"(123) The more time passesThe more this fantasy opens(321) In this wide spaceYou fill it upThe flawless youThe moment I pointed at the flawless youYou became mine" - GFRIEND-Fingertip, 2017

"Say you're fine one more damn time and I'm going to let Taehyung beat your ass."

Jimin was taken aback by the accusation. It had been a week since Jimin's apparent "Passing out" that no one had brought up. They had just been giving him guilty and worried glances every single time he walked into the room and left right after.

"But I am-"

"No, you're not!" Jin yelled slamming his hands on the kitchen table, making everyone in the room jump.

Jimin felt like shrinking into the little crack in the window and vanishing. Jin never got angry, so this was a rare moment for everyone.

"Please, stop lying..."

Jimin looked around looking for any escape or any support at all, but everyone else was looking away in Jin's direction.

"Hyung, maybe you should calm-." Jungkook started.

Jin put a hand up to silence him, keeping his eyes on Jimin with a mix of concern, stern, and annoyance on his face.

"Yoongi?! Where the hell is Yoongi?!" Jin yells, turning to Namjoon with a sudden wild look in his eyes.

"He went out to the-"

Jin sighed and was ready to pull on a coat and shoes and hunt him down.

"Go get him." Jin hisses "And drag him here if you fucking have to."

Namjoon nods and leaves instantly.

"Hoseok, go out with him for support," Jin says before turning to the other two members that remained that were both scared out of their minds.

"You two, get Jimin to talk," Jin says in a rough tone, slowly losing his patience with the world and anything in it.

Jimin turned to him with a betrayed look on his face as the two from the maknae line came over to him with hesitant looks on their face.

"Sorry, Chim Chim, we don't want to suffer at the hands of Jin-hyung either. I heard he's ruthless when he gets angry." Taehyung says taking hold of Jimin's wrist.

"And you haven't eaten in forever...When was the last time you ate?" Jungkook asks pulling down Jimin's sleeves to expose his thin wrists.

"It has only been a few days..." Jimin lies through his teeth "It hasn't been long... And besides, don't you think we have better things to do? The MV is about to go up and we have to see ARMY responses!"

Taehyung shook his head.

"Your health is a lot more important right now, and I know ARMY will think the exact same way."

Jimin looks away and bites his tongue.

"This has to do with Yoongi-hyung, doesn't it?" Jungkook asks.

Jimin shakes his head "No, No, this is my own fault. I'm sorry."

Jimin tried to break free of their hold when he feels the thoughts coming back again, They were coming back at such a rapid pace, he felt nausea build up and sickness pile in his stomach.

"Please, let me go." Jimin pants out desperately looking for a way out. "I-I need the..."

He holds his tongue. He could make it through the rest of the interrogation session...

"Taehyung, I think we should let him go."

Everything's moving too slow...

Why is everything going so slow...

"But Jin-hyung said-"

"To hell what Jin said!" Jimin yells out suddenly wrenching his arms away from their hold and running to the bathroom to regurgitate whatever breakfast he had that morning or whatever he had, he didn't even know.

His head was spinning as he did so and he clenched the porcelain basin like it was a lifeline.

"Jimin-ah..."

Jin's voice echoed from around him as he felt himself crumbling under the three pairs of eyes looking down at him in worry.

"Don't look at me, Don't look for me..." Jimin mutters out trying not to cry, a disgusting and dirty taste burned into his mouth.

"Jin, I got Yoongi!"

Jimin felt his heart clench up at the name.

"Don't, Don't..."

They all looked amongst each other helplessly as Taehyung went to check up on Yoongi.

"I'm more than 100% percent sure if he's wasted or not," Namjoon says lying him down on the couch as said man groaned in protest.

"You all had to go save his ass again..." Taehyung says sadly.

Jungkook peeks his head around with a sad look on his face.

"This is all our fault, isn't it?"

Jungkook looked at Yoongi and tried not to make his worry too obvious.

"We have to find out what's wrong with the two of them no matter what..." Namjoon says looking at Yoongi as he had quickly gone to sleep after being laid down on the couch. "And I think we've found the root of our problem, we just need BangPD-him to-."

The door suddenly slammed open and Chang-hee came in.

"What is this I hear about Yoongi going out to bars?!"

Jungkook retreated to his room the minute the man came barreling into the room like an angry bull.

"Sir, please. If you would."

"Don't talk Kim Namjoon. I haven't given you permission to speak." he hisses pushing him out the way and grabbing Yoongi by the collar and shaking him "Wake up, boy! We have a damn flight to catch!"

Oh isn't it convenient everyone else was out the dorms at this moment?

Yoongi was down for the count and he didn't have any signs of waking up anytime soon.

"Chang-hee-nim..." Jimin's small trembling voice resonated around the room as Jin slowly came up behind him.

"I-I tried to stop him from coming here, but he wouldn't listen to me!"Jin says before looking around the room and paling visibly, a quiet "Oh shit" ringing in his head.

"Kim Seokjin, you don't have permission to speak either."

