• Mastermind • | NamJin || BOOK 3#

Fourty-Two. Hurted feelings

"You betrayed me."

The computers on the desk turn off and Jin slumps his shoulders a little, barely able to look Jimin in the eyes. As if he demanded that it be so. Sad, hurt look; full of tears and pain as if he were in disbelief. Jin opens and closes his mouth before smiling crookedly.

"I don't-"

"I asked you not to give him that thing that makes me feel weak and you gave it to him" Jimin interrupts, not wanting to hear him make excuses. "All this time I have helped and done what you asked me because you are my brother. I consider you my brother and I would take care of you in any way. I would never have betrayed you in what happened, but you did." His weak, broken voice is so unusual that Jin has trouble being sure that this is Jimin. The one he has known for over nine years.

"You know Namjoon is everything to me. He wanted the truth and he asked me to give it to him too." Jin justifies and Jimin just cries harder, shaking his head.

"What about me? I don't matter?" Jimin sobs, putting a hand to his chest, barely wearing a huge sweater and walking barefoot. Just that sweater. No rings, bracelets, necklaces, earrings: there is nothing more on him than that giant sweater that Jungkook put on him as soon as he was given permission to approach.

"I do care about you."

"You're a liar."

"I'm not lying to you-"

"If you could sell me or kill me you would!" Jimin chides, his black eye seeing multiple thoughts. Secrets of Jin. His anomalous ability came from losing an eye and getting a new one: observing people's secrets and knowing when they're lying.

Jin bites his lip, looks away for a moment, and takes off his glasses to rub the bridge of his nose. He puts them back on.

"Namjoon is more important than all of us. It doesn't mean he wouldn't save you. Just that Namjoon is above everything." Jin justifies. "You would sell me if that would get you Jungkook."

"I would do anything to save them both." Jimin walks towards him, touching him with the index finger, pushing him, "because unlike you, I do know how to take care of what I love," Reproaches, pushing him further. "I do know how to be faithful," he ends up knocking Jin out of his chair. "And I do know how to be a brother! NOT YOU! YOU ARE A LIAR! YOU ARE A FRAUD!" he screams angrily at him.

Jin remains still on the floor, feeling so abnormal Jimin's angry and despicable gaze towards him. as if it were-

"You're just like Seokjin. You two... are trash."

Jin gets up quickly and before taking it to Slap him? Yell at him? Claim him? Whatever strength his body had, he couldn't do it, Jimin maneuvered him in such a way that he twisted his arm, left his back, stepped on his spine with his knee and grabbed his hair with one hand, hitting him a couple of times against the ground and even ripping off parts of his scalp.

Jimin stands up, shaking his hand.

"You're pathetic and miserable. I hope Namjoon doesn't need you anymore and you're left lying around like the whore you are."

Jin sits up, seeing the remains of his glasses on the floor and some of his blood. In his mind, he repeats the last thing Jimin said, but outside the room and if it weren't for the microphones, he wouldn't have been able to hear it:

"You won't have anyone to save you anymore. I'm not going to do it."

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"How much do you think about? Honey."

Namjoon notices that Jin has been in the same position for a long time, he assumes that he plays the same video non-stop, but he has no way of knowing which one it is. Jin barely comes out of his reverie, yet the video of Jungkook and Jimin plays in his head.