#Warning: angst

Jungkook’s P.O.V.

“Sleep well?”

My head feels like I’ve been dunked underwater for hours.

“Fuck…” I groan grabbing at my head, the last thing I remember is Taehyung dragging my almost limp body to drop me at Hoseok and Yoongi’s place last night. I was really hoping he’d take me to his home rather, I’d have really liked being near Jin and Soohee…yeah, I know…I too curse at my stupid ideas but I was this close to dying, it does things to you…things that are beyond our control…and if I kept my feelings aside, Jin is actually the only real friend I got.

“Hey you good?” Hoseok pats at my cheek before I see Yoongi flash a light into my eyes, a serious look on his face as he checks on me.

I really feel like I just came back from the dead…

“I’m alive…if that’s what you’re asking” I croak out the words, my throat rough and parched. Hoseok hands me a glass of water instantly.

“Yeah…you’re lucky Taehyung was quick…cyanide is a tough one to survive” he informs and my mind fills with the memory of what had happened.

“For a moment I really thought he was gonna leave me to die there”

I really did…I knew I had stepped into trouble when the group of Rayden’s men began cornering me instead, I realised they knew more than they let on…and that they were planning something behind our backs…but the thing is their target doesn’t seem to be as widescale as Axel usually planned, they know they aren’t that strong anymore…they know Byun’s sentence has been declared, they know they don’t have much time to do whatever they have planned…and what I fear is that for them it is going to be a ‘do or die’ game this time because they are aware they will be hunted down and will be forced to come out of their hideouts and will then be put behind bars even if they manage to save their heads from the bullets.

“That’s because you don’t really know him” Namjoon’s voice was a quiet assertion as he kept his down, reading through the files on his lap “he’s a soldier…and we don’t leave a man behind, no matter what.”

My gaze moved towards Namjoon, he’s been upset over the fact that we couldn’t bring in any of the suspects alive for interrogation. Taehyung had lashed out angrily at Namjoon when the elder had warned him not make these infiltrations as a mission to get his revenge.

According to him he was only trying to save me like Namjoon had told him to do but his hatred towards Axel and every single soul associated to them was pretty evident…even his hatred for me…not like he tries to mask it or something…I know for a fact that he’ll enjoy blowing my head off as well if I give him a chance to do so…

“Byun’s sentence is in a week…” he speaks as if warning us and I sense Hoseok shifting uneasily by my side.

“Well, no big deal…all we gotta do is ensure he is taken from the court to the facility without any hassle” he shrugs trying to act as if it didn’t affect him to think how many ways it could go wrong “there are gonna be police looking over the whole thing…he’s not some easy thug you know.”

“Definitely not an easy thug…my fath-Kai was cruel but Byun was the mastermind behind it all” I relayed what I had grown up to understand over the years “he’s the brain that kept Axel one step ahead…always beyond grasp…catastrophic yet invisible…and unlike them, he doesn’t believe in rushing through guns blazing…he’s cryptic…”

I saw Namjoon’s eyes fix on the files, he was still gazing at those but I could tell his mind was entirely on my words.

“You think he could be staging something?” The words were sharp with anticipation and I knew it was Namjoon’s fears that were speaking now. The man had almost lost Jimin and their child last time and his reckless decisions and ended up taking General Lee’s life, and although we never talk about it just to let him know that it was something beyond our power to stop, it was very easy to see that Namjoon feared faltering and causing such mishaps again.

“He doesn’t have that kind of authority anymore but we gotta remember that he got connections…real good ones, they once had people who’d die without a question just to serve them…” I said what I knew “and from the last infiltration what I realised is that…they know an awful lot about us”

It’s true…when I spoke to them it was pretty easy to understand why they became sceptical about me…they have managed to gather a lot of info about us, I could tell that we had become targets after last time…they even seemed to know about Jin being the one who actually killed Kai…that’s the reason I feel like somehow Byun must have been keeping contact with Rayden’s men but what I cannot figure out is how...

“You mean they’ve eyes on us?” Hoseok instantly gets suspicious, well honestly I’m quite suspicious as well…I haven’t traced anyone around who could be giving Rayden’s men info about us.

