“What the did you think you were doing?!” He heard Johnny shout at his leader, watching from where he sat on the bed as Johnny paced around the room and glared Taeyong who was swinging idly on his desk chair. “Rushing to Yuta’s lab to find out where Renjun was, rushing to Jeno’s room and ing shouting in his face when-“

“You don’t know what Golcha is capable of!” He heard Taeyong interrupt the other and watched as his leader stood up from his seat. “No one knows what Golcha is capable of!”

“That doesn’t give you the right to scare him like that!” Johnny retaliated, groaning loudly in frustration as Yuta gripped the pillow in his lap harder. “You know how sensitive he is!”

“Look, the Alliance is the only thing that is keeping our drug trade alive - Jaehyun said so himself - so we can’t afford-“

“Hyung!” They heard Winwin’s voice muffled behind the locked door as several knocks followed. “Taeyong-hyung! There’s something you might want to see!”

“ing hell, now of all times…” He heard Taeyong mutter as he walked towards the door, unlocking it and watching as Winwin stepped into the room clutching the medical kit that Minhyung had roughly thrown into his lab before storming down to Jeno’s room. “Sicheng, I love you and all but now is not the-“

“Jongup! Jongup was the one who helped Minhyung get here!” The medic exclaimed, hurriedly opening the medical kit with shaky fingers on the bed next to where he sat. “After Yuta-hyung gave it to me to add to stock, I was suspicious and lucky I checked because I found this!” Warily, he eyed the small piece of paper that seemed so innocent but could ruin their gang - their family - if its contents were deadly enough. 

“What does it say?” He asked, slinging his arm over the younger’s shoulder and peering over to read the slightly messy handwriting. 

“Read it out, Yu.” He hears Taeyong order and nods in his head, coughing before starting to read the note as best he could.

“I’m sorry. I’m so sorry, Minhyung. I lied to you. Stray Kids saved my life but not by removing the bomb within me, they saved my life by letting me have the piece of mind that my brother would be safe,” He read, pausing to furrow his eyebrows as he stared at Johnny who usually knew the gossip behind everyone in their world. “Did Jongup have a brother?”

“There’s a rumour that he had one,” Johnny replied, eyes switching between them as he wracked his brain for information. “A foster one, not blood.”

“But he still had one,” Taeyong stated and gestured for him to continue reading to which Yuta complied. 

“When we were bought by B.A.P, Renjun and Hyunjin were so close until TRCNG started to change Renjun. He used to be sweet and innocent and we all wanted to protect him, B.A.P and Himchan-hyung included, but then he started to rebel and vandalise.” 

“Somehow I can see Jun doing that,” Winwin commented, earning a chuckle from all of them as he continued to read.

“Before we knew it, Renjun was being held in isolation and his status of being a slave was reduced, if that was even possible. Himchan-hyung began to use him as a method to take out his frustrations - Himchan-hyung used to care for all of us. All the slaves he bought used to be able to go with him out into the field, we used to be able to f