Archive of Our Own

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“You are not allowed to leave this apartment, and that’s final! Do you understand?”
Yoongi looked off to the side, avoiding Jin’s eyes, with a blank face. After a minute of silence, he confirmed Jin’s statement with a low and sharp, “Yes!”
“Good! Now go to your room, I’m going to run to the grocery store to pick up a few things that we need.”
Yoongi shuffled in the direction of his room while Jin was still talking, not bothering to listen to anything else that he was saying. Once he arrived in front of his door, he debated slamming it. But, he came to the conclusion that the door did nothing wrong to him so he closed it slowly. Yoongi walked over to his bed and plopped down on it with a puff, he looked up at his ceiling as he began to reminisce about the events that had occurred that got him in this position.

Two nights ago Yoongi had stayed up all night at the studio working on a new project of his. The next morning when Jin came to his studio to check up on him, Yoongi was worn out and had dark circles around his eyes, he even looked paler than usual. This concerned Jin, so, he ordered Yoongi to go home and get some rest. Yoongi obeyed his hyung and went home to take a hot shower and a quick nap.
When he woke up from his nap, it was a little after lunch time. Since it was still early in the day, Yoongi decide to head back to the studio. However, as he was about to leave the apartment he was stopped by Jin (who had come home to check on Yoongi during his lunch break). Jin forbade him from going to the studio for the rest of the day and insisted that Yoongi get some rest, which caused a 20ish minute argument between the two of them. Yoongi eventually gave in and went back to his room, but little did Jin know that Yoongi had not really given up.
Jin left back to the studio to finish some work that he was almost done with and to do a few vocal exercises; while Yoongi waited 30 minutes to make sure the coast was clear before making his way to the BigHit building and sneaking into his studio without being seen. He was only planing to stay there for 3 or 4 hours. That way if Jin got home before him, he could just tell him he went shopping or something. Unfortunately, Yoongi became immersed in his work and lost track of time. After working nonstop for hours, he decided to take a break. He picked up his phone and pushed the power button to turn it on; he had turned it off while he was napping so no one would disturb him, but then forgot to turn it back on when he woke up. When the phone finally lit up again Yoongi saw the time, it was a little over past 3 in the morning. But not only that, he had 30 missed calls from both Jin and Namjoon, and a few messages from Jin telling him to come home. Yoongi took a deep breath and let it out, well the damage was done. There was no point in leaving now. They had tomorrow off anyways, so he could just sleep in. And that is how he ended up pulling another all nighter at the studio.
The next morning when he arrived back home, Jin was furious. The second he walked through he door Yoongi was bombarded with Jin lecturing and scolding him. Even though it irritated him he knew Jin had the right to be mad, but Yoongi still didn’t like being yelled at. It wasn’t until Jin announced that he was, “grounded” for the whole day, that Yoongi got upset. He wasn't going to go anywhere anyways, but something about being told that he wasn’t allowed to, made him mad.
“I’m an adult, you can’t treat me like this!” Retorted Yoongi, leading to another dispute between the two of them that lasted a few minutes. Which was pointless, since Yoongi still ended up where he is now, confined to his bedroom.
There was no point in dwelling in the past, it wasn’t going to change anything now. So, Yoongi decided he might as well use this day to catch up on his sleep. He changed into some grey sweatpants and a white T-shirt and crawled back into bed.

On the other side of the apartment, Taehyung was dealing with his own dilemma. He was having a very bad ice cream craving. He was craving it since last night but he was too full from dinner to eat anything else. That’s why he had planned to eat it for breakfast. However, when he went down to the kitchen and opened the freezer he saw that they had run out of ice cream, there was no more in the fridge. What was he going to do?
Taehyung, shut the door to the freezer and decided to go look for his hyungs so they could help him with his problem.