“I’m not sure…but they seem to know stuff” I sigh remembering the conversation I had with them before Taehyung obliterated the entire lot. They seemed to be typically interested when I tried to ensure them that I was going to bring Axel back up, I’d say that was the reason why they even agreed to hear me out. But what was even more funny was they believed that I would still carry out what I had failed to do years ago at that dockyard that night…they believed I would stand up for Axel and avenge my parent’s death by killing the traitor who was the cause of Axel’s destruction…their sole target seemed to be getting their revenge on Taehyung because of how he had betrayed them.

I ponder on telling this to them although Namjoon seems to have sensed it already.

“They’re after Taehyung…they believe Axel fell because of his betrayal” my voice feels like an echo in the room as I sense them go quiet.

“I kinda figured that when they staged that fight in jail with the sole intention to ensure he wasn’t having it easy” Namjoon speaks thinking out loud.

“I mean, he did play them good” Hoseok smirked to himself “double-crossing is a technique not many can master…and yet you and Taehyung make it seem so easy.”

Master double crossing? That’s saying the least about how good he was at it…tsk…he even got me to believe he was helping my father and Byun, and although at that time a part of me was dead scared to think he was going to out me to Namjoon and everyone else but I realized he said nothing about me to any of them…not even to Jin. I really don’t understand Taehyung at times…from his past and his choices in life, he seems like the person who’d blow away all morals and do anything to get what he wants…but there is an integrity in him that speaks a whole different thing.

Namjoon just might be right…maybe I don’t really know Taehyung yet…

Well, we do have our differences…there’s no denying that…after all we had our fair share of past. He’s been hell bent on getting his revenge and I am aware that I am a part of the ones he considers as deserving of death by his hands.

And for what it’s worth, any common eye might easily deduce that he would have killed me a long time ago if it wasn’t for the fact that Jin and the others have their faith on me. But I have seen how Taehyung fumes whenever I am around Soo or Jin…the funniest thing though, we are angry at each other for the same things…he’d kill me so that I can never have what is his…and I’d do the same if it’d mean I could have all of what he has…I guess that proves why we’re at our necks and yet never actually killed each other.

The truth is that, I know killing him won’t make Jin love me…and Taehyung knows that too, he knows that he doesn’t need to kill me because Jin would never choose anyone over him…

It is just how it is…do I regret it? Of course I do…imagine pining for someone and hoping to have them because you’re practically in love and then you realize it will never be yours…

But love is difficult…it doesn’t care how I tried to tell myself to move on…it is selfish and cruel and envious and worse…it hopes…and keeps on hoping…and that creates the problem…

After Taehyung came back and they moved away to their apartment, and I watched them being a family…just him, Jin and Soohee, I told myself it was time to put my stupid heart to a stop and accept the reality. And I really thought I was doing good, I was working on it but when I heard Taehyung reveal before everyone that Jin had agreed to marry him, my first instinct was blank rage…I felt my insides boil with envy against him…it was not what I was thinking consciously but I couldn’t stop.

It made me realize yet again that I was probably never going to get over Jin.

Pathetic as ever.

But the day before Byun’s sentence is to be carried out, when Hoseok and I went over to their home to plan out how we were going to oversee it all, I felt that something had utterly changed...I mean it must be natural for normal couples to behave like that however neither I nor any of us had ever seen Jin and Taehyung be like that…they looked different...

And…something else that I already knew was only waiting to happen but wasn’t really aware that it’d deaden my insides like this…

“Wait a minute” Hoseok swooped towards Jin when I was still busy greeting the little girl, who seemed a little down and disturbed this morning because of her runny nose while I desperately tried not to think about the evident hickies on Jin's neck.

“Is that a ring!?”

My head snapped in the direction at those words and I saw Jin blushing pink as he bites onto his lower lip struggling to hold back a smile.

“What the hell Jin?! He proposed and you didn’t call me!?!” Hoseok complains trying hard to sound comical but he wasn’t really a good liar and the hurt actually mingled in his voice.

“I…it was just yesterday” Jin checks the little piece of jewellery on his finger with a deep fondness and something shifts within me in that moment.

I’m not really hurt…I knew this would happen…I’m just numb…don’t know what to feel…I should be happy for him…I like seeing him happy…but I’m just numb right now…even my mouth has betrayed me as I stand awkwardly staring which I realize  a few moments later when I see him staring at me with the same hopeful eyes he gives Hoseok.

“Uh..hm…congratulations” it’s all I can manage before my throat chokes up to see him smile at me.

