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Blood in Roses 『KTH』

❁ Genre ➢ Supernatural au, romance

❁ Pairing ➢ Taehyung x Reader (feat. Jimin)

❁ Count ➢ 1.9K

❁ Warnings ➢ None

❁ Chapter ➢ Prologue | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04

Reacting to my words, Taehyung opens his eyes wide in shock.

“How would I know…” saying those words, his lips closes in me, and meet my lips. It’s nothing but a forceful kiss, just pushing his lips against mine. There’s no sweetness to it.

“Taehyung…” I throw my arms around his neck and pull him towards me. Once I accept his kiss, we’re no longer be able to stop.

‘Why am I not refusing?’

I ask myself what I asked him a while ago.

‘I don’t know…but, I don’t hate it’

‘I don’t want this to end’

The warmth on my lips goes away. Opening my eyelids as I sense his eyes on me, I find his face right in front of mine. His golden eyes were looking into mine.

“W-what is it?”

“Nothing…” He says bluntly, and again he presses his lips to mine.

I think about what might happen next, then I push Taehyung’s chest off of me.

“What’s wrong?” he says, looking surprised.

“We can’t go on like this…”

“Heh, why not?”

“Because I don’t even know if I...love you?” I face down the floor, avoiding his eyes.

Hearing his sigh, he reply “…Alright. But stay” Taehyung, having stopped kissing me, hugs me instead.

“I won’t do anything you don’t want” as he says, he doesn’t do anything any further. He just holds me tightly…

…And we fall asleep together.

‘So do I really love Taehyung after all…?’

The day after, I can’t stop thinking about him during work. I have to concentrate on my chores here. I shouldn’t think about anything else now.

I spot him as I pass by the lobby. He notice me, and walks towards me. A little distance away, I see Jimin.

“When did you go back to your room?” Taehyung suddenly speak up.

“Hm? Oh um…”

“You were gone when I woke up! Just, don’t leave my room without my permission”

I chuckled looking at his shocked face.

“What’s so funny?” he whined

“Nothing~” he hasn’t changed the way he talks since yesterday, but now I don’t feel unpleasant when he orders me things.

“Tsk, strange girl” Junhoe runs his fingers gently through my hair. His hand then moves from my hair to my cheek.

I put my hand on top of his hand “I’m sorry I left without saying anything. You are sleeping so peacefully, I just thought I shouldn’t wake you…”

“Then next time, just wake me up” he smiles

“Alright, I will”

Just when I remember the kiss with Junhoe and am about to be lost in a sweet memory—I hear a grumpy voice behind me.

“Oh, so is that it…” I turn around.

“…Jimin?”

“You two make it too obvious” Jimin, coming towards us with Namjoon, looks at us both in turns.

“So, Taehyung. Have you told ____ about her role yet? She seemed keen to know yesterday” Jimin continues. What does he mean by my role?

“…I haven’t told her”

I turn myself back to Taehyung “What is that about?”

“Namjoon, why don’t you tell her?” Jimin cuts in.

“Looks like I have no choice...” Namjoon mutters as if it’s something bothersome and turns to me. “How much do you know about Aelfric?”

“He’s the ancestor of Taehyung and Jimin. But now he’s gone somewhere, or so I’ve heard”

“What about Tatiana, then?”

“She’s my ancestor, and a witch who fell in love with Aelfric. And she made a kind of rose that blooms in this castle, right?”

“Hmm, you seem to know a little”

“It was a long time ago. Aelfric and Tatiana, who met each other in Idora Forest, fell in love in the next moment. They lived happily in this castle for some period of time, but their happiness didn’t last long.” He continued

“…I’ve heard from my family about her sad death”

“Yes, after Tatiana was executed, Aelfric disappeared, leaving a will. He made it my responsibility to tell it to his descendants 500 years later…”

"500 years…?” for a human like me, that many years would be too long to count.

“It has gone by already. It wasn’t a particularly long time for us who are made to live eternally”

“So…what is Aelfric’s will…?”

“It’s…”

“Namjoon, wait…” Taehyung stops him. “You needn’t wait, Joon” Jimin cuts in. The two brothers, who had been quiet until now, interrupt. Taehyung somehow, he seems nervous.

‘Should I not be hearing this? But I want to know…’

“Tell me, Namjoon” not paying attention to Taehyung, who seems to be letting out a short sigh, I keep my focus on Namjoon.

“Well then…” I took a glance at Taehyung who seems to be paying full attention to Namjoon too.

“One who loves and is loved by Tatiana’s descendant will be Aelfric’s heir and will inherit all of his riches.”

I shot my eyes wide open, in shock, as though I’ve been hit on my head with something hard.

‘Whichever I love will be acknowledge as Aelfric’s heir…’

“So that means…” I look at Taehyung, then at Jimin. Taehyung, who told me that he will make me his…and Jimin, who asked me if I love him…

‘That’s why these two…are they using me?’ I feel anger begin to boil inside of me.

“Is that why? That’s the reason you both wanted me to be your belonging and tried to make me do whatever you wanted me to!” now I finally understand why they told me to say that I love them when I woke up after they had my blood. “I’m just…I’m but a means to be Aelfric’s heir. Is that it?”

Yesterday’s kiss, and everything else was…how disgusting, this is unbelievable…

“Hey…” Taehyung walks towards me reaching out his hand.

“Don’t touch me!” I shake off Taehyung’s hand with all my might.

*SLAP*

I slap my hand on his cheek.

Jimin calls me out. I glare at him, who seems to be taken aback. I look at Taehyung again “I hate you…” I hissed and walk off their sight. I turn around for the last time and shouted “Don’t ever look for me!”

“It’s all so impossible!” saying out my anger in the middle of an empty hall. “What kind of a will is that? What makes him have a right to say that about me…” I grumble as I walk down the hallway.

‘My hand that slapped Taehyung on the cheek actually hurts but right now nothing ached more than my heart’

 “Oh, if it isn’t ____! Hmm? What? Did I just hear ‘I’m grumpy so don’t talk to me’?” I turn around to see Seokjin grinning broadly at me.

“If those are what’s called knitted brows I see on your face, you’d better quit it. They’re making you look bad! Come on, smile~” he gives a big smile. “Is this job too hard on you? Is that devilish manager making a things hard for you? Hm?” when I’m about to speak he cuts in again “You know what you should do right now, right? Ditch!”

“What do you mean? Ditch my chores?”

“Yeah, come over here to your favorite man~ I always have a tea and sweet treats prepared for a break”

Well it’s true that sweets do a good job on this kind of occasion

“Thanks, I’ll have them” I decide to take Seokjin’s invitation.

“Here we are! This is the room. Now, off you go!”

“Wait, what!?” by the time I realized that I’ve been jammed into the room, the door is already closed. As I’m trying to figure out what’s happening, my vision blurs.

This is… No, this isn’t my usual vision… It resembles what I experience when I see the future, but something’s odd about this.

“What the—” My blurring vision goes back to normal. But,

“No way…” I see Taehyung with a gentle smile standing front of me.

“____” calling my name ever so gently, he comes closer. I find myself more surprised than angry. Why is he calling my name this way all of a sudden? He’s never done it before…

“I want to be with you” I’m speechless. What happened to him? “Stay with me. As long as you’re with me I don’t need anything else” I can’t help but be confused by his unusual talk.

“Taehyung…I…—Huh?”

Suddenly, the scenery changes, and Taehyung is gone from my vision. 

“Where am I? Taehyung?”

“This is a room that will embody the wish of anybody that enters” that voice…

“…Jimin?”

“You’ll be taken in by the devil that lives here if you stay here too long”

“Taken in? By the devil?”

“Yes. Nostalis, who lives in this room 405 feeds on the wish of whoever enters this room. He embodies your wish to keep you in this room longer. And once you become captivated by his hunger, you die. Let’s get you out of here…” Jimin pulls me by the hand. He then escorts me straight to my room.

 “____? Are you feeling alright?” hearing his voice, I finally realize that I’m back inside my room.

