Afterlife || (OT7 X Reader) ✓

39: Unexpected Counter Strike

"I told you. I won't repeat the same mistake." Jungkook's left hand, holding the pierced syringe into Taehyung's neck, injected the purple fluid into his system by pressing on the plunger with his thumb. "I had to make your heart beat again to kill you. And only Haeguk could do that so I had to let her be with you." He whispered and pierced the knife into his flesh, ripping his heart. Taehyung's eyes bulged at the pain.

The door opened behind Jungkook again. "Jungkook!" Hoseok screamed and Taehyung's eyes moved towards him but Jungkook didn't turn back. Instead, he pulled the syringe back and released his hold on the knife, causing Taehyung to stumble back with the knife stuck in his chest. Hoseok smelled the purple poison that was present somewhere and looked across the room to spot the bottle of poison over the top of the drawers.

Jungkook looked at Taehyung's chest and saw the blood smeared on his white shirt. "What did you do? You took help from hell?" Hoseok yelled, looking at the scene in horror. Jungkook gave Taehyung a sinister smile. "Last time, I trusted the heavens but in the end it caused me to be separated from my wife. How can I trust someone from heaven after that?" Jungkook commented, standing back with his hands resting on his sides as he threw the syringe away.

"So you made a deal with the devil?" 

Jungkook's smile broadened and he took a deep breath of relief. Taehyung started foaming from his mouth and looked behind Jungkook. He smiled sardonically. "Jungkook is allowed to love her. But when I do that, I get cursed?" He mumbled and hung his head low to the ground. He coughed blood that dripped from his mouth and then looked up behind Jungkook's shoulder again and mumbled, "In the end, we, as in you and me, were never meant to be."

Jungkook frowned but then his eyes widened, his smirk disappearing instantly when he heard a croaking voice behind him. "Jungkook?" He turned around to look at Haeguk standing beside Hoseok but then gasped when a blade pierced through his flesh from behind.

He looked into Haeguk's eyes who was stunned along with Hoseok. She covered her mouth, shaking her head and Jungkook saw her tears rolling down her orbs before blacking out as he heard Taehyung's weak voice, "If I don't get to have her then you cannot either, Jungkook."

Hoseok rushed to Taehyung while Haeguk ran to JungKook, scooping his head from the ground. "Where are the guards?" She screamed.

Hoseok saw Taehyung closing his eyes but slowly his body turned into black smoke by itself. He knew that he would turn into dark fumes once the black foam started coming out of his mouth. The purple liquid was the devil's poison which is used to commit murder instructed by a devil without leaving a trace.

Jungkook might have received it from a devil. And right now Taehyung might be standing in front of that specific devil since this poison mixes with your blood, it builds a pathway to the particular devil who made the poison with his own blood.

Haeguk turned around to look at the scene but it scared her.

Everything around her was scaring her.

"Who was he?" She asked, crying while shaking with Jungkook in his arms. "Please, help him. There were no guards when we came here. What is happening?" She sobbed and Hoseok quickly approached her.

"Jungkook probably asked them to leave this place all to himself since he knew Taehyung would be here. He wanted no one to be here." Hoseok mumbled before trying to pick Jungkook up from the ground with the help of Haeguk.

Hopefully, he will survive.

Hopefully.

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Taehyung opened his eyes, the overwhelming darkness suffocating him as he tried to make sense of where he was. His feet felt cold and heavy, sinking into the black water beneath him. He looked down and noticed chains—cold, iron chains—wrapped tightly around his neck, hands, waist, and ankles. Thin white smoke floated lazily around him, like a shroud of thin clouds. His heart pounded, not from fear but from recognition. He knew this place.