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51| Road trip

Yoongi was driving, one hand on the steering wheel while the other was resting on his thigh. He always liked driving at night on the highway. With no cars around and nothing to distract him except for the long piece of asphalt in front of him, he felt like he could go anywhere he wanted. The slow beat of the song Stairway to Heaven was resonating in the cockpit, wrapping him like a hot blanket and he felt the most relaxed he had felt in days, which was kind of absurd when he thought about it. They were running away from a black coven; it wasn't normal to be this calm.

He looked in the rearview mirror, catching a glimpse of the people in the back who were sleeping soundly.

Taehyung was on the left seat, his legs way too long for the small space in the back of the Honda. His face was pressed against the car window, his breath fogging the glass as he was slowly breathing in his sleep. Squeezed in the middle, Megan was leaning against Taehyung, her head laying on his shoulder, and on the right, Jimin had his head laying against Megan's. He suddenly moved a bit, changing the way his legs were placed and he opened his mouth, drooling on her coat.

Yoongi looked back at the road for a minute before turning his gaze at his side. Alice was sitting with her knees pressed against her chest. She had removed her boots and her gaze was fixed on the road in front of her, impenetrable blue eyes assessing the darkness.

Hoseok's cabin was three hours away from Seoul, buried in the untamed Saji-ri forest. So, here they were, on a forced roadtrip to get there.

"You should sleep too," said Yoongi to Alice, breaking the silence after almost an hour of quiet driving.

"I'm your co-pilot, I should stay awake to make sure that you don't fall asleep," answered Alice, her gaze still fixed to the long strip of asphalt the wheels were swallowing.

Yoongi chuckled lightly, thinking that it was quite funny how little faith she had in him. They stayed silent for another 10 minutes in a tacit agreement to not disturb the peaceful moment. Wicked Games by Chris Isaak followed, and the atmosphere was perfectly serene, the humming of the engine and the dark trees around them creating a little bubble of stillness

"You didn't meet Juliet, right?" suddenly asked Alice.

Yoongi couldn't read her feelings because she was invariably blocking him out, but he still knew that the question had been burning on her tongue for a while just by the way she blurted it out, almost involuntarily.

"No I have not," he calmly answered.

Alice didn't say anything after that, face completely blank.

"How is she?" asked Yoongi.

"How is... what?"

"She's your cousin, right? You grew up with her..."

Alice grinned, facing his profile.

"Fearless, strong headed... she was always the one getting us into trouble when we were kids. Even if she is younger than me, she was the one making the decisions," said Alice, smiling as old memories resurfaced.

"She's also cursed," she added.

"How?"

"Just like our powers make us suffer, Juliet is paying the price of having black magic in her veins," claimed Alice, "she can't fall in love."

"Really?"

"Yes! Her power to seduce people has rotten her heart. She can experience attachment, loyalty, and affection but nothing more."

Yoongi stayed silent, lost in his thoughts.

"You know... I realize that my old coven is evil and that they probably all deserve to die... but they are still my family. I don't even know when I come face-to-face with them if I will be able to hurt them," confessed Alice, a little discouraged.