Signature.

Both Jungkook and Taehyung need to write their signature on this paper, laying right there before their eyes on the table.

Divorce.

A divorce paper.

Boss and Director Jung are both present, even with a lawyer. Seeing this document actually perplexed both Taehyung and Jungkook, since they have no memory as to them being married or even a moment where they weren't trying to kill each other.

So, how did this happen?

"I'm confused," Taehyung blurts out, looking at Boss, "I thought I was married to Wheein. I came here to be with her safely with my son while I worked as your assassin. Then Jungkook came to kill me. That why I left with my kid. How did a marriage came out of this?"

Jungkook is staring at the document with hands to his back, also confused as to where this came from, but not demonstrating it on his expression. That's until Boss stood in front of both boys, followed with a flicker of his finger.

Suddenly a hand is placed over their heads, forcing them still.

"You two sure complicate my life," Boss chuckles sarcastically, "You two had an affair behind your wives, since Jungkook was working under cover. While Jungkook tried to get information out of you, right?"

Taehyung blinks at hm, slowly nodding, "Right."

"Jungkook manipulated so well as an operative of Oasis to even go as far as having you two married so he can have you under the palm of his hand, and control you to take down Orchids," And Boss looks at Jungkook, "Right?"

Jungkook's gaze is unreadable, which slightly did raise a concern for Boss, until he spoke, "That's right."

Good.

Boss smiles and looks at Taehyung, "Then you found out the truth, felt so guilty he manipulated you because then he was going to kill you, and you abandoned your wife and stable life for a liar."

A liar....

Jungkook used and lied to him, just so he can get closer to him and gain information.

Going as far as to try to marry him, just to further manipulate him in his tactic on gaining Taehyung's trust.

"So you ran away with your kid, before he could try to hurt either of you, wasn't it that that happened?"

Taehyung now lets the guilt fill in him, glancing to Wheein - seeing her seemingly to have accepted the reality of it a long time again, unable to help himself but whisper to her, "I'm sorry."

Wheein snaps her eyes to him and smiles tightly, shaking her head, "I've forgiven you a long time ago, it's okay honey."

The hand on Taehyung's head has left, leaving him to accept that reality.

Boss on the other hand looks heavily at Jungkook, who's still looking at him with his empty stare, "Did I lie at any point throughout this?"

Jungkook didn't hesitate to say, "No. I did use him to grow closer to Orchids and gain trust, just to crush it down."

"Then tell me something," Boss looks at him attentively now, "What happened with both of your kids?"

"Taehyung's kid Hwanwoong was kidnapped by Jimin and Yoongi," He says almost robotically, shifting Taehyung's eyes to him, "They were my friends, did it as leverage. However, Hwanwoong managed to make a deal with both of them, resulting with my son also being taken as revenge."

"So once again, you confirm they're both together and with Jimin and Yoongi correct?"

"That's right."

Boss slowly nods back, "Good."

The hand on Jungkook's head also disappeared, and Boss now stands over the documents on the table, "Well, time for you two to gain your lives back."

Without a word, both Jungkook and Taehyung silently signed where their names were needed, all the way to the final page - but for some reason Taehyung stopped just as he was about to write his name.

Just as someone else came to front, who slowly looks at the paper and then to Jungkook signing the final line.

Valencia stares at him, heavily staring at him, feeling something inside her the second she laid eyes on him. Something about this memory didn't sit right with her, but it's the only memory she knows.

Yet.... Why does this feel so hard?

"V," Valencia shifts her eyes up to Boss, who looks at her with that tender smile, "Don't worry, it'll all be over soon, you just need to sign."

Valencia feels a knot in her throat, especially as her gaze falls and lands to Jungkook's left hand - seeing a bolt ring on his finger.

Similarly to hers on her left hand.

Something about those rings tingled her inside, not finding it in herself to write her signature.

That's until she felt a hand on her shoulder, looking over to see Wheein's deep frown to her. That was as though a trance Valencia's heart, knowing her wife is here and wants them to be a family again.

Just as they always wanted.

She already let her down enough times.

So Valencia turns to the page, signing her name off. Along with the rest of the alters.

Making it officially.

The lawyer grabs the packet, scrolling his eyes through it before nodding firmly to them, "From this moment on, Jeon Jungkook and Kim Taehyung are not married under the law."

Boss and Director Jung shared similar grins to the announcement, just as Lisa and Wheein beamed cheerfully while attaching themselves to their own respective husband, but Jungkook and Taehyung found themselves to not display any emotion at all.

It's one obstacle out of the way, now they can focus on the main agenda now.

"Great, now that this is settled," Boss turns around, grinning as he leads them out the room, "Time to find your kids."

The night outside Orchid's headquarters is quiet, but not as quiet as it usually is in the forest.

The city is different.

Quietness follows by the honking of cars in the middle of the night, people drunk out of their ass yelling into the street, and the faint sounds of footsteps from downstairs of a loud party going wild.

This is quiet, and that's something clearly Yeosang and Hwanwoong were not used to.

They laid together in the guest room, far too awake with the inability to sleep with not only the disappearance of their parents but now because of all this movement going on around them.

