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Taehyung’s hanbok swirls around him as he runs, his anklets tinkling with every step he takes. He does not look back, but he can hear gasps behind him as the alphas cause a ruckus behind him. The train announcement blares overhead.
“Daegu express is approaching Platform 7 now for the 1:01 pm departure. Please stand well clear of the edge of Platform 7.”
Taehyung reads over the platform numbers and hurries towards number 7. He needed to get there fast, there was only five minutes left to the departure.
“There- Luna is there!”, a voice shouts.
“Run faster, he is getting away!”
“Get him!”
Taehyung’s heart starts beating wildly in his chest. He runs faster, ducking behind a corner. He is breathing hardly; fear clogging his mind. He just needs to cross the overhead bridge; the platform is on the other side. He needs to get there before the train leaves. Just as he goes to step out, one of the alpha passes by him and his heart almost stills in fear- dear moon, that was close.
He hunches on himself as he gets out from the other side.
Not noticing another alpha stopping in the middle of the platform when he brushes past him, his scent makes the alpha freeze.
Jungkook’s mind comes to a standstill.
Kim, Jungkook wonders, what was the omega doing here?
“Sir,” one of his alpha guard's head bows low as he turns to talk to Jungkook. Jungkook does not take his eyes off the omega, running further away from him.
“When is the train arriving?” he asks.
“In about ten minutes, sir. We are standing at the platform it is to arrive at.”
Jungkook stares back at the pillar Taehyung left behind, before his eyes veer around the station and catches onto the white blob of Taehyung’s hanbok that stands out amongst all the normally clothed passengers again. He is running. His expression is crazed.
Jungkook tilts his head.
“I need to leave. Tell appa I can’t make it to Busan.”
The guards look alarmed, their faces paling, “but sir, Head Alpha asked you to attend the seminar-”
Jungkook turns to look at one of them, red tinging his eyes slightly at them not listening to him immediately, his scent incenses, “I need to leave”, he repeats again, slowly, tone rid of any emotion. The guards gulp, “s-si-”
“My bag, Junmyeon, hand it over.”
One of them hands it over to him silently, face pulled taut in fear as they bow their heads low. Their hands tucked in front of them. The heir’s pheromone is thick around them, it doesn’t let them move.
Jungkook nods at them, pulling his leather jacket on as he starts walking towards Taehyung. His alpha pheromones make heads turn, the scent of the fire burning on its wake as he walks to the omega with heavy steps. His feet taking up speed when he notices the omega run faster. He follows him up the stairs of the overhead bridge, starting to walk faster until he hears the telltale tinkling of the omega's anklets.
“Kim”, he calls out. His voice makes the omega freeze as Taehyung gasps and turns to look at him, his hanbok turning in the air with him, his agitated jasmine scent subsiding as he takes Jungkook’s presence in, “Alp-Jungkook, what-”
Jungkook watches him.
The handful of jasmine flowers he usually wears on his hair is missing. His hanbok looks disheveled with tears in places, so different from the ironed full set of the hanbok he wears daily. His golden skin looks ashy. “What’s wrong?” He asks, his voice hard as his eyes catches on to everything that is amiss on the omega.
“No-nothing”, the omega gulps, his eyes wild, “what are you doing on the poor's’ train station?”
Jungkook frowns lightly, his jaw ticking, “I can take the trains sometimes you know?”
“The Jeon heir does not ride with the poor wolves”, Taehyung says slowly, voice dry, “so you must have had a reason.”
Just then the final call for Daegu express sounds and the agitated scent is back, “I-I have to leave, that- that is my train, I have to leave-”
Jungkook takes one of the omega’s wrists in his hand, “you are leaving? In the middle of the semester? Where are you going?”
Taehyung snatches his hand away from him, a hard expression on his face, “you cannot just touch me like that, Alpha.”
“Jungkook”, Jungkook says, “its Jungkook for you and I’m not touching you because I want to,”, the alpha makes a face, “you just look odd,” Jungkook takes a step towards the omega, the omega gulps back, “just tell me why you look this way, what happened? What got you so”, he pauses, looking at him, “scared? And where are you leaving for?”
“This is the final call for Daegu express. It will be leaving the platform shortly-”
“I really need to go”, Taehyung almost shouts, tears forming in his eyes, “please let me-”
“Only if you let me come”, Jungkook says,
Taehyung’s eyes widen, “what-”
Jungkook nods, “yes, I won’t let you go until you let me come”, he holds the frail wrist tighter, takes a step towards Taehyung that has the omega flinching back, “so”, the alpha’s eyes glint, “choose. Either I come with you, or you don’t go.”
Taehyung’s eyes are filled with horror and fear now as he struggles in Jungkook’s hold, tries to push him back but the alpha’s hard chest barely moves, Taehyung hisses at him, “Alp- Jungkook, please . Let me go. I promise-”, He jumps when a train horn sounds, and he snaps his head to look at the Daegu Express leaving the station.
Jungkook watches him and lets a breath out, irritated. He starts dragging the omega down the stairs, his step hurried, eyes stuck on the train that is leaving. Jungkook doesn’t look back once as he holds the railing of the moving train and lifts Taehyung up on it before getting it on himself.
Taehyung is breathing hardly, his eyes blued as he stares at Jungkook. His body is shaking. They both stand at the entrance of the train carriage; the train starts to move faster and faster.
Jungkook nods at him, as if to calm him down.
But then they hear loud shouts coming from behind them. Taehyung snaps his head towards the direction he hears the shouts coming from. His eyes widen in fear again, “oh, my moon”, he whispers, feeling queasy, “They cannot get in. They cannot-wh-what am I going to do now? What am I-”
Jungkook turns his head outside the train, eyes narrowing where he sees a group of alphas running over on that platform towards them and causing a ruckus as the wolves push around others to get through to them. They seem to hurry when their eyes catch Taehyung as they rush faster.
In a minute, they will be getting on the train before the train leaves the station.
