Daechwita

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Hoseok barely sees Sa Rah anymore. Yoongi keeps her locked in the consort palace. Since she is nearing her last trimester, he is extra careful about the baby. Sa Rah isn't as nimble as she was before so escaping and sneaking off to Hoseok is out of the question. Hoseok is done with it, but every time he mentions Sa Rah in the courtroom, Yoongi gets all defensive and scary. So he just drops it. Jin is looking depressed too. Namjoon is off fighting another battle at the borders to keep the peace and Taehyung is depressed too. Yoongi smashes his fist on the table. "Can I get a little bit of focus here?" He semi aggressively says. The others all jump up. "Sorry, but I would love to stay with Namjoon a bit more. Now I barely see him these days." Taehyung carefully mentions. "So? You don't need him to function, no? I mean before you guys were an item, you already lived a good life. So you can do it now too." He snaps back at Taehyung, who can't argue with that statement. Jin puts his hand on Yoongi's arm to calm him down again. Yoongi sits down. Jungkook manages to lead the meeting and when it is adjourned, he and Jimin leave immediately. Jimin is still scarred from that day in the prison. Hoseok pulls Jin aside. "I want to see Sa Rah..." Jin shushes Hoseok. "Not so loud! I know. I want to sleep with Yoongi too, but he is barely allowing me to enter his bedchambers. I am at a loss here too." "What happened that he turned for the worst?" Jin thinks about this question. "I think his family's death is a main factor, also the stress that comes with the burden of the title of King. He wanted to be king to save his family. Now he is stuck in a position that he has no use for anymore." Hoseok nods. "Sounds legit."

A few months later, Sa Rah is in labor. Yoongi is nervous and excited. Hoseok is just praying for a safe delivery so that Sa Rah survives the birth*. (*In those old times women often died at giving birth nvdr.) A child is born. It is a son. The palace is rejoicing. Everyone is celebrating and drinking. Yoongi has called all his friends over for a feast. He drinks and is jolly and the old him again. Stress free, and cheerful. "I am a father!!! And it's a son!!!" Jin smiles. "You'll be a great father." Hoseok asks. "How is Sa Rah?" Yoongi looks at Hoseok. "Shouldn't you first congratulate your king with his first heir?" "Congratulations, your majesty, how is the queen?" Yoongi smirks at his show of power. "She is doing fine, she is recovering well." And he joins the others in drinks. Hoseok finishes his drink and sneaks away mumbling he is going to the toilet.

He sneaks into the consort palace, since the guard is down. He finds Sa Rah in her room, pale and sleeping. The baby is next to her in a crib. "Sa Rah?" Hoseok carefully asks. "Hmm" She mumbles as she lazily opens her eyes.  Hoseok walks closer and looks at the baby. He has her hair and nose. Then he looks at the love of his life, laying there like that. "How are you, my love?" He leans over and kisses her. He pulls her up and they kiss as if they are were water in a desert. "I am fine. I feel like a wreck tho. I pushed a whole human being out of my body, after carrying it for so long. How do you think I feel?" Hoseok laughs at her wits "good to see you are still you." Sa Rah strokes through his hair. "You can't be here. I am now fully loving Yoongi." Hoseok is hurt. "Why?" "Because if I don't, you die. By him." She is still stroking through his hair and looking into his brown eyes. "But I'll die without you, my love. You are my oxygen." He holds her close and she softly sobs. "I can't live without you, so let's run away. Away from the palace. Jungkook can maybe arrange something for us, like he did for my mom and sister." Sa Rah looks hopeful. "If we could. I am done being his play tool. Oh, Hoseok. He has hurt me." Hoseok's anger rises. "What did he do to you?" "He took me, forced me... to sleep with him... it hurted at times so much. And I was afraid for the baby." Hoseok is seething with anger right now. "That's it, we are going." He pulls Sa Rah up and dresses her quickly. She grabs some items that they can sell and holds Hoseok's hand.