He first walked to Hoseok’s and Jimin’s room and saw that it was empty, he sighed and shut the door then made his way to Jin’s and Yoongi’s room. When he opened the door he only saw Yoongi, who was fast alseep. He sighed again and shut the door quietly. He already knew Namjoon was gone since he wasn’t in their room this morning when he woke up. So that only left one more room, he slowly walked to Jungkook’s room and open the door. He found both Jungkook and Jimin in the middle of playing a video game.
“Hey Tae!” Yelled Jimin.
“Hey guys, do you know where the hyungs are?”
“Well, I know Hoseok hyung and Namjoon hyung left this morning to have a meeting with PDnim. I think Yoongi hyung is with them” Announced Jimin.
“No, Yoongi hyung is in his room sleeping. Where’s Jin hyung?”
“I saw him in the kitchen this morning, but I don’t know where he is now. Maybe he went with Hoseok hyung and Namjoon hyung.” added Jungkook.
“Why? what’s wrong?” Asked Jimin, his voice full of concern.
“Nothing, I just really want some ice cream and I was going to ask one of them to come with me to the convenience store down the street.”
“Oh, maybe you should try waking Yoongi hyung and asking him.”
Jimin and Tae burst out laughing.
“Yeah right, hyung will kill me if I wake him up for anything other than a medical emergency.”
“So, what are you gonna do?”
“I don’t know, should I go alone?”
“No, are you crazy! You know hyungs don’t want us going out alone. We need to have at least one of them or a security guard with us.” Taehyung frowned at his friend’s response.
“Try calling the agency and asking them to send a security guard to accompany you.” Suggest Jungkook.
“It seems dumb to have someone come all the way here just to walk with me to a store. It’ll probably take like 30 minutes to get someone to come, and the convenience store is only a 10 minute walk. That’s enough time for me to go and be back before the security guard even shows up.”
“You got a point,” agreed Jungkook.
“I don’t know Tae, do you really want to risk it?”
“I’m only going for ice cream, I’ll be in and out really fast.”
Jimin let out a puff of air, “Fine. if you really want to try, then go. It’s your life.”
“Can you guys cover for me? In case the hyungs get home before me, can you keep them distracted?”
“Okay,” reluctantly said Jimin, “But if you do get caught, I had nothing to do with this. I didn’t even know you went, okay?”
“Deal!” Taehyung bend over and hugged his best friend before bouncing out of Jungkook’s room and towards the front door.
Taehyung happily walked to the convenience store, it was about 10 o’clock on a Saturday, so the streets were still fairly empty since people usually slept in late on weekends. Taehyung got to store safely and went straight to the ice cream isle. There were so many flavors to choose from, but in the end Tae settled for a pint of simple vanilla flavored ice cream with strawberry syrup swirled in it. After paying for it he made his way back to the apartments safe and sound, without a problem.
Taehyung made his way to the kitchen and picked up a spoon before heading to Jungkook’s room.
“I’m back!”
“Wow, you actually made it!” Jimin looked at him in shock.
“Why do you look so surprised, were you expecting me to get caught?”
“No and yes, it just seems too good to be true. You didn’t run into any problems?” Taehyung shook his head no. “We usually always get caught whenever we’re doing something we’re not suppose to.”
“Well not today. I have succeeded in my mission.”
Tae proudly put a spoonful of ice cream in his mouth.
“Can I have some?”
“Yeah, me too?”
Jungkook and Jimin jumped out of their seats from Jungkook’s bed and approached Tae.
“Yeah, come on. Let’s go eat it in the kitchen so you guys can get some spoons.”
The maknae line made there way to the kitchen and grabbed some spoons. They sat at the kitchen table and happily ate whiled they talked.
They were half way done with the ice cream when the front door opened and Jin walked through it.
“Hey guys! What are you doing?”
“Nothing,” said the three of them in unison.
Jin walked over to the kitchen table and set the grocery bags down on top of it.
He froze when he saw the ice cream in front of the maknaes.
