Villainous
A/n: This is a commission that spiraled out of control, omg, there’s so much angst and backstory I hope anyone reads this oof
Summary: It infuriates Yoongi, that the hero has something he doesn’t, and he takes it for himself, planning to use you for bait…but he hadn’t counted on how you’d affect him.
Warnings: oh boy, a lot of angst, abandoned boys, a little violence, some involuntary manslaughter (don’t judge listen I love my ragtag villain boys), mention of some emotional abuse, mention of sexual abuse (in a backstory), there’s just a lot going on here, I have 545 ideas for one shots in this universe
Word Count: 4586
He finds out that you're his arch nemesis's new squeeze by accident.
It wasn't as if any of his crew remembered you, he'd made sure of that before he'd gone to prison.
It was the new kid, Jungkook who'd told him, almost as an afterthought. "Shin has a new girl."
Yoongi had been playing cards with Seokjin, appearing to barely listen, but he's hyperfocused, tuning in on everyone's thoughts..
"In his crew?" He asks finally, discarding the 2 of clubs.
"I must be crazy, playing rummy with a mind bender," Seokjin mutters in a disgusted tone.
Yoongi's mouth turns at one corner. "Sometime today, Jeon." He snaps.
"N-no." The kid stutters. "His girl."
Yoongi snorts. "Poor soul."
He's only half paying attention, but then a pair of familiar doe eyes flash through Jungkook's mind, and Yoongi falters, dropping the wrong card in the discard pile.
"Yes!" Seokjin crows, picking it up. Then he narrows his eyes. "Are you letting me win?"
"Shut up," Yoongi mumbles, rubbing at his temples.
He'd been in prison less than six weeks. Less than six weeks, and already….
"Her name is Y/n," Jungkook continues dreamily, and Yoongi barks out a bitter laugh.
It wasn't surprising, how much of you Jungkook had taken in on his short scouting trip. The kid had always had a little crush on you, ever since the first day he joined the crew, when you'd been in the kitchen, and looked back at him over his shoulder.
"You like grilled cheese, kid?" You'd asked, and that'd been it, Jungkook had stars in his eyes every time he looked at you.
Yoongi had thought it was cute, then, but now, it makes his chest tight, makes his stomach roll, how Jungkook is thinking of the outer swell of your breast, your hair bouncing against your throat, and when Jungkook thinks of Shin's big forearm around your waist, Yoongi tosses his cards down on the table.
"Aish!' Seokjin protests, but Yoongi stands, nearly knocking over the chair, and Seokjin clams up.
Jungkook is almost wringing his hands, and Yoongi knows he's worried he's done something wrong, can see it in his thoughts, so he puts a hand on the kid's shoulder.
"New plan. Bring her to me."
***
Jungkook does what he's told. And fast. Of course, that's what he does, he's fast and eager and he'd run the 55 miles from Busan to Daegu in fifteen minutes when he was 14, away from home over some stupid fight with his dad. He'd been too scared and lost to find his way home and Yoongi and Taehyung had found him sniffling in the back alley behind the abandoned building they'd been living in.
It's sad to think about how Jungkook could've just called home, how his parents might have understood and accepted him, but it's not like they don't all have sad stories, Yoongi's crew.
Yoongi had met Taehyung first, in the psych ward when Yoongi had been 10 and Taehyung 8 and he'd been all big eyes and snotty nose, asking Yoongi a hundred questions, holding his hand tight when he realized he could, realized Yoongi could suppress that part of his brain that triggered his super strength. The part of his brain that had let him crush his baby sister when he'd hugged her, when his parents had let them hold her after she came home from the hospital.
Taehyung had never been more than a hundred feet from him ever since, even when Yoongi told him why he was in the psych ward, because he'd written a poem for a girl he liked in school and when she'd laughed in his face he got so mad and humiliated he wished she were dead and then ...she was, from a brain aneurysm, seizing on the floor in front of him.
He'd stopped talking for two years.
They met Jungkook by accident, and when the three of them got raided by Shin and the few boys he'd recruited, when their girl with the banshee powers burst out every window in the building they'd been living in and their invisible boy had stolen all their food and money, Yoongi decided to start his own crew.
Seokjin had been next, in a juvenile detention center because that's where they all ended up, eventually. He was in for arson but the papers said the dorm containing Seokjin, his girlfriend, and his best friend had burnt to ashes, almost like it had been napalmed, with Seokjin escaping without a single burn.
When Jungkook zipped Taehyung and Yoongi inside, the tall, broad shouldered boy had been in a steel room with smoke boiling from under the door.
