Chapter 24

"Appa!"


Silence was the only thing which surrounded the room as Jae-sung looked at his cousin, shockingly. Mi-soo too looked awestruck as she looked at her phone with wide eyes. No one dared to speak a single word as they both just looked at each other until they heard their little baby girl's sweet giggles.


"Aaapppaa!" Ji-Yeon said while giggling sweetly as she continued to call her Father.


"Aaapp—"


"A-Appa.."


"Aaaappaa!!"


"Appa!!" Finally, Jimin repeated after Ji-Yeon, properly as he slowly opened his eyes and blinked for few seconds before turning his sore neck to look around. The first thing he noticed was that it wasn't his room. White painted walls, strong smell of antiseptics and sanitisers and an uncomfortable bed and pillow beneath him. He frowned as he tried to look around more but his sore neck didn't did much help, causing a painful moan to come out of Jimin's mouth. On hearing the pain strained voice, Mi-soo came out of her awestruck phase as she called out for her husband, who was still looking at Jimin, dumbfounded.


"J-Jae... Jae!! He's awake. Look at Jimin, he's awake. J—"


"J-Jim..Jimin.. oh my Goodness, you are awake. Oh my God! Jimin-ah! Look at me, how are you feeling? S-should I call the doc—"


"Jae! Move your camera towards me. I want to see Jimin, please." Mi-Soo requested she desperately wanted to see her brother and Jae-sung accepted her request as he astonishingly moved his phone to move the device's screen towards his Wife.


On the other hand, Jimin was still in subconscious. He blinked several times to get familiar with the surroundings as he slowly looked around. After getting his senses in the proper track, he heard someone familiar near him, talking to someone. The moment he turned his towards the person, at the same time Jae-sung too moved his phone's screen towards Jimin which caused Jimin'a sight to directly land on the screen of the Phone.


When Jimin's eyes landed on the screen of the device, the first person he saw was an adorable child, looking straight at him with beautiful innocent eyes with her two small fingers in her mouth. Her shinning eyes were looking at him with so much innocence that it made Jimin genuinely smile after so long. All the worry, pain and pressure, suddenly vanished as soon as he looked at the little angel. Jimin kept on smiling while looking at Ji-Yeon, until she again called for her father.


"Appaaaa...!!" Ji-Yeon shrilled softly but adorably which made Jimin's eyes go big and wide causing a cute pout to take over his Lips.


"Eh?!" A surprised sound came out of Jimin's dried up throat as he kept looking at Ji-Yeon with an adorable expression of shock and confusion on his face. The expression didn't go unnoticed by Ji-Yeon as she tried to mimic it.


"Apppaa??" Ji-Yeon asked while mimicking the same expression as of Jimin which made her parents dumbfounded as well.


"M-Me??" Jimin confusingly asked as the dizziness was still surrounding his head so under the influence of dizziness, he kept on talking with a toddler with adorable expressions on both of their faces. Both of them kept talking or more like babbling with each other for few moments and after some moments Ji-Yeon giggled beautifully which caused a genuine smile to break out on the face of Jimin too. The scene was so precious that both of the parents were smiling too wholeheartedly but the moment came to an end when Mi-Soo called for her younger brother with teary eyes.


"J-Jiminie..." Mi-Soo whispered which caught Jimin's attention. Jimin just looked at her blankly before realisation hit him.


"N-Noona?" Jimin whispered back as he smiled so brightly while looking at her Noona because it felt like home to him just by looking at her sister. Mi-Soo is her Sister-in-law but the bond which these two shares is more like a sibling bond. Ever time they met, it always felt home to both of them. They share their problems with each other like a pair of true siblings. Mi-Soo was the only child to her parents who loved her more than anything else in this world but deep down she always craved for the love of a sibling and on the other hand, Jimin had a younger brother whom he loves more than himself but he too, always wanted precious baby sister. So the destiny did the work by itself by making the two meet and leading them to form an unbreakable bond with each other.


The moment Jimin looked at Mi-Soo his heart immediately relaxed as if his heart immediately got the message that his family is here with him.


"Jiminie.. Oh God.. my l-little Brother... thank God you a-are awake. I was so worried Min-ah. Please don't scare your Noona like this Min-Ah, Noona c-can't take this pain anymore." Mi-Soo whispered as he tried her best to stop herself from crying but ended up shedding some tears.


"N-Noona ple-ase..." Jimin whispered back while begging her Noona to stop her from crying.


"Jiminie... " Jae-Sung called for his brother too as his heart was craving to hear his brother's voice too.


"H-Hyung.." Jimin looked behind the phone and met with the worried but teary eyes of his Hyung.


"Jimin-ah.. you are really awake..." Jae-Sung smiled through his tears as his heart was too overwhelmed just by knowing that his little Dongsaeng is safe and healthy, talking with him with complete consciousness.


"N-Nae Hyung." Jimin whispered as he smiled genuinely.


"Do you—"


"Appppaaa!!!" A chirped voice interrupted Jae-sung from completing his words as his daughter chirped for attention.


"Aishh!! This kid. Ji-Yeonie.. baby—"


"Ji-Yeon..." Jimin whispered the toddler's name while turning his face eyes towards the screen again to look at the beautiful toddler once again.


"N-Noona.. is she... is sh—"


"Yes Jiminie. She is Ji-Yeon, your own Niece." Mi-Soo said as she smiled at her brother-in-law's amazed but blissful expression.


"Oh God.. I'm an uncle n—" Jimin wasn't able to complete his own sentence as his dry throat caused a painful choke.


"Oh God.. Jimin wait... I'll get you some water." Jae-Sung panicked when he heard Jimin coughing too hard as he immediately ran across the bed to get the glass of water which was placed on the nightstand near the other side of the bed. Once he got the water, he helped Jimin drinking some water, which stopped Jimin from coughing more. Once Jimin calmed down, he gave a small smile to Jae-Sung in reassurance as he slowly leaned back on his bed to get in a comfortable position.