“What are you guys eating?”He asked confusingly.
“Ice cream,” answered Jungkook innocently.
“Where did you get the ice cream?” Further questioned Jin becoming suspicious.
Jungkook and Jimin stayed quiet and avoided eye contact with Jin.
“I got it from the freezer.” Confidently response Taehyung.
“Really?”
“Yeah.” Tae’s voiced shook a little under Jin’s sharp gaze, showing that he was no longer confident in his answer.
“Well, you see. The thing is that this morning, before I left for the grocery store, I was looking through the fridge and freezer to make a list of the things we needed. And when I checked the freezer there was no ice cream. I even wrote it down on my list and bought some more.” Jin pulled a tub of ice cream out of one of the bags and walked over to put it in the freezer. He then slowly walked back to the three younger members with his arms crossed.
“So, let’s try this again. Where did you get the ice cream?”
Jungkook and Jimin shrugged their shoulders and looked down at the table.
“Are you sure you checked right? Because I found this at the very back of the freezer.” Tae tried his best to sound convincing. “I made sure to check the entire freezer and I’m positive there was no ice cream. So, where did you get it?” Jin eyes burned holes into the maknaes skin, they began to shift uncomfortably under his glare. Tae’s confidences wavered and be gave up. “They don’t know anything,” He said as he pointed at the two other members, “I told them I found the ice cream in the freezer.”
“So, you didn’t find it in the freezer?” Interrogated Jin.
“No,” confessed Tae.
“Jungkook-ah, Jimin-ah, me and Tae need to have a private conversation.”
They both knew that was their cue, Jin was telling them to leave. They got up and gave Taehyung sympathetic looks before going to their rooms.
“So, where did you get the ice cream?” Taehyung stayed quiet, he was trying to think of a way out. There had to be a way to save himself.
“Taehyung! Don’t make me repeat myself!”
Jin voice was becoming stricter, he was getting impatient. Taehyung started panicking.
“They truth is....uhm” he was searching through his head for a reasonable answer that would get him in the least amount of trouble.
“I’m waiting Tae!” “You see... umm... I got the ice cream....” and then he remembered, the perfect escape.
“Hyung!”
Jin was taken aback from Tae’s sudden outburst.
“What?” He asked.
“I got the ice cream from hyung. Yoongi hyung took me to the convenience store down the street so I could buy ice cream.”
Jin felt his heart beat begin to rise in anger.
“Yoongi took you to the store?”
“Yeah!”
“Are you sure?”
“Yeah,” Taehyung had expected his answer to resolve everything. If Jin thought hyung was with him everything should be fine. So why was he still questioning him? Taehyung was also extremely confused by the fact that Jin looked like he was getting madder than calmer.
“Okay.” Was all Jin said.
“D-do you believe me?” Asked Tae, he wasn’t sure since Jin still looked upset.
“I believe you.”
Jin picked up the grocery bags and put them on the kitchen counter so he could start putting all the groceries away. As he did so he got lost in thought.

*Inside Jin’s mind: It all makes since now. No wonder Tae was scared to tell me where he got the ice cream from. Yoongi probably made him promise not tell anyone. Yesterday he snuck out to the studio after I told him he wasn’t allowed to go and today he goes against his punishment and leaves the apartment. Why doesn’t he listen to simple directions? This has to be Yoongi’s way of rebelling against me. He was really mad about being ground, I wouldn’t be surprised if going to the convenience store was his idea, that way he could purposely leave the apartment! I can not let this slide!” *

Taehyung nervously watched as Jin quickly put away all the groceries.
“Is our conversation over? Can I go to my room?”
Jin waved his arm in the air, dismissing Taehyung without a word. He slowly got up and walked out of the kitchen, making his way to Jimin’s room, where both him and Jungkook were waiting for Tae. When Tae walked in they both jumped off the bed.
“So what happen?” They both whispered so Jin couldn’t hear them.
