Soon Jimin's happiness met the sky, the guy couldn't be less happy when he heard his name coming from Dowoo, ready to be attacked with his kisses under him.

Jimin's eyes blurred with tears, almost impossible for him to look down at the other one who was trying to see better as well.

"Jimin…"

"Dowoo… I'm here, right here." Jimin cupped that face into his hands, letting his tears meet the cheeks below him belonging to the other male who felt those warm droplets against his cold skin.

The way Jimin's morning began with V talking to him again, not with the sun rising.

"It-... it hurts." That was the first thing that Dowoo could think of, hissing as he tried to move a little, looking down at all those attachments on his body.

Jimin's heart scattered at that sentence, aching him just as badly inside of his chest.

Jimin backed away, looking down at him with pity.

"I'm calling the nurse, don't worry, just don't-" before Jimin could back up a little his hand was gripped tighter, in disagreement of him leaving.

Confused and a bit panicked, Jimin looked down at Dowoo again. Those weak eyes screamed yearning which he could differentiate to his usual blank eyes. Dowoo needed him.

"Dowoo?!" Suddenly another familiar voice was heard, belonging to Taehyung who rushed towards the bed to be next to his brother who spared his attention to him.

"How are you feeling now? Can you listen to me? Talk to me." As Taehyung loaded him with questions, the poor guy let go of a heavy exhale and nodded weakly.

Taehyung quickly brushed his brother's hair out of his face, trying not to tear up as he looked down at him and saw his brother wincing slightly.

He just got out of his anesthetic state but then again the pain was getting on him. It was not easy to express how he felt miserable yet grateful to see his brother and Jimin there, still his mind possibly wondering about Jungkook at the moment. V needed all of them.

"I'll get the nurse, he's in pain." Soon Jimin whispered sadly and let go of V's hand from him to go back and call the nurse while V watched the door, sadly looking back at his brother who tore up, sniffling and crying to see his brother's condition.

V seemed so weak all of sudden, losing so much of his blood and body fluid caused his cheeks to sunken, his skin to turn pale, his eyes to have dark circles and his lips to go dry and gray.

Taehyung leaned over V's bed carefully, running his hand through his forehead and getting a hold onto his hand from the other hand, tears couldn't stop falling down.

"What have you done, Dowoo… what have you done…" the younger brother asked in a broken tone, trying to help himself from bursting into heavy sobs but down there V couldn't even see him sad, sobbing would pain him more.

"Stop…" Dowoo whispered weakly, trying to lift his quivering hand up and wipe his cheek while Taehyung leaned into it and finally burst into more tears.

The poor younger twin let his head fall over his brother's shoulder who closed his eyes, letting out a heavy exhale as he saw his brother's vulnerable condition. 

He can relate to that pain very well, he has been doing this all his life. He knows how difficult it is to see the other one going through pain on that hospital bed, he knows the fear of losing his other one, his forever companion since the time of womb.

For a moment V forgot about the pain in his abdomen, it suddenly shifted to his chest like the heaviness of seeing his brother like that. He never liked to see his people hurt.

Never his brother.

Suddenly the door opened up to reveal Jungkook who when entered suddenly grew worried to see Taehyung crying like that but then he noticed his friend in his conscious state.

Jungkook rushed in and put the plastic bags of food on the side before rushing to see his friend who felt just so relieved to find Jungkook there as well.

"Hey… buddy… how are you…" Jungkook asked in a gentle whisper, sitting on the edge of that bed on the opposite side to where Taehyung stood, looking down at Dowoo who tried to smile but his eyes were miserable.

"I'm alive…" V whispered back with a gentle chuckle which soon caused him to hiss, that pain in his abdomen was unbearable as if a knife was still twisting and twitching inside.

"Hey… don't speak much." Jungkook then said, running his hand through his hair once.

"Did you call the nurse?" Jungkook asked Taehyung with concern but then he looked at his face as Taehyung stood up straight, so miserable and sad, tears messing his face which changed V's facial expressions to more painful one and Jungkook noticed it as well.

Jungkook walked over to the other side of the bed, standing behind Taehyung and placing his hand on his back, rubbing it in a comforting way.

