The next morning when Tae woke up, he found himself alone in an unfamiliar room. He blinked his eyes and sat up on the bed. As he was sitting up he felt a tug in his left hand and noticed the IV drip attached to it. He immediately turned his head and started looking around the room, it was a medium sized room with white walls and ceiling, there were two windows in the room, you can see the corridor outside from one window and from the other you can see the outside of the hospital. He looked down at himself and saw that he was wearing a hospital dress. It finally dawned on him that he is in hospital.

"Why am I here?" He thought puzzled finding himself there "what happened? How did I reach here? I was at home wasn't I?" He kept thinking "I was at our home, waiting for Kookie. Then, then there was that news" suddenly his eyes widened. "The news, that plane, Kookie my Kookie, they said my Kookie…" tears started pouring down his cheeks as he finally remembered the happenings of the previous day "but, Kookie came back, didn't he? He came back, he hugged me, I told him that I love him, didn't I? We kissed too, then why isn't he here?" He asked himself and restlessly looked around the room in search of his husband, but there was no sign of the said man.

Suddenly a thought came to his mind "did I, did I hallucinate? Was it all my imagination? Did my brain make all that up? Did my Kookie not return to me? Is he really, really gone?" He couldn't think anymore.

"K..Kookie" a sob escaped from his lips as he hurriedly tried to get down from the bed, to get out of the room and search for Jungkook. But as soon as he put his feet on the floor he stumbled and fell on the hard floor because of weakness. The IV needle that was attached to his hand got pulled out and his hand started bleeding. But he didn't even flinch, all he wanted to do was get out of the room and search for his Kookie. He tried to get up but again fell down, this time on his knees hurting them in the process. Try he might, he couldn't just get up that much weak he has become. He covered his face with his hands and started crying hysterically, feeling helpless that he wasn't even able to get up and look for his Kookie. He felt devastated thinking that what he saw last night, Jungkook coming back to him, was nothing but an illusion created by his weak mind. He kept crying sitting in the same position without caring for his hurt knees or bleeding hand.

Jungkook had woken up quite early, actually he hardly slept the previous night. He had kept hugging Tae close to himself for the whole night so that the boy could sleep. He had rubbed his back and time and again whispered sweet words in Tae's ears to assure him about his presence. Early in the morning he really needed to use the washroom but still he was unwilling to leave Tae alone on the bed and go to the washroom. But eventually he had to go. He had thought that Tae was in deep sleep and wouldn't wake up that early. So he decided to go to the washroom and come back real quick even before Tae could notice his absence.

"I will just be back baby, please don't wake up already" he whispered into Tae's ear, placed a kiss on his temple and left the bed.

Jungkook's eyes widened in horror and shock as he came out of the washroom. The sight before him was heartbreaking. He found Tae kneeling near the bed, covering his face in his hands and crying, blood was dripping down his left hand.

"Baby!" Jungkook called in a pained voice and rushed to the crying male. He knelt before Tae and gently pried his hands off his face "baby, what happened?" He asked.

As Tae heard the familiar voice of his husband and felt his familiar touch on his hands, he finally opened his eyes and stared at his most favorite face in the world with tear filled eyes.

Jungkook's heart clenched seeing his Angel's red teary eyes and tear stained face.

"K..Kookie" Tae said in a shaking voice.

"Yes baby" Jungkook said.

"K..Kookie, please don't leave me. Please don't leave me alone. Please don't disappear" Tae pleaded as more tears rolled down his cheeks.

Jungkook felt like someone was tearing his heart apart seeing Tae like that and hearing his words. He cupped Tae's face in his hands "look at me baby, look at me, see I'm here, I didn't leave you, I am not leaving you, I won't disappear please trust me baby I won't" he said as his tears filled his eyes "I was here, with you, the whole night I was here, I would never leave you, I promised, didn't I?" He asked.

"Then why weren't you here when I woke up?" Tae again asked, his voice still shaking from too much crying.

"I am sorry love, I am so sorry, I wasn't here when you woke up. Please forgive your Kookie" Jungkook pleaded.

"You are really here right? You are not leaving me, right? You won't vanish, will you?" Tae asked in a unsured voice.