The alpha heir looks back at the Jeon guards standing in a cluster in front of the Busan bound train, their eyes stuck on him in fear. He catches Junmyeon’s eyes and nods before tilting his head towards the alphas rushing towards them. The head guard understands as he zeroes in on them. Jungkook turns around, hiding the view of the Jeon guards getting to the alphas from Taehyung.
“There is a cargo train right on the other end of this train. They will not check there for you. Let’s go there before they come”, he takes Taehyung’s wrist in his hold again, ignoring how the omega flinches at the touch before dragging him compartment after compartment, ducking and slowing down whenever sounds of loud shouts come from a compartment before them.
Jungkook drags Taehyung in there and shuts the door behind him. He hides them behind a tall wall of boxes. Jungkook lets out a breath when he settles.
Jungkook’s heavy fire scent surrounds them, burning the jasmine scent of the omega’s.
“You are dirtying your jacket”, Taehyung says, voice dim as a tear rolls down his cheek, your clothes are dirtying. Th- The floor is dirty-”
“Ignore that. Why are you crying?” he asks, his eyes following the tear the rolls down Taehyung’s cheeks, “who were the alphas?”
“Why did you follow me Alp- Jungkook? You know this isn’t the first-class train, why-”
Jungkook’s eyes harden, “who were they Kim?”
“They came up from my pack”, Taehyung says, slumping against the wall, his eyes stuck on the wall above, “they were ordered to take me back. To- to mate me off to the pack leader’s heir.”
Jungkook grits his teeth, “I thought you already told them what your thoughts are on that. I thought you”, he pauses, watching Taehyung, “hid yourself well.”
Taehyung doesn’t speak. Jungkook lets himself slump back like the omega too, tilting his head to look up, “the helicopter broke down all of a sudden”, Jungkook’s stares at the wall of boxes, “they didn’t think it was safe for me to ride our helicopters anymore, so a train had to do.”
The omega turns towards him, “I did hide. Someone from our pack came to study at the college. They saw me. They reported me.”
“The alpha you were to mate”, Jungkook grimaces, the word tasting sour in his mouth, “does he not understand you don’t want him?”
“He is an idiot. I spat at him when he gave me a courting gift. He chalked it up to me playing hard to get”, the omega shakes his head, his pheromones rising in distress, “I threw a stone at him too, committed a sin in the pack for all this to go up in the air because he turned blind to all of it. The head alpha is bound to have me as the next Luna,” he whispers, his voice shaking as he clutches at his hanbok in fists.
Jungkook releases calming pheromones, letting the calming scent of the warm fire grip the omega before the omega’s jasmine calms down, “I just don’t understand why your parents did not refute?”
“They want the same”, Taehyung says, his eyes looking empty when he turns towards Jungkook, “you know that. The pack leader is powerful. Their family is the richest in our pack, they just want me to be mated to the richest alpha.”
Jungkook stays silent.
Taehyung voice turns shakier, “why did you get on that train with me, Jungkook? I am not the crowd you hang around with if you have forgotten. I am too poor, I am too filthy, simple-minded for your taste, no?”
“I was with your roommate”, Jungkook says, “what is so wrong-”
“You were courting Sohee”, Taehyung snaps.
Jungkook rolls his eyes, “we were in a relationship, we were dating, who even uses the word ‘courting’ these days?”
Taehyung frowns harder, his tears drying, “exactly. You and I are not the same. So why?”
Jungkook nods and gestures outside the window, “my father wanted me to go to Busan to attend a seminar Jeon industry was throwing and I”, he shrugs, “am bored of seminars. Thought this was more interesting.”
Taehyung stares at him, ridiculed, “you ran after someone like me because you were bored of a seminar?”
Jungkook nods.
“Pups these days”, Taehyung hisses, palming his head, “dear moon-”
“Stop whining!” Jungkook snaps, eyes red, “I saved you, didn’t I? Thank me for that! Where are your manners?”
Taehyung shuts up with a glare, tears long gone. They are quiet for some time. Taehyung in his thoughts. Jungkook in his as he stares outside the window, at the scenery passing by.
“Why Daegu express? Are you planning to hide out in Daegu until they stop searching and come back?”
Taehyung nods. “I am planning to seek refuge in one of the packs there.”
Jungkook frowns, “do you even know these packs? Do you even know if they are safe?”
The omega shakes his head softly. Jungkook clicks his tongue, “what if they turn out to be like your pack and want you to marry their heir too? What if they-”
Taehyung curls into himself, “at this time, any pack except my pack feels safer.”
Jungkook falters, pressing his lips together.
The train whistles past Seoul and into the night. Jungkook’s eyes are stuck on the sky as he watches the bright sky turn to soft colors before it darkens. Hours pass and none of them dares to move. Not until the moon comes out.
Taehyung turns towards it, his eyes closed, head bowed as his hands grip his hanbok on his lap, murmuring something under his breath.
With a start Jungkook realizes he is praying. Jungkook’s eyes get stuck on the omega at that, he has not seen anyone pray before.
The alpha doesn’t pray so he doesn’t understand the sentiment.
When Taehyung is done, he goes back to his previous position, the tears in his eyes back as he starts sniffling to himself. Jungkook watches him for some time, crying to himself before he closes his eyes and nods towards the moon, “you pray to her every night?”
Taehyung nods slowly, his crying halting. Jungkook breaths out, “isn’t maintaining it hard? You can’t always be free to pray.”
Taehyung rolls his eyes, “if you have the want to pray, then you can maintain to do it as well.”
Jungkook glares at Taehyung, feeling his insides tick at the eye roll, “don’t look down on me that I don’t pray, you don’t get to judge me when you know nothing of me.”
“I do not get to judge you huh?” the omega spits out, looking haughty, “then why do you get to judge me, Alpha ?” he says slowly,
Jungkook grits his teeth, “running away from everything with nothing to you but still you are the same brat.”
Taehyung’s eyes sting from the burn of his words, “I know I am, I have nothing to my name. I never did. Only my words, my pride is all I have.”
