Babydoll

4

Taehyung was rolling in his bed, not able to fall asleep. Some nights he was just too pumped with energy so it was impossible to sleep. He tried for like two hours but then groaned and got up. He needed to get tired somehow.

After a while, he slipped into shorts and t-shirt, deciding to go to the gym in the basement. He wasn’t really a work out person but he needed some physical activity.

When he slipped out of his room, everything was quiet. It was after midnight so he wasn’t really surprised, everyone was either asleep, in their rooms or outside in some bar or whatever.

He was surprised when he came down and saw the lights in the gym were on. He thought that someone probably forgot to turn them off but then he heard also low music. He stopped, thinking if he should just leave. Over the time he lived there, he met basically everyone living in the house and most people were actually really nice to him, some were just ignoring him and some didn’t care. But he couldn’t say someone was hostile. It was probably because he was Yoongi’s brother and Yoongi was one of the most respected gang members since he was so close to Jungkook.

He decided to just go inside, what the hell.

He regretted his decision almost immediately when he spotted Jungkook on a treadmill. He wasn’t shirtless this time, he was in shorts and a tank top but he was sweaty and he was breathing heavily from the effort. He didn’t even notice Taehyung at first through the music.

“Hey, do you mind if I stay?” Taehyung asked when the older man finally noticed him.

“Suit yourself,” Jungkook grunted, still running and turning back to face the wall in front of him. Taehyung breathed out, he didn’t know why he was so damn nervous. Well, maybe because Jungkook was a fucking gang leader and because he didn’t really know what could trigger him. He knew that he wouldn’t hurt him just because of Yoongi but still.

He came over to some machine to work
out a stomach little bit, he wasn’t planning on staying too long, he just wanted to get tired. It wouldn’t hurt him to exercise his stomach though.

They were both working out silently, not really minding each other. After some time, Jungkook stopped running and after he drank some water and wiped sweat from his forehead and neck – not that Taehyung was staring – he went to the area with gym mats and punching bags. He wrapped two pieces of fabric around his finger knuckles and started munching one of the bags.

He was back to Taehyung so the younger could watch him freely. The way Jungkook's back muscles were flexing as he was punching were making something shift in his stomach. He was imagining the boss punching someone, he wondered if Jeongguk sometimes did that or if he had men do it. He had a feeling that Jungkook was a man who liked doing his job by himself, he could easily imagine him beating someone up and he didn’t know why that thought was sending weird excitement through his body.

“Do you know martial arts?” Taehyung broke the silence with curiosity.

“Taekwondo, judo, kickbox…you name it,” Jungkook replied, shortly glancing at him.

“I’d wanna learn something,” Taehyung hummed: “It seems interesting. Besides, it wouldn’t be bad if I could defend myself just in case…”

“Why would you need it?” the older raised an eyebrow.

“I don’t know, maybe because my brother is in a gang and that I live with the said gang?” Taehyung snorted.

“Nothing can happen to you here,” Jungkook waved his hand.

“Maybe not here but I go to school, someone could kidnap me or something,” the younger shrugged, looking like he wasn’t really that bothered by the thought. He really wasn’t, he had enough time to get used to the fact his brother is in a gang and that something could happen to him despite Yoongi being so cautious.