"P-peaches! P-peaches!! Let me go!! LET ME GO!!!."

Jungkook was frozen for few seconds before coming to his senses.

"Tae what happened? what's wrong?"

Jungkook tried to touch Taehyung but the elder quickly cringed back. Jungkook immediately got up from the bed and took few steps back. He wasn't sure what went wrong but the best thing to do seems like giving Taehyung some space.

"Baby?" Jungkook asked again gently, with his hands slightly raised.

Taehyung was having trouble breathing and was shaking and gripping the bedsheets so tight that his knuckles were turning white. But Jungkook didn't dare go near him as he didn't know what caused Taehyung to panic and he was afraid to make it worse.

He then noticed the terrified look Taehyung was giving towards his hand, in which he was holding the handcuffs. He looked at it confusingly and something clicked in his mind and he threw away the handcuffs across the room.

Still in his panicked state, Taehyung raised a shaking hand towards Jungkook and the younger slowly walked to hold it. Once Jungkook had closed on Taehyung's hand and Taehyung grabbed it like his life depend on it, he realised that whatever the issue was, it was not because of him and quickly pulled the elder on to his lap and wrapped his arms around him protectively.

Taehyung's breath came out in small gasps and it quickly turned to sobs.

"Shhh.... baby, relax. Everything is ok. I'm here. I'm here." Jungkook whispered as he gently ran a hand over Taehyung's back in an attempt to calm him. The elder has folded himself in to a small ball and Jungkook hugged him tightly against his chest.

"Don't think about anything ok. Just relax. You are in my arms. I won't let anything happen to you. I promise baby. You are safe with me."

Jungkook kept on reassuring Taehyung till the elder stopped the crying and his breathing and heartbeat returned to normal.

Jungkook waited till Taehyung is ready to talk to him.

"Kookie." Taehyung's voice came out in a whisper.

"Hey baby, are you ok now?"

"Yeah."

"What happened?"

"Kookie I want Jin hyung."

"Jin hyung?"

"Please call him. I want to see my brother right now."

Jungkook grabbed his phone and dialled Jin's number while not releasing Taehyung from his hold. Jin answered after few rings.

"Hey Kookie, what's up?"

"Jin hyung, uhh.. where are you?"

"I'm at a restaurant with Joonie. Is everything ok?"

"Actually no. I'm sorry but can you please come home, like right now? Tae is.. uhh... h-he's asking for you."

"Joonie get up, we have to go home. We are on our way Kookie. What's wrong? Let me talk to him"

Jungkook tried to give the phone to Taehyung but the elder refused to take it and hid himself further in to Jungkook's embrace.

"I-i don't know what happened. He's not hurt, physically atleast. Just please hurry hyung."

"Ok. Be there in 20."

Jungkook disconnected the call and put the phone down. He put the tshirt back on Taehyung and fixed his pant properly before buttoning up his own shirt. Jungkook then gently laid Taehyung on the bed in a comfortable position and layed next to him and wrapped his arms around the elder.

He felt Taehyung nuzzling in to his chest even more and softly caressed his hair with occasionally giving light pecks on his forehead.

Both of them waited in silence for the next 20 minutes and that was the position they were in when Jin barged in to the room.

"Tae.." Jin ran to the bed with Namjoon closely following and sat on the bed near his brother.

Taehyung slowly removed himself from Jungkook and hugged Jin tightly. Jin looked at Jungkook in question but the younger just shrugged his shoulders. He didn't know what was happening too.

"Tae bear, what's wrong baby?" Jin asked gently.

Taehyung didn't answer but shock his head.

"You have to tell us." Jin pressed again but Taehyung still didn't say anything.

Namjoon sighed loudly and kneeled in front of Taehyung.

"Tae, look at me please."

Taehyung raised his head slightly to look and Namjoon gently pulled him away from his brother's embrace. Namjoon holds him from his arms and looked directly in to his eyes.

"He's here. He's ok. Nothing will hurt him again." Namjoon said gently and Taehyung vigorously nodded his head.

"We will not let that happen again, right Tae? We will not have to go through that ever again. Do you understand?" Namjoon's voice was barely a whisper.

"Yes." Taehyung finally replied and Namjoon lets him go back to Jin's arms.

"What's happening Joonie hyung?" Jungkook asked as he silently watched all this.

Namjoon sighed again before speaking.

"Uhh... ever since Jin's incident with Rose, I've been having sort of this slight panic attacks. Sometimes I get this sudden need to see him o-or touch him, you know, just to make sure he's safe. I guess I was more scared than I thought and this is a reaction to that. I didn't know Tae was having them too." Namjoon said with a pained smile.

"First time." Taehyung whispered from Jin's hold but only Jin heard it.

"Tae says this is the first time." Jin relays it to the other two.

"Well something must have triggered it." Namjoon said after thinking for few seconds.

"I know what did. Don't worry, it won't happen again hyung. Oh Tae, I'm so sorry-" Jungkook starts in a defeated tone but Taehyung quickly gets up from the bed and stops him.

"Don't you dare. Don't you dare apologise for sometime I made you do. Something I forced you to do. It's my fault. It's my fault for making you do this from the beginning." Taehyung said emotionally.

"But I should have asked before.. I'm sorr-"

"Jungkook I swear to God, if you apologised to me one more time..."

Taehyung exploded and looked so angry that Jungkook was taken aback momentarily.

"Ok!! Geez.. I didn't know you get angry like this." Jungkook said as he raised his hands in surrender.

Taehyung looked ashamed of himself for lashing out and hanged his head down.

"I-I d-didn't mean to y-yell like that Kookie. I'm sorr-"

"Stop. If I'm not allowed to apologise then you are not allowed to apologise either." Jungkook said as he pulled Taehyung in to a hug. "Let's not apologise to each other at all. Ever. Ok baby?"

"Ok." Taehyung replied with a smile.

Jin and Namjoon was cooing at this scene.

"I didn't know it affected you two like this. To be honest, I'm surprised that I'm not that affected also." Jin said finally.

"You are not?" Namjoon asked curiously.

"Yeah. I think I'm focused more about the fact that I was saved. I mean I clearly remember how Kookie pulled me out from their clutches and protected me from those bas***** but everything else is sort of blurred." Jin said with a shrug.

"Well it's very vivid in my memory." Taehyung retorted while Namjoon gave a knowing laugh.

Jin and Namjoon went to their room after a while and Jungkook had a wash and changed in to comfortable clothes. He climbed on to the bed with Taehyung and cuddled with him.

"Baby?"

"Kookie?"

"Am I to understand that we are... uhh... not using that stuff anymore?"

"Yes. I don't think I'll be able to."

"Oh... ok."

"Oh please... No need to pretend to be disappointed Kookie. I know it's not your preference."

"Well... can't say I'm not relieved. It's difficult for me to see you in pain. In whatever form or way."

"I won't say sorry because we agreed not to apologise to each other. But I promise you Kookie, I'll never make you feel like that again. I'll not put you through something like that."

"Ok. And please don't get angry either. You are damn scary when you get angry."

"Alright. I won't. Although I think that might be a good memory for future reference."

"Oh.. is my little kitten turning in to a tiger now?"

"Daddy I was always a tiger. It's only for you that I'm purring like a kitten."