"What is he talking about?" Jongho mumbled. 
"I honestly have no idea," Yunho replied. 
                          
The door slammed open revealing a limping San hooked onto Hongjoong's shoulder. 
"DOCTOR!" He yelled. 
                          
Wooyoung stood up immediately to help him, his face stricken with worry. 
"What happened?" He asked frantically looking down at the beta's thigh that was cut and bleeding. 
                          
Jongho picked up his brother from the alpha's hold and placed him on the bed. 
"I'll explain later," he said quickly before running for a doctor. 
                          
After about an hour, the doctor managed to stop the bleeding and properly bandage him, relaxing the tension in the room. 
                          
"He'll just need a good rest for the next few days," he told them with a smile. After he left, Wooyoung sat on the chair near the bed and held the beta's hand. 
                          
"So are you going to tell us what happened or is it just your reasons again?" Yunho spat. 
"Hey," Mingi said timidly, reaching to hold the older's hand. Hongjoong glared at the omega before speaking. 
                          
"We were attacked on our way back and he was feeling a little dizzy from his vision."
"Vision? What vision? Where? Was it the dead people?" Wooyoung asked frantically. 
"Dead people?" Jongho questioned. 
"Yeah. He was trying to explain it to me before we were attacked but he didn't get far. Just that somebody was hurt."
                          
"What dead people?" Jongho asked again. 
"It's from the set of visions. He said he remembers all of them," Hongjoong explained. 
                          
"On your way back from where?" Yunho asked. 
"I was chasing their leader, Kang Cheol."
"Why?"
"Yun.." Mingi tugged at his hand that he was holding. 
"No because..why bother? In the middle of a battle, why go running to chase their leader who ran away with his tail in between his legs?" 
                          
Hongjoong wanted to rebuttal that but much to his dissatisfaction, Yunho was right. He only chased Kang Cheol because he was angry. Because he wanted to know what they did to Seong and punish him for it. 
                          
He started to understand why everybody was upset with him. This whole time, ever since he received information about Seong, he's put him first and slowly pushed all of them away. And when they questioned him about it, he only became angry or simply ignored them. 
                          
Everybody in here was his friend too, so why was he pushing them away? It wasn't as if they knew about his form and would hate him. And seeing how well both San and Wooyoung took it, he hardly doubt they would. So what was the problem? What was he so afraid of?
                          
Tears began to stream down from his eyes as his thoughts drowned him. Jongho and Yunho looked at each other bemused, then back to the crying alpha. Wooyoung stood up and sat beside him to comfort him. 
                          
"Look what you did! You made him cry!" Wooyoung yelled at his brother. Yunho looked around a little shocked. 
"I mean.. I wasn't wrong.." 
Mingi gave him a disapproving look and shook his head. 
                          
When Hongjoong finally calmed down a few minutes later, he explained everything. 
                          
"I once had a best friend. I met him in the slave house where I was practically raised in," he started. 
Jongho was quite shocked at that and Yunho felt bad but also wondered where he was going with this. 
                          
"We were there together for about 4 years before we got separated and I've been looking for him ever since. That friend of mine had an ability. He could heal himself. But he was special because he was born with it. The baron found out about it when he decided to get punished in my stead, and I haven't seen him since then."
                          
Mingi listened attentively. 
                          
"I have a group friends who travel the world to help people and their leader informed me that he might have some information on my old friend as they were helping with the war. So I dug around and found some clues. It wasn't until I interrogated the prisoners back at the Jung kingdom when I finally put all the pieces together."