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{ Fasten your seat belts and let's begin the journey shall we!? }
Five hundred years i s a lon g time if you ask a human , but for Jeon Jungkook ? Naah , not really. Being a vampire for last five hundred years ( four hundred and eighty eight years to be precise, twenty two years long human life doesn't count ), has taught hi m alot of things , like how to kill an animal without making it too painful for it or not all vampires are nice and peace lovers like his small but sufficient clan consisting of Namjoon , Jin , Yoongi , Hobi , Jimin and him or that the flow of their never ending time highly depends on how you spend it.
So Jungkook being the ever passionate guy he is , has always made sure to use his time wisely in learning something new everytime! Due to which he's well versed in hunting with arrows, sword fighting , horse riding , shooting , Driving any car or bike , repairing or upgrading that same vehicle , cooking ( courtesy of jin hyung ) or playing several instruments like guitar, piano, harp, sitar, and drums. He even has more than 20 graduation degrees from different distance learning universities throughout the globe.
But now that he's done his expertise in these stuff, he's curious to learn more. while wondering about, what to do next, he ventured into several youtube videos. Finally what attracted him was a whole day video of an art student on their graduation day, it made him feel an emotional connection that inspired him to dream about pursuing art, that too with a real college graduation, not the house-garden one where jin hyung cooks and joon hyung hand over his degree to him with all the other hyungs shooting and hooting his name!!
His dreams for which he had to convince, his sire, joon hyung.
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"Hyung, I really want to attend college with normal people~ please please please, let me go??" Jungkook asked with his sparkly doe eyes.
"What do you mean jungkook we are not normal for you now? And don't you know we can't risk bringing our existence in light? that too in front of human beings? No, never." Namjoon replied without even glancing at him.
' He was not even looking above his newspaper!!! Damn it, this is gonna be hard' jungkook thought
" hyung don't trust me? I have lived five wholeass century hyung!" Jungkook whines,
"Language young man! And what about it? You're still incapable of controlling yourself among humans." Namjoon reprimanded jungkook, making him whine more.
'I can't loose this fight! It's about my god damn dreams! ' jungkook pushed himself.
"That why you should let me go and prove myself! I can really do this!! You and hobi hyung have already taught me everything, I promise I can handle myself out there hyung!! Please hyung, I just really want to experience working outside with someone other than you, hobi hyung, jin hyung, yoongi hyung or jimin"
A deep sigh is heard in the living room, "okay, fine kook. You would learn from your own mistakes, if any" Before he could jump with delight, namjoon added with a strict voice,
"but remember young guy, one mistake and you won't go back there. You need to understand the importance of protecting our beings jungkook. Our ancestors had to fight for many years to keep a portion of land for ourselves, which finally resulted in the bond between humans and us that we won't let our existence come in front of their future generations!"
"I get it hyung, I know. I'll be extra careful I swear!" Jungkook looked down and added softly "But it's been years and I just-" he whispered "want to feel normal for a while"
At this, joon couldn't stop himself from ruffling his hair and say "go enjoy there then kook!" With a sympathetic smile.
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And that's more or less similar to how it went with all his other hyungs. Stopping jimin hyungie form tagging along was the hardest!
Well all this happened years back, and now, jeo n jungkoo k has spent 3 wonderful years in between these 'fragile human beings'(according to yoongi hyung). Initially he was afraid of approaching people or mingling with many, just to keep himself in check. But with time slowly jungkook got a strong hold on himself and now he's confident about not even being affected by being in front of even a blood running wound. And that's something commendable according to namjoon hyung.
G radually jungkook became famous among his peers . In his department people, especially, look up to jungkook for 4 things,his looks, his gentle personality, his brilliant aand his ' friendship with kim taehyung '!
Who would've thought that coming to college will bring such an adorable best friend in jungkook life, huh? Maybe no one. But today Jeon Jungkook has a very charming (- and very talkative) friend, to protect and care for and to be honest, jungkook loves doing just that.
Friendship with taehyung has been nothing less than beautiful for last 3 college years. If you'll ask jungkook, he's glad he made the decision to come here for his degree all those years back, I mean who in their right mind would, unknowingly, miss up on the chance of being best friends with the lovely, lively, caring and sweet taehyungie hyung, right?!
Taehyung is like a blessing in disguise in his cold, lonely life. His best friend, who can smile just once and bring flood of lights in jungkook's life.
The event of meeting his taetae for the first time is significant for him, yes, but nothing abnormally unusual ("is that it jungkookie? Meeting with your best friend for life was not special for you?!" Taehyung would shout at listening this for sure. ). It was like a gentle breeze of wind, on a hot summer.
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Jungkook moved into his residing room just a day before orientation, much to his jin hyung's chargin. While he was taking up his bags upstairs he got a call from his landlord, who asked him to come down to his office to complete some official formalities, after meeting him and signing the agreement, he took his room keys from them.
