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Taehyung's POV - Author's Narration

Days pass with the both dwelling in a very formal live-in relationship. It's pretty mundane actually. Every day, Taehyung goes to provide his services to the town library, only to spend numb hours inside the silent premises. Then he returns to his shabby abode where Y/N awaits him with platters full of delicacies that her 18 years old self could manage to prepare.

It sounds like a boring, 19th century marriage, don't you think?

In no way is this fair. At the age where she should study and saunter towards a flourishing future, she has been reduced to a mere maid. But fate wants what fate wants, right?

But then again, she wanted this for herself, didn't she? All her life she has thrived to experience something adventurous, something supernatural. Well, now she is the one and only cure to the curse called vampirism. Serendipitous, eh?

She was always bored with her typical, humane life, never missing a chance to indulge in something beyond the limits of science and logic. To think about it now, maybe it was because she was never meant for a normal life after all. It's not actually Taehyung who brought her into this mess. She has been the cure ever since she was conceived. Which means, she was literally born into this mess.   

And now that certain people knows about her existence and her specialty, the escapade which is her life can only take wilder turns.

The clock strikes 7 in the evening and as usual Taehyung prepares himself to close up the library and head back home. Standing from the seat with a tired sigh he drags his way out from behind his desk and trots all the way over to the enormous bookshelves. It is a part of his job description to revise the entire place for abnormality before locking up for the day.

Customarily, all the seats are empty for the visitors have left already. The gigantic room is now totally devoid of any living soul other than the young vampire himself. Following his usual schedule, he walks into the deepest nooks and crannies of the place, searching for any pair of delinquents eating each other's faces in an intense make-out session. That seems to be a frequent occurrence in the quiet library-

A kinky, under-aged, semi-public portrayal of love which often ends up in pathetic break-ups because one of the two soldiers goes rogue and starts lewd wars with other people.......well, that's a different fiction.

Today it is awfully quiet though. Maybe the love birds booked a motel or something?

Sighing to himself in relief, he turns around to leave, glad that he won't have to hear those sloppy noises again. However, just when he's about to step away, a slight shuffle from a far away corner catches his attention. If he were a human, he wouldn't have even heard it. But to his vampire ears, the swoosh was loud and clear.

"Who's there?" Taehyung's baritone question shreds the stone cold silence into pieces as his voice echoes against the tall, wooden shelves. Following that, comes loud, thudding footsteps as he strides forward, clicking his strong boots against the wooden floor. His head keeps rotating left and right cause he keeps searching for the source of the noise but then,

"What the- ??" the shuffle now comes from a whole different angle, a totally opposite direction.

How come they moved so fast? I didn't even see them go and I am standing in the way!

The rustling comes to a halt and everything goes silent for some time.

Taehyung cocks his one eyebrow paying unwavering attention to the silence when suddenly his phone buzzes freaking the hell out of the poor vampire. Seems like the mighty vampire is scared of ghosts after all, or may be just the ones that come without prior notice.

Being grateful that no one saw his massive flinch, Taehyung takes cautious yet hurried steps towards his cell phone that is vibrating against his wooden desk. However, when his gaze falls upon the callers name, all the anxiety and uncertainty on his face morphs into one and just one emotion, sheer anger. He initially considers cutting off the call but this may be important, so he presses on the green circle anyway.

"What do you want?" holding the device flat against his ears, he scoffs roughly before hissing in repulsion. Surprisingly, he doesn't get the cocky response he anticipated. Instead, he hears the voice he expected the least. He hears a melodious humming, supposedly coming from Y/N but the worst part is, it is Namjoon who is calling him. Realization catches up to him pretty quickly and his eyes widen to their maximum limits.

"What the hell are you doing in my house?!?"

This time his voice ripples through the entire building as he growls his loudest. If any humans were there, they would have been peeing their pants right about now. For Taehyung however, it was more like a reflex than an intention. It's been one and a half week since the inciting incident and somehow Y/N has already grown on him. 

I won't say that he started feeling things for the human/cure girl. It's more like a habit than a feeling. Yes, that's exactly what it is. Returning home to the warm food and a friendly smile has become Taehyung's habit and he doesn't wish to give that up just yet.

"I thought I'll pay my old friend a quick visit.......it's been so long since we hung out......I miss you.......why don't we rekindle our friendship once again.......you, me and the delicious cure?"

Hearing that much is enough to have him sprint for the door, locking it with his vampire speed and heading home.

"Don't you dare hurt her" he growls once again while running with his fastest velocity, not caring if Namjoon deciphers his command as something very different from what Taehyung actually means, which, Namjoon does, by the way.

"Awe, has the rough and tough vampire started having feelings for a human girl?" the mockery in the villain's voice is quite evident for he puts little to no effort in hiding it.

"It's not about feelings Namjoon, it's humanity, which you seem to have lost" Taehyung tries to reason with the savage vampire, but that doesn't really work. The latter has his answers all ready.

"Now, you see, I wouldn't quite agree with that" he starts, taking long pauses in between words to inflate the drama. "I believe I'm quite humane still. In fact, my humanity tells me to leave the girl alone, for now.......and I'm thinking, why not? Why not have this fun cat and rat chase a little longer, what say?"

Taehyung's wide glowering eyes catches a glimpse of his shabby apartment and his pace increases, even though its straining his legs pretty bad. In a matter of seconds, he is panting right in front of his door. But, why is it locked from the inside? Did Namjoon break through the window?

Not delaying anymore he breaks down the door making the poor wood fly into numerous shards and splinters. But he nowhere finds the felon he is looking for! There's only a wide-eyed Y/N looking at Taehyung as if he is an alien who just popped by the planet. The girl seems to have just come out of the shower because her still wet hair is wrapped in a towel while she herself is clad in one of Taehyung's smaller shirts and a pair of his old joggers, an outfit that makes her look like a dude with really long hair.

"What happened?" she asks, both shock and worry lacing her voice. Never has she seen Taehyung so riled up and breathless before. She stands there, awaiting an answer from the exasperated vampire. But what she gets instead is a clear cut command.

"You are coming with me to the library from tomorrow..."  

└──» To Be Continued ✎ 。