A few weeks later

The entire gang and their boyfriends stood in front of the Stray Kids warehouse. It was placed in the middle of nowhere just like Chan's house, but it was a lot larger than what Jisung expected. He looked at his three friends and they have the same surprised expression on their face.

Minho grabbed Jisung's hand and all ten of them started walking to the entrance. When they walked inside Jisung was taken by surprise by how many people were there. It was almost like this was a business building and Chan was the CEO. It wasn't that too far off to be honest.

When Chan walked by, everyone stopped what they were doing and bowed to him, saying their greetings. It was just like in school but this time Chan actually said hi back while smiling. Everyone's faces wrinkled in confusion when they saw the four boys walking with their members, but they never asked.

The ten of them walked into an elevator and the leader pressed the very last floor. When the elevator doors opened, Jisung noticed that it noticeably got colder. The elevator took the boys to a hallway filled with metal doors on either side of them. It reminded Jisung of a prison or an insane asylum.

This was definitely where the gang is keeping the members of WPQO at.

They kept walking until the very end. There were double metal doors and there were two guards in front of them. They bowed to Chan and moved away from the door. He opened the door and walked inside the room with the rest of them following behind.

Minho didn't walk which caused Jisung to turn to his boyfriend with confused eyes. The gang member looked at him with worry. "Are you sure you want to go in there?" Minho asked softly.

Jisung smiled warmly at him, nodding, "I'll be okay as long as you're with me."

Minho looked in Jisung's eyes, looking for any doubt or fear, but when he didn't find anything, he took a deep breath and opened the door.

Jisung would be lying if he wasn't nervous. He was about to see the guy who held him hostage for two days and tortured him, but Minho was sure to tell him that Moonjin was all tied up and wouldn't be able to get out. Also the fact that there were going to be five other gang members in the room to keep Jisung safe was very calming to know.

When he walked inside, he noticed four guards also in the room, but what caught his eye was Moonjin. He was sitting in the middle of the room in a metal chair. His hands and ankles were held down to the arms and legs of the chair with metal cuffs that were attached to the chair. His physical state was absolutely horrific. He looked a lot worse compared to what Jisung looked like when Minho had came to save him. Moonjin's eyes were completely bruised, one was swollen shut. His lips were busted and his face was filled with purple and black bruises. There was dried blood all over him and his hair looked like it had been pulled many times. Just by looking at him, Jisung cringed in pain, he almost felt a bad for the guy.

The moment Moonjin saw Jisung walk into the room, he smirked. "Oh hey Jisung, how are you holding up? Back for more? You just couldn't stay away huh?"

Everyone inhaled sharply as Jisung immediately tensed up and Minho noticed. He felt the lava inside himself start bubbling as he started walking towards Moonjin to beat him. Jisung noticed and instantly stood in front of Minho, placing his hand on his chest.

Minho looked down at his boyfriend and his eyes immediately softened, "He's just trying to get a reaction out of you." Jisung said to his boyfriend.

Moonjin noticed this and started laughing almost mockingly and if it weren't for Jisung standing in front of him, Minho would've knocked the bastard into unconsciousness.

Seungmin, on the other hand had so much anger and pure hatred built up for Moonjin, the comment and the laughter coming from him was all it took to set him off. Seungmin let go of Hyunjin's hand and marched over to where the bastard was sitting at. Before Moonjin or anyone had time to react, Seungmin brought his fist back and swung it at full force to his already swore cheek. The sudden attack cut Moonjin's laugh short and was replaced with a grunt and groan.

Stray Kids opened their eyes wide. They knew Seungmin had more balls than the average person, but they didn't know he was actually going to punch Moonjin. They've never seen Seungmin fight anyone. Jisung, Felix, and Jeongin on the other hand weren't fazed or shocked. They knew it was coming and it wasn't anything they haven't seen before.

"You have a lot of balls to say all that shit when your puny ass is tied to a fucking chair. You're laughing like you're all high and shit when in reality you're locked in a cold cell getting tortured everyday from your enemy gang and everyone in your own goddamn gang is dead since you failed at whatever plan you were trying to enforce, you cheap bitch. Don't ever degrade my best friend when you're the biggest humiliation of all." Seungmin seethed.