"I'm so stupid, I should have called the doctor, the moment you opened your eyes. Jimin-ah wait here, I'll call the doctor, okay." Jae-sung stood up from his chair but stopped by Jimin as he whined.


"Hyung I'm fine.."


"No Jimin, we have to call the doctor, it's important. Jae, honey please go and call the Doctor." Mi-Soo strictly said.


"But I want to talk to you guys. I misse—"


"We all are here Jimin-ah. I'll be back in a second."


"But—"


"How about I go and call the Doctor, while you talk to your Noona and Niece?" Jae-sung suggested as he handed the phone to Jimin, carefully, who took happily.


"O-Okay, but come back soon."


"That's like my little Dongsaeng." Jae-sung proudly said as he ruffled his Dongsaeng's hair lovingly before leaving the room.


"Jimin-ah, for my sake, please stop giving your Noona heart attacks, your Noona is getting old and she can't take this anymore." Mi-Soo said strictly on which Jimin laughed which made Ji-Yeon giggle too as Jimin's eyes shined while looking at the adorable toddler before forcefully tearing his eyes from Ji-Yeon to Mi-Soo.


"But Noona, you are only 27." Jimin said with a giggle as he again looked at his beautiful Niece. Something about this precious toddler, gave Jimin's mind an undefined but self healing peace. The more he looks at his Niece the more he feels calm and deep down safe too. Jimin always had soft spot for babies but his heart was dancing in joy when he got to know that he is an uncle now. He have his own precious Niece, Ji-Yeon.


"Noona... thank you for making me an uncle to this beautiful baby, I can't wait to meet her. I can't wait to hold my Niece. I really can't wait to meet you Ji-Yeonie, My Little One." Jimin completed his last words while looking straight at Ji-Yeon, who surprisingly was looking back at him with a toothless grin on her cute little face.


"She already likes you Jimin, look at her, she never smiles at anyone other than me and Jae. Not even for her Hal-abeoji (Jae-Sung's father) who always tries his best to make her laugh, but look at her now, she's already picking favourites." Mi-Soo complained with a fake pout while softly shaking Ji-Yeon who was still busy looking at Jimin but this time with a frown on her face as if she was confused.


"What?" Jimin asked Ji-Yeon softly as he noticed the cutest frown on the toddler's face but Ji-Yeon didn't answered, just kept on looking at Jimin with the same expression.


"Ji-Yeonie, baby this is your Uncle. Uncle Jimin. Do you like him baby? Huh?" Mi-Soo talked in baby like voice to which Ji-Yeon turned her face towards her mother as she looked at her curiously.


"Aammmphh..." Ji-Yeon blabbered as she tried copying her mother's lips movement.


"Aww Little one, you are such a curious baby." Jimin laughed wholeheartedly while witnessing the adorable communication between mother and daughter. The soft sound of Jimin's laugh, once again caught Ji-Yeon's attention as she turned towards the phone and looked at Jimin again on which Jimin giggled again. The sound of giggles made the toddler laugh too as she adorably clapped while laughing.


•~•~•


"Doctor!! DOCTOR!!" The desperate shouts of Jae-Sung made everyone who are present in the room, startled as the members felt like they all were going to pass out because of the breath they were holding. Mr. Park found himself crying more than before as he mumbled 'No's' under his breath. Namjoon was standing just behind Mr. Park as he was holding his shoulders in comforting manner but as soon as he heard Jae-sung's voice, he felt uncontrollable rapidness in his breathing as he took heavy breaths while holding onto Mr. Park's shoulders to spot himself too.


Jin and Hoseok felt like they would collapse anytime soon when they heard Jae-Sung's shouts. Hoseok immediately gripped Jin's hand while shaking his head in denial. Jin cried Jimin's name as he tightly gripped Hoseok's hand too, like his life was dependent on that.


Jungkook and Taehyung stood there like statues for few moments before Jungkook collapsed on the floor as he crawled backwards in fear, not having the strength to believe or face the involuntary imaginary scenarios which made his breathing uneven resulting him to breath from his mouth as he continued to crawl backwards until he felt the chair behind him. He immediately gripped the chair with one and covered his head and ears with other arm to stop himself from hearing the upcoming words. He felt like, the moment he will hear something which he never wants to hear, his heart will give up. So in fear, he just sat there with his knees to his chest while his arms cover his head. Taehyung just stood there as he gripped the nearby handle of the door while he blankly looked at Jae-Sung as he failed to notice the grip he had on that handle. His grip on the handle was too tight that it immediately caused a cut on his palm which resulted bleeding, but Taehyung didn't mind that pain. Instead he was happy to feel the pain. He wanted so much more pain than that. He believed that he deserves every kind of pain so he just held the handle more tightly which caused more blood to come out from his already torn cut.


"A-Ani... Ani.. ANI!! NO!!" Yoongi shouted before running towards Jae-Sung as he felt like his legs was going to give anytime soon but somehow he reached for Jae-sung, with tearful eyes which were begging him for something which he himself don't know what it is either. Tears delicately rolled off his pale cheeks as his chin wobbled in the desperation to cry. Yoongi hesitantly reached for Jae-sung's hand while slowly shaking his head in denial.


"N-No.. p-please... my Jimin.. my M-Mini.. plea-se no.." Yoongi cried hard as he tightly held Jae-sung's hand, looking straight in the eyes of confused Jae-sung.


As soon as realisation hit Jae-sung, his eyes widened as he shook his head in denial too. He looked around at everyone and understood that everyone misunderstood him.


"No! No. No, Yoongi. Yoongi! Listen to me. Hey, hey.. " He tried getting Yoongi's attention but the eldest rapper was crying and shaking so badly that his attempts of getting his attention failed miserably.


"Yoongi, yoo—YOONGI!!" He didn't mean to shout at the broken person in front of him, but to stop any further heart breaks, he took the rational way to bring Yoongi back to his senses. Once Yoongi got his senses back, Jae-sung smiled at him through tears in his eyes too which made Yoongi to look at him in confusion.


