⸸Patient Kim⸸

⸸ 26 ⸸

Water was now overflowing from Patient Jung's mouth, as he lay on the dirty, tiled floors, coughing up water. Seokjin grabbed ahold of Hoseok's back, and sat him up.

Almost instantly, as the patient was brought back to his senses, he ended up dividing his mind into two: Now, part of him saw the empty room, and another half saw a large, dark blue ocean.

And the only thing that was proving his hallucinations to be visible, wasn't because he was coughing up the water that was full of parasitic worms. But because Patient Kim had
also noticed the immense amount of water that was now splattered on the floor, rising up to his feet.

"Help... Me... Help me!" Hoseok continued to cough, feeling his lungs weren't functioning properly any longer, making it harder for him to breathe even for just a second.

Seokjin watched as the water continued to rise at a speedy, unforgiving pace, as it had now shown no mercy for the young adult who had been slowly submerged into the ice cold water, floating on the current as his reflection grew less noticeable to the older male.

By now, Seokjin was lost in the deep ocean. His body was lighter than dust, rocking steadily from side to side, the closer it was to sinking deeper into the bottomless pit, where the center of the ocean lay.

If his fragile body were to end up down there, then his chances of survival would instantly decrease from a 50 percent to a 10 percent, due to how difficult it is to swim back to the surface, once having sunken in so deep.

He couldn't see anything. His vision was blurry, and all that he could focus on was escaping from the ocean he had involuntarily dived into, at a foolish attempt at saving a man who he barely even knew.

"I did this to myself, so why would I want to save my life? To breathe?

To breathe until I die, or until those savages decide it's my time to go?

I should stay where I belong. I shouldn't fight it anymore..." When the last bell rang in the vampire's head, it reminded him that the end was neigh, and that he was slipping away from his current existence, transitioning into the underworld, as his lungs were now seconds away from collapsing.

Seokjin didn't take heed into the warning his body was telling him, despite kicking his feet in the water, continuously. Even if he felt like fighting one last time, the man was far too mentally exhausted to continue swimming up any further.

And instead of using his arms to swim back to the surface, he slowly allowed his body to drift away, realizing that the problem wasn't his body, but his mind for not wanting to let
go so soon.

"Silly me. In a world so cold, this is where I've learned to find the most warmth: Because my body is finally free to do as it pleases, and yet... It wants me to live.

What exactly is it that's stopping me?" He felt his overworked heart was trying to pump out blood twice as fast, but the man was slowly losing complete rhythm. His cold body grew impossibly colder, and its color changed, from a light, pale white, to an eerie blue.

The pigmentation around his lips was completely gone. He no longer owned those rosy red lips anymore, and was confined to a pair of colorless, chapped, bluish ones, that was a sign of him losing the last remaining oxygen left within his body.

Seokjin's POV:

"It's raining... How beautiful.. I haven't seen the rain in years." As the graceful sounds of rain, mixed with the dominance within the lightening started to unravel a storm from the world above me, I was able to witness it all, as the clouds beautifully darkened with different shades of dusty grey.

Each cloud was different, but all said the same thing. They were in desperate need of a release, for them to feel relieved.

Seconds later, as the first stroke of lightening was heard from a much distanced place from here, I stared at the darkness above me, basking in all its glory, longing to reach the end of my last breath, to finally breathe after many years of being confined to a hospital.

The atmosphere grew dense, and even if I had all of the freedom in this large ocean to swim freely, what good did it do if my weakened body couldn't reach out to even find a start to the end of this deafening ocean of pitch black darkness.

My ears were clogged up with the amount of water that had managed to get inside of them. The pressure was so severe, that I felt my head was about to explode, the closer I was to reaching the seemingly, bottomless pit within this ocean.

And, at my last step to never once seeing the light of day, or taking in the very last puff of breathable air, I heard a loud splash echo at the very top of the surface, but I could no longer open my eyes to reveal who or what had taken a dive inside of this dark, deep blue sea.

Just when my lungs were at the edge of collapsing, I felt a strong impulse in my body, and that was enough to pull me all the way back to the surface, cheating death for once.

The first thing I was able to release from the deep ocean before it attempted to pull me back down, was nothing but a mere hand of mine, which was fortunate enough to be the first to feel the ice cold breeze that ran through my entire body, from the moment it was brought back to safety.

My suspicion of who had rescued me from this ocean of darkness was Hoseok, as he had been the one who sank inside in the first place. But I was surprised when watching his body floating in the current, almost lifeless, ending with my theory of him pulling me up to the surface.

"If he didn't save me, then who did?"

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