Namjoon and Jungkook glanced at each other as fear flashed behind both their eyes. Namjoon turned back to Ky and froze.

"I said get the hell out of the car!" Ky screamed at Namjoon, waving his belt in the air. Namjoon could feel himself choking over the lump in his throat. All this just because I grabbed chips for the maknae?

"Ky...please..." Namjoon said in a desperate tone. He was too scared to move. Ky leaned in and grabbed Namjoon's arm.

Jungkook covered Namjoon's seat belt buckle with his hand so it couldn't be undone.

"Please don't hurt Joonie! He didn't do anything!" Jungkook begged. He had started crying tears of anxiety. He hated Ky, the man was scary. But he wasn't about to just let his hyung, his leader, get hurt.

"He knows damn well what he did!" Ky screamed and looked at Namjoon. "Get out of the damn car before I make you!"

Jungkook wrapped his arms around Namjoon and sobbed. "Don't hurt my hyungie. It wasn't him! He didn't do it! It was me! I took the chips on my own!" Jungkook lied.

Namjoon turned to Jungkook. "Don't, Kook." The leader sure wasn't about to let his maknae get a beating either. Namjoon hesitantly unbuckled his seat belt. He realized there was no point in prolonging this. He just wanted it over with. As soon as his seatbelt was undone Ky ripped him out of the car and threw him on the ground.

"No!" Jungkook screamed, diving out of the car too. "Please, Ky!"

Ky didn't listen to Jungkook. Namjoon felt the belt immediately come whipping down on his back as he screamed through tears.

"I'm sorry!" Namjoon screamed as the pain shot through his back.

"Now you see what happens when you disrespect me?!" Ky screamed.

Jungkook tried grabbing the hand Ky was holding the belt with, but the man shoved him to the ground so hard that the maknae skidded backwards onto the pavement and cried as his arms scraped into the concrete and began bleeding.

Ky hit Namjoon again. Two more times. Three more times.

"Please stop!" Namjoon screamed. "I'm sorry!" He was laying on the ground curled up in a ball. He didn't understand how he found himself in this nightmare so quickly. Just a little while ago he and Jungkook had been laughing together playing basketball, and now both of them were on the ground crying while he was being hit over and over with Ky's belt.

"It's too late for sorry. I am sick of you damn boys disrespecting me!" Ky screamed as he hit Namjoon again.

"Leave him alone!" Jungkook screamed. He got up and ran at Ky, pushing him as much as he could but Ky was as solid as a rock. Ky turned and smacked Jungkook in the chest with the belt, sending the maknae right back to the ground next to his leader. He clutched his chest and cried louder.

Namjoon was ready to pass out. Each hit that came sent his head spinning and he would see spots. Whether from fear or actual physical pain, he wasn't sure. Everything was a blur until he heard other people start screaming.

"Stop it! Stop it! Ky get the hell away from them!"

Namjoon and Jungkook turned to see the rest of their members, except for Taehyung, come running for them. Hobi had woken up from his nap not long ago. Taehyung was still passed out in bed, he had wanted nothing to do with anyone or anything since his fight with the youngest that morning.

"Leave them alone!" Jimin kept screaming. The members ran up and shoved Ky away from the two huddled on the ground crying.

"What the hell are you doing?!" Jin screamed at Ky. "What the hell are you doing to them?!"

"Teaching them some damn respect, because as I've said before, you've failed to do it!" Ky screamed at Jin.

"By hurting them?! What the hell is wrong with you?!" Jimin screamed.

They all huddled around the two crying and held them in their arms. Jungkook buried his face into Hobi's chest. Namjoon buried his face into Yoongi's.

"Nothing is wrong with me," Ky spat as he stood back.

The members were holding Namjoon and Jungkook tightly as they all cried together. They asked the two if they were alright, what happened, what they could do to help. Jin stood up red in the face and turned to Ky.

"You need to get the hell out of this house, and away from my dongsaengs! You have no right! You hear me?! No right!" Jin screamed through tears.

"I live in this house just like the rest of you," Ky said angrily. "And I am going to teach a damn lesson when it needs to be taught!"

"Why were you hurting them?!" Hobi screamed from his place on the ground.

"Because Namjoon here took it upon himself not to listen to me, and Jungkook couldn't mind his own business!" Ky screamed. Ky was still waving his belt around in the air.

