Taehyung woke up to a drowsy feeling and heavy head. He lifted his hand to his head but couldn't feel his finger's touch. He opened his eyes and saw his hands bandaged. He blinked at them and then around him to see where he was. The signature smell of hospital invaded his senses and he tried to fight the drunken feeling away.

/Why am I here? What happened?/

Taehyung was looking around trying to recall who could have caused him to be here but didn't remember anything because of his medication that were making him sleepy.

His thoughts were interrupted when the door opened and a police officer entered.

"How are you feeling?"

Taehyung tried to sit up but felt pain in his hands when he tried to put weight on them to pull himself up and he hissed.

"Here. Let me help."

The officer helped him sit up and Taehyung thanked him as he blinked his sleep away.

"So, how are you feeling, Taehyung-ssi?"

Taehyung nodded his head as he smiled.

"I'm okay. Just a little drowsy."

The officer nodded in understanding before asking again.

"I would like to ask you a few things. Can you answer me?"

Taehyung looked at him in confusion but nodded anyways.

"Were you with someone last night?"

Taehyung tried to recall last night and remembered talking to someone. And without thinking further he laid out the small memory he recalled just like that.

"I was talking to someone."

The officer noted it down on a small notepad as he watched Taehyung looking up and sideways as he recalled the events of last night.

"And?"

Taehyung spoke slowly but without double checking his words again as he became lost in the moment he felt last night.

"I was angry at him but sad as well. Because he left me without telling me. And now I can't find him so I yelled at him."

The officer stopped writing instantly when he heard that.

"Who are you talking about, Taehyung-ssi?"

Taehyung didn't realize anymore that he was telling something that made no sense and that to a police officer.

"Kookie. My Kookie."

Taehyung smiled sadly as he said the name and his heart hurt. The officer carefully eyed him as he asked the next question.

"And you were angry because you couldn't find him?"

Taehyung nodded his head slightly.

"I searched for months but he just.. disappeared."

The officer asked again.

"But wasn't he with you?"

Taehyung nodded again as he spoke.

"He was. We talked for sometime. But then I got angry. And he.. he disappeared again. He left me *sob* again."

Taehyung started crying silently and tears started to fall from his eyes endlessly. The officer came close to him and patted his back as the younger cried on.

The officer couldn't tell if there really was someone there or not. He needed to ask him more questions but he couldn't with Taehyung crying like that.

Taehyung cried to sleep and until then the officer stayed with him. When Taehyung was sound asleep, he left the room and told the nurse to watch out for anyone who came to see Taehyung and to inform him first before letting anyone in.

Taehyung woke up second time to see someone standing close to him. When his mind registered the fact, his eyes shot open to see who it was but it was just a nurse adjusting his drip.

"Oh! You are awake? How are you feeling now?"

Taehyung sighed as he smiled at her and gave a small nod.

"I'm good."

She returned the gesture but more brightly as she finished the setting and stood back.

"I have good news for you. You'll be released soon. Max a week. Isn't that great?"

She cheered excitedly and Taehyung tried his best to show at least half of her enthusiasm from his side as well.

"It is."

The nurse left the room after that and Taehyung immediately dropped his smile that was asking for much effort from him.

He felt empty. Not just in his heart, but in his mind too. He couldn't understand why was Jungkook there with him and not there at the same time. How could that be possible? But then again he was sure he was talking to him so he couldn't make up his mind about it.

He looked around for his phone but there was no sign of it. He rang the bell and after a while the same nurse from before came in with her usual smile on her face.

"Um, have you seen my phone?"

The nurse nodded and excused herself for a moment as she left the room and came back after a while with Taehyung's wallet, car keys, house key and mobile in a small plastic bag. She handed it to him and left after receiving a 'thank you' from him.

Taehyung quickly unwrapped his fingers a little before he took out his phone and checked his messages. He could find out the missing pieces of the information in his mind from his texts with Jungkook but when he checked, Jungkook's name wasn't there to begin with. Taehyung looked at it in confusion as he tried to look for any other name he could have saved his number with but nothing. He didn't remember Jungkook's number by heart so he had no clue as to why was Jungkook's number not there.

Taehyung dropped his phone in his lap as he stared at his legs.

/What the hell?/

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