As soon as the two of them entered the cafeteria, the first thing Taehyung saw was a head full of wild blonde curls storming up to them.

It was Jimin, his arms latching themselves around Jungkook's neck as he let out a worried sigh. "Kook, we were worried about you! You look so sad today. Yuju's stupid for breaking up with you but don't mind her, she doesn't know what she just lost! And don't you dare cry over someone who didn't even know how to properly appreciate you!," he immediately rambled, the ravenette trying to gently push him off as he felt slightly overwhelmed.

"Yeah, thanks, Jimin. I'll be fine, don't worry. I just need a tiny bit of time," he simply spoke, forcing a little smile on his face and resuming his walk towards his table, Namjoon already sitting and welcoming him carefully. Taehyung made sure to smile at him sweetly as he had definetely taken quite a liking for Namjoon in particular. To him, the brunette was the only person who wasn't painfully obnoxious like Jimin was or as painfully inspective and sceptical as Jungkook was.

Jungkook, who had seen his over-exaggerated smile directed to the brunette raised an eyebrow in question, the redhead slightly glaring at him in order to tell him not to question anything, which he complied to with a little chuckle. If it was meant positively or negatively, no one could tell.
Was this the beginning of them finally being on slightly better terms? Taehyung did not know what to hope for.

"So, Taehyungie and Jungkookie...," Jimin spoke while balancing his overloaded tray towards the table and sitting down opposite of Jungkook. "This is the first time you guys are not staring each other as if you want to kill each other off. Is there a reason for that? Why do you guys dislike each other that much anyways? Are you guys exes? Or arch enemies? It's really making me think," he rambled, opening a pack of milk.

"Don't mind me interrupting but since when do you drink so much milk? And beans and tofu? You used to hate those things," Namjoon remarked, making the blonde widen his eyes, looking extremely flustered.

"W-Well... Since I heard that-- they're healthy and good for the immune system," he stammered.
"You just want to grow taller, right?," Jungkook laughed at him cockily, seeming very amused all of a sudden. Jimin's face turned to the colour of Taehyung's hair, him slightly huffing in embarrassment.

"Whatever you say, bitch, not my point! Why is neither of you two answering my question, huh?," the little blonde countered, the ravenette rolling his eyes and shrugging as he clearly did not feel like thinking about that particular topic, that particular topic being his strange rivalry-like thing with Taehyung.

All of a sudden, Namjoon gasped, pointing at his friend in surprise. The spoon with which he had just piled up an enormous portion of rice with kimchi fell back into its bowl. "Woah, Jimin. What happened to your neck?"

Three pairs of eyes immediately snapped towards Jimin: one shocked, one alarmed and one panicked. The panicked one obviously being Taehyung, the vampire mouthed a short "Fuck!" as he felt the heat within him rise out of terror.

Jimin's- or Taehyung's- bitemark was exposed in all its bloody glory, the scarf having been too loose around his neck and fallen off just now. Could this get any worse?

"Is this why you were wearing a scarf? Who-- What did this to you?!," Jungkook exclaimed in dismay, his blazing eyes fixated on the prominent mark and a piece of bulgogi sliding off his chopsticks, him not paying any attention to it anymore.

Jimin gasped. "Oh- I don't remember. Where did this come from?," he asked quietly, looking shocked as he craned his neck and gazed upon his own wound in confusion.
"Did I hook up with someone without even realizing? I don't remember being drunk, though...," he mumbled.

"Jimin, don't be stupid. Those aren't love bites. Someone- or something- attacked you!," Jungkook snapped in worry.
"You don't remember anything? That could be a case of dissociative amnesia! You might have gone through something traumatic. Did you walk the streets alone at night?," Namjoon asked, the blonde shaking his head slowly.

Taehyung felt sick to the core, and he hadn't even eaten any human food yet...

"No. I never walk the streets at night, you know me. Mom would never allow me anyways. I don't know anything anymore, it's strange. Where do you guys think this is from?" All of a sudden, his eyes lit up.
"Oh, I do remember! An animal bit me brutally!"

I should've forced a totally detailed and believeable story upon him when I compelled him, damn it. Blondie's making this so hard for me!