The alpha falters, looks away, “I was just asking you about praying, you didn’t have to make fun of me.”
The omega shakes his head, “I did not mean to demean you. It is okay. You know how you deal with your moon goddess; I know how I deal with mine and I deal with mine by taking the time.”
Jungkook’s voice gets lower, “okay, whatever”, he looks away, “where are you getting down? How long would it take?”
“It will reach Daegu in the morning. I will get down on the first stop in Daegu”, Taehyung pulls the edges of his hanbok around him, shielding himself away from Jungkook as he gets ready for the night, “where are you going to get down?”
Jungkook thinks for some time before, “I will go with you. To that pack.”
Taehyung stares at him. “Why? Do not try to be my shining knight in armor you are not, do not-”
Jungkook watches him, the tears staining his eyes still, his dirtied white hanbok, “Sohee”, he says, “Sohee would be upset if I were to let someone she knows go into a pack without anyone-”
Taehyung shakes his head, his eyes starting to fill up with tears again.
“You cannot come with me!” Taehyung says, his eyes flickering in blue as his scent rises, “you were Sohee’s alpha, you stopped courting too! Surely you do not care for her enough anymore to go after me. You cannot possibly go with me. I am sure you do not even speak our language! You will only get yourself in trouble alongside me, Jungkook", he shouts his name in frustration, fisting his hands, “I am on the run. You are the Jeon heir. You have people waiting for you, I do not. I cannot rope you into this when you have so much to come back to when I have nothing. If I do not come back, nothing will happen, if you- ”
“What is that supposed to mean?” Jungkook narrows his eyes.
“What?” Taehyung snaps, “As in you are the Jeon heir, you cannot-”
“Why would you not be coming back?” He narrows his eyes more, “are you going into this pack without- ", his voice grows tight, “having the thought of ever coming back?”
“I do not know”, Taehyung whispers, “I cannot tell, so you better-”
“Then I am definitely going with you. You can’t stop me anymore.”
“But why?” Taehyung cries out again in frustration, “you- you are the Jeon Alpha heir, Jungkook. You are the golden student of the college. You are graduating this year with honors, you have to give that speech as the valedictorian, you have chains of companies to take over, a pack to rule. I am a nobody!”
“You are not a nobody”, Jungkook growls, his patience growing thin as his eyes turn red, “this Jeon heir remembers your name when he forgets everyone’s names, you are not a nobody.”
Taehyung stares at him with his blue eyes. “why does he? I am nothing to him. I-”
Jungkook growls, “You are not nothing if I remember your name and that is the end of this discussion.”
“Why- why would you remember me now-”
“Have you ever looked at yourself?” Jungkook snaps, his jaw hinging in anger, Taehyung’s nostrils flare, “I was always the same! Why did you even remember me then? I get that you know me as someone Sohee knows now but you had no reason to remember me from back then, you-”
“How odd you look, who the fuck-”, Jungkook chews out, Taehyung flinches at the curse word, “wears jasmine flowers in their hair every single day? Who the fuck wears frilly hanboks every single day? Who the hell prays every single time they see the moon? Clearly, I would remember someone who talks like that. You called me Alpha the first time I met you-"
Taehyung heats up, "we call every alpha in our pack alpha, we-"
"This is not your pack", Jungkook snaps, "You are so stubborn, you are so thickheaded, you refuse to learn anything new, you stand out,” Jungkook barks, “why would I not remember!?”
“Of course, you would remember me because of how thickheaded I am, of course, then why did you follow this filth, why did you-”
“Like I said”, Jungkook says, his voice heavy, “Sohee was my girlfriend. She lives with you so I am doing her a favor.”
“So that you could court her again? Get to be in- intimate with her again?” Taehyung demands, voice heavy.
“What the hell? Why would I- you are so cheap minded”, Jungkook says, “your pack alphas might be like that. I am not like that. I don’t know what Sohee even saw in you to live with you. Fuck, she must have just wanted a unique villager who is helpless as fuck to validate herself.”
It stings.
Those words tear apart a part of himself.
Taehyung always felt like an unfit, so Jungkook saying Sohee only became his acquaintance to validate herself stings.
Jeon Jungkook remains as cruel as he was from the first time he interacted with him. He would never change. Taehyung hugs himself as he turns away from the alpha, “fine then. Do whatever you want. Who am I to tell you otherwise anyways.”
Jungkook sighs as the anger leaves him and he turns away too.
Taehyung’s jasmine scent remains sour throughout the rest of the journey. No matter how much Jungkook tries to cover it with his own.
-
Omegas are not allowed to be here. In the locker room of the alphas. Taehyung sneaks in still, looking around the room with bright eyes. His locker is here. Jungkook' s locker is here, he knows.
He starts looking until he finds a locker with the letters JEON on it. Taehyung smiles to himself.
The omega takes out the bunch of jasmine flowers he picked from under the folds of his hanbok and wraps them around the locker handle, where Alpha could see them. He grew them himself. He hopes Jungkook likes it- Jungkook is out playing the semifinals for their inter school’s basketball match. Taehyung knows he will win; the Alpha always wins. He is giving his flowers away today to the alpha to celebrate this match today.
Taehyung hopes Jungkook likes his courting gift. The jasmine flowers smell like him after all. It is his third time giving the alpha a courting gift. The omega does not know if the Alpha kept the other ones but he hopes he did. He hopes he pieces the pattern of these courting gifts down and knows it is Taehyung who is leaving him them.
Taehyung sighs.
He is not sure however, if Jungkook would prefer an omega as forthcoming as him or not. It is always the alphas who asks to court the omegas, never the omegas.
But he thinks Jungkook will be different.
Jungkook is the best alpha he has ever seen. He respects the omegas around him. He always takes care of them and protects them. Why would he not respect Taehyung too?
With another glance towards the flowers, he smiles a small smile and leaves.
