TW: This story contains graphic violence/ physical & mental abuse.
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"Wake up!" Taehyung screamed as he jumped onto Jungkook's bed. Jungkook groaned, he was anything but ready to wake up.

"Hyung, do you know what time it is?" Jungkook whispered as he stretched in bed and turned to face away from his hyung.

"Yes, actually I do know what time it is, and it's time for you to wake up!" Taehyung smiled and started tickling Jungkook to get him out of bed.

The youngest started to squirm and giggle. "Okay, okay. I'm up!" He sat up in bed, desperately trying to get Taehyung to stop tickling him. He considered tickling a form of torture and he hated it. Unfortunately, his hyungs always used that bit of knowledge to their own advantage.

There was a knock on the door.

"Come in!" Taehyung shouted excitedly.

Namjoon opened the door. "Are you two ready?" He eyed Jungkook. "You're not even out of bed yet?! Jungkook we have to be at the studio in twenty minutes!"

"Oh, shit!" Jungkook flew out of bed and ran to his closet to grab an outfit. He completely forgot that they had to be at the studio early today. They were collaborating with another artist for a project. Taehyung was the most excited because it was one of his favorite singers and he knew it'd be a huge surprise, and treat, for ARMY.

"Hurry it up!" Namjoon chuckled as he left the room. Soon Taehyung and Jungkook were ready to head out the door with the rest of their hyungs and they were on their way to the studio. Jin offered to stop at a drive-thru somewhere for breakfast because he felt bad that Jungkook never had time to eat.

"It's okay, I will have something at the studio," Jungkook replied.

"Are you sure?" Hobi asked. "You don't want something a little more luxurious...than cafeteria food? Like McDonalds?" Hobi made everyone laugh. Even McDonalds was more luxurious than some of the stuff they were eating at BigHit.

"It's fine, hyung. I'm okay." Jungkook smiled. His hyungs were his favorite people in the world because they were the six people in his life who took the absolute best care of him.

"If you say so," Jin replied.

They got to the studio and spent hours working with their collaborating artist. The hours went by quickly because they were having so much fun and enjoying themselves. Towards the end of their work the members had grown quite exhausted, except the two youngest.

It was already evening when they were headed home and an ad popped up on Jungkook's phone about a carnival in town that night.

"Hyungs, can we please go!?" Jungkook begged.

"Not tonight bunny, we're all pretty tired," Yoongi replied as he yawned. He was ready to go home and pass out, even on the floor if that was as far as he made it.

"I'm not tired," Taehyung gestured to Jungkook, "I want to go too."

"How do you both have so much energy?" Jimin asked while laughing. "I mean seriously, where do you store it all?"

Taehyung and Jungkook shrugged.

"Survival of the fittest," Jungkook replied while giggling. He loved teasing his older brothers any moment he could.

"Tell you what, I'll drop you two off at the carnival and just call hyung when you're ready to leave, and I'll come pick you up," Jin offered. He was exhausted too but he thought his maknae's were too cute and he was a pushover, always giving them what they wanted. The two youngest thanked their eldest hyung as he drove to drop them off at the carnival. When they got there Jungkook asked the rest of them if they were sure they didn't want to stick around. They were sure.

"Just have fun and call hyung," Jin said. The two promised to call as soon as they were ready.

"Bye hyungs!" Taehyung waved as he watched his members drive away.

Jungkook and Taehyung didn't know what ride to start on first so they decided to start at the beginning and go in a big circle. They played games and rode rides for hours.

Once they had lost some of their energy they considered calling their Jin hyung to come pick them up, but Jungkook wanted to spend a bit more time walking around first. They shared some cotton candy with each other and then made a bet on who could score more points on the duck-shooting game.

As they were walking along the outer edges of the carnival, they were both abruptly stopped when someone came out of the darkness and grabbed Jungkook's arm, pulling him away towards the woods.

"What the hell?!" Jungkook screamed as he tried to pry himself free. Taehyung grabbed Jungkook's other arm and tried to pull him away.

"What do you think you're doing?! Get off him!" Taehyung screamed.

They both saw a large, muscular man pulling Jungkook away. The maknae started to hit and flail as panic shot through his chest.

"Let go of me!" Jungkook screamed as he tried to force his way out of the mans grip. The stranger wasn't letting go.

"Maknae!" Taehyung cried as he tried hitting the man. "Get your filthy hands off my little brother!"

The man clamped his hand over Jungkook's mouth as he continued to drag him further into the woods. Jungkook couldn't scream anymore so he tried kicking but he could barely move in the man's grip.

Taehyung was chasing after them, punching the man and screaming at him to let Jungkook go. It was dark and he couldn't see. The tears he was crying weren't helping his vision.

"Help! Someone help!" Taehyung screamed back towards the direction of the carnival, but nobody seemed to hear him. It was so loud and everyone was too busy with their own lives.

Dread shot through his chest as he continued to try and free his maknae from the mans grip. He saw the fear in Jungkook's tear soaked eyes. Jungkook couldn't talk, but Taehyung saw the desperate plead for help just in the way the youngest was staring at him.

"You can't have him! You can't take him! I won't let you!" Taehyung screamed. The man wasn't saying anything or replying to a single thing being said. Suddenly rustling came from behind Taehyung and he felt someone grab him too.

"Huh?" Taehyung turned to see another large man now had him in his grip. No. No!

"This one too?" The man holding Taehyung asked his accomplice.

"Yes, since he won't shut the hell up. Do something to make him shut the hell up."

The man clamped his hand over Taehyung's mouth and now both him and Jungkook couldn't scream. All they could both do was kick and squirm, but it was useless.

They were both captured and brought to a black vehicle, where they were thrown next to each other in the trunk. As soon as they were both let go they both started screaming again.

"Let us go!" Jungkook cried. He tried getting out of the trunk but he was pushed back in. Taehyung grabbed him protectively.

"You two must be tired from all of this, it's time you take a little nap," one of the men said as he pulled out a syringe from his pocket.

"No! Get away from us!" Taehyung screamed and pulled Jungkook tightly against him. He tried pushing the mans hands away and the man grabbed him and pinned him down.

"Hyung!" Jungkook cried. He tried smacking the man who was pinning Taehyung down but the man was quick to get the syringe into the elder's neck.

"Taehyung! No! Stop it! Leave him alone! You're hurting him!" The youngest cried as he smacked the man's hand.

Taehyung was quickly unconscious and it was now Jungkook being pinned down in the trunk with the syringe stabbed into his neck.

Jungkook tried fighting the man off but was quickly losing strength as his eyes began to close. He slowly turned his head to look at Taehyung who was laying there motionless.

Hyungie.

The tears streaming down his face were the last things he felt before his world went dark too.