…Everything’s so hazy…I can’t think straight…

“If it’s not the devil in that room’s fault, then it must be because you are unsure about your own feelings”

My own feelings… I thought That room, Nostalis room 405…isn’t that the room that is mentioned on the note I found in Jungkook’s room?

“You said that room embodies my wish, right?”

“Yes, that is correct”

Then, the Taehyung I saw in there…is how I actually want him to be? the past scene with Taehyung hits me again. Those words, somewhere in down in my heart, I wish for him to say that to me?

“I’d thought your wish was something different” Jimin interrupts my thoughts.

“As in?”

“As, you want to get out of this castle. Or that you want to go back to your life before you met us but, those weren’t your wish. Your wish was about Taehyung” there’s a moment of silence until he speak up again.

“Do you, perhaps…love him?”

“…I…you…might be right. Maybe I love Taehyung…”

“Maybe?”

“I don’t know…I’m not sure yet” ‘But it’ll be a lie if I said I’m not attracted to him’

“I see…” after a while Jimin lets out a giggle.

“What are you laughing about?”

“Nothing, I’m sorry. Let me tell you something as a thanks to you for answering so seriously. No matter if you come to love him or not, you are never going to be his number one”

“What do you mean by that?”

“Oh, I wish I knew it myself” Jimin chuckles as if he’s amused. I, in the other hand, feel my heart become heavier and heavier. ‘Does that mean, Taehyung already has someone steady?’

“I’m telling you…Stop loving him. Love me.  If you do, I guarantee you’ll always be my number one” saying so, Jimin smiles at me gently. Even though he’s saying he loves me I’m not persuaded at all.

“Jimin…I’m—”

“I’m serious ____” his eyes, looking down on me, really do look serious. Jimin’s slender fingers brush up my bangs. And I sense his lips approaching my forehead.

“Please…”

[sylnyexne]

Blood in Roses 『KTH』

❁ Genre ➢ Supernatural au, romance

❁ Pairing ➢ Taehyung x Reader (feat. Jimin)

❁ Count ➢ 2.5K

❁ Warnings ➢ Forceful acts

❁ Chapter ➢ Prologue | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04

“Meow”

Having heard the cat’s meowing, I come to my senses and push him away. I realize that I was almost caught up in the mood.

‘What…did I just…’

“Tsk. That was close” muttering the words. Taehyung reproachfully looks at the door. Spade is there. “I’m tired of having too much idle talk but, you’ll be mine no matter what” stating that Taehyung leaves the room.

I feel my knees began to weaken “Too close...” I mutter to myself as a breathed a sigh. Spade shakes his head and walk towards me.

“I told you to be careful with the brothers. You went too far with Taehyung” Spade then sits on the couch “Luckily, I happened to walk by…”

“Thank you very much, I’ll be more careful from now on. Please let me rest for today” I beg for Spade’s pardon, who has started lecturing and go to bed. Rather than sleeping, the thoughts of Taehyung filled my head. I wasn’t supposed to react that way. It feels like as if he casted some spell on me, but at the same time my heart can’t stop pounding just by thinking of it. As time goes by I cast aside those thoughts and finally drifted to sleep.

“Have a nice day!” I finish cleaning a guest room, and move to another one. One more room left. I should finish my work quickly and look for the Rose Garden. It’s been three days since the brothers had my blood. It’s my second say as a hotel maid here, and I’ve been handling my quota smoothly.

“Excuse me, I came to clean your room” I knock on the door few times and try to talk to the guest in the room but there is no reply. Is no one there? “Excuse me, I’m coming in” while calling out the guest, who might be there, I enter the room. “Nobody seems to be here after all… I should get this done quickly. Well, where should I clean first…” I make the bed efficiently, and then clean around the side.

“Oh, what is this?” I find a note written hurriedly. I’m not supposed to read this but I’ve seen it by accident. It’s written,

“Room 405? Nostalis…? ‘Dangerous but maybe useful’ …?” I clearly have no idea what this note about. Maybe I should try to look for the room.

Just when I think that, I hear some noise behind me and turn around. I see a tall figure standing in front of the bathroom, most likely he just got out from there, I see fluffy ears and a tail on his body. I don’t remember seeing those before… I remembered him from the last time we met when I was about to try to open the entrance door. I think that Namjoon called him Mr. Jungkook

“Oh you actually have those ears and tail? I didn’t notice them with your hood on the last time I met you”

“Hm... So, you do have your own mind and will after all”

“My own will? What do you mean?”

“You are not one of those puppet-like workers here. Well…” he paused to straighten his back and continued “I’m Jungkook. I’m a werewolf who is pretending to be a vampire...for a reason”

“You’re pretending? To be a vampire?”

“I’m looking for something in this castle. I want to conceal my identity as a werewolf, so I use this medicine like this…” Jungkook takes out a green bottle that have strange patterns engraved on it. He sprays the liquid from the bottle over himself, and purple mist starts to cover his entire body. When the mist breaks up,

“Oh! They’re gone!”

“This medicine is called the False Mist. I can hide my ears and tail with this. The only drawback is that It loses its effect from getting wet…like taking a bath. You’re human, right? Why on earth are you working here as a maid?”

“I... uh, also am looking for something in this castle”

“I see… Were you with the brothers on your own will?”

“That’s…” I cannot tell him the truth on what’s bragging me all the way here, so kept silent until then he started.

“This is just my hunch, but… They must have a catch. You shouldn’t get closer to them more than necessary”

“It’s very nice of you to worry about me. I’ll keep it secret to the brothers about you as a thank you”

“That would be great” seeing his smile for the first time warms my heart. From the first time I met him, he always puts on an emotionless face, which is hard for me to read his expression.

“Then, I’ll be going now”

“Alright. Thank you for cleaning my room” I wave my hand to Jungkook and leave. I feel that it was the first time I’ve met someone normal here.

On the way back to my room after work, the grouchy Namjoon calls me to stop. He takes me to the manager’s office, and Taehyung is there as well.

“Do you know why we’ve called you here?” Namjoon speaks up.

“I have no idea”

“One of our employees reported us that you were peeping into guest’s bathroom” Wait I wasn’t peeping! And how the hell the employee know about this?

“W-what are you talking about? Why would I do that?” saying that, I remembered that I saw Jungkook right after he just taken a bath . Did someone see us? But there’s nobody else is there beside me and him.

“…The guest was indeed just after taking a bath, but I swear that I didn’t peep”

“Well, the guest also denied the fact” I’m relieved from Namjoon’s words.

“I don’t know who told you that, but it was just a mistake of his or hers”

“The thing is that you acted to mislead him or her” Taehyung, who had kept quiet the whole time, finally speaks solemnly. “Don’t you think, you need to be punished for your mischief?” His tone is suddenly got deeper.

“P-punished…?” a chill runs down my spine as I look at him grinning mischievously. “What are you talking about—” Taehyung grabs me by the wrist as I struggle to push him off “How could I let you go?” he smirked.

“Don’t be too hard on her Taehyung” Namjoon warns Taehyung, but it doesn’t stop him.

“This way, walk faster” by being dragged by him, my legs can’t keep up with how fast he walk but i still try to keep up to his pace. I notice that his eyes are slowly being tinged crimson. I have only bad memories about those red eyes. Where is he taking me to… I want to run away, but Taehyung’s grip is too strong that I can’t shake it off.

“Good girl. Just shut up and come with me” Taehyung finally stops at—

“Oh, no...” The Dungeon

I can’t help but remember the last time when the vampires had my blood.

“Stop…please, Taehyung…”

“Hm.. I’m sick of the same plea. But at the same time I love it” though speaking in disgust at first, Taehyung seems to enjoy the situation.

“But since you seem to have such high expectations, I have no choice but to do it. You want it don’t you? Now, all you have to do is just say the words, with your pretty little mouth”

“I—I’m not expecting anything!”

“Is that so?” he grins “I don’t believe you…” Taehyung pushes my body towards the center of the jail.

Taehyung starts to bury his face on my neck as I flop down on the ground “Tae— Taehyung! Stop...please!” He starts by licking and kissing my neck forcefully.

