When Taehyung's eyelids fluttered open, he failed to comprehend his current whereabouts for a few seconds.

His blurry sight turned clearer and the realization hit him when he laid his eyes on glittering ruby tiaras shining through a squeaky clean glass cabinet. He then gasped as he remembered what in the hell had just happened, and sat up in alarm. Someone had just killed him, except that he obviously wasn't dead. And that before Taehyung's quick reflexes could even protect him! If this was one of Kim Seokjin's co-workers, it surely was a witty one.

And then, he remembered Jungkook, and his heart skipped a beat. What if Jungkook was dead too?! He was human, if he died he would never come back and that very thought terrified Taehyung to no bounds. More than he thought it would.
"Jungkook! Oh no, oh no...," he whispered shakily, looking around him wildly and actually hoping not to see him. Because that would mean he would've gotten far, far away safely. Where the strange man could not reach him...

He let out a little yelp when he saw the person he was so desperately hoping not to find lie directly next to him, passed out completely and face pale as chalk. And he reacted impulsively, immediately cupping the ravenette's face in his hands and pushing his head into his lap in worry. "Oh no, no, no. Please don't be dead! Jungkook! Jungkook, what did he do to you?!," he exclaimed in full despair. He panicked even more when he saw a little blood on his fingers, Jungkook's head was bleeding!

"For the love of god. No, this can't be true. Don't be dead, Jungkook," he breathed out, his throat feeling clammy and his breaths getting even shakier. Was he about to cry? He hadn't cried in about a century! But Jungkook was such a sweet and genuine person, there was no way he could just die like that. Taehyung looked around again and saw a little blood on the glass cabinet that he hadn't noticed before, since its crimson colour blended in perfectly with the rubies.

After a few more moments of sitting there worrying and feeling himself close to tears, a thought suddenly struck him. Are you a vampire or not? If anyone can save him, it's you! Why are you just sitting there, like some stupid Rose who's waiting for her handsome Jack to come back?!

Immediately, he bit his own wrist harshly and pushed it onto the human's mouth, blood pouncing from it but he didn't mind as it did not hurt. "Drink, please. If you die because of me, I'll literally crumble! I actually kinda like you!," he exclaimed while lifting Jungkook's head a little so it would be easier for him to get the blood into his system.

And thank heavens, his plan worked! A few moments later, the ravenette's eyelids started twitching and he actually drank the blood as well as he could. At some point, his eyes opened again and his face regained its usual colour, eyelids fluttering in confusion and him groaning lightly. Taehyung let out a happy breath in relief, having the immense urge to hug him and never let him go. But instead of doing that, he pressed a little kiss on Jungkook's cheek which seemed to have woken him up entirely.

"Hi," Jungkook spoke with a little smile, his voice quiet, low and groggy. "Are you okay? Do you want anything? Do you have any idea how scared I was you were gonna die? You didn't, right? 'Cause that would mean I accidentally turned you into a vampire! Do you feel any urges?," Taehyung immediately started rambling. 

"The only urge I feel is the urge to kiss you." The human winked as well as he could which made Taehyung scoff angrily. "This is not a joking matter! I don't worry a lot about people, you know?," he exclaimed, really wanting to wipe the little smirk off his face.

"It wasn't a joke. And it's cute to see you get so worried but you don't have to, I feel okay. That weird guy smashed my head against the glass cabinet and I passed out from that but it wasn't remotely strong enough to make me die so you didn't turn me, you healed me. And you asked me if there's anything I want? Well--" The vampire interrupted him.
"Not happening!"

"I was gonna say I want some chocolate ice cream." Taehyung scoffed again.
"No, you weren't!"
"Yeah, okay. I wasn't." Jungkook sat up so he was now completely facing the redhead and brushed his fingers through his disheveled, fiery red hair which created a very quiet silence between them since neither of them knew what to say.

"What about you, though? I literally saw him snap your neck, are you okay?" Taehyung nodded, feeling his cheeks heat up because the other's hands were still in his hair and he had nowhere else to look at but Jungkook's eyes.
"Snapping a vampire's neck makes them pass out for, like, five minutes. Then you wake up in perfect health, it's pretty much nothing." Jungkook nodded and then started smiling again.
"So... You say you actually kinda like me--"

"I am sorry to interrupt your sweet little rendez-vous," another voice suddenly spoke out of nowhere, "But I'm afraid we need to discuss a few things and I can't take any more of this tooth-rotting, sappy romance. It pains me." The person stepped into the light, them jumping up angrily.

"You!," they shouted in unison, staring the person who had just tried to more or less kill them down in hatred.
"Me," the man answered sarcastically, looking bored out of his wits.

"What are your intentions? Are you one of Kim Seokjin's vampire hunters? Are you a member of Gloriam Hominum?!," Taehyung shouted demandingly, the other not even flinching in the slightest. Instead, he chuckled.
"You think you're the only vampire in Gwangmyeong-si, huh? Get off your high horse, Kim Taehyung."

The vampire jerked back at the sound of his own name. "How do you know my name?" The guy came closer. "Because you have something that I want. And you're shit at hiding your identity. Let's have a chat, shall we?" 
Taehyung and Jungkook looked at each other in panic, clearly overwhelmed by this situation. "Your lover can stay if he wants to, it's not like he's smart enough to understand anything that's--"

"He's not my lover!" Taehyung felt the stranger glare at him sharply. "Don't cut me off," he snapped and the redhead glared back at him.
"So... You're a vampire, too?," he then asked after a while, calming down a little. "Wait, you were the one with the blood bags?"

