BTS-irreplaceable-DISCONTINUED! sorry

Close to being Human

-----5 Days later------

Taehyung woke up to  a soft beeping of the monitor, and opened his eyes to white walls. 

"Oh...he is wake.." A soft voice called from the side. Taehyung turned his head slightly to look at the source. He found a small, orange haired guy, smiling at him. 

"w..hoo..?" Taehyung managed to say weakly.

"Easy there kid..." That voice Taehyung knew. He snapped his head towards RM.

"You...made it" Taehyung said, sounding surprised.  Only then did he notice many faces in the room. Aside from Yoongi and Jungkook , he could see an  orange haired guy and a guy with red hair and a sunshine smile. 

Following Taehyung's sweeping eyes, RM introduced everyone quickly to get down to the question he really wanted to ask.

"Taehyung....why...why did you save me?" RM finally asked, and everyone grew alert, wanting to listen.

Taehyung, who had now taken a slightly sitting position, stared at his hands in his lap.

"...you...gave me a choice..." Taehyung said in a small low voice.

"Yeah...a choice to save yourself...then why did you stay and save me?" RM pressed.

Taehyung was still looking down.

Taehyung finally looked up at RM, with eyes soft and vulnerable.

"you gave me a choice...you ...asked me to save myself...if you had asked me to distract them so you can get away...I would have ran, if you would have asked me to die in your place, I would have left to let you die...but you...asked me to run..." Taehyung said with voice getting small, like it was the first time he was talking from his heart, and not his head. 

When he continued, the next words pulled at everyone's heart, even Yoongi.

"....you are the first one who gave me a choice....people usually tell me to save them, sacrifice, get hurt for them, because ...I am disposable, I am...replaceable, even to my family....my mom asked me to take her place when she could not pay the loan sharks back...she asked me to sacrifice for her....I would have, but...she never asked..." Silent tears fell onto Taehyung's lap. It had been ages since he spoke with any real feelings, or had any. It was always survival the only thing that kept him going. Expectation of kindness was a concept that Taehyung had given up a long time ago; but RM had shown him kindness, cared about his worthless life.

" Well, then...do you want to join our family?...I assure you no one in our family is replaceable...ever!" The offer made the younger boy look up with hope in his eyes. 

"Real..ly? like you would...let me join your gang?" Taehyung asked, not to get his hopes up too high, but he knew that at least with RM he would not treat Taehyung's life as worthless and he did not mind protecting the older.

"What do you say Yoongi?" RM turned to his best friend and second in command, knowing Yoongi was the most cautious out of all of them.

Yoongi took a deep breath. The kid had saved RM because he showed him a shred of humanity. Looking at those damn doe eyes Yoongi knew he could not refuse, specially that BTS owed him for saving their leader.

"Fine...yeah..I am good with it...he did show guts and loyalty by saving you so yeah...i think he is fine to join.." 

Taehyung smiled, a boxy smile, a smile that melted the heart of everyone in the room. It was a real smile that reached his eyes.

"Call me...Tae"

-------The Next day---------

BTS took Tae back to their headout, where he was to meet Jin, but Namjoon had no doubts that Jin would love the kid. It had only been a day since Tae became part of BTS and him and Jimine became quick friends. Apparently both loved hugs and cute things, so they both huddled together and laughing. Jungkook also had taken a liking to Tae quite quick. He liked the fact Tae played the same games as he did, no one in BTS played games with him.

"So you...cook, take care of everyone, and the house..." Tae said counting on his fingers after Jin was done explaining to him what he did in BTS. Jin was leaning on the counter, facing Tae, with a huge smile. The huge smile was a result of Tae's first words to Jin after meeting him.

"You are so pretty!" Tae had said with his famous boxy smile and it had got Jin hugging him like crazy. Jin had suddenly withdrew realising Tae was new and probably did not like hugs but got extremely excited when Tae confirmed that he loved hugs. Right there and then Jin had declared Tae as his nicest kid.

Now they both were sitting in the open kitchen chatting to get to know each other.

"so...you are like...Eomma!" Tae said excitedly, which made Jin coe at the cuteness. It even made the others smile.

"I...never really had a Eomma...specially not such a pretty one..." Tae said with his cheek rested on his palm. 

What a charmer. Yoongi slightly shook his head, but smiled his gummy smile, knowing that Tae was not faking it. He meant every word of what he was saying. Somehow, the cautions, annoying, big mouthed kid he had met, had apparently turned to a full on fluff ball. Apparently, it was his real personality, one that he never really could indulge in , in his line of work. 

Pity. Its cute.

Everyone's energy in the house had gotten more active with Tae. He was just so infectiously happy to be around people who he could call family, people who did not think he was replaceable, people who would come to find him if he got hurt or lost. He loved as openly as Jimin, childish as Jungkook, fun loving as JHope, curious as RM, and warm as Jin. With Yoongi, the kid refused to acknowledge the walls he had built around his heart. He did not fear to be close to him, to tease him or to hug him like a younger brother. Yoongi liked it, but he would never admit. He could not help but be emotionally lighter around the fluffball. And no one could now imagine a life without Tae in it.

Little did they know, soon they might have to.