"Yes hyungie I know what sleep paralysis is! It wasn't that. I was awake!" Jungkook yelled.

"That's what it is though. You're awake but you're not. Think about it Jungkook, you have been stressed out since we got here. You've had a fever all day, are on medicine, and we're in a creepy old house and it's storming outside, and you were in here... alone..." Taehyung tried to hide the guilt in his voice. "Your mind is playing tricks on you. It was a nightmare. Nobody else is in this house but us and nobody is going to hurt y-" he continued saying reassuringly, until Jungkook cut him off by yelling.

"I know what I saw, okay! I was awake! I felt someone touching me! Do you think I'm lying?!" There was panic in Jungkook's voice as he looked around to meet the eyes of all his hyungs. He didn't know what he'd do if none of his members didn't take him seriously. He was sure of what he had seen.

"Nobody says you're lying. We believe that you saw something and it scared you, but what Tae-Tae is trying to say is that it was more than likely just a dream," Jimin reassured.

A question popped into Hobi's head. "You said you felt someone touch you?"

"Yes, first on my chest and then on my back. I was awake, I know someone was touching me but when I looked nobody was there. I'm telling you guys the truth , it happened when I was awake!!" He stared at them with pleading eyes.

Hobi had a thought. "Maybe it was Namjoonie? He could have come down to check on you but maybe you were too out of it to realize it until after he left?"

"Where is he anyway? It's not like him to not come down here, especially when Jungkook's screaming would wake the entire neighborhood, if there was one!" Jimin tried to make a light joke.

"What if the thing in this house got him too?! We have to go check on him!" Jungkook shot up off the couch ready to run upstairs, but Jin blocked him and put his hands on the maknae's shoulders, gently pushing him back down onto the couch.

"I'll go check on him, I think you need to try and rest," Jin said with a slightly concerned expression.

Jungkook sat back on the couch and sighed. Unfortunately for him, he had to respect whatever Jin asked or told him to do, as he was the oldest of the group.

Jin made his way upstairs and remembered where the room was that he had found Namjoon in earlier. He lightly knocked on the door but there was no answer.

"Joonie?" Jin whispered through the door. Still nothing. He slowly opened the door and turned on the light inside the room. Nothing out of the ordinary. Namjoon was asleep in his bed with ear plugs in. He slept with ear plugs in quite often, a habit he developed after using them on planes and in hotels. That explains why the screaming didn't wake him up.

Jin shook Namjoon's arm to wake him, he felt bad waking him up at this hour but also knew Jungkook wouldn't calm down until he knew he was okay and wasn't attacked by some exploding black hole.

Namjoon took out his earplugs, turning to Jin. "What is it? What time is it?" he looked out the window to see it was still dark outside and still storming.

"It's almost four in the morning," Jin replied.

Namjoon felt a bit of annoyance run through him. "May I ask why you're in here?"

"Did you happen to go downstairs at all after we went to bed and check on Jungkook?" Jin asked.

"No, was I supposed to?"

Jin's heart sank a little bit. He was hoping he would be able to go back downstairs and tell his maknae that it was Namjoon so he would calm down.

"No, no. You didn't hear him screaming either? He woke up screaming and now he's saying someone was touching him and that he saw some black entity with no face catch on fire and that it was somehow burning him." The more Jin explained it the more he realized Jungkook must have had quite the nightmare.

Namjoon froze for a moment. He remembered seeing the same figure before falling asleep. He remembered talking to it. Yet he couldn't remember what it said to him, or what he had said back.

He also remembered that he wasn't afraid of it either. What he didn't remember though, was anything involving fire or being burned by it.

"Is he okay? Did he have burns on him?" Namjoon asked concerned.

"Uh, I don't know. None of us thought to check for any. Can you come downstairs please? He's all worried that the thing attacked you too and that's why you never came downstairs."

The two made their way downstairs into the living room. Jungkook jumped up from the couch running to Namjoon and embraced him in a tight hug. "Joonie-hyung!! Are you okay? Did you see anything weird?"

While Jungkook was hugging him and asking all these questions, Namjoon was staring at the corner of the living room. Concentrating on the exact same black figure that was in his room before, the same one Jungkook must've seen.

Namjoon's body instantly filled with hate. He didn't want to hug Jungkook back anymore, and he wanted Jungkook to be done hugging him. Why is this kid so annoying? All he does is talk and create problems. Other thoughts swirled around his head about how much he hated this maknae.

