Before I Fall | Bangtwice Fanfic

Other Kinds Of Monsters

Hoseok wasn't thinking anymore. He just couldn't. His mind had shut down ever since they had escaped that lift lobby and he simply let his body do all the work now.

In front of him, Jimin hesitated at the end of the stairs. "How the hell do we get out?"

Hoseok's chest tightened. He glanced around. Oh God, if only they had known the way out or if there were some form of directions given because now they were going to be stuck here forever and just –

Reception Lobby

The arrow on the sign far away pointed towards a corridor on the right. His lips parted.

"This way!"

He led the remaining survivors across a large hall. Their footsteps echoed and blended with screams that seemed to surround and suffocate them. They sped along the maze of corridors until zombies rounded a corner and charged towards them.

Hoseok wanted to stop; he almost did.

But they had to go on.

He clenched his right fist and landed a weak punch on the side of a zombie's face. It staggered but rebounded in a second.

He let out a scream and kicked it away. Taehyung reappeared next to him with some random vase and flung it at its face.

"MOVE! GO!"

They fought their way through to the exit. Hoseok dashed outside and looked around. No zombies yet.

He turned to see the rest fumbling with the glass doors to delay the incoming horde.

"It won't work. Let's go!"

He pulled a reluctant Jimin away. They sprinted across a car park. Someone on his left tripped forward.

"Oh shit."

He swerved towards her as his breath rasped in his throat. "You okay?"

He bent down and pulled her to her feet. A wave of dizziness hit him.

Where were they even running to?

Hoseok caught up to Taehyung and Jimin at the end of the car park, passing through an opened gate and onto the side of a road. He felt himself go pale. Cars were abandoned. One of them had crashed into a lamppost with smoke billowing from the engine.

"Now what?" someone asked.

Hoseok swallowed his saliva. "See that park? We take that pathway and we head to the other side. There's bound to be someplace we can hide. Like that building."

"Okay." Taehyung glanced back at the broadcasting station. He lowered his voice to a whisper. "We gotta go now."

The group stepped cautiously around the debris littered on the ground as they crossed the street. The lush foliage of the park did little to calm Hoseok down; in fact, it made him all the more nauseous.

Every rustle of the leaves, every snap of a twig... it just drove him crazy.

They kept low, running as fast as their legs could carry them.

Please please please don't come out now.

He felt Jimin hold on tightly to his arm. "It's okay..." He found himself reassuring the younger man despite his own racing heartbeat.

A large road came into view. Many cars had stopped and only a few drove past them. They travelled along the pavement for some time before they hurried over to the buildings on the other side. Bodies were strewn about in front of the first one; they couldn't risk it. They approached the next one instead.