Of course he lied a little. Moonjin's gang wasn't dead, but Stray Kids all agreed to lie to Moonjin and tell him they were to help push him to tell the truth.

Moonjin blinked, absolutely speechless. He soon hung his head low and Seungmin scoffed as he walked back to Hyunjin who kissed his cheek and looked as proud as ever to call him his boyfriend.

"We were told by our guards that you would expose your whole plan to us if Minho and Jisung were present." Chan spoke sternly and Moonjin nodded.

"Talk." The leader demanded, leaving no room for protests.

Moonjin looked up again and his eyes shot straight at Minho and Jisung for a few seconds before he scanned the rest of the room. "Are you sure you want them to be in the room too." He asked lazily at Minho, motioning his head towards everyone else in the room.

The gang member furrowed his eyebrows, "Why?"

Moonjin shrugged, "Are you sure you want them to hear what I'm about to say?"

Minho looked at his brothers with confused eyes and they looked at him with the same expression. What the hell was Moonjin about to say and why wouldn't I want them to hear it?

"Of course I'm sure." Minho said, narrowing his eyes at the tied up male.

"Okayyy." Moonjin elongated. "You're probably wondering why I chose Minho. Why him? Why not someone else? What did Minho do for me to torture him like I did? Well let me tell you a little story from when I was younger."

-

It was a Friday and Moonjin was out with his parents gettin some ice cream. It was a tradition in their family, getting ice cream after dinner every Friday. It was a treat for them for surviving the week and it was a way for them to spend some time together at the same time. It was one of Moonjin's favorite things to do and he looked forward to it every week.

He always got the chocolate ice cream in a cone while his parents got vanilla in a cup. Since Moonjin was eight, he was allowed to get whatever topping he wanted. He loved the sprinkles.

After getting their ice cream the family sat outside of the ice cream parlor to enjoy their dessert. The family spent their time laughing and talking with each other about their week or whatever came up. When they were done, they walked back home since the parlor wasn't very far from their house.

At home, Moonjin and his parents sat on the couch to watch some movies. Today they were watching his favorite movie, Monsters Inc. When the movie was close to done, Moonjin heard glass breaking, like someone had broken the window. He saw his parents sit up straight from the sound, looking at each other with wide eyes.

Then the sound of heavy footsteps resonated through the house. Moonjin's dad quickly looked at his wife, "Take Moonjin and hide. Now." He whisper shouted. His mom wanted to protest but she knew she didn't have anytime and she didn't want her child to get hurt, so she grabbed Moonjin and ran to hide in the coat closet.

Moonjin could clearly see the living room from the cracks of the door. His mom covered his mouth with her hand, just in case he made a sound. Moonjin saw a man come into the living room with one of their biggest kitchen knifes, the ones that Moonjin's mom always told him not to touch.

He stood in front of Moonjin's dad and swung the knife at him, luckily his dad moved just in time and whacked the man with the golf club he found in the living room. The man groaned out in pain and got back up, more angry than before. Moonjin's dad screamed at the guy to leave. The intruder waited until Moonjin's dad swung the golf club again then grabbed the club, pulling it towards him, his dad wasn't expecting that to happen and fumbled foreword. The intruder held the knife out in front of him so when Moonjin's dad lost his balance, he fell right on top of the knife. Moonjin saw his dad get stabbed right in the heart.

The man pushed the knife further into his dad's body, making him open his eyes wide in pain, he let out inaudible noses from his mouth. The intruder soon pulled the knife out of his dad's body and let his body fall onto the floor.

Moonjin screamed out in fear. He tried to get up and go to his dad, but his mom was holding him back and shushing him. Unfortunately, the intruder heard the screams and turned towards the closet that Moonjin and his mom were hiding in, he smirked and started walking towards the closet. Moonjin's mom quickly hid her son behind her and started crying. "I love you Moonjin." She whispered.

The closet door opened harshly and he felt his mom being pulled away by the same man that killed his father. He saw the man drag her screaming body to the living room. She begged and begged him not to hurt her, but this guy ignored her pleads as he sunk the knife in her heart just like he did with her husband. Her voice soon stopped abruptly as he pulled the knife away and dropped her body on the floor.

