(Y/n's pov)

Cold, it was freezing cold. I was feeling frigid like my body was on sledge of ice. But my inside was burning and churning from blaze, like surrounded by inferno. Even with these feelings, my whole body felt numb, no nervous tendons were working.

With some difficulties, I tried to lift my hand but it was not working, frowning slightly exerting full energy in making a single move but damn was it hard. I quit the difficult task and focused on an easy one. Desperately in need of leaving this dark, strange uneasy surrounding. This four dark walls were making me restless.

I couldn't decipher what was real or imagination, these inner thoughts were killing me because they were void, I remembered nothing, there was no escape. I could only see blackness because of my heavy closed lids. Why can't I opened my eyes? I stretched my eyebrows and frowned but these lids are too heavy to lift, lashes were stubborn to separate. I sigh in exasperatedly.

It's exhausting, fatigue took over my body and my will power to awake was slowly diminishing. Is there anyone who is watching my comical eyebrows stretch if yes then they were surely laughing their ass off.

Suddenly a shadow appears in front of me, fragments of outline began to form in the dim light. I could make out a silhouette, was it real or my mind was making it up? I followed the man's figure trying to recognize him, with my unstable steps like I was walking on cloud. I watched him attentively, drinking in the figure till I recognize who he was. He's familiar but why can't I remember. I failed to noticed that my facial expressions were showing discomfort, uneasiness. I was frowning, sweating hard, breathing short and deep, diaphragm heaving fast and upwards. I am trying to put a name on that figure who's now coming near me, I can see the dull lightning highlighting his face. It took a long agonizing minute for his face to reveal and when it did I suddenly wake up, eyes open wide like doe in headlights, sweat dripping heavily crowning my forehead.

I sat up in a hunched up position too suddenly that it was hurting my whole body but it wasn't the main problem. The problem was, I keep chanting a name heavily. The name which was roaming, occupying my mind and heart with his face. All my thoughts were drifting over him. 

Tae- Taehyung my boss, my bestfriend, my crush and my first love. Where is he? Is he alright?

My thirsty eyes move frantically to catch a familiar face but they were all strangers who seem shock due to my sudden awake. I move the blanket which was covering me aside and sat up straight, where was he? I couldn't hear anything, all voices were mute as I was stepping out of the bed to find him when suddenly I look at my side, take in the vista, shocked to find his face this close to me.

I let out a heart wrenching painful but delighted sob, my heart swell and eyes watered after taking in the familiar brown orbs whom I was finding in the sea of men in front of me. His face was covered with a black mask, brown hairs settle messily but aesthetically, only his eyes and the small bridge of his nose was visible with a prominent thick neck. I cried with joy and launched myself in a tight hug, wrapping my arms on him in a vice grip refusing to loosen my hold. The last thought will be leaving his warm embrace because he's my safe paradise, my Taetae.

(Tae's pov)

I was on my way for the usual visit to my baby but today everyone had free schedule much to my dismay. They all  kind of beg me to come along except Jin hyung because he already had a free pass to visit her as her doctor. I want nothing but to turn them down but their puppy eyes and star-filled eyes attacking me, had won me over. So this is how Shinchan's mom got attacked every day.

I wouldn't be this grumpy and denial if they hadn't expressed their crush towards my love but I know that they will never betray me or try to steal her, they all know their limits and my undying love for the comatose girl.

I had just taken some steps inside the bedroom when a monitor start beeping rapidly and loudly with red emergency light blazing in one of the equipments . I froze on my steps like a foolish deer in headlights, not knowing what to do, whom to call for help, standing there completely helpless.

Thankfully, Jin hyung took the matter in his hands instantly and checked on the machines and her condition to find what was wrong.

I soon come back to my sense and jog towards her and lean over to see her face carefully. Seizing her body to find the source of pain, discomfort but only her face was showing some expressions, frowns too hard, eyes brows up and down stretching awkwardly. I opened my dry mouth, began to tell her sweet things, comforting words to let her know that I am here for her even if it was paining me equally to see tremble like this. I don't know if she could hear me or not but it didn't stop me from trying. I was too focused on her face, failed to notice her other movements.

It was Yoongi hyung who acknowledge and told us that she lifted her fingers slightly.

"She's trying to stimulus involuntary. Namjoon give me an epidural anesthesia, her bloods pressure is going too high. We have to stabilize her" Jin hyung commands and trap her legs to stop her moves.

"What's happening hyung?" I asked worriedly and kept my hand over her cheeks for comfort, soothing her tension.

"I think she's dreaming something disturbing or having an flash of memory. Seeing her frowns, it's showing discomfort probably from that memory" he guessed and reveals that we couldn't do anything in this matter except for tranquilizer her or wait for her to wake up.

"Y/n-ah, it's alright. It's just a dream. Baby! open your eyes slowly. Look at me" I softly pleaded.

"Namjoon what's taking you so long" Jin hyung asked in anger with his delay.

"Ah hy-hyung I br-broke the shaft of injection" he confess with his head bowed down low.

"Oh not again" Yoongi hyung exclaimed and get over there to help him not before smacking his head.

Y/n's face was contouring in pain, soft broken whimpering and incessantly heaving of chest was scaring me. I tuned out the voice of my surroundings and only focused on my girl's whispering. I tried to make her open her eyes to ensure that nothing is going to hurt her but she's too deep in that dream and is blocking out my voice.

"Tae move aside, let me stable her" hyung said after getting the filled injection from Yoongi hyung. Namjoon hyung was cowering over a corner like a time-out child. Serves him right.

