ℍ𝕠𝕨𝕥𝕠𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕝𝕠𝕧𝕖.𝕔𝕠𝕞 (𝕋𝕒𝕖𝕜𝕠𝕠𝕜)

𝟝𝟞: ℂ𝕠𝕦𝕣𝕥 𝕋𝕣𝕚𝕒𝕝 (𝕡𝕥.𝟚)

"What happened whenever your mother told your father she was pregnant with her 3rd child?"

"I uh, I could hear them argue at least 3 times a week, mostly at night whenever my father got home from work."

"How bad did it get?"

"It got so bad to the point that once Taesa was born, our parents left us home alone to fend for ourselves." The jury and people sitting in the back gasps as they stared at his mother and father, only one of them holding their heads down in shame.

"Interesting, now what did your older brother do during that time?"

"Well, Jin works at his own restaurant, but he started to work more because at the time, it wasn't enough for just one shift. I had to take care of Taesa most of the time on my own, but whenever my friends pitched in, they were able to help Jin out so he only had to work that one shift and still have enough money for us and other things."

"Mhm...Taehyung, has your father ever hit you and no one was around to help or do anything?" The room went silent, including the cameras, as the question itself was a shocker.

His friends and family members, even Jungkook himself never knew this answer, mainly because he never spoke about it, so to see this what the boy's reaction was to the question was heartbreaking.

The way his wide teddy bear eyes showed fear, how he wanted to open his mouth, but the awful thoughts got into his head, causing tears to fall from his eyes.

"I-I-I..." He looked down at his belly where his hands were, allowing his tears to fall.

"Y-yes..." He whispered, yet the mic was close enough for everyone to hear, causing them to all gasp.

"If I may ask Taehyung, what did he do to you?" Being careful with his questions, he placed his hand on the the stand where Taehyung was sitting, watching as the boy fiddled with his hands.

"H-he uhh...he would hit me in the face whenever he got mad at me, like it would be either a fist, the palm of his hand, or sometimes sharp objects." Taehyung mumbled, looking up to see his lovely boyfriend in tears.

"Did he do anything else to you?"

"He umm, h-he once tried to rape me whenever my mom wasn't home and my brother was at a friend's house."

"And how old were you then Taehyung?" The room was quite again as Taehyung went back to looking at his lap, wanting all of this now to be over.

"Mr. Kim Taehyung, you need to answer the question." Sowon said softly, frowning as she saw his puffy eyes whenever he lifted his head.

"...14 years old."

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Busting out of the door, big tears in his face, he started running down the hall after he got out, not knowing that his lover was waiting for him not too far away with open arms.

"Come here baby." And just like that, the brunette about fell in his boyfriend's arms as big tears fell from his face, his nose pressed deeply into the other's neck while he could feel the other's tears as well.

"W-why me Ggukie? W-why did I have to go through all those things?" Taehyung sobbed, only to feel Jungkook tighten his hold whenever his sobs got harder.

"I don't know baby boy, but he's going to get what he deserves for hurting you." Luckily, the hall was empty where they were, so Taehyung felt comfortable just looking like a crying mess in his lover's arms.

"I wanna go home Ggukie."

"I know you do baby boy, but we still have an hour left." Whining, the younger nuzzled more into the older's neck, causing him to chuckle.

"Be careful there baby, we don't want to damage our babies, ok?" Nodding, the younger slowly removed himself from his boyfriend's neck to see the corner of Jungkook's eyes were a little pink themselves.

"Jungkook-"

"Why didn't you tell me Tae? Why didn't you tell me that he did those things to you? Why did you keep them to yourself for you to suffer?" It was now the raven's turn to start the water works. It scared the brunette if he was honest, he never really saw him cry like this.

This was probably the first time he was called Tae by him too.

And it never fell from his mouth before.

"I-I-I-"

"Please Tae, tell me why I had to listen to that heartbreak, when I should've known about it at least." As the brunette watched the tears fall from his lover's eyes, the only thing he could do was panic, which was the worst thing for him to do.

"I-I didn't mean to upset you G-gguk, i-it was just something really personal that s-scared me." Taehyung stuttered, feeling his chest get really tight before he started crying again.

Jungkook sighed, getting mad at himself for what he just did to his poor baby.

Fuck Jungkook.

"Come here baby." With hesitant steps, the other, walked over to his lover with shaky movements before sobbing once again, their little moment lasting for their whole break before they went to the bathroom to fix up their faces.

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Returning back into the court room, no words were exchanged, all eyes on them once again since they were the only ones that left the room while Jin gave his statement.

"Taebear, are you ok?" Jae whispered, pouting at his still blotchy-ish face hidden with makeup.

"Yeah, I'm fine." He mumbled, looking away from her before he sat down again.

"And Mrs. Kim, why didn't you leave your husband after the first time he hurt you?" His father's lawyer asked, looking into her hard eyes while she gave off a bored expression.

"Because I thought I could give him a chance, you know what second chances are? I thought I could give it to him, but it turned out to be an over and over thing and it never stopped."

"So why did you let your kids get involved in this? Your job as a parent is to make sure they're safe, yet your youngest son confessed he was abused and almost raped and your oldest son confessed he was abused." Looking down at her feet, she cleared her throat before he dark long hair swung to the back of her neck.

"Look, being a parent isn't easy. I bet you don't have kids of your own now do you. I raised my first baby with little to no experience because my husband wasn't at home all the time, so I felt like a single mom. Then my second child came and I thought that I would at least get a little bit more help and have some more experience. It went well, but then it also went downhill. And then we had our daughter and basically repeated over again."

"So what you're saying is he wasn't even being a father?" Mrs. Kim scoffed as she crossed her arms.

"All of that information, and you're just now catching the hint? My sons were more like fathers instead of their own father." She stayed quite for a second before answering again.

"You wanna know something? I treated my children with at least half of the disrespect than my husband did, I will admit that. I pushed them away when they needed me or wanted to help me, and I get that some of that trust I can't get back, and I'll accept it. I missed a lot of my kids' lives because of my actions with their father, and I regret it everyday that I didn't even attend my youngest son's birthday last year." Looking over at Taehyung to see him slightly smiling, she smiled softly at him before looking back at her husband's lawyer.

"I missed about 6 important months of his life too. He's growing a family with the only person I would ever trust with his love. I've never seen him this happy even in our wonderful times. I have 2 grandkids on the way, so I would like to correct my actions before they come along and know how awful their grandma was and how much she fixed herself." With shocked eyes, the couple sitting next to their lawyer watched as she smiled proudly at them before looking at Sowon.

"Do you have anything else to say to the witness Mr. Baek?"

"No your Honor, no futher questions."