"You Lost Now You're Mine"

Chapter 58

It had been a couple of weeks since everything went down. Within those two weeks, three major things happened. The first was Myung had ended up dying after his surgery. The doctors had done everything they could to keep him alive but Myung hadn’t made it. This came as both a relief and source of guilt to Jimin. For the military, Myung’s death was a relief but also an inconvenience. If they’d gotten their hands on Myung, they might have been able to extract a lot of information on how he ran the mafia, and plans they had for the future, as well as identify other leaders within their groups. As it was, they could only try and get that information from those they’d arrested during Operation Bluebell.

For Jimin, however, Myung’s death caused a lot of guilt to course through him. He was relieved that no one would be after him anymore, but the fact remained that he had killed Myung, his own father. That made him a murderer no matter what Woobin said about it being in self-defense. General Woobin had also tried to soothe Jimin by saying Myung probably would have gotten the death penalty after a trial anyway. But hearing this didn’t ease Jimin as he was a strong advocate against the death penalty. He believed that no matter the crime committed, no state, committee, or person had the right to condemn someone to death. Because of these convictions, Jimin wasn’t able to forgive himself for what he’d done. His inner turmoil grew and he let it fester in his thoughts for three days before he realized this wasn’t the correct way to deal with the pain.

After that realization, Jimin had dealt with his inner turmoil by talking to Jungkook along with a trusted colleague of his. He told the colleague everything that had happened ever since he’d recovered his lost memories, and talking through everything with someone who wasn’t directly involved helped him tremendously. He was able to work through what he’d done to that woman and his father, he was able to accept it after only a week of therapy with his colleague. It would take him a while longer to forgive himself and no longer feel guilty over it, but he was working on it.

The second thing that happened was they’d made the news. Capturing so many of Myung’s men during Operation Bluebell had turned out to be beneficial for the military. While Woobin had thought the people they captured wouldn’t be of much help, he’d been very wrong. It turned out many of those they’d captured knew a lot of things and were willing to spill their knowledge in exchange for a lighter sentence or immunity. With each surprising arrest made, the media grew more curious of what had happened.

So the media began researching what had happened to lead to all these arrests. They eventually stumbled upon most of the truth with leaked information. Some of the leaked information led to Jimin and his contribution. Since Jimin had been vital for Myung’s men to be captured, the media praised him as a hero. The only thing their story got wrong was that Jimin was a knowing participant in the scheme. Being praised as a hero made Jimin feel awkward. He hadn’t expected it, and he definitely didn't feel deserving of the title. However there wasn’t much he could do about it, so he let things be.

And the final thing which was most recent to happen was… Jungkook had gotten sick. No one really knew how he’d gotten sick, he had just woken up one day feeling feverish. Jimin had been the first to notice how sluggish he was being and upon checking his temperature had demanded that the younger stay home and rest. Jungkook had been reluctant to listen at first but eventually gave in when Jimin promised to cuddle him the whole time he was sick.

It was mid-afternoon and Jimin was currently feeding Jungkook the chicken broth Jin had brought for the youngest. Jimin had learned really quickly that Jungkook was very clingy and attention seeking when he was sick. He whined whenever Jimin would move away from him even slightly. While that might annoy some it didn’t annoy Jimin, he found it rather cute. Jungkook was always affectionate with him but being sick made him almost 10x more affectionate. It was a good thing that Jungkook wasn’t contagious or Jimin was sure to have gotten sick as well from how close he constantly was too the younger.