A Pure Soul

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"Please I don't want to be the reason for another person to die! The pictures of the man you shot still haunt me...", I started to tear up at the guilt feasting on my conscious. "First of all, it isn't your fault, it's their own for commiting those crimes in the first place and if it is that important for you, then we won't kill him. We'll just make sure that he learns his lesson and get you your watch back.", Namjoon said with a sincere smile plastered on his lips. "You promise?" "I promise" 

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POV. Hoseok

I observe Jimin carefully as he looks at each and everyone of us with narrowed eyes, probably trying to figure out, whatever or not he could trust our words, as his eyes linger on me I playfully blow him a kiss, which seemed to caught him off guard, it lead to him sigh in defeat. "Okay, if you pinky promise me that you won't kill him, I think I can tell you...", he holds out his hand towards us. "Okay, and you pinky promise us to stop lying to us!", Jin said. "I promise...", he looked at the ground seemingly ashamed, you could see this by the fact that his ears and cheeks turn slightly red. "Then it is decided!", I exclaim overly excited, to make the younger more comfortable again. But as I intertwine our pinkys a completely new detail catched my eyes. 

"What do you have for small and cute hands! They look like hands of a new born!" "You're right! They are tiny!", Taehyung took his other hand, and holds it against his own, which caused laughter all around except for Jimin, who was still embarrassed by the fact that he was once again the center of attention. 

It still helped to ease the mood further... Mission accomplished! 

After a bit more time has passed, we sat down in the living room. "I am sorry, I lied to you but to be honest, I don't really know you a whole lot and I was ashamed. I also didn't want to bother you...", Jimin suddenly said, in his small voice, after a moment of silence. "You don't have to apologize, I can understand that couldn't exactly trust us, to be honest we were just really worried about you, when we heard that you were kicked out of your house and probably roaming those empty streets all by yourself.", I explained in a reassuring voice. "That's right, I was only furious because of the situation I found you in, I was just a bit dissapointed that you didn't came here and rather lived on the streets endangering yourself." Yoongi was quick to explain, knowing him, I could see how he was probably quite scary for one as pure hearted as Jimin. 

"Wait, which situation was Jimin in, that you found to be infuriating?" Jungkook cut Jimin, who wanted to reply to Yoongi, off before he could even make a single sound. "It's nothing, real- " "I was not talking to you, Jimin. What did you mean by that, Yoongi?" Jungkook interrupted him once again. "It wasn't nothing, Jimin!" Yoongi glared at the youngest, who's eyes wandered once again back down to the floor . "He got himself a job as a waiter at the 'Royal Round'..." We all knew the establishment, hell it is part of our empire and we knew what some of the drunken customers could do to the staff without facing any consequences, even tough we had already talked to the manager of that place, he seems to still have not taken care of the problem. I cleanched my jaw. "There was a man, a typical wannabe billionaire, who intended to take advantage of Jimin. He groped him and was about to punch him. However, I was able to intervene; after a single punch, he collapsed like a house of cards."

Once again, rage rose inside each of us, accompanied by images of various ways to kill the man who had dared to touch Jimin. "That's nothing?" I asked Jimin in shock. "Well yeah, I mean nothing else happened other than this." Taehyung groaned in frustration, "That's it! I won't allow you to ever leave this place again!" Jimin's eyes grew wide, as if they were about to pop out of his head. "How can we help and protect you if you're not cooperating? At least in here, we can ensure your safety." Taehyung explained his statement, when he noticed the shocked expression in Jimin's face. "You don't need to protect me. You don't even really know me!" "Yes, we do. We know you well enough to be sure that the world beyond those walls is too dangerous for someone as cute and pure as you," I immediately replied. As I said those words, I pinched the younger's cheeks, as if to strengthen my point.

Jimin was seemingly perplexed by my sudden attack. He needed a moment before using both of his arms to free himself. His face showed an unamused look as he said, "You are acting like I am a child! I don't need you to protect me; I can very well take care of myself." When those words left his mouth, I wasn't sure if I should laugh at his statement or should become frustrated by his stubbornness, to make a better call what would be the right reaction I decided to let my eyes wander and see how the rest reacted. It wasn't that big of a help in deciding though, all of them had diffrent reactions, which streched from amused at his statement to annoyed stares at the youngest as if they were to say 'Are you serious?'. 

The entire situation, combined with those facial expressions, was enough to make me start laughing. Jimin's irritated face, as soon as my poker face turned into a warm laugh, made me laugh even harder. "Why are you laughing? I mean it!", Jimin said defensively. "You been out there for not even two weeks and you were already robbed and groped and those are only the once we know of! Knowing you, there were probably a lot of other things that had happened, which you'll probably try to keep from us." Yoongi argues, "Yes those things have happened, but as I told you, I am fine. I have survived a lot worse things!", Jimin's face showed a deeply pained expression as he mentions what he has gone through, it was only shown for a swift second before he compelled himself, to hid this expression once again deep inside of him. 

"We don't mean to protect you in a way to belittle you, in fact we think you're really strong for how you've fighted alone all these years, a fight as hard and tiring as yours. We want to tell you in our own sometimes very blunt way, that you are no longer alone, we want to be there for you, we feel that you are a part of our family and we want to show and tell you that you'll never walk alone again as long as you allow us to help you." Namjoon crouched before Jimin, so that he could meet the others eyes. At the supportive words Jimin his eyes began tearing up, now that we know, where he had came from we understood that it must have been years since he last heard words of encouragement, which made the scene in front of us even more heartbreaking. 

POV. Author 

Jimin couldn't keep the act up any longer, he wasn't as strong as he wanted to be, he knew that he was lucky to be still unharmed and he obviously knew that if it wasn't for those six man in front of him, he would have died that night three weeks ago. 

Tears began to stream out of his eyes, he didn't want to show how vulnerable he actually was but he was also so tired. He flinched a bit when he was warmly embraced, it made him feel secure. He fought against the urge to lean even further into the embrace but he lost against the begging of his scarred soul, to finally allow itself to heal and be able live without fear. His sobs were heavy and his eyes felt the same way. He wasn't sure when it happened but he was engulfed by the quiet darkness. 

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After the last chapters, this one is a bit shorter because I had trouble writing it. I hope you still enjoyed reading it!

PS. I wanted to once again let you guys know that I'll update at least once a week on sundays at around 12am mid-european time. I wanted to include the time as I noticed that I always write I'll update sunday, but my stats show me that I've also have a lot of readers in america and asia (especially india) and I am not exactly sure, which time/day it is when I update.

That's all have a good day/night!