Survive ❦ Namjoon

10 | One Down

"We have to go back for him!" Jackson threw his bag into the back of the car and made to run to the shop.

"Stop, Jackson." JB grabbed his arm and prevented him from moving forward. "Going back in there would kill us all. I know Yugyeom is our friend, but we can't save him now."

"JB!" Amara shouted and glared at the taller male. "Two months ago I was in a situation that I had no means of escaping from. I was so close to death, so much so that I could feel the devil's hands clawing at my feet; however, you came and rescued me. Why can't we do the same for Yugyeom? When someone's in trouble shouldn't you help them?"

"Not when it's a helpless situation like this..." JB faltered when he heard footsteps coming towards the group.

Focusing their attention on the approaching figure, they readied their weapons and got ready to fight. The fight that drained out of them when they saw who was approaching.

Blood poured from a wound on his shoulder and another on his leg. His skin was ashen and his whole face looked sunken in - like something had drained the life out of him.

Then, Yugeom collapsed before his friends' feet and they could tell it was taking all he had to stay conscious.

"Yugyeom, you... You're alive!" Bambam went to pounce on his best friend, failing as he did so; Jinyoung had held him back.

"Don't. He's been infected." Jinyoung's face fell after his last word was spoken, and he soothed Bambam, who couldn't hold his sobs back any longer. "I think it would be best we leave now."

Amara looked over towards the shop and saw the zombies coming their way; they had probably caught a whiff of the bloody scent wafting from Yugyeom's wounded body.

"Can you stand?" Jackson knelt down in front of the pale boy. "We'll get in the car and go somewhere safe. Remember that old friend of ours? He told us about this amazing house that was safe and free from whatever's happening to this world. There you can get treatment and... And you can live your life..."

Yugyeom looked tempted and like he was going to stand, but he fell to the ground once more.

"Just leave me. I'm a goner, anyway." He lowered his head and his whole demeanour showed how defeated he was. "I can feel the darkness creeping up on me and I don't know how much longer I can hold it back."

"We can't leave you! We can't!" Bambam struggled against Jinyoung's grasp and he protested when he was forced into the car. "I won't leave him behind, let me go!"

"Goodbye," Yugyeom breathed out his final farewell.

And then the darkness came creeping in, leaving no traces of Yugyeom behind.