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Flashback

Jungkook and Hari sat around the table, a small device placed on the center of the table and the two creatures staring at it with huge and waiting eyes.

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Hari : "This is not going to work." She picked up the device and started tapping her fingers against it typing something Jungkook wasn't aware of but he knew.

If Hari was doing it, it was not a good idea.

She currently made a group chat adding Jungkook, YN and herself because certainly her brother was too shy or may you call him a coward to text her first in a private inbox. She named the group "2 Princesses and a cute dinosaur" while the 'cute dinosaur' being spelled in a language foreign to Jungkook so he didn't understand what it was.

Hari :"Okay done!" She placed the phone back down having sent a few pickup lines and her type of jokes. To which YN replied with in next 4 minutes clearly enjoying her jokes which Jungkook almost cringed and had to face second hand embarrassment.

Hari stuck his tongue out at Jungkook who couldn't take his eyes off his phone's screen. Alright, he will give her that.

Hari :" Unnie"
Hari :"When are we meeting again? I need to learn some beauty tricks. To make boys trip fall for me" *hair flip emoji*
Hari :"Don't tell oppa" *shushing emoji*

Jungkook eyed Hari as he clenched his jaw "Do you understand, I am also in the group chat?"

As he said that, YN's reply came at the same time.

Yn:"Your oppa is in the same group."

Hari :"Seriously oppa just shushh you don't know anything." As badly as he wanted to smack her head. He wanted to, for once trust the process because he knew so well. If it stayed on him, he would never be able to make a move.

Sometimes he wondered who was elder of them.

Hari :" SHIT " *shocked face emoji x3*
She deleted the above messages and snatched the phone from Jungkook's hand typing the message on his behalf.

JK :"Um hey guys?"
JK :"Will someone tell me why am I entering in an unknown group with undeniably beautiful girls and three deleted messages?"

YN :"Hi there"
YN :"Hari wanted us to meet for some amusement park date and don't worry Hari your secret is safe with me." *wink emoji*
YN :"Let's select the date and time. I am free today though. "

"Holy shit." Jungkook said as he snatched the phone back. "Seriously!? Hey like seriously??" The little one among the two got on top of the chair and did a 90 degree bow

Hari :  "Thank you gentleman for your kind words. I know I am amazing."

Jungkook stood up and gave her a tight hug out of his excitement. He patted her head and pulled back in a rush "You suddenly got sick Okay? Go rest, I will get ready."

Her jaw dropped at her brother's words who ran to his room and she rushed after him "I am coming along that's cheating!!" She yelled stomping her foot on the ground.

JK :"Don't be a third wheel. Go and study."

Hari :"Is that how you pay me back? What kind of brother you are? Do you know how my friends are pampered by their oppas. You are so cruel."

JK :"Your blackmailing won't work. I will get you your favourite dress. I will take you to anywhere and as many times as you ask. But not here okay?"

As much as offended she was, she laughed at her brother rushing to get himself an appropriate non-romantic date outfit. And it was Hari they were talking about. She wasn't going to settle for any less.

Hari :" Fine, but then you let me stay over a night at my friend's home after two weeks." She crossed her arms as Jungkook raised his brow.

JK :"As much as I know you, that's not for studies."

Yeah that's an alcohol party you would never allow me to attend.

Hari :" Can't I stay over at My friends home? C'mon it's not that bad and look I am letting you go on your precious date with your beautiful lady all aloneeee. "

The offer was surely tempting but Jungkook was going to put a few conditions forward for so sure. He wasn't usually a strict brother but when it came to her staying out of his sight. He was definitely over protective.

JK :" Okay. "

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Present

Jungkook entered the room where Hwan was kept, the man was merely breathing to be considered alive. He was in the same condition Jungkook left him a day ago. Hwan seemed not to notice Jungkook's presence as The guy on his feet slipped hands in his pockets while flashbacks of his time replayed in his mind .

He saw himself in the condition Hwan was, probably worse. Laying on the floor for several days unaware of the time. Night's over nights passed by as he stayed there on the cold floor, unfocused and dead.

