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"You're not going!" Hobi screamed again at the three youngest members of the group.

"But hyung! We need a break!" Jimin cried. "It's just for a few days! We really want to take a trip together just the three of us!"

The three maknae's of BTS were desperate for a vacation. Even if just for a few days. The band was about to debut and although everyone was excited, everyone was also exhausted. Especially Jungkook, Jimin, and Taehyung. They were worried that once the band did debut they would never have time to themselves again. They also really wanted a break from their hyungs. They loved their hyungs to death but they wanted a few days to themselves where they could act like the teenagers they were without being micromanaged and constantly watched by people in charge.

They wanted their last bit of freedom before their lives were about to change forever.

Yet their hyungs kept telling them no.

Namjoon came over and backed Hobi up. "How many times do we have to tell you, you're too young to do something like that?"

"No we're not!" Taehyung crossed his arms, standing there ready to defend Jimin. He felt like being 17 was old enough to handle it. And Jiminie is 17 too so he's old enough! "We are old enough and we will watch out for Jungkook!"

Jungkook also stood with them ready to defend his fellow maknae's.

Yoongi and Jin walked over and it quickly turned into an argument between the oldest ones of the group and the youngest ones.

"Stop arguing with your hyungs! You're already proving you're not mature enough to take a trip alone!" Jin screamed at them. "I am not letting our two 17 year olds and our 15 year old take a trip by themselves! None of you are adults. And I'm sorry to say this but you definitely are not mature enough yet to be unsupervised for something like that. You three can take a trip together when you're older!"

"We don't want to wait until we are older! We want to go before we debut because we won't have time after!" Jungkook complained.

"You'll figure it out," Yoongi added. "You three simply aren't old enough and that's that. You need an adult for things like hotels and everything anyway so even if you wanted to go on a vacation alone you couldn't."

Namjoon spoke up next. "Now like Jin said, stop arguing and drop it."

Jimin crossed his arms. His hyungs were frustrating him. He hated feeling like he wasn't being listened to or taken seriously. "Just because you're older doesn't give you the right to control our lives. We can take a trip if we want to!"

Hobi sighed and rolled his eyes. "Actually it does. We, as the hyungs, are in charge of you. The company already established that when we all moved in together."

"Then...then we will move out!" Jungkook said confidently. He assumed threatening to leave would make his hyungs think twice about being so mean to them.

"Yeah, what Jungkookie said!" Taehyung agreed.

Yoongi couldn't help but laugh. Even though the maknae's were being extremely disrespectful he also thought it was funny how insanely naive they were being. "Why don't you three get to bed? It's almost past your bed time anyway."

"We're not babies!" Taehyung screamed.

"Well you sure the hell are acting like some!" Jin yelled. He loved them more than anything but he was extremely aggravated with their behavior. Everyone was already stressed out enough with debut coming up and this was quite a manifestation of that stress. He understood why they wanted to take a trip but also knew that they couldn't.

"We're going on a trip!" Taehyung yelled at Jin.

"Like hell you are! Go to bed!" Jin had enough. He walked toward the three and started gesturing for them to get a move on towards their room. They all turned and headed off to their room feeling defeated. It was clear that their hyungs were never going to approve of them leaving to take a trip together.

Which was why when the three of them were alone, they planned to go without their hyungs permission.

"They can't stop us if they don't see us leaving," Taehyung told the other two. The three of them were laying in the dark coming up with a plan to leave the dorm undetected.

"We should go tonight," Jungkook suggested.

"We have nothing planned yet." Jimin knew they couldn't go without some things in order. Such as where they were going, how far, for how long, how they would get there, etc.

"Not having a plan would make it even more adventurous!" Taehyung giggled.

This really caught the interest of all three of them. They started looking around online for nice vacation sights. "We should at least stay in the country though." Taehyung admitted he would be too scared to go overseas anywhere without their older members. Jungkook and Jimin agreed with him. They found a nice vacation spot towards the bottom of South Korea and immediately started looking for flights online. They did need ID in order to book it so Jungkook snuck out of their room after the hyungs had gone to bed and found Jin's wallet, borrowing his ID to book flights and their hotel.

"We should bring it with us just incase someone asks for it," Jungkook said.

