Jungkook was absolutely devastated at what he'd done. Shame and guilt consumed him as he looked at the blood dripping down his hands and clothes.

He didn't crave it anymore.

Now he wanted that blood off of him. He took his hands and started frantically wiping it off on his pants. His entire body continued to tremble as he cried. He stayed behind the building, afraid of not only being caught, but afraid of what he'd done. He didn't want to see the bodies. He didn't want to see the murder. He contemplated even calling the police on himself but had to talk himself down from that.

They'll never believe you anyway! And it wasn't really me! I can't really be to blame for this right?! I mean I didn't...I didn't even know what I was doing! That can't count?! I'd never actually hurt someone!

His body shifted as he could hear footsteps approaching from around the corner. He froze, nervous that even the slightest movement, even the faintest breath, would give away where he was hiding. Yet when the footsteps stopped and his ears were met with blood curdling screams, he turned and made a run for it in the opposite direction. Someone had found the bodies and he wasn't trying to stick around for when the police showed up.

He expected to get tired and run out of breath quickly as he started sprinting all the way back to the dorm, but he didn't. No matter what his feet did not stop. He reached the dorm and placed his hand on the door, needing a moment to collect himself. The run had finally caught up to him and he sucked down big breaths as he tried not to pass out. He put his ear to the door and listened for a moment making sure nobody was up and moving around inside. It was still pitch black and the middle of the night, which he used to his advantage to sneak inside and into the bathroom. Another shower. Another desperate attempt to scrape what he'd done off of his skin. He took his clothes and threw them away. His constant need to throw out blood stained clothes was becoming quite detrimental to his wardrobe.

After his shower he curled back up in his bed where Taehyung was still fast asleep and started to quietly cry and sniffle into his blanket. I don't want to be like this. This isn't what I want.

Taehyung started to shuffle in his sleep, causing Jungkook to try and cry more quietly, but Taehyung still knew. His hyung wrapped his arms around Jungkook in his sleepy state and pulled him backwards into a hug. "No tears," Taehyung whispered as his eyes remained closed and he yawned. Jungkook held his breath to stay silent until he knew Taehyung was passed out again, and then the tears came back. It felt good being wrapped up and warm in his hyungs arms but it caused the anxiety about accidentally hurting one of his hyungs to come back.

He didn't know what to do to protect them from himself. He was grateful that he hadn't done anything bad to any of them yet, but he knew that not yet could still mean eventually.

He clenched his eyes closed and tried to fall asleep even in the midst of his tears, telling himself he will do anything and everything to make sure his hyungs are protected.

He woke up to Yoongi abruptly shaking him. He had to blink a few times before his vision cleared, looking over to see Taehyung was no longer in the room. Before Jungkook even had the chance to speak Yoongi put his hand to Jungkook's forehead. "No fever, good. Get up and eat breakfast. Namjoon helped cook so we might all get poisoned, but that's life I suppose."

Jungkook's body ached, he didn't want to get up and he felt too sad to eat. "But hyung I-"

Yoongi cut him off. "No 'But hyung-' excuses. I don't care if you're not hungry or blah blah blah, you're getting up and eating breakfast." Yoongi was trying to use the same tactic Jin had used before, forcing the youngest to eat whether he wanted to or not because his lack of eating lately was way too concerning.

Jungkook stared at the ceiling and sighed. He couldn't win when it came to his hyungs telling him what to do. Getting up and dragging himself to the kitchen, he sat at the table with everyone else. Jimin walked over and tussled his hair. "You sure do like sleeping in, don't you?" he teased. The youngest ignored him as he tried to force half frozen waffles down his throat. Namjoon had never been the best cook. He couldn't help but laugh to himself but once he thought about his adventures during the night his heart sank and he put the waffle down.

"No no," Yoongi spoke up from across the table when he saw the maknae drop the waffle. " Eat. Now."

Jungkook forced himself to finish it. Jin informed everyone that he saw on the news more bodies were found and all of the members tensed up. Taehyung reminded everyone that as long as they didn't go outside at night they should be fine. The maknae tried to keep a poker face, reining in the terror that was trying not to explode out of him. He knew it was no animal. He knew it was himself and what hurt him the most was knowing that the same person who went out at night killing people was the same person now sitting at the breakfast table with the very people he'd never want to hurt.

