Taekook One Shots

26. Part 1

This is going to be split up in different parts like the short story in 20. I'll probably make the continuing chapters longer so that they hopefully don't have to be broken up into too many parts but we'll see how it goes.

TW: Depression and attempted suicide 

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Someone is screaming. The tortured sound rips through the air and it takes Taehyung a few seconds to register that it's him. 

He shoots up from his bed, sweat causing his clothes to cling annoyingly to his heated skin. He pants rapidly as the tears come pouring down his face. Sitting there for a while, the man allows himself to sob outwardly. They wrack furiously through his body, sucking all the energy from him.

You'd think after twenty four years of this he'd be used to it. However, even though he expects this every year, instead of getting better at managing it, it's getting worse. Over the years he has become more delirious, he finds himself unable stop once the tears break free. His mind swirls with darkness and the pain in his chest intensifies each year.

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Annually, on the 30th of December, his birthday, Taehyung has the same dream. Year after year the same dream that feels so realistic, the pain feels so tangible and raw that it shakes him to his core.

It always starts off the same. He's on his knees, bound with heavy, rusted metal chains. There is another man in front of him. He's gorgeous. He's an angel. Literally. Large white wings expand from his back, the ivory feathers look soft to the touch. They're both surrounded by angels. Over a dozen of them have formed a circle around Taehyung and this man.

In this dream, he is an angel too. He feels the weight of the wings against his back and the uncomfortable tightening of the wretched chain that binds the majestic limbs, covering the pure white feathers with a filthy layer of, almost black, mud and dirt. 

The man in front of him has his wings bound too. He doesn't know why but he feels like the angel chained in front of him is very dear to him. In the dream, there is always a vigorous pain in his heart when he looks at the unknown male. Not fear for himself, but fear for what the other angels are going to do to the ravenette in front of him. He wants no harm to come to this man. 

"Please. Please don't hurt him! Hurt me!" Taehyung yells out. He begs and pleads with the other angels to save this man. The man he loves. 

"No, no! I'm at fault. I tempted him first," The man says. 

"Shut up!" The leader of the pack shouts. He stands in the center of the circle with them on either side of him. "I don't care. You will both be severely punished and I mean that," the head angel would gesture to someone behind the ravenette and suddenly a loud crack echoes through the large room.

Taehyung watches is horror as the man's body jerks forward, arching painfully away from the whip that lashed out at him. He grits his teeth to halt the cry of pain building from behind his lips.

Taehyung screams, crying for them to stop. "JEONGGUK!! PLEASE STOP. I BEG YOU!" 

 Another crack and this time it's Taehyung's turn to jolt from the pain. He hears Jeongguk yell out for him and he's frantic. The need to save his lover is his sole purpose. 

"We're not going to waste time here. You both know it's against the rules for two angels have intercourse for anything other than reproduction. What's more is that you two not only broke the that rule but you also had these relations before marriage. If that wasn't bad enough. You two can't even reproduce! Homosexual relations are a sin! This is unforgivable!" the head angel gets more and more angry with each word.