"He's going to be alright, Tae. He's going to be okay." Jungkook whispered, trying to comfort him and Taehyung just wanted to turn around and hug him so tight and let his heart cry as much as he wanted to but he needed to stay strong. He needed to not cry and cause everyone else to have despair.

It was hurting Jungkook equally whose hands were itching to slide more around his frame and hug him right but Taehyung forcefully wiped all his tears away, inhaling as he stood upright, trying to stay strong.

The door opened again to reveal the nurse coming in along with Jimin, causing everyone to retract back from the bed and let her access his state.

"He's in pain, sister. I'm worried why." Jimin asked worriedly on the side, those gentle eyes glistening and lips parted slightly as he looked at her with hope and she gave him a smile of comfort.

"It's obvious after a surgery. He has wounds. Don't worry, I'll inject analgesics on him."

As she said, she was already busy taking out her syringe and placing her med box on the side but then Jimin stepped closer to Dowoo's bed, standing beside him, searching to hold his hand as he looked down at him while Dowoo simply looked up at his face, emotions outpouring through that gaze.

Jimin tried to comfort him with that hold while Dowoo just felt alive again. The last thing he saw before closing his eyes was Jimin's tears and the first thing he saw when he woke was his tears again.

He felt so miserable.

"Do you feel nauseous?" The nurse then asked and Dowoo nodded and this way she continued asking more questions meanwhile Jimin stayed right next to Dowoo, hand holding onto him until he could.

The nurse then continued to check his vital signs and ask him about his condition, trying to overcome them and doing all she could to give him some comfort which he lacked.

He was injected with many drugs to relieve his pain and soon he got dizzy and slept again and Jimin had to let go off him for a moment again.

The rest of the three were then asked to wait outside and let him rest until his surgical wounds were taken care of by rebandaging.

"We need to shift him to the general ICU so he's under care 24/7 until he's better." The nurse informed them after coming out and the next thing they knew was that V was moved to the general ICU along with other patients by some men.

~♡~

"Your feelings were never my responsibility. You were the one who loaded me with them. You were so eager for me to treat you like you wanted but you know I'm so different, we're so different. I had my ways to show I always cared. I remained right next to you because I cared and always will but for you the day I revealed about my feelings certainly not being on your level, you decided to call me just your friend's brother as if we were never known to each other. You were never there to understand me, you always wanted me to feel what you had imagined in your head."

"I don't know what I took away from you but you took away a friend from me, someone with whom I shared my childhood yet you expect me to not act like that? I don't know how to not give fucks about you because the moment you are in trouble, I am fucking troubled but how do I tell you this? How the hell will you believe me?"

"You always had me, Jimin! Always! What part of me I needed to lay in your feet to prove to you I was always there?!"

"We were something… until you abandoned me."

"It's all because of me." 

What seemed like a long while, Jimin broke his silence.

"Jimin… please don't." Taehyung quickly spoke up to shut him from speaking more and blame himself again, he couldn't blame his friend for anything but Jimin was under that load of pain.

And yet again he began to cry with no intention of stopping soon while Taehyung had to walk towards him to help him stop.

Dowoo was still asleep under the influence of his medicines while the rest three found a space in the waiting lounge of that corridor, eaten and changed into fresh clothes after a quick wash up which even Jungkook took in his mind to do so, bringing his own clothes for the two to feel any better.

The guy has relentlessly worked in helping the two which didn't go unnoticed by them. For a moment Jimin realized why Jungkook and V became friends immediately, because they are so alike, so protective, so caring and so loving that he felt his heart warmed up.

His friend chose just the right guy to love.

Meanwhile Taehyung was under a serious crisis of positive emotions. Jungkook's caring attitude was weighing him down, causing him to wonder why he won't ever match his level. Why did Jungkook never feel confident enough to call him his boyfriend?

Did Taehyung misunderstood Jungkook's kindness for his love? 

He felt way more miserable wearing clothes that belonged to Jungkook, warm and comfy like him, smelling just as good as him, always his in his mind and now around his body too yet they were just having complications Taehyung didn't even had the heart to solve at the point because his brother's condition was already weighing him down.

