Alienated [✔] » k.th

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Joey

When they said secret weapon, I was imagining some kind of huge alien weapon that was not known to humankind, that could devour souls and destroy planets.

I was not imagining this.

Jin placed his hand up to a scanner just as he did for V's cell. The doors slowly opened and the inside of the cell was dark, the lights had been turned out.

The boys looked inside. I stood a few steps away just in case whatever was inside was in a eating human mood, I would have a head start. Jin gestured for it to come out.

My heart raced. I was eager to see what creature they had locked up so securely.

Out stepped a guy with bare feet. He had on white coveralls like V did and he seemed very surprised to be out of that cell. He looked at me then turned to his brothers and they all started talking in some alien language, I obviously didn't know.

"This is the secret weapon?" I asked.

"You sound disappointed," Jimin chuckled.

"I'm just surprised. That's all."

"Meet our youngest brother, Jungkook."

So this is the guy that V told me about. I held out my hand so he could shake it. But, he just looked at it like he didn't have hands of his own. He turned to Jin and said something in his native tongue.

Jin replied back to him in the alien language. Then Jin turned to me.

"I forgot to mention, he doesn't speak English or any language that exists on earth." He explained. "I will help with the language barrier."

"Well, Hello, Jungkook." I waved.

Jin said something back to him. He approached me and pulled me into an unexpected and tight hug. "Woah. What'd you tell him?"

"I just told him that you said hi and told him that you are a friend of V's."

I remembered that V told me that Jungkook looked up to him, and that they were very close. Jungkook shook my hand and ran his hand up and down my arm, by the look on his face, be seemed amazed by it.

He said something in alien, and again Jin translated.

"He says what's wrong with your skin?"

"Oh... Nothing. I was just... I was just born like this." I replied, feeling a little awkward that he was frisking me.

Jin replied back to him. Jungkook smiled at me. He didn't seem dangerous at all. Actually he was very clingy and touchy. "Ok that's enough touching for today." I pulled my arm away. "Let's just go."

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I thought that standing in the middle of an empty field would make this all too obvious, but I had no other suggestions so I just went with the flow.

I just wanted this to be over with anyway. I could hear someone eating something in my earpiece.

"Who is that?"

"Who's what?" Hoseok's voice echoed in my ear.

"Someone's eating something. Who is that?"

"Oh that was me," Jimin confessed. "What? I was hungry."

"Nervous?" Jin asks.

"Yes." I let out a small sigh. My knees buckled, my heart raced and my muscles felt like jelly. "I just want this to be over with."