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"ah, look who's here." soojin smirked widely gesturing for the 'guest' to come in.
yoongi gave the man escorting him a glare and tried freeing himself from the strong grip.

"I can walk by myself." yoongi spat and made another unsuccessful attempt in trying to set his hands free.

"let him go." soojin ordered and yoongi was forced to take a seat on a chair opposite of soojin. "where's the rest? I want all of you to be here."

"you told me to come here by myself, unarmed. that's what I did." yoongi explained himself.

"well, I was sure you wouldn't do that... so I sent some of my men to catch your wards." soojin made some type of gesture with her fingers and three men brought in namjoon, jin and jungkook whose arms were secured with metal chains. the three of them were dropped to their knees, the chains making a loud and unpleasant sound in the process.

yoongi looked at them in pure shock and bewilderment. how did soojin manage to catch them...? and when?
the three looked up at yoongi and lowered their heads in shame. but yoongi could only think about how they will all manage to get out of here alive. soojin was one tricky ass bitch.

"it wasn't very nice of you to disobey my orders." she pointed out.

"I don't belong to you, in case you haven't noticed. so why must I follow your orders?!" yoongi stood up and slammed both of his hands on the table in anger. one of the men immediately ran up to him and sat him down with a strong grip on the shoulder.

"because your pretty boyfriends are locked up in a basement... which, by the way, will blow up in half an hour." she smiled wickedly, enjoying the panic on yoongi's face.

"how-"

"sorry for ruining your date." she pouted and chuckled lightly. after a few clicks on her phone, the lights in the room dimmed and were replaced by the bright gleam of a projector. it showed both the geomeun and the malgeun pi gang buildings in a special 3D program. the illustration started moving and now displayed three buildings, which created a somewhat triangular shape, if the space between them was to be connected.
yoongi was quick to realize that the third structure belonged to the simyeon gang. were their buildings always positioned that way?

"you see... my late great grandfather had a... dream, let's say. he wanted to unite forces of the three of our gangs. he never said anything about it to anybody because he thought he'd be laughed at... for wanting to unite instead of winning over." soojin explained, eyeing the clock on the wall next to her.

"very interesting. what am I supposed to do about that?" yoongi muttered under his nose.

"you, my dear, have to perform a very simple act." soojin gestured for one of the men to pass her a paper. she gave it a look before sliding it across the table to yoongi. he gave soojin a suspicious glance before taking the paper into his hands and reading the content.
"just sign this. give me all that you have and you all will stay alive... I'll even let you work for me."

namjoon made a loud sound, he tried screaming something, but it came out muffled and incomprehensible due to the cloth which was tied over his mouth.
a buff man pressed down on namjoon's shoulder and kicked his back.
"keep it down."

yoongi broke into loud laughter and fell back in the chair.
"you're seriously out of your mind. give everything to you? and you'll let us work for you? what a pleasure that would be." he answered with sarcasm.

"I think you forgot that your two beautiful lovers are currently in a basement that will blow up in twenty five minutes." soojin reminded him in a dark voice.

yoongi shifted in his seat uncomfortably. soojin's proposal was so absurd, he really did forget that jimin and hoseok were currently locked in a basement.
so this was her plan all along? this is exactly why love and work don't go together, yoongi knew that, everybody who belonged to a gang knew that. if it gets out, it will immediately be used... just like that.

it was difficult to think. the walls were pressing down on yoongi, soojin's darting eyes threw him off track and the sight of namjoon, jin and jungkook all tied up made him dizzy. the mere thought of hoseok and jimin being so close to dying just made everything worse.
soojin had him trapped, didn't she?

"by the way... where's kim taehyung?"
yoongi didn't know if the question was meant for him or the four buff men.

he looked at the three of his friends and thought for a moment... where was taehyung?

"there were only the three of them." one of the males answered. he had a weird accent which probably meant he wasn't fully korean. his face was partially covered by a black mask, just like the other men had it.
"nobody ran away, we are sure of that."

"where's your pretty little stripper boy, huh?" soojin asked.

"I wish I knew." yoongi responded in a dark voice. "I thought you caught him and killed him already."

"apparently not..."
soojin gulped. yoongi instantly noticed the fear she tried to hide. what was it? could taehyung really ruin her entire plan? or was she afraid he'd strike at the most unexpected moment?
"I'm giving you some time to think all by yourself. the timer is up there." she pointed at a clock on the table and moved towards the exit. "I'll be back when only five minutes will be left. so think carefully and thoroughly."

she walked out of the door, her heels echoing in the hallway. the men carried namjoon, jin and jungkook out of the door despite their frantic behavior and attempts to escape. yoongi was left alone in the room with a paper in his hands and a timer on the table, which was set to remind him of how near death was.

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jimin turned his head to the sound of a door getting opened. hoseok was unconscious once again and jimin's hands were sweaty from holding onto hoseok's for so long.

"who the fuck are you?" jimin mumbled, looking at the man dressed in all black with a hood and a mask covering his face features. soojin said jackson and YJ were going to come in and watch the two of them, but neither have showed up yet.

the weird man walked up to hoseok and jimin and got out a knife from his back pocket.
jimin got startled and tried moving away, which was difficult since they were tied. the ropes were somewhat damaged by the piece of glass jimin found earlier, he was trying to cut the ropes, but since they were too thick and the glass was barely sharp, his attempt failed.

the stranger came up closer and kneeled in front of them with the knife. jimin closed his eyes and looked away, thinking the man would stab them... but no.
jimin slowly opened his eyes only to see that the man was cutting the ropes. jimin stayed silent, watching him free them from the restraints. it felt quite refreshing to be able to breathe freely once again.
as soon as the ropes were thrown into some dark corner of the room, jimin hurried to hoseok and carefully laid him on the cement floor.

"taehyung...?"
the man who took off his hood and the mask turned out to be none other than taehyung which gave jimin instant relief.
"jesus christ, I was so scared! why couldn't you have said anything earlier?!"

"sorry..." taehyung muttered and hurried to hoseok, covering his cold body with a jacket.
"what happened?"

"when they abducted us, they got into our house and hit us both on the heads so we'd be unconscious... but they seemed to have hit hoseok too hard since he started fighting back." jimin explained with tears on his eyes. "he lost so much blood, taehyung, his head injury is severe and he has been unconscious for so long... his body is getting cold and he's losing his pulse."

taehyung shook his head in disbelief as he tore off the sleeve from his dress shirt. he ordered jimin to hold hoseok up while he carefully bandaged over his head, making sure it was tight enough to keep the blood from escaping. he found the bucket which had some water left and cleaned hoseok's face with it, slapping his cheeks slightly in hopes of waking him up.

"where's yoongi... and the others?" jimin asked quietly as he waited for hoseok to wake up in anticipation.

"I don't know... "

"what? then how did you get in?" jimin was confused to say the least. "I thought we were saved."

"the four of them gathered up, deciding to go to the simyeon gang and simply see what they had to offer. I stayed behind and went to the hideout." tae explained. "namjoon and jin discovered a secret passage there... and we were supposed to get through it and attack... but you two got abducted and everything just went off track. sorry I took so long, but the door had a pin code and I was there for about half an hour, trying to find the right combination for the passage to open."

"goodness, that must've been such a nuisance... thank you, taehyung, you pretty much saved us." jimin smiled lightly.

"I didn't save you just yet." taehyung chuckled uncomfortably. "we gotta get out of here somehow and—"

"and we meet again."

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