no weakness.

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when he enters his mother's garden he walks to the bench where the two use to spend long hours talking. her sweet smile will always be carved in his mind.

"kookie! you're going to get hurt baby." her soft voice says when the hyper nine year old runs around the pool. he scares his mother into thinking he will fall in and when she begins to cough rapidly his father runs out. he glares at jungkook before picking her up and running inside of the house with her. jungkook frowns at himself, he made his mommy sick again by his childish games.

when his mother was resting in her room, mr jeon walks up to the nine year old. "you know you're not supposed to make your mom worry due to her health, jungkook. maybe i should forbid you from seeing her without my supervision." he sighs when jungkook looks down without speaking.

"you're a man, jungkook. start acting like one and talk to me. will you make your mom worry again or will you be a good boy and listen to your dad?" he grabs jungkook by the arm and waits for him to speak.

jungkook wipes his tears away and looks up, "jungkook will never make mommy worry again." his voice is firm and mr jeon smiles satisfied. he dismisses his son and goes up to check on his wife.

jeongguk rolls his eyes at the memory and looks up when he hears soft crying enter the garden house. he gets up to check on who it was only to find yerim sitting on the floor next to the yellow sunflowers. tears were spilling out of her eyes and soft sobs were audible. "please find me." she was mumbling. he stares at her with no emotion and turns to leave through the back door.

as he walks back he notices a few of his guards were out. the place was too quiet and when he hears the sound of a gun unlocking he runs back to the garden house for yerim. she was still in the same spot and when he sees a male walking towards her, he takes out the gun from his waistband. he shoots him on the head and runs to the blonde when his body falls. she looks at him with wide eyes and jeongguk holds her close to him. a gunshot is heard behind them and they turn to find hope aiming in front of them. "we're under attack."

jeongguk takes yerim's hand and leads her through the back. he's sure that the rest of the girls were in the hiding room, so they run inside of the house. wendy was running up the stairs and jeongguk motions for the blonde to follow her while he watches their back. he makes sure they're safe before returning outside with his gang.

"JEONGGUK, COME OUT BASTARD."

he goes to leave his hiding spot when taehyung holds him back. they quarrel with their eyes until jeongguk stays in place.

"you think after killing my brother i wasn't going to come for you? what about taehyung? sadly he had you to stop him from exploding, but maybe next time you won't be so lucky." gunshots are audible everywhere and when jeongguk aims at the leader's head he smirks.

he turns when a bullet is being aimed to taehyung and before it can touch his best friend, jimin covers him. he closes both eyes from the impact and screams are heard around him.

jeongguk's guards finish the rival gang and taehyung yells for help. namjoon runs to seokjin and informs him. the doctor gets everything ready and sends sooyoung to bring him his equipment.

jeongguk runs in with jimin on his back and they help lay him down. the bullet was in his shoulder blade and he required immediate surgery to remove it. the girls run into the room and seokjin demands them all to leave. he only needed sooyoung in the room and having the rest of the gang would only feel suffocating.

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three hours had gone by and everybody was still outside of the room. taehyung was blaming himself and no matter what irene said or did his mindset was set.

it was close to three in the morning and they were all still outside of the room. irene was asleep on taehyung's shoulder and yerim was leaning her head against hyunjin. the two were drowsy, however, neither of them wanted to leave the scene. jeongguk was leaning against the wall as he eyed the two young kids.

"we made you guys some sandwiches." hoseok says. he and wendy prepared the members some delicious sandwiches when they realized dinner was missed. they all grab a sandwich except for yerim, irene, and taehyung. the two girls were fast asleep and taehyung was too nauseous to eat anything.

the door opens and seokjin steps out, taking off his mask in order to properly to talk to them. he looks around and smiles when he realizes how much jimin meant to all of them.

"i was able to get the bullet out and he did bleed out a lot but great news he's out of risk. he stopped breathing for a few moments and right now he's on a breathing mask. it'll take him about a month or two to recover completely all depending on him. he's going to need a lot of help for the first few weeks and you guys know how sensitive he really is, so please be gentle with him." he looks around the place and informs only one can go in at a time.

nobody makes a move to get up and when taehyung looks around he sees them all staring at him. jeongguk mouths for him to enter first and taehyung wakes up his fiancé to be able to get up.

he turns the knob with shaky fingers, his bottom lip bleeding at the pressure of his teeth. he sees sooyoung sitting beside him and writing down on a notebook. when the nurse hears taehyung enter she gets up from her spot and motions for him to sit.

"if you see his heart monitor change rapidly please call for doctor seokjin and me." she instructs before leaving the room.

taehyung felt like crying at the sight of his little jimin laying so helplessly on the bed. the bullet was for him and he would much rather be the one on it. he takes a seat on the stool next to the bed and sighs deeply.

"it's your taehyungie who you happened to take a literal bullet for. i love you bud, if you had my loyalty then make sure to never question it after what you did for me. there's nothing i could ever do to repay what you did for me. i will seriously take a bullet for you too, jiminie. i know you hate that name, but since you're sleeping ill call you that." he laughs at himself and wipes away his tears.

"we were all so worried that the surgery could of failed, but here you are once again to prove to us how much of a badass you really are. ill come back later when you're awake." taehyung sniffs.

the door to the room opens and seokjin tells him to make it quick for the others to see him too. taehyung eyes his jiminie one last time before leaving.

the two sleeping women were awake and when taehyung steps out, irene goes to embrace him tightly. "how is he?" she asks. her voice is soft and drowsy he bids everybody their goodbye's to head up to bed.

"he was sleeping the whole time i talked. im gonna get some sleep and then go visit him in the morning." he says. the two get in comfortable clothing before laying down in bed. irene cuddles up to taehyung and the two fall asleep very quickly.

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i luvvvvv vrene, but not more than my vmin.. <3
i have work and it's so time consuming i have like no time to get on here ): here's like a cliffhanger hehe also i fr write like 2k words!