Sitting on the bed, Jin had his head resting on Hoseok's shoulder. He was no longer crying and his red eyes were fixed on an indistinct point in the room as he let the rapper conscientiously massage his back in a gesture that was meant to be comforting but that he nevertheless had difficulty feeling: it seemed to him suddenly hard to feel anything.

     "Jin hyung, do you want to talk about what happened?" Hoseok offered when he saw the other one calmed down.

     "No Hobi, I don't want to," Jin replied calmly, straightening up to look at him.

     This movement caused the rapper to gasp in surprise, because he could clearly see the other side of the eldest's face now. He jumped to his feet and went to draw the curtains to bring the room out of its shadows so that he could better observe Jin's face in the dawn light.

     The right cheek was red and swollen below the eye which already showed the color change and black eye to come.

     "My God hyung, there's no way you don't tell me what happened!" Hoseok exclaimed, his eyes wide.

     "I don't want to," Jin repeated calmly, stubbornly.

     "Wait... Did Lee hyung stop by the dorm this morning?!"

      "No," Jin replied calmly again, without providing any further information. He had gone back to staring at an unspecified point in the room.

     Hoseok sighed and hurried to the kitchen to bring back an ice pack and apply it to Jin's face, who grimaced before grabbing it and applying it himself.

     "Does it hurt a lot?" Hoseok worried.

     "No, it's okay, I'm fine," Jin reassured him, his voice still very calm that ended up worrying Hoseok more instead of reassuring him.

     He watched the older absently hold the compress to his face as he seemed lost in thought, the expressionless face replacing the grimace of pain.

     At that moment, Yoongi came back and grimaced in turn as he gently pushed Jin's hand to examine his cheek and saw the swelling all over his right side.

     "So that's the aftermath of a muscular bunny slap," he whispered. 

     There was no doubt about the maknae's strength, it was both the result of his weight training sessions and his lack of self-control. He had never used his strength for violence, even when he grabbed Taehyung the day before, Yoongi didn't move a finger to separate them because he knew Jungkook would never hit either of them. 

     He realized today that he was wrong: something in Jungkook had changed, their nice Jungkook had almost disappeared in favor of an angry Jungkook who no longer respected his hyungs. Thus, the violence against Jin was surely surprising, but Yoongi was not surprised to face the consequences. 

     "Jin hyung, are you going to be okay?"

     "Yeah," Jin replied simply before placing the ice pack back on his cheek, slowly moving it up to his right eye around which the skin was also starting to swell dangerously.

     Yoongi and Hoseok exchanged a worried look. Jin was definitely very weird.

    "We're going to have to find a way to hide this," Hoseok interjected, suddenly slapping his palm on his forehead, realizing their schedule for the day: "We have a photo shoot for the cover of the new version of the album today and a promotional interview."

     "If it stays that way and just changes color, some make-up will do, but if it swells more, we can't hide it and we'll have to find a plausible explanation to give," Yoongi said gravely.

    "Which?" Hoseok asked, "You realize, that since I don't even know what happened, I could hardly offer you an alternative."

     "Okay, you have to promise me to stay calm if I tell you," Yoongi warned first.

     "Hyung, I'm always calm and positif," protested Hoseok, whose sociable and playful disposition was no longer to be proven.

     "No, you are a sun ready to explode in a formidable solar flare," Yoongi contradicted and Hoseok laughs at that metaphor that the elder had so perfectly found to describe him. 

     Glancing at Jin who was silent but probably attentive to the exchange taking place next to him and of which he was the main subject, Hoseok stopped laughing.

     "Okay, I promise not to explode."

    "It was Jungkook who hit hyung."

      "WHAT?!" Hoseok jumped in disbelief.

     "You promised!"

     "Sorry, I couldn't help it!" He added, whispering as if it could lessen the shock of this revelation, "A-are you sure it's Jungkook?"

      "Yes," Yoongi nodded. "To be completely honest, it was Jin who gave the first slap, but in returning it, Jungkook did not control his strength and you have the result in front of you."

     "So he didn't mean to hurt him on purpose," Hoseok pointed out with relief.

     "I'd like to believe that too," sighed the eldest rapper, "and I'd be relieved if it was the entire story, but they had a pretty serious fight before that. I would like to know the premise of it, but I only know what was said this morning. Maybe Jin can teach me more, "he added, looking at Jin who was staring in the dark.

     Hoseok shook his head sadly, looking back at Jin, confused by his unusual behavior.

     "He doesn't want to talk about it or about anything."

      "Jungkook also refuses to talk about it ..." The eldest of the rappers sighed.

      He knelt in front of Jin and thus forced him to meet his gaze.

     "Hyung, I've been talking to Jungkook and he won't come near you until you go see him yourself. You can take the time you want but know that he is very angry with himself and is waiting to be able to apologize to you on his own."

     Jin removed the ice pack, revealing a face more swollen than ever and an impassive expression :

     "Then he can wait because I don't want his apologies."

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Author's note : This new Jin was created in order to survive but he almost looks like a living dead for now. Will he forgive Jungkook for the terrible feeling of abandonment in which he felt plunged? Because this is the worst for him and not the physical injury. It was too much painful and he prefered cut his emotions off to suffer less.

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