Blood Tie

Chapter 11

Jungkook's POV

My attention went back to the girl crying in my arms and clutching my shirt tightly. I rubbed her back awkwardly while holding her to my chest. I glanced over at the 3 bodies that laid unconscious on the floor. One of them started to stir, slowly lifting himself off of the floor and looking around in a dazed fashion. His gaze landed on me and Rox, eyes latching onto her as she was curled in my arms. I recognized him as the one Rowan had pinned to the wall that earlier had a dead look in his eyes. His black eyes now held anger and intense hatred and bore into me. I did not react, not knowing how to when this boy who I had never seen before seemed to wanted me dead at his feet. His gaze shifted back to Rox and softened when grazing over her inconsolable form. She was crying so hard now she was hiccupping into my chest.

"R-Rox..." The boy said her name, it scraping harshly from his throat, voice sounding rough and cracked. Rox's head snapped up and she looked at him, terror and betrayal burning in her eyes. Seeing the boy reach toward her hesitantly, her eyes filled with sadness and what looked like spark of hope? If I had fur, it would have bristled at seeing the hope in her eyes as the boy reached towards her. I shifted my arms to under her legs and behind the middle of her back. I stood up abruptly with her cradled in my arms, against my chest, breaking their eye contact. In all the commotion, Rox's hair must have come loose in her bun as it tumbled down around her when I stood. Her long black hair brushed against my arm and I was hit by a strong wave of her scent again, the intensity making me dizzy. As I stood, swaying slightly, Rox's arms flew around my neck in surprise at the sudden shift in position. I could feel her looking at me but could not tear my now hardened gaze away from the boy, now standing a few feet in front of me.

I tightened my arms around her protectively and turned my back to the boy and went back to the corridor. I could feel his angry gaze burning into my back as I walked away from him, only feeling it disappear as the door shut quietly behind me. I strode to Taehyung's door and used my arm under Rox's legs to balance her as I used my hand to open the door. I walked in to see Taehyung brushing the hair away from Kai's face with care. He jumped back guiltily when he heard me close the door. As I was walking Rox here, she had buried her face in my neck so it appeared as if I was the only one to see Taehyung's interaction with Kai's unconscious form. I merely arched a brow at Taehyung's panicked look, saying nothing. Rox seemed to have passed out in my arms so I laid her beside Kai on Taehyung's bed gently.

I turned to Taehyung and finally spoke, my voice sounding tired. "Is this how it always is here?"

"No it's not, I personally blame these girls. Disrupting my peaceful existence and all that. How are you taking it all?" Taehyung looked at me in concern, his gaze making me feel a bit better at being here, knowing it wasn't just Rox I had now.

"I'm tired and worn out, it's been a long day." Taehyung nodded at me solemnly and walked over to his closet, pulling out a towel and tossing it to me. I caught it and looked at him in confusion. He tilted his head towards his bathroom.

"Go take a shower, calm down and relax, I'm gonna go update the rest of the floor on what happened." I nodded numbly at Taehyung and thanked him, making my way towards the bathroom. Taehyung stopped at the door to his room just before exiting and called back to me.

"And Kook? You might as well just call me Tae from now on, I'd say after the day we've had, we can consider ourselves friends now." Without waiting for a response, he left his room and left me to my thoughts. I entered the bathroom, closing the door softly so as not to disturb the 2 girls that lay in Tae's bed. I stripped off my wrinkled clothes numbly and stepped into the large shower and let the hot water pour down my back, warming the muscles that I had been tensing off and on all day from the shocking situations I was thrown into. I wondered at what I would end up becoming while I rubbed my collarbone distractedly, finally able to feel the implant as the swelling had receded. Would I become like that, crazed and lacking any semblance of humanity, when I finally emerged? The hybrid side of Kai, Loki and Rowan had been terrifying, what if I was worse? My thoughts wandered to the boy who reached for Rox, she looked so betrayed and sad when looking at him. I wonder what happened between them to cause such pain. I remembered the spark of hope in Rox's eyes and became bothered at the thought though I could not pin point why. Abandoning all thoughts I let myself finally relax and unwind under the hot water.

Rox's POV

My eyes opened slowly, still feeling heavy due to the lack of energy. I stared up into an ivory colored ceiling and slowly lifted my body into a sitting position on the soft surface I laid on. I noticed I had been laying on a black bed next to Kai who still appeared to be unconscious. Hearing a door open I turned my head towards the sound. My eyes grew large at what I saw before me and my face burned with what I knew was a fiery red blush. Jungkook exited what appeared to be a bathroom, walking through a wall of steam. His hand held a small towel that he had been drying his hair with, the muscles in his arms bunching up and flexing temptingly. His veins in his forearms stood out slightly making my vampire side purr happily though no sound left me. He only had a towel wrapped around his waist, hanging low on his hips showing off his muscle ridden torso that still had beads of water running down it. He abs flexed dangerously as I counted one, two...six of them! He had a six pack under all that lightly tanned golden skin. He walked towards a bag that appeared to have clothes and shoes in it, I'm guessing the clothes Taehyung had lent him. The towel shifted lower on his well toned body as he moved, showing me those v-line things that girls go crazy over. I bit my lip and realized why now. He lowered his arm from drying his hair and my gaze locked onto the vein that throbbed in his neck. A choked whimper escaped me as my hand flew to my mouth in shock and embarrassment. Jungkook's head snapped up at the sound and his eyes widened when he noticed I was awake and had been watching him the whole time. He clutched the towel around his waist and stood straight up, showing me his body again unintentionally. I couldn't keep my gaze from roaming his chest again no matter how hard I tried. I saw his other arm lift slowly to point straight at me.

"Uh Rox, not that I'm not flattered at the fact that you can't peel your eyes off of me but um, your eyes are glowing red right now and your fangs just popped out."

I don't blame ya Rox xD