Staying in hospital for god knows how many days after losing his consciousness on the same damn floor.

Waking up to only one regret, he should never had given the chance to open his eyes ever again.

There was something in the air that suffocated him, drove him to the edge of cliff and made him desire having a taste of jumping off there.

He tried to, a several times only to be held back by someone and being yelled at until that one night when that someone was no other than YN herself.

Life took a turn from there to where he is now.

"Hwan." He called him. A slight flicker in the eyes of the almost dead man was enough to tell Jungkook that he was listening.

Hwan :"You must be so happy." The painful whisper escaped out of him.

"It's you who should be happy." Jungkook said as he took a seat. "Your sister got an easy death." The contrast between his polite tone and the tension crackling in the air drenched an otherwise deferential address with mockery.

"How longer were you going to protect her after the shit you've stepped into yourself, Hwan? If not YN, she'd be an easy target of a whole sum of monsters lurking around. Monsters like you, Hwan. You're no different than them." Regardless of the hatred that resided in Jungkook's heart for the murder of an innocent, he was never going to show it. The girl never deserved it, but Hwan, definitely deserved every kind of torment - mental or physical.

The injured man stayed there, unable to move or even breathe properly. Every word that left Jungkook's mouth dug daggers deep down his heart.

It was all his fault after all.

JK :"I'll make it easy for you, give me the names and I'll let you die this time, however you like. "

"How much more pain can you take?" Jungkook furrowed his brows at the sudden question. Had he not blessed himself with the training of distracting himself at the perfect situation, he could feel the a storm of knives ready to rain his way. The memories of his sister and many more that he doesn't allow even himself to think about anymore.

He's be damned screwed right now, paralysed, on the floor- begging to be killed.

"You won't find them" Said Hwan "They don't go by their names anymore. I might've stayed the small thug I was but they didn't. They grew, in a way that's unimaginable. Infact-" His breaths got uneven as seconds ticked "-Infact, You may know them, might be close to them. Can you handle it? "

The burning sensation in Jungkook's chest rose, igniting his half dead heart with flames. The blood flow came to stop as he rose to it's feet. The sound of his heavy footsteps echoed against the walls. He knelt next to Hwan's lifeless body, eyes maddening as they stared deep down Hwan trying read everything the man was hiding.

There was a limit to his patience.

"Who are they?"

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"Did he say anything?" The lady asked dressed up for an event which Jungkook seemed to be unaware of, too busy with Hwan and getting the faces or place out of the footage he received. He had too much at hand including his business.

The dark red color she was wearing popped against her skin and gave it an ethereal glow. The skirt draped in to the floor in graceful folds and wouldn't been almost demure had it not been for the daring slit up one side.

The dress shimmered with subtle luminescence everytime she moved, and when Jungkook's eyes shifted to the mirror, he could see the delicate straps criscrossing over her back.

Black eyes, red dress, symbolic of darkness and death.

"He is dead." Jungkook absent mindedly said as his hands worked on removing his jacket and tossing it on the couch.

JK:"And no, he didn't say anything. So all we have is the footage you got Me " His eyes once again shifted to YN seeking answers "Which I yet have no answers to how"

Hwan has given Jungkook two names which he never heard before like he was told "Luke" and "Leo" before Jungkook drilled a hole in the middle of his eyes - an easy death as promised. He tasted the bitter tang on his tongue as he, for once in a while lied to YN but he wasn't regretting. The time with Maya isn't considered a lie since he simply didn't tell her anything.

YN :"I will tell you, but for now you need get ready and get out of your bloody clothes. We have an event to attend."

JK :"Why Is there an event I am not aware of?"

YN :"You were too busy with Hwan and his little girl to worry about business." Jungkook went to get ready without putting up a fight. He knew he had responsibilities up his shoulders that he needed to fulfil.

A strange emotion flickered in YN's eyes as he watched the man disappearing in to the walk-in closet. An emotion so dark and destructive it could cause a massacre.

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