When Jungkook finishes his list it's not even five o'clock yet which means he's improving on his time per call.

Instead of starting another list just turns it in and heads out.

He was tempted to stay but he was more eager to see Taehyung since they haven't seen each other all day.

The elevator doors open and he gets in, as they close someone calls for him to hold it so he presses the door open button.

   "Thank you- oh Jungkook, hey." Haeun says, slightly out of breath from running to catch the elevator.

    "Hey, Haeun-noona." Jungkook smiles. "All the way down?"

    "Oh, yes. Thanks." She smiles.

Jungkook nods pressing the button for the first floor.

    "So Jungkook. Where are you from originally?" Haeun asks. 

    "Oh, my family is from Busan." Jungkook says.

    "What brings you to Seoul?" She asks.

    "Well, this job and my boyfriend has wanted to move here since we were in high school, so." Jungkook say, putting emphasis on the boyfriend part.

    "Ah, Taehyung." She says alarming Jungkook.

    "Yeah," He says in confusion. "How'd you know that?"

Haeun laughs. "I told you I was looking over your files, he was on the lease of your last residence. You're so cute when you're confused."

Jungkook laughs a bit uncomfortably as the elevator reaches the bottom floor.

    "I'll see you tomorrow then Jungkook." She says as they step off the elevator.

    "Yeah, tomorrow. Have a nice day." He replies before heading out.

When he turns his phone on he still has no messages or calls from Taehyung so he decides to call Hobi.

    "Yessir." He answers after the fourth ring.

     "Hey Hobi." Jungkook says back.

    "Hey Kook. How's it going?" Hoseok asks.

    "Good. I just wanted to know if you were still with Taehyung." Jungkook says dodging people as he walks down the busy sidewalk.

    "Still? I haven't been with Taehyung at all today." Hoseok says.

    "Oh, you haven't?" Jungkook asks, Taehyung didn't lie did he?

    "No. I've been working since early this morning." He says. "Is everything okay?"

"Yeah. Everything's fine. Thanks Hobi, I'll talk to you later." Jungkook says, Taehyung had to be really upset to lie to Jungkook.

"Alright. Call me if you need me." Hobi says.

"Yeah. Thanks hyung." Jungkook says.

"Pause," Hobi says. "Something really must be wrong if you're calling me hyung."

    "No, it's fine. I'll call later." Jungkook promises and they hang up.

He calls Taehyung and still receives no answer.

He walks a little faster in the direction of the apartment, he was starting to get worried.

If Taehyung was doing this because he was mad he was being extremely childish and it pissed Jungkook off.

He tried not to get mad because maybe there was a valid reason he wasn't answering the phone.

He understood why he wanted to be alone and lied about being with Hoseok, but ignoring his phone calls all day was far too much.

He tried to hold his temper the rest of the way to the apartment, Taehyung better have a good reason for this.

-

Earlier that morning://

Taehyung can't stop replaying his dream in his head, the images seemed too real not to be a memory.

He remembered meeting up with Taeil, he remember waking up in a room and hearing some mens voices, and he remembered waking up in the back of that van and being forced into Jakyung's appartmeny, and most of all he remembered the excruciating pain he felt as those strangers dug those blades deep into his wrists.

He remembered wanting to die already as they slowly dug each cut into his arms.

He remembered the prick of a needle before everything went black again.

He almost would have rather never remembered that night.

His phone buzzes and Hobi's name pops up.

Hosioooke: i don't go to work until 10am. Let's meet for breakfast if you're awake!

Taehyung agrees to go out with Hobi since he is already awake and because he kinda doesn't want to face Jungkook this morning.

He quickly scribbles a note on a spare piece of paper after changing into something more decent for the outside.

Hosioooke: meet here *maps attachment*

Taehyung frowns at the unknown location, why couldn't they just meet at the nearest cafe? Taehyung knew where that was.

Taehyung: sure

He leaves the apartment in search of the address Hobi sent him.

There wasn't a picture attached to the location so he was just following the gps blindly.

He feels lost as he makes his way to the place but he isn't familiar with Seoul at all so he isn't that worried.

Not until he gets into a less crowded part of the city.

He had been walking for over fifteen minutes and was still clueless as to where he was going.

He was looking down when he bumped into someone, nearly loosing his balance.

"Oh, I'm so sorry." He apologizes looking up at the stranger.

When his eyes meet the dark, almost pitch black pupils of the stranger his heart drops to his stomach, he's seen those eyes before.

"Long time no see, Sunshine."

—

Present time....

Jungkook unlocks the front door of the apartment in a bit of a hurry.

When the lock clicks open he rushes inside. "Taehyung? Are you here, babe?"

He waits silently for a response, or maybe the sound of Taehyung running down the stairs, the shower running, anything that lets him know he's here.

"Tae?" He calls again walking further into the house.

Everything was how he left it that morning, the couch was still messed up from Taehyung sleeping on it, the kitchen light was still on cause he kept forgetting to turn it off, everything was fine.

But where was Taehyung?

Jungkook walks into the kitchen and a bright yellow sticky note stuck to the refrigerator catches his eye.

He pulls the note off and looks at it closer.

8251-(***-***) call this number NOW

Jungkook frowns pulling out his phone and dialing the number.

He walks around looking for Taehyung inside the bedroom and bathroom before hitting the call button.

Jungkook recognizes the Busan area code but he doesn't recognize the number itself.

The other line picks up but no one's voice comes through.

"Hello?" Jungkook speaks first, his voice coming out harsh and panicked.

"It's been a long time, hasn't it Son?"

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