Rumor has it | KV

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Taehyung felt a lot better being with Jungkook, feeling his warmth and holding onto him.

"We have to stop doing parties, I fear if you react to them this way." The weak joke caused Taehyung to laugh wetly as he was trying to calm down in Jungkook's arms. But he still wouldn't look up and soon, the presence of the drunk people moving around was stressing him.

"Well, this won't do," Jungkook mumbled over his head. Then, strong hands reached down as Jungkook bent forward and unceremoniously swept Taehyung off his feet.

"J-Jungkook!" Taehyung exclaimed surprised as the other secured him in his arms. "I'm getting you upstairs where no one's watching you," Jungkook said quietly and the frightened blonde relaxed, feeling relief rushing over him. He reached forward to wrap his arms around Jungkook, hiding his face in the crook of his neck and he sighed softly.

Jungkook took Taehyung upstairs like this, carrying him protectively and holding him close all the while his eyes never left the blonde. Outward Jungkook was stone, face a blank mask with angrily furrowed brows. Inside, he was squealing to hold Taehyung this close.

As he carried Taehyung upstairs, the two weren't unnoticed.

"What the fuck is Jeon doing?!" Jimin screeched, untangling himself from Seokjin's heated embrace as he saw Jungkook carrying his best friend upstairs. Eunwoo grabbed his shoulder to prevent him from following the two, having finally found the two lovebirds in an intimate embrace.

"Relax, Park. Blueberry's protecting Taehyung. He saw Joshua," Eunwoo informed Jimin. At that, the other male froze, whipping around. Seokjin also gasped; Jimin had told him some details regarding Taehyung's past and the name Joshua had fallen three of four times, Jimin didn't like talking about it as he wanted to protect his best friend and Seokjin respected that.

"What the fuck did you just say?" Jimin demanded to know, giving Eunwoo another piece of information. This was legit and Jimin was involved. "Where did he see him? Where is that asshole?!" Jimin growled, Mama hen mode activated.

"Entrance hall." Seeing Jimin's state, Eunwoo spared him with all the details, informing him about the location.

Jimin took out right this second, not waiting for Eunwoo and Seokjin threw his friend a quick glance before following his boyfriend, knowing he possibly needed backup if he were to come face to face with Joshua.

"Jiminie, wait!" Seokjin called out for the dark-haired but Jimin didn't listen, running into the entrance hall and looking around frantically, pushing people out of the way. When he didn't find his target, he ran outside, head swishing from side to side, trying to locate Joshua. But he was already gone, there was no trace left of him.

But Jimin knew that Taehyung wouldn't lie, not about this, not about Joshua. There had been a time where Taehyung felt Joshua's eyes on him all the time but that was right after the incident and Taehyung had calmed down because there were thousands of miles in between them now. So hearing that Taehyung claimed to have seen his worst nightmare in person was enough for Jimin to grow incredibly worried.

"Fuck," Jimin growled as he looked around, "he's gone." There was nothing he could do about it now, he felt like Jungkook was going to take good care of Taehyung and Joshua was nowhere to be seen, like he had vanished. Jimin shook his head, he didn't want to believe the possibility that Taehyung misunderstood and it wasn't Joshua, maybe someone else or he imagined it. No, the blonde would never lie about that.

"Minie, who is this? Who did Tae see?" Seokjin asked his boyfriend gently, feeling how pent up Jimin acted, so frantic and almost as if he was in a panic himself.

"Joshua Pierce. He was stalking Taehyung in America. He's the reason why TaeTae moved back to Korea and why he has such bad anxiety. Joshua broke into Tae's house and nearly killed him, he thought Tae should only belong to him."