Saturn - Sleeping At Last

(A/N: Lowkey cried while writing this chapter and rereading it..... I'm not sure whether or not to put a warning for tissues so I'll just leave this note here :))
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Jimin laid on Jungkook's bed for the past three hours. The tears continue streaming down his cheeks as hours pass and still no sign of his lovely ravenette.

No sign of his Jungkook.

Why wouldn't he tell him anything if he was leaving?

Why didn't he mention anything to Taehyung about me?

How is it that him and Yoongj are the only ones worried while everyone else remains indifferent?

Is it true what Jungkook once told him? About his friends? How they don't really care about him like how they show or say they do. All it takes is for him to say he's 'fine' and they will be so quick to let it go and believe him.

Jimin didn't want to believe that to be true when time passed and he got to know them, especially from Taehyung, but after this whole week with Jungkook's absence and the way they didn't intervene when people would pick on him, Jungkook was right all along.

They don't care, only about their own problems.

What type of friends are those? Do they know nothing about Jungkook's life at all or do they just not care? Even Jimin didn't know anything entirely about Jungkook's life, yet he's still worried. Shit, even Yoongi and he isn't close with Jungkook in that way.

Maybe..... This isn't the first time Jungkook has done something like this... And the others are just so use to it to just.... Not worry about it....

No, Jimin won't become like that because unlike them, he knows in his heart and instinct that something is going on.

He won't rest until he knows if Jungkook is okay. But then again... What if Jungkook doesn't want to be with him anymore?

What if everyone else is right? That there isn't anything to worry about and it's all in his head?

Ugh Jimin can't take this anymore.

The brunette pushes himself off the bed, now it being three in the morning, and he slowly makes his way out of Jungkook's room with a new determined yet fearful attitude.

There's only one way to know his doubts for sure, and it's to look for Jungkook himself, even if he doesn't want to be found.

It's fascinating how the human mind can trick itself once being in an isolated environment for too long. One doesn't even know or can decipher what is real or fake anymore, it all looks exactly the same.

As Jungkook lays down in this endless ocean of darkness, he doesn't even know if he's sleeping or awake, if his eyes are open or even closed.

It all feels the same.

An empty and endless abyss of pure nothingness.

Where emotions don't exists and thoughts are left to wander to their own imagination.

What is real?

What is fake?

At this point..... Jungkook doesn't even know anymore.

If he even alive? Or did he cross that bridge a long time ago?

How long before he completely loses his mind?

How long before his touch with reality is completely gone?

How long........ Before he will be able to see Jimin again?

Jungkook has never had this need to be out in the outside world ever since he met Jimin. He misses his pure existence, and just being around his glowing presence.

The anchor to who Jungkook really is.

The reason why he hasn't completely lost his mind, even when he has been tempted to just go insane.

Jimin is his savior, whether he's here or not physically.

If only he can see if face just one last time, just to give himself that hope that everything will be okay. That he just needs to linger on a few more days and they will finally be reunited.

Just a sign!

Something!

Anything!

If there's a God out there.... If he actually exists, the same one that Jimin believes in, if you're all good and faithful as Jimin claims and praises you to be, at least give me something to work with here!

You haven't been there before when I needed you, maybe giving me a little mercy wouldn't hurt-

"Jungkook?"

A hallucination isn't what I was asking for!

Ha very funny, so damn funny.

Is this just another attempt to drive my sanity to bits?

You really don't love me, do you?

Well you're lucky that I love Jimin, and at least I don't tell him about the reasons that I don't believe in you-

"Jungkook..."

Can you just stop it already!

I can't go insane.

Can't go insane.

Can't-

"Lovely?"

Wait...... Is this real?

Jungkook shoots his eyes open.

The taunting monsters and horrendous words from inside his head suddenly stops, letting Jungkook to listen carefully with his eyes blinded by the darkness, somehow being filled with clarity on the inside. With a small sense of hope.

After a few moments, Jungkook wanted to cry all over again because he didn't hear anything else after he heard those tender words, believing it was all just an imagination in his head now-

"Jungkook.... Are you out there? Please lovely, let's talk about this.... I-I don't want to give up on you."

The voice is closer...

Jimin..... It sounds like his Jimin.

To that sudden thought Jungkook instantly tries to push himself from the endless solid darkness below him, but to his dismay his body falls weak, pulling him back down by gravity fighting against his every intention to reach the voice.

To reach that heavenly voice that he only hears in his dreams.

"Jimin," Jungkook whimpers painfully as he forcefully tries to drag his body to the sound of light footsteps closing near the door, "Speak angel, please.... Just one more time."

It's almost as if their connection only intensified the closer they got to each other because at that same second that Jungkook pleaded for Jimin to speak out, his angel once again calls out for him quietly, "Jungkook..... I'm slowly giving up hope and I d-don't want to.... Shit I don't even know if you're in this house..... Please baby... I'm not holding up very well, and I can't.... I can't do this without you any longer. I-I'm on my last string.... So this will be the last time I will come here..... And I will end this suffering for once and for all."

Jungkook's heart practically drops upon hearing those words, more determined than ever to reach the broke voice of his upset angel, only now much more frantic than ever, "Jimin please.... D-Don't."

He needs to get to Jimin, he needs to be there for him.

How much farther?

Uh, I can't give up!

"I don't even know what I'm doing anymore," Jimin says brokenheartedly with a dry chuckle, only pushing Jungkook more as he finally reaches something solid in front of him.

The door.

It's the door.

"I guess..... Maybe it is time to..... Let it go. Thank you.... For being so kind to me, but maybe our paths cross different roads... And I'm about to meet mines."

