Redemption

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

"Where is Jeonguk?"

Hoseok had raced back to Brianna's shop the moment his vision ended. With no way of knowing just how far into the future his vision takes place, he'd been full of anxiety. He just knows that Brianna is bound to do something stupid if he doesn't get the situation under control, and he didn't need his vision to know it either.

Brianna is fiercely loyal, and protective of those she cares about. Often, at the detriment of her own well being.

What he didn't expect, however, is the score of rage-filled faces that greet him the second he bursts into the shop.

"He's been taken, " Brianna seethes. "He's already gone."

"I don't understand, " Jin growls. "I told him we were all in danger, why would he leave the shop? What the hell was he thinking?"

"Let's all calm down for a second, " Hoseok commands, sensing the tension in the room. "How do you know for sure he's been taken? He might be fine, we don't know for sure that the nephilim-"

"Brianna had a vision, " Yoongi reveals.

"Shit."

Hoseok turns to Brianna, who nods affirmatively.

"Shit!"

If the looks on everyone else's faces are anything to go by, they are just as panicked as Hoseok. With the exception of Yoongi, of course.

He stands there, calm and composed, eyeing each of the people in the room with a cumulative gaze. He'd been the one to convince Brianna not to go charging off half-cocked, using her vision to his definite advantage. She'd claimed that the nephilim is using Jeonguk as bait, a fact that Yoongi doesn't doubt in the slightest. Though mistreated, Jeonguk will remain alive until Brianna comes for him. 

And Yoongi has no intention of sending Brianna to his spawn so freely.

In the beginning, she'd been no more than a tool to him. She was someone that he could use to capture his quarry, his prey.

However, it's different now. She has become so much more to him than that. Truthfully, he isn't sure just how much more. But he does know that the idea of someone else touching what he now clearly sees as his is one that doesn't sit well with him, one that leaves a painful and angry feeling within his chest.

He can no longer deny that Brianna is someone important to him.

"We need to be smart about this, " Yoongi speaks up. "We can't just go rushing to the rescue."

"You're right, " Hoseok replies.

All eyes fall to him as he takes a deep breath.

"I had a vision too, " he murmurs softly. "And in my vision, Brianna and Jeonguk both die."

Jin and Brianna both look shell-shocked. Even if they wanted to argue with him, they know that there isn't any way they can. A vision never lies, after all.

Yoongi, on the other hand, splutters adamantly in denial.

"He wouldn't kill her, " he argues fiercely, "he wants to possess her, not kill her. He's obsessed, this is true, but-"

"Why do you keep defending him?" Jin snarls, interrupting the reaper defiantly. "You said the same thing back then, when you burst into the store in a frenzy and rescued Brianna! Clearly he is insane, how can he not be a danger to her?"

"I'm not saying that he isn't a danger to her, I'm just-"

"Defending him!" The genie growls. "Just how do you know him well enough to be so sure of yourself?"