“Now…the details” Hoseok literally interrogates him and I move my head back towards Soo but my mind stays on his voice as he speaks about how they had a huge fight but it actually turned good for them, how he broke down and said stuff…then tries to do away with Hoseok’s query on what it was about and says that the fight was actually really stupid...he chuckles and I trace Jin’s usual habit of skipping over stuff because he felt vulnerable talking about it.

He lightly touches on other stuff and talks about how they things were really great now, although he didn’t really have…one could easily see it in his face how absolutely delighted he was, especially when he talks about how they went out last evening along with Soo and they had a wonderful time yesterday and how it ended with Taehyung surprising him with the ring.
  
“We decided to make it official by the end of next month” his voice is a proof of how blissful the thought is to him and I hear Hoseok taunting and gushing and congratulating over it, being happy for his happiness...just as friends should be…

And it proves how I have failed Jin’s faith on me yet again as I stay quiet…so does my head n heart…the kind of quiet you don’t know how to deal with…whether to accept or rage against…  

“You guys want some breakfast?” Jin asks chewing on a slice of buttered bread and busy feeding Soo who as usual was busy making a mess of stuff.

I really wanted to say yes although I had a bowl of cheerios not an hour ago but Hoseok cut my intentions off.

“We’re good…although she doesn’t look very well”

“Yeah I think she caught a cold last night…it’s making her even more agitated” Jin spoke pushing her fringes out of her eyes as she whined and denied to eat.

“I don’t get why they need to deport him to court at all though…couldn’t they just finish him off in the facility?” Taehyung came back to set his laptop on the low table by the couch, his voice was a growl as the anger showed clear on his face “and I don’t get why Chief and his unit isn’t taking up the duty to ensure he is safely deported? What is Namjoon even thinking?”

He walks up to where Soo whined with a runny red nose, grumbling and pulling her face away when he tried to check on her “I think we should visit the clinic once”

I gulped not knowing why the words made me think back to the time it’d be me who’d take Soo to the clinic for a visit but I can’t deny one thing…they are changing…Taehyung…Jin…Soo…

Since Taehyung had been back, we had seen Jin trying to make everything be perfect for him…I mean of course that’d be a natural reaction, would you not want to keep away the person you love from anything that could hurt them and make sure he has everything he desired for after fate had dragged him through innumerable sufferings?

Wouldn’t you accept every hiccup or shortcoming on your partner’s part just because you know he is the only person to make you feel guiltless and you finally got the chance to actually love them the way you had sought for since years ago?

That day at Hoseok and Yoongi’s home when we were all together and Taehyung snapped at me, I could tell he was just being himself…he was beginning to sense that although things had finally looked up, it wasn’t still perfect…we all had a heavy past, and we were only beginning to let go of that by clinging only onto the good things…denying to see the potholes of troubles our days were still dappled with…

I guess it was the time they were beginning to understand that love isn’t a way to make the world glitter, it’s not rainbows and butterflies and violins in the air…its not easy…it needs work too…especially on the hard days when everything seems against us…  

I could see that Jin was no longer treating Taehyung like a man he needed to protect and sympathize for…neither was Taehyung treating Jin like a fragile gift that was too precious…they were no longer seeing in each other only the past they had survived and the pain they had faced…but they seemed to be growing together…settling down to the new pace of life.

“I was thinking about giving her the cough medicine from last time…it worked” Jin spoke to him, his hand still ruffling Soo’s locks.

“It made her stomach bloat though…that’s three more days of non-stop crying” Taehyung reminded, his hand lightly setting on Jin’s as they caressed the little head together.

“I’ll make an appointment for tomorrow” Jin speaks nodding to his words, before he goes over to get his phone…calls up for an appointment and talks it over with Taehyung.

Just simple actions and yet how utterly attached they looked in every move of their eyes, when Jin spoke over the phone but it seemed like he was having a silent conversation with Taehyung here…how he nodded assuring he knew Taehyung won’t be able to join him tomorrow, his light pat on the other’s chest and curve on his mouth a show of gentle understanding and how natural it looked when Jin stopped a worried warning from Taehyung to be careful with just a chaste peck.

I have seen Jin be utterly stubborn in love…seen him be stupid in love as well…and seen him be head over heels in love too… 

But this is probably the first time that I can feel how natural n simple it is for them…the kind of love everyone searches for…when you don’t need a reason to choose the other because there is none…you just do…you just choose them over and over again no matter what…because that's how important they are to one another...