It feels as though there's no peace to even turn to, even if they wanted to.

Hwanwoong has been staring off at the beige-colored wall across from him for at least since he laid down to rest, so a good few hours now. There's a lot yet nothing running through his head, and at this point he doesn't know what to do to get some sleep. He doesn't know if he should investigate on his own to find his parents, or let Jimin and Yoongi work on it and do nothing - he simply doesn't know.

What would his parents want him to do?

It's hard to tell since he doesn't know what they're going through right now, and that's driving him insane.

They could be suffering, and he wouldn't know.

"Hwannie, try to sleep."

Yeosang's mellow voice spoke against his ear, showing how he's also trying to sleep but that's obviously not working out either.

Well, knowing he's awake now, Hwanwoong turns around to face him. Yeosang has his eyes wide open, now staring into Hwanwoong's soul with those orbs that are asking the same questions that are running through Hwanwoong's own head.

Are they ever going to see their dads again if they do nothing?

"We have to do something Sangie," Hwanwoong whispers, the anxiety eating him up slowly the longer he thinks about it, "What if they're being tortured? Or worse?"

"What's worse than torture?"

"I.... Don't know," Then he frowns, shaking his head to himself, "What do you think?"

Yeosang is silent, seemingly to be really thinking about it, then he looks back to Hwanwoong, "Judging by our past, those guys won't kill them. They seem like valuable assets to them. If our dads escaped them because of us back then, they will likely want us in the picture. So, they won't kill them, but that means we are also the targets."

Hwanwoong's lips quivered, hugging himself now to the idea, "So.... What do we do?"

"Either we do the same shit my dad did and turn ourselves in, or we wait as Jimin and Yoongi said," Yeosang says more so to himself, a little conflicted, "But if dad turned himself in, it was to get Taehyung and he hasn't come back. So, if we do the same thing, there's a chance we won't either. I'll say we'll make a plan, but for that we need to know Orchids and Oasis good."

"In that case, we should observe Jimin and Yoongi," Hwanwoong continues, "See what they say, get them to talk about their plan, and from there we'll figure it out."

Yeosang smiles back to him with a nod, now leaving them in this silence with the music still blaring from downstairs - that now has mellowed down to a slower song.

"Oh well this is all I wanna be, with you sitting next to me. I've been waiting for a moment but the moment got to me. And I've been holding onto everything I'm doing wrong but who knew, that you'd lose all we are."

Hwanwoong looks at Yeosang, seeing those piercing eyes looking right into his soul without blinking away not even for a moment. There nothing behind that gaze, and it only brought Hwanwoong that stomach turning memory when he brought up the whole marriage bullshit into the table just to be goofy, but now it seems like it flickered a weird tension and Hwanwoong has no idea how to feel about it.

So he plays it off by scoffing to the song, "Bro, can't they turn the music any louder -"

"Hwannie."

Shit.

Slowly looking back to Yeosang, Hwanwoong sees him still with that stare, but instead his eyes are spiraling with orange. Hwanwoong immediately got cautious since that usually means radiation is firing up in his body, but oddly enough he doesn't sense any of it that would take ahold of him in seconds on a regular day.

"Look, um... About that conversation the other day -"

Nope.

Nope.

Nope.

Hwanwoong nervously laughs at him, shaking his head, "I was only joking dude, relax," And stupidly he pats his shoulder, "I mean, I guess I just mentioned it to be annoying but I know you can sometimes take things seriously so relax, it's all good."

It's all good.

That was so cringy.

Yeosang is still not twitching a reaction to him, but the orange glow did mellow down, "I was just going to say that, if somewhere deep down inside you weren't joking about it, it simply cannot and will never happen," This forced more beats of anxiety in Hwanwoong's heart, feeling too weirded out by this, "Even though we're not blood related, our fathers are married, so that means you're still my brother. It's not right, or morally okay. I mean, I would get it if feelings did happen since we only saw each other without anyone else in the picture all our lives but now things are different. I just wanted to say that."

Hwanwoong has a lot of mixed emotions about this entire conversation.

He was literally being goofy about it when he mentioned it, but now having Yeosang confront the topic is making this feel all too real and now Hwanwoong is taking it personally and his anxiety is spiraling all over the place.

What if he did gain feelings?

No, now he's thinking about it because Yeosang brought back that idea from that small joke he made.

Great, now he got him confused.

Hwanwoong blinks at his face, faking his confidence, "Listen, you saying this is fucking with my head, so I'm going to be blunt," And he looks at his face assertively, "I'm sorry that you can't take a joke, but this is how it is. You are my brother, and it's disgusting and weird to think of you in that way. So, I'm sorry if you got offended or startled by it, but it literally was not that serious."

Now Yeosang was quiet, letting Hwanwoong's words sink in between them. Now there's this awkward tension between them, and the music right now wasn't necessarily helping them.

"I'm feeling you move. You're getting me higher than I've been before. I don't wanna lose. You're taking me down, where are you going? Into the dark."

Hwanwoong gulps thickly and turns around, closing his eyes, "Stop acting weird now, sorry for joking around like that."

