Chapter 2: The Mirror in My Veins
"Memories don’t disappear. They echo across time, waiting to be remembered."
Kim Taehyung (MC1)
[Taehyung]: voice note sent at 2:12 AM
"I can't sleep. Every time I close my eyes, I see... V. He touches the glass and it ripples. Like he's inside me. Or trying to be."
Jeon Jungguk
Jungguk: //Their timelines are crossing. But why does V look like us all? Why does he feel like... home?//
Jeon Jungguk
Jungguk: "Let’s meet in person. All of us."
Kim Taehyung (MC1)
[Taehyung]: "You think we’re ready?"
Kim V
[V]: //They’re waking up. Perfect.//
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[Location: A rooftop cafe in Itaewon — 3:11 AM. Rain falls in sheets, washing the neon down the windows.]
Jeon Jungguk
Jungguk: already seated, wearing a black turtleneck
"I ordered chamomile tea for you, Taehyung. You always drink it when you're anxious."
Kim Taehyung (MC1)
[Taehyung]: arriving in soaked hoodie
"How’d you know I’d come?"
Jeon Jungguk
Jungguk:"Because we’re fragments, remember? Broken pieces of something whole."
Jeon Jungkook
Sliding in beside them, rain clinging to his lashes
"Three of us. One missing."
Kim Taehyung (MC1)
[Taehyung]: //Then who are we? Copies? Experiments?//
Jeon Jungkook
Jungkook: "No. We bleed. We cry. We love. We’re real."
author
[Suddenly, the candle on the table flickers—no wind.]
Kim V
[V]: voice echoing through their heads
"Sweet, isn’t it? When your hearts beat together like one body. Like one soul split four ways."
Kim Taehyung (MC1)
[Taehyung]: gripping Jungkook’s wrist
"Do you hear that?"
Jeon Jungguk
Jungguk: eyes glowing faintly
"It’s not hearing. It’s remembering."
Jeon Jungkook
Jungkook: //The sound of glass cracking. That wasn’t thunder.//
Kim V
[V]: "You were never meant to be apart. And yet, here you are. Pretending to live human lives. Doctors. Dancers. Artists. Scientists. But you’re mine. All of you."
author
[Location: Memory flash — inside a white lab drenched in red light.]
Four tanks. Four boys floating. Connected by wires. A scientist screaming: “They’ll never be stable! They’ll love each other too much!”
Kim Taehyung (MC1)
[Taehyung]: "What if he’s not trying to destroy us? What if he just wants to return?"
Jeon Jungkook
Jungkook: "Return... to what?"
Kim V
[V]: //I just want to be whole. But I need them to love me first.//
[They each receive a text from an unknown number]
Kim V
V: If you want answers, come to Mirror Hall. Midnight. Bring your broken hearts
Kim Taehyung (MC1)
[Taehyung]: reading the message aloud
"Do we go?"
Jeon Jungkook
Jungkook: without hesitation
"Yes."
Jeon Jungguk
Jungguk: //Even if it kills me, I need to know who I am when I’m with them.//
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[Somewhere far, someone watches on a security feed. A whisper.]
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