TYRANT || Taekook || ✓

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"What is this Jeongguk? What do you mean?" Taehyung asked, looking at him worried and confused.

He could hear his heart pound erratically, Jeongguk's voice was too distant. his Knight commander and General, watching it burn? And why was he looking at him like that?

"Do you know why I gave this Kingdom to you, your highness?"

Taehyung just sat there on the bed, no words left his mouth. It felt dry, he felt choked.

"Because I thought you would be different from your parents, I thought that you would rule this kingdom in a better way.

I waited for 5 years, hoping that you would change while your subjects' conditions worsened

I answered your every beck and call, for 5 years all because I loved you," he stated. His tone was eerily calm, it made a shiver run down Taehyung's spine

"I'm taking it from you," he finally looked at Taehyung, his eyes were watery but his words were stone cold.

Jeongguk stood up from the cushioned chair only to slowly approach Taehyung and sit next to him.

He touched Taehyung's shocked pale cheeks with the back of his cold fingers, then cupped them.

Taehyung shakily exhaled, leaning into his touch as Jeongguk's other hand combed through his hair.

"I would have given it to you in a breath. It doesn't mean anything to- "

"Yet we took so many lives for it,"

Taehyung's body suddenly hesitated to even breathe near the other but Jeongguk still kissed his stiff self.

His were the same lips that Taehyung had kissed innumerable times, but they felt different.

It felt as if he was kissed by those lips for the last time.

When Jeongguk let him go, he leaned next to his ear,

" I'm sorry,"

Jeongguk said.

then the door was roughly opened and the guards led by Knight Jung rushed in

"This is a revolt against the King, castle is under siege," Taehyung looked at him with bewilderment and then at Jeongguk who was sitting right in front of him without reacting to it.

It was as if he was expecting it.

The Knight then stood up, "you are late," he then said, his voice was curt...cold even.

"I'm sorry, my /King/," said the Knight addressing Jeongguk.

It all finally came crashing down on Taehyung.

Was anything real at all? The time that they had spent together, all those 'I love you's that were exchanged, all the nights spent together. They were all laughing at Taehyung in his head. Was he really an unnecessary addition to this world? Even his lover does want him now.

But then came the reply he was not expecting at all.

"Lock Taehyung in the Dungeon under the castle," said his lover, and the tears which were being held back by Taehyung fell from his eyes and rolled down his cheeks.

Jeongguk extended his hands for Taehyung to hold. Taehyung doesn't know why but he still accepted that hand.

He took it and got off his bed. His tears just kept on falling. He was breaking.

Maybe he had accepted his fate too.

His fate of being unwanted.

The guards then came to him. Each holding his biceps roughly as they lead him away and towards the dungeon.

He would have not cared even a bit if Jeongguk had taken away his Kingdom but was separated from the only one that he loved and hoped that the other loved him too.

Oh, how sure he had been of Jeongguk's love for him?

But his lover was locking him in the Dungeon, and the father of his unborn child was locking him in the Dungeon.

Will he ever see the light of day again? Maybe if he begs they would let his child live.

That's when he broke entirely as he cried on the floor of the cell he was locked in. He should be grateful that he was alive.

His hands instinctively cradled his womb. All he has done since yesterday night is cry, his throat felt parched and it was cold too.

Was his baby feeling the cold too?

Being locked in a cell could never be good news for a pregnant person,

But would they show him mercy when he himself had been merciless?

It was his fault, he should be punishable, not his baby.

Even when Taehyung's sobs echoed there, the silence in those halls was deafening as he fell asleep to his sobs again.

When Taehyung woke up next, the door to his cell was being opened by someone he couldn't quite figure out from his sleepy haze.

He had been sleeping in a fetal position when he had woken up and had cushioned his head and the other warming his belly.

He had first thought that it had been his food like every time and the person would leave the moment they were done with their task, but that didn't happen.

He had expected the person to leave because of his reluctance to turn around and face them but that didn't happen.

Taehyung reluctantly let himself turn to sneak a look and it had him sitting right up from the shock.

Jeongguk was here.

He wouldn't dare to tell him that he was pregnant. Taehyung doubts it would be anything pleasant for his lover- could he even call him that anymore his thoughts were going haywire and so were his emotions.

Another stray tear slid down the apples of his cheeks as he uttered hopelessly,

"...Gguk,"

Taehyung had lost his voice because of his continuous crying it seems.

Jeongguk had the same distant look on his face.

"three months," Jeongguk stated "you'll live here for three months and then I'll let you go.

You leave here as Kim Taehyung who does not have anything to his name and shall stay as en exiled in the outlands," he completed

Taehyung's eyes widened in shock but his heart clenched in pain again.

"W-why?" was all he could gather to mutter

"Because in three months, I'll be crowned King of this kingdom the moment I get married to King Min of the South.

The people of this kingdom won't trust me until your highness will be completely out of the picture,"

Yeah, Taehyung was just an inconvenience now, and so would their- /his/ baby.

" I-" Taehyung exhaled shakily, looking down as he bit his lips to stop himself from crying " I understand your Majesty" Taehyung stuttered out.

So this is what they call heartbreak huh? Taehyung thought.

Jeongguk stood up from where he was sitting on the floor as he opened the door to the cell.

"Till it's time to leave, you will be provided with necessities, a bed, and covers."

-"Can his majesty let me stay in the company of my handmaid till then" Taehyung tried with a tired

and dead tone.

But his voice betrayed him. His desperation was clearly reflected in his voice.

He needed help with taking care of his unborn while he was here.

"Still sticking to your luxuries?" Jeongguk chuckled "Okay then, consider it a parting gift this is the last time we meet," said he, looking out of the cell.

-"Do you really not love me anymore?" wailed Taehyung as he tried to cling to any hope but Jeongguk just left.

Crushing every ounce of hope under every step he took away from Taehyung.