"But people will clearly see it's not us on the ID." Jimin had a different kind of plan. "If you just act confident and sure of yourself, nobody will even ask for proof of ID. I will just claim I'm Jin!" The three started laughing over the idea of Jimin pretending to be their Jin hyung while on this trip.

And to their extreme surprise, it worked.

They were able to book a flight for the next hour, book a hotel for their arrival, and even get a taxi from their dorm to the airport. All without an ID, because Jimin had been right. He acted so sure of himself that nobody even bothered to ask to see it. They had used the groups credit card to pay for everything as well.

"I can't believe this is working!" Jungkook smiled at his two hyungs while they were boarding their flight. "We are really getting to go on a vacation!"

The three felt on cloud nine. They were alone, unsupervised, getting what they wanted. A maknae's trip with no rules or adults to tell them how to act or what to do.

They arrived at their hotel early in the morning and settled in. They were exhausted but didn't want to waste any time. "We should probably at least try to have some fun before the hyungs wake up and read the note we left."

For the first time since this entire plan began, Jungkook realized the deep worry that was starting to bubble to the surface. "Hyungs are going to be really mad. We're going to be in a lot of trouble."

"Who cares?" Jimin wrapped his arm around Jungkook's shoulders. "We can deal with them later. Let's just enjoy our trip first!"

Jungkook turned his worried eyes towards Taehyung, looking for more reassurance. Taehyung immediately picked up on this. He pulled Jungkook into a hug. "Don't worry, Jungkook-ah. We're technically your hyungs too. So we will take all the blame for it. Don't be scared about them!"

Taehyung's words immediately helped the youngest ease up, allowing him to start enjoying himself. They got a few hours of sightseeing and meals in.

Then Jimin's phone rang. Jin was calling.

Jimin felt his heart sink. "Ugh....I will just let it go to voicemail." He ignored all of the calls and once he turned his phone off, Taehyung turned his off too. Jungkook was actually happy for once that he hadn't gotten his own phone yet.

"Let's ignore it for now. We came here to have fun!" Taehyung dragged Jimin and Jungkook along to see more things and go on more adventures.

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"They're dead! Dead maknae's! The moment they're in our sight again I'm going to kill them!" Hobi screamed. His screams were echoing through the dorm. Jin was still furiously trying to get a hold of one of them.

Namjoon's hand could be seen shaking as he stared at the note that the youngest had left behind.

Went on vacation. Be back later. Bye :)

He dropped the note and turned to Yoongi. "Have we really been doing this bad of a job that they have no respect for us?"

Yoongi had tried to remain calm during this situation, but even he couldn't ignore the intense disappointment and anger in his heart. He shrugged. "I..I don't know. I don't think we've been bad hyungs."

"We haven't been bad hyungs!" Hobi screamed. "They just decided to act like little immature brats and did what they wanted! That will be hard for them to do when they're dead! That's for damn sure!"

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The three youngest continued to enjoy their vacation while the hyungs still kept trying to get a hold of them. When they realized the three weren't going to pick up the phone they knew all they could do was hold on to their anger and release it when the three got home.

The flight home was two days later. Jungkook, Jimin, and Taehyung were babbling on and on about how fun of a trip they had and how they hoped they could do it again when they are older, but how it was nice getting to do it now. With their arrival back at the airport, Jungkook's initial anxiety about being in trouble was sinking in again but his two hyungs told him not to worry about it.

They stepped off the plane back in their city and were met with the biggest crowd they had ever seen in the airport. They hadn't debuted as a band yet, so they knew the crowd wasn't there for them.

"It must be for another group or an actor or someone important who will be arriving." Taehyung made the connection that the crowd was there to see someone famous.

"I want to see too!" Jimin exclaimed. One last adventure before the wrath of our hyungs.

They decided to join the crowd and wait for whoever was supposed to show up.

However.

As soon as whoever it was stepped into the room, the three of them couldn't see a thing because the crowd immediately started breaking barriers and running. With this unexpected rush of people, the maknae's instantly fell to the ground.

They were being trampled. People were stepping all over them and falling on top of them.

"Ow!" Jungkook started screaming, trying to get himself back on his feet. "Help!"

People acted as though he were a speck of dirt on the ground, failing to move around him and using him as the floor itself to run over.