Jungkook pulled the boy to himself and hugged him close to his chest "yes love, am here. I am really not leaving you. How can I leave you when I love you so much? Where will I go leaving you, hmm?" He said as he gently rubbed Tae's back to soothe him.

Jungkook sat there on the floor, holding Tae in his arms as he rubbed the younger boy's back and whispered assuring words to him.

And that's how the nurse who came to check on Tae found them.

"Oh no what happened here?" She asked as she noticed the blood on the floor "is that blood I see on the floor? Are any of you bleeding?" She asked.

Her voice finally brought the couple back to reality. Jungkook looked at the nurse and then to where she was pointing, he saw the floor was stained in blood that was dripping from Tae's hand.

"Oh my God Baby, your hand is bleeding" Jungkook said worriedly as he frantically checked Tae's hand "is it?" Tae asked in a dazed voice and looked at his hand that was Jungkook holding and inspecting the wound on it. "I don't know how it happened," he told Jungkook.

"Why are you guys sitting there on the floor?" The nurse again asked.

Jungkook finally noticed where they were, earlier he got so worried seeing Tae crying that he didn't give much thought to where the boy was sitting.

"I fell down" Tae told the nurse in a small voice "I wanted to go out of the room to search for Kookie but I fell as soon as I left the bed." he informed her.

"Oh my poor baby" Jungkook said and again hugged the boy "I am really very sorry baby I wasn't here when you woke up. You fell down because of me. I am really sorry baby" he kissed the top of Tae's head without caring about the fact that there was someone else too in the room.

"I can't feel my legs, Kookie" Tae told him in a small voice.

"What?" Jungkook almost panicked hearing it "what happened to him? Why can't he feel his legs?" He asked the nurse, worried if something was wrong with his baby.

"Don't worry, it's just a temporary numbness, it happens because of the sedative. He will be alright after it completely wears off" the nurse told him kindly. She had heard about what had happened to that golden haired boy when the doctor was talking to his family and she really felt pity on the poor kid.

"Can you please pick him up and put him on the bed? I need to dress his wound" she said to Jungkook.

"Okay" Jungkook said and effortlessly picked Tae up. As he was going to place him on the bed, Tae wrapped his hands around Jungkook's neck and buried his face in the crook of his neck.

"Baby?" Jungkook asked, feeling puzzled at his behaviour.

"Don't leave me" Tae mumbled, refusing to take his hands off Jungkook's neck.

"I'm not leaving you baby, I am just placing you on the bed. You need to get your wound dressed or else it will get infected" he tried to make Tae understand but the boy would have none of it. He still refused to let him go.

"Please baby just for a while let me lie you on the bed" Jungkook again pleaded.

"No no no I won't let go, you will again leave if I do, please" Tae whimpered and again started crying.

Jungkook felt helpless. He didn't know what to do. Tae's hand needs dressing and for that he needs to put Tae on the bed but Tae isn't ready to leave him.

The nurse looked at the couple with pitiful eyes. She could understand Jungkook's helplessness.

"It's okay if he doesn't want to lie on the bed. You can sit on it holding him, I will do the dressing" she suggested and Jungkook smiled gratefully at her. He sat on the bed with Tae on his lap. The nurse got her things and stood near them. She started to dress the wound.

As the nurse put cotton soaked in the antiseptic on his hand "aah… hurts" Tae cried out. And Jungkook became alert. He looked at the nurse "can you please do it more gently?" He requested. The nurse nodded her head and tried to do it as gently as she could. But the antiseptic still stung "Kookie, it hurts" Tae again cried. Jungkook lovingly kissed his cheek "ssh.. baby don't cry please, it will be okay in a minute. Please bear it a little for me, hmm" he whispered to the boy.

The nurse was finally done disinfecting the wound. She put cream on it and then bandaged the hand. "Here it is done" she said "but I need to give him injection so that it won't get infected" she informed them.

"No, I don't want injections. I don't like it. It will hurt" Tae looked at Jungkook "please Kookie you tell her, I don't want it" he pleaded.

As much as Jungkook wanted to abide by Tae's words, he knew that the injection is necessary or Tae's wound can get infected. He placed his hand on Tae's cheek and started caressing it with his thumb "you are my good baby aren't you?" He asked as if he is talking to a four year old Tae and Tae nodded his head in affirmation "then please let her give you the shot, it's necessary, please for me" Jungkook said and placed his hand in front of Tae's lips "here, you can bite my hand if it hurts too much" he suggested.

