Jikook - Bewitched

Chapter 7

"I need you two to be absolutely calm, you understand?" Yoongi breathed, almost inaudible through the blaring sweep of the wind.

Jungkook bit his inner cheek a bit fretful and tried to calm his heartbeat, while mustering their surroundings. They had brought a respectable distance between themselves and the castle and for the first time, the forbidden forest felt like a shielding safe space. Without even letting them finish breakfast properly, Yoongi had pulled Jungkook and Taehyung by their robes and hurriedly yanked them out of the castle. Luckily, no one seemed to have noticed their disappearance through the great entrance hall.

"Jimin's trial starts in an hour." the Slytherin continued, as he played around with his wand and Jungkook believed to notice a bit of nervousness on the elder as well, "The portal in the headmaster's office has been shut down, so I'll have to take us to one of the other entrance portals of the ministry. There, we'll have to use the Polyjuice potion."

Taehyung nodded surprisingly confident, his gaze also fixed on Yoongi's wand, "and then we got the easiest part done."

Yoongi scoffed as if Taehyung had just promised him that the N.E.W.T.s would be like a walk in the park, "Oh boy, that's when the real challenge begins." he said, "There are gonna be loads of magical unmasking spells around the place and if we get caught, Jimin's lost. And I'm speaking no turning things around."

"We have to do this", Jungkook threw in, Jimin's face in his mind the entire time, "he doesn't have anyone else that fights for him."

Shoving his shoulder gently, Taehyung attempted a smile, "No one talked about chickening out Kook."

For a few seconds, they merely breathed in silence, each giving in to their nervous habits and trying to get the horse race in their heart under control, "Okay, hold onto me and whatever you... don't let go."

Jungkook and Taehyung did as they were told and placed their hands on either of Yoongi's shoulders. Had Jungkook not felt like his head was going to explode, he might have felt a bit of remorse for crushing Yoongi with his tight grip. But, of course, the Slytherin barely shifted in his expression and only took a deep breath to steady himself. Seemed like the always laid-back Min Yoongi wasn't so laid back right now. It made sense of course, Jungkook realized, because it showed how important this was to Yoongi as well.

Suddenly, an incredible nausea overcame him and he had to close his eyes for a moment, which was why he wasn't prepared for the hard collision of his feet with the ground that followed. He bumped his head on a not so soft space of concrete and a low groan followed. It was painful enough to make Jungkook freeze in his position for a second, until he turned onto his back and looked around.

What the hell. Where were- His heart made a slight jump, high enough to feel like it was about to break out through his throat. Wait.. That wasn't his heart. In the next second he leaned onto his chest again, puking onto the concrete. When he found his stomach empty enough to stay calm, he righted himself on wobbly legs, which almost gave out at the first step. He anxiously mustered the empty, dark alley in front of him. No trace of Taehyung or Yoongi. He was freaking alone in this dark-ass alleyway. With a stressed bite onto his bottom lip, he turned and turned and finally found a stripe of light, breaking through the end of the alley. In the distance, the penetrant ringing of bells signalled him that another fifteen minutes had passed. They were running out of time.

Should he wait where he was until Yoongi and Taehyung would find him? That could take forever though... maybe he would have better chances if he went looking for them. Or at least found out where he was. With that thought in mind, Jungkook jogged towards the exit of the alley. The closer he came to the light, the louder a strange kind of music sounded in his ear. As he broke out of the alley and onto a wider street, his mouth fell open and his body froze in its' spot. This had to be a joke.