Taehyung gasped as he saw the first page of the book, very old and tattered.

There was a picture drawn on it. In fact, the picture. A viscious vampire with blood-thirsty red eyes and blood dripping from his fangs. The same exact picture that was drawn on the whiteboard.
Suddenly, the realization hit him.

Jungkook cleared his throat as the vampire was basically paralyzed for a good while. "Well, I hope this answers all your questions. Do you finally believe me when I say I didn't draw the stupid picture?," he asked carefully.

And within a second, he felt two arms wrapped around his neck so tightly they were almost choking him to death. Extremely startled, he didn't get a chance to return the hug before Taehyung loosened his hold and tried to find the right words, covering his mouth with both his hands.
"I-I-- Oh my god..."

For a second, he looked like he was about to cry. "How stupid of me! All this time I kept resenting you for playing tricks on me when actually, it was all him! How do I always manage to get it wrong- trusting the ones who deceive me and doubting the ones who I actually should trust? Why didn't you say anything?" Jungkook raised an eyebrow.

"Seriously? What did I keep telling you all this time? Is short-time memory a vampire thing, or--" Suddenly, the redhead was hugging him again. "You're right, you're right, you're right! I should have noticed how irrational I was being but sometimes, it's so hard to tell right from wrong, you know? Gosh, I'm so sorry! I must've put you through so much trouble!"
This time, the ravenette returned the hug with his heart beating erratically due to the vampire's sudden act of pure affection.

The two of them were still seated on the floor, hugging tightly with Taehyung's head eventually resting on Jungkook's shoulder. The vampire himself did not understand how he felt so comfortable doing this, hugging someone. But now that he was fully assured that Jungkook was not the one that had been playing tricks on him, he felt extremely comforted by his presence. Especially because he didn't give up on him, no matter what.

Suddenly, the kiss replayed his mind again- as abruptly as a jumpscare in a horror movie- and Taehyung once again loosened the hug quickly and smiled awkwardly with a blush creeping up his cheeks. "Um, anyways. Ready to see what kind of bullcrap he wrote inside here?"

Jungkook, who felt giddy and embarrassed at the same time, nodded and scooted closer towards him so they could both see the little book properly. "Ready if you are."

Together, they flipped over the next page and immediately, the human squinted his eyes at his distant cousin's small and uneven handwriting. "Gloria-- what? Is he writing in coded language or some shit?"

Taehyung shook his head. "Gloriam Hominum, your amazing parents' secret society-cult-thingy to kill vampires," he sighed. "Mina told me. Apparently, it's Latin and the term signifies the superiority of the human race. Basically, they're Nazis but in vampire hunter-form." Jungkook scrunched his nose in disgust. "Fucking hell, I can't believe these fascist ass people share my bloodline." He threw another look at the page.

Gloriam Hominum
I, Kim Seokjin, hereby pledge myself to fight for the purity of the superior human race and to rid our society of any beasts and abnormities. Witches, werewolves and vampires will continue to stroll among us unnoticed and practise their evil magic without facing any consequences and it is our job to find them, torture them as they keep torturing us, and kill them. All of them, without a single exception. That is my one and only ambition.
For a better society and a pure world full of clarity!

"Jesus fucking Christ, what an asshole. It's not my fault someone turned me into a fanged monster for ever and ever," Taehyung muttered, scoffing. Jungkook, who felt rage and shame bubbling up inside his veins from reading this spiteful declaration, looked over to him shortly.
"How did you get turned?"

The redhead shrugged. "Not that important, maybe I'll tell you sometime. But what I can tell you now? It's a hell of a painful process, I probably tried to die millions of times before realizing that I'm forever stuck like this and I can't die through bleeding, drowning or jumping. It's a way too long story that you most likely wouldn't be able to understand, anyway." Jungkook tried not to feel offended.

"Don't look so disappointed, now." The vampire patted his head while smiling softly, which made the ravenette's heart leap and do a couple of somersaults. Despite feeling ashamed of his relatives, Jungkook knew that Taehyung now probably knew he was different from the rest of his entire family and that little thought reassured him more than anything. And being on good terms with him again truly made him happy.

