Part Twenty-One

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T/N: KOREAN VOCABULARY LESSON!!! WOOHOO!!!!! Here are the new words we used this chapter!

Aga: term for 'baby'. Meant literally AND affectionately

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Jimin had sang Jungkook to sleep only to have him wake half an hour later as he shot from the bed and into a corner, looking around the room like a feral animal, and screaming at everyone not to touch him. It had taken Jimin twenty minutes to get the boy back to his senses and another ten to get him back in bed. Jimin wanted to ask what happened, wanted to know so that he could help Jungkook the right way, but he didn't. Jungkook was not thinking right yet, hadn't settled his mind down to endure talking about it. It killed Jimin, not knowing what happened to Jungkook out in that hallway, but at least he could ask Jungkook when the time was right. At least he could hold Jungkook, soothe him until he was calm enough, ready enough to talk to him. But Taehyung... It was murder watching Taehyung handle all of this - their containment and all the uncertainty around their existence - alone. And now this... Taehyung had tried to save Jungkook and had been beaten in the process. Jimin could hardly wrap his mind around that.

Yoongi hadn't been there for Taehyung, not the way he and Jungkook would have been. Jimin's soul hurt with the knowledge that he was not there for his friend - his brother - the way he should be. That he wasn't letting himself be. Instead, he was watching Taehyung deal with it all by himself as if it was playing out on a screen before him.

It hurt Jimin to even look in Taehyung's direction. The blood. The bruises.

What would happen to Taehyung? When he woke up (Jimin refused to allow the notion of him not waking up to take root) what would Taehyung do? Jimin knew more than anyone how sensitive Taehyung was deep down inside. This whole situation must be killing him. And now he was hurt, physically hurt worse than he ever had been. Would he have to suffer it without the people he was closest to?

Jimin shifted under Jungkook's weight as he pulled him closer to kiss his forehead.

"I'm with you, Taehyung," Jimin thought, trying to send the message to the man he once called home the way he had countless time before, "Still." 

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The boys woke much later to the door softly opening, Hoseok and Jimin shooting up prepared to attack until they realized their brothers were back with Taehyung and the still unmasked guard from before. 

 

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