Faded - Alan Walker

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Jungkook knew something was wrong.

He knew it the second he returned back to his dorm from taking a walk with Taehyung, who left to his own apartment after he got a call from his brother. They talked calmly to each other, not about why Taehyung was going through since he still refused to say anything, but about anything that comes to mind, and soon enough that light spark was back to their friendship

However that's not the point.

Point is, the first thing Jungkook noticed when he came back to his dorm was that Yeosang was no where in sight.

Second thing was that Jimin is on the couch, talking to Joshua through a FaceTime call, with tears streaming down his cheeks.

"No! I wasn't doing anything-"

"You answered way too quick. Must've been on your phone texting your other side bitches, don't lie to me."

Jungkook had to do a double take the second he heard that. He couldn't even move, let alone breathe properly, especially when Jimin looked up with his teary eyes the second Jungkook closed the door behind him.

His heart instantly turned cold, connecting the dots together in his head.

"Jimin, hang up."

Instantly Jimin shakes his head when Jungkook managed to say this, wiping his tears away with a smile, "No it's okay, I just finished seeing an emotional movie-"

"I said hang up the fucking phone! I need to talk to you!"

Neither Jimin and Joshua said a word to this, especially when they glanced at each other on the phone. Now Jimin was panicking, especially to the familiar dark look in his boyfriend's eyes.

He was not about to have a part two to another fight, so Jimin put his foot down, "No. Now leave me alone," He huffs to hide his fear before looking at the screen, "By the way, Gem said he went out-"

Joshua hung up the call.

The fuck?

Oh no.... Did he get mad!??

Jimin looks confusedly down at his phone, attempting to call him back but instantly it goes to voicemail. Jungkook by now is heaving in anger and he grabs his phone, now with a new worry filling his chest.

"What do you mean Gem went out?"

By now Jimin is panicking, trying to grab the phone but Jungkook only yanks it farther away from his grasp. Then he groans loudly, "I don't know okay! He overheard me and Joshua arguing a-and then I just got a bit emotional, that's it!"

Jimin's phone drops to the ground, slipping past Jungkook's putty hand. His whole heart dropped like the device did, now filling him with realization and anxiety to what his little brother is most likely doing right now.

No.

No....

Oh no....

Fuck!

While Jimin was grunting in annoyance to his phone on the floor, Jungkook grabs his shoulders in complete desperation to face him.

Jimin panicked, "J-Jungkook let me g-"

"Where does Joshua live?!"

By now Jimin is hyperventilating to the physical contact, tearing pouring his eyes in hysteria, "H-He...... I c-can't-"

"JIMIN THIS IS IMPORTANT!"

"CAN YOU FUCKING LET ME GO PLEASE!"

Jungkook realized how hard his grip on Jimin's shoulders was and instantly lets him go, almost letting Jimin breathe in relief as he tries to text Joshua but his messages don't even send, "He lives somewhere else, why?"

"Fuck!" Was all Jungkook mutters as he rushes out the door, "SEND ME THE ADDRESS! NOW!"

His adrenaline is pumping as he rush out of the dorm and down the escalator, shaking in panic and paranoia for his little sadistic brother on the loose now.

He knows his brother's potential. He knows Yeosang doesn't not give a shit about doing something bad to someone else since he believes he has absolutely nothing to lose. This is where his heart appears the most. He cares too much, and because he does he protects too much.

He doesn't know Jimin but he knows Jimin is good.

Since the start, he always knew.

This is like feeding a Lion his dinner.

Yeosang was right about Joshua, and now he's out for revenge.

Through the midst of Jungkook's hysterical run, Jimin sent him the address and to his relief it's by a set of apartments nearby the dorms. It would be no surprise that Yeosang has already found a way to locate Joshua somehow. If there's anything Yeosang is good at, its finding a prey once he looks for it.

He learned from Jungkook after all, but he spread his wings all on his own in levels Jungkook wouldn't ever be able to reach.

As Jungkook runs outside and crosses the street to the set of apartment buildings, he barges through the front doors and runs up the staircase, all the way up to the third floor.

He doesn't even feel tired anymore as he does this, only surging with adrenaline instead as he tries to locate the room number, his anxiety only rises up higher and higher to unprepared he is to know what he may find what lies on the other side.

If he arrives too late than he has no fucking idea what he's going to do.

That will be the time he will actually call Iodine for assistance.

The second he finds the room number, the door was already creaked open and he barges inside without a second to waste.

He halts.

Something dropped inside his body.

Either his heart or his other organs.

Maybe both.

All he knows is that seeing his hooded little brother yanking a rope over a hook on the ceiling, dragging Joshua's shaking and choked body up as he hangs him isn't exactly the most ideal sight to see.

He's trying to make it seem like a suicide.

Instantly Jungkook snaps out of his state of horror and runs to him, tackling his brother to the ground, who lets go of the rope that dropped Joshua's gasping body to the ground.

At least he's still alive.

Yeosang angrily snarls under his brother's grasp, "Fuck! LET ME GO!"

"Did he see your face?" Jungkook snaps quietly, making sure Joshua doesn't hear them as he goes into a rough coughing fit.

