"Let us all welcome and give a round of applause! ATEEZ!"
Terror.
Terror is what they felt running in their veins when hundreds or possibly thousands of people audibly heard their names as entertainers and not as pirates.
"They... They are presenting us to the world." Jiseon mumbled with a shaky voice, still fazed about their current situation.
The world. Could they ever face the world like this?
They would of course properly stand with chins up if they weren't presented as animals caged. Animals that are only efficient and beneficial for parties that are never they are in control.
Just like today, they are not treated as mighty as what they wanted to be written in the red book of pirates. Right now, they are ought to smile with pain in the soles of their feet, about to dance on the heated stage the clowns set them in.
It's pathetic.
After the youngest's remarks, a loud slap was heard as a reply.
"This is ridiculous. This is really a clown's parade."
With a hair brush and grab, Yunho slaps his face with the surface of his palms, trying to recollect about what he just got into.
Right, just like what it says in every chapter of his life, from an elegant prince turned into a stinky pirate.
Once a luxury, now just a piece of garbage.
And right at this moment the garbage is about to be presented to the laughing monkeys outside the cage ATEEZ is inside.
Hongjoong scans his crew mate, understanding what he is acting. The problem is, he can decipher, but can not give solution.
Before he could speak, Mingi steps in to massage the trembling fingertips of Yunho.
"I shouldn't have-"
Fear?
"It's going to be alright, Yunho-"
Disgust?
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY IT IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT?!"
Anxiety?
"Its... You're ehm... I'm with you s-so you don't have to worry-"
Hatred.
"YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS TO BE IN FRONT OF A LOT OF PEOPLE BECAUSE I AM HIDDEN ALL MY LIFE WHILE YOU ENJOY YOUR SELFISH ATTENTION!"
Much worse. All together.
They seem too dramatic at the moment, but the anxiety to face people and get laughed on is much worse than being grilled alive.
It's suffocating. No escape from the smoke of judgement.
The coos of Mingi to Yunho was only reciprocated through violence. Instead of embrace, he pushes the other with anger.
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Horizon (traitor) //ateez ff
Fanfictionpirate!au "Alright, King Kim Hongjoong and Queen Kim Jooyoung. May you have a long life and three thousand kids to labor at one night. Name every each of them as Wooyoung so that even once I could feel like the choice of the family." × Kim Hongjoong...