"We-we...didn't want to go hyung..." Jungkook sniffled into Hobi's chest.

"Go where?" Yoongi asked. His voice was low with anger.

"The-the store," Namjoon cried.

The members were confused on why the two were at the store with Ky. They didn't know they had left the house. Jin asked Ky why they were with him, and Ky said he made them come because he needed the help and wanted to make sure they learned obedience while out.

"Which clearly they had failed to do, and this is the consequence." Ky crossed his arms.

"They didn't want to go with you? So, you kidnapped them?" Jimin scoffed.

Ky shrugged. "They got in the car all on their own."

"He-he threatened to hit us if we didn't," Namjoon admitted.

"For Christ's sake, that's it." Yoongi stood up. "You know what? Our manager may not care to get rid of you, but you know who will? The police."

Everyone turned to Yoongi but nobody protested the notion. The rapper pulled his phone out and called 911.

"I didn't do anything," Ky said flatly.

"You kidnapped and then assaulted them!" Jin screamed. "What the hell do you mean you didn't do anything?!"

"They deserved it!" Ky yelled.

"That is not true!" Jimin screamed at Ky. He turned back to Jungkook and Namjoon. "Never think you deserve this. You two would never deserve this." Jimin ran his fingers through both of their hair.

The cops were there within 3 minutes. When they got there Ky protested and claimed that he had done nothing, he told the police that Jungkook and Namjoon had actually beaten each other up.

"You can't be serious," Yoongi scoffed. Thankfully the police didn't buy it and took Ky away even through his arguing.

After they were gone, Jin gestured for everyone to help get Jungkook and Namjoon back into the house. They all went into the bathroom and sat the two down on the bathroom floor while Hobi and Jimin got out bandages and pain creams and anything else they needed.

Jungkook and Namjoon had never been more thankful for their members. Neither of them knew how much worse it would have gotten if they hadn't been saved when they were. The two still couldn't stop crying.

Jungkook turned and hugged Namjoon. "I'm so sorry."

"You didn't do anything wrong," Namjoon whispered back weakly. His body was sore. Most of the hits landed on his back and side. Yoongi lifted Namjoon's shirt off to reveal bruises and cuts. His heart dropped out of his chest and onto the floor. Everyone started crying all over again. Jungkook had to look away. He still felt like this was all his fault. Namjoon only got hurt because he had done something to help him.

"My poor Joonie..." Jimin cried.

"It's...I'm...I'll be alright," Namjoon whispered. At least he hoped he'd be alright. He was still shaking.

"That fuckin bastard!" Jin screamed in frustration. "Who the hell does he think he is?!"

"The boss," Jimin cried. He was helping put icy-hot cream on Namjoon's bruises. Jin was tending to the scrapes on Jungkook's arms. Cleaning off the blood and bandaging him up. Jungkook also needed some of the icy-hot cream for the bruising on his chest that the belt had left. Hobi asked the two to re-explain what exactly happened and they did.

"Neither of you did anything wrong," Jin reminded them. "Please tell me you know that."

Jungkook and Namjoon slowly nodded. They both felt like they'd done wrong, but they didn't want to stress their hyung out even more.

"Do you think he'll be in jail for a long time?" Jimin asked.

"He better be," Yoongi said angrily.

They finished cleaning up and tending to the two's wounds. Once done, Jungkook dove for Namjoon and squeezed him into a tight hug as he buried his face into his leader's neck. "I love you hyung," Jungkook cried.

"I love you too, Kook," Namjoon replied as he rubbed the maknae's back. Hobi also had the two of them take some painkillers with some nice herbal tea that would help them calm down. It had gotten pretty late and Yoongi asked if either of them wanted something to eat, but Namjoon said he was feeling rather exhausted and wanted to go to bed early. Everyone hugged him before he slowly disappeared to his room. He curled up into his bed, buried his face into his pillow, and sobbed.

He couldn't believe this day had actually happened. He hated feeling sorry for himself, but right now he couldn't help it. His body hurt. His head hurt. His heart hurt. This had been too much for him. And seeing Jungkook try so hard to protect him and getting hurt in the process absolutely destroyed him. If there was a single soul on earth that didn't deserve any harm ever, it was his maknae.

