Tattoo ⚣tk

18

Flashbacks

"Stop!" Taehyung protests, squirming and tugging on the metal clamp chaining him to the soft mattress. He looks at Jeongguk, eyes silently begging him to stop this mess but Jeongguk held no emotion.

"You're gonna hurt yourself if you keep moving and boss would kill me for messing this up," Kai warned as he continues to draw the outline of the tattoo with a liner pencil. This was the first tattoo Taehyung have gotten, a butterfly placed right above his heart with its wings fully expanded across his chest.

"Why?!" Taehyung screams, glaring at Jeongguk with hate and disgust, "why would you do that to me, you fucking possessive piece of shit!"

"Hey! Be careful of what you're saying to boss, he might just snap your neck in half if you keep disrespecting him like that!"

Taehyung manages to sniffle a laugh, "kill me then."

That's it. The thing that Jeongguk found so attractive about Taehyung. Not only is it his beautiful face and body but also that personality of his. Fun.

Jeongguk moves towards Taehyung, his face still expressionless. He slides his fingers up from Taehyung's collarbones to his Adam's Apple before wrapping his long slender fingers around Taehyung's delicate neck.

"Do it," Taehyung dares. Although he's afraid, he wasn't going to show his weakness to Jeongguk.

As Jeongguk tightens his grip around Taehyung's neck, Taehyung squeezes his eyes shut, already prepared for his death. But when the pressure around his neck suddenly disappears, he snaps his eyes open just to see an arrogant smirk on Jeongguk's face.

"The more you try to push me away, the more persistent I'll be," Jeongguk teased as he wipes the tear that slipped past Taehyung's eyes with his thumb, "a baby lion," he chuckles, "cute."

Taehyung is left confused, whether to follow his brain or his heart.

**

Kim Taehyung ultimately decides to follow his heart and maybe that wasn't the best idea but his grandmother always told him to follow his heart. But how could he follow his brain when Jeongguk secretly caress his cheeks everytime he thinks Taehyung's sleeping or when Jeongguk never fails to leave soft kisses on his newly inked tattoo. The same tattoo that he constantly scratches but always fails to remove the ink from his skin. (ik jk kissing it would make it worst but it's cute so let's ignore that.)

"what should I call you?" Taehyung suddenly asks, leveling himself up on the bed he was lying on—more like forced to be in since he's chained to it by his left ankle, "I need to call you something, don't I? Doesn't seem like you're going to let me out anytime soon."

Jeongguk raises his brows and smirks lopsided, leaning his body at the door frame(Taehyung refuses to believe his heart skipped a beat), "why?"

"Were you even listening?"

"..."

"Jeongguk, call me Jeongguk."

"Jeongguk," the name rolls off Taehyung's tongue so nicely, too nicely, "so no 'boss', huh?"

"I mean if you want to call me that, sure."

"too cliche so no thank you."

Jeongguk is a nice name.

**

Taehyung twirls his finger around his bangs, which was already reaching the bridge of his nose. A knock on the door snaps him out of his headspace.

"Come in," he calls, knowing fully well that it's Hoseok since when does Jeongguk start knocking on doors.

Hoseok pokes his head in and looks around before fully stepping in, he smiles brightly at Taehyung, "I brought your breakfast," he happily said as he holds out the platter of food.

It was when Hoseok was getting new clothes for Taehyung to change into, Taehyung suddenly spoke up, "hey, was he always like this?"

"Boss?"

"Yeah."

Hoseok sends a pitiful smile to Taehyung but his eyes indicated a different message, "he's been through a lot."

"What happened?" Taehyung asks, he was extremely curious about what happened to the man who had him locked up and why did he have such a nasty personality.

"I don't think I'm in the position to tell you that," upon hearing that, Taehyung juts his bottom lips out and drops his spoon back to the bowl. Hoseok sighs at this, both Taehyung and Jeongguk are equally stubborn.

"He'll definitely tell you one day. But Taehyung."

Silence.

"Please never ever break his heart."

End

Taehyung flutters his eyes open slowly adjusted to the new lighting. He snaps his eyes open when realizing he was no longer in Jeongguk's large courtyard. Taehyung quickly sits up but, it clearly wasn't the best idea when the sudden blood flow rushed to his brain, giving him a headache.

"Jeongguk," he calls out, eyes searching around the room for the raven-haired male. A sudden fear builds up in his heart, the fear of not knowing where Jeongguk went.

"Jeongguk," he desperately calls out again but again nothing in response. Taehyung moves to the edge of the bed only to realize, he couldn't move his left foot. His ankle is chained to the bed, oddly similar to when he was trapped—back when he was with Jeongguk. He tries to pull on the chain but it was just a vain attempt.

Instead of calling for help, Taehyung curls himself into a fetus position and buried himself in the blanket, shaking from fear; not only for himself but also for Jeongguk.

"Jeongguk. Jeongguk. Jeongguk." He keeps repeating the name desperately as if the said person will come if Taehyung keeps calling his name. Never had Taehyung felt so alone before, ever since he started staying with Jeongguk. Never had Taehyung been away from Jeongguk for this long in an unknown place. It's scary. So scary.

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Me rn^