Where I Found Home ||| Ateez (Yunwoo)

Bonus Chapter

One last warning for this chapter, please do not read if you are uncomfortable with consensual non-consent scenes. I will not tolerate any rude or hateful comments. You've been warned twice now, the choice to continue is entirely on you.

Dr. Anders calls Wooyoung back in after speaking with Yunho alone to address a more important situation.

"Tell me Wooyoung. Do your nightmares detail memories with Minhyuk? Things that he did to you that still scare you?"

Wooyoung puts his head down. When he sees Yunho raise a hand in the corner of his eye, he flinches making Yunho pull back from comforting him.

"S-Sometimes..." He admits, curling in on himself.

"Sometimes?" Dr Anders says, as if she doesn't believe him.

Wooyoung swallows the lump in his throat. "Al..." he hesitates, battling the shame and fear he feels inside. "Almost always..."

"Wooyoung, look at Yunho please," Dr. Anders instructs softly. "Take a deep breath, okay?"

Wooyoung does as he's told and meets Yunho's eyes. The tears fall from where they've built up, pouring down his cheeks now.

"I see him hitting me. And r-raping me.... That night after you proposed... I thought you were him... I felt vi-olated..." Wooyoung manages to say without breaking eye contact.

Yunho chokes on a whimper caught in his throat. Wooyoung thought he was....

"Baby..." Yunho manages to breathe, but that's all he can get out.

"I-I-I'm sorry, D-Daddy..." Wooyoung sobs.

He's starting to slip a little, both Yunho and Dr. Anders can see it.

"Wooyoung, I need you to stay with us while we discuss this." She says with a gentle but firm tone. "I have an idea of something we can try to help you, but I need you fully present."

Yunho pulls Wooyoung into his lap and begins caressing his back and hair softly. Dr. Anders gets up to make some hot chocolate, hoping the sweetness and warmth would help. Luckily it does.

"So... what's this idea?" Yunho asks once Wooyoung is back in a conscious head space.

"I know this might sound a bit... horrid... but in our lifestyle it is very commonly practiced. You know it as CNC."

Yunho freezes making Wooyoung sit up in confusion.

"We therapists offer it as a tool to help rape victims. It's called rape therapy..."

"You can't be serious." Yunho says slowly. "After what he just said??" He wraps a protective arm around Wooyoung to keep him close.

"I am. I wouldn't joke about this." Dr Anders says, her face set with complete authority. "I've actually seen quite a bit of success with it in the past."

"How?? How can that possibly work? It could traumatize him even more if I did that to him!" Yunho's voice started to raise, reflecting his anger. "I can't have him look at me like that again!"

"Yunho, I need you to calm down. We wouldn't recommend it if it didn't work. The point of this is to give Wooyoung a chance to take control over those memories. To have him know that he can stop it any point he can't go through with it."

Yunho clenches his hand that's resting on his leg. He takes a shuttering breath before speaking. "How would this work? Assume it goes wrong... how can I live knowing I possibly made it so much worse?"