DollHouse - Melanie Martinez

"TAEHYUNG!"

"WHAT!"

"HERE NOW!"

Taehyung can recognize Karma's voice from anywhere, and it's so loud that it can physically rattle the walls of this place.

Always so persistent.

Glaring at the ceiling now Taehyung rolls out of his bed, getting to his feet and makes his way out of his room and down the hallway to arrive to the living room.

Karma and V are there, well V is occupied doing push ups on the floor while Karma stands there with arms crossed and an evident glare in his eyes.

Yeah he doesn't look too happy.....

"What is it?" Taehyung whines, pouting to his moment of peace being disturbed.

Karma narrows his eyes, grimacing almost with a sadistic scowl, "Why would you tell Minho that you're going to tell Jeongguk and Jimin about us! We agreed that no one else will find out!"

Oh...... That.....

Taehyung just knew someone was co-conscious during that conversation.

So his pout deepens, leaning against the wall is to rest his body, "Tigresa is getting out of control! They're ruining my friendships and our body-"

"I've been summoned?"

The said person steps into the room from the kitchen, a sarcastic smile on their lips with silver hair braided back and a glass of wine in hand.

Ever since they've appeared, they've been living here now. Tigresa usually just stays in their room if they're not fronting or yelling at everyone else, but other than that they're not much of a bother surprisingly.

Karma rolls his eyes to their presence, running a hand through his red hair, "Can you control yourself? We all literally share this body! Take care of it instead of messing it up!"

Tigresa sips beer wine, shrugging, "You all suck at taking care of yourselves as it is. We wouldn't be here if the case was different but whatever, that's not my problem."

And they disappear off into the hallway, followed by a door slamming shut to their own room.

They literally can't last a day without arguing.

Specifically Tigresa and Karma, sometimes sounding like a married couple by how much they bicker with their equally high tempers.

Not the greatest sight to see but not like they can do anything about it, only let them cool off in their own.

Taehyung sighs heavily in defeat, glancing as V pants on the ground while looking at the two with redden cheeks.

"Not to be that person Tae but I'm not ready to be known," V says through her heavy breaths, brown hair tied up and away from her face from her work our routine, "We got lucky with Minho, but with other people? We won't always be."

This only heavies more of Taehyung's heart, sliding down the wall until he's sitting on the floor, hands running down his face in distress.

He wants to tell them, he really does, but he knows if his alters don't agree then they will always intervene whenever he would try to explain.

It's sucks not being able to make decisions for himself, not without some sort of disturbances and it just always happens.

When it comes to their safety it does, and it sucks.

A pair of feet are standing in front of him now, and Taehyung looks up to meet Karma's gaze, his golden eyes glimmering with a tugging frown on his lips when he bends down to him.

"Look little one, I know you want to keep your friends, but having them know about this will just lead to disappointment, like always," Karma states bluntly despite his soft spoken tone, "We'll find a way to handle Tigresa but we must not tell anyone about this, okay?"

As much as Taehyung wanted to argue back, knowing Jeongguk and Jimin would never disappoint him in that way, but all he can do instead is nod slowly with his pout still present.

So Karma leans and kisses his head, grabbing his hands and lifts him to his feet, an arm around his waist, "Let's just go watch a movie together and I promise to hold you this time."

Despite being very strict and emotionless, Karma always makes sure Taehyung is okay, no matter what.

He hates arguing or discussing hard thing with him, so that's why they always settle on doing something else to ease any tension down.

It always works.

Taehyung managed to twitch a smile while V squeals and yells that she's going to shower and be done quickly. At the moment the body itself is on its 'auto pilot' mode where none of the alters are taking gear, and thankfully it's night time so it's just reading a book on the bed and waiting for someone to take consciousness to do something else.

The inner world where they are all in now is a house, a small one. They have everything they need here but they can go outside and breathe some fresh air if they'd like to. Whenever an alter is not fronting, they're here in this world, where they can do anything they want really.

The area where they front is usually in the attic, but in the living room there's a large screen which is the body's vision and it usually shows what's going on most of the time.

Since Karma, V and Taehyung have very well communication with each other, usually they can just speak to each other through mind telepathy in a way. When an alter grows co-conscious to what's going on, they're just staring at the screen and making remarks here and there. When they're co-fronting than they're in the attic as well.

Most of the time there's always someone conscious in the body, but as for now Taehyung just wanted to spend time here in his room since V was fronting for her basketball practice. Now no one is fronting but Taehyung is bound to go up there and text Minho for a while before going to sleep.

As for now, the three sit on the couch in a cuddle pile as they watch Avatar the Last Airbender. V is practically in love with Zuko, digging the whole bad boy vibe thing going on but Karma practically gives her an indirect stab that she better not fall for a bad boy in general.

She only waves him off and continues to squeal whenever Zuko came to the screen. Meanwhile Karma awkwardly holds Taehyung in his arms since he's just not a cuddly person, while Taehyung latches onto him like a teddy bear despite it.

As they laugh and giggle in their own little bubble, from the entrance of the hallway a pair of eyes stares at them.

There's no signature smirk on their faces or a devious glint in their eyes. It's only a blank stare with one blue and one hazel eye before turning around, going to the only room none of the three alters can enter.

But only Tigresa can.

Tigresa closes the door behind them when they stepped inside, cringing to the eerie and cracked staircase while walking down the steps, where the light slowly began to illuminate in the darkness.

Well a twitching light.

The farther down they go, another thing began to chime through the air.

Crying.

And screaming.

Tigresa pauses for a moment, blinking the wavering memories flickering their head away before shaking the thoughts down. The screaming grew louder, pleads became bolder and sobs were uncontrollable.

The more they got lower, the more Tigresa couldn't continue and just sits down on the steps and leans against the musky bricked wall with eyes closed.

Too much.

It's too much

But they can't escape.

The fragments.

The littles.

They can't escape.

Even if they wanted to.

It can't surface above.

So Tigresa stays planted there, emotionless eyes staring at the shadows crawling up the walls with those screams and hiccuping coming closer to them. This time they stand up, rolling their shoulder and cracks a few bones of their knuckles as they wait to do their role as a trauma holder.

Hold in the trauma.

Time to get to work.

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A/N:
So this was a little glimpse to the inner world for Taehyung and his system. Yes they are able to communicate like us in person and touch one another. Taehyung is also an alter, he's just the host and appears the most often in the body. So each alter don't look exactly the same as each other, they each have their own looks just like their own personality.

I'm still a baby learner for this topic, I'm not 100% an expert but I have tried educating myself the most to my ability on this subject.

Alrighty who's ready for the recital!!!

Let's go!!!

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