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"What are you two doing today?" Hobi asked Jungkook and Taehyung as all the members were gathered in the kitchen. Hobi remembered one of them telling him they were going somewhere together on their day off, but he couldn't remember where.

"For a hike in the mountains!" Jungkook said excitedly as he finished eating his breakfast.

"Yeah, Jungkook-ah wanted to hike at some place kind of further away. I offered to go since he said he'll drive," Taehyung gave Jungkook a playful nudge on the arm. Taehyung asked what everyone else planned to do for their day off and they all seemed to have their own plans. Yoongi however planned to do much of nothing, he enjoyed doing nothing on his days off.

"Do you want to come hiking with us hyung?" Jungkook asked Yoongi.

"Absolutely not," Yoongi laughed as he disappeared to his room. All the members chuckled. The two packed up some snacks to bring with them, they weren't sure how long they'd be out for. The drive was about an hour.

"Have fun!" Namjoon and Jimin both yelled as the two were heading out the door. They waved goodbye and disappeared out to the car.

The drive to the mountain was quite fun for the two. They did some carpool karaoke and told jokes to eachother. They even came up with some of their own little silly songs with weird lyrics. They stopped for smoothies halfway there and even passed some kind of historical landmark that they took pictures with. 

"Hyungs are missing out," Taehyung told Jungkook as he offered him some of his smoothie.

"We will have to bring them with us next time," Jungkook said excitedly as they finally made their way to the entrance. The mountain range was absolutely beautiful. It was cold and the mountains had some snow on them, the view was breathtaking. There were other people there walking around too, but thankfully nobody bothered them. During their hike they kept having random conversations and found their way in front of a beautiful pond opening at the base of some of the mountains.

"Jungkook-ah! Take a picture of me standing here!" Taehyung handed Jungkook his phone and posed for the picture.

"Is it good?" Taehyung turned and asked.

"Yeah, my turn!" Jungkook ran and posed for his own picture.

"Cute, cute." Taehyung went and showed Jungkook the photo and playfully patted his head, "I have the cutest maknae!" The two laughed and continued to walk around. Once it started to get dark out they decided to wrap up their hike and head home, they still had an hour drive.

"Do you want me to drive home? I don't mind," Taehyung offered.

"No hyungie it's okay," Jungkook replied as he jumped into the drivers seat. The way home started out just as fun as the way there had been. A lot of singing and joking around.

The fun, however, ended quickly. It had gotten dark out and Jungkook was having trouble seeing on one of the long back roads they were on. Rounding a corner, the car hit black ice and Jungkook lost control of the wheel. They both started screaming, and Jungkook could feel the car was about to fly down an embankment. He didn't tell Taehyung, he didn't want to scare him more. He grabbed the wheel and turned it so that once the car went down, the trees would slam into his side of the car and not Taehyung's.

"Jungkook!" Taehyung screamed and grabbed Jungkook's arm as the car went down, it ended up rolling twice before Jungkook's side smashed into a large tree half way down the hill. Taehyung closed his eyes and braced for impact, but was surprised when the car came to a stop and aside from his fear, he didn't feel himself get injured at all.

"Holy shit! Jungkookie are you oka-" Taehyung turned to Jungkook to see him passed out in his seat covered in blood and broken shards of glass. Tree branches were poking in through the window and one of them had trapped Jungkook in his seat by his chest.

"Jungkook?!" Taehyung started screaming, "No no no hey wake up!" Taehyung screamed as his face became flooded with tears. He grabbed the tree branch and yanked it back and forth, finally freeing his maknae, but Jungkook still didn't move.

"Jungkook?!?! Please wake up!" Taehyung screamed as he tried shaking Jungkook awake, but it wasn't working.

"No no no," Taehyung kept repeating. He immediately pulled his phone out and called 911 screaming that he was in a car accident and his little brother wasn't moving. He threw his phone on the floor of the car and leaned against Jungkook. He knew he needed to check if he was breathing, but he was so afraid to. He hesitated before checking for a pulse in Jungkook's neck and wrist. He didn't have one.