"He's awake." Jae-sung whispered and that whisper only reached to Yoongi's ears. Yoongi just stood there still, not in the condition of understanding anything, which didn't went unnoticed by Jae-sung.


"Yoongi-ah! Yoongi-ah, did you hear me? He's awake! Your Jimin is awake!" Jae-sung repeated with a bright smile, while shaking Yoongi in happiness which worked to bring back Yoongi to his senses again.


"W-Wh—"


"Yes! Yes! Your Jiminie is awake and healthy."


"A-Awake? Awake... Awake.." Yoongi repeated back the words as if he was trying to understand the word and the meaning.


"Nae.." Jae-Sung whispered back while nodding his head.


"J-Jimin... Awake.." Yoongi mumbled to himself, still processing until the realisation hit him hard as his eyes got bigger while looking straight in the blissful eyes of Jae-Sung.


"J-Jimin is awake." Yoongi whispered to Jae-sung, this time for confirmation.


"Nae." At the soft confirmation, Yoongi let out a loud cry as he took few steps back from Jae-sung. Too overwhelmed, Yoongi covered his face with his hands while slowly crouching down on his feet. Finally, he cried out every single emotion into his hands.


"Yoongi..." Jae-Sung whispered in pity towards the crouched down boy as he paced his hand on Yoongi's shoulder to comfort him.


Once Yoongi crossed his extreme emotional phase, he instantly looked up with tears still freshly present in his eye as he folded his wet hands in front of himself. A smile started to form in his face until it became a full gummy smile which reflected blissful relief.


"Thank you God... Thank you so much." Yoongi whispered wholeheartedly, still looking up with a pure smile on his face.


"I promise, this time I'll protect him at all cost. I won't waste this second chance, I promise." With a determined promised, Yoongi stoop up on his face as he turned towards Jae-Sung again.


"My Jimin is awake! Let me go and see him. I want to see him. I want to talk to him. I want to—"


"Yoongi, I know you can't wait any longer to meet your Dongsaeng but first we have to call the Do—"


"No, please Jae-sung-shi, let me meet him first. I can't wait any longer please." Yoongi said before making his way towards Jimin's room but Jae-Sung didn't let him as he grabbed Yoongi's arm to stop him.


"Please Yoongi. No. Let the Doctor check him up first then he is all yours." Jae-sung pleaded but Yoongi didn't stop as his voice got louder making the members and Mr. Park to notice the situation too.


"NO! LET ME GO! JIMIN IS AWAKE, LET ME SEE HIM." The word 'awake' rang into everyone's ear as they all turned to look at Yoongi in disbelief.


"JIMIN! JIMIN-AH!!" Yoongi Shouted Jimin's name as if he wanted the younger to hear his shouts him, so that he will come out and come straight to his Hyung.


"Yoon—"


"A-Awake?" Mr. Park stuttered, which caught Jae-sung's attention.


"Yes Ahjussi, he is awake. Your son is awake." Jae-sung repeatedly nodded with a full smile on his face but his smile turned into frown, the moment Yoongi slipped out his grip and ran directly inside Jimin's room. Jae-sung tried to stop him but Mr. Park caught his hand.


"Is it... is it true?"


"Nae, Ahjussi Nae. He's awake, taking,listening and laughing. He's absolutely fine. But Ahjussi let's call the Doctor first and then let's meet him. Please stay here, I'll call the Doctor." Jae-sing said before running toward the cabin for Dr. Kang.


Everyone present in the hallway just froze on their spot as no one dared to move from their positions. They all were still in the proceesing phase until they heard Mr. Park.


"J-Jimin.." Mr. Park cried out his son's name in both happiness and desperation as he couldn't control himself from running to Jimin's room to see his son who is now awake, experiencing the same feeling as if, his first one is born again. 


The remaining member just saw how Mr. Park rushed towards Jimin's room. The moment of silence was just present there as they all didn't know what do or feel at that moment. Too exhausted from all the pain, fear, overwhelming emotions, just left all of them too fragile, to even react. The overwhelming emotion was too much for all of them. But one of them still had the yearn to meet his Dongsaeng, for whom he can go to any extent just to see him. He slowly stood up from the bench before turning towards his eldest Hyung, who was just standing beside him.


"H-Hyung... am I hearing Right? Is m-my Jiminie awake? Is he? Or a-am hallucinating?" Hoseok asked Jin with so much pain in his voice as if he was still feeling like it was all dream. His heart won't be able to take it anymore if it is all his imagination or dream, so he confirmed again while shaking Jin lightly while Jin was too, awestruck.


"Hyung... Hyung!" Hoseok called Jin for few times which successfully captured Jin's attention as he instantly looked at Hoseok. When he looked at Hoseok, he found himself getting back to his senses as a grin of happiness took over his face when he realised that his Dongsaeng is finally awake.


"Hoseok!" Jin cried out in happiness as he immediately hugged Hoseok tightly while mumbling "Yes, Hobi yes. He's finally awake. Your are not hallucinating, it's real. Our Jimin is f-finally back to us. We got our Happiness back." Stream of tears of Happiness wetted Hoseok's sweatshirt as Jin kept on crying in his shoulder but the precious smile never left his face.


"It's true. He's back. My Jiminie is back. Oh God. Thank you God. Thank you so much for returning me back my Jimin. Oh Goodness. He's finally back Hyung, he's back." Hoseok spoke as he too cried in happiness. They both tightly hugged each other while crying in each other's arms. After sometime, they both break free from each other's embrace as Jin looked behind to see other members too. When he turned, he saw Namjoon just behind him and the first he noticed that Namjoon as wholeheartedly smiling back at him as the tears were streaming down his cheeks too.


"Namjoon-ah, h-he's finally back." Jin whispered as he nodded his head in his direction.