“I don’t know.”
“You don’t know? What does that mean?”
Tae closed the door and sat on Jimin’s bed. Jimin sat beside him, while Jungkook laid across Hoseok’s bed in front of them.
“I told Jin hyung I got the ice cream from the convenience store,”
“And he was okay with it?” Interrupted Jungkook.
“Well, I told him Yoongi hyung took me to the convenience store.”
“And he believed you?” Asked Jimin.
“He said he did, but...”
“But what?”
“He looked angry.”
“That’s weird.” Confirmed Jimin, “why was he angry?” “I don’t know.” The three maknaes concentrated really hard to try and solve this mystery. Why would Jin be angry if he believed Taehyung?
“Maybe he wasn’t angry? Maybe you just saw wrong because you were panicking?” Advised Jungkook.
“Yeah, that’s a good point. I bet he was actually tired from grocery shopping. I mean grocery shopping is kind of hard and not to mention he had to carry all the bags alone,” Proposed Jimin.
“You guys are right! I was scared that he was mad at me so I probably read his emotion as anger when it was just tiredness.”
“Yeah!” All three of them agreed.
The maknae of the group then preceded to praise Taehyung on his quick thinking skills.
Meanwhile, Jin finished putting the groceries way and walked over to his and Yoongi’s room. When he walked in he saw Yoongi laying on his bed and scrolling through his phone.
“Hyung, look! I got a new high score! I might even be better than you now!” He turned his phone towards Jin so he could see his screen.
Jin frowned and walked up to Yoongi’s bed, he pushed Yoongi’s hand down to lower the phone.
“What have you done all day?” Jin’s tone was firm and strict causing Yoongi to frown in confusion. He clicked the side button on his phone to turn its screen off and placed it on the nightstand next to his bed.
“Nothing,” He shrugged off.
“Would you like to try that again?” Jin fixed Yoongi with a warning look.
Yoongi pursed his lips and looked around the room confusingly. He was becoming agitated, he didn’t like how Jin was talking to him and he was confused as to why he was talking to him like that in the first place. Jin only talks to them like that when they’re in trouble. Was he still mad at him from this morning?
“Uhm,” Yoongi tried to read Jin’s face, hoping he could find the answer to his confusion. “I took a nap, and then I woke up and played some phone games. That’s all.”
“That’s really all you did?!”
“Yes!” Retorted Yoongi.
“Yoongi-ah! Stop lying to me!” Jin’s voiced began to rise slightly.
“I’m not lying!”
“Taehyung told me everything already. So stop acting clueless.”
Yoongi looked down at his hands even more confused.
“What did he tell you?”
“Everything.”
“What is everything?!” Curtly responded Yoongi.
“Watch your tone!” Warned Jin.
Yoongi took a deep breath and let it out, “sorry.”
Jin looked at Yoongi disapprovingly.
“He told me that you went to the convenience store. After I specifically told you that you were not allowed to leave this apartment!”
Yoongi looked at Jin dumbfound.
“I didn’t do that.”
“Really, then why would Taehyung make that up?!”
“I don’t know. I don’t know why he does half the things he does.”
“This is not the time for jokes Yoongi-yah!”
“I wasn’t joking.”
“Yoongi-yah! I’m running out of patients.”
“What do you want me to do about it?!” Sarcastically shouted Yoongi.
“Yoongi! I had every intention of going easy on you if you would have been honest with me and told me the truth. But instead you continue to sit in front of me and lie. Stand up!”
Yoongi’s instincts to obey his hyung kicked in and he immediately stood up.
“Now bend over the bed!” Jin sharply pointed down towards the bed.
“No!” Yoongi took a few steps back until his back made contact with the wall in an attempt to shield his backside.
“Yoongi-yah!” Jin continued to point. Yoongi’s eyes widened, making him look like a kicked puppy.
