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"Everyone," Taehyung started as he walked into the kitchen. His members were hanging out at the table playing some card games after just having finished a  late night dinner. They all looked at him.

"I'm going to go to the mart and grab some snacks. Apparently we're out," Taehyung informed them.

"Oh! Can you grab me some of those jellies I like?" Jin asked. Taehyung  nodded. The rest of the members started listing off other various snacks  they wanted him to pick up for them. He started typing the list into  his phone. The list was starting to get rather long.

"Is  there anything...else?" Taehyung asked chuckling. The rest of them  looked around and agreed with eachother that that should be all for now. Taehyung grabbed his keys off the counter and headed for the door.

"Drive safe, call us if you need anything," Jimin told his best friend.

"I will." And with that Taehyung was out the door and headed to the mart.

An hour and a half had already gone by and Taehyung still wasn't home.  Yoongi had tried calling him about twenty minutes ago but it'd gone  straight to voicemail.

"It shouldn't be taking him this long to get snacks...he should be home by  now..it's been too long," Namjoon pouted. The members had grown  increasingly worried for the second maknae and were getting more anxious every minute that he still hadn't returned.

Hobi tried to stay positive, like he always did, "Well we did end up giving  him a pretty long list of snacks maybe he just went to a couple of  stores? Sometimes our usual mart is out of stuff."

"But he would have called us," Jimin pouted.

"Maybe he forgot?" Hobi replied.

"He wouldn't forget!" Jimin cried, "Are you seriously not worried!?"

"Of course I'm worried! I'm just trying to..I don't know..not be...it's  making my stomach hurt.." Hobi couldn't ignore the pit of anxiety in his  stomach. They were all feeling it.

"I'll try calling hyungie," Jungkook said and just like with Yoongi it had gone straight to voicemail. The panic intensified.

"What  if something bad happened?! What if he's hurt?! We should go out and try to find him.." Jin suggested. The members agreed that they'd grown too concerned to sit around and do nothing. As they were getting ready to head out, they could hear a phone ringing. They all checked their  cell phones but none of them were going off.

"So whose phone is that?" Jimin asked confused.

"Oh, it's the landline! I can't even remember the last time we got a call on  that thing. Maybe it's TaeTae!" Hobi exclaimed.

The members all ran to the phone, "That's weird that he'd call us on that," Jungkook pouted. Jin picked up the phone, "Hello? Tae?"

"Hello, is this the residence of Mr. Taehyung?" A mans voice came through the phone.

Jin could feel his palms starting to sweat as he looked at the other  members with a worried expression, "Uh..yes...this is where he lives...I'm sorry, but who is this?"

"This is Min Sook from Seoul Memorial Hospital, I'm afraid there's been a terrible car accident. I need you to come to the hospital right away."

Jin immediately started crying into the phone, causing the others eyes to fill with tears of worry too.

"Is he okay?!" Jin screamed into the phone.

"I'm sorry, sir. I can't discuss details over the phone but please come as  soon as you can." With that, the man on the other end of the phone hung  up. Jin dropped to the floor crying.

"What happened?!" Namjoon screamed.

"He's..he's...he got into an accident!" Jin screamed. 

"Is he okay?!" Jungkook cried. Jin stared at him. "I don't know," he  whispered. The members dropped to the floor and held eachother crying.  Their absolute worst nightmare had actually come true.

"We have to get to the hospital!" Jin yelled as he shot up to his feet,  helping some of the others stand up with him. They got their shoes on  and sprinted out the door to Jin's car.

In  the car, the members were a mess while Jin sped them to the hospital.  He had to continuously wipe his own tears out of his eyes so he could  see straight. Jungkook, Jimin, and Hobi were clinging together in the  backseat. Yoongi and Namjoon were staring blankly ahead, feeling numb.

"He'll be okay right?!" Jungkook cried from the back as his tears crashed all around him, "Our TaeTae...my Taehyungie hyung..has to be okay right?!"

Nobody answered him. Jimin nuzzled his face into Jungkook's neck and cried even harder. Hobi looked over to Namjoon and Yoongi. They were still just sitting there frozen. Neither of them were audibly crying but silent tears were streaming down their faces. The two didn't know what  to think. No way Taehyung could actually be hurt, right? He was their best friend and second youngest little brother, it just couldn't happen. Not to someone they loved so much.

When they arrived at the hospital Jin sped and swerved into a parking spot  and the members all frantically got out and ran inside. They all ran up  to a receptionists desk.

"Where is he?!" Jungkook screamed through his tears, "Is he alright?! Is he okay?!"

"Sir, who are you asking about?" the man said. Jin recognized the mans voice, it was the same man who called their house.

"Mr. Taehyung...you called about a Mr. Taehyung getting into some kind of accident," Jin told him. The look on the receptionists face suddenly changed. It turned dark, sorrowful. Mournful. The members noticed this and their hearts seized.