Yeosang still didn't say anything in response to him, and for a good moment Hwanwoong thought he was going to just teleport out of his nerves to the silence, but then he feel Yeosang cuddle against his back - like how he usually would - and breathes out a heavy breath.

"You're all I have right now Hwannie," Yeosang says quietly, mellowing down the anxiety rushing in Hwanwoong's chest, wrapping his arms around his torso "I'm sorry if I'm overreacting, I just want to get our fathers back."

Hwanwoong frowns upon hearing those words since he gets it.

He's on edge too.

Things are just all over the place right now.

So Hwanwoong turns around and hugs Yeosang's head to his chest, patting head, "It's okay, we'll find them."

Yeosang was tense for a good, hard moment, before melting into his arms around hugging him back tightly, trying to tell himself not to cry.

That seems to be like the only thing he's telling himself since this whole issue started.

Hwanwoong is his only strength right now, and all he has right now.

He has to be strong for both of them, even if he's so terrified.

Tracing slowly outside from the touching moment of the room and into the living room, Yoongi is still up - looking through the cameras from both Oasis and Orchids that he - thankfully to his little spy - has access to. There's a lot he's processing that has happened in the past twenty-four hours, and right now they also don't have much time.

At all.

"Babe, it's two in the morning."

Yoongi traces his eyes to Jimin, who's standing behind the couch with the clear sleepiness behind those puffy eyes. He probably didn't feel Yoongi to cling onto while he slept, since he has a habit of doing that in his sleep.

But now Yoongi can't sleep, not with this whole mess going on.

Looking back to the screen, Yoongi moves his chair back and pats his thigh. Jimin groans to himself in the clear need to sleep but goes to Yoongi's indirect orders and sits on his lap, rubbing his eyes to wake himself up.

"What happened?"

Yoongi places a hand on his hip to keep him steady, and not fall over in his sleep, and clicks the mouse with his free hand the screen, revealing the hallway cameras.

"We have a problem."

Jimin blinks deadpanned to the screen, seeing nothing but an empty hallway from Orchids headquarters. It went on like this for a good few minutes and he grunts, rubbing his eyes again.

"We love an empty hallway-"

"Just wait - Look, right now!"

Still staring at the screen deadpanned, until abruptly Jimin's eyes snapped wide open, and he immediately slaps his face to force himself wake - which worked. Right through the other side of the screen, he sees both Taehyung and Jungkook trailing behind the Boss of Orchids and the Director of Oasis.

But that wasn't what had him in shock to see how they were roaming freely without any type of chains or restraints.

It was by the familiar women that were beside both men.

Lisa and Wheein.

They were dead....

Taehyung talked about Wheein, mentioning how she was murdered.

Lisa is supposed to be dead - He was friends with her, he saw her dead in a casket.

But this woman....

They're both.... Walking, with them.

Alive.

"Either they rose from the dead, or Boss used his duplication abilities not only on money, but on people," Yoongi states, really doubtful about both options, "Judging how these two able to walk confidently on these hallways with Namjoon and Hoseok, that must be their leverage to get them to do whatever they want."

Jimin is frozen, still unable to believe what he's seeing or what's happening this very second, but then he turns to look at Yoongi, "But this is Jungkook and Taehyung we're talking about. Those two fuckers won't just.... They won't just drop each other for their supposed dead wives after sixteen years spent together? No. They had to be smarter, they could see this is a trap, o-or something - I don't know! They have to notice that this is sketchy!"

"Well, this is going to shock you then," And Yoongi clicks on the screen, revealing a scanned document, "It's sealed."

Divorce.

They signed a fucking divorce.

What is going on?

Their kids??

Clasping his hands together and pressing his lips against them, Jimin tries to understand from another perspective what is happening, but nothing comes to mind, "This isn't like them. What could be so big for them to not find this entirely sketchy, even have a whole divorce while knowing their kids are still out here?"

Yoongi seems to be trying to figure that out too, "Maybe they did it to assure their safety?"

"We know them, they would rather kill themselves than divorce each other. No matter how big the risk is."

"Then it can only be that there's someone in Orchids or Oasis who's good at mind manipulation. That's the only answer."

Jimin didn't even know how to react right now, but suddenly a notification appeared on the screen, and Yoongi leans up and clicks on it.

It's from an anonymous chat.

"Is this from your insider?"

"Yes," Yoongi mutters, "I had to ask Wonwoo what's going on."

Jimin nods but then freezes, snapping his eyes to Yoongi, "Doesn't Wonwoo read minds?"

"Yeah, but he doesn't control them."

"Yoongi, ask him about it."

"I don't want to push too much -"

"For fuck sakes," Jimin takes the keyboard and types on it instead, "Out of curtesy, I'll even say it's me."

Yoongi snaps his eyes to him, scowling bitterly, "For what? So, he can think you guys will go at it again for old times sake?"

"Because he has a soft spot for me, and he'll tell me more," And Jimin sneers his eyes to him, "Don't act like you didn't enjoy our threesomes when we had them."

Sending a face back to him, Yoongi lets Jimin send the message but keeps his hand stubbornly on Jimin's hip. Actually, no, he slips it under his shirt instead and caresses his warm skin with his cold fingers.

