Chapter 15

Butterfly
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Apparently, the next day was a day for electroshock therapy, so only the select few were left out of their cells, much to Chou's disappointment.

To pass the time, she thought about her conversation with her boss. And, after a lot of thinking, she decided he was right.

In her attachment, she was forgetting just what the people in the hospital were. They were murderers, sociopaths, or just plain insane.

A body passed by her cell, and she quickly made up her mind to say something.

"Namjoon!" she called out.

He walked back and calmly looked her in the eye.

"Yes?"

"Why did you kill that man?"

He looked taken aback. "What?"

"The person you killed. Why did you do it?"

He combed his messy white hair with his hands. Chou waited for what felt like hours. "I don't know."

"What do you mean you don't know?" Chou spat. "You just killed someone for no reason is what you're telling me?" She then realized how she sounded and clamped her hand over before stammering out apologies that he wasn't listening to.

He appeared distant and stared blankly at the ground. "I guess I wanted an escape."

Namjoon looked at Chou and smiled weakly. "I felt dead before it happened. I wanted to feel alive. I don't know how or why I killed that man. I just needed to feel my blood moving, I needed to know that I was human..." he started absentmindedly rubbing his arms. "I didn't want to be a monster, I just wanted to be human..." his voice trailed off.

One tear fell from his left eye. He quickly wiped it away.

"When I saw what I had done to him, I threw down that fire extinguisher and panicked. I'm not stupid, I knew what people would see me as. So I did what I could do to try to stop... I lit that match and tried to end myself."

He laughed darkly. "But apparently I was just destined to be looked at as a freak, 'cause look at me now."

"Namjoon..." Chou started to say.

"Is that what you wanted to know?" he asked, looking straight at her. In his eyes, Chou saw some of the madness that he had been locked up for.

She looked down. "For some reason, I trust that everyone here isn't going to hurt me. Why should I?"

Namjoon titled his head slightly, like a curious puppy.

"You trust that no one here is going to hurt you?"

She nodded.

"Maybe you shouldn't."

 

BTS was driving Chou insane. That's all she could think the rest of the day after her disturbing conversation with Namjoon. Her goal had been to inform the outside world of something they couldn't see. Instead, she was letting them get inside her head. She had been too engrossed in their stories and the way they treated her. She kne

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hikari0415
#1
Chapter 21: My third time reading the whole thing again and it still blows me away. Beautiful. ?
halfprince #2
Chapter 21: what a great and beautiful story!!! the plot twist is incredible unexpected! Although it was short but it was very satisfied....^^ thumb up!
marilyn01 #3
Chapter 21: Opened my eyes to something great. Thanks!
restless_maknae
#4
Chapter 21: Oh wow! That was such an impressive story with so many twists! Especially the ending got me like wow because I definitely didn't see that coming. It was the best kind of creepy and all of their crimes and disorders were so well-thought and connected to their MV theories, I really loved that! I read your story in one-sitting because I was just too curious to read until the very end. I totally loved that you used the butterfly symbols in such different ways like on the wall in the institute, when Chou was waking up from her coma and even her name meant butterfly. It was really good.
I would like to thank you for raising awareness for mental illnesses, as one who's struggling with one, I'm always happy when someone doesn't romanticise them. Thank you so much for sharing this story with us! It was an outstanding read. <3
lionroars
#5
Chapter 21: Damnnn, I remember subscribing to this a while ago and i finally found some time to read it all in one go! It's actually really good! At first I was a bit doubtful about how you portrayed some of the mental illnesses, but im glad i stuck through it because this has been one hell of a ride! Btw, As jungkook was recounting of everyone's crimes, i was like 'this sounds familiar' and realised you were inspired by one of their mvs hahaha (as you can see i havent kept up with bts for a while), but anyway, back to the story.
It's really sad how these 'patients' were treated; i loved how every chapter was short but there was a lot of content, which, in my opinion, is so much better than a really long chapter where nothing is happening lol. The story is quite simple, but you've really managed to pull the emotions of your readers in the right places like omg, especially near the end.
One thing i didn't really like, is the alternate ending (it is an alternate ending, right?) because it's basically telling me that everything was just a dream, so it feels like my emotions were toyed with for nothing. Although it was a plot twist, i think im going to pretend that the story ended on its first epilogue; im not by any means the person who loves sad endings, but felt it was the most appropriate compared to the second. BUT, i did appreciate about the awareness for mental illness you were trying to portray; it did hit home a little, but thats another story to tell haha. It's been a while since ive read something angsty so im just a bit of a wreck right now; this angst is too overehelming for me to handle! Haha
ButtercupRainbowdanz #6
Chapter 21: the last part is ing creepy but the whole story is amazing like why. y u do dis.





wondering if you can come up with another sequel XD
Klunicorn-_-
#7
Chapter 21: AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH STOP KILLING ME OVER AND OVER AGAIN
IS IT EVEN POSSIBLE TO KILL SOMEONE THIS MANY TIMES WITH WORDS????????
ahhhhhhhhhh I have no more energy left to do anything

Ok but seriously that was such a plot twist, where did that even come from? I'm trying to think of how you're thinking all this up in that brain of yours but at the same time Chou's brain is doing all that crazy "you won't understand what I truly am now but when you do and I tell you what I am, you'll feel rather stupid because your brain can't do this" thingamajig with the BTS members in her head and then the coma thing and how she was in a car accident which was also linked to Tae's incident AND JUST EVERYTHING IN GENERAL.

SERIOUSLY MIND IS EXPLODING INTO MILLIONS OF TINY USELESS THINGS RIGHT NOW

I am so done with you and your writing and this story and myself but I can't even pull myself away because IT'S TOO DAMN GOOD

I AM BINGING ON ALL YOUR STORIES NOW AND NO ONE WILL STOP ME
romione_han #8
Chapter 21: This stories is too damn Unrealistically BEAUTIFUL! Im a mess. An official mess. Authornim u should take action.
hikari0415
#9
Chapter 21: Damn beautiful. This just staright out penetrated me.