studio 306 - chapter 10 | jjk
Pairing: Demon!Jungkook x Reader (f)
Genre: fantasy!au, demon!au, haunted apartment, horror (its not too bad bc im a coward guys), slow burn, forced proximity, supernatural romance, angst.
Summary: Jungkook is trapped in an attic, cursed to win affection from those who fear him most. Every tenant has fled until you move in. With your budget and patience on the line, you refuse to leave. Now youâre stuck sharing a space with a creature no priest, shaman, or exorcist can get rid of, and neither of you can escape.
Warnings: NSFW (yes u read that right) light horror, supernatural themes, slow burn, forced proximity, mild language.
Word count: 5825
a/n: hi guys! good luck? tbh might not be my strongest chapter because ive been busy bahaha (literally publishing this at 3 am) so bear w me if its not the best or feels rushedđ i promise the next chapter will be better~
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The way he kissed you felt like he was hungry. Jungkook wasnât hesitant or gentle, the way he kissed was something dangerously close to desperation.
And what shocked you most was that you kissed him back, you matched his pace instinctively.
And you enjoyed every second of it.Â
It was a demanding and consuming kiss, like Jungkook had been deprived of something for far too long. Your hands gripped his shoulders, holding on as if you might fall otherwise.
The kiss deepened, slower for a few seconds before it turned greedier, as if something inside Jungkook that has been locked away for centuries, is now finally free.
And now that it is, there was no stopping it.
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The world turned even more blurry as Jungkookâs hands roamed around your body. His touch felt electric and possessive. The making out session alone felt out of this world, and now his touch practically sent you to heaven.
You were not unaware of what is potentially going to happen and you did not mind it. It has been awhile for you too and youâre assuming itâs the same for him, since heâs been here for hundreds of years.
You did second guess yourself, were you really going to fuck a demon?
The rational answer would be no and that this was a being from another completely different realm that you spent months being terrified of.
So yeah, the obvious and rational answer was: absolutely not.Â
But then Jungkookâs lips moved against yours and your brain, which have been making pretty reasonable points, just went completely offline. It just shuts itself down.Â
You did wonder for a few seconds whether demons just have that sensual aura within them that makes it so hard for other beings to resist them.
You werenât expecting anything, but it was not this. It was not the way Jungkook is kissing you like he has been starving for this.Â
Whatever you were about to decide, whatever the rational conclusion was going to be, it became immediately and completely irrelevant the moment you registered what was actually happening.Â
The way he kissed you was not the way anyone, any human, has ever kissed you. It was not comparable to anything in your past relationships and experiences.Â
It wasâŠ. thorough, that was the only word that came to mind, which was a ridiculous word to use to describe a kiss, but was also the only accurate one you could think of.Â
It was like Jungkoook identified exactly what you wanted, what you needed, and what you have been dreaming of in a kiss, and he obeyed and listened to all of it, and delivered it perfectly.
It was no wonder that angels go to demons for sex, even by the way Jungkook is kissing you, you knew this was going to be the best sex of your life.
You could feel Jungkook moving his hand down to the waistband of your pants. With a sound of pent-up need, he yanked them down, exposing your skin to the cool temperature. But you werenât sure if it was just cold outside, or if it was his body radiating the cold.
His fingers were wasting no time in playing with your pussy. His fingertips softly touched your sensitive clit, making your cheeks flushed red. You gasped against his mouth, your pussy was already wet and needy from the heat between the two of you.
Jungkook rubbed your pussy from the outside before you could feel his long fingers circling your clit and putting two fingers inside you.Â
âOh, Jungkook,â you moaned, âthat feels so fucking good!" you moaned as your hips started moving itself, taking his long fingers deep inside you.Â
The sensation was overwhelming, and a rush of pleasure made you drop your head against his shoulders.
Jungkook shoved his fingers deeper into your wet pussy, making you moan loud enough that you instinctively placed a hand against your mouth because Taehyung was home, and the last thing you would want is for him to rush upstairs to check on you.
Your nails scratched against his wings out of pleasure, while his fingers pumped in and out of you.
