"You really can't see the resemblance? After all my sister and I look alike don't we?"
His eyes widened now seeing the resemblance of this girl and Hana, like his older brother, she thought her younger sister was dead. Killed as a baby by her parents, it's what the case was about but then how?
How was she alive?
The air was eerie, nothing about her felt pleasant or welcoming in the slightest as Jungkook felt his pulse race at the sight of her out of fear which was something he wasn't used to as a trained agent, he however did his best to stay calm in this situation.
She continued to examine the vial that she held in her palm, satisfied, she held it out to him. He could only stare.
"Isn't this what you're looking for?" She smiled at him, but that same chill ran up his spine. Something was terribly wrong about her.
"Who are you." He asked he stayed at a safe distance from her at the door.
She sighed shaking her head looking somewhat disappointed, "didn't I just say that my sister and I look alike?"
He narrowed his eyes at her, "Hana's sister died years ago. Who the hell are you." He gritted
His words only made her smile wider, less inviting and more like a maniac, "So you do know me." She stepped closer to him and Jungkook got in a defensive stance, hands ready with the keycard to escape the door if he needed.
"This place isn't a special sector of the secret service is it." He gritted, "why the hell are we here."
She clicked her tongue and walked closer to him, "one question at a time sweetheart." She held out the vial again with a coy like smirk, "so— are you going to take it or not?"
He flicked his gaze from her face to the vial before quickly snatching it from her hand.
She narrowed her eyes at him, "For someone who cares a lot about my sister, you sure are rude."
"You are not her sister! What the hell is this place!" He shouted.
She turned around and traced the Memory dive with her manicured fingers. "A place where all of you belong."
"Enough with the riddles!" He shouted, he was refraining from acting on his anger and instincts. He needed to access the situation better, to know more or he'd be the reason for everyone's death here.
She looked back at him again, meeting his eyes. "All of you are precious to us. And your dear friend Jin has been an incredible asset to our project." She grinned widely. "It's just upsetting that he takes all the credit for something he hasn't done." She mock pouted and it only made Jungkook look at her even more confused. "Anyway, it's been a pleasure to finally meet you Jeon Jungkook." She waved at him.
"Wait—!" He shouted quickly running to catch her but the door to the outside world shut. He slammed his fists on it in frustration.
"You're just like your brother." She sounded through the intercoms making him freeze up. Her maniacal laugh echoed in the room before the line cut out.
"What the fuck is going on—" he cursed before his eyes darted around the room. Everything was in usual shape, the syringe was on the floor which he quickly picked up, he now had the vial in his possession as well.
Taking a closer look at the vial she gave him, his eyes widened, at the contents. It was the same drug that's given to them when they needed to forget, when Jimin wanted to forget, which made sense why Taehyung couldn't remember anything when he awoke but then this medication also kickstarted his heart. Gripping it tightly he left the room.
Questions still whirled is mind, the girl that claimed to be Hana's sister obviously revealed that they were being watched. How? He didn't know but that just meant that they knew what they were up to yet— he wasn't stopped.
"Oh Jungkook!" Hoseok called out for him smiling widely, the others behind him, "where did you go? Thought you'd be with Taehyung."
Jungkook glanced up to see Namjoon and Jin following behind obediently and on good terms, they must have revealed something.
"Kookie?" I called breaking his gaze from the two others, when his eyes met mine, he almost flinched upon the sight of me, which was strange. I reached up and cupped his cheek, "hey you're looking rather pale. Did something happen?" I asked and Jungkook just kept quiet.
Jin noticed his demeanour as his eyes darkened in realisation.
"Come, let's head in." He called out and everyone nodded, including Jungkook who waited for us to enter first. He felt Jin place his arm around Him, pulling him close so that he could whisper in his ear.
"You figured out they can hear us didn't you."
Jungkook now knew from that sentence alone that Jin, was on their side. He nodded briefly before the two walked in, the door closing behind them before Jin locked it. The audible analog lock clicked.
"I believe it is time Namjoon and I confess a few things." He announces. "Jimin and if Taehyung is awake, should listen in as well. We don't have the luxury of time anymore. Clocks ticking."
They all settled in the living area, on the leader couches and chairs. Taehyung was awake and had slept enough but he laid his head on my lap, his legs rested on Jimin's.
Jungkook still looked rather stressed, but I knew he was going to reveal it soon.
"Firstly, Namjoon and I would like to confess some things." Jin looked down rather guiltily.
"I am not a scientist." Jin confessed suddenly making everyone gasp in confusion.
"Yeah and I'm not a criminal." Yoongi snarked over the matter, obviously thinking this was a joke. Jin tossed him a glare.
"And I'm not a University Professor either." Namjoon announced.
Everyone was dumbfounded over these confessions but Taehyung was even more confused over the fact that no one had the time to fill him in since he lost his memories.
"Okay?" Hoseok was skeptical, "so— who are you guys then?"
"We're both undercover secret service agents." Jin mentioned making everyone gasp again.
Yoongi let out a hearty laugh, "hold up hold up. You—? And—" he pointed at Namjoon, "this guy are secret service agents?" He let out a scoff, "Jungkook I understand but you guys?"
"There are other roles than being a spy to be apart of the secret service Yoongi." Jin narrowed his eyes at him. Yoongi just shut up and crossed his arms, waiting for him to continue.
"I didn't invent the memory dive." He started, "someone else did and I posed as the face of the product, the invention. That was my undercover image. I signed up for the job because the secret service wanted more information on such a machine, and the company that made it."
"So you're a mole." Yoongi chuckled, earning a hard whack on the arm by Hoseok who glared at his brother to shut up.
