Chapter 9

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*ATEEZ and Stray Kids house*

Each day that passed was yet another day the captured boys were suffering. They had been planning their rescue for the past two weeks and now, thanks in part to Woojin, they knew enough about District 9 to know how it worked.

Yeosang was, once again, in the room that he shared with Wooyoung attempting to meditate. However, as was common recently, he couldn't bring himself to relax and calm his mind. All he could think about were his visions, their plans, his friends, and what was happening to their friends inside that awful place. He was so deep in thought that he didn't even notice someone enter the room.
"Yeosang?" Wooyoung's voice snapping him out of his trance. He was slightly confused as to why Wooyoung wasn't using honorifics, but that was the last thing on his mind right now.
"What is it Wooyoung-ah?" He asked curiously.
"Have...Have you had any more visions about the others?" He asked carefully, almost as if he was afraid to ask. "I've been really worried lately, I know we all have, and I wanted to know if there was anything else you had seen. Good or bad." Wooyoung finished. Yeosang could see the nervousness on his face and he could tell that Wooyoung obviously didn't want to upset him, he was just worried for the others. Yeosang felt exactly the same and if the roles were reversed, he knew he would do the same thing.
"Not recently, no. Even when I try to meditate, I have difficulty concentrating because my mind is so full of thoughts that I can't seem to relax in the slightest." Yeosang confessed. Wooyoung looked at him sadly, walking over to sit down on Yeosang's bed opposite him. He knew that Yeosang's visions came easiest and more clearly when he was relaxed or when he could focus, especially when he was meditating. If neither of those things were happening, it became much harder for him.
"How can I help you hyung?" Wooyoung suggested almost immediately. Yeosang sighed and looked down.
"I don't know." Yeosang admitted sadly. What he didn't see, however, was Wooyoung's eyes light up as if a lightbulb had just switched on and an idea popped into his head.
"Would it help if I sang to you?" Wooyoung offered gently.
"That would be nice and it might help." He replied, his voice soft. Wooyoung smiled at his hyung. He then pulled up an instrumental version of a song that he thought might relax Yeosang on his phone.
"Close your eyes." Wooyoung instructed. Yeosang did as Wooyoung requested and just listened as Wooyoung began to sing.

Chan was walking past the room that Yeosang and Wooyoung shared when he heard Wooyoung singing. He decided to check up on him since he wasn't sure why the younger would be singing. He grasped the door handle and opened the door just enough so that he could peek inside. What he saw warmed his heart. Wooyoung and Yeosang were both seated on Yeosang's bed with Wooyoung singing a calming song to Yeosang in what Chan could only assume was an attempt to calm Yeosang as they elder of the two had his eyes closed and looked like he was trying to relax. He smiled at the two before closing the door as silently as possible before making his way towards the room that he and Felix shared.


*District 9 compound*

Changbin was sitting in his assigned cell, or "room" as the people here called it, staring at the ceiling, his mind a mess with thoughts of his friends and how they were doing. Beyond anything, he wanted to help everyone, but there was absolutely nothing he could do. He felt like he and his friends were locked in a high-security prison that took no care in the experimentation and treatment of their inmates. He hadn't seen Lee Know or Han since they had arrived at this dreadful place and was constantly anxious about their conditions. He could tell that everything was taking a toll on Jeongin just by looking at him. He could tell that Seungmin was having a hard time having both those heavy-duty metal boots and the collar on to control his powers hold him down. He was furious that they hadn't let Hyunjin rest at all, making him go out so soon after a procedure. The only silver lining, if you could even call it a silver lining, was that they had made five new friends in Yeonjun, Soobin, Beomgyu, Taehyun, and HueningKai. He felt sorry for them for being here for so long and could see how strong they were simply by the fact that they were all still sane even with all the torture the five of them had endured.

He hoped that the others would rescue them soon. He wasn't sure how much more of this he could take. He had faith that they would come and rescue them and, if Woojin was actually willing to help like he said he was, they probably already had a plan. Changbin still didn't trust Woojin as far as he could throw him, not after all he did, but he would act civil if the older pulled through in his promise to contact Chan to help them escape. All he and the others had to do now was hold out until they came to rescue them from this cursed compound. He just hoped they would be able to do that.

Lee Know knew three things for sure right now. 1) He was in District 9. 2) He just had yet another experiment performed on him. 3) It hurt like hell. He had lost count of the number of times they had experimented on him, and he still had no real idea what the experiments were even testing because his telepathy had been blocked and he couldn't read the scientists' thoughts. Most of the time though, he felt like he was floating. Where, he didn't know. For how long, he didn't know. He sometimes heard voices, but most of the time, he couldn't make out exactly who it was or what they were saying. He didn't know how long he had been here, but he had to hold onto the hope that he and the others would be rescued.

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