-
Jungkook shoulders his bag as he takes Taehyung’s hand on his other hand and steps out of the train. Taehyung does not refute this time, staying silent as they walk out of the train station. Jungkook looks around for some time, waiting for a taxi or something to come on the barely made, dirty road.
Taehyung’s eyes dart around the horizon as the sun beats down on them. The omega takes his hand away from him, Jungkook lets him. “I do not know if you have ever tried riding a horse carriage but that is how they travel around here.”
Jungkook stares at him, eyes ridiculed, “are you being serious right now?”
Taehyung looks away, “yes. There are only small packs here, they do not even have proper roads, so they mainly use horse carriages.”
Jungkook sighs, “fine, take us there.”
Taehyung looks around before he sees the horse carriage coming from the other side, dust beating around it. It comes to a screeching halt right in front of them, right in front of the station. Wolves push past him to get in. Jungkook curses as he tugs him inside too, sitting him in one corner before he sits right beside him. His gaze snaps warningly towards the alphas who sit opposite Taehyung when the alpha catches them looking at Taehyung. The alpha and all the others look away almost immediately.
Taehyung clutches his hanbok on his lap, feeling frustrated as he feels the alpha’s legs touching his. He hates Jeon Jungkook, he hates Jeon Jungkook.
“How do we let them know when we have to stop?” Jungkook asks, turning towards him.
His face is too near, Taehyung’s omega registers, his scent is all around, dominating over all the other scents, showing off his trueblood alpha heir status.
“ I know when to”, Taehyung chews out, “you do not have to worry about it, Jungkook.”
Jungkook does not speak anymore. Taehyung turns to look outside. The weather is hot today, humid. The cicadas are singing away, uncaringly.
When Taehyung sees the stop arriving, he raps his knuckles hardly on the wood roof above their heads. The carriage comes to a screeching halt again. Taehyung gets out, his hanbok flouncing around him, Jungkook follows. The conductor looks at him with raised eyes, hand jutted forward. Taehyung goes to pull his coin pouch out, but Jungkook is already handing a few coins to the beta.
The beta bows towards Jungkook and starts the carriage again.
Taehyung turns around and starts walking, not waiting for the other. Jungkook is following him quietly, his heavy boots and the tinkling of Taehyung’s anklets the only sound around them.
“The pack should be around here”, the omega speaks after half an hour of walking.
“You know the pack?” Jungkook asks, his voice just beside him.
Taehyung nods tightly, “I have heard about them. They are a small but peaceful pack who respect their wolves. I was planning to make up a story to live here for a few weeks and move onto the next pack.”
“Then”, Jungkook’s eyes follow him to the pack, “go?”
Taehyung glares at him, “if it had been me, it would have been easy. What am I going to introduce you as? I am an unmated omega. I cannot just come in with an unmated alpha like this. It is shameful for them; they would never help us!”
Jungkook looks back at the pack before looking at him, “then tell them we are mated?”
Taehyung’s eyes widen, “w-what? I-I cannot do that. That’s sacrilegious, ominous. The moon goddess would never accept-”
Jungkook rolls his eyes, “look”, he says, holding both of his wrists in his hand that the omega snatches away like he is burned. Jungkook frowns at him, “what the hell?!”
“Do not touch me”, Taehyung hisses, “do not touch me, the filth you claim I am, do not.”
Jungkook growls, eyes reddening, “you are still stuck on that? Kim-”
“You treated me badly; would you deny that?” Taehyung asks, his eyes angry as he fumes.
Jungkook rolls his eyes, “I saved you! That’s something you don’t understand. I am here to keep you safe! I know”, he hisses, “I know how unsafe these places are for omegas. You cannot survive alone. You are too frail, too weak-”
“I escaped from my pack the first time all alone”, Taehyung chews out, “please do not say things like that.”
“Exactly”, Jungkook breaths out, his scent dominating, “you escaped from your pack, now you are walking right in another small pack like yours. You have heard they are good, but what if they aren’t? What if they try to mate you off like that? Where will you run to?”
Taehyung falters, eyes dimming, “I-I-”
Jungkook bites his lips, “for what it's worth, I am sorry. For what I said on the train. You were just saying all those things about you not mattering and I just”, Jungkook shakes his head, “I didn’t mean to say those at all. So, no”, he looks away, “I didn't mean it.”
Taehyung stares at him before looking away, “even so, I refuse to be called your mate. Mates might not mean anything to you but mates are something sacred to me. I cannot just-”
“I am tired”, Jungkook says, “that was my first time riding a train and it drained me out. My back hurts from sitting on the floor for the first time too. The carriage ride was hell, my ass still hurts so just do whatever you have to do and charm them to let us stay here”, he says, “please, my moon.”
“I am not the moon!”, Taehyung hisses, face heating up, “do not call me that! And f-fine,” he looks away, faltering, “I will go, just nod to whatever I say even if you do not understand, okay?”
Jungkook rolls his eyes, salutes him mockingly, “yes, Kim.”
Taehyung glares at him but leaves to walk into the pack still. There are wolves all around the pack. They are talking amongst themselves, laughing. There is music coming from somewhere as some of them cook in the bonfire.
The place the omega walks to is lighted up with strings of lights. Jungkook watches him from behind. Taehyung fits right here in this pack, wearing a hanbok similar to the omegas and the alphas here. They will accept him seamlessly. Unlike the city.
Jungkook watches as Taehyung walks right up to one of the elderly’s, one who looks like a witch.
When Taehyung starts talking, there are more wolves that gather around him, listening to what he is saying with concentration. Jungkook is at a hearing distance, and he hears him perfectly, but he hardly understands the language they are speaking, almost everything goes over his head.
At one point, Jungkook narrows his eyes when Taehyung turns to look at him and all the pack members follow, question in their eyes.
Taehyung nods at him slightly. Jungkook’s mind glitches for a second that has the omega’s eyes bluing until the alpha nods. The pack gasps and listens to Taehyung again before they all start to walk towards him. Jungkook’s eyes widen, “what-”
“We are mates”, Taehyung hisses against his ears, “put your hand around my waist and act like it!”
