The Lost Prince -kth.jjk (Royal AU) ON HOLD

Chapter Two

The shouts and laughter of children filled the air and that of the shrill old lady who ran the orphanage, she was once again lecturing one of the older orphans

"Taekyun! I got you a job at the clothing market, I got you a job at the fish market, I got you a job at the flower market, all of them, you were fired from! How are you such an incompetent useless boy!" The old lady wagged her index finger at the tall brunette walking towards him and pushing him into the wall, he brought his hands up towards his chest in a sly defensive manner and chuckled a little trying to remain calm but the look on his anxious face betrayed him

"I-I- I can explain, I just-" He was rudely cut off by the woman

"You just, just, just, what!? No more Taekyun, no more, you’re nineteen, no longer a child! I will no longer accept you living here if you can't help pay your way" the boys jaw dropped open as he heard the words the elder lady spoke, she turned to walk away from him, shaking her head, her ran after her grabbing her arm and spinning her around

"Come on Ms. Lee, you can't kick me out, I have nowhere to go, no money, no... no family, my family is here" He choked the words out, he loved living here, the children were so sweet and he grew to love his odd family

"No, no your family was here, now go!" she sternly spoke and pointed her finger to the door, the boy looked at the door and back at her repeating the motion with a broken look on his face

"And take your stupid little dog with you!" She pointed down at the small dog who lay his ears down and whimpered as she pointed towards him, Taekyun grabbed the puppy holding him in his arms and before he could protest any further he was being pushed towards the front door before finally being pushed out, quickly he turned around only to have the door be slammed in his face, he could only stand there with his mouth open as his little dog whimpered and whined at him

He turned and walked down the path away from the orphanage, he took a deep breath and sighed out hugging into the little fluff ball

"Yeontan, I'm going to be Tae the orphan forever aren't I" the dog whined some more in response, he stopped by the edge of the road and held onto Yeontan with one hand reaching his hand into his pocket pulling out a gold necklace with a small pendant on the end, the engraving on it faintly reading out KHT and a small dirtied blue gem placed at the bottom, he traced the engravings with his thumb and hummed, his pendant was old and dirty, there were more engravings on it but he could no longer make out what they were

"Hey Tannie, do you think, if we head into the city we could possibly sell this" the small dog gently growled at the boy, he could only chuckle at his little friends attitude

"Yeah, you're right, there's no way I could sell this, I've had it my entire life, it must mean something right?" he placed Yeontan on the ground and began to walk down the street, little feet following alongside him

"Still, I think heading into the city is probably our best plan right now, maybe I can get a, y'know, job I guess" he deeply sighed and looked down to see the dog patterning along aside him looking at him with his angry little eyebrows, the boy began to laugh out loud

"Hey Tannie, what if, now I'm just thinking out loud here, but what if we go to Seoul? I mean there's bound to be way more jobs there, ones I haven't already been fired from" the little dog barked happily in response

"Yeah? You think so? Well then, let's go to Seoul!" the two friends happily skipped along the path, maybe this would be a new beginning for them, no more poor orphan boy with his little dog, they would be Taekyun and Yeontan, the best thing to happen to Seoul

After reaching the center of the city Taekyun approached the train ticket stand, lining up he waited for his turn

"One ticket to Seoul please!" He chirped and gave the attendant a smile that resembled that of a box

"Sure, do you have any identification with you? money?" The middle aged man asked, the two boys stood there frozen, he looked down at Yeontan with a stunned look on his face

"Money..." he softly whispered under his breath, his eyes furrowed

"Boy, I don't have all day, you have the proper identification and money?" The attendant asked trying to hurry the transaction

"Ah, n-no, I'm awfully sorry, I don't" he quickly bowed down at the man and ran out of line standing in the station and sighed, his shoulders slumping, how could he forget he had no money, after awhile of wallowing in his sadness he felt a gentle tap on his shoulder, he quickly turned around to see the smiling face of a middle age woman

"I overheard that you're having a little money problem, I know someone who could help you" Taekyuns eyes lit up at her words, he nodded his head quickly at the lady, she quietly chuckled and leaned in closer to him

"Go see Namjoon, you'll find him at the old Kim Palace" the woman held Taekyun’s hands and gently patted them while smiling at him before she turned and walked away leaving Taekyun to stand there looking puzzled with Yeontan

"Kim Palace?" he said out loud and Yeontan let out a little whimper and barked dragging Taekyuns attention towards him and he smiled

"Well, let's go shall we" he bent down swooping the little dog into his arms and started walking towards his destination

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AN-  Since he's an orphan with no memory of his childhood the orphanage went by the intials on his necklace and called him Taekyun, I wanted to still have his new name close to his real one so people could still call him Tae and follow on that its Taehyung, I hope that makes sense :3