Doppelgänger✔️

Negotiations

Taehyung!

Taehyung!

Why isnt he waking up? Do something!!

Wake up, please...

Tae.....

Wake up...

Taehyung strained his neck as he stared into the flashing grey sky. The voices of his sister and Mae fall teasingly from its vastness like rain.

His voice cracks as he screams towards them in response desperately.

"JIA!!!!!!! MAE!!!! IM HERE!!!"

He waves his arms frantically as he yelled. Jimin stands near, watching him warily for only a few more seconds before he's reaching out to grab Taehyung by the wrist. His ice-cold touch makes him flinch, ceasing his yelling.

"You're wasting your time. They can't hear you. No one can. Believe me, I've tried." Jimin slowly unhands Taehyung and steps back, giving him space to come to his sense after watching him curse the sky for what could have been several minutes. Of course, there was no way to tell.

Taehyungs chest heaves as he gained control of his frantic breathing, his eyes scanning Jimin's tattered appearance. His dark hair was stringy and dull, all shine and luster gone. His white shirt was too big on his thinning frame, his collarbones poking through the thin dirt-stained fabric. His eyes were rimmed with dark circles and his lips were dry and cracking.

If Taehyung didn't know any better, He'd say he and Jimin had similar experiences over the past week. He shakes off the thought and directs his gaze back up towards the sky.

"Well...how can I hear them?"

Jimin does the same and shrugs lazily.

"Because you aren't dead. I'm guessing..." he responds. Taehyung furrows his brow at the answer and looks over at him as Jimin lifts his fist to his mouth to muffle a cough.

"And.....you are?" Taehyung asks hesitantly. He didn't know where the question came from, but from how Jimin was almost wasting away in front of him...

Jimin's short cough morphed into a chuckle and he shakes his head.

"Naw.....don't think so. But I'm not completely convinced I'm alive either," he says. Jimin tucks his hands in his pants pockets and begins walking past where Taehyung stood in a random direction. Taehyung watched him confusedly but follows, falling in step with him just as he began to speak.

"Not since my run-in with your..twin? Clone....demon thing...Who is a  waaaay bigger dick than you are, let me tell you.." Jimin nudges Taehyung in his side with a sharp and bony elbow. He forces a fake laugh while rubbing at the spot where Jimin had just touched him.

"So..it got to you," he asks and Jimin lets out another dry laugh laced with a cough.

"Oh yeah...We've met..."

Lightning flashed and danced around them as they trudged along the loose sands. The horizon didn't seem to exist as the ground and sky matched in hue, making it seem like they were walking towards a blank void.

"So...I guess it's safe to say your Halmi is a little more than just superstitious, right?"

The sarcasm was laced with off placed sense of mirth that has Taehyung's expression idling between a grimace and a smirk.