Jin cleared his throat and continued, "it is true when the invention malfunctioned it killed someone on the test day and I was there to take the blame for it, purposely." He furrowed his brows, "the machine actually worked fine before that. I never met the actual inventor but other people taught me how to use it. They wanted me to get arrested to take the blame of the public, to trap me. Like the rest of you, you were all given a choice, mine was to rot in jail or take this opportunity to continue to work with them. Luckily for me, being apart of the secret service, they saw through this and told me to go ahead with accepting this case. This is where Namjoon comes in—"
"My alias is a Professor at a top university. I do work as one and have the credentials to be one but my abilities lay elsewhere, I am actually a scientist." He looked at Jin, "not him." He chuckled a little to make the air a little lighter. "I work in the labs for the secret service, to come up with new remedies and counter concoctions for drugs such as—" he made eye contact with Yoongi, "the one you know very well about Yoongi." Yoongi quirked his eyebrow up in interest. "Back to the topic, when news got around about the memory dive, I volunteered. Posing as a University professor, the secret service wanted me to go along with Jin as—"
"You're his bodyguard as well aren't you." Jungkook piped up, all eyes were on him now, "no wonder you could block most of my punches. All that training in the gym was an act." He scoffed, he couldn't believe it.
"So then— how do you guys know this only now? We could have all acted sooner." Jimin asked.
Jin looked down at the carpet, "do you remember all of you waking up on those beds before being escorted here?" He asked. And everyone nodded, of course we remember that day.
"Well, do you remember how any of you even got here?"
Everyone exchanged looks until Jungkook tossed up a vial in the air before catching it and revealing it between his middle finger and thumb.
"It's because of this isn't it." He stated making Jin mildly impressed.
"What is that?" Yoongi asked, squinting his eyes at it.
"It's what Namjoon used to save Taehyung— and it's what Sena used on Jimin too. It wipes out our recent memories." Jungkook explained.
"I made it." Namjoon confessed, "I made it and the secret service purposefully sold it to a company who was highly interested. This is why we have it here." He smirked.
"You mean—" I gasped.
"That's right— Joon and I know where we are and our purpose here." Jin made eye contact with Yoongi again, "I'm sorry to say Yoongi, I know you quit being a criminal for this specific reason, but you've basically been used as a pawn for the very people you hated."
Yoongi got up abruptly, his eyes were ablaze and his fists scrunched up tightly. "Are you telling me that we are—"
Jin nodded with matching dark eyes.
"Yes, we're in the very corporation that invented the horrifying drug that changed autopsy's and made people get away with murder. And it seems like we are just as bad as they are now."
I felt the room freeze, my own heartbeat was the only thing I could hear besides the loud ringing in my ears from how quiet the room had gotten. I felt myself wrack in an aggressive shiver and I purposefully wrapped my arms to myself, feeling the cold.
"Y-you mean, those cases we've been solving." I stuttered, stating blankly into a void, "please don't tell me we've been helping these criminals get away with murder."
"W-what about thefts! What about the ones where people didn't murder!" Hoseok shouted sounding frantic. He was afraid as was the most of us.
"We have a feeling this corporation doesn't just dabble in pharmaceuticals." Jin furrowed his eyebrows, "we have a feeling we've been helping them find other masterminds in this world to— recruit them."
"I'm going to be sick." Jimin truly pushed Taehyung's legs away immediately jumping up and rushing into the nearby bathroom.
Everyone's minds were perturbed, I too couldn't take the information as it truly made me feel like the vile human being I didn't want to become. I felt the bile rise up like Jimin but I kept it down, trying my hardest to stay strong in this. Jungkook spoke up finally.
"This living space is the only place we're able to speak freely isn't it." Jungkook asked and Jin nodded. He breathed out a breath.
"Firstly, how come the two of you managed to get your memories back and we didn't." He asked.
"Since I was the one to make the drug, I had a feeling they were going to use it on us. So I injected the corresponding antidote into Jin and I before anything happened. To my dismay however, the effects of it only came through recently and we got out memories back. With the rest of you however—" he hung his head low, "I apologise, I didn't now know of any of you."
"It's okay Namjoon, please don't feel bad." I tried to smile up at him but it felt forced. I knew Namjoon was feeling rather guilty. Taehyung was just staying quiet and still in my lap as he listened intently.
"I'm surprised you didn't make one for Jungkook." Yoongi quipped. His rage had subsided and he collapsed back onto his seat. It wasn't like he could turn back time, he couldn't do anything now.
"The secret service is large, and us agents tend to only know our own sector, the more we know the more we compromise our agents so I take no offence to Namjoon. Him and Jin were in a different sector to I was." Jungkook stated. "I could have been sent here for a mission as well but I believe my sector didn't predict the effects of the memory loss drug."
"So what now?" Hoseok asks, "we obviously have to try and get out of here somehow."
"And it seems they're not stopping us." Jungkook gritted making us turn to him. His next few words were something I was never going to expect as he met my eyes.
"They know what we're up to, and they've been following our every move like a bunch of lab rats." He stated bitterly, "When I went back to the memory dive room to retrieve this vial." He rolled it atop the coffee table, "I met your sister Hana."
My breath caught in my throat, and it felt like my heart stopped, "W-what do you mean you met my sister Kook. Sh-she's dead. My parents killed her!" I was getting riled up but Taehyung just curled up and hugged me tightly.
He looked down, shaking his head, " No, she's definitely alive, and so is my brother."
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A/N: I hope this maybe clears somethings up ! Whew information overload like Crimson Vengeance hahahaha, but the explanations aren't over yet! Til next chapter —