When he entered the room, without wasting time he settled his luggage and bundled up all the 'emergency' blood bags (exactly what jimin said while handling him those) inside the deep-fridge. After everything was at it's designated place (just like he likes), taking a deep sigh and launching himself on his bed, jungkook felt exerted.Sleeping, although not much needed for a vampire, was something jungkook personally liked to do to re-energize himself after long journeys. But he made sure to plead hobi hyung, to call and wake him up on time for his first day in college, who likes to tend his eons old magic flower garden in the early mornings.
When the D-day arrived, jungkook was both excited and nervous.
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After attending yesterday's orientation, jungkook realised that, sitting with so many blood banks in an auditorium, was overwhelming, but, with all the right training done with his hyungs, luckily he managed to tune down his nasal senses and focus on the ongoing event comfortably.
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When he reached the gates of Seoul National University, walking down the lane following his gps, he was glad to note that his dorm was just a few kilometres away, and was just about to enter the campus when he bumped into someone coming from his right. Before he could stop himself his hands reached around the another person to prevent him from falling down.
" oo f ! " He heard a deep voice, "I'm really sorry!! I didn't notice where I was going-"
"It's alright! No harm done."jungkook corrected the guy, and asked "are you alright?", but when he looked up to the face of the guy he came to a stand still.
In front of him was standing a literal angel with wind-ruffled silver locks, floral button up shirt, rigged black jeans and those big, shiny round eyes lost in assessing jungkook's face.
He was shocked, certainly it has been a long time since he have met any human face to face, but this person standing right in front of him looks intimidatingly beautiful and lost and then something clicked inside jungkook's mind.
"It's your first day as well in the college right?" Jungkook asked, before it could get awkward.
"Umm, actually yes, how did you know?? Oh no! it must be written all over my face, who am I kidding." Mr. Angel replied with an eye roll, " honestly? it's my first time staying away from my family, it's only been 2 days but I already feel homesickness coming and I'm very tensed because of it", a sigh, "although my family says I'm good with making new friends but it's because they're m y family and they would say that, wait I'm rambli-" kook laughed a little, which made the angel shut up.
"Cute." jungkook said that earned him a light hearted glare, standing straight with a hand out for shake he added "Hey, I'm Jeon Jungkook. it's my first day and I've joined arts department. What about you?"
"Oh my god really??! What are the odds? I'm Kim Taehyung and You!Mr . Jeo n Jungkoo k , are my best friend from right this second coz you saved me from falling down and getting my ass dirty!! Also you are the first person I came to know in here. I can already see our time going right!! Yay!!" Angel A.k.a. taehyung took his hands with an unexpected enthusiasm and declared with a boxy smile to him.
That's how a certain kim taehyung stumbled into a vampire-in-hidden jeon jungkook's life and dragged him, by his arms, inside the arts department. That day, outside college gate, jungkook found his safe heaven in the form of a human, where he didn't even think about sucking blood out of taehyung, not once. Till date, even though he has many friends in the college, but he still feel the most comfortable with taehyung.
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Now even just thinking about not being able to meet with tae ever, makes him feel sick in the tummy. Just imagine!! then what will happen to all those late night video game matches?? what about their weekly movie nights!?! Who would have indulged his taetae in cuddles throughout every "it's a very scary movie, jungkookie!!" nights? Who would remember to bring tae's favorite 'strawberry' icecream buckets from that store downtown when his tae was crying over getting 'A' and not 'A+' over his assignment (damn you prof. Park for making his angel cry )?? Who will take care and pamper his bub when the cat he was taking care of since last week passes away? What about protecting his beautiful angel from all those asshole, overbearing and highly unwanted suitors??
Nope, only jungkook can do it right and be taehyung's best friend and no one else would have done a better job at that if not him!
Thinking about this, on his way towards his best friends house, brings a big smile on jungkook's face. Guess what? Today is Friday as well as their 3rd friendship anniversary, that means it's ' special movie night ' and he can't be any more excited!! They have decided to run a marvel marathon, along with several snacks and video games.
The night was making jungkook slightly shiver and that had him a little troubled and something was nagging in the back door of his mind, but not wanting to spoil the mood and the happening event he tried to ignore that feeling and concentrate on reaching his destination quickly.
On reaching tae's room and ringing the doorbell fifth time, that nagging feeling comes back and jungkook gets worried as tae never takes more than 2 rings to open when they have movie nights. Without further ado jungkook takes out his phone and calls tae.
"Hey bun!" Hearing tae's cheery voice allows him to breath,
"hey tiger, I'm standing outside your door, why aren't you opening?" Which makes his taehyung giggle, and jungkook subconsciously smiles.