"Sir please....is he okay?" Yoongi asked. He was frustrated that they weren't getting any answers. It was a simple yes or no question. Was Taehyung okay, or was he not? Why wasn't he answering that?

"Please come with me," the receptionist asked of them. They started following  him down some corridors and down a few flights of stairs.

"Where the hell is he?" Namjoon asked harshly. He was also frustrated at the lack of information. The receptionist stopped at giant metal doors to a room. Everyone looked up and saw what was written above the doors.

Morgue.

"No no no no. What the hell is this? What is going on? Why are we down  here?!" Jimin cried while looking at the rest of his members. They all  seemed equally concerned and confused. Jungkook and Jin immediately started sobbing. All of them could hear their hearts beating in their ears. Their chests ready to explode. They were shaking with anxiety. Why the morgue? Why the hell would the receptionist have led them all the way down to the damn morgue? Surely Taehyung couldn't be down there. Right? No way he'd leave them all behind like this.

"I'm sorry-" the receptionist started but Yoongi cut him off.

"No. This is a joke. He won't be here," Yoongi said blankly. Jimin noticed  Yoongi was doing it again. Just staring blankly. Yoongi felt numb. He  didn't know how else to feel. He refused to believe Taehyung was even  hurt, let alone dead, and the only way to keep himself from falling into  that pit of despair was to force himself to feel nothing at all.

Jimin looked at Namjoon, Namjoon was acting just like Yoongi. Silent, steady tears, but there was a dullness to his eyes. Like he wasn't even inside  his own body. Like he had gone somewhere else to escape this kind of  pain.

"I'm afraid that this is not a joke, some of our hospital staff need you to identify the body," the receptionist said. He slowly opened the door to the morgue but the members were so unbelievably heartbroken and too busy crying to step foot inside. They refused.

"No!" Hobi screamed, "He's not dead! Our Taehyung cannot be dead!" There is no way. Absolutely no way my little brother is dead!

All of the members followed Hobi stating that this was some kind of  mistake. They didn't feel the need to go into the morgue because they  refused to believe that Taehyung was in there.

"It just needs to be identified. If it's not him, it's not him," the receptionist said.

"Fine," Yoongi groaned. He was the first to step inside. He realized it wasn't going to be Taehyung anyway so the sooner they got this over with the better. He just wanted to get back upstairs and figure out where Taehyung actually was. The rest of the members hesitantly trailed in behind him and they gathered in front of some of the body freezers. The room felt super weird to them. It was really cold, and had a really weird smell to it. Like chemicals they definitely had never smelled before.

The members felt like they were going to be sick. Not only was their fear making them feel sick, but the thought of having to see even the slightest part of a dead body freaked them out terribly. A hospital staff member dressed in all white started pulling out one of the chutes with a body in it from one of the freezers. It was covered with a white cloth. The  members still couldn't stop crying. This was way too much.

"I don't want to!" Jungkook screamed, "It's not Taehyungie! It can't be! I want to leave!" He was starting to hyperventilate. The rest of them were also struggling to catch their breath through their tears.

Jin joined in with Jungkook, "He wouldn't do this to us! He knows how much we love him! He would never just die like this! He knows he can't do  that!"

The hospital staff decided to not waste time. The staff member slowly lifted the white sheet up and the first thing they saw was an arm that had freckles in the exact same spots as on Taehyungs arm. The members knew eachother well enough and could recognize a single freckle and where it belonged, even from a mile away.

"No!" Jimin screamed and aggressively pulled the sheet back over the arm. No no no no !!

The  members all dropped to the floor screaming and crying. They thought  their worst nightmare couldn't get any worse but it just had. It was Taehyung. He had been in a car accident, and it had killed him. The  members were huddled in eachothers arms on the floor absolutely wailing.  It could be heard echoing throughout all the hospitals halls.

Although they were all crying so badly, they still felt numb. Like a piece of each of them had just been ripped out and thrown away. They felt an emptiness they didn't know it was possible to feel.

"Taehyung-ssi!"  Jin sobbed, "My Taehyung-ssi!" He didn't even care to wipe his tears this time. He let them flood his eyes and the floor around him. Jimin and Hobi couldn't catch their breath. This was all too much. Hobi had told the others that Taehyung must have simply gone to other stores for  snacks. This entire situation made him feel like a complete liar.

Jungkook was sobbing repeating over and over that there's no way this could be happening. Taehyung was his closest brother. Both in age and in emotional attachment. Taehyung had been the one to shape Jungkook's entire personality. Taehyung was just himself in a different body.

They were all crying so hard that the staff members had to escort them out  of the morgue and into a private room nearby. The receptionist said he was sorry for their loss and that he'd give them time to themselves. The  members didn't want time to themselves, they wanted Taehyung back. Alive and in their arms.

The members felt like the entire earth had just cracked in half, split completely open, and swallowed them hole.

Taehyung was dead.