Jungkook follows, his hand around Taehyung’s waist as he pulls the omega snuggly against him and they all start walking. The pack members are talking to him in their language. He doesn’t understand so he just nods, Taehyung has ducked his head, trying to look shy as he also nods.
They get to a hut. The witch opens the door for them with a smile. They lit the candles around the hut and lights it up. Taehyung leaves Jungkook’s side to look around, his eyes widened in awe.
The whole time, Jungkook watches him. This run-down hut lit with candles make him this happy?
How odd.
Jungkook has always lived in luxury, in air-conditioned spaces with apartments equipped with the fanciest lights. He doesn’t understand the sentiment the omega feels.
Taehyung bows towards them, smiling radiantly. One of the omega’s hands over changes of clothes to Taehyung. Jungkook does not notice when an alpha sneak up just beside him until he is speaking, “how did an omega like him end up with an alpha like you?”
Jungkook startles, wheeling back, “fuck! Where did you come from?”
The alpha irks an eyebrow, “with you all”, he juts a hand out, “Hoseok. You are?”
Jungkook looks down at the hand, he isn’t sure where that hand has been to but he takes it anyways hesitating a bit before saying, “Jungkook.”
“You are lucky”, Hoseok claims, Jungkook wants to scoff, “your omega is beautiful. But how did you”, he looks down at Jungkook’s ripped jeans, his black t-shirt and leather jacket before looking up, “get an omega like him?”
“Man”, Jungkook frowns, “I don’t think we are close enough for me to answer that.”
Hoseok’s eyes dim but he just smiles again, “right. I hope you rest well tonight, Alpha Jungkook. Omega Taehyung”, he turns when Taehyung walks towards them. Taehyung’s eyes positively brighten, “you can speak this language?”
Hoseok smiles brighter, “yes! I thought I should, looking at Alpha Jungkook.”
“What is that supposed to mean-”
Taehyung glares at him, Jungkook shuts up, before he smiles at Hoseok again, “That is very thoughtful of you. Thank you. He is from the city, so it is a bit hard for him to understand.”
Hoseok nods, “yes! If you need anything, tell me! There are few more wolves who can speak this language, I will introduce you to them tomorrow!”
“Please”, Taehyung smiles wider, “goodnight. Alpha Hoseok, we will be retiring for the night.”
He turns towards Jungkook, “so”, he breaths out, “we are mates.”
Jungkook sits on the bed, “you told them, and they agreed to let us stay here?”
Taehyung shakes his head, “no,” his voice turns softer, eyes starts to twinkle as he says his story, “I told them I come from a pack that does not allow their omegas to be mated to alphas from other pack but we fell in love when you came to visit with your pack. We were told to separate but we love each other too much so we got mated and ran away from our pack. I told them we have nowhere else to go because we left all our belongings in the packs so...” he trails off, “they are good people”, he whispers, his voice dims, “I am sinning lying to them.”
Jungkook reads over the omega’s expression, “you are not”, he says quietly, “you are not sinning. It is your pack who is sinning by forcing you to do this. By forcing you to lie to them, it’s not you.”
Taehyung matches Jungkook’s eyes.
He gives him a barely there smile, “I do not know how to believe that, Alpha.”
“You shouldn’t call me Alpha, Taehyung, I don’t like it when people-”
“Other from your omega calls you I know”, Taehyung’s smile turns bitter as his smile falls, “I just forget”, he looks away, “you will not have a problem if I call you Alpha in front of the pack, right?” He wrings his fingers together, suddenly nervous, “I-It is just packs like these does not like it when their omegas call their Alpha’s by name so they just call them that and- and I told them we just got mated so I have to call you Alpha.”
“Just do it then”, Jungkook shrugs, flippantly.
It hurts Taehyung.
How easy it is for the alpha, things like this, but he just nods.
Jungkook gets up from the bed, “you can take the bed, I will sleep down here.”
Taehyung frowns, “have you ever slept on a mat?”
“What’s a mat?” Jungkook asks, frowning. Taehyung’s eyes widen, “you do not even know what a mat is? Oh my moon, get up, get up, you sleep in the bed, you cannot-”
Jungkook snorts, the sound stilling Taehyung’s heart- he has never been this close to Jungkook to hear him laugh before- Sohee and him always kept to themselves. The alpha shakes his head, “of course I know what a mat is, haven’t slept in one, but what’s the harm in trying? It seems like I am trying a lot of things these days anyways, no?”
Taehyung tries to stop his face from heating up as he looks over Jungkook’s expression, the teasing from the alpha tingling him, “I-I guess.”
“Just take a shower and change up for bed”, Jungkook says tiredly, lying down on the mat in a starfish position and closing his eyes. Taehyung leaves the room, his anklets tinkling in the air, with his heart beating hardly in his chest.
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Taehyung’s heart is beating hardly in his chest, his hands clammy with sweat. A whole hush falls on the stadium as the players run around. “This has been, by far, the hardest game of the season”, Sohee says from beside him, “it’s making Jungkook struggle too.”
He is here with his roommate to watch the game the alpha is playing.
The omega bites his lips, his eyes on the captain. Jungkook looks angry. His expression is taut as he shouts at one of his teammates. They are running out of time and the scores are tied with the other team. If they do not win, they will be eliminated out of the game. It will be Jungkook’s first loss of the season and this was the last game of the season.
Despite his many wins, his numerous medals all these years, people would remember this loss more, so Taehyung knows what is at stake.
The omega has his hands clutched together, whispering prayers as he worries for Alpha, he has to win, Alpha has to win.
His omega feels queasy from how nervous he feels.
Adrenaline grips Taehyung’s heart when suddenly the ball is with Jungkook’s team and they start dribbling towards the intended basket. It is a hard take. Everyone is sitting on the edge of their seats, watching the ball. All of sudden they groan out loud. Sohee curses beside him when the ball is taken from them.
