"Taehyung is awake?!" The members screamed in unison. Suddenly they were jumping to their feet with anticipation.

"How'd he wake up?!" Hobi asked.

"Yeah, you said he might not!" Jin added.

"How did he end up waking up this quickly?!" Namjoon asked.

"Is he okay? Did he say anything?!" Jimin ended the saga of questions.

The doctor paused for a moment to make sure all of their questions were out before speaking. "It's simply a miracle that he woke up at all, especially this soon. However, when he woke up he immediately started screaming, unaware that he had lung damage so we had to quickly sedate him again before he hurt himself more."

"Oh my poor Taehyungie. Why was he screaming?! Was he scared? Was he hurting?" Jimin asked full of more concern.

"He was screaming for Jungkook. He kept repeatedly screaming his name over and over. I tried telling him that Jungkook was safe and being taken care of in a separate room, but I don't think he could comprehend or hear me over his own screaming. His mind seemed to be somewhere else," the doctor informed.

"I know exactly where his mind is. It's still lost out in that hell hole of a place where he was kidnapped and brought to!" Namjoon took a breath to compose himself, and then asked, "Is there any way you can put them together? Maybe it'll help both of them to be with each other. At least in the same room."

"At the moment that's not possible as both need individual, separate treatments."

"But what if he wakes up screaming again?" Jin asked.

"I will do all I can to help him. I must get back now, I just wanted to deliver the good news that Taehyung woke up."

"And Kook-ah...still nothing?" Yoongi asked.

"Still nothing, I'm sorry. He just needs time." The doctor said goodbye and departed again. The members slumped into chairs. They were ecstatic that Taehyung woke up, but devastated about how he woke up. Screaming and crying for Jungkook. The members wondered how often that happened while the two were trapped in that terrible place.

Days went by.

The members hadn't left the waiting room, only to eat or use the bathroom. Police had returned multiple times to question them but Namjoon went into leader mode and repeatedly told the police that now was not the time or place for that, they'd simply have to wait. Namjoon shooed the police away on multiple occasions.

The day the members had all been waiting for had finally come. They could visit their maknae's, who in recent days were put with each other.

Jungkook had woken up the previous day and Taehyung was constantly in and out of consciousness.

While standing outside the room, Jin stopped everyone before entering. "Everyone listen to me," he started. All of the members were huddled close to him, listening. Jin continued, "We have to remember that they're going to be all bandaged, casted, and wired up. I don't know how bad it'll look and it's going to be scary. The only advice I can give is that we have to remind ourselves that they're safe here, and they're getting the treatment they need to heal. No matter how bad they may look, it only gets better for them from here. Okay?"

Everyone nodded and promised not to freak out too much when they saw the extent of their maknae's injuries.

Jin slowly pushed the door open and quietly led the others inside. They all froze in place when they saw their maknae's. All of them gasped and covered their mouths, trying to suppress their cries.

Taehyung and Jungkook had been placed in a extra large bed together. Both of them were full of casts and bandages. Taehyung had a lot more than Jungkook did, but the hyungs knew that was expected. They both had tubes of oxygen that went up their noses and wrapped around their ears. They were hooked up to various monitors, including heart monitors.

Slow and steady beats from both of them.

Jimin froze and stared at the heart monitor, counting beats for both of them. He smiled when he realized they seemed normal.

As nervous and scared as they were seeing the two maknae's laying broken and battered in bed, they all clung to Jin's reassuring words. That it gets better from here.

The two youngest were passed out while curled up next to each other. Even in a cast, Taehyung had somehow managed to get his arm laying across Jungkook's chest.

A nurse who was in charge of overlooking the room and monitoring everything greeted the members warmly. She smiled at them. "You must be the big brothers the doctor mentioned."

They introduced themselves.

"How are they doing?" Hobi asked. He was standing right next to the bed, staring at his two sleeping maknae's. All of them were staring. They were standing there staring at every broken bone, every bruise, every scrape. They knew that every single one of those injuries had a story behind it. Pain behind it. A beating behind it. Trauma behind it.

