Two Are Better Than One

Chapter 3

A/N - Trigger Warning for a description of violence and injuries.

Everything happened so quickly. One second Hongjoong was holding the shaking boy in his arms, the next there were sirens deafening his ears and the paramedics taking the two Littles away from them. Now the three members were somehow in the emergency room's waiting room, waiting for anyone to update them on the boys' situation. The paramedics had said they could leave since the boys were now under their care, but heck, like if Hongjoong was going to leave. How could he? How could he leave when the boy in his arms screamed, he screamed so hard it was shocking that the Little still had any energy left when a paramedic took the Little from his arms. Hongjoong had never felt so pained when he made eye contact with the sobbing little boy desperately reaching out for him when he was pulled away. The caregiver almost wanted to take him back, the body heat leaving all too quickly for him, but when the paramedics passed by with the other little in the gurney, so pained and bruised, he knew these boys had to get to the hospital as soon as possible. Hongjoong's leg wouldn't stop shaking as he continued to replay the scene in the waiting room's chair.

"Hongjoong!"

The leader quickly came back to reality at the familiar voice. "Yunho! San!" Hongjoong saw Seonghwa jog in from the hospital's entrance. The older's long black waved curls bounced as he made his way towards them with panic in his eyes.

"Are you okay? What happened? Are you hurt? Where?" Seonghwa's panic state slowly turned into confusion as he looked each of them over. Yunho and San looked completely fine and when Seonghwa looked over to Hongjoong he looked fine as well until-

"Where's your coat? Joong! You must be freezing!" Seonghwa exclaimed.

"Hwa! I'm fine, okay-" Hongjoong sighed when Seonghwa had already taken off his coat to put it over the leader's shoulders. Hongjoong would have opposed it if it weren't for the fact that Seonghwa had another sweater on him and if Hongjoong wasn't actually freezing.

"San, you didn't tell him why we were here?" Hongjoong looked back at the younger members behind him.

"Um, I was panicking so I just told him to meet us at the emergency room before I hung up so I can call Mingi." San sheepishly rubbed the back of his neck. Now that he thought about it, it must have been pretty scary for Seonghwa to receive a call without any other details.

Just in time, the front of the hospital's doors slid opened and revealed a worried Mingi and Jongho rushing in. They seemed to have left the dorm in a rush because they wore nothing but a simple hoodie and jeans.

"Hyungs? What happened? Why are we here?" Jongho asked the second he spotted the standing members in the waiting room. He looked equally scared and worried as well as the tall male behind him.

Hongjoong sighed. How was he supposed to explain this?

"When we were heading our way back home, we found two abandoned Littles who looked as if they were beaten to death!" Yunho blurted out with wide eyes.

Okay, well that's one way to explain it. Hongjoong pursed his lips at the bluntness of their tallest member.

"What?! Someone was trying to kill two Littles?!" Mingi loudly exclaimed.

"No! That's not what happened." Hongjoong shushed the loud member. Well, Hongjoong was praying that wasn't the intention for these two Littles. "We passed by an alleyway and we heard some sounds so we went to check it out. We found two Littles. One of them was bruised and crying and the other was completely injured and unconscious. I think someone hurt them..." Hongjoong quietly explained, the memories still haunting him.

"Bruised? Unconscious? Someone...hurt these two Littles?" Seonghwa softly spoke. Hongjoong looked over to him. The older's eyes looked so angry, but he also looked so hurt. As if someone had hurt him directly. Hongjoong wanted to comfort him, tell him it was okay because he was feeling those exact same feelings too. Caregivers shared a different sort of feelings than Neutrals. Only he and Seonghwa could feel this type of pain.