Until We Drown : Vhope

【パート14】

“Would you believe me if I told you V is becoming human?

Namjoon looks up from his book, lowering his eyes slightly as he processes the question. Hoseok wants to swallow the lump of anxiety in his throat, but the air had gotten so still he thinks thesound would be as loud as the pounding in his ears.

They’re sitting across from each other on the floor of the library’s politics aisle, researching quietly as they did every so often. Hoseok enjoyed Namjoon’s company on days he didn’t want to be alone or needed some motivation.

They were the same age, yet Hoseok was still an amateur at best compared to him, and he’d known that since the moment Namjoon had lead him through thegiant white doors of Divenire

But they understood each other far past the surfaces of their exterior, no words needed, and Hoseok was thankful for their unspoken friendship, tied together with a web of respect and admiration. Hoseok woouldn’t admit it now , but if the time came, he knows he’d take a bullet forNamjoon in a heartbeat.

Namjoon tilts his head, “No, I wouldn’t actually.”Hoseok inhales a shaky breath. He says, “Well… he is.”

Namjoon closes his book and sets it down on the floor beside him, “And how do you knowthat…?”

Hoseok grips his fingers around the spine of his book and feels his own spine tense under thepressure of Namjoon’s gaze, “The animal blood isn’t nearly enough to feed a Syloe. A fewmonths ago, he was dying of thirst. I didn’t know what else to do,so I… gave him a small vial of my blood. I’ve been doing that every week or so, but it’s actually starting to change his body.”

Hoseok bites his tongue at the small lie. Half of it was true, but judging by the way Namjoon seemed to be taking in the situation, he thinks against telling the cold hard truth.

Namjoon’s jaw had dropped in the middle of his explanation, eyes wide as he sat forward withfurrowed brows. “What the fuck, Hoseok. If Authority finds out, you’re going to get kicked out of Divenire or even sent to the fucking prison ward,”

Namjoon growls in shock. “What the hell were you thinking?”

Hoseok shuts his book, “I wasn’t, okay? And why the hell does it matter if no one got hurt,anyway?”shaking his head.

Namjoon grits his teeth, “He’s a fucking Syloe. Or did you forget? They feed on our kind.”

“They feed for survival,” Hoseok responds lowly.

He inhales a breath of air and tries to calm hisnerves.

“He’s becoming human from my blood, Namjoon. Do you realize what this means? There’s potential that we can cure them.”

“Since when did we have to find a cure for them?” Namjoon refutes, squinting his eyes into slits.

“Since the moment we found out they used to be humans. What does that make us if we just ignore that fact like it’s a myth?”

Namjoon grows silent and stared at him for a long while. He leans back against the bookshelf and heaves a sigh. “We’re going to have to agree to disagree on this one,” he mumbles quietlyshaking his head.

Hoseok finally swallows the lump in his throat, shifting his eyes down to his white knuckles and releasing his death grip on the book. He doesn’t know how to respond, so he chooses not to.

Namjoon knocks his ankle against his hip after minutes of silence,

“I’m not going to stop you, Hoseok, but understand that these things come with a risk. Just- fuck. Becareful, you hear me?”

Hoseok looks up at Namjoon hesitantly. There’s something about the way Namjoon is looking back at him that makes him want to feel guilty. He nods, once, twice, before they both open their books and pretend to be researching.

As Hoseok rereads the same paragraph for the next two hours, the familiar feeling of being alone crawls its way back into his mind like a ghost of the past.

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