The nurse replied to them. "Well they haven't been awake much, and any time they are awake they are a bit confused and dazed before falling right back asleep. Two very tired little guys, but that's to be expected."

Namjoon let out a loud sigh before asking, "Is Taehyung aware he's with Jungkook?"

"I don't think he knows where he is at all," the nurse frowned. "But he'll get there. I think if he could just hear Jungkook's voice he'll realize they're together, but they haven't had a chance to speak. They haven't been awake at the same time."

The nurse looked down to realize that a wire that was hooked against Jungkook's arm was wrapped around one of Taehyung's wires. She gently grabbed Taehyung's arm to remove it from Jungkook's chest so she could untangle the two, and as soon as she did Taehyung's heart monitor started spiking and going crazy.

The members panicked. "What is wrong with him? What's going on?! Why is it doing that?!" Jin screamed with worry.

"Is something wrong?!" Jimin asked. 

Taehyung's eyes suddenly shot open and he started crying with panic. "No...no...no..." he screamed and tears instantly poured out of his eyes. All of the members gently put their hands on him. 

"Hey...it's okay Tae...nobody is taking him," Yoongi said softly. He rubbed Taehyung's arm between the countless wires and bandages. "Nobody is taking him," he repeated. He said it again to himself in his own head. Nobody is taking him, or you, ever again.

The nurse also offered reassurance. "I just have to fix these wires here, you two got yourselves all tangled up!" She let out a relieving laugh.

Jimin was confused. "You said he wasn't aware he was with Jungkook?"

Namjoon replied before the nurse could. "He might not be able to mentally comprehend what is going on, but his body knows Jungkook is with him."

"The brain is a complex thing," Jin said out loud, but he was speaking to himself.

Taehyung kept screaming and crying and the nurse pressed a button that delivered a liquid through another tube. More sedatives. The members couldn't help but feel terrible that Taehyung was being pumped with so much of the stuff. He finally calmed down and relaxed his body, and then looked up once he saw his hyungs standing beside him. He stared at them, unblinking.

"Hey, kiddo," Yoongi started, "been a few days."

Taehyung's eyes were darting between all of them rapidly, they could tell he didn't understand where they all were or how. It took him a moment to get his vision straight, but finally he acknowledged their presence. "Hyungs?" he asked. It was a whisper, his screaming already drained his voice.

"Of course. It's us. It's your hyungs," Jin said as he softly ran his hand through Taehyung's hair.

Taehyung didn't have much to say after that. All that was going through his mind was hyungs are here.

"And Jungkook is right there." Jimin pointed to Jungkook. Taehyung looked at him. He stared at him for a while, doing the same thing his hyungs had done before, looking at all of the injuries.

Taehyung was confused as he broke his gaze from Jungkook's injuries and looked around the room.

How did we get in this room? Where are we? Is Jungkook really here? He couldn't distinguish between if this was reality or if he was dreaming that they had been rescued.

The members were talking to him non stop but he wasn't paying attention to anything they were saying. His gaze landed back on his maknae, who was curled up against him. It felt very real, with his maknae's warmth there. He could feel him breathing. He wondered, if it was a dream, how it could feel so real. Have we really been saved? The events leading up to them being in the hospital were a bit of a blur. For the time being, his brain had blocked it out. The last thing he remembered was watching Jungkook collapse while they were being set on fire.

If this were real, my body would hurt more. If I have all these injuries why can't I feel them? He was unaware of how much medicine he had been filled with.

He had a lot of questions and concerns stored up in his head but his body didn't have the strength to verbalize them.

He used all the strength he had in him to try and nudge Jungkook awake, and it worked. Jungkook's eyes opened.

The hyungs instantly hovered over the maknae now, instantly going on and on about how they were here and he was safe and everyone was safe and so on.

Taehyung's eyes lit up as they met Jungkook's. "Kookie?" Taehyung whispered.

"Tae-hyungie?" Jungkook whispered back.

Finally, Taehyung heard Jungkook's voice and realized this had to be real. He formed a weak smile, and his heart monitor picked up again as his heart swelled with joy to see Jungkook smile back.