"How do you know that Renjun?" Jessica hissed, glaring at the young boy as she attempted to get to him even though her wrists were bound to the bedpost. Cordelia wrapped her arms around her son, unable to look Jessica in the eye as she continued screaming. "How does he know that?!" 

"Mama, I'm scared.." Renjun's sweet voice whispered out into the air, his mother's eyes filled up with tears hearing Jessica continue to struggle against the bounds. "Jessica is going to hurt herself!" 

"Jessica, please calm down you're going to hurt the baby!" Cordelia snapped, glaring at her friend through her water logged eyes. Her arms tightened around Renjun who had to cover his face, too scared to look up at the struggling woman before him. 

"What is going on in here!" Donghae yelled, tossing the door open. It bounced off the wall behind almost swinging back and hitting him in the side. Cordelia pushed her son towards the doorframe, Renjun running over the threshold desperate to get out of the room in order to avoid the sure explosive bound to happen. "Jess-" 

"You get the hell away from me and my baby!" she hissed, glaring at her husband who seemed surprised by her sudden outburst of anger. "you're a liar and a manipulator, you had me believing that you loved me. You're my mate what the hell is wrong with you, choosing your king over me!" 

"Okay for starters you can shut your mouth, Cordelia please would you mind closing the door on your way out please?" Donghae smiled at the chambermaid, his hand pointing towards the doorframe. Cordelia simply nodded her head and placed her blanket down the end of Jessica's bed, gently rubbing her leg through the blanket. She was surprised to see the woman so calm after having her little episode against her son a few moments ago. The two waited until Cordelia had left their presence before staring at each other for what felt like eternity, they heard the door click and Jessica took that as a reason to begin again however her voice was more controlled now than earlier. 

"Get the hell out of my room" Jessica started unable to look at the boy across form her, her gaze fixated on the blanket below her. "I don't want you anywhere near me or my baby." 

"That is our baby" Donghae hissed edging closer towards the bed, his finger now pointing down at her slightly bloated stomach. "we both made it, we both take responsibility for it-" 

"You made this baby for Kris not because you loved me, you just wanted Kris to respect you. Well guess what Donghae you got everything you wanted!" Jessica's voice cracked and her mate was able to tell just how badly she wanted to cry, he's heart broke hearing her voice so hoarse. He stepped closer but remained at a distance so that she wouldn't feel overcrowded and intimidated. 

"I don't know what happened when I was away but clearly someone said something-" 

"Oh they said enough." Jessica snapped, her hands forming fists as she finally looked up into her mate's eyes.

"Clearly" Donghae breathed through his nose, taking a chance and sitting himself down by his mate's legs. "Look whatever happened it's not true, you're my mate Jessica and I love you-" 

"Oh cut the bullshit, I know Kris shoved you towards me to impregnate me because he wasn't able to do it himself since he swore off girls thanks to Katherine." 

"Woah okay so you've been let in on so many secrets." he groaned, his body falling backwards on the bed. "Look that's the way things started out, I didn't know you were my mate at the time and I surely didn't expect to fall in love with you then either. Trust me when I tell you this Jessica, I do truly love you and the baby that you're carrying. I've spent the past couple days looking for a way that we can be free from this life, I don't want our baby growing up in this world. I don't want them to be scared about Kris and whatever his plan is." 

"You don't?" Jessica gasped, leaning towards her mate although her bounds made it harder. "You don't want our baby growing up in Kris' world?" 

"Of course not!" Donghae muttered sitting up and looking the woman in the eye. "I don't know what he has planned but apparently he's been quite happy about it for the past couple months, His has his heart set on this as his so called B plan. The best thing we have right now is if Chanyeol and the rest of his family die, only then will we be left to be free. I'm stuck here just as much as you are sweetheart-" 

"Then put us out of our misery and kill this baby-"

"What?!" 

"Think about it, if we kill our baby the king won't be able to use it as a pawn in his game. We can just make a new one-" 

"Have you lost your mind?!" Donghae shouted standing up from the bed and stalking towards his mate. "We are not killing our baby Jessica! I don't care what the hell happens but that's the last result." 

~*~

Baekhyun giggled at the sight of his mate knocked out on his bed, his arms stretched above his head in the most uncaring way possible. He bite his lower lip and tipped toed back into the room gently closing over the bathroom door behind him, the beads of water from his hair dripping quietly onto the floor boards with every step he took.