Vigorously Jimin whines, "Your hands are freezing."

"Then warm me up."

Jimin sends a very pointed yet intimidating stare to Yoongi that had him biting back a smirk, causing Jimin to roll his eyes and look back to the screen, not hiding his smirk to the quick response he received back.

"Oh, he's still so into me."

Yoongi leans over his shoulder, reading the message.

Hi baby, it's been a while. I know now is not the best time, but can I ask if you possibly had anything to do with why Jungkook and Taehyung are walking with their dead wives right now? - Xoxo Mimie.

Yoongi made a face to that, ew.

It sure has been a while, I miss you baby. To answer your question, perhaps I did, you could say I got better and not just at making you cum ;) - Wonwoo

Yoongi glares at the screen and then to Jimin, "Oh I'm sorry, should I be excused so you can continue to flirt with him? Maybe even take a dick pic for you to send to him-"

"Hush," Jimin shushes him, typing back, "You're so sensitive, as if you didn't send him dick pics before."

"He's talking about his dick making you -"

"Let's not forget whose dick had him begging for more at the end of the night."

Well...

Okay.

Yoongi stubbornly scowls despite his little ego being boasted by the memory, staying silent instead as he watches Jimin send the message, and as predicted, this fucker texts him back faster than he has ever done with Yoongi.

So is it safe to say your little mind games are not just to know perverted thoughts? - Xoxo Mimie.

I can do a lot more than just that now if someone wants to fuck, but if you want me to be direct, yes my love. These two were manipulated by me, but because I knew you and Yoons would be involved, I added an escape route to snap them out when needed, one that both bosses don't know about - Wonwoo.

Jimin grins deviously at Yoongi, "See what happens when we make friends?"

Yoongi rolls his eyes but pecks his cheek just for the sake of it, "Fine, do your thing."

Back then, when life was a little more simpler - by simpler, meaning when Jungkook and Taehyung were in their love bubble while being in Orchids, Wonwoo - who was also in Orchids - was their eyes in making sure they wouldn't be caught.

You could say as their bodyguard.

The photograph of the four was actually taken by him, and he was good at making sure this secret stayed as a secret.

During that time Jimin and Yoongi were also getting to know each other, and the three really got along well since the second they met. The year that Taehyung and Jungkook were in their blooming romance was also when the three were having their time together, and perhaps for a moment it did feel like something romantic other than sexual did stir up between them.

They developed a lot of trust, talk a lot about the future, and would even go on a lot of dates together. It was in the direction of something serious.

But that all changed when Jungkook and Taehyung pulled the move to escape, and Wonwoo unfortunately had to keep his cover as Orchids - no matter how much affection he grew with Jimin and Yoongi. So, he had to follow orders that did fuck things up between the three of them, resulting with Yoongi and Jimin going on the low since they openly helped Jungkook and Taehyung escape.

The two made a living on their own and were fine for a few months until Yoongi received a message from Wonwoo from his laptop, and it was of him giving him access to the cameras of both Orchids and Oasis - in that way he could watch their moves for both him and Jimin's safety.

Since then, Wonwoo has been Yoongi's spy, but strictly for business.

Yoongi doesn't want him to get into any problems either if he's caught, much less have him killed.

Guess you could say Yoongi still cares, somewhere deep down inside his soul.

Jimin still misses him, since he did grow tender hearted for him, it wasn't easy getting over him and to this day, Yoongi knows Jimin does still miss him.

That's why he doesn't stop him from talking to him, even if it's a life and death scenario.

Now being a little more giddily, Jimin types back to Wonwoo with his rapid fingers. Once again receiving a quick response back.

I knew you would always be so good to us. Can you tell us, or is that a secret for a one night? - Xoxo Mimie

I'd love to tell you anything you want me to say, but right now, you need to leave from where you are - Wonwoo

Jungkook revealed that the kids are with you two - Wonwoo

They're trying to find your location as we speak - Wonwoo.

Both Jimin and Yoongi are sitting up immediately, looking at the message with their heart in their throats now. Jimin by this point couldn't move, maybe he's not breathing either, so Yoongi did it instead to respond back to him.

What do you mean Jungkook revealed the location to them? - Yoons

I manipulated them into believing anything Boss would say about their past, and I had to follow orders, there's a lot of fucked up twitsts in their memories now - Wonwoo.

As far as the two know, their kids are missing and they were taken. Jungkook revealed that they were by you two, probably as an escape as to you two being the last thing he thought about in relations to Yeosang, so they know the kids as there. - Wonwoo

I'm sorry, I had to follow orders - Wonwoo

They found a location - Wonwoo

Get out of there now! - Wonwoo

Signing out - Wonwoo

Yoongi and Jimin sprung to their feet, the two quickly getting into emergency protocol as they have gone through before the kids arrived. Jimin immediately went to get the kids, and Yoongi got the emergency bag - carrying money, food, clothes, a laptop and a health kit. Quickly he also deleted all his files and restarted the entire system in a way that not even the military's computer system can gather any information he previously was having access to.

By the time he was finished, Jimin got the two boys out of bed - who clearly were not sparing a second of sleep.

"What is going on?"

