Winter Bear || TaeJin [Completed]

14. Palpitations

Seokjin's P. O. V.

Pain. Fear. Blood.

So thankful for the bulletproof vest on him but I can still feel the shudders ripple through his muscles every time he got shot. My senses were getting hazier by the second so I pressed my head to his chest and listened.

His heavy breathing. His racing heartbeat.

Even if I die I have no one to blame. I chose this, I wanted to do this. I wanted to be brave and helpful, but yet again I became a burden. I am crying, and it's the last thing I wanted to do in a situation like this.

"Hold on to me" he softly said to me and my eyes froze onto his dilated dark pupils. A white flame raged there, like a seraph's, who had dawned to guard my soul. His arms tightened around me as I coiled mine around his neck. I let the ruckus around us get blotted out as my brain zoomed in on him.

The way he clenched his teeth in pain and agitation, his Adam's apple bobbing as he tried to gulp down his anxiety, the way his damp dark fringes stuck to his forehead, his sweaty honey skin warm against my cheek. Suddenly everything moved around us and I felt so light.

Are we flying or falling?

Crashhh!

"Urrghh!" His heavy loud groan bellowed at my ears and I fought to open my eyes. I found a gasping and groaning Taehyung under me, his right hand badly bruised and bleeding, and now probably broken. While the other was still protectively wound around me. His eyes were searching me, I tried to mouth an 'I am okay' but was too weak to do so.

Two blurry figures rushed to us the next moment and I was pulled away from him. Panic struck me and I struggled "N-no! Let g-go!" But to no avail as the man carried me away. I wriggled to see Taehyung and noticed another similarly masked man dragging him behind us.

I hazily saw the black SUV in which we were put before familiar voices took over and the car hurried out of the basement.

"Calm down Taehyung or you'll go into shock!" I wearily watched him gasp for breath beside me, his chest heaving as he gulped down mouthfuls of air. Yoongi's eyes shifted from him to me and I heard Kook's voice right over my head "he's bleeding a lot, it's a gunshot wound". I realized it was him who had carried me to the car.

Suddenly Taehyung jolted forward to grab at his chest and growled. I wanted to caress him, help him ease through the pain I had been the cause of. After all I was the one who had injected that drug in him!

I saw Yoongi pat his back "breathe, breathe. This will go down, you need to make through just a couple more minutes" he assured.

Pushing away the pain and the dizziness that was rapidly taking over my senses I tried to sit up but was instantly forced back to lie against Kook. "Don't move much, it might increase the blood loss" he sternly spoke lowering his head closer to my ear as his hand around my waist tightened.

I let my hazy gaze go back to Taehyung who still had his head hanging low, all the voices around me began to fade as I caught the last lingering glimpse of shudders coursing through the man and a whisper speared in through the alluring darkness.

You broke your promise Jin but I promise you, no matter how hard you fight me I'm never leaving your side ever again...

Taehyung's P. O. V.

"Let's have jjajangmyeon hyung!" Hyuk blithely hopped around me as we walked up the stairs to our apartment "and...and stir fried pork!" He suggested already salivating.