At this point, you could feel Jungkookâs cock against his pants, and you just knew the size of it would literally take you out.Â
It was torment for Jungkook, especially after seeing how completely red your face was. He couldnât help but smile in satisfaction.
He wanted to fuck you right here and now, but he needed to make you even more wet than you are now, as his cock would only be hurting you if he didnât.Â
Jungkook also knew that him being a Demon would have driven your body to want him, even without you realising it.
Still, Jungkook was proud of himself for thinking this way, it meant that lust hasnât completely taken over him. If it did, he would be fucking you without even thinking about how you would feel.Â
For now, Jungkook focused on you.
As Jungkookâs fingers went deeper into your wet and throbbing pussy, your moans grew louder, there were different waves of pleasure that you felt with each thrust of his fingers. After a few more thrusts, Jungkook yanked his fingers out, leaving you panting, before crushing his mouth against yours in a rough kiss.Â
You want him.
You want him so bad, your hands started fumbling at his waistband. You struggled with it for a few seconds, before finally freeing his big cock from the weight of his hundreds of years of torment.
Your legs wrapped tighter around his waist as Jungkook pinned you more firmly against the wall. Jungkook positioned himself at the entrance of your pussy, the tip of his cock teasing your swollen pussy, leaving his tip now wet with your juices.Â
With his brows furrowed, Jungkook thrusted his dick into you with dominant force, burying himself deep inside your tight human pussy. Though it wasnât your first time, the pain and pleasure was so great that you couldnât breathe for a few seconds.Â
Not in a million years did Jungkook ever think he would be fucking a human.Â
He couldnât help but be disgusted by the thought of humans, but looking at the way you are needy for him, for his cock, he pounded into you with even more force.Â
You cried out, a blend of shock and ecstasy, as he filled you completely, his size stretching you in ways that combined pain and pleasure into one overwhelming sensation. Each powerful stroke drove the both of you towards the edge, and all this time he was thrusting in you, his eyes locked on yours, revealing to you the depth of his yearning and hunger.Â
âYouâre so fucking tight,â Jungkook moaned against your ear, making you throw your head back. It was so hot to hear what he felt while his cock was inside you.
As your bodies slammed together fast and hard, Jungkook grabbed your breasts through your shirt and ripped your shirt open. Your hard nipples popped out and Jungkook wasted no second to pinch and twist them. He fondled your breasts with one hand, before lowering his head to leave hickeys around your breasts.Â
Jungkook started sucking your nipples after leaving hickeys all around your chests, and you moaned against his ear which made him thrust his cock even deeper into your wet and dripping cunt.Â
With every thrust, Jungkook drove you towards pleasure you have never imagined, it was literally out of this world pleasure. His massive cock filled you so completely that your inner walls clung to him, every inch of him hitting your spots sent shockwaves of pleasure radiating through your whole body.Â
You arched your back, and your breasts were bouncing freely, begging for more as his hands gripped your waist, pulling you down to meet his thrusts. The way Jungkook moved so aggressively turned your moans into breathless whimpers.
When you were about to cum, Jungkook slowed down just enough to press his mouth against yours. You melted into him, your fingers threading through his hair, pulling him closer as your lips locked fiercely, Jungkookâs teeth played with your lower lip before sucking it gently, drawing out another moan from you.Â
As the kiss broke, Jungkook sped up his thrusts, slamming his throbbing cock deeper into your dripping wet pussy. Sensing your orgasm coming, Jungkook continued thrusting his cock in and out of you.
It was all too much, you couldnât and were not willing to hold your cum. You cried out as your pussy clenched his cock, and you whimpered into his ear as you cum all over his cock.Â
But Jungkook was far from done. He started moving again, slowly grinding his hips and thrusting his cock against your pussy.Â
It wasnât until after you have cum for the third time that Jungkook yanked his cock out of your pussy.
He grabbed a fistful of your hair and pushed you down onto your knees, letting you drop from his embrace to the floor. His big cock, coated in your cum, was now just inches from your face.Â
âOpen your mouth,â Jungkook said and you obeyed.Â
He shoved his cock in, stretching your jaw and hitting the back of your throat in one ruthless thrust. You couldnât help but gagged, and you could feel your eyes watering as he gripped your head with both of his hands and fucked your mouth the way he fucked your pussy.
Jungkookâs groans turned deeper as he was about to cum. He buried his cock inside your mouth, while holding your chin up to look at him as he shot his cum down your throat, forcing you to swallow each and every single one of it.
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You fell asleep right away, you didnât even know when or what was exactly happening when you fell asleep. But you were knocked out, it was like a light switch.
You didnât have time to overthink your life decisions before falling asleep, you just fell asleep.Â
Itâs understandable though, you came three times in a row, with no quick breaks in-between and any human wouldâve reacted the same way.
So, one moment you were aware of the surroundings, of the studio, Jungkook, and everything else around you.Â
And the next, you felt your body touching the smooth bed sheet you owned.Â
Jungkook had to carry you to bed, because you passed out in his arms.Â
That was the Demonic trait in him, even angels canât resist a fucking good sex with Demons. Jungkook was proud of it, he could now feel his lust being more controllable and he knew that he would master it again in no time.Â
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While you were asleep, Jungkook was wide awake.
He sat on the couch with his back against it, and he watched the ceiling and thought about nothing for a long time.
You were asleep in bed, and Jungkook could hear your breathing, slow and even, you were truly unconscious. He chuckled, proud of himself for knocking you out, giving you the best fuck of your life.
Itâs a given, because Demons were made to be an expert in bed, any creature whoâs ever had sex with a Demon, always ends up coming back for more.Â
He was observing you before Jungkook noticed something.Â
Something very strange.Â
It was a subtle feeling at first. He felt a change in the air, but he thought he might have imagined it for a few minutes.Â
Jungkook realised that he finally stopped hearing a sound that has been present for so long that it wasnât bothering him anymore, and with a blink of an eye, the sound was just suddenly, simply, out of nowhere, no longer there.
Jungkook went very still.
He pressed his awareness outward, to scan the surroundings the way he learned to do in Kratos when something or someone was charging at him.Â
Jungkook felt the room first, it felt the same yet different. He didnât feel the usual boundary pressing back at him. Â
Then he sees past the house, the streets, and the neighbourhood, and even the city beyond. He kept going and nothing stopped him.
And then Jungkookâs awareness was at the school, the one he assumed you worked in. Jungkook could see the kids filling the classes, Namjoon and Hoseok teaching in the school.Â
Jungkook could see that far. Â
Which meant the boundary was gone.
It is not weakened or cracked, the boundary is completely gone.
Gone, completely.Â
Jungkook couldnât believe what he was experiencing. He has been waiting for hundreds of years for this exact moment. For him to be able to go back to Kratos.Â
He was completely taken aback by how easy it was for the curse to break.Â
Then Jungkook stood up from where he was sitting.
He moved to the window, the one he stood near it for centuries, and looked out at the street below. The neighbourhood was quiet, he could see a few cars passing by and he could hear someone's dog barking two streets over.
Jungkook can leave this house.
The idea came to him with less surprise and excitement than he anticipated.
Hundreds of years, countless efforts and failures, he tried and failed multiple times to just walk out the door and now... Now he could actually go back to Kratos.
Behind him, you rolled over in your bed, covering yourself with the blanket all the way to your shoulders, and Jungkook heard you mumbling in your sleep before silence hit the room again. Jungkook looked out the window and did not think about anything for a long time.
Jungkook couldnât pinpoint exactly when the curse broke.
That was what kept coming back to haunt him, like how he always tried to solve tactical problems from every angle, looking for the flaw in the plan.
The curseâs condition was affection from a human, a genuine feeling towards him from a human who was not terrified.Â
Which meant that you are now no longer terrified of him.Â
Jungkook couldnât help but chuckle. He remembered when you first came in, when you first brought up the priest and shaman, like they could be of any help for you. But he was amazed, taken aback, surprised, everything, that you, a mere human, are now no longer afraid of him.
Had it been any of his silly little plans of moving your things around? Did you become used to it and it somehow helped you be less scared of him? Was it what happened tonight? Was it the conversation, all those hours of you asking questions he answered genuinely? Or was it the sex?
