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"Everything you lose is a step you take"

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"What the fuck?!" Junghyuk shouts in fury and irritation. Everything was fully planned, how can this happen? This has to be some sick joke.

You're leaning by a pillar in the warehouse with a hand on your stomach where he kicked you. It's hurting and Jungkook could see it. When he is fully released, he gets up from the chair but dizziness got the best out of him as he again falls back on the chair.

Jimin runs to him after seeing his state. He holds his shoulders, making him wince. Jimin has never seen Jungkook in such worse state. How can someone so powerful look so weak suddenly? It's miserable.

"Y/N...," Jungkook lowly growls as he tries to stand up again.

Jimijn helps him with it and he finally stands up. His body feels like it'll shatter into pieces in few steps but right now all he wants to do is hold you and feel for himself that you're fine.

So he walks towards you. Just then Taehyung walks to Junghyuk too.

"Guess what, the tables have turned," Taehyung tells Junghyuk and all he could do was yell at him and try kicking his feet but it isn't possible.

"You're fucking cowards! Release me once and I'll tell you all!" he yells at all the guys standing here.

Jungkook reaches you and holds your arm which was injured due to the cut and had a handkerchief wrapped around it. You look up at him and immediately start crying. He's safe you're safe.

" You like telling stories, right? Here lemme tell you a story too," Taehyung puts the gun right under the chin of Junghyuk.

"You think you had us in your palm? Well, you could've if you weren't this damn naive," he tells him.

"How did you get here?" Junghyuk asks them.

"Are you sure you thoroughly checked her before bringing her in here?" Taehyung asks them again.

"We did take out the tracker!" the defeated man screams at him.

"Tracker or... Trackers?"

"What the fuck do you mean?"

"I have another tracker stuck in my toenail," you speak from where Jungkook is holding you.

Jungkook looks at you as his eyebrows shoot up.

"Wait. You weren't kidnapped, you made yourself get kidnapped?" Jungkook asks you and you nod at him.

"I knew that they would definitely want a leverage to convince you to sign those papers because you'll rather die than signing them willingly. We were stuck, we didn't know where you were. No clue on how to find you. This was the only option," you explain.

" Y/N suggested us this plan. She was ready to sacrifice herself for this. We were highly reluctant of it because this could've gone terribly wrong but this was the only best option and time was ticking, "Seokjin continues.

" So, you deliberately came here and made your presence known so that they could come and kidnap you? "Jungkook asks.

All you can do is nod because the pain in your stomach now is getting unbearable.

" You fucking slut! - "

Junghyuk shouts at you and Taehyung slammed the butt of the gun on his jaw hard. Jungkook's attention goes to him and now that he's not tied up, he doesn't have to control it. All he can see right now is red.

With you in his arms, he walks towards where Junghyuk is held. Yoongi comes forward to hold you while Jungkook limps to Junghyuk.

"You sick bastard," he hisses before he lands a punch on Junghyuk's face.

Another goes straight to his gut, the second punch makes him spit blood out of his mouth.

"You dare talk like that to my woman? I'll fucking kill you," he punches his face over and over again.

On the other hand, you look at the scene happening in front of you. Screams, grunts, curses and growls echoing all around the room.

Jungkook isn't stopping, punching Junghyuk over and over again till his face is bloody and his perfectly pressed suit is soaked with his blood too. It looks like Jungkook has lost his senses. He himself feels like it because Junghyuk has touched someone who's his life. He did her wrong and Jungkook isn't someone who'll just let him die easily.

The two men who were holding Junghyuk now let him fall down on the ground. Everyone in the room looks at Jungkook as he pounces on the almost dead man and start throwing punches again.

"A fucking chess game is all it is to you," Jungkook hisses out but doesn't stop his punches.

"Even if your soul comes around my girl, I'll make sure to drag you from the hell and kill you fucking again."

Your head spins as you rest your head by Yoongi's shoulder. Cold sweat is breaking out of your body and nausea is rolling inside your stomach. Your body has turned cold and limbs aren't supporting your body weight anymore.

" Are you OK, Y/N? "Yoongi asks you and you whimper. It's paining.

" J-Jungkook, " you call out.

