Jamais Vu

Can I Trust You?

"how can you say that about your own daughter?"

Dr. Lee stares at him while she gasps for air, a sick almost twisted smile on her face.

"you really think i'll tell you anything?" she sneers at Yoongi who does not look pleased.

"you seem to underestimate me and that's dangerous for you" he stalks closer once more, stepping behind her, gripping her hair to pulls her head back. "tell me where your husband is before I lose my patience"

"Why do you want him for? I made the serum"she laughs, the sound coming from her throat anything but pleasant. It strikes Yoongi then, she doesn't seem entirely.... Sane.

Yoongi releases her and calls for Jin, who he knows is in the kitchen just so he can hear what's going on.

Jin makes his way down the stairs so Yoongi meets him at the bottom of them.

"how experienced are you with mental patients?" Yoongi murmurs softly, glancing over his shoulder at Dr. Lee, who looks down at Ara snarling in her spot by her leg.

"why do you ask?" Jin frowns and follows his gaze.

"well, something seems.. off. She says one thing then the total opposite as if-"

"as if she has a few screws not so tight" Jin finishes, scratching his head. "I don't have a lot of experience with that, that would be neuro and i'm a surgeon."

"Ara baby.. it's eomma.. why are you growling at me?" the woman sounds near tears, drawing their gazes again.

"why now? She was talking fine and the meds you said to give her worked but she woke up.. like this" Yoongi frowns, watching the hybrid's eyes shift in and out of their orange color.

"could he have done it?" Jin raises an eyebrow, making Yoongi look over at him. "we don't know anything about him, Yoon. This man has made or corrupted a serum to destroy things that shouldn't be controlled. Does he sound entirely sane himself? What if he pushed her to this state?"

Yoongi looks back over and the woman has changed again, back to being aggressive and laughing.
"so why now?"

"maybe the meds we gave her counteracted whatever he used to hide what he did?"

"hyung, do you really think this is all probable? That she isn't just acting?" Yoongi crosses his arms.
"then someone get her an award because that is some perfect acting" Jin says dryly, walking over to where Dr. Lee is chained up and bends so he can meet her eyes.

"where do you live sweetheart?" Jin croons sweetly, gently stroking her hair. Dr. Lee seems to ease up significantly, smiling up at him.

"here.. here in Seoul." She rattles off an address and Jin keeps the smile on his face even though his heart breaks. He may not be an expert but it's clear she is falling apart mentally. Why? He isn't sure.

He feels partly responsible.
He pulls put his phone and calls someone he know will keep quiet about this, walking back up the stairs.

Yoongi looks over at Ara, who is staring back at him with orange eyes that seem to move and shift with redness... just like her mothers.

"you smelled her and she was familiar.. was that it?" he whispers to the fox. Ara blinks slowly at him but otherwise says nothing, as expected of course.

"what happened to you? Why are your eyes this way?" his voice cracks in his emotion, bending down to cup the foxes face in his hands. Ara flinches but otherwise doesn't move, which is a huge step forward.

"it's the serum" he hears Dr. Lee whisper. He turns his head to see that Dr. Lee seems more herself-for now. Yoongi has to act now before it changes.

"what happened to you? One minute you're here then you mumble as if you lost your mind" Yoongi rises and comes over to her. She tilts her head up and looks right into his eyes.

"you wouldn't believe me even if I told you. Why would you?" her voice remains a whisper, as if she has no strength to talk any louder.

"try me. If it means I get closer to finding a cure for Ara then please." Yoongi squats down so he's eye level with her, meeting her gaze head on.

Dr. Lee sighs heavily before she nods slowly.

"it's true I made the serum for what I originally intended. It was nearly complete, an almost perfect serum designed to simply change the hybrid. If you didn't like your animal, I tried creating something good. Something people could use to feel.. more themselves."

"so you were nearly complete to perfecting it, I assume you had help from someone powerful to fund such research?" Dr. Lee nods at his statement.
"that's where I met Lee HooJyn, Ara's Appa" Dr. Lee blinks away tears before continuing. "you can't choose your soulmate"
When Yoongi says nothing she continues.

"it was instant, once we met I person for the first time. He was so.. so charming and I just knew he was my soulmate. When I showed him how close I was to perfecting it.. he had other ideas"
"ideas like.. reversing the change. He wanted to strip people of their hybrid completely or their humanity.. with a serum so close to perfecting a change to the hybrid itself, it would be too easy for someone who knows what they are doing to simply.. rearrange the formula"

"when I found out what he was doing with my work.. I was furious. At this point I relied souly on him for funding for my research and I was so close.."

"so how does this explain how you seem to be.. excuse me, but falling apart mentally?" Yoongi asks softly, listening quietly.

"I was his original test subject." She says simply. "his serum was nowhere near what it was now when he first injected me. It ripped apart my sanity until I became.."

"not yourself" Yoongi finishes for her.

"exactly. I was like that for years. So when I found out I was pregnant and one of them actually made it full term.. I couldn't very well keep her in that situation to be used as another subject. By the time he perfected his serum, he managed to find a way to.. dampen the insanity"

"so us giving you what we did.. must have made whatever he used to wear off" Yoongi looks over at Ara who is still sitting there tentatively. "tell me, can she understand what we say?"

"no" Dr. Lee looks sorrowfully at Yoongi before her gaze to falls to Ara. "however, if your sleeping drugs wore off what he used to keep me sane... perhaps you are onto something to finding a reverse"

Yoongi's head whips to look at her so fast his neck cracks a bit.

"can you help us?" Yoongi meets her eyes, desperate to help Ara. "I don't trust you, but if it means helping Ara.. can you help me save her?"