Kill The Morado (TaeKook)

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"Taehyung. You have to wake up, Taehyung, please wake up."

The first thing Taehyung hears as he starts to come to is Jeongguk's voice, it sounds far and muffled but he knows it's Jeongguk.

"Wake up, Taehyung."

Taehyung's breathes in and instantly regrets it as pain shoots through his abdomen and his lungs are set on fire by the witch hazel surrounding him as he lies on his side.

"Taehyung? Are you awake? Are you waking up?" Jeongguk asks, his voice almost frantic. "Taehyung?"

The younger's eyes open slowly, his lids heavy as his eyes find Jeongguk chained to the opposite wall.

"Oh, thank god. You're awake, right?" Jeongguk asks. "Say something."

"I'm awake." Taehyung gasps out, lifting his head and looking around the concrete cell holding his breath to keep from inhaling the witch hazel.

"Good, perfect. You need to get up." The older says. "The chains are made of silver and its draining my strength. If you break them I can get us out of here."

Taehyung drops his head, his eyes slipping shut.

"No, no you have to stay awake." Jeongguk says quickly. "Taehyung?"

"The witch hazel. I-I...I can't~"

"Yes you can. You can, you just have to fight it." The older says, trying to sound less like he was having a mild panic attack. "You just have to try."

"T-The sword had witch hazel on it. I'm not gonna heal." Taehyung realizes, chocking on his words as a sob rises in his chest.

"I can't help you unless you get me out of here, Taehyung. I know it's hard but you can fight it. I've seen you fight it before." Jeongguk says, pulling at the shackles around his wrists weakly. "When I first s-saw you, you fought it then. That night in the woods, remember?"

Taehyung's eyes open as he recalls that night in the woods.

"You used your powers on Namjoon and Hoseok. T-The witch hazel should have drained your powers but you fought through it. B-Because you knew if you didn't you'd die." Jeongguk says breathing shakily. "You were desperate, you have to get desperate. Are you listening?"

"Yes." Taehyung grunts, his lungs igniting once again as he takes a breath.

"Don't breathe. You can do it, Taehyung." The older says encouragingly.

Taehyung starts to push himself from the ground, he can't help the gasp that slips from his lips at the pain shooting through him.

"You got it. It's okay." Jeongguk says as he watches Taehyung's arms tremble in pain as the younger pushes himself into a sitting position.

Taehyung looks up meeting Jeongguk's eyes for the first time, his face is wet with sweat and his chest heaves as he nods his head.

Taehyung tries to refrain from gasping in pain as he brushes away the witch hazel flowers that have been laid out in front of him.

He tries to stand but his legs are too weak, he collapses back down onto the ground crying out in pain and wrapping an arm around his stomach.

Jeongguk cringes looking away for a moment.

Taehyung ignores the burning of his lungs and the constricting of his throat as he takes a deep breath before pushing himself forward and crawling on his hands and knees.

His arms shake from the effort but once he's on the other side of the cell and away from the witch hazel he can breathe a little easier, sitting against the wall beside Jeongguk and holding his arm around his stomach.

Jeongguk gives him a minute before saying anything. "Are you okay?"

"Hurts." Taehyung breathes out. "Hurts really bad."

"I'm sorry." The older says, he doesn't know why he apologizes.

Taehyung looks up at him, his eyes heavy. "I have to break them, the chains?"

"Yes. You can do it." Jeongguk says. "Just focus and you can do it."

Taehyung reaches up and grabs the first shackle, pulling at it weakly at first before pulling it with all the strength he can muster but it doesn't budge.

He releases an exerted breath. "I'm trying, I'm sorry."

"Try again. Don't be sorry, you almost had it." Jeongguk says eying Taehyung's hands on the shackle.

For a moment Taehyung feels like he knows Jeongguk again, the older's kind voice one he remembers.

He takes another breath before pulling at the shackle with everything he had in him, breaking it successfully this time.

"Yes! Yes, yes. Perfect." Jeongguk says excitedly, a smile actually forming on his face. "The other one, the other one."

Taehyung feels weak as he reaches over Jeongguk to get to the other shackle.

He closes his eyes and takes another breath, focusing all the energy he has left on breaking the shackle.

This one seems to break easier than the other one, freeing Jeongguk's other hand.

Jeongguk sighs in relief as he stands. "Thank god that worked."

Taehyung sits back against the wall, grunting in pain.

"I can break the lock on the door easily, we just have to..." Jeongguk trails off as he looks down at Taehyung.

"I don't think I'll make it." The younger gasps out, his eyes squeezing shut in pain.

Jeongguk kneels down in front of him, taking his hand in both of his.

Taehyung is confused before he feels the pain draining from his body. "Don't."

Jeongguk releases a tense breath as the pain disappears. "It doesn't hurt me."

"Y-You have to find Jin a-and Namjoon." Taehyung starts, his voice thickening with emotion.

"You have to come with me." The older says. "I can't leave you here."

"I can't fight, Jeongguk. Y-You have a better chance a-at finding them and getting away without me right now." The younger says, he sounds short of breath. "You h-have to find them."

"Taehyung," Jeongguk says. "don't make me leave you."

"I'm s-sorry, for all the trouble and pain I've caused you, Jeongguk. I-I never wanted to hurt you o-or to be the reason you get hurt." Taehyung says, he needed to say this. "I know it's probably r-really hard for you to hear right now but I love you. I love you so much...more than you'll ever know..."

"I'm not leaving you here." The older says, he couldn't leave him here.

Taehyung smiles softly as tears fall down his face. "It's okay. Y-You...save them, Jeongguk."

Jeongguk watches as Taehyung's heavy lids fall shut, his head dropping as he goes unconscious.

"I'm not leaving you. I'm can't leave you here. I can't leave you." The older says looking around the room in panic, his chest heaving.

He hesitates before scooping Taehyung up in his arms and placing him back on the pile of witch hazel, he knew it would hurt him temporarily but this was all he knew to do.

He tries to make it look like Taehyung hasn't moved before standing to leave.

"I'm going to come back for you. I can't leave you here." He says to the unconscious boy before turning towards the flimsy door and breaking the lock.

He needed to find Namjoon and Seokjin.

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