Yoongi holds the bag and Jimin quickly gets himself ready, answering to them, "They found us, we must hurry."

It's clear the fear flashing Hwanwoong's eyes, meanwhile Yeosang couldn't be any more annoyed and angrier by the news - two vast reactions. Right now, there's no time to talk or explain, the four quickly making it out of the apartment and down the stairs, passing through the old lady behind the desk and into the car that the two boys arrived with.

The system scanned them immediately when they piled inside, greeting them, "Welcome Min Yoongi, Park Jimin -"

"Change license plate and color of the car, warn if being followed," Yoongi ordered to the system in haste, starting the car properly and drives away in speed.

The license plate was suddenly rearranged as commanded, just like the once black car now being maroon red. All system ready to detect any following vehicle was activated, so now they will expect if they were suddenly caught - but that seems quite unlikely as of now.

While Yoongi drives, Jimin immediately got to work on finding locations on where they'd be safe to stay under any camera or public eye through the computer Yoongi brought with him, all the while the two boys in the backseat watched with a pounding heart racing in their chest.

They're doing everything they can just so they can stay safe, but what if Yeosang can just.... Locate the source of all of this.

Yeosang slowly looks between all of them, and decided to take a risky move in closing his eyes and try to contact Eden - just like he has done so before.

His conscious travelled all through the city, flowing through every mind in desperation to find him, all the way to lead to the mansion of Orchids - right to the alter present.

"Eden."

Eden blinks to the sudden voice in his head, definitely not sounding like any of the alters, yet still finding it oddly familiar but not at the same time.  He looks around the room right now, which is the computer room of Orchids as they all stare at the CCTV screens to the assets that were sent to Jimin and Yoongi's apartment.

"Eden."

Gripping his hair now, Eden furrows his eyebrows, asking in his head who the fuck is talking to him right now, but all the alters said it wasn't them. Wheein noticed his reactions and quickly places her hand on his shoulder, worried, "You okay?"

Eden didn't even know if he's okay, but someone is trying to talk to him.

And they know how to reach him, which is fucking bizarre because he doesn't remember teaching anyone this.

So, closing his eyes, Eden tries to concentrate, holding a grasp to the voice - far deeper into the consciousness, "Who is this?"

"Yeosang."

Yeosang.....

That name....

Eden slowly lifts his head up, looking across to Jungkook and Lisa - who were attentively looking at the screen.

Yeosang...

Wasn't that -

Slowly easing to them, Eden asks them, "By any chance.... Was your son name Yeosang?"

Both parents snaps their eyes to him, including Boss and the Director. It was a tension that was provoked automatically into the room, and Jungkook gritted his teeth to him.

"Get my son's name out of your -"

"Eden."

"Fuck," Eden curses, gripping his head, "He's contacting! How does this brat know me?"

Jungkook takes a step forward, but Boss raises a hand, stopping him. He approaches Eden with a perplexed stare, intrigued actually "He's contacting you?"

"Yes."

"Right, you can speak through dreams," Boss hums, the sparkle in his eyes illuminating, "Can you communicate back to him."

"I could."

"Great, so this is what you're going to do."

Yeosang from the car waits to hear a response from Eden, frowning as he thinks this is probably not working anymore, or Eden is dormant now.

Until he hears the voice.

"My son, I see your connection got better."

Yeosang quickly smiles and looks at Hwanwoong, "Hwannie, I got a connection with Eden."

Hwanwoong's eyes blazed in light upon such words, squeaking under his breath, "What did he say?"

"Hold on."

Yeosang closes his eyes again and says, "Where are you? Are you and dad safe?"

"Yes, we are more than safe. We would like for you and Hwanwoong to come here."

Now a little perplexed, Yeosang furrows his eyebrows, taken back by the statement, repeating it to Hwanwoong, "He said he wants us to go there."

"Where?"

Yeosang blinks at him confused, "I don't know."

"Actually no, for safety don't do that. We'll go to you, where are you?"

That's a little better.

Yeosang looks around briefly, "We're in the car from the forbidden room, but Yoongi changed it red now. We heard we were going to be ambushed, so we ran."

"Where are you guys now?"

Sparing a look around, Yeosang was so confused since he has never been around the city, but then he saw a sign, "Um, the route to get to Gangnam, the highway? I think."

Eden from the other end snaps his eyes open, looking at boss, "Route to Gangnam, highway, red car - said something about forbidden room car."

Quickly Hoseok types in the location route, seeming to know the car because all of the sudden on the map came up the exact car movement and location.

There they are.

Lisa smiles to the screen, looking at Jungkook now, "We're going to have our son back!"

Jungkook nudge an expression, the thought that he connected Eden not really sitting well with him because.... Why?

How does he know him that closely?

Sure, he manipulated Taehyung to marry him, but did he really risked his own son into this as well to get close?

Why can't Jungkook remember or put the pieces together?

Even Eden is asking himself the same question, and it's making him sick the more he thinks about it.

How does this brat know him like this?

Boss now looks at him, beaming a smile, "Great job. We found them."

Yeosang patiently tries to wait for contact back from Eden, but he doesn't hear or sense him anymore, and that has him a little nervous now.

