Transient Waters

9

"Hyung," WooYoung spoke quietly, gently, as though worried something bad was going to happen. Little as he may care to admit, WooYoung knew there was only so much he could handle when it came to someone who was beneath his rank challenging him continually. While it was just out of fear for WooYoung, the youth could not help but worry about it. It was not unimaginable to fear that HongJoong would eventually grow to irate because of it. Not to mention SeongHwa had now physically tackled him. Granted again, it was merely to get information about him but, WooYoung couldn't help but feel a tad bit guilty about it. SeongHwa was in this position because of him, and so was HongJoong. He did not want either of them to feel as though he was picking one of them over the other.

"WooYoung, stop overthinking things," HongJoong ordered, his voice stern, but as usual very calm and collected. It made WooYoung relax just slightly, hoping that things would not turn out to be as bad as he was fearing. He was still worried, though, and did not really know what to make of HongJoong's seemingly serious face. I already told him everything I know. WooYoung stated, I know he knows that as well, so it can't be about that.

"SeongHwa, he seems rather, Protective of you, to say the least." HongJoong began slowly, and WooYoung was just more confused then before, that much had been very obvious. Not to mention, WooYoung himself had easily attested to that, so he did not quite get what it was that the Captain was attempting to allude to. "Do you know...any other Omegas? Have you ever met one?" WooYoung furrowed his brows, still not comprehending what the Captain wanted to know.

"I...I mean other than the ones that you've introduced to the Crew no. Hyung, you know that they are not exactly overly common. If you want to know more about them, I suggest we make board and ask one of the Omegas you can trust and know a bit. Or at least we could probably talk to Got7, they know of an Omega. I can't really help you if you are asking questions about them, SeongHwa is the first Omega I have been in contact with regularly." HongJoong sighed, he had figured that but it did not mean he could not hope that perhaps he would have been able to obtain a bit more information.

"I know, I was just...I don't know, hoping maybe we would be able to get some information before that."

"It is fine, Hyung," WooYoung said with a small laugh. "I...I will say though, I am not too sure how easily SeongHwa will manage to find himself here. He doesn't really like Alpha's much, I am worried how he will interact with San." A founded worry considering San was WooYoung's mate.

"San was the one who pushed to let him aboard in the first place," HongJoong said steadily. "I do not think you need to worry much about San."

"I am not talking about San liking SeongHwa but..." HongJoong ah'ed having figured out what was stressing the young man out. SeongHwa did seem a bit...prone to action over words, but he understood that. Particularly given the Omega's history he did not doubt that he had been rocked to speak later and act first.

"I am sure things will go well, WooYoungie, if you want, after YeoSang is finished dressing Seonghwa's wounds, you can take him to San, I am sure that San would love to meet him."

"Okay," WooYoung agreed easily. "How...How bad were his wounds?" He questioned, somewhat nervous of the answer. He was still kicking himself for not figuring out that SeongHwa had been hurt by those bastard royal sailors. SeongHwa had just claimed that they were making him do some chores, which had made sense, considering they did that with some of the other prisoners that had happened across every now and then since WooYoung had come in, but it was obvious that there had been more than just some chores going on, and he hated that he was not aware of it.

"They were not really all that bad, I think it was mostly just exhaustion from challenging an Alpha that really got to him," HongJoong reassured him. WooYoung nodded, still nervous but at least he knew that there was nothing too severe going on.

"When are we going to get to port?"

"I think about a week, I have a lot of questions so I am hoping sooner rather than later."