Jimin and Taehyung couldn't be of any help to their youngest because they too were on the ground being stomped on and kicked in various parts of their body. Nobody was paying any mind to the fact that they were trampling and hurting a group of teenagers. Taehyung felt a kick to his face and he burst into tears. He looked over to see Jungkook and Jimin not too far from him also being crushed underneath people.

"Stop!" Taehyung looked up and screamed at everyone in sight. "You're hurting us! Stop it! What the hell is wrong with you?!"

Nobody listened. The three of them couldn't get to their feet no matter how hard they tried, and as their injuries got worse so did their ability to move. It was starting to hurt too much.

A security guard, who was now witnessing what was going on, ran over and immediately called for medical backup. It was hard for medical staff to fight through the crowd but eventually whoever this famous person was was out the door, along with the hoards of people.

Jimin was screaming while clutching his fingers to his chest, Jungkook was on the verge of passing out while laying on the ground hyperventilating, and Taehyung was clutching his throbbing face. Hot tears stung his cheeks. I want to go home. I want to go home.

All three of them were a complete mess. Ambulances were called and they were rushed to the hospital for their injuries. Jimin was freaking out the most over being separated from Taehyung and Jungkook. As the technical oldest of them, he felt an extreme sense of responsibility for all of this. Responsibility and regret. Hyungs were right, as usual. And now they're going to hate all of us. Especially me. The doctors immediately knew he had broken fingers so he had to be x-rayed and casted up right away.

Jungkook had to be sedated to the point he fell asleep. He was panicking so badly and the doctors couldn't get him to calm down. He was choking on his own snot and tears. He was hurting and worried about his hyungs. He didn't have any broken bones but the severe bruising all over his ribs and back and arms caused more than enough pain.

Taehyung also needed to be x-rayed. He didn't have any broken bones either but half of his eye was swollen and bruised up badly. He also had bruises all over his chest. He lay alone in the hospital room crying for a long time as he continuously asked how the others were and if he could be with them. Jimin had been asking the same thing. Eventually Taehyung and Jimin were allowed to be moved to Jungkook's room. They dove into the bed with their sleeping maknae and squished him between them. He showed no signs of waking up anytime soon. Jimin reached his hand across Jungkook and rested it on Taehyung's forehead. "I'm so sorry. This is all my fault."

"You're not the one who ran us all over," Taehyung whispered. He stared at Jimin's casted fingers before lightly grabbing them and kissing them. "None of this is your fault."

"This entire trip was my idea and my fault." Jimin kept repeating how sorry he was. The guilt was eating him alive. Eventually both him and Taehyung were overcome with exhaustion and had cried themselves to sleep alongside Jungkook.

In the meantime, Jimin had already given the doctors information about who to call. The hospital had called Jin to let him know that the maknae's were all in a bad accident at the airport and were in the hospital.

Hobi had misheard the conversation and only heard "accident" and "air" and thought that they had gotten into a plane crash, immediately assuming they had died. He instantly regretted threatening to kill them when they had returned home. He was on the ground screaming and crying in an instant, until Jin clarified. That didn't stop Hobi's tears though. "Are they still g-g-oing to be okay?"

"They should be fine." Jin spoke as if he didn't have any ounce of worry in him. The other members noticed this but didn't say anything. Namjoon and Yoongi said they had to get to the hospital right away.

"Why?" Jin shrugged. "Sounds like they're really enjoying that vacation of theirs."

The others were baffled at Jin's lack of concern. "What the hell, hyung? They're in the hospital because they got hurt. We have to go be with them."

"Go ahead. I'm not going."

They stared at Jin. Hobi stepped towards him, still wiping his tears away. "I understand that you're upset at what they did. We all are. But they're...hurt...Jin..."

Jin shrugged again. "They don't need me there. You guys go on ahead and be with them if you want." Jin turned and disappeared into his room. The others looked at each other in complete shock. Jin wasn't acting like himself at all. Given any other circumstance, if the maknae's had gotten hurt Jin would have been the first to be an overprotective broken mess. They didn't understand what was going on but decided not to waste time. They quickly made their way to the hospital.