"Joonie hyung?"

He snapped his attention back to Jungkook and took a step back out from his arms. Jungkook shot him a confused look.

"Jungkook why are we all awake right now?" Namjoon asked. Irritation was evident in his voice.

"Hyung I think there is something in this house! It was in here and it was touching me and it was on fire and it was hurting me. Jin said he will call tomorrow about going home. I don't want to stay here!"

"So where are you hurt?" Namjoon could feel his impatience growing.

Hobi answered before Jungkook could. "He's not hurt. He just had a nightmare that really scared him."

Namjoon shot Hobi an annoyed looked before turning back to Jungkook. "You said something about fire. Do you have burns?"

"No..."

"So you claim something was hurting you, but you aren't hurt. You claim there was fire, but no burns? So you woke up screaming waking these guys up in the middle of the night because you had a bad dream? And now you're trying to cut this vacation short, which I already told you we can't do because of money, all because you can't handle a bad dream?" Namjoon asked sternly, never feeling more annoyed in his life than right now.

"Hyung you're being kind of harsh. He didn't mean to wake us up," Taehyung chimed in. He had to speak up after seeing the sad expression fall back on Jungkook's face. He loved Namjoon but he would always defend his only little brother, against anyone.

Namjoon stared at Taehyung, narrowing his eyes. "I'm going back to bed. And you all should too. Jungkook is fine."

He turned around and stomped back up to his room as the others watched him storm off. All of them were speechless.

Namjoon lay back down on his bed. I could seriously kill that damn kid.

Meanwhile downstairs, the members all agreed that they should try to get more sleep. "Jungkookie I want you to stay in our room," Jin said as he pointed to himself and Yoongi.

Jungkook didn't object, he didn't want to sleep by himself anymore after tonight. Everyone headed back to their rooms to get what they hoped would be a few more hours of sleep. Jungkook placed himself in the middle of the bed, sandwiched between Jin and Yoongi. He figured this was as safe as he could get.

Jin let out a small chuckle.

"Why are you laughing?" Jungkook asked.

"Oh no reason, it's just that..." he pointed to Jungkook, "You're maknae in the middle!"

Jin started slapping his knee and laughing his famous windshield wiper laugh. Yoongi lay there with a dumbfounded expression. Jungkook let out a sigh and faced Yoongi. He wasn't in the mood for Jin's bad jokes.

They finally settled down, Yoongi was the first to fall asleep, then Jin. Jungkook's mind was racing, he couldn't relax. He kept thinking about what he would do if he saw that thing come back. What if it tries to hurt me again? What if it tries to hurt one of my hyungs?

He started thinking about all the different scenarios of one of them getting hurt, and how he could save them, how he could protect them.

Silent tears started to fill his eyes again as his eyelids grew heavier and heavier. He crawled up closer to Yoongi and took his hyungs arm, wrapping it around himself. I'm safe here.

In the room down the hall Hobi, Taehyung, and Jimin were re-evaluating the events that just unfolded. They had already gathered back into bed and were talking to each other in the dark, Hobi had joined the two younger ones in their bed. It was cramped, but they wanted to be close, they'd be lying if they said this night didn't freak them out a bit.

"Gah, I'm so tired, what a night," Hobi yawned.

"Do you guys think Kookie will be okay? He's never been that upset before. I wish we could have done more, I just hope he feels better in the morning." Taehyungs voice was quiet and laced with sadness.

"Do you think it was really just a dream?" Jimin asked.

"What do you mean?" Hobi replied.

"I mean...what if it wasn't a dream? He was saying he was awake. What if someone actually broke in?"

"Jiminie, if someone broke in we would probably know that by now. Besides, what he described wasn't even a person." Taehyung lay there staring into the dark room.

"Maybe he saw a ghost," Jimin said casually.

"Ghosts aren't real, Jimin," Hobi replied. He continued, "But Taehyung, you were right about Namjoonie. He seemed off. A little mean on our poor maknae but I'm sure he was probably irritated because he was tired."

"Maybe he was possessed by the ghost," Jimin said with a serious tone.

The three of them went silent for a moment, then burst into a quiet laughter.

"That'll be the day," Hobi chuckled.

The three of them huddled closer together. "I'm sure tomorrow will be better," whispered Taehyung. One by one they fell asleep.