"Namjoon, wake up!" Namjoon rocked his head, side to side while his eyes opened revealing a worried Chulmoon.

"You scared the shit out of me." His friend sighed. After Namjoon realized what he had was nothing but a nightmare, he felt like a weight was lifted off of his shoulders.

"Thanks for waking me up. I'm sorry for startling you, man." He stayed up afterwards, thinking about the horrible dream he had.

"If having freedom means losing Jin, then I rather be sentenced to life in jail. What's the point of being free if I don't have him?" His thoughts about losing Jin were scarier than being around even the toughest swarm of prisoners.

The night seemed never ending for Namjoon, but he didn't want to sleep. He didn't want to risk seeing Jin in his dream again.

Seeing him just hurts and causes him sadness, so in order to remain strong, he rather not think about the boy and focus on a way to survive in prison.

His ankles were aching so much as he got up to use the bathroom. It felt odd and kind of intimidating for Namjoon to urinate in the same room as another person, but he came to
trust Chulmoon enough to just use the toilet while he was asleep.

His urge to go was too much. While he tried to unzip his suit, the man had a hard time crouching down to unzip it all the way because of his stitches.

The last thing he wanted to do was reopen his wound, so one way or another he had to think of a safe strategy for his suit to come off.

It was a struggle, but luckily, Namjoon managed to take the suit halfway off without injuring himself.

A wave of relief washed over him as he finally emptied his bladder. He automatically titled his head back, sighing deeply.

But his mind couldn't focus properly on anything else but the nightmare he had and how realistic it felt.

"Seokjin..."

~meanwhile~

"Jin! Jin, look at me! It's okay!" Jin woke up in the middle of the night, screaming.

Chanyeol rushed into the room to help him after hearing his blood-curdling screams.

He helped Jin get down from the bed, as he wanted to, and stared at the fox.

"I saw him, Channie. I saw Namjoon In my dream." Chanyeol brought Jin into a hug.

Jin's voice became silent as his racing heart slowly stopped beating.

"And... You know what he told me?" Chanyeol waited for the boy to respond.

"No, Jinnie. What did he say."

"He said "I love you". He... He responded to-" Was the last thing Jin was able to say before his voice completely shut down.

He couldn't speak anymore. The pain in his chest wouldn't subside, it would only increase
and worsen as he attempted to get a single word out of his mouth.

The boy didn't know how much longer he can be without seeing Namjoon.

He couldn't see him yesterday because of how late they arrived, and he couldn't see him today either because by the time he arrived again, the prison was locked early.

Jin only hoped and prayed that tomorrow would be the day he could finally see Namjoon after being without him for almost four days. He was physically holding up, but mentally,
he was starting to get exhausted.

He was starting to lose the last bit of sanity he had, holding him back from doing something stupid.

Because, he wasn't going to lie: Deep down inside, the thought of 'suicide' had crossed his mind at least once or twice.

First Namjoon gets taken away.

Then his parents turn out to be homophobic and even suggest that he goes to therapy to be 'normal' again. Being gay doesn't make you 'abnormal', what were they even thinking?

And now with the nightmares Jin has been getting and feeling homesick all of the time has really took a toll on his life.

He felt his life slowly fading away from reality and entering a living nightmare.

"Chanyeol, can I ask you something?" His friend nodded.

"Will you take me to see Namjoon today..." As much as Chanyeol knew seeing Namjoon would cause Jin pain and mental disruption because of the conditions the wolf was in, he couldn't say no.

Seeing Jin in the pain that he was already in made Chanyeol sad, so he didn't hesitate in saying yes when it came to visiting the prison to see Namjoon.

"Thank you! Thank you so much!" Jin was so excited in that moment, he accidentally licked Chanyeol's face like a puppy. After apologizing to the cat, Jin handed him a tissue to clean his face.

But the guy refused it.

"I think you need these more than I do, Jinnie." Jin giggled, wiping his tears away.

For the very first time in days, he's actually feeling optimistic and happy.

He knows what he could be faced with when going to that dark looking prison, but the boy didn't have a care in the world about it at the moment.

All that mattered to him now was seeing his lover, and the man that he's been crying over for the past three days, Kim Namjoon.

~~~

The closer they were to reaching their destination, the harder Jin found it to breathe.

Partly because he was suffocating both him and Chanyeol with the cologne he would sprits on himself.

"Jin, you want us to get there or to die of intoxication? Stop spraying yourself all over." His friend coughed, non-stop.

"I only put on a little bit, Channie. It's not like I even put that much." Jin pouted, sounding sweet and adorable.

"Yeah. A little bit, EVERY FIVE MINUTES. All I hear is "pss! Pss!", you're going to make me crash." Chanyeol's reaction was very similar to Namjoon's.

Jin immediately thought of him.

~flashback~

Jin: [Yes, daddy 💋]

Namjoon: [DON'T USE THAT NICKNAME WHILE I'M DRIVING. I nearly ran into a pole 😤]

Jin: [Alright, I'll just call you mine 😋]

Namjoon: [That name is already taken by me.]

Jin: [Really? Why?]

Namjoon: [Didn't you know? You ARE mine 😏🔥]

Jin: [Then I'll just keep calling you the only name available...]

Namjoon: [And what name would that be?]

Jin: [Daddy💋 You know? 😌🔥]

Namjoon: [Jin, I'll crash if you keep this up, baby 😂😳💕]

~~~

"Was that a smile that appeared on your face just now?" Chanyeol smirked, making Jin smile even more.

If only he knew the reason why Jin was smiling...

"Maybe." His friend continued teasing Jin until they made it all the way to the prison.

Chanyeol parked his car and got down, alongside Jin.

The boys gulped, hearing loud noises they hadn't heard the first time they had arrived at
the place the first time.

"It's you again!" Jin was startled when the police guard recognized him. He lowered his hoodie, covering his ears while nodding at the man.

"By any chance, is your name Jin?" Chanyeol and Jin looked at each other, wiggling their eyebrows.

"Yes, that's me."

"Finally. Thank goodness you're here, there's this man who's been waking the rest of the prisoner's late at night, screaming your name." Jin wondered who the man could be.

Namjoon is usually very silent and doesn't scream much, so he knew that man couldn't be
him.

"Really? Who is he?" He stared at the cop's shiny badge.

"Kim Namjoon." Jin inhaled so much air, he choked momentarily and started to cough.

After he was able to catch his breath, he repeated the same actions he did the first time he visited the prison, and shouted Namjoon's name out of nowhere.

"NAMJOON!!!" The cop covered his ears when the loud scream was answered.

"JIN!!"

Jin was now left with a smile on his face, and a shattered heart.

~~~