He felt like the worst hyung in the world. He'd done what he'd done at the store to take care of Jungkook, and in the end it just got him hurt. He felt like a failure. He couldn't stop thinking about how angry Ky looked while screaming at him to get out of that car. He'd never been more scared in his life. He didn't know it was even possible to be so scared of somebody. He couldn't thank Yoongi enough for calling the police and getting that man the hell out of their house.

Manager Junso hadn't listened to Namjoon when he tried to tell him what was going on, and this was the result of it. He couldn't help but be angry about it. But surely things would be better now.

He slowly drifted off to sleep as the painkillers continued to set in.

Jin turned to Jungkook and asked again if he was hungry but the maknae said no. He too was ready to go pass out in bed.

"Can someone go wake Taehyung up and tell him he needs to come eat something?" Hobi said as he was making some ramen.

"I tried waking him up earlier but he was in a bad mood and said he wanted to be left alone. He just wanted to listen to music and sleep all day. Said he wasn't feeling well," Jimin informed them. The members sighed.

"Alright," Hobi frowned.

Jungkook's heart still hurt over the fight they had gotten into that morning. It still wasn't resolved. The pain killers were getting to him too as he felt his entire body start to feel heavy. "I'm going to bed now too," he informed his hyungs.

Jimin ran over and hugged him tightly. "Okay bunny."

They asked if he needed anything else before he went to bed, he said no.

"You just come get someone if you need anything, alright?" Jin told him. Jungkook nodded and turned around and headed for bed.

The bedroom was dark, and he didn't want to wake Taehyung up, so he quietly made his way across the room without turning the lights on and crawled into bed. He cuddled up under his covers and quietly began to cry into his blanket.

Just like with Namjoon, this day had been way too much for him. His scrapes hurt. His chest hurt, both on the inside and out, everything just hurt. Guilt was eating him alive. It didn't matter how many times he was told none of this was his fault, nothing would change the fact he felt like it was. Sometimes he hated how determined everyone was to take care of him, because look what that had done.

I didn't want hyungie to get hurt. I never wanted to see hyungie get hurt.

While he was crying, his thoughts were broken when he heard Taehyung moving in his bed.

"Will you shut up?" Taehyung suddenly said from across the dark room. Jungkook froze. What the hell?

"Huh?" Jungkook asked, confused.

"I'm trying to sleep," Taehyung scoffed. Taehyung was still mad at Jungkook about this morning and he figured that must be why Jungkook had gone to bed crying, because it was a fight they still hadn't fixed. But Taehyung didn't care. He deserves to be upset after all the shit he said.

"I'm sorry," Jungkook whimpered. His heart was way too broken to deal with this right now.

"Yeah, you should be sorry."

"Okay." Jungkook sniffled and pulled his blanket closer to his face to try and muffle his crying more.

"That's it? Just okay?" Taehyung said angrily.

"Hyungie please...I can't...I can't...I don't want to talk right now," Jungkook pleaded. It's too painful. Everything is too painful. He knew Taehyung had absolutely no idea what events had played out over the day but he was too exhausted to bring it up and explain. He wanted to just peacefully cry himself to sleep.

"Why should I care if you don't want to talk right now?" Taehyung shot back.

"Taehyung please," Jungkook cried. "Please leave me alone. Yell and scream at me all you want tomorrow but please not right now. I can't do it right now."

Taehyung sighed. "You had no problem fighting this morning."

"That was different," Jungkook whispered weakly into his blanket.

"How?"

Jungkook didn't reply. Because that was before I saw my hyung get beaten because of me.

"How was it different?" Taehyung asked again.

Jungkook still didn't answer him. He continued to ignore his hyung and cry harder into his blanket. What he wouldn't give for his hyung to just leave him alone for now but clearly begging wasn't working.

"Ignoring a hyung is rude, Jungkook," Taehyung spat.

"I'm sorry."

"You know what? Forget it," Taehyung sighed. "You started this day acting like a shitty maknae so I'm not surprised you're still being one."

Jungkook's heart broke into pieces hearing those words come out of Taehyung's mouth. His hyung really didn't understand that his outburst this morning stemmed from his worry. He replayed the words over and over in his head. A shitty maknae.

A shitty maknae.

Who hurt Taehyung's feelings this morning.

A shitty maknae.

Who let Namjoon get in trouble and hurt.

A shitty maknae.

Jungkook held his breath for a moment before replying to Taehyung.

"I am a shitty maknae. I'm sorry."