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“v, you need to come out.”
v looks up quickly at the urgent tone hoseok has, standing up hurriedly. hoseok isn’t the type to get panicky about anything, so this must be important. “what is it?”
hoseok’s eyes are wide, and he’s shaking slightly, v notes, so, using their little “codenames”, he asks again, “hope, what is it?”
“princess is taken,” hoseok breathes out, and v stills, furrowing his brows in shock. princess was seokjin . how in the world was seokjin taken? he was too protected within the group. “we don’t know how it happened -- yoongi’s looking it up right now. he thinks he may have a signal on that tracker thing we all have.”
v breathes in sharply, mind reeling over how this could have happened. his eyes snap over to hoseok when he whispers, “that’s not all -- i think namjoon’s going to figure out very soon.”
v swears under his breath, rushing out of the room with hoseok close behind. namjoon can’t find out. he had sworn to himself that he would try and keep seokjin safe no matter what, since it was his fault, in a way, that seokjin was roped into this mess. v figures it’s going to get worse now that they’ve just started dating .
there’s a loud crash and some yelling downstairs, and v leaps down the steps, rushing into the living room to see the commotion.
“hyung, i don’t know how he was taken, but please, calm down!” jungkook pleads, tugging on namjoon’s arm to get him to not throw something. v spots a broken vase in the corner, and ah , that must be the thing that was thrown. “v! help me!”
v steps forward quickly, pulling namjoon from jungkook’s grip and holding him by his collar. “deep breaths, namjoon,” v whispers dangerously, glaring into namjoon’s eyes until namjoon does as he says and takes deep breaths until he calms down. “why is all this happening?”
“seokjin was taken , boss!” namjoon hisses, knowing it’s best not to yell. “what do you mean why is this happening? do you think i’d just fucking stand around like nothing happened?”
“that’s not what i mean,” v growls, letting go of namjoon. “i need you to keep a leveled head. i don’t want you to go into this fight all panicked. suga’s looking up where he is.”
“i swore to myself, v,” namjoon says, voice cracking, and jimin’s eyes widen behind namjoon. no one’s ever seen namjoon break down -- it’s almost as rare as v giving someone that’s not jungkook a large, bright smile. “i told myself that i wouldn’t let anything happen to him. i said i’d protect him. we even started dating , and here we are, and he’s fucking gone… .”
v watches with concern as namjoon slips to the ground, head between his knees, taking in deep, shuddering breaths to calm himself down. he’s only seen namjoon break down once, and that was when namjoon found that someone had murdered his family, and he was greeted the next day with the news that whoever did it was assassinated as well. v realizes that namjoon must really care about seokjin if this were to happen, so he bends down to namjoon’s level, whispering, “namjoon, i want you to look at me.”
namjoon glances up at him before looking away, too embarrassed about the tears in his eyes. v sighs and continues, “i can’t say i know how this feels. i almost lost jungkook once, and i guess it’s almost the same. but i can say that we’re going to get seokjin back. i promise.”
“i don’t want to lose him, too,” namjoon mumbles. “i mean -- i don’t want to lose any of you. but, seokjin…”
“i understand,” v hums. “but we’ll get him back. come on now, i think yoongi’s here with some information.”
namjoon hurriedly wipes his eyes and stands with v, eyes cast to the ground. none of the others dare to poke fun like they usually do if they see one being emotional, figuring that this was rough on namjoon. v thinks it’s rough on hoseok as well, since he’s still a bit shaken, as he was somewhat in the swear namjoon had made as well; he was partially responsible with namjoon for bringing in seokjin, after all.
yoongi takes a deep breath, adjusting his glasses, and saying, “i’ve pinpointed an area. it’s at this little building, owned by this group called young nation. there was also a message, apparently: come get him if you dare. ”
“that new group challenging everyone?” jimin pipes up, and yoongi nods. “i had to deal with one of them once. i think they’re skilled to one-on-one combat.”
v hums, glancing over at namjoon. “well,” he drawls, “i think namjoon should be the one to plan and lead this mission.”
namjoon’s head snaps up immediately, staring at v with wide eyes. v nods, and namjoon takes in a shuddering breath before nodding as well, accepting his position.
“well,” v continues, “you have an hour to get ready. train a bit if you must. but get ready. we need to get the princess back.”