VALIANT | TK ✓

iv. bunny smile

it had been minutes after taehyung had fallen asleep. it wasn't even long after falling into dreamland that he woke up. he tried to go back to sleep and yet, here he was wide awake because of a strange feeling.

a strange feeling that made him feel uneasy. as if something bad had happened to someone, someone close to him.

but who could it be? no one was close to taehyung except his family and his only friend bogum.

and so, to shrug the feeling off, he decided to grab a glass of cold water from the kitchen. taehyung scurried out of bed and lazily walked down the stairs.

when he reached the living room, a shriek of horror left his mouth, as soon as his eyes landed on a passed out jungkook, on the couch, with dark red blood splattered all over his shoulder area.

taehyung just stood frozen in his spot. it was his first time seeing something like this. seeing something so, frightening and shocking.

if you were in his shoes right now, what would you do? what would you do if you saw someone, whom was supposedly your husband with so much blood gushing out of his shoulder?

by a shake of his head, taehyung snapped back to reality when he finally had this sight sink in his innocent, naive brain.

as fast as he could, taehyung dashed towards jungkook to examine him and as he suspected, the said boy was shot on his shoulder.

having no clue of what to do next, taehyung absent-mindedly searched for the first aid kit box in the kitchen. with a lot of struggles, the gray-haired beauty finally managed to reach the first aid kit box which was sitting inside one of the top cupboards.

he mentally cursed, he didn't know what to do with the first aid box.

as taehyung reached the ravennate he gulped and nervously started to apply pressure to the wound. sure he had many lessons where he was informed about first aid but in times like that, all of the knowledge he had seemed to vanish because of panic.

fuck, he should've listened more to those lessons when he was in high school!

he panicked even more when he saw more blood gushing out. he didn't know if what he was doing was wrong, he had no clue. biting his lips, he decided to just fuck it and actually treat jungkook.

taehyung then tightly wrapped the wound with a bandage and hurriedly grabbed his phone to make an emergency call to the nearest hospital.

he chewed on his bottom lip nervously as his foot tapped on the ground. the boy let out a sigh of relief once the call was picked up. and the aforementioned boy praised the genies for being so kind.

the paramedics came and took jungkook to the hospital, taehyung was panicking the entire them. and through the whole ride, he was feeling so unexpectedly nervous. he couldn't help but glace at jungkook every now and then.

upon reaching the hospital, jungkook was taken to a room and taehyung swore to god that he had never been this nervous before. it was like his heart was about to explode.

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soon enough, parents of jungkook were called by the doctor but to a dismay, only the mother of jungkook came.

jungkook's father unfortunately couldn't come due to the company he needed to take care of while their son was gone.

taehyung pondered for bit, wanting to leave since mrs. jeon was already there.

just as taehyung was about to leave, mrs. jeon called out to him and thanked him for being so kind enough to take jungkook to the hospital.

mrs. jeon was saying praises of how a good husband taehyung was, which took the said boy all of his will not to roll his eyes at.

"and again, thank you so much! you really are a good child just like your mother always tells me!", mrs. jeon continued and taehyung just faked a smile and by 'smile' it meant pressing his lips into a thin line.

"no wonder you turned out to be a good husband! and-", but before mrs. jeon could continue her blabbing, the doctor thankfully called to inform her that it was now okay to visit jungkook.

taehyung heaved a sigh of relief as he followed jungkook's happy mother into the room that his husband was currently at.

he couldn't help but stare at mrs. jeon's back, wondering how she acts so childish all the time.

"jungkook, my beloved son! how are you?", mrs. jeon beamed and hugged his son. taehyung trailed behind her with an expression really opposite to what he has earlier.

if taehyung had a nervous and panicked expression on his face earlier. well now, one can't even see any traces of that expression, as his face held a relaxed, his usual expressionless, and cold emotion.

"i'm fine, mom", he heard jungkook whisper, rolling his eyes when his mother hugged him tighter.

"oh right, taehyung is here!", jungkook's childish mother once again chirped cheerfully. she grabbed taehyung's arm and shoved him in front of jungkook. she then left the room with a teasing smile on her face. "chao!", mocked mrs. jeon.

it all happened so fast that taehyung didn't even have a chance to protest and he mentally cursed at that.

"why are you here?", jungkook questioned. but before taehyung could even answer his question he quickly spoke once again. "or rather, why am i here?", he asked once again as he emphasized some words.

"well, first of all, i'm here because i took you here", taehyung answered the first question in his usual cold tone as he slumped on the couch.

"as for your second question, you're here because i took you here, duh", taehyung added with a matter-of-fact tone.

and here we go again, taehyung on his normal state. being bratty, cold and just basically pissed at humanity.

a taehyung within his own cold walls. and the panicking and nervous taehyung was long long forgotten.

"well, thank you", jungkook chimed and grinned ear-to-ear. the moment taehyung saw that grin, that made jungkook look like an innocent bunny, his heart skipped a beat.

but being the egoistic person that he was, taehyung ignored it and rolled his eyes as a reply. damn you, jeon jungkook.

"yeah whatever, you're okay now so i'm leaving", the gray-haired boy stated and walked towards the door without even sparing the ravennate a glance.

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a/n: love you! <3