Torn // exo x reader

Chapter 17; Why are we here again?

As they get closer, Y/N's heart beats faster, and her breaths become quicker. Chanyeol and Baekhyun have refused to leave her side, and she's certain they can hear her heartbeat from beside her.
"I just want to put it out there that Chanyeol still has a Y/N costume he broug-mmf!"
"No I don't!"
It's cute that Baekhyun's trying to lighten the mood, but she is so stressed she can't really find the mood any different then solemn. Every person here knows this may very well be deadly.
"Baekhyun, be quiet." Her voice is cold, and she doesn't look at him as she says this.
They walk quietly, the only sounds are of her heavy breathing and footsteps along the path. She begins to see the building in the morning sun over tops of trees and it's so much more real now.
This could be the place she dies.
She remembers running down this path just days earlier, clad in a maid uniform and tights, running away. And now, she returns, her tail between her legs even more than then.
"Y/N, we're almost there. Say your goodbyes now."
Before the sentence is even finished, she's turned towards Baekhyun and Chanyeol. She starts with Baekhyun, and wraps her arms around his waist, digging her face into the jacket he wears.
It looks warm, she only has a few sweaters on.
She lets go of him, and he begins to unzip his jacket, resting it on her shoulders.
"Baekhyun, n-"
"See, you've fallen for me. Even w-wearing my jackets too. Tsk, I guess I'm that irresistible."
She wants to punch his lights out, and hug him to death, but either way there's some fatality involved. A sacrifice, if you will.
Before she can move onto Chanyeol, Baekhyun points to his cheekbone, and she sighs, pressing her lips briefly there, just to please him.
Chanyeol sighs, pulling her over to him.
"If I didn't do that he'd never let you go."
Chanyeol hugs her briefly, before pulling her an arms length away from him, looking her in the eyes.
"If you're hurt, yell either of our names loudly, we'll rescue you."
She laughs.
"Who said I'd need your help?"
"Y/-"
"I know."
She turns away from Chanyeol and goes to see Heechul and Sungmin. She's hardly conversed with either, and is surprised when she gets over there and is immediately pulled into a large hug by both.
"D-Don't mess up."
This reminds her of what Jongdae said before she left.
She won't cry. She won't.
She's crying.
"I won't. I-I swear it."
"Yifan!"
Yifan comes walking over briskly, before getting tackled into a hug by Y/N, and he's surprised.
"Yifan I swear if I hear you yelled at one person whilst I'm gone you're done."
"W-Wha-"
"I was, uh, kidding."
His laugh starts low, then gets louder and great! She just made him go insane.
"I'll miss you while you're gone, twerp."
She smiles at him, a smile mirroring his.
She keeps walking, her trail of men walking behind her.
"Wait! Y/N act like you don't want to go! We'll pull you to make it more convincing!" Baekhyun says.
Acting like she doesn't want to go shouldn't be too hard.
"Yell and stuff. Hell, make yourself cry."
She lets them grasp onto her arms and wrists, pulling her.
"N-No! Let me go! Stop!"
Baekhyun nods enthusiastically.
Chanyeol mouths something.
She can't catch what it is, but nods anyways, hoping that was the right answer.
She screams, startling her 'attackers', making them jump.
"N-No! I don't want to go!"
They get there, and are immediately met by guards, who page someone when they see Y/N on walkie-talkies.
The large doors open, and she makes a show of squirming and crying in the hold of her friends, who look down at her with masked faces of concern.
"How lovely it is to see you again."
Yifan doesn't let Kibum talk any longer, and cuts him off rudely.
"Give us Minseok. We gave you her, now for your end of the deal."
Kibum looks up from where he stared daggers into Y/N's eyes, and smirks.
"Mister Wu, we are nothing if not trustworthy."
Kibum turns.
"Please bring out the rat!"
Y/N lunges at Kinum, but the hands of her friends hold her back.
The man comes walking out, blindfold on his eyes, and his head downcast against the ground, mute.
As soon as he's out of Jonghyun's clutches, he falls to the ground as if his legs weren't even there.
"Minseok!"
As a man comes out, yelling Y/N, they don't realize it's not Minseok until they've handed Y/N over, and she's been shoved inside and the doors are closing quickly.
"What the h-Y/N!"
"Yifan!"
When the doors close, it's just Y/N.
Her and Kibum and Jonghyun, alone. She moves back from them, into a wall.
Her back slides down it, and she wants to disappear into the warmth of Baekhyun's jacket.
"Our guest is back, Jinki will be pleased."
Just the thought of the vile man makes her stomach hurt.
Kibum takes her hand, and Jonghyun walks behind her. She could easily rip away, but Minseok is here, and they know she won't in fear of what they will do.
"Y/N you'll be happy to know, we've made a few changes to your room in your absence."
She doesn't want to know what they did that put such a smile on Kibum's face.
"Honey, when we talk to you, answer."
Her voice is creaky and soft, but they hear her.
"Y-Yes."
"Good job."
They are quiet on the walk to Onew.
She's so scared to see him again she's sure she's trembling, and her eyes are threatening to leak tears because she doesn't want this again.
Once they reach the door, her years begin to leak down her face, but she won't let them know, because that means weakness and she is not weak.
They walk in, and as soon as Y/N is even halfway through the door, Onew has stood, walking briskly over to her and embracing her.
This isn't an embrace like the ones she shared with her friends before coming here, it's one where she's stiff, waiting for it to be over quickly.
He doesn't let go.
Just when she thinks it's over he turns her to face Jonghyun and Kibum, arm draped across her shoulders, like it belongs there. Like her personal space is there only to be inhabited by something foreign, a shark in the water, making a slimy feeling crawl down her body and she wants to hurl.
She's in no position to move away, and stays there, baring the feeling of dirtiness seeping across her arms. Even through the jacket she wears, her skin burns at his contact.
"I've missed you, Y/N."
She knows she must speak, but she can't bring herself to say she missed him too.
"Y-Yes."
Kibum looks appalled, and Jonghyun looks shocked, and she can feel Onew laugh from beside her. She refuses to look at him.
"I've always loved this about you Y/N."
She doesn't want to say anything, but confirms.
"Y-Yes."
Onew's laughter goes sour, a genuine laugh to something between chuffing poisonous bouts of air and real laughter. She hates it almost as much as the real thing.
"Kibum, Jonghyun, take Y/N to her room please."
They take her upstairs to the place she spent so much time whilst captured. Her room. She doesn't even remember what it looks like. Sure, it haunted her dreams for a little bit, but she worked so hard to get it out of her head she's not going to try and remember for nostalgic purposes.
They let her in, and close the door behind her.
It's disgusting.
Photos of Onew hang on the wall, and the wall decor is pink hearts. Is this supposed to signify her love for him.
Before she even knows what she is doing, she tears them down. Her arms flail and she rips the photos, throwing them to the ground without a second thought, and falls down, cutting her hands with pieces of glass.
She assumes there's rips in the sweatpants she's wearing, and honestly the jacket had a few rips in it before she got it so she'll blame it on Baekhyun.
Her hands are cut, blood seeping down the sides of her hands, dropping onto the floor loudly in the silent room.
"Y/N, I-I smell bloo-"
Onew takes in the condition of the room.
"I can't believe you! A temper tantrum at your age! Darling, I love you but you just can't act this way!"
His voice raises in octaves with every sentence, getting more venomous and lethal as the words drip out of his mouth.
"Y-Yes."
Her voice is small and meek, because she didn't mean to get this carried away.
Her hands are still bleeding and instead of giving her a bandaid like any normal person—scratch that, any sane person—would do, he licks at the long cuts, making them sting.
"W-What the f-"
"Be quiet. It will heal them faster."
She doubts this, and keeps trying to pull away, but his harsh grip on her wrist tightens, hurting her.
She whimpers.
"A-Am I hurting you?"
She nods, and he lets go. She holds her wrist daintily, looking at the harsh purplish bruises forming in the shape of a hand.
When EXO sees this, they will not be happy.
She moves away from him, going to clean up the glass.
"Y-You bitch!"
What?
What has she done now to anger him?
Before he can elaborate, he kicks her in the side, making her arms give in with shock, and she goes face first into shards of glass. Somehow, her lips end up cut, but—thank god—instead of licking them, he leaves.
A few minutes later, a girl is sent in, presumably to clean the glass.
Her hair is shorter than Y/N remembers it, but she recognizes the way this dirk cowers behind her bangs, and her voice when she speaks up after Y/an begins to help.
"M-Miss, y-"
"Hush, Sunny, I do what I want."
The girl whimpers, and goes back to cleaning the glass too.
"Sunny, do you like it here?"
Sunny doesn't answer for a moment, before looking at Y/N and smiling.
"Yes, very much. I love the hospitality and the food and th-the screaming, and all-all of the hits, yes I do."
Her voice breaks halfway through, and along with Sunny's voice, cracks Y/N's heart. These people are so brainwashed. She can't believe how Onew can do this to innocent people.
She excuses herself from the room, Sunny too busy crying to notice. She will come back for this girl.
She makes her way downstairs looking for the real Minseok somewhere, she just keeps going farther and farther downstairs. She hides every so often from people, only almost running into Minho once, and she calls it a victory.
The farther down she gets she wonders how deep this place really goes. And farther down from what she thought was the farthest down, she hears muffled crying from a room.
She knows it's not the best idea to intrude, but they may be Minseok or Jessica, so she goes anyways.
She's not prepared for the sight.
People, at least twenty, all packed together.
Most women and children, coughing and sneezing, crying and yelling.
"O-Oh my god."
All the people turn to look at her, and a small child comes tumbling out from the pack of humans.
His hair is cut short, and his eyes are large, brimmed with tears.
"Who a-a-are you?"
His voice is raw, like it hasn't been used in days and she looks past him, almost not hearing him whilst taking in the room.
"I-I am Y/N."
People gasp, some start to cry and she doesn't know what to do.
"C-Come out, please. All of you."
She will fight for these women and children until her last breath. She will not have them living in there in fear any longer.
People file out, some wobbling on shaky legs and she has to look away from injuries and infections and this is so much bigger than Minseok.
One boy, comes over and tugs on Baekhyun's jacket, looking up at her with happy eyes, tears filling them, making them glassy.
He latches onto her, thanking her profusely.
"Thank you! Thank you!"
She smiles.
"You're welcome. What's your name?"
"Y-Youngjae."
She looks down at Youngjae, and sees his hand latched onto another boy's but this one looks disinterested, like being let free is none of his concern.
Youngjae asks him to introduce himself, but the boy just sassily retorts. His eyes are large and that alone gives away his fear of being here.
Y/N leans down, looking the boy in the eyes.
"What's your name?"
The boy twiddles his fingers, looking up at her solemnly.
"J-Jinyoung."
In the midst of that, there's a loud crash from far up, so quiet she almost couldn't hear it, and the sound of screams, and Y/N feels her heart swell with excitement.
They're here.

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Hey again! I guess I'm going to have to start uploading daily since you guys seem to want it..
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Chapter 18: Y/N and Taemin never really got along, and here's why..