Sunrise ||| Ateez

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Jongho struggles with the chains as he searches around for something, anything, he can use to pick the lock on the chain. He can't be here, he needs to get out of here, get Yeosang out of here.

The moment he caught sight of Son Hyunwoo, or Shownu, he knew he was dead. The man, who along with his parents, use to own him and make him do hard labor around the house. He was older than Jongho, but he would make Jongho clean his room when he was a child and often tormented and picked on Jongho.

He was worse than an older brother.

And now that the brute like beast has found him after he had found out he had killed his parents, he is for sure going to die. Shownu is going to make sure he dies working or torture him to the brink of death. Either way he knows the bear is going to do everything he can to see Jongho die a miserable death.

When the brute laid eyes on him, he immediately drug him through the bear camp, not caring that the alpha fell and is drug through the dirt. It was embarrassing to say the least, as all of the bears laugh and watch as the young alpha was drug to Shownu's home. And once they arrived, he was thrown in a room and locked inside after he was chained to a corner before the brute left for a moment.

He gasps when he sees a nail on the ground, reaching for it and just as his hand grabs it and pulls it to him, the door opens. He scrambles back against the wall, bringing his knees to his chest to shield himself into the corner where he's chained up.

Heavy footsteps walk closer to him, and Shownu rounds the corner with a hard scowl on his cold face. He growls, sniffing the air before entering the room. He walks over to Jongho and squats in front of the shaking wolf, gripping his chin and forcing him to look at him, "Howl for me wolf boy."

Jongho is immediately thrusted into a vivid memory. A memory he often had nightmares of and prayed never have to hear it again in his life. But here he is, facing one of his nightmares while reliving the one in his mind.

Shownu and a bunch of other children playing around the camp they lived in, he brought Jongho out on the leash his parents made him wear if they were doing grocery runs. Shownu suddenly shoved him down in the middle of other boys around his age.

Jongho was only six, when he falls he whimpers but he knows not to cry out or the punishment will be worse. His knees and hands were already scraped up from working and from being pushed around at home from Shownu, but now the old cuts were broken open again and dirty clogged around the bloody scratches.

"I brought you all a pet to play with," Shownu smirks down at Jongho, his buddies crowding around him. Even when they were thirteen year olds, they were in the prime of their lives and going through puberty. They were huge compared to Jongho's tiny body.

"Dude you have your own little wolf?!" One of his friends asks, grabbing Jongho's hair and pulling him back to look at his face, "God what are you feeding him? His cheeks are puffy!"

"He eats good for a piece of shit wolf," another friend comments, smirking as he pinches Jongho's cheeks hard enough the small boy started crying.

"You're hurting me!" Jongho sobs, pulling away enough where the leash will let him go.

This angered the bear boys.

Shownu grabs the leash and drags Jongho through the dirt and gravel, the small boy whimpers and makes chocking sounds from the leash tightening around his neck. Shownu ties the leash around a tree and grabs Jongho's face, making the small boy face him, "You just made a huge mistake wolf boy," he smirks as he brings a leg up, "Now howl for me."

Jongho stares blankly at Shownu, their eyes lock and Shownu snarls. His snarls made Jongho's bones quiver, his wolf wanting to submit as the bear grabs his throat, "Howl for me." Jongho takes in a deep breath through his nose as Shownu tightens his grip, cutting off the air flow slowly, "You know it makes me angry when you don't listen to me dog."