Jungkook didn't know, the curse didn't exactly leave a footnote for him to understand what broke it.Â
And it frankly doesnât matter anymore.
Jungkook is now a free Demon. He can go back to Kratos and deal with his brother.
All he had to do now was find a way back across the boundary between realms, which required either the ancient ritual that requires a certain ancient fluid, or he could get help from an entity that could cross freely, and the most reliable of those was Jophiel.
To reach Jophiel meant Jungkook still needed you.Â
Not that you could communicate with Jophiel, but an acquaintance of yours, Father Gabriel, could help Jungkook.Â
He looked at you, who were still asleep, not realising what just happened. Not aware of what just shifted.
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Jungkook sighed before turning his head towards the door that leads to the first floor of the house.
The door that for hundreds of years had been the one thing Jungkook could never cross.Â
Jungkook didnât think twice before walking across the studio towards the door, he put his hand on the door handle and felt the cool handle under his hand.Â
He stepped onto the stairs, and kept walking, half-bracing himself for the familiar smoke-and-snap heâs back into the studio.
He was expecting the humiliation of finding himself back at the centre of the studio like nothing happened.Â
It didnât come.
Nothing happened.
He was in the middle of the staircase, then the bottom of it.
Then he took the last step and his foot met the ground floor, and he was standing in the hallway of a small human house he had only ever heard from above.
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The ground floor of the house felt like a different world.
Jungkook knew it existed, obviously, he heard it for hundreds of years. Every conversation, every door, every laugh from Jimin and every quiet movement from Yoongi and every youtube video Taehyung watched in the kitchen while he cooked.Â
Jungkook walked around and stood in the living room of a human house and looked at photographs and felt, precisely and without drama, the weight of hundreds of years of not being able to do this.
He walked to the kitchen. And the kitchen smelled like whatever Taehyung cooked the night before. There was a stack of cookbooks beside the refrigerator, one of them open to a page with a handwritten note.
Jungkook walked towards the back door leading to the backyard and opened it.
A chair was left out in the backyard and had gone slightly weathered, there was a potted plant that needed water, and the fence that separated the house from the neighbourâs house behind it.
He stood in the backyard with his wings fully spread because there was finally room for them, and he looked up at the earth sky.
It was gray, not red and no smoke. There was no heat from the ground reminding him of where he came from.
He stood there for a long time, but Jungkook will soon be in Kratos again.
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Taehyung is a light sleeper.
Always has been, which was why he chose the room furthest from the street when he first moved in, and why he kept white noise on low through a speaker on his bedside table.
So when he heard movement downstairs at an hour he knew Yoongi and Jimin would still be at the office, he was sitting up in bed before he fully decided to be.
He sat still for a moment, listening.
You were home, he knew that much. You told the group chat you were sick, and Taehyung passed Namjoon in the hallway on his way out after visiting you, and even talked for a little bit with him.Â
But you were sick and are probably upstairs, and yet he could hear that someone was moving around in his kitchen.
He got up, pulled on a hoodie, and walked quietly through the hallway and towards the kitchen.
He was expecting you, or maybe Yoongi or Jimin coming home earlier than usual.
But no, it wasn't either of them.
There was something, someone standing in the kitchen.
And that someone was not you, or Jimin or Yoongi.
He was tall, with broad shoulders, and was standing facing away from him, which was the only reason why Taehyung didn't immediately make a sound.
Something about the stillness of the figure, the way it wasn't moving, made him stop in his steps instead of doing anything sensible like reaching for his phone to call 911.
Taehyung squinted his eyes.
The back was bare and broad with muscle.Â
The back of whoever or whatever was standing in the kitchen was built by violence and had the record of violence written all over into the skin.
Because there were scars everywhere.
The scars were long diagonal slashes that ran from the left shoulder all the way down across the spine, to Taehyung it looked like the kind of scars that only came from something with enough force behind it to mean it.
Other scars crossed over them, going the other way. Some shorter, some curved in a way that made Taehyung's stomach turn slightly because he couldn't figure out the angle or size of the thing that would have caused a scar like that.
And on top of it all, it had wings.
