Set Me Free... Please, Hyung

As if on cue, a portal opened, and someone who looked exactly like Jiminie came out of the portal, the sight before him breaking his heart a thousand-fold. This should have never happened and yet it happened. This right here was never part of the plan, but it had unfortunately gotten to this damned level of it all.

"Fucking hell, Minie. I told you to press that shit if it was too much! Why didn't you?" the man who had walked out of the portal said as he looked at his brother on the bed, playing there bruised and battered like he was something that needed to be left on the streets.

"I'll kill them all," the man said and Jiminie let out a defeated cough. He knew what that meant and he knew his Hyung would make the world a hellhole for everyone. That was why he hadn't tried to reach out, no matter how hard the situation had gotten, because he knew his brother so well and he couldn't ever let it get to this point.

"Please, not Yoongi," Jiminie whimpered, his tears freefalling once again as he looked at his Hyung. He knew he looked pathetic, pleading for the life of the man who had put him in this state and even ordered the crazy fans to create deep fakes of sex tapes. He knew he shouldn't have defended Yoongi, but then he did, and he would do it ten times over without a doubt and without a pause.

"He still clouds your judgment, Minie. Even when he ruins you like this, you still let him live. You know you can kill him with your bare hands, all of them, and yet you let them do this to you? Why, Minie? Why do you let him hurt you like this? You promised you wouldn't falter with the assignment. You promised you wouldn't let the humans hurt you like this. Fuck it you are more powerful than these humans and yet you let them trample on you!!" the man bellowed angrily.

Jiminie just raised his Hyung's hands and pointed towards the door, before mouthing words that got the man staring at him like he was delusional. Maybe Jiminie was delusional because of the pain, maybe he was insane from all of this or maybe it was the drugs he had been exposed to that were screwing with his mind. Maybe all of that had made him a shell and he had accepted it.

"Even now you're protecting him? Muting it all out so he doesn't know who you truly are? What the fuck, Minie? I am your twin; you should have reached out!!" the man kept going as he looked at his defeated brother. 

He hated this.

"I love him, Jjwan. I tried so many times to kill him, but I couldn't. Even when he and his friends hurt me, I let him because it made him happy. It was the only time he was smiling. My pain meant happiness to him. I couldn't take his happiness away, Jjwan. I know you think I'm being delusional, but please… Please don't kill him. I can't live with myself knowing that he's dead because of me," Jiminie pleaded and Jjwan looked at his twin like he had gone bonkers.

For a powerful warlock, Jiminie looked like shit. He looked like he was just a teenage boy who could let everything happen to him for fun. But this was not fun, no. He looked terrible, and it was insane. 

"Only on one condition, Jiminie," Jjwan said and Jiminie groaned from the pain of taking too much. 

"What is it?" Jiminie groaned out.

"I'll spare his life but only if you promise to never see him, ever," Jjwan said angrily and Jiminie sighed. He knew his brother meant what he said and he considered letting Jjwan kill Yoongi for a moment there, but he couldn't let that happen. 

Yoongi was his world, however dark and twisted he was. 

Min Yoongi was his lifeline and Jiminie couldn't live with himself if he lost him.

"Okay… But can I watch him from a distance once I recover?" Jiminie asked with a pout, and his brother looked at him like he was insane. Well, love sure did know how to fuck people up one too many times. Maybe Jiminie was in that state.

"Are you fucking serious right now?"

"Please, Jjwan. I can't live without seeing him. I won't initiate contact. I will make sure he never sees me, I promise. Please?" Jimini begged.

"Only for you, little brother. Only for you," Jjwan said angrily as he used magic to clean the mess his brother was covered in. It was disgusting and angered Jjwan even more. But he had to hold himself back because he knew Jiminie never went against agreements. That was the only reason he wasn't hurting downstairs to kill the six boys sleeping so soundly while his brother was in so much pain.

"That Min Yoongi is lucky you love him, Minie. He should thank his fucking lucky stars," Jjwan growled out when he was done and his brother was in his arms. He had said that sentence one too many times in the past hour; he had been cleaning his brother and he had failed to notice the boy peeking through the bathroom door, the cause of all these things.

"I hate that you love him Minie. I hate that you love him so much you won't let me kill him to teach him a lesson," Jjwan whined.

"You promised," Jiminie reminded sleepily.

"I know, brother. But that doesn't make me not want to kill him. I still hate that you love him so much Minie," Jjwan said angrily as the portal opened again and he went through it with his brother.

"He loved me?" Yoongi asked himself as he stepped out of the shadows, his heart shattering for the first time as the darkness reigned. He would never see Jiminie again, and it was his fault.

And now six months later, Yoongi was still stuck in the memories of that night, the night he realized he was in love with Jiminie too, not just because he had said it to Jiminie once all those months, but because he meant it. And fuck it hurt because this was the night he had lost his Jiminie. He had so many regrets, but none was louder in his silence than the regret of breaking the boy who loved him with everything, and the boy he broke mercilessly.

"I never meant to break you, Jiminie," Yoongi whispered sadly as he sat in his studio, staring at the songs he had written for Jiminie. Songs that had messages he wanted to tell Jiminie, but songs that he would never be able to sing out to the world because Jiminie was not there beside him.

But was Jiminie gone for real or was he currently lingering in Yoongi's studio, cloaked with an invisibility spell as he watched the boy he loved try to live?

"I know you don't mean to, Yoon. And even if you did, I wouldn't love you any less," Jiminie said as he walked away from the room, towards the door, only this time, he forgot to mask his voice.

And Yoongi heard him.