officer jeon // jikook

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A/N: don't know much abt cops dude please don't roast me im trying

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Jungkook clocks in at an early time, and ever since he got promoted, he works pretty late.

This morning, his hyungs called him in much earlier. Usually, he'd go in around 6-8, depending on how many calls they'd had over the night. This morning, he was called in at 12:30.

It must have been absolutely awful.

"Got a call from a neighbor just now," Jackson-hyung explains. "The house caught fire. Pretty bad. Need you in as soon as possible, no one else has answered, and we trust that you can do a good job."

When Jungkook clocks in, his work hyung gives him the address.

It sounds familiar...

Driving down, the road also seems to be familar.

Where had Jungkook seen this before?

Then it hits Jungkook like a rock to the face.

He's heading to where Jimin is staying, at Taehyung's house. The fire occurred at their house. In the middle of the night, when they were asleep.

If he could go any faster, he was by now. He sped his ass all the way there.

Upon arrival, he sees the house smoking bad. The firefighters are there already and are trying hard to put it out. He can't really tell if they're struggling or not, though.

Everything is happening so fast.

He runs inside the burning building and immediately searches around. He didn't bother putting on any protection, he was in such a rush to look around.

Minutes of searching felt like hours. He looks around frantically. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

He gets burned a few times. Nothing serious, but it stung at first.

What hurt him the worst is when he had to leave the house, nothing in hand. Not Jimin, nor Taehyung, or anything...

He can't help but begin to cry when he exited the ruined house. All this time with Jimin, why couldn't he save him? Jungkook cared for him so much, why did this happen to him?

He just so happens to look to his side, and ends up seeing a miracle.

Taehyung, asleep, leaned against a tree, and Jimin also asleep in his lap.

"Need to take them to the hospital. At least get them checked out," a firefighter alerts him. Jungkook nods, swiping tears from his eyes.

"Ne, ajusshi."

He picks them both up, one at a time, and lifts them into his car. Next destination: the hospital.

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"The parents weren't home," Jungkook explains to the doctor when both men are settled into a room. "Jimin said something about them being away."

"Okay, thank you, Officer. We can take it from here," the doctor scribbles on his paper.

"Can I... stay with them, by any chance?"

The doctor sends him a confused glare. "You don't have to return to work?"

"Shit!" Jungkook remembers. "I'll stop by after work."

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About 10:30 when Jungkook is finally let off, and he's exhausted.

But he still finds the time to meet Jimin and Taehyung at the hospital.

It's actually about 10:45 when he gets to the hospital, so he steps into the room quietly, rubbing his eyes to wake himself up. The room is dark so the boys can get their sleep. It only makes Jungkook even more tired, but Jungkook still stays with them. Just in case they wake up and need something.

A doctor steps in about 10 minutes later to check on them, but finds Jungkook dozing off in the chair beside both of them. "Sir?" She asks for him politely.

Jungkook leans up and rubs the tiredness from his face. "Yeah?"

"I thought you might want to know that they're both fine. Just a few cuts and burns here and there, and a bit of smoke inhalation, but they'll be fine." She smiles. "They'll be out sometime by 12:00 pm tomorrow!"

"Okay, thank you... ma'am..." Jungkook dozes again.

He ends up falling asleep next to the both of them in that hospital room, and it's the first time since he slept over with Jimin that he's had any enveloping warmth when he slept.