No actually, anxious because who knows what could be going on throughout those seconds that he doesn't say anything.

Up until to Yeosang's relief, he did respond.

"Thank you Sangie, we'll be seeing you soon."

Sangie....

Eden... Calling him Sangie?

Now Yeosang frowns deeply upon hearing this, his gaze cold to the trap he mistakenly fell into with the hope of speaking to Eden, "You never called me Sangie, I was always brat for you."

The connection officially got lost, and a sudden alarm blares into the car system.

"Two cars following. I repeat, two cars following."

On the screen by the radio, two images of cars are shown the on display, maneuvering through the other cars recklessly to finally be in sight behind them. Yoongi curses angrily and speeds it up, attempting to lose them, but suddenly more cars entered the view and are now chasing after them.

Yoongi glances by the review mirror, seeing there's literally no way on escaping them since they're completely outnumbered, and then to Jimin, "Call in Oasis, request for them to break off from their chase, and we'll follow orders."

Jimin looks at him, "Are we really?"

"Of course not - Jimin! Get with the program!"

Quickly Jimin pulled into the computer system on communications with Oasis, the only way he knew how to as a previous operative. The call traced all the way to Orchids headquarters, right to the room where everyone is witnessing this as it blared the screen.

Boss snickers with a shake of his head, "Didn't take long," And he waves to Hoseok, "Well, answer."

The call pulled through, the sound of a fuzz from the other side scratching the mic before the familiar voice spoke, "Marine Veteran Park Jimin requesting for halt on your mission. We are willing to cooperate."

Hoseok's eye physically twitched upon hearing him, about to press the button to respond back but Boss stops him from answering, staring at the screen, "This is Min Yoongi and Park Jimin we're talking about; they will not cooperate. So, let's give them a little taste of desperation to ensure it."

Boss then moves his finger and presses on the other button beside the one to respond to the call, "Fire them up."

Jungkook physically tensed up to this, alarmed, "My kid is in there -"

"Don't worry, the kids will be fine," Boss waves off, "It's just a little scare so they can comply completely. Without room for games."

Jimin from the other side waits for a response, looking at Yoongi, "Maybe they're -"

A bullet suddenly flies to the back window, startling Hwanwoong to the abrupt noise with a shriek as it stuck to the window. One bullet suddenly became more in a matter of seconds, realizing that they're attacking them with a machine gun.

Yoongi grunts angrily moving the car as he tries to avoid the sudden attack, "Did you piss them off?!"

"I JUST SAID MY NAME AND REQUEST!"

Yeosang is heaving desperately to the fear piling up in his body, holding tightly onto Hwanwoong's hand as the car kept moving as the bullets came through - up until the back window couldn't take it anymore and it snapped into pieces.

"EVERYONE HEAD DOWN!"

Immediately Yeosang and Hwanwoong are on the foot placement of the backseat, covering their heads as more bullets fly into the air.

"JIMIN TRY TO COMMUNICATE NOW!"

Who knows how Jimin is managing to stay calm in this situation, but he's crouching by the foot placement of the passenger side, sending another message, "DISENGAGE! WE ARE WILLING TO COOPERATE!"

Once again nothing is working, and suddenly all the cars behind them are shoot at them, and anxiously Jimin yells to the backseat, "Hwanwoong! You're going to have to teleport us out of here!"

Hwanwoong upon hearing such request quivers, hugging his body with teary eyes, "I've never teleported more than one person -"

"You're going to have to try!"

"But -"

"HWANWOONG!" Jimin shouts over the bullets, grunting as he tries again through the monitor, "WE HAVE CHILDREN WITH US! WE WILL COMPLY! DISENGAGE ATTACK!"

Taehyung steps forward upon hearing Jimin's destress, his body trembling now to the sound of bullets in the background, "Stop this! They will comply!"

"Not yet," Boss says monotone, tearing his eyes back to the clear anxious fathers of the situation, "Watch carefully, see who's in control here. I can easily end their lives, or save them, so that means you should know your place."

Jungkook snaps his eyes to him before looking at Hoseok, "Director Jung! This is my son in there! Something could happen! YOU PROMISE ME BEFORE I TOOK THE MISSION TO KEEP MY SON SAFE!"

Hoseok didn't say anything back, nervously nibbling on his bottom lip as he watches the car chase of bullets down the highway - to which won't last long before it gives up. From the shadows watches this with his heart racing his in chest, never hearing such panic in Jimin's voice before until now.

But if he steps in then -

Jimin's voice came up again, "WE WILL COMPLY! PLEASE STOP FIRING!"

By now Jimin is growing desperate, yelling over to Hwanwoong, "HWANWOONG WE DON'T HAVE TIME!"

"I"M TRYING!"

Yeosang sees the horror in Hwanwoong's gaze as he tries to teleport the entire car out of there, clearly having evident flashbacks from when he tried to do the same thing back home - but failed.

Not being able to do this one simple thing, and he knows he won't be able to again.

He can't.

Suddenly a loud blast reaches their ears from behind, along with the car jolting forward. Snapping their heads back, they see fire flaring the car at the trunk from where those fuckers threw a bomb to slow them down.

