There was something about the elder man's welcoming smile and his offer with a car loaded with toys that made five year old Taehyung follow him, curious and eager to know if there's a mountain pile of toys in the truck that he said would be there.

He wandered off too far from security, who are now looking for him in the playground anxiously, but he's far into the parking lot for them to spot him.

He's so excited!

Would he have airplanes? Or fire trucks?? Taehyung does need more fires trucks to save his city that he left behind at home in a lego formation.

"Alright kid, I got a whole box full of toys inside," The man beams as he turns to little Taehyung, "I have even more at home!"

This made Taehyung twitch a frown to the commentary and glances at the car, "I'm not suppose to be going anywhere with strangers."

"Well you can call me Tim, my friends call me Tim. See now you know me!," He says calmly and points to his small chest, "And you're the little prince of Aurous right?"

This made Taehyung stick out his chest with a proud smile, "My mommy says I'm going to be a king one day!"

"Of course you will!" Tim gasps and suddenly they reached the a black van and Tim opens the trunk, pulling out a plastic crown, "Every royal deserves a crown, right?" And he nuzzles it on the boy's head.

Taehyung giggles childishly and nods, "You're nice, thank you."

"I have more at my house," Tim continues to edge on, crouching down to the boy, "Come on it'll be quick. I need to give them away anyways since my little child isn't around anymore."

This made Taehyung drop his smile once again and slowly step back, a deep pout on his lips, "Sorry, I have to go back," and he turns around nervously, ready to go back to the playground with his new crown.

What he didn't expect was to be suddenly tackled down to the ground, a white cloth to be slammed to his face as it sent him completely out of unconsciousness.

That was the last thing Taehyung remembers, besides being inside a car, feeling completely terrified.

When he woke up again, he was in a hospital with so much pain all over his body. He remembers his mom and dad crying, completely heartbroken to see him in these conditions, while Taehyung was confused as to why.

Even as the police questioned him, asking him about the supposed forest they found his poorly buried naked body in, or about his kidnapper that he supposedly was with for the past three weeks.

Taehyung doesn't remember anything, only the man's face and name since he saw him at the parking lot, which became very helpful for the law enforcement. The doctor asked him questions regarding his memory or how he feels but..... He can't remember anything, almost as if that memory was completely washed out of his head.

The doctors assumed it was because of the trauma he went through that his mind probably erased it for now, but may come back after a while. What they didn't know was about the little girl that lived in Taehyung'a head, who witnessed the horror of what that man did to Taehyung as she lives it again and again.

Many days past and Taehyung just began to walk again without feeling pain on his lower spine anymore and his bruises began to slowly heal. Now he's being watched at all times, with more intense security even in the room as he plays with his toys. His parents eventually found his kidnapper, who was an enemy mafia member, and they took their time and pleasure in torturing him to death.

Time slowly began to pass by and then Karma became present in his life. So even when mommy and daddy didn't let him have friends of any kind besides Seokjin, at least Taehyung had Karma.

The security looking after Taehyung were very nice to him too so it wasn't all too bad. They would play with him as well, call him pretty names and pet his hair a lot. He felt their loving devotion for him, and he felt protected.

Since they were on guard duty over him most of the time, they decided to take him out to a secret place where many other kids will be there too, or so that's what they told him. Little Taehyung was so excited to possibly met more friends now, so he dressed his best with his hair combed and best smile as let his guards take him out of his home.

The drive felt like a while before he finally arrived to this building, which looked nearly abandoned than a home for kids. This made Taehyung frown a bit but he still felt safe with his guards since mommy and daddy told him to trust them, so he followed them inside, gripping onto one of their hands just to not get lost. They walk down a dark hallway, where odd noises echoed the walls that made a nervous shiver caress down Taehyung's spine.

He can't pinpoint what type of noise it was, but.... It sounds similar to one heard from mommy and daddy's room that one time, but Karma instantly guided him away from his curiosity to open the door.

Why would that noise be here too?