The wings were darker than black, which Taehyung thought wasnât possible.Â
He stood in the other side of the kitchen for what was probably ten seconds even though it felt considerably longer.
And then the figure turned around.
Taehyung saw his face and the horns.
Horns. It had fucking horns.
Taehyung never imagined in a million years that he would see a thing.. something.. or maybe a ghost.. in his house.
So Taehyung screamed, hoping someone would rescue him from this nightmare.
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You woke up from your nap because of a scream.
You immediately sat up, taken aback by the way you were woken up. The studio was usually quiet even with Jungkook around, so you knew the scream came from downstairs.Â
You looked around the studio; the desk, the couch, the kitchen, then, the window, it was empty. The studio was empty and you were alone.
Which should have been fine and is completely fine because sometimes Jungkook just decides to make himself invisible or pulls his presence in so tightly that the air doesn't react to him.Â
You knew this because youâve lived with him for months, and the absence of him didn't mean he was gone.
But⊠it just felt weird. You sat still on your bed for a few seconds and felt the atmosphere in the room, the studio felt warm.. warmer.
Not the warmth from the lamp, blanket, or your own body heat, but warmth the way a room is warm when it has a heater on.Â
Youâve lived in this studio for months and you had not once, not for a single morning, woken up to the room that felt like this.Â
But now the room is warm.
You put your feet on the floor and the floor was just floor, not the âslightly-colder-than-it-should-beâ floor youâve been stepping onto every day for months.
You were confused, trying to figure out what happened, why the floor was warm, and the studio felt empty. And the first thing that came to mind made you gasp.
Is Jungkook gone?
Then before you could even analyse further, you remembered you were woken up by a scream.Â
Someone screamed from downstairs and youâve been so disoriented by the warmth in the room and the empty studio that you almost forgot that someone might have an emergency.
You grabbed the first thing within reach, which was Jungkook's shirt that was on the floor, which you put on without thinking about it because the alternative was running downstairs in considerably less.
So you ran downstairs.
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Your instinct told you to go to the kitchen, and you knew it was right.
You registered the scene in pieces: Taehyung on the floor, he was not hurt. But he was sitting on the floor, back against the wall, hands pressed over his mouth, his eyes wide and fixed on the other side of the kitchen.
Taehyung definitely looked like his understanding of the world has been revised very rapidly and without him asking for it.
And you also saw.. Jungkook.
Yes, you saw Jungkook in the kitchen..? you were so confused you kept looking at Jungkook while shaking your head at him.
Jungkook was standing next to the kitchen counter. With no shirt on, his wings and horns visible, and his expression just looked very unbothered by the scene happening in front of him.
He looked different.
You have seen Jungkook a hundred of times, and you saw him even more closely today. You couldn't help but blush at the thought of looking at him more closely.
But this was different, something in Jungkook has changed.Â
Jungkook looked terrifying, scarily terrifying, and some part of you agreed with your fear and without any argument. Yet underneath the terror was something else, something that might have been awe.
"Jungkook," you said, shaking your head from thinking about Jungkook and awe in one sentence.
He looked at you, still looking unbothered.
"Did the curse break?"
The corner of his mouth formed into a smirk, "It did," he replied.
You eyes got bigger as you processed what you just heard.
The curse is broken, and Jungkook is free.Â
Which meant Jungkook could go back to Kratos, to the citadel, to the red sky and the north tower.Â
Jungkook won't be needing you anymore.
The thought arrived quietly and settled somewhere in your chest with a weight you did not prepare for.
You looked at him standing in Taehyung's kitchen, he was enormous, unhidden, and completely free, and you tried to figure out what your face was doing and whether you had any control over it.
Apparently you did not have enough control of your expression, because Jungkook was watching you with that particular attention of his and his expression shifted slightly.
"Why are you terrified?" he asked, and then, because he was Jungkook, the demon prince, and the curse was broken which meant he apparently has nothing left to lose, he added, "you just came on my cock three times and swallowed my cum and youâre terrified of me?"
From the floor, Taehyung made a loud gasp.
You couldnât look at Taehyung after what Jungkook just shared without your consent.
