"There are numerous ways in which God can make us lonely and lead us back to ourselves. This is the way He dealt with me at the time." -Hermain Hesse
Taehyung woke up, satisfied from last night's love making. Tzuyu was still sleeping as he got up to change. He decided on an all black ensemble with the exception of the gold embroidered blazer he wore. He walked to breakfast with a content smile on his face, knowing everything was going absolutely splendid for him.
He sat down at the head of the table, luxury foods of all kinds set before him.
"Mark, fetch a glass of Riesling. I'm feeling bad today." He said with a grin. His butler came back moments later with a glass of the white wine.
"Where's the angel?" Taehyung asked.
"She had breakfast earlier. She's in her room." Mark lied. The angel hadn't left her room since last night, nor did she have a good reason to leave. All she could do now was cry and accept her fate as the Devil's bride.
"Alright then." Taehyung said, not caring at the moment and proceeded to eat his breakfast. Mark took a deep breath before heading into the kitchen. He tapped the shoulder of a maid and whispered into her ear, "Deliver food up to the angel's room after the master has left. Make sure he doesn't know we've been the ones feeding her, Nayeon."
Nayeon nodded as she went to go prepare food. Mark left the kitchen with a neutral face and stood quietly at the king's side, waiting for him to finish his meal. Once Taehyung was done, he left the table and went out to the forge to get weapons for his usual round of torturing the souls of damned. Mark saw Nayeon leave the kitchen as soon as Taehyung was out of sight.
Hopefully the angel would accept this small offer of kindness.
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Aurora woke up, her throat sore from crying all night.
"Mistress? I have food for you." A sweet female voice called from outside the door. Aurora got up from the bed and said, "Just a minute."
She opened the door and it revealed a sweet looking girl with wavy red hair and innocent brown eyes. She was holding a silver tray that was filled with food for her to eat.
"Thank you, but you didn't have to do this for me. I could've have gotten it myself."
Nayeon shook her head and smiled.
"Now that you are the master's bride, we consider you our mistress as well."
Aurora took the tray from Nayeon and placed it down on the bed.
"What's your name?" She asked.
"Nayeon, mistress. And yours?"
"Aurora. No mistress, just Aurora." She replied. Nayeon smiled at her one more time and bowed.
"If you need anything else, just give a call Mistress Aurora."
Nayeon left, leaving Aurora lonely once again. She turned to the tray of food on the bed and saw a bowl of rice, seaweed soup, some eggs and meat, and a glass of water to wash it down. She sighed as she started to eat, but all she felt was emptiness.
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"Please master, I beg for mercy!"
Taehyung only whipped the man harder, drawing more blood and opening more wounds. Once he deemed the man well tortured, he handed off his whip to a demon, it still dripping with blood and bits of flesh hanging off the spokes. Taehyung grabbed a mace from a servant and walked away towards another victim.
"Ah~ torturing the damned always leaves me in a wonderful mood." He said, swinging his mace as his servant followed him. Taehyung approached the next victim, a woman who had murdered her husband. She turned to see him and she looked terrified. Taehyung gave the mace back to the servant and looked at the array of weapons he had.
He chose a nice, sharp looking rapier and placed the blade on the neck of the woman.
"You know what you've done to deserve this. Make sure to scream so both of us can enjoy your pain."
He swung the blade and grinned at the blood drawn.
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Taehyung was smiling as he headed back to the castle. He took in a deep breath of the putrid smelling air and headed inside.
"Youngjae!"
Said servant came out and bowed before him.
"Yes, master?" He asked.
"Tell the angel to join me for lunch. I haven't seen her since last night." He said, heading off to the dining hall.
"Pardon me sir, but the angel has already eaten. She had lunch earlier and is now in her room." Youngjae informed him. Taehyung raised an eyebrow. Interesting...
"Alright then. Tell her that she will join me for dinner then." He said. Taehyung sat down at the table and began to eat. Unbeknownst to him, Aurora was watching him from her room. She had been watching him the whole day, as a matter of fact.
She had eaten a small lunch of rice and vegetables before, claiming she wasn't hungry. She hated the fact that he could be happy after torturing those poor souls. She crossed her arms as she watched him eat the most luxurious foods while everyone else could have been starving. Her mind wandered off to Seokjin as she watched the damned suffer in the fields of black grass.
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"I'm never getting her back, now aren't I?" Seokjin asked aloud miserably as he looked at the already wilting white roses his sister had put there only three days ago.
"You know, sulking in here and doing nothing isn't going to get her back either, Princess."
Seokjin turned over to Namjoon who was watching him. Jin sat up from his bed and sighed.
"But if I break the deal with Taehyung, he'll corrupt you again and we'll be in the same mess as before. Joonie, do you know how much I had to sacrifice to get you guys back?"
He collapsed back onto the bed, covering his eyes in frustration. Namjoon walked over and stroked his pink hair.
"We're not going to get corrupted again, araso? Besides, I have to protect my Princess after all."
Seokjin hit his arm and turned the other way.
Oh Namjoon, if only you knew how much that really meant to me...
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A Deal with the Devil || K.TH
Fanfiction"He too was a tempter. He too was a link to the second. The evil world with which I had no longer wanted anything to do with." -Hermain Hesse Jin's world was falling apart: he lost his heavenly virtues to that monster. Without his seven virtues, the...
