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"Jin hyung, are you sure?" Namjoon asked.

"Yes, I'm sure," Seokjin agreed. He had to make this decision for those he cared to protect.

A feeling of relief ran through the group and Seokjin felt it. He realized how important it was to them that the doll disappear. He watched as Hoseok immediately got up and went to get a large candle, a box of matches and a steel tray to collect the ashes.

The dancer placed the tray and the candle on the coffee table and struck a match which ignited. He then lit the candle and shook the match to extinguish it. Thus gathered, kneeling around the coffee table and therefore the candle which lit their faces with a moving orange glow, they had the impression that they were going to attend an occultist session in the secrecy of their dormitory.

"Won't the smoke detector go off?" Jimin worried.

"I don't think the doll burns long enough since almost its entire body is made of fabric but at worst, we don't care," Yoongi replied. "The main thing is to destroy it, we'll deal with the other consequences afterwards."

It didn't matter if anyone thought BTS almost set their dorm on fire since no one would ever want to believe they only wanted to destroy a demon doll.

"Who wants to hold the doll?" Namjoon asked, grabbing the doll carefully, as if he was afraid it would struggle or attack him. But it remained inert.

Everyone remained silent, everyone having their share of fear.

"I'll do it," Taehyung finally said, grabbing the doll roughly, ready to take revenge for what the doll had done to him.

Without further ado, he placed the doll's hand that had squeezed Jimin's throat that morning into the flame. He was relieved to see it burning without any magic protecting it and attacking him but suddenly a scream of pain rang out, causing him a shudder of fear which made him drop the burning doll.

At first indeed, he thought it was the doll that was screaming but very soon, like the others, he perceived the real origin of this cry and realized with horror that it was Seokjin who was screaming in pain.

"W-what?!" he stammered.

Next to Seokjin, Jungkook was in a panic, wondering why he was screaming in pain like that but seeing Seokjin wave his hand and squeeze it with his other hand even though his arms were immobilized, he discovered quickly the origin of his suffering: on his right hand, a burn mark was visibly and quickly widening.

"IT-IT'S BURNING! PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!!" Seokjin screamed, crying in pain.

"Oh my God!" Jungkook cried, grabbing a bottle of water and emptying it onto Seokjin's hand.

But that didn't change anything and because there was no reason for his hand to burn when he was so far from the burning doll and the candle, it didn't take much for Namjoon to understand:

"His hand burns like the doll's hand, quickly, we have to put it out!"

Without questioning his word, Yoongi pulled himself together, grabbed the doll and rushed into the next room, the kitchen, where he threw the doll into the sink before splashing water on it. He didn't turn off the water when he saw the fire was out, preferring to make sure the doll was soaked to prevent the fire from starting again. He even blocked the sink so that the doll would be submerged. Calm had returned to the next room and he was convinced that he had completed his mission and had prevented Seokjin from being burned further.

Yet, he suddenly heard new screams coming from the living room and, letting the water run on the doll, he hurried back there. What he saw stunned him: Seokjin, who seemed to be choking, was spitting water non-stop, like a faucet and couldn't seem to stop.

"W-What's going on?" he whispered, completely stunned, seeing the others just as distraught around Seokjin.

"It looks like he's drowning!" whined Jungkook who didn't know what to do and could only watch as Seokjin choked beyond repair as the water continued to flow out of his mouth, not allowing him to catch his breath.

"Oh my god, I left the doll under water to turn it off, could that explain-" Yoongi started.

"NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO THINK!" Hoseok yelled, jumping up and past a stunned Yoongi to turn off the faucet.

He quickly removed the doll from the sink and heard Seokjin's cough in the living room which indicated that the water was leaving his lungs.

When he returned with the soaked doll, he saw that Seokjin was pale, drenched and trembling as if he had just looked death straight in the eyes. He let his head rest limply on Jungkook's shoulder who dutifully rubbed his back to soothe him even if he himself was still shaken by what had just happened.

"I-I'm going to get something to treat the burn," stuttered Jimin, who, although he couldn't screamed out his distress before, had visibly cried from his helplessness when he saw what was happening to Seokjin.

He got up to go get something to soothe the pain and bandage Seokjin's hand.

"That doll... I thought it was only magical when worries were whispered to it," Jungkook said.

"But by eating them and growing, we should have realized that it was going to be able to do something else," Yoongi said, clutching his trembling hands. Even if he had wondered what the doll's purpose was, he never imagined that it could attack Seokjin like this.

"I think..." Namjoon started, as thoughtful as he is concerned.

"What?" Yoohi asked.

"I think Jin Hyung bonded too strongly with this doll," Namjoon said looking at Seokjin who seemed not to really listen, because he was still too shaken. "His growing affection for the doll and its use must have increased the demonic power of this doll."

"W-what does that mean exactly?" Taehyung asked, as pale as Seokjin because he was the one who set the doll on fire and hurt the elder, he was aware of it. "D-does that mean we can't destroy it?"

Namjoon waited until Jimin sat down next to Seokjin and started tending him before slowly saying:

"That means if we hurt this doll, Jin hyung suffers too. And if we destroy it..."

He left his sentence hanging, but everyone understood what he meant, even Seokjin who let out a groan of fear.

"I-I'm going to die?" he asked in a weak voice, before letting out a cry of pain when Jimin rubbed the cold cream on his still raw wound.

"NO!" Jungkook cried, "hyung, you're not going to die!" If you can't get rid of it because it's attached to you and we can't destroy it without hurting you too, then just don't use it. "

"Do you want us to keep it here?!" Hoseok wondered.

"Of course I don't want to, but what other choice do we have?" Jungkook defended himself.

"None yet, but I'll research the worry dolls and find a solution," Namjoon promised. "This doll won't stay here long, I promise, so let's hold on, okay?"

Relieved and placing absolute trust in him, the other members acquiesced and, satisfied to have temporarily resolved the situation, Namjoon said :

"In the meantime, to avoid anyone to be tempted to whisper in its ear or feel threatened by it, I will keep the doll with me."

"In our room ?!" exclaimed Jungkook, who had rather thought of locking the doll in a shoe cabinet in the entrance hall.

"Yes, but you will sleep with Jin hyung and Yoongi hyung," Namjoon informed him.

Relieved, Jungkook pressed his sweaty forehead to Seokjin's, who remained terrified by the experience he had just had.

"I'll watch over you hyung, okay?"

But Seokjin was not reassured. Jimin had finished dressing his hand but the pain reminded him that he had almost been burned alive and then almost drowned without even setting foot in the water.

"Please Namjoon," the older whispered, getting everyone's attention, "don't... don't try to destroy her again... I don't... I don't want to suffer again like that..."

"No, I won't do anything until I'm sure it won't affect you, trust me hyung," Namjoon assured him.

But Jungkook felt that Seokjin's trust had become fragile again. The eldest had agreed for them to get rid of the doll despite his own attachment and because of that, he had been unexpectedly injured. It must have been traumatic and he wasn't going to forget it anytime soon.

"Let's go to sleep and discuss this again tomorrow," he suggested.

Everyone agreed. Yoongi and Jungkook accompanied Seokjin to their room without waiting and Taehyung, Hoseok, and Jimin followed shortly after cleaning up the living room.

Namjoon let them upstairs. Soon only him and the doll with the creepy smile were left. His right hand had been devoured by the fire but the rest was intact, although soaked.

The leader felt very alone after everyone left. But he had to fix the problems that were destroying his group, it was his responsibility.

He gave the doll a look of fear and hatred and said:

"I hate you, you hear me?"

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A/N : Did you really think making the doll disappear would be so easy?