HERMAPHRODITE

▪️▪️▪️CH. 23▪️▪️▪️

Taehyung was startled awake, "Jungkook! Are you okay? What's wrong?"

Jungkook felt Tae's arms around him and instinctively burrowed into the safety of his lover's embrace. Taehyung's words managed to find their way into his panicked mind and he opened his mouth, the words coming out in shaking sobs.

"Blood, I think," he gasped and nodded to the bed sheets.

Taehyung's eyes turned immediately towards the sheets where the dark red, congealing mess lay in stark contrast to the white linen. He quickly tried to gather his wits about him.

He needed to check on his lover. "I need you to lie back and let me check you, Kookie."

"Hurts, hyung," Jungkook moaned and clung tighter to Taehyung as another dull pain arched through his abdomen.

"Where does it hurt?" Taehyung was almost panicking himself but somehow managed to shove it back down and keep his mind relatively clear and focused.

"Belly," moaned Kook. "The baby, Bear. Something's wrong with the baby."

Jungkook's voice was beginning to border on the hysterical.

"Hold on, Kookie. I'm going to call Jimin." Taehyung tried to lay his partner completely on the bed but Kook's grip only tightened.

"No, I need you here. Don't leave me," he cried softly.

"Hush, Bunny," Tae crooned as he stroked Kookie's hair, sensing his partner was in desperate need of reassurance. "I need to call Jimin. You need medical assistance that I can't provide. I don't know what's wrong but we need to get you taken care of and Jiminie's the only one that can do that. I'm only going across the room to get my phone from the dresser, I won't be gone for more than a second or two, okay?"

Reluctantly, Kookie released his death grip and allowed Taehyung to lay him back down. Clutching at his belly he curled up a little, trying to ease some of the pain that was passing through his gut. Taehyung moved fast off the bed and, grabbing the phone, he was punching in Jimin's cell number and back on the bed before Jungkook was even aware his lover had moved.

Rubbing Kook's arm and shoulders, Taehyung waited impatiently for the call to connect. His fear was still held in check for the moment, the need to get help for his hurt lover taking precedence over everything else. After six rings the phone was answered.

"Park Jimin here."

"Jimin, it's Taehyung. We have an emergency."

"Taehyung? What is it?"

"Jungkook is bleeding, how bad I cannot tell. Pain to the belly region as well."

"How much blood loss; how long and where in the belly is the pain?"

Even as Jimin spoke he was summoning Hoseok through his pager.

"Unsure as to the amount. Loss only detected a few minutes ago and pain is in the lower abdomen to groin area."

"Tae I need to get him here to the hospital as soon as possible and find out what is wrong. Hold on a sec..." Jimin lowered the cell to speak with Hoseok who had answered the page and now stood in the doorway of Jimin's office. "Major problem, Jungkook is bleeding rectally."

Hoseok paled a little but then nodded, his mouth forming a thin line, brows knitting together as he accepted the situation.

"Call for the ambulance and tell them to pick me up from out front of the main doors. While I'm gone, prep treatment room one. You know what equipment we will need, have it all there. I'll contact you and update once I have some idea of what is going on."