When they were escorted to the hospital room, they were met with a bundle of curled up sleeping maknae's. They immediately saw all of the bruises on everyone and Jimin's finger casts. Their hearts sank to the pits of their stomachs.

"Ugh. Excuse me a moment." Hobi ran across the room and got sick into the trash can. This was more heartbreaking than he expected. Namjoon turned to a nurse in the room and asked what exactly happened. She explained how they'd been trampled at the airport.

"People seriously disregarded the fact that they were hurting fucking children?" Yoongi took a deep breath to calm his nerves. He couldn't believe people would do this with no regard for someone's safety.

Namjoon seemed to be in a bit of a daze as he stared at them and took in the sight. He wiped tears from his eyes. "They...they could have actually been killed." He accidentally released a loud sob, and it woke Jimin up.

Jimin's heart immediately seized up when he opened his eyes to see his hyungs standing there. Tears welled in his eyes and he avoided eye contact. He was too terrified to face them and their anger. He clenches his eyes closed and buried his face into Jungkook's chest in an desperate attempt to hide himself.

He felt a warm hand start rubbing his back. "Hey, it's okay." Yoongi's voice was warm and gentle. Which made Jimin break down even more. "I'm so sorry." His words were muffled into Jungkook's shirt. His shoulders started to heave as he began to cry harder. Yoongi grabbed him and pulled him into a hug. Jimin buried his face into Yoongi's chest next. "I'm so sorry." Jimin lost it and started screaming and crying, apologizing over and over for everything. He took blame for the entire situation. The trip, using Jin's ID, using the group credit card. For Jungkook and Taehyung getting hurt.

Namjoon and Hobi were both running their fingers through Jimin's hair. None of the older members really knew what to say except for telling Jimin to not blame himself so much. Jimin's crying woke Taehyung up, who joined in his tears.

Taehyung looked around and noticed something Jimin had noticed yet. "Where is Jin hyung?"

"He um.." Hobi paused, unsure of how to say this nicely. "He...couldn't make it."

"Why?" Taehyung looked at his hyungs with hurt eyes.

"I'm not going to sugarcoat this. He's very angry." Namjoon got right to the point.

"Oh." Taehyung expected that, but he also thought Jin would have at least shown up to the hospital. The fact that he didn't made Taehyung scared of just how angry Jin was.

Now Taehyung got to apologizing over and over for what they'd done. He was in the middle of apologzing when the youngest finally stirred awake for the first time since being sedated.

"Hi, bunny," Hobi cooed as he gently caressed Jungkook's cheek. It was bruised and a little swollen. "Excuse me another second." Hobi had to run back to the trash can. Seeing so much pain painted all over his maknae's was killing him. It was killing all of them. Which was why after endless apologies from the three youngest, the hyungs who had visited the hospital didn't have it in their hearts to stay angry. They did give them a lecture about how what they did was wrong and disrespectful, but it was hard to really fight or argue when Jimin, Taehyung, and Jungkook all admitted their mistake and admitted that their hyungs were right. They apologized for their disrespect and assured the older members that they didn't deserve to be not listened to.

"Well, lesson learned, I suppose." Yoongi was already over it. He figured as long as they acknowledged it and apologized and regretted their decision, there was nothing else to scold them for. Not to mention he was too exhausted from worry to be angry anyway.

Jungkook also asked where Jin was and everyone had to inform him that Jin clearly wasn't in a good place mentally.

"Oh. I'm sorry." He too felt the great weight of guilt for what he'd let himself be involved in. He also felt as though it was his fault for not even trying to stop his hyungs from their plan and easily going along with it instead.

Hobi asked the nurse when they could go home and she told them within a few hours. The time passed slowly with everyone hanging out and the three youngest constantly falling in and out of sleep.

They were getting ready to head home when Taehyung admitted how scared he was to see Jin.

"You'll be fine," Namjoon reassured.

When they got home, the three older members helped their younger ones walk into the house. They were all still quite sore. Jin immediately walked into the kitchen and froze when he saw them. He stared at his maknae's as they avoided eye contact, keeping their gazes low.

Yoongi couldn't help but feel frustrated with Jin. "Go ahead, hyung. Look at them. Look at them and continue on with whatever scolding you had planned." He gestured to their injuries and added, "As if they haven't learned enough already. Please, hyung, continue with whatever you have to say."

