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087

Sungwoon woke up to the sounds of beeps and slowly opened his eyes confused. As he became adjusted to the light he realized he wasn't dead, instead he was in a hospital bed. He had been changed from his torn old onesie to a hospital gown and things seemed to be piercing his skin and he watched as odd substances were transmitted into himself.

He slowly pushed himself noting that a man seemed to be resting his head on the edge of his bed. He felt confused until he realized that was the same man who he had seen when he was in the abandoned house and now here he was with him at the hospital.

He continued to push himself up a bit more and made sure to keep taking deep breaths to keep himself calm. As he moved his leg he saw the unknown man seem to wake up as well and immediately look at him.

"You're awake!" Sungwoon nodded in response at the stranger who seemed to notice his reluctance. "Oh, my apologizes, my name's Kim Seokjin. I'm not sure if you remember but it was my boyfriend and I who found you at that place."

Sungwoon simply stared at his hands noting how shaky they were whenever he tried to move them. He would have died without this man, how long had he been in the hospital for? He freezed as he began to think even further into the situation, was Jimin even alive right now?

The pink haired boy had basically attempted to murder Bon Hwa, how was the latter to react? He always gave them terrible punishments for the slightest mistakes, what was going to be the punishment for that? Of course Bon Hwa loved Jimin but he had anger issues and could accidentally kill him with how angry he was.

"Hey, don't panic everything is going to be fine. There's actually some police officers here who are supposed to interview you so we can help, okay?" Jin grabbed onto the youngers hand trying to stop him from panicking. "We can get you back to where you're from."

"D-did you alert my parents?"

Jin's face seemed to fall as he looked down at the ground.

"Nobody else was here so they told me a bit about your personal information, Sungwoon. I'm so sorry but your parents were in a car accident last year."

Sungwoon tensed up and he could hear from the monitor that his heart rate was raising. He had no idea that his parents had ended up passing on, had they thought he was dead? He never got to say goodbye to them or anything did they even look for him when he went missing? He had a rather average relationship with his parents but the thought that they were taken away from him now and he never could see them again was devastating.

His parents had been gone for an entire year and he hadn't known at all. He had been stuck with Bon Hwa for over a year just because that psychopath wanted to replicate his controlling relationship he had.

"They have to lock him up." Sungwoon muttered before looking up at Jin who seemed confused. "Please we have to get him locked up! I don't want him to hurt him, he can't die because he wanted to save my life!"

Jin couldn't help but feel extremely puzzled. The onesie was a bit weird to find someone in, especially since he was so malnutrioned that he was on the verge of death. He didn't expect someone else's life to be at stake right now and he looked back at the clock.

It was only 2am, meaning that Sungwoon had been in the hospital for around sixteen hours now. Jin had already been stressed with the Jimin situation and now that there was another person he had found in a terrible situation he couldn't help but feel even worse. He just wanted to help him and make sure that he was safe but he looked like he was about to have a panic attack.

"Sungwoon, calm down. Who do you need to help?"

"Park Jimin," he replied causing Jin to freeze. "Bon Hwa has him."