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Jungkook opens the door.

"What the hell is going on here? Why is there two Y/n's?"

The parallel version of me yells, "Please help me! That Y/n is an imposter!"

She's already trying to pose as the victim?

I shake my head. "No, she's the evil Y/n. I'm the real Y/n!"

"No, I'm the real Y/n. Jungkook, you're my rain and I'm your snow," She pouted her lips and her eyes were watery.

Now how hell did she know that?

"I'm tied up but if you check my hand, you'll find the one-of-a-kind ring I've been wearing for weeks." She bats her eyelashes at Jungkook.

Jungkook checks her and finds the ring Jimin gave to me that I used to punch her across the face.

"She stole that ring from me!" I try to explain.

When Jungkook is looking towards me, her mouth curls into a cruel smile. She knows she's winning this so far.

"I even have that scar from when Namjoon shot me." She points to the mark on her leg.

"So do I!" I point to my leg. The scars were identical. She must have seen my scar and cut herself on her own in case a situation like this happened.

Jungkook begins to ask us an array of questions.

"What's Y/n's parents names?"

"What's my favorite color?"

"What was the last thing you texted me?"

"What did we do exactly a week ago?"

Jungkook paces back and forth, with his arms behind his back.

"You both have answered the questions about the same amount of time, with surprisingly well accuracy. But you both can't be the real Y/n..."

He steps closer to us. "I theorize that one of you have been wiretapping everything I've been saying with the real Y/n."

I look towards my right and the parallel version of me gulps. Is this true?

"But just because she could hear everything... that doesn't mean she can see everything."

Jungkook looks at us both in the eyes. "I have one final question to ask- what did Y/n write on that Post It Note the other night at dinner?"

The parallel version of me looks at me then back at Jungkook. "That's simple, um, uh-"

"The stringbeans are delightful," I finally say.

Jungkook smiles at me, his eyes shining like two stars. "I find you delightful."

"Well that's lame! Now how could I have guessed that?" The parallel version of me yells.

"You're lame." Jungkook tightens the belt on her hands.

Hoseok, Jin and Yoongi walk into the room.

"Two Y/n's? Is one of them Y/n's twin that was separated from Y/n from birth and this is some real life Pretty Little Liars?" Hoseok's jaw drops and Yoongi nearly faints.

"Just put her in the cell in Section 3B. My father and no one else will be able to touch her. We'll explain everything to you guys later," Jungook says.

"Shouldn't we just kill her?" I suggest.

Jungkook's eyes widen with horror.

"Never mind! No killing, haha."

We put ducktape on her mouth, tie her hands and legs tighter, and place her in Hoseok's gigantic bag.

***

Hoseok, Yoongi and Jin exit the room with her in the bag.

"I had a feeling all along that you were the real Y/n," Jungkook confesses. "Even before the other one spoke."

"Then why didn't you trust your gut feeling?" I ask.

"I've been relying too much on gut feelings and impulsive decisions. It's about time I listen to both sides of the story," Jungkook explains.

He takes a handkerchief out of his pocket, then dabs the wound on my forehead.

He's so close.

"Now you need to tell me the truth. Who the heck is this person who's impersonating you?" He presses the handkerchief on my forehead, softly, to stop the bleeding.

No more lies.

"She's not my twin or clone. She came from another-"

"Please come into the meeting room." I hear Mayor Jeon's voice in the hallway.

"Of course," Satan says, footsteps coming closer.

Jungkook's eyes widen.

"Oh no, we're not supposed to be here!" He whisper-yells.

"What should we do?" I ask.

"Hide!"

We crouch behind some furniture at the back of the room and secretly peek at them.

Mayor Jeon and Satan enter the room. As Satan sits on a couch, Mayor Jeon swiftly locks the door.

"I can't lie- the speech you gave tonight was impressive," Mayor Jeon says.

"Your speech was also impressive- oops, that's a lie." Satan shrugs.

Mayor Jeon politely laughs. "Great speech. Great charm. A great sense of humor that the people admire..."

Mayor Jeon begins filling a cup with wine. "Now let's cut to the chase. I can give you all the money in the world if you drop out of the election."

"There is not enough money in this world to satisfy me," Satan said.

"I just don't understand- why do you want to win this election so badly? Where the hell did you come from?" Mayor Jeon demands to know.

"A word in the sentence you just said is my origin," Satan snickered.

Mayor Jeon looks confused.

"Now I have a question for you- Where is Soo Ah Jeon?' Satan stands up.

Mayor Jeon looks bewildered. "W-What do you want to know about my wife?"

"Everything."

