Jungkook blinked. And briefly wondered where he was. Raising his heavy arm, he saw the needle of the infusion and followed the tube with his eyes to the pole which contained the blood, the hydrating fluids and the morphine. Despite the morphine, his back was very painful.

      Memories of what had happened came flooding back to him, but he was too weak and disoriented right now to know how to react.

    "Welcome back to the living Jungkook," Hoseok said, smiling nervously. 

      Jungkook was slowly emerging from his slumber but the rapper didn't know how he was going to react. For the moment he was so weak that he didn't seem to want to explode. Jungkook turned to him and stared at him for a few seconds without saying anything, as if collecting his vocabulary in his foggy brain.

     "Thanks..." 

    "Are you... OK?"  

    "You mean, am I going to try to kill myself again?" Jungkook asked weakly. 

    "Y-Yeah, something like that," Hoseok said, forcing himself to smile despite the utter horror that lurked at this seemingly light question from Jungkook. "You scared me so much earlier." 

    "I know, I'm sorry."

    "Promise me you won't do that again!"

     "I won't do that again," Jungkook promised.

     "Ever again?" the older insisted.

     "I..." Jungkook started before stopping. He couldn't answer that question. And if Jin was really dead, gone forever ? Would he be able to accept this final idea? Could he one day regain the will to live if that were the case?

    "Jungkook?" Hoseok asked, worried by his silence. 

    "Earlier, I was... empty," Jungkook said, evading the rapper's question, "but then Han gave me hope and for now, I want to believe that there is still hope, I can't think about after." 

    "I understand how you feel Jungkook, b-but even If... if that hope were to fade, you still couldn't-"

    "Hyung," Jungkook cut him, sitting up with a quick movement which tore from him a grimace of pain, "tell me now, what happened to Jin hyung ? Han told you, didn't he?"

     "Easy Jungkook! Yes he did tell me, you can lie down, do not move to much, I'll tell you, I don't at all want you to hurt yourself again."

    Junkook who was in pain because of his injury which he had attacked himself, did not need to be asked twice and fell limply back on the bed and listen to Hoseok with a great attention:

    "There's still a chance that Jin hyung is alive like hyung said, because when he came back to get him, he wasn't there anymore. Hyung thinks that he was taken away by the paramedics and therefore must have been alive at the time since the paramedics only took care of those who could be saved."

     "So," Jungkook began, tears of relief in his eyes, "is there still a chance we can see him again?" 

     "Yes, JK, there is still hope so don't despair! You survived because you held on to the will to see us again and I'm sure Jin hyung did the same. After all, you both have always been the same and knowing him, he could never have abandoned you."

      "Do you honestly think so hyung?" the maknae sobbed.

     "Of course I do, Jin hyung is strong like you!"

     "Stronger," Jungkook corrected him.

     "Maybe, if you say so it must be true, ha, ha!" Hoseok said, before losing his smile, "so, JK, don't do what you did again! Can you imagine if you died while Jin was still alive and he came back to find you? Can you imagine his suffering? Can you imagine what he could have done in turn? Have you ever read Romeo and Juliet?" 

    "But what if-"

    "There is no "but" nor "if" Jungkook. It's true that we are not sure if Jin hyung or the others are alive, and that scares me too, beyond belief. However, nothing will ever justify you trying to end your life. You can be sad, no, devastated, that won't justify it. There will always be someone to help you up, even if it takes time. And right now, I'm the one who is here for you. I will always be there for you. And Jimin will also be here soon. Things will gradually get better, I promise you." 

    Jungkook noddedd and wiped his eyes. He was about to answer Hoseok when suddenly he was interrupted by a growl coming from his stomach. He realized he was starving. He hadn't eaten anything since the concert that had drained him of his energy before his injuries did. Now that he had heard encouraging news about Jin, his body finally seemed to allow him to think about himself.

     "Nice timing, Jungkook stomach, you just destroyed the drama of my beautiful speech," Hosok laughed.

      "Uh... I think I'm hungry," Jungkook admitted, embarrassed. 

     "This is a good thing," Hoseok affirmed, "this is the sign that you want to live. The nurse left your meal while you slept, she said it was important that you eat everything. She also added an infusion bag to keep you hydrated but the best would be just that you drink a lot of water."

   Jungkook saw next to him a mobile table on which was a well-stocked tray and which he pulled towards him. 

