ANTI - HERO

Fire

4 days later

Tae stood by the kitchen platform smiling a little remembering what they had done that day in the kitchen. Carefully, he placed all the veggies in the bowl and some on his sandwich.

Walking to his room, he saw Jungkook staring out in the garden area with a blank face. That broke Tae's heart. The gun shot had changed Jungkook so much. He was crying a lot.

It took one whole fucking day for Tae to get the bullet out and wrap up his wound. Namjoon had trained him well. He had foreseen this. But Namjoon always thought Tae would be the one on the receiving end. All that training proved helpful and Tae managed to get the bullet out. With whatever medicines were in the first aid box Jungkook's body was slowly healing. But his mind wasn't. His mind was in turmoil.

"Jungkookie?" Tae sat on the bed and helped Jungkook to sit down on the bed.

He had that adorned smile seeing his love.

Jungkook happy that Tae had brought something to eat along with him. Since that day Tae too had stopped eating and would just sit by Jungkook and take care of him.

"Your salad," Tae offered him and waited for Jungkook to eat.

Jungkook too was cunning, "You first then I will eat."

Smiling, Tae took a bite of his sandwich and asked Jungkook to eat.

Sighing, Jungkook ate and stared at Tae with glassy eyes.

Putting the sandwich down, Tae finally asked, "What is it baby? You have to tell me. I am here for you."

Before Jungkook knew he was crying holding Tae's waist like a baby.

"I want to end this Tae. All of this. I don't wanna live with this life."

Tae was shocked and confused, "I don't understand."

Blinking Jungkook let the tears flow down, "I don't want to be a Jeon anymore. I want to cut ties with everything – everything from my old life."

"Oh," Tae caressed Jungkook's hair and sat with him.

Still on Tae's lap Jungkook poured his heart out, "Baby – please take me away from here. I don't want to be remembered as Jeon Jungkook or baby. Please – do something. Please!"

Tae remembered their talk in that snowy cottage. Their honeymoon – how Tae had promised Jungkook that he would never leave him and how Jungkook had confessed that he would leave the mafia world with Tae.

Perhaps it was time now.

"But – this is your world, Kook. Are you just willing to leave this because of me? Because all this is my fault. If we had stayed at your mansion no one would have dared to shoot you. You came here to protect me and look what happened."

Jungkook was up – sitting and holding Tae's face in his hands.

"Baby – don't ever say that. You know how much I love you. I would die for you – leaving this world is nothing for me. This is what I always dreamt of – even when you weren't with me. And you walked in my life and made this possible. Fuck – if you weren't in my life – I would have become a father by now. Father of my sister's baby. You saved me from that. I would have died a million times by doing what my father expected me to do. My sister would have died rather than give birth to my baby. I know how stubborn Princess can be. But you and Yoongi gave us new lives. Today I am experiencing the joy of becoming an uncle and not a pitiful and pathetic father just like my daddy. And it's all because of you."

"Jungkookie," Tae wiped his tears, "I love you so much."

Gently, Jungkook pecked Tae's lips and hugged him.

They both promised each other than they would come up with something.

"Now come on finish the salad babe," Tae put the spoon in front of Jungkook's mouth and saw him eat it with a sour face.

He took a bite of the sandwich and Jungkook frowned smelling something weird.

"Babe? Did you burn something again?" Jungkook asked chuckling.

Tae rolled his eyes and looked back coughing. The smoke was reaching their room.

Someone had set their house on fire.

"What the fuck?" Jungkook looked everywhere and all they could see was smoke.

He knew this was classic mafia way of ending things.

The Black Snakes must have perhaps assumed Jungkook was dead and wanted to burn him and end things forever.

"What do we do baby?" Jungkook was panicking. But Tae was weirdly calm.

He took Jungkook in a corner and sat down, "Babe – is there any other house where we can hide nearby?"

Jungkook only thought of the tree house he and Princess had built. He nodded his head slowly.

"You can walk?" he asked and Jungkook nodded his head again feeling strange. Tae was calm and Jungkook was freaking out.

Smiling, Tae kissed Jungkook's forehead, "This is it babe. Our ticket to a new life."

Jungkook was confused, "What?"

Looking at the backdoor that led to the garden Tae whispered, "You trust me?"

"With my life," the answer was instant from Jungkook.

Grabbing the guns and a few important items they fled from the scene after a while.