And he still lives with his fucking mom, why am I not surprised?

"Please, what the fuck kind of animal does this?This looks like something beyond an animal attack. Cannibalism, maybe. Or some sort of creepy monster or cult...," Jungkook kept speculating, and never had Taehyung ever had the urge to slap him as much as he did now.

Me? A cannibal? Creepy monster or cult? That's offensive as fuck. Also, he's getting too close to my secret. I need to say something smart...

"Oh yeah, actually...," he then spoke all of a sudden, laughing nervously. "I have a friend who went through the same thing. Coincidence, right? She told me about it recently, apparently she was going on a walk through some forest and suddenly, this thing attacked her. A boar, maybe. Or some kind of rabid deer." Hearing that, Jungkook scoffed.

"Rabid deer? Please. My father is a hunter, rabid deer don't exist. And why would a boar attack a normal passenger without a reason? And why the neck area? Something doesn't add up here." The vampire clicked his tongue, feeling himself get extremely worked up about the ravenette.

"Oh, I'm sorry Mister Animal whisperer, but believe it or not, not everything can always add up! Animals are animals, they work differently than humans do so there's no point trying to question their morality! My guess would be, Jimin went on a walk somewhere, I don't know where, and all of a sudden, some animal tackled him and bit him because it was hungry."

"He somehow fought it off and found it so traumatic that he temporarily forgot about it and his head was a mess. But if he says it was an animal, you should believe him! I read about Australian boars eating human flesh in the newspaper all the time- and I read lots of newspaper- it's not that unlikely! Now, if you'll excuse me, I think I have to use the restroom. The sight of blood makes me really, really sick and I tragically lost my appetite."

Finishing up his little rant with a huff, he lifted himself from his chair and left the cafeteria without sparing anyone a single glance, accelerating his steps even more as he heard the ravenette call "Last time I checked, we were in Korea, not Australia, newspaper boy!" after him.

"Newspaper boy? How dare you call me that, you unfunny little bastard!," he whispered to himself furiously, storming along the deserted corridors. At some point, he started using his vampire speed, simply whizzing around and around to let his frustrations out. Maybe he should have done this outside instead, because all of a sudden, his excellent hearing started sensing voices and abruptly stopped speeding which made him accidentally crash into a glass cabinet.

Seeing about a billion glass sherds scattered all over the floor due to him running against it in almost literal light speed, his mouth formed the shape of an 'O', him clearing his throat and dusting off his shoulders elegantly. "Oopsie... Not my fault."
He walked off, thanking the Gods that no one had seen him and now steering towards where he had heard the voices that made him crash so suddenly.

His senses took him towards an empty conference hall, (presumably) two people standing inside and having quite the discussion.

"How many times do I have to tell you to stop following me around everywhere, Lee Chanwoo? One more time and I'm reporting you to the administrator, this is my last warning," a voice which he clearly recognized as his engineering professor Mrs. Park snapped, clearly enraged.

"But I'm not even doing anything! All I'm asking for is one single date, Miss. Why do you keep saying no?," a male voice whined, that voice also being kind of recognizable to Taehyung. A boy from his engineering course, apparently named Lee Chanwoo.

The vampire had never paid much attention to any students in any of his courses apart from the ones he always spent time with (or was forced to spend time with...), but he could already tell what kind of person that boy was. Arrogant, cocky, ignorant, assertive, narcissistic and most importantly, far too reluctant to listen to other people's thoughts and wishes. Also, the type to completely disregard personal boundaries, privacy and comfort zones.

If there were types of people that Taehyung disliked more than overly enthusiastic, squeaky, annoying, bubbly and clingy people like Park Jimin, it would be people like Lee Chanwoo. In all the hundreds of years that he had lived on this earth, he had come across many, many people like that. And quite frankly, they made him want to rip all the hair off his head in frustration. How could people be such idiots?

"This is the sixth time you are asking me out like this and my answer has not changed and will not change: No. I am your college professor and I don't feel comfortable going on a date with my student. Plus, I'm engaged. See yourself out, please. I have a meeting to prepare," Mrs. Park tried to dismiss him again, letting out a little sigh at how stubborn the boy was.

