Just as Y/N began to mumble an excuse to leave, another voice cut through the tension. “Y/N?” V’s voice was thick with disbelief. He stepped into view, holding a takeout bag in one hand. His eyes widened as recognition dawned, and the bag slipped from his grasp, its contents spilling across the hotel hallway. Tears welled up in his eyeds as he stared at her battered form.
“Oppa,” she croaked, her voice laden with exhaustion and despair.
Without hesitation, V closed the distance between them, pulling her into a tight hug. Y/N flinched and hissed in pain, her fragile body unable to withstand the embrace. V immediately released her, his hands trembling as he cupped her face, removing the cap, taking in the full extent of her injuries.
The other members looked on in shock, their expressions a mix of confusion and concern, trying to comprehend what they were witnessing.
“What happened to you? He renounced softly, “you’ve been incognito, for 4 full years,” Who did this?” V demanded, his voice shaking. His heart broke seeing his once vibrant cousin reduced to this fragile state.
“I… I couldn’t go to Jennie unnie,” she stammered. “She’d call amma and appa, and I… I can’t…” Tears streamed down her face as she clutched at her hoodie. “I didn’t know where else to go.” She was in a state of confusion of where she had made the right decision, in coming here in the first place. As her phone blowed up with multiple pings from him, where was she and threatening for her to back.
V’s jaw clenched, and his eyes burned with unspoken fury. He knew exactly who was responsible. Sehun. The man he once called a friend, the man who had betrayed him by hurting the one person he had sworn to protect.