Alternate|| VMINKOOK

VII

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"Hyung, I'm fine; you don't have to kill him," Jimin said softly as he finally dragged Yoongi into the room. Yoongi looked at him for a moment before embracing him in a hug.

"I was so worried about you, daddy," Yoongi sniffled a bit as he squished his face into the younger's chest. "Don't ever scare me like that."

"I'm a baby, not daddy; I don't feel powerful to be a daddy," He whispered.

"Okay," Yoongi said softly as he let go of the younger and sat on the bed. "Show me."

"Huh," Jimin muttered, confused.

"The cuts, show me them." 

"What cuts"

"I swear to God if you come with this bullshit, I will put a bullet in the arterial circle of your head, do not try me today," Yoongi said in the calmest tone.

Jimin sighed as he took off his hoodie, and what the elder saw made him gasp. Jimin's chest was full of freshly done sliced cuts, stained in blood, his forearm too filled with cuts and bruises. Some were deep and still bleeding. 
"O my-"Yoongi covered his mouth with his hands. Of course, Yoongi was used to this; he saw it every day when he'd happily torture someone, but never in a million year would he want to see it on Jimin; it hurts him, to the point he'd feel the pain of the cuts across his chest "Why."

"It numbs the pain, hyung" Jimin's voice sounded so calm yet so empty. "I didn't want to feel the pain anymore, so I did it. I was so tired, hyung, and I really tried to distance myself from the blade, but the pain was unbearable, and I was hurting. So I took the pain away for a while to give myself a break. It worked hyung; it really did" the emptiness in his voice was so heartbreaking that the 5 boys that had their heads pressed to the door had to cover their mouth from not making their sobs noticeable.

"Jimin I-" Yoongi got up and went to the door. 

"Hyung, don't leave me," Jimin rises. 

"I'm going for the first aid kit Park" Yoongi's voice was so cold, Jimin got chills, Jimin rolled up into a ball to the sound of his voice, scared that he is losing his hyung.

Yoongi opened the door, to be greeted with the other red eyes piercing at him. 

"I can't do it" Yoongi let his true emotions show. "It hurts to know that the only person in this world that you love is hurting so much, and you can't do anything about it. It hurts to know that they didn't come to you for help but instead turned to a weapon to help them. It hurts to hear the emptiness in his voice as he explains why he did it, like nothing matters. It hurts so much" Yoongi fell to his knees, him sobbing uncontrollably, with Jin by his side, cradling him like a baby, while the other's look at the boy who was always so cold, so bloodthirst that everyone would piss their pants if they even did the slightest thing wrong while Yoongi was present broke down into tears. Everyone was showing a different side of them today. 

"I'll go get the first aid kit," Taheyung mumbled. 

He finally got back, after having a hard time finding it, and passed it to Yoongi which Jin shook his head at "Take care of Jimin, Yoongi can't do it."

Taehyung walked past them and into the room, where he was met with the smaller, his knees to his chest as he rocked.

"Minnie," Taheyung called him, and Jimin abruptly looked up as the nickname was called.

"What are you doing here" Jimin put his head back down.

"I came to clean you up."

"I don't need cleaning."

"I didn't ask; it was a declarative statement."

Jimin looked up at the boy sitting on the bed, taking out the alcohol and some cotton. 

"Lay down," Taehyung said, looking at the elder as he did what Taehyung told him. Taehyung tried not to let the tears fall as Jimin exposed his chest to him. He started cleaning the cuts, with Jimin whining every time they would burn.

"I'm sorry," Taehyung said, still focusing on the boy's chest. 

"I forgive you."

"I don't want you to forgive me, hyung, I don't deserve it, I was selfish and a hypocrite" Taehyung finally looked Jimin in the eyes. "I wouldn't forgive me too."

"I'm not you Tae, I look at the good in a person and measure it with the things they did bad. I don't steer away from all the good they have done, and go straight to the bad and start to criticize them like they aren't humans and were made to be perfect 'We were born to be real, not to be perfect, so yes, I will forgive you, and I'll do it again and again until the weigh of your good and bad is unstable" Jimin said as he took the soaked cotton from Taehyung and threw it in the trashcan beside the bed. 

"I forgive you too, Minnie." 

"So it had to come to this before you forgave me" Jimin had tears coming from his eyes while laying down.

"I should have said it sooner, but I was inconsiderate, and I acknowledge that. I forgave you the same day you told me; I didn't want to admit it, nor did I want to confess about what I did, and it was eating me on the inside," Taehyung said as he held Jimin's hands in his. Jimin looked at him for a while before nodding and taking his hand from the younger's hold.

"Okay" He then got under the covers. "I want to go sleep."

"But you haven't eaten" It broke Taehyung's heart that he took his hand from him, but he was more focused on Jimin not eating.

"I promise I'll eat when I wake up," Jimin mumbled.

"Pinky promise?"

"I'm not a five-year-old."

~

Taehyung walked out of the room when he knew that Jimin was sleeping, and he let the tears fall. He put away the first aid kit before going to the room he and Namjoon shared. He was greeted by Namjoon on the computer, with headphones in. He didn't want to bother him, so he went to Jin's room, who had a sleeping Yoongi next to him and Jin playing a game on the television. Jin looked his way and smiled.

"Is Jimin okay?" He asked

"Yeah," Taehyung whispered, but he also nods his head just in case Jin didn't hear him.

"Are you okay?" He then asked

"As long as Jimin is okay" He smiled.

"You aren't okay" Jin looked at him and patted the space beside him.

"Come get some sleep; you look exhausted" Taehyung walked to the bed and lay down next to Jin, leaving Jin in the middle.

"Thank you, hyung," He mumbled as he cried himself into a deep slumber.

Jin looked at the two sleeping boys as he smiled. 

"My babies."