Taehyung began to stir awake. He shivered as the air surrounding him was cold. He felt himself laying down on something hard and rough. His head was pounding and his neck was sore. Light began to seep through his eyelids and his eyes blinked open. He was staring up at the ceiling which had nothing but one light illuminating the room.

Instant panic.

Jungkook!

He shot up from the floor and looked around. He was in a small room made entirely of concrete. No windows, only one door.

Jungkook was laying passed out across the room.

"Jungkook!" Taehyung cried. He frantically crawled to his maknae and picked him up in his arms, shaking him.

"Hey, Kookie. Wake up. Please wake up!" Taehyung begged as he began to cry. He was getting no response from the youngest.

"Kookie please wake up!" Taehyung begged. He checked for a pulse and felt relief when Jungkook had one, although it seemed slow.

"Maknae please I'm begging you!" Taehyung pulled Jungkook to his chest and held him tightly as he sobbed.

"Hmm.." A groan came from the youngest as he started to stir awake too.

"Jungkook!" Taehyung yelled with relief when he realized his maknae was moving.

"Hyung?" Jungkook whimpered out. He was in pain too. He could feel Taehyung holding him to his chest. He blinked his eyes open and was met with the same fear Taehyung felt upon waking up.

"Where are we?!" Jungkook cried in a panic, "What is this?!"

"I don't know," Taehyung replied as he looked around. He started frantically inspecting Jungkook all over, "Are you okay? Are you hurt?"

Tears streamed down Jungkook's face as he was too panicked to answer his hyungs questions, "I want to go home! Hyung I want to go home! What the hell is happening?!"

"I don't know," Taehyung repeated again. He was too terrified to form any other words at the moment. He had no idea what was going on. All he knew was someone was trying to take Jungkook from him and now they were both here.

Taehyung felt Jungkook trembling in his grip. He rubbed the youngest's back and rested his cheek on the top of Jungkook's head as his own tears poured out. He wanted to go home too. What he wouldn't give to get them both home where he knew they'd be safe. He didn't know what was happening or why but all he knew was no matter what he would give his life to protect his maknae from whatever the hell awaited them, if that's what it came down to. A new sense or protection kicked in that Taehyung didn't even know his own soul could possess.

"I'm scared," Jungkook whimpered. He felt his heart doing leaps and flips in his chest. He thought his heart might actually explode. He was worried about Taehyung's safety too.

Taehyung ran his fingers through Jungkook's hair, "We're going to get out of here, okay?"

Jungkook looked around. "How?!" He felt rather hopeless. There was no way out and he didn't need to check the one door leading into the room to already know it'd be locked.

Taehyung looked around and instantly felt hopeless too. He sighed. "I don't know."

"Hyungs!" Jungkook suddenly cried, "What about hyungs?! We were supposed to call hyungs!" Jungkook searched his pockets for his phone in a panic but couldn't find it. Taehyung couldn't find his either.

"They're going to be angry!" Jungkook cried. Taehyung reassured him that they weren't going to be angry, but worried. He assured his maknae that their hyungs would do anything and everything to find them once they realized they were missing.

"What if we're dead before they find us?" Jungkook looked at Taehyung with his giant teary doe eyes and Taehyung felt his heart sink to the pit of his stomach. He held Jungkook's cheek in his hand as he wiped the maknae's tears away with his thumb, "You think I would let that happen? You think I'd let someone kill you? I'm not going to let that happen."

Jungkook pushed himself closer into Taehyung. He wanted to be held tightly, it was the only thing making him feel even remotely safe right now.

"I don't understand what they wanted," Jungkook cried into Taehyung's chest, "Why did they want to take me? What did I do?"

"Nothing. You did nothing, Kook-ah. People are just assholes!" Taehyung felt the anger coursing through his body. His skin was hot with fury. How dare someone try to take his maknae from him. How dare someone think they had the right to put their hands on him.

They both flinched when they heard the door opening. They held eachother tightly as the two men who had taken them walked into the room and slammed the door closed behind them.

"Well well well, look who is awake," the first man scoffed. He was the one who had originally grabbed Jungkook. He stepped forward and the two cowered backwards. "Stay away from us!" Taehyung screamed.

"Shut the hell up," the man said as he got closer. The second man stood guarding the door.

The man grabbed Jungkook and pulled him aggressively to his feet, the singer whimpered in pain as the mans grip around his wrist was hurting him.

"No!" Taehyung jumped to his feet and tried prying Jungkook out of his grip, "Leave him alone!"

The man shoved Taehyung onto the floor and he smacked down onto the concrete with a thud. He knew that was going to leave some bruised ribs as he gasped for air.

"Taehyung!" Jungkook cried, "Don't touch him!" he pleaded. The man ignored Jungkook as he inspected the maknae. He turned back to the other man. "How much for him do you think?"

"Plenty. We have some high bidders on him."

Taehyung and Jungkook both felt like their hearts had just been pierced with knives.

How much?! Bidders?!

Taehyung jumped back up onto his feet, "You can't sell him!"

The man guarding the door spoke up and gestured to Taehyung, "Oh yes we can. And I'll sell you for a damn penny. I don't even care. You weren't even supposed to be part of this but you don't know how to keep your little mouth shut."

Taehyung stomped his foot with anger. "Let us go! You can't do this!"

Taehyung went ignored as the man at the door checked his phone and looked up. "Are we ready?"

"Yes," the man gripping Jungkook said. The man instantly grabbed Taehyung too and he had them both tightly in his clutches. He hovered above them as they both silently stared at him with terrified eyes. They didn't know what was going to happen to them next and they were both absolutely terrified to find out.

The man roughly yanked them forward and began dragging them towards the door. He began to chuckle menacingly.

"You two have quite the journey ahead of you."