Moonjin screamed at the top of his lungs again. The intruder snapped his neck to the closet Moonjin was hiding in and started walking towards it again, but suddenly stopped. Moonjin could hear sirens in the distance that were getting closer and closer. The man dropped the knife and ran as fast as he could out of the house.

Moonjin ran out of the closet over to where his parents were lying in a pool of their own blood. He broke down and cried his heart out while holding his mom's hand.

"NO, NO!" He cried at the top of his lungs. He felt like someone had taken the lungs out of his chest along with his heart.

Moonjin didn't really realize when the police barged into his home. His mind was black, his hearing went mute and he couldn't take his eyes off of his dead parents.

"They're both dead." Was all Moonjin heard and that was all that floated in his mind. Those three words.

The next few minutes were a blur. He saw his parents being zipped up in the black body bags and he was carried out to the cop car. While driving to the police station, Moonjin promised himself one thing, he would live in this world solely to get revenge on the person who killed his parents.

The boy arrived in the police station and stayed there for a few days while the police officers decided what they would do with the boy. Both his parents were an only child so he had no relatives to live with. Ultimately they decided to take him to the orphanage, but while Moonjin was staying at the police station for the few days, the police officers found out who the murderer was. They immediately went out to catch the culprit.

Moonjin stayed behind in the station, he was very fidgety as he was itching to know who killed his parents. The officers that went out to catch the murderer talked to the officers at the station every once in a while with their walkie talkies, updating them on the situation. Luckily Moonjin was able to hear everything.

"He's dead. He hung himself in his bedroom. There's a suicide note though." Moonjin heard from the walkie talkie and his world stopped.

He wanted to scream and cry out in frustration. It's not fair that the scumbag took the easy way out. It's not fair that the bastard was able to kill my parents and then cheat his death. What is the point of me living now?

"Wait there's a child in the basement. His name's Lee Minho and he's the son of Lee Taehyuck. Quick run his name through the system and try to find relatives or something." The walkie talkie said.

Moonjin lifted his head at that. Lee Minho. Maybe all hope for Moonjin wasn't lost. Maybe he had a new reason to live. Lee Minho, I will make your life a living hell and you will pay for what your father did to my parents.

-

"Then after that I was taken to the orphanage and maybe a day or so later, you arrived at the same orphanage. I spread rumors about you to all the other kids which is why no one talked to you and would bully you." Moonjin explained. "So long story short, the sole reason why I tried to ruin your life, was for payback, because your fucking dad killed my parents and ruined my life."

The room was dead quiet, so quiet that you could hear your own heartbeat. No one knew what they were expecting, but no one was expecting Moonjin to say that and they were taken aback.

"It was your parents who my dad killed." Minho said in disbelief.

Moonjin glared at the son of the murderer, he tried to attack Minho, but he was held back from the restraints. The guards took a step towards Moonjin for caution, but the boy didn't attempt it again. "Yeah you twat, it was my parents that died in your father's dirty hands. It was for the most pointless and idiotic reason too."

Minho furrowed his eyebrows, "How do you know the reason?"

Moonjin scoffed, "When I got older, I snuck into the police station and read the suicide note he left. He explained everything. It started off with some bullshit of how he never thought he was capable of doing something like that and that he can't live with himself for the shit he did or whatever the fuck which is why he hung himself. Then he explained that he did it because he saw how happy my family was and it reminded him how happy your family used to be before your mom died. He didn't like seeing a family that was happy while his family crumbled. That led to my miserable life."

Minho stayed quiet. He didn't know what to say, it was a lot of information to take in and he didn't know how to wrap his head around it.

"What does Jisung have to do with anything though? What was your plan?" Chan asked.

Moonjin looked at Jisung for a split second before he looked at Minho, "I spent a lot of my life, crafting the perfect plan to bring you down. I thought about torturing you and then killing you, but after you ran away from our foster home, I realized that that would be too easy for you and I wouldn't have been satisfied. I wanted you to feel the same pain I felt when I had someone that I loved killed in front of me. When we met Jaewoo, I told him about it and he wanted to help me. After you ran away, him and I joined a gang and we soon earned the leader position. Jaewoo and I crafted the perfect plan."