The other sneers his eyes at him, "You honestly believe I would be that careless go show my face? I knocked him out fist, he just woke up now."

Oh that's a heavenly relief.

He should know better than to underestimate his little brother.

"Get out," Jungkook growls lowly, "He is going to call the cops. Get the fuck out of here, NOW!"

Yeosang glares angrily back through his hood before getting to his feet with an angry huff, storming out of the apartment.

There, he's gone.

For now.

Fuck, Jungkook needs to talk to him. He can't just do things like this! Especially here!

Joshua's sudden wheezes catches Jungkook's attention and he instantly goes to the man on the ground, untying the rope from his neck and instantly sits him against the couch.

"Just breathe," Jungkook tells him calmly, letting Joshua frantically catch his breath as he slowly calms down.

"W-Where is he?" He coughs out, looking to his surroundings with his bruised neck from the rope.

Jungkook licks his lips, shrugging, "He ran out," He says lowly, "Can you talk properly?"

For a moment Joshua coughs a few times before nodding.

Good.

Suddenly Jungkook's hand grabs his neck, tightly like a doll, instantly making him wheeze back again but Jungkook gave him no pity.

"If I hear or see you talking to Jimin again, the next person coming in here to kill you will be me, do you understand?" He says calmly yet deadly, tightening his grip, "It wouldn't exactly be threatening right? After all I have proof of what you've sent to Jimin, that's a nice police report for harassment and sex offender to ruin your future."

Joshua's eyes are wide now wheezing for air as he grips onto Jungkook's wrist, "I-I'll leave him alone."

That's more like it.

"Good. He will send you a message saying to break up soon, I'll make sure he blocks your number too. If I see you reaching back out to him, you're dead, got it?"

All Joshua did was nod and Jungkook lets him go, walking out the room without another word and a door slam shut. Thankfully there was no one in the apartment to have noticed all of this happening, including his roommate. No all that's left is to hope he doesn't dare try to reach Jimin again.

Unfortunately for Jungkook though, Yeosang was no where to be fucking found.

Are you serious right now?

Jungkook rolls his eyes and runs down the stairs and out of the apartment building, recognizing Yeosang in a distance walking away to the dorm.

They were not having this conversation in front of Jimin.

So the second Jungkook managed to reach him, he grabs his shoulder and snaps him around to face him, "What the fuck is wrong with you! You can't just fucking do that Gem!"

And clearly Yeosang was not one to stay quiet.

"Well someone had to," Yeosang snaps annoyedly, breaking a sarcastic chuckle, "It's funny, I barely know your roommate and I was the one that took action while YOU FUCKING LET HIM BE FUCKING ABUSED BEFORE YOUR DAMN EYES!"

Jungkook balled his fists, holding himself back with his own steady glare, "Dont you dare raise your tone at me! I'm still your older brother!" He bellows back angrily, "I didn't know he was being treated like this! I'm not a fucking mind reader!"

This made Yeosang bark a laugh, shaking his head disappointedly with dark eyes, "The signs Jungkook! The fucking signs! Me, you, and lisa have lived with abusers our whole life! How could you possibly have been so damn fucking blind to notice this shit!"

"I'm not oblivious!" Jungkook snarls back, "I did notice something was off and I was worried!"

Yeosang's smile drops, now growing into a deep frown with something unsettling growing behind his eyes, "Then where were you?"

Jungkook furrows his eyebrows, "Huh?"

"Where were you?" The younger simply asks back again, his voice close to the tender touch of a ticking bomb, "Where were you when Jimin was harassed on a daily basis without being given the chance to breathe? Where were you when he would cry himself every night to sleep because he knew the second he woke up he would have to face that monster again? I would know! I heard him cry! Where were you to tell him there's nothing wrong with him as he fights with himself by how disgusted he feels now! Where were you to keep that man away from him while he was too vulnerable to do so! Where the fuck were you when Jimin needed you the most? When I needed you the most? Oh yeah, fucking over someone who would never treat you half as good as Woosung ever treated you! Such a fucking waste!"

Jungkook is shaking now. There's too much anger and guilt covering over his body that he wasn't even able to speak. Yeosang looks up at him expectantly, waiting for him to say something, anything.

But only was left with what he expected.

Silence.

Complete..... Silence.

Before Jungkook slowly slices it through when Yeosang breaks a heartbroken smile and begins to walk away, "Don't make assumptions you aren't sure of," He manages to say, only making Yeosang look back at him with a hard stare, "I was always there for you but you pushed me away! I would call and text you but you blocked me! Jimin wanted me no where near this problem so I trusted him that he would be okay. You don't know me and Taehyung's friendship for you to say he doesn't treat me well. So watch your damn tongue!"

Yeosang's wall completely shattered and his patience were gone.

He complete exploded.

"You were there for me?" Yeosang chokes out, almost in disbelief. He's up on Jungkook's face now, his eyes glistening in threatening tears, "I had no one! You left me! You ABANDONED ME! You left me and Lisa to fed for ourselves while you supposedly study here for a better life for us! If that meant anything to you WE WOULD BE HERE WITH YOU AND NOT IN THAT SHIT HOLE WE WERE FORCED TO STAY IN FOR YEARS! But no.... You had to go alone, the hero Jeon Jungkook, while we just had to fucking wait for a miracle to happen!"

