Vampire In The City
Preparing For The Worst

That afternoon Jimin came to Yoongi's shop and brought a Delicious Pasta VIP card. Jimin tells how his mother still doesn't remember anything about vampires.

“Actually this is what member card?” ask Jimin, “What really has anything to do with the syndicate? Why is it called pasta?”

Yoongi gave a faint smile. He held the black card and examined it carefully. “That's the name of the vampire sales syndicate. They used that name so as not to arouse suspicion. To access the web must use cornea and fingerprint.”

“Then this card?” jimin asked confused because there were no fingerprints on the card or his mother's cornea.

“I think we have to install barcode scanner on PC when opening this web then can directly access VIP anything in the website.”

Jimin nodded as he gulped. The syndicate planned everything well and covered up these illegal crimes so that they would go unnoticed by the public.

“Gomawo, Jimin. This information is very helpful for us to find where the syndicate operates.”, said Yoongi. “We need to check first how big this syndicate is. If directly attacking without preparation is useless.”

“You are vampires, you have special powers to fight.”

“Yes, but we don't know if they also have vampire powers or not.”

“Mwo?” Jimin looked at Yoonghi in surprise.

“As I said we don't know how far this syndicate has operated, whether it's just selling blood or something else. V also appears to be a victim of the syndicate. He became a mutant vampire as a result of being tried many drugs.”

“Mwo? Is that confirmed?” jimin asked with eyes of horror.

“Jungkook saw a little past V,” says Yoongi, “He saw that V used to be a human but was made a guinea pig by scientists.”

“Sinting!” jimin growled, his hands clenched in anger. If he knew his friend was treated arbitrarily, Jimin would not forgive him. Taehyung turned into a vampire due to the barbaric deeds of those uncivilized people?! “So Taehyung turned into what he is now due to the actions of the bad guys?”

“But V and Taehyung are two different personalities, Jimin.” said Yoongi seriously. “You must remember that Taehyung who we have known so far is a new personality that arises due to the trauma experienced by V. It's still my prediction, but I think V can control when he wants to show up or not.”

Jimin's face turned sad. “Then why did he choose to hide?”

“I don't know. Isn't that what he's been doing for the past 5 years? Choose to hide and let Taehyung take over his life? Their personalities are very different, Jimin, as if they could cover each other up.”

“Didn't V show up to avenge the syndicate? That's why he tried so hard to get information from Black Dragon.”

Yoongi. “Of course, the goal is definitely to avenge. But maybe he was hiding because he was at one point exhausted from having to go back to scraping old wounds. Or.. for some other reason.”

Jimin bit his lip, and he remembered Jungkook. “By the way, I feel lately Jungkook is very different. Her smile was somewhat forced, like something was bothering her mind, Hyung.”

“He is definitely on the verge of anxiety, between choosing V or Taehyung.”

“How can you tell him to choose? V or Taehyung are the same, they are the same person!”

“Because the injured here is V. The original is V, Jimin.”

Jimin looked at Yoon-gi in disbelief. He always thought V and Taehyung were the same, still his friends. He thought both were the same person.

“Whatever his personality of course he is still your friend and still dongsaengku,” said Yoongi, “But what needs to be healed is V. His true self is V. Jungkook must have realized that.”

Jimin looked down with a gloomy face, thinking about the dhampir's words. “It's really complicated but I can't imagine what kind of trauma V went through until he had two personalities.”

“It was certainly unintentional. When a person is too hurt and wants to protect themselves then his consciousness forms a new image to hide themselves from the outside world.”

“What allows V to appear again?”

“Of course,” said Yoongi gave a smile, “But it depends on himself will hide until when.”

“This is sad..” muttered Jimin looked down muffled. “Today I understand why Jungkook is riled up lately.”

****

Lee Dongwook sits on the sofa of his VIP club floor. His face looked unfriendly at all, anyone who knew him would not dare to talk to him with that frightening Dongwook expression, as if he could bite anyone.

