Words (TaoXChanyeolXreader fanfic)

Chapter 24: D.O in custody?

He couldn't see her face, she was looking down at her nearly empty tea cup and her hair hid everything from view. He put his cup on the side table and stroked her hair as she talked.

"My aunt always believed that he could do no wrong. Even as he came home drunk out of his head and put his foot through the tv she had saved up for months to afford. Even as he stole her jewelry to pawn it for cash. Even as he got suspended and spent summers at camps for reforming delinquents, she still thought he'd come out alright. Maybe he could have if he hadn't fallen in with the Pandemonium Club. They fancy that they're better than a gang but they're not, not really," Victoria said and she took a deep breath.

"One day, they came after D.O, he was behind on his debt and they found him at home. There was a fight and there were guns and Harriet got shot. I pulled her into the kitchen as everyone else, even D.O, ran. She was his mother and he ran instead of staying to help. She was gone before the ambulance got there. The bullet had punctured a lung. It's not really dinner conversation," she said.

"When did it happen?" he asked.

"Senior year, just before I graduated. Tao's family were all I had at graduation. We got married three weeks later. D.O was already in custody by the time my exams began. He was sent to jail that summer. At least it was a fast trial. He's got another three years. They got him on drug charges. No one's been charged with the murder," she said.

Vic fell silent again. Chanyeol didn't say anything. He couldn't think of what to say. She didn't ask him for anything. She just curled against him and closed her eyes. He ignored the fact that he had stolen his mother's expensive car and stayed with her. He laid her down on the sofa and held her close until she fell asleep. Her deep even breathing lulled him as well and he dozed off with her curled on his chest.

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