Sacrifices (vkook)

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  WARNING: mentions of self harm and suicide.

  "Long time, no see."

    "Yeah, there's a reason it's been a long time." Taehyung says swallowing his fear and speaking with confidence.

    "He's rubbed off on you in the worst of ways." Ms. Jeon says with a heartless chuckle. "Don't worry, we'll knock all that sass out of you soon."

Taehyung's heart drops but he doesn't break eye contact with the woman. "You don't scare me."

She stands walking over to one of the guys who hand her something before she returns.

    "You see this, Taehyung?" She asks holding up a small pocket knife. "Do you know how much damage I could do with just this?"

Taehyung doesn't answer as she kneels down in front of him again.

    "I could cut off your tongue and nip that sass right in the bud." She says bringing the sharp blade to his lips.

Even though he is tempted to move away he doesn't.

    "You've changed so much." Ms. Jeon says like a mother would to her son when he returned home after a long time. "But it's obvious that you still carry around all that baggage. It's not like you can just forget all the things your father had done to you, right?"

Taehyung stays silent, if he spoke the blade would cut his lip.

    "Your father, he should've just killed you. He would have saved the world a lot of trouble." She continues with hatred laced through her words. "Maybe I should have let them kill you that night. Maybe I should have made it look like a suicide, even Jungkook would have believed it. Since you are pathetic enough to kill yourself."

Taehyung clenches his jaw but he can't help the tears that fill his eyes.

    "I know you cut yourself, I saw it the day I met you. I'm not surprised Jungkook missed it, he's dense sometimes. But initially I felt bad, had I know you were going to be the reason Jungkook left the business stranded I would have never let him bring you into my house."

She brings the blade away and uses her other hand to wipe Taehyung's tears.

    "I understand though, if I lived even a second of your life I'd be suicidal." She chuckles. "Not only were you the town whore, you were also abandoned by your mother, beaten by your father, and raped by someone you thought was your friend."

Taehyung looks down at his lap as tears fall, she was breaking him and she knew that.

    "You weren't good enough for anyone, what makes you think you're good enough for my son?" She asks. "What? You love him and he loves you? He doesn't realize that he's getting what no one else wanted. After everything you've been through there's nothing left to you but how fucked you are. Why would Jungkook want to spend the rest of his life trying to fix a fuck up?"

Taehyung closes his eyes, why would Jungkook want to be with him after everything he's been through?

    "It's sad, he really doesn't know that he's giving a pig a pearl and expecting it to know the value of it." She says. "You aren't good enough for him, so why trap him, because you know he's a fool?"