"No! Jungkook! Please! Wake up!" Taehyung unbuckled Jungkook's seatbelt and wrapped his arms around him, dragging him out of the car and placing him on the ground. He checked again to see if he was breathing but he wasn't. Taehyung started screaming for help but he knew nobody was around. Taehyung started tapping Jungkook's face, "Please get up Kookie. Hyung needs you to get up for me. You have to breathe now!" Taehyung screamed through his tears. He placed his hands on Jungkook's chest and started doing CPR. He wanted to pump his maknae's chest a mile a minute but knew that wasn't how to do it.

"Breathe!!" He screamed before leaning down and holding Jungkook's face giving him rescue breaths. He went back to chest compressions and began begging, "Please get up bunny!! Wake up! You can't do this to me right now! You can't do this to hyung!" He gave him more rescue breaths before continuing, "This is selfish Jungkook! Dying?! You're not allowed to do that! It's not your time yet! You hear me?!" Taehyung's fear grew the longer he did CPR and the longer Jungkook wasn't responding to it. It had already been almost 10 minutes. He refused to believe this was actually happening. Telling himself it's all a bad dream. He'll wake up in the morning and Jungkook will be asleep in his bed, completely fine. As much as he wanted to believe it wasn't real, he also couldn't give up either.

He kept pumping Jungkook's chest, "You're the only maknae I have Jungkook! My only little brother! I need you to wake up! I can't lose you. You're not allowed to do this, do you hear me?! Hyung will do anything. I will do whatever you want, got that? Please !" He screamed. He was running out of breath, he was giving anything he had left to Jungkook.

He finally heard ambulance sirens and started screaming into the air," Hurry! This isn't working! Hurry!" He kept doing CPR until the ambulance showed up and paramedics took over. One paramedic took Taehyung and said they needed to evaluate him but he refused, he needed to stay with Jungkook. He watched the paramedics begin CPR on his maknae, "He won't wake up. Please save him! Please!" He was wailing. He didn't know his own body could produce so many tears, or scream so loudly. Maybe Jungkook would wake up if he could scream loud enough for him to hear. He watched as paramedics cut Jungkook's shirt off and pulled out a defibrillator and placed them on Jungkook's chest and side, shocking him.

"Don't let him die," Taehyung cried, "He's the only one I have. The only little one I have. Please don't let him die!" He watched in horror as the defibrillator looked like it was hurting Jungkook every time he convulsed when it shocked him. His heart now hurt more thinking his maknae was probably freezing and in even more pain than before. He was hooked up to a heart monitor device and it still wasn't showing a pulse. Taehyung wondered how long they'd even try before giving up, because if they gave up, he'd do it again himself. He would never give up on his maknae.

"Jungkook!" Taehyung wailed through his tears as he crawled over and grabbed his hand, it was freezing and lifeless, "Please," Taehyung dropped his head onto Jungkook's limp arm, "Please," he repeated over and over. He started squeezing Jungkook's arm, "You're going to be okay. I promised from the day I met you I'd protect you. I can't break that promise. You're going to be okay." Taehyung honestly didn't know, but he needed to reassure himself somehow. He lay against Jungkook sobbing loudly when suddenly the heart monitor started beeping.

"He's back!" One paramedic shouted. Taehyung looked around as he saw everyone frantically starting to get Jungkook onto the stretcher to get him into the ambulance. He stared at Jungkook and saw his chest rising and falling. On it's own.

"Jungkook!!!!" Taehyung screamed. He took Jungkook's hand and started kissing it, "Hyung is right here. I'm right here. I'm not leaving you. I'm not going anywhere." He refused to be taken in a separate ambulance, he needed to stay with Jungkook. When they got to the hospital they were separated, after Taehyung's protests were ignored, and Jungkook was taken into ICU while doctors had to do a trauma exam on Taehyung. They didn't understand how he got away with nothing but a scratch while Jungkook was practically dead.

"He saved me on purpose," Taehyung pouted when he realized. He saw Jungkook turn the car the way he had, he just didn't know why he had done it. It made sense now. Jungkook did it to protect him. Taehyung felt guilty, Jungkook was the youngest one, it wasn't his job to be the protective one.

He had to wait hours and finally the rest of the members showed up at the hospital, the doctors had called them. They ran in and hugged him asking what happened and Taehyung explained everything. They frantically asked doctors about Jungkook but were continuously told they needed to wait. Everyone held eachother tightly and cried together. Another few hours had gone by when a doctor finally had an update.

"I won't sugar coat this, Jungkook sustained pretty bad injuries. He has two broken ribs and a broken collar bone. The tree branch that hit him broke his collar bone and the bone punctured his heart, which sent him into cardiac arrest. He bruised his kidneys and the seat belt cut his stomach open, needing a few stitches. He also broke his wrist. He hasn't woken up yet, I can't tell you when he will. He may wake up quickly, or not for a while."

The members cried even more. Hearing all the injuries their youngest sustained was absolutely heartbreaking. Taehyung felt beyond guilty, thinking it should have happened to him instead. They asked if they could see Jungkook now but the doctor hadn't cleared it yet, they ended up needing to wait a few more hours. When they finally were able to make their way to his room, they were heartbroken all over again. Taehyung ran to him and dropped down next to him onto the bed and sobbed loudly. Jungkook was hooked up to countless wires and tubes and IV's and oxygen.

"Oh no," Jimin cried, "Our baby..."

The members gathered around him and talked to him as if he could hear them. Taehyung asked if he could have a minute alone with him. They said sure and left the room for a few minutes. Taehyung grabbed Jungkook's hand. "Hyung is so sorry. I shouldn't have let this happen to you. I should have done something. You didn't have to protect me. That's not your job, it's mine." Taehyung placed his hand on Jungkook's chest, at least this time his heart was beating. He couldn't really find any more words to say. His heart was still too broken. All he could do was cry. The members came back in and Yoongi walked over to Taehyung and rubbed his back, "This isn't your fault Taehyung." They had all overheard his conversation.

"It is. I was there. I was the one with him. I'm the hyung," Taehyung cried.

"That still doesn't make this your fault. The paramedics said if it weren't for you doing CPR, he would have been officially dead before they even got there. You saved him," Namjoon reassured Taehyung.

Taehyung sobbed louder and dropped his head back down next to Jungkook's arm, "I just want him to wake up."

Eight days later, he did.

Taehyung hadn't left his side for a moment those eight days. The members stayed as much as possible too. When he finally woke up Taehyung's tears of fear and sadness had finally turned to tears of joy. Jungkook was quiet, and in pain, but was happy to see his members at his side. Especially Taehyung. He remembered the accident, he remembered the car rolling, but he didn't remember anything after that. Thankfully, Taehyung looked completely fine. Jungkook was happy to know what he had done with the car had worked. The members talked to him a mile a minute although he was groggy and didn't quite comprehend most of what they said. He couldn't take his eyes off Taehyung.

He's alive.

He's okay.

That was all Jungkook cared about. He didn't even care that he was laying in a hospital bed with injuries. As long as his hyung was okay, none of that mattered. He smiled at Taehyung and his hyung smiled back at him before going off on his maknae "Don't you ever do this to me again Jungkookie! You hear me?! Never!" he scolded. Jungkook kept smiling. He'd do it all over again a million times if he had to. 

Jungkook had to spend another two weeks in the hospital, with Taehyung constantly at his side. He refused to leave Jungkook alone. He continuously scolded Jungkook for what he did with the car, but Jungkook kept playfully telling him to just shut up already. Thankfully he had been talking more as his injuries healed, and was almost back to his full self aside from his wrist cast and some rib and chest pain.

The injuries healed even more over the next few months, and Jungkook had also become accustomed to the fact that Taehyung refused to leave his side. Basically ever. Jungkook thought maybe his hyung would benefit from some PTSD therapy. They had already shared a room, but Taehyung moved his bed right against Jungkook's so he could sleep next to him and hold him in his arms every night. Sometimes Taehyung would have nightmares that Jungkook died and would wake up and need to check to make sure his maknae was breathing. Whenever they were out or at work Taehyung was constantly supervising anything Jungkook did and always had one eye over his shoulder to make sure Jungkook wasn't in danger. The members tried to help Taehyung and reassure him that they were also all there to keep Jungkook safe, but he still felt like he needed to be the one to do it. He was the one Jungkook was with when he got hurt, as a hyung he couldn't let it happen again. Overall, Jungkook never really minded the new clingy side of Taehyung. He knew if the roles had been reversed he would probably act that same way. Even though he was constantly telling his hyung he was okay, and everything was okay. Taehyung didn't care to hear it.

Taehyung knew as long as Jungkook was alive and breathing, he wasn't letting that boy out of his sight.

-Fin