“Hyung,” His voice became small and his bottom lip began to tremble slightly as he tried to plead with his hyung.
“Please, hyung. I...”
“It’s to late for that. You had your chance to explain yourself, but you wasted it. So bend over! Now!”
Yoongi pressed himself further into the wall and stayed quiet.
“Don’t make me come get you, it’ll be worst for you.”
“Hyung, I didn’t do anything.” Yoongi whimpered.
“5! 4! 3! 2! This is your last chance Yoongi.” Jin waited a few seconds, “And 1.”
Jin walked towards Yoongi and grabbed his upper arm.
“Hyung, please! I haven’t even left this room all day, so I definitely haven’t left the apartment. Please, hyung! You have to believe me.”
Yoongi tried to pull his arm free but Jin had a strong grip on him. He dragged Yoongi back over to the bed and shoved him over it. Yoongi quickly threw his hands back to cover his rear and delay the process.
“Yoongi! Move your hands!”
“No, please just let me talk!”
The sound of a belt buckle being undone made Yoongi’s blood run cold. The little color that he had, drained from his face, making him look as white as a ghost.
He shot off the bed and ran to the corner of the room.
“Hyung! I HAVEN’T LEFT THIS ROOM, I promise!” Yoongi desperately cried.
But Jin’s patients had run out, he was not in the mood to fight Yoongi any longer.
Without a single word he walked to Yoongi turned him around and landed the belt on him 5 times really fast before pulling him back to the bed and pushing him back over it.
Yoongi began to cry. Tears freely fell from his eyes, which was peculiar for Yoongi since he always tried to stay tough and quiet for as long as possible when put in these situations. However, Jin just waved it off as Yoongi trying to cause a scene to get out of being punished. Jin raised his arm and brought the belt down hard on Yoongi’s sitting spot.
Smack! “Owwww!”
Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!
“I didn’t leave!”
Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!
“I promise!”
Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!
“Hyung!”
Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!
Yoongi tried to escape from Jin’s belt, but Jin used his free hand to hold him down in place.
Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!
“Ahhhh!” Shouted Yoongi when an extra hard smack hit the curve between his upper thigh and lower butt. Yoongi’s sobs shook his whole body.
“P-P-Please, stop!”
Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!
“It hurts!” Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! “Hyung!”
Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!
“Please!”
Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!
“I d-didn’t go anywhere!”
Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!
“P-please believe m-me!” Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! Yoongi began to cough uncontrollably as he choked on one of his sobs. Jin stop a moment to rub his back.
“It’s okay, Yoongi. Shhhhh, Just breath. We’re almost done.”
Jin raised his arm again and continued the punishment.
Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!
Yoongi went limb over the bed and gave up any hope of Jin letting him go. He cried loudly and buried his face into the sheets.
Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!
Jin landed the final hits and dropped the belt on the floor before beginning to rub Yoongi’s back.
“Okay, Yoongi. We’re done.”
Jin frowned when Yoongi didn’t move or attempt to stand up. So instead Jin bend down and tried to wrap Yoongi in his arms.
“Come here Yoongs, it’s over. Shhhh, you’re forgiven.”
Yoongi pushed Jin away and crawled onto his bed, wrapping himself under his blanket and curling up into a small ball while he continued to cry loudly. He faced away from Jin and refused to knowledge him.
“Yoongi?”
Jin reached over to place a comforting hand on his shoulder, but Yoongi shrugged it off of him and pulled the blanket over his head, completely covering himself. Jin frowned deeper. He placed his rejected hand on his heart, as he felt it break. Why did Yoongi reject his comfort, normally he would accept it in a heart beat?
“Why’s he acting like this?” Thought Jin to himself. He got up and sadly walked out of the room.
When he walked out of the hallway and into the kitchen he saw a crying Taehyung being comforted by both Jimin and Jungkook.
“Tae? What’s wrong?” Jin cooed as he wrapped Taehyung into a hug. Taehyung hugged back and cried harder.