" Jungkook! Y/N is sick. Just kill him and let's go, " he yells at the angry man.

Jungkook doesn't hear him as he continues pouring his rage out on the already dead man beneath him. On seeing him, Taehyung tries to make him stop by holding his arms.

"Jungkook, it's enough. We gotta leave," he tells him and Jungkook looks at him as he continues, "Y/N needs you."

Jungkook looks at your almost passed out state while you're clutching your stomach hard in Yoongi's arms. He gets up from Junghyuk's body and find his glock laying down by him.

Holding it up, he points it at Junghyuk's body.

"Good fucking bye," he growls as he shoots a bullet straight into his skull. Another bullet is shot, then another, until it was empty.

"Fuck," you whisper before nausea travels to your throat and you turn your head to your side and vomit it all out.

You scream as the pain surges from whole of your body to go to the lower region of your stomach. It hurts as hell.

"Fuck, Y/N," Jungkook runs to you after dropping the lock and holds your cheeks in his hands to make you look at him. Your eyes are tight shut as you cry in pain.

"It hurts!" you cry louder.

You clutch your stomach harder at unbearable pain and your legs give out but Yoongi hold you in place. Then you feel something warm between your legs. Warm thick liquid running down them.

"Jungkook, it's blood!" Someone screams and he looks down at your legs to see the running blood. His eyes widen at the realisation as he picks you up in his arms immediately.

"Fuck no," he whispers and takes your body to the main gate. You're whimpering in his arms, your skin looks pale.

"It'll be OK baby. Just wait, we're going to hospital," he tells you but you can only hear it faintly before you pass out in his arms.

"Fuck! Someone take us to hospital. Others bombard this place and I hope not even there ashes be left here!" he tells them, panic surging inside him too.

When they reach the cars that are parked outside, he immediately slips in the back seats with you in his arms. Yoongi is with him as he slips in driver's seat. He doesn't waste more than a minute as he drives out to the nearest hospital.

"It'll be OK, baby. Oh God," his voice shakes as he rubs your hands and looks at your blood stained legs.

"She'll be OK, we'll be there really soon," Yoongi tries to comfort him.

"This is reminding me of the day when we first rescued Y/N from those two guys. It was like this. Her in your arms, me driving. It started from there, isn't it?" Yoongi says, trying to calm Jungkook down.

"I love her, hyung. I don't want anything to happen to her," he cries. Yoongi looks at him through the mirror and sighs. He has never seen Jungkook cry like this.

"She'll be OK, I believe in it."

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Next day: early morning

The soft sound of a machine beeping disturbs your peaceful sleep. Your eyes squint before you draw in handful of air. You try to move your arm but damn, it's sore as hell. In fact, your whole body feels sore like it has been bruised all over.

Trying your best, you open your eyes. After a few seconds when your blurry vision clears, you look around you. It's white and so peaceful. You now hear the beep beep of the machine and look towards it's source, then hiss out at the pain it gave you when your neck did a little movement.

You look at the machine and then at the pipe that is attached to your hand, laying on your stomach. Right, you're in a hospital. Then your brain works to gather the memories of past day. You finally remember everything. The last time you were fully conscious was when Junghyuk was killed right in front of you and then the blood came out of you.

"Good morning, my lady," you hear a voice and look to the either side. You don't startle at the voice because even in your half conscious state you can tell who that belongs to.

When you look at the other side, you see Jungkook sitting by your bed. He looks better now. There are a few bruises on his face which seems to be fading and there's a fracture plaster on his right arm too.

You thank God at seeing him finally safe and alive here. Suddenly the surge of pride runs through you that you guys did it. It's peaceful now. Soon, you'll go back to your home and it'll be perfect, back to normal.

"Good morning," you clear your throat immediately and notice that your throat is dry.

"Here," Jungkook offers you the water bottle which was kept on the side table.

You try to sit up a little with your aching body in which Jungkook helps you the best he could. Then you drink the water till the bottle is whole empty. You were thirsty.

As you are laying down, with him helping you, you notice that he's in the hospital clothes too which means his treatment is going on too.

"How are you feeling?" he asks you, holding your one hand in his.