The hyungs commented on Jungkook's quietness but he said he was still quite tired. Yoongi decided to offer Jungkook a little day trip to go out and get some energy smoothies full of nutrients to help him feel a little better.

"That sounds good." The youngest honestly could do something to take his mind off things.

"Can I come too? I want a smoothie!" Namjoon asked.

"Or course," Yoongi replied. "Does anyone else want to come?" All of the others said no thanks, they felt like staying in.

"You guys be safe out there," Hobi said with serious concern. "If you see a bear or something run it over with the car."

Everyone stared at Hobi, speechless.

"What?" The rapper shrugged, "Better safe than sorry!"

Yoongi giggled and led Jungkook and Namjoon to the car. As they drove past the area where Jungkook remembered slaughtering that couple he closed his eyes. He didn't want to relive it. They stopped at a little local smoothie place and sat down inside together, drinking and having light conversation. Namjoon noticed Jungkook was spacing out a bit more than he usually was.

"Earth to Jungkook!" Namjoon shouted for the third time.

"Huh?" The youngest replied, taking another sip of his smoothie like that's what he'd been doing the whole time.

"What has you so distracted?" Namjoon asked.

"Just tired," he lied. Although what he was really trying to do was figure out what the hell was going on with his body and why he was trying to kill people. He knew he had grown fangs and narrowed his options down to werewolf or vampire but had no idea how the hell that happened.

"Is the smoothie good at least?" Yoongi asked. "It's supposed to help with energy. Maybe it takes a bit to kick in."

"Yes it is good, thank you for buying it for me, Yoongi-hyungie." Yoongi had gotten Jungkook a nice orange and strawberry flavored smoothie that came with a hint of added banana milk.

Namjoon asked if there was anything else they'd like to do and the two said no. "Well before we head back home I was wondering if we could stop at a few book stores?" Namjoon turned to look at Yoongi, who was in charge of driving.

"If that's what you want to do," Yoongi smiled.

They headed off to a bookstore and while Namjoon looked through some art collections, with Yoongi standing there staring blankly at a wall next to him, the youngest ventured off into a section solely dedicated to vampires and werewolves. He looked through pages and pages seeing which ones he could use for some research and before he knew it he had a large stack of books in his arms as he met back up with his hyungs. When his hyungs saw him they burst out laughing.

"Since when do you even read?" Yoongi teased. He picked up some of the books to look at what the youngest was suddenly interested in and started laughing even harder. "Do you have a new fetish?"

Jungkook felt himself blush. "No! Hyung I just wanted to...I don't know...learn more about them or something."

Namjoon was still giggling and turned to Yoongi. "I bet he came across all those online Fanfictions."

"No!" Jungkook protested. "It's just interesting stuff, okay?!"

"To each their own, bunny." Yoongi patted Jungkook on the back of the head and then the two continued to wait for Namjoon to finish finding what he wanted. While waiting Jungkook started looking through one of the vampire origin books and it was making too much sense. So much sense that he felt himself start to sweat because he really didn't want any of it to be true but he knew all too well at this point that what he was going through was greatly matching some descriptions of this book. Namjoon grabbed his attention as they got ready to head back out.

Once home, all of the members teased the hell out of Jungkook for all the books he bought, and the maknae was extremely embarrassed but told them to mind their own business.

"You know we're just teasing you," Jimin smiled. "You've always gone through some pretty funny and cute phases." He pinched the youngests cheek. Jungkook shied away and disappeared to his room to do more "research."

He didn't like what he was reading.

He realized he was in the beginning stages of becoming a vampire, which had been brought on by a bat bite. Damnit. That damn bat...

As he kept reading he realized things were only going to get worse for him until he couldn't control it anymore and he would turn into someone who would destroy everything and everyone in his path.

He started to sweat with anxiety and panic. Well that isn't going to do...how do I stop them from getting hurt...

There was only one thing he could think of and as absolutely terrified as he was, he knew he'd rather deal with the consequences of his decision rather than deal with the consequences of not doing what he had planned. He spent a long time pondering what could go wrong, or what could go right.

He ran out into the living room and ordered everyone to sit down. He stood there in front of everyone, trembling as he picked at the skin around his fingernails.

"What's wrong bun?" Hobi asked when he realized how terrified the maknae looked.

Jungkook felt his face flush pink as he took a deep breath. He tried to control his shaking, biting his bottom lip to make the trembling less noticeable. 

"Ummm...hyungies...I...I...have to tell you guys something."