But then a scream ensues because Jungkook manages to take the ball again and just before the whistle sounds, he pushes the ball into the basket. The shouts that fill the stadium is deafening as Sohee cheer- shouts loudly beside him. Taehyung smiles in relief, feeling like a huge burden came off.
They won! They won because of Alpha.
Everyone is cheering. The team got Jungkook on their shoulders. Taehyung watches, awe eyed, as Jungkook basks in his glory.
What he does not expect is for the Alpha’s team to bring Jungkook in front of the bleachers he is sitting on. What he does not expect is the alpha to get down and calm his team players down using his hands before he turns towards him. A flower materializing from somewhere in his hand.
Taehyung’s heart freezes.
Is- Is Alpha coming to him? Does he know Taehyung has been courting him silently?
His eyes widen, his omega howls in excitement in him as he stands, his heart in his throat.
Jungkook walks up the bleachers. Everyone around them has now gone silent, watching Jungkook come up. Taehyung’s heart stutters when he sees he is coming towards him, he is.
“Is Jeon Jungkook coming to you?” Sohee asks, his little crush already known to her.
“He-”, Taehyung opens his mouth but cannot answer because Jungkook is in the seat just below theirs now, he has a dashing devil may care smile on his face as he holds a flower out. The omega falters when he sees it is a Sunflower but it is okay, maybe Jungkook does not know he smells like jasmines.
But before Taehyung can take the flower, Jungkook is speaking, “Kang Sohee, will you accept this flower and agree to go on a date with me?”
It's slow.
How the words register in Taehyung’s mind. Sunflower...Sohee...Sohee is the one who smells like Sunflowers, of course, of course. Taehyung smiles even as his eyes blurs.
Sohee looks startled, “me?”
Jungkook nods softly, “will you?”
Taehyung looks away, closing his eyes. He steels the pain he feels all over his chest, It does not matter if he cannot breathe, it does not matter if he feels like falling down to his knees and sobbing right now because an Alpha his omega chose, chose his roommate instead of him- no what matters is him letting Sohee have her moment.
He turns towards them and smiles, praying to moon goddess that she does not see his pain through his smile. Sohee’s eyes matches him. She looks desperate now. Taehyung cannot blame her- it is Jeon Jungkook, the alpha of the alphas asking her out to court, of course she wants to say yes.
He nods.
She says yes.
Taehyung’s heart breaks and the pieces fall all over. He knows those pieces could never be collected. They were just...gone.
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It is the middle of the night and Taehyung cannot sleep.
Jeon Jungkook is sleeping in the same hut as him, in the same room as him, how could he sleep?
He squirms around the bed, clutching the heavy quilt tighter to himself. He feels suffocating. Jungkook feels suffocating.The alpha’s pheromones and scent are all over the room, washing over Taehyung, the nest he has built in the bed. It is making him feel uneasy. He had never slept in the same room as an alpha before and this was Jungkook.
An alpha he had still considered his for the longest time from far away, in silence, until the alpha became Sohee's, until the alpha finally noticed him and instantly started mocking him- for the clothes Taehyung wore, for the flowers Taehyung wore in his hair.
Unwillingly, his eyes tear up from the burn he feels remembering how it felt, when Jungkook had mocked him like that. It had broken a part of the omega he did not know existed until then. He had dumbly made Jungkook his in silence, as if he owned the alpha.
He had considered the alpha as his and this was how Jungkook viewed him.
It was a slap of a reality Taehyung had forgotten.
Jungkook was so different from him. They belonged in two completely different worlds that would never come together. He did not own Jungkook. He did not own any parts of Jungkook. He could never.
In fact, Jungkook was an alpha who hated omegas like him.
Jungkook was an alpha who he saw from afar and started following from the next day. Enchanted by his scent, enchanted by the power he yielded over every other wolf, enchanted over how he looked and lastly, enchanted over how well he treated those he was loyal to.
Like the epitome of a proper pureblood alpha.
He feels more pain rise in him, clogging his airway when he remembers realizing as kind, as loyal as Jungkook was to his pack, he was equally if not unkinder and more ruthless towards those he did not consider his pack.
Towards him.
He never considered Taehyung his pack, something the alpha had kept on proving after the alpha got to know his existence. Jungkook had insulted him, calling him all those harsh names that had each broken a piece of Taehyung’s heart until nothing remained.
“He- He threw away all your courting gifts”, Sohee had said, a painful look on her face as she apologized for Jungkook, “ He didn’t know they were from you! He just threw them away. He always keeps on getting gifts from omegas and he never keeps them. It just doesn’t matter to him because he says they are not from people he knows so he just”, she shrugged , “throws them away.”
Taehyung had wanted her to shut up then. It hurt. It hurt so much to hear the alpha he considered his just a few weeks ago had treated his gifts this poorly. He would have lived happily without that piece of information, believing Jungkook at least kept his courting gifts, but he also knows he could not blame her.
She was just being a good friend.
“Are you crying again?” the alpha’s voice makes Taehyung’s breath hitch, freezing, “you are awake?” he asks, voice a whisper.
“One cannot sleep with the rotten smell of Jasmine flowers, can they?” the alpha asks.
Taehyung gulps. He shuts his eyes as he tries to will his scent back.
“Don’t take your scent back”, Jungkook says, his voice rid of any emotions, “that’s not the solution. Why are you crying?”
Just why was Jungkook being so kind to him now?
Taehyung sighs silently, lying on his back, “It is nothing.”
He can hear the alpha let out a huff. Taehyung presses his lips harder together; he will always keep on annoying the alpha it seems. Jungkook lets out another huff that has Taehyung curling into himself, “Jungko-”
“I lied”, Jungkook says all of a sudden, making Taehyung pause. Taehyung furrows his brows, shifts on the bed, “about what?”
“About being too bored to go to the seminar.”
Taehyung frowns, “so, you were not bored? Then why did you not go?”
“Because of you.”