"Good. My whole body is aching though," you answer, the flashbacks going on in your mind, "How are you feeling?"

"I'm better. They gave me stronger painkillers, so yeah I'm almost good. They couldn't give you because your condition was critical and they needed to run some tests when you would wake up," he explains.

"Oh..," you look down at your hand that's laying on your stomach, "Jungkook, did I.."

Jungkook sighs and looks at you, "Did you know you were pregnant?"

Your heart dropped in your stomach as you shake your head, "No."

A tear falls down your eyes as you let it sink in. You lost your baby with him, your first child with him.

"I'm sorry, I lost your baby," you cry.

"Hey no," he brings your hand up carefully to kiss the back of it, "It's not your fault. You didn't know."

"But still, it was our first child-"

"Y/N, it's OK. Good news is you're perfectly fine and that's what matters the most. Doctor said that you can still bear as many babies you want to. We have our whole life ahead, we'll have hundreds of babies if you want to."

You snicker through your tears and he smiles too. Then he caresses your forehead before leaning in to kiss it.

" By the way, "he relaxes in his seat, leaning back while still holding your hand," as much as I'm proud of you for planning and executing the rescue operation so perfectly, I'm still angry at you for putting your life at risk like this."

"I know it was risky and don't get angry on other members. I convinced them into it. Just like you would've jumped into the fire to save me, I also needed to do that and I'll do it over and over again to save you. I love you, Jungkook," you explain your part.

" I too love you, baby but what if something happened. What would I have done then? How would i-"

" It wouldn't have. I trust them and they came on time to save us. There wasn't any other way. I'm glad we both are safe here, " you tell him and he sighs.

"Let's just forget it, it's gone now. Did you talk to ah jumma? How's Eun Jae?" you ask him.

"Yes, we told her and we got into some accident. She's worried sick but Eun Jae is fine, he cried while talking to me, he misses us," he answers with a small adoring smile at the end.

"When can we travel back?"

"Doctor said you'll need at least a week worth time to heal to safely travel so we gotta wait for it," he answers and just then the door of the room opens.

"Oh my God, you're again out of your bed?" Jimin comes inside and rolls his eyes after seeing the scene inside.

You look at him and smile. He hurriedly runs to your bed to ask you millions of questions about your health to whom you try your best to answer.

" You mister, get your ass back to your bed," Jimin keeps his hands on his hips like some strict nurse.

Jungkook puts his one uninjured hand up in defeat and says, "OK sir."

Jimin shakes his head in disbelief, "Doctor has told you to rest properly and you're doing this. This is the eighth time I'm coming in this room to lay you down on your bed."

"I just wanted to make sure she's fine," Jungkook reasons out like a scolded child.

"You can ask her that from your own bed. You fought the staff to get you a bed in the same room as Y/N to be near her, if we knew you'll do this we would've never supported you. There are nurses to do this work and isn't it your responsibility to call for some nurse when she woke up. You were sitting over... "

You grin at how Jimin is scolding Jungkook and how he's just laying in his bed listening to him like he's his mother. This feels tranquil to you, like it's back to normal.

Luckily, nurses come in and Jimin shuts up. The two ladies walk in silently and walks to your bed.

"How are you feeling, ma'm?" one of them asks you.

"Good, it's just aching all over my body," you tell her.

"I'll tell others that you woke up. Also Eun Jae wanted to talk to you so we'll come with a laptop to do a video call," Jimin smiles at you and you give him a grin with a nod.

"Take care and you stay in bed," he warns Jungkook and he again puts his one arm up in surrender as you giggle.

The nurses come up with dressing supplies as they assemble them by the side table. You notice their moves when one of them folds your upper bed a little higher to make you comfortable in a little sitting position. They give you some medicines which you gulp down easily with water.

"Um, sir, can you turn around or something? We need to do her re dressing," one of the nurses tell the only male presence in here.

"Why? Are you going to get her naked?" he asks, his eyebrows pinching together.

"Uh she has bruises on her chest, so yeah," she answers.

"Hell no, give me the cream, I'll do it," he goes to take the blanket off him.

"No, stop. They're women, Jungkook" you roll your eyes at him.

