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16 - A Reason

It was Jungkook whose face was close to mine. The hate so visible in his eyes.

I wanted to scream but I couldn't. My throat was blocked. I hit him repeatedly with my free arm in a desperate attempt to make him stop. He was too strong, it didn't seem he was too bothered by my hits.

There was nothing I could do.

Maybe this was it, maybe I should embrace it and I would be able to see my family soon, mom, dad, Nina and Namjoon.

but that also meant I'd never see the people here anymore.

Especially, the boy that had moved my heart.

I fought more but my body was weakened by the lack of oxygen.

I'm sorry Yoongi 

I closed my eyes accepting whatever was going to come next.

Instead the hands were suddenly removed from my neck and I opened my eyes again, gasping for air at the same time and coughing a lot.

Taehyung held Jungkook back, they were shouting at each other but what they said I again did not know. After a moment they both turned silent, Jungkook was still fuming though. Jimin rushed in the room, but he froze as his eyes went from Taehyung, to Jungkook to me.

       'why?' I only let out defeated, staring at Jungkook. I hadn't done personally something to him yet he strangled me in my sleep.

Taehyung turned on the translation device and spoke.

       'He had his reason, his soulmate was one of those girls you saw on the video, one that got tortured' 

       'He had a reason?' I repeated in complete indignation. Because not only was my entire body on adrenaline by this near death experience, it was also furious. How could they possibly believe that this was a reason.

     'Really? Do you think that is reason enough to choke someone who is defenseless and sleeping?' I shouted 'your kind killed my entire family, my parents, my sister and recently my brother.'

Tears were now filling my eyes

       'You invaded our planet and killed millions, I do not agree with what happened to your scouts and it is not an excuse but at the very least I can say I wasn't aware of your kind being hurt while you were participating in killing mine!' 

They all stared at me as the device was translating whatever I was shouting at them.

They were dead silent. You could probably even hear the sound of a pin drop.

Their silence was perhaps even worse to me than the argument. My thoughts were all over the place and so I continued with my rant.

      'I am done talking to all of you, so if if it's information you want you can better let Jungkook finish what he started' 

Taehyung pov

I stared at the human girl. Her pain was visible, not only the physical through the bruises on her neck that Jungkook left, but also the mental one. She tried to keep in the tears but it was clear she was upset by the tone she spoke in as well.

It was easy in this war to view everything from our side, how the humans had tortured our scouts, how they were the worst species we had encountered so far. but we hadn't interacted with them closely, and looking at y/n, I saw a girl who was so young and lost everything.

I turned off the communication device.

     'Jungkook get out of here' I instructed Jungkook who was still staring at y/n. The anger and hate I saw on his face a moment ago had vanished and it almost seemed guilt filled his expression.

     'Jungkook' I repeated which seemed to shake Jungkook awake and without a word he left the room. 

I looked at Jimin 'can you check up on him?'

Jimin nodded in response 'and also tell my sister what happened but tell her not to come yet' I added.

Then I turned back to y/n, I wasn't too sure what to say to be honest.

she hugged her knees with her one free arm and was looking away from me.

y/n pov

     'I am sorry about your family' Taehyung said apologetically

      'It's not an excuse but after we saw those images, the ones I showed you, your kind was the most horrible we could imagine. You were our enemy and there was nothing good about you, nothing that could be innocent.'

He paused

      'but you're the first human we really interacted with ever since this started. Or better said, the first that didn't try to kill us'

I looked at him but still I didn't say anything. I didn't want to talk to them anymore. 

     'Try to get some sleep, you'll be safe now' he said and a part of me wanted to snap back but I was too numb, too affected by what had passed just.

He left the room and I laid down again but no way in hell was I able to close my eyes.

Through the curtains I could see it became light again and morning had come.

Taehyung walked in and he handed me a little device, it looked exactly like the one that translates stuff.

     'You can have one yourself, like this you can choose to talk with us whenever you want' he explained.

I still ignored him but I had to admit that this small gesture did move me as it seemed a step into my direction, a way to apologize. 

Taehyung pov

y/n looked horrible, not only because the marks on her neck were still pretty visible but also because her whole complexion was the definition of exhaustion.

I could guess that she probably didn't sleep a lot last night, nor could I blame her considering someone tried to kill her.

I went in to free her from the bed

      'thanks' she said with her own device. It was unexpected that she would thank me for this, in this moment. I had expected her to insult me or at least be angry.

     'No problem' I answered.

It was fascinating; she was so vulnerable yet she had a certain strength. Considering she survived up to this point as one of the few humans also made me realise she has gone through a lot. 

The entire day I could see she was struggling with keeping up the pace as well as keeping her eyes opened.

the weirdest feeling filled my body, I felt empathy and a bit of pity for her.

Before going to sleep this evening I approached my sister.

     'Zhora, I think it might be a good idea if we sleep near y/n this evening?' I suggested. She first looked at me in a sort of surprise but her eyes softened and she nodded. We both walked up the stairs where y/n was already lying down, she didn't really have a choice considering she was chained with one hand but still.

     'What are you doing here?' she asked as she noticed that we entered the room

      'We will sleep near to you' Zhora answered

y/n didn't answer but I could detect a surprise but also appreciation on her face as she switched her gaze between my sister and me.