The man sat down and sucked his cigar. In the days since he last drugged Taehyung, Dongwook has not seen the vampire coming to his place. Dongwook has not attempted to find Taehyung by telling the hunter to catch him. Dongwook hasn't willingly let anyone else find Taehyung. Dongwook wants him to catch Taehyung back. And it would be even more satisfying if the vampire who came alone in front of him.

The government regulation regarding the denial of the existence of vampires in South Korea that Dongwook had once thrown at Jungkook, it is still a long process. Dongwook lashed out at how slow the law in the country is just to pass new laws. Not that easy, Dongwook had to spend a lot of money to stuff every politician's mouth.

The man scrunched his nose. He will not stop until he has his goal. He will not let his business be disrupted. This is his dream since long ago, which he had long believed that there was a shortcut to make humans young and long life, to make humans have stamina like vampires. To him vampires are nothing more than lowly creatures whose castles are far below humans. The world belongs to humans while vampires just hitchhike and borrow.

“Cih...” Dongwook drank vodka slowly recalling the times he could still spend with Taehyung. He longed for the moment, how the two secretly kept each other's plans, personal agendas to take each other down. But Dongwook enjoyed it a lot. He enjoyed being with Taehyung.

“Bos..” muttered one of his assistants approaching. Ipad in hand he showed Dongwook. His assistant showed me a report. “This is the profile of the man you requested.”

Dongwook raised his eyebrows. He took the iPad and read what was reported there. He hopes there is something interesting that he can see from Jeon Jungkook's profile. “Song Chanmi and Jeon Donghwa??”

“Jeon Jungkook is the second child of the couple, Bos.” said the assistant.

“And then?” dongwook senewen.

“Song Chanmi used to work with us as a researcher and drug maker, while her husband is a medical device entrepreneur. You could say the two had worked together with us before finally dying.”

Dongwook could not help his smile. His face that was originally seriously creepy now looked super cheerful. “I don't think Jungkook is their son? It's spectacular news~ Like all this is doomed.” It is fitting that he had heard the name ‘Jeon’.. was part of a tragedy dozens of years ago.

“She has one older sister and lives with her uncle who is a hunter.” said the assistant while Dongwook read from Ipad with a smirk getting longer.

“Hunter, huh?” Dongwook wants to laugh. How could the niece of a hunter befriend a vampire? It's getting interesting. Dongwook was already impatient to deal with those people.

Dongwook gives the iPad back to his assistant, he grunts half laughing, back sucking his cigar. It's like a chess game for Dongwook. So happy, Dongwook to be confused which pawn he should play. Taehyung or Jungkook.

Dongwook likes to have fun. He'll probably start playing Jungkook. Because he was sure when he did, Taehyung would enter his trap again.

****

Jimin watched Taehyung sitting in front of him. Both are currently in the cafe. Taehyung invites him because he says he wants to talk about something and it happens that Jungkook also has a photography class so Taehyung can chat together like this with Jimin.

Taehyung sipped a milkshake. His two hands since then could not stand still and squeezed each other as if the vampire was nervous. Indeed Taehyung was nervous because he wanted to talk to Jimin about something.

Jimin, who had been watching Taehyung since, understood what his best friend wanted to talk about. He knows Taehyung very well, he knows what the vampire wants to discuss. “Tell me, Tae, what do you want to talk about.”

“It's about Jungkook..” Taehyung said. He lifted his face and looked at Jimin solemnly.

Jimin had expected that. “Yea, what's wrong with her?”

“I feel lately he's grim. He's still a caring friend but I feel something is missing from inside him. He's like he's harboring something, Jimin.” Taehyung bit his lip hoping that his friend could understand what was being said.

Jimin nodded. He agrees with Taehyung. Jungkook's changed a bit.

“I know you guys are hiding something from me,” continued Taehyung, “I can't be fooled. I know the date when I was last unconscious. That's been over a month. Did I sleep for a month, Jimin? Basement at home was perfect without me ever seeing it when it was made.”

“Taehyung..”

“Say... what happens during my long sleep?” Taehyung frowned again remember when he opened his wardrobe containing clothes that were not his style at all! Taehyung felt strange, like someone had been using his body for a month?

