"You think you could run away, eh? Move into some house, hide behind some family? Just wait until I get my hands on you!"

"No... please. I swear I won't do it again! Please don't hurt me! I can't take it anymore."

The man took of his belt and wrapped it around his hand.

"Please," Taehyung cried,

"Please."

The man ignored the boy's pleads and whipped him with the belt.

Taehyung fell to the floor, covered in blood. He tried to shield himself. He screamed, he cried but the man continued to beat him.

"Please, I didn't do anything wrong! It hurts! It hurts!"

That's when the man pulled out something from his pocket.

The knife glistened in the moonlight.

"Now you'll get it!"

"No! Please, no," Taehyung screamed.

"Taehyung! Taehyung, wake up!"

Taehyung's bloodshot eyes opened to see Jungkook beside him, hands on his shoulders.

"You were screaming! Are you ok?"

"He's coming after me! He's coming, he's going to kill me," he shot up from his sleeping bag.

"Taehyung no ones coming, you had a nightmare," Jungkook reassured him.

"No! No, he's coming and he's going to kill me," Taehyung shouted as he started to shake, hands gripped at his hair.

"Taehyung. Taehyung, look at me."

"He's coming..."

"Look at me, Taehyung!"

He looked.

"No one is going to hurt you, ok? Not as long as I'm here."

Jungkook grabbed his friends shivering body and pulled him into a hug.

Taehyung was crying into his chest.

"Don't let him hurt me," he choked out.

"I won't," Jungkook rubbed Taehyung's head.

"I would never let anyone hurt you."

Taehyung continued to sob and Jungkook kept his arms wrapped around him.

"You're ok," Jungkook said, hand on the boy's head.

"You're ok."
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Pretty short but here it is!

fanart creds @/owner