Aftermath//Taehyung FF

{5} Stress Relief

Deep down I think my couple was expecting the responsibility to be passed to him but now that he had heard it out loud, it had been finalised in his brain.

All that pressure was starting to build inside him and I could see it.

'It's ok Tae, I'm here for you.' I whisper so only he can hear it.

He turns his head to me, giving me a forced smile as Mr Kim closes the meeting.

I tug on his hand and lead the way back to our room.

'I know you're stressed about all the responsibilities, but just know that I am here by your side if you ever need help or a break. I will do whatever to make sure you're ok.'

Before I can continue, my couple hugs me tightly and lifts my feet off the ground as he just about carries me into the room and closes the door behind us.

'All I want to do right now is lie down with my new couple and pretend we don't live in this world. Can you do that with me?'

He cups my cheeks while looking deeply into my eyes in search of an answer.

'Of course.' I simply say as we both go over to the bed to lie down and relax truly for the first time in a long time.

We both quickly change into our sleep wear, backs turned towards each other to not make the other uncomfortable then jump onto the bed once we have finished.

We lay facing eachother under the covers and do nothing but enjoy eachother a company.

Not 10 minutes later, I find myself struggling to stay awake.

He chuckles at my efforts to open my eyes and moves slightly closer while saying 'it's ok to sleep, I know you're tired.'

I nod and unconsciously move closer snuggling my head on his chest.

My eyes shoot open when the realisation of my actions hits me.

'Oh my god, i-I'm sorry. I-' 'No no it's ok... I kinda liked it.'

He pulls me back against his chest with one hand wrapped around my waist.

He sighs contently. 'Ahhhh, this is comfy.'

I giggle at his soft side showing and relax my body to melt into the human contact I so missed for months.

During the pandemic, social distancing had become the norm to everyone even in house holds.

The only social interactions I had were with patients over the phone or 6ft away from them.

It got so lonely that I almost went crazy at one point. But now, as both survivors with the lucky immune gene, there is no need to feel alone anymore.

On that comforting thought, I drifted off to sleep, surrounded by equally as comforting arms which radiated warmth.

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I woke up to the soft light creeping into the room through the window and the soft breaths of Taehyung behind me.

I open my eyes to realise that at some point in the night, we had changed positions into a spoon; me being the little one.

He groaned as I attempted to get up out of the bed but failed as his strong arms pulled me back in to his warmth.

'Tae, we have to get up. We have 30 minutes to get ready.'

'Mhhhh 5 more minutes.' He answers nestling his face into the back of my neck.

'Come on Tae, I know you're comfy but we have to get going.'

'Correction' he starts. 'We are comfy so... 5 more minutes.'

I laugh at his childish behaviour and give into his words.

I turn over resulting in Tae squeezing me against his chest and wrapping his leg over mine.

I laugh again and he opens one eye to check I'm comfy before resting his chin on my head.

'You know I have never felt more relaxed in the past few months then I do now.' I say attempting to wake him up by forcing a conversation.

He simply replies with a breathy laugh and a boxy smile.

'But...' I say making him worried. 'It's been 5 minutes.'

He groans and roles his eyes before finally setting me free from his embrace and getting up with me.

I take my clothes to the bathroom to change and quickly come out after brushing my teeth and hair.

I enter seeing a shirtless Taehyung drinking from a cup.

'O-oh, I'm sorry.' I say quickly and very flustered.

About to turn away, I stop because of his reply. 'It's ok sweetheart, no need to get embarrassed.' He chuckles as he comes closer and boops my nose before going into the bathroom, leaving me a blushing mess.

I snap out of my shock and drink from my cup on the small table.

He enters back into the room, this time with a shirt on and looks slightly worried.

He doesn't utter a word until he strolls very close to be and gently holds the edge of my top. 'Do you mind if I check on your wound? It would put my mind to rest knowing it was healing well.'

I force my wide shock filled eyes back to a normal size and reply with 'u-um ok... just... be gentle.'

He nods and says 'of course' while guiding me to sit down on the side of the bed.

He goes down on one knee and I pull up my top half way to reveal the bandage in need of a change.

He carefully unwraps the fabric and lets out a sigh of relief seeing my very well healed cuts.

He pulls out the first aid kit and wraps a new bandage around my stomach before pulling my top down and looking up to my eyes.

'You really are a fast healer like you said.' I nod and smile noticing he's a lot less tense then yesterday in the meeting.

We finally go off down stairs and part with a gentle hug to go to our sectors.

When I reach mine, I immediately carry on with teaching Jess and Lily some more complex medical procedures including giving stitches, preventing infection and even how to help someone give birth.

Obviously we won't be needing that one just yet but we will definitely in the future.

Everything went smoothly and after what felt like years, it was finally the end of the day and I was waiting in the food hall with mine and Tae's dinner.

I start to see some of the Hunter sector's workers and eventually spot Tae.

He sees me and speed walks over to me. We sit and eat with Lily, Jess and Jess's couple. They both seemed to get on well and I could tell they both had crushes on each other.

We spoke a lot as a group about our past lives and I couldn't help but notice Taehyung's sneaky hand placed on my thigh.

I played it of as cool as possible even through butterflies were having a rave in my belly...