“Mmh... yes... your blood is rushing really quickly through—” he tilt my head to the side and press his thumb on my jugular vein “Here...” I close my eyes in fear as he buries his face on my neck yet again.

As soon as I feel something sharp touch at neck, pain runs through my body. My blood… I twist my body frantically trying to avoid Taehyung’s attack, but he doesn’t seem to care about my resistance.

 “I could have never expected you would steal a march on me…”

Jimin…? I look in the direction where the voice came from to see Jimin with a displeased look.

“Tsk, I’m just educating an employee. It’s not what you think”

“Hmm…”

Wiping my blood on his lips, Taehyung glares at Jimin. I try to stand up, but my legs feel so weak and they waggle. While seeing them glaring at each other in the corner of my eyes, I eventually lose consciousness.

When I come back to my senses, I’m lying in my bed. Feeling the sting on my neck, I remembered what happen last time. He bit me again… I’m still half-conscious and I can’t think of anything. When I close my half-opened eyes again, white fogs starts to spread in my head.

I remember this garden…

A man is lying on the ground and a woman is talking to the man. This is the…kiss scene of me and Taehyung I saw a while ago in my vision… I could only see the scene from a distance, but it is a bit closer this time.

Taehyung…

Taehyung is lying on the ground and doesn’t look lively. “Taehyung…” my cheeks bedewed with tears, I call his name to wake him up.

Responding to my desperate call, Taehyung opens his eyes. I can’t hear the words they exchange. Just when his and my lips meet, my vision turns into darkness.

 I slowly open my eyes and raise myself up after making sure my head is not spinning anymore. I’m so tired now from many things happening all at once but I don’t feel like going back to bed either. “Maybe I should take a walk inside the castle for a change…” it’s been three days already since I arrived here. It’s about time that I went looking for the Rose Garden. I open the door without making noise, and walk out to the hallway.

Where is that Rose Garden…? I thought as I walk down the hallway. I have only one clue right now. That time Taehyung said…

‘“The Rose Garden has its own will. It will only show itself to who it wants to. You won’t be able to see it so easily”’

I have no idea what I should do to make it appear in front of me. The only thing I can try now is to check every room one by one.

As I walk further in the quiet hallway, I stop in front of a room that catches my eyes. “What is this room…” I open the door and it reveal a massive room filled with racks of books. “So many books here…” looking around into the room, I feel someone’s presence.

“Jimin…?” I slowly close in on the familiar back shot.

Taking a peep at his profile through a bookshelf, I find him looking so happy. I think I’d better not to interrupt him. I decide to look around the library hiding my presence.

“How rude” suddenly I felt presence behind my back. I knew it was Jimin…

“…Huh?”

“How dare you leave me without saying anything? I think it is quiet rude of you to do that towards me” I turn around to face Jimin standing closely in front of me.

“I—I’m so sorry! You were reading a book so happily, and I didn’t want to disturb you” I bowed my head. After a moment of silence a faint chuckle comes from Jimin.

“You are so kind,____” he pulls me by the hand and pushes me against a nearby desk.

“W—what are you doing?”

“What am I doing? You should’ve known that already…” saying those words, he pulls me closer and about to nuzzle his face on my neck but then he stops and kiss my jaw instead.

“You’ve got more marks” his voice is in a serious tone.

“Why? Why…are you obsessed with me so much?” I continued. Please… I don’t want to get my blood sucked any more. With that in mind, I ask Jimin the question in wonder.

“So… it seems that Taehyung hasn’t told you yet” he continue “Would you love me if I answer your question?” he then nuzzles his head on my neck.

“Love you…?” why does it turn out like this? This is just so strange. They have forced me to say “I love you” from the beginning.

“I—I uh…I’m…” why can’t I say anything!?

“You don’t have to force yourself. What’s more important now is…” Jimin’s eyes take an upward glance at me with his face still buried in my neck. His eyes…its bloody crimson red.

“Isn’t it unfair that you offer your blood only to Taehyung?” Jimin stares at the bite marks on my neck. His fangs peek out from behind his lips. I tried to push but he’s so strong that I can’t push him away. When I close my eyes to prepare for the pain—

“STOP IT!” someone shouted.

I open my eyes to the voice echoing through the room. Jimin has been pulled apart from me, and is glaring at Taehyung reproachfully.

“Taehyung…”

“Tsk, your expression changed the second he came in” Jimin scoffs

“What do you mean my expression changed?”

“You look so much happier now, at least not as tense as when you were with me. I can’t help but be jealous of him” he giggles.

“Of course! He doesn’t do anything like you do” I snapped at Jimin

“Anything like I do?”

“I’m talking about your scurvy way of trying to get my blood in exchange for the information I need to know” I glance at Taehyung who’s standing still coldly while watching us.

“Well…I have to agree on that. Taehyung wouldn’t do such thing.”

“You seem to know Taehyung very well” he continued. “Why don’t you try to know me better instead?” again Jimin closes in on me. Taehyung silently thrust himself between Jimin and me.

“Stop messing around would’ya” Taehyung raises his voice towards Jimin

“Hm? Why can’t I be with her too?”

“She’s mine. Now, come with me little girl” Glaring at Jimin, Taehyung takes me by the hand and walks away.

“H-hey, Taehyung! Where are we going?” he didn’t answer my question. “My hand hurts… please let go” I leave the library with the lead of Taehyung, who remains silent all the way through. Jimin doesn’t seem to come after us.

“Ah!”

As soon as we enter his room, Taehyung pushes me down on the bed. He stands on his knees over my body and looks down on me.

“Taehyung…i-is something wrong?”

“Why am I so irritated!? It’s so strange” Taehyung seems to be bewildered by his own feelings.

“Just the fact that you were with Jimin…that makes me…”

Looking at him in emotional pain, I decided to speak up.

 “Do...you have feelings for me, Taehyung?”

[sylnyexne]

Faerie Realm- Prologue

Pairing: Ot7 x reader

Genre: fluff, angst, uhh maybe smut eventually??

Theme: Based kinda on sword art online a lot of similar ideas and themes kinda combining the idea of them trapped in the game, but the world is closer to ALFheim online 

Warnings: Swearing?..I swear a lot it can’t be contained. Besides that  none I can think of for the prologue, there for sure will be some intense warnings on other chapters, I’ll put them on each chapter if something comes up! 

a/n : This will be my first fic, so any feedback of what you think of the idea would be great :) <3 I am not a writer, just a person with lots of ideas lmao so bear with me as I try to put my ideas into text and we’ll see how this goes

- next -> chapter one

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Your mom hasn’t gotten off your ass about making friends since you were a child.  You’ve never quite been the friendly type, your focus was always school, work, college. When you graduated from college this past year with a degree in graphic design you realized you could work from home, which was perfect for you.  You never really wanted friends or to be social, it just seemed like a waste of time. Your whole family constantly worried that you were going to end up an old cat lady who died alone with her 20 cats, and honestly? Does that sound so bad?

You didn’t have 20 cats but you did have two, and they were all you needed for friends, Tiger was your first love, a little tabby cat who had a sassy attitude and mostly only wanted food and an occasional scratch on the back.  You’ve had her about two years.   Then there was Velvet, your 6 month old calico sweetheart who loved cuddles and curling up on your lap while you worked.  That was all you needed in life.  

But for your 23rd birthday, which happened to be this past week, your mom decided to get you a gift that she swore would be right up your alley, and would help you make friends.

When you pulled apart the shiny green wrapping paper to see your gift (that even before opening your mom had already pleaded for you to “just give a chance”)  your first reaction was to roll your eyes.

- Full dive MMORPG headset -

How could she think this was “right up your alley”

I mean it was an interesting idea, you’d heard that they had created a new technology that would fully immerse the user into the game through a headset that would send signals to your brain. The goal the claim to have achieved is that you would feel like everything that was happening to you in the game was reality.

Did you want to try it? Not really.

But your mom begged and pleaded.