"Nae Hyung, Nae. I knew it, our Jiminie is too strong for this. He will be back to us no matter how many obstacles are in his way, but he will always find his way back to us." Namjoon said but ended up crying too because of overwhelming emotions to which Jin immediately pulled him in for a hug too. Jin caressed his back to comfort him before slowly pulling away from him when he noticed his big Dongsaeng has finally calmed down. After pulling away from the warm but heart touching embrace, Jin turned towards the Maknaes and he moment he looked at them, he felt as if his heart had stopped beating.


The two Maknaes were beyond broken. Jungkook was still seating on the floor with his arms covering his head while his body was shaking wildly. On the other hand, Taehyung was leaning on the door which was behind him, with blooded hand on his side, crying uncontrollably as if his heart was crying, while looking at the door of the Jimin's room. His tearful eyes was begging for something as he kept looking at the door. The condition of the two Maknaes, broke Jin's heart as he immediately ran for the Maknaes.


"Taehyung! What happened?! Why your hand is bleeding? Kid, look at Hyung. Look at me." Jin cupped Taehyung's face in his both hands to make him look at him but Taehyung didn't look at him as he kept his eyes on the door while crying his heart out.


"N-Namjoon! Hoseok! Come here! Help me." Jin called out for both. The shouts of the eldest captured the attention of 94 liner as Namjoon immediately rushed towards Jin and got another shock after observing the condition of Taehyung. On the other hand, Hoseok remained in his previous place while hesitantly looking at both the Maknaes.


"Namjoon! Call the nurse, his hand is bleeding. This wound needs to be treated as soon as possible. Go!" Namjoon nodded before running to the staff room to get the nurse.


"Hoseok, you look after Kook." Jin said as he put some pressure on the bleeding hand of Taehyung's. Jin, side by side looked at Jungkook and got confused when he noticed that Hoseok didn't go to Jungkook, so he slightly turned his head behind to look at Hoseok and found him in the same place.


"Hoseok?" Jin called him again but in response he only got a blank stare.


"Hobi please." Jin tried again but this time in response he got a glare, but not directed towards him but towards the Maknaes. Hoseok scoffed at them before turning his face to other side as he breathed heavily in agony.


Jin sighed in defeat as he turned towards his broken dongsaeng again. Jin couldn't take that anymore so he tried coaxing Taehyung to his embrace. After few attempts he had Taehyung in his arms while Taehyung cried harder than before in his Hyung's arms.


•~•~•


"H-Hyung?" Jimin whispered as soon as he saw Yoongi standing in front of him.


"Jimin-ah I should cut the call now, I think you have a visitor, please take proper rest Jiminie, I'll call you Tomorrow, again." Jimin nodded absentmindedly as Mi-Soo smiled before hanging up the call.


Jimin, once again looked at Yoongi with so much emotions but yoongi on the other hand just looked at Jimin with emotionless stare.


"Hyung..." Jimin once again called for his Hyung but this time with desperate voice as if he wanted yoongi to understand what he was trying to say but yoongi still looked at him with blankness in his eyes.


"I-I'm sorry." Jimin's voice broke which also broke something inside Yoongi too.


"Hyunie.."Jimin desperately called for Yoongi on which Yoongi slowly took few steps towards Jimin, who now slowly rose himself from the bed to get into sitting position.


"Hyung please..." And that was the last straw for Yoongi when he saw Jimin in tears while raising his both arms in front of him, asking him to finally take him back in his homely embrace. Yoongi's barrier broke as he broke down in front of his, now Conscious Dongsaeng. With tears streaming down from his eyes, Yoongi ran towards his Jimin and finally hugged him. He finally had his Jimin back in his arms, safe and sound. He hugged his Dongsaeng so tightly as if he feared his fate that it might take his Min away from him again, so he held Jimin tightly in his arms, against his chest. He ran his hands on Jimin's back, arms or any part where he could reach just to assure himself that his Jimin is finally awake.


"Hug me tight. Embrace me so tight that my heart can feel you. Run your hands on me so that my body can also know that your body is against it too. Be close to me so that my heartbeat can follow your heartbeat." Yoongi whispered desperately, as he held Jimin so tightly against himself. Jimin felt every emotion in his Hyung's voice as he did what his Hyung told him to do. He hugged back his Hyung with same tightness as of his Hyung. He ran his hands on Yoongi's back while feeling his shaking body. He pulled his Hyung as much as close so that their heartbeats can become one.


"J-Jimin-ah..." Yoongi sobbed as he whispered in Jimin's ear.


"Hyung..." Jimin cried softly as he hugged him more tightly, trying to remove any unnecessary space in between them.


"I thought... I thought I l-lost you." Yoongi disclosed his worst fear as he sobbed harder in the shoulder of his Dongsaeng.


"I'm h-ere Hyung, your J-Jiminie is Here." Jimin tried to console his Hyung but Yoongi just sobbed harder.


"Oh God, Jimin... my Jimin.. my Min-ah. Are you really here or am I dreaming?" Yoongi asked while sniffing Jimin's neck as if he wanted to feel that his Min is with him.


"I'm here, I promise." Jimin softly giggled through his tears as he rubbed his nose softly against his Hyung's pale but soft neck.


"I missed your giggles so much. I never thought I will confess this to you but I love your laugh, it always gives me homely comfort." Yoongi confessed softly as they both stayed in each other's warm embrace, silently before Jimin spoke again.


"I'm sorry Hyung." Jimin once again sobbed as he apologised wholeheartedly.


"You should be."


"I know."


"You should be sorry for being away from me, for this long."


"I know."


"I love you."


"I love you too."


They both remained in the same position as both of them breathed in each other's calming scents. Time to time, they both rubbed their hands on each other's back as they tried to assure themselves that they are really here for each other. Mumbling nothing but sweet words in each other's ears.


They both stayed in each other's arms for a long time, until their beautiful moment came to an end when they both heard someone's painful whisper which caused them to pull away from each other's inviting embrace.


"Jimin.." Jimin's breath hitched when he heard the familiar voice. He immediately looked behind Yoongi and saw the person whom he loved the most in this whole world.


