Autumn St.

Season 2: Chapter 23

Few people walks on the pathways of the hospital, the quietness of the night quakes with Jungkook and Jimin's heavy steps to the emergency room. The lights dim on the hallway, it's as if the doors increases in number, hallways gets narrower the more they ran as unfamiliarity and worry breaks down their sense of direction. The two pauses briefly on the intersection, "Here-" Jimin points rightwards barely finishing the word for as if feet have their own control system, pushing them forward the correct direction.

A plank lighting up the word 'Emergency Room' overhangs a room. Jungkook's steps slows down, gradually stopping, suddenly he became aware of his own heartbeat racing, breathing shortly as though it's running out of air, no sweat drips as if the air when they ran had wipe it off. Nayeon and Momo are sitting in front of the room rather in daze, holding each other's hand. Nayeon wearing glasses, Momo in loose bun, both are on baggy hoodies like they went out for the night but after having a call hurries the location. Mina is sitting across the two, she's a few chairs away the door. Eyelids close burying her nose to her towered fingers. Jungkook's eyes traces down Mina's uniform, there's red liquid on the lower part, a tiny splatter of it. Cold electricity sets in, he swallows heavily walking to the hazy glass doors, figures on white and blue cloths walks on the back of the doors nothing can be seen more than those.

The deafening silence covers the minutes that passed. Jimin came back carrying cups of coffee on both hands, along with the help of their manager they give it to Momo and Nayeon; they utters 'Thank you' only later they touch the coffee on the vacant chair beside. Jimin goes to Jungkook, who remains standing. Offering him a coffee, he shakes head quietly sparing minimal attention to the cup. Jimin departed, pausing shortly before sitting a sit before Mina. Carefully handing the coffee, her eyes opens turning towards his direction lowering the towered fingers to hold the coffee "Thank you" she answers, feeling the warmth from the cup transferring to her cold hand. Jimin stares with the tiniest surprise as though he did not expect her to accept the coffee yet she did, he nods. Jungkook has 'What's going on?' look, nobody notices so and it lasted for a second for he waits for the doctor to come out.

BTS and TWICE members came in groups minutes more. The girls takes a glimpse to the door and sit with their fellow members.

The boys rather walks sluggishly, exchanging shaky glimpses, gesturing hands to go first as they approach close to Jungkook like they are asked to do a grand prize speech out of the blue. "Jungkook-ah" calls the leader of the group, their youngest made no response as though he did not hear them. "Jungkook-ah.." Jin says this time kind of careful for none of them have the knowledge how much memory he has regained now. In a shot of look from Jungkook the members choke their words. They had the answer they want, his wide sharp-eyes shouting he knows enough; it's time when they zip it, every single one of them will deal with it later. The members fall deeply into muteness, few sheepishly steps back to back the walls rather sensing the calamity to come.

The foot of Jungkook fidgets up and down the floor in a fast manner, quietly he stands near the door. The girls and boys sits in great distance, within the groups few persons chats with a fellow member as if the groups are no more than a colleague in the industry to each other. A mild commotion brew  when the manager hands a phone to Jihyo, the girls whispers Tzuyu's family from Taiwan is calling, Jihyo along with Nayeon and Jeongyeon spoke to them on the phone with quiet and calm voices determined to calm the relatives over the line even hints of concern is pooling on their eyes as well.

Music beats in from Jungkook's pocket, he took out the phone exchanging look to the screen and to the door, hesitant to leave where he is. In the end, he went yards away before taking the call "Hello?"