Yoongi is at the table, drinking and at the same time looking over his cup. He doesn't see Hoseok anywhere. "Where is Hoseok?" He asks at Taehyung. "He said something about going to the toilet." "Hmmmm" Yoongi sips again. He has been gone for a while now... He was so curious about my Sa Rah... Did he? Yoongi gets up and puts his cup down. He walks to the royal consort palace. The others don't trust it and follow him. Namjoon is walking close to him as usual, guarding him. When they arrive at the consort palace, they see 2 shadows on the move. "Halt! Who goes there?" Namjoon asks. The shadows stop for a second to look and hurry away. Yoongi knows exactly who the intruders are. He grabs Namjoon's new sword and runs after the shadows. He is still using his skills and nimbleness from his training and from thieving around. He catches up on them quickly, knowing Sa Rah is still weak from the birth. "I never thought that you 2 would betray me. You are stealing my wife and the mother of the royal offspring. Never figured a coward like you would do this. I must applause your courage." The others arrive at the scene and see Hoseok and Sa Rah, holding hands in black capes. Namjoon tries to grab his sword back but Yoongi is already slowly moving forward. "I don't need traitors in my companionship. Even you, Sa Rah? I thought you loved me? Your body kept crying out for more of me every night. Begging me to fill you up to the brim and become pregnant. You were such a baby juice can... Mine..." "Yoongi, please. You promised..." She stands in front of Hoseok. Hoseok looks at Sa Rah and is offended that she uses herself as a shield. Yoongi shouts and the other members are looking in shock as they see how the sword slashes through Sa Rah.

Her body drops and Hoseok is holding it while dropping to his knees. "SA RAH NOOOOOO" He is crying in agony. "You sick perv, you killed the one you claimed to love." "So? You claimed to be on my side and so did she and yet here we are, you all betraying me!" Yoongi smirks and laughs like madman, seeing how Sa Rah is bleeding to death. He still remembers her soft body in bed, the kisses and strokes through his hair that she gave. He can't believe he just did that. But soon his body already raises the sword again. "And so I don't need a so claimed friend like you, who betrays me just like that." Sa Rah looks up to Hoseok. "I love you, my love. Hoseok." "Me too, Sa Rah. Let's be together in our next life? I love you." Sa Rah closes her eyes and breaths her last as the sword comes down and cuts Hoseok's head clean of his torso. Jimin and Jungkook are crying, Taehyung is throwing up and Jin is almost fainting. Namjoon can't believe his sword has been used to kill innocent people and his friends.

Yoongi stands with his shoulders drooping, his hair is half loose, there is blood on his clothes and he is with his back to his friends, looking at the 2 corpses in front of him. Hoseok still holding onto Sa Rah. He is crying. He wipes the tears away and turns around. "Today was supposed to be a joyful day, celebrating new life, yet I have been forced to take 2 lives today. Please, don't betray me. I beg of you. Don't abandon me or leave me." The others don't know what to say, but whatever it is, they just agree with Yoongi for now, as in not to anger him any further. Yoongi slumps while he is walking toward his friends. He is dragging the sword behind him and he drops it when he passes Namjoon. The others make way so he can pass freely. And as a zombie he passes by them. Not even looking at them.

"We should properly have a funeral for them. Let's bury them together. That's the least they deserve." Jin says. Jimin is crying, and all the others are visibly emotional too. Jin nods and he says that he is going to check up on Yoongi. Namjoon kinda doesn't want to pick up his sword. He is horrified at the thought that the blood that is on the blade belongs to his close friends.

Jin sees Yoongi slouching to his quarters. I know it might be evil of me to think that, but maybe now he will focus his love and attention to me now? "Yoongs? Are you okay?" Yoongi sits down, as a zombie on a chair in his quarters. "What do you think? I was forced to raise my hand towards a good friend and my lover today. I am not okay." He holds his face in his hands and is crying. "Well, if you are not okay with it, why did you kill them then?" Jin carefully asks. "Because if I allow myself to have weakness, I will die. I can't lose my strength." "You know, you could also be the benevolent king. That takes a lot of strength too." "No. Out of the question. Whoever betrays me, needs to pay with it with his life." Yoongi's voice sounded cold when he just said that. Jin is shivering.

The baby is crying in the queen's quarters. The maidens are taking care of him, but the baby longs for his mother's embrace. Not knowing his mother is in the cold dirt, being buried in the arms of a headless other body.