The Eternal Book of Drabbles

The Monster Under the Bed

Pairing: Taehyung (V from BTS) + FemaleOC, slight taekook (if you squint real hard)

Warnings: none

Genre: Fluff, Slight Horror (maybe?) Demon!AU

Length: 1578 words, 4.6 pages

Summary: Taehyung is home alone, sick in bed and absolutely terrified. Why? Simple. Because there's a monster under his bed!

Taehyung lay in bed awake and every second that ticked by he became increasingly terrified. Usually when he was scared at night, Taehyung would go cuddle with one of his hyungs or his darling Kookie but he couldn't tonight. Why? Because the rest of his band mates were at some party to promote BTS. Another reason he couldn't just get out of bed and slip into the kitchen for a warm cup of milk with a drop of honey in it was because there was a monster under his bed. So poor Taehyung was left alone in his dark room with a blocked nose and a monster moving around doing god knows what under his bed. Taehyung desperately tried not to listen to the weird muttering and crunching that was coming from the black abyss that was under his bed frame. He closed his eyes and tried to focus on his panicked breathing and not on the vibrations coming through his mattress. Suddenly the noises stopped. Taehyung still kept his eyes squeezed tightly shut as he attempted to calm his pounding heart. After a little while he cautiously opened his eyes. He blinked several times at the ceiling then he shifted in his bed into a sitting position as he let out a small nervous chuckle. Taehyung told himself that he was just being silly and there was no monster under his bed. And he was right of course, the monster was no longer under his bed, instead It now sat perched at he end of Taehyung's bed frame. Taehyung locked eyes with the Creature and was calm for a millisecond before his sleep deprived brain realized that the eyes he was looking into weren't ones of a caring brother. Instead these eyes had a slit pupil like a cats and they were an enchanting mixture of yellow and green and they also glowed in the dark. Taehyung screamed. His voice climbed several octaves as he curled his legs towards himself in a futile attempt too create more distance between the Creature and him. He continued screaming as his eyes darted all around the figure calmly sitting at the end of his bed, he drank up every detail from the curled horns to that adorned its head that we just as sharp and pointy as the long nails at the end of the creatures long bony fingers. The Creature stared at Taehyung with a bored expression on Their face as the frightened man slowly began to cease his screaming. There was a couple minutes of silence which seemed to amplify Taehyung's heavy breathing. After Taehyung's screams stopped ringing in the air, the Creature spoke. "Done yet?" It said to which Tae meekly nodded.

"For a man with a voice deeper than the ocean you sure can squeal really high pitched." It continued and Taehyung noticed that the creature had pointed teeth and a split tongue like a snakes as well as a couple of lip piercings. There was another awkward silence in which Taehyung continuously blinked while the Creature did not.

The silence was broken however when the Creature said rather bashfully "oh gosh where are my manners! My name is Y/n! I already know yours is Taehyung but is it okay if i call you Tae?" She extended her hand for the boy to shake but instead he flinched away. Y/n laughed at his reaction and retracted her hand and felt around for something in her denim jacket. Soon she fished out a small dream catcher and held it out in her palm for Taehyung. She waited for him to take it from her hand but Taehyung didn't move a muscle so Y/n just placed it on top of the blanket that covered his feet. She continued talking about something but Taehyung didn't hear her. He was more focused on her voice and trying to figure out if the Creature in front of him was a girl or a boy. Her voice was fairly feminine but it was kind of slightly deep and scratchy, her laugh on the other hand had a flat out growl hidden in it. Taehyung caught snippets of her onesided conversation here and there but he started to pay more attention when she said something along the lines of "I should really call you 'Oppa' because I am technically younger than you but 'cuz I'm a demon I don't think honorifics really apply to me."

"If you are a demon than why were you hiding under my bed?" Taehyung asked before he could stop himself. Again Y/n giggled before she started explaining. This time Taehyung paid attention.

"I hang out under your bed because that's how all your Bad Dreams are born and how they get into your brain. Demons eat your Bad Dreams to hopefully encourage Good Dreams to fill you subconscious so people can sleep peacefully! I am tasked with looking after this household's Bad and Good Dreams so I don't just feast under your bed!" Y/n chirped. Despite her terrifying appearance and intimidating aura Y/n seemed to have an extremely bright personality. Taehyung finally noticed the dream catcher on his feet which lead to his next question as he picked it up with his pajama covered hands. "Then why does everybody say dream catchers keep the Bad Dreams away?"

"Ah, dream catchers actually prevent demons, or as you call them 'the monster under your bed', from coming anywhere near you. Once a human touches it, the dream catcher creates a protective bubble which a demon can't breach which actually leads to more nightmares. Before a human activates the force-field, the dream catcher only burns any demon skin that comes in contact with is." As Y/n said the last sentence she showed Tae her upturned palm which had a burn mark in the shape of the dream catcher she held before. In the moment of silence that ensued Taehyung was hit with a tidal wave of tiredness. All the constant fear and adrenaline had knocked it out of him as well as the fact he was sick and his body needed rest to recover. Y/n seemed to notice this and so she stood up and stretched, successfully popping a couple of stiff joints. Taehyung noticed many things while Y/n did this. First of all she had a freaky dragon tail that looked extra spiky and heavy looking that looked like they would make a lot of noise as they moved about. How did she sneak around with them on every night? Second he noticed she was definitely a girl. Though she didn't have much of a chest she made up for this with her wide hips and delicious butt not to mention her stunning figure. Y/n wasn't skinny, instead she had some nice muscle on her that just added to her beauty. Taehyung heard one last comment from Y/n before he blacked out. "I've become surprisingly flexible over the years. It must be thanks to the awkward positions I've had to endure when trying to avoid the crap that's under your bed." she chuckled then vanished under his bed again.

The next morning Tae's bandmates were extremely confused to why Taehyung, who was supposed to be resting, was instead sorting out all the junk from under his bed. The truth was that Teahyung didn't understand his actions either. All he remembered was a bubbly girl in his so called fever dream and that there was a cramped monster under his bed.

BONUS!!

In the dark a silhouette slunk around the house miraculously avoiding all the creaky floorboards. The figure had horns and a tail. This was the demon Y/n going round doing her last check up of the house hold. It was said in a book once, that the hours were 'getting so late it was becoming early' and this was perfect to describe the time. She snuck around putting things back in place, adjusting pillows and turning off lights all the while muttering to herself and snacking on a couple of Bad Dreams. She even had to change one person's position so he would quieten his snores. This was nothing new to Y/n, it was like an unwritten rule for her to go around fixing everything in the house and making sure everybody was comfortable before she was whisked away back to where she came from. Finally she entered the last room. Y/n remembered the conversation she had with Taehyung earlier that night and she giggled to herself when she saw that he was still in the same position as when she left. Y/n quietly moved Tae so he was now lying in bed and she managed to sneak a spare pillow into his arms so he would be more comfortable. The Demon smiled, content with her work then she vanished into the dark shadows of the night knowing she would return again in the dark nights to come.

Authors Note:

I hope you enjoyed my first short-story! I had fun writing this! I hope you enjoy my next stories!

Have a nice Morning/Evening/Afternoon/Night!

- Midnight

(Good greif, I reread this and realised the millions of spelling/grammar mistakes yeesh)