The Collapsing One

Chapter 21

White Lights

Trigger Warning

Talks of Death
Blood
Fire
Gore themes
PTSD
Details of gore

Bright white lights.
Blinding most who set eyes upon it after long darkness.
Jungkooks first look at the world was blinding, like he was staring at the sun.
Eventually he got used to the brightness, realizing he wasn't even in a hospital, but rather a bright room shaped and built like a hospital. It was any normal room, except it was filled with equipment.

Jungkook looked around a bit more before his eyes landed on her, Sooah. Her eyes landing on his, a blast, a wave, a slam of excitement filled her when he awoke "Your okay!" She spoke with a smile.
She had casts, bruises, cuts, burns. She looked like she did when they buried her except standing.

"Am....I dead...or dreaming?" Jungkook spoke shocked, staring at her "I guess you must be shocked" she sighed "Your alive Jungkook, not dreaming, and we all know you wouldn't die that easily" she smiled "We- you- I saw you die" Jungkook spoke "You saw me get injured...as you can tell I'm still not...great" she gulped "I had to...leave for awhile" Sooah began "I had to fake my own death in order to fix things" She spoke "Fix...fix what?" Jungkook asked, watching as her posture fixated itself uncomfortably "You know that many...many people died that day" Sooah spoke, watching as Jungkook shivered, closing his eyes "Yeah...I saw just about all of them die" Jungkook spoke "Then you remember it well" She sighed "I'm sorry" she spoke looking at him with sad eyes "You don't remember it?" Jungkook asked "No, I've just read things on the news..." She sighed "I have some flashes but they don't lead to anything, I can't put the pieces together because my memories are so...all over the place" she spoke

"I remember it all, the smell...the blood...The screams...it felt like a living horror story" Jungkook spoke looking at her with tear filled eyes "I killed people, watched people die, watched them scream for their families- all I could do was sit and watch as they burned- screaming for their moms and dads- begging for it to stop....I couldn't do anything....I could barley keep my eyes open..I was burning too- I was shot- I was trying to get all these kids out of the building....I barely got them all out...then Wan and Lee...and you....you were shot..." Jungkook spoke "I was....but then I was saved" She spoke "what!? By who?" He asked "Hoseok" she said plainly

"I-I thought he died" Jungkook spoke shocked "I did too, until he pulled out my body from the rubble and got me out of there....he even helped me by getting me to a proper doctor- who saved my life" she spoke "without him I'd truly be dead" she gulped "But- the body we buried..."

"Fake as well" she spoke up "in order for me to get the help I needed...in order to stay alive I needed to die" She spoke, letting out a simple laugh "sounds rather...strange doesn't it" she spoke getting a nod from Jungkook, his eyes full of mixed feelings "Lee and Wan still have people after me, and according to Hoseok they needed to kill me....but since Hoseok is now the new king, he was able to help me, and help them...the guys who came after me stoped after I died because they had nothing to kill" She sighed "The body you saw was fake, made to look like me....which sounds gruesome and terrible...but you of all people know how Wan is and how far he will go to get revenge" She spoke shakily "I know....trust me I do"

"It's my turn to ask questions now" She spoke again "what happened to you just now, I know Taehyung would go mad if he saw you like this" She spoke watching as Jungkook sighed fixating his eyes on the ceiling "It's nothing" he spoke. Sooahs brows went up as her face stared at him, a mother like look where she could see right through him, and even though Jungkook couldn't see her, he knew she was onto his lies.

"I know your lying" she spoke up "It doesn't even matter" he replied plainly "but it does, and you know it" She said sternly "your keeping it all in, and you should know of all people it's not healthy" she sighed watching as he took a breath "It's just...all I've been doing is hurting him...and this darkness....this darkness feels like it's- it's..." He spoke tears filling his eyes that fell down the sides of his face

"I feel so alone Sooah.." Jungkook spoke his voice breaking "I'm so tired...these memories I have keep haunting me...I finally start to move on and then...it all just gets ruined again..." he spoke "I just.....left Taehyung...I told him to divorce me...to let me go..." he sighed "I know I have all these people here for me...but I can't let them suffer too"

"Pathetic"

A silence filled the air for a second, Jungkook staring at her with shock and her staring at him with rage.  "You truly think nobody wants to help you?" She snapped "you really think nobody here wants to help you get better, is that truly how lowly you think of us, all of us?" She spoke "Taehyung has stuck by you like a magnet- he wouldn't let go of you no matter what! And he's the enemy of so many stories!" She yelled "Don't you realize what the enemy does over the hero?" She asked angrily

"The hero would give up their love for the world....and the villain would give up the world"

"In other words Taehyung would give up the world for you"

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Well

That was fun

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Sorry it's been so long haha.
I've been super busy, and writings been hard to do.

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