"I don't know what you talking about," Taehyung said, tense.

     "Oh, you don't? Really?" Lee asked, approaching the bed and reaching out a hand to Jin.

      Immediately, Taehyung's hand slammed down on his wrist and pulled him roughly away from Jin, making the manager's evil smile widen like he was happy with what he saw. He put his face close to Taehyung's and whispered in his ear:

      "Because you see, Taehyung, I believe you know exactly what I'm talking about."

     Grabbing both of Taehyung's arms with a force that didn't allow the painkiller-weakened singer to break free from his grip, he forced him to face the bed.

     "Hey, let me go!" Taehyung grunt, struggling in vain.

      While holding Taehyung with one hand, Lee lifted Jin's blanket with the other and threw it at the foot of the bed, before caressing Jin's scarred legs.

      "Don't touch him!" Taehyung immediately shouted.

     "So you did see that?" Leed said mockingly, before lowering the shirt at the neck to reveal bite marks. "And that?"

     "Yes, I saw everything!!" Taehyung shouted, realizing that there was no point hiding the truth anymore.

     "See what Jungkook did to your poor hyung?" Lee claimed, making Taehyung's eyes widen, "I did everything to stop him, to keep Seokjin away from him and protect him but Jungkook is completely mad, he didn't stop attacking him. He started again the very moment he and Seokjin reconciled, the night I had to take him to the hospital, didn't you find the timing odd?"

     "Y-y-you filthy liar!" Taehyung yelled beside himself, "don't blame Jungkook for your horrible misdeeds, you monster!"

     "Liar?" Lee said, looking fake scandalized. "Look what I discovered by accidentally opening a door!"

     Lee showed him his phone and Taehyung froze in horror. The photo showed Jin lying on Jungkook's bed and Jungkook on top of him kissing by force him while holding his arms to prevent him from pushing him away.

     "Wh-what is that?"

    "You see very well what it is. See who the aggressor is? It's Jungkook!" Lee said, seeing that Taehyung remained silent and trembling, "he abused his hyung's kindness to him and mistook his brotherly love for another kind of love, forcing him to do things he didn't want to do, do you realize how twisted he is?"

      Seeing that Taehyung was still mute in front of the picture, he got annoyed:

      "Aren't you going to say something? Doesn't it piss you off to know you were right to want to protect Seokjin from Jungkook?"

     "S-so that's how you threatened them?" Taehyung finally said in a flash of lucidity.

      "Eh?" Lee raised his eyebrows and Taehyung would have just wanted to tear off his comedian mask.

     "There's no need to lie anymore, I finally understood what kind of monster you were. Otherwise, you wouldn't have this picture in your phone," the singer replied, "I know very well now that it wasn't Jungkook who did all this : the lacerations, the bites, the broken finger... Jungkook is able to lose control of his strength when he is angry, but he would never torture Jin hyung like that, ever. It was you, all that time!"

      The manager looked at him carefully to make sure there was really no more doubt in Taehyung's gaze then he laughed under Taehyung's shocked gaze: how could he laugh at what he had done? How could he laugh at being unmasked? He really was a psychopath.

     "Well it was about time you realized it! I was wondering when you would realize that and I was starting to think that you were completely stupid. Pfff, the three of us spent some time together, and you saw nothing but fire, ha ha!"

     "I trusted you and you knew it!" Taehyung exclaimed, enraged, "I truelly believed that thanks to you, Jin hyung was better and I left him alone with you while you were actually hurting him and let us blame Jungkook for his depression and his panic attack! I swear, I'm going to kill you!!"

     Taehyung threw his fist at Lee's face but the man stopped him without any harm and twisted his arm behind his back, forcing him to look at Jin, squeezing a cry of pain from him.

    "Don't think that things have suddenly changed and that you suddenly got strong and capable to protect him. Take a good look at your hyung and feel the guilt with all your heart because everything I did to him, you are responsible for it too, you let me do it to him. Just like Jungkook let me do whatever I wanted to him in front of his eyes."

    Taehyung couldn't help but cry while looking at Jin because Lee was right. He had been unable to protect him, he had even left him alone with the wolf who wanted to devour him thinking that as long as he was away from Jungkook, he would be fine.

     "I-I m-may not be able to fight you," Taehyung stammered, "b-but now that I know everything, I'm going denounce you immediately and get you arrested. HEL-"he started to scream.

     But Lee's hand slammed hard over his mouth and stopped him from screaming for help. Taehyung struggled to extricate himself from Lee's grip, which was pinning and gagging him.

    "I think you have misunderstood what Seokjin and Jungkook risk if you report me and I in turn report their dubious homosexual practice."

     Taehyung, who couldn't turn his head to look at him no matter how hard he tried, rolled his eyes furiously to signify that those threats wouldn't stop him from reporting him and preventing him from hurting Jin again.

     "BUT, if their reputation doesn't interest you, maybe yours will interest you a little more. And I took care to prepare this possible scenario, so I advise you to shut up."

     He removed his hand from Taehyung's mouth and took out his phone to show him another photo. Seeing it, Taehyung felt his legs buckled under him and he only stood because Lee was holding him.

     "Do you still want to call for help?" Lee scoffed.

     Taehyung didn't respond. He was having trouble breathing and no longer thought at all about calling people for help, while he was analyzing in shock the photo he had under his eyes.

     In the photo, he saw himself sleeping in his bed while hugging Jin. But Jin's face was dripping with tears and sweat and was twisted in an expression of pure pain like Taehyung had never seen. The photo only showed their upper bodies and his unclothed lower abdomen indicated that he was naked below, leaving room for imagination as to what happened below. 