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The vampire ran a hand through his blood-red hair and stumbled towards the front door as his doorbell rang shrilly, leaving an unpleasant feeling in his gut.

"Hey," he said with a little smile as he saw Jungkook in front of him, cheeks and nose slightly pink and hair messed up from the chilly end-of-February wind.
"Hey. You look tired, did something happen?," the younger asked in concern, stepping inside and examining his unusually pale face by bringing a hand up to his face and massaging the vampire's cheekbone with his thumb.

Taehyung shook his head persistently and took a step back weakly. "Nothing important. Let's continue with the diary." His voice sounded rather dreary and Jungkook was right, he did look extremely tired. His eyes had red circles beneath them, his lips looked thin and pale and it seemed as if his pupils had lost all focus inside them. However, he didn't want to create a fuss. The problem was complex and there was nothing the ravenette would be able to change about that.

About one or two weeks ago, the two of them had found Kim Seokjin's leather-bound, creepy diary and they both agreed on meeting up almost every day and analyzing the thing page for page, no need to rush since there was no way the professor would know they were the ones keeping it. If he had realized he had lost the book and if he was searching for it, they did not know. They met up at Taehyung's mansion which was now also available to Jungkook since Mina had (even if sceptically) agreed to lift the spell on the alleyway for him, too.
However, analyzing the dissatisfactory handwriting and the meaning behind it appeared to be harder than they thought.

More than anything else, neither of them could agree with the seemingly very radical vampire hunter's views in the slightest, in fact, his gruesome words made their skin crawl. They just ended up cringing pretty much to death and before his words would start buzzing around in their heads too much, they decided to close the wicked thing again and continue reading the next day.

However, it also was highly informative. Seokjin had listed up various strategies, weapons and techniques that he planned on using when approaching and attacking his targets, something that was mainly beneficial for Taehyung since he knew exactly how he would counter-attack the hunter if he should ever be one of the targets.

Today's page thematized around the importance of wood when killing vampires, wooden daggers and wooden bullets (although guns weren't even legal in Korea!) and how to hit the correct spot in the vampire's chest. One thing had to be said: Kim Seokjin surely wasn't lazy. Or dumb. Which obviously wasn't a good thing and made Jungkook worry a little. Not about himself, for Taehyung. As for the latter, the vampire could barely focus. Which the younger immediately noticed.

"Taehyung, something's up with you. You can barely sit straight. What happened?" He pushed away the diary a little and focused all his attention on the suddenly very small-looking redhead who was currently sitting right next to him on the luxurious sofa. 
"I told you, it's nothing import--"

"But that's bullshit! You're literally exhausted, I've never seen you like this. Don't you want to tell me? You were the one who came up with all the 'talking helps'-stuff, after all." Taehyung sighed deeply.
"Fine. But it's nothing you can do anything about. I-- The hospitals don't have any blood bags anymore." Jungkook furrowed his eyebrows.

"What do you mean by that? There have to be blood bags, how are the patients supposed to get treated then?" The vampire shrugged. "I don't know. Usually, I sneak into local hospitals at night and nick some blood bags so I have enough to drink. But the last few weeks? No sign of any blood bags anywhere, as if their storage was swiped completely clean. It's kind of a problem, I've already drunk all of mine and haven't been able to drink in a while. I really don't wanna start forcefully sucking random humans' blood again, you know? It can turn into an addiction really quick, and..."

"Fuck. What if this was Mr. Kim's doing? What if he knows we have his diary thing and he's purposefully removing all the blood bags?" Taehyung shook his head.
"That isn't possible. It's not like he's the king of the country, he can't just show up at all local hospitals and force them to remove all their blood bag stock without a reason. I've been wanting to check the newspapers and see if there's any information in there. It's just like you said, they have patients that need to get treated. It just doesn't make sense. But I don't have a lot of energy right now, I can barely move around and I don't how long until I collapse or lose control again or--"

"Drink from me."
Despite currently feeling weak and feeble, Taehyung felt wide awake all of a sudden and widened his eyes with his jaw dropping. 
"Huh?"