“You can make new friends and you don’t even have to leave your room!” She whined “please y/n! Just try it once! They only have one game out right now, its called Faerie Realm, you can start playing tomorrow! How perfect that the opening day timed out for your birthday huh?”

 You had to fight back rolling your eyes at her and the idea that she thinks you would like playing a game called Faerie Realm.  You’ve never liked fantasy, or even games in general. When it came to entertainment you liked books, and your tastes always gravitated towards nonfiction and practical things, even your graphic designs you created were very formal and for classy businesses that wanted a professional and well…boring look.

 For her to think that you would enjoy something so whimsical and childish really showed just how much she didn’t care to try and get to know you. Constantly pushing her personality and agenda for your life on you seemed to be a hobby of hers.

But, you had to admit, this was probably a really expensive gift and it would be extremely rude to not give it a try at least once.

The next day, the day they were finally going to bring the headsets online for the public to try, you were going to try it.  Little did you know, you really would make some friends for life.  If only it didn’t have to be through sharing the same trauma, fear and horror that was to come…

[sylnyexne]

Blood in Roses 『KTH』

❁ Genre ➢ Supernatural au, romance

❁ Pairing ➢ Taehyung x Reader (feat. Jimin)

❁ Count ➢ 2.2K

❁ Warnings ➢ None

❁ Chapter ➢ Prologue | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04

The moment I see him, I remember what I was trying to forget. As soon as that scene replays in my mind, I am no longer able to look at straight.

“I’m coming in”

I nod, keeping my eyes away from him. In the corner of my eyes, I see Spade leave the room. “So here he was…” 

“Oh…you know him?” 

“He’s the cat that lives here” he turns his look towards me “What’s this distance between us?” he wondered “Distance?” I say as if I didn’t know that he is saying, but I do know what he means. I had move to the corner of the room while he was seeing off Spade.

I mean, I have no clue when that kiss is going to happen so I’d better not get near him.

“Are you afraid of me?”

“No, I’m not”

“Then why do you try to get away from me?” step by step, he closes in on me. And I move back, step by step. There’s nowhere left to go…I’ve reached the end of the room.

“Oh, that’s it?” my back hits the wall, and I’m unable to move anymore. Taehyung says, bored, and inches away from me. His hands slowly rest on my cheeks. They’re so cold… while I’m surprised at how cold his hands are, Taehyung’s face come nearer and nearer and I reflexively close my eyes tightly.

But then I feel something hard touching my forehead.

As I open my eyes, I find his face in front of mine. His forehead was touching mine. What is this feeling? His skin against mine is cool and yet…

“…You spoiled it”

I was almost about to feel cozy and heart-warmed, but in an instant, Taehyung steps away and leaves the room.

“What was that all about…?” I say to myself as I sit on my bed. I realize how much this day has made me tired. “I’ll be working from tomorrow on I should get some rest” sleepiness carries me away as soon as I crawl into the bed.

I’ve begun working as a maid in the hotel.

“Ah… I feel a little tired already…” though the cleaning weren’t any harder than I had imagined. Even though there are guests that look just like humans, some of them have ears and tails like animals. Every room I went in as full of surprise. There are some of them who become transparent and disappear right in front of me like ghost…

“I guess half of the guests here aren’t human huh” I stop for a while to take a break. “I guess that’s what you’d expect from a hotel bridging the humans and non-humans”

*creek*

“Huh?” as I look at the armors lined up in the hallway. One of the armors suddenly bows to me and starts walking away. That gave me heart attack for a second… with that in mind, I stand in front of the next room. “I should finish my chores right away and get back to my room”

“That room needs no cleaning”

I turn around to see Namjoon standing there. “Oh, Namjoon...”

“The guest in that room will not be up for another 50 years. Just leave him be”

“50 years…?”                                                                                                        

“Understood? Now move on to the next room”

“Y-yes understood, Sir” Namjoon doesn’t look like he’ll accept any questions, so I do as he says.

On the way to my room after I finished all the chores for the day, I spot Taehyung.

“Taehyung…?” what is he doing there? He’s getting little packets out of his pocket. When I get closer to him, I see that he’s lining up the little packets of candy by the window. Right by the candy lies Spade, sleeping.

“Taehyung, what are you doing?”

“Uh w-what? That’s my question!” Taehyung looks embarrassed for some reason.

“I’m on my way to my room. I’m done with my chores.”

“Then go to your room already”

“You’re not going to tell me what you’re doing?”

“…Now that I think about it, this guy is usually in your room” is it my imagination or are his cheeks a little red? Is he blushing? After mumbling that, he looks at me. “…I just thought that I should feed the cat”

“You’re feeding the cat?” I look at those candy as I ask. “With…these?”

“Is anything wrong with that?”

“Well, nothing is wrong with that intention… but Taehyung, these aren’t what cats eat”

“What do you mean?”

This guy really…

“These are what humans eat. As snacks” I take one packet by the window. It looks like nothing but a piece of candy. “Sweet for humans? That cook…” 

“Cats have food that they prefer to eat. No matter how much of those sweets you offer, Spade won’t be interested”

“…So you know a lot about him?”

“Yes. I think I know much more about him than you do” I stare at him with a confident smug.

Hearing this, Taehyung looks into my eyes. I guess he wanted to know more? “For instance, cats have a habit of chasing after small things that move”

“Small things that move…? Does it include this?” saying that, Taehyung holds out his golden pocket watch that he usually carries on his waist to Spade. “Try swinging it”

“Like this…?”

Spade opens his eyes slowly at first. The next moment, his eyes lighten up.

“Meow!” Spade plays with the golden watch swinging about from Taehyung’s hand.

“I’d never have thought about trying this…” seeing his smile makes me happy. I never thought seeing his smile makes my heart this warm. Maybe because all he had shown me is his unpleasant look and frowny face, it’s quite nice to see this side of him. Maybe he isn’t that mean after all...

Suddenly Spade cat-punches the madly swinging watch.

“Hey!” in shock, Taehyung drops his watch on the floor. The lid of the watch opens and I see a mysterious emblem.

“What’s that…?”

“This is proof that I’m descendant of Harold” whilst picking the watch up, he tells me. “I’d rather talk about this cat. That was a cat-punch right there, wasn’t it? I’d never thought I could experience it…” he looked back at Spade “…But it looks like he won’t play with me anymore.” Spade has curled up again in his sleep.

“Cats are moody animals. But Taehyung…” I chuckled as I can’t hide my emotion.

“What are you laughing at?”

“I’m sorry, but I just thought you have a cute side to yourself”

“M-me? Cute?”

“Yeah, I mean, you were so desperate to have Spade’s attention”

“Don’t say such nonsense...” he glared.

“Glaring at me won’t work anymore” I smiled as he seem to be annoyed. Still glaring, Taehyung closes in.

“…I’ll shut your mouth for you then” his cheek are a little, but obviously, red.

“Tae—“

“Listen up. All you have to do is shut up and be mine. If you don’t get it, then I’ll make you understand” Taehyung’s face comes closer to mine. He got my arm and the other one holding my jaw. “No!” I cover his mouth with my other hand. Taken off guard, Taehyung lets me slip away.

“Hm!?”

“That’s why Spade runs from you, because you’re so pushy!” i smiled, feeling i’m at victory after fleeing myself from him.

“Hey wait!”

As I recall it, I find myself having good time, and I run up the stairs in a hum.

Halfway up the stairs, my sight becomes foggy. “What just happened?” it’s the vision again…

I see a door. The door I see is unlike any other door I had opened today. Which room is that? I feel so…strange. I wait for the dizziness to go away, I then regain my consciousness and start walking again. A few steps ahead… I see the door that I’ve seen.

“This room is…” I’ll try going in.

“A…storeroom?” it’s a room with tables, chairs, and small things scattered everywhere. Seems like no one is using it.

As I reach for the tool chest, I open my eyes blinded by a bright light, and I find myself in a different room.

“…Tatiana” Taehyung calls to me.

Tatiana…? But that’s… well I know her name, though. It’s the name of my distant ancestor, whose story of dying young and violently has been passed down in my family for generations.