"Appa.." Jimin immediately tried to get up from his bed but Yoongi and Mr. park didn't let him as Mr. Park immediately rushed towards his son, who desperately wanted to get up from his bed, just to run into his Father's arms. Before Jimin could even get up, he was already being hugged again and this time, the voice from his heart instantly told him that he is finally home where he belongs.


"A-Appa.."


"Oh m-my God... My h-heart was yearning to hear my Angel's voice a-again." Mr. Park whispered as he hugged his son more tightly which Jimin returned with same affection.


"Appa... Appa, I'm so sorry." Jimin sobbed more in his Father's embrace.


"No baby, oh my Goodness, i got so scared Min, I felt like my world was going to collapse anytime soon. My baby, My Jimin. Please don't do this to ever again. Appa won't be able to take this anymore. Appa w-will—"


"No! Appa please no, I promise I won't be this weak ever again I promise but please don't talk like this. I'm sorry for being so weak. I'm sorry that I failed your teachings which you gave me about how to fight this world. I'm sorry for not being strong enough. I'm so sorry Appa for failing you, I'm so—" Mr. Park cut his son's nonsense words as he pulled away from Jimin while making him look in his own reared up eyes.


"What are you talking about Jimin-ah? You shouldn't be sorry about any of the things which you just spoke about. Yes, the only thing you should apologise for underestimating yourself. You are not weak Jimin, you are the strongest. You can easily fight this world, everyone do this but Fighting against your own self is the most difficult and this time, you fought yourself, just to comeback to us, and that's the strongest thing I have ever witnessed. You didn't failed me, but you proved me right in front of everyone by proving waking up and coming back to us and that made me so much proud instead of failing me. And lastly, sometimes being weak is not bad, in fact being weak is important at some phase of life but being crushed by the weakness is bad. You experienced everything at the same time but you didn't let that weakness crush you. So don't apologise for anything my Angel." Mr. park smiled as he hugged his son again because he wasn't getting enough of hugging his Son again and again.


"T-Thank you Appa.."


"No need to, my Angel."


"Nae."


"And one more thing."


"Nae?"


"My life have no meaning without your existence, my son."


•~•~•


In the span of Two hours, everyone met Jimin, turn by turn after Dr. Kang thoroughly check Jimin up and allowed them to meet their beloved Angel. Everyone came and met him, sharing some cries, smiles, laughs, heart touching talks and memories with him. But there were two persons who still hadn't met Jimin. Not having the courage to look into the innocent but disappointed eyes of their Jimin Hyung, they both stayed outside of the Room, listening to Jimin's soft voice from outside.


After two hours, only Hoseok was present with Jimin in the room. Hoseok was in the bed with Jimin, cuddling to the fullest with him. They both lied down on the small bed with limbs tangled and soft caressing. They both were enjoying the peaceful moment after such painful hours of separation. So they just closed there eyes and enjoyed each other's calming heartbeat which were beautifully beating against each other chests.


"I missed you so much." Hoseok whispered in the fluffy hair of his cute Dongsaeng.


"I missed you too Hyung, so much."


"Today I faced my worst fear but to my surprise, I never know that it is also in the list of fears of mine though."


"Aww... Hyunie loves me so much."


"Yes, Hyunie do love you so much."


"I love you too Hyung."


"Do you know, which thing I feared the most when I saw you in that condition?"


"What?"


"When I saw you like this, I felt like my other half is brutally being snatched away from me and due to this, I felt my heart burning and bleeding. It burned so badly that I almost stopped breathing. At first I thought sharing room with you will be fun. But the things progressed, we become dance partners. We became partners at almost everything. Even though we have so many differences like I'm a tidy person and you are the untidiest in the whole group, but tiding your sides and you spoiling my sides, became a part of my life, Jiminie. The moment I felt the feel of not having you around like this, killed me from inside and it's gonna haunt me forever. I love you so much Jiminie. You truly holds half of my heart now, so please for me, be careful and never ever repeat this kind of situation again. Please." By hearing such beautiful words and knowing how much importance he have in his Hyung's life was too much for Jimin which resulted him to cry softly against his Hyung's chest while Hoseok also sobbed softly as they both let out their emotions out.


"I'm so sorry H-Hyung. I promise I'll be m-more strong from now on. I didn't knows that I was this important to you and to everyone and I feel so blessed right now. You know, I think this whole incident was not that bad because, just because all of this, I got to know how much I mean to everyone. So from now on, this life is too, important to me because now I know that my life is also connected to many others lives too and I have to protect them all, I have to protect mine too because just like my life is important to you all, your lives also important to me too."


"Jiminie.. still thinking about others?"


"No, I'm thinking about my happiness because my happiness is with you Hyung."


"Cheesy Jiminie." Hoseok tickled his mischievous Dongsaeng for few times before cuddling him again for some time. After sometime Jimin asked something, hesitantly.


"Hyung?"


"Hmm..."


"Where are the Maknaes?"

Silence.


"Hyung?"


"Don't."


"But—"


"I said don't talk or even think about those bastards."


"Ani Hyu—"


"Jimin stop."


"No! I will not stop. Tell me Hyung, where are they both?" Hoseok didn't replied.


"So you are not gonna answer me? Okay I'll go by myself and get them." Jimin was about to get up but Hoseok immediately grabbed his wrist to stop him from going.


"Why Jimin? Why?"


"Because they are still my Dongsaengs."


"And because of those Dongsaengs, you are here."


"I know, but I have to face them one day and I even know, what they both are going through at this time, so let me—"


"Don't you remember what they did to you?" At these words Jimin stayed silent as the images of betrayal came in front of his eyes. His eyes burned with hot tears as he closed his eyes to control them before he spoke again.


"I remember."


"Good, so—"


"But that doesn't mean I will not meet them."


"Jimin—"


"Hyung please, I want to talk to them about something important so please let me meet them."


"Please don't do this to yourself Jimin. What if just by seeing them you faint again. Or what if they do something in front of you which will hurt you again. Tell me Jimin-ah, will you be able to handle your heart when you will see them together again?"


