scars. kth x myg / taegi (bones sequel)

final

"tae, please? just a bite?" yoongi sat with taehyung in his kitchen, holding out a sandwich to his lips. "you haven't eaten in days. please?"

taehyung shook his head.

"i can't," he murmured, eyes filling with tears. "i'll throw it up anyways."

yoongi sighed, disappointment and concern evident on his face. "how about a strawberry?"

"just one?"

"just one," yoongi assured him, smiling when taehyung picked up a strawberry and put it into his mouth.

"just one," taehyung repeated, his mouth so filled that his words came muffled and unclear.

he swallowed, and then gestured to yoongi's wrist.

"what happened there?" he asked, eyes focused on yoongi's arm.

"what do you mean?"

"your bracelets rode up on your arm for a second, and there was a big scratch on your wrist."

taehyung's eyes looked so innocent and filled with viridity. he was asking with genuine curiousity, no suspicion or worry evident in the way he spoke.

"oh, i fell."

"you fell?"

"i fell."

and now taehyung did look suspicious, and he shot yoongi a short look of disbelief before getting up.

"where are you going?"

"let's watch a movie."

yoongi grinned, laughing lightly. "you're so random, tae."

and so they sat down on yoongi's couch, sleepy and lethargic, as taehyung turned on the t.v. and put a movie into the DVD player.

"what movie did you put in?"

"i don't know."

taehyung sat back down, snuggled into yoongi's arms with his eyes drooping as the movie went on.

it was halfway through the movie that the snakes came back.

yoongi nervously scratched at his arm, shutting his eyes tight and trying to lock away the whispers. it didn't work, and the voices only got louder and louder, whispering and then suddenly shouting. they made a crescendo and then diminished, and they did it over and over again until yoongi finally felt that it would drive him insane.

cut.

they said.

a little deeper.

the whispers.

slit your wrists, and then slit your throat.

yoongi stood up.

"where are you going?"

the snakes.

and then we'll be gone forever.

"bathroom. one minute tae."

yoongi went to the bathroom and shut the door behind him, opening his medicine cabinet and taking out the one thing that would make the voices stop.

and then he sat down on the cold tiled floor, pulling away the bracelets one by one, eventually undoing his watch and setting it on the bathtub beside him.