Karma kept telling Taehyung to switch, that he doesn't have a good feeling about this but Taehyung only told himself he was going to play with the other kids like the guards told him.

There's nothing to be afraid of.

Suddenly they turned to a room and one of the guards turned on the light bulb from the ceiling.

There..... Taehyung's whole stomach dropped.

So many kids sit lined up on the floor side by side, naked, and chained together. Some kids gazes were filed with with red eyes and bruises of rings under their eyelids, too innocent for Taehyung's mind to understand about the drug running through their system at the moment.

Bruises and scratches scattered their bodies, bringing back a time when Taehyung looked at himself in the mirror, seeing those exact same marks on himself.

Karma is becoming evidently co-conscious at this point, making Taehyung sway in dizziness as he fights to stay in gear.

"Hello kitties! We have a special guest tonight," The one he's holding hands with announces, bringing Taehyung forward, "This here is our precious prince, and he's wants a friend to play with."

The children all stare at Taehyung, making him only shuffles between his feet anxiously to the intensity of the attention, especially to the frightened stares in their eyes.

Are they scared of him?

"So.... Who wants to play with little Taehyung first, hm?"

No one spoke up, making Taehyung feel slightly disappointed that no one wanted to be his friend, but the guards instantly starts to laugh as one of them steps inside the room, gazing over the crowd of kids before settling his eyes on one of the boys at the corner.

This little boy is still fresh from his last session that ended just a few moments ago; skin sweaty with heavy eyes nearly dropping from the exhaustion, shaking body with large lips swollen for reasons that an innocent mind wouldn't understand. The guard smiles at him, at the star of their company, and unchains the boy instantly, yanking him to his feet forcefully by the wrist.

Taehyung couldn't even catch a glimpse of the boy's face since the man instantly blindfolded him and drags him to Taehyung like a rag doll across the floor.

"Let's go play Taehyung."

From there it was nearly impossible for Taehyung to steer. He kept blacking out with Karma fighting to steer and him fighting to steer as well, so only small fragments of memory was he able to grasp before he's suddenly taken to a room with a large bed and.....

Chains..... So many chains and cameras.

"Taehyung, take your clothes off."

Karma instantly took control, and Taehyung's memory was blocked. From Karma's perspective, he bit the man's hand and runs away but was instantly yanked back to the room and thrown to the bed.

That's when he blacked out too.

Completely.

When Taehyung became conscious again, he was on the large bed, a robe on his small body with the panting blindfolded boy beside him. Taehyung's own skin was sweaty and his spine ached of a familiar pain, so he looks at the blind folded boy with a quietvoice.

"W-What happened?"

The boy lips suddenly quivered and he shakes his head, "I-I didn't want to....T-They fowced me......I'm s-sowwy," And he turns around to curl into a ball and cries, revealing his back fresh with multiple upon multiple whip marks.

Taehyung tried so hard not to cry. Even along the drive back, all he could think about was the blindfolded boy and his back, hopping to God that this was all just some sick dream. The guards told him to keep quiet of what he saw or they will do bad things to him and Taehyung instantly felt afraid, and Karma most definitely didn't hold back. He went to tell his parents the second he got home.

Never again did Taehyung see those men again.

So his parents began to teach him how to self defend himself by the age of eight. Taehyung slowly began to grow into a better fighter with fists and knives after a while, but when it came to guns that was Karma's specialty. He tried not to come out too often when Taehyung had to test his ability with weapons, but would keep an eye on him in case he needed to switch.

The toys in his room were now left abandoned.

Then after a while.... That's when.... Taehyung was not allowed to see knives anymore without it being a trigger.

Taehyung was fighting once with the butler, testing out his speed and intelligence outside the backyard. Well, that became the perfect area for someone to sneak in and fuck everything over.

The second Taehyung saw the a hooded man suddenly slit the butlers throat with a knife from behind, Karma switched over and fought the intruder back well enough but.... Then it all went black.