"N-No, it is difficult for me to face them but... but Hyung, when I nearly experienced death from this close, one thing I got know that I can't leave behind everyone who loves me so much, like this. Just by thinking what will happen to them after me, gives me worst fears. So for you all, I'll become strong and try my best to move on. But for moving on, we have to sort out our previous chapter of life too right, unless I won't be able to move on, Hyung. So please for me, let me meet them. I really want to move on from this. I want to." Jimin pleaded in front of Hoseok and Hoseok thought for sometime before giving an answer to his waiting Dongsaeng.


"Fine.. but on one condition, if you feel so
Anything bad or uncomfortable , you will immediately kick them out. And I'll be there with you in this room too."


"Okay Hyung, thank you so much." Jimin genuinely thanked his Hobi Hyung to which Hoseok lovingly ruffled his hair before getting up from bed to leave the room so that he can get them.


In the hallway, only Maknaes and Yoongi was present. Jin went home to make something to eat for everyone with Namjoon and Mr. Park and Jae-Sing went to the reception to fill some documentations.


No words had been exchanged between them. The Maknaes stood far away from each other, not even facing each other. Yoongi was seating on the bench, facing the Door of Jimin's room while back facing the Maknaes. There was pure silence until they heard Hoseok's voice.


"Jungkook and Taehyung, Jimin wants to meet you please come inside." Hoseok formly called out for the two.


Both the Maknaes was too broken to even believe what they just heard. They were about to face Hoseok but a sharp and loud voice captured their attention which made them flinch.


"What the fuck?!" Yoongi asked in agony.


"Hyung Jimin is asking for them."


"Is he out of his fucking mind?"


"Hyu—"


"No!"


"Hyung list—-"


"I said No, Hoseok!"


"But—"


"How could you allow—"


"HYUNG! Listen to me first please." Hoseok sighed before speaking again.


"I gave him the same reaction when I heard his request but after hearing his explanation I think this is right thing to do."


"What explanation?"


"He want to move on and to move on, he wants to sort out everything first then he wants to take the next step and to me, somewhere it feels right to me too."


"But Hope, what if—"


"I have had the same questions as of you but Jimin cleared all of them and trust me Hyung, he's more brave than before. Please have some faith in him and let him do it for himself. And I'll be inside the room too. I promise, this time I will not let anything happen to him, I promise." Hoseok said while looking straight in the eyes of Yoongi to show his determination.


"Okay.. I trust him and you, but please Hope, protect him."


"I will, I promise." Hoseok nodded with a smile before turning towards the Maknaes again.


"Jungkook and Taehyung please come fast, he wants to talk to you." Hoseok called them once again with a neutral expression on his face. Both the Maknaes turned towards Hoseok as they still didn't able to look in the eyes of their Hyung's.


"I-I can't"


"And why is that Jungkook?"


"B-Because he won't like seeing me."


"That's true but he still wants to meet you."


"But.. but i-if—"


"No, nothing like that will happen. I won't let that happen this time."


"I-I.."


"Stop with excuses Jungkook, just come with me already. He wants to meet you both. He wants to move on and start a new chapter of his life, so that's why he wants to sort out everything with you both and start a fresh life."


"M-Move on?"


"Yes Jungkook, move on. Don't you want him to move or you just want him to hang up on you and this pain which you both caused him, for the rest of his life?"


"N-No! I—"


"So come inside now and meet him with this boyfriend of yours."


"I can't face him."


"Oh now you can't face him? Than how did you faced him when you literally pushed him, thrown insults on him, even, almost hurt him physically, huh Jungkook? How did you faced him at that times?" Jungkook sobbed as he remembered all the hurtful actions he did to his Hyung, which now was giving him extreme shame and pain at the same time.


"I'm correct, right Jungkook?" At that Jungkook sobbed harder at the words of Yoongi.


"Now stop wasting time and let's go inside."


Without thinking anything, Taehyung took steps towards Hoseok, still no emotion evident on his face. Jungkook saw Taehyung agreeing so he too, slowly went behind Taehyung. He was about to enter the room but a hand in his shoulder stopped him.


"Don't you fucking dare to pull any kind of stunt in front of my Jimin. If you do, then you won't be able to survive the upcoming consequences." Yoongi whispered darkly as he patted the Maknae's shoulder few times before slightly pushing him towards the door.


Jungkook shivered at the dark voice of Yoongi but composed himself when he saw that particular door, which he was seeing from the past few hours. He always wanted to break this door which was separating him from his Jimin Hyung but his shame didn't let him to even look at it for too long. So after waiting for many hours he was finally going to cross the door. He took a deep breath and went near Taehyung to stand beside him. They both stood behind Hoseok, who was opening the door. Once the door was opened for them, he felt his heartbeat picking up speed as he felt familiar fluttering sensations in his stomach but his shame and guilt covered everything up and made him more nervous. With full of nervousness, shame and guilt, he entered the room.


When the three entered the room, Hoseok immediately rushed towards Jimin as he hugged the younger again while whispering something in his ear which wasn't audible to the Maknaes. After few seconds, Hoseok got aside let Jimin see the Maknaes and the mai Maknaes to see their Hyung.


The moment Jimin saw the Maknae, he noticed the same clothes which they were wearing when they were in between the act of loving each other and that caused Jimin to look away immediately as the pictures of both of them with each other started to play in front of his closed eyes.


"Jimin, you alright? Should I tell them to lea—"


"No! Please don't, I want to meet them, just.. just give me a second."


'You have to do this. You have to move on, Jimin. For everyone. For my hyungs, for my family, for Army, for the love of the Maknaes and most importantly, for myself.'


With that, Jimin opened his eyes and looked straight at the Maknaes but a glint of unknown coldness was evidenced in his black orbs. He carefully looked at the Maknaes as his heart clenched when he noticed how broken the Maknaes was looking and his heart squeezed when he saw Taehyung's left hand.


"What happens to your hand?" Jimin asked but Taehyung just stood there without any motion or emotions and Jimin immediately got the message.


