Forever By Your Side

30. The storm

"Please! Don't do this! Please, I beg you! Leave us, please! Please! Please!" Taehyung begged as he cried. "Dad, what the hell is happening? Please, sir! Leave us alone, please" Seokjin cried as well, terrified beyond his wits. 

"Shut up! I already gave him a chance! He didn't select! So it's me who gets the chance to select! And Imma go with this cutie here" the man with the mask said, placing two fingers under Taehyung's chin and lifting it up. 

"Aigoo! You shouldn't cry so much, cutie! What's your name again?" he asked. Someone from the backseat of the mini van protested again, letting out muffled sounds from the rag that was stopping them from speaking.

"You never know when to shut up, do you? Shut up before I kill both of them right fucking now" the masked man snapped at the man sitting behind them and turned back to Taehyung. He stuffed a rag into Taehyung and Seokjin's mouths to stop them from screaming further. All they could do was whimper and moan and grunt.

Taehyung screamed as loud as he could. He screamed again and again and again.

"Kim Taehyung, isn't it? So now, you select between these two. Who is it gonna be first?" the man asked.

Another bloodcurdling scream.

"Your brother Kim Seokjin, or your father Kim Sihyuk. Who is it gonna be first, cutie?"

Taehyung whimpered and tried to kick the man in front of him. "Owwww! Tae!" Yoongi fell back and rubbed his knee.

"Taehyung-ah!!...Tae!......TAEHYUNGIE!!!!!" Namjoon yelled, slapping Taehyung's face repeatedly to get him to wake up as Yoongi ran around the house for the bottle of medicine that they had seemingly misplaced.

"Ohh! My bad! You can't talk through that nasty rag in your mouth, can you?" the man asked and drew out a gun, placing it in the front seat next to the driver. He pulled out a pocket knife and a small box full of orange drawing pins from his pocket and placed them next to the gun.

"Tae! Please! Nothing is happening! Come on!" Namjoon said, desperateness visible on his face as Taehyung shot up. His eyes were wide open, but they were unfocused. 

He screamed again. And again. And again. And again. And again. 

Jimin and Hoseok literally whimpered as they cuddled against each other, scrambling to the corner of the living room. Jungkook was almost in tears. 

"Yoongs! Fast!!" Namjoon yelled as yet another bloodcurdling scream echoed across the room. Jungkook was a complete mess. Snot and tears ran down face, but he didn't care about them anymore. He could only focus on his boyfriend, who was wide awake, but still in his dream.

"So let's start with the youngest of the two! That means, let's start with your older brother. And after that, we'll go for your father, okay?" 

Taehyung whimpered again, buckets of tears running down his face. 

"Yoongi! Look into my bag! I'm sure I put the new bottle in it" Namjoon hollered. "It isn't there!" Yoongi hollered back as he turned the bag upside down, letting the contents fall on one side of the bed.

"Are you sure you didn't forget it in the clinic? It isn't there at all" Yoongi said, running back to the living room where Jungkook was tightly hugging Taehyung, who was still whimpering like an extremely hurt dog.

"Ohh my god!" Namjoon said, blood draining from his face as he got up and faced Yoongi. "Fuck it" Yoongi said and sat down beside Taehyung, rubbing his arm up and down. 

"Go and get it fast" Yoongi said to Namjoon, who was already running towards the key stand to get the keys of the clinic. "Don't you have it here?" Hoseok asked. "We ran out of it yesterday. So I asked him to get it today! He forgot! We have no other option but to wait now" Yoongi said.

"Tae, shh! Shh, baby, it's okay! Nothing is happening, it's okay, Tae! Calm down, its okay!" Jungkook said, rubbing Taehyung's back roughly and keeping him safe and tight in the hug. But unfortunately, Taehyung stayed unresponsive as he kept whimpering and screaming.

"Now let's finish off your brother, shall we? We don't need him anymore" the man said, placing the box of pins back on the seat and picking up the gun. Taehyung fought harder as the man placed the gun right on top of Seokjin's heart. He couldn't close his eyes in time to avoid watching as the man forced his finger and pulled the trigger.

Taehyung's body suddenly arched as his eyes grew wider. "Eooommmmmmmaaaaaa" he screamed and started breathing heavily. "Eooommmaaaa, eommaaa, eommaa" he kept crying as his breathing got heavier and heavier. 

Namjoon burst into the room and yelled at Yoongi to get the needle. They hurriedly injected the needle and thrust it into Taehyung's vein. 

"Jinnie hyung..." Taehyung whispered as he lost consciousness and fell asleep under the power of the drug. Namjoon flopped onto the floor and held his head in his hands and started sobbing. So did Yoongi.

Jungkook picked Taehyung up and took him to the bedroom and tucked him in on the side of the bed that wasn't full of things that Yoongi had dumped earlier. 

He bent down and placed a warm kiss on Taehyung's forehead. He walked back into the living room and found Jimin and Hoseok comforting Yoongi and Namjoon while tears ran down their own faces. 

Namjoon cooled down first and looked up at them. "Taehyung gave us the permission to tell you guys about what we know. He is not gonna wake up any time soon, so you guys go to sleep now. We'll tell you guys in the morning" he said.

"It's dawn already! We can all sleep later! Let's just freshen up and sit down and relax a bit! And then you can tell us everything" Hoseok said. 

"Is that really okay for you guys? You must be tired" Yoongi asked. "Nah, it's completely fine" Jimin and Jungkook said. Jungkook rubbed his face and flopped onto the couch as Namjoon and Yoongi guided Hoseok and Jimin to the washrooms. 

"So.....where should we start...?" Namjoon asked, looking at Yoongi. "Just tell everything...from the start" Yoongi said. Namjoon sighed and began.

"Yoongi, Jin and I met each other in high school and became really close. So we decided to go to the same college. You know, best friend fantasies and all. 

But the thing was, Tae and Jin lost their mother at a very young age. And the depression of losing his wife drove their father towards drugs. 

He used to leave them alone all the time. He literally just used the house to sleep. He never gave a fuck about them. Jin used to work part time and take care of Tae. 

But when Jin turned 18, their father left them, saying that Jin could take care of Tae completely as he became an adult. He literally left them without any contact or anything. 

The landlord kicked them out soon after and they faced many more problems for almost two years. 

Tae was 15 when their father left them. So he started working part time to help his brother. Jin got into the medical university with us and we finally decided to live together to you know, help them with their expenses and all. 

We mostly helped each other and lived like that since then. It's gonna be nine years now......from the day we moved in together. 

After graduating, we decided to open a clinic of our own and took shifts individually in it. Yoongi worked in the morning, Jin worked in the afternoon and I worked in the evening. It wasn't a big clinic back then. Just some consultation type clinic. So we managed it pretty well. 

Tae became a software engineer after graduating, so he had proper work hours. While one of us worked, the other two either relaxed, or studied more. That was how it was. 

It was all fine and shine until one day, three years ago, when Yoongi suddenly burst through the clinic room with wide frantic eyes and sent all the waiting people back, saying the clinic was going to be closed for a week, and dragged me out without a single word of explanation....."