Play with me (Jikook/Kookmin)

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Jungkook Pov 3 years later

He gently stroked the girl's cheek, looking at the delicate, now pale skin and the beautifully curved lips. She was finally quiet, no hurtful words left her mouth. With careful movements, he dipped the sponge into the water, wiped all the blood from her body, cleaned her thoroughly, bandaged the wounds he had inflicted on her in the last few hours and dressed her in a beautiful dress. Then he applied her make-up discreetly and put a flower crown on her head before taking photos of her sleeping peacefully and forever. He folded her hands over her lap and placed more flowers in her arms.

"Why did you have to provoke me like that, love? I didn't want to kill you, you should have just let me take pictures of you...." he said, sighing sadly. He looked ruefully at his 14th victim. Like the others, she had been mean to him, calling him a stalker and laughing at him when he stuttered when he approached her and asked if he could take her picture. She had reminded him of his Noona. But now she had fallen silent, looking like an angel, so innocent and pure. It had felt so good at first, they were all tainted, but he had freed them from that, given them peace, just as his Noona deserved. He had redeemed them from all the suffering in the world, preserved their beauty forever in his pictures and had been proud of himself. He had given them back their purity and innocence... even if he had taken it away from some of them beforehand. But he felt the change, the elation he had hoped for failed to materialize, had already diminished the last few times, instead there was only emptiness in him, which he tried to fill with more and more sacrifices. At first it had only been three a year, after that he had always been so happy, but the happiness lasted shorter and shorter and he had to kill more and more often, up to this point... the point that frightened him, the point at which it only left a pale aftertaste. Should he just let his next victim live? Keep it and play with it? Until he figured out how to get his luck back?

Hoseok Pov

"Jin please... at least look at him, he's been in there for three years, I want him back... I love him more than anything, understand that..." I tried to persuade my brother. He was a renowned forensic psychiatrist, so he didn't treat patients, but my Minnie was locked up in there, and he was just sick... He wasn't the monster they made him out to be, he was the nicest, kindest person I knew. We'd been together for seven years, I should have realized if he was really like that, right? But he had always made me happy, never made me think I wasn't enough. He'd only killed all those men because he was ill, and surely illnesses could be cured? No one knew better than me that Jimin was a good person. My brother had to see that too, he knew him too and he would never have noticed anything wrong with Jimin.

"Hobi, he can't be cured, there's something wrong with him, but therapy won't help him, his brain is twisted, he'll be like this forever." Jin said regretfully, he had always liked Jimin a lot.

"But you know him, we just have to stop him from killing, everything else about him is normal." I whined.

"Nothing about him is normal, Hobi... the Jimin you know doesn't even exist, he's an illusion... Jimin has manipulated us all, he's a perfect actor. Hobi, you were just part of his perfect production, of a normal life... I should have realized it, it was just far too perfect..." he tried to explain to me, but I couldn't believe him, nobody could pretend to be in love for seven years...

"There is one thing... it's experimental... but there's a neurosurgeon who's developing a treatment... but it's related to a risky operation. I just read about it recently... what was his name again? Ah yes, Kim Namjoon... now stop crying, kid, I'll call him, ok?" he continued as I broke down crying, slowly losing hope that no one would help him but me...

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This story is a real challenge, I've spent days researching articles, reading books and everything and I hope I can describe the differences between the two well and you've already noticed who is the psychopath and who is the sociopath :)