Retribution || BTS Horror/Thriller AU

2.1

Jungkook awoke to the sunlight hitting his eyes. He rolls over and stretches, throwing his arm down on what he thought would be Taehyung, but instead hits the mattress. He looks over and sees Taehyung isn't there. Which is strange because Taehyung never wakes up before him.

He sits up with a confused expression, scratching his head, looking around the room. "Maybe he's downstairs." He utters to himself as he gets out of bed.

He runs downstairs and into the dining room where he finds everyone except for Tae.

"Good morning Jungkookie!" Jimin says with a nice smile. The others follow Jimin, giving Jungkook more "good mornings."

"Good morning.. uhh has anyone seen Tae?" Jungkook asks hoping someone has a good answer.

"No. He isn't upstairs?" Jimin questions.

Jungkook shakes his head as Hoseok suggests, "Maybe he went out for some fresh air?"

"No, Tae wouldn't do that."

"Well it was just a suggestion.." Hoseok mutters while rolling his eyes as he bites a piece of his toast.

"Maybe Hoseok is right, maybe he went for a walk. It is beautiful around here." Jin says, making Jungkook decide to go look for him.

"Okay, I guess I'll go look for him then." He grabs his jacket and puts it on as Jimin asks, "Would you like one of us to go with you?"

Jungkook replies with, "No, it's fine. I'll find the idiot." Then walks out the door.

As Jungkook makes his way through the woods, he began to feel the affects of the temperature. It was cold.. definitely below freezing. A lot of the snow on the ground had melted already but still lingered in the trees. Icicles had formed from the branches as small puddles froze over appearing like tiny ice skating rinks. The sky was partly cloudy and looked as if it might snow or sleet again, so he tried to hurry.

"Tae!" He yells out. No reply.
"Tae!!" He yells again.. still nothing.
"Taehyung! I swear, if you're hiding and being a dick I'll kill you!" He looks around, seeing nothing but trees and snow. "Idiot." He mumbles to himself walking around a tree.

As he turns his head, he runs into something. It takes him by surprise so he punches it. Once he realizes what it was, he fell back against the tree; his face haunted by what he saw.

It was Taehyung.

He was hanging by a rope tied to a tree. His skin had turned pale with a bluish tint and his eyes were still open. Jungkook was horrified!

He quickly gets up from the tree, running as fast as he could back to the mansion. He opens the door, slamming it behind him, as he runs in. Jin comes into the kitchen, seeing Jungkook leaning back against the door breathing heavily. His clothes were disheveled and his hair was a mess.

"What happened?!" Jin asks as Jungkook walks passed him and into the dining room.

"Tae is dead!" He says to everyone.

"What?!" Jin, Namjoon and Jimin say in unison.

"Yes.. I saw him. He was hanging by a tree. His body was cold and blue!" Jungkook plopped on one of the seats and covered his face with the palms of his hands.

"He was murdered?!" Jimin gasped.

Jungkook looks up from his hands. "Yes! Someone killed him.."

"So there's a killer out there?!" Hoseok screeches.

"I don't know.. all I know is my best friend is dead and I swear if I ever see that guy I'm gonna kill him myself!"

"So what do we do?" Namjoon asks glancing at everyone.

"I'll call the police." Jimin replies, walking away from them. Namjoon quickly follows. "How? When we don't have any signal?"

"I have a landline." Jimin points to the cordless phone that sat on a small table in his living room. He picks it up and dials 119, but the line suddenly cuts out.

"That's weird." He says putting the phone down.

Everyone else had walked in by that point.
"What?" Namjoon asks.

"The phone is out."

"What?!" Jungkook shouts as he grabs the phone from Jimin, putting it up to his ear.
There was no dial tone. Just silence, that's all it was.

He calmly puts it back down on the table and slowly turns to Jimin. "..And you just so happen to not have internet either, huh?"

"It's hard to get internet out here." Jimin says, in a subdued manner.

Jungkook slowly walks towards Jimin, making him back up. "I bet this is your doing. Isn't it?"

Jimin just shakes his head and puts his hands up to try to stop Jungkook. "No Jungkook. It's just a coincidence."

"Coincidence?! You invite us to your home after 7 years of seeing us, when we did so much shit to you back in high school. Then Tae ends up murdered and I'm supposed to just think it's a coincidence?!"

Jimin backs into the wall, still holding his hands up to Jungkook, as a frightened expression showed across his perfect mug. "I know how this looks, but please Jungkook! I swear to you, I have no idea what's going on!"

Jungkook grabs him by his sweater as Jin grabs Jungkooks arm. "Hey now! I think he's being serious man!"

Jungkook looks at Jin, who had raised eyebrows and his lips pressed together. He then turns back to Jimin, who still looked frightened.

He lets go of Jimin, saying, "Okay. Maybe it's not you. But it's someone and we need to figure something out!"

"I'll go get some help." Hoseok offers.

"That's a good idea." Jimin replies, adjusting his sweater.

Hoseok walks out and Jungkook watches him through the window. He gets in his car and drives off into the woods.

"I'm sorry Tae." Jungkook mumbles to himself, wishing he could go back in time or at least bring Taehyung back to life.