I'll Protect You, Maknae||TaeKook FF ✓

Chapter 24.

They'd been running for hours. The members had to help eachother carry the two unconscious maknae's as neither were waking up. They were continuously checking their pulses to make sure the two didn't die in their arms before making it to a hospital. Hobi had the compass and map back out because they had no clue where they were supposed to be going. Everything looked the same. They tried their phones but there was no service out in the middle of these woods. At least not until they made it back to a road.

They decided not to stop, even for the night. They had to keep going. They had to get out. Nobody said much as they were all exhausted and out of breath, but they knew the pain they were feeling was nothing compared to what Taehyung, Jungkook, and many others, had been through. The members knew that all of the horror stories from that documentary must have been real, and they couldn't even imagine going through such torture. They all knew there were a ton of victims still left behind, but unfortunately those left behind would have to wait. As much as the members wanted to save everyone, they had other priorities at the moment. Hobi prayed that other prisoners were able to get away from the fires he had started. He looked up at the sky through the trees.

Please.

Suddenly, Jimin started screaming and pointing. "The road! The road! We made it! We made it!" With the last bit of strength left in him he ran even faster as he pulled out his cell phone and raised it in the air. The others were quickly behind him, pulling out their phones to desperately search for any signal as well.

Jungkook and Taehyung were gently placed on the ground together as the others ran around in search of signal.

"I have one! I have a bar!" Yoongi screamed. The others told him not to move that phone even a fraction of an inch as they surrounded him. Namjoon typed in the emergency services number and they heard it start ringing.

"What's your emergency?" An operator's voice came over the phone. It was staticy and fading in and out, but it was there.

All of the members started screaming into the phone.

"Help! Help!"

"We need ambulances and fire trucks and helicopters and police and everything!"

They started screaming about their maknae's being hurt and tortured and on the brink of death. They screamed about murderers in the woods and fires and trapped people.

"What's your location?" the operator asked.

"We don't know! Can't you pin it or something?!" Namjoon screamed. The operator did just that and found exactly where they were.

"You're quite far from any services, but we will get to you as soon as possible. Please just hold on," the operator said.

The members sighed with relief knowing they had been found and that people were coming. Now it was yet another waiting game. They ran back to Jungkook and Taehyung and dropped with pure exhaustion. Jimin pulled Taehyung up into his arm and held him, while Hobi did the same thing with Jungkook. Now that they had a moment to rest, the sobbing began.

"Please don't die, please don't die," Jimin begged while looking back and forth between the two youngest.

"Do you think they'll be okay?" Yoongi asked nobody specifically. "I mean if they were going to die would that have happened by now?" He was terrified. They all were. They realized just because the two were out didn't exactly mean they were safe yet. It was sitting in the front of their minds that the two could still cease to ever wake up. They had no idea how dehydrated and malnourished they were, on top of the countless other brutalities they endured.