"I don't understand this, one second I'm holding his hand, the next I'm crying atop some abandoned scaffolding, staring out at the cold choppy water below as the sun sets."
Adapted from Taekook AU previously shared on twitter.
"It's over, Taehyung." He says as he stands, making to leave as I sob my eyes out. Why? What did I do? How could he leave like this? I try my best to get any words out of my mouth but it only ends in hiccups. "It's not your fault Tae, but we need to end this now." Then I'm alone. Left to deal with the pain, no explanation, only the unbudging fear that I'm not good enough.
I move to the edge of the barely stable scaffolding, sitting and letting the wind dry my tears. What would make him end things so abruptly? Everything was perfect. "I'm sorry, Jungkook, whatever I did, I'm sorry." I curl up into a ball, feeling the wind getting colder. Laying in a puddle of tears just wishing to end this pain.
Snap. Creek. Bang. Name all the onomatopoeia you want, that's all I heard before everything went blank, before there were two of us, two of me, sitting in a white room, opposite a smirking, dirty blond haired man.
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"Kim Taehyung, right?" I nod lightly, confused and expecting to wake up any moment, but this doesn't feel like a dream... not like any I've had before. "Fell from rickety scaffolding into choppy water, died from impact and torn to shreds by the water, lovely."
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"I-I'm dead?" His mischievous smile tells me I'm right, but just as I feel theres more to it, he speaks. "Well yes, but also no. You see while there is no way for you to be alive, but you also haven't completed the dying process." What? "You haven't ascended, so after we figure out why, we need to send you back to fix it." That explanation only brings more questions. But one that hasn't left my mind: why is there two of me?
"What happened before you went to the scaffold?"
"Jungkook." Is all I can say, nothing else, just his name. It hurts to say it, but it doesn't hurt me, it hurts the other me...
"Oh thats must be it, what happened? Who is Jungkook?" I sigh, funny how they know exactly how I died but nothing about my life before it. This feels like a therapy session, they know my illness but they don't know me.
"My boyf- ex-boyfriend." Theres a lump in my throat. I can feel the other me on the verge of tears, which confuses me still.
"Did you break up just before you died?" I nod. "That explains it, you're heartbroken, thats why theres two of you."
"So heres what has to happen. You'll be given a new body, and you need to mend your relationship, not in a way of getting back together, but to give you closure." All I can bring myself to do is nod as I focus on what he says.
"Do you understand Taehyung?"
"I think so."
"Then tell me."
"I will be Min Yoongi, become jungkook's friend, find out why we broke up while ghost me follows us and then we will get to ascend." His smile has a hint of relief, I guess he goes through this a lot.
"You will have to regularly check in with me, you will only have a seven hours a day on earth, yes that means this is not earth, and no this is not heaven or hell or purgatory or anything else you could possibly think it is, we like to call it The Void."
They let me sleep, or I guess you can't call it sleeping, but I close my eyes and when they open again I am in a weird room, but it looks like a any ordinary bedroom, like one on earth, but I don't recognise it. I open the curtains to let some light into the dark room and get a mouth full of dust as I do so. Why is it so dirty in here?
The first thing I do once my mind adjusts to where I am? Isn't it obvious? I slowly walk towards the corner of the room, taking a deep breath as I prepare to look in the mirror. Did they make me attractive? Did they make me ugly? What will Jungkook think? I stand with my eyes closed, slightly nervous, before I finally gather the courage to peek. "Oh." I tilt my head and pout, I guess I'm hot, but not mine nor Jungkook's type, which I guess is a positive thing? I still have many questions but I'm not sure whether it matters.
I feel like I have to act, this isn't me, and maybe being me will only make Jungkook uncomfortable and not want to spend time with me? Sighing once again I leave the messy, dull bedroom to find a few men on the sofa, "Oh, Yoongi, you're awake." Who are these people?
"Uh, yeah, I uh, do we have any food?" I can feel too many eyes on me and it makes me uncomfortable.
"Yeah, don't you remember? You and Jin went shopping yesterday." Who is Jin? Who are you? Who is rapping in the bathroom and why does this body have an already establish life? I nod before I head to the kitchen, the body just kind of guiding me, like muscle memory. I decided to let the body do its thing for now, I need to learn about him and his life before I jump into trying to be friends with Jungkook, what if he asks about me? I cant tell him TaeHyung's life.
For the first time ever, I liked drinking coffee, and I ate food Taehyung didn't like, but being Yoongi, he like different things, he has different allergies, his life is so different to my own that I cant seem to take control over his body, what if I accidentally kill him? "Hoseok, can you talk to Yoongi? He's acting really weird." I hear the same voice that greeted me this morning say as the bathroom door opens and a brunette man makes his way out. Hoseok, I recognise that name, and not as Yoongi, as Taehyung.
"Sure thing boss." Theres a pause before the boy's head peeks round the door frame. "Yoongs, can we go to my room and talk while I get ready?" It takes a few seconds but I finally respond without seeming like too much of a tit."Sure" I follow him to his room, sitting anxiously on the edge of the bed."Okay whats up with you?" Where do I even begin?
