BTS Kidnapped

A/N - PLEASE READ

Hi everyone,

Let's just start this off by saying right now there is a lot going on that needs to be addressed.

While I hope that everyone will be pretty much understanding, I do realize some people may get their feelings hurt and for that I am sorry but it's gotten to a point the following must be said, so here goes.

Over the last few weeks, I've started to get more "when are you updating" comments. So far I have had both of my amazing betas speak up for me because they know how I feel and everything going on behind the scenes because I am close enough with both of them that we have more 'real world' discussions than we do talking about this story here. We all get that it's hard to wait, especially when life gets in the way of my regular Monday update, but I actually feel less like writing and posting when I get these comments because it takes the fun out of writing.

Twice this week I have been ready to post only to log on and see comments like these which have made me log right back out. I'm sorry. That's just mentally where I am.

And that's kind of where my betas are at right now too cause this is a sort of pressure on them that has them not even wanting to proof-read what I have written.

I know that I've shared a lot with you all and that's because I appreciate transparency but I'm also not one of these people who blasts everything all over social media every time something happens. More often than not if I'm having a bad day, I don't go looking for attention and sympathy by posting all over the internet whatever my woes may be. I find a few friends, we bullshit for a while, I tinker in my garden, and more often than not these days I cuss about not being able to go anywhere, but it is what it is and that makes things worse.

Right now I should be packing my van to go to Georgia to see BTS with my baby for her birthday but I'm not. And I'm trying to make it up to her because for the first time in 5 years we can't go anywhere for her birthday as we have before and as a kid that matters. As a parent it matters even more, because you feel like you are failing even when it isn't your fault.

I'm also getting lots of requests for the story, like more pain for Taehyung, or a marriage for Jimin and Sven, or questions about what happens in Part 2 & 3.

First and foremost I would like to address the pain in this story and the request for more pain as we go on. I understand, being an angst hoe myself, that we all like pain, but there comes a time when pain must end or it becomes too much and turns unrealistic.

I also want to make it clear that torture, and degradation, and pain aren't something to be romanticized. Abuse isn't romantic. It's terrible and it's tragic and I say this as a survivor of so many different kinds of abuse in my life.

What these seven men (BTS) are being subjected to isn't romantic.

Sven isn't a dark lead who's torn between Taehyung and Jimin.

Sven isn't some beast waiting to be turned into a dashing prince.

There is no redemption for him anywhere, except maybe in death.

I promise you he is a genuinely terrible person with no emotions or connections or sense of remorse and his existence in the world he is in is truly a nightmare for everyone he is around.

We will find out more about Sven in Part 2 (and possibly 3) but for now just know that Sven doesn't care about anybody but Sven. In his mind everyone is disposable.

Everyone.

The pain is here to drive the story and the story is one of how the boys survive to escape, come to terms with what's happened & eventually heal as individuals and together as BTS.