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"Hey, get up" Aera heard a voice, a different one this time. The man held her arm pulling her up to sit straight as he started untying the ropes and blindfolds.

"Ah" Aera cried, looking down at her wrist that was close to bleeding now. The man slid a steel plate of rice towards her, gesturing her to eat up. The girl looked at him and then at the not-so-nice looking food.

"What? Are you just gonna stare?" He said annoyed by her, "Look little girl, I don't want you dying on us, so just eat."

Sighing when she still didn't move, he took the plate taking a first bite for himself, "Its safe, there's no poison." Aera glanced at him, slowly taking the plate and using her hand to feed herself. Even though it didn't taste that good, it was still a lot better than starving.

"You're Aera right? Jeon's youngest child?"

Aera nodded, mainly focusing on the rice instead of the man's words. Once she was done, she kept the plate on the floor licking her lips and smiling softly as a thank you. The man frowned and looked away, pushing any kind of soft feeling for the kid.

"Your brothers are looking for you, you know that?" He asked diverting the subject, as he sat down in front of the girl.

"my oppa?"

"Yeah, but since you're here, they won't be able to find you."

"I wanna go home, why did you bring me here?" She asked slowly, scared to make him mad and get hit.

"Well, I don't think its important for you to know that, and since you're not concerned with the past, I believe you shouldn't be here."

Aera stared at him with a subtle frown, "I don't understand, please say it again."

The man sighed, "Look, I'll help you get out from here. But you have to promise me that you will not tell anyone about anything you saw or heard here. Not even your brothers. Get it?"

Aera nodded quickly and said, "please help me."

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"But its been three days!" Jungkook yelled, smashing the flower pot into the wall in front of him. He turned, glaring at the man with raging eyes;

"Get this one thing inside your head" he threatened, clutching the man's collar tightly in his hands, "If you can't get me some information about Hardwell, I won't hesitate inserting these bullets in your brainless head."

"I'm... I'm sorry sir, we're trying–"

"Yeah?" Jungkook scowled, "trying for three days and not being able to find a te–"

"Jungkook leave him" He heard Jin's voice interrupting him, "you can go" The eldest motioned his hand for the man to leave and get back to work before Jungkook gets any more angry and kills him right here.

Jungkook sighed deeply and turned to look at his hyung, "I'm so done with all the shit you all trying to do. I'm not going to sit back here and watch these assholes slacking off."

Jin shook his head and started off softly, "That's not how its going Jungkook. You know Jimin would never want you to get into some trouble, and that's the reason we decided to not get you actively involved."

"Bullshit" Jungkook muttered.

"Yeah?" Jimin's voice entered their ears. Jungkook lifted his gaze up, watching his brother walking in the room with Yoongi and Namjoon, "You're the smartest person alive and we're all dumb. I know you're worried for Aera, but that doesn't mean you can think that we're not. I'm working my ass off to find her and fix things back without getting you or anybody else hurt. Is it that hard for you to understand?"

Jungkook lowered his head under Jimin's stern glares, "All I'm saying is to lemme help you" the boy said in a soft voice.

"Aren't you aware of how the Mafias work?" Yoongi frowned at him, "Have you seen yourself? You're not in your senses right now Jungkook, you've killed five of your own men for no reason! Do you wanna go out in this inpulsive state and create more problems for yourself and Aera?!"

"Jungkook, look" Jimin stated calmly, "Whoever kidnapped Aera is most probably aware of each step we take. So please think about it, Aera's already with them, I don't want you getting hurt as well."

The boy shook his head subtly, blinking a few times in an attempt to clear his vision. His hand dropped the gun on the floor as they trembled slightly due to the fear of losing his sister.

"she's jus- just ten hyung, we have to save her..." He said in a shaky voice, "do whatever it takes, jus- just bring her back. I'll do everything you say, I'll stay here and I won't say anything stupid, but please just get Aera back...she's too young to be alone there..."

