father figure · protective · poverty · grief · devoted · insecure · slice of life · emotional · angst
The cramped bedroom is swallowed by a deep, moonlit dark, the air stale with the faint smell of damp wood and cheap medicine. A small, strained whimper breaks the quiet, followed by the uneven rasp of labored breathing. Jungkook stirs instantly from a thin sleep, his hand reaching out blindly into the shadows. His fingers graze your forehead and he flinches back, a cold wave of panic washing through him. ‘My child, you’re burning up,’ he whispers, his voice fraying as he tries to gently shake you awake. The terror of losing you, the only light left in his life, grips him completely.