It was 9 o'clock when they entered Jungkook's house. Jungkook first went ahead and turned on the light in the living room. Tae's legs were much slower than Jungkook's. He was clutching his small medicine bag tightly in his chest. He was glancing at every piece of furniture in that room. "Hey you, come here." Jungkook called him near a closed door. My brother is out of the town, so you can use this room for the time being." He opened the door and turned on the light.

Tae nodded and again started looking around the interior. Jungkook went to another room and came back with a set of black t-shirt and gray shorts. "Wear it for now, umm do you want to take a bath?" Jungkook asked him.

"No." Tae put his head down and licked his lips. He could still taste the strawberry cream on them.

"Fine, you're full so I'm leaving you here, go to sleep and-" Jungkook was about to get out but he turned again, "if you need anything, just knock at my door, ok?" He closed the door behind him and went to his room. After a short shower, he was refreshed. He put on a sleeveless black vest with black sweatpants and got ready to go in the bed.

Moments later Jungkook heard a light knock on his door. He got up quickly from his bed and opened it.

"Umm I need to go pee." The boy said in a shy voice.

"Then go on, who's holding you to do that?" Jungkook frowned.

"Where should I go? I mean the bathroom?" Tae was chewing his lower lips frequently.

"Oh, you didn't notice?" Jungkook went to the other room and showed him Jimin's bathroom. "It was attached within the room, why didn't you open it?"

"Ah! I thought it's another room." Tae stopped talking and rushed to the bathroom like a hurricane.

"This boy uff!" Jungkook went to his room and locked his door. He felt his phone's vibrating in his pocket. It was Jimini hyung. "Hey, how was your day? Did you go to see the city?"

"Yeah, I did. I went with the others. You can't believe Jungkook, I've eaten a jumbo hamburger today and couldn't move after that." Jimin told him.

"Thank God that you're alive." Jungkook laughed out and pulled the blanket over him with his free hand. He let his head rest on his fluffy pillow.

"It's not funny huh!" Jimin pouted after saying that. "Listen, I'm coming on the day after tomorrow so don't forget to leave the key under the doormat."

"What?" Jungkook reacted shockingly. "But you said that you have some music festival to attend after two days."

"Yeah but it got cancelled due to some issues. So I'm coming earlier." Jimin waited for some seconds for Jungkook's response, "hey, are you still there?"

"Hmm, ok, come back safely." The call ended. Jungkook couldn't figure out if he should tell his brother about Vantae or just leave that boy at his senior's home. But his thoughts got distracted when he heard a light knock again at his door.

"What happened now?" Jungkook asked after opening the door.

"Umm, I can't control my hiccups." He hiccuped loudly and put both of his palms on his mouth to control it but it didn't work and kept happening continuously.

"Why didn't you drink water?" Jungkook asked.

"I have no water with me." He hiccupped again.

"Ah! right, my mistake," Jungkook went to the kitchen and brought him a bottle. Tae started drinking like he just had discovered an oasis.

"Thanks." Tae lowered his head again and went to his room.

Jungkook went to his bed and adjusted the blanket over his body. He was about to fall asleep but  a loud knock on his door woke him up.

"What is it now?" Jungkook groaned after opening the door.

"I couldn't sleep." The boy in front of him said while holding his pillow tightly in his arms.

"What the f*ck is that you couldn't sleep? Shall I have to sing a lullaby for you now?" Jungkook's tired brain was too exhausted to mollify him.

"What is a lullaby?" Tae asked him in surprise.

Jungkook heard from the doctor that Tae had forgotten some basic words too. "It's a soft song which helps a person fall asleep soon." Jungkook somehow controlled his anger after realizing he was talking to in patient.

"If it helps to fall asleep, then can you sing it for me?" Tae was looking at Jungkook with his previous puppy eyes.

"I can't. Ahh, wait a minute." Jungkook went to his bedside table to pick up his bluetooth speaker. He again went to the other room and placed it on his brother's bedside table. "I'm setting a lullaby from my phone. Just go to sleep huh." Jungkook was about to go but turned again to that boy's direction, " This time I'm telling you, if you need anything, just don't knock at my door, ok?"

"Ok." Tae replied in a soft voice.