Luckily, Yoongi knew what part of the brain to suppress and Taehyung could bust the hinges on that steel door and Jungkook was quick enough to whisk them all out of there.
Turns out that girlfriend had been fucking his best friend and Yoongi thought they kind of deserved it, anyway, but it still took months to talk Seokjin into using his powers again.
Then Jungkook told him about this boy he'd met in Busan who he swore had changed his eye and hair color in an instant when they had gotten caught shoplifting.
His name was Jimin and when they found him he'd been on the streets and instead of a boy he'd shifted into a girl, specifically his foster father's dead daughter so that he wouldn't hit him so much. But when he'd come into his bedroom late at night, Jimin had stabbed him in the jugular with a ballpoint pen.
Jimin had been the slowest to trust them but they'd gave him a bed and no one tried to touch him and it was the closest thing he'd ever been offered to home.
Then Hoseok, who'd come right to their door, wearing dark sunglasses and barely making eye contact. He'd seen the papers where they'd had a skirmish with the heroes and fancied himself a villain because he'd come into his powers late, killed his fiancee in her wedding dress when he'd been unable to control his joy and beams of electricity shot from his eyes and stopped her heart.
Hoseok had been difficult at first, breaking down when he clipped a security guard while shooting electricity into the keypad lock, but Yoongi had set him straight with a bitter laugh.
"I killed a fucking nine year old just because I thought about it, Hoseok, and you can't take a fucking security guard with a burn on his arm? Fuck you. You get to wear a fucking pair of sunglasses and forget about it, yeah? I get pissed off at one of you for cheating at rummy and have to focus not to burst a blood vessel in your fucking brain. Tae could kill you during fucking flag football. Seokjin could burn this whole place down if he has a fucking bad dream. Get your shit together."
After that, Hoseok kept his mouth shut, did the exercises to stay focused, quit complaining.
Namjoon was the last to join the crew, having been Shin's biggest weapon for years, ever since Shin had found him sleeping on a park bench in the rain, totally dry because he could control the clouds.
After a big battle in which Namjoon had flooded parts of the city, Yoongi spat out something that made Namjoon think twice about his loyalty to Shin.
"You don't have to steal. You don't have to hurt people," Namjoon had said in his even, calm voice, and Yoongi scoffed.
"At least we only hurt people who deserve it. How many innocents do you think drowned in this flood today, Namjoon? How many in that earthquake last month, trapped under the rubble?"
Namjoon couldn't shake the way it made him feel and he'd gone to Shin, who'd just shrugged.
"Gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette, Joonie."
So Namjoon left, came to Yoongi with intel because people aren't fucking eggs and at least Yoongi could help him focus it with his mindbending.
They'd become more brothers than a crew by the time you came around, and everyone was wary at first because you didn't have any powers.
Yoongi understood but he could read your mind, knew there was no ill intent and maybe he was a little naive to think it would all go smoothly, that Shin wouldn't find out and try to use you.
And use you he did, trying to woo you to his side but you, Yoongi's smart girl, you'd used that to your advantage, batted your doe eyes and pretended to be interested.
Yoongi hadn't liked it, not even a little, had been anxious for you and, if he were honest, a little jealous, when he saw in your mind how you'd smiled and cooed at Shin.
But it got them the right intel for the biggest heist they'd done yet, Shin's personal bank, where the so called "heroes" kept all that money they spent on fucking penthouses and caviar or whatever the fuck they ate.
Yoongi doesn't know where it went wrong but he'd heard sirens and called his crew to him, given himself a nosebleed erasing every memory of you so that no one could beat it out of them.
He'll never forget the way you looked at him, eyes wide, forehead pressed to his.
"Don't, Yoongi. Not me. Don't make me forget you, please."
He'd stroked your hair, twirled a curl between his fingers. "I'll make you remember again, doll. I'll make you remember just as soon as things are safe."
"What if things are never safe, Yoongi?"
He'd smiled at you, kissed you soft, not even realizing his nose was bleeding until he saw the blood smearing your mouth.
He'd watched the light of recognition fade from your eyes, and it'd hurt so much more than he'd expected.
It hurts worse, now, with you panting, your curls sweaty and sticking to your forehead, you banging against the glass and glaring at him with absolutely no recognition at all.
You'd been kicking and screaming when Jungkook brought you in and Yoongi hadn't know what else to do but put you in Tae's room.
The creation of Tae's special room had been necessary after an unfortunate incident with one of Shin's girls a couple of months back, a room that was made of the strongest, reinforced glass, like the glass they used to make shark tanks.