Carefully Jimin got up from bed, despite of Hoseok's attempts of stopping him. He removed the oxygen meter from his finger and asked Hoseok to help him with the IV stand.


Jimin took careful steps towards Taehyung, who was still staring at the wall behind Jimin, blankly. When Jimin came pretty close to him, he slowly bought his hand to caress Taehyung's wet cheek.


"Taehyung-ah..."

"The small whisper made Taehyung to look in Jimin's eyes immediately but the layer of emotionlessness was still covering his true emotions and Jimin have to remove that layer as soon as possible.


Jimin took Taehyung wounded but now bandaged hand, in his second hand as he bought that wounded hand to his lips and kissed it lovingly as some tears fell from his eyes to the Taehyung's wounded hand. Taehyung witnessed everything as his eyes started to burn too.


"I know how this happened. You punished yourself because you think you are wrong. You are wrong but that doesn't mean you have got the right to punish yourself because it's me who is going to punish you." Jimin whispered, still giving small kisses to his hand but cried as soon as he saw how Taehyung's both feet, which were even more injured then the hand.


"W-What happened to you feet? What—Taehyung?" Jimin cried as he shook Taehyung while asking how did this happened. When he didn't got any answer, he ended up hugging him tightly.


"Taehyung-ah.." Jimin whispered his name again before pulling away to look in his eyes. But when he looked at him, he noticed Taehyung was still looking at him but this time, tears were flowing through his eyes but his face still was having that emotionless expression on his face.


Jimin hugged Taehyung again before speaking his heart out. " Taehyung-ah, I know why are you being like this. I can feel you because you are my Soulmate. Even if you broke my heart, I can't change my destiny, in which you are my gifted soulmate and most importantly I will not let that happen myself and I will kill you if you try to run away from your own soulmate." When Jimin finished his words he felt Taehyung slightly shaking.


"I'm not gonna lie, I'm hurt. To be honest I'm not only hurt but I'm beyond broken right now. I'm hurt because I failed to know what was actually inside my Soulmate's heart. I'm broken because I failed to earn your trust wholeheartedly, that's why you didn't shared with me about Jungkook. I'm not broken because you are with Jungkook but I'm indeed broken because of the fact that you lied and hid everything from your own soulmate. I'm broken because now I'm doubting, if I'm really your soulmate or not. My heart is burning while thinking if I did something wrong which led you to think that I'm not worthy of your trust. I have shared every single thing with you about everything and I know this is a major reason for you to not to tell me about you and Jungkook because you thought it might hurt me if you tell me the truth, but Taehyung, you could have just trusted me and have told me everything. Don't you trust me this much? I would have happily accepted your relationship with Jungkook. I'm not going to lie that deep down it hurts to see the person whom you lo— liked for years, ended up liking someone else but knowing that the person is dating your own soulmate with whom you shared everything, burned my heart. And the fact, which killed my heart completely was, when I realised my own soulmate didn't trust me enough and chose to lie behind my back and just watched from afar that how his own Soulmate is being ruined. It hurts so much Taehyung-ah, it hurts so much." Jimin cried hysterically as he clutched onto taehyung, who was now crying too in guilt and shame. He was being angry on himself for making his own soulmate think like that. He hate himself for making Jimin feel more insecure about himself. He was feeling disgusted with himself.


"Tell me Taehyung, do I mean something to you? Do I really exist in your life? Tell me Taehyung, do I? " Jimin asked with so much pain that it burned Taehyung's heart.


"Tell me Taehyung, what I'm really to you?" At this words, Taehyung gasped loudly before breaking down completely in front of his soulmate. He finally pulled Jimin in his arms and hugged him tightly, so closely that his heart felt the heartbeat of his own soulmate. Taehyung wailed, as the barrier which was holding his emotions, finally broke as he sunk down to ground with Jimin in his arms. They both didn't let go of each other as they both clutched to each other while crying painfully in each other's embrace. Taehyung tucked his head in the crook of Jimin's neck as he sniffed his Jimin's natural scent to assure that his soulmate is here with him while Jimin tightly clutched his arms around Taehyung's neck as he nuzzled in his neck too. Taehyung left pecks on Jimin's ear before slowly pulling away from him to look properly into the eyes of his soulmate.

"Y-You are my world Jimin. You are the most important person in my life. No r-relation can come before our relation and I swear on my life that no one can replace you in my life. Even if I have to chose between my life and you, I will chose you without hesitation. I love you so much Jimin. I can't even think about living this life without you. No jungkook, no Hoseok, no any member can snatch you away from me because I won't let them. They all have to go through me before taking you away from me. You are mine from the moment you were born and I was yours from the moment I was born. So no one is above you. Just Jimin, no one else. Only my Jimin." Taehyung whispered as he took Jimin's face in his palms and gave small kisses where ever he feels like and at last, he kissed Jimin's tearful eyes, one by one before kissing his tears away.


Jimin cupped Taehyung's face in his palm too and pulled him closer to his face and let their foreheads touch as they both healed some of their inner wounds by enjoying their emotional moment while they both stayed close to each other as much as they could. Jimin giggled softly when Taehyung crushed their noses together as he playfully rubbed it against Jimin's.


As the two soulmate's enjoyed their beautiful moment, a person who was standing just behind them, witnessed all the affectionate interaction between the two. He wanted to feel happy for both of them but unintentionally he ended up glaring at the taller one out of the two soulmates. His fists clenched when he saw how close the taller was getting to the smaller. He saw how he kissed Jimin whole face, every single feature of his beautiful face. He noticed, how close he was to the smaller's lips when he accidentally kissed the corner of the lips of smaller. When he witnessed that almost kiss, the person clenched his fists so tight that he almost bruised them. Tears of anger started to flow from his eyes as he witnessed how that 'beauty' was leaning closer and closer to his other half. He saw how 'he' giggled when the other soulmate bopped his nose with the smaller. He witnessed everything and he felt 'that' emotion, again. He felt that emotion numerous time before and today, he felt that again.


'Jealousy.'


