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14: Family Feud

"It doesn't make sense," Jin says, leaning on the counter that separates the kitchen from the main room to talk to the others without having them enter his space.

"You think we've travelled back in time?"

Everyone is chilling in the main room that has a direct open door access into the kitchen. The scents of Jin's morning breakfast which you can detect as a homemade pancake mix and French toast. The wafting smell is enough to make everyone in the room salivating and hungry. Yoongi and Hoseok are lying at opposite ends on the same couch despite the fact that there is enough furniture in the house to host a couple of hundred people. Jungkook sits on a stool opposite you from the collective circle of gathered furniture. Jimin looks grouchy for having been woken up intentionally and Taehyung and you share a sofa, however not as intimately as sope.

"Agreed." Yoongi shrugs. "Even Taehyung has better ideas. "

"But he's got a point, " You defend Namjoon. "I mean, maybe it's a time when something terrible happened."

"Then where is everyone?" Jungkook asks. "If this is the past and something terrible happened and everyone died, how come we have memories of the future? "

Jungkook's words make you regret yours. He was right, one theory just gave room for more questions.

"Maybe that isn't the future, " Taehyung says, spookily. "But the past. "

"What? " Hoseok sputters unable keep up with the circulation of thoughts.

"He means the previous life." Jin rolls his eyes.

"It could make sense, " Jimin supports Namjoon as well. "Not the afterlife thing but... these creatures we're finding. Maybe they've gone extinct so we don't know them from our future. "

"This is stupid." Yoongi narrows his eyes. "This isn't some movie. Jungkook is right. Where the fuck is everyone then?"

Jungkook looks at Yoongi gratefully, rhe connection between the second oldest and the youngesr evident right now. However, everyone was standing and speaking for himself or herself at the moment.

"But if we've gone back, we can't have gone too far back because we have like... phones and stuff. "

"So like when Jin hyung was born."

"Yah! There weren't phones when you were born either Jeon Jungkook! "

"There were."

"Oh really?"

"Yeah. Landlines, " Jungkook flashes Jin a bunny smile cheekily. Jin picks up his hot pancake flipper and holds it up making a run for the naughty younger one.

"Come here you lil-"

"So what are we gonna do?" Hoseok asks ignoring the two. "Or perhaps... What are we supposed to do? "

"I'll tell you," Yoongi says, the impatience rising with his voice. "We're supposed to fucking take some action instead of lying around."

"Huh, look who's talking. "

"Shut the hel-"

"Yoongi language please."

Yoongi glares at Jin who glares back.

"And what about the sky? The gas? The unhealthy air and radiation? " Hoseok asks suddenly, proposing a new argument. "This has never happened in the history of mankind. "

"Well right now we kind of are the history of mankind aren't we? " Namjoon suggests. "We're the only people here. And as far as we've checked there is no record of anyone else here. "

"Um, there is? " Jungkook opposes, sarcastically. "Our brains are full if memories of our past lives. I may not remember everything but I remember my name, my parents, my background and that's enough for me to know that at some point in my life that all happened. "

"Memories? " Namjoon argues. "Are you saying our memories are proof enough for you to believe that this theory isn't an option? What if-"

"Don't you dare say that it's all bullshit, " Yoongi interrupted Namjoon, groling like a lion. "I remember each and every detail of the life I lived in accord with my heart. It's was fucking real, and I won't believe otherwise. "

You look at Yoongi, not expecting such a sentimental sentence out of him

"You don't mean it's programmed into us? " Taehyung speaks over Yoongi's protest addressing Namjoon. His eyes go wide with fear. "Who are we, then Namjoon? Who am I?!!!"

"I don't know Tae! "

"Well you should! " Hoseok says getting worked up himself. "Don't just throw about ideas when you don't even know what you're talking about. "

"None of us know what we are talking about, " Jin defends.

"I'm confused. "

"This whole thing is messed up. Namjoon's saying this explosion is what? A mirage? A fake science world? "

"Coming from a realist, I'm disappointed. "

Taehyung gets up from his spot in the couch decidedly, looking for attention.

"Whatever it is, we have to get stronger to fight it."

"Are you serious? You think we're gonna get attacked? If we could have been attacked why weren't we so all this goddamn time?! "

"Yeah that's what. The sooner death the better, " Yoongi takes an extra big puff to emphasize his opinion.

"Hyung why are you pessimistic? Don't you think we're going to find a way out of this? " Jimin demands, suddenly very sensitive with the atmosphere.

"Cuz life isn't exactly rainbows and sparkles is it?!??"

"Maybe it was just meant to be like this."

"That isn't an answer," Namjoon counters Jungkook.

"You're saying we're meant to live like this? Meant to chill in this shitty mansion and drive around like we own this world. Meant to lose our lives, ourselves?! Meant to lose everyone we love?!"

"Love? Are you even capable of that Yoongi? "

"We didn't just lose those we love! We lost everyone! Every human being. "

"That's right. What about the animals. Why are they alive? "

"Questionable animals too, " Jimin adds.

"That's why I said-"

"I don't think we've gone back in time," Taehyung argues, looking unconvinced. "There are too many questions."

"We haven't, " Yoongi snaps. "We haven't gone anywhere. What happened, happened."

"But what happened?"

There is a silence. No one answers but no one knows what to answer. The tension of the argument is high in the air. Ego, betrayal, confusion dominate high as everyone avoids the others' eyes not wanting to show the hurt. There is never agreement. There is always opposition for one idea and the others either take sides or argue their own points. Everyone has suffered and everyone wants their own thing.

Jin walks into the kitchen, slamming down a stack full of steaming pancakes crackling the silence with the sound of glass on wood. He looks up seriously, ready to beat the ass of any child that opposes him.

"I think, " Jin begins slowly and clearly. "It's high time we all got out of here."

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