The kind of love that doesn’t need troubles to show you what they mean to you…neither distance to make you understand how much you need them…nor pain to make you feel how deeply you are entwined…

But the thing is they didn’t get here in a day…they had lived through all of it and now they seem to have found the level above it all…

The joy of a simple life is something people can’t easily grasp…not until life has made them look at it from afar…never to reach it but only in a wistful dream…

Taehyung is very lucky to get another chance to have it all...not many of us are…

I was wordless for a long minute and I knew Hoseok agreed to my surprise as well because he too stood just as blank as I saw him blinking at them in confusion.

“Are you sure she had it in the morning Tae?” “Yeah I’m sure she did...i gave it to her” Taehyung spoke without looking up from the plans I had laid down on the table before him while Jin hastened through stuff because he’d need to leave for work.

“Oh no no sweetie…don’t put that in your mouth….where’s her chew toy? I kept-”
“It should be in her room…or the living room…check on the bed” he seemed completely clueless as he suggested while being actually engrossed in the plans.

“Dammit I’m late…stop doing that Soo!” Jin complained from inside their room and I heard Soo break out in a whiny moody sob. It was plain instinct and I was almost about to go look into the problem but before I could do so, I watched Taehyung put down the papers and head inside.

I sat motionless for a few long minutes.

“The last time I was here…I was literally worried for them, they looked like they were having a fight” Hoseok voices flipping through the files as a smile pulled at the corners of his mouth “look at them now…they finally look like a normal couple with a kid, they’re gonna be fine now”

“Yeah…I guess so” my gaze moves towards the door to the room and I can hear them speaking to each other and Jin’s voice coaxing the child to stop crying before the other heavier voice takes on the cue, then there’s a little pause and I see Jin walking out of the room with a happy blush on his cheeks as he takes his leave for work.

Taehyung comes out following after Jin with a sniffling child rubbing her face and nibbling on his shoulder and sits down to get back to work with Soo still clung onto his shoulder till she slowly calmed down.

My stunned eyes remained on her baby blue overall, as I felt my insides go empty all of a sudden.

“So…Namjoon said…” Hoseok begins talking but it fades like background noise as I keep watching Soo resting against Taehyung.

I don’t know if it is tragic or pitiful…that I keep wanting for things that never seem to belong to me…I’d like to think that it isn’t just me, it's easier to believe that some of us are simply born this way…the extras who are just there in this world…but never really meant for anything…

“I’m driving”

The voice is a command as I walk alongside Taehyung out of the headquarters for today’s mission.

It’s a big day…at the end of which Axel will be razed to nothing…Byun will have served his punishment…Taehyung’s revenge will finally be complete and I will have my freedom to be who I want to be.

I slide into my seat…guess I’m riding shotgun…again…

Taehyung doesn’t say a word as he starts the car, eyes glancing back to check if we got all we needed and tested the earpiece before we head out. We are disguised as patrol police from Chief’s unit because the military do not oversee stuff like this…and besides, no one other than us knew about the infiltration missions neither did the fact that Rayden’s men might attempt to do something had much proof to it…it was all just a hunch on our part, so we couldn’t really make this look like a big deal.

I don’t get why Namjoon keeps sending me out with Taehyung though…he looks disgusted with me every time he has to look at me, I get that I deserve the hatred…but I’d rather not face it first-hand.

We trace the vehicle from the facility and the car rolls out to follow after it…

“Time for the part I totally hate…noisy shits” he grumbles fixing his collar again before he switches on the sirens and the red and blue flickers to assure the overseers from the facility also accompanying the vehicle that the Chief had sent a patrol unit to ensure safe passage for the prisoner to the court and that we aren’t a threat but here to help them.

“They are aware about us” I affirm over the wire to Hoseok.

“Last mission and Namjoon has me doing monkey business…should have just set traps for those rats” he grumbles again and I have come to understand he’s usually like this on missions…the last few infiltrations taught me this, I’m someone who’s calm inside and freak out on the outside and Taehyung is the complete opposite…he grumbles and curses constantly but when he’s on the field he never misses a shot. I’ve seen him kill a man from 3000m away…and let me tell you, not many people in the world has skills like that.

No wonder this feels like monkey business to him.

“So, you’re really decided about that last mission thing?” I try to break the silence, it’s a little awkward because he never really talks, neither do I to be honest.

He gives me an unbothered glance, as if questioning why was I even talking.

“Yeah I am sure about it” he seemed to be thinking about something as his eyes became pensive as they stayed on the road “I don’t want Soo growing up the way I did…I want her to have all the affection that I can give her, I want her to stay soft-hearted, I want her to have dreams…I never want her to become like me…and I think that’s what Jin really fears…”

Weird as it is…I get it…I too want the same things for Soo…for her and Minjae both…they need to be kept away from being pulled into this vortex of violence.

There’s a silence again till I say the next words “why did you agree on this mission? Byun is targeting you…Namjoon must have told you this”

He chuckles surprising me “if he is targeting me…he will get me because I’m kinda targeting him too”

“It’s weird but you sound like my father for some reason” I swear I did not intend to say that out loud…I don’t even know why I was speaking “I did not-that was…forget I said that” I clumsily try to clear the air of the tension it had suddenly reeled in.

“I know what you mean” I catch the dejected smile that stays as he drives on “I sound like the criminal they made out of me.”

“There’s no denying that a part of us will always be guilty of the blood on our hands…although-” “I don’t get it…you really do believe this, don’t you?”

I turn towards him realizing his voice had gone harsh “you really believe you and I are the same? Is this the same bullshit you fed Jin? That growing up to become a killer and a spy for terrorists is the same as avenging the people I had to watch die right before my eyes?!”

“Maybe not…but all we were ever made to do were dirty work-” “You were weak to accept it…if you really didn’t want to do it why didn’t you fight back?” He spits the words and I realize Namjoon might have been right about me not knowing him…but then again Taehyung knew nothing about me either.

“You think I’d make it out alive if I tried to go against them single-handedly?” He stays silent because everyone knows the answer to that…and sorry but I’m no soldier and I do not believe in sacrificing myself for being stupid.

“You had people to stand by you…people who believe in you…no I don’t think it was the same for us…because if that was the case then I should have held a grudge against you for killing my mother…which I don’t…because I never knew what having a mother really feels like”

There was a long silence as I didn’t feel like talking anymore.

“My mother had tried to get you out of there once…” his voice is calmer now.

“I know…I remember her…” it’ odd how the memory of staying in the little room in the bureau as a witness for days felt way better than being in a penthouse with my own parents “I wonder at times how my life would be like if she had succeeded to get me out of Axel’s clutches.”

“She probably would have if they hadn’t plotted against her.”

“I wish she had”

It’s funny how I was sent to kill him on his first mission…look at us now…trusting each other enough to go on a mission together…as a team…that night I had killed his brother and his best friend and the team he was supposed to lead was shot dead right before him.

Only time knows where tonight will end…

“Namjoon!? Can you hear me?!!” Taehyung growls into the mouthpiece, guiding the car to speed after the vehicle that was running unruly through the streets in its mad dash to escape.

“Fuck! I told him!” He bangs his hands on the steering before his feet push full force on the gas, as the car wheezes ahead dangerously.

“Can’t even reach out to the headquarters” I voice trying in my exasperation to find a solution.

“We are completely cut off” he says the obvious and I realize at that moment that I was kinda prepared for this.

Apparently, the person who was driving the vehicle in which Byun currently is turned out to be one of Rayden’s men, and just as we passed through the civilian area and onto the interstate things began going bad. And now it’s going totally out of hand, I watch the big vehicle overspeeding, swerving left and right through the trail of cars on the road to dodge the patrol cars following after it.

I feel my earpiece catch some static and pulled it out to tinker with it till my eyes catch Taehyung freeze by my side and instantly I put it back on.

My blood freezes as well when I catch a little voice crying in the background, it sounds like a recording. To make it worse another distraught voice comes up and I feel like crying now as Jin speaks in the recording but it sounds like a normal conversation between the two and my nerves fail as my hand goes straight to the gun.

“I have men following them.”

I turn to Taehyung to see him seething with anger but frozen in fear still.

“Seokjin is at the clinic with the little girl…they don’t seem to be aware of being followed though” if I hadn’t known better he sounds as if he is fond of the picture before him, a smile lacing his words “now, the thing is…I wouldn’t want them to get hurt, would you?” The voice is calm and very calculated, evident that this was all a part of a plan Byun had been putting together “I go free…and they go free as well, sounds like a fair deal?”

“I will kill you” Taehyung threatens through gritted teeth and I’m scared Byun will do something reckless in return.

