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Another chapter! I fell asleep yesterday so I couldn't upload it so here you guys go!

Chapter 80

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They were on the ocean already... this really couldn't be that hard, right? All he had to do was to somehow get Taehyung to the water and he would be safe. No one would be able to hunt him down in his terrain.

The main problem was getting Taehyung out of these chains and through the door and off these chains... and Jungkook knew that would only be possible if he somehow got Taehyung to wake up. Somehow, he had to stop the men from administering more of the sedatives. But how?

Even though that one guard seemed to be more than willing to watch Taehyung die, Taehyung was still alive, so that had to mean that whoever had kidnapped them had the intention of keeping Taehyung that way for now. Jungkook could work with that. He just had to find a way to...

Maybe... he could use part of the truth and bullshit a little. He made up his mind on what to say once the that asshole came back. Then he slowly guided Taehyung's body to lie down on the floor, carefully placing the siren's head on his lap. He knew that Taehyung probably wouldn't feel any of this, but Jungkook hoped that maybe Taehyung would subconsciously be soothed by his presence.

Not bothered by the blood Jungkook ran his hands through Taehyung's hair. "We'll get out of here... I won't let them take you anywhere."

Taehyung's breathing was slow and his skin cold. Jungkook knew that both Taehyung's body heat as well as a lot of his other bodily functions had a lot more range than a normal human's. Taehyung's body could get concerningly cold, without any consequences, just like he was at this moment.

Jungkook was going to use this too. Whatever he could use he would to convince them to stop giving Taehyung this large amount of sedatives.

Still clearly affected by his own dose of sedatives, Jungkook could feel his eyes getting heavy, but he fought the urge to sleep. He didn't trust that the guard wouldn't show up while he was out. He would protect Taehyung this time. With all he had in him.

It wasn't clear how many hours had passed when Jungkook heard voices outside the door again, and once again it opened to reveal the same guard that had previously treated Taehyung so roughly. Jungkook's whole body tensed as the man looked at him and then Taehyung in his lap in disgust.

"Go over there again." The asshole's tone was about as unfriendly as his expression. Jungkook shook his head.

He saw the guard tense, his hand once again going to the gun at his thigh. "I won't repeat myself one more time. Go over there, this second."

Jungkook straightened his shoulders. "No. I won't let you kill him."

He could see the man falter for a second. He quickly continued talking to keep his attention.

"If you give him more of that sedative you will kill him. You people don't want to kill him, right? Otherwise, he wouldn't be here right now. Your superiors wouldn't like it if you ignored my warning and intentionally ended up killing him, right?" Somehow Jungkook's voice sounded confident even with how much his hands were shaking.

When the man faltered again, Jungkook knew he had hit the bullseye.

There was an obvious unwillingness when the guy spoke again. "Why would it kill him? He's been just fine so far, this is just keeping the same dosage of sedatives in his system."

Now here came the uncertain part of the plan. "I know because we're connected. If he dies, I die." Actually it was the other way around but Jungkook didn't have to tell that to the asshole. "Why do you think I'm willingly helping him... do you have any idea of how many people he has killed?"

He gritted his teeth. That was in the past. Taehyung had promised... and Jungkook trusted him.

"And because I die if he does, I know the state he is in. He has regenerative abilities, which is why the sedative hasn't killed him yet, but his body is using up a lot of power to regenerate and will soon reach a state that isn't too different from a human's... and if he reaches that point both he and I are dead." Jungkook especially stressed the part about him dying. He wanted to give the man the impression that he wasn't on Taehyung's side, but instead just trying to survive. So obviously he wouldn't be trying to trick the dude.

"That's quite different from what you said before."

Now, it came to bullshitting and distracting his way out of things.

Jungkook nodded his head towards Taehyung. "Earlier I had just woken up and was still really delirious from my own sedatives. I was scared he would be able to hear me... I've been scared for months that if he hears me say something negative about him, he will kill me. The connection is only one way, you know. He has basically turned me into a slave, but I couldn't even tell anyone."

Lying like this hurt, but what did it mean in the grand scheme of things? Taehyung seemed closer to waking up again compared to hours ago and Jungkook had to keep it that way.

"You can give him the normal amount of sedative for an adult human, but if you give him more, he will die." Jungkook tried offering as a way of reassurance to the guard.

As if to corroborate Jungkook's claims, Taehyung's body was ice cold at the moment. It had gotten colder over the last few hours and Jungkook was almost certain that it mostly had to do with the temperature of the room, but the guard didn't have to know that.

"If you touch his skin again, he has gotten way colder. That's a sign that he's running out of strength." Jungkook lifted Taehyung's arm towards the man as if to invite him to touch it. This time he acted like he was apprehensively looking at the claws on Taehyung's hands. It wasn't the hardest part to act... he just had to recall the sense of fear he had felt once upon a time, when he had just waited for Taehyung to slit his throat with them. It seemed like it had been forever ago, but at the same time he still remembered it quite well.

A little apprehensively, the guard walked closer and touched Taehyung's arm. Jungkook did it. He had convinced him.

"If he wakes up, you're the first I will shoot." The guard warned, his tone still as cold as ice.

"He won't wake up." Jungkook guaranteed, not caring about the threat at all. He had to get Taehyung out of this place, fuck the risks.

The next dose of sedatives Taehyung got was a normal human amount. Jungkook tried not to let his hostility show when the asshole re-entered the room and once again injected Taehyung, with a different syringe this time.

The relief he felt when the man left was almost overwhelming. But even so, the only thing he had secured was Taehyung's survival for now. He had no idea if the siren would wake up. After all, he still got enough sedatives to keep a normal human knocked out.

He just knew that this should not be enough to kill him, slowly, like that other sedative could have. So all that was left was to continue sitting here and wait.

"Please wake up soon... we have to get out of here." Jungkook whispered, pressing a kiss to Taehyung's cold cheek. "And just in case you heard any of that and still struggle to discern lies... I was lying. I love you and I will do anything to protect you... not that you usually need a lot of protecting." He was rambling, but that was probably just his nervousness at the whole situation.

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One more chapter to go... but the next one is longer again. I liked it a lot so I hope you guys will too!

Btw it might still take a while but I'm absolutely planning to work this book over a bit and then print it. Once I do I will probably send a notification out on my message board so if you guys are interested, it might be a good idea to follow me.

I will likely also do an announcement in this book as well though.