Jin then also gestured to the three youngest. "This is not an excuse." He pointed to the couch. "Go sit down. Now."

Yoongi couldn't believe it. Jin was actually still going to scold them after all of this.

The maknae's slowly dragged their feet to the couch and sat down. They kept their gazes low and gently patted away their tears with their arm sleeves. Jin had a million questions about how they pulled off something like this, and Hobi urged them to be honest and tell Jin everything they'd told them in the hospital. Jimin admitted they had used Jin's ID and the group credit card. Jin's face turned red as he continued to yell at them. The screaming was hurting their heads.

Namjoon picked up on the small detail that Jin wasn't actually looking at any of the three youngest while he was getting angry. He was looking everywhere except at them. I wonder what that is about?

Everyone kept their mouths shut while Jin continued to yell at the maknae's about being immature, irresponsible, untrustworthy, and a slew of other terms.

"We had told you no! And also," Jin added, "We are rearranging rooms. Clearly you three can't be left alone together for more than 5 damn minutes so from now on each of you is sharing a room with one of the older hyungs!"

Taehyung finally looked up at Jin and started complaining, but doing so was exhausting him and he gave up quickly. He ended his fuss with a whispered "Whatever." Jin placed Jimin with Hobi, Taehyung with Namjoon and Yoongi, and Jungkook with himself.

"Why do I have to share it with you?!" Jungkook groaned. Jin was the most angry at them right now and as much as he loved his hyung, this was the one hyung he did not want to have to share his room with. Jin told him he felt a much greater sense of responsibility now over all of them, "but especially over our youngest."

None of the other hyungs said a word about it. They were mad at Jin for the way he was acting but also knew it still wasn't their place to argue. They understood his anger but also understood that at this point it should have been something to move on from so that the youngest could focus on healing instead of continuously getting screamed at.

Jin then proceeded to tell them they were grounded, he was going to also take Jimin's and Taehyung's phones but was informed they had been crushed and destroyed as well.

"Oh," was Jin's only response.

Seeing that the maknae's were too injured to rearrange their rooms, the other hyungs took it upon themselves to move their furniture around and rearrange things. Once they were done, Jin gestured for the youngest ones to go to their rooms for the rest of the day. Once they had trudged to their beds, separated from each other and all feeling physically and mentally terrible, the three of them all cried themselves to sleep.

With them out of the living room, Hobi decided he couldn't hold his tongue anymore. He crossed his arms. "What's your deal? You really don't think they've suffered enough already?"

"My deal? My deal is they need to be held accountable for what they did and learn young not pull shit like that!" Jin replied, evidently becoming frustrated all over again.

Namjoon blew up. "They were trampled at the fucking airport Jin! I think that serves as a perfect enough lesson of what they did wrong! They've already apologized, took accountability for it, they clearly regret it and they feel terrible. You're not helping. They want comfort from you not to be constantly screamed at!"

"Oh yeah, taken accountability? How do you expect them to pay back all our money they stole, huh? That money isn't going to return back out of thin air!"

Yoongi spoke up. "When they're healed they can help clean the BigHit building or something. I have seen other trainees get some extra money from doing that."

"Not to mention they pulled that shit under MY damn name! Stealing my ID?! I will NOT raise these boys to be criminals!" Jin was pacing around the house.

"They're not criminals, hyung! They're just teenagers and they are bound to make mistakes. They have to learn somehow, and making mistakes is how they learn. You think they will ever do something like this again? Absolutely not!" Hobi had tears running down his cheeks. He wasn't even the one in trouble but the entire situation was hurting his heart. He hated seeing any of the members fight.

Namjoon added. "You know, hyung, I don't even think you're all that angry at them. I've seen you yell at them for things before and you usually look right at them but I was watching you. That entire time you didn't actually look at them once."

"So? I was too angry to look at them."

"Or you were too sad. Be honest, why didn't you go to the hospital?" Namjoon asked.

"Because I was angry at them."

"It's because you were scared." Namjoon crossed his arms and walked over to his hyung, standing right in front of him. "You're not mad at them, Jin. You're scared. I know you well enough to know that on the inside you're dying seeing them hurt. Which would make sense as to why you wouldn't come to the hospital. Because you couldn't bring yourself to see them injured like that. And even now that they're home you still can't bring yourself to acknowledge it."