He quietly moved towards the closet, opening it just enough to avoid the loud creaking sound it uses makes whenever someone opens it. He slipped his hand in through the slit and quickly pulled out one of Chanyeol's white t-shirts and a pair of his favourite sweatpants. Dropping his towel onto the floor after making sure that his body was completely dry, Baekhyun stepped into the sweatpants and pulled the sweatshirt over his head only to halt in his actions after hearing Chanyeol's deep voice resonated from the bed.

"Did you really have to get dressed?" he groaned, pushing his arms beneath his head to prop himself up on the pillows. Baekhyun turned around with a wide grin on his face and a bright blush on his cheeks, the sight before him had his heart skipping beats. Chanyeol's red hair was tossed against his forehead and the white pillow below him, the first line of his abs baring peeking over the hem of the bedsheets. "I thought you might be up for a round two?"

"In your dreams Park Chanyeol" he whispered approaching his mate and allowing him to pull him onto his lap, the only thing separating them from each other was the blankets on top of Chanyeol's naked body. "although I would be more than happy to have a make out session again?" he grinned cupping the taller's cheeks before pressing their lips together for a brief second.

Chanyeol hummed in satisfaction, his fingers curling around his mate's waist as he pulled him closer as he himself rose higher in the bed. Baekhyun giggled feeling his tickle spot be brushed over by Chanyeol's larger hands, his sides trembled as he tried his hardest to focus on kissing his boyfriend and to avoid bursting into a laughing fit. The elder must have noticed what was happening since he railed his hands upwards, resting them on the small of Baekhyun's back rather than his waist.

"How about you and I stay behind one more day and have some fun?" Chanyeol whispered against his boyfriend's lips, his sleepy eyes making him look that much more desirable. Baekhyun giggling at the sparkle in Chanyeol's eye that he knew too well, he shook his head as he began pulling away from his boyfriend's embrace.

"No, we need to leave with everyone else. Kyungsoo got sick earlier on today and I don't want to leave him alone for too long, Luhan has been taking care of him while Sehun and Jongin do their own thing for getting their stuff prepared for the flight in a couple hours. Skylar is helping Colin with his Korean and Suho has been trying to keep Lay sane since he doesn't want to go back to Seoul so quickly and I have no idea where Minseok and Jongdae are after they were freaking out for the past couple hours before we-"

"Had some fun" Chanyeol winked looking up at the boy on his lap with so much love hidden in his eyes, all for Baekhyun to see. "Look baby we are going to have so much to deal with in the future and I think these next couple days will be needed for us as a couple to develop strength between us. I will show you what being a vampire truly means and you'll show me what it's like being human-"

"We're not staying another day" Baekhyun drove that point home, digging his index finger into his boyfriend's chest. "but before you give me your world famous pout face, I'll let you do whatever the hell you want to me when we arrive in Korea? Okay?"

A smile so wide took up Baekhyun's vision, he swore that it stretched from one ear to the other. Chanyeol wrapped his arms around Baekhyun's waist and pulled him closer pressing his lips against his mate's forehead. "That I can very much get onboard with" Chanyeol chuckled tilting his head back for a moment before pressing his lips on top of Baekhyun's. "right let's get ready so!"

Baekhyun was shoved to the side of the bed, his face being filled with soft white sheets as Chanyeol scrambled to get off the bed, his mate's giggles making him work faster in getting some clothes on. "I should have said that in the beginning, if I had of known that you would have gotten dressed so quickly-"

"Guys?" Skylar's voice pushed through the door, Baekhyun's eyebrow raised as Chanyeol turned towards the door in surprise. He quickly pulled up his jeans before walking cautiously towards the door, his hand pushing down on the handle before the girl came into view with Colin following her close behind.

"Hey girlie" Baekhyun grinned, waving his hand ever so slightly before his smile fell at the sight of her tear-stained cheeks. "What happened?"

"Skylar saw a vision earlier" Colin spoke up, looking up at Chanyeol who had passed them by so that he sat next to Baekhyun on their shared bed. "she saw something that hasn't happened yet but we think that it's about to."

"I saw Baekhyun getting his heart ripped out by Kris" Skylar sobbed, her hands flying up to her face in attempt to cover her tears. "I didn't want to tell you but I had too! This is important! Baekhyun I really don't think we should go back to Seoul, maybe Italy would be the best option-"

"Skylar" Colin interrupted, taking the girl by her hand and holding her close. Baekhyun watched awestruck as his future sister-in-law cuddled into Colin's chest and sobbed her heart out, he could practically feel his heart breaking at the sight.