"But Miss Jihyo! I even bought a Chanel handbag for you! Isn't that enough? How can I prove myself worthy of you?," the student kept complaining, Taehyung wanting nothing more than to barge inside and break his neck there and then. He may not give a single care about human emotion and humans in general, but situations and people like these really had a way of getting to him.

"I told you I don't want any gifts from you multiple times! And how did you find out my first name? Please get out this instant and never speak to me again unless it is relevant to what we're taking through in class. If you overstep any of my boundaries again, I shall report you to the head of Cheonsang University and request putting you in a different course!," she then shouted, pushing Chanwoo out of the room and locking the door from the inside despite the boy objecting profusely and knocking on the now locked door repeatedly.

"Miss Jihyo? Miss Jihyo! You can't just kick me out like this, I still want to go out with you... My father will hear about this, he owns a department store and a supermarket chain!," the student exclaimed, still not giving up. Since it was only him and Taehyung in the corridor now, the redhead decided to step up and help the poor woman, despite not necessarily feeling any sort of attachment towards her.

So, he used his vampire speed and sneaked up to the university student quietly, whispering a quiet "Stop it, sweetie. You look pathetic" into his ear from behind and grinning in satisfaction as the boy let go of the door with a little screech leaving his throat.

Visibly fuming, he turned around and looked down at the redhead in disgust, running a hand through his over-gelled, black hair and clicking his tongue in annoyance. "Who the fuck do you think you are, talking to me like that?" He crossed his arms in front of his built chest, physically looking way huger than Taehyung. But that didn't stop or intimidate the bold vampire in the slightest.

He copied the other's gestures, standing with his arms crossed in front of his chest in order to mock him. "I'm not the one hitting up my engaged university professor and literally harassing her like a psychopath, am I?," he asked calmly, smirking a little as he saw the rage in the taller boy's eyes increase.

"A twink like you has no right to speak to me that way. Let me teach you a fucking lesson, you little shit," Chanwoo growled, cracking his knuckles and grabbing Taehyung's collar with his left hand while he balled his right one into a tight fist and raised it, ready to punch him.
However, the somehow still perfectly calm redhead let out an amused chuckle as he simply shrugged.

And the exact moment the other's fist would have collided with his cheek, he grabbed the boy's wrist tightly and twisted it by at least two hundred degrees without batting a single eyelash, a loud shriek of pain leaving the taller boy's throat. He decided to not let him off like that and did the same to his elbow, the unpleasant sound of bones cracking echoing throughout the whole empty hallway, along with more grotesque screams of terror.

"I suggest you leave Mrs. Park alone," he spoke sweetly. "Because if you think this is all I can do, I'm afraid I'm gonna have to disappoint you. Do not underestimate me." He then stepped closer and gazed into the mortified boy's glassy eyes intensively, his pupils constricting and dilating.
"Ah, I'm hungry again."

Clicking his tongue, he let his magic work wonders again. "You will not scream or move. When I'm done with you, you will only remember trying to fight me but losing tragically. Oh, and you should keep wearing turtleneck sweaters for the rest of this week and next week too." He smiled, revealing his once again growing fangs with his eyes turning a horrific shade of red.
And then, he bit.

And he had to say, human blood straight from the vein tasted much, much better than any blood bag he had ever drunk from.

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(A/N: this is kind of a filler i think and once again, i'm amazed by my own mind like i didn't plan for half of this to happen-

also i'm sorry this is the last time i'm gonna have to rant about my issues again but i have to go to the doctors tomorrow to do a blood test because apparently something's wrong with my thyroid and honestly idk but this could be the day all my problems and secrets regarding my ed could be exposed and if that's the case, i know i won't be able to handle it.. what if i do something stupid i don't have control over myself

i'm just so fucking scared it's not normal anymore :/ not only that but i'm also scared of exposing my bare arms and esp wrists like goddd
so idk, i'm just praying that all will go well and maybe there's nothing wrong with my thyroid after all, who knows? but good luck to me i guess

anyways i hope you kinda enjoyed whatever tf this was and thank you for reading yet another chapter, i love you guys💜💜)