Torn // exo x reader

13; Juper Sunior

"Y/N!" Suho yells, and she comes from the kitchen to his room, knocking before entering.
He's sitting his computer, hunched over blue photos and as soon as he notices her presence, he stuffs paper into his desk drawer, turning to face her. His face is stone cold, and he looks at her quietly, before speaking.
"You know when you were kidnapped?"
Y/N nods, but it seems so long ago she had almost forgotten with all the stress she'd been put under, she'd almost forgotten.
"Well, a friend of ours, Jessica, she helped you escape."
Y/N remembers this girl that pushed her out of the door, helpinher away from the monsters of that place. She never got the chance to thank her, to repay her for the assistance. Y/N doesn't know where she'd be without the help of that girl.
Or without the help of Minseok.
"We're going to rescue her and Minseok. But we have to act quickly. We leave tomorrow."
"W-What?!"
They can't leave tomorrow, they have no plan, and Y/N has a horrible track record of ruining things when unprepared and she doesn't want to ruin this for Minseok and Jessica and Luhan and everyone who's coming with them.
"W-Why so soon? Do you even have a plan?!"
Suho laughs.
"No, which is why you're here. Jessica hasn't been answering my letters, so we need to move quickly just in case. What do you remember about the place you were taken to? How is it laid out? How many rooms are there?"
Joonmyun fires question after question at her, and her brain is still processing them all when someone comes up behind her and places a hand on her head, silencing Joonmyun who was about to shoot out twelve more questions at her.
"How about we call a meeting? You forget she isn't the only one who's been there, Joonmyun."
It's Yifan, and she thanks him mentally for being the voice of reason behind this entire group of people.
"A-Ah, sorry."
She smiles at him, being led out to the living room where she's faced with another dilemma.
"Y/N sit with me!"
"That's funny, but I think she's going to sit with me, right Y/N?"
"Imbeciles, like she'd sit with either of you."
Instead of sitting beside them, Y/N sits beside neither Baekhyun nor Kai. Instead, she sits gingerly in between Luhan and Chanyeol.
"Hello."
She greets them, and both sort of just grunt in response. She guesses she should've picked Kai or Baekhyun instead. She'd rather that then have to sit awkwardly in between these two, who stare at Suho the entire time, pretending she doesn't even exist anymore.
To quiet the chatter coming from the side of the room she isn't on, Joonmyun clears his throat.
"As you know, we've been having communications with a friend of mine from inside castle SM."
So that's what it's called. She's never really known what name to attribute to that place, and she guesses it kind of does look like a castle. It's a fitting name, actually. She does wonder what SM stands for though, but with the urgency Joonmyun spoke of in his room, she doesn't want to waste anyone's time or sound dumb, so she forgets the question entirely.
"Recently, she stopped responding," Suho is cut off.
"Ooh, our leader got rejected.." Chen and Baekhyun chorus at the same time, but Joonmyun doesn't smile bitterly and retort like he would, but his face stays neutral, like all of this doesn't really matter to him.
"That's not it. I fear she's dead, or at least very close to it."
Jessica dead? But that doesn't make any sense. She's part of SM, they wouldn't kill her unless she..
Unless she was found out.
"And now that this has happened, there's a secret we've been hiding from Y/N I think we should tell her."
Y/N's head spins. What secrets would they keep from her? She can't think of anything suspicious they've done, but then again when has she been known for being able to pick things up quickly?
"Y/N, have you heard of werewolves?"
She nods, knowing where they are going with this.
She can't wait for Baekhyun to laugh and ruin their joke and for Chen to laugh at her and for Yixing to not know what's going on at all and ask questions she should be asking like "what's going on?" and other things he should know.
"Well, we're sort of like those. Right Baekhyun?" She turns and everyone is gone, replaced with Wolves of every coat imaginable. Chanyeol's brown locks dusted with chestnut brown is beside her, and on her other side a wolf with a blondish brown coat is looking almost bored.
"I don't k-know how to reply to t-this."
Suho shrugs, but tells all of them to go change while he picks up the scraps of tattered clothing from the floor, because their shirts and pants have all ripped apart, and she looks wide-eyed at the amount of fur on the floor.
"M-Man.."
Suho sits beside her, resting a hand on her shoulder.
"I know it's a lot to take in, and I'm sorry."
She looks up at him, her hair framing her face and her eyes wide. She has no clue anything that's happening and she's still waiting for Baekhyun and Chen to burst into laughter from upstairs, and for Yixing to laugh despite the fact he has no clue what's happening.
"I-Is that why you guys passed out? What's with that?"
Suho's face grows grim, his neutral facial expressions becoming sad and angry.
"When a member of your pack," He swallows audibly, "When they die, that's what happens. Not to all wolves though, it's sort of like rotten luck."
This all makes no sense and as much as she wishes he'd whip out a whiteboard and explain the science of everything, she doubts he has the knowledge, or the time. If what he said is true, someone died.
That someone could be Jessica, Xiumin, or someone she doesn't even know yet. She doesn't want to take any chances.
"You talked about a plan, what do you got?"
Suho smiles at her enthusiasm, but then straightens up again.
"We're calling in some friends of mine. They're experienced in all of this."
"Do I know them from Onew's place?"
Suho snorts.
