[Chapter 1: When Fire First Touched Skin]
When Fire First Touched Skin
Seoul underground club | The Red Pulse
Park Jimin
You sure you’re ready for this, Kook?
Jeon Jungkook
It’s just intel (information). I’ll flirt, get the name, get out.
Park Jimin
You’re walking into a Revenant-fed club. One wrong stare and they’ll skin you, not screw you.
Park Jimin
God, you’re cocky when you’re nervous.
Jeon Jungkook
I’m not nervous.
Park Jimin
You’re licking your lips again. That’s your nervous tick.
Jeon Jungkook
Shut up. I’m going in.
Jungkook enters the Red Pulse. Heavy music. Thick air. Smoke. Men watching and girls watching harder.
Bouncer
(Revenant, masked) Weapons.
Jeon Jungkook
(Hands over one knife and a gun but keeps one knife hidden in boot) Happy?
Inside. The room is blood red, the bar lit like a line of fire. Jungkook scans the crowd. Eyes lock with a man in black, seated in shadows.
Park Jimin
(in ear mic) That him?
Jeon Jungkook
Dark suit. Silver rings. Whiskey glass like he owns the world. Eyes like God forgot him.
Park Jimin
That’s Taehyung.
Jeon Jungkook
The Taehyung?
Park Jimin
Revenant boss. The Devil with a handsome face. Do not engage.
Kim Taehyung
(Speaks without moving eyes) You’re staring too long, Serpent.
Kim Taehyung
*lits up the lighter*
Jeon Jungkook
(Approaches slowly) Didn’t realize eyes had a time limit.
Kim Taehyung
In my club, everything does.
Jeon Jungkook
I thought this was neutral ground.
Kim Taehyung
Only the walls are neutral. Everything else belongs to me.
Jeon Jungkook
Including me?
Kim Taehyung
Not yet. But I’m patient.
Jeon Jungkook
I’m not for sale.
Kim Taehyung
Everyone is. Just a matter of currency.
Jeon Jungkook
What do you pay with? Blood?
Jeon Jungkook
Not my type.
Kim Taehyung
That’s what they all say, before they crawl.
Taehyung sips his drink, smirks faintly. Jungkook sits beside him, too close for enemy lines. Their knees touch.
Kim Taehyung
You were sent for intel.
Jeon Jungkook
You’re psychic now?
Kim Taehyung
No. Just watching. Closely.
Jeon Jungkook
Then watch this.
Jungkook leans in, lips nearly brushing Taehyung’s ear.
Jeon Jungkook
Tell your men to stop watching my ass. Or I’ll give them a show they’ll never forget.
Kim Taehyung
Tempting. But I don’t share my toys.
Jeon Jungkook
I’m not yours.
Jeon Jungkook
In your dreams.
Kim Taehyung
No. In yours. I always haunt prettier.
They stare. The world around them fades. A Revenant informant passes behind, but neither man blinks.
Kim Taehyung
Leave before I forget restraint.
Jeon Jungkook
I’d like to see what forgetting looks like.
Kim Taehyung
Dangerous thing to say to a man who buries bodies for breakfast.
Jeon Jungkook
Then maybe I want to be buried.
Taehyung grips the glass tighter. Jungkook smiles like a dare.
Park Jimin
(urgent in ear) Kook. Abort. Info guy's dead. Revenants found out.
Jeon Jungkook
Copy. Leaving.
Kim Taehyung
Running already?
Jeon Jungkook
Not running. Saving the next round for later.
Kim Taehyung
Leave the back exit. My men won’t shoot if you smell like me.
Jeon Jungkook
You think you’ve marked me?
Kim Taehyung
You haven’t stopped touching your neck since I looked at it.
Jeon Jungkook
…You’re poison.
Kim Taehyung
*whispers* And you drink deep.
Jeon Jungkook
*leaving from back door*
Jeon Jungkook
What the fuck he thinks of himself.
Author
That night, Jungkook left the Red Pulse with nothing but heat crawling down his spine and Taehyung's voice echoing like a brand. He didn’t get the intel. He didn’t follow orders.
But something far more dangerous happened.
They looked at each other. And neither of them flinched.
The game began long before either of them knew the rules.
Author
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Comments
Kim nora
it's really interesting 😍..... Waiting to see what will happen next authy .......
2025-08-15
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🩵crimson fairy 💙❣️
and the both of them going to break them like a mirror wall in middle of them
2025-08-20
1
Dear Kookie
yes of curse /Proud/
2025-08-15
3