      While he ate, Hoseok turned on the TV again, hoping to find some encouraging news, even though he also continued to follow them in Korean from his phone. But it was necessarily on the French information networks that the information arrived faster for the moment.

     The two singer saw the South Korean president in a press conference but the French understudy who provided the translation did not allow them to hear him directly. "Mr. Moon Jae-in is arriving in France soon and Bang Si-Hyuk will normally be with him."

     "The president is coming to France with PD-nim?!" Jungkook exclaimed with his mouth full, "I saw it on TV before, but I didn't understand anything." 

      He took out his phone to check the news in Korean.

      "It was a group from Korea that was performing when the attack took place. The country therefore has its share of responsibility and comes to assume it," Hoseok explained, because he had read that while Jungkook was sleeping. "Because of our quarantine, I do not know if he will come to visit us, but in any case, he has been made aware that we have been found and wishes us a speedy recovery."

     BTS members knew the president personally, having met him several times and even accompanied him to the last UN summit in New York as ambassadors for UNICEF. Jungkook and Hoseok, however, did not expect to receive a visit from President Moon.

      "This is absolutely crazy," Hoseok commented, now browsing social media, delicately manipulating his phone with his injured hands. "There are more and more amateur videos that are published and the more I see, the more I realize what hell it was."

     Most of the images shot had been taken in the midst of the tumult and the point of view was striking. But obviously, for those who had experienced the horror of this evening, the images did not seem to sufficiently illustrate the intensity of the events.

     "I hope Jimin won't be too much shaken..." he said, looking at the images of Jimin with deep sadness. It was the same images that had been looping for a while, but they were still so hard to watch.

     Jimin seemed to be more than shaken at this moment, the camera zoomed in on him with such precision that it was possible to read without difficulty the terror he felt at the idea of ​​being surrounded again by a hysterical crowd who looked at him with madness. And also gave the impression of being ready to pounce on him despite the presence of the few nurses and doctors who had entered and were trying to block while waiting for the arrival of security.

     It was to be hoped that he did not become agoraphobic because of this experience or his career as an idol risked being prematurely cut short.

     "It's horrible to put him through this after what he just went through," Jungkook said angrily, thinking back to how he himself felt when the crowd stomped on him. Helplessness. Terror.

      "Yeah, it is..."       

      Looking at Jimin, it was also clear to Hoseok that Jimin, like him, wouldn't be able to dance again for several weeks. Their long-awaited tour had really turned into a nightmare. And four members of their group were still missing. Despite all the calls he made while Jungkook was sleeping, no one from his Big Hit team heard from Namjoon, Yoongi, Taehyung, and Jin. And still nothing either in the media....

      Realizing his thoughts were darkening as he needed to stay positive for Jungkook, he frantically shook his head, catching Jungkook's attention.

    "Jungkook, do you know the expression 'seeing the glass half full' or 'seeing the glass half empty'?" he suddenly asked, taking the maknae by surprise.

     "Eh?" Jungkook said.

     "Do you know the difference between 'seeing the glass half empty' and 'seeing the glass half full'?" Hoseok reformulated.

    Not understanding why the elder was asking him that, Jungkook still took the time to think.

    "Well... for me, this is the difference between being negative and being positive," he said. "The same situation can be taken differently by two different people, one of them will see half the empty glass and will not be satisfied, the other will see half the full glass and will have a feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction. It's a pretty telling metaphor."

    Jungkook raised his eyebrows and let his mouth drop open : he was starting to see where the rapper was coming from.

    "Exactly, JK," Hoseok approved, seeing that he had understood, "we are BTS, we give people hope. What if even we lose hope? It wouldn't be us anymore. We need to get back together." 

     "It's easier said than done," Jungkook said sadly. "When you know there are only three of us left and four of us are still missing, how to be positive when more than half are not there with us?"

     "Yes but in this way Jungkook, you are looking at the glass half empty. Let's see the glass half full now : we were seven to be lost, right ? Now three of us have been found. So we must not say that we are only three, we must say...-

    "...We only have four left to find," Jungkook completed with the beginning of a smile.

     "Yes, that's how we have to think! and soon, all seven of us will be reunited. That's for sure."

    "Yes, because we are BTS," Jungkook added, more convinced than ever. 

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Author's note : A little reminder of the story of Shakespear, Romeo and Juliet for those who need it =)

Romeo thought Juliet dead, so, mad with pain, he killed himself. Juliette woke up from her false death and, seeing her beloved dead, she killed herself in turn, not supporting to live in a world where Romeo was no more.