PERIL | kthxbts ; tk ♡

• twenty •

V stared into the blazing fire and his vision and mind started to cloud and he was no longer sitting on the ground with Jimin sleeping beside him, he stood on the bridge with a steep fall and river gurgling.

—"I can't do it!" The fourteen year old pleaded, his eyes covered with tears and body shaking.

"Of course you can" The Marshal said in a cold voice and motioned the boy forward.
"I can't! I'll drown" the brunette sobbed and hugged himself, the cold wind whisked past him and made him shiver.

"Sir please he's just a kid" the brown head just behind the marshal said quitely and looked at V with a pitiful expression.

"Of course he can. He's not a kid. He's a soldier. Jump V" Marshal said and the guy let out a sigh and furrowed his eyebrows together.

V shook his head and then the next thing he knew was water surrounding him and a shook paralyzing his body for a good moment.

The brunette opened his mouth and water rushed in. He started struggling and his ears could make out some voice apart from the sound of the wind.

"Get on the surface V! You won't have someone all the time to pull you up!" The Marshal yelled and V's feet touched the bed of the river and he used it to push himself through the river and broke at the surface while gasping for air. He shook his head to clear his vision and he could make out a faint smile on the face of the Marshal.

V swam to the bank of the river and climbed out of the cold water while coughing out the water. He felt a blanket wrap around him and looked up.

"I'm proud of you" Bogum said and ruffled V's hair and the brunette smiled softly.

"V?" He heard a soft voice a he looked down at Jimin and furrowed his eyebrows.
"Yes?" V asked.
"Why are you crying?" Jimin asked and V realised and looked away and wiped his eyes.
"Everything okay?" Jimin asked and sat up to look straight at the male.
"Yeah I just missed someone" V said and smiled softly.
"Oh..." Jimin said and smiled at the grey head,"Who?"
"Just...someone..." V said and leaned back against the tree and sighed.

"Family?" Jimin asked and it caused V to look at him with wide eyes.
"Why did you ask that?" He asked.
"I mean you are a soldier, so you must see them quite less" Jimin reasoned.

"Oh...ah...yes...I guess?" V said but it came out more like a question and the black head gave him a look.

"Okay then...I'm going with Jk" Jimin and got up and made his way to Jungkook who was sleeping peacefully.

"Family...." V whispered quitely to himself and closed his eyes and his head touched the rough surface of the tree trunk.

It was after a few minutes when V felt a hand slip behind his shoulders and he looked at Namjoon smiling at him kindly.

"You look tired chubs" He said and V let out a soft sound of agreement.
"I am tired Joon" V said and the said male tugged the younger closer to himself.

"You should sleep" Namjoon said and V rested his head against the shoulder of the male and his eyelids began to droop immediately. If he survived V was going for a good and long spa treatment.

"Good night" Namjoon said and V let out a soft him before adding dreamily—
"Good night hyung"

***

Jungkook found V the next morning when was the sun was cracking at the horizon, he sat beside a small pond. The pond had clear water to some extent but not clean enough to drink. The fungi and water plants grew around the edges as the sun rays reflected against the pond's undisturbed surface. A few small fishes dart in and out at a point of time.

V's jacket was discarded down beside him and his sleeves were rolled up. The male dipped his cupped hands in the water, sending soft ripples through the surface before they dissolved into nothingness.

V took out some water and splashed it on his face. Jungkook watched as the older tried to get the dirt off from his hands, mostly the blood of the good dinner last night.

"Take a picture it lasts long" V teased and looked directly at Jungkook who was leaning against the tree with a smirk.

"Why would I if I can have the original thing" Jungkook sneered back and he saw a small blush creep up in the grey head's cheeks.

"Sh-shut up" V stuttered adorably and looked away, the drops of water slide down his face and fell off perfectly; like the melting snow spikes.

Jungkook chuckled and made his way to the older and sat down beside him, knees almost touching.

He watched silently as V tried to get rid of the blood from his hands.
"I have a request V" Jungkook said and the older looked at him and gave a nod.

"Can I see your tattoo?" Jungkook said ; unsure if the older would allow,"I'm just interested"
V looked at him for a few seconds, when the awkward silence passed off and when Jungkook was sure that it was a no then V started to unbutton his top buttons of his shirt and slide off the fabric from his shoulder, revealing the perfect tattoo of a red and black snake.  But when Jungkook leaned closer he realised that it was not just one snake coiled together but rather two different snakes, one red and other black. They both were coiled together to form a S.

"The symbol of Loki.." Jungkook breathed out as he traced his thumb on the red snake.
"Yes" V confirmed the younger and Jungkook admired the work of the tattoo artist.
"Why did you get this? Any significance?" Jungkook asked and V pressed his lips together for a moment, as if he was hesitant and then spoke—
"It's a symbol for change and flexibility, so I decided to get it cause I changed a lot over the years" V said and Jungkook looked at the tattoo while leaning a little closer, his warm breaths brushing against the golden skin of the boy.

"Beautiful" Jungkook said, giving it a last glance and then backing off, V immediately pulled his shirt back in place and buttoned it up. Jungkook pulled his cuffs of the jacket down his palm, making sweater paws and grabbed V's face which still glistened with water.

Jungkook gently wiped off the face of the older and the grey head was taken aback.

"Can I give you one advice?" Jungkook said softly, still wiping the face of the older.
"Yes?" V said.
"If you don't want you real name revealed than you shouldn't be writing it in your tattoo" Jungkook said and V gasped as if he just realized it now.

"You have a nice name, Taehyung"

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Me trying to figure out what's going on in my own book :

And here a demo that how the snakes look like, add the colour on your own