RED STRING REWRITTEN

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Taehyung:
Fot baby listen to me please calm down

J-Hope started the car and shouted:

J-Hope:
“EVERYONE INSIDE NOW!”

Joong jumped in.

Pond jumped in.

Jungkook slammed the door.

The car sped away at full speed.

None of them spoke.

Except Fourth

Fourth (shaking violently):
Please come back… please don’t leave me alone… please Gem I need you… I love you please Gemini I know you are alive please they all are so cruel they left you there but please come back to me gem

Jungkook wiped his tears silently, staring at fourth almost lifeless face.

Taehyung turned forward, fists clenched until his nails cut skin.

Joong looked away, jaw trembling.

Pond cried quietly in his sleeve.

And J-Hope drove with fire in his eyes.

J-Hope (low whisper):
gemini is really gone?

THE CONDO – 2:03 AM

Silence.
But not the peaceful kind.
This silence was heavy, suffocating, like the whole world forgot how to breathe.

J-Hope kicked the door open.

Everyone rushed inside.

Inside the living room—

Jimin, Jin, Namjoon, Suga, Dunk, Phuwin
—all stood up at once.

Their eyes searched the group.

Then their eyes searched again.

Someone was missing.

Someone important.

Someone loved.

Gemini.

Jimin stepped forward slowly.

Jimin (nervous smile, voice shaking):
W-Where… where is he? He came with you, right?

No one answered.

Namjoon scanned each face, eyes narrowing at the silence.

Namjoon:
Why is no one talking? Jungkook? Taehyung? Joong? WHERE IS GEMINI?

Fourth sat on the floor, head down, hands in his hair, body still shaking violently.

Jungkook leaned against the wall, breathing like he couldn’t get air in his lungs.

Taehyung was still crying silently.

Pond was trembling so badly he couldn’t even stand straight.

Jin stepped forward.

Dunk(voice small, scared):
Someone tell me he’s safe… please

Jungkook looked up.
His face was destroyed.
Tears, sweat, bruises.

But the words…
they burned.

Jungkook (voice barely a whisper):
Hyung… Gemini my brother my every left me he’s… he’s not

Fourth suddenly screamed.

Fourth (voice cracking, furious, broken):
HE IS ALIVE!! WHY ARE YOU ALL TALKING LIKE HE IS NOT?? GEMINI IS ALIVE! HE IS ALIVE! HE PROMISED HE WILL NEVER LEAVE ME!!

Jimin flinched back like the scream slapped him.

Phuwin covered his mouth.

Dunk froze, eyes filling instantly.