taehyung pov

She closed her eyes, head still on my lap, I attempted to better her position since she would get a cramp in her neck if she continued to lay like that. I slid my hand under her head, feeling a liquid, I immediately pulled it back out and saw a hand full of blood.

"Jackson, Jackson wake up..." I noticed she wasn't moving at all, I didn't know how to get up, I was so drained my entire body was powerless. I powered my light, muttering aurorum towards the switch inside the control room of the cell, it turned on the emergency alarm, as people had appeared almost instantly.

"WHERE IS HE?!" They yelled, all the guards practically shitting themselves since the prisoner had escaped. "Maybe pay attention to the dying kids for the time being?" I told them, they quickly rushed over, picking up her body before throwing me over their shoulders.

We were taken to the Paradox since our school nurse was one of the best in town, and it was our school. My brothers; Namjoon and Wooshik, were called in since I was extremely low on blood, and I needed immediate donation of blood.

Vampire bites aren't deadly but if they suck out enough blood, your body would be completely drained, in short, dead. Luckily when Jewel somehow managed to break the glass, it stopped the Zanira from drinking the last bit of blood I had left. She saved my life. And now she lies next to my hospital bed, with a fat bandage around her head.

We did a little birthday celebration inside the healery, but I just couldn't get myself to enjoy not knowing when she'd regain consciousness. My mum repeatedly apologised for sending me to Krim, she didn't know things would end so badly. Jewel had been asleep for about 3 days now, "when will she wake up?" I impatiently asked the nurse.

"Considering the amount she bled, the impact when she hit the floor had to be quite a lot. Lucky for her she didn't get a concussion, however you know how it is with head injuries. There is a slight chance of amnesia, but I doubt it so don't worry, I say she should wake up soon." The nurse patted my shoulder before exiting the room.

"C'mon Jackson, wake up," I bit the inside of my cheek in nervousness, I placed my hand over hers, releasing a breath. Her index finger slightly twitched, building excitement inside of me even though it was the slightest movement. Her eyes fluttered open, the light making her squint as she scanned her surroundings. She furrowed her eyebrows in confusion, she jerked up from bed only to plop back down due to the pain.

"Where am I?" She held her head in pain, "in the healery." I smiled, holding her hand even tighter, I really couldn't hide my happiness. I helped her sit up straight, fixing the pillow behind her. "Who are... you?" She detached her hand from mine, shuffling away from me.

"What do you mean? I'm Taehyung- No... please no..." I bit my lip in sadness, looking down, does she really have no recollection of me? Suddenly she reached out her hand and moved a piece of my bangs out my eyes, making me look up from the floor and into her eyes. "You look like..." She squinted while scanning my face, a candle of hope lit up inside of me, I placed my hand on her cheek, caressing her lip with my thumb. "Go on, you can remember," I assured her in hope.

"You look like... a massive cunt."

She suddenly broke out into laughter as she rested back onto her pillow. It took me a second to realise what was happening, "Jewel I fucking hate you," I covered my face in embarrassment. "That's not what I saw in your eyes," she winked. "I woke up this morning, I just didn't feel like getting up. I heard your little conversation with the nurse and thought I should have a little mindless fun, no harm in a prank. Plus you should've seen your face, absolutely priceless I tell you-"

I had to.

I felt like it.

I cut her off by placing my lips on hers, I yearned to see her those eyes look at me again, and now they were. They were eyes that could make one instantly fall. I kept my lips on hers for a good 5 seconds, but not once did I feel her kiss me back. I quickly stepped away, seeing her frozen, an unknown expression running across her face. "I-I'm so sorry... I was just so, uhm, happy to see you completely fine, I just let it take over..." I felt so guilty, I don't even know why I kissed her, it just felt so right.

She turned over, stepping off from the other side of the bed, "hey you're not meant to be walking right now..." I warned her. I saw her reach down, face relaxed. "You..." she muttered, picking up a slipper,

"ABSOLUTE DICKHEAD" she yeeted the slipper, hitting me square in the face, she grabbed another slipper while screaming, "WHY ON EARTH" she threw it, "WOULD YOU KISS ME?" She threw another random shoe she found, making me duck under the bed to dodge it. Running out of slippers to throw, she grabbed her pillow jumping onto the bed to get to my side.