Jungkook sighed and went to his bed. When he was about to put his head on the pillow, his phone buzzed again. This time it was Yoongi hyung. He unlocked the device to read the massage.

"How is the boy doing?"

"Hey, why aren't you asking about me?"

"Ok, how are you doing?"

"I'm going nuts over here, my brother is coming in two days and I don't know what to say to him and that annoying boy is annoying me like hell, don't know if I'll be able to hold myself up not to fire at him."

"Oh I see, good night :)"

Jungkook greeted his teeth when he saw that happy emoji. He closed his eyes soon after to forget about the world.

Like everyday jungkook got up hearing the irritating sound of his morning alarm. Like everyday he made his bed, brushed his teeth, did other things and called his mom. But that day he made double breakfast for himself and the boy sleeping in the other room.

"Ai," A small and husky voice called him from behind. "I've brushed my teeth."

"Oh! Good." Jungkook said while arranging the breakfast on table. "Now come sit here." He pointed at the empty chair. The boy nodded and sat on it. "I've made a lot of
food today, have it for now, I'll come back soon today." Tae nodded again and ate silently.

When Jungkook was about to go out of the house Tae called him "Ae, come back soon, I'll be waiting for you."

Jungkook paused for some moment, nobody had told him this ever before. He turned towards the boy, "Yeah, I'll come back soon. And my name is Jungkook. Jeon Jungkook."

"Jin Juncock. Ok." Tae tried to give him a half smile.

"No it's-, ah forget it. Just call me kookie, huh! And don't forget to take your medicines." Jungkook locked the door and went towards the car.

"What do you mean by he's missing?"  Hoseok hurled these words towards Seo joon. "I told you to keep an eye on him, how can a sick person go out of the hospital without letting anyone notice?" He became restless after hearing his friend seen nowhere.

"I checked the cctv footages but the clips of his disappearing are missing too, like someone has erased them." Seojoon was unhappy too. He knew Taehyung for more than ten years, they were like friends.

"I don't want to hear anything, just bring him to me." Hoseok couldn't calm down. "He wasn't properly healed, I don't even know if he's eating well or not, maybe they had put him in the lockup. Just hack the Goddam police computer and search for him, will you?"

"Yes I'll try. Just give me some time." Seojoon said and went back to his work.

"Taehyung-ah, I hope you're alright, I don't want to lose you again." Hoseok murmured with a shaky voice.

"What a freak! I don't think they're coming today" Jungkook was annoyed and angry at the same time. He came with Yoongi and Jackson to catch a smuggling team. They were hiding behind a wagon truck which was within a few meters away from the port area.

"Mingu is not a freak, he's the most cunning criminal I've ever encountered. He'll definitely come" Yoongi spoke out with a stone cold expression. "Jackson, when I shall signal you, you start firing immediately, ok?

"Yes sir," Jackson unlocked his gun and positioned himself to take the action quickly.

"Jungkook you come with me." Yoongi left the truck and hid behind a water tank. Jungkook followed him and unlocked his revolver too.

This port 'Gumunjin', on the edge of Han river,  made for exporting-importing fish. Not many people knew about this place, this place got crowded only when some fish trawlers came to unload their cargo. This was the perfect place for smuggling, mainly gold smuggling.

Not later they heard some cars coming in this way. They got alerted and positioned to fire at any moment. Two cars entered the port area and stopped on the edge of the river. Jackson and Jungkook both were looking at Yoongi for the orders. Yoongi shaked his head. "not now" he mouthed them without making a sound.

Soon after a small yacht came from the river, and stopped at the edge of the port. Two people came out of that yacht and started chatting with the people who came by cars. They brought a medium sized trolley suitcase which was placed between them.

"Now" Yoongi spoke up and three of them started firing at those people immediately. The smuggling team counter attacked and ran fast to get into the car.

Jungkook was aiming towards the yacht people. He hit one man in his shoulder and the other in his thighs. But he couldn't stop them, they were also firing nonstop so Jungkook couldn't move forward to aim at them better. They started the yacht engine quickly and ran away. The suitcase was left on the port, they were too distracted to take that with them.

The firing didn't stop between the car people and Yoongi. Jackson couldn't see them from behind the truck so he came forward to charge them better. Suddenly a bullet out of nowhere hit his chest and he fell down on the spot.

