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"and we meet again."
with a little smile plastered across her face, yeona entered the room along with jackson who followed her like a loyal dog.

jimin instantly grabbed the knife taehyung left on the floor and stood up. he walked over so he'd be covering both hoseok and taehyung, protecting them in case the other two decided to attack.
taehyung looked at yeona and bit his lip nervously. she won't harm them... right?

"don't even come near us." jimin pointed the knife at her and gave her a death glare. "or you'll have to experience the consequences of your actions."

"relax." yeona chuckled. "I'm not here to fight you... I'm here to help you."

jimin furrowed his eyebrows in confusion and threw a glance at taehyung who had eyes filled with hope.

"cut the bullshit." jimin rolled his eyes.

"we did not come here to joke around." jackson said in a stern voice as he walked up to the three of them.

"we're here to help, for god's sake—"

jimin interrupted yeona by raising his voice. "how the fuck are we supposed to trust you? how do we know this is not a trap? you think we'd believe you so easily?"

"how?" yeona raised her voice as well. "look at that cabinet with wires. you know what's in there? a bomb which will go off in less than 15 minutes."

"a b-bomb...?" taehyung stuttered and looked at the dark brown cabinet. "alright, then–"

"taehyung!" jimin turned to the younger and shook his head. he crouched down next to him and whispered: "even if there's a bomb inside, how can we still trust them? they've attacked us and abducted, they sent their spies into our gangs... they have been doing all those horrible things all this time and you think now all of a sudden they're actually willing to help us?"

"I don't fully trust them... but I think we should listen to them." taehyung replied.

"why?!"

"you'll find out soon enough." yeona said in a calm voice. "I could tell you now... but it would be too much to take in considering our situation."

"what...?" jimin was so confused. it seemed to him that everyone in the room knew something he didn't know of.

"move over." jackson pushed jimin slightly and crouched down next to hoseok. he placed a bottle of water next to him and took out a little bottle with ammonia. he gently swayed it back and forth in front of hoseok's nose and waited for hoseok to gain consciousness.

jimin felt a huge wave of relief brush over him as soon as he saw hoseok open his eyes and start to cough heavily.

"hoseokie..." jimin ran over to his lover and gave him a soft hug. "how are you feeling? are you okay?"

"I... I feel like my head... is splitting apart..." he whispered with his eyes half closed. "what happened?"

"he needs to be hospitalized." yeona proclaimed.

"no shit, sherlock." jimin turned to her and scoffed. "we can't do anything right now so we have to get out of here and help him."
jimin grabbed the water bottle and gave some to hoseok, holding it carefully over his mouth while he drank it.

"thanks, jackson." taehyung said and gave out a little smile. jackson smiled back and both felt the tension and discomfort that appeared between them. it was still difficult for taehyung to comprehend what happened to them, the way jackson turned out to be a betrayer... it was difficult for taehyung to see him the same way as before.
jackson did feel a bit ashamed, but he didn't show it, after all, he was still full of pride.

"how did you guys even thought of abducting us... what was your plan anyways?" jimin asked and looked at both yeona and jackson. "I literally can't understand a single thing. and I still don't trust you."

"I thought of it..." jackson confessed quietly. "and yeona and I were supposed to have done this by ourselves, but soojin found out about this plan of ours after we decided to cancel it, and turned it into a whole mission."

"...why did you cancel it?" jimin questioned flatly.

"because yeona said so..." jackson bit his lip and looked at yeona who had the most unbothered look on her face.

"jesus christ." yeona rolled her eyes at jimin so hard it hurt. "fine, I'll make it make sense, but you will not ask any questions after."

"okay—"

"pretty sure jungkook has told you about a sister he lost long ago. jeon yeona, remember her? well, hello, nice to meet you, I am yeona." she smiled fakely and watched jimin's eyes widen in shock. "jungkook was the first one to realize it. he risked his life to come out and meet me one night, and after that I decided to cancel the plan jackson told me about... because I can't do something like that to jungkook."

"you knew?!" jimin yelled at taehyung and he just slowly nodded his head silently.

"I thought he'd tell everybody... but I guess not." yeona shrugged her shoulders. "none of that matters now. we are on your side, okay? everything that happened between us before... forget it."

"well, I'm not fully sure who's side to take but... I'm doing this just cause you told me to, YJ." jackson mumbled under his breath.

hoseok who felt much better than before was able to sit up and acknowledge everything that was happening around him.
"you said... there was a bomb here..." he said in a quiet and weak voice. "then why the fuck are we still in here?"