Taehyung was standing next to him, biting his nails down to the quick. "Yoongi...what if I need the room while she's in there?"
Yoongi rolls his head on his shoulders, frustrated. "You won't, Tae."
"You don't know that! I might! What if something happens, like it did with…" He trails off, face almost pained, and Yoongi softens.
"I know. I know, Tae. You don't have to say her name." He takes Taehyung's hand where he's worrying at his cuticles and holds it, squeezes it to ground him.
Taehyung sighs and leans into him a bit, and Yoongi feels a wave of affection for his touch starved friend.
"I'll calm her down, take her to my room if it comes to that, yeah?"
Taehyung nods, squeezes his hand back so gently anyone but Yoongi might not notice.
Yoongi is watching you, watching you sit down in the one metal chair in the room, crossing your arms over your chest and sulking, and suddenly he wants so badly to tell his best friend. Suddenly he wants his advice, wants to talk things out, ask Taehyung what he should do next.
Something pulls in Yoongi to make you remember, look you in your eyes and watch the light and love come back into them, but another part of him, the cunning part, the villain part, knows that you’ll have intel on Shin, deep intel, things he’d never been able to know before. That intel will hurt, like how you know where Shin’s bedroom is and how he sleeps, how he fucks, probably, and he knows that and if you remember, you’ll know that too, and hide it from him in that little part of your mind you’d created when you’d been together, keep your secrets.
And of course it’s Taehyung he wants to ask, sweet Taehyung, his best friend for all these years, but he also knows Taehyung might not react well to remembering...to knowing someone he trusted with his mind for all these years had altered his memories.
In the end, he decides to start small, to reverse the memories for Taehyung and Namjoon together, so that maybe Namjoon’s calming voice can help him understand.
He knows Namjoon will understand, knows Namjoon will understand more than anyone that sometimes you have to do the wrong thing for the right reasons.
Yoongi calls them both into his office and he hates how nervous Taehyung looks, how he’s fidgeting. Namjoon just stands there, hands behind his back, steady, as always.
“I needed you two because I need your advice...and I want to say I’m sorry that I had to erase your memories.”
Namjoon doesn’t react, but Taehyung blinks, startled.
“You...you did what?”
Yoongi sighs and closes his eyes, turns it back on, focusing on that one section of memory he’d boxed up in each of them, and then Namjoon does react, taking in a sharp breath at the rush of memories.
Taehyung sits down hard in the chair opposite Yoongi’s desk, hands tight on the arms of the chair.
“Tae Tae-” Yoongi stands, comes around the desk. Namjoon looks over at Taehyung, alarm evident on his face.
“Don’t,” he says, voice shaking. “Don’t you fucking touch me, Yoongi, you know better, you know you can’t touch me when I’m…”
“Hey, bubs, it’s okay,” Namjoon says, softly, and Taehyung jerks his gaze to the taller man.
“Don’t tell me it’s fucking okay, Joon. It’s not okay. Don’t you get it? He’s already in our heads, all the time, and I thought...I thought it was to help us but-”
“It is! It is, Tae, I did it so that they couldn’t get information from you, so that-”
That’s when Taehyung breaks the chair, it bursts under his hands like it’s made of popsicle sticks when he stands up.
“I would never give up one of our own! Never! They’d have to fucking kill me first, and you know that!”
“That’s what I was afraid of,” Yoongi says, softly, and something in Taehyung’s face softens.
Namjoon makes a mistake puts a hand on Taehyung’s shoulder too soon and Yoongi winces when he hears it pop.
Namjoon cries out, but only for a moment, and Taehyung’s face...it’s a knife in Yoongi’s gut, every time this happens.
Taehyung crosses his arms over his chest, trapping his hands under his armpits, shaking all over, and Yoongi comes toward him, trying to find that switch in Taehyung’s brain to calm him but he’s all over the place and he can’t.
“Joonie, I’m sorry,” Taehyung sobs, fat tears streaming down his face. “I’m so sorry.” He looks to Yoongi, eyes wild and wet. “I need the room.”
“Tae, you don’t, we just need to calm down-”
“I need the fucking room!” He yells, and Yoongi nods and leads him there without touching him, feeling like shit for all of this, for any of this. God, it’s so fucked up that he’s able to do any of this, that he’s been given this fucking curse…
And then there’s you, there’s you with your chin jutted out defiantly but he knows you’re scared, can read it in your mind how terrified you are, how Shin’s told you over and over what a monster Yoongi is, how he’ll leave you drooling and helpless with no memories and no way to ever make new ones, and he hates Shin and he hates himself when he hauls you out of there into his bedroom, when you fight him and he has to shove you in the bedroom and lean his back against the door, breathing hard.
