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somewhere after the start and before the end. . .
"you're incredibly stupid, do you even think? look at you jeon, seriously, you're so infuriating, and immature and—" jeongguk cuts taehyung off with a loud hiss, flinching at the sudden contact of an alcohol soaked cotton ball and his freshly opened wound.
"jesus kim, this shit hurts," jeongguk glares at the brown haired boy, who frowns as he begins sweating at the sight of jeongguk's gash that's still bleeding.
"yeah? well it wouldn't of even been here if you had simply listened and stayed back. but no, you wanted to play hero and look what that got you. almost bitten and with a cut," taehyung snaps back, throwing away the bloodied towel.
jeongguk rolls his eyes, knowing damn well he had no winning ground. "ok, bite down on this, im gonna start stitching it," taehyung, with shaky hands, grabs the needle and thread and looks at jeongguk with nervous eyes.
"you got it kim, don't fuck up," jeongguk let's out a breath as he prepares to be stitched up without medication.
taehyung curses under his breath and brings the needle towards jeongguk's shoulder, brutally inserting the needle and beginning to loop around the skin. it takes everything in jeongguk's power to not pass out from the pain, but he bites down extremely hard on the piece of cloth and grunts every time he feels the thread move into his flesh.
"almost done," taehyung says, pulling out the needle and beginning to tie a knot.
without warning, he sprays more alcohol on the wound. "ok! it's done! it wasn't so bad huh," he nervously laughs, wiping at his forehead.
jeongguk falls back onto the bed and tries to ignore the painful throb in his shoulder. "good job kim, you're now a nurse."
he expects a joke back, or even an insult. but he doesn't expect to hear a soft sniffle. jeongguk sits back up, ignoring his shoulder as he looks at taehyung release a few tears from his eyes before the older is covering his face with his hands and starts to loudly cry.
"kim? what are you crying about? it's me who's in pain, c'mon now," jeongguk reaches out to touch taehyung, but the brunette swats his hand away.
he sniffles, "how can you be so careless? you could've died jeongguk. and then you would've turned, and chased me around to eat me too, and i wouldn't have the balls to kill you so i'd probably let you."
jeongguk looks at taehyung, who's nose has turned red and eyes shiny with tears. "kim, i— nothing happened, im still alive," he tries to console him, not really knowing why he was even bothering.
"nothing happened?! i just stitched your shoulder!" taehyung raises his voice, forgetting there's other people in the other rooms, "i know you don't like me and that i'm just dead weight on you, but leaving me alone out here—"
jeongguk grabs taehyung and brings him to his chest, using his good arm to wrap it around him, rubbing his back gently as taehyung lets out another sob. jeongguk let's taehyung cry on his chest, letting the other release all his stress. taehyung was right, jeongguk hadn't thought about the consequences of going out into the infested areas would be. and although he wasn't trying to play the hero, he did want to show taehyung that he was capable of taking care of them.
"we're ok tae."
authors note HI MERRY XMAS !! i thought i'd share this deleted chapter as a present to my readers! i have a few more of these deleted chapters, would you be interested in reading them?? hope you all enjoy! ❤️💚❤️💚🎄