"holy fuck, the bomb—" jimin panicked and started helping hoseok stand up. "we must leave now."

"I don't get it." taehyung shook his head and looked at yeona. "isn't this basement under the simyeon building? wouldn't a part of the building blow up as well? they wouldn't want it, right? then maybe the bomb is fake."

"the bomb is real." jackson responded in a stern voice. "we were literally the ones who had to bring it in here."

"and the simyeon building isn't here, it's a whole different wing, the bomb won't affect it." yeona explained. "in order to get here you have to pass numerous doors and walk through a set of long corridors. the bomb will only destroy this basement."

taehyung helped jimin pick hoseok up. he couldn't fully stand by himself, so they placed each of his hands over their shoulders, to help him walk.
"let's get out of here." jimin said in a hurry.

the buzzing of a phone filled the silent room startling everyone but yeona. she took her phone out of her back pocket and hesitated before answering the call. everybody froze and fell silent.
"yes, boss?"

"are they still in the basement?" soojin's cold and monotone voice was heard through the phone. "did you do what I asked you to do?"

"yes." she replied. "we already did it."

"great, I suppose you're not in the basement anymore?"

"we're... we're in the west wing corridor." she said and gave jackson a glance who had am unreadable expression on his face.

"alright, that's all I needed to hear." soojin responded with a chuckle. "I'll be waiting for you in my office."

the call ended and yeona loudly exhaled, putting the phone away.
"jesus, I thought she found out that we set you guys free."

"what did she say?" jackson asked.

"she'll be waiting for us at her office a—"

all five turned to the door which made a sound that left everyone frozen. yeona looked from the metal door to jackson and gulped.

"what just happened?" taehyung asked with a worried expression on his face.

"please don't tell me..." jackson ran up to the door and pulled it, but nothing happened. he took out his special electric card and pressed it to the door lock but it denied the card's access.
"it's locked..." he whispered.

"what did you say?" yeona raised her voice and ran up to jackson. she tugged on the door, but nothing happened. yeona pushed jackson away and took out her gun, shooting a few bullets into the lock.
"looks like soojin locked it using her phone... which means only she can open it now."

"what are you talking about?" jimin carefully placed hoseok down and came up to the door as well to make sure it was really locked. "why?! why did she lock it?!"

"I... I said that jackson and I left you here... I said we were out of the basement and—"

"and she locked the door so jimin and hoseok would die here after the bomb explodes..." jackson finished yeona's sentence and rubbed his temples, trying to think of ways to escape this room.
"we must get out of here."

"why did you say that?!" taehyung yelled at yeona. "why couldn't you have said that you're still in here?! we were so close to escaping!"

"your dear friend started asking questions and we ended up wasting all this time just because you were confused and didn't trust us! now we're all stuck here!" yeona yelled back in an even louder voice.

"yeah!" jackson butted in. "and if—"

"everybody shut up!" jimin, who opened the little wooden cabinet with the bomb inside raised his voice putting out the arguments. "we have nine minutes left. instead of arguing, let's find a way out of here."

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yoongi eyed the clock which showed that there were only five minutes left. soojin was supposed to be here... where was she?

yoongi ran up to the door and started vigorously banging on it.
"somebody open up!!! soojin!!!! where the fuck are you?!?!?"

he waited at the door... and waited... and waited. but nobody was therethere, nobody came. what was going on? where was soojin? where were jungkook, jin, and namjoon? where on earth was taehyung and were hoseok and jimin really going to die today...?
it looked like soojin has tricked them all and there was no escape.

yoongi looked at the clock which now displayed the number three and felt his heart beating out if his chest. there's no way he'd let all his colleagues die... he had to do something.

in the meantime yeona sat next to the bomb while everybody else tried finding a way out. jackson and taehyung were trying to break the metal door while jimin tried opening the vent.
"why can't we just go through the vent like in among us..." he muttered under his breath. "what are these vents made of?! fucking diamonds?"

"yeona, what on earth are you doing?" jackson asked, coming up to the girl.

"guys." she turned her head towards everyone. "there's a way to defuse the bomb."

"there is...?" jimin ran up to her. "do you know how to?"

"the problem is... I don't..." yeona moved over so jackson and jimin could take a look. the bomb had a timer on top and six wires sticking out of it, all different colors. "you see... here's how it works: one of the wires defuses the bomb, another one of those does absolutely nothing."

"and the rest?" taehyung asked.

"the others will cause instant explosion..."

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