Turns out Namjoon’s shoulder isn’t broken, just dislocated, and Hoseok pops it back in while Namjoon bites down on his belt and after that it’s just a handmade sling for a few weeks.
Yoongi thanks God for Hoseok’s EMT training prior to joining, and goes to tell Taehyung the good news, but Taehyung isn’t listening.
He's balled up in the corner of the room and humming to himself, and Yoongi is so fucking tired when he comes to his room that you almost barrel right past him.
He catches you by the shoulders and you struggle and he looks you right in the eye.
"Shin told you what I can do, yeah? You know I could paralyze you with a fucking thought. So calm. Down."
You freeze, and he hates the flash of fear in your eyes but he can still see you back behind your eyes, how you're still defying him even as you sit down on the bed, crossing your arms.
"I'm not telling you anything."
Yoongi fights the smile that tugs at the corner of his mouth. "You don't have to, doll. I can read your mind, you know."
You shake your head. "He taught me how to compartmentalize. Just in case this happened. I can fight you until he gets here."
Yoongi barks out a laugh at that.
"You think he'll come for you?"
Something flashes in your eyes and your lip trembles, just for a second. "H-he loves me."
Yoongi knows that shouldn't make him angry. He knows he did this, that you'd begged him not to and he'd done it anyway but even so blood rushes to his face and he slams his hand down on his nightstand and you flinch.
"Let me tell you something, sweetheart. Shin Junyoung has never loved anything in his whole miserable life except himself. And he never would have had a chance with you if-"
You shake your head, put your hands over your ears. "He loves me and I love him. He loves me and I love him."
You chant it over and over, like a mantra, so much that he can't even read your thoughts and he wants to scream, has to leave the room before he jerks your hands from your ears and makes you remember, breathing hard.
He's fucking mad, he could burst Shin's brain with a single thought right now but there's broken glass in his chest because some part of that was true, he felt it coming off you in waves and every single bit of this was his fault.
He spends the night on the floor next to Taehyung's room with a bottle of bourbon, and wakes up with a pounding headache and Tae knocking on the glass softly.
"I'm ready to come out now," he says hoarsely, eyes red rimmed, and Yoongi's so grateful he feels tears welling in his eyes.
Taehyung cleans up and comes down to breakfast and Namjoon is in the kitchen, pouring coffee with his good arm.
Taehyung takes in a deep breath and leans his head against Namjoon's shoulder, gently.
"I'm sorry," he says softly, brokenly, and Yoongi watches, feeling a wave of affection for his friends, his brothers, when Namjoon flashes a dimpled smile and pats Taehyung on the top of the head.
At breakfast,Yoongi can't eat, feeling like there's rocks in his stomach.
"So, from your drunken ramblings last night, I take it you haven't given her the memories back yet?" Taehyung says, almost casually, popping a slice of bacon into his mouth.
Yoongi shakes his head. "There's so much intel we could get," he mumbles.
"You know if you weren't my best friend, I'd snap you like a twig for saying that."
Yoongi blinks at him, a little shocked.
"I remember everything now, and I know how much she loved you, Yoongi. You're telling me intel on Shin is more important than that?"
Yoongi frowns. "No. No, I just…" he sighs and puts his head on the table. "I just feel like if I don't get something, all of this is for nothing."
"She'd tell you anyway, Yoongi. You know she would."
"Not the good stuff," he mumbles. "Not where he sleeps, or how he sleeps…"
"What, you want her to tell you how he fucks, or…"
Yoongi lifts his head to glare at his friend, and Taehyung just smiles, lifting an eyebrow.
"Do what you want, bubs, but you're gonna snap and make her remember and it'd be easier if you were calm when you do it."
Taehyung takes his plate to the kitchen and leaves Yoongi alone to think about how the fuck to do any of this.
**
It's not Yoongi but Hoseok who brings you breakfast. In fact, you don't see Yoongi alone for two days.
Shin had told you about all of them, made you read about them, sitting you on his lap with a big binder with blurry photos of them and their powers, their weaknesses.
You never thought much about it, assumed it was for your protection, but the more you're away from him, the more you wonder.
Hoseok's nice to you, has a bright smile when you thank him in a small voice, and were it not for the dark sunglasses and the way he wouldn't meet your eyes, you'd never notice anything out of the ordinary.
The kid, Jungkook, he had been nice too, apologizing over and over for having to hold you tight and restrain you.
