Lee only released Jin inside of the plane, when he could throw him unceremoniously in an empty seat near to the door, in front of the shocked look of the other members who were already installed more at the front of the plane.

     "Jin hyung!" Jungkook cried, jumping from his seat as soon as he saw him, but stopping when he felt Yoongi holding him. 

     Jimin and Hoseok could not get up, each with one leg extended on the seats, so they just stayed in their place, but understood that it was actually better than preventing Jungkook from leaping now to Jin.

    "Hyung, why are you so brutal with Jin hyung?" Yoongi said to Lee with an anger he did not seek to hide, while keeping Jungkook ready to join Jin carelessly, "he's badly injured. And I don't know what he did to piss you off in his condition but he's not himself so whatever he did, it doesn't justify being so brutal with him."

     "Oh enough, all of you shut up now!" Lee said irritated, "I'm not mad at him, I'm just tired of this country, these hospitals, and everything. It's about time we got home, we're not going to miss our flight clearance when we could just carry him up. Now, sit down while I'll call Han and tell him to get his ass back here right now.  As soon as he gets here, we'll take off, so no one gets off the plane now."

     He then came out of the plane, striking the shoulder of Taehyung who discreetly glared at him and whose fist was held firmly by one of Namjoon's hands, the other still holding RJ and the cap.

     "Wow, he's really fed up," Jimin remarked. 

     "He's been like this all week, don't mind," Hoseok said. "He stayed for us but he really wanted to come back."

     "Yeah, like all of us, but that doesn't give him the right to vent on hyung," Yoongi replied, returning his attention to Jin.

     While doing that, Jungkook took the opportunity to got out of the rapper's grip and rushed towards Jin.

     "Jin hyung it's me, Jungkook!"

     "No, Jungkook, no!" Namjoon warned hastily.

    Jungkook, after all this time, couldn't help but run close to Jin, forgetting all prudence. But the eldest, after all he had experienced, was no longer at all prepared to accept Jungkook's presence at his side, especially not so close to him.

     When he had been terribly silent in front of Lee, letting himself be bullied without saying anything, he uttered a word without warning, in a chilling whining:

     "NOOOOOO!"

     Everyone froze, Jungkook the first, as he was closest to him, their eyes glittering Jin's panicked look.

     "Hyung, you... you.... you are talking now?!" Hoseok exclaimed, the first to recover from the shock of this discovery.

     "Ssssht! tone down," Yoongi intimated, who felt that over-excitement was not going to fix the stress in which his hyung was shaking like a leaf.

     "Taehyung, go and comfort him," Namjoon said, gently pushing the youngest towards the seats where Jin was sitting.

    "Why him?" Jungkook protested vigorously, felting like even though he was a few centimeters away from Jin, he was separated from him by an invisible wall that prevented him from getting closer to him at the risk of breaking him more than he already was. A barrier that disappeared when it came to Taehyung.

     On their last phone call, he thought that the elder had managed to overcome this trauma that he could not understand. So why did he still refuse to look at him, to talk to him, to stand close to him? And why, on the other hand, did he accept that Taehyung sat next to him, took him in his arms and whispered reassuring words?

     Because that's what Taehyung was doing in front of his angry eyes. Jealousy was cutting him from the inside out. Why was fear the only emotion that Jin had expressed towards him? Where was his old and eternal affection for him?

     "Why?" he repeated, feeling tears of irritation rising.

     "The doctor recommended that in the beginning, in order not to increase anxiety, we should keep the same habits as in the hospital, such as sitting or sleeping together," Taehyung explained, staring at him defiantly.

     "Excuse me?!!" Jungkook shouted, scandalized, because he had thought impatiently of taking back his place in Jin's bed as soon as they returned to the dorm. He stared at Taehyung, out of himself, and the other answered him sharply:

     "Why are you shouting next to him? You can see that you are frightening him, can't you ? Namjoon hyung, tell him!"

