In the Shadows

Chapter 10

Jin is on his knees in the unfamiliar living room. He anxiously looks around him. He still remembers the face that Jin had the moment he started attacking. It was a monster like appearance. He shivers at the memory. He quickly gets up, and decides to leave the apartment for now. He walks to the door but the question Hoseok asked plays through his head. He stops in his steps and turns back. He walks to his room. He is sweating bullets but figures there are no kitchen knives in Jin's room. He opens the door and enters. He notices that his phone is on the desk. He quickly grabs it. He hears a flushing of the toilet and a prepares behind the door, so he is close to run if things get heated. He puts the phone in his pants. Jin walks into his room and closes the door. He gets startled by Jin standing there. "Hello Seokjin. Mind if we talk?" Oh wow, I sounded cooler than I am feeling right now. A bit surprised at himself he walks closer to Jin. "Why are you dead set on killing me? What did I do to you?" Jin looks away to his desk and notices the phone is gone. "Your phone, those pictures... Is that your life?" Jin, a bit taken aback at this weird question, nods. Jin laughs an evil laugh. "I want your life. I want that happiness. I wanna take your life. So I am going to take your life and your place in it." He grabs a scissors from his desk and holds it behind his back. Jin noticed it. Time to go. He dashes out and the other Jin is following him. There is no talking to this guy. Jin trips over some shoes in the hallway and before he knows it the other Jin is on top of him. Jin holds Jin's arm up that is holding the scissors. "You can have this life too, if you make up with them." "NO! IT'S TOO LATE FOR US. Yoongi died in a fire, Jimin overdosed and drowned. Hoseok overdosed and fell from steps. JK jumped of a building. Namjoon got killed in jail after assaulting a client and Taehyung is charged with a death penalty for murder. It is all over." Jin's heart breaks at the thought of his members being like that. He hears a ringing sound and sees his bracelet up high, as it is on the wrist he is holding high. Please, take me back. The darkness disappears. The scissors lowered themself since he lost the strength in his arm.

Jin is on his knees in the hallway, holding a scissors. RM found him fairly quickly. "JIN!" He kneels next to Jin and Jin looks up. He quickly hugs Jin, who lowers his arm and drops the scissors in a shoe. "I thought you were gone again." The others come at the commotion in the hallway. "Did he leave again?" They have eyes full of concern. Jin looks at their bright faces. Did I do it? Did I take his life? I must have killed him...Jin gets a grin on his face and hugs RM.

They take Jin to the living room and give him a glass of water and are attentive at him. Jin is basking in this happiness. But he isn't smiling. He forgot how to smile a long time ago. He is not making eye contact with anyone. They continue daily life, but Jin is more silent than he used to be. He is wondering around the apartment, looking at pictures on the wall from their Run BTS show. The others are gathering and whispering. "There is something off with Jin." Everyone nods but are afraid to speak up. They look at the wandering Jin. Jimin decides to walk onto Jin and hugs him close from behind. "Hyung..." He can feel Jin tensing up. He pushes Jimin off. "Get off me!" He snarls. "I'm sick and tired of you always being so god damn clingy. Get a fucking life!" Jimin is in shock hearing those words from Jin's mouth, he stumbles backwards and right into JK's arms. "No need to get that offensive, hyung." JK angrily says, defending his hyung that is trembling in his arms." Yoongi steps towards Jin and grabs his arm. "Jin... What is wrong with you? You been acting weirdly, keeping distances." Jin tries to shake loose from Yoongi, revealing an empty wrist. "Let me go, I don't love you. No one does. I never have. Stop pathetically chasing me like this. I won't return your love. Never!" Suga's grip loosens and his eyes grow dull at hearing Jin say that. "Now you are crossing the line, hyung." Hoseok steps up and pulls the falling apart Suga behind him. "You really think you are all that? Always going on and on about being so bright and everyone's sunshine. You know, sunshine gives people cancer. You go around giving people cancer. Can you still go around proudly now?" Hoseok's lower lip trembles. The words Jin said cut through his heart and are making him bleed. He loses all his spirit and his shoulders start to droop. "Hyung, stop this. Why are you ruining our happiness like this? We are an unique group because of our individual personalities." V steps up in an attempt to bring the situation to a cool off. "I am fucking annoyed at your face. Always so happy and beautiful." Jin starts to say in a mocking voice "Look at me, I am so artsy! I can paint and make artistic photographs. I wear weird clothes and call it fashion." V's mouth just falls open. Everyone is hurt at what Jin says. "ENOUGH!" RM steps forward. He holds Jin and forces him to look into his eyes. He stares into Jin's eyes, and recognises not Jin. "You are not our Jin." He just says cooly. The others are looking at Jin in disbelieve. They all see that Jin doesn't have any life in his eyes. They are empty, soulless. "Where is our Jin?" Jin grins in an unnatural way. "I took his life." RM pales up, Yoongi gasps for breath. "Y-you..." Jin is still smiling. "I killed him. So I am now going to walk away from all of you. I wanted to experience his happiness, but I got annoyed by it now. With me, your Jin leaves too." And he walks to the door RM falls on his knees, and tears are rolling over his cheeks. Hoseok holds Suga up. Jimin is still sobbing. "Wait...Don't go..." Yoongi reaches out to Jin. "I...I rather live with you and at least have the outer shell of my Jin, then nothing at all." Also, he could wreck heavy damage to Jin's image in the outside world. He walks to Jin and grabs his arm. Jin is dead. My Jin is dead. RM is sobbing in his hands at the memories he had with his Jin.