Taehyung's hands on the wheel is firm, staring out to the street ahead with calm eyes. The Seoul weather feels a little more gloomy than before, but that didn't bother Taehyung one bit.

He likes this type of weather when he reads or paints.

Especially when he use to do it a lot with Jungkook when they were together.

Taehyung's eyes slowly drifts to the silent man beside him, who's staring out the window with his wide doe eyes. He looks physically better now; his lips are back to its plump pink state, his cuts and burns have healed successfully, even the ones on his wrist. His anus is also completely healed and his ribs won't be as a problem anymore as before.

Physically, he's entirely better.

Emotionally, that's still a process.

Taehyung had to come back to Seoul because summer break has finally ended and he has to go back to college for his classes, that starts in two weeks. So clearly he couldn't leave Jungkook behind, so after more trust building -getting Jungkook more comfortable speaking and how to control his anxiety while in public- Jungkook felt sure about leaving the four walls of Taehyung's comfortable room.

The plane ride wasn't as bad as Taehyung expected. Jungkook fell asleep throughout the whole flight, but sometimes would get fidgety with troubling eyebrows ever so often. One thing that Taehyung has noticed, that raised his hope and nearly made him burst out crying on the spot, was how Jungkook would clutch onto his ring to his chest while he was sleeping. It's almost as if it was his clarity. His guidance. His hope.

And that alone was enough for Taehyung to know his emotions are still intact but his memories are still fuzzed up. From time to time he would start to remember bits and pieces of his memory. He began to remember his main five slowly. Only the faces but the names are blurred. Sadly, nothing of Taehyung yet and the older suspects Jungkook is recovering old memories first before remembering the recent ones.

And he didn't mind that at all.

Taehyung just wanted Jungkook to be okay, even if he remembers him or not.

"All of this seems familiar," Jungkook whispers, making Taehyung snap his attention to him for a second, "I know every corner, convenient store, street name..... it's so familiar."

That's another thing, when he sees anything familiar, it's almost like his subconscious keeps it intact with his memories. So if one day he were to get lost here, he would somehow find his way back to his apartment or Taehyung's apartment. It's almost like an instant. For example, let's say one is good at drawing but loses their memory and is in the same mental state as Jungkook through the memory process. They would be able to draw perfectly like how they once did before but won't remember how they knew how to draw or the techniques they used.

It's almost like an instinct, and in this case, Jungkook recalls specific things but can't trace it back to how he knows it. He just knows it.

"Yeah, this is Seoul," Taehyung sighs lowly, looking out the window before taking a turn and slowly eases in to his apartment complex and parks the car, turning to the other, "This is my apartment..... Now, I don't know if you would like to stay here with me or go to your-"

"Don't leave me please," Jungkook says instantly, his voice quivering slightly with his fearful eyes, "P-Please....... Don't leave me a-alone."

That hurt more than Taehyung expected.

He's so scared....

To this Taehyung frowns painfully and lets his eyes fall to his gloved hands, taking a deep breath and slowly nods, "I won't, I promise. Let's go settle in, yeah?" He says with a small smile, making Jungkook return it forcefully as they walk out of the car and grab their luggages. Taehyung offered to carry Jungkook's duffel bag but he denied it, in perfect conditions to carry it himself. Taehyung leads them inside, through the lobby and up the elevator. They stayed in complete silence through the ride until the elevator arrives to Taehyung's floor. He leads them down the hallway and into his apartment, carefully opening the door and goes to turn on the lamp that's next to the tv. For a moment Jungkook stands frozen by the doorway, taking in the small apartment with perplexed eyes that made Taehyung grow slightly worried.

"Are you okay?" He couldn't help but ask, making the younger snap his eyes to him and slowly nod, taking a hesitant step forward.

"It just feels familiar," He whispers numbly and puts his duffel bag down while closing the door behind him.

The statement alone cause a painful stab to hit Taehyung's heart as he looks around his apartment, remembering the many memories they shared in this place.

Memories he only remembers.

