THE DARKEST HOPE

Chapter 31 Night Life Part 2

Chapter 31

Night Life Part 2

"So, let me summarize. These two criminals cut the power to the laboratory and the vampires got out? Then you killed them and sat away for a nice chit-chat and several drinks?" Suga emptied his glass and Jimin poured him another generous dose. The hunter couldn't believe his ears so far. The whole story about the burglars entering the house, the fight with the monsters, all of that was way too much for one nigh.

"Don't worry, we burned the bodies. And none of us got hurt." Jimin said tiredly. "As you can see, no harm done... Except for the table and the door and a few glasses, oh, and your clothes..." Jimin shot him a questioning look.

"Forget about the clothes! Why did you chose to tell nothing to the police?" Suga asked. "These men should have been punished for what they did!"

"Actually they did nothing wrong, they stole nothing, they didn't hurt me... They actually helped a lot with the vampires..."

"Come on, you know better than that!" Suga felt annoyed. Jimin was acting totally irrational. Why was his friend behaving like that. He stared at Jimin intently. There had to be some reason, something important...

Jimin was examining his glass, not looking back at him, his eyes partially covered by his hair. There was something off about him. Suga knew him long enough to sense these things with ease.

"What aren't you telling me, Jimin?" Suga asked quietly but firmly. "I have to know, what is going on."

Jimin stayed silent for a long time. His pale fingers tracing random patterns around the glass in his hand. Finally he spoke.

"They said that they were Jungkook's friends, Yoongi." Jimin lifted his eyes, filled with anguish. "That the three of them had a plan to rob our home together..."

"That's..." Suga snored with disbelief. "They could have said anything. Let's ask him! Where is Jungkook anyway?" Suga looked around in surprise. The whole commotion made him briefly pass on the absence of their guest. But now he understood that a big part of the weirdness he was feeling came from the fact that he was missing the usual presence of the boy.

His gaze finally landed back at Jimin, just to notice the eyes of his friend filled with tears.

"He knows, Yoongi!" Jimin whispered. "He knows about me!"

"He knows what?" Deep down Suga knew what Jimin was talking about. He just didn't want to process it.

"He found the laboratory, the vampires, everything!" Jimin managed to say after a long gulp from his drink. "He read his file... He was so angry!"

Jimin couldn't hold it inside anymore. His head dropped down and the tears he fought the entire evening finally started falling down. It was as if the floodgates of his pain opened, unleashing a storm of emotions he couldn't control anymore. Jimin was weeping hard, his body shaking form his sobs.

Suga sat closer to his friend and put his arm around his shoulders, trying to provide at least some comfort for him.

"He is not coming back, never!" Jimin cried with desperation. The realization of the horrible aftermath from this day was finally hitting in with all its cruelty. He curled down his body and hid his face in his hands. Suddenly it felt like the world had ended in flames and all meaning in life was blown away like ashes.

"Shh, it's all right." Suga said quietly, his hand gently stroking Jimin's disheveled hair. "It can't be that bad, right?"

Suddenly something attracted his eyes. A dark, almost black bruise around Jimin's wrist. The mark was recent, and looked like being left by a tight grip of a strong hand. How did he missed it earlier!