Book 2 : BTS 👀, Skz🥰, Ateez✨

Hybrid 11.5: So be it

I can't see a thing.

I can't see where I am. 

The smell is on the other end very present. 

It smells terrible. 

Like old metal. Another pungent smell reminds me of rivers and... A scent of blood, corpses  ... 

Moreover, there is a silence.

Except me I can't hear anyone. I can hear myself breath. 

I can listen to my panic all on my own. And it's more than nerve-wracking.

I'm scared.

Shitless scared.

As Elina walks out of the room, Jaebum slams his fist on the table frustrated. Very frustrated. He doesn't know how to explain things better to his little sister. If you are born partially in the dark, then it is very hard, closely impossible, to get out of it. Elina wasn't cherished her whole life. 

When they were younger, Jinyoung and he were too busy making a living to take care about her. In that moment, Jaebum regrets that he didn't listen more. That he didn't see the signs earlier. He let Jinyoung handle her safety. He let her get back to normal. 

"She doesn't mean it." Jackson says

Jaebum looks at his brother and then at the snow panther who shifted back to his human form. His eyes focused on the door. Like Elina was going to come back just like that. She needed time to accept the truth. Jackson didn't look worried about it. However, Jaebum knew the hybrids weren't the same.

They were used to be abandoned.

"We won't let her go though." Jimin said simply

Correction. 

They don't let themselves be abandoned

"Elina is scared for you." Jackson sighs "She's a kid in that way. She must accept that everyone has his own darkness." He adds

Jimin hums, but his eyes don't leave the door. The fact that it slams open a second later with the director, having by the time, pissed himself, makes the two human flinch slightly. They earn a snicker from Yoongi. Jaebum clears his throat as the director is whining and whimpering on the floor in a fetal position.

He doesn't look hurt. 

Just slightly scared. 

Slightly. 

"What did you learn?" Jackson asks 

"It is only a drug business: weed, cocaine, ecstasy, champs... you name it. The hybrids are employed there and if they prepare enough merchandise they are the one put forward for adoption. Clearly there are also experiments being made on them. The elevator password is 3044. Number of hybrid that died in the last five years here." Jin explains calmly

"The link with the pervert?" Jaebum questions as he holds the bridge of his nose

"None. He was paid and had free entries to a brothel. Must I add that this piece of trash is also married and has kids." the revelation makes the man cry even louder

"God shut the hell up." Jaebum slams his feet in the stomach "Being a cheater, relooking my little sister and now experimenting drugs on hybrids. You just keep getting better don't you?" 

While Jackson calls his peers, Jimin shortly explains what went on earlier and the expression of the hybrids all soften. Jaebum smiles. The hybrids really care for his little sister. 

"We will have to move the hybrids to another center and make sure to have the other be clean of drugs." Jackson hungs up on the phone 

Jaebum nods. The hybrids are still listening to Jimin and few minutes pass by. Elina isn't back yet, but that doesn't worry Jaebum. He knows that his little sister needs time. He begins talking with Namjoon and Jungkook about the possibility of passing the danger test through the first hand impressions they made on the staff as weaklings.