Taehyung has been through rough times all his life but he received abundant love from his parents and brother which he would never take for granted but then again he didn't know how to be the one to take care of the other one. He gets weak to see his people weak instead he's supposed to stay strong but that's not him if he does, it causes him to feel way more vulnerable. Their pain is his pain.

That's what's different about people, we all take situations differently.

And yet again seeing Jimin cry and blaming himself wasn't helping him either.

"That's me… I was the reason." Jimin said while crying, lifting his head from his hands as he looked up, Taehyung accompanying him on the seat while Jungkook stood right on the opposite side against the wall.

"It was not your fault Jimin, it was because those robbers-"

"I was the reason we ended up in this situation, Jungkook. It was me." Jimin said back frustratedly and Jungkook untangled his tied arms, looking down at him with a gentle gaze.

"We had a terrible argument before that. Everything worse I could say I said to his face. I don't know but he broke his silence for the first time and yet again I tried to run away, chose the wrong path and we met those bastards who wanted to attack me but Dowoo-" Jimin choked up on his tears again.

"It was Dowoo who followed me all the way up to that scene and in an attempt to save me he got stabbed yet all I could do was to stand and watch until he was- until he was forced to fall on the ground… my- my hands were stained with his blood, Taehyung… it was me who caused this- I did- me." Jimin cried helplessly, puffy face reddened, tears wetting his cheeks down below and lips quivered as he welcomed more sobs while looking down at his hands, reimagining that haunting scene and Taehyung closed his eyes after hearing it all.

Jungkook inhaled a shaky breath, hard for him to listen to it all. It doesn't matter how they ended up in that situation, Dowoo got hurt and that was all that they cared about but to Jungkook it was not everything he cared about.

He needed to know who those rogues were and they needed to be punished. It boils his blood with a mere thought of them, if he sees them he might attempt a murder too.

"How did we end up like this?... How…" Jimin asked his friend in a broken tone and Taehyung couldn't help but forced Jimin's head to fall on his shoulder, keeping his hand on the back of his head, trying not to sob just like Jimin but his guilt was unmatched which Taehyung could understand but he didn't have the heart to blame his friend along when he's not at fault at all.

Jungkook looked away, gritting his teeth as he walked out of that area to find a place to stand and have some fresh air in the open corridor.

Fresh air? Ironic. He was there to burn his lungs instead. He hates to be helpless, he hates to be of no use, he hates to be vulnerable, he hates to not be enough.

And he hated the situation he was in. 

He let that cigarette burn for him and took that feeling away and filled him up with toxicants instead.

That's all he could do.

"Umm… are you with Kim Dowoo?" Suddenly Jungkook heard someone, causing him to turn around and instantly fuse that cigarette against the floor.

"Yeah… I am." Jungkook replied with concern.

"Actually a police officer is on the ground floor, and asked me to call anyone who knows him." One of the staff members informed Jungkook who grew worried, rushing away quickly to reach the bottom floor and meet the policeman he met earlier.

Jungkook rushed through the stairs, didn't even care to take the elevator, huffing as he met the back of that inspector outside.

"Sir!" Jungkook called from the back and the inspector turned around.

"Oh hey, I needed to share something." The officer said and Jungkook gave him a nod to carry on.

"We have caught one of those men. Your friend told me there were three and he's not revealing the names and whereabouts of the other two. We're running the case for your injured friend. We already have a witness, your friend who was at that scene. We can start a lawsuit against this one person we found yet, hopefully this can lead us to the other two and the bigger gang they work under." As the police officer informed Jungkook's eyes filled with rage again.

"Do whatever you can against them sir, just do the worst if possible and tell me if I can help you in any way. This was an attempted murder and this would happen with anyone if they are freed."

"Don't worry, they'll be anything but free. We'll try our best. And we might need your help too, so give me your number." 

"Sure sir." Jungkook quickly shared his number and the police gave him a nod later.

"How's your friend now?" The police officer then asked.

"He is sleeping again, but he's not completely okay. None of us." Jungkook replied in a monotonous tone, reflecting how tired he was.

"Don't worry, their punishment will be counted based on the records of their crimes and it won't be fair for them, not in any sense. Just take care of your friend for now, we'll do our best."

"Thank you, officer."

"My pleasure."

