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a/b/o au part one

In which you get saved

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You bit your lip, trying to keep the tears from coming out in sobs.

Sobs would tell the driver that you were unhappy, and the driver would tell your father that you were failing him. Failing to serve your duty and gracefully, calmly, fulfill the role he made for you.

When you first heard him say the words, you were distraught. You wanted to scream and cry, and you wanted to run and hide, but he was expecting something of you. For once, he was admitting that he needed you to do something.

So when he said that he was marrying you off to a far away pack to expand the pack's ties and allies, you didn't point out that it was a barbaric tradition that no one practiced anymore, and you didn't whine about how your fiance was rumored to be the most abhorrent of men. You nodded, and left his presence to weep in silence.

Your tail curled around your leg, a futile attempt to comfort yourself. You needed to do this. You wouldn't consider the alternative, that he just didn't care for you and wanted you gone, that he was embarrassed that he ever had you, that he regretted the mistake of cheating on his wife with your mother, who left him in the night.

You wanted more than anything to know where your mom was and what she was doing, why she left you with him after she bore you. Your ears twitched on your head. Detecting the sound of the leaves outside rustling, a strange pattern, to unnatural to be the wind. You looked, and nothing was there.

In this world, there were animals and hybrids, hybrids were rumored to be a blessed species of animal that the moon goddess allowed conciousness. There were many different species, any animal you could imagine, though some were rarer. In the past people mated for survival, to give their offspring the best traits and started with in their gene pools, but in recent years of peace and safety within packs, mating for love became common practice, traits mixing, children of love being born and adored for what they were. No one was sure how they started, but years of evolution have turned into the societies they lived in today. Similar species would band together in packs, large territories ruled by an alpha and his closest allies who helped him protect those he cared for most, the citizens of his pack.

You say his because, despite all the progression, society still frowned upon certain things. Alpha-alpha relationships, female pack alphas, the usual places of prejudice that benefitted only a few and hurt a majority. Even those mixed species hybrids, while becoming more celebrated, were still looked down on by those who valued survival over happiness.

Your tail curled around your self tighter. You don't know what your mother was, but she was different. Your family could shift, and transform into sleek leopards, coats shiny and golden. You couldn't shift at all, only tail and ears indicative of your heritage, and your fur on your tail and ears was black with gold spots. You were clearly the black sheep-- or black leopard-- of the family. You were a mixed species hybrid and therefore seen as less adept as the rest of your family. You became aware of your predicament again, trying to stave off tears at the fact that your father didn't value you as much due to a mistake he made. As tears rolled down your cheeks, you looked up to the moon outside your window, asking the moon goddess for strength. You could do this.

A loud crash sounded and the car abruptly stopped, almost slamming you into the partition in front of you. As you caught your breath, you rolled down the partition, looking through the windshield.

The car in front of you, full of the guards escorting you to the pack, had been crashed into, some limp bodies inside and others struggling to get up as wolves and coyotes attacked. You gasped, watching the once calm path become a war zone. Your guards were losing, quickly becoming overpowered by the surprise attack.

Your door was wrenched open, the cold night air rushing into the car making you shiver. It wasn't supposed to be this cold. The pack you were promised to was far, but not this far north. You couldn't ponder your location for long, the shadowed figure that ripped the door off its hinges ducking down closer to you into the light.

Brown eyes met yours, a gentle smile greeting you as the figure ducked into your view, the moonlight illuminating him. He had broad shoulders that covered the doorway, and had crouched down quite a bit to see you, his tall physique towering over the car. "There you are," he breathed, reaching a hand out to you, backed against the opposite door in fear. "Are you alright?" He asked, voice surprisingly soft for someone who just ripped a door off a car in the middle of a battle field.

You surveyed him suspiciously. He had round white ears that peeked out above his fluffy hair, a bear of some sort. You looked down at his hand, then examined the rest of him. His body language was open and welcoming. He wasn't forcing you, just patiently holding his hand out and watching you warmly. Is such warmth for you deserved from someone you've never met?

"Who are you?" You asked, eyes narrowing. His smile widened at the obvious attempt for you to seem more ferocious than you were, the act only endearing to him.

"I'm Jin, I want to help you." He explained, the same even patient tone, and endeared smile. "You don't want an arranged mating, do you?"

You stared at him for a long moment, finding nothing but good will in his face. You looked back at the moon one more time, something compelling you to take his hand. Maybe you could be free, and not have to marry someone else at all? Surely your father would be happy with you gone, no matter how it happens.

You placed your hand in his and he quickly tighened his grip around your hand, hefting you into his arms and out of the limo with a deceptive amount of strength, easily carrying you past the scuffle to the tree line flanking the road, ducking behind a few trees, though you could see fighting still happening in the background.

You turned back to him, looking up at him as he huddled around close to you, as if shielding you or making sure you wouldn't move as he stared intently into the stretch of forest. "Why are you helping me?"

He looked down at you, smile coming back quickly. "A nearby pack we're allied with told us about an arranged mating. We had to help." He explained, then looked deep into your eyes as he questioned you. "Isn't it horrible? You having to spend the rest of your life with someone you don't love?" He questioned, sorrow in his voice at the thought of your being confined to that fate. This complete stranger wanted your happiness. Your own family didn't even want that.

Your bottom lip trembled, and you could feel his grip on your wrist tighten ever so slightly. "I-I can't.. I have to do this," you said eventually, looking down at the grass under your shoes. Pressed down and restricted under your weight, just like how you felt under your father'd command. "My family's expecting me to help raise the pack's status."

His hand went under your chin tilting your head up towards him, staring into his determined brown eyes. "But, do you want to?"

Before you could answer, a big wolf came running towards you from inside the forest, white and tall, up to your torso even while on all fours. Its size showed that it was clearly a hybrid, but would it attack you like the ones on the road were attacking your guards?

Jin seemed to read your thoughts, petting the wolf as it stopped by your side. The wolf gave a soft bark, nosing against your arm happily. "This is Jungkook. He'll take you to safety. If you want to stay, you can step back out there and we'll leave you alone. But if you want freedom..." His voice trailed off but the choices were clear, his eyes urging you to make your own decision.

"But what about you?" You asked Jin, placing a hand on the wolf's soft fur. He let out a soft 'aroo' and nuzzled into your palm, making you giggle.

Jin gave you a dazzling smile and a wink. "Don't worry about me, beautiful. I'm going to make sure no one else is hurt here and buy time for you to get away." He moved his hand to your shoulder, giving it a reassuring squeeze. "Now hold on tight. Jungkook runs fast." He said, lifting you and placing you on the large hybrid back. You wrapped your arms around Jungkook's neck and he immediately ran off, darting through the woods as Jin gets farther and farther. As you clung to Jungkook's warm fur, you fell asleep to the beat of his paws hitting the floor.

For the first time in a long time, as you took off into the night, you felt... safe.