Ashen || k.th.

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FLASHBACK

3RD PERSON'S POV

White.

All that he can see is white.

He groaned and immediately felt his throat dry and beg for water which is unusual since he never needs anything. His senses were on point except for his vision. Everything seems so blurry and it made him dizzy. Nonetheless, he can feel the room's chilling temperature. His body seeking for the source of warmth he usually had immediately. He tried to stand but the numb feeling in his limbs crawling into his face stopped him.

'Where am I?'

'Where's Y/N?'

He ponders to himself. He lets out a light groan, which was all what he could muster, and heard quick beeping sounds. He's lost and boy, was he scared. He started taking quick short breaths unintentionally as the beeping sounds picked up its speed as well. He needs her. He needs his Y/N.

His ears picked up the echo of quick footsteps that's followed by a voice calling a doctor. The voice wasn't Y/N's nor did the next one that followed.

"Taehyung? Tae?" A gentle voice called out to him as he frowned and squinted his eyes. He couldn't make out who it was and he couldn't even think straight. "Check his vitals." The voice commanded.

"Thank God, Taehyung. Can you hear me?" The male voice asked as Taehyung let out a grunt much louder since he began to connect to his senses more.

"W-Water." He muttered weakly. As quick as lightning, he was granted with his wish. His vision got better but the feel of his body felt different. He feels so physically numb.

"W-Where am I-I?" His lost eyes scanned his surroundings as he turned his head, quickly regretting it because his vision spun.

"You're at my place, Taehyung. You were in coma for years now." The unknown man stated making his world stop.

What?

"C-Coma?" The man felt more weak than he already is. The man began blabbering things about what comatose is, but he couldn't find the strength to tell him that he knew exactly what it was.

'So I wasn't dead?' He asked himself. 'Was it all a dream then? How about Y/N? Is she real?' Questions flooded his mind as he looked at the man, desperately looking at him. Taehyung knows he can answer most of his questions.

"Who are you?" He suddenly asked. Hurt flashed between the man's deep brown irises which confused Taehyung.

"I expected this already." The man stated with a weak smile.

"Expected? Expected what? Please tell me everything. I'm so lost..." He pleads. The man sat beside a stool perched near Taehyung's bed and took a sigh.

"Do you remember Halloween?" Taehyung closed his eyes at the painful memory before nodding his head. He doesn't want to press the man about his family. He knows they're already gone which leads him to another set of questions about how he is here, alive and breathing when he saw his burnt body along with his parents.

"I happened to be driving around that late night, close to your home. Until I almost hit you with a car. You were in a state of shock with blood all over your body and a few streaks of light burns and I helped you immediately. The next day, I heard about what happened to you and your family. All of them, the police, your lawyers, relatives, they all think you were dead. That you were burnt along with your family. But you weren't because you happen to escape and you were found by me." He explained.