Jungkook rubbed his eyes to get rid of the tears and looked at his hyungs virtually begging them to find his sister for him. It was being too hard for him every time he thought about Aera being alone with their enemies. She barely ever left their side, and now those people had drug her into the mess that adults created. He knew how filthy and unsafe that place was, especially having a rivalry in the Mafias. And knowing all the dirty, dark secrets of this world, it honestly scared him to death.

Even after several hours of working they weren't able to get a hold of things. Jungkook's eyes wandered around stopping at the wall clock whose hour hand was situated at 1 and the minute hand close to 12. Heaving out a deep sigh, he stood up walking towards his room. His hands shuffled through the cupboard hastily only stopping when he found his fully loaded gun. Bucking it in his jeans, he grabbed the black leash hanging on the wall and took his jacket heading downstairs again.

"Charley" He whisper yelled, making the dog turn to him, "come here." He said and secured Charley's leash on his collar.

"Stay quiet" He said, putting his finger on his lips and slowly made their way out of the mansion without letting anyone know.

Jungkook sighed in relief once they successfully made it to his car. Charley barked, wagging his tail as he stepped forward from the backseat to lick Jungkook making him smile a little.

"Here's the plan" He started, "We'll go to Jesendwyll East, and you'll stay in the car and when I gesture you to come, only then you'll come out. Clear?"

Charley barked once, like he did before every mission, doesn't matter if he actually understood or not. Jungkook nodded and petted his head affectionately, before telling him to sit back properly and ignited the car.

"We'll find Aera–"

He groaned internally for someone interrupting him right now. Suppressing the huge urge to throw his phone away which was ringing now for the third time, he swiped the green button up and and brought the phone closer to his ear.

"Who's–"

"oppa...he-help" he heard a small voice say from the line.

"Aera?" He whispered to himself unconsciously, "God! Aera where are you? Are you okay?" He asked in one breath.

"help me oppa, they- they'll find me an- an' take me back. I don't wanna go there" she sobbed on the phone, "they' so bad, he was hitting me-"

"Listen to me baby, stop crying first. Breath in," he said and inhaled deeply. He heard Aera sniffing and inhaling as well, "Good girl, now breath out." He said and heard her exhaling.

"You're my brave girl right? Don't cry okay, oppa will come and get you." He said, "You have to tell me where you are, yeah?"

"...I don't know oppa, there's a- a park here"

Jungkook shook his head, "Uh okay listen, look around carefully, is there any sign board, a shop or restaurant or anything like that?"

"I- yeah. Its a sign but its... I can't read i-" she said and gasped.

"Aera? you there?" He asked in a scared tone, "Princess please answer me..."

"oppa" he heard her whisper, "it looks like a bridge sign I think..."

Jungkook nodded to himself, thinking deeply of which bridge it could be, before he could exchange any words further, he heard some loud noises and shouting of people and the line went off, leaving him staring at his phone in his hand.

His thumb hurriedly tapped a few times calling back on the number which now came off as switched off. He cursed loudly in frustration grabbing his hair in his hands.

His phone rang again, making him flinch and hastily answering in hope to hear his sister, "Jungkook where are you? I told you not to do–"

"H-Hyung" He breathed out, "Aera called me, I- I talked to her. She-"

"What?" Jimin uttered.

"Yes hyung" Jungkook said, "she said there's some bridge nearby from where she called, I think it can be somewhere around Cassdrath."

"We're getting there. Do you have your gun with you?"

"Yeah and Charley too"

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Next Morning —

"Look she's waking up!"

"Yeah okay! Stop hitting me!"

"Oh uh sorry"

Aera slowly blinked her eyes open finding two males staring at her intently. She moved back, looking around the new place she was brought at. It was an old apartment, too old for anybody's good. The taller guy smiled at her, reaching his hand out as he poked her cheek with his index finger.

"Wow you're real" he exclaimed, earning smack from the shorter man.

"Of course she's real, you idiot." He rolled his eyes, and focused on the girl, "please don't mind him, he's a little weird. By the way, I'm Leo and he's Sungho."

