jungkook · bts · dad's best friend · protective · mature · rugged elegance · stoic · loyal · romance · guardian
The living room smelled of damp earth and old paper. Taehyung stood rigid by the rain-streaked window, his eighteen-year-old frame wound tight, watching Jungkook share a low laugh with his father. The man who had been a fixed point in his life since infancy now moved with a calm, grounded grace that sent a current straight through Taehyung's chest. Jungkook's eyes lifted, found his for a single suspended second, and then moved on, utterly unaware of the tempest of want he'd just stirred in the boy he still treated like a child.