"Don't roll those eyes at me and it doesn't matter-"

"Don't be a child. Let them do it," you urge as Your cheeks are burning because of your blushing.

Jungkook looks at you and the nurses for a few seconds before saying, "Go ahead but I'll not be turning around. I've seen everything she has on there."

You close your eyes at embarrassment. How can he say those things just like that?

The nurses helplessly agree with pink cheeks too as they turn to you. They start with your dressing as you look at your man sitting on his bed with his eyes glued on you. He looks so focused that you almost snicker at him.

Next few minutes pass by with nurses doing their work, Jungkook staring at their work and you stealing glances between him and the nurses. When it is finally done, the nurses silently leave the room and you finally turn to him.

Before you could speak, he speaks, "Keep counting, baby. You've done stuff to get punished later. Rolling your eyes on me, calling be a fucking child and everything. Let's wait till you heal and back at home, in my vicinity alone."

You gulp and open your mouth to give some response but before you could do it, the door of the room again opens and in comes six men with Taehyung leading them along with a laptop in his hands.

" Eun Jae! You wanna see mommy, "he asks someone in the screen.

In next moment, a bed table is set up in front of you with your legs in between them carefully and  Taehyung keeps the laptop on the surface.

The sight you see almost make you laugh first and then cry. Eun Jae is sitting there in his little baby body wearing his favorite Spiderman onesie. The hood of the onesie is over his face, almost covering it but he's smiling like crazy due to the excitement. You can see Lisa sitting behind him too.

"Mommy, Henlo!" he greets you and giggle at your sight.

"Oh baby."

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One year later

"Mama, Can you see?" Eun Jae asks you, his breath fanning your ear along with the soft warm breeze of spring.

"No baby, I can't," you answer feeling his warm hands covering your eyes. The soft sun rays feel soothing on your skin as your loose hair which are cut short into a shoulder length Bob right now sways beautiful in the air.

"Good~," your son sings as you hear his tiny breathes near your ear.

Keeping your hands behind you to support your body on the ground, you feel soft texture of the checkered picnic mat over the soft fluffy ground filled with green grass. It's a beautiful day of one fine spring.

You hear your son's breathy laugh before you hear grass crippling in some distance like someone is walking towards where you're sitting in your pink floral dress, letting the sunshine kiss your skin perfectly and softly.

Then you feel someone's shadow in front you and the feeling of tiny hands on your face disappear. You blink a few times before fully opening them.

"Yayy~," Eun Jae claps his hands excitedly behind you before running towards the man crouching down in front of you.

"Happy birthday, mama!" Eun Jae shouts while jumping and giggling with excitement.

"Oh my God," you are surprised but you try to pretend more surprised by cupping your mouth as Eun Jae giggles even more.

"Happy birthday, my lady," Jungkook says and gives you his best smile.

His hair are longer now, long enough so that he has to do a man bun behind his head. A few strands of his hair fall on his forehead while other are slicked back into a hot hold. You can also see tattoos peeking from the collar of his black shirt on his neck. These are his new tattoos and you find them extremely hot.

"Aw Thank you, my love," you coo and chuckle at how cute the cake is.

The cake is kept down on the carpet and Jungkook shields the candles from low wind with one hand as other one uses the lighter to light them up. When they're finally lit, he looks up at you.

" Blow the candles, love," he says and Eun Jae peeks through his shoulders at the cake, probably thinking when he'll get to eat it.

You're about to blow the candles when your four years old interrupts you.

"Make a wish!" he shrieks, panicking that you'll blow them before.

"Oh of course!" you smile and close your eyes to make a wish.

You hear a click of camera and you open your eyes. Jungkook bought Eun Jae a small Polaroid camera on Christmas. Since then he has been clicking pictures of every small detail. He has so many hanged in his room already.

You laugh at his cuteness when he again clicks a photo of you.

"That's my boy," Jungkook cheers him and kisses him on his cheek making him giggle.

"Blow the candles, mama," Eun Jae reminds you and you immediately lean forward to blow the candles out.

Both the males in front of you sing the happy birthday song for you as you cut the cake. You give Eun Jae a bite and then smear some of the cream on the tip of nose. Jungkook laughs out at it and so do you.

