"He hit you again?" _____ let V's gentle hands slide over the bruise on her arm for a couple of seconds before she lightly pushed it away. Taehyung let out a sigh as she once again avoided answering with her own question.
"Are you okay? Can I leave you alone tonight?" Another sigh left the boy's lips.
Taehyung knew anout hos friend's abusive boyfriend and he offered her help and shelter numerous times but she always evaded his suggestions by asking about how he was. No matter how hurt she was, _____ would always put Taehyung first.
The boy nodded and watched his best friend walk out and head back to what they both knew was anything but hugs and kisses.
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Terror flooded through ______'s body when she found V's apartment empty the next day. She had gotten in and searched the entire apartment with the spare key Taehyung had given her incase Jisung went to far and she needed somewhere to stay. As she was turning to go look for her alien friend she accidentally bumped into the coffee table.
The same spot that the bruise she recieved the night before was.
Teeth clenching pain shot through her body but not even that made her hesitate to continue the search for her Taehyung.
To her, Taehyung was her pain killers. Being around him, seeing his rectangle shaped smile and hearing his laugh made her forget momentarily about the problems that happened behind closed doors.
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By the time ______ arrives back home after being unsuccessful in finding Taehyung, her boyfriend is beyond furious.
As a routine, ______ immediately heads to the kitchen to make Jisung something to eat. The shouting starts but she is in her own thoughts as she blankly cuts up vegetables. 'Why do I keep needing you when I know I'll get hurt? I go down and down, at this point, I'm just a fool.'
Taehyung walks up the stairs to his apartment (they live in the same building) but he pauses to look at the door at the end of the hall. The male is about to continue his trek until he hears the shouting through the slightly open door.
A chill rushes down his spine when he picks his name out and a cry of pain follows the soft voice.
Quickly and quietly covering the distance between were he stopped and the wooden door, Taehyung's heart aches as he sees Jisung hit _____ enough to make her stumble back.
(A little shift in plot. In the mv Tae breaks the bottle over the guy's head and then stabs him but the bottle would have been enough to send the guy to the floor. So yeah just a little change ahead but now back to the story)
With his anger flaring way past his limit, Taehyung snags a bottle left in the hallway, most likely by one of the many homeless drinkers that surround the poverty stricken part of town, and breaks it on the door frame. Wasting no time, Taehyung's eyes cloud over as he rushes at Jisung with the bottle's broken end out.
The only thing Taehyung can see is red.
All of the anger he had held in after everything Jisung had done to V's love came out in time with the abuser's blood.
_____ could only watch with wide eyes as the adorable kitten like boy with the rectangle smile turned into a lion ready to kill with a mouth full of sharp teeth.
Pulling away, V let the bottle fall to the ground and watched as Jisung swayed before following the bottle path. The thump that followed was not Jisung's bleeding body hitting the floor but V' shaking form.
As she regained her situation, ______ rushed over to the little lion with blood on his hands.
Unlike V who was beginning to freak out over whether he did what just happened, _____ was calm. "Tae look at me. Look its going to be okay. Lets go clean your hands and I'll call Namjoon. It'll be ok, Namjoon is smart and he'll figure out what to do. We can go meet with the guys once he has a plan."
Taehyung stopped fidgeting at the mention of his friends. "But Jimin and Jungkook..."
"No its ok. Jin will help make them understand. You will be okay. We wont let anything happen to you." _____ brushed the male's fringe back and smiled as he leaned into her touch, his shaking stopping immediately.
_____ looked at the seven friends spread around the dimming fire with a small smile on her face.
Like she had promised, Namjoon had come up with a plan and explained everything to the other members.
Like she had promised, the members and ______ weren't going to let anything happen to their alien lion boy.
