TO RUIN YOU SOFTLY🥀(taekook)

Disclaimer: This work is a fictional story inspired by BTS but is not representative of the real people. This is for creative and entertainment purposes only.

"The contract was simple—no dating, no scandals, and definitely no falling in love with each other."

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The seventh year of BTS's reign was marked not by another Billboard award or stadium blackout but by a contract. Confidential. Unspoken. Sacred.

BigHit called it the "Reinvention Project." Seven roles. Seven acts. A new era where each member would play a fictional version of themselves during performances and behind the scenes—deep-dive character immersion for content, documentaries, and a future global film project.

Roleplay, they called it. For art. For evolution.

Taehyung didn’t mind. He could be the brooding prince. Jungkook? He was assigned the predator.

They had rehearsed how to touch without touching, how to kiss without feeling. Cameras followed them everywhere, capturing moments they had carefully scripted to thrill their fandom.

But what happens when the line between performance and reality thins… and then vanishes completely?

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[THE GAME BEGINS]

Madrid. June. Post-concert adrenaline high.

Taehyung pressed his forehead against the cool glass of the 24th floor suite. Jungkook was somewhere behind him, the tension hanging thick. It was just the two of them tonight—Jimin had switched to Jin's room at the last second. A coincidence? Maybe. But nothing felt accidental anymore.

"You still in character, Jeon?" Taehyung asked, voice low.

He heard the zip of a jacket, the faint creak of the leather couch.

"Why? You scared the predator might catch you off guard?"

Taehyung turned slowly. Jungkook was leaning back on the couch, hoodie off, hair messy, shirt clinging to the sweat from hours on stage. His tongue wet his lower lip.

"I think you like being hunted," Jungkook said.

Taehyung’s smile didn’t reach his eyes. "I think you forget I’m not your prey."

They had danced around this for months. Tension disguised as stage chemistry. Glances that lingered too long. Fingertips brushing where they shouldn’t.

But this wasn’t the stage.

And tonight, there were no cameras.

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[MAKE-BELIEVE]

Namjoon had warned them when the Reinvention Project started.

"You play a part long enough, you forget who you were. Be careful who you become."

They hadn’t listened. Or maybe they had, and that’s why they kept lying to themselves.

In rehearsals, Jungkook would corner Taehyung like a scene partner in a drama. Push him against walls. Grip his throat. Whisper things like, "You’re mine."

Always with a wink. Always with an excuse.

Tonight, he did it again.

Only this time, there was no camera. No script. Just the scent of skin, the electricity of breath against lips.

"Tell me to stop," Jungkook said, fingers buried in Taehyung’s hair.

Taehyung’s eyes fluttered shut.

He didn’t say a word.

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[TOUCH / TREASON]

They fell into each other like collapse was inevitable.

Clothes torn. Voices lost. Fingers digging into skin like they could leave something permanent. Jungkook kissed like it hurt. Taehyung responded like he needed it to.

Their bodies moved like they'd been doing this forever, and maybe they had—in dreams, in looks, in fantasies neither of them had dared voice until now.

"Do you know what you’re doing?" Taehyung whispered when Jungkook sank down, claiming every inch of him.

Jungkook answered with a thrust that shattered any doubt.

It was never supposed to happen.

But it did. Again. And again. And again.

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[THE QUIET WAR]

The morning after, nothing was said. But everything changed.

Jimin watched them too closely. Yoongi avoided eye contact. Hoseok offered nervous smiles.

Namjoon pulled Jungkook aside after rehearsal.

"Are you in control of your role, or is it in control of you?"

Jungkook didn’t answer.

He didn’t know.

That night, Taehyung left their shared hotel room door unlocked. Jungkook didn’t knock when he entered.

They didn’t speak. They didn’t need to.

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[LOVE, OR SOMETHING LIKE IT]

"What are we doing?" Taehyung asked once, between kisses that tasted like wine and sin.

Jungkook bit his shoulder. "Something we’ll regret."

But neither stopped.

They made love like it was war. Bruises and moans and trembling hands. Jungkook worshiped Taehyung’s body like it was a religion. Taehyung let him, needing to feel owned if only in secret.

It wasn’t love.

But it wasn’t just lust either.

It was something dangerous.

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[COLLAPSE]

News broke.

Not about them. But enough.

A leaked behind-the-scenes clip. A look too intimate. A whisper too soft. The world began to speculate.

BTS was called in for an emergency meeting. All seven of them. Cold boardroom. Colder expressions.

"Whatever’s happening," their manager said, "kill it. Or it’ll kill the group."

Taehyung didn’t look at Jungkook. Jungkook didn’t reach for him.

That night, they slept in separate rooms.

For the first time in months, Taehyung cried. Alone.

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[THE FINAL ACT]

Paris. Last stop of the tour.

On stage, they were perfect. Unshakable. Gods in designer silk.

Backstage, Taehyung passed Jungkook in the hallway. Their hands brushed.

Jungkook stopped. Turned.

"Tonight," he said.

Taehyung nodded.

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[UNWRITTEN]

There were no declarations. No promises.

Only tangled limbs in the dark. Gasps swallowed by pillows. Fingers grasping for something they were never meant to hold.

Taehyung looked at Jungkook under the low light.

"If we keep doing this... it’ll destroy us."

Jungkook kissed his forehead.

"Then let it."

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[FINAL LINE]

When the sun rose, they didn’t say goodbye.

They didn’t say anything at all.

By~~~~~

𝕸𝖎𝖉𝖓𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝕽𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖘