Growing up with nothing makes you desperate. Growing up with nothing in a city that feeds on sin? That makes you ruthless. Kill or be killed. That's the rule. The only rule. You learn it young, or you don't live long enough to learn anything else. Trust? That's a luxury the streets don't offer. Kindness? A myth for the weak. But for seven outcasts, trust isn't a choice. It's survival. A genius who sees through the lies. A dreamer chasing a place to call his own. A hellion with a smile sharper than a knife. A fighter who bleeds for what he loves. A dancer haunted by ghosts of the past. A skeptic drowning in his own demons. And a dropout who cleans up the mess-no questions asked. They're not the first to try and take this world. But they'll be the first to come damn near close. Blood spills easy. Time runs out fast. When the walls close in, they'll have only one thing left-each other.

"Are you sure it's just empathy? Are you sure you're not feeling... attracted to me?" There was a shift in his voice as it became more silky, pleasing to listen to. I could feel my muscles relax in response to the soothing sound. "Don't you feel the need to get closer to me? To touch me?" he continued, his eyes darkening wickedly. • • • Jimin is a siren, a once-human creature that is cursed to roam the lonely sea for eternity to pay for his past sins. That is, until he gets captured by the pirate captain Min Yoongi and his crew. When Jimin sets his eyes on Katherine, he knows he has a chance of breaking the curse. All he has to do is get close to her, but Yoongi will not let that happen so easily. As Jimin slowly becomes more human, his ability to love also returns, and his newfound feelings may get in the way of his plans. ➺ Romance ➺ Fantasy ➺ Siren au ➺ Pirate au ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ACHIEVEMENTS: • A Wattpad Kpop Featured Story • • Winner of The Bangtan Writers Awards 2019 • • Winner of The BTS Airplane pt.2 Awards 2019 • • Winner of The Insomnia BTS Awards 2019 • HIGHEST RANKS: ⤷01 in bts ⤷01 in parkjimin ⤷01 in pirates ⤷01 in btsjimin ⤷01 in pjm ⤷01 in yoongi ⤷04 in jimin ⤷02 in hoseok word count: 165,000 COPYRIGHT © Hoseokiiss ** NOTE: though all comments still exist, many older ones are no longer in-line with paragraphs due to some editing **

- "Maybe someday you'll finally say, 'Seoul is indeed a beautiful city' " She had a precious smile, it's gone. Can they bring it back? Can she trust them? Can she understand the meaning of life like she used to, or will she push them away like she did to everyone? . . . . . . Welcome to my very first fanfiction. Hope you like and enjoy reading it. (PLEASE DO NOT PLAGIARIZE MY STORY, I WORKED REALLY HARD ON IT. DO NOT STEAL MY EFFORTS.)

He placed torturously slow, sweet kisses all over her neck before biting into her skin. We all watched in complete silence, one you could hear a pin drop in, but not because of the act, we were almost used to that, but because of the girl's breathless moans of bliss that echoed off the walls as he devoured her blood. "People are trapped in history, And history is trapped in them. Do you really think you have the guts to destroy me?".