“Tatiana…” the man next to Taehyung calls to me too. That’s…the man on the portrait. I was told that he was the father of vampires.

“Aelfric, So you were with Taehyung” did I just say that…? It’s a very strange experience. It’s like my consciousness is taken over by her. “You still get nervous around me, don’t you?”

“I have no intention of it” said Taehyung.

“Liar…” I slowly go near Taehyung and reach for his cheeks.

“What are you—” then I stick my forehead to his. “This, makes you relaxed, doesn’t it?”

“...Whatever” he rolled his eyes.

“It’s okay, don’t be afraid” it’s me, but at the same time it’s not me. It’s a really gentle voice telling him that. Her action reminded me of something. So that’s why he leaned his forehead to mine… To make me feel relaxed. This must be a vision of what Taehyung experienced. But, why did he try to make me feel relax?

Taehyung and my ancestor knew each other? He didn’t look at all like he was minding how I felt at that time. He was so forcible. How is Tatiana related to this castle? As I ponder this thoughts, a bright light envelops me again.

I’m finally back in the storeroom. I touch the tool chest again, expecting it to happen again, but nothing happens. Puzzled, I go back to my room.

I reached my room and look around to find the cat. “Looks like Spade is not here…” I wanted to tell him about Tatiana though, he might know something.

*knock* *knock* *knock*

That particular way of knocking comes from only one person. “Come in…” Taehyung then comes in and look at me.

“Oh, you’re not going to stand in the corner again?” perfect timing. I needed to ask him a few things.

“Taehyung…do you know Tatiana by any chance?”

“What’s that out of the blue?” he looks a little taken aback. Not minding it, I continue.

“I saw you, the man in the portrait, and a woman called Tatiana in a mysterious room”

“…Room 333” he paused a bit then continuing with a serious tone “That’s the room where you can see the past” I was right. That was what actually happened in the past.

“Is that woman my ancestor Tatiana? How are you and she related? If you know something please tell me...”

“That’s a lot of question…”

“The only thing I know about Tatiana is that she is my ancestor from a long, long time ago and Tatiana was a witch who was Aelfric’s lover and…that she met a tragic end” I wonder what happened to her

“…You’re right. You are Tatiana’s descendant” he then pulled a flower, rose flower. “There is a rose blooming in this castle called Rosapast. The one who made it was Tatiana”

“You have ten days left. Find the Rose Garden somewhere in this castle within those ten days. Roses blooming in this castle have a mystical power. The evening dew will purify you from the vampire curse” Spade’s words suddenly popped in my mind. I really need to hurry and find this garden. I hope Taehyung would tell me.

“Where is the Rose Garden? I’d like to see Rosapast”

“The Rose Garden has its own will. It will only show itself to who it wants to. You won’t be able to see it so easily” he sighed.

“I see… Say, Taehyung. Will you tell me more about Tatiana and others? Do I look like her?” Taehyung looks quietly at me.

“I would say yes. Your beauty resembles Tatiana’s”

“You think I’m beautiful?”

“N-no, never mind!”  Taehyung looks everywhere but me and i couldn’t help laughing.

“Thanks!”

“I-I didn’t say anything to be thanked for!”

“Hmm Taehyung…”

“What”

“Thanks for talking to me, and…” Taehyung awaits my reply as i got my words stuck in between my throat. After breathing for a bit i continue.

“When you lean your forehead to mine… You did it to make me relax, right?” Though I thought he was a scary, arrogant person at first, after some time together, I’m sure he’s not like that deep inside.

“D-don’t get me wrong, alright?” and he tries hard to make friends with Spade. Though he’s not good at it, he at least tries to make me relax…

“It’s not like I want you to relax, it’s just…” and though he’s got sharp tongue and he’s not so gentle.

“Well then, what is it? Why did you do that to me?”

“I want to…”

“You want to…?” Taehyung come near me, little by little. He’s so close to me, and yet I don’t feel that I want to back away. And although we are so close to each other to the point that our lips might meet, I can’t take my eyes off him.

As our distance becomes closer and closer, just when our lips are about to meet.

“I want to…”

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Blood in Roses 『KTH』

❁ Genre ➢ Supernatural au, romance

❁ Pairing ➢ Taehyung x Reader (feat. Jimin)

❁ Count ➢ 3.3K

❁ Warnings ➢ None

❁ Chapter ➢ Prologue | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04

“Wake… Wake up…” the whispering sound seem to wake me up.

“Hmm…?” I feel something soft rubbing against my cheek, and slowly open my eyes. Whose voice was that? sitting up in a bed I was laying on, I look around. An unfamiliar ceiling…an unfamiliar room…and a cat? But…nobody is in the room except me.

“Good, you can move your body”

I thought I heard someone talking to me, I’ve just made sure that no one is in the room though. I look in the direction where the voice came from. There is the cat sitting in my sight.

“You’re right”

“A cat…?” I must have been crazy. Is the cat really the one who is talking earlier?

“I am a cat living in this castle. Some people call me Spade” I hear the same exact voice from the spot where the cat is sitting. It really is talking… I feel like I’ve gone through so much that I’m not surprised by a cat speaking.

“I’ve never met a cat who can speak the human language before—”

“We can talk about my language ability later. The problem here is you.”

“Me? What do you mean me?”

“Do you remember you were sucked your blood by the vampire brothers?”

“Y-yeah…” oh how I wished it was all a dream. The pain of the fangs sticking into my skin, and the indescribable weird sensation. How can I forget about that?

“They tried to dominate you”

“Yes I know. So…” does that mean I’m a vampire now? Or what do they call it? Belonging? Does that mean I’m their slave? I get depressed all of the sudden to face reality.

“Keep your head up, you haven’t become their belonging.”

I stayed silent. Still understanding every word Spade says. So there’s still a chance?

“You are still human, but—” I take Spade up in my arms as I’m overwhelmed by happiness. “So, I’m not a vampire yet!” moving my body left to right as I hugged him to my chest “Hey hey! Don’t start celebrating yet. Hear me out” I put him down on the floor as he struggles in my arms.

“Here, you have to know that, you are now in between a human and a vampire. Seems like you are descended from a special blood line.”

I feel like my body were shaken a bit. I feel like shivering “Wait, does it mean I will eventually turn into a vampire?” Spade confirms my question with a nod, and stares at me in a serious manner.

“You have ten days left. Find out the Rose Garden somewhere in this castle within those ten days. Roses blooming in this castle have a mystical power. Drinking the evening dew will purify you from the vampire curse”

Find the Rose Garden in ten days…  Overwhelmed by the new information i just realized if i should trust this cat or not.

“Why are you so nice to me…?”

“Because you are not supposed to become a vampire. I don’t know how helpful I can be, but I will support you if you wish”

“Thank you, Spade” I have no idea why Spade knows those kinds of things, but it still relieves me to find out that there is someone in this vampire castle to help me. I’ll find the garden and leave this castle as a human.

As soon as I make the resolve, a knocking sound resonates from the door. As I haven’t answered, the knocking sound gets raged as if someone wants to destroy it. The knocking sound echoes through the room. The person doing this must have a short temper. I look for Spade to tell me what to do but the next thing he did is curling up on the bed. I have a bad feeling about this…

“…I’ll open the door now” as I’m about to hold the doorknob.

“You’re late! Don’t make me wait” his voice scolds me before I even open the door completely.

“Taehyung…” he has no intention of hiding his irritation as he glares at me.

“What do you think about me? Say it!”

“Huh…?” what does he mean by that? Is he talking about his look? Or my first impression about him?

“All it takes is saying that you love me. Do it. Now”

“But why?” his low tempered attitude is starting to make me really mad. “Why the hell do I have to say that to you?” his eyes are wide open in surprise as I glare at him.

“What? why is she like this?” he mumbles the last sentence but loud enough to be heard and I’m the one who want to ask him the same question, but I stay silent and keep glaring.

“Look at me in the eyes” he reach his hands towards me and grab my chin up for me to get a closer look on his eyes.

