I'm sorry beforehand for any inaccurate information, I have never been in a courtroom or witnessed a trial, but I've tried my best to look up as much info as I can.

Because of that I'm skipping some of the trial, it's way too hard to write..

And sorry for the late update... I promised it last friday, sorry

-Jungkook P.O.V-

I walked into an unfamiliar building, Yoongi on my right and a middle aged man in a suit on the other side, my lawyer. I knew what I was doing here.

It made me nervous.

We're going into court. I will see my father again, and I'll have to tell the judge and jury what happened the day I came home from the schooltrip. I'll maybe have to tell everything, from the kidnapping up to now.

It made me very nervous.

I didn't want to face the man I called my father, eventhough he didn't act like one. What if something went wrong and I loose the case, what would happen? But what jury would not believe all the evidence that was almost slapped in their faces.

The big wooden doors of the court room opened, all eyes were on us. I swallowed and followed my lawyer to the first row, my eyes scanned the room in the mean time. I saw Taehyung, Jimin, Jin, Hoseok and Namjoon sit in one of the rows behind me. They also looked nervous, but still smiled at me, to ensure me it was going to be fine.

I hoped so.

I looked on the other side of the room, where my father was seated, also front row. He was talking to what I assumed was his lawyer. I stared for a few seconds until he suddenly looked up and he met my gaze. He smirked, making a shiver run down my spine.

Why would he smirk? Was he planning something?

I looked away and continued searching the room, I saw a few known faces, one of which stood out. A woman, middle aged, in her 40's, she had straight raved hair, similar to mine. She wore and expensive dress and over excessive jewelry, as if she was a very important person.

Mom.

"What is she doing here?" I turned to my lawyer.

"Who?" He looked around in confusion.

"The woman in the red dress, what is she doing here?" I spoke with agitation. "Why is my mother in this room?"

"I don't know, I didn't know she was coming" he frowned.

"Ignore her Jungkook, she isn't important right now." Yoongi said. "You need to focus on winning this case and tell them everything you know, that is all you need to do, okay?" I nodded slowly.

We waited in silence for a short while, I stared at the seat the judge would sit in, drowning in my worrying thoughts. What if I lost this case? What questions would I be asked? What's going to happen after the trail?

"All rise" a voice echoed trhough the room.

Everyone stood up and looked foward, as the judge walked in. It was a man, maybe about 50. He looked imitating and strict, no one to mess with.

"Please be seated" he said as he sat down himself. There were sounds of everyone sitting down before it was quiet once again.

"Your honor the first case on your list this morning is number 234, may I have the names of e prosecutor and the defence please" a woman in front of the Judge said. I watched as my lawyer stood up.

"Jeon Jungkook, the prosecutor" He calmly and loudly said before sitting down.

"Jeon Jiho, the defense" the lawyer of my father stood up to do the same.

"The defence please take place on the stand" the same woman demanded. I watched my father walk to the stand in silence, he looked calm and not very worried at all.

"I request the victim, Jeon Jungkook, to testify in the stand" I gulped and stood up, walking to the second stand on the other side of the judge.

"Jeon Jungkook, do you swear to speak the truth and nothing but the truth?" The Judge asked.

"I swear" I raised my hand slightly.

"Mr. jeon, will you tell us what happened on the evening of 6th of april?" The judge looked on a few papers.

"I came home from a school trip when I got a text from my butler, Hong Jisoo, that my father had returned from a buisness trip to Japan. I asked my driver to take a detour back home" I spoke calmly in the recording microphone as I recalled what happened that day.

"We arrived at sometime around four I think, maybe ten past four. I walked upstairs to my room and saw my father sitting on my bed, readjng my diary. He said something about it, I-I think it was something about me calling him things in my diary. Then he pulled off his b-belt and walked to me, h-he hit my nose with his head and h-he told me to take off my c-clothes and get on m-my knees" I stopped for a momen to take a breath and relax a bit.

"He lashed out with his belt on my back many times, then he kicked me. He told me it was my fault my s-sister and mother left. T-then he strangled me, until he s-sudenly stood up and w-walked away." I finished, almost choking on the last few sentences

"Reading the written testify, an ambulance was called, who called them?" The judge asked.

"I don't know, I called Jimin, thinking he was Jisoo, and asked for help" I explained.

"The injuries you've sustained were three fractured ribs, one broken rib, a fractured nose, high amount of blood loss and a bruised arm, am I right?" the judge read off a file in front of him.

"Yes, your honor" I confirmed. A picture was shown on the right side of the judge, projected on a large screen. There was a picture of me, a day after I got into the hospital. Large bruises were seen on my chest and my face. The next picture was taken of my back, the blood whiped off to reveal large red cuts, around them were many older and healed scars and there was a large burn on the right side of my chest.

"May I ask where the other injuries are from?" The judge asked. I gulped heavily.