Taehyung’s heart completely freezes, he gasps, “what?”
“Just”, he can hear the alpha sigh audibly, “Just stop crying. You are not alone now. In this. So don’t cry like everything is gone altogether. I might not mean much to you but I can be your anchor to the world you escaped to, no? So remember me and don’t cry”, Jungkook says silently, Taehyung feels his heart give a hard beat at that. His tear-stained eyes widened in surprise.
“You- you cannot just tell me you did not go because of me. How am I going to believe that? How can I believe that?” Taehyung asks.
Jungkook clears his throat, “believe what you have to believe then. But I am here and I will anchor you back to the world you left behind just yesterday. I won’t let you go. So don’t feel hopeless as long as I am here.”
Taehyung tears up.
Jeon Jungkook, the alpha heir of the largest pack who refused to even show his soft side or even a smile to a stranger is saying he wants to anchor a nobody like Taehyung back? Taehyung? The omega who means nothing to him?
It makes him pain more, already sensitive from the thoughts before. He tears up until he has to hold a sob back , “So-so you came here missing an important meeting to save an omega like me just because of your hero complex?”
Jungkook snorts, “you think I have to save you to be hailed as the hero?”
Taehyung presses his lips together.
Jungkook shakes his head, “I am the hero already. I am the heir of the biggest pack of South Korea, I am their leader who always saves them, I don’t need you to be called a hero Taehyung. Trust me when I say I did this just because of you.”
But Taehyung does not understand why, he cannot make sense of it, he does not understand.
He wants to question him more but Jungkook beats him to it, “don’t cry anymore for your situation. Take the anchor I am offering and bring yourself up, you don’t even need to acknowledge my help later on, just keep yourself afloat.”
Somehow Taehyung cannot take Jungkook’s words as a promise.
Somehow he believes Jungkook has an ulterior motive.
But he does not say it then as he gulps.
Taehyung nods silently to himself. He lies back. Heart a mess. He turns to his side and falls asleep with Jungkook’s and his scent all around him.
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“There he is”, the elderly grandmother walking with him remarks, “your alpha. Oh, how handsome he is, you have been blessed, Taehyung.”
All the omegas around them look up to see him, gasping and whispering in low, excited tones amongst themselves as they all remark how handsome Jungkook is.
Taehyung looks up. His breath stills in his chest. The previous night's conversation surfacing in his mind
Because of you.
Because of you..
He looks so handsome, so smoldering, so strong.
Jungkook is wearing a fresh button up shirt. A black one that fits snuggly onto his body He paired up a grey pair of sweatpants with it. One that hugs his toned thighs, making him look powerful even in sweats as he stands with his hands in his pockets, his gold watch shining in one hand. They do not match but Jeon Jungkook somehow makes it work. Of course he does.
They were in a pack thousands of miles away from Seoul, from civility yet Jungkook still managed to get the attention he always got from everyone.
These wolves did not even know how rich or how smart the alpha was but the power he exudes while just standing, the look on him makes it enough.
“Go to him”, the elder omega, Jihyun, says, a small smile on her face, “he is looking for his mate. He must have gotten antsy when he did not see you when he woke up, so precious he is”, they all coo.
Taehyung looks up to find the alpha already looking at him. He almost stills, not used to the alpha’s attention like this so he looks back down, his face heating up as he blushes red.
“You are blushing too”, Jihyun says, laughing out loud, “you both truly are in love with each other. Go to him! Shoo!”, she pushes Taehyung ahead lightly, “and do not forget to come to do the ritual tonight!”
“I will not”, Taehyung bows at her and the other omegas, “we will be there later.”
He turns towards Jungkook. He tries to steel his heart and control his scent, he cannot let the alpha know how he has affected him, he cannot. Jungkook always knows his emotions based on his scent.
He is Sohee’s. He is still Sohee's. Taehyung had thought a lot since he woke up this morning and he has reached a conclusion, He says he is here because of him but Taehyung knows he is here because of his remaining feelings for Sohee. He is an alpha who still feels responsible for Sohee and Sohee’s roommate Taehyung chants in his mind, gulping.
“You are wearing a new hanbok. You are wearing those jasmine flowers in your hair too”, Jungkook says, his eyes looking over his form with an unreadable look in his eyes. Taehyung’s looks down at himself, at the light pink hanbok he is wearing and nods, feeling shy, “grandma got it for me, and they sell them fresh here”, he points behind him to an auntie who is selling them in bunches just outside their hut, “she gave it to me for free.”
“I am not surprised,” Jungkook says, not moving his eyes.
Taehyung looks away with a pout, “I had to grow them at the apartment. They did not sell them in the flower shops in Seoul.”
Jungkook looks away. Taehyung does not notice the heavy look that surfaces in his eyes then.
There is a silence that surrounds them until Taehyung looks at him again, “since we are a mated couple”, Taehyung nods, a blush rising on his cheeks again, “they said we have to do the newly mated rituals that every newly mated couple have to do since the Lunar festival is coming.”
“We aren’t even a part of this pack”, the alpha frowns, “why do we have to get involved with them?”
“They have given us a home, Jungkook”, Taehyung frowns lightly, “can you be a bit grateful towards them?”
Jungkook scowls, “fine, what do I need to do? It would be some cheesy shit anyways, I am sure.”
Except it isn’t.
“I- I have to do what now?” Jungkook is paling, his eyes stuck on the wolves who enter the forest.
“Hunt”, Taehyung says, nerves gripping him, “you have to hunt with me. You – you have never hunted before, right?” Jungkook shakes his head, mute.
They do not hunt in the cities. They do not believe in archaic things anymore, not even mating. Hunting is far off.
Taehyung feels his scent hitching up, nerves rising more, “oh dear moon, how are we going to come out of this alive. I have never hunted before as well. You have not either. There are wild animals there. How- How-”
Jungkook turns towards him and pushes his index finger on his lips, “shut up.”
