MIRROR MIRROR || ksj || BTS

III

"This is Lina", Jungkook introduced the actress playing opposite Jin in this short scene they were to film. Her long hair was swaying with the wind, making her hair flap dramatically over her face.

"Hello!", she said sweetly, first bowing, and then extending her hand. Jin shook it timidly, giving her a short nod.

"Ok", one of the other co-directors approached them. "No train comes through this station, but you both should act like a train is passing-"

"We'll be using motion graphics to create a fake train later on", Jungkook interjected.

"Right", the other boy nodded.

"In this scene", Jungkook said, motion to Lina the other side of the railway, "Lina should be greeting Jin Hyung from across the street."

She nodded.

"Jin Hyung".

Jin snapped his head to Jungkook guiltily. He had been observing Jiha. There was something she had been up to, though Jin couldn't pinpoint exactly what it was.

"Hyung", Jungkook continued, focused on the scene list in his hands, "You'll be holding flowers over here. And then Lina should come running..."

Jin zoned out again as he witnessed Jiah's aura becoming a dangerous shade of grey. Her eyes dilated, and she was swaying back and forth as she came up to them.

"That seems about it", the other co-director was saying.

"Yup", Jungkook nodded. "Do you both understand?"

Lina nodded, then they all stared at Jin expectantly, waiting for a reply.

"Um-y-yes", Jin said.

Jungkook seemed satisfied. He glanced to Jiyah's swaying form and frowned. SHe caught his eyes and straightened, mumbling something.

"Hm?", he looked at her in confusion.

"The Camera is ready", she stuttered.

Jin could notice the conflicted look in Jungkook's face, but it was those red strings that were gripping into his arm.

Jiyah went to the camera, her numb fingers grasping onto the machine as if her life depended on it.

The rest of the crew got ready, and Lina and Jin went to the positions they were supposed to be at.

"We'll start with the close-up shots. Lina can go first".

Jin didn't mind as the camera crew focused on position the camera in front of Lina.

He quietly hummed, watching the winter air pick up dead leaves from autumn, and take them to the air.

"Cut!", one student finally yelled as the shot finished.

Next, they went over to Jin, stuffing a bouquet of flowers in his hands.

Jin's eyes were trained on Jiya's shaking fingers from underneath the blanket draped over the camera.

"And action!"

The cue card snapped, making Jin wince.

They asked him to do a few facial expressions for the close-up shot.

"Act as if your happy to see her", Jungkook instructed.

Jin through in a little wave at the camera.

"Now", Jungkook continued, "She's running across the street, but then the train comes, and it's too late..."

Jin frowned. Since when was this in the script. They must've mistaken his frown for acting.

"Cut!", Jungkook yelled.

Jin sighed.

The crew clapped in glee.

"He's a natural!", the co-director said.

"That was awsome Hyung!", Jungkook beamed.

Some of the guys patted Jin on the back.

"You really should've gone into acting."

Lina shyly came over, quickly giving her congrats.

Jin simply smiled at them all, a little uncomfortable from their wide stares.

"That was really good", Jiha spoke up in a daze.

Jin frowned.

"Now for the last shot", Jungkook declared.

This time it was a long-shot. The entire scene would be executed from start to finish.

It started off with Jin looking across the street with the bouquet of flowers in his hands.

Lina waved. He smiled and waved back. Then she came running across the street.

"Imagine as if a train is coming", one of the film crew members yelled.

Jin didn't need to imagine. He was standing there in 1928. The old Luna crossing train coming through as a shadowy figure made it's way across.

This time, Jin wasn't holding flowers. His hands clutched the red ropes, trying to reel in the figure.

He could feel the roped slipping away. The roar of the engine was at bay.

"Come!", he shouted.

But then the figure stopped.

"What are you doing?", he exclaimed.

Then whoever it was that was staring back at him whispered for the last time, "You were the fairest of them all". And then the machine engulfed them.

The rope snapped in half, the other end decaying, and Jin screeching in pain.

"Jin Hyung?"

Jin blinked at them. He looked down to see the once beautiful bouquet of flowers now limply laying on the ground.

The rest of the crew was staring at him with wide eyes. He attempted a light-hearted chuckle, but it came out sounding hollow.

"Maybe a little too much?"

Jungkook began to walk towards him. "Hyu-"

Jin couldn't take it. His heart was beating faster than his ragged breathing.

"I just remembered something", he interrupted the boy. "I'm sorry Kookie, I have to go".

Jungkook frowned, about to say more, "I'll see you tomorrow alright?"

He quickly bent down to retrieve the ruined flowers, shoving them into Jungkook's hand before turning around and escaping Luna Crossings.

He didn't look back, he just surged forward, out of Luna's crossings and through the streets of Seoul.

He didn't know what he just saw, but Luna Crossings had sparked somewhere deep inside of Jin that he wasn't ready to see.

He shuddered, not from the cold, but from himself.

He was not the fairest of them all.