Body And Soul

50. We Are Family

Taehyung stood in the doorway as he looked at Mrs. Jeon standing there. It was obvious that she had dropped everything to get over to Laylin and Jungkook's apartment as soon as possible. She stepped through the open doorway without waiting to be told to enter, cupping Taehyung's face in her hands as she searched his expression with a worried look.

"What's wrong? Are you okay, Jungkook?"

Jungkook stood up from the couch, still in a state of shock at seeing his mother there. He looked with teary eyes from her to Laylin who stood by the kitchen doorway. Of course, Laylin had called her. After what he had been through, he needed her love. Jungkook fixed Laylin with a small smile which she reflected back before nodding her head towards where his mom was in the doorway.

"I'm...I'm fine," said Taehyung as Jungkook's mother studied his face closely.

Taehyung gently reached up his hands to grab her wrists, bringing her grip away from his face as she looked at him confused. Taehyung turned his head to look at Jungkook, holding out a hand towards him so he'd come over to stand beside him. By then, there were tears silently and softly tracking down Jungkook's face.

Jungkook's mother took this pause to look at Jungkook in Taehyung's body. She frowned when she saw the tears tracking down his face, remembering the last time she had met him and how upset he had been that time too.

"Your son is the one that needs you right now," said Taehyung as Jungkook's mother looked back at him even more confused than she was already.

"What do you mean?"

"Mom..." said Jungkook, unable to hold himself back anymore; the word practically bubbled up out of him with the tears.

Her eyes widened when Jungkook moved forward to hug her tightly. She moved her arms to hug him back, rubbing his back as she looked at Taehyung who was giving her a soft smile.

"We have some explaining to do," said Taehyung. "Can you please come in?"

- - -

Even though Yoongles had been human for a couple of days now, he still didn't understand humans any more than he did before. He especially didn't understand this woman that was adamantly and angrily talking to him through the closed window.

He furrowed his brows as he looked at her. The window was garbling her words so he couldn't make much of them out. He leaned his head closer to the window as if that would help him in understanding her, but it just left him more confused. She sounded irritated and angry at him, and he couldn't understand why she would be. He was sitting in the car and hadn't even bothered her at all.

Yoongles found himself grateful when he saw Jimin and Hobi behind her with Yoongi in their arms. Maybe they would be able to save him.

Yoongi saw Mrs. Kim immediately when the three of them had rounded the corner. Before all this, she had just been someone that employed him to do his job. Now he could understand just what a wicked woman she was and it - in turn - made him a henchman. He was no one's henchman.

Jumping down out of Jimin's unsuspecting arms, Yoongi moved to get on the ground right beside her feet. He didn't appreciate the way she was talking and trying to boss Yoongles around. Yoongi gritted his teeth, arching his back as a hiss passed his lips.

He watched as she turned her head down to face him with a look of disgust on his face which just ticked him off even more.

All his life he had done whatever it took to get the job done, not caring about making any friends along the way. After having met the others though, they weren't just friends to him. He couldn't help but to think of them as his family and right now that family had been hurt by this woman. He wouldn't stand for it anymore.