Baby (Jjk°Kth)

Chapter 37

"Bub I'll be back before you wake up I promise." Jungkook whispered in the ears of the clingy boy who had his face buried in his chest while his hands lay lazily in his lap.

"Taetae sick." Taehyung reasoned as he lifted his hands to loosely fist the latter's shirt.

"I know baby, but Jimin Hyung is here to take care of you isn't he? Just go to sleep and I'll be back before you wake up, so you wouldn't even know I was gone." The blonde beauty just shook his head, as his lips started to wobble, a threat that he'll cry if he didn't get his way.

"I swear you'll make me loose my job, that is, if I'll be left with one tomorrow." Jungkook muttered under his breath as he gently rubbed Taehyung's back. The boy had fallen sick, by some reason unknown, although Jungkook assumes it's just some flue, and now he won't leave him even for a second. Even bathroom breaks are spent with Taehyung waiting by the door, wanting to be picked up as soon as he's out. Jungkook is pretty sure that he'll fall sick at this rate too, but then he has placed his trust on his Alpha blood and prays that he won't be on bed tomorrow because he doesn't want to miss his work again.

"Taetae sick." Jimin had told the boy that he was sick today and ever since then he's been repeating the same thing. Jungkook is positive that he's only using this opportunity to cling to him, but when he feels the way the latter's body is burning up, he starts to have second thoughts. The only reason why he hasn't separated his body forcefully is because it's Taehyung who's attached to the hip to him. Ever since the boy woke up with a burning body he hasn't given control to any of his alters, even once. And Jungkook frankly wants to savour this moment as much as he can.

"Jungkook I brought cloth and water. Lay him down please." Jimin declared, coming in with a cotton cloth in his hand and a bowl of moderately cold water.

"Yeah, sure. Baby please lay down." Jungkook softly whispers as he tries to detach the clingy boy from his lap and gets successful in doing so after many tries.

The wet cloth is soon placed on his forehead and the way the younger holds onto his pointer finger, breaks his heart with gnawing concern. His mate was suffering and he didn't want that. It wasn't a common affair for werewolves to fall sick, since their wolves always provided them with much stronger immunity than any average human being. Of course things were never the same when it came to Taehyung. It took his body two whole weeks alone to accept any food other than porridge or any kind of soup. Taehyung was still weak. Exceedingly so. And it already eats his inside that his wolf has never felt the presence of Taehyung's wolf. His mate was damaged and they still haven't completely explored the extents of it.

"How much is it?" Jungkook asked as soon as the thermometer was pulled out of Taehyung's mouth.

"104.2" Jimin answered in an almost inaudible voice, but even the feeble answer was enough to spring him to his feet as his face morphed into a look of shock and corner.

"104?! I'm taking him to a hospital. I don't care if it's just a flu, I can't just let him burn all day." In a panic stricken state, he strode towards his closet taking out any outfit he could get his hands on and rushed inside his bathroom to change into them, leaving behind a whimpering Taehyung who wound his arms around Jimin's hand, since his mate had very much abandoned him despite all his pleas.

"Jungkook don't you remember that they were parading the hospitals a few days ago? It's not safe for him to go out yet. It's just a fever anyway. Nothing else. It'll go down with a paracetamol." Jimin counseled with equal dread eating at his insides.

"Jimin, Taehyung has already spent 18 years of his life in a cage, and the same is happening now. Months of him being here and only time he goes out is on his visit to a psychologist. He was caged then, he is caged now, ours just so happens to be more fancy and convenient." Having the last word Jungkook picked up Taehyung from the bed and in his embrace, before making his way to the garage. Yoongi had already taken his car to his office, so he decided to take Namjoon's before sending him a quick text. The response was also an immediate 'yes'. They kept all the keys in the garage itself and not in the house, so that anyone could take a car without having to worry about keeping it elsewhere or in someone's possession. Living in a pack had some of its perks.