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jungkook stayed frozen for a while trying to acknowledge what had just happened. it took him some time to fully understand the situation; his sister just passed away in his hands.
he clutched onto the key and placed it in his pocket as a lone tear escaped his eye. he wanted to cry, he wanted to fall onto the group and cry endlessly, cry his soul out day and night while laying next to her cold body until he'd die himself.

but that's not what yeona would want.

jungkook chocked back on the tears, grimacing at the painful knot in his throat and grabbed yeona's gun from her soft hand.
he abruptly stood up and started shooting towards soojin's direction, not caring about anything anymore.

"yah, what are you doing?" soojin yelled and grabbed her gun, shooting back at jungkook. the fight continued, and slowly, one by one, soojin's men were falling to the ground lifeless.

soojin yelled after getting shot into the shoulder and as soon as that happened, her man started running towards her, to make sure she was alright.
jungkook didn't speak, he didn't say a single word. he was blinded by anger, hate and pain as he slowly approached soojin.
taehyung and jimin attacked the men to keep them busy so that jungkook could do his job.

"you are the most pathetic and miserable piece of shit I've ever seen." jungkook said in a low and raspy voice as he watched soojin lean against a wall. she held out her gun with her left hand and smirked at jungkook.

"really? I think you're even more pathetic. if only you saw yourself crying over yeona just now..." soojin laughed. "you looked miserable."

jungkook clutched his hands into fists and ran towards soojin punching her stomach with full force. she couldn't normally fight back because of her shoulder and jungkook used that to throw multiple punches.

"you fucking rat!" he yelled so loudly, that he heard his own voice echo in the hallways. "you heartless bitch! do you even know how long I've been waiting for her?!? trying to find her?! it was the reason I lived!!!!!"

"I don't give a fuck—" jungkook slapped her across the face and punched her mouth, probably dislocating her jaw.
she walked a few steps backwards and fell against the wall, spitting some blood out.

"I can see that you don't care." jungkook hissed. "have you ever even been loved? do you know what it feels like? cuz it doesn't seem so. and let me tell you, you don't deserve to be loved. never. you know what you deserve? only death."

"jungkook watch out!" taehyung screamed across the room to get jungkook's attention.
jungkook turned around just in time to duck before some guy in black got a chance to hit him. jungkook grabbed a knife he found on the floor and stabbed the guy with it, watching him fall onto the floor in pain.
jungkook looked back at soojin who was still in the exact same place as before, staring at jungkook with her cold and empty gaze. her left hand clutched around her right shoulder, blood oozing out and staining her clothes and the wall.

he was confused. why wasn't she doing anything? why didn't she get back up to fight?
"have you ever even been hurt? look at you literally dying over a shoulder wound." jungkook looked at soojin who had lowered her gaze.
he realized that soojin probably was never the one to fight because she constantly made others do the job for her, hence why now she didn't know what to do.
or maybe she realized it was pointless.

"I hope you burn in hell." jungkook pointed his gun at her. "I hope you suffer in your next life... get reincarnated into a lab rat or even worse."

"you wish..." she responded in a raspy voice.

"wishes come true, you know." jungkook said before shooting all the bullets the gun had left. he watched soojin's body flinch after every single bullet until she fully stopped moving, gradually sliding down and falling onto the cement floor.
once again everyone stopped and looked at soojin who layed lifeless on the ground, eyes opened.

her men looked at each other not knowing what to do. their leader died... so should they continue fighting or give in?

"time to die, motherfuckers!" everybody's gaze flew to the entrance door where they saw yoongi with a sniper rifle in his hands. taehyung, jungkook and jin were quick to understand what was going on and ducked before yoongi began to shoot the men in black. he shot them one by one, some tried to run away, but it was pointless.
the last one shot yoongi's leg and tried to escape, but was stopped by jimin who caught him and stabbed him a few times before spitting on him.
"how dare you hurt what belongs to me, moron?"

jimin crouched down next to yoongi to check if he was alright.

"it only left a deep scratch on the side of my leg." he said and smiled at jimin. "I'm alright... and so happy to see you."

yoongi hugged jimin before standing up and limping a bit due to the pain.

"yoongi, where were you?" taehyung asked. "you missed pretty much the entire battle we had here."

"I was locked in some weird room! and I thought the bomb had already exploded and I'd find you all dead here!" yoongi raised his voice. "you don't even know what I had to go through!"

"we're glad you came." namjoon said with a smile.