Soon enough Taehyung woke up in his room, after many days of apparently being unconscious, with a knife wound on his stomach that he can't even remember how he got it.

Nor did Karma.

Many things in Taehyung's life felt like so many empty holes in it. He can't remember most of it, and it freaked him out for a very long time, even to the point he grew very depressed with suicidal thoughts while being a teenager. Karma was there to guide him away from that.

Assuring him that they will work together to keep each other safe.

To this day, Taehyung doesn't know what happened in that room with the blindfolded boy, let alone what happened to him in the place where his kidnapper held him in the beginning. He can't remember how he got the knife wound, or that one time he had sex with Hoseok where his conscious suddenly went dark. He can't remember what happened to his best friend San that stopped talking to him so sudden one day after a fight, and..... He just can't remember what happened.

He can't remember..... So many horrifying things that has happened to him, and he never understood why he can't but he has grew to put at least two and two together.

With Karma it became easier to understand why he exists, and they did believe there was someone else in his mind too..... That they can't see yet, and grew to believe it was because of the dark door in their inner world.

No matter how many times they tried to open it, it was nearly impossible.

Nothing ever made sense before, not until now.

V.

V..... Was always there.

Through those hard moments that Taehyung and Karma can't remember, V can. Every single day, she relives those memories over and over again. She suffers horrifically to the harsh words that were said to her to oblige or insults of her worthless existence, that was directed towards Tae but she holds onto it.......Through that dark door where it became her home of darkness, she stores all that trauma, pain and depression from a little girl and gradually grew up as Taehyung did.

It never became easy, maybe even harder but never easy.

Every beating Taehyung went through before Karma, she endured it. When Karma couldn't hold them back, she took his place.

So he won't have to remember what came afterwards.

Happiness doesn't exist in her agenda, only if it involved Taehyung.

If he's distressed, she would take over his body and take a bath, feed his body with fruits and take him out for fresh air. When Taehyung fronts back, he feels much more relaxed than he initially did.

Unlike Karma, V never trusts anyone. She makes sure Taehyung's body is always as safe mentally as it is, and that means not being around people. So if she senses a threat, no matter how small it may be, now she will always stay present until the threat is gone.

However now that Karma came to conscious, she won't come out as often unless it's necessary. He can handle things now that he's strong, so she's just going to go back through that door, making sure to keep everything in check and his mental stability in a good space.

While living her never ending nightmare, where the light doesn't shine so bright as it does on the outside.

"It's okay," V tells herself with a weak smile, grabbing the door knob to the dark door and opens it, "As long as Tae's safe, it's oka-"

"Where are you going?"

V closes her eyes for a moment, letting out a heavy sigh as she closes the door and guards in front of it while facing Karma.

"Going back to make sure everything is in check," She mutters and glances at the screen, to see Taehyung sleeping peacefully, "Keep an eye on him-"

Karma steps towards her and crosses his arms over his chest, "You don't have to go in there," He says lowly, "We can look after him together."

V pursued her lips and glances to the ground, "It's not like I'm going to be gone, just fronting when it's necessary."

"But you don't have to stay in there," Karma says, running a hand through his scarlet red hair, "Stay, keep me company."

For some reason this made V roll her eyes and let out a heavy sigh, "Listen, I know you have your own attachment out there, but I don't trust anyone, especially your little lover boy. That world is just not for me, I belong here," She mutters with a stern glare to him, "So I'm not going to be present to see how this unfold unless I'm needed like I've always done before. You make sure to keep Taehyung physically safe. I'll make sure to keep his memories safe, yeah?"

And with that she goes through the door and slams the door shut behind her, leaving Karma to face the loneliness here with a heavy frown.

Some people deal with pain different than others. V prefers dwelling it alone, where nothing will slip up. That's why the second she closed the door, she falls to her knees and screams.

Protecting the door from letting any of those memories out while she relives them, over and over again.

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A/N:
A little bit more background on V and how she came to be. Definitely a very triggering chapter so I hope everyone is doing okay.

I PURPLE YOU! <33