Jin blinked away the tears that were making their way to the surface and he backed away from Namjoon.

Hobi chimed in. "They could have been killed." Something that was being constantly repeated. "And you know what I realized? In those few seconds where I had misheard the conversation and thought they really were killed, nothing they had ever done wrong mattered anymore. In that moment I'd rather them have fucked up a million times if it meant they were alive. And thank God they were alive. There is no way you're actually angry at them. So why do you keep acting like you are? We were all angry at first but the rest of us have no problem admitting that we aren't mad anymore. It's okay to be scared and worried, you know."

Jin didn't know how to explain it. He knew why he was acting like this but he didn't know how to put it into words.

"I..because...I..." Jin started.

An ear piercing scream caught everyone off guard. Jin was the first to sprint to Taehyung's room. He barged in and saw Taehyung tossing and turning in bed screaming and crying with his eyes closed. A nightmare.

Jin dove onto the bed and immediately scooped Taehyung into his arms. The others ran in too, but they stayed back a little. They figured the two really needed this moment. They watched as Jin held Taehyung against him and rubbed his back, trying to get him to wake up. When Taehyung finally opened his eyes he buried his face into Jin's chest and drenched his hyungs shirt in tears.

"Where's....Jimin....Jungkook...where..." Taehyung hiccuped. His nightmare had been about the incident, except in his nightmare the outcome was much, much worse.

"Shh.." Jin cooed. "They're okay." He turned to the others. "Can someone go get them?"

Yoongi ran and gently woke Jungkook and Jimin up letting them know that Taehyung needed them. They managed to crawl out of their beds and make their way in, heartbroken at the sight of Taehyung curled up into a sobbing ball against Jin. They were confused to see the other hyungs standing aside, almost smiling at Jin.

Jin opened his arms and gestured for the other two to curl up into the hug. They were hesitant.

"It's okay. Hyung isn't angry. I was just..." Jin looked at Namjoon and knew he couldn't lie anymore. "I was scared." He finally released the floodgates of his own tears and started sobbing while holding his youngest three in his arms. He felt like he couldn't hug them hard enough. He didn't want to hurt them but he felt like he needed those tight hugs from them. He felt terrible about everything.

Now that he was sitting here holding them, he finally let his guard down. Through his tears, Jin started spewing out all of his feelings. "I'm so sorry, my babies. I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to be so angry. I...I didn't go to the hospital because I couldn't see you hurt. It's still killing me to see you hurt. I thought acting angry would help me not be so heartbroken but it's only made it worse. Please know I love you more than anything. Seeing this happen scared the hell out of me and I was hoping being so mean would make sure you never got yourself into trouble like this again. I don't know what I'd ever do if I lost any of you. Do you understand me? I don't know what I would ever do." He kissed the tops of their heads.

Finally, the other hyungs made their way over to offer everyone on the bed comfort. Namjoon patted Jin's back. I knew it.

The three maknae's started apologizing again to Jin but he hushed them. "Don't." You could have...died. The last thing I need from you right now is an apology.

Jimin started going on and on about how he promises to make it up to his hyung somehow in regards to the money and Yoongi told him they could worry about that later.

Jungkook looked at Jin. "So...you...you don't h-hate us?" he sniffled.

"Of course not! I could never hate you. I'm sorry I acted so cruel. I love you." He kissed Jungkook's forehead and then pulled him back into a hug.

All of the members found themselves embraced in a giant group hug for a long time until Taehyung was able to calm down from the panic attack he had spiraled into. He ended up falling back asleep right against Jin's chest so his hyung gently lay him down back on the bed. Jimin and Jungkook had cried themselves into a slumber of exhaustion as well.

Once everything had clamed down, everyone except Jin had gotten up.

"I guess we should let them rest. Let's leave the door open just incase." Namjoon led the way to the door.

Jin never got off the bed. "I'm going to stay with them."

Hobi smiled. "Sure thing, hyung."

Jin curled up next to his sleeping maknae's as the others made their way out. Once they were a little further from the bedroom, Namjoon, Yoongi, and Hobi started giggling.

They knew Jin all too well. They knew he cared way too much.

[The end]