Reflection

Twenty-One

~ Yoongi's POV ~

He needed to get Taehyung out of there and out of there fast before he did something that he could never take back. Grabbing onto him as tight as he could he dragged them underground, a thrashing Taehyung shrieking in his grasp in a desperate attempt to get to his mate, wings snapping from the impact of them colliding into the dirt and out the other side outside of the cave. As soon as they were on solid ground again the phoenix launched himself at the cave, trying to barrel his way inside despite his bleeding and torn wings, trying to knock Yoongi to the side but the zombie grabbed him from behind and held onto him tight as once more he dove them through the ground.

Yoongi didn't know where he was going, all he knew was that he needed to get far from there so with a huge burst of energy he zoomed them as far as he possibly could before throwing them once more out the other side into the outside world and pinning Taehyung beneath him. The phoenix continued to shriek, howling out into the air like a wounded animal, nearly foaming at the mouth from how savagely he was fighting to get out of Yoongi's hold, to get out of his grasp and get back to his mate that was in heat. But, Yoongi couldn't let him do it.

He couldn't allow him to take Namjoon like his body craved.

"Taehyung!" He tried to call out to him but the phoenix only fought harder.

Having no choice, Yoongi wrapped his arms around his neck into a sleeper hold and pinned his legs down with his own. Trapping him between himself and the dirt even as fire started to lick at his skin from the angry flames flying off of his body. "Taehyung!" He called for him again, trying to reason with him, trying to get him back to his senses but it was like the other couldn't hear him. "TAEHYUNG! YOU HAVE TO STOP!"

Taehyung growled, fingers digging into the earth and melting it into boiling smoking pools. "You can't take him like this!"

"Mate!"

Yoongi squeezed harder, hating that he was having to do this, "NOT YET!" With that, he did the only thing that he could do and squeezed tighter, tight enough to make the other thrash for breath until he went limp in his arms and laid unconscious beneath him. "I'm sorry."

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It had been hours since he had been forced to choke Taehyung out, and it had been hours since he had been sitting there, unprotected, alone with the phoenix's body, in an area that they hadn't scouted yet and knew nothing about, let alone if it was even safe enough for them to be in since they were as close as they were to Jungwoo's property line as one could get without being completely on it.

This was not good, he hadn't meant to knock Taehyung out as much as he did, but he really didn't have much of a choice in the matter, the other would have burned everything to the ground and raped Namjoon if he hadn't have been stopped. He had seen the look in the hybrids eyes when Taehyung had approached, he knew that he didn't want him, at least not yet. Namjoon probably didn't even understand what was happening, let alone what an imprint, or even mating was. So he couldn't allow Taehyung to run on instinct like he had. It would have been not only irresponsible of him as a leader, but it would make him a shit person as well. He had vowed to never allow what had happened to him to happen to another, and enemy or not - that was still debatable for Namjoon - he wasn't about to let him be subjected to what he had been forced into years ago.

The bite mark along his neck and shoulder itched at the memory and he clutched onto it out of reflex, memories that he would rather forget resurfacing and reminding him why he was even here, and why he couldn't be captured now of all times. He supposes that he could go underground, hide out, but he wouldn't be able to save Taehyung if he did that, the phoenix would need air after all and there was none to go around when underground like that. He could always try and bring him back to the cave, it had already been a few hours and if Jimin did what Yoongi had asked him to do and handled the situation then the heat might have broken by now, as long as it was satisfied well enough. Beta's didn't have heats like Omegas did, their bodies just weren't hardwired like a females was even though they were just as capable of having children, so when it actually hit it meant that had either found their mate, they were under high influences of stress, or there were no more females in a pack thus no Omegas to give birth.