None of them could bring themselves to admit it out loud. But through the  tears, Jungkook started screaming again. "He can't! He can't be gone!  Not only would he not leave us like this, but he wouldn't leave me like this! He's my best friend in the entire world and he knows that! He knows  how selfish it'd be for him to just die on me! He wouldn't do it! He  wouldn't!"

The members all looked to Jungkook with pity realizing how absolutely inseparable the two really were. Their hearts broke even more, although it didn't seem like that would have even been possible.

They cuddled up together in the waiting room they'd been sent to and tried to process the information but it simply didn't make sense.

"I  can't....he can't be...no..." Jungkook pouted. In an act of desperation he decided to call Taehyung's cell phone again. What he wouldn't give to hear his hyungs voice just one more time, even if it was just his voicemail. But his heart still had hope that Taehyung would simply answer his phone. He refused to believe he was dead. He was in complete denial. Taehyung would never leave me like this. He knows we can't go on without him. He knows I can't go on without him.

Jungkook was a bit confused when instead of it going straight to voicemail, Taehyung's phone was ringing. He put his phone on speaker.

They heard the phone be picked up.

"Hello? Kookie?"

"Hello?" Jungkook cried, "Who is this?! Taehyungie?!"

"Uh..yeah where are you all? I got home and nobody is here."

The members looked around at eachother in complete disbelief. Was this actually happening or something they were making up in their own heads? Taehyung answered his cell phone and said he's at home?! Then who the  hell was in the morgue?!

The members became frantic asking him if he was alright.

"Yes, I am fine, are you guys okay? Where are you?" Taehyung asked.

"Hyung!! We'll be right there!" Jungkook screamed and they instantly jumped to their  feet. They ran back to the morgue and asked to see the arm again.

At second glance the freckles had looked nothing like Taehyung's. It didn't make sense. The arm clearly didn't belong to their brother so why had they all thought it was his the first time? They figured they must have been blinded by their fear and tears. They told the hospital staff it  wasn't their Taehyung.

"It must be a different Taehyung," the staff said. The staff said they'd have to do some testing to identify the body but before they could even  finish their sentence the members were already running out and up the  stairs. They ran past the receptionist, "It wasn't him! He's at home!"  Namjoon screamed happily. They sprinted to the car and Jin sped straight home.

When they got there they all slammed through the door practically on top of eachother and were greeted with a very confused looking Taehyung.

"Where the hell have you guys be-" he was cut off from being squeezed in the middle of a tight hug from all of them. They were all crying again but this time tears of joy. Jungkook grabbed Taehyung's cheeks in his  hands and started planting kisses all over his face. "I can't believe it! I can't believe it! You're alive! My Taehyungie is alive!" he cried and  then pulled him back into a hug.

"Alive? Why wouldn't I be alive?! What the hell is going on?!" Taehyung cried.

The  members started talking over eachother frantically telling him  everything that had happened and how they had to go to the hospital and identify a dead body and they all thought it was him.

"Where the hell were you?!" Yoongi yelled.

"Oh no," Taehyung pouted, "That must have been the accident I got stuck in. I'm sorry everyone I got stuck in traffic literally forever because of a car accident and my phone died. I got nervous that you'd all get worried  but I figured I could explain when I got home. But when I got home, the  place was empty."

Jin pulled Taehyung's head into his chest, "You're never going anywhere  alone again! In fact you're never leaving my sight ever! Never again!"

Taehyung chuckled, but felt bad seeing how terrified his members had been over a really shitty misunderstanding. Taehyung also felt bad that someone had died in the car accident, he was hoping they turned out okay.

The members went on and on about how absolutely terrified they were  thinking he had died. They told him how their world had completely  shattered and they realized they simply couldn't go on or live without  having him in their lives. Those few hours had been an absolutely  torturous hell for all of them.

"I could never leave you guys behind like that," Taehyung pouted, "You all know that! I know how much you all love me."

Taehyung let himself be embraced by the hug his members weren't letting him out of. They continued to say how grateful they were that they still had him because they couldn't imagine going on if it had all been true.

After decompressing a bit, Taehyung finally gestured to the bag on the table, "Well, I got the snacks. I'm sorry Jin hyung but I ate some of your jellies."

"Oh Taehyung-ah don't apologize. You can have all of them if you want. You can't do anything wrong ever," Jin chuckled.

The rest of them gathered and grabbed some of their snacks from the bag. They were feeling so much better. Their hearts were absolutely bursting with love for Taehyung and they all became extremely clingy to him the rest of the night. He couldn't even walk into another room without one of his members holding his arm and trailing behind him. Not even the  bathroom.

When it was time to sleep, they all said they could gather in one bed and sleep together so they put Jungkook's and Taehyung's mattresses together. They then started arguing about who got to sleep next to Taehyung. He  thought them fighting over him was comical. Jungkook clung to him  absolutely refusing to move, so he got to be the cuddle buddy with Hobi on the other side. The others cuddled in the best they could.

Taehyung felt warm snuggled in-between all of his members and they couldn't stop talking about how happy they were.

Happy they were falling asleep not as a group of six, but of seven.

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