But suddenly we all stop dead in out track as Y/n rose from her sleeping position with a loud gasp and sat up hunched almost falling forward. Her eyes were opening slowly taking in the surrounding with a constant mumbling. Her frantic, curious eyes move side by side but focused on nothing, images blurred from her wet eyes.

"Y-Y/n-ah" I said softly but she didn't heard or react. Suddenly she was stepping out of the bed but froze in seconds after looking at me on her right side and her eyes widened a little. Before I knew she leaped on my arms and hugged me like a koala, limps attached with mine in a vice grip, arms garlanding on my neck, face hiding in the crook of shoulders refusing to backdown.

I could feel her fast pacing heartbeat, her tears wetting my white shirt, soft mumble whispering in ears. my own arms wrapped around her instantly, tightening my hold on her, I took a deep breath and go limp from her cocoa butter scent. Oh god! how much I missed her. I closed my eyes taking in, enjoying the moment of her body this close to me until she said something which made my eyes opened wide.

"Tae I was so scared. There were buff men w-who intrude in my house, I was terrified, I thought I wouldn't be able to see you again. I mi-missed you so so much" she finally pulled back and ran her beautiful orbs over my face, neck and body carefully watching it for any injuries with her soft small hands caressing my cheeks softly but delicately like I would disappear.

"They didn't hurt you right. You did not encounter with them or injured anywhere Tae?" she asked with worry laced on her voice.

"No" I said nonchalantly.

She sighs in relief but her breath got hitched by my next words. It hurts me to see her like this. And how I wish I had never said those words.

"No. I am not Tae" I said and purposely deepening my voice a octave low which could rival a blue whale's.

"Huh?" she asked confusedly and looked at me with her doe eyes not understanding what i was saying and hinting.

"I am V" 

"You shouldn't have said that" Jimin scold me with his hands on his waist like a ahjumma.

"I know" I looked down and train my eyes on the expense of bedsheet finding it rather interesting. I couldn't look in their eyes not because I didn't want to but I didn't have that much courage.

"Yes hyung! it was shocking for her. You should have waited, not blow up the moment she gained conscious" Jungkook agreed and he too look at me like a disappointed hyung.

"I know" I looked like a small child who got scolded by his parents but here I had been experiencing six parents instead of two.

"Now she been out for hours again" Jin hyung said in distress and secured the bandage on Y/n's head which loosen when she moved frantically. 

After hearing me deny that I am Taehyung, she fainted again and went limp in my arms. I was terrified and blaming myself that it happened because of me and my brothers aren't losing any chance to remind me that.

"I know" I huffed with immense guilt.

"You are a dumbass" Yoongi hyung didn't let go this chance of insulting me.

"I know. Wh-what?" where was this coming from? Now they are dragging this matter and insulting me with amusement dripping off their faces.

"I should have let her adjust first then reveal that in more subtle way" I agreed with them in whisper and pouted a little for acting in impulse.

"If you knew that then why did you made that mistake?" Hobi hyung asked but he was the only one who was not scolding me and was sympathising with me with his kind eyes.

"I kind of panic alright. I didn't think she would suddenly recognize and hugged me. So I had to do something" I gave excuses and whined like a child. 

"But why did you lie?" Finally Namjoon hyung asked a question which made all of us tight-lipped. I honestly had no vague answer of that so I remained silent.

"Think! Wouldn't she be suspicious if Taehyung suddenly was beside her along with some gangsters and was comfortable  with them like they are his brothers. Obviously she would ask some questions so I think the last resort to feign his identity and it was quite right" Yoongi explained and praise me when I myself had no idea of what I did. But nevertheless, now they won't see me like I am a dumbass.

With Yoongi hyung praising me, suddenly all others began to sing and throw compliments towards my sharp mind. They really took 360 degree turn in seconds.

"It was good that you had a mask on otherwise your lie would be caught" Jungkook said.

"Yes. Jin hyung had told me to be prepared in any case. That's why I always wore mask while entering my room" I said with pride oozing off me for taking hyung's words seriously.

"But what should we do now? She is conscious again"  Jimin asked worriedly and eyed at the bed where my princess was laying again but now with some colour on her pale face and normal breathing.

"From what I gather. She was worried about you but when you told her that you not Tae, it sent her into another shock. But don't worry she would wake up soon literally this time" Jin hyung assured me.

"But I don't understand one thing. How did she recognize him when he had a mask on which literally hides his whole face?" Namjoon asked scratching his neck in thoughts. Why is he asking questions which are leaving us dumbfounded.

This time no one answered.

But Taehyung felt a warm feeling, his heart blooms hearing Namjoon's words 'How did she recognize him when he had a mask on'. Why didn't he think about that?

 Y/n recognized him in spite of a whole ass mask. How did she guessed, no rigidly said that he was Tae? Does it mean that she had been closely watching him, capturing his facial details in her doe eyes, eyeing his brown orbs with so much curiosity that it took only a second for her to recognize him. Do she adore him, have an interest on him? Do she find him attractive. With this thoughts, he let out a happy but embarrassing squeal terrorising other members.

He never notices or caught her looking at him with interest, call him dumb or oblivious but he doesn't think that he deserves her. Not after what happened to her because of him. She's an angel, a goddess who'd never cast her eyes on him- who's a mundane devil, lowly living his blatant life. Do she really like him or he's just being a hopeless romantic person.

But what more important is to settle the matter once she wake up and solidify his lie. Previously he was angst and worried for her to wake up soon but now he's dreading what would he say when she wakes up.

"Tae! You fucked up bad"

Extras-

Author nim - "Tae! Why did you hug her back when you clearly had second thoughts in previous chapter?"

Tae- "*sweating intensively* be-because @RINE_KIM said that she'll kick my ass"

-by Couchpotato 

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