Apocalyptic Romance (JIKOOK)(ONGOING)(ON HOLD)

Chapter 5: Questionable Help

After Jimin felt the gun being pressed to his temple even further, his heartbeat fastened and he hurried for something, anything to say before this person killed him in cold blood right now.

This spurred him to ask a question out of fear, "NO!! PLEASE... PLEASE H-HELP ME FIND M-MY FAMILY. YOUR A-ALL I'VE GOT. PLEASE HELP ME FIND THEM. I-I'LL REPAY YOU.." Jimin scrambled out.

"Please? Help me find my p-parents?" Was all he spoke before it went completely silent, other than his own muffled breathing.

It was only after a few deafeningly quiet minutes that he no longer felt pressure on his temple, believing that the other person had pulled the gun away from his head.

After the gun had been pulled from his head, Jimin once again looked into the other man's eyes, looking for anything similar to betrayal being mustered on their face, but he caught no glimpse of anything like that, only the stone cold look in the man's eyes as he caught a glance at them.

"Name?"

Jimin had gotten confused from the single word, if it was a question or statement, he didn't know. But the look in the man's eyes told him that they were asking for his name.

"U-um, Jimin. P-park Jimin."

Then there was another cold silence between them until he had heard the sound of glass and rubble being stepped on that let him know the other man had no intentions on killing him, which had lead him to let out a relieved sigh.

"Where?" Jimin heard the man speak, gravelly voice not going unnoticed.

"I said where's your family?"

"O-oh, they... uh... they got on the buses when the military guys showed up. A-after the message on the tv." Jimin stated, not glancing up at the man in fear of him shooting him or killing him.

"Where did they go?"

"I... uh... I'm not sure. B-but I think their going to the Seoul Help Center." Jimin said, voice wavering from fear and shock of everything.

"You want my help, yet you have no idea where they are. Cheap." The man stated, beginning to walk away.

"W-WAIT!!!" Jimin yelled, watching as the man turned back around with a sour expression on his face.

"Why. What for? You have a weapon right?" The man gave a serious look, watching as he looked at him with an expecting look, stance taking hold of that of a man waiting for the right answer.

"I-I..." Was all Jimin could get out before the man looked at him with a sorrowful gaze, almost as if his eyes were about to burst from letting down the man.

"What? You don't have a weapon? What about a gun?" The man questioned, watching his face become even more let down. He had scoffed at Jimin because he didn't have a weapon.

"N-no..." Jimin said, eyes looking down, holding a downcast look on his already sad features.

"HOW DO YOU PLAN ON GETTING TO YOUR FAMILY IF YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE A WEAPON OR GUN." The man yelled out, voice holding the definite markings of anger.

"I-I was... thinking you could h-help me..."Jimin sadly stated, looking up just the slightest to catch the look of disbelief being marked on the other's face.

"What?!" The man angrily laughed, "You expect me to be a charity case? Well I hate to break it to you, but I also have things to do too. Not everyone will be there for you. Get lost." The man stated, holding up his gun in a non-threatening position, almost flicking it in the opposite direction.

"NO... P-PLEASE. I..." Jimin started, beginning to cry, tears welling up in his eyes, "I-I don't know the way..." Jimin finished voice growing weak.

Jimin looked directly into the other man's eyes while his head was tilted slightly down, watching as his face took on a bothered expression.

The man had looked all around the room before sighing and looking straight at Jimin, "I'm only taking you halfway." He had said, voice cold and unwavering as he looked directly into Jimin's eyes.

Jimin looked up at him with wide eyes, and a small, almost undetectable smile before sputtering out thanks after thanks, barely resisting the urge to jump into the man's chest and hugging him like a vise.

"Now go. It's getting dark and I've had a long day." The man had stated, voice showing little to no emotion.

Jimin immediately began to cross his arms over his chest, feeling horrible, almost like he was leeching off of the already very considerate and generous man. "I, um... I don't have a place to stay..." His voice shaking horribly.

He heard the man audibly sigh at that information.

"Well find one. I'm already helping you enough."

Jimin then began to turn around and eye the place, hoping to find somewhere to lie down for the night, rinsing his eyes over every broken down, bent metal shelf and dusted over, glassy spot on the floor, having a shortcoming in finding any space available that looked decent enough and wouldn't cause back issues later on.

As he turned around to ask the man what place would be best, he had noticed that the nameless man had already gotten all the way across the dusty, horribly ventilated building, already setting everything down and placing what he'd guessed to be his bag under his head, and had his back facing Jimin.

Jimin kept looking over and realized that the man had left his gun out in the open, but kept it well within his hand range for quick, easy access in the case of danger presenting itself.

By then, Jimin had resigned himself to thinking that he would just be lying on the cold, dirty floor without anything, any kind of heat to keep himself warm through the night.

"I-if you don't mind me asking, what... what's your name?" Jimin inquired, hearing the cold silence envelope them strongly before he heard a slight answer to his name.

"Jeon. That's all you need to know. Go to sleep." The man stated, leaving the end of his sentence closed.

"I-it's cold..."

"Come here."

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Hey guys. I hope this chapter was much better than the last one. The last one I kinda just threw together.

Also, please note that as these chapters are longer, the publishing times will be lesser because I want the chapter to be quality.

Plus, I have to help my dad with things since he had his ankle surgery today.

But other than that, please enjoy.