It's the shapeshifter, Jimin, or the snake as Shin called him, and Taehyung, the one Shin had said could snap your spine, who bring you lunch.
They sit for a while and talk with you, and you find yourself laughing at something Taehyung said and wondering how this puppy eyed man could be as dangerous as Shin had said.
There's something almost familiar about all of them, and they're all so much more handsome than the blurry pictures had shown, and maybe you felt like you knew them because of how much Shin had forced you to study them but….
Everything was different, here. They all seemed so close, no stiff shoulders and "yes sir, no sir," and even when Yoongi gave an order, they discussed it.
There were times, in that couple of days, when you could have escaped, although you know the kid could catch you easily, or Yoongi could stop your brain from speaking to your muscles, but you don't feel like a prisoner.
You hear arguing amongst them only once, and you think it's the one with the fire, although you don't know why, since you can only hear his voice.
Your ear is pressed up against the door but you can only catch a few words..
"You fucked with our memories? We all-"
Then Yoongi opens the door and you fall forward into his arms, your nose brushing against his.
You can't say why your breath catches in your chest, why his hand smoothing the curls at the back of your head feels so familiar and soothing, but it makes you feel guilty, remembering Shin kissing you goodbye on that last day before he left that you shove him backwards and retreat to the bed.
Yoongi's eyes flash and you think idly that you should be afraid, but you aren't.
"Y/n, I need to tell you something."
This is when it happens. This is when he brainwashes you, this is what Shin had warned you about and he'd told you over and over that if it happened, he'd kill you because you wouldn't be you anymore. Because you wouldn't be his.
You clap your hands over your ears and start the chant again but it's too late, you'd neglected to hide your thoughts and Yoongi climbs onto the bed, taking your hands in his own, glaring at you.
"He said...he said he'd kill you?" His voice is firm but also calm, he isn't raising his voice.
In fact, he hasn't raised his voice to you at all, not like Shin…
You're still spewing out thoughts, you can't help it.
"He yelled at you? Y/n...baby...did he...did he ever hit you?"
Tears are threatening at the backs of your eyes and you shake your head fiercely, trying desperately to stop your thoughts, trying to remember that you love Shin, remembering his eyes and his smile.
Then Yoongi puts his forehead to yours.
"I'm sorry," he says, voice cracking. "I'm so sorry."
You feel something like fingers edging into your mind, and then everything changes.
**
At first, Yoongi is just mad because he's jealous and because he misses you so fucking much, but when he reads your thoughts and you're more afraid of Shin than Yoongi, more afraid of your so called boyfriend than the man you thought kidnapped you, the rage he feels is unbelievable.
If he'd been Seokjin, the whole room would've burst into flames.
But it gives way to sorrow so fast when he sees the tears in your eyes, when he realizes he did this, and he's not even surprised when you remember and burst into tears, pummeling his chest.
"Fuck you, Yoongi! You made me forget! You made me forget you and he-"
He tries to hold you but you push him so hard he almost falls of the bed and eventually he leaves the room, slides down against the door and puts his head in his hands.
He sits there all day, waiting for you, waiting until your thoughts turn from a rolling sea to a calmer lake.
You're sniffling when you open the door and he almost falls backward inside.
"Come and kiss me, you idiot," you say, and your voice is broken and hoarse but it's the most beautiful sound he's ever heard.
Your mouth on his is like coming back home, hands in your curls tight like he'll never let go, and when you murmur his name he feels like his heart will break.
Later, after you're lying with your head on his chest, you tell him everything, even the things he doesn't want to hear, even the things that make his chest ache and his stomach roll and he knows part of you thinks he deserves it for making you forget.
He does, after all, he does deserve it but when he covers his face with his hands after you tell him about the first night Shin got you into his bed, you roll on top of him and move them away, kiss his eyelids where he’s got them screwed shut and his pouty mouth.
“You did this for a reason, yeah? You didn’t want me hurt but you also needed the intel, and I’m giving it to you.”
He’s still pouting when he opens his eyes, but a smile tugs up the corner of his mouth. “You got my intel, all right, my tough girl.”
You smile back at him. “Damn straight, I did. I got everything you need to take him down, and how I did it doesn’t matter, right?”
He nods, smile fading a bit, and then you kiss him again.
“I love you. Even when I thought I loved him, I loved you. You can read my mind to see that’s true.” You say, staring down into his eyes fiercely.
Yoongi searches your face and then smiles.
“I don’t have to,” he says, and he kisses you over and over until there’s no trace of Shin in your mind at all.
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