And hysterically Yeosang suddenly screams, "DAD HELP US!"

Jungkook now desperately looks at Boss, his fist tight, "Stop this now or I will fly out of here and stop them myself!"

Boss frowns upon hearing the kids voice from the other line, not helping also hearing Jungkook's subtle little blackmail, and pressed on the button, "Calling off the chase-"

"LOOK!"

The blast from the trunk suddenly exploded one of the wheels, causing Yoongi to divert trajectory and the car was suddenly driving off the highway, through trees to reveal a clear opening.

With the view of water.

Oh no -

"HWANWOONG!"

The car suddenly flies off the cliff.

Jimin immediately holds Yoongi and the kids clutching onto each other - shifting their bodies to be of metallic steel frozen in time, and unbreakable.

Just as the car explodes in the air.

Tigresa suddenly screams, "NO!"

Jungkook falls to his knees watching this from the screen the broad explosion right before his eyes. Even both Namjoon and Hoseok watched in shock, silently. This wasn't supposed to happen, no, death was not supposed to be in the equation.

This wasn't supposed to happen.

Meanwhile falling down from the sky, the blast forced Jimin unconscious as he releases them from his hold, snapping them out of the metallic protection to now fall from the sky. Both Yeosang and Hwanwoong are now screaming once they see the waters below him, Jimin still not waking up and Yoongi just snaps his eyes open to realize that their falling.

Immediately he latches onto Hwanwoong, forced his eyes to his and suddenly they weren't falling into the water anymore. Actually, everything about their surroundings completely changed.

They're by what seems to be a river, two cliffs towering on either side of it as they land on the rocks safely.

Rocks.

River.

A cliff...

They.... Teleported...

Did they just teleport?

Yeosang gasps in his breaths heavily as he realizes this, looking around slowly to see Hwanwoong beside him - groaning to the fall. Quickly he goes to him, making sure he wasn't injured. After inspecting and being sure he's okay, he sighs and helps him sit up.

"Did you teleport us?"

"No, I did."

Both boys snapped their eyes to the side, seeing Yoongi carrying Jimin in his arms - while the other male still remains unconscious. He kneels down, resting Jimin to the ground as he checks him quickly.

"I can absorb any ability if I touch and look at the person in the eye," Yoongi continues to say numbly, sparing a glance to Hwanwoong, "Would've done it sooner if we weren't in a car chase and you weren't screaming so much."

Hwanwoong frowns to this, but Yeosang steps in, "How did we survive the explosion?"

Jimin suddenly gasps a cough, snapping awake when Yoongi rubbed his chest with his fist, and Yoongi answers, "With a touch, Jimin can make anyone into solid steel - like an unbreakable statue. The problem is that with that, he freezes someone on the spot, including himself, until the contact is broken," He rubs Jimin's face as he gasps air in relief, "Those fuckers, how the fuck did they possibly find us?"

Slowly Yeosang began to think about precisely the moment he reached out to Eden, they found them not only minutes after.

Did he.... Was it because of him?

"What happened to our fathers?" Yeosang asks lowly, feeling heat erupting in his core, "What did they do to him?"

Hwanwoong now is looking at him confused, then to Yoongi and Jimin - who finally managed to catch his breath, "What is he talking about?"

Yoongi and Jimin silently glanced at each other and then to the two of them, knowing they cannot hide the truth to what's really going on in that empire right now.

The same empire who right now is holding a raging Karma back from blowing everything up in his path - screaming as the guards holds him back as he watches the car exploding and pieces of it falling into the ocean. He screams, and screams, all the way until he stayed a crying mess on his knees.

Even Hoseok, who was not expecting this, had to press his forehead to his crossed fingers, closing his eyes to blur image from his head.

Everyone is having their own reaction, whether it's crying or pleading that this is not real, and Jungkook for one became numb.

Utterly numb.

He was not crying, or screaming, or begging that this reality is not real - he's still on his knees, watching the video with a soulless gaze behind those eyes. Something about all of this is bleeding through his head, finding nothing making sense but one for sure was real was that explosion.

That fatal explosion.

Slowly rising up to his feet, Jungkook ignored Boss's call for him as he moves past him and goes outside the room. Now that he's away from everything, the silence is louder. It was drilling through his ears, forcing him to imagine the boy he raised no longer smiling at him.

No longer calling him dad.

Being haunted with the last thing he ever said to him, to which he failed to listen.

Dad help us.

Help us.

He failed as a father to his own son.

Leaning back against the wall, Jungkook presses the back of his hand against his trembling lips, groaning to the knotted pain in his throat with his eyes pouring and begging to bleed in tears.

He couldn't, he simply couldn't.

This cannot be real.

This can't be real -

The doors of the room open once again, stepping out a feverishly Taehyung with his bloodshot eyes scouring the place - all the way until it lands to Jungkook.

Jungkook was not prepared for when Taehyung suddenly grabs the collar of his shirt and pins him against the wall, his tears burning those eyes, "HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME!"

"What are you -"

"WHY DID YOU USE ME! WHY DID YOU HAVE TO COME INTO MY LIFE AND FUCK EVERYTHING UP FOR ME!" Taehyung screams to his face, the cracks escaping his words, "Because I killed your parents? Huh? Well guess what, they shouldn't have done dirty business in the first place so I wouldn't have had to slice their heads off."

