The King's Obsession

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C391 - Was it planned?- Part 3

A young man made his way through the alley's as the streets had never been kind to him or his mother. It was nearly six where the sky had turned dark. With a small bag in his hand, the young man continued to cross houses until he reached the village's very end, that was also the way that led to the forest.       

"Mother I am-" he said, standing outside the door, but he received no response. He knocked on the door, wondering if his mother had gone somewhere. When he knocked harder, the wooden door moved as if it had not been locked, "Mother?" called Jungkook, and when his eyes fell on the woman on the floor, he shouted, "Mother! What happened?" he questioned her frantically, after going to her side.      

The woman had blood dripping from the corner of her mouth. She held onto something in her hand, which she put in her pocket, "I am fine, Jungkook." She tried to lift herself, pushing her hand on the ground and standing up to almost fall back if it weren't for her son who caught hold of her in time.      

"I should call the doctor-"     

"No!" his mother shook her head, "I must have eaten something bad today. Which is why," she rubbed her mouth with her sleeves when her son placed her on the bed.      

"Are you sure about it? Let me take a look," said the young man, taking a closer inspection of her eyes and then her pulse, "Let me go get you a glass of water." He left her side to return with a glass of water in his hand.      

His mother looked far worse than he had ever seen her until now. She had been alright in the morning, and it seemed like her condition had turned bad by the time he had returned, "Did someone come by?" he asked, taking the empty glass back.      

She offered him a smile, "Just someone I once knew."     

"Who is that?"      

Instead of answering his question, she shifted the subject by pulling out a necklace from her dress pocket, "It was a friend of mine who came to see how I was doing," his eyes fell on the chain, and she said, "When this was given to me as a gift, I was told that this once belonged to a Queen." She started to cough, and soon the water that she had drunk came out of her mouth as if her body couldn't keep it in. But it wasn't just water but also blood that she spewed from her mouth, "I wonder what I ate yesterday."     

"Please lay down. I will go get the doctor so that he can take a look at you," he pulled the covers so that it could keep his mother warm, and he left the small house.      

The young man was worried, and he made his way to the doctor's house. Standing at the front, he knocked on the door, and a man opened it to see who it was. On seeing the young man outside, he was about to close the door without responding and Jungkook placed his hand on the door.      

"My mother is sick. I need you to come and take a look at her," came the serious voice of Jungkook.      

"I don't check whores. Go find another doctor-" the man was still speaking when Jungkook stepped in and caught hold of the man's neck.      

"You either come and take a look at her now, or I snap your neck and break your body in two halves," Jungkook glared at the human who had dared to call his mother a whore, "Choose." The man flailed his hands and Jungkook finally freed the human's neck, leaving the man coughing for air.      

The doctor glared at the young vampire, but he followed him back to the house to look at the woman. After checking her, the doctor said, "It looks like she has caught an infection. Make sure to give her warm water and keep feeding her."