contact with Wooyoung to ensure the sincerity of his words. "I know it was probably hard at some points, but it is greatly appreciated."

Wooyoung hummed in return, leaning his head on San's shoulder. He was glad his neck wasn't killing him anymore, though it still twinged at certain angles.

"Do you know who that was captain? That took him." Yeosang spoke up, obviously racking his brain for the information he needed but came up blank.

"With the names given, I feel pretty certain that was a group that calls themselves Stray Kids." Hongjoong sighed, shaking his head at the thought. A scowl formed on his face. "I used to be acquainted with their leader, but he went off the radar a long time ago. As for the rest of the group, I didn't know they had this kind of action in them, because they've never acted like this before from what I knew."

"Sounds to me like they are dealing with internal complications though." Jongho said in a stern yet somewhat quizzical tone. His hands remained balled into fists even if there was no reason to. At least externally, internally was a different battle.

"Agreed, this Hyunjin guy seems like a real threat right now." Seonghwa added, taking glances around the room as he spoke. "If the person I recall seeing is him, and the fact given he has orange eyes and is having psychotic tendencies, I'm worried for our future safety."

"I believe we'll be fine." Hongjoong retorted with a newfound confidence, his leader aura making the others believe his words. "I will get into contact with their leader and make sure we won't have any future problems. And if we will then I guess we'll just have to teach them a lesson. They won't stand a chance against all of us when we have proper time to prepare."

Wooyoung looked to his side to watch San's reaction. The vampire though was hardly showing any emotion, just a tense jaw and sharp eyes pointing forwards. Wooyoung had no choice but to interpret that as San being upset at what their captain had said. He knew deep down that San wanted revenge. But something in him told him that wasn't the right way to go about this, even if he himself was the main victim of the attack and would appreciate some kind of revenge for what happened.