"Skylar-" he began yet his voice betrayed him as he tried to hold back a sob of his own, he cleared his throat and started up again. "thank you for telling us about your vision and I would most definitely think about what you have told me. I'm sorry that you saw something so graphic as that and I hope that you aren't scared because of it-"

"Baekhyun-" she tried to interrupt but the boy simply shook his head, standing up from the bed before she could say anything else.

"I'll be fine" he smiled, the lump in his throat tightening the more he stood in front of her. "Kris won't have the opportunity to get close to me, I won't let him get close to me. You have nothing to worry about okay?" he took a glance in Chanyeol's direction before speeding out of the room before his tears were the only thing everyone in the bedroom heard.

He only stopped running when he propelled himself into Kyungsoo and Jongin's bedroom and he collapsed on top of his two best friends. Luhan and Kyungsoo were surprised to see him but they didn't say anything the moment they registered that he was crying. They pulled him into the covers and wrapped him up in their arms, he faced Luhan since he wasn't so comfortable facing Kyungsoo's face encase he got sick again.

When things finally started to calm down and he wasn't breathing so heavily, Luhan and Kyungsoo shared a glance. "What happened Baekhyun?"

"Skylar said that Kris is going to rip my heart out of my chest.." he hiccupped, burying his face deeper into Luhan's chest. His fingers curled around Luhan's shirt material as the two boys stared at each other with unreadable expressions. Kyungsoo's gaze turned deadly as he tightened his arms around Baekhyun's waist, Luhan pressing his lips against the boy's head as he snuggled closer.

The three of them sobbed quietly together holding onto each other and hoping that the future that was most likely set out for them was never going to happen. They stayed in that position until they eventually fell asleep, their chests finally relaxed as they dreamt of a life without the harshness of the world being thrown at them.

Chanyeol, Sehun and Jongin watched them from the doorframe, they had been let in on what Skylar had experienced and to say that they were worried was an understatement. Which of them having their own reasons but they were all worried for Baekhyun, before they wouldn't have been so obsessed about Skylar's premonitions however after the past couple days her theories had been getting better and better.

"Should we go to Italy?" Sehun wondered, looking at his eldest brother before turning his gaze back to his mate curled up in bed by his friends. "Extend the training a little more?"

"I mean, it's probably the best option-"

"No" Chanyeol breathed, his head hanging low as he gripped the door handle tightly as he pulled it back into it's place. "I don't think Italy is the best decision we have anymore. Even though it would be the best place to keep Baekhyun away from my dad, I'd rather him go back to Seoul, it's where he lived his entire life, it's his home I took him away from it for so long I need to bring him back."

"What happened?" Jongin wondered, knowing that his brother was lying.

"I got a letter in the mail yesterday" he sighed, pressing his head against the door of his brother-in-law's bedroom. "a contact of mine in Italy told me that dad's forces landed by boat, they're waiting for us there."

"I thought it was Baekhyun who offered to go to Italy, you've never been there how would you have a contact?" Sehun questioned, placing his hand on Chanyeol's shoulder.

"When Baekhyun said that he wanted to go I had Colin send one of his band mates over to scope the place out, I wanted it to be safe for him but seeing as how Dad figured out about it I guess there was no point." Chanyeol sighed. "Colin took it upon himself to sort things out with our Korea plan and that looks a lot better than Italy at this point. At least with Dad thinking that Italy is our destination we'll get some cover time before he realises that it's complete bullshit."

"Jesus Christ Chanyeol" Sehun chuckled, looking at the ground before turning to look at his elder brother. "have you the entire world on lockdown because of him?"

"Well maybe not right now, but give it awhile" Jongin joked "after what Skylar said I'm pretty sure Chanyeol is going to fulfil that plan soon, right bro?"

"Shut up" he laughed, punching their shoulders with a smile. It felt nice to do such a thing as have fun in a time here they should be stressing over every single thing in their lives. Kyungsoo was sick, Luhan saw dead people and now Baekhyun's destiny proved that he was gonna die by his dad's hand but for once they laughed and joked about the whole thing, acted like the teenagers they could never be when they were younger.

"He's gonna be fine, you know that right?" Sehun whispered wrapping his arm over Jongin's shoulder. "He must have caught the flu or something, nothing to freak out about."

"What's wrong with him anyway?" Chanyeol wondered, looking towards his younger brother with his brows furrowed together. "Kyungsoo means a lot to this family and I wanna know what happened to him." he explained after it seemed like his questioned had caused his brother's to short circuit.