"Castle SM? They wouldn't be caught dead helping Jinki or anyone like him."
She likes the thought of these people now.
"Do they have a pack name? Like something I can address them as when I m-meet them."
Suho ponders, thinking on her question.
"Ah, yes. They do, but I can't remember it for the life of me. We're on a first name basis, their group and ours."
Fair enough.
"We're called EXO."
"Why?"
"Bec-"
He's cut off almost immediately by someone in the doorway of the kitchen. The voice qis unfamiliar, and out of habit she sinks back into the couch a bit, startled.
"Well, well, well."
Suho jumps—despite the fact it wasn't that scary—and places a hand on his heart.
"Jungsoo, please don't ever scare me like that again."
Jungsoo grins, beckoning people from the back door in the kitchen, and they all file in, one after another like an endless stream of people, and her eyes practically bulge out of her head because how many people can this house fit?
She's sure by now it's a fire hazard.
"And who's this?"
Jungsoo turns to her, outstretching a hand, smile vibrant, reminding her of Baekhyun and Chanyeol when she met them.
"I-I'm Y/N."
Another person leans on his shoulder, smiling brightly at her.
"I'm Kyuhyun! I've never seen you before, are you new?"
She smiles, deciding just smiling and nodding is faster and more convenient than explaining how she stumbled upon these people under a highway overpass. Now that she thinks about it, that moment feels so long ago she wants to hold onto it like an elderly person does their glory days.
"Wow! What'd you guys do to her? She looks depressed."
"Heechul, that's rude!"
The person dubbed Heechul laughs, slapping a hand on Jungsoo's shoulder, eyes shut tightly and smiles sarcastically at who she presumes is the leader of these people who showed up into their kitchen almost randomly.
"Don't tell me not even one of you had that thought."
There are murmurs of agreement from the people behind him, and Heechul raises his eyebrow, poking teasingly at Jungsoo's shoulders.
"That's what I thought."
"Where are your manners?!"
Suho stands, silencing the bickering people on the other side of the room.
"It's fine, right Y/N-ah?"
She's unsure of what to do, so she bows quickly.
"Y-Yes!"
It comes out as more of a yell then affirmation, and it reminds her of when she met EXO. The thought makes her smile brightly, and people around her see the smile and point it out.
"Wow, Y/N must really like you! She never bowed to us before!"
Baekhyun rounds the corner, laughing again. She wonders what happened between their conversation and now, but she doesn't think calling him out will fix anything. So she smiles at him, laughing like it was all a joke.
"Now that this is over, how about that plan?"
Baekhyun laughs again, and they all head over to the couch, and Suho goes upstairs to round up all of the other members of EXO to come downstairs.
Despite the fact there is space for at least four more people on the couch, Baekhyun plops himself down onto Y/N's lap like they're out of space. She sighs exasperatedly, and she realizes this might be a bit overdramatic but there's literally a spot right beside her.
"Baekhyun, what's this about?"
One of them wiggles their eyebrows, but she's not really sure where the comment came from in the large crowd of people.
Baekhyun pulls away from her to sit beside her, tugging her head into his chest, muffling her cries of anguish from the action.
"I need to hide her from all of you."
Another person laughs—or do they talk? She can't tell—but she doesn't know where it came from.
"And why is that?"
"You'll steal her away from me!"
"W-Wha-"
They're silenced by people coming downstairs, and soon it's more of a party than making a plan.
"Okay, okay, now that we're done all of that, time for a plan."
They spend a long time talking snout routes and they look to her every so often, but they seem so experienced there's no need for her to really be here. So her and Jongdae—who's bored out of his mind—talk quietly amongst themselves, the topic ranging from what shampoo Heechul uses for such gorgeous locks to what Jongdae had for breakfast.
"-right Y/N?"
Everyone looks at her, and she starts to sweat, panicking slightly.
"U-Uh, yeah."
Suho smiles.
"Perfect! So that's pretty much it! We leave tomorrow!"
She doesn't know what she just signed up for.
"Oh yeah! Y/N asked me something earlier, and I forgot to ask you!"
All of the people who surfaced from the kitchen turn abruptly, looking at her and Joonmyun.
"What's your pack name?"
Jungsoo laughs, smiling at her.
"We're Super Junior."

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Done! Sheesh, two chapters in one day?! I'm spoiling you guys. Well, that and I'm so excited for 14 I couldn't possibly wait. I'll probably get 14.1 up tomorrow and 14.2 up Tuesday. That's right, you heard it here folks, I'm splitting 14 up into two halves.
It's for two reasons.
    1. The first part of the chapter is going to be told through letters, giving you insight on what was happening whilst you (Y/N) were asleep/passed out in Castle SM in the point of view of letters from Joonmyun to Jessica and vice versa. I don't want the chapter to be too long, since there's a lot of things to cover, so that will be what's happening in 14.1 basically.
   2. In 14.2 we will be back to Y/N's point of view, and she and EXO + Super Junior will start planning their route to Castle SM. Basically everything in the description of Chapter 14 will be showcased in part 2.

I hope this isn't too confusing and I'll do my best to make it as easy to read as possible for you guys. Thank you for reading this far! If you got all the way down here, you get a virtual hug.
boop.
I feel like that was so 2012. I'm so sorry.

Chapter 14: along with their new recruits, EXO learns the fate of one of their inside workers. Y/N learns everything has a price.