It was almost midnight when they reached an old warehouse on the outskirts of Busan. It had started to drizzle.

Jungkook stood outside the building with the rest his brothers.

"Taehyung-ah, you stay in the van." Jin ordered.

"What? No Hyung! I'm coming with you" Taehyung argued.

"You are in no condition to fight. You would only cause trouble. Someone else might get hurt trying to protect you." Jin said sternly.

Taehyung hung his head in defeat and climbed back into the van. He turned on his laptop and put on his headset. He had installed new nano cameras on their headsets which now allowed him to view their surroundings.

"Boys." Namjoon called drawing their attention to himself. "Our number one priority is to get Sua out safely. Don't engage in unnecessary conflict. Aim to kill." He exhaled slowly. "As per the intel we already have, the place is not too heavily guarded as Boss Choi didn't expect for us to find this place so quickly. Sua is being held on the second floor."

"Hyung, you shouldn't take point on this mission. You are still recovering too." Jimin said.

"So are you. Most of us are." Namjoon replied but he relented. "Jin hyung will take point in the core rescue, he will be accompanied by Jungkook and Hobi. So our main job is to provide cover so they can slip to the second floor quickly." He said, looking at Jimin and Yoongi. "Jimin take point" he jerked his head in Jimin's direction.

They both nodded drawing their guns.

"Once the three of you secure Sua, you radio it in" Namjoon tapped his headset. "Jin hyung will escort Sua, Jungkook and Hobi will cover."

They nodded in agreement.

"In and out boys. I want this clean. Be alert at all times, we don't want anymore injuries" Joon looked each of them in the eyes. "Let's go bring our girl home"

They set out in a dead run.

Jimin took point. He led Namjoon and Yoongi to the shutter door.

Two well placed shots on the locks and the shutter was free. They slowly raised the shutter and Jimin lay down on the floor and rolled inside. It was dark and dingy. Yoongi placed a stick under the shutter to keep it open and rolled inside behind Namjoon.

Both rose to find three dead bodies. Jimin had already shot them. That boy is scary good, Yoongi thought. The thunder outside had covered the sound of the gun. Even though they had silencers on, the pop of a shot was loud enough to be heard in the eerie silence of the night. He bent down and signalled the other three to come inside.

Once they were in, Jimin and Yoongi cleared the room for them to proceed. Namjoon stayed back to keep watch.

"Careful boys." Namjoon whispered into his headset when he saw Hobi stumble slightly.

A soft pop echoed through the room as Yoongi shot the guard at the foot of stairs before he had the chance to turn around and register their presence.

He whistled to the others, who quickly headed towards him.

He signalled towards the stairs. Jungkook nodded as he raised his gun and started climbing up slowly. He turned around and two pops echoed. One of the men fell down the stairs. The resulting commotion caused more men to sprint out of the room on the second floor.

Jin was right beside Jungkook. Both were quick and methodical and within a few moments four more of their men had fallen. Hobi joined them as they quietly pushed the door and headed inside.

Jungkook saw Sua tied to a chair in the far corner of the room. Her head hung limply in front of her. Everything in him wanted to run towards her and pull her into his arms but Jin was already beside her cutting through the zip ties on her wrists. Jungkook and Hobi quickly split up and cleared the room.

Jungkook could barely concentrate, his gaze kept moving to her. When Sua suddenly raised her head, opened her eyes and looked at him, he froze. Her sharp blue gaze cut through him.

She smiled. "Jungkook-ah" she murmured.

His resolve broke and he ran to her. He grinned, gathering her in his arms. He breathed in her scent. God, how he had missed her. He crushed her to himself. He finally had her where she belonged. Safe and close to his heart. He had never known what true happiness felt like until this very moment, he thought. His heart soared as her hands softly wrapped around him.

"Watch out!!" Tae's voice rang out in his ear just as she tugged him with a strength he didn't know she was capable of, turning them both around.

Loud bangs of a gun being fired tore through the silence.

Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang.

Everything seemed to have slowed down around him, as he felt her little body jerk in his arms, he tightened his grip on her.

He saw Hobi shoot the man in front of him in the head.

Jungkook looked around wildly, unable to understand what had happened.

Jin and Hobi were frozen and staring at him with terror in their eyes.

He heard Namjoon and Yoongi yell through the headset and then she slumped in his arms. He tried to hold her up futilely and then looked down at her.

Her eyes were wide and tears were leaking out the corners.

And then he felt it, the warm wetness of blood as her body got heavy. He sank to the floor with her still in his arms.

"Sua?" He called.

She was trying to answer him, he could see it in her eyes. But all he heard was a gurgling sound and then blood gushed out of her mouth. A terror like none other gripped him.

"Sua?" He panicked. What the hell is happening, his brain screamed.

When her eyes closed he shook her, trying to wake her. "No! No! No! No! Je-bal Sua" he begged. His heart was cracking in his chest. This wasn't happening. He couldn't wrap his mind around it. He had just found her. She was safe, wasn't she? What was happening?

He couldn't lose her. He wouldn't survive it.

"No! Not like this, please baby" he cried. Pulling her face close to his own and kissing her forehead.

"Hyung!" He screamed, looking at Jin. Jin hyung could fix this, his hyung can fix anything. "Hyung please" he looked down at her again. "Sua? Nae Sarang? Please" he begged as he continued to shake her. "Hyung why won't she wake? Why won't she answer me, hyung?" He cried again but Jin was frozen in place.

He raised a bloody hand and lightly tapped her cheek. His mind knew she couldn't hear him anymore but his heart wouldn't accept it, so he kept calling to her.

Jimin, Yoongi and Namjoon had rushed upstairs when none of them would answer their headsets.