"is everybody alright? is anybody hurt?" yoongi came into the basement and looked around. he saw countless bodies on the floor as well as soojin who layed with her eyes open.
"where's hoseok?"

jimin lead yoongi towards hoseok who sat near some type of closet in the back of the basement. yoongi crouched down next to him and hoseok let out a little smile, causing his bruised lip to bleed once again.

"his head was badly injured, we must hospitalize him as soon as possible." jimin said with obvious concern. yoongi and him were glad that hoseok was still holding up, he has lost so much blood by now, it was very concerning, his life was in danger.

"is it really over?" jin asked as he placed his gun back in his pocket. "did we... win?"

"I guess... yes?" taehyung looked around, grimacing at the amount of dead bodies all around. "am I the only one who thinks it was kind of easy? I mean, we didn't even have to have multiple fights and all..."

"I mean... we went through a lot of stress, if you ask me, we suffered mentally more than physically." jin replied. "ever since those two got kidnapped it was stress on top of stress doubled by stress."

"but we did it." yoongi looked up at everyone. "it's really over... the simyeon gang doesn't exist anymore..."

"we should get out of here and treat everyone who's injured." taehyung hid his gun into his back pocket and carefully stepped over a body. "jungkook, will you—
oh, kookie..."

taehyung caught the sight of jungkook who was sitting next to yeona's dead body, crying quietly.
he carefully approached his lover and sat down next to him, gently placing his hand on his shoulder.

"what's going on...?" yoongi whispered in confusion.

jimin looked at yoongi and namjoon and took a deep breath before speaking up.
"that girl... YJ... she... she is–
was... she was yeona – jungkook's sister."

"what?" both yoongi and namjoon said in unison.

namjoon's hand flew over his mouth.
"no way... she got killed?" he said and looked over at jungkook who was being comforted by taehyung.

taehyung gently turned jungkook's face towards him and placed both of his hands on the sides of his face, cupping it. jungkook looked at taehyung with his swollen, red eyes and closed them, letting the tears fall.
taehyung wiped the tears with his thumbs and pulled jungkook in, giving him a tight and comforting hug.

"taehyungie... she's gone." he cried into his shoulder.

"I know, baby, I know." taehyung exhaled and tenderly let his hand go through his soft hair. "she's in a better place now."

"I didn't even... I didn't even get to ask how she has been all this time and- and what she's been through." jungkook sobbed. "why didn't I... I should've found her earlier and—"

"hey, hey, hey... kook." taehyung pushed jungkook away a little to look into his eyes. "you are not to blame here. her death was not your fault. don't blame yourself for this. never, you hear me? it was all soojin and you got your revenge – you killed her."

"but it won't bring yeona back to life."

"at least you know she'll stay here." he pointed at jungkook's heart. "forever."

"the key..." everybody turned towards a voice that came from the back of the basement. "I know..."

"who's there?" taehyung stood up and started walking to the voice.
he was surprised to see jackson who sat up and looked him in the eyes.
"you're alive?"

"yeah, I fucking am." jackson responded. "I'm not that easy to kill. I fell unconscious because of the pain, but I'm not dead."

"you said something about the key." taehyung waited for an answer but jackson didn't say anything. he stood up and walked over to yeona, kneeling in front of her dead body.

"what are you doing?" jungkook asked looking at jackson with confusion.

"you think you're the only one who's hurt?" jackson looked up at jungkook with teary eyes and grabbed yeona's cold hand. "I... I loved her."

"you?"

"why are you so surprised?!" he raised his voice. "am I not capable of love? we even used to date for a couple of months, but... but she said our relationship was getting in the way since she was focused on trying to find you, jungkook. I waited for so long in hopes of us getting back together... I was so happy when you two reunited, because when she was happy, I was happy as well."

"I... I never thought you actually had feelings for her." jungkook frowned at jackson and watched him lower his head next to her arm.

"sorry... sorry I couldn't protect you, yeona."
they all stayed silent for a minute or so, waiting for jackson to finish crying. jungkook felt tears prickle his eyes once again and tried swallowing the painful knot in his throat.

"t-the key she gave you..." jackson sobbed and looked up at jungkook. "it's the key to her diary. she... she kept a diary and wrote down everything there since the day she got into the orphanage."

"an orphanage?!" jungkook questioned in a high pitched tone.

"yeah.. you'll find out everything you ever wanted when you read it." jackson said with a sad smile. "she told me that if she... i-if she ever accidentally dies before she meets you... she told me to tell you about the diary so you could read it."

jungkook looked at the small key in his hand and bit his lip, trying to suppress the tears that just begged to escape his glass-like eyes.

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