Raw [Vkook]

105: He's not dead.... Stop it.

Paper Cuts - EXO-CBX

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It almost as though if the world just stopped spinning. Every air molecule just stopped moving right in their spot. The wind outside has came to a stop and Jungkook's heart beat became slow in rhythm.

Almost too steady.

He heard Yeosang beside him muffle in a gasp choked breath, yet Jungkook can't feel himself even breathing anymore.

No.

She.... She can't be serious.

"W-What?" Yeosang asks, his voice cracking in clear awestruck, "What do you mean he's dead? I-Is this a code for something or-"

"Gem!" Iodine bellows towards him, staring at him with her own teary eyes, "I wouldn't lie about this..... You know I wouldn't. He was my kid..... My kid."

Jungkook could feel the heavy weight of her words yet it..... It doesn't sink in.

No.... Woosung isn't.... Hes not....

Why can't I breathe?

"Jungkook?" Iodine gently asks him, running a hand down the side of his now pale face, "Talk to me kid."

As much as he wants to ask something, there's nothing in his head. Nothing.

Woosung isn't dead.

He doesn't die.

No..... No he doesn't.

H-He promised.

So he breaks a smile to her, patting her hand on his face, "Nice joke, ha almost had me fooled," He says forcefully, trying light the mood as he takes her hand in his, "Now what is the real reason that you're here?"

Iodine's face only twists more in remorse, seeing the way Jungkook prefers being blinded from the truth, so she only places another hand over his.

"A few Segas killed him," Iodine whispers, being careful with her words, "Left dead by a bodega. They just.... They beat him up pretty bad and.... Stabbed him in the abdomen.... Repeatedly."

Suddenly she pulls her hand away to reach inside her pocket of her jacket, pulling out multiple photos and setting them on the coffee table.

Ha, no it's not him.

That caramel hair color doesn't look like his.

They picked a very good clone, even had the same c-cute mole on his eye....

Just completely...... Covered in blood.....

And bruises...

His body..... Horrifyingly tortured....

Oh God..

"These are police pictures from the crime scene," Iodine whispers over Yeosang sudden chipped breathes, who holds the pictures on his shakily hands while Jungkook stares at them in a mixture of disbelief and paranoia.

This is not Woosung.

Why are they saying it's him?

I-It's not!

That's not my Woosung!

"Jungkook," Iodine says, forcing him to snap his eyes away from the picture to look at her, seeing her completely blurred and that's when he realized he was actually crying, "I know how hard this must be for you, I would know since I saw you guys as kids, I'm really sorry."