     "W-what is that? Are you a photo editing professional specializing in blackmail? That's what you did with the photo Jin hyung and Jungkook?" Taehyung said in a shaky voice, refusing to believe what he saw, quickly averting his eyes from Jin's suffering face to bring it to Jin's current face, less tense but plunged into a near-death sleep.

     "Oh poor little bear, are you really trying to convince yourself?" Lee laughed at him, "It's not a montage, you moron, it was you who slept peacefully hugging him and promising him that you would protect him from Jungkook while I did what I wanted with him."

     "No..." Taehyung whined, "no, no, no..."

    "Yes! Oh, and I think that was the night I ripped his ass off with my keys. He had put blood all over your bed. And I put myslef something else on your bed finishing my business, sorry but I think Seokjin cleaned up the back very well because you didn't see anything!"

     He started his evil laugh again while Taehyung, horrified, tried to collect his memories of that night. He was the one who had brought Jin to his own room to play with him and Lee, where he made a deal with the manager.

     "I-I remember, you s-said you would f-forgive Jin hyung his mistakes if he won the game competition," He said, stuttering. "You-you lied and punished him like that while I was sleeping, that's what you're saying?"

    "Oh no, come on, I'm not that cruel!" Lee said, waving his hand and looking at Jin, "I told him that I will forgive him and I kept my word but I never said that I will forgive Jungkook. Your maknae has been doing a lot of stupid things lately and embarrassing me a lot."

     "And you punished Jin hyung instead?!" Taehyung exclaimed, outraged.

     "That's right, poor Seokjin hadn't done anything wrong except being the object of his little brother's perverted desire. And this picture of you makes you look the same as Jungkook," the man added, waving his phone in front of Taehyung.

     "NO!" Taehyung exclaimed immediately, "I-I'm not... like him." 

     Understanding that he had succeeded in his manipulative maneuver, Lee forced Taehyung to turn towards him and leaned over to whisper in his ear :

     "Don't worry Taehyung, no one will know, I won't show it to anyone if you shut this big mouth of yours," Lee whispered like a snake, "I'll get Seokjin's medical file and no one will know. And if anyone has doubts, we will say you and me that it was Jungkook who did it." 

    "But... but..." Taehyung stammered.

     "Stop hesitating when you know it's the best thing to do. Jungkook does not deserve you to protect him at the expense of your own reputation when your feelings Seokjin were innocent, weren't they?"

     "They were! I just wanted to protect him..." Teahyung whined.

    Looking at Jin's face, Lee suddenly smiled mischievously and continued:

     "Tell me, who forced Seokjin to kiss him in bed? Was it you or Jungkook?"

     "It's not me!!" 

     "Who, then?" Lee insisted. "Say his name, I want to hear it or I will think and say out loud that it's you." 

      "It-s... it's J-Jungkook," Taehyung said hurriedly.

     "Exactly!" Lee nodded, "and who hit Seokjin hard enough to disfigure him? Was it you or was it Jungkook?"

    "It was Jungkook!"

    "Correct again! " 

     Playing with Taehyung's fear and certainties, Lee was careful to never propose his name in the choices that posed to Taehyung. He continually presented two potential culprits who would be punished if discovered by others: Jungkook and Taehyung himself. 

     Lee was not in his trial run, he knew very well how the brain of his boys worked: by proposing to Taehyung the name of Jungkook opposite to his, he allowed Taehyung to get rid of his own guilt by accusing Jungkook even though he would have refused. It was too easy for him, so much so that he enjoyed it.

    "And it was also his fault if the shippers attacked him and wanted to kill him. It's his fault for wanting to play Jinkook publicly without thinking about Seokjin's safety because he knew he himself was in no danger."

     Taehyung's eyes widened at this realization.

    "Y- You're right," he whispered. "He was selfish and it's his fault Jin hyung got stabbed at the end..."

    "Yeah. From the very beginning, it was Jungkook who hurt him," Lee nodded, "you and me, we only protected him from Jungkook."

      Taehyung nodded slowly. 

      "It's all Jungkook's fault."

     Lee grabbed him by the shoulders and said:

     "Perfect, I think he heard you very well, now you can turn around."

     Confused, Taehyung let Lee turn him to the bed and froze. He first saw the tips of his curved fingers move slowly and immediately, his gaze went up to Jin's face, whose eyes were blinking slowly.

     Bursting into tears, Taehyung didn't think and threw himself on Jin to hug him as firmly as possible.

      "H-hyung you... y-you're awake!" he sobbed, hugging Jin as best he could despite machine connections that bothered him a bit. Weak and barely conscious, Jin did not hug him back or respond.

     "Hyung, y-you came back..." Taehyung kept crying, taking Jin's unplastered hand which was however injured by the catheter planted on top and stroked it as gently as possible, "y-you really came back... I'm s-so hap-py... i-if only you knew how s-scared I was to lose you forever..."

    Jin's eyes slowly, extremely slowly, turned to Taehyung and stared at him for a few moments as the younger brought his hand to his wet cheek. He didn't seem to really understand what was happening or where he was.

    "I'm here, hyung..." Taehyung muttered, wanting to reassure Jin and having completely forgotten that someone else was standing behind him and that person was none other than the person Jin was most afraid of.

     Then, inevitably, Jin's gaze slid to the person behind Taehyung who was not crying and instead was smiling his familiar evil smile. When their eyes met, Jin's widened, the heart monitor went into overdrive and the singer began to choke on the tube that was supposed to help him breathe.

     "Well, it seems like he needed my voice to wake up, maybe because  he remembers that I was the one who saved his life, eh Seokjin ?" Lee pointed out as the Taehyung went from surprise to panic and completely ignored the manager. 

      He run and stuck his head through the door frame before yelling in a very clear english:

     "HELP, PLEASE!!!"