Taehyung let's out a heavy sigh and thickly gulps the knot forming his throat, "You must be tired, get some rest and I'll make us some dinner."

Jungkook doesn't say anything, only slowly nods and walks past Taehyung and walks down the hallway. Taehyung took that moment to observe the way he naturally goes into Taehyung's room as if he knew were he was going.

Survival instincts are in check, along with his cognitive and social behaviors. That proves Taehyung's theory that his instincts remembers what his memories can't.

To this Taehyung slightly smiles and removes the gloves from his hands, stretching and cracking them as he takes out his new phone and dials Namjoon's number instantly.

After a few rings, the older picks up, "You guys landed?"

"Yeah, we are at my apartment right now," Taehyung mumbles while approaching the kitchen, scouring his fridge for anything to eat, "He's fine, just needs some rest."

"Any memory updates?"

"He still doesn't remember Oasis, that's for sure," Taehyung mutters and takes out the vegetables, "He's just needs time, don't worry he's in good hands. Anyways, any updates of our king cockroach?"

"We found a litter of Sage members in a bar the other day. Of course we used some of your techniques in figuring out some answers."

Taehyung hums amusingly, "As you should, proceed."

"So they're completely oblivious of Harry's existence. Not one of them knows who he is, but they did say that the Jungkook kidnap was only partial to his plan, that he has something big going on." Namjoon informs, the clear clicking of computers that can only mean the older is looking through some files to remember that night.

Taehyung stops cutting the vegetables and rolls his eyes, "Of course he does. Please let me in on anything that-"

"TAEHYUNG!"

The brunette subconsciously drops his phone and rushes towards Jungkook's hysterical voice but bumps into the younger by the entrance of the hallway. His eyes are completely alarmed with his lips wobbling fearfully.

"Jungkook! What ha-"

The younger didn't say anything, only yanks Taehyung out of the front door door and down the Emergancy stair case, all the while pressing down the fire alarm.

Taehyung's heart is accelerating so fast as he tries to keep up with the frightened younger, but he ended up freezing in his place, making Jungkook trip back to him.

"What are you doing! Let's go-"

"Jungkook! Calm down! What are you-"

And that's when he hears it.

An explosion.

Right in the building.

The impact of the loud noise rattled the building, causing Jungkook to crash to the wall with Taehyung tripping over his feet and landing on Jungkook's chest, his hands firmly on either side of his head to the wall in order to not crush him.

Jungkook suddenly shrieks at the close human contact and remains completely paralyzed. Taehyung instantly noticing this gets off him with worried eyes, "Oh shit I'm so sorry! Are you okay?"

Something in Jungkook's eyes flicker, almost what appears to be a dark gleam with confusion and pain mixed in one. Before Taehyung could grasp the grim expression, it's brushed away to that familiar fearful gleam as Jungkook slowly shakes his head, "It's okay, we need to go," He says hastily and continues to drag Taehyung down the stairs by the arm until they made it outside.

And that's when the building completely exploded.

Jungkook and Taehyung flew to the ground, hands covering their heads as pieces of the building flies everywhere along with the massive heat wave from the flames.

Slowly Taehyung turns his head, watching in complete horror as the building is still up but is complete covered in fire. A few people made it out but possibly only 50 out of the hundreds that stayed there.

That rugged sensitive nerve in Taehyung's heart as the thought sinked in.

Innocent people got hurt.

This is Harry's grand welcome back gift.

He's trying to kill them.

"Taehyung."

The older turns to look at Jungkook, who's staring at the flames with a dark glare in his eyes, the fire reflecting his orbs as he slowly looks at Taehyung, his messy hair covering his face but the anger being his eyes is visible in the twilight of the sky.

For that moment, he looks like Jungkook.

The Jungkook he remembers.

The Jungkook that hates when an innocent is involved with gang biddings.

"Why do I have this intense need to kill someone by the name of Harry?"

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A/N:
Hahaha you guys are just getting fed with updates today. I'm update maybe 2-3 more chapters, maybe more who knows hahaha

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