Last Girl Alive | Bangtan

145: Answer

"Yo Jin hyung is thirty five? He looks at the max twenty-eight?" Jimin stares at the folder in disbelief. You try to squeeze your head in between the others to look at the paper Bang Shi Hyuk had handed for the eight of you to examine. It had been fifteen minutes yet you still couldn't see anything. Everyone had pounced on it like hyenas at meat. All you knew was that some very valuable personal information was listen on it. 

"Wow I'm more good-looking than I thought."

"HAHA!" Yoongi exclaims suddenly, wrenching the document from Jimin before looking right at you. "I was right ALL ALONG. Those who laughed at me, look right here. Kim Y/N, purpose: re-po-pu-la-tion."

"WHAT?" you shout back, glaring at Bang Shi Hyuk in a sudden moment of anger. Finally seizing the chance to grab the paper you lean over it. Your picture followed a whole list of details involving your age, your school and details necessary for the experiment. And right at the bottom your purpose, the reason you were involved in this whole crazy thing at all wasn't for your intelligence or your usefulness or your great skills no...it was to have their damn children.

"You're kidding," you jaw drops open. "I can't believe this..."

Before you could find something to tease Yoongi with Namjoon wrenches the paper away, placing it down as gently as he could on Bang Shi Hyuk's table. The document was just a distraction and he knew it. It had no real substance. It gave information that you could find out yourselves. The true answers were still untold.

"Explain" he demands, looking at him right in the eye. "Explain what you said before because this doesn't explain shit."

You lower you head as you think of those words again. Everyone else goes silent as well, the fight to look at the document suddenly at peace. There was obviously something that he wasn't telling you. Something that would make you mad. 

"That's true," Yoongi agrees, deciding to hold back on mocking you, more serious now. He looks up a little wary again. "You said t-that we...knew each other."

"Sit down, then," Bang Shi Hyuk gestures to the seats again provided that you had all neglected before. The tone in his voice was more commanding, more threatening. Sit down or you'll be left in the dark. Sit down or leave. Unwillingly you move towards one of the chairs, not liking the atmosphere he was setting. He was hiding something sinister and the way he was treating you all now, something had changed. 

As soon as everyone is seated, on their edge of their seats as if they were ready to spring up at any time, Bang Shi Hyuk looks satisfied. 

 "I will explain it to you," he says once everyone looked somehow under his control. "But before that, you will tell me your story." His hands swipes over the table, ready to fiddle with his pen. "You will tell me the details of what happened, how you dealt with it and your personal changes. Because all of this accounts to nothing without your answers."

A silence descends on the room. He was negotiating with you, withholding that last secret by forcing you to give up yours. After all he did need your accounts, he needed to know the results to his experiment. Your existence was not enough, why you continued to exist was the most fruitful part of it. 

"Ours is a long story," Namjoon speaks suddenly, looking right at him in the eye. "You will go first."

His defiance brings some amusement to Bang Shi Hyuk. His attention latches on Namjoon, something so focused and challenging you almost wonder how Namjoon is still sitting there, unmoving. There was something so similar about the way they stared at each other, a leadership, an angriness, a hunger for the truth that neither were willing to give up. Namjoon did not seem to realise this but Bang Shi Hyuk, years older understood it all. He smiles wide, nodding at Namjoon's response.