"I don't know, ever since I marked him he's been sick-"

"Woah wait you marked him?!" Chanyeol gasped, his eyes nearly falling out of their sockets. His gaze quickly fell on Sehun who looked just as guilty as his brother. "Wait you both marked them?!"

"We were following your example!" Sehun defended although the curl of his lips was more than enough to show that he didn't really mean it in context. "It's not like we planned it, but they wanted to know what it was like too-"

"You did it out of experimental purposes?" Chanyeol asked, looking at both of his brothers with a new found gaze.

"No we did it because we loved them" Jongin chuckled although he meant so much depth to that sentence. "but sure experimental purposes work too."

Sehun and Chanyeol cracked up at that and together the three of them rested against the wall facing the closed door shielding their mates from the cruel world around them.

"God I would love it if we were able to lock them up in there and keep them away from our problems." Sehun sighed, his head falling between his shoulders. "but they would probably kick our ass if we did that so-"

"When was the last time we had a boy's night?" Jongin wondered, his arms naturally crossing over his chest.

"We never did, we all had problems-"

"Says the Prince hoping to become king" Sehun joked with a grin.

"I wouldn't be so sure of that statement" Jongin commented with his head shaking from side to side. "I mean don't you remember the entire speech-"

"Alright he gets it!" Chanyeol hissed letting his hand out so that he could slap the latter against the back of his head. "Anyway, we haven't had one at all."

"Then how about it?" Sehun stressed, taking a step away from the wall to look at his brothers, a soft sparkle in his eye. "Our mates are lying curled up against each other in that room in there, probably terrified about everything that our future holds. How don't we give them a day that they will never forget?"

"Eh because we have a plane to catch on literally three hours" Jongin deadpanned, unintentionally destroying Sehun's hopes and dreams with that one sentence.

"I have no problem with waiting for a little while longer" Yixing grinned, his wide smile almost blinding the three vampires before him. "Katherine has decided to hang back and look over this place with Nana, she said that even though she's pretty sure they won't be able to communicate she feels like she'll uncover her power here. She told me that she'll follow us when she's ready and given the circumstances I can't blame her. Look I care about those three in there just as much as you idiots" The three park brother looked at each other in confusion, unable to comment as the elder carried on. "Kyungsoo is sick and from what Suho has told me he hasn't been like that ever since you've known him Jongin, he's gonna want and need your comfort if he wants to get better. Sehun, Luhan has just been handed this major fucking power that is probably hunting him metaphorically and physically-"

Jongin chuckled bumping his shoulder off his brothers. "Get it, because he can see ghosts? Haunted?"

"Jongin?" Yixing called.

"Yeah?"

"Shut up"

"Aye sir"

"He's gonna need something to take his mind off things and my best bet would be you. Chanyeol, Baekhyun is probably freaked out about what your sister told him and my god us he stubborn. He's gonna tell you that he's fine and that Kris will never have the opportunity to get near him but, tale it from me. That kid has had so much heartbreak in his life that I believe that he was forced to grow up so soon."

Chanyeol began to notice a pattern, for ages Yixing has been stressing the fact that Baekhyun had gone through so much and had been forced to grow up too quickly for someone his age. There was clearly something that he was missing and he swore to himself that he would figure out what it was.

"We will let you have another 4 hours but you are all meant to be on that airstrip by 8pm tonight, do I make myself clear?" Suho announced appearing from thin air as he glared at the brothers one by one.

"Yes Appa" Chanyeol and Sehun chorsed however Jongin seemed confused on which term to use considering the fact that the man technically wasn't related to him in any way.

"You're alright darling" he winked upon noticing Jongin's distress. "You can just call me Suho if you wish"

"Thanks Suho" the can boy breathed, a sigh of relief escaping through his lips.

"Try and figure out more about your powers when you're out there and stay together, we don't know if there are any rebels still lurking around these parts" Yixing warned the youngsters who each nodded obediently in turn.

"Now off you go" Suho chuckled, flicking his wrist from side to side as he grinned happily.

The moment the three had entered into the room their mates were slumbering, Suho turned to Yixing with a nervous look on his face.

"Should we tell them they're here?"

"Let them have their four hours" Yixing whispered back, pressing his lips against his mates neck. "We keep forgetting that they're still kids, they deserve to live like children for at least some time."

"I know.." Suho sighed, leaning forward and resting his head just below his mates neck. Their eyes wandering through the door onto the three boys playfully kissing their mates awake. "I just hope that whatever comes, they'll be ready for it."