Interwoven ✔️

24~ Find You

Exploded.

Just like that.

I was frozen. Staring. Mind blanked.

The entire needlepoint top of the steel building was now a ruin of black smoke and blazing flames, absolutely destroyed. Blood roared in my ears, muffling the cacophony rising in the air outside the window from the explosion.

A scream worked its way up my throat.

Jimin.

My body jerked into action and before I knew it I was bursting into the hallway.

The hotel corridor was filled with people who were also running out of their rooms, either having seen the explosion or heard it.

I had to fight my way through people in the hallways and stairs. By the time I managed to make it to the first floor my legs were burning. I didn't care.

The streets outside the hotel were even worse. Chaos reigned over the sidewalks and people were all shouting and shoving. I didn't care who I was elbowing or shoving. My eyes were glued to where the black plumes of smoke stained the bright blue sky.

The Infinity Council tower was only a few blocks from the hotel. But it seemed to take forever to get there. Rivers of people were pressing on all sides of me; some people trying to run away while others had the same mindset as me and were shoving towards the blast.

Only the top half of the building had detonated. Maybe— no, he had to have been on the lower levels. He had to be okay. I didn't know what I was going to do if he wasn't okay.

I swore as I tripped over something and went down. Immediately shoes began to trample over me and my screams was lost in the air of shouting and shrieking people.

I somehow managed to make it back to my feet and then I was running again.

Finally I burst out of a certain knot of people. I stumbled forward. The steel skyscraper loomed before me. Debris precariously scattered and littered the ground everywhere. People were already pulling out their phones and filming or calling.

My head snapped towards the entrance of the building where the inhabitants of the structure were all streaming out.

Most of them were dressed in uniform black and white or just neutral colors. The fact that my panicked mind wasn't allowing me to be able to focus on a single person didn't help.

What had Jimin been wearing this morning? Had it been a uniform? Jeans? Something else? Curse it. Curse it. Where was he?

Already police officers and security guards were rushing around and beginning to form a line between the civilians and the building. Above the devastation, New Order aircrafts began to circle the area around the ruptured building top. I could see the official symbol of the New Order painted in brilliant gold on the side of the crafts.

"Stay back! Everyone stay back!" The guards and police were yelling, holding out their arms into a human barrier between the pressing crowds. "Go back home! Stay back!"

Crap. I had to find him. I joined the crowd pushing against the body barriers nearest to me, fighting my way towards the front.

"It's the bloody aliens again isn't it?!" Someone roared in fury.

"They dare attack the Infinity Council?"

"Is it the Reformists?!"

There were only a few security guards holding the barrier before me. A furious hulking man broke through the flimsy arms of the officials with ease.