“You know sometimes I regret not doing what Kai had done” he chats with an air of casual conversation “I should not have listened to your mother and left you with her…I should have made you a part of Axel just like Kai had done with Jungkook…you got your mother’s zeal Taehyung, she too had chosen revenge over her own life…”

That empty feeling in my stomach grows as I wait to understand what he was trying to say or where he was going with this.

“And I will end what she started…you think I’d be a criminal like you? No matter what you could have done or plan to do, this would still end with me putting you down like the dog you are”

Taehyung fumes by my side…body stiff with rage but he is trying to hold onto his control. I watch him pluck his phone out, and type something before he passes it to me.

‘Text Hoseok to pick Jin and Soo up from the clinic asap…make no sound’

I silently follow the order and hit send in the very next second.

‘On my way…be careful both of you. Namjoon is on his way towards you, he’s bringing in more people from the unit…so hang in there just a while more’ the reply comes instantly.

I share the text with Taehyung just as silently as my mind goes back to Byun’s calm threats while the car speeds through the interstate. Things were still under control, although dangers had begun to surface…

But that was until Byun suddenly stopped talking and the line went silent.

The vehicle was still a little distance ahead, the other patrol cars just as steady in not giving in to the threats Rayden’s men had been throwing.

“Something’s not right” Taehyung’s gaze is nervous for the first time and my nerves jump as we see one of the patrol cars explode with a tremendous bang in the very next moment.

“What the-” before I could even complete another patrol car blow up into the air only a few metres ahead of us and Taehyung presses hard on the brakes, swerving the car out of the way of the debris that came at us from the previous explosion.

“Shit! He’s fucking playing with us!”

There’s static in the earpiece again and Byun’s voice has lost that calm this time as he speaks.

“Wrong move…I would have let them go if you hadn’t tried to be smart with me…call off the units on me…you cannot outsmart me Taehyung…you know I will not hesitate to kill all of you…”

Taehyung’s expression remains unchanged as he follows the vehicle onto the bridge over the river, the chief’s unit waiting on the other end of it. They were surrounded, no more escaping and I felt like this was it, Byun would be shot dead right here by Chief’s unit for trying to run and breach protocol.

“Stop trying to run” Taehyung’s voice is a threat as he speaks into the mouthpiece “this whole thing started because of you…and this is end of the road for you…”

A buzz in my pocket caught my attention and my eyes moved from the vehicle before us to check the text message Hoseok had sent. But before I could, my eyes snapped up to see the vehicle in which Byun was in speeding ahead to suddenly take a reckless cut towards the railing, trying to escape by choosing to drop into the river underneath.

It was a dangerous call but I guess Byun doesn’t even care anymore….or maybe he had this planned as well who knows…

But to my utter shock, Taehyung’s hands moved at lightning speed to follow after, intercepting their intention as he tried to block its getaway. The front of our car provided force enough to make the other vehicle deviate from its path and the collision made it roll back onto the road again.

“The fuck you doing?!” I yell feeling my heart ready to jump out of my mouth as he chooses not to answer while I sat shook and clutching at whatever solid I could find around.

“If he gets away today...be sure he'll spare none among us, not even Jin, Jimin or Yoongi... probably not even the kids...all of us will be killed brutally” he sounds terrified but looks resolute in his need to ensure Byun serves his punishment today.

His scowl is set onto the driver of the vehicle as he tries to eye the other down while our car is literally dangling by the edge of the bridge. His side of the car is half in air already. And from the window on my side I can see the driver still just as intent on his decision as well and the engine roars in warning for us to move away.

“Back…go back…Taehyung! Are you fucking trying to kill us?! I understand the situation but I'd like to live if we can manage!!” I try yelling again…this motherf*cker’s gone batshit crazy!

“Then get out!” He growls at me, eyes blazing with anger but if I do get out then the car will surely topple, he would have no way to get out anyway “get the fuck out!!”

But before I can even answer, something big smashes onto my side of the car and throws both the vehicles into the air. My head goes numb instantly and everything feels as if in slow motion, glass crackles around us and cuts through our skin as I feel us in air before gravity begins working again. I can see Taehyung trying to guard his head from the crackling glass as well, shards digging into him just like mine. I can see my own blood float in drops before my eyes as I await the real crash underneath.

For the tiniest blink of a moment my hazy gaze fell on the screen of my phone still open in my hand and Hoseok’s message finally met my eyes.

‘They have Jin and Soohee’ 

I blacked out.

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