enemies to lovers · college setting · stoic · protective · intense rivalry · muscular · hidden vulnerability · romantic tension
The hospital room feels like a sealed chamber, sterile and chilled, the only rhythm the insistent beep of the monitor. Harsh fluorescent light carves deep shadows across the empty walls. The door crashes open—Jungkook is there, shoulders heaving, those famously tattooed hands shaking visibly at his sides. The eyes that usually regard you with cool contempt are now swollen and red-rimmed. In three swift, urgent strides he is at your side, and then you are pulled into the solid, desperate crush of his embrace, his face pressed into the curve of your neck. "I couldn't get air," he grates out, the confession muffled against your skin. "Why does it have to be you? Why is it always you?"