taehyung frowns when he's in his room and it was really quiet for the last couple hours, but suddenly he hears some yellings.

it was only he and his brother at home but he could swear that he's hearing 3 or 4 people downstairs. curiously he makes his way downstairs, quickly rushing to the livingroom.

he gasps loudly.

not because namjoon, hoseok, yoongi and jeongguk are there but because jeongguk's face is completely bruised and covered in blood.

"oh my god!", he says and rushes to jeongguk.

"what happened? lay down.", taehyung says and carefully guides jeongguk to the couch where he lays down.

"i'm okay.", he says but taehyung doesn't believe him and looks up to his hyungs.

"do something!", he says but they also don't know what to do, since jeongguk isn't gonna talk about what happened to him.

but his face looks really really bad and taehyung can't help but to worry almost too much.

namjoon went to the bathroom to get some wet wipes and he gives them too taehyung.

"bring some ice.", he says to his brother, himself being in a hurry, desperately wanting to help jeongguk.

he sits down on the ground and starts to slowly wipe the blood out of jeongguk's face. jeongguk hisses in pain sometimes and taehyung apologizes over and over again. "i'm sorry, i really don't want to hurt you.", he says worriedly and jeongguk would like to answer him over and over again to tell him that it's okay, but he did it once and he doesn't have the strength to do it again.

taehyung removes all the blood and he sees that jeongguk's lip is completely swollen and also burst open. his left eye is also swollen surrounded by a blue/violet color.

his nose isn't bleeding anymore but it was. it was bleeding and this is enough to be able to freak taehyung out. but he doesn't. he stays calm and tries his best to help.

namjoon got the ice and gives it to taehyung. taehyung holds the ice and softly presses it on jeongguk's bruised eye. jeongguk hisses again in pain and taehyung is quick to apologize for the hundredth time.

"s'okay.", jeongguk manages to bring over his lips, feeling like he's gonna pass out any moment.

taehyung notices that and starts to panick. "fuckfuckfuck, guys he's about to pass out, call the ambulance!"

"n-no.", jeongguk says weakly. "no.", he repeats. "i'll w-wake up soon, i promise.", he says and taehyung frowns. does he faint often?

taehyung can't think about that anymore because the next thing that happens is that jeongguk faints. taehyung's eyes grow wide.

"poor kid.", he hears hoseok say. "what happened to him?", taehyung asks too hysterically. "we don't know tae, please calm down.", his brother says but taehyung shakes his head.

jeongguk once beat a guy for him, said he would do it again, he rescued taehyung from getting raped or something and now he is hurt and taehyung can't even help him.

he wants to call the ambulance but jeongguk told him not to. he's stressed right now and that the other's aren't stressed makes him mad somehow.

"why don't you do anything?", he asks them madly. "taehyung, we can't do anything. he passed out but he'll wake up and then we'll give him painkillers.", yoongi says.

taehyung calms down a little. he's right. he takes a deep breath and sits down on the couch, after making sure that the ice is placed on jeongguk's eye.

"you have no idea what happened to him?"

"no. yoongi and i were driving here then we saw him near your house and took with with us.", hoseok says.

"can you bring him to my bed? he shouldn't sleep on the couch, it's uncomfortable.", he says, not wanting jeongguk to be in more pain that he already is when he wakes up.

"i'll bring him.", hoseok says and goes to jeongguk, lifting him up like a bride. taehyung knew he couldn't ever carry him that's why he asked the others. the ice pack falls down and taehyung quickly grabs it.

he quietly follows hoseok who's bringing jeongguk upstairs right now. they enter taehyung's room and he lets him down on his bed.

"tell us when he wakes up.", hoseok says and taehyung just nods, before hoseok leaves the room and closes the door.

taehyung just sits at the edge of his bed, still worrying about jeongguk. he comes closer to jeongguk's face, to place the ice back on his left eye again.

"what happened to you?", he mumbles quietly, feeling sad. he hates seeing people hurt and since he has a crush on jeongguk, he hates it even more.

taehyung knows he shouldn't feel guilty because it makes no fucking sense but he still he finds ways to blame himself.

when he was in the car with jeongguk he could've asked him what he's gonna do for the rest of the day.

okay, he probably definitely wasn't planning to get beaten up, but still...

maybe, he could've.... ugh, stop that taehyung. you couldn't have done anything and of course it's not your fucking fault. stop making everything so much more difficult for yourself.

taehyung sighs, the only he can do is waiting for jeongguk to wake up and make sure that the ice pack doesn't fall off his face.

stop worrying too much.

that's what he tells himself and quietly he looks down at his lap but then...

he reaches his hand out to check jeongguk's puls, just to make sure that everything's really fine.