C H A P T E R 16

The creature lurched towards Yoongi, but Yoongi didn't do anything. He clenched his jaw, closed his eyes tightly, covered his head and lied down where he fell, motionless. He knew that if he tried to run it would be in vain, so he didn't.

He had accepted his fate, he had given in. He knew that everything was over and waited for the creature to approach him, but suddenly he heard a loud thump and the sound of something crashing to the floor.

Yoongi opened his eyes to see the creature right below his legs, inches away from him, on the floor with its jaw wide open and some kind of dark viscous liquid dripping out from its mouth.

Yoongi turned his head around and saw Seokjin holding a frying pan, breathing heavily, his eyes wide open in shock. He assumed that Seokjin had grabbed his 'weapon' from one of the shelves over there and thanked God in his mind. Seokjin had attacked the creature and now it lay there still, but still alive. He threw the frying pan at the creature's head, it moaned in a low volume.

He quickly lifted up Yoongi and carried him to the bathroom and Hoseok slammed the door shut. He first let Yoongi sit down carefully, then he himself dropped to the floor, panting heavily.

Hoseok sat, leaning against the door, with his eyes closed, breathing in and out, his chest heaving up and down.

Taehyung quickly went to Yoongi to take a look at his leg. He had a huge cut on his right leg and was losing a lot of blood. Taehyung took off his once green sweater and wrapped it around the gash tightly, to stop the bleeding.

Yoongi groaned in pain when Jungkook applied pressure to it, while Taehyung got some water from the bathroom sink.

Jungkook took the sweater off his legs and tore open the area of his pants over the wound slowly, to see nothing but blood. Taehyung poured the water on the wound and washed it clean. Yoongi squirmed, biting his chapped lips.

The wound now looked clean enough and the bleeding had stopped. Jungkook tore off a bloodless piece of the sweater and wrapped it around the gash. Yoongi breathed heavily, his eyes closed, tears streamed down from them.

He suddenly opened his eyes and turned to Seokjin.

"Thank you... Thank you so much for helping me.", Yoongi said through the pain which had dimmed down now, thanks to Taehyung and Jungkook.

He looked at Taehyung and Jungkook and bowed his head, but he couldn't speak.

The white tiled bathroom floor was now covered in blood and Hoseok helped Yoongi up and made him sit down in a dry corner.

Taehyung washed the blood out, while Jungkook squatted near Seokjin, who looked lifeless.

"Are you okay?"

Seokjin looked into Jungkook's eyes, the same colour as those of Jimin's and slowly nodded his head. His could feel his heart beating out of his chest, uncontrollably.

June 29 | DAY 5
07 : 18 pm

Seokjin hadn't moved from his position since he had reached the bathroom. His mind was continuously replaying the moment where he decided to face the creature and save Yoongi. Why? Why did he put himself in the line of danger?

He was never a person who risked his life for somebody else, but something came over him at that moment, a strange sense of strength, a feeling of confidence, that made him do what he did. Something he thought that he lacked, but now he proved otherwise.

The things human beings are capable of if they're put in adverse situations, Seokjin thought as he looked at the rest of them in the room.

Yoongi was asleep by his side, exhausted from the pain, while Hoseok kept on turning the knobs of the HTs, now he had two of them, to get a signal.

Sometimes, the HT would crackle and come alive, giving him small strings of hope, but dies away soon later. But he never stopped trying, he looked determined.

Jungkook sat on the floor, facing opposite to Seokjin, with Taehyung's head on his shoulder. Taehyung had his eyes closed, even though he was not sleeping and Jungkook stared at his watch, blankly, seeing the time tick away, second by second.

Seokjin looked over at Yoongi again and noticed that his head was lolling from side to side uncomfortably, but was still sleeping. Seokjin moved closer to him and slowly pulled Yoongi's head onto his shoulder. He touched Yoongi's forehead to make him more comfortable, but he quickly withdrew his hand.

"What is it?", Jungkook was noticing Seokjin's actions and was confused at the sudden look of concern on his face. Taehyung flicked open his eyes and Hoseok turned his head to them from the HTs.

"His forehead, it's burning hot.", Seokjin replied.

Taehyung crawled towards Yoongi and placed his hand on Yoongi's forehead.

"Oh... I think he has a fever."

Jungkook suddenly took off his jacket and laid it down on the floor as it was cold. They slowly made Yoongi lie down on it. He had a very high temperature, something had to be done.

"Maybe it's the wound.", Hoseok said coming over to them, with a worried expression.

Taehyung slowly opened the dressing over the wound and it did not look good.

"Blood poisoning...", Hoseok muttered.

They knew that something had to be done or else Yoongi's life would be in danger.

They looked at each other's faces, helplessly. Taehyung torn off a piece of his shirt, doused it in cold water and then laid it on Yoongi's forehead and looked at the rest of them who stood frozen. He tried to do what he could do.

That's when Seokjin remembered. The medicine that Namjoon had given to him, the dark bottle and the ointment tube. He had kept it in his pant pockets according to his memory, and started searching his pockets.

He found them after a few seconds, from his right side pocket. Seokjin feared whether the bottle must have broken but, fortunately, that didn't happen. He found a few cotton pads and adhesive tape along with it.

According to what Namjoon had said, the medicine in the bottle was for big wounds, like the one Yoongi had.

"Where did you get that from?", Hoseok inquired, but Seokjin was too busy cleaning the wound.

Yoongi groaned unconsciously, his face twisted into a very hurt expression. Seokjin, after cleaning the wound, dabbed the medicine onto the cut, slowly.

The others just observed him and his actions, they didn't say anything.

After applying the medicine, he dressed it back up and sat down on the side, praying what he did was right.

June 29 | DAY 5
09 : 10 pm

Yoongi was breathing normally now and his temperature had gone down. Seokjin sat on his side, checking his temperature from time to time. He sighed in relief when he found out that Yoongi's temperature was almost back to normal.

"Thank God his temperature has gone down.", Hoseok said quietly, looking at Yoongi sleeping better now, his face looked much calm.

"It was great... what you did.", Hoseok looked at Seokjin. "You saved his life... twice actually."

Hoseok smiled at Seokjin and Seokjin suddenly broke his eye contact with Hoseok.

"Don't thank me...", Seokjin sighed.

"Thank Namjoon..."

He didn't want Hoseok to see the tears rolling down from his eyes.

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Hey guys, how are you all? I'm good btw. I hope you're all enjoying the story and thank you for all the support.

I'm so proud of our boys, bb hot100 #1 two weeks in a row is not an easy thing. I hope they get a Grammy or else I'm burning that place down. Ooh and an advance happy birthday to Joonie.

Anyhoo, next chapter on 17 September, 2020.

Love,
PAPRIKA 💜

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