"Mama~" Eun Jae whines and reach down to wipe some cream off the cake with his index finger and goes forward to put it on your nose too but in the end moment, you back away a little and the cream accidently smears on the side of your lips.

You are about to wipe it with your finger when Jungkook holds your hands to stop you from doing it.

"Eun Jae, you wanted to give mama gift from the garden," Jungkook reminds him and his eyes widen at realisation.

"Yes Dad. Mama, wait for me," saying this he runs away as Jungkook reminds him to be careful.

Then he turns around towards you and leans in to lick the cream off your lips. Your eyes widen at first but then you close your eyes when his tongue licks the cream from the side first and then travel to your lips. Cupping your cheek, he makes you face him as he kisses you softly. You return the kiss before he backs away.

"Happy birthday," he whispers against your lips.

You giggle as he's literally wishing you for tenth time in the day and it's not even afternoon yet.

"Thanks, baby."

Then he shuffles to sit in front of you properly. You hold his hand in gratitude and feel just how warm he makes you feel.

Ever since the incident of last year, you've been in the process of healing. It isn't properly complete yet but you know you'll get there eventually and this man has never left your side since then.

You were worried about your bond after that especially after you got to know that Junghyuk was actually father of Eun Jae. Junghyuk was his biggest rival and maybe bringing his son up in his own house would make him feel weird and it'll affect the bond that they had.

However, nothing like that happened. When you returned back home it was like extremely normal. When you finally said your thoughts out loud to him one day, he couldn't believe that you were thinking stuff like that. You still remember the word he said to you.

"Junghyuk might be his biological father but you are the one who brought Eun Jae up. Just having the blood of a person inside you doesn't make you their family until they do stuff that family is supposed to do. You alone brought him up and from now on, we are going to do it together. So we are his family. It's me who's his dad, not Junghyuk. So don't think I'll stop loving Eun Jae. Like I said he's part of you, from you, and that's why he's one of the most valuable person for me. "

You smile at the thought before you ask him," So what am I getting as a gift from you, my mafia man. "

" Besides the things I'll do with you in our bedroom, I have plenty of things to gives you. Some, I'll give today and other after a month," he answers and you grin.

Next month is going to be a dream come true. It's your wedding next month and the preparations have already started. You're so damn excited for it and so are everyone.

" And what about now?" you hold your chin up to look into his eyes.

"Right now, my lady, I wanna give you a promise," he caresses the back of your hand before holding the eyes contact as he continues, "I promise you that I'll never leave your side. Good or bad, I'm standing next to you. A promise that I'll love you forever and that in every lifetime, I'll find you and make you mine. A promise to be your forever and protect you from any negativity. I'll be your anchor, your biggest supporter and your only love forever. I promise to keep you happy and never make you cry, except the time when you're underneath me on my bed, of course. "

You giggle and admire his face before leaning in to kiss him. It was a soft kiss full of love and affection.

" Mama! "you hear Eun Jae before you see him.

You break the kiss to look in his direction to see him running to you with his hands holding stems of flowers. His hands look full, he might be holding more than twenty flowers of different kinds.

When he reaches you, he pants loudly before giving you them. You hold them carefully.

"Happy birrday," he says between his pants and still manage to smile.

"Thank you, my baby," you kiss him on your forehead.

"Also I love you, mama. And dad too," he grind with his full teeth.

Jungkook laughs from your side and you chuckle too before you both lean in to hug the little boy.

"We love you too," you both say in unison and Eun Jake's small arms wraps around your bodies.

From behind his back, you turn to his side to look at your beautiful lover and so does Jungkook. You both give each other a mischievous smile before you start tickling Eun Jae.

The boy laughs as he tries his best to get out your hold. Nope, it's mission impossible.

Just like that, the whole garden fills with laughs of Eun Jae, Jungkook and you. The soft sun rays peeks on you through the green tree you're sitting under. The garden filled with flowers feels like dancing on witnessing such a happy scene.

And this is your life, a little forever that you've always prayed for. The pure happiness that you've always wished for. All the difficult times you passed through and he's the one you're thankful for.

And of course that one deal that changed your life.

The end