Taehyung kept fidling with his fingers as he sat in the big white room which smelled oddly of glycerin. He loathed that odor. It reminded him of some memories which he couldnt recall but he knew those werent good ones. He looked around and saw the files nicely staked in the shelf, the pictures on the wall, medical tools on the table and finally that small but comfortble chair infront of him.
He took a deep breath and closed his eyes.
Am I really sick? Is there something wrong with me?
He was so lost in all these that he didnt even hear when the door opened.
"Hi Taehyung" that calm and sweet voice startled him abit but still he looked up at a short round bald man whose name card said Stephen Henry.
Taehyung smiled nervously and nodded slightly. Dr. Hernry could comprehend his nervousness so he took in his friendly demeanour to keep him at ease.
"I hope Namjoon told you a little bit about me?"
Taehyung nodded keeping his eyes fixated on the wall behind the doctor.
"What did he tell you?"
He slowly moved his eyes to the doctor "I am sick" he said in a hoarse voice
Henry smiled "Yes a little bit"
"Am I mad?" His voice was cracking up
"No Taehyung. No human being is mad, everyone just has a different way of dealing things and your way is different as well. A bit unusual actually"
"How is it different?" Taehyung's nervousness was now getting replaced with curiousity.
"You tend to shut memories out. Keep them locked in a corner so they cannot haunt you"
"Wh-what memories?"
Dr.Henry smiled but it wasnt a happy one "you will know soon"
Taehyung watched as the man in white apron cautiosly declined the chair he was sitting on changing taehyung's position a bit.
"Now Taehyung I want you to relax abit alright"
Namjoon was pacing up and down Dr.Henry's cabin while his brother was in a different room with the doctor.
Jungkook mainted his usual calm nature but deep down inside he was loosing it. He didnt know how will taehyung bear the trauma and what will happen when he will know about V?
"Close your eyes Taehyung"
Dr.Henry played a very soft music. "Put your entire focus on the music now".
Taehyung cancelled out everything else and listened to the music only.
Dr. Henry then played a video "Dont open your eyes Taehyung just listen"
Taehyung listened
"Taeee here here look at me" the soothing voice was followed by some giggles....
That voice...
"Tae!"
The video paused
"Do you know this voice taehyung?" Asked Dr. Henry who was now sitting very closely to the boy
"Y-yes"
"Whose voice is it"
"I-i cant remember"
The doctor played the video again
"Ok now we put the salt walllaaaa" the owner of the voice laughed
And taehyung laughed too
"Why are you laughing taehyung?" Asked Dr.Henry
"It was not salt it was sugar he put sugar in the curry"
"Who did?"
Taehyung's smile faded. Sweats were starting to form on his forehead. He tried but somewhere his brain wasnt allowing him to go to that zone.
"Taehyung I want you to focus only on the music"
Snippets of the past kept coming to him! Making him nervous and scared.
"You are a young boy now Taehyung, you are shooting this video in the kitchen of your house. And there is someone with you"
Taehyung shivered a bit as he saw a vague figure standing infront of him. He had his back towards taehyung and he was doing something on the stove
"Y-yes y-ess a a man"
"Who is it?"
Taehyung heard himself calling the man but his own voice was not making sense to him as it was quite very vague and was echoing alot.
In the memory he was again calling him but the man was not turning around.
Slowly his own voice was getting clearer....
"I I am calling h-him"
"What are you calling him?"
The hazy memory was getting clearer now.....much much clearer
"Jin Hyung!!" And finally he turned around and Taehyung saw his beaming face. Oh! How happy he looked
"J-jin hy-hyung" he uttered with a lump in his throat
Slowly different flashes of the past appears in his head. Finally that zone which he kept closed for so many years opened its door and allowed him to enter the painful past where he had to encounter all the anguish and pain all over again.....
"Hyung" his lips trembled
He recalled Soomin
Her smiling face
Her lifeless body
He recalled his brother
His love
His care
His ..
........death
He watched helplessly as the weapon pierced through his brother's body. His struggle to stay alive but failing at the end.
He watched, he re-lived it all....all over again
"My brother my-my brother" he was now sobbing hard
"Taehyung I need you to wake up NOW" Dr.Henry commanded but it was all in vain
Taehyung was trembling and crying but his eyes were shut. He visited that horrible memory after years but now he was trapped there he was not able to move away from the scene where his younger self kept holding his dead brother.
He could hear the music Dr. Henry asked him to focus on but he couldnt hear the doctor's plea.
He cried hard watching his beloved brother take his last breath.....
"Nooo hyung please no please dont leave me...hyung..."
His breathes were getting stuck making him hyperventilate
"Oh my God!!" Dr. Henry exclaimed. He held the boy shaking him a bit "Taehyung i need you to wake up!! I need you to listen to me!!"
But Taehyung couldnt hear anything it was only the violin music playing around him as he cried hard
"I need to do something!!" The doctor panicked
Taehyung watched his brother lying dead on the ground "hyung I am sorry hyung I am so so sorrryy!!"
He cried hard "please hyung dont go"
"HYUNG!!!"
"TAEHYUNG!!"
Taehyung gasped hard as he finally opened his eyes. Through the tears he found a pair of worried eyes watching him closely. Jungkook slowly touched his face
"Its alright, its all ok" and without saying anything he brought taehyung into a hug.
Namjoon rushed in and watched his brother.
"Tae" he said softly but this was the first time he felt scared not of V but of Taehyung
For taehyung was all stiff. Not crying anymore.Not saying anything just all still in Jungkook's arm
Jungkook frowned abit when he realised he was not responding. So he careful let him lie back on the chair.
But as soon as he did he felt as if his heart has stopped beating
Because the human infront of him was dead....even though he was breathing.