Moonjin paused and everyone stayed silent, waiting for him to expose his plan. "I was willing to wait until you fell in love with someone. Once I knew you were in love with someone, I was going to take them and torture them in the basement of an old house. I was gonna leave a working cell phone in the basement so your loved one would find it and call you. I knew, you would be able to find where I was staying by tracking the phone and I knew you would obviously come searching for your boyfriend. So I made sure my guards would be in the basement while you entered so they could hold you down and force you to watch me as Jaewoo and I tortured your boyfriend. Then after we had our fun, I was going to kill him in front of your eyes. I didn't care if you would've killed me afterwards because by then I would've already fulfilled my duty."

The gang stayed silent. Chills traveled down Jisung's back when he realized how close Moonjin was to completing his plan, how so many details in his plan actually followed through.

Moonjin continued " At first, no one but me and Jaewoo knew about the plan. We didn't tell WPQO about it because then we would have to explain everything including what we did to you. But when you killed Jaewoo, it gave me the perfect excuse to tell them about the plan. My gang hated you and was more willing to help hurt you by capturing the person you loved. Of course they didn't actually have any interest in hurting Jisung, they much rather would've tortured you instead. In fact, they were very against me torturing Jisung, but they didn't have a choice but to deal with it since I'm their leader. I told them that they could do whatever they wanted to you when you came to try and save Jisung."

"So you're telling me that your gang had no idea what had happened to you or why you hated me so much?" Minho asked.

"No I never talked about the plan with them until you killed Jaewoo and I told them that it was revenge for Jaewoo's life, which it partially was."

"So why did they think I killed Jaewoo? What'd you tell them?"

"Some bullshit lie. I told them that we used to be really good school friends when we were younger until Jaewoo showed up in the picture and took me away from you which resulted in you getting jealous and angry at him so you wanted to get revenge on him ever since."

It all made sense to the gang members on why Jisung wanted to keep the rest of WPQO alive, because they didn't know anything and were somewhat innocent. Killing them would've gone against Stray Kids' morals.

"What kind of bullshit? So you lied to them! You didn't tell them what you did to me! They think I'm the bad guy and that you and Jaewoo were innocent people." Minho growled.

"You are the fucking bad guy. Your dad killed my parents for no reason, At least I had a good reason for what I was doing to you. You deserved being tortured and raped." He spat and everyone inhaled sharply, they couldn't believe what he was saying and stood still in absolute shock. Minho stayed quiet.

Moonjin continued, "Anyways, my gang and I waited and waited until you fell in love, but it took so long that we honestly started losing hope. Until finally, one day you saved Jisung from that gang. Yeonjun saw you and told me about it."

"Yeonjun was the guy who was following us wasn't he?" Jisung asked.

The tied up boy laughed, "Yeah, he wasn't following you because you guys were going the same way his house was. He was following you for me. Anyways, he told me about it and thought Jisung was just a classmate and that there was no correlation, but I was still skeptical so I got Soobin to transfer to your school and spy for me."

Jisung, Seungmin and Felix gasped at that. They all thought Soobin was just a nice guy that didn't like any drama. Jisung remembered the time he told Soobin that him and Minho were dating and the boy internally slapped himself. God I'm so fucking stupid.

"He's the one who told me that you two were dating and he's the one who told Hwajoon about you two dating. He's the one who gave Hwajoon the idea to punch Jisung. This was all so he could see how Minho would react to to Jisung getting hurt and then he would report it back to me. That helped me determine if you really loved Jisung or not. After you punched Hwajoon, I was absolutely sure you loved him and that was when I started the plan."

He took another pause. "Making you break up with Jisung was never part of the plan, but it did help really nicely. After I learned Jisung's name, I soon found out that my adoptive mom and Jisung's mom were coworkers and that just played well with my plan and it helped me a lot. I convinced my mom to set up a dinner with Jisung's mom and that was the thing that helped me force you to break up with him. I knew that if you were forced to break up with Jisung then you would be a mess and wouldn't take care of yourself, which would result in you getting weak. Once I felt like a good amount of time passed, I started the final bit of my plan. I was so close to completing it, but I guess I underestimated you because I didn't expect you to get out of the my guards hold. I tried to kill Jisung by punching him, but you stopped me before I could do it."