He looks among them all, taking in their obviously stressed states and analyzing them all one by one. They all tended underneath his intense gaze while stuck in bowing positions.

"So Hoseok called me and told me I should maybe try to help, but I see that all of you are beyond helping,"

he says, his tone still very firm.

"Sir, if I may-" Seokjin piped up before getting instantly shot down.

"Did I say you could speak?" Chang-hee asks turning his head to the slowly retreating Seokjin "Maybe you should think before you speak, bitch."

Jimin began to walk towards the group, looking at Chang-hee with fearful eyes.

"You can't call Seokjin these names..." Jimin says "I told you-you could do whatever the hell you wanted to me, but you couldn't do anything to them."

"On the contrary, you told me I couldn't do anything to Yoongi, but that won't stop me, now will it?"

Jimin's body shook as they looked at each other, one in fear, and one in sheer malicious determination.

"We have a flight to catch, don't keep me waiting."

The door slammed, and the second it did, Jin sank to the ground and began to cry.

Jin looked so vulnerable and fragile in that moment, he was reminiscent of Yoongi that night past. He honestly looked like he had had enough, the entire toughened gentle facade gone from his features.

"How did I not see any of this happening?!" he sobbed out "I'm a terrible hyung!"

Jungkook strokes his back, tears running down his own face as well.

"This is our fault... We let this happen to them and now we're all paying for it." Jimin says looking at Yoongi's unconscious form. "I decided to fall for him and now everything is a mess." his body begins to lack that statue-like form and begins shaking "I accepted his feelings and now the rest of the group is suffering!"

"Jimin, stop." Namjoon says going up to him "None of this is anyone's fault."

"But it is!" Jimin says "Why can't anyone see that when things are my fault are my fault!"

"Jimin, please stop." Taehyung begs from Namjoons side "We need to get our things and take it to the van."

Taehyung rushes past the rest in a flurry and everyone stares at Hoseok.

"I didn't know that calling Manager Chang-hee would be a bad idea..." Hoseok mutters "He was a Manager and he should've been able to help us..."

Any type of sunshine that was in the air vanished as Hoseok looked down into his hands, his eyes following the callouses.

"Instead, I made everything worse!" Hoseok yells, any evident guilt on his face automatically replaced with fear and anger "If anyone should be getting the blame here, it should be my dumbass!"

"No, Hoseok. We're all to blame here, but none of us know how to fix it..." Jin says wiping his eyes and sitting on his knees. "We can't turn to ARMY for help... That would make everything worse and not only be bad for the company but for us and the ARMY..."

They all look at each other before slowly coming together and huddling (minus Jimin, who and retreated to his room to pack his things and a Yoongi who was packed up already, but was passed out on the couch and hadn't stirred since.

"Let's just try to keep things together until promotions are over," Namjoon says

"I don't think we'll even make it until then..."

They all put their fingers in the middle and yell out their name for internalized support.

Bangtan Sonyeondan

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Their time in Detroit was limited, but it also went by quickly.

"Sejin was a really good man, may he in body and soul rest in peace, amen."

"Amen."

They all escaped the funeral as fast as physically possible and hid out in their hotel rooms for the rest of the night, besides Yoongi and Jimin.

Yoongi had been staring out the window for hours from the window seat while downing his second suspicious smelling drink while Namjoon looked at him from his peripheral vision trying to make sure he didn't do anything idiotic.

Jimin had found the nearest possible gym and dance studio and took refuge in there for the night as everyone was a bit too depressed from earlier to do something right now...

Taehyung and ran himself ragged looking around the hotel for him, but gave up after receiving a text.

"My lord, Tae. Would you like to lie down with me?" Jin asks looking at Jungkook silently for permission.

"Sure, thanks, hyung."

Jin nods and Jungkook makes room for Taehyung in the bed (They packed in like sardines in one bed for comfort purposes)

"You're like a human radiator..." Taehyung says snuggling up to Jungkook "Good job."

Jungkook lightly chuckles, glaze they can still have little lighthearted moments like this.

Taehyung smiles and slowly falls into Jin's soft grasps as well.

Even as they went back to sleep, the thought of Jimin never left their minds.

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Jimin knelt in front of the manager, his back already stripped of any clothing he had.

"This is what happens when you and the rest of those imbeciles decide to try and go against me."

A switch was brandished in His hand as he struck his back with it.

"Now apologize for them." he says "You know how it's done."

"I apologize-."

*Snap*

"Louder"

"I apologize for their wrongdoings! I promise it will never happen again!"

*Snap*

*Snap*

*Snap*

"What else?"

"I apologize for their wrongdoings, Master!"

A few more cracks and snaps whipped through the air and Jimin felt the blood rushing down his back.

"Turn around and face me."

Jimin tensed visibly before turning to him and looking up. His eyes widened.

"You know, you have been slightly pleasing me the past few days, I think you deserve something..."

Jimin's eyes widened before Chang-hee put a cloth to his nose and everything had gone black.

"Don't worry, when you wake up, nothing will have happened to you."

Jimin doubted that. He really did.