Paradise Lost (Season One)

Chapter Twelve: Family.

Maybe, once upon a time, Jimin would have found this all so cruel.

Given the circumstances of it all though, he found that he was more than a little numb to it instead. The soft sobs and pleas of a person begging for their life did nothing to elicit any sort of emotion inside of him. All he could think about in this moment were his parents and Jihyun. The fear and pain of his parents last moments as they were beaten and killed. The fear and pain that Jihyun felt as those men beat him, raped him. Jimin's family had been innocent bystanders, having nothing to do with this lifestyle but still, it pulled them in like a spider waiting for prey to get caught up in her web. Right now, Jimin felt like that spider. No mercy, no remorse for what was about to happen to the woman before him. The woman who was beaten and bloody, on her hands and knees and sobbing as she begged for some kind of relief, for her son, for all of this to stop. Jimin felt nothing but the desire to make her feel it. What his family felt, what his parents felt in their final moments before it all came to an end and they found relief in death. Jimin stood there, in front of Jester, staring down at her over the swell of his belly.

A set of boots stopped to her right, the broken woman turning her head and through blurred vision she could see the image of a smirking Taehyung. Expression dark and full of joy for her suffering. Taehyung spun his knife in between his fingers before he, without much warning, kicked Jester hard in the stomach. Briefly lifting her body off the ground with the amount of force behind it and sent her flying to the side as she rolled until the wall stopped her. Jester gasped for air before coughing, specks of blood hitting the ground as she panted heavily. Jimin's gaze simply followed her as Taehyung whistled and walked towards her.

"Wow sis, you can take a lot! I will give you that much!" Taehyung said.

Jester lifted her head, turning her swollen and bruised face towards Taehyung as she tried to form a glare at him, despite one eye being forced completely shut.

"G – Go to hell monster!" Jester shouted at him.

"Monster? Me? Rude." Taehyung said as he circled around to stand behind her, he

then suddenly raised his knife before he brought it down, stabbing it clean through her leg and burying the pointed end into the ground, pinning her leg as she let out a scream.

Taehyung licked his lips as he was now crouched down and he tilted his head as his eyes narrowed.

"You haven't seen a true monster yet." Taehyung said.

Jester pressed her forehead into the ground, gritting her teeth through the unforgiving pain as Taehyung twisted the knife back and forth.

"Tae." A soft call and Taehyung's dark expression slipped as he turned his head

and glanced at Jimin with large, puppy eyes.

Jimin slowly walked towards the two, stopping in front of Jester as Taehyung shifted to stand and walked to crouch over her back. Yanking her head up by her hair and forcing her to look up at Jimin. The knife suddenly pressed against her throat. Jester glared up at Jimin before she smirked and let out a coughing laugh.

"You think I am afraid to die?" Jester asked.

"No, not really." Jimin said.

"Then get it over with. I gave myself up, so Ywan can live. I did my duty as a

mother." Jester said. Jimin's eyes lowered before he rested his hands on his swollen belly.

"I made no such arrangement." Jimin said and Jester's eyes widened in alarm.

"W – What?! B – But Jungkook -!" Jester started but was silenced by the knife

pressed into her neck, cutting a thin line into the skin.