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20: Hit or Miss

Warning: Explicit Language

Jaewon's POV

My phone rang in my pocket. I answered it.

"Mr Lee Jaewon." I realised this wasn't a phone call, but a video call. Yet all I could see was black. Swallowing, I replied with a shaky yes. 

"We have your mother. If you want her back alive, give us the money. Now." The voice was hard as steel. It was that person again. Then the black thing that had covered the camera was lifted off, and my mother's ashen face came into view.

She was barely moving. Breathing. She was dying. Her eyes were struggling to keep open, and occasionally she would mutter 'son'.

"WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER?" I yelled, tears springing to my eyes. "SHE ISN'T IN THE HOSPITAL. SHE'LL F*CKING DIE WITHOUT A BREATHING TUBE!" 

"This is packback. We said to hand over the children, but oh no, you refused. So? This is what you get. Unless you get them right now and we'll bring her into another hospital."

I couldn't speak, wetness running over my eyes and blurring out the skinny figure I call Mother. I just nodded and the call ended. 

Suddenly, someone shouted from outside the warehouse, "Lee Jaewon! We have found you! Surrender now!"

I gasped. Someone had found out about the kidnapping. Was it the police? Oh sh*t.  Grabbing my loaded gun from the tabletop, I ran towards the maze.

***

Namjoon's POV

Thank goodness. The police had probably tracked down the kidnapper. They had just informed me that once they got Jin and Jisoo back, they would call me again. I clasped my hands together, hoping that it was not too late.

***

Jaewon burst into the escape room, only to find some lockers open. The children were gone. His heart plummeted. It could not be. He scanned the locker that was not open but had something keyed in it.

THISISATRAP.

They had probably found the secret trapdoor. Jaewon figured that if he typed in the same words again, the trapdoor would open again.

Unfortunately, he was right.

The grinding noise appeared and soon he was falling down the deep hole into the basement.

***

Jin and Jisoo had landed on a mattress. No one knew why it was there. Jisoo worriedly asked, "Jin, are you alright?"

Jin seemed to be in pain. He groaned, using his right hand to point to his left hand. Jisoo inspected it, touching it slightly. Jin yelped, "OWWWW..."

"Sorry Jin, I didn't mean to hurt you. Your arm is probably fractured..." Jisoo added, "You stay on the mattress. I'll try to shift it away because we don't want anyone else landing on us if they fall through it too."

She pushed the mattress to the side of the wall of the basement. It all happened in the dark, so Jisoo only stopped pushing when she felt the mattress bump into a hard surface.

"Jisoo... call for help..." Jin said, clutching his left arm.

"HELP!" Both children cried.

The next few things that happened were not pleasant . The trapdoor opened, and someone else fell onto the hard floor. Jisoo and Jin didn't know who, but this time the trapdoor remained opened, casting a dim light over the basement. They barely dared to breathe. Jisoo moved in front of Jin.

"You... you need to go now." A familiar growl reverberated. Jisoo's eyes widened. Their kidnapper.

"No! You said you wouldn't hurt us!" Jisoo cried, her eyes rimmed with red. Jin bit his lip.

"I said you wouldn't be hurt. But not when my mother's life is danger."

***

The trio had found their way into the warehouse... by digging. Seeing the shovels lying at a corner of the backyard, they had dug a hole behind the warehouse and managed to encounter a brick wall below ground. Pulling a few loose bricks from the wall, accompanied by Jungkook giving the wall a few kicks, the old cement turned crumbly they had soon wriggled their way through a hole in the wall. 

"What now?" whispered Jimin, dusting himself off and peering into the darkness.

"We heard the screams around here. Maybe the children are located near here." Taehyung responded in hushed tones. He couldn't read the map very well in pitch-black surroundings. Jungkook was poised to fight, as he led the three into the darkness. 

Until they bumped into a door. 

***

A sound of a doorknob turning sounded.

"Jin! Jisoo! Are you there?" A voice cried. Jisoo's eyes lit up. It was her brother, Taehyung!

"We are here! Help!" Jisoo yelled back, but weakly because she hadn't eaten for a day.

The man cursed. "Say your goodbyes now." He pointed the gun straight at Jisoo. Jisoo's heart was hammering away in her throat. Before she had time to think some more, a small hand grabbed her sleeve and Jin yelled, "Run!"

At the same moment, a gunshot sounded, and the door burst open. 

"Little freaks." Jaewon cussed, having missed his target. He pointed it at the two children, panting, fear-stricken, sweat slipping across their brows. And pulled the trigger.