Jungkook

Jin left with Ma-ri leaving me and everyone else left at the table crying in silence, stunned by Mi-kyung's revelations. I wanted to run to my girlfriend, but I couldn't move, everyone was so still that if I moved, I felt like everything around us might shatter. The loud sobbing of the devastated mother and last third of her soulmate group brought me out of my trance- she was completely distraught.

"I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry" she chanted through her tears, and I couldn't help dropping some of my tears for her.

Taehyung pulled the woman into him, rubbing her hair, our eyes met, and I saw mixed emotions swirling within his deep chocolate pupils. I understood, Ma-ri was our soulmate but how could we not feel sorry for the woman baring her soul in front of us?

"I-" Namjoon started; his voice cracked. He licked his lips and looked around the table "Excuse me" he rose from his seat and went in the direction of Seokjin and Ma-ri

"I'm going to check on Minji-noona and Minsu-hyung," Jimin said quietly before making his exit.

"I'll go with you" Yoongi mumbled and left with the younger of them.

I felt like I needed to say something, do something but I didn't know what. We were all in an emotionally charged state and it was pretty awkward being left alone with the woman who single-handedly ruined our love's life on a massive scale. Me, Taehyung and Hoseok looked at each other with slight shrugs, Tae was still holding onto Mi-kyung, muffling her crying. Hoseok took a deep breath then rubbed his face with both hands and I moved over to be closer to him, wrapping my arm around his shoulder.

"I don't know if I have the right to say this but I will anyway" Hobi started, making her pull away from Taehyung and look at him. His face was hard and his eyes were dark, a rare look on him "You are so wrong for what you've done, I know you understand the severity of the consequences of your action, but you really fucked up, like majorly fucked up. Not only did you rob Ma-ri but you also robbed yourself, you took away your own happiness. She was eleven years old when her world staring falling apart and only fourteen when it crumbled all because you couldn't get your shit together enough to work out your personal issues with the help and support of the two people specifically created for you, the two people put on this earth to love and cherish you with every fiber of their being until life leaves them" He scoffed, poking his cheek with his tongue "Ma-ri is better than me because if I was in her shoes I can't say that I wouldn't have acted on the rage and punched you square in the fucking face"

"Hoseok!" Taehyung chided

"No, he-he's right. I missed out on having my wife and daughter with me" she replied, dragging her fingers through her tangled hair

"Why didn't you try to find her sooner? Even after her mother's death" I asked, I still had a lot of questions

"I was scared of this exact moment. I wanted to call her so many times over the years, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. I was terrified of suffering the consequences but when I saw her soulmate marks, I knew I had to tell her because I didn't want her to miss out on you all, she deserved some kind of happiness in her life" Mi-kyung explained, tears still raced down her cheek from her puffy eyes

Minsu came from the back of the house with a wet towel and sat next to his mom again, grabbing her face so he could clean it. She gave him a weak smile and turned her whole body towards him, the extremely sad man kissed her forehead and patted the warm cloth under her eyes.

"I know you all might be angry at my mom, I'm very disappointed in her myself but can you try to understand that when she did these awful things she was acting from a broken state of mind. She experienced trauma of her own..." He said while never taking his eyes off of her "and it left her with a toxic way of thinking and handling her problems"

"We do understand that hyung, truly we do, but shouldn't that have been the motive to not make another person's life miserable? Because she knew the damaging effect it had on her?" Taehyung questioned, wiping away freshly fallen tears

"Hurt people, hurt people" Minsu answered "I'm not saying it's okay or trying to justify anything she's done, I am saying it wasn't out out of spite or hate that she rejected Carla and Ma-ri"

Jimin, Yoongi and Minji came back as well. Noona sat next to her mother and hugged her from behind. She wasn't actively crying but her eyes were wet, red, and puffy, she squeezed her unwilling to let go unless she had to. Jimin went to Taehyung, placing a soft kiss on his temple and rubbing his shoulder to comfort him. Yoongi came next to me, I looked down seeing the envelope laying there piquing my curiosity. I wondered what its contents were.

"So, what happens now? I'm sure you've got more to say and what's with the envelope?" Hoseok asked the question burning inside us all

Mikyung sighed, "what happens next is up to Ma-ri"

"What do you mean? What's up to her?" Jimin's voice came out softly, it was barely audible

"What does th-" Yoongi was cut off but Namjoon rushing into the room in a panicked state

"She-she p-passed out! Help!" he rambled

"I have smelling salts in my medical kit, take mom" Minsu-hyung spoke up and gently passed his mother to his sister. He was gone for only two minutes "Come on"

He and Namjoon went to wake Ma-ri. With the door open we all heard her come to with a loud gasp then screech. Jin and Namjoon's voices overlapped with comforting words, muffled by what I assumed was them hugging her body, which I could feel shaking.

"What happened?" she sounded frantic

"You passed out from crying; you are emotionally exhausted baby" Jin was the one to answer

"My head hurts" she whimpered ""

"We can go home. I'll run you a bath and wash your hair and we'll make you some tea so you can sleep" Namjoon offered but I had a feeling sleep would be the last thing she would be able to do

"Okay" The four of them came back into the main room, Ma-ri was curled around Seokjin, walking slowly. Her eyes were swollen, and she looked pale, my poor princess.

