Red String of Fate (Taekook AU)

Chapter 30: Insecurities

14th of October 2066, Seoul

Minho, Han, Dami, Yoohyeon, Yeonjun, Soobin and Jimin were looking at Taehyung and Jungkook with wide eyes in complete silence.

Frozen.

The music was playing in the dance studio, but nobody actually heard it.

Finally Yeonjun put his hands in his hair and said while letting go of the air in his lungs:

'Ok, guys... I know you two have your secrets and probably more than one reason to have them. But it seems like you know much more than we do and it's not fair to leave us in darkness...'

Jungkook looked at him and dropped his eyes to the ground, gulping hard. Feeling the anxiety crawling to his body like a smoke.

Taehyung's hand at once traveled to his waist protectively and he looked at Yeonjun with a dark gaze.

Jimin stood next to them.

'Don't pressure them...' he asked.

'But he is right...' Han frowned. 'What's going on?'

'If we know, we will tell you...' Taehyung answered.

'Tae...' Jungkook said warningly, shaking his head slightly. He touched Taehyung's cheek calmingly, calming his protective instinct down. 'It's okay...' He looked at Yeonjun. 'It's not that we don't want to tell you... We just don't know how... Because it's... unbelievable...'

'Not like you being soulmates for a thousand years is not...' Yoohyeon pointed out gently, tilting her head with a small smile.

Taehyung sighed.

'Well... you can change your mind after hearing it...' he nodded to Jungkook, who gulped.

'There is this being...' he started. 'The first one with interdependent powers... We don't know what he is capable of. We don't know what he looks like. What is he called... Is he immortal or not...'

'Probably he is...' Taehyung added.

'What about his soulmate? Can he use any kind of power like you?' Minho asked.

'That's the case. He doesn't have one... He sacrificed his soulmate to gain enormous power...' Jungkook whispered and the rest of the squad jaws dropped to the ground.

The measure of evil he had to deal with sinked in...

Yeonjun instantly looked at Soobin as if couldn't imagine him not existing. As if the sheer thought was scaring him to death...

Han softly slid his hand in Minho's, intertwining their fingers. He was looking at their fingers, perfectly matched together with a fragile glass-like gaze.

Yoohyeon leaned his arm on Dami's leg, who put a hand on her head looking down. He stroked them gently when Yoohyeon raised her eyes at her.

But the most shocked one- was Jimin.

'You mean... he killed his soulmate?! WHAT?! I don't even know my soulmate and the pure thought he is suffering is unbearable! How can anyone even think of...!'

'Exactly...' Jungkook whispered. 'We can't even stand when the other is suffering... Not to mention bringing them pain on purpose...'

'That's the kind of evil we are dealing with... Haunting us for decades... Messing with interdependants... It's so hard to believe that Interdependants would hurt Interdependants intentionally. But manipulated by powerful being? We have a feeling he is close...' Taehyung said quietly.

'Okay... so... are you some kind of his archenemies?' Yeonjun asked.

'Our souls are...' Jungkook explained. 'That's why our powers are a bit more... complicated...'