"F*ck," Yoongi muttered in disappointment. Some of the smugglers were hurt badly but they somehow managed to get in their car and tried to run away from there. Some of the smugglers were still firing on them from the car. Yoongi came running to Jackson to cover him up from the bullets and then Jungkook took his position and kept on firing.

When the smuggling team went out of their reach Jungkook came near to the other two. Jackson who was all red panting heavily. Yoongi tried to stop the blood with his bare hands and Jungkook called their backup team to bring an ambulance fast.

Yoongi and Jungkook were waiting patiently outside of the operation theatre. There were three other people also sitting with them. Almost one hour had passed but operation was still going on. Jackson's wife Sobin was sobbing continuously since she came after hearing about the accident. She was holding their two-year-old baby girl in her arms. The baby started crying after some moments due to suffocation. Sobin tried to feed her with a bottle of milk but she kept crying. Yoongi's hands and jacket were covered with blood and dirt so he told Jungkook to hold the baby for some moment.

Jungkook took the baby from her arms and tried to shush her like her mother did. He took the feeding bottle from her weeping mom and went to find an open space. After some time Jungkook found a semi terrace park at the end of the lobby. This place was more refreshing than the closed hospital rooms.

He started playing with her forthwith. Her small and soft hands felt animated on his bigger and rougher hands. He started giggling too when the baby giggled, he pouted too when the baby pouted. Times flew away faster than he imagined.

Around 10 pm Jungkook finally got himself out of the hospital. Jackson's condition was stable now. He even talked with them a little. Sobin and her daughter went back to their home to get some rest. Yoongi said he would be spending the night there because of his guilt of not taking more people with him.

When Jungkook unlocked the door and went inside, he heard some weeping noises. He quickly turned on the light and saw the boy Vantae was crying on his sofa. His head was resting on his knees and his hands were tightly holding his legs. Jungkook put down his bag and went near him. When the boy saw him coming he got up from the sofa and hugged Jungkook tightly. He cried out louder while resting his head on Jungkook's shoulder.

Jungkook was startled at first, soon after realizing the situation he hugged him back. He patted the back of the boy's shoulder to shush him like he did to the baby. "Hey, hey it's ok. I'm here. Stop crying now."

"Kookie- Kookie, I was so scared, everything was dark, I thought that you'll never come back." Tae pronounced those words in between his weeping.

"Shushh! Everything is alright now." Jungkook sat down on the sofa holding him by his side. When the boy calmed down a little he asked, "Why didn't you turn on the lights?"

"When i woke up it was already dark, so I couldn't find the switch." Tae replied. He wiped his tears with his palm, he didn't want to cry anymore in front of the only man he was living with. "I'm sorry kookie, I ate your food." He pointed to an opened jar which was placed on the table.

"What?" Jungkook remembered that stainless steel jar, he used to keep sugar in it. "You ate sugar?"

"My belly was sinking so I did it. I tried to eat the other things in your kitchen but they were ugly and bitter." Tae was ashamed of his behavior. He raised his head and said, "Sorry."

"Why didn't you open the refrigerator? I have some milk and bread in it." Jungkook was shocked. He thought, how can a person eat almost one kilogram of sugar in one day.

"Umm, refirtor- what?" Tae couldn't recall if he had heard this name before.

Jungkook sighed. He got up from his seat and went near the thing, 'refrigerator'.  He opened the door of it, took two bottles of milk and again came back to sit on the sofa.

"I also haven't eaten anything today, drink this for now." Jungkook opened the lid of one bottle and gave it to Tae.

"Thanks." Tae softly replied and started gulping the liquid hungrily.

"Do you want to eat anything else?" Jungkook asked after finishing his.

"No, I want to sleep." Tae wiped out his mouth with his sleeves.

"Alright, happy sleep then." Jungkook got up and helped Tae get on his bed nicely. He also turned on the Bluetooth speaker like the previous night. "If you need anything or feel scared, don't hesitate to knock me, ok?"

"But yesterday you said-" Tae didn't finish his sentence but sighed, "ok." His eyes became heavier. It didn't take him a minute to fall asleep.

Jungkook changed the bright light into a milder one and went to take a shower.

Hey there beautiful people, are you having fun? Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin:)

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