We all stood up to leave, I took the steps needed to reach Ma-ri and picked her up, holding her as close to my body as space would allow. Her limbs were tightly wound around me and her sorrow filled face buried in the crook of my neck.

"I'm sorry baby, I'm so sorry" I whispered. The back of my shirt bunched into her fist as sniffed

"Thank you Jungkook" her voice was strangled and coarse

"Shhh, don't talk, just rest" she exhaled, and it warmed the right side of my neck

"Before you go, open the envelope" Mi-kyung's voice was nearly gone "Please"

Ma-ri shook her head and squeezed around me tighter "Hyung grab it" I nod towards the mystery package and Yoongi snatched it off the table

"He can open it" she managed to say so he did. His eyes roamed the words, at first he gave off no emotions but the further down he read the more bunched his eyebrows became, like a well-manicured caterpillar.

"What the hell..." He looked up at the mother in disbelief

"What does it say?" Hoseok asked, taking the letter from Yoongi's hands before getting his answer. He also read the contents with a twisted face, now my curiosity was getting the best of me.

"Jin, look" Hobi then passed it to the eldest of our group. We all watched his face turn red in anger

"Sebastian Moon? You know Dr. Moon?" Seokjin's tone was demanding. I didn't know Dr. Moon personally, but I knew he and Jin were pretty close ever since he found out he was a soulmate.

"Yes, he is my primary doctor, he was also Won-Jae's doctor" she answered, obviously not knowing the two men knew each other

"That fucker!" he screamed, crumpling the paper in his hold "

"Jin-hyung, what's wrong?" Taehyung inquired, looking between us for an answer

"How do you know Dr. Moon?" Minji-noona asked. She licked her dried lips and raked her fingers through her long, dark hair.

"He's a friend" he replied through clenched teeth

"I don't understand, does he know who Ma-ri is?" Minsu chimed in next "If he knows our parents and Seokjin then he must know the rest of you and who you are to each other, right?"

"What exactly is he offering you?" Namjoon's deep voice vibrated as he was now reading the paper

"To reunite me with Won-Jae and Carla"

"But they're both dead," Jimin said, "How-how can he do that?"

"Put me down" Ma-ri wiggled until I made her feet touch solid ground. She took a deep breath and inhaled, she turned to her back to me to face Mi-kyung

"There is a clinic in Switzerland that umm...that allows euthanasia to foreigners. If you sign that paper, I'll be a candidate for physician-assisted suicide" she explained leaving all of us in a shocked state.

"Wh-what?"

"A life for a life, and mine is in your hands now. I don't know how else to atone for all the pain and suffering I have caused you over the last almost 15 years, but this is me trying to give you some kind of closure. You won't believe me, but I did care for your mother Ma-ri, I didn't show it but deep down I wanted to be close to her; I wanted to feel her love that way I felt Won-Jae's. You are my daughter too, but I failed you"

Ma-ri's eyes were running over with tears again, I could feel the twitch in her hand but before me, Namjoon, Taehyung, or Jin could catch it, her hand connected with Mi-kyung cheek. She slapped her so hard it rang in my ears, the older woman stumbled making her oldest child catch her to stabilize her. Ma-ri dropped to her knees, snatched an ink pen from the table and scribbled her signature on the line, she threw down the pen and tossed the paper aside before standing up again.

"I hope you burn in hell" she stormed out leaving us behind. Without a second thought all seven of us were right behind the furious woman hopping into our cars to go home. Although I wasn't in the same car as Ma-ri and I don't share an emotional connection with her, I could still somehow feel how confused and mad she was.

"What the actual fuck just happaned?" Yoongi's question bounced off the car window, he traded cars with Jin, as he stared outside

"I don't even know," Taehyung answered from behind the steering wheel. The four of us were contemplating the events of the night.

"Do you think she'll really let Mi-kyung do it, kill herself?" I posed the question that was teetering within my thoughts

"With all the emotions she's feeling right now, yes" Jimin replied slinking down in his seat "But isn't thinking rationally, we'll have to see when she calms down"

"I don't think she's going to change her mind" Yoongi turned around to make eye contact with the soft, yet worried face of Jimin "And I don't disagree"

"Hyung" we all scolded him

"How can you say that? I know she fucked up but letting her kill herself is too far, isnt it?" My voice was desperate, were those his true feelings?

"Jungkook, you don't have to agree but Carla died because Mi-kyung was selfish and if she has made peace with the possibility of her fate and gave Ma-ri the choice then it doesn't really matter if we think it's right or wrong, we just need to support our girlfriend-even if we disagree with her decision"

"I think about I agree with Yoongi- hyung" Tae glanced at Jimin and I in the backseat from the rearview mirror

"Wow" was all Jimin could muster. The rest of the ride was silent, each of us lost in our thoughts, wondering what was going to happen next.

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My goodness!

Was anyone expecting that? Any predictions for what's going to happen next or later in the story?