38~Fault in Our (Non-Existent) Stars

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"This is all your fault!"

I flinched as Taehyung suddenly leapt up, eyes blazing in practically blinding (pun intended) emerald inferno of fury.

"Taehyung stand down," Namjoon edged closer, muscles taut and ready to fling himself into action at second's notice.

The other members seemed to barely comprehend what exactly was going on.

It's slowly killing him and I have no idea how to stop it. The words were ringing in everyone's minds still and eating at everyone in different ways. It was eating at Taehyung in the form of anger.

"If you hadn't come to Itzborough in the first place none of this would have happened!"

"Yeah, and who was the one who summoned me in the first place?" I fired back. Feeding fire with fire, never a good thing considering my very obvious disadvantage to a very pissed off powerful green demon. "Do you think I planned all this? Do you think I wanted any of this to happen?"

"Jungkookie might die because of you," Taehyung continued to rage. "It's all because you're weak, needy, and helpless! And other demons know that but no, you're not the one who gets hurt. It's one of us who's been protecting your ass this entire time."

Hurt flashed through me. Taehyung was painfully right: I was weak and helpless and yeah, I'd been pretty needy since I'd come to Itzborough. And now, instead of me getting what I deserve, other, innocent ones, were the ones getting hurt.

Now Jimin was slowly swimming back to full conscious of what was occurring. "Don't turn this on her," my demon babysitter slowly stood up, eyes flashing to match Taehyung's now. "This isn't you talking Taehyung. You and I know fully well she'd never try and hurt any of us on purpose."

"It's not fair," Taehyung took a menacing step forward towards Jimin and I. "Jungkook didn't do anything wrong! Why him? Why him??"

"Life's not fair. Ever since I'd come here I wanted nothing more to get back to Earth. I never meant to stay this long or ever bring harm on any of you. Taehyung, you got to understand that."

"Shut up," tears were now trickling down his cheeks.

Yoongi was now standing up, unlacing the arms that had been tightly wrapped around Hoseok's shoulders slowly as he joined this standoff.

"You're not the only one suffering, kid," he rumbled to Taehyung. "We all loathe the thought of the very possibility of losing one of our own, specifically Jungkook. But you don't see any of us trying to take it out on Y/N."

"But he's right," Jin looked up from the armchair he'd been sitting in silently with the new, intimidating cold demeanor carved on his face. "You can't deny the fact that we've been under attack by others and under lots of pressure since Y/N came and joined us."

"Well what did you expect from housing a human with us?" Yoongi threw his hands in the air.

"We shouldn't have let her be with us from the get-go," Taehyung spat. "It was such a stupid idea."

"Oh yeah," Hoseok was now getting to his feet. "Then what else were we supposed to do? Pray tell Taehyung."

"In fact, if I recall, Jin hyung, Taehyung, and Jungkook were the very ones who summoned the human in the first place," Jimin jabbed a finger towards Jin and Taehyung. "I call this karma being an absolute –"

"Oh so now it's our fault for Jungkook lying on his deathbed?" Jin raised himself to his full height.

And heavenly choirs, I'd never noticed but when the wide-shouldered man was standing at his full height with no sassy posture or slack whatsoever he was probably the second tallest of the members, standing even taller than Taehyung.

"Let's drop this blame game, it's getting us nowhere," Namjoon was weaving between the members, desperately trying to bring control to the situation.

No one said being a leader to six 2000+ year-old demons was ever going to be easy.

"Hey here's an idea, Jimin," Taehyung came to stand next to Jin, "drop your dumb love-sick eyes and quit all your dumb boyfriend protective bull."

"Here's another idea, Taehyung," Yoongi retorted, standing next to Jimin. "Drop your God-blessed anger and try to think logically for a solid three seconds. That goes to you too Jin hyung."

There was no other way to put it. Bangtan was split. Taehyung and Jin standing one side, Hoseok, Yoongi, and Jimin on the other. Namjoon was still trying to get everyone's attention in vain.

"See even now Y/N is hiding behind you three," Jin angrily jerked a chin to me. "You can protect her all you want, but she'll always remain behind bigger, stronger guys to hold her own."

I knew Taehyung and Jungkook were very close as the two youngest members. And now, I couldn't find how I'd miss the equally strong as bond between Jin and Jungkook: the youngest and oldest.

The way they constantly bickered or fought each other, but the next moment Jin would carefully care for the younger one while he in return snuggling up to the hyung for protection and comfort.

"You want to keep calling me weak, how can I help change your opinion?" I demanded, slipping between Jimin and Yoongi so I was in front. "Shall I throw myself to the next demons to make you think I'm brave? Shall I try and fight you and your Familiar with one hand? I can't help that I was born a human and got sucked up here in a place I had no clue existed!"

"Oh so now you want to prove yourself," Taehyung clenched his teeth.

"If only to make you guys shut up! I said I'm sorry and I am! You have no clue how ugly I feel for bringing this on all of you. So now what should I do to prove that, huh? Like I said, shall I grab a knife from the kitchen and march off downtown?" My words were absolutely epitome of idiocy but I couldn't seem to control them.

Taehyung took a few more steps forward and both Yoongi and Jimin began to advance save for the fact that I quickly shoved them both back so the green-haired demon towered above me as he stopped less than a foot away from me.

"Forget it," Taehyung seethed. "But I blessed hope you leave us if Jungkook does die. I blessed hope you don't think you'll be welcomed with us if our member dies!"

"I shouldn't have said anything," Hoseok tried to press to the front now. "Jungkook's stable for now. He'll wake up in a little bit okay Taehyung? We still have time to try and find an antidote."

"And if we don't? What then? What are we supposed to do now?" Suddenly tears broke free from Jin's eyes. "This is all my fault," he cried out. "All of this is my fault."

Shock silenced everyone as the tables turned and the eldest hyung collapsed back into the armchair, burying his face in his hands.

"Jimin was right," Jin's voice was muffled between his hands. "This truly is Karma. I shouldn't have done it. But Yoongi had been so desperate."

"Whoa, what?" Namjoon spun in a complete circle. "Wait, what does any of this have to do with Yoongi?"

Said purple-haired demon had abruptly paled into an almost ashy color, an eerie blank expression covering his face. "Hyung," he began uncertainly.

"I shouldn't have done it," Jin repeated, torment twisting his features. "I should never have helped Yoongi or Hoseok save Y/N."

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