𝐇𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬: A Story of Revenge {J.Jk}

Chapter. 26 "Unmasked"

She was finally ready to accept the truth, she was ready to accept that she believed a very toxic, addictive lie for almost all her life.

The intimidating man standing before her didn't exist.

**

Jungkook stood up and crouched, picking up the man in bridal style.
But...
The man was way back than where he was acting to pick him up...

Crystal's heart sank when she saw Jungkook doing that...
The man's coughing got worse, while Jungkook just got out of the room carrying nothing in his hands.

He didn't even react when the man first start coughing...?
Can he not see him?
Crazy thoughts like this clouded her mind

She took deep, ragged breaths as she saw the man slightly transparent... Terrified

"Is this a dream?"

"Is this all an imagination?"

"Do I not exist?..."

She was traumatised...
"Did I believe a lie all my life...?"

**

She raised her gaze to his face.
Her knees felt numb, her body felt lifeless, and Her mind was occupied with millions of thoughts but she wasn't able to process them.

"Y-you-"
She stuttered, feeling it impossible to say the sentence.
Those few words felt like dumbbells that she was carrying all her life.

Half of her mind just wanted to go on believing this abusive, addictive sweet lie. But half of her mind wanted to be free from this hallucination, this horrible part of the world that her mind created.

"What, kitten?"
He stopped revolving around her and faced her, a creepy smirk on his face and with a psychotic expression he came near her.

Her knees gave up and she fell.
Splashes of mud and dirt splashed on her face.

Her messed up mind started to rewind the memory of her first murder. When the splashes of blood covered her body just like this.

"N-No.."
She whimpered, Not at all in the right state.

Suddenly, she heard footsteps behind her, someone running towards her intensely.
The person held her shoulders and aggressively shook them, trying to get her out of that hypnotised, traumatised state,

She didn't recognise him. Her mind was too numb and full to even do something else other than act like a possessed person.

The person was Jungkook.

He shook her and shook her,
Even he was terrified looking at this state of her, his hands were intensely shaking but the situation was too intense to deal with his fear.

She just stared into his soul lifelessly.

The rain got worse. You could call it a storm now.
And Jungkook already cut most of his communications with his mafia team to do something.
He never felt so useless until this very moment...

Her eyeballs were moving around like crazy. She was leaning on Jungkook's arm. Her head was aching like crazy.
She felt herself being picked up by two muscular arms. Her subconscious mind had already identified it.

"t-the b-bag"
Crystal mumbled, The bag was more important to her than her life.
Jungkook took the bag don't fully.

He got alarmed when he suddenly felt the weight on his arms get heavier.
He looked down and saw a lifeless Crystal, all pale. Her shivering, not going wilder as it should but slowing down, he could feel her breathing getting slower and fainter.
He could almost feel her pain and misery.

"If only I could take all her pain"
He thought and ran towards the road, screaming and telling her to keep herself tight and not to lose consciousness. Even she was trying hard to keep her eyes open and not let her body give up even though she already died mentally.

"HELP! HELP"
He cried-screamed.

You're gonna die
- Crystal's body

I'm gonna kill you
- Crystal's mind

This was the exact situation on Crystal. She didn't want to die yet but wanted to at the same time.
"You'll be a fucking asshole if you didn't complete that task"
Half of her mind yelled.

"But it wouldn't matter if you're dead!"
The other half interrupted.

Half of her eyes were closed and half-open.
To be honest it was easier to close the eyes rather than open them.

"Dear God,

I'm messing up again.

I'm sorry."

She thought before letting her eye be closed completely.

"Huh?"
Crystal finds herself sitting under a tree in a very similar garden, butterflies, cool breezes etc were present there. It was beautiful, indeed.
She heard giggles and laughs coming from behind.

She saw a boy and a girl playing with each other, A woman and a man giggling and laughing. the boy was trying to give the girl a piggyback ride.
She tilted her head as her mind flashed some blurry memories.
After a while... It hit her

The boy and the girl were her and her brother. The woman was her mother and the man her father.

"B-but I-"
She looked at herself. And stared at it, shook.
She was wearing white clothes, she was translucent and slightly glowing.

Suddenly she groaned as she felt a sudden pain in her head,
the things started blurring and blacking out.
Soon enough it was pitch black.

Heart: let me finish it

Heart: I gotta prove it

Brain: prove what?

Heart: that... I'm not a mistake

Crystal snapped her eyes open and took a deep, dry breath. She saw her and Coney in a fast-moving flying car. Her head was on Jungkook's lap and he was crying miserably.
His tears were wetting her already drenched in water, skin.

Her body was aching like hell. still, she raised her hand to grab the handle above her. She winched in pain as her hand fell down.
The painful scream caught Jungkook's attention. He looked at her with tears in his eyes.
When he saw that, his eyes lit up a little bit.

"ARE YOU OKAY??!!! CAN YOU BREAT-"

"J-Jungkook... T-Tak-e me o-out. I-i want to t-talk"
Crystal struggled but finally spoke.

"ARE YOU STUPID!? I-"

"Don't... Shout"
She spoke in a miserable condition.
Even though she knew that it wasn't the perfect time, if she gets a sudden panic and anxiety attack in this situation, it can cause her death cause she already lost too much energy.

"I'm sorry but you're not in the state to-"
He tried to explain, ofc he was reasonable but Crystal had something very important to tell.

"Please Coney... I want to talk to you... Alone"
Jungkook was hesitant but nodded a little.

"But we're not going out"
He said and looked at the driver. Turning around, he picked up and have an umbrella to the driver.

"Please, I need your help. Please go out for some minutes. I deeply request"
He whispered but not enough for Crystal to hear it.

The driver nodded and went out.
The sound of the door closing echoed, Jungkook and Crystal looked at each other,

Crystal's shivering hand travelled to her face. More specifically, her mask.

"I-i want t-to tell you m-my p-past"
She said and removed her mask.

Jungkook widened his eyes as he saw that.

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