“What are you—” he holds my chin more forcefully. Taehyung’s eyes are gradually turning into blood-stain red. These crimson eyes are familiar to me. When he sucked my blood, he had the same crimson eyes. No…not again… Thinking that he would suck my blood again, I stand ready, but what he does is repeating the same phrase while putting his evil smile.

“Say…that you love me”

Is he serious? While staring deeply into his eyes, I reply “I can’t say ‘I love you’ to someone I don’t even love” I’m guessing he tried to hypnotize me?

“This is absurd! Have a good look at my eyes!”

“Hey! T-taehyung!” his face approaches towards me as it’s distorted in frustration, I desperately try to avoid his face as he closes in more. But as he hold my chin firmly, I can’t move an inch. He licks his lip before staring at me with his blood-red eye.

“Taehyung, you can’t force an unwilling lady. She doesn’t look happy”

With that, Jimin pushes Taehyung away.

“It seems like you didn’t become Taehyung’s belonging. His power seems to have no effect on you” Jimin slowly comes closer to me, I take a step back, he’s a little bit too close. “How about me? You became my belonging then, that’s why Taehyung’s power doesn’t affect you” 

“I’m not anyone’s belonging! Get out of my way!” I pushed Jimin aside and walks towards the door. Suddenly he grabbed my left arm and pull me to his side, looking at me amusingly.

“Well I must verify this then. Would you kiss me, ____?”

“Jimin, what the hell are you doing?”

Jimin’s face approaches me “Now…let’s—” Stating my feeling as clear as possible, I step on his foot as hard as I can “No way! I can’t kiss someone I don’t even like!” “Ahh…” he groans while jumping in pain. Jimin frowns for a moment, but his familiar gentle smile soon appears again. His eyes, Oh no... Jimin’s eyes are as red as those of Taehyung’s just a moment ago.

“Let me tell you again. ____, kiss me”

“As many times you ask me, it’ll always be the same answer. No and never” Jimin shrugs as I refuse his request.

“How disappointing. She hasn’t become my belonging either”

“Our power doesn’t work on her, is that even possible?”

“Right, she is hard to deal with…”

“Huh, you’re giving up already? She’s mine then”

“You wish”

What are they talking about? Staring at them as I’m confused, I see Jimin stretching his hands towards me.

“Well… for now…” my body starts to get chills as he holds my hand.

“What are you doing!? Let go!”

“Alarmed to the point you’re shaking eh? Oh well, it can’t be helped” he releases me then, I rub my arm to where he was holding. “I’ll show you around the castle. Come with me, ____” show me around the castle? I am surprised by his sudden offer, but I could wish for nothing better to look for the Rose Garden. But I can’t follow him straight away off guard, thinking that there may be a catch to it.

Running after Jimin, he stops to look back at Taehyung.

“Wait Taehyung! You come with us now”

I recognize the place where they have taken me to. It seems better to be careful, and I start to walk a few steps behind them. Though I was so scared yesterday because nobody was here.

“This is the hotel lobby where we welcome out guests” Jimin guide me towards the center of the lobby. It’s lively with people today.

“This place is a hotel?”

“This is Hotel Libra Sincera, This hotel has remodeled from a castle, so it’s called both ‘hotel’ and ‘castle’”

“If it’s a hotel, how come nobody was around yesterday?” I look around to see porters attending hotel guests.

“We were having a ceremony for the first time in a long while yesterday, so people in the hotel stayed in their rooms. I’ll tell you about the ceremony later. Let us get back to business with this hotel” Taehyung said.

“Right, this place function as an intersection of humans and non-humans” Jimin continues to guide us to walk around.

“I can go visit places where other non-human races live from here?” though I’m a bit scared, but my curiosity about these ‘non-human’ beside the vampires keep bothering me.

“You are right. However, you have to pay a considerable price in exchange. Not everyone can go”

“But then, why are you guys here?”

“Ones chosen from all vampires are put in charge of this hotel. There are three types of workers in this hotel. The owner, the person to ascertain the considerable price needed in exchange to visit other worlds.” Having walked ahead, Jimin stops at the uppermost landing of the staircase. “The introduction of the lobby is about it. Next, I’ll introduce you our great origin” there’s a big portrait on the wall.

“Who is he?”

“Aelfric. The old man who made a nuisance of himself and only left us trouble”

“Watch your tongue, Taehyung. He’s the father of vampires. We should respect him”

“Taehyung, what do you mean by trouble��” My question is drowned out in mid-sentence by the shout and footsteps of a girl.

“Taeehyuung!!” I turn around to see a girl with big blue eyes and her wavy blonde hair dashing towards us.

“Our first-class guest seems to have found you, Taehyung” Jimin said as he giggles. Taehyung puts up a cold face and roll his eyes.

“Taehyungie, I’ve been looking for you! You have no idea how much I missed you!” Taehyung gently smiles and crouches down to meet her eyes.

“I am deeply sorry about your trouble, Lady Chaeyeon” what? I never knew he have this polite manner of his, it’s kind of surprising actually. The girl called Chaeyeon glares at me fiercely, and then holds Taehyung’s hand. “Come have a cup of tea with me! You wouldn’t say no, would you?”

“Of course not, young lady”

“I’m not asking you sir Jimin, you’re not gorgeous enough to flirt with me”

“…I’ll be back soon” a heavy sigh was left from Taehyung’s mouth but he quickly puts up his ‘smile’ again towards Chaeyeon. Taehyung goes back down the stairs with Chaeyeon. I also go down the stairs to stand in front of the big entrance door. I came from this door. I wonder if I can go in and out freely. I quietly place my hand on the door. The door is so heavy and doesn’t budge an inch.

“It’s...quite heavy...” I breathed after putting my effort on opening the door.

“Only few people authorized by the hotel owners can open this door” I spin around to find a man wearing hood over his head standing behind me. He has the hood pulled over his eyes, but the shadow of the hood has failed to hide the big scar on his face.

“Oh... and who are you? What do you mean by authorized people?”

“Mr. Jungkook” Jimin interrupts my question before I get an answer. “I have something to discuss with her. Please excuse us, Mr. Jungkook” he bows down and grab my arm. “____, come this way” as I follows, I take a last glance at the man before, he stand still looking right back at me. I have to meet him again later…

We arrived at a small room. There’s Taehyung inside the room, who seems to have waited for us. Jimin keeps quiet the whole time since we enter the room. “Did you get a permission to leave her?”

“Leave her? Shut up, Jimin” Taehyung answers in a grouchy tone and take a glance at me “I’m not going to let her leave. She’s working here” 

“Excuse me?” work? Do you think I’m your slave or something?  “The only position available now is maid though” surprised by the sudden order I stare at Taehyung. “A…maid?” 

“The hooded man told you a little while ago” Jimin puts his hand by my shoulder then proceed to stand beside Taehyung.

“You can only leave this castle with the hotel owners’ permission, that is, our permission” Taehyung stated. I knew it, they’re the hotel owners. I never thought that I’d be working as a maid in a place like this. But it’ll be easier for me to search for the Rose Garden then...

“As long as you’re forced to stay here, you’ll have nothing to do anyways. You’d better to work yourself to labor” His arrogant attitude gets on my nerve, but I should obey him for now.

“Alright…I guess I have no choice then” I need more information to find the Rose Garden on order to turn back into pure human.

“She seems too gentle for me… Oh well, Hey, Namjoon!” After giving me a suspicious look, Jimin shows his usual smile. Corresponding to Jimin’s call, a man shows up. “This is Namjoon, he is the general manager of the hotel” I have to admit that his manly figure scares me a bit. Is he one of the vampire brothers too?

“Namjoon, she’s a new worker. Show her what to do”

“What a troublesome…but I have no choice” Namjoon is very reluctant, but he starts to explain about my work. So, him being the general manager means… He is the keeper of the door to my homeland… Suddenly, Namjoon scolds me as I got lost in my thought. “Do you hear me?” uh-uhh he told me to…uh oh! 

“O-of course I do. My job is cleaning up the guest room, right?”