      "Jungkook, please calm down" Namjoon tempered, hoping to appease the maknae, who was increasingly irritated by the situation, "Taehyung was not lying, the doctor indeed said we should avoid abruptly cutting him from his routine in recent days and keep him away from any source of stress. And you have to admit, for the moment, hyung isn't very comfortable with you yet. With all of you, I mean," he hurriedly added, looking at Jimin, Hoseok, and Yoongi, who all nodded in agreement, "you spent a week away from him, it's not abnormal that he is more comfortable with Taehyung and me."

     But that doesn't convince Jungkook who turned his gaze away from Taehyung to look back at Jin.

     "Hyung, just... WHY?!" He yelled, startling them all because they did not expect to ignore Namjoon and spoke directly to Jin who buried his face even more in Taehyung's chest as he would have done with RJ, understanding that Jungkook was now very angry with him and not knowing what to do to protect himself from that anger.

     "Are you do this on purpose just to see him freak out?!" Taehyung snapped at Jungkook, hugging the elder even more. "There's no point in yelling, he's not going to answer you for now."

      "Jungkook," Jimin called him in a soothing voice to calm him down, seeing that Taehyung wasn't doing anything to really calm Jungkook down. "Come back here, please, let Jin hyung calm down for now, you'll talk to him later, that's better."

    He tried to grab his hand from the place where he was sitting, unable to stand, but Jungkook pulled himself out of the way and walked away from him to approach Jin, looking at him while the other refused to do so, letting himself be squeezed by Taehyung's protective arms. 

     Facing this, the youngest member he could not contain himself, no matter what others expected of him:

     "WHY AM I THE ONLY ONE YOU CAN'T BEAR TO LOOK IN THE EYES AND HEAR THE VOICE?!"

     "DON'T YELL AT HIM!" Taehyung roared in his turn, startling Jin.

      "WHAT DID I DO TO YOU?" Jungkook continued ignoring Taehyung who was glaring at him. DON'T YOU REMEMBER THAT I DID EVERYTHING I COULD TO SAVE YOUR LIFE?! I EVEN TAKE A KNIFE FOR YOU! THEN WHY ARE YOU TREATING ME LIKE THIS?! LIKE YOU HATE ME?! THAT'S NOT WHY I SAVED YOUR LIFE! IF I KNEW, MAYBE I WOULD NOT HAVE DONE IT!"

    Suddenly, the wide-eyed face of the outgoing Jin turned to Jungkook, and Junkook realized what he had just said.  Feeling Jin shake in his arms Taehyung hugged him harder but he continued in the same tone as Jungkook:

     "YOU ARE A BASTARD, WHY ARE YOU TELLING HIM THIS NOW, DO YOU THINK THIS IS WHAT HE NEEDS TO HEAR?! THAT YOU REGRET TO SAVE HIS LIFE?!"

      He regretted saying that the moment he said it because it wasn't going to help Jin get better but what Jungkook had said, even in sadness, even though it was obvious he didn't mean it, was despicable to Jin who had survived the worst. 

      He felt the shocked look of others but this look was also on Jungkook who, who was visibly devastated by what he had just said.

     "N-no, that's not what I meant, Jin hyung, I'm so sorry, please forgive me..." 

     His voice cracked but Jin wasn't looking at him anymore, he had his eyes fixed on Taehyung's coat and his trembling eyebrows were the only visible expression and witness to the anguish he was experiencing.

    His apologies failed to move Taehyung who went on to lower the sound volume of his deep voice for Jin but keep a threatening tone for Jungkook: 

     "It's best if you stop talking to him for now, you're only making things worse Jungkook, can't you see it how much he is suffering because of you?"

     "Are you implying that I'm hurting him?" Jungkook said with a trembling voice under the influence of anger.

    "Because you gonna pretend it's not true? And I'm not just talking about now be aware of that!"

     "What did you say?!"

     "You heard me well, don't play deaf."