"So you aren't as stupid as you look. Don't worry, if I get what I want I'll stop stealing them. I had to do something to get your attention. But defy me and I'll literally kill you before you and your boyfriend can even say 'blood bag'."
Taehyung scoffed, feeling insulted by the shorter man's arrogance. "I've been around for centuries, you think your little amateur ass can kill me just like that? I've been through shit so dangerous and painful you can't even fucking imagine so do not underestimate me, whatever your name is."

"Min Yoongi is my name and I'm telling you again to get the fuck off your high horse. You've been around for centuries? I've been around for millenniums. And you can take all your little life experiences and multiply them by fifty, for that's what I've been through." For a while, Taehyung was silent.
"There's... There's no way. You'd have to be one of the first vampires to ever exist, those would never survive up until now!"

Min Yoongi chuckled again. "I'm not only one of the first, I am the very first. And for a vampire alive for quite a respectable amount of time, you know surprisingly little about your own kind. If the Original dies, all vampires that descend from him die along with him. Now, of course, I wasn't alone. I had siblings, a sister and a brother. And that is precisely why I'm here." 

"I know nothing of your sister or brother, why do you need me for anything? And if... if you're really the first vampire to ever be turned, who turned you and how?!" Taehyung was desperately confused, not knowing if this Yoongi-person simply was a madman or if there was truth to anything that had just been said.

"They should really teach vampire education, your lack of knowledge is actually painful. It all comes down to witches. My mother was a witch, and the little village we lived in was dangerously close to werewolf territory. Werewolves always existed, and back then, they were much more of a danger than they are today. We were poor, we couldn't afford living anywhere else. A family with three children make excellent werewolf prey so my mother was worried about her children. She performed protective charms, but she couldn't keep watch over all of us simultaneously as we got older, so she made a decision."

"Of course, creating a species more dangerous than the threat itself. It took her a great amount of time and sacrifice to come up with a spell this powerful but eventually, she succeeded. She performed a ritual on us, it was the most painful thing a child could ever go through but there weren't any other options. She played around with dark magic in order to ensure permanent protection over her children so as a result, me and my siblings turned into monsters. We lived off human blood and were immortal, we were turned at night so we fled the sun during daytime or we would burn in its rays. Though my mother found a solution for that too, she made a ring for each of us, its gemstone making its wearer immune to the curse of the sun."

"Werewolf bites would kill us so we still had to be cautious around them, but Mother gave us the power of speed, hearing and sight to run from them when they were under the curse of the full moon. I trust you know this much?" Yoongi raised a brow at a clearly immersed Taehyung, the latter nodding.
"Of course I do, I was almost bitten by a werewolf myself!"

"Horrifying creatures, werewolves. Ironically, the blood of the Original vampire is the only thing that can cure a vampire from dying from a werewolf bite. We didn't know this back then, or we wouldn't have had to run in the first place. Anyways, all three of us were terrified of ourselves. We attacked the people in our own village out of hunger, killed some of them by accident and heavily injured others. Our father was horrified and thought of us as disgraces, abandoned his family after trying to kill us multiple times. Legends say he's still trying to find a way to kill us. When the answer was ever so simple, daggering us with the wood of the tree under which the ritual was performed. But eventually, my mother burnt down the tree and threw its ashes into the sea. At least, she tried to."

"With the time, my siblings and I learned more and more about our abilities, and that includes turning humans into vampires. We used this ability to keep our lovers alive so we could spend eternity together. Turns out the vampires we created had flaws of their own: There were more ways to kill them and they experienced pain when coming in contact with vervain, an herb that my mother grew and sold on the market. The ones we turned turned others and the rest speaks for itself. Anyways, my father turned into a vampire hunter. He teamed up with witches and concocted plans with them to kill his own children, that blithering idiot."

"And eventually, they succeeded in killing my little brother, one third of the entire vampire species we created dying along with him. But there was only one weapon to kill an Original vampire and they already used it, so they needed a new one. They tried to kill my sister next, the witch made a necklace which would trap her soul and wore it around her neck. They also had her daggered and hid her body, nice try but she's still alive. The witch passed that necklace on for generations and generations of new witches, and this is where you come in. This necklace ended up being in your possession and it still is, and I want it back."

He now directly looked at Taehyung who was trying to process all information given to him.
"What necklace?," he asked weakly. "I think you know which one I'm talking about. A red gemstone called cinnabar. You used to be a friend of Chou Tzuyu, who gave it to you. The witch that my father teamed up with was a Chou witch. All you need to do is simply get me the necklace, and I will leave you alone for as long as you please." Now, not only Yoongi was staring at Taehyung, but Jungkook, too. Strangely enough, he knew exactly which necklace they were talking about.

For a moment, there was a silence so powerful it almost pained their ears.
But about a minute later, Taehyung came back to his senses and he had his answer ready.

"I don't know what you're talking about but one thing I know for sure is that you won't be getting anything from me. Ever." He rapidly jumped up and pulled up Jungkook next, leaving the jewellery store with him hand in hand.

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(A/N: it's been a long time since i watched tvd but in case you also watched tvd i do know the only cure for a werewolf bite is klaus' blood but i changed that bc hybrids don't exist here :D
anyways i hope you all remember the originals (aka the kinda evil british ones who clearly all need some family therapy, especially klaus like jesus christ he had some anger issues but i still found them cooler than elena and her stupid love triangle sorry not sorry)

and here's a random piece of advice: don't go to school the day after getting a corona vaccine like sklsdk it's literal torture, i was so damn sick i could barely stand and my german teacher told me to go home the whole time and after somehow making it for three hours i actually took his advice and slept for like seven more hours at home- anyways it wasn't very pleasant but it gets better

this chapter may be confusing so feel free to ask anything, thank you for reading this complicated... something and i love you alot <333 *insert purple hearts once again*)