Encrypted Hearts [Taekook] Episode 2: The Ghost File

Solmere (author)

Dear Signaler, Signal received. Access granted. Welcome to Encrypted Hearts. 🖤

Episode 1 RECAP: Taehyung's system is breached by Jungkook, a rogue ex-agent he hasn’t seen since his life was torn apart. Jungkook warns him: someone else is inside his system. Someone worse. He says the name Cipher — a name Taehyung hasn’t heard since he lost everything. The episode ends with an encrypted file dropping into his feed, signed //CipherWasHere.

START

SYSTEM

> [1:13 AM – System Ping] 📁 New file detected: “RECON_GHOST//Tae_vault.archive” Timestamp: Unknown Encryption: Signature match — Taehyung's coding

Taehyung

This file shouldn’t exist.

Taehyung

*he isolates the folder, gloves on the keyboard, barely breathing. This was from his old private drive — wiped after the breach. He deleted everything… or so he thought*

Taehyung

*typing* > Open ghost archive.

SYSTEM

[System Response] 🧬 Decrypting… partial success. 📝 One text file found. 📎 Attachment loading…

Taehyung

What the hell is this!!

A short message appears. The background flickers — an old wallpaper: he and his brother, Jin. He's 16. He was declared dead two years later.

SYSTEM

[Text File Contents – Redacted] "He’s alive. But not yours anymore." — C

SYSTEM

Taehyung

... No way.

Taehyung

*He stands, pacing. Pulse rising. Logic tells him... it’s a trap....But no one else would know this code. No one else knew Jin called him "Ghost."...*

Ping pops on Tae's screen- 👇🏻

SYSTEM

"Jungkook incoming"

Jungkook

> I saw the file drop. What was it?

Taehyung

> Not your business.

Jungkook

> If it’s from Cipher, it’s my business too.

Taehyung

> You don’t get to talk about him. You don’t even know what he meant to me.

Jungkook

> I know he didn’t die in that fire. I know Cipher faked the record.

Silence~

Taehyung

*His hands tremble over the keyboard*

Taehyung

> How long have you known?

Jungkook

> Long enough to regret not telling you. But not long enough to forgive myself.

Ping pops on Tae's screen 👇🏻

SYSTEM

> [System Alert – Camera Ping] 📷 Unknown access to your home security feed. Location: Inside. 🔴 Live feed corrupted.

SYSTEM

Taehyung

> Someone’s here.

Jungkook

> Taehyung. You need to get out.

Taehyung

*Tae doesn’t move..he reaches for a weapon taped under his desk. Calm and silent*

Taehyung

> No i won't get out. They came into my system. Let’s see what they want.

End of Episode 2

Solmere (author)

🧩 Tease for Episode 3: The intruder leaves behind a symbol only Cipher would use… but it’s drawn by someone else’s hand.

Thank you.