     " I advise you to stop now before saying something stupid that will annoy me even more!" Jungkook threatened him. "Just because you accidentally ended up together in the hospital doesn't suddenly make you the person who cares the most about him, you're dreaming if you think so!"

     "Are you that jealous?" Taehyung retorted, "Is that why you don't want to understand your role in its current state?"

     "That's enough, both of you!" Namjoon intervened, worried about the turn of events.

     His fears turned out to be correct: for some reason that only he knew, Taehyung had a grudge against Jungkook and if he had been able to control himself from a distance, he could no longer do so in his presence. 

      As for Jungkook, it was against Jin that his anger was directed and since neither he nor Taehyung was letting go, the situation in the small plane was spiraling out of control.

     Now, the animosity between Taehyung and Jungkook was so palpable that everyone feared it was about to explode.

     "You haven't seen each other in a week and instead of being happy to be reunited again, you're ready to jump on each other?" Yoongi pointed out to remind them of common sense. "Come on guys!"

     "Taehyung, please, be nicer to Jungkook, it is normal that he is hurt by the strange behaviour of hyung towards him," Hoseok said , who was the most aware of the pain of the youngest who still could not find his Jin hyung again even though he was right next to him.

    "Alright, think what you want, Jungkook, as long as you stop hurting him," Taehyung retorted as he stood up to push Jungkook away from Jin.

     "I-am-not-hurting-him!!" Jungkook growled to the elder who had not wanted to correct his words, and who brutally pushed his hand away, "I want to protect him. Like I always have!"

     "Ah, because it has worked very well so far," Taehyung said, with a heavy irony of innuendo that stung Jungkook in his heaviest regrets but also in an unnamed rage.

     "YOU WEREN'T WITH US, YOU KNOW NOTHING!" the maknae yelled, beside himself, without realizing that he was about to make revelations that he was not supposed to make, leaving the shell of another secret to break like he did with his other secret with Hoseok.

    But no one had time to ask him what he meant because at the same time, he strongly caught Taehyung by the collar under the frightened gaze of others, seeming ready to punch him hard in the face of Taehyung's provocation.

     "Jungkook don't do that!" Hoseok shouted.

      Yoongi and Namjoon rushed to separate the two younger ones, under the helpless gaze of Hoseok and Jimin who could not move. This did not prevent Taehyung from continuing:

     "Oh, don't assume things JK, I know enough I can assure you that! And besides, your violence here reminds me and should reminds to all of us that you hurt him too with these hands of yours, and that raises questions, right? Isn't it precisely because of that memory that hyung is so afraid of you that he's afraid of Lee hyung? You both have that in common for hitting him, remember? And maybe you share more horror in common, you tell us Jungkook!"

     "TAEHYUNG!! Have you lost your mind?!" Namjoon yelled and harshly pushed Taehyung away from Jungkook, who Yoongi had difficulty keeping with his only valid arm, because the younger one was struggling like a madman to throw himself at his friend.

     "Let go of me, Yoongi hyung!" Jungkook shouted, using all his strength to free himself, "I SAID LET GO!"

     When Yoongi finally got a head shot in the face that made him releasing Jungkook to put a hand on his sore nose as warm blood flowed from it, he felt a he felt an immeasurable anger rise in him and suddenly lost his temper in his turn.

     "AAAARGH SHIT! THAT'S ENOUGH!" he thundered as he had never done before, his eyes seeming to throw lightning on the two youngest who froze on the spot but also all the others.

     The little plane was so full of anger, violence and stupefaction that it took Jimin a long time to suddenly realize one thing:

     "Hey, all of you, no more shouting, hyung is crying!"

     Like one man, they all turned to Jin, who had his hands clasped on his ears as his face lowered towards the ground and who, since several minutes, was sobbing and murmuring the same thing that no one had been able to hear because of all the screams but that they now perceived as the silence had suddenly returned:

     "...I'm sorry... I'm sorry... I'm sorry..."

     "Oh no, please don't be sorry hyungie, you didn't do anything, we're the ones who are sorry," Hoseok said, glaring at the the four others who had shouted recklessly, forgetting and making everyone else forget Jin's presence. 

     The dancer would have liked to get up to comfort the older one but his knee prevented him from getting up.

    Shameful, Namjoon, Yoongi, Taehyung, and Jungkook all mumbled excuses that Jin didn't seem to hear because he didn't calm down, plunged into deep distress.

   Realizing that there were only a few things that were able to calm him down at the moment, Namjoon shoved RJ into Taehyung's arms and whispered :

   "Go back to him, Taehyung." 

    Before to make any movement, Taehyung looked up to Jungkook to see that he was not going to jump on him again.

     When he saw that the youngest was quietly nodding without looking at him, his gaze only fixed on Jin, he went and hugged the eldest tightly to reassure him, gently stroking his hair under the watchful gaze of others. 

     "It's okay, hyung, you did nothing wrong, no one is mad at you," he whispered. 

    The others kept a religious silence while waiting for Jin's sobs to cease to be replaced by irregular sniffs, then by the regular breath of sleep, as if all of it happened, the departure from the hospital, the trip to the airport and the check-in, the reunion with Lee and the violent dispute between his two youngest had completely exhausted him after so much time spent in isolation, immobility and silence.

     "Those 'sorry' words... there were also his first words last night," Taehyung revealed, raising his head to the others grabbing their attention, finally breaking the silence that had established between them and that no one had dared to break. "He was freaked out and he thought he hurt me."

    He also knew that Jin might just be afraid of being punished for the slightest thing he was guilty of since what Lee had done to him, but that he couldn't say.

    "That's not new : hyung always thought that all the bad thing that happens to us was his fault and that he owed an apology to the whole world," Jimin remarked with sadness.

     "This is what our different managers and many fans have told him too often, his bad memories must have played with his brain," Yoongi painfully reminded them. "'Someone tried to kill him and made him realize he was unworthy of his place with us, it's not something he will recover from easily, he needs time. Now, he is completely drowned in his bad thoughts and none of us can reach him at the moment. It would almost be best to take him away from the company and even from us so that he can get his ideas back on track."

     Jungkook raised his head sharply towards him when he heard these words. Get Jin away from us?!  Absolutely out of the question! he wanted to shout at Yoongi. But he said nothing when he saw the furrows of blood coming from Yoongi's nose and which he himself had poured into his mad rage.

     "And it's not like it's the only thing that's wrong," Hoseok added, glancing at the two youngest without adding anything to explain those mysterious words. It was not necessary: everyone was obviously aware that there was a lot more to discuss.

     "That's right. Guys, there are things we urgently need to discuss," Namjoon declared, "but we have to wait until we get back home, so in the meantime, please be patient and don't fight anymore."

     He was looking particularly at Taehyung who was adjusting Jin's head on his shoulder. Taehyung ultimately understood that he couldn't avoid answering so he looked up at Namjoon and nodded, before glancing at Jungkook who ignored him.

    The others looked at their leader with apprehension before imitating Taehyung, nodding without asking any further questions. 

     "Good. We must be united to face the coming storm," the leader concluded with gravity, plunging the plane into even greater apprehension. Then he added, looking at Jungkook, "let's call this a war."

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(Dark) Author's note : 

A good definition of anxiety would be that it gives us the impression of drowning in our own dark thoughts, here is used the metaphor of the glass of water: it is like drowning in a glass of water because for too long, people minimize your suffering, thinking that all these little things that happen to you are nothing serious, while in the meantime, you sink more and more, as dark thoughts invade you and suffocate you to the point of destroying you from within. As you smile outside, your inner self cries out to you that nothing is right, but you are alone in front of yourself and that makes you dive deeper and deeper... 

Have you ever experienced such sensations?