His voice is breaking now and hoarse, and Jungkook could see the livid pain behind his raging dark eyes, "Just because someone tells you they can handle their pain doesn't mean they always can. If it wasn't for me, who knows how long it would've been before Jimin did something to himself. HE WOULDN'T BE HERE! I did something while you turned a blind eye towards it! You decided to ignore it! You fucking asshole, always doing the same shit!"

Jungkook feels every stab of his words and accepts them. He doesn't stop him even when Yeosang slams his small fists against his chest, letting out his pure anger, "You think Taehyung will stick around for long? Huh? It's a matter of time before he fucking hurts you and I don't want to be the one that tells you I told you so BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO BE RIGHT! You know my fucking intuition Jungkook! I was right about Jimin and I'm terrified to be right about this!" He explodes, his hits weakening that followed by a shivering sob, "But of course, you're not going to listen to me...... YOU NEVER DO! You don't deserve for someone to call or talk to you the way he did! If that's all you are to him than drop it! That lack of respect and for you to apologize for his actions is fucking ridiculous! THAT'S NOT WHAT MY BROTHER DOES! THAT'S NOT MY BIG BROTHER JUNGKOOK!"

Jungkook yanks Yeosang towards him, burying his face to his shoulder while Yeosang cries against his neck. All this anger and pain he's been holding in has finally escaped, and now he's just left to feel the full impact of it all.

Expressing it out to his big brother.

The sensitivity coming from his brother only prickles so many nerves in Jungkook's heart that he couldn't help but let a few tears from streaming down his cheeks, burying his fingers through Yeosang's brunette hair to comfort his fragile heart. His brother is suffering, and he never noticed.

All this time Jungkook believed Yeosang hated Taehyung just because he was angry at the world. In reality, he just hated him because he wants to protect his brother from the world.

The two siblings have gone through so much hell. Yeosang has witnessed Jungkook going through so much emotional, mental and physical abuse all his life. He's been back stabbed by people who were close to him in his life yet he still wears his heart on his sleeve because he has hope that maybe next time he won't be hurt again.

Woosung was a lucky one that Jungkook trusted on because he would rather die than hurt Jungkook in any way or form. Even when they had their little affair in the beginning when they knew they were nothing more than friends with benefits, Woosung never would dare try to belittle Jungkook because he meant the world to him. If they fought, they would talk about it rather than let it get intense with shouting.

Their relationship gave Yeosang hope that his brother will be happy at some point in life.

Then that complete hope washed away when Taehyung came into the picture, and Yeosang is getting flashbacks of those moments of the past, fearing that his brother would go through another disappointment if he's blinded by hope again.

Yeosang tried to gather his composure as he grips his brother's sweater, taking deep breathes, "I know I do hurt you. That I do call you names. That I lay my hands on you, but you're my brother! Every fucked up shit we go through we always figure it out. Your chained by blood to me and no one else should ever think they have that right to hurt you, only me! No one else! Because..... I will go to the lengths to kill again... For you."

By now Jungkook is trying so hard to hold back his sobs, hugging his brother back tightly with his own hysteria growing in his chest to his sudden confession, "P-Please tell me you didn't...... You didn't kill that guy for me-"

"I did," Yeosang whimpers, sniffling back his tears, "I would do it again. I know I show that I don't care about you, but I will go to such lengths to make sure you're safe Kookie."

Now this felt far more worse than Jungkook would've expected.

His little brother killed for him.

Just so he would be safe here.

Fuck, who does that?

Jungkook's arms tightens around him, letting out a weak cry, "My little gem," he whimpers, pulling away to hold onto Yeosang teary cheeks, "You stupid idiot! You can't just do these things okay! I'm your older brother! I'm suppose to look out for you!"

Yeosang's lips only wobbles as he slowly bows his head down, "I just want you to be safe from toxic people as you start your life here..... Y-You've already been through enough of that."

The words were choked in Jungkook's throat now, unable to stumble out anymore as he looks at the torn expression in his little brother's eyes. So he only hugs him tightly again, holding onto no more negativity for his sibling.

"You and Lisa are my life," Jungkook says sternly, "You don't have to worry about me. Let me be your older brother. Let me protect you, okay? You don't have to carry this weight on you, ever."

Yeosang only gulps thickly and nods, feeling a sense of complete peace by being in his brother's comforting arms again. He's tired of being so closed off, so strong all the time.

He needs his brother.

He always needs his brother.

That doesn't mean he won't stop keeping an eye on Taehyung. He will quietly watch him, just to assure himself his brother is in good hands.

After all, can't always trust anyone so profoundly either way.

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A/N:
Well....... That was...... Wow.

I have no words.

Do you guys think he has a right to feel that way about Taehyung? What's your thoughts on it?

Well, let's see what happens!! At least now they have a more calmer bond ish behavior.

Thank you all so much for reading!!

I PURPLE YOU!! <33