“Hm right. Come on, I’ll show you. Follow me please” 

“Okay…”

“Ah!” Just when I follow Namjoon to leave the room—everything turns white before my eyes in a flash. A vision of a woman emerges far away. She looks into a man laying himself down to the ground. After the exchange a few words, their lips slowly meet. What…did I just see? As soon as the vision fades away, everything turns completely black. I try to hold still my trembling feet firmly on the floor, not to let myself break down.

“What’s the matter?”

“N-nothing…” I managed to squeeze out the reply, but the vision I just had stays in my head. Why on earth would I kiss Taehyung… the couple I just saw… that was Taehyung and I…?

“____, are you sick?”

“No, I’m fine…” I answer as though to persuade myself, then I start walk behind Namjoon. I should just try not to think about it. The more I try not to, the more I think about that scene with Taehyung. I’m totally blanked out and Namjoon’s instructions go into one ear and out from the other for a while.

He stops and turned around to look at me.

“Obviously, this is the kitchen. Humans have to eat, correct? We vampires don’t have a habit of eating like humans. Sucking blood once a year would actually be enough for us. Although there are some who would hold a feast to flaunt their wealth in public. Tell the chef when you’re hungry. He would make you something. Hey, is Seokjin there?”

Seokjin calls out to the back of the kitchen.

“Did someone call me?” wait a second... somehow, I have a feeling that I’ve met him before.

“She’s a new worker here, ____”

“Woahh! Your name is ____. I’m Seokjin the chef. Nice to meet you, let’s shake hands!” Seokjin delightedly shakes my hand.

“Yesterday…in the dark? You must be…”

“I was standing behind you, so I couldn’t see you well in the dark last night… but here you are! I thought you smelled like a flower. Ah…such a beauty!” he doesn’t seem so bad.

“Oh, you remember this feeling on your neck, don’t you?” with those words, Seokjin shows me a knife. “That is…” the cold blade laid on my neck yesterday. I knew it was a knife. Remembering the cold touch and the terror in the dark sends a chill down my spine.

“Are you trembling? What? Scared of me?” he started to walk closer towards me. “Erm… But, having just a little bite won’t hurt, will it?” He then crouches down to meet me in the eye “Don’t worry! I won’t eat you right away. I told you yesterday right? ” Seokjin smiles widely. Looking at his overly joyed look, unlike others, I start to lose fear towards him. Don’t want to hear his creepy talk anymore, I try to change the topic.

“Anyways, why are you wearing a ribbon on your wrist?”

“Hm? Are you interested in me? Oh my… if you want to know about my ribbon, have a cup of tea with me!”

“…Cut it out already, idiot”

“Eyy, Mr. Manager is frightening. I’m sorry, that was just a joke though… See ya later, ____!” he then runs straight away out of the kitchen.

“…Don’t deal with him more than necessary. Now, let’s call it a day. Start your work tomorrow. I’ll have someone take you back to your room”

“Okay. Thank you…” as Namjoon calls out, a human doll figure appears in front of me quietly.

“Um…who are you?” it’s a beautiful woman, but she has strings tied to her body just like a puppet. I talk to her, but there is no response. I followed her in silence. As soon as we get to my room, she is already on the way to leave. “Thank you for taking me here” I thank her hurriedly, but she just nods without saying anything back.

Seeing her from behind, I find two small bite marks on the neck. That can’t be true… the bite marks, her unclear blank eyes, she must’ve been bitten by the brothers… at this moment I’m going to be…no…I’m going to find the Rose Garden within ten days and leave here as a human.

When I got into my room, Spade is there for me.

“You look awfully tired”

“So many things happened…” I told him what was happened today in chronological order starting from the morning. But first of all, I’ve got to tell him that I’ll work here.

“A hotel maid, huh? That’s what you wish for”

“That’s exactly what I thought. I have an excuse to enter all rooms for cleaning up. That way, it’ll make it easier for me to look for Rose Garden, and…”

“What’s wrong?”

I lose my word as I notice something important is missing around my neck.

“I think, I lost my pendant somewhere…I must find it”

“A pendant?”

“It has been handed down for generations in my family. I remember I was wearing it before entering the castle though…” when did I lose it? When I was shown around the castle, it was already gone.

“Okay, I’ll keep an eye out for it”

“It’s really important so I have to find it, anyways thank you”

“So, what happened?”

When I’m thinking about what I should tell Spade next, I hear a knock on the door. In no time, I heard another knocking.

“It’s him again… listen. Don’t be tricked by the brothers”

“Of course, I know that” I agree to spade with a nod, and open the door. I see Taehyung with an explicitly unpleasant look. What is he gonna do this late…

[sylnyexne]

Blood in Roses 『KTH』

❁ Genre ➢ Supernatural au, romance

❁ Pairing ➢ Taehyung x Reader (feat. Jimin)

❁ Count ➢ 2.2K

❁ Warnings ➢ Mentions of blood & sadistic nature

❁ Chapter ➢ Prologue | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04

Once upon a time in a mysterious castle intersecting two worlds

One world was called ‘Yistroivis’ where humans, without power, live in. people gathered under king’s rule there, and lived according their law.

The other world was ‘Aether’ where magical beings, possessing dark power, live in. Not having a king to rule them, they lived faithfully to their desire. However, among the residents of darkness living freely, appeared a kind with extremely strong power. They began to manage and control the ‘path’ to travel between the two worlds.

After several thousand years since the vampires’ appearance, there remained only a few humans who know the existence of the dark beings.

And she, too lived a peaceful life in a small village.

Until she realized her fate that is…

I have lived as a witch for a few years in a small village called Neulheim apart from my parents. Long time ago, witches were said to be a symbol of evil spirits. But nowadays, the word ‘witch’ has come to mean ‘women who can formulate medicine and perform a magical spell of some sort’. In other words I make medicines or cast soothing spells on people… these things are my daily work.

A power to see the future.

There are two things women in my family line have inherited for generations. A pendant as a lucky charm, and it’s nothing sophisticated though, I have no control over the power. I can’t see the future on my own will. A scene from the future just pops up in my mind and goes away. It’s rather strange. The only thing I know is what I see is an event which will definitely happen sometime in the future.

I have been seeing visions more often than ever before these days. I’ve realized that the power has been getting stronger since a few days ago.

What come to my mind was a vision of a forest nearby my village. Far into the forest, there was a castle, and…two unfamiliar men. Every time their figures appeared in my mind, I always heard a strange melody.

Finally I couldn’t ignore the vision any more and had decided to enter the forest.

“Morning my darling ____! You are beautiful as usual. Where are you going?” said one of my neighbor on my village. “I’m going to pick some medicinal herbs” he then grabs my arm “I can escort you if you want. Uh it’s too dangerous to go inside the delusive forest alone” 

“I’m fine on my own. Thanks anyways” 

Although he was kind and caring, I had no intention to take him in. Having casually exchanged few words with the villagers, I entered the forest.

The name said it all. I soon lost the sense of direction. Encircled by tall trees. I frantically walked around completely lost.

Idora Forest—people call this place the delusive forest.

God…what should I do

The faint lights that had broken through the trees were now completely gone. My mind was telling me to leave, but I absolutely had no clue which way I had come from. It was so careless of me

“Ugh!” the scenery around me was wiped out by bright whiteness. Just when i was at my wit’s end—I know this feeling… this is what happens when I see the future. Two men were staring at me. Standing in front of a castle. At the same time, I started to hear the strange song. This voice… it’s the same song… as soon as I tried to listen carefully, everything went black this time.

After I see the future, I always get dizzy or a headache. Already knowing this fit would end soon. I sat by the nearest tree and took a deep breath to calm myself down. I’m fine now… I opened my eyes to see the darkness had even thickened. “I don’t know which way I should go…” as I tried to think up of the way to get out here, I looked around.

Something black was moving in the corner of my eyes. What is that…? The black object was wriggling in darkness. I walked towards it in curiosity as it grew bigger and bigger. Is this one big lump of something? rather than that, I noticed that small objects were shaping into a big lump. There were numerous red dots in it. All the red dots spotted me as I muttered.