Now this time Jungkook flared up, gripping to Taehyung's wrist grabbing his shirt, "Watch your words carefully," He growls under his breath, "I lost my son too -"

"THIS WOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU SIMPLY STAYED AWAY FROM ME!" Taehyung slowly crumbled his composure, his face breaking apart through his tears, "Why did you have to fuck everything up."

Jungkook's glare didn't falter, if anything he nudged his head to the side, "Last time I checked, you let me," Taehyung wide eyes looks at him now, his grip faltering when Jungkook sneers to his face, "You let me get close to you. You let me kiss you. You let me feel every inch of your body, and you let me get into your head. You wanted me because what kind of assassin would let anyone be so close to them like how did with you, huh?"

Taehyung's hands are off him now, but Jungkook now grips him by throat and shackles him forward, the hysterical anger burning those gaze, "You know why you let me? Because you loved having my attention on you, far better than what your wife ever gave to you-"

A punch launches to Jungkook's face, but because of his indestructible skin and resistance to force, he didn't nudge a muscle. Taehyung on the other hand was groaning as he grips his hand, bending over to himself to the crack of his fingers made when he made impact on his face.

Jungkook rolls his eyes as he hears the other man cursing under his breath, well to him specifcally, and grabs him by the collar of his blazer and yanks him down the hallway, "Let's go-"

"Fuck you-"

"We don't have time for that now," Jungkook says back nonchalantly, looking around before entering what he remembers being the medic room, "Come on."

Taehyung kept muttering to himself as Jungkook guides them inside, thankfully someone inside. Didn't take long for Taehyung to get himself treated in cracking his fingers back into place, or making sure they weren't broken. Thankfully because of Tigresa, they were able to heal the body back quickly, except for the scrap on the knuckles.

Jungkook stayed there the whole time, trying to find some sort of distraction to not think about his kid being dead right now. He knows well if he goes on an emotional rampage that Taehyung just demonstrated, he will not think clearly.

He has to be strong, for his wife and for himself.

Yet some part of him is screaming inside, in denial to everything going on.

And that's the part that's strong right now in him being calm.

He'll break when he's alone, but not now.

Not with an audience.

The medic ended up leaving after treating his head, if only they could've treated his heart the same way too. Taehyung now stares at the scar on his hand with wobbling lips, quietly sobbing as everything slowly breaks down in his chest.

Something about seeing Taehyung cry didn't sit well with Jungkook, like a nasty feeling in his chest. He can't describe it, but it makes me feel the more urge to be vulnerable too.

So to shrug it off, Jungkook clears his throat, "I'm going to go -"

"Are our kids dead?"

Jungkook freezes, slowly looking to see Taehyung still staring at his hand as the tears glistened and drops on his skin.

Looks like he's just in denial as Jungkook is, or at least wants to be.

"I don't know," Jungkook admits, seeing Taehyung picking on the strap on his knuckles, "I'd like to think that my son is strong and.... Can you - For fuck sakes, stop doing that."

Grabbing a disinfecting spray with a cotton swap, going to sit beside him on the bed while slapping his other hand away and spraying the area. Taehyung hisses through his teeth, but Jungkook carefully blows on the area before tapping it with a cotton swap of the blood peeking through.

Taehyung watches him do this silently, his heart beating hard in his chest as he glances to the bolt ring on his finger. He stares at it, seemingly it be so familiar with his, and he snorts a laugh.

"Couldn't have afforded to get us a proper ring for our fake wedding?"

"If I remember well, I think you were the one to mention a simple ring."

"But a bolt seriously?"

Jungkook stops aiding his hand, looking at him with a pointed stare, "You could always take it off right?"

Taehyung glances down to his ring, feeling a shiver down his sine to how Jungkook is holding his hand - when he was steadying it to attend him. He can also feel the bold ring on his finger, and he looks back to him.

"Then you take yours off too."

Jungkook didn't move, something in him rejecting on doing it. Now the two are silent, and Jungkook was having a hard time not looking at him, just like Taehyung did too. There's this pull that moved in them, this energy that spread and entered in their bodies - feeling the fragile and sensitivity of this moment alone.

It's this relentless feeling as though there's something missing that they can't seem to nudge off, and the longer they stay in this space together, the more uncomfortable it became - but somehow also being so into it.

As the tension grew, it seemed as though it was detected because the door to the medic room opens. Quickly Jungkook and Taehyung shuttered away from each other, looking at the door to see Wheein rushing inside and going to Taehyung's arms - noticing the scrap on his head.

Then she looks at Jungkook, her face twisting in rage, "What did you do to my husband?"

Jungkook evidently flinches to the words, but before he could say anything, Lisa came to his defense with a glare, "Don't talk to my husband like that, move."

And she grabs Jungkook's arm and guides him away, having Jungkook subtly glance back to Taehyung.

Whose eyes were already staring back at him.

[Note]:

This chapter really took a lot of energy out of me ooffff.

A lot did happen, so let's see how this is going to unfold!

Lots of love <33