I Need You (Kim Taehyung)

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WHERE THEM TISSUES CAUSE YOU GON' NEED 'EM.

"Why is your name Jeon TaeLyn and not Kim TaeLyn?" He asked out of curiosity. It's a question that always wondered around his mind. He'd seen TaeLyn's fertile father have the baby boy they're currently raising, but he wondered why Jungkook, TaeLyn and Hoseok had different last names.

TaeLyn's lips curled into a soft smile at his question. She had a smart reply to it but decided on not saying it.

"If it's not obvious yet, Jin and Namjoon aren't our biological parents. Although Hoseok is half Appa. His mom left him on Appa's doorstep the day he and Eomma we're supposed to be married. She died when Hobi was three." She giggles, leaning forward then lying on Taehyung's lap. He tenses, feeling strange at this affection, but doesn't push TaeLyn off. "What about you and Jungkook?" Her smile falters slightly and she sighs. "It's a long story." she whispers, stomach curling up. Taehyung wipes the hair from her face, hesitantly, wanting to calm her. "Tell me." TaeLyn turns her head and body to look at him. "Please," he begs, that curious glint in his eye appearing. She smiles lightly. She rest her hands on her stomach and looks past Taehyung's face and into the sky. "About 20 years ago, two very different people met. A teenage girl and a foreign young man. The teenage girl, Ali'ikai Gutierrez, was part Hawaiian and Mexican. The foreign young man, Jeon Daesung," TaeLyn pauses, taking a deep breath. Taehyung runs his hand through her hair, his nails softly scratching the scalp, soothing the tightness she feels in her abdomen. "Jeon Daesung was from South Korea. He was 21. His parents died when he was 19. He was training abroad for the army and met her when she was in her senior year of high school. They met at the beach." TaeLyn chuckles, thinking about the irony of this situation.

"Ali found out she was pregnant the day after graduation." She sighs, lowering her voice. "The day the single father that raised her had a heart attack he didn't survive." TaeLyn's eyes began to water as a heavy weight sat on her chest. "Daesung returned to Korea a couple months later, but kept in touch with Ali'ikai. They decided to get married the day she arrived in Korea. They set up doctor appointments with a male Obstetrician named Kim Seokjin, who became close with Ali'ikai and Daesung." She smile at the thought of Eomma Jin, a man who's raised her well and allowed TaeLyn to call him Eomma. "Daesung left for the Korean army when Ali was four months pregnant. He got to know they were twins, a boy and a girl, before he died two months later from a bullet wound to the chest that penetrated his left ventricle. Ali'ikai became depressed and at 27 weeks, a month after Daesung's death, she gave birth to premature twins, a boy and a girl, delivered by Kim Seokjin and nursed by Kim Namjoon." A tear slipped her eye as the weight on her chest increased and she couldn't breathe. "Everything was fine the first day. Babies were put into the ICU. The baby boy was healthy but the little girl was having trouble holding onto life." Her breathing became ragged and she felt like throwing up as her stomach clenched. "The baby girl made it through the night but when morning came, her heartbeat became abnormally slow and she was no longer in charge of her breathing. While she struggled to live, Ali'ikai flatlined when she became distressed from the lack of nutrients in her body after wasting energy during labor. Her muscles weren't strong enough and the oxygen in her lungs had vanished. Her heartbeat stopped at almost the same time the baby's did." TaeLyn let out a whimper and sat up quickly, covering her mouth. "You don't have to—" Taehyung couldn't bear to see her cry. He didn't like to see women cry.

TaeLyn shook her head, silencing the lovely boy that sat beside her.

She had to finish.

"The little boy who lost his mother and sister almost simultaneously, began to cry. The nurse who was responsible for the twins, tried to calm the baby boy as other nurses set up the baby girl, hooking her to a heart monitor." She almost laughed at what she said next, but the pain in her chest was unbearable. "Appa said Jungkook was crying his lungs out and he was afraid that he'd collapse, too. But no," I smile weakly. "Eomma came into the room the minute he heard what had happened to me. Another doctor took care of Ali and she checked on us."

"Eomma got the idea, thinking it was absurd, to put Jungkook next to me while I still had a little life left." Taehyung couldn't help but pull her closer and rub her arms in comfort. "Jungkook stopped crying immediately and squirmed constantly till the heart monitor start to beep and you could hear my lungs gasping for breath." No matter how many times Jungkook annoyed the hell out of her, TaeLyn loved him more than anything. "They didn't dear tear us apart after that. Eomma and Appa took turns checking on us and eventually, decided to adopt us." The weight slowly lifts but I still can't breathe. I look through my bag and find my inhaler. I place it in my mouth and inhale the air that is released, repeating my actions three times. Taehyung becomes concerned when he sees the inhaler. I shake head, squeezing his hand as I held it in mine, entwining our fingers. "Before Ali'ikai died, she named the boy and girl Jungkook and TaeLyn, names Daesung had chosen."

We left shortly after that when my chest began to hurt and the inhaler wasn't doing any good? He kept asking if we should stop by the hospital but I shook my head. We arrived back in Daegu and as we walked up the steps, I finished the story.

"Eomma and Appa wanted to change our last names but decided to leave them because despite not having the same last name as them, it was ours. We were born as Jeon." We spotted Eomma and walked towards her. He opened the back door and took out the tank that I hoped I'd never use again.

"He wanted us to remember where we came from..."

I struggled to breathe deeply.

"He wants us to remember who we are."

SOUNDS LIKE A LEGACY.

NEVER WRITTEN SOMETHING SO...

EMOTIONAL? ANGSTY? SAD?

WELL AT LEAST NOW YOU KNOW THAT HOBI IS MONNIE'S KID :)

AND KANG JOON IS MONNIE AND JIN'S KID.

LOVE YOU ALL.