✔ || Save Me [[SEQUEL to DISTRACT ME]]

Epilogue

{A/N: Make sure you read the author's note at the end of the chapter!}

"Kill him."

Taehyung blinked at the men in front of him. "Why should I do your dirty work?"

"Kill him," Camael said, "and you'll see your human again."

It was a tantalizing proposition. He missed Jeongguk more and more with every passing day.

But Taehyung had changed.

How couldn't he? He was in Hell. He was with Raphael again.

"You're just scared," Taehyung spat.

"Yes," Camael replied, and Taehyung hesitated at his straightforwardness. "We don't want to have to deal with an attack on Heaven. We have our own issues we're working through."

Taehyung scoffed, "Like what?"

"Like making sure what happened to you never happens again," Jophiel said. "We can't let Heaven fall to Hell. All life would suffer. You know that."

"Lucifer won't try anything without Raphael," Camael reasoned. "He isn't strong enough to take on Heaven alone."

Taehyung glanced between the two archangels.

Kill him. Kill Raphael.

But he couldn't, could he?

As if reading his mind, Camael produced a curved knife from his robes. "This will end an archangel's life. Even one who has sided with Lucifer."

Taehyung squinted at the blade. It was long and jagged, with runes running up both sides that pulsed with an eerie blue light.

"What if I don't want to?" He asked just to be stubborn.

"Then don't," Camael shrugged. "But I think you want to see Jeongguk."

At the boy's name, Taehyung froze.

He'd hurt him. He was sure of it. And if he hadn't, this certainly would.

Numbly, he took the blade.

Jophiel rested a hand on his shoulder. "We must leave now. Lucifer will sense our presence. But think about it, Taehyung. There is little we can do in this situation."

Taehyung glowered at him. "So I hear."

Jophiel offered an apologetic smile, and then he and Camael were gone, leaving him with the knife clutched firmly in his hand. He looked down at it, both disgusted and...hopeful?

"Come here, little one," Raphael purred later that evening.

Taehyung obeyed. He always obeyed. That was all he could do anymore. Raphael was his master, and his slavery wasn't so easily ended.

He couldn't kill him.

But he could see Jeongguk again if he did.

But he'd be someone new. Hell, he already was someone new.

Jeongguk wouldn't love who he'd become.

But you could get closure.

With a sigh, Taehyung relented to that thought.

Raphael's arms snakes around his torso. Taehyung let him pull his limp body onto his lap. He only moved when Raphael forced it. He didn't even kiss him back.

"Take off your clothes, little one," Raphael ordered.

He could see Jeongguk again if he just did it. They could have closure. Maybe, just maybe they could work something out.