But I Still Want You | Jikook ✓

Chapter 19: I Missed You

Jimin

I wake up, surprised to still be breathing. Memories of the bomb's impact flash through my mind and my heart pounds. It seemed almost impossible to have escaped the wreckage, so how is it that I'm alive?

Slowly, I turn, nearly jumping back at the scene before me.

Holding up a rafter is a tall being that looks like some sort of birdlike creature, completely adorned in black feathers. The feet have hooked talons and the wings drag on the ground as the being literally shoulders the weight of the rafter.

Dark blood drips from the bowed head of the being and I slowly rise, cupping their face. I push aside some of the long feathers reminiscing hair and audibly gasp when I see a familiar face contrasting starkly against the black feathers.

"J-Jungkook," I whisper, kissing his forehead, "we need to get that rafter off you. You're bleeding."

His brown eyes look broken, clouded with despair. "A-Are you okay?" His voice comes out cracky, reminding me of cracked ceramic.

"We're okay." I start to try and push the rafter off him and with his remaining strength, he shrugs it off.

It hits the floor with a loud bang, the raven falling down shortly after. Panicked, I catch him and lower him to the ground. I hold him close to me. He's unconscious, but he's breathing. That's all that matters.

"J-Jimin, Jungkook and I are—"

The fire is cut off by the sound of a loud locking noise, followed by rumble of what is left of the castle. We start to sway back and forth until one of the two remaining legs buckles and gives out from underneath the moving castle, causing us to lose proper mobility.

We begin to slide, heading straight for a cliff. Calcifer and Jungkook are both too powerless to do anything and I am useless, so I do the only thing I can think of: I hold Jungkook close and prepare to die.

However, we don't die. We actually start to slow down.

My eyes crack open and I see Turniphead's smiling face looking at me as he stands in front of the castle, slowing down our fall.

"Turniphead! You're just a scarecrow! Please don't do this," I beg, tears streaming down my face. Everyone is doing so much while all I'm left to do is cry. I feel like such a waste of space. I just wish I had the power to help.

The scarecrow refuses to back down, the magical being continuing to work as a makeshift break until we come to a complete stop, the stick base of his body snapping and lodging itself underneath the castle.

I stare at him, awestruck. "Turniphead... you're amazing. Thank you so much for your sacrifice. I'll find a way to help you. I promise."

Racking my brain, I look between Jungkook and Calcifer. Both are too weak, but maybe together, they may stand a chance.

Exhaling, I reach out for the barely burning flame and pick it up, surprised by his weight. I narrow my eyes and take notice in the faint outline of a heart.

"Jungkook's heart, I think it's time you part from it, Calcifer," I say gently. "Just trust me. There's nothing left to lose."

I press the flame to Jungkook's chest and push gently, the heart phasing through the raven like my hands did in my vision. Closing my eyes, my hand enters his chest as well and I situate the heart in its rightful place before pulling my hand out, only to have my wrist grabbed.

My eyes shoot open to see familiar doe ones staring back at me, feathers beginning to molt and fall around his frame to once again reveal his natural skin. Jungkook's hair shifts from his long feathers and I feel myself holding my breath at our closeness.

An orange fire blooms from Jungkook's chest and he watches as the shooting star from before makes his way back into the sky.

"Jungkook," I whisper, "I-I thought I killed you."

He tackles me in a hug that I slowly return. "That's impossible, Jimin, since my heart belongs to you."

Author's Note: I hope this chapter was comprehensible.

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Make sure to take care and love yourself as best as you can.

With lots of love,

-BBM