Never without you

Chapitre 48

The same day, Taehyung and his friends were driven to the capital in the back of a military truck. Sitting on wood benches, they had to focus to not lose balance in the turns, impressed by the two soldiers who sat with them and didn't move a hair.

The journey seemed endless, but eventually they arrived in the big city. It was almost night, and soldiers shouted at them to come out. To their surprise, there was a crowd gathered before them, so many young people like them.

Taehyung tried to look for Jungkook, but there were too many people around. It was a bit confusing situation, a soldier shouting orders while others laughed and talked together and didn't watch the crowd. With a frown, Taehyung noticed they were a little bit isolated in the huge court and he could see the street not so far, just after the porch behind them. Everyone was looking at the guy on the stairs who didn't stop shouting, but nobody seemed to notice Taehyung and his friends. Their truck was parked just beside them, and without thinking, Taehyung whispered shouting at his friends to follow him. They all hid behind the truck, waiting for a moment to be sure nobody saw them, and then, they ran out.

Taehyung ran like ever, half relieved and half scared. It was a bit weird to be able to escape like that, but the militaries seemed to be unorganized. After long minutes running and avoiding the big streets, Taehyung recognized the neighborhood : his brother came with him once or twice to meet a friend who ran a small grocery store. Once sure they weren't followed by anyone, Taehyung stopped and proposed to go to the grocery store. First, it would be just Taehyung and Namjoon, the others waiting on the little street. With a hurried step, both came into the dark shop, a tiny bell reporting their presence. With a sigh of relief, Taehyung recognized his brother's friend who came to see his customers. With a frown, the older man was looking at Taehyung, trying to know where he had seen this young boy.

-I am Soejun's brother he said without wasting time.

The man opened wide his eyes and was about to talk when Taehyung interrupted him.

-please, help us, we escaped from soldiers, we need a place to hide !

-how many are you ?

-there are four other friends on the street behind.

The man nodded and quickly closed the store's door.

-follow me.

Both walked behind him at the bottom of the shop, where a tiny door was. Once in a small hallway, they went to another door. To their surprise, they were now in the street where they came from.

-where are they ? asked the man.

A bit scared, Taehyung looked around and sighed when his friends came to them. He didn't know if his poor heart would survive after so many emotions...

-ok, mmm... come with me, we need to go to my friend first, it's just the door here.

They came into a small building, and without knocking at the door, they entered a tiny apartment, where a man stood up quickly.

-you scared me JiHo ! said the man.

-sorry, but this is Soejun's brother, and his friends. They needed to hide but before, we need to extract the tracer in their necks!

Suddenly, they all remembered they were tricked because of that demon in their body. If only they didn't have it, they could have lived a peaceful life in the island...

The man came back with a kind of gun, a big gun in his hand.

-come here guys, we need to shoot the tracers !

-what do you mean by shoot ?? asked a worried Jimin.

-first I shoot, second I extract it, ok ?

-fffi...fine...

As Jimin was the closest, he didn't have the choice when the man asked him to tilt his head. When he put the gun on Jimin's neck, he slowly moved it until it biped.

Without waiting, he pressed a button. There was a small noise, and the man pressed another button, the gun seeming sink in the poor Jimin's neck who couldn't but shout suddenly, holding his neck while the man showed him a little device in his hand. The tiny thing was the cause of their misfortune, so Jimin took it and crushed it under his foot several times, even if it was dead yet...

All of them suffered the same treatment, except Taehyung. He had doubts about it since he didn't hear a sound when the soldier on the island put the detector on his neck.

-your brother protected you well, he told me all he wanted was to save you from them, said the man.

-how is it possible ? Everybody has one, why not me ?

-there were vaccine campaigns last year, in schools, high schools and colleges, they used it for that. But I know Seojun moved each time he knew one was coming where you were studying. He was smart you know... and... sorry for your loss... it was a good friend of mine.

Taehyung just weakly smiled at him, tears gathering in his eyes, but after a few blinks, he was fine.

-ok, now we resolved this problem, we can go.

And like that, they came back in the street, following a man they didn't know.