"Sua?" Jimin screamed, Hobi held him back not letting him get close. "Let me go" he cried struggling against him.

Jin knelt down in front of Jungkook. "Give her to me Jungkook-ah" he managed.

Jungkook shook his head as his vision blurred. "Please help her, hyung" he begged, not looking away from her face. Her eyes were still closed and his bloody fingers, still caressing her face, were leaving bloodstains on her cheeks.

"Give her to me" Jin said more sternly.

Jungkook looked up at him. He saw the tears in his hyung's eyes but he looked determined. Only Jin hyung could help her, he thought and handed Sua's limp body over to him.

"Now go. Get out of here" he yelled to Jungkook.

"What? No! I wont leave her. Please hyung, please help her." He continued to beg. "Let's take her home, please"

"I can't" Jin cried. "Please Jungkook-ah. Go!"

Namjoon came ahead and pulled Jungkook off the floor but he struggled with all his might "No hyung! Please don't make me" he cried. "I can't leave her" he screamed.

"Jungkook-ah" Yoongi had stepped up too, pulling him away with Joon.

"No no, please" he struggled "Sua" he called again but she lay unmoving in Jin's arms. Please, he just needed her to wake up and everything would be fine. He would take her home and never let her go again. He would keep her safe. "Please Sua. Please look at me" he tried again.

"I'll call it in. She needs to be taken to the hospital. The police will be here soon so get out of here. Go home. I'll handle it" Jin said through his tears as he felt her pulse. It was very weak and he wasn't sure she would make it. "Leave my car. Take the van and go straight home, Namjoonie"

"Come on Jungkook-ah" Yoongi pushed him.

Jungkook looked at Jimin, he was sobbing profusely in Hobi's arms, who had him in a death grip.

Taehyung burst through the door, his breath was laboured, his grief wordless. His face was etched with misery as he ran to Sua. Namjoon caught him mid way. "No Taehyung-ah! We need to leave before Jin hyung calls it in. Come on, please we cannot waste any more time. She needs medical attention." he begged, dragging a struggling Taehyung to the door.

The hyungs pulled the struggling maknaes towards the exit.

"Please Please" Jungkook begged. "Please don't let her die hyung. I can't live without her. I won't. Please" he looked at Jin one last time. "I need her. Bring her home, hyung. To me" he looked at Yoongi. "I have to be here hyung, with her. Please"

But Yoongi kept tugging him away.

"Go!" Jin said pulling out his phone with shaking hands. "I need to report a crime" he said shakily into the phone. 

~~~~~~~~~

Jungkook sat quietly staring at the scenery blurring by through the window of the van. He felt numb. Nothing mattered anymore. He didn't matter anymore, his pride, his pain, nothing mattered.

He could hear Taehyung still crying uncontrollably in the back seat. But Jungkook had no tears. They wouldn't come anymore. He was beyond grief because nothing mattered.

Jimin had cried himself to sleep beside him. He envied his brother the bliss of oblivion. For him, even blinking felt strange, like he would miss something if he blinked for too long.

He had missed the man in that room. It was his job to make sure the room was clear. The man had probably hidden, when they had come in. Jungkook hadn't paid attention and now Sua might be...... he shook his head. No! she was alive. She had to be. The alternative didn't bear thinking about. She was fine, he told himself. Just hurt but fine.

He looked down at his hands. They were crusty with her dried blood on them. He looked away, back at the trees flying by, taking him further and further away from the one place his heart ached to be in, away from the only person that mattered.

They reached home the next day, stopping only for fuel along the way. As soon as the van came to a halt, Jungkook got out and walked into the house and up to his room. Everything was numb, colourless, lifeless.... Empty. Nothing mattered, he thought again.

He was in a daze as he entered the bathroom. His appearance  in the mirror shocked him out of the numbness. He was covered in her blood. His shirt, his jacket, even his pants seemed to be soaked through. How much had she bled? How would she survive this? His heart broke again.

He moved to the shower and turned it on, standing under the water, trying to wash away his pain along with the blood on his clothes.

He stripped away his clothes and vigorously scrubbed the blood off his body. He scrubbed himself raw. He felt something on his shoulder and he whirled around. Transported back to the moment he had found a very beautiful, very naked Sua behind him in here, just a few days ago. The way she had looked at him then, with her heart in her eyes. The way she had pulled him close, laying her lips on his. His heart lurched when he saw nothing but the emptiness behind him. It broke him. He slid to the floor. The sound of the water drowning his tears.

He somehow made it out of the shower after what felt like hours. He put on a fresh set of clothes and looked around the room, not knowing what he should do next.  Something caught his eye. He walked to the bed. Sua's robe, that she had left in his room, the robe he had lovingly laid on his bed hoping to hold on to the most beautiful memory of the night they had shared loving each other.

He lifted it close to his face, feeling its softness. Her scent still lingered on it. He inhaled deeply and he broke again. His howls echoed through the house as he held the robe close. He crouched down unable to stand anymore.

After a few moments, he felt a set of strong arms wrap around him. He looked up through the tears to find  the tear-stained face of Taehyung close to his own. He held the robe tighter as he cried even harder. Tae helped him get on the bed, where another set of arms wrapped around him. He didn't need to look up,to know that they belonged to Jimin. He could hear his pained sobs close to his ear.

And time ceased to exist as the three of them lay like that, holding on to each other. Jungkook in the middle, wrapped in the embrace of both of his brothers, as they cried over their shared grief, for the girl they all loved in their own way. A girl who had in her own special way, touched their hearts and changed their life for the better.

~~~~~~*~~~~~~*~~~~~~