"I wasn't expecting it to happen so fast," you said, which was true, "and I need you to change the way you look, put a shirt on, hide the wings and horns. Taehyung isâŠ." you glanced at Taehyung briefly, "Taehyung is on the floor."
Jungkook looked at Taehyung on the floor, then back at you.
For a moment you thought he was going to refuse, because he is free now and has no particular reason to do anything you asked.
He didnât need you anymore and you didnât know why you felt sad..? you questioned your own thoughts and feelings.
Then you heard Jungkook sighed. It was just one short exhale, he definitely found you asking him to do something mildly irritating, but the air around him shifted the way it does when he is choosing how much of himself to show.
The wings folded and disappeared, the horns were gone.Â
Now Jungkook looked like a very large and unreasonably attractive human male with no shirt on, which was its own problem but a significantly more manageable one.
Then a shirt appeared, and you have stopped being surprised by all of this months ago. But it was all new to Taehyung and, from the floor, Taehyung said: "What the actual fuck!"
"I know," you said. "What?" Taehyung asked again. "I know."
"That's a..â he stopped, looked at Jungkook for one second before fear took over Taehyung again, then he looked back at you, "What the fuck is that?"
"Itâs a demon," you said.
"Youâre funny," Taehyung said, laughing nervously at you.
"I am a Demon," Jungkook said, which Taehyung ignored out of fear. You sighed, âI know itâs hard to believe but he is a demon, Taehyung.â
"A demon⊠with no shirt on.." Taehyung laughed at himself and whatever the fuck he saw today. Was this all still a dream? It would make total sense because Taehyung was asleep before all of this happened.
"He has a shirt on now," you replied.
"He didn't thirty seconds ago," Taehyung argued, still laughing nervously.
"Taehyung," you called his name to calm him down. "Why," Taehyung said, very carefully with a shaky voice, "is there a demon in my kitchen ____?"
You looked at Jungkook, who was leaning against the counter with his arms folded and the expression of someone, somedemon, who found human fear mildly entertaining.
"We should sit down," you said.
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Taehyung, it turned out, was significantly more composed once he had five minutes to think and five minutes of silence, and a glass of water.
He sat at the kitchen table, you sat across from him, and Jungkook stood near the counter because Taehyung did not want Jungkook to be near him, which was very understandable.
"Okay," Taehyung said. He had both hands around his glass of water and his eyes were directly looking at yours rather than at Jungkook, which again, was very understandable, "Okay, start from the beginning."
You took a breath, before starting to explain to Taehyung why there is a demon in the kitchen, "You know how the studio has always been cold," you said.
"Yes."
"And a lot of your tenants left."
"Yes," Taehyung said, more quietly.
"That was him or his doing," you said, "he has been in the studio since before you bought the house. Since before anyone you know was born, probably. He's fromâŠ" you paused, "he's from Kratos, which is a specific part of Hell that's structured differently from what you'd imagine when you think of hell. It's basically where the powerful demons live."
"Right," Taehyung said, shaking his head, not really believing anything coming out of your mouth.
"He was cursed here," you continued, âbound to the studio specifically and he couldn't leave the second floor. That's why the tenants before me always felt watched but nothing ever happened outside the studio, he literally couldn't go anywhere else."
Taehyung took a few minutes of silence to process this, "So he has been in this house," he said slowly, "for how long?"
"Longer than the house has existed," Jungkook said, from the counter.
Taehyung flinched at the sound of Jungkook's voice then composed himself, or at least tried to, "Right," Taehyung said again.
"The curse had a condition," you said, deciding that some details were probably not necessary at this specific moment, "and tonight the condition was met, which means the curse broke. Which is why he is..â you gestured at the kitchen, "down here."
"He can go anywhere now," Taehyung said.
"Yes."
"Is he going to hurt us?" Taehyung asked quietly.Â
"No," Jungkook said, "because you are not worth the effort.â
"Okay," Taehyung said, nodding fastly, still looking at you and still holding his glass of water, "okay, so, there is a demon who has been living in the studio upstairs forâŠ. longer than this house and you knew about this."
"Since about week two," you stated.
"And you stayed?" Taehyung asked, his mind blown by your life choices.
"The commute is very good," you defended yourself.
