white eyes || jikook ||

|| fifty six ||

The Raven slumped over his chair, bottles of alcohol littering the floor. His hair was tousled like he had been pulling at it for hours on end, knuckles and wrists red from rubbing. The mafia leader was nothing on his former image, he looked so broken and hopeless right now, well that was if anyone was to see him, he was hiding away in the tallest room of the mafia headquarters, a tower top room darkened by the moonlight shimmering through the windows. It wasn't like anyone would find him here or at least anyone except whom he used to come here all the time with.

Him and V would come up here, stargaze and whatnot. Hands intertwined and a comforting thought that they were both there for eachother, each of them trying to heal their wounds, jungkooks being from the recent loss of his father and brother and V having to runaway from his home, in those days Taehyung had only been residing with the jeon mafia for a few months.

It was strange, those times even with such fear and pain felt so blissful compared to the turmoil Jungkook experienced now. He wished he could go back to those times when he could be innocent and naive to the mafia world... but the weight on his shoulders had grown since then and doing such a thing would surely doom them all.

Sure it was complicated back then, with seokjin on their backs trying to take Taehyung back away and to effectively kill V but it all worked out, but now nothing is working out in his favour, nothing at all.

So that's how he ended up like this, drowning his thoughts out with the comfort not of a friend but rather of intoxication, letting himself fall into a pit of reminiscences oc when things were better. However his mind wavered on one thought in particular, everything was better before jimin arrived...

His hand like reflex went to grab his gun as the hatch to the room was folded open with a loud freak and crash as it hit the ground and someone climbed through.

The person sighed, unrecognisable in the dark night time shadows. "thought I'd find you up here", he stepped into the night light, it was V. "So what are you doing.." his eyebrows furrowed at the disgruntled appearance of the leader and the bottles all over the floor. "Right, I can guess..."

Jungkook glanced at the taller male, dropping his gun to the cold wooden floor, shrugging his shoulders and looking to the side. " V, everything is going wonderfullyyy, theee only thing that makes sense is hmm is having a party, we should have a party to shut those damn thoughts up..." he balled his hands into fists and shook his head. "A party, invite Arya, yourself, Jackson... hell invite everyone"

" Jungkook... we are not having a party... we need to plan how to fix this, how to get baekhyun back and how to take down seokjin once and for all.."

" there is no plan." Jungkook said sternly, his gaze returning to V, eyes not even wavering. It was a state cold enough to make shivers run up and down your spine, a cold empty stare. "We won't be attacking or doing anything... we are nothing! don't you understand that V! we are nothing, we are hopeless.."

"No Jungkook... you're hopeless.." V responded, pushing his hair back out of his face. "Come down when you feel like growing the fuck up and sorting out this mess we are in!" He shouts, turning on his heel and descending down the rickety ladder only to hear angry yells in the room above from the intoxicated mafia leader.

V breathed in deeply, gaining back his composure before exiting the storage room which the ladder was in, no wander no one had found Jungkook earlier. He walked fast through the corridor, straight to jungkooks office, although he bumped into jimin on the way, beckoning him to follow him.

"Did you find Jungkook?" Jimin asked in a slightly hushed voice, a little jog in his step as he tried to keep up with V.

"Sure" the male responded through gritted teeth, pushing open the door to jungkooks office and retrieving his key from his pocket to open one of the cabinets which he pulled a microphone of sorts out of. "He's a mess.."

Jimin frowned. "Where is he?"

" you don't want to find him, he doesn't want to be found.." V said , flipping some switches and connecting the microphone to a port built in within the desk.

" but I can help him-"

"No! Please jimin" V snapped looking up to the white eyed boy. "Stop"

" I'm sorry, I just wanted to see him..." jimin admits quietly, sure he was in amongst all the leadership within the mafia but he wasn't special, he didn't understand the majority of times, he just felt dumb.

V sighed. "I know you do... we will see him, I just need to do this..." he flicked the on switch on the microphone, a glimmering red light on it as he leaned forward to speak.

A small noise of announcement echoing throughout all the speakers within the mafia building, in the corridors, the lunch hall, the training rooms and every room in between. "The time is 9pm, this is Kim Taehyung speaking in place of our leader jeon, these past days have been nothing but tough for our mafia... it's time you were all enlightened, baekhyun has been kidnapped by the Kim mafia and according to our informants he has failed against the blackthorn drugs... our leader is unable to attend to his duties so henceforth I will be initiating emergency powers and taking on the role of temporary leadership, please work with us to initiate operation Phoenix..."

He flicked off the switch to turn the microphone off, pausing to let out a small groan. " I can't believe this is happening..."

Jimin was unsure what to say so he just awkwardly sat down in the chair opposite Taehyung, both of them in silence until the most prominent mafia members poured in through jungkooks office door. Jackson, Arya, Leedo, woosung all walking in at once, that's when the questioning started, all the noise suffocating at once with questions such as:

" where is Jungkook?"

" what's going on?"

" what's the plan?"

"Please quiet!" Taehyung raises his voice a little, breathing in deeply. "Spread the word that there will be a briefing in the main training arena tomorrow morning at 7am, ask everyone to be there..."

Jackson, Leedo and woosung nodded, leaving almost immediately but Arya wavered, staying behind and standing at the door for a few moments. " v? You've done what needed to be done, but I'm afraid of how Jungkook will react.. just... be careful, both of you... il see you both tomorrow, goodnight" and with that she left.

Jimin looked to taehyung, pursing his lips. "Is everything really going to be alright?"

" I don't know jimin... I hope so.."

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