Jisung inhaled sharply. Moonjin's plan was actually very well developed and thought through, but that's what scared Jisung the most. The fact that Moonjin was a few minutes away from completing his plan.

"I guess that's it. I failed and you killed my gang, the only people that I cared about. Do what you want with me, at this point I don't fucking care. Kill me, maybe I'll finally meet my parents after ten years." Moonjin said defeated.

This was the very first time Jisung had ever seen the male look so weak and vulnerable. No matter what, Moonjin always had a smirk or a blank face, he never showed any expression of weakness even when he was about to be punched or was threatened. Jisung almost felt bad for him again.

The gang looked at Minho for his input. They all expected him to pull out a gun and shoot the guy in the chair or something, but instead of doing that he grabbed Jisung's hand and turned to the door.

"One of you guys can do it." Minho said before he walked out the door, taking his boyfriend with him. He took everyone by surprise, even Jisung. He finally had the chance to kill the guy that's been haunting him for the last ten years and he was just gonna let someone else do the deed instead?

As the couple walked to the elevator, Jisung heard the door open and close again and soon after, two gun shots echoed through the floor making Jisung flinch a little. He leaned closer to Minho and the boy wrapped an arm around Jisung's waist to pull him closer.

...

The drive back to the gang's house was quiet as the two of them were in their thoughts. Jisung wanted to ask why he didn't kill Moonjin, but he thought that he would let Minho process everything first.

When they arrived to the house, they hung out with the other eight people. No one talked about what had just happened, it was like they all simultaneously agreed to forget about it for now and just enjoy each other's presence and to talk about it later. Their laughters filled the house for the next few hours before they all decided it was time to go to bed.

Jisung sat in Minho's bed waiting for the male to sit with him. After the gang member was done with whatever he was doing, he sat in front of his boyfriend. They sat in silence until Jisung spoke up, "How come you let someone else do the job?" He asked quietly.

Minho stayed silent. He honestly didn't fully understand why he made another person do it instead of himself. "I just felt like I couldn't do it."

Jisung turned to his boyfriend and gave a confused face, waiting for him to explain further.

"When he told us that it was my dad who killed his parents, it just didn't feel right for me to kill him. I feel like I would be taking after my dad." He explained looking down.

The shorter male frowned. He gently placed both his hands on Minho's cheeks, making Minho meet his eyes. "Don't ever compare yourself to your father. Your dad took the lives of innocent people. That's way different from what you would've done. Moonjin was far from innocent, he did unspeakable things and he deserved what happened to him, whether if you would've done it or not." Jisung found this situation to be kind of ironic since his boyfriend was in a gang.

"He only became that way because of my dad."

"Exactly. It was your dad's fault. Not your own fault. There was absolutely no way for you to stop him or to change the past because you had no clue what was happening. You were locked up in the basement and Moonjin's always had a twisted mind too. He's the one who decided to take his traumatic experience to hurt an innocent person who had nothing to do with it but be related to the person who caused it. You had no control over Moonjin's and your dad's actions. I don't want you to waste your life feeling guilty for something you shouldn't feel guilty about. You were nothing but a victim to Moonjin's little schemes and you didn't deserve any of it." Jisung said.

Minho stayed quiet. He knew Jisung was right but why did he feel like he was at fault here?

Jisung leaned up and kissed his boyfriend, pulling away after a few seconds. "Stop it. You have no right to feel at fault. None of it was your fault."

Minho reattached their lips, catching the other male by surprise. "Thanks Ji." Minho said once he pulled away.

Jisung smiled, "Of course."

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yes, chapter zero was through moonjin's pov. what surprised you??

i feel like a lot of you guys will be irritated that minho wasn't the one who killed moonjin but oh well

in the next chapter:
- it's the last chapter :(

what do you guys wanna see in the last chapter?