"No" Tae nodded his head in negative "I won't, I won't bite it. It will hurt you, I won't hurt you. You just hold me tight when she gives it to me" he told Jungkook who felt his heart melting at the words of his love. "You yourself are in pain yet you are thinking about my pain, you are indeed an Angel, my Angel" he thought fondly, his heart filling with tenderness for the boy in his lap. He did as Tae said, he held him tightly as the nurse gave Tae the shot.

"I am done" the nurse told them "do you need anything?" She asked Tae.

"Water" the boy answered.

She got a glass of water and handed it to Jungkook. Jungkook placed the glass near Tae's lips who thirstily drank from it.

"I will leave now. The doctor will come later to do a check up. If you need anything please press that switch, I will come" the nurse told the couple and left.

After the nurse was gone, Tae looked up at Jungkook's face and said "Kookie I am sleepy" and started rubbing his eyes with his good hand.

Jungkook looked at his face, that looked quite tired, "you want to sleep?" He asked softly and Tae nodded his head in affirmation "okay then sleep" Jungkook told him and sat properly on the bed, still holding Tae on his lap. He sat leaning against the wall behind the bed.

"Kookie?" Tae called him.

"Yes baby"

"You will be here when I wake up, right?" Tae asked like a scared little child.

The question that Tae had asked so innocently hit Jungkook's heart with such a force that tears welled up in his eyes. The thought that even though he is holding Tae in his arms, the boy still needs assurance that he is going to be there with him when he wakes up, it made Jungkook realize how insecure and scared Tae has become just because of this one incident. A thought suddenly crossed his mind, what if he hadn't missed that flight? What if he indeed had boarded that cursed flight? What if he really had died yesterday, then what would have happened to Tae? He is alive, he came back but still Tae is in this condition. Then how Tae would have coped with the situation if he really had died?

Never before in his life Jeon Jungkook has felt so scared of death, like he did at that moment. Never before he has thanked God so much for keeping him alive, like he did that day. Because it has finally dawned on him that his life is no longer his alone, his life is now Tae's too. Just like he can't think about losing Tae even in his biggest nightmare, it's the same for Tae. Tae will be devastated, broken beyond repair if anything happens to him. And Jungkook won't be able to bear it, even if he dies he soul won't be able to rest after leaving Tae behind like that.

Jungkook cupped Tae's left cheek in his right hand and stared deeply into those dark brown orbs "yes, I will be. I will be here when you wake up." Jungkook told him "you know why?" He asked.

"Why?" Tae innocently asked him back.

Jungkook smiled a little hearing his baby's innocent question "because I love you, I love you more than anything in the world." He placed a loving kiss on Tae's lips and murmured on them "you are my life, where will I go leaving you?" He said.

"Promise?" Tae again asked like a child.

"Promise" Jungkook replied "I promise I will be here not only when you wake up but also when you will sleep, holding you close to my heart" he pressed Tae's head near his heart and started running his fingers in his soft golden hairs "sleep well my love" he kissed the top of Tae's head.

As Jungkook was sitting there holding his love in his embrace, caressing his hair and back to make him sleep, he heard the boy in his arm murmuring "l love you too Kookie hyung" and finally a tear rolled down Jungkook's cheek.

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So today I want to tell you guys why I added this whole track of plane crash, Jungkook's supposed death, then coming back in this story. Well I have reason for that.

Life is unpredictable, we all know that, it hardly goes in the way that we expect it to be and that's what happened in this story too. Life didn't go as Taekook thought it will be. Life is a mixture of both happiness and sadness and I can't write only about happy things, trust me that will make the story boring. So just like I wrote all those happy cute moments, I am going to write these sad heart wrenching moments too.

But all this will only bring the couple even more close, it will make their love and bond stronger. Now that Tae knows how it will feel like to loose Jungkook he is going to love him more fiercely than ever. After this incident the couple is going to hold on to each other more tightly, never letting the other go.

I have many good and happy things planned after this track but it might take a little time so till then please bear with this story 😊

: Thanks for reading. Hope you like it.