Forest-Namseok

Chapter 18

There are five stages of grief. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally acceptance. Some people experience those five stages quicker than the others; some remain on a specific stage for longer than the rest. We all alive and as long as we live we’ll experience those stages.

It’s fate

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“It’s going to be alright baby…” Hoseok had not leaved Namjoon’s side for a moment. He held him in his chest when the paramedics came and collected the lifeless bodies, he combed his hair while they drove to the hospital and he spoke to the police officers when they came to ask them the details of the crime

Jin and Taehyung had left with Jimin and Jungkook. They couldn’t present themselves to the police and Jimin had fainted sometime after they called the police. Yoongi stayed behind to help explain the situation with Young.

He and Hoseok agreed to keep Hansun’s presence hidden for now. This was a matter of the pack not the police, Namjoon was too shocked to say anything other than incoherent mumbles and Young was still unconscious.

The paramedics came first and took the bodies causing Namjoon to cry harder as he watched his parents being taken away, the police saw Yoongi and Hoseok trying to calm the boy down and decided the questions could wait for a bit.

When they were at the hospital a nurse made Yoongi hold a hysteric Namjoon who was shouting he wanted his parents as she injected him with a liquid tranquilizer

“We usually don’t inject this type of tranquilizer” she said as Namjoon fell into a weird trance and if it was not for Yoongi holding him up we would have fallen on the floor “But he is too much into shock that the normal ones wouldn’t have worked anyway.” She said and nodded at the police officers who walked towards her

“Could we ask him some questions?” what seemed like the head detective asked

“I just sedated him. He’ll be out of it in a few hours” she said and the police officers turned to Hoseok who was combing Namjoon’s hair off his face and Yoongi  who had just finished maneuvering Namjoon’s body in the chair

“We’ll answer” Yoongi said and sighed at the surprised men “We know you can’t wait till he gets out of it. Help us put him in a bed and we’ll tell you everything”

The buffest police man picked Namjoon up who had fallen into a chemical induced sleep and carried him to an empty room, laying him on the bed

“Poor boy… is he under a bad star or something?” Another police officer whispered his eyes looking Namjoon with pity “First the rape now this… Ooof how much bad luck can a kid have?”

“Excuse me what?” Hoseok butted in at the mention of rape “Rape?”

“Yeah… we have met the boy few years back. His parents wanted to keep the investigation as quiet as possible… He got raped on an annual picnic and his offenders got killed by a wolf” the police officer blinked as he saw the surprise at the kids’ eyes “What you didn’t know? Aren’t you guys friends?”

“He never said anything…” Hoseok trailed and shook his head to avoid tears. This was not the time to analyze that issue. Later.

“Anyway” the head police officer said and motioned everyone outside “What happened?”

“We were closing up the bookstore.” Hoseok started the story as they had agreed earlier “Namjoon’s owns it, it’s at XXX Street, we hung around there after our work and help him close up. When we were about to go into the car Namjoon got a phone call from Young” he said and slowed down as the officers wrote down what he said “He was crying and telling Namjoon that he was at a meadow he didn’t recognize. We picked up Yoongi on the way since we didn’t want to be alone going into the forest…extra measures”