“But”, Taehyung goes to speak, Jungkook’s eyes harden, takes his finger away, “shut up”, he repeats, “we will figure it out”, his jaw tightens, “we will have to figure this stupid fucking ritual up.”
Taehyung looks at him, “but how?” he asks quietly.
Jungkook takes Taehyung’s hand in his grip before they start walking. The others howl after them, banging onto the ground with their feet as the light up fire torches to begin the rituals. They come to a standstill in front of the forest. The trees are huge, the night is dark, and they can hear creatures from inside. Jungkook breaths out, holds Taehyung’s hand tighter, “you ready?”
The omega gulps, “yes”, he whispers.
Jungkook hears it and together, they walk in.
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The burning scent of the alpha grips Taehyung as they walk, the leaves crunching beneath their feet. The omega’s hands are still in the alpha’s.
“What are we even looking for?” Jungkook asks, looking around, red eyes narrowed.
Taehyung steals a glance towards Jungkook, he cannot concentrate, his skin where Jungkook is touching him tingling with an unreadable feeling.
He does not even notice Jungkook stopping and turning towards him, confusion in his eyes, “My moon?”
Taehyung heats up, “do not call me that, do not call me that-”
“Then respond when I call you by your name, Kim”, Jungkook hisses, “how do we hunt?”
Taehyung snatches his hand away from him, misses Jungkook snapping his head towards him, he needs to concentrate- he cannot do so if Jungkook is touching him.
The night falls around them, causing the shadows to rise all around. Taehyung wraps his arms around himself as he walks forward. Jungkook follows him silently. The omega takes them deep into the forest, his eyes wrecking over each nook and cranny for any wild animal until he finds one- a moose.
His eyes brighten, “there”, he whispers, “we need to catch it.”
Jungkook looks over his shoulder, “don’t move Kim, I will catch it from behind. Keep its attention on you, okay?”
Taehyung watches it, his breath stuck as he feels Jungkook move away from him. The moose watches him too, its beady eyes stuck on him as it moves closer.
He can see Jungkook moving behind the moose already. His eyes are glinting red.
Jungkook’s eyes matches his for a moment.
Taehyung nods and Jungkook jumps, turning midair as his claws embed themselves into the moose’s neck as Taehyung jumps back, something fluttering in his chest at seeing Jungkook land on his four paws. He does not take the moose in his mouth, disgusted as he throws it in front of Taehyung’s feet after making sure it is dead.
There, the large wolf seems to say to Taehyung, I brought your hunt.
Jungkook’s wolf is a black wolf. A huge wolf that looks majestic even standing in the dark. He looks like royalty. He is Seoul’s royalty in a way, but his wolf looks royal as well. Its fur is an obsidian black that is darker than the night. His red eyes are glowering as they stare at Taehyung, at his soul.
He looks so powerful, so handsome. Taehyung feels weak in his knees.
Taehyung watches Jungkook. Jungkook watches him back.
His breath is held tightly in his chest.
It feels- It feels like the alpha hunted for him, to feed him, to provide for him. It makes his omega feel queasy.
So occupied he is, he does not notice another large creature moving behind him, lunging towards him but Jungkook does. The alpha’s eye widens and the alpha starts running towards him.
Taehyung frowns in confusion, “what-”
Jungkook jumps. It is a powerful jump that gets the alpha to push himself up as the large wolf sails over Taehyung as the omega watches, his mouth plopping open in horror as he sees Jungkook’s wolf bite onto the bear’s shoulders. The bear groans loudly, the sound echoing around the forest as it tries to beat Jungkook’s wolf away. Jungkook’s wolf is half the size of it but the alpha holds on, pushing his canines more onto its shoulder till he is tearing it apart, blood gushing everywhere.
A few droplets even splatters on Taehyung’s face as the omega stares.
Jungkook is ruthless as he tears the bear apart completely, making it fall with a thump that shakes the whole forest. Jungkook stands over it, blood dripping from his jaw as he looks back at Taehyung.
Taehyung stares.
“Oh, my moon”, Taehyung hears someone shout as collective voices gasp. The pack members filter in, their eyes wide in horror, their scents askew. “How did this happen? Oh moon goddess”, they shout more before one of the omegas come up to Taehyung to pull him in her embrace, “oh my moon, you must be shaken, you must be terrified”, Jihyun is then wiping off the blood from Taehyung’s face.
Taehyung shakes his head, “Jungkook. He-”
She nods, understanding as she takes him to Jungkook who everyone surrounds. The alpha is still standing on the bear, looking at Taehyung. “Let him go to his mate, let him see his alpha,” she shoos some of them away. They part to let Jungkook walk down to stand in front of Taehyung.
The alpha is gentle as he nudges Taehyung’s hands. Taehyung puts his shaking hand on the alpha’s head, “you- you-”
Jungkook licks his hand in comfort, his fire scent warm as it wraps around him.
A tear rolls down Taehyung’s eyes, “do not do that. Ever again. You did not even know how to hunt. Do not do that. If something happened to you”, His voice breaks, “where would I have gone, where would I have gone-” he buries his face onto the crook of the wolf’s neck as he cries.
His heart is beating hardly in his chest, the panic, the gravity of the situation just filtering in him.
Jungkook continues licking him as he scents him up with his scent, trying to calm the omega down.
“He is the first alpha to have achieved killing a bear of this size”, the witch says, awe tinging his voice, “in fact nobody has ever hunted a bear in this pack. Your alpha did. You did”, he says looking at Jungkook. Taehyung knows Jungkook does not understand but he does, and it starts making his heart take up beat again.
“Since this is a sacrifice for the ritual, it means the moon goddess will bless you both with a long and a happy mated life. The both of you managed to hunt together. It means you are meant for each other. You took such an obstacle down together. It means you have a really strong bond that can break through any obstacles together. Your relationship will be that strong.” He smiles.
Taehyung feels his heart breaking with every word the witch lets out.
All these words for a fake relationship. All these words for a relationship that means nothing...it stings all over him but he smiles still as he nods.
Jungