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Sungwoon slowly pushed himself up his head aching. He looked around where he was at and was  confused at his blurry unknown surroundings. He looked to his left freezing as he saw a broken window realizing that sunlight was falling into the room. 

He couldn't help but tilt his head but froze and clenched his eyes as that caused him pain. 

Slowly he opened his eyes again to stare at the sunlight trying to think when the last time he had seen actual sunlight was. His skin was incredibly pale and showed that it had been a while since he even had been outside and slowly he began to think about the events that led to this.

Jimin.

He remembered the pink haired boy telling him to hide in one of the abandoned houses so he wouldn't be in the view of the street light. He had agreed and as he made it in the house he sat down exhausted from everything that had happened. He had been watching from the view of the window outside to make sure that the boy was safe and had ended up resting his eyes for a bit.

When he opened them again he heard a bam and saw Jimin on the ground with Bon Hwa picking him up. He got up quickly to try and cause a commotion and get a stranger to help but his head seemed to hit something causing him to knock himself out.

He looked on the ground seeing his onesie had been caught on a nail causing himself to trip and go unconscious.

Slowly Sungwoon moved his shaking hands to get the onesie uncaught from the nail and tried to push himself up. He quickly fell back to the ground wanting to cry but not being able to with how dehydrated he was. He had no energy to begin with when he was in Bon Hwa's basement and after everything he had done last night he felt even weaker.

Everything was blurry and he couldn't seem to focus, the only thing he could feel was pain throughout his entire body.

Sungwoon felt terrible. What if he ended up just staying here until he slowly seemed to pass on? It felt as if he was dying right now and he was surprised that he even managed to wake up after hitting his head on the ground. Jimin had sacrificed himself for nothing and who knows what was going to happen to him now.

Sungwoon definitely didn't want to die because he was too weak to do anything but he literately couldn't do anything right now. He wished he could go back in time and not let Jimin go upstairs with him, he knew something was off about that. Of course he hadn't expected the younger to actually stab Bon Hwa and try to lead them to freedom but he still should have tried to protect him in some way.

He should of just let Bon Hwa drown him so at least Jimin wouldn't be in trouble with that psychopath.

He slowly was letting his eyes closed when suddenly a face entered his vision and he saw someone rush over to him. He could see how they seemed to be panicked at the state he was in and were frantically talking but he couldn't seem to hear anything but a ringing in his ears. 

He so desperately wanted the man to calm down but he couldn't seem to do anything and he slowly was letting himself go. 

"I'm sorry."  Sungwoon muttered as he began to close his eyes losing feeling of everything "I'm so sorry, Jimin."

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Jimin felt numb.

He could feel the bruises forming on his skin as he was laying on the couch and there were bandages tightly wrapped around him from where Bon Hwa had carved words into him hours before.

Bon Hwa had stated that he wouldn't have wrapped the wounds up if Jimin probably wouldn't die from blood loss. Which was true as Jimin right now felt dizzy and barely could keep his eyes open as he looked at the ceiling.

Something had to be wrong with his ribs he decided as it physically hurt every time he took a breath. How was Bon Hwa supposed to fix that? Of course he always hurt the younger but he genuinely didn't want to lose him, especially due to him dying.

Jimin was his and he wasn't going to let even death take him away from him.

The pink haired boy would have felt scared if he wasn't so hurt and tired. Usually when he was extremely sleepy he'd end up slipping into little space but he didn't feel a need for that at all. He just felt empty as he closed his eyes taking slow deep breaths.

There was only two things that Jimin felt grateful in that moment, the new clothes he was wearing and Sungwoon escaping.

Bon Hwa had given him a long sleeve gray shirt and a pair of gray sweatpants saying he didn't want to see his baby hurt. Which was quite ironic considering he had been the one cutting into Jimin's skin earlier but he said that it was just a punishment needed to keep him in line. He didn't want Jimin to try and pull a stunt like that again especially since it almost got himself killed.

Bon Hwa didn't know what he was supposed to do about Sungwoon. Of course he doubted in this type of neighborhood that he would have found his way to the police station, especially thanks to his lack of energy. But what if he ended up finding his way there? Sungwoon had no idea where his house was but he knew his name and what he looked like, the police could easily track him and find his house thanks to Sungwoon being a witness.

And then they'd take away Jimin from him, and he wasn't going to have that.

When the two escaped Bon Hwa had to take the time to bandage his neck so he wouldn't bleed too much, and that had been his downfall. He had spent too much time doing that and he couldn't catch both of the people he had imprisoned in his house and there was a possibility that Sungwoon could ruin everything.

So the psychopath had left Jimin on the couch instead of taking him downstairs and he hurried and had started packing. He had enough money from his parents to simply move, and that was exactly what he was going to do.

Start fresh with Jimin in a completely different city, maybe even a different country. He already had a passport himself and he was sure he could smuggle the younger in a suitcase somehow. A different country actually seemed ideal considering Bon Hwa was fluent in English already so he ended up booking a first class ticket to Los Angeles.

The only problem was that the the earliest ticket he could get was for 8am the next morning so he booked himself a hotel near the airport and decided he'd take Jimin there with him for the rest of the night.

In a matter of twenty four hours Jimin was going to be forced on a flight and never see South Korea again.  

I want to boycott Cube for what they're doing to HyunA and E'Dawn but I can't do that without ignoring the artists I like that they manage. There's really not a winning ending in this situation at all?? I still want to support Pentagon and everything but I want all of them to be in the group and I don't know if Cube is going to ever allow that.  It's just a really messed up situation that makes me sad right now