10 Works by starwalkingtk
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There’s a freedom in the wind whipping around you with absolutely no protective barrier—the sound of the engine, the vibration felt through your entire body, and the danger. The danger of trusting your life to someone you don’t even know.
Taehyung feels reckless and unafraid.
or: Jungkook is Taehyung's next door neighbor. He owns a motorcycle, looks like sin, and offers a ride one evening—who is Taehyung to decline?
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From time to time, they all struggle with remembering how to shed their idol persona—it becomes too tangled with their personalities, too deeply ingrained into their core. It's easy to forget who they are outside their job. Who V of BTS is behind the scenes. Who Taehyung is. The lines blur together and boundaries slip. Importance is instead placed on these masks, but sometimes masks slip. Masks crack. Taehyung's always heard the phrase be yourself, and he's never really understood how crucial that is until he's forced to watch Jungkook's mask crumble, piece by piece.
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Growing up, he listened to the inane chatter around him, the maniacal frothing of ones that crusaded against the unclean, un-human ones of the world. Abominations that needed to be cleansed to make the world a better place.
This was only the beginning of Jungkook's story. Or maybe it was the middle.
The only thing he knew for sure was that he hated them with a fiery passion. The ones he called family.
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- Part 2 of feral and tender
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One of these days Jungkook was going to say no. One of these days Jungkook was going to learn not to push. And certainly, one of these days he was going to learn not to open his big mouth.
Today was not that day.
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- Part 1 of feral and tender
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"You act like you and Jimin don't have fun at all anymore. That's clearly not true."
"Yeah, but..." Taehyung trails off. The words are on the tip of his tongue, but he doesn't want to say them out loud because saying them aloud makes them real. He hesitates, but Jungkook remains patient with him, rubs his arm. "...It feels like he doesn't understand me anymore," he finishes in a small voice. "It feels like no one understands me."
Where Taehyung feels boring; this new mature version of himself isn't all that it's cracked out to be.
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"I admit it. I wrote the song about you."
or: Jungkook loves when Taehyung writes songs about him and they have to fuck about it.
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"He's worried about you," Taehyung says quietly, jutting his chin in Jimin's direction.
"Huh? Why?"
Taehyung shrugs a shoulder, casual, but his gaze is serious. "Because he knows what it feels like to be stretched too thin sometimes."
(Or: Jungkook thinks he's coping okay with the pressure of being the golden maknae--how he deals with the pressure, how he wilts, how he grows, and maybe even learns a few lessons along the way.)
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- Part 3 of they can try, but they'll never break us
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Jimin closes his eyes, thinks I don't want to talk, wants to sweep it all under the rug and forget it ever happened. It'd be so easy to turn and walk away from this, though he isn't sure if Yoongi would ultimately let him or not. The words spill unbidden, haltingly from his lips, "Sometimes I feel like I can't always be the guy that deserves to be here."
"Do you think the rest of us always deserve to be here?"
"Of course."
Yoongi clicks his tongue. "That's a whole lot of praise for six people you've lived with for years. Must I remind you of everyone's bad habits? Like how Jin forgets where his dirty clothes should go. Or how Joonie will inadvertently break anything within a five-mile radius then pretend it wasn't him and hide the damage."
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- Part 2 of they can try, but they'll never break us
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"You're gorgeous," Jungkook says, a blatant subject change that Taehyung happily allows. His lips are back on Taehyung's neck. He's careful not to leave any marks despite Taehyung always encouraging him to leave one, just this once. Taehyung lowers his chin to gently trap Jungkook's face against his neck, his face going hot at the compliment.
"Stop," Taehyung protests, but he doesn't mean it by any means. "I was trying to be sexy here and you're ruining the mood."
or: the one where they can't keep their hands off each other.
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There's a headache growing, pounding across the expanse of his forehead. It's only going to grow as the night wears on. And their night is nowhere close to being over.
There's nowhere to avoid the lights.
It takes nearly all of Jimin's focus to keep himself rooted in the moment and keep his mask from slipping. He does notice, though, the way that Yoongi's been gravitating towards him more and more. It's subtle, the way that Yoongi's body is never far away, always angled slightly towards Jimin's, but Jimin knows it's Yoongi's way of saying I'm right here beside you, Park Jimin.
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- Part 1 of they can try, but they'll never break us