“Tae, the story is long and quite complicated.” Jimin holding his best friend's hand trying to strengthen, “You sure you want to hear it?” However, Jimin cannot lie to Taehyung forever. Vampires deserve to know what happened.

Taehyung gulped, knowing what Jimin was going to tell him was a serious matter. Taehyung also nodded.

Jimin finally told me everything. He tells that Taehyung has another personality named Vincent. Jimin doesn't miss the part where Vincent was Taehyung's life before becoming a mutant vampire. Vincent or V appears after Taehyung is shot. V, who has a personality very different from Taehyung, tries to find out about the vampire sales syndicate, because it is due to the syndicate that V turns into a mutant vampire. Jungkook who initially strongly rejected the appearance of V but ended up being the one who always accompanied when V went to Black Dragon. Jimin says that Jungkook and V have some kind of bond so Jungkook can see V's sad past memory. Of course Jimin didn't mention soulmate.

Taehyung was more silent and listened, but his face grew cloudy, sometimes anxious and panicked as Jimin said.

Taehyung was pretty devastated on the part that he appeared due to V being traumatized. This means that he is not the real Taehyung???

The vampire squeezed both hands under the table. Legs shaking. He slalu like this if anxious excessively, and when feeling afraid and anxious. Afraid of what? Fear of losing its existence in the world. Fear of not being able to feel how to enjoy life. If V is the original personality, what if Taehyung won't appear again forever? If you remember, everything Jimin said makes a lot of sense. Taehyung never remembers how his life before becoming a vampire was like he was amnesia–which turned out not to be amnesia–but it is from there that he was born and appeared as another personality V.

Throughout his life, Taehyung was always looking forward to having a true friend. He is grateful for his clan who is very attentive and loving to him but he still wants to have a true friend, a human friend who can accept and understand him. And when he felt all that, it was just a dream? Just temporarily? All of that is temporary because his existence is temporary, whether until when.

“Tae..” muttered Jimin sadly looking at Taehyung's haggard face. “Taehyung or V, you are our friend.”

“Jungkook...” said Taehyung lara, “He must have been like that because he waited for V.”

“Anni, anni, what are you saying this, Tae.” Jimin held his best friend's hand firmly. “Jungkook loves you too, Tae. Jungkook just. That's why sometimes Jungkook is moody but that doesn't mean he ignores you, Tae.”

Taehyung's eyes glazed over. She can't cry. He did not want to imagine that he was a mortal who could disappear at any time. Taehyung tries to remember the good things. Jungkook first became a friend of Taehyung, not V. Jungkook is his friend. Jimin is his friend. V appears maybe just want to take revenge, right? Not to rob what Taehyung has been building all this time, right?

Taehyung's head hurt a lot, his brain was thinking too hard.

“Tae! Tae! Look my eyes!” jimin jolted because he saw how Taehyung's body was already trembling. Taehyung looked into Jimin's eyes, trying to hold back tears from flowing. “You're not going anywhere, okay? You'll stay with us, okay?”

Taehyung's eyes curled sadly.

“You and V will just switch. One day V will come back again because he definitely wants to settle his grudge,” said Jimin. In his heart grimaced because even now V must be hearing these words.

“But it wasn't me who determined when it could switch, Jimin.” Taehyung said almost in tears. “Only V can do it?”

Only V can determine when he wants to switch and exchange with Taehyung.

“Tae...” said Jimin tried to calm down, “You need to be healed. The trauma inside you has to be healed, okay? Me, Jungkook and the hyungs certainly want to heal your wounds. But that doesn't mean you have to disappear.”

Taehyung tried to calm himself. Jimin's words have a point. He won't just vanish, will he? V may appear just for revenge. Taehyung finally nodded. He was trying to accept what Jimin was trying to say. How others want to make V open up and tell his dark past.

“Oh, Tae..” said Jimin moved. He stood up and immediately pulled Taehyung into his arms. Jimin hugged his best friend tightly and patted the vampire on the back. Taehyung returned Jimin's embrace tightly. He will fight not to lose his friends.

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Did you know that the death of Jungkook's parents had something to do with the syndicate? So what will Taehyung do after hearing Jimin's story?

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