The officer left in his car along with his other policemen and Jungkook was left to stand there at the entrance of the hospital, sighing as he looked around and realized how his world just collapsed within a day.

It takes him back in time. He has faced something similar. Having to see his father reporting in hospital due to his chronic illness, he was going through a lot while taking care of his depressed mother and trying to stay strong. He's their only child and only hope, he is everything to them and they are everything for him.

He had to face a difficult time yet his girlfriend of a year, his highschool hottie who he did everything to claim and make his, chased after her like crazy decided to break up with him.

From streets to laundromat, from scorching sun to thunderstorm, from her house to their school, he was chasing after her to impress her before the relationship only for her to break up with him over a text when he actually needed her the most.

He loved her a lot only for what they had to turn into dust. 

He couldn't even grieve properly or try to fix it as the helplessness of his family issue had his hands tied and as days kept passing by he was feeling like he lost her completely.

Maybe his attempts of chasing after her again would bring her back to him but it went in vain. He had to lose her in the process of finding strength to help his family until his father could be back on his feet.

Until he had a successful heart transplant which caused his family to go through a lot and for Jungkook to spend days in numbness. If it wasn't for his father's insurance, they'd never have enough money to even eat.

His past relationships and friendships all went in vain and despite him rejoining with his friends, he felt disconnected with them due to his own load until one day he wanted to just disappear and leave it all behind and start anew somewhere else.

And that's when he decided to rush into Seoul and start living there and took an admission in a university to finish his studies.

His father is recovering and his mother does her job while taking care of him. 

Jungkook didn't want to leave the two alone but he knew they were taken care of by his cousins back in his hometown who he saw as his own siblings. And if he didn't leave his town he might lose his mind and so he took this decision and never regretted it.

He was not expecting to make new friends but then on his first day he met V, the guy who guided him in beating a game level, they vibed right away and became friends.

The same guy introduced him to two new people, Taehyung and Jimin, Jungkook instantly grew fond of.

His seniors in college, his batchmates, his football mates, they all made his life a little better.

And soon he grew more fond of Taehyung because he saw his purity, his innocence and his kindness which he grew to admire. Taehyung treated him just so differently, bringing out the shades of Jungkook he didn't know he had in him.

The other side he met Rebecca who shared similar traits to his ex, causing him to maintain a distance of his own but he had that itch of being good that he couldn't even instantly reject her.

And soon he learnt how Taehyung had loved him all along and had Jungkook in a total panic because he didn't want to lose a friend and a person like him due to any of his confusion or denial.

He was confused about his orientation because he never imagined to love a guy but watching how he was losing Taehyung, Jungkook risked everything to make him his and love him but he still had fear in him.

He's scared to lose Taehyung like he lost his ex. He shared a perfect relationship with her, he was naive and reckless, so loud about his love for her which he knew many people envied around him and maybe that's why he lost her and this time he wanted to be careful.

He didn't want to lose Taehyung at all because he felt loved, so loved, making him realize the relationship he had in past was not perfect but was actually always one sided, only he loved her and continued it while she never cared and she couldn't care less when she left him on his own in his lowest time.

And in this game of not losing his lover, Jungkook risked their relationship, causing doubts in Taehyung's head and leading themselves to a ditch.

There's only one villain to their love stories here, you can name it miscommunication but I'll call it sets of traumas.

Taehyung, Dowoo and Jimin, they all matter a lot for Jungkook because they made him the happiest in less time, gave him a company which he once lost, gave him a reason to start anew and to see them in pain is definitely difficult for him.

And yet again, he was helpless.

Just when Jungkook broke out of his daze and decided to leave, his eyes caught a pair of slightly old couples coming out of a cab in pure panic, and came to Jungkook's attention that he actually knows that pair.

The pair Taehyung introduced to him through pictures and even facetime once, none other than their parents.

Of course, how would the hearts of parents endure the news of knowing their child got severely injured. They had to be there right away.

But the question is, is V ready to face them in misery as well?

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I couldn't update on Sunday so here it is.

In this situation I can barely think of adding romance but I'll try to increase Vmin and Taekook moments more in the story starting from the next chapter.

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I hope you guys enjoyed it!