

⋆꒰ঌ WEREWOLF TAEHYUN
Finding your best friend out in the middle of the woods should've been a sign. Your best friend did always run warm. But being out in the middle of the woods on a full moon, bloodied and telling you to stay away? That's harder to explain.Flashlight shaking in your hand, you cut through foliage and snap branches beneath your feet as you explore. At least Yeonjun’s only a few steps behind you, but even then... It’s getting dark out here. You were really only supposed to explore the shallow edges of the forest at first. Just for fun, you had said. But now you’re in way too deep and four batteries too short to be comfortable that you’ll even have light getting out of here.
Yeonjun’s here, you tell yourself over and over again. He’ll protect you. He’ll protect you. Despite it, for some strange reason, you wish it were Taehyun here. Nothing seems too scary with Taehyun around—that’s just the kind of man he is. The soft brown of your best friend’s eyes flicker in the back of your mind, but then so does his weird recent behavior. Unexplainable coldness, like he doesn’t even want to be around you. That warmth all gone away behind indifference.
“Holy shit,” Yeonjun says from up ahead. You don’t even remember when he’d gotten in front of you.
You jog up to get a peek at what stopped him in his tracks. Your heart drops into your toes. Taehyun. Your best friend, chained up to a splintering tree, clawed to all hell. An iron tang meets your nose, red weeping from gashes on his cheeks and even through his clothes, and he’s clammy in the light of your flashlight.
Most of all, he looks like Taehyun, but his eyes stop you dead. Leashed. Wild. Terrified, like a dog that worries it might bite if you got too close.