Jeon Jungkook felt Jealousy in his veins.


Jimin slowly pulled away from Taehyung as he looked behind Taehyung to look at Jungkook properly. When Jungkook noticed that Jimin was looking at him now, his breath hitched as he immediately looked down.


Jimin slowly stood up with the help of Hoseok and Taehyung. Once he stood up properly, Jimin slowly made his way towards Jungkook and stood in front of him.


"Can I give an advice?" Jungkook shockingly looked at Jimin before hesitantly nodding.


"Honesty is the best Policy, Jungkook. If you want to start any kind of relationship with any one, start it with honesty. A lie will always bring you down, not in the eyes of others but in the eyes of your own. So start a relation with truth, always." Jimin said as he smiled softly but it didn't reached his eyes which means he was forcing a smile.


"You could have told me the truth Jungkook, because I could have helped you with Taehyung. Lying and manipulation will not only hurt you but also going to hurt your close ones too. I'm not considering myself your close one but I'm considering Taehyung your close one here so think about him or your loved once before taking any kind of wrong step. I'm telling you this now because I'm your Hyung, I'm your older 'brother' from now on and it's my responsibility to correct you where you are going wrong. You are not too young now, it's time to start correcting you in your all wrongs." Jimin said with a tight smile as Jungkook looked at Jimin, dumbfounded when he heard the 'brother'.


"B-Bro—"


"Yes Jungkook. Am I not your brother? Or you don't even consider me as your 'Hyung' too now? Don't hide anything now, clear it all now."


"N-No, I—d-don't you like m-me anymore?" Jungkook asked hesitantly as he looked down to hide his unknown emotion from Jimin.


"No Jungkook, I don't anymore. And what's the point of liking someone who's not even interested in you. What the point of liking someone, who has to lie about his sexuality just to get rid of you. So it's a kind of a... big turn off for me to even like a person who isn't even interested in me. So the feelings automatically vanished away when I realised that you lied to me and it helped me a lot to move on. So that's why I called both of you here to sort out everything before we all move on from this chapter of our life." Jimin said as he turned around to pull Taehyung with him and make him stand beside Jungkook while He called for Hoseok too to come near them.


"To be honest, the betrayal and lies did effected me a lot, to the extend where I almost lost my life and I cannot forget this easily. It is like a wound which will be healed soon but the scar of that wound will stay with me for the whole life. It will take me some time to get back normal so please, don't mind me in future if I do something stupid or you feel something changed in my personality because what happened with me is going to put a huge impact on my life from now own." As soon as Jimin finished, Taehyung felt tears in his eyes while Jungkook just looked down, still processing that 'move on' thing. Hoseok just smiled proudly at his Dongsaeng as he rubbed the back of Jimin in encouragement.


"And the last thing, as I told you I have already moved on from those feelings towards Jungkook, so from my side I don't have any kind of problem with you two, being in relationship, so don't feel ashamed about continuing your relationship." Jimin said while looking at both of them as he noticed the expressions on the Maknaes face have changed to shock. But after some time he found Taehyung shaking his head as tears started roll down his cheeks.


"Taehyung, it's okay I'm absolutely fine with it." Jimin genuinely tried to console his soulmate as he wiped the towards off his face.


"I c-can't" Taehyung whispered.


"Taehyung, i told you before that if you had told me earlier, I would have already accepted your relationship happily. Listen to your heart, if it is beating for Jungkook then go for it, you won't regret." Taehyung still shook his head.


"Taehyung-ah..." Jimin sighed, before taking Taehyung's right hand and looked at Jungkook and asked for permission to hold his hand too in his other hand to which Jungkook immediately placed his hand in the small palm of Jimin's hand. Jimin bought both of their hands together and made them to intertwine with other other as he softly withdrawn his both hands from their intertwined hands.


"My blessings are always with you too. If your hearts accepted each other than you both should go for each other without thinking about anybody because in the end, you both are going to be beside each other not me, Hobi Hyung, or anyone else, just both of you so think wisely and then decide." Both the Maknaes we're beyond shocked even Hoseok was a little awestruck too but recovered himself for Jimin. Jimin laughed softly by looking at the Maknaes expressions before speaking again.


"All the best to both of you, spend some more time with each other and talk to each other wholeheartedly. Now leave both of you, I'm getting sleepy." Jimin yawned as he completed his sentence.


"Yeah, now you should leave and take some rest. I'll stay with Jimin here." Hoseok also suggested.


"But—"


"No you both need rest and shower. Now go home and come tomorrow again."


"O-Okay..." Taehyung and Jungkook turned but as soon as they reached the door, Taehyung turned and directly ran to his soulmate and hugged him for one last time before pulling away with a kiss on his forehead to which Jimin smiled wholeheartedly.


Both the Maknaes left. Only Jimin and Hoseok were left in the room as the soothing silence surrounding the room. Jimin turned towards hoseok and sadly smiled at him when he saw hoseok trying his best to not cry but ended up crying while covering his face with his hands. As soon as Jimin saw hoseok breaking down, he found himself crying too, as he took careful steps towards his broken Hyung before pulling him into his warm embrace as they both genuinely cried in each other's arms.


"We have to let them go Hyung, we have to."




~🌹~




Hey my Precious Readers.


Finally the chapter which we all waited for so long. (Including myself)


I'm so sorry for being late, the chapter was too long so I had to do so many changes again and again which lead to late update. I know you all waited for this and I'm sorry but it really worth it.


And I have read all of your lovely answers of play time sessions and they were beautiful and from today I'm going to reply those beautiful answers, thank you so much for making that playtime session successful.


{NOT EDITED}
This chapter is not edited so if you find mistakes please don't take them seriously cz I'm gonna edit this chapter soon.


This chapter is the longest one. -_-
Hope you guys don't get bored but it is really emotional one.


And the last thing, this is the last chapter of the PAST SERIES, so from the next chapter, the PRESENT SERIES will be started.


  
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Word Count : [9785]


Published On : [23/8/2021]


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