Chapter Seventeen: Yet Another Trauma

I want you who makes eye contact with me

I want you who wants me again

Please don't fall

Please don't collapse

Never never fall

Don't go far far away

_Dead Leaves

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Jimin Pov

It had been a month since, that incident happened. We had to witness something, we couldn't even have imagined. The two people whom we loved the most in this world, met a misfortune.

If I had known that it would end up like this, I would have preferred no existence of BTS from the start. If they weren't in BTS, they wouldn't have fell for each other and they wouldn't have to suffer like this.

"Here's your coffee." Yoongi Hyung casted me out of my thoughts, as he handed me the coffee cup.

I quickly wiped away the tears lingering at the brim of my eyes and took the coffee cup. He sat beside me, quietly sipping his coffee.

"How's he doing?" Yoongi Hyung asked after few minutes of silence.

"Doctor said that they're taking him off from norcotics and switching him to non-seductive pain killers. His ribs have began to recover. Now there's no need to keep him sleeping." I replied as I glanced at my best friend lying in the hospital bed.

But as much as I wanted him to wake up, there was a feeling that wanted him to keep sleeping for his own good. Cause there was nothing good waiting for him. I couldn't afford seeing him in more pain than he was already in.

I took a long sigh before turning my gaze to Yoongi Hyung, who was also staring at Taehyung with teary eyes. Even though he couldn't say, I knew he was in same agony as me and other hyungs were in.

"W..WWhat about Jungkook?" My voice quivered, cause that was the hardest question for us to ask for the last month. My heart raced and my legs were literally shaking as I waited for his answer.

"No improvement." Yoongi hyung replied, putting his hand on my leg trying to stop it from shaking.

I closed my eyes shut, as anguishing pain perieced my heart. Even though I heard these words so many times, but everytime the pain was unbearable.

Yoongi hyung pulled me closer to his chest, embracing me and rubbing my back. He was comforting me but I could feel him sniffing. We all were going through the hard time deep inside, but still we were trying to console each other from outside.

"JJ.. Jun.. Jung.. Kook."

A broken voice hit my ears all of sudden. I quickly pulled out of Yoongi Hyung's arms, looking at Taehyung with wide eyes. I knew this voice belonged to Taehyung.

Me and Yoongi hyung nearly ran to his bed without a second thought.

"T..T..Taehyungie." I stuttered in surprise as I saw his half open eyes. He moved his gaze to me, and blinked several times.

"J..Jiminie....Yoon..gi Hyung." His voice was low and hoarse. But we could hear it clearly.

"How are you feeling now? Are you hurting somewhere? Should I call the doctor?" I panicked as he whinced.

"I..I...I'm.. Fine.." I could tell how hard it was for him to speak which was making me more anxious.

"Take it easy Jimin-ah. I'll go and call a doctor. Stay with him." Yoongi hyung petted my shoulder before leaving the room.

I took Taehyung hands in mine, as I looked at him with teary eyes. Finally, after a month, he was awake. My heart felt lighter than before. He was back to life. I couldn't hide my happiness.

Yoongi hyung came back with doctor. Doctor examined him and said he'll experience pain until he fully recovers. And he might go through short term amnesia cause beside physical damage, he had some mental damage too.

After doctor left, Hoseok hyung, Jin hyung and Namjoon hyung dashed into the room with extremely happy faces and teary eyes. They gathered around Taehyung's bed, asking how he was and telling him how he made us worry about him the whole time.

But Taehyung eyes were looking for someone else. He wasn't paying attention to any of us.

"Where's Jungkookie?"

The question we didn't want to hear, made it way to our ears. Silence took over the room all of sudden. The happiness that we had on our faces disappeared in a matter of seconds as we looked at each other in panic.

"Ohh.. JJungkookie was here all the time...uhh..we sent him home to take some rest." Namjoon hyung replied awkwardly.

We all sighed in relief as Namjoon hyung saved the situation.

"He'll be back soon. You should rest okay. You need to recover quickly. We can't see you like this." Jin hyung added with a Silly grin.

Taehyung nodded innocently, closing his eyes.

I could see how bad we were at acting. We were so obvious. But thanks to Taehyung's short term amnesia, he didn't remember anything about accident yet. He believed what we said.

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'Two days later'

"Who shaved your beard? You're glowing too much for my eyes today. Oof.. who is this handsome man...." I teased Taehyung while giggling as I settled down in a chair beside his bed.

"Mom did." He feigned a smile that disappeared the next second. My heart sunk in my stomach cause I could feel emptiness in his voice.

"By the way, where's your mom?" I continued the conversation, cause he had been strangely quiet from last night.

"I sent her home for some rest since you were coming." he replied dryly, staring at the ceiling.

"You did a good job." I said cheerfully, ruffling his hair in affection.

But all he did was faking a smile everytime.

He was acting oddly weird. Cause for last two days, there wasn't a single minute he didn't ask for Jungkook. It was becoming hard for us to avoid his never ending questions. But last night he suddenly stopped.

"Jin hyung made your favorite soup. Let's eat." I said as I helped him up in half sitting position.

He couldn't sit completely yet. Since his ribs were fractured, it would take sometime for him to sit or even stand and walk. Talking and breathing were even painful for him.

I started feeding him and he kept on eating quietly. Silence was getting intenser with every passing minute. I hadn't seen him like that before. I desperately wanted to know what was going on in his mind. What was he thinking. And before I could ask, he broke the silence himself.

"Jimin-ah?"

I raised my gaze to find soulless eyes and expressionless face.

"WW.. What happened?" I panicked.

"Why did you lie to me?" He asked, staring directly into my eyes, leaving no room for me to avoid him.

I was afraid that if I moved away my gaze, he would catch me and get the idea that we were hiding something from him.

I gulped, trying my best not to avoid his gaze.

"WW..What are you talking about. I didn't lie about anything." I refused, grinning nervously.

"I'm asking about the accident. I remembered everything."

My eyes widened and my breath hitched in my throat, as I looked at him completely stunned.

"WW.. What? WW.. When?" I stuttered unknowingly.

"Where's Jungkook?" His expressions darkened and his voice was daringly intimidating. I felt like something possessed him.

"Uhh.. Junggkookkiee.. Uhh.." I was looking everywhere in the room to avoid his gaze.

"If you don't tell me where's he, I'll go find him myself." He snapped causing me to gasp. I had never seen Taehyung this furious in my life.

"But Taehyung-ah..." I tried reasoning but before I could continue, he pulled out the canula from his vein and started to get off from his bed.

"I'm... gonna ffind.. him myself." he said between whimpers, as he was trying to stand on his feet.

"Are you crazy? You can't even stand. Where do you think you're going?" I nearly yelled, grabbing him when he stumbled and nearly collapsed on the floor.

"Yes! I'm fucking crazy. And if you don't take me to Jungkook right now, I don't know what I'll do." He yelled back, grabbing his ribs when he experienced a shooting pain.

"Damn It Taehyung-ah. Okay fine. I'll take you to him." I surrendered as I saw him wincing from pain.

With all unwillingness in this world, I sat him down in the wheel chair. And started pushing him to the destination. Even for me, seeing Jungkook like that was hard as hell. And for Taehyung, I couldn't even want to imagine what he would go through If he sees Jungkook like this. But what could I do? I was helpless.

As we reached in front of I.C.U, I stopped. Taehyung turned his head, staring at me with utter curiosity. I knew what he wanted to know and it took me all courage to say those words.

"He's in coma!"