Aera nodded slowly and asked, "why did you bring me here?"

"We saw you passed out near the phone booth, and you seemed hurt. So we thought it'd be better to bring you home with us." Sungho said smiling at her.

"Thank you" she said, "I'm Aera"

"How old are you?" Leo asked.

"I'm ten" she said. Leo nodded slowly trying to take in the fact that a kid of such a tender age was alone in Cassdrath and in this condition.

"I'm hungry" Aera said, "can I get something to eat?"

"Oh of course, just wait I'll get you some noodles" he said and stood up walking to the kitchen leaving Sungho with her.

Aera started slurping down the noodles as soon as she saw the bowl. After being full and contended with the food her attention shifted to the two men. They were just staring at her with curious expressions which was kind of expected as they frequently asked her questions about what she was doing here, where she lived and about her family. After thinking for a while she decided to tell them about her in hope for some help. They can't be bad right? They helped her and even gave her food.

With that thought in mind, she sighed and told them everything from being kidnapped from her room to being trapped at some dangerous place, then escaping that place and ending up here.

"...so you're Jeon's daughter? Like as in Jeon Jimin and Jeon Jungkook are you brothers? The blood kind of brothers?" Sungho asked in a horrified tone, now understanding why anybody would want to kidnap her.

"Yes" Aera nodded with teary eyes as she remembered about her brothers and missed them, "please help me, I wanna go home."

"Of course" Leo said, "We'll help you in meeting your bro–"

"Leo" Sungho whisper yelled, "come with me for a second, we need to talk."

Within a second Sungho stood up and dragged Leo out of the room, glaring at the guy, "Are you crazy? She's Jeon Jimin, like JEON JIMIN's sister! Do you wanna get us killed?!"

"...I don't know what I just said to her" Leo whispered, "Oh my god! What have we gotten ourselves into, let's run away from here. If her brothers find out we have their sister, they're going to kill us. Jesus! Sungho think of something!"

"How about we tell her to go away? We brought her here, gave her food, isn't that enough?"

"I know...but bro, she's just ten. I can't bring myself to just abandon her like that. Its not safe for her." Leo said, "and she's cute..."

"Then let's help her...?"

"Yeah I think we should try contacting her brothers, maybe they won't kill us if we tell them first?"

Sungho nodded, glancing at the little girl who was wiping her tears as she rested her head on her knees and closing her eyes.

Aera woke up to fast movements and noises around which soon stopped as she felt a presence beside her. She opened her eyes finding a new, strong looking well-dressed man crouching in front of her.

"We meet again little girl" he said with a sly smirk.

Aera gasped, quickly moving away from him as she recognized that voice. He laughed and grabbed her arm, bringing her in front him again.

"I'm Jolon" He said, "the one who likes spending time with you?"

"n-no..." The girl wiggled, trying to get out of his grip but it only got tighter. She stopped as he shot a strict glare, not wanting to make him mad because he hits pretty hard.

"C'mon, I'm here to take you" he said, "Now be a good girl, and come with me."

Aera looked down with tears brimming in her eyes, however looking up instantly on remembering about the two guys who helped her. There they were, hands tied, mouth taped and a medium sized briefcase lying in front of them.

Jolon stood up extending his hand out for Aera to hold it, which she did and looked up at him just to see him nod firmly. He walked up to Leo and Sungho and chuckled deeply;

"You two must be really desperate for money right, that you decided to trade this child with us? Anyway, count it whenever somebody unties you." He laughed and walked out with Aera who turned her head once to glance at the two men, letting a tear fall down as she made an eye contact with one of them.

I thought you were nice...

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Ignore if you want to *A little bit of spoiler, (because I don't want my readers to die with a heart attack) the upcoming two chapters hold a strong, kinda disturbing and emotional plot (no that doesn't mean I've written it badly. I've done my best and still doing my best. ❤️) So yeah, just grab your tissues, secure your seatbelts, this is going to be insane.*

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