“…Bats…?”

As soon as I realized the red dots were the eyes of the bats, I started to dash in the opposite direction from the lump.

Having made sure that the bats aren’t chasing me anymore, I could finally stop running. Finally, I lifted my eyes up from my feet. My breath was taken away again by the scenery spread in front of me. There was an old castle that seemed to rot away at any moment. I felt sense of déjà vu, because I had seen it many times in my visions.

“Are they in the castle? The two men I saw on my vision… does the song come from here? I should go find out…” I looked up at the castle then slowly laid my hand on the gate.

“…This is going to be a lot of fun”

“Hello… excuse me…?” the door unfolded a gorgeous scene inside unlike its outward appearance. “Is anyone there?” silence covered the entire castle, and there was no sign of human habitations. I called out loud, but nobody responded. Nobody lives here…?

The hallways and the handrails of stairs were even nicely polished. But still… it seems to be in good repair… I might find someone in other rooms. Having ray of hope, I decided to go look around the castle.

“A human girl, huh? I hope she won’t be a trouble”

“What’s this tasty smell? Hmm ahh, I’m so ready for it”

Although I searched in the castle for a while, I hadn’t met anyone yet. My slight hope to meet someone who lived here was starting to fade away. Am I alone in this large castle? It’s kind of scary thinking about it…

Just when I turned around—ah!—my thought froze in the complete darkness, candle lights illuminating the hallway suddenly went out. It’s dark, and I’m so scared… Dreadful fear dominated me.

“Hey…”

I remained silent to confirm if the voice is real, or maybe it’s just my imagination.

“Do you heeear me…?”

Someone had come behind me before I knew it, and patted me on the shoulder. Though I was looking for someone living in the castle, this encounter only gave me fear itself.

“Don’t be so nervous. I’m not going to eat you, well at least not for now”

“E-Eat…?” a sharp cold feeling laid on my neck terrorized me. “A…kn-knife…!?” Because of the way he was, the word ‘knife’ promptly came up in my mind “Don’t make a fuss. It’ll only cause a big trouble for me” he covered my mouth with his hand to muffle my outgoing scream. I…can’t…brea—…darkness engulfed my sight as my consciousness started to fade away.

“…Huh?” ouch… Am I…tied up…? When I open my eyes my body was tied around by thorn, sharp thorns. Where am I? I looked around the room, a small room. “This is like a jail” a cold blade was put to my neck and I remembered that a man shut my mouth and nose with his hands, which made breathing impossible. It was only natural that I didn’t know what had happened after I lost my consciousness.  And…what happened after that?

“First of all, I’ve got to do something with the thorn…” just when I moved my body to escape from the thorn—

“It’s better not to move your body. They’ll only prick your skin deeper.”

“Huh…?” I was so shocked to see a man with a gentle smile who entered the room.

“I can’t believe this…” Another surprise occurred as a blond man showed up in the room right after the first man. I looked at both of them by turns. They are…I’ve seen them many times in the vision. “Is this your castle? Do you guys sing that strange song?” I couldn’t hold back my curiosity and questioned them, but the blond man glared at me in response.

“I have no consent of allowing stinky human to speak”

“Wha—“I was dumbfounded by his attitude

“Taehyung…even though she is a human, you must be gentle to ladies. Am I right miss?” the man named Taehyung scoffed and look away “I’m Jimin, and this is Taehyung. Please forgive my little brother’s misbehavior” the man who called himself Jimin pushed Taehyung aside and showed me a big smile. “You were only born a bit earlier than me. Don’t make yourself look like the big brother”

Taehyung pushed Jimin away this time and looked at me. “Hm. I think this is it, it’s her” 

“Right… I can find some feature of hers…” I have no idea what they were talking about. What i’m sure is they must got the wrong person.

“If I can make her my belonging…”

“Belonging?”

“Quiet human! All you have to do is offer your blood”

With a sharp cold glare, he gave me the cruel statement. And again, I was loss for words.

“Taehyung…” Jimin sighed. He showed me a wry smile this time as if he had resigned his brother. He looks at least better than the blond guy throwing rude words at me.

“I am deeply sorry for his rudeness. He usually behaves better than this”

First of all why am I tied up? But ‘Give us your blood’? ‘Belonging’? ‘Features’ they sure are really strange. So many questions came up on my mind. And the thorn tortured me by pricking my skin. Different types of feelings being mixed with each other. Among then all, anger grew stronger and stronger and I began to speak.

“Did you guys throw me in this jail?”

“I didn’t carry you here, but I ordered someone to do so” Ordered!? I thought he was a gentleman by the way he speaks, but I can’t trust him anymore. It’s true that I’m the one trespassing the castle, but to tie me up with thorn is just too crazy.

First thing first… I must get rid of the thorn to get out of the jail.

“I’m ____. I apologize for trespassing the castle” I begged them hoping they’d free me. Jimin hadn’t completed his line, but instead, he showed me an evil grin.

“Humans are such a cunning creatures”

“So please help me untie the thorn. I’m sure it gives you guys pain to hurt a woman doesn’t it?”

“Let me tell you. The only way you can become free is— ” 

“To give me your blood” Taehyung quickly push his way in front of Jimin, as if he wanted to grab me. And with that being said, I struggled to release myself from the thorn that twisted my body which caused them to prick and scratch my body. But as i struggled more the thorns started to get tighter. My body now was covered in bleeding wounds.

“Don’t come near me!” he grab my hand as I’m throwing my arms around desperately. “Get your hands off!”

“I’m getting bored of this” releasing a heavy sigh, Taehyung bring my wrist towards his mouth.

“Stop!” my whole body trembles as he licks the blood from my wrist. But then he stopped. His expression suddenly changed.

“Such a sweet blood, I think I’m going to be addicted to this” he then continues to lick the remaining blood stain on my wrist.

“Please! Let go!” the more I struggle, the more thorns pricks into my skin. “Stay away from me!” I’m frightened to death without knowing their intentions. My clothes, my skin, and my face… I was covered all over with painful cuts.

“I told you not to move many times” Jimin calmly stated while showing his gentle smile. How can he still be smiling while I’m in great pain here. But then I know he isn’t on my side either.

“Oh dear, a lady shouldn’t get scars on her pretty face” looking sad he bites through one of his fingertips. He applies the blood from his fingertip on the cut on my wrist.

“Look, your face…” in an instant, scar miraculously disappears. Jimin’s blood is applied on my face’s scar as well. Though I can’t see it myself, I am sure the scar must have healed in an instant. With my knowledge as a witch, Taehyung’s words that were to give him my blood. And Jimin’s blood that has cured my scars. They must be—

“Vampires”

“Hm? I thought you’d figured. Taehyung and I are both vampires”

Taehyung reaches his hands to expose my bare shoulders. “You must be honored to be desired by us” 

“D-don’t…” as I struggle, my body is pinioned by the thorn even tighter.

“Behave yourself” My body trembles as he whispers in my ear, and I find myself paralyzed in the next moment. He strokes my hair and I feel his breath on my neck. “Now, you are a good girl”

“Ah!” sharp pains run through the right side of my neck and my left shoulder at the same time. “Ah…” I know that’s their fangs without even looking at them.

“Oh…” hearing a sweet gasp coming from my left side, I see Jimin in the corner of my eyes, whose crimson eyes are glaring, staring at me. He takes my hand, and licks a scar on my finger and whispers to my ear. “I have never tasted such sweet blood. I can’t get enough”

“Stop…”

“No, not enough” Taehyung’s head goes further to my collarbone and bites again. “It’s been so long…”

“Please stop now…” I’m supposed to be feeling only pain, but there is something different from pain in this…what is this feeling?

 Then, everything goes black before my eyes.

〖Author’s Note〗

Hello!

So I’ve been playing Blood in Roses game for almost 3 years now and i’m inspired to write one of the routes but with the members of BTS instead (｡･ω･｡)

A small part of the storyline will be improvised so that it matched with the characters and forgive me if there’s grammatical error within the story because english is not my first language so bear with me ♡