"I feel like ripping off my lips now!" She hit me while I was still kneeling near the bed on the floor. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I don't know what got into me!" I yelled, but she didn't stop, she tried to jump on me but I moved, making the positioning perfect for her to land in my lap, my hand underneath her head, securing it. "Be careful princess," I looked down at her, "idiot idiot idiot," she smacked my chest again and again making my grab her wrists. "I said I was sorry."

My serious expression making her awkwardly get up and sit back onto the bed. "I'll get Nova, she's been praying for you like a saint," I exited the room calmly, although I knew if she wasn't injured, I wouldn't have a head.

jewel pov

I touched my lips again and again, and soon my eyes were full of tears. It wasn't because of Taehyung, it was the memories that link with a kiss.

flashback

They disappeared. After killing him they just disappeared into the thick air. The animals that were holding me back from helping Seojun had also gone, so my body that was being held, had now lost all energy, meeting the ground with a pathetic face that you could see from planets away.

I got up, practically pushing my own body to go towards his lifeless one, I fell onto my knees, tears still threatening to fall on his flawless skin. My trembling hands hesitated to touch him, slowly making their way up to his face. I gasped at how cold it was, is this how soulless bodies feel like? I took hitched breaths again and again, tears now free falling their way down my cheeks. I couldn't fully process what had just happened, I had so much anger pent up inside of me, so I let it out. I screamed.

The loudest most painful scream escaped my mouth. We were so wronged. I looked down at his lips, slowly leaning myself down, wanting to kiss his lips for the first and last time, attaching my quavering lips to his still ones.

"C'mon Jewel don't be shy, just kiss me! We've known each other our whole lives, I wanna kiss you!"

The memory ran through my train of thoughts, forcing me to break out into a whimper of guilt, detaching our lips. "I'm so sorry," my smile was filled with sorrow, remembering how he would always jokingly lean in just to see me smack him away, resulting in us never actually kissing. Suddenly I heard sirens, I had no idea who had called the ambulance but they had arrived.

A woman came and hugged me while the others took Seojun's body into the van. "It's going to be ok," she said, "h-how, did you get here?" I furrowed my eyebrows as she pulled out the hug.

"You're Jewel right? You called us and reported a suicide?" She tilted her hear making me squint in confusion, I assumed this was the doings of those evil people, so I just went along with it, there was nothing else I could do.

present

"I SEE MY PRAYERS WORKED!" Nova ran in with a basket full of treats, I quickly wiped away the single tear that had slid down my face, quickly smiling at her.

"Taehyung seemed jumpy, what did you do?" She chuckled, sitting on the bed, "more like what did he do..." I muttered to myself, "what?" "Nothing," I smiled. "So how did he look?"

"Zanira I mean, how did he look?" Nova asked, quite intrigued. "For someone who's meant to be like 200 years old he looked our age. About 6 foot ish tall, dark curly locks with almond brown skin, he was kinda sexy." I shrugged, making Nova raise her eyebrows extremely judgementally. "Alright he almost killed both me and Tae, but facts are facts, and you were the one who asked how he looked, he's hot." I defended myself.

"He's killed 132 people in 3 days."

Her short and simple sentence made me regret my words, "he was ugly, so so ugly I swear I wanted to throw up just looking at him- wait, they haven't found him yet?" I looked at her in disbelief only now processing her words, I'd been asleep for 3 days while he managed to kill all those people. "He's blood thirsty, he's only ever been fed animal blood in those 2 centuries. He's moving too fast, town to town, village to village, he's regaining the power we tried to drain out of him by not giving him people blood. When he fought you, he was at least weakest, and look at how you ended up." Nova sighed.

"Let's just say the ministry have been waiting for you to awake, they aren't the most happy that you were the reason their worst criminal escaped." She looked at me, with a pitiful stare. "Those motherfuckers are going to overlook the fact that I almost died while trying to save someones life..." I covered my face in annoyance, "they're not going to go easy on you, they already have some prejudice against you, they know you're a malefic." She patted me on the shoulder. "Whatever, I don't regret what I did, even if they sent me back in time."

"I'd do it again."