"How would I silly! I'm was picking up your banana shake and snacks f rom the downtown store." Jungkook Gasps
" Tell me you have bought atleast 4 of them? Tell me hyung!" Jungkook said excitedly,
Tae giggles turns into a full on laughing fit "obviously kook, as if I'll ever forget?", a sudden shiver runs down tae's spine " But you know I should move a little fast, this place looks so scary at night when deserted. Ugh"
The waver in tae's enthusiasm makes jungkook tensed, " do you want me to come for taehyungie??" He says, only to hear a negative reply
"No bun! Don't worry! I'm just around the corner, see you in-"
Just then Jungkook hears a horn and a loud crash from another side of the phone, making him scream tae's name out loud. He ran as fast as his powers allowed, without giving a thought about the chances of being found out by anyone.
When jungkook reached the point, the scene in front of him terrified him to the core, his best friend laid in the middle of the road with blood pooling around his head. His body was a disoriented mess, with no truck around. Jungkook guessed whoever caused this accident ran away in the fear of police complaint. How cruel and selfish can humans be sometimes.
"Tae!!!" Jungkook screamed and rushed forward.
With shivering feets, he reached near his hyung, only to find a body with a few deep cuts and a constant flow of blood from his scalp.
Taehyung was already unconscious,the impact from getting hit by a speeding truck has been deadly for his body.
"Taehyung!" a shake "taehyungie!" kook gently tapped on his face " taetae, please open your eyes? Tae can you hear me?? Please say something? Anything...just please taehyung" he doesn't even notice when a tears started flowing on his face.
Searching around to seek help was useless, as it seemed people have abandoned the streets with night. Before he could think to calling the nearest hospital or about doing anything, he notices the reducing heartbeat with his heighten vampire senses.
"No! No no no no taehyunggg!! You can't do this!!" Jungkook full on started crying, so immersed in his pain that he failed to noticed the presence behind him, assessing the scene.
"Kook?"
He snapped his eyes up in hopes of again looking at those shiny round eyes filled with glowing happiness, only to be disappointed. Then he looks back at the one originally calling his name.
" Joon hyung" he whimpered, "please save him, he- he can't die like this hyung, please do something??"
It was first time after so long, for jungkook, to again feel the stabbing pain of losing someone so close to him. Living the immortal life and bonding with his hyungs made him fearless and sure about never loosing them, but here with the decreasing pace of his tae's heart rate he felt so scared and vulnerable not knowing what to do.
"We can't save him kook, his heartbeat and complexion says he only have a few minutes left. He has already lost a lot of blood and his pulse rate is also low. Even taking him to hospital won't help." Hearing this reminded jungkook about Namjoon being a professional general surgeon for 50 years, back in the 1870's, when their town was hit an epidemic he served in the city hospital and received medal and award from the city government for his commendable performance in the hour of need.
"What do I do hyung? I- I can't let him die? This is not fair! He's so young and someone hit him and flee from the scene hyung. We can't- we can't let him die." Jungkook sniffles, rubbing at his face. " He means so much to me.... he's my only best friend, I promised to always protect him" he added in a whisper.
Seeing jungkook look so heartbroken and helpless brought back memories from centuries back, when namjoon witnessed a young guy, badly hurt with a poisoned arrow inside his torso, holding onto the hands of his already dead family to come back. That day namjoon felt a strong desire to save that boy, and today again the situation made him empathize with his sired.
After a long beat, namjoon replied
"Do you really want to save him so much jungkook?could do anything for that?" Jungkook could only muster up a shaky nod with all the tears streaming down his face. " Well then, turn him and bring with us to the mansion", namjoon suggested.
jungkook could only stare at namjoon's face while his brain registered his words, and the realisation dawned upon him that ' there is a plausible way to save my taehyungie. ' But his happiness was not long-lived, especially when another realisation made it's place to the forefront.
"I- I can't do that hyung, t-tae, taehyung doesn't know anything about me and our kinds!" Jungkook said with a shaky voice.
"We don't have much of a choice here kook, either we turn him or let him die." Namjoon exhaled, only to make jungkook whimper more
"What do it do now taehyungie, what would you want to do?? how do I save you without scaring you??? What do I do? Will you ever accept the reality of being a vampire? Will you be mad at me for turning you taehyung?" Jungkook asked the half-dead body, he couldn't stop himself from crying some more. Life is so unfair to them.
Jungkook felt namjoon's hand on his shoulder, lightly patting it consoling him and his hurting heart.
"You need to do it fast kook, we don't have much time. Decide quick." Namjoon says, with a stern voice to bring him back from the trance.
But jungkook, looking at his best friend's pale face, could only whisper in a loop
"to do or not to do? Should I do it? Or not?" He needs to make a resolution, they don't have much time. Taehyung don't have much time . He thought, with a constant fear plaguing his mind,
" Will you ever understand and forgive me for doing this taehyungie??"