the razor-sharp pendulum was descending at an alarmingly rapid rate. it wouldn't be long before they all met their slow, painful doom. ❝ highest: #329 ❞
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j u n g k o o k
"what's going on?"
jungkook was startled out of his thoughts when the man next to him suddenly spoke. out of the corner of his eye, he saw the man begin to struggle against his bonds.
turning his head to the right, he saw taehyung beside him, his eyes frantic and panic-filled as he took in their new predicament. when he saw jungkook looking at him, his brows furrowed. "why are we tied to this board?" he asked him, confused.
jungkook couldn't bring himself to say it out loud. so, instead, he pointed to the still-swinging pendulum with his free left hand.
taehyung stared at the glittering figure for a brief moment, and then his lips parted slightly in an "o" shape, his eyes widening even further. "oh shit," taehyung breathed.
"taehyung? is that you?" a voice from taehyung's other side sounded across the room--a voice that jungkook recognized immediately as jimin's.
"yeah," taehyung said, his voice still sounding slightly weak after the realization he had just had. "jungkook's awake, too."
"holy shit, why is my body bound?" jimin asked, and across taehyung, jungkook could see the man pulling at the bonds with his free hand. it seemed, jungkook realized, that all of their left hands were free, while their right hands were tied securely to the board.
to jimin's right, he saw another man stirring. namjoon, jungkook realized.
and to jungkook's left, he saw hoseok begin to struggle against the bonds as well, quickly followed by yoongi and then jin on his left.
"what the fuck is going on?" yoongi's familiar, sarcastic voice echoed throughout the chamber. "why the hell are there ropes around me?"
"this is really bad," namjoon said, and jungkook could practically hear the gears turning in the older man's brain as he evaluated their situation.
"why? what's going on?" hoseok cried, looking frantically between yoongi and jungkook, who were on either side of him, as if hoping for an explanation.
"remember how we said that the pendulum couldn't harm us as long as we stayed clear of it's path across the center of the room?" namjoon said, and beside jungkook, hoseok squeaked out a small "yes?"
"well, hoseok, take a look at where we are right now," namjoon said, and hoseok let out a little gasp.
"we're at the center of the room," hoseok said, his voice cracking.
"took you long enough," yoongi muttered.
"what do we do?" jimin shrieked, his voice shrill with panic as he watched the pendulum swing hypnotically across the span of the room. the shimmering blade was now only about thirteen or twelve feet above them.
"i don't know..." namjoon said, and for one of the first times since jungkook had met him, he seemed genuinely terrified.
"well aren't you supposed to be the genius here?" yoongi yelped. "if you don't know what to do, then how the hell are any of us going to figure something out?"
"just, let me think," namjoon snapped, and across taehyung and jimin, jungkook saw namjoon run his free left hand through his hair.
to jungkook's left, yoongi began humming the jeopardy theme.
"yoongi, for god's sake, shut the fuck up!" namjoon hissed. "this isn't a time to be joking around!"
"why'd we fall asleep in the first place?" jimin piped up.
"who knows," yoongi groaned.
"the food was drugged or something, i think," jin interjected, causing all of them to look towards him. "because we all fell asleep in the exact order that we started eating."
"you know, that actually makes sense," namjoon said.
"oh no," taehyung moaned.
"what?" hoseok asked.
"that means that it's all my fault," taehyung whimpered. "if i hadn't started eating, then nobody else would have, and then we wouldn't have been drugged, and then we wouldn't have fallen asleep, and then we wouldn't be here, tied to a board--"
"taehyung, it's not your fault," jungkook said, trying to calm his panicked voice into sounding somewhat soothing. he tried to reach over to his right side--where taehyung was--with his free left hand, but found that he couldn't reach far enough to comfort his now-crying comrade.
"wait a minute," namjoon said suddenly. "jungkook, you're at the center of the board, right?"
"yeah," jungkook said, his stomach clenching. he already knew where this was going.
"then that means that--" namjoon began, only to get cut off by jungkook.
"yeah, yeah, i realized that much, namjoon," jungkook said softly.
"oh," namjoon said, even more softly. "i-i-i'm sorry, jungkook."
"what?" jimin asked, looking between the two of them. "what's happening to jungkook?"
"since i'm at the very center of the board, i'll be the first to get cut by it," he mumbled, saying the words out loud somehow making it harder to accept his fate.
"holy shit," taehyung gasped. "that... oh my god..."
"maybe there's something we can do?" jimin said hopefully.
"i doubt it," jungkook said. "these bonds look pretty tough, and we only have our left hands free."
"are the bonds knotted somewhere?" jin asked. "maybe we can untie them using our free hand?"
"no, the bonds are rooted inside this board we're tied to," namjoon said. "we couldn't break free of them unless we had a knife or something."
yoongi snorted. "you guys are such idiots," he laughed.
"yoongi, i swear to god--" namjoon began, his voice rising with anger.
"are we not in the presence of a huge fucking knife?" yoongi said, pointing to the pendulum with his free hand. "like, duh."
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