Jungkook painfully raises his hand with gritted teeth and slams it as hard as he could against the door, only making a pitiful thump echo the endless darkness.

A sound almost audible.

But that was enough to reach Jimin's ears, connecting their souls right back to each other.

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The small brunette is already by the kitchen when he heard the faint noise, instantly stopping himself from slicing the kitchen knife against the small open space on his wrist. Slowly he moves his teary eyes follow where the noise came from.

What was that?

After a few moments of silence, Jimin shakes his head to the possibility of it being in his imagination, but right before he was about to ease his crave to slice his skin again.

He hears it again.

Thump.

Jimin stood frozen solid, trying to detect the noise carefully to prepare himself either to run or to investigate.

It could be a rat, Jungkook's parents, Jungkook myself or Jimin by far has lost his sanity already.

And that's when he hears it.

A very low, almost inaudible voice.

"Angel."

Jimin drops the knife the second he heard the voice and rushes to where he last detected it from, his heart racing rapidly by now as he eagerly searches the area while trying to remain completely quiet in order to hear anything.

"Lovely," Jimin hushly whispers, "Please say or do something! Where are you-"

And he hears it again.

A thump from the door right beside him.

Jungkook....... He's in there?

What the fuck? Is he trapped?!?

Jimin nearly screams when he hears another thump on the other side and immediately tries to turn the door knob, but it wouldn't bulge, so Jimin carefully taps on it, "Lovely.... Is it you?"

For a moment he hears nothing, even when he presses his ear against the door to listen more intently, but then very lowly Jimin could hear his savior's voice.

The voice he's been yearning to hear for the past week.

"A-Angel."

Jimin fights back to not completely fall into an emotional break down against the door, but he tries to hold his dignity together, lightly caressing on the door with his small hand, "Jungkookie..... My lovely, are you okay? The door is locked."

The brunette presses his ear against the door once again to hear a response, hearing the bittersweet silence of the air but then makes out the sounds of deep heavy breathes.

"Keys..... In the kitchen..... I c-can't see a-anything angel. H-Help..... Help Me..."

Jimin screws his eyes shut eyes shut, a mass sense of hysteria consumed his entire emotional state as he stares at the door nob, studying the key hole before furrowing his eyebrows, seeing how familiar it looks, "Don't worry baby, I'm get you out."

The brunette rushes to the kitchen and feverishly begins to look for any key in sight. He digs through every drawer, cabinet, even the fridge and inside the stove.

Nothing, he can't find it anywhere.

That is until he began to dig through the island at the center of the kitchen and found a ring full of keys in one of the cabinets.

He would yelp in joy but instead his hope slightly drains to the sight of the multiple keys before his eyes, and he began to stressfully cry.

This will take all night, all the way through morning and then Jimin will most likely never get Jungkook out before his parents wake up.

No!

I can't fail him!

I can let myself down as many times as I can, but not Jungkook.

Not him!

So Jimin closes his eyes and thinks it over, calming down his rushing senses to complete ease in order to think straight. He doesn't have enough time and he can't over frustrate himself now-

Jimin suddenly snaps his eyes open, slowly moving his eyes down to his hoodie and slowly raises the end of the fabric up. The double layers of gauze is still wrapped around his torso, held together by bobby pins securely.

Why didn't he think of this before?!

Jimin takes one of the bobby pin, making sure it's a safe one to remove so it wouldn't loosen the gauze from his body and instantly began to adjusts it. His quick legs goes back to the door where Jungkook is trapped in and began to go over in his head how Yoongi taught him how to break through a door knob. The many times they would break into the music room during their crush developing days involved fumbling with the door knob in order to get in, and Yoongi even taught Jimin how to do it himself.

He was able to break in through any door with the proper utensils since then, but never had the need to do it until now.

After a few more nudges and turns, Jimin did it.

The door creaks open.

Jimin's heart pounds so fast against his chest as he slowly pulls the door open, his breath growing heavier in fear as he's meets with the complete darkness of inside of the room.

He couldn't see anything at first, only utter nothingness, but once he lowers his eyes down to where the light that casts down to the floor from the hallway, Jimin's entire circulatory system shuts down to the sight of Jungkook's motionless body limply on the floor.

Oh God....

"Jungkook!" The small angel horrifyingly shrieks as he rushes to the slump boy on the floor and turns his body over so his back is pressed against the ground instead. Jungkook's now thin face is so sullen and pale with faint bruises on his once creamy skin. Chapped lips and emotionless eyes slowly flutters open, meeting Jimin's frantic stare with tears beaming his eyes.

His Jimin.....

His Jimin is real...

"M-My angel," Jungkook hoarsely whimpers, his voice strained from the lack of water as he raises a hand and caresses Jimin's cheek with his fingertips, "My s-sweet angel."

Jimin instantly began to cry painfully as he hugs Jungkook's body, feeling his heart and soul slowly repairing itself once again, "I found you lovely. You're safe, okay? You're safe," He mumbles comfortingly and places a kiss on his forehead, "I will protect you lovely, always."

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A/N:

Wow this was an intense chapter. Ahhh Jimin found Jungkook, yay!! Now let's see what happens soon! I will be update the next chapter some time today. It's currently 1:32 p.m. so definitely before midnight I will have an update ready <3

I also just want to say that I apologize if I haven't responded back to your lovely comments or messages, a lot has been going on lately and it's been too much to juggle all at once. I enjoy reading your comments and it gives me a sense of comfort, so I appreciate this love so much!!

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