Jungkook scooted closer, closing the book and looking deeply into the vampire's eyes. "Drink from me," he repeated. "I'm human and I don't have vervain in my system. Why not?" Taehyung slid back while gasping. "Oh my god, absolutely not! Do you have any idea how dangerous that is? I could accidentally kill you!" The younger scooted closer again and Taehyung mentally cursed when he felt the armrest behind his back.

"I'll tell you when to stop drinking. You won't kill me, okay? But you need this, I don't like seeing you like this. At least this way, you'll be able to think for a while." The redhead looked torn apart.
"No, I can't do that," he whispered. "There are veins inside your body, like the jugular vein, if I cut through it, you'll literally die! How can you be so cool about this?" He stood up from the sofa immediately, Jungkook copying him much to his discomfort.

"Because I know you won't kill me. Come on, just do it. I told you to do it so if anything were to happen, the blame would be on me." Taehyung turned away from him almost immediately but the human wasn't so keen on giving up just yet.
"That isn't very comforting to hear. I'm not doing this. I can't. Stop coming so close!" He let out an exasperated sigh when Jungkook wouldn't stop invading his personal space and leave only a little amount of distance between them.

"Not until you do it. It's for your own good, come on. I promise I'll tell you when I start feeling drowsy. Come on, I thought you didn't care what happened to your targets after you drank from them?" The vampire widened his eyes again.
"B-But this is different... I couldn't possibly--"

"Are you saying you care about me?" All of a sudden, Jungkook grinned very smugly which made Taehyung seriously want to punch the grin off his face. Why wouldn't he take this seriously, was life a joke to him?
"You--You are unbelievable! You fucking lunatic, I can't believe you're joking around in a situation like this! You're so deranged, I--"

The ravenette laughed. "There's my Taehyung again." The redhead stopped ranting for a second.
"Excuse me, your...? Oh no, you didn't!" He crossed his arms and let out a huff. Jungkook didn't take the situation very seriously indeed, but that was mainly because he already knew that the other would have to give in sooner or later. It wasn't like he had any other options.
He just stayed silent and wrapped his arms around Taehyung's waist, which made him ultimately shut up.

"What in Christ's name are you doing?," Taehyung asked weakly, his cheek smushed up against Jungkook's shoulder and him basically facing the younger's neck which overwhelmed him since his blood-deprived senses were starting to pick up the scent of fresh and warm blood and he had to use his entire willpower to stop his irises from turning red. Despite feeling extremely resentful towards Jungkook at the moment, he didn't remove the younger's arms around him since he didn't feel strong enough at the moment. At least, that's what he was telling himself.

"Come on, give in. You'll thank me for this later, you know?" The redhead gulped, the sound of the human's pulse ringing inside his ears and his eyelids fluttering at the profuse smell of blood invading his entire senses. Jungkook didn't look scared at all, in fact, he looked extremely calm and even seemed to tighten his hold around the vampire. If Taehyung were in a normal mindset, he would have been baffled since not once had he ever encountered a human this calm before getting bitten, and that without any compulsion.

"You're so gonna regret this, dumbass," were his last words before he actually did give in to all the temptation, his eyes turned into a bloody shade of red and his fangs grew longer and longer. And not a second later, he moved his lips towards Jungkook's neck and dug his fangs inside the soft skin.

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(A/N: wowowow i've had this planned for a while but i didn't know i would write it like this beforehand, i just keep surprising myself :D

in case you haven't seen my announcement, i deleted my social media off my phone for idk how long and turned off my internet but since i wanted to continue writing, i have to use my computer for wattpad and it's much more complicated than on my phone so i'm not sure how this will work djjsljkf but i guess i'll adjust at some point?
also, permission to dance will drop soon and istg i did not realize up until now but i'm so looking forward to it and i can't wait to wake up at 5am tomorrow to stream before school :p  wbk bts will never disappoint

that was all and i hope you could enjoy, thank you so much for reading and also thank you for 600 followers ofdhfsjdhjs i absolutely cannot i feel so lucky help, i love you a lot uwuwu *insert purple hearts because my dumb computer doesn't have any emojis :c* <333)