The Addams Family

Chapter 7

Later that night, Taehyung was tucking Taehyun into bed, both of them now devoted friends.

"There were sailors and pirates, and an airplane full of tourists from Miami Beach. All lost in the triangle" Taehyung explained to his nephew.

"Uncle Taehyung, someday will you take me there?" Taehyun asked thrilled

"It's a promise. Goodnight, Taehyun, you were terrific" Taehyung told him as he kissed his forehead.

He held out his headless doll, Taehyung kissing the doll's empty neck. And he also held out the doll's severed head, which he also kissed.

In the cemetery, Soobin was standing in the moonlight, Yeonjun sitting on a bench nearby.

"What a sublime evening. A theatrical triumph..." Soobin said

"A Shakespearean delight!  All hail Taehyung!" Yeonjun exclaimed

"It's like a dream.  When we first met, years ago, it was an evening much like this. Magic in the air.  A boy..." Soobin recalled

"A divine demon..." Yeonjun flirted with a grin

"An open grave... It was my first funeral" Soobin said nostalgically as he sat beside Yeonjun

"You were so beautiful, pale, and mysterious.  No one even looked at the corpse" Yeonjun said

"Your cousin, Balthazar.  You were still a suspect. I couldn't stop staring, all during the eulogy. Your eyes. Your laugh" Soobin described

"You bewitched me. I proposed that very night" Yeonjun said, aglow with romance

"Just think, someday we'll be buried here, side by side, six feet under. In matching coffins. Our lifeless bodies, rotting together, for all eternity" Soobin told him, gazing at the cemetery

"Caro mio!"

"Mon sauvage!"

They embraced in the moonlight, kissing each other passionately.

That morning, in the conservatory, Yoongi was sweeping up, when among the plants, he came upon Mr Yang, tightly wrapped in a plant cocoon, the butler growling at him. Oh did Taehyung forget he was supposed to be at the house and not in the play? Yes, he had.

In the kitchen, the cheerful Addams breakfast was underway, Taehyung at the table with the family.

"Did you like the blood?" Huening Kai asked him

"Perfect, a full bucket. I was so proud" Taehyung assured him

"Weren't we all. Taehyun, play with your food" Soobin told him, the boy teasing something that was moving in his cereal bowl with a fork.

Jin then screamed at the sideboard, pulling a skeleton of a shin and a foot out of one of the serving dishes.

"Who put this in here?" He asked, Huening Kai and Taehyung exchanging a conspirational glance and giggling "That's for company!" Jin exclaimed, referring to the skeleton

"Rascals" Yeonjun said shaking his head amused, when Mr Yang entered the kitchen, peeling off bits of the vines that had encased him. "Doctor! You were so right! What an evening!"

"Taehyung fit right in" Soobin said

"Well, isn't that...nice" Seungri said, glaring at Taehyung

"Does he really have to go?" Taehyun asked

"Yes, he does"

"Well, if he insists upon leaving, we shall mark the occasion. Bin?" Yeonjun said