Taehyung stared at you, still mind blown,âThe commute?"
"And the rent," you said, "and you're a good landlord and Jimin and Yoongi are nice."
"You stayed in a haunted studio because the rent was cheap," Taehyung said.
"And the commute."
Taehyung looked at you like he has just discovered an entirely new category of stupidity.
âYouâre insane,â he said.
âIâm practical and logical.â
âYou are living with a demon.â
âWas,â Jungkook corrected from the counter.
Taehyung opened his mouth to say something else, but Jungkook stopped moving so suddenly that you turned to look at him. His expression changed first, the irritation he felt towards Taehyung slipping away from his face as his eyes shifted past you, not towards the hallway, not towards the stairs, but towards the empty space beside your shoulder.
Then Jungkookâs voice dropped lower, if that was even possible, when he muttered, âSeokjin.â
You didnât have time to register what he said or what he meant, you also didnât have the time to turn around or deflect, before something cold touched the side of your neck.Â
It was not a hand grabbing you, not an attack you could react to, it felt like two fingers pressing lightly against your skin, almost gentle, and then something wet and freezing spread beneath them.
Jungkook moved immediately.Â
One second he was near the counter, saying âSeokjinâ, and the next he was behind you, he was so fast, the force of his movement sent things in the kitchen clattering off the counter.
Jungkook moved so fast, he even took Taehyung by surprise and made him fall from the chair.Â
His hand reached for your arm, but Seokjin was just faster, and he came with a vial already emptied out against your skin.
That was the problem.
The ancient liquid touched you right before Jungkook could stop what was happening. It moved under your skin like ink dropped into water, spreading from your neck down your chest, through your veins, cold enough to make your knees weaken.Â
Jungkookâs hand closed around your wrist, but his grip suddenly felt distant, like your body was already being pulled somewhere his strength could not reach.
Seokjin smirked at his younger brother, âToo late,â he said.
Jungkookâs eyes dropped to the silver-black stain crawling across your skin, and for the first time since the curse broke, you saw panic on his face.Â
Real panic.Â
Not anger, not arrogance, but you could see something raw across Jungkook's face as he pulled you back against his chest and locked his arm around your waist like he could physically keep you in the world if he held on tightly enough.
But the room was already starting to get even more blurry and distant for you.
The kitchen lights stretched into thin white lines. Taehyungâs voice seemed so far away like he was somewhere distant. The floor disappeared beneath your feet even though Jungkook was still holding you, and that was when you understood why he looked so terrified.Â
Seokjin did not come to fight him. He did not come to overpower Jungkook, he only needed three seconds with the one thing Jungkook did not have: a way through.
Jungkookâs wings tore out of his back so violently that glass shattered somewhere behind him. His grip tightened around you, almost painful now, but you clung to him anyway, fingers twisting into his shirt because he told you to hold on without even saying it.Â
For half a second, you thought it might work. You thought Jungkookâs strength, his rage, and his desperation would be enough to keep you there.
Then Seokjin leaned closer, his smile brushing the side of your face, âSadly, he does not have the key to go to Kratos.â
Then in one second, Jungkookâs hand was ripped from yours all at once. One moment his body was behind you. And the next, there was nothing.Â
No kitchen.Â
No Taehyung.Â
No Jungkook.Â
Just Seokjinâs hand on your neck and the horrible silence of wherever this place is.
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Back in the kitchen, Jungkook stood frozen with his fingers curled around empty air. The space where you were was empty.Â
Taehyung was still on the floor, breathing rapidly, staring at the empty space where you disappeared, âWhat the fuck just happened?! Where is ____?!â he asked, his voice shaking.
Jungkook did not answer.Â
Jungkook lowered his arm slowly, his expression made Taehyung, wisely, choose not to look at Jungkook directly again.
The curse was broken and Jungkook could leave the house.Â
Jungkook could walk through doors, cross streets, and stand beneath the Earth sky. But he still could not cross realms, not without the ancient liquid, not without Jophiel.
Not without you.
And for the first time in centuries, Jungkook's long awaited freedom felt like another form of imprisonment.
