"How about I escort you out of this building with my security?" Mayor Jeon proposes.

"How about no?" Satan steps closer.

"And why would I listen to you?" Mayor Jeon sips his wine.

"Because..." A scythe instantly appears in Satan's hands. "I'll burn this building to the ground if you don't."

A tall circle of blazing flames surrounds Mayor Jeon.

Mayor Jeon drops his cup. "I-I, What the heck is going on?!"

"Tell me what happened to her or I'll rip your limps apart one by one!" Satan roars.

Mayor Jeon is flabbergasted. "What sort of magic trick are you playing?!?"

"No trick. It's all real." Satan smirks.

Mayor Jeon coughs. "How did you put this fire around me?! Why does it feel so weird?"

"The smoke of the flames is magically enhanced. Whoever inhales the fumes of the fire will be forced to tell the truth for a few hours. You and me both."

Mayor Jeon's face pales.

Satan glares. "You seduced her from me, years ago. And now she's gone."

"What are you talking about? I didn't know she was even with you-"

"I'll start with the truth first," Satan snarls, cruelly. "I met Soo Ah in the human realm. She gave me the first act of kindness I have ever received in a millennium. We slowly fell in love, got married, and made a deal with the Heavens that she could reside in Hell with me for 6 months, and go back to Earth for 6 months, every year. But I came to visit her and she didn't even remember me. What did you do to her?"

"Hell? You're from Hell?" Mayor Jeon's eyes widened with fear.

"Yes, I'm the King of the Underworld." Satan slams his scythe to the ground and the whole building shakes, on the verge of collapse. "Now tell me how you met and what you did to her or everyone here will die. Every last detail."

I didn't think Mayor Jeon would answer and would rather choose death, but surprisingly he does. "I was one of her many secretaries under her huge business. She was kind to me, but I always wanted more from her. She went through a car accident and lost her memory. A-and, and-"

"And what?" Satan bellowed.

Mayor Jeon gulps before he answers. "I sort of took advantage of the situation."

He continues. "She lost her memory and I posed as her boyfriend. I forged some of her signatures and was able to co-own her business and fund my Mafia Empire. I bribed the doctors to prevent her from gaining back her memory and then we eventually married and had a son. B-but, but-"

"But what, you neanderthal?"

"She began to regain her memories. Or I don't know, get a bit crazy. I found her diary and she said she had another kid she needed to find him."

"She does have another son. His name is Taehyung," Satan says.

"Soo Ah said she wanted to reunite with him and she felt guilt for leaving him all alone. She was even willing to commit suicide to be with him again," Mayor Jeon quickly explains, the smoke from the magical fire forcing the truth right out of him.

"So she really did kill herself?" Satan asked.

"No. She found out about my mafia empire, and was horrified. She learnt that I was planning on bombing my enemy's hideout. She went there a week early to warn them what was going to happen, but the bomb went off before it was meant to and she died in the explosion." Mayor Jeon covers his face with his hands, with shame.

"So you killed her." Satan clenches his jaw.

"It wasn't my intention! She wasn't supposed to die!" Mayor Jeon cries.

"Then why did you cover it up as a suicide?"

"I couldn't tell my son that his mother died in the operations of my mafia empire. He'd refuse to do anything to do with it. So I resorted to telling him she killed herself.. Her meddling with my business was a death wish anyways," Mayor Jeon explains.

The creature who was most evil in existence was not Satan... but a mere human. Mayor Jeon.

"You never cared for her at all." Satan fumed.

"I married her for the money. But I did love her," Mayor Jeon whispers.

"Where is she? Where is my Soo-Ah?" Satan asks, more to himself.

"I don't know.. but she's nowhere on Earth."

Satan mutters, "She's not in Hell but she didn't pass on onto the Heavens or else I would've known..."

"A-are you going to kill me?" Mayor Jeon whimpers and falls to the ground.

"Although I collect and punish souls, my job is to not directly kill anybody. But I have dreamed of gouging your eyes out, and smashing your skull for years. I'd even fight with the Heavens to kill you over and over again..."

Satan steps closer and Mayor Jeon crawls backwards. "But after finally interacting with you, all I've learnt is you are nothing. You are a miserable waste of space. Death would be too easy for you."

Mayor Jeon clasps his hands together. "Please spare me!"

"I don't even care for these miserly meaningless human affairs. All I care for is what happened to Soo Ah. You win. I drop out of the election."

In a blink of an eye, Satan vanishes and the fires transform to ashes.


AUTHOR'S NOTE: ahhhh we're getting closer and closer to the end EEEEP

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