BTS HYYH Notes (Book 1, 2, BUS Game) // COMPLETE [Part 2]

2022, Apr 30 - Taehyung (Burning Motel)

[Place: Alley]

(A/N: Loop #1)

From the shock, I couldn't move for a moment. From afar, Seokjin hyung was sitting in the car. I did hear from Namjoon hyung that he had came back but it was the first time that I actually saw his face. Hyung looked like he was searching something on his phone then cringed. With just that, there was nothing weird.

It wasn't like any of his facial features had a dramatic change. Even me couldn't explain why I was shocked. Cold. Dry. Empty. There was no word that could fully express hyung's face. No, it was not even close.

It was a spring day but chills seeped in. I shuddered. Hyung was making the exact expression I saw in my dream.

The reason I turned my head was because Jungkook appeared from the corner. Jungkook with a hurried face, looked around and ran across the alley. In that moment, Seokjin hyung got out of the car, his body movements mixed with annoyance. It wasn't clear as he was far, but looking at his mouth, it seemed like he mumbled that it got annoying. Seokjin hyung walked towards to a motel that was a little far, dropped something in front of the entrance, and looked towards where Jungkook ran off to.

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(A/N: Loop #2)

[Places: Alley, motel, workroom]

Yoongi hyung did not come back to his workroom that day. Jungkook and I couldn't find out why he was so pissed off. We were rowdy, but we hadn't crossed the line. Not to mention, Yoongi hyung would never have let us cross the line in the first place. (A/N: I think he was talking about April 25th here when Jungkook tries to visit Yoongi.)

I left home with a heavy heart, thinking I should have a word with him. I walked kicking the paving bricks that stuck out. I tried clicking the lighter that I had picked up in his workroom. In the light, I saw Yoongi hyung's face from my dream. His twisted face in flame waiting for death. Yoongi hyung's workroom was in the area that had been cleared of people and scheduled for demolition.

As I was turning the corner, I saw him coming out of his workroom. I yelled his name, but he must not heard me, for he disappeared around the street corner. I called his name and ran, but he wasn't anywhere.

Where did he go? I looked around only to see Seokjin hyung sitting in his car at a distance. I became frozen on the spot. The world suddenly became insufferably quiet. Everything came to a grinding halt. Except for the loud beating of my heart. It was the face I had seen in my dream.

And I remembered. The map on Seokjin hyung's wall. The right-hand side of the Songju police station toward Songju Station. The place he marked on the map. It was here.

I walked toward his car. Hyung was talking on the phone. "Detective, I'm Kim Seokjin. We met last time." I heard him say from the open car window. "Yes, Kim Taehyung, I think you know him. If he gets into trouble again, please contact Jung Hoseok. Yes, Jung Hoseok. His contact number is..."

I opened the car door. "What are you saying?"

Hyung looked at me surprised. He mumbled something, and looked down at his watch and at me. I became nonplused too and let go of the car door.

Hyung had no expression, as if someone had erased it off his face. And I felt a sudden chill. I felt so cold that my teeth chattered. It was spring. There was no wind, but it felt freezing cold.

"What do you mean?" Hyung said as he got out of the car.

"You said my name on the phone just now. And why are you here?"

Hyung started walking and said, "Come with me."

I followed him into the alley. In the alley with no sunlight coming in, hyung stared at me cloaked with the shadow of the building.

I said, "Give it to me straight. I saw you marking this place on your map. Why are you here?"

He grimaced. He looked behind me and looked down at his watch again. "Do you see the same stuff as I do in your dreams? Jungkook falling and Namjoon..." Hyung ran his hands down his face as if he's tired. "Kim Taehyung, you don't know anything."

It was then that I heard the sound of scampering feet behind me. Hyung looked in that direction and ran out of the alley, glowering.

"Where are you going!?" As I yelled, I saw the smoke rising up.

In that instant, I was reminded of what I had seen in my dream: Yoongi hyung dy*ng surrounded by smoke and flame, and the scene outside the window of Yoongi hyung's place. That place was here.

The smoke became thicker. I looked around and started running. Yoongi hyung might be in there. When I came out of the alley, I saw Jungkook running to the place. Jungkook must also be here looking for Yoongi hyung.

"Jeon Jungkook!" I fell down while calling out for him and sprained my ankle.

My elbows hit hard on the ground. When I tried to stand up, the ankle gave out. I couldn't run. The smoke became thicker, and I saw the blaze rising up through the window. I clenched my teeth and walked on, dragging the sored ankle. But someone pulled my arm and pushed me into a car. It was Seokjin hyung.

"What are you doing? Hyung is in there!"

I tried to push him away, but Seokjin hyung wouldn't budge. "Wait. The ambulance will be here soon."

"Jungkook! Jeon Jungkook!!" I screamed, but he didn't hear me.

After a while, Jungkook turned around as if he'd remembered something. He came back and picked up what looked like a scrap of paper up from the ground at a front door of the motel.

"Jungkook! Yoongi hyung is in there!" I screamed again.

Jungkook lifted his head and looked in my direction. And he ran into the motel.

I turned at the sound of Seokjin hyung's breathing. Only then I realized that he was still holding my arm tight. He was clutching it so hard that it hurt. I pulled myself out of his grip and got out of the car. This time he let me go without a fight.

I heard the siren coming this way. Jungkook dashed out of the motel with Yoongi hyung on his back, with a fire engine and ambulance arriving soon thereafter.