Devil's Favourite | reader × Jimin

20 - he is trouble

:: Jimin's POV

Y/n remained silent after I told her that the wound was probably meant to kill me. She didn't utter a word for several moments, which made me wonder if she had left or if she was still there. As always, when she had the pearl around her neck, I couldn't locate her, not even if she was right behind my door.

Then, she spoke. "What do I have to do?"

I frowned while looking at the door. "What do you mean?"

"What do I have to do to save you?"

I smiled to myself when I heard that, but I made sure not to make any sound. Fortunately, I wasn't tied to the ceiling by those silver laces anymore, so I was able to throw fists of joy in the air. Though I had to stop after a few punches or else my wound would've ended up opening again, the satisfaction of hearing y/n say that was still as big as my ego.

Good job, Jimin-ah. You won a place in her heart sooner than you planned, I told myself, patting my shoulder and being more than proud of myself.

Y/n didn't want me to die, and it was a big win for me.

A few weeks earlier, she didn't even want to acknowledge me living in her basement, while now she was ready to save me from a wound that her father had inflicted on me.

Of course it wasn't lethal, it was just a lie to see what her reaction would be. I was planning on telling her I was kidding if she hadn't shown any sign of compassion, which would've only made her angry but... who cares, right? Ignoring her for a few days had been beneficial - she thought I was severely wounded (which wasn't a lie, I just wasn't about to die). I heard her talking to herself, I heard how worried she was about me and if it somehow made me feel good, I was determined to push away any positive feeling I had for her. I wanted to escape from there, I wanted to make her dad pay for what he had done and kept doing to me, and developing any kind of affection towards y/n was only going to complicate everything for me.

I have to ignore any good thing she says to me, any preoccupations she has for me and, more than anything, I have to ignore her eyes and the way they look at me.

If anything, I had to take advantage of those things; I had to stick to my original plan: make her feel affection or love for me and use that to escape. I had to get rid of that good part of me that y/n was able to bring to the surface lately - I knew involving feelings was just going to soften me and that was the last thing I needed. Seriously.

"Jimin? Are you still there?" Y/n's voice interrupted my thoughts. She sounded a little bit scared and nervous; she probably was afraid of her dad coming down there and seeing her in front of my cage.

So, I did my best to sound in pain and on the verge of dying. I was a pretty good actor, I had to admit it. "Yes..." I coughed right after I spoke. "Just... come in when you can..."

"I'll try. I promise" she was so determined and, for the umpteenth time, I wondered if she never even once considered I was deceiving her. She often made jokes about me having an evil plan and stuff, which always made me a bit nervous, but she probably never contemplated the idea of that being the truth. I mean, what devil would simply talk to a human and joke with her if it wasn't for a secret goal?

Tsk, this girl is too naive. There's almost no satisfaction in playing with her.

"Y/n?" I called her before she could leave.

"Yes?"

Before saying the next words I cringed at myself several times, but I had to do it for the sake of the plan. "Thank you for caring about me." This is certainly going to make her feelings for me grow.