Little: Jisung
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Caregiver: Minho
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Requested by: penguinPruzinsky
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"Appa, we buy treat for Potato?"

"We can get another bag of treats baby."

"Yayy! Chu hear that Potato? Appa say we get more treat for chu."

Right now, the members were preparing for a trip to the grocery store.

Jisung had just finished putting the vest on his Service Dog, Potato, a very beautiful Australian Shepherd.

"Has everyone written what they need on the grocery list?", Chan yelled.

"Yes!", all the members yelled back.

"Potato not write anything!", Jisung yelled.

"But she did baby, look, a paw print right over Seungmin's request for sixteen Kiwi's and a tie-dye Mickey Mouse t-shirt.", Chan replied.

Everyone looked at Seungmin.

"It's for my ASMR channel. They like fruits."

"Then no wonder they like you so much.", Hyunjin whispered.

"Is this coming from Changbin's future husband or am I stupid?"

Changbin stood by Hyunjin.

"He's caught on to us babe."

"Now we have to kill him."

Chan decided to ignore them and led everyone outside so they could go to the store.

They split off into three vehicles.

Vehicle one was driven by Chan, and the passengers were Felix and Jeongin.

Vehicle two was driven by Minho, and the passengers were Jisung and Potato.

Vehicle three of course was driven by Seungmin and contained the engaged couple of Changbin and Hyunjin.

Minho only played the finest of music on the way to the store. This included the entire Jack In The Box album by J-Hope and repeating Connected by Chan three times.

The members arrived at the grocery store and split off with their sections of the grocery list.

Little Jisung followed behind Minho to the frozen food section.

"Appa, Potato want porkchops."

"Does she now?"

"She does! Right Potato?"

Potato just sniffed around Jisung.

People would walk by them and wave to the dog, also trying to pet it.

This made Little Jisung nervous, as he didn't like people getting too close to his dog.

"Baby, do you think we need two bags of chicken nuggets?"

"Yeah! I eat all the chicken nuggets appa."

"You ate them last time?"

"Yeah! Channie and me went to kitchen, a-and he put chicken nuggets in oven. Then, we ate them appa."

Minho just stared at Jisung, wondering how he and Chan alone managed to consume 60 chicken nuggets in one sitting.

People kept walking by, petting Potato and distracting her from paying attention to Jisung.

The little tried to ignore it, until something happened.

"Hey, what a beautiful dog you have.", a man said.

Jisung stared at him. Minho turned around.

"What's her name?"

"Potato.", Jisung whispered.

The man bent down, petting Potato and touching her collar.

Jisung looked at Minho, and Minho could tell something was wrong.

"This is a nice vest. She's a service dog?", the man asked.

Jisung started to get nervous.

Minho noticed and stepped in.

"Yes she is. And you shouldn't touch her."

"Oh, sorry. Its just that she's beautiful. How much did you pay for her? I would like to look into this breed."

Jisung pulled on Minho's shirt.

"Appa, he gonna take us?"

"No baby, he won't."

"He gonna take my dog! Appa he won't give her back!", Jisung cried.

"Crap...Jisung, its okay. He won't take her. I won't let him."

Suddenly, Jisung let go of Potato's leash, running away from them.

"Jisung! Come back, wait!", Minho yelled.

"Did I do something?", the man said.

"He's had a dog be taken from him before due to some...unfortunate circumstances, so he hates people getting close to his new one. He was really close to his previous dog."

"Oh, I'm so sorry."

"I have to go get him. Come on Potato, let's go find your Jisung."

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Jisung ran to the back area of the store, to the room where the returns are held. It was open so he went in and closed the door.

He sat against the back wall.

"He not get me in here...", the little whispered.

His phone rang, but he didn't answer it.

"He not get me...he not get me...", he kept whispering.

A voice outside of the room echoed in.

"Han! Han where are you?!"

The voice sounded like Chan, so Jisung guessed Minho must have told him what happened.

Jisung didn't yell back, because he was scared.

Scared of being caught again.

Scared of having a repeat of the last time...

But he wouldn't let that happen.

He hid behind a stack of boxes in the room just as the door opened.

"Jisung?", Chan said, "Are you in here?"

Jisung stayed as quiet as possible, practically shaking, and wiping every tear that fell.

"Chan hyung, did you find him?", another voice asked.

Jisung recognized it at Jeongin.

"No. Where is he..."

Jisung put his head in his legs.

As he did, his foot brushed over the edge of a box, making a noise.

"Hyung, did you hear that?", Jeongin asked.

"I did. Jisung, I know you're in here."

Jisung stayed quiet.

"Jeongin, go get Minho."

"On it."

Chan walked into the room.

"Sweetie, it's just us. No one is here for you."

"I not believe you!"

"It's true baby. We won't let anyone hurt you."

"Stop lying!", Jisung cried, "You say that last time!"

"I know baby and I'm sorry I wasn't there. We all are...but this time we're here. No one can get you if we're here."

Jeongin came running back with Minho.

Soon, the other members were in the area outside of the room.

Potato went inside, sniffing out Jisung and going to him.

This led Minho to him as well.

"Hi baby.", Minho said, sitting down.

"Is he gone appa?"

"He's gone baby. It's just us."

Jisung pet Potato, who laid on his lap. It was a way of comforting Jisung during moments like this.

"I scared appa...", he whined.

"I know you are baby, but appa us here to protect you. Come here."

Minho opened his arms.

Carefully, Jisung got up, crawling to Minho and sitting in his lap, being hugged by him.

"Appa is here baby."

"Appa protect me?"

"Oh honey, you have all of us to protect you. Not to mention every stay in the world who would gladly take care of someone who even got close to their baby."

Jisung smiled.

"I get candy appa?"

"Yes honey. You can have candy."

Jisung clapped.

The other members laughed, relieved that Jisung was safe.

"Remind me to set up a therapist appointment for Jisung.", Chan said to Felix.

"Can you set one up for me too?", Hyunjin asked, "My doctor said the meds aren't working."

Chan just stared at him.

"What?"

"Meds?"

"Ignore that.", Hyunjin said walking away.

"Nah come back here."