Always By Your Side | TAEJINKOOK ✔

THIRTY FIVE

Third Person POV:

Seok Jin saw a bright light, he saw Jung Kook walking towards him… God knows how he wanted to offer his hands to Jung Kook’s inviting smile.

Slowly, Taehyung’s voiced echoed around the place that was familiar to him, but place is somehow, different. Its way more peaceful and was bright, but dead silent. Seok Jin then questioned where he was. Am I dead?

That might be better. Seok Jin heard voices coming from his own mind. “Please live a happy life.”

“Live a happy life.” Jung Kook’s honey voice echoed around his ears as Seok Jin starts running, he wanted to catch a sight of Jung Kook.

He wanted to be happy with Jung Kook. He wanted to touch Jung Kook…

But he stopped, he stopped running and lost steps tripping at the edge of the place he thought they found peace.

Someone caught his hands. “Taehyung-ah.”

As Seok Jin clutched onto Taehyung’s grip, his eyes welled up as Jung Kook’s voice disappeared, the silence was too familiar with the days he had spent alone.

“W-Where are we? Why am I here? Why–“

Taehyung wiped Seok Jin’s tears as he glanced up at Jung Kook. “D-Does it mean we are dead?” Seok Jin asks, bewildered. It came out without having so much thought.

After pulling himself together, Seok Jin starts walking away from the both of them, he can still hear Jung Kook and Taehyung calling his name, asking for him to go back but he didn’t listen and stepped on the leaves of ground hole.

“Hyung!” A rectangular thing illuminates as he blinked his eyes, he saw Yoongi and Nam Joon beside him.

Mr. and Mrs. Jeon worriedly accommodate the nurses running inside the room as they start monitoring machines, Seok Jin felt someone touched him… He didn’t pay attention as he glued his eyes at the ceiling.

Seok Jin couldn’t believe he’s still alive. He was stunned, his eyes stinks. He decided to close it again, he wanted to give up. There’s no reason to fight for him to live.

Its Nam Joon who called Yoongi before Seok Jin passed out. To announce a good news. Yoongi went to Taehyung’s room for a visit as Seok Jin falls asleep again after being checked. “So you mean Taehyung was perilous, but then after a minute he woke up and was normal? All of his vitals? How about his wound shot?–“

“Its getting better, he’s getting better. So please do pass the good news to Seok Jin. I don’t want him to keep pressing that it was his fault.” Yoongi saw Taehyung averted his gaze at the opposite side avoiding Yoongi.

Taehyung woke up, for all that had happened in his horrible dreams, he wanted to let Seok Jin gave himself some space away from him, but he is afraid that due to so much running… Seok Jin became lost and arrived at the edge of risks.

Taehyung didn’t want that to happen, but he don’t want to kept on chasing a broken soul. “He’s okay right?” Taehyung finally asks without moving on his position, without meeting someone’s eyes, he even close his own.

“He passed out due to exhaustion, currently on rest. You can visit him, you are welcome there Kim Taehyung.” Yoongi is thankful, Seok Jin wasn’t wounded physically, though he didn’t want Taehyung to repeat Jung Kook’s history.

“Thank you. Please do everything to live, you must live.” The statement goes on repeat in Taehyung’s mind, he could clearly remember what he saw on his terrifying dreams. With Jung Kook’s voice on repeat saying the statement.

Taehyung glanced at Yoongi who was about to leave. God, he loves Seok Jin so much. He wanted Seok Jin to be okay, but he also knows its not possible as of the moment. “What about Jung Kook? H-How is he? Better right? Joon didn’t say anything about him, I want to hear it from you Yoongi.” Voice of hope was with Taehyung with every breath he was letting out, desperately wanting to hear improvement by the days he was unconscious.

He even thought he was dead, he could hear Jung Kook’s voice talking to him, repeating the similar statement he wanted Seok Jin and Jung Kook to have. “Live a happy life.” But only at the last day before he got his senses back Jung Kook finally showed himself.

Negative thoughts was blocked on his vocabulary, that’s why he is full of hope about Jung Kook going back if him too was back after the dream, he heard about Seok Jin from Nam Joon, but about Jung Kook, Nam Joon couldn’t provide any words.

“Want to see him?” Nam Joon asks, referring to Seok Jin. Taehyung shook his head.

“Nam Joon-ah, its his birthday.”

“Also Jung Kook.” Nam Joon blinked his eyes when he heard two statements from Taehyung. Nam Joon hold on patiently to what his Hyung was going to imply, and he wasn’t wrong at all.

So after the night of Nam Joon asking Yoongi’s preparation for Seok Jin and Jung Kook’s birthday which was allowed by Mr. and Mrs. Jeon to decorate a little celebration at Seok Jin and Jung Kook’s hospital room.

Taehyung asked Nam Joon to keep his hospital room open in case Jung Kook visits him... He could freely let himself in.

But Jung Kook never came, Taehyung decided to see Seok Jin and Jung Kook’s condition, he called a guide at one of the nurse to guide him on his way.

As soon as the door swung by Yoongi, he saw Mrs. Jeon shaking her head as she pressed her lips holding Taehyung’s hand. “How are you feeling?”

“Let me take him from you, thank you.” Mrs. Jeon says to Taehyung’s nurse.

“W-What’s happening?” Taehyung asked, an obvious fact was rubbed at his face when Seok Jin put his feet at the cold floor going to his husband. “H-Hey.”

Just one word made all of the people inside the room blurred their sight due to tears pooling their dimed eyes. “Seok Jin-ah, we’re so sorry to keep that news from you–“

Seok Jin rushed towards Mrs. Jeon as he put his arms at Mrs. Jeon’s warmth. “M-Mom, let me guide you, j-just… Try to touch him. Mom Jung Kook made it today on his day, on our birthday, Mom look–“

The hands clutching desperately to Mrs. Jeon was loosened as she let her tears flows freely as she bring Jung Kook’s left hands to her hold as to Seok Jin’s request, and placed it on top of Seok Jin’s.

She smiled, before looking over Seok Jin’s shoulder seeking support from Mr. Jeon who cleared his throat. “Dr. Noh says Jung Kook’s situation was unpredictable, so how certain he was that Jung Kook will never come back?”

“Did they even touched his hands? Dad here, s-see it for yourself, J-Jung Kook’s hands–“

Seok Jin first thing in the morning looked for was Jung Kook. Jung Kook’s soul, that is around him always, but of course the Jung Kook they pointed out was the Jung Kook full of machines all over his body.

The Jung Kook that was unpredictable and hopeless for so many experts.