"The burn was from a house fire, five years ago" I recalled. "A maid left the gas tab open and I lit up a cigarette in the kitchen, there was a uhmm, an explosion. Some of the other scars are from a kidnapping six years ago."

"You and your sister were kidnapped? From March fourth to March twenty-third. Here it says your sister died due to gunfire?"

"Yes, your honor" I frowned.

"And miss Choi, your mother, left shortly after?" The Judge confirmed.

"Yes, your honor"

"When do you recall your father abusing you for the first time?" He asked.

"About a month later" I gulped.

"Your honor, may I ask the victim some questions, as defense?" My fathers lawyer interrupted from his seat.

"Permission granted" The judge mentioned.

The lawyer, a middle aged man that seemed to have aged well, walked to the middle of the courtroom, turning to me.

"Mr. Jeon, do you confirm to having used illegal drugs?" The lawyer asked. I frowned and bit my lip.

"Yes"

"If I take a good look at the files, it was diacetylmorphine, also called heroin"

"That's right" I unwillingly confirmed. That was something I was definitely not proud of.

"For how long?"

"It started when I was eleven" I said. "I stopped when I was thirteen"

"Then may I ask, why we have found five plastic bags, each filled with 100 gr of heroin, behind the books of your bookshelf, in your room?" The lawyer suddenly asked.

"Objection, this has nothing to do with the trial subject" my lawyer stood up from his place, trying to object against me answering the questions.

"Objection denied" the Judge said. My lawyer sat down with a frown.

"Mr. Jeon, please answer the question" my fathers lawyer insisted.

"I-I hid them from myself, I don't know why I haven't trown them away" I confessed.

"But you haven't used any since you were thirteen?"

"No" I said strongly

"Do you self harm?"

"S-sorry?" I stuttered.

"Do you self hearm, mr. Jeon" he repeated. I was quiet for a moment and looked at taehyung.

"Y-yes"

I could see Taehyung frown.

"How?" The lawyer tried to push further. I looked to my lawyer to intervere, I was extremely uncomfortable.

"Objection, irrelevant to the case" my lawyer finally stood up.

"Objection denied" the judge narrowed his eyes.

"How do you self harm mr. Jeon?" the man before me continued. I took a deep breath.

"I have cut myself, on my side, my thighs and my wrist. I have tried to jump off a bridge, I have tried to drown myself in my bathtub, I have tried to overdose on sleeping pills twice, I have tried to lock myself up to bleed to death after one of my fathers beatings, I have tried to shoot myself with a gun I bought a while ago, but every single attempt I have done has failed. I hope this answered your question" I spoke harshly, not stopping to think about anything, afraid I might break down halfway.

It was quiet for a around a minute, I looked at the man in front of me, not wanting to look at anything else. Especially Taehyung. I didn't dare to look at him, the shame was eating me up.

I was a coward, for trying to escape life like that.

How dissapointed he must be, I don't want to see it.

"That's all your honor" the man before me looked over at the female Judge, who thanked him and asked him to return to his seat.

"We will have a short break of thirty minutes, please return to the courtroom at ten past three" the Judge gathered his papers and stood up, walking out of the courtroom.

I stepped off the stand, and directly walked to the door, avoiding anyone's eyes. I was almost out of the door when a hand grabbed my wrist.

"We need to talk" a woman's voice stated. Mom.

"No we don't, I don't know you, please excuse me" I sneered and pulled away, speeding out of the door.

"Jungkook!" Teahyung shouted from behind me. "Jungkook wait!"

I wanted to walk away, not looking at him as planned, but something made me stop and turn around, biting my lip and looking down.

"Let's go to a more private place" he said and took my hand to drag me through a few hallways into an empty and quiet corner.

"Why haven't you told me?" He grabbed both of my shoulders and tried to look in my eyes, which I avoided.

"I-I'm sorry" I stuttered. "I just didn't want to d-dissapoint you" I felt my chin be lifted up and I automatically looked into Taehyung's eyes.

"You won't dissapoint me, ever, I'm just a bit frustrated to why you haven't told me" he whispered.

"I'm sorry" I apologized once again. I really did regret it that he had to find out this way.

"Shhh, it's alright, let's go back to the others" Taehyung hugged me for a short moment and then we walked back to where The rest of the boys, Joshua and my lawyer stood.

"Jungkook, there you are, when the trial starts again some witnesses will be asked to testify that you haven't lied about anything" my lawyer said as soon as we arrived.

"Jisoo here will testify first, then there will be shown more evidence. After that your father gets a chance to clear his name. I want you to know that the way things look now, you have a good chance of winning, a very good one. Unless your father comes with some story of hallucinations and some kind of clip of you whipping yourself, you'll probably win" he continued.

"We need to go back to the courtroom, we have fice minutes left" Yoongi said. I nodded and we followed him back to the room in which my and my fathers future will be determined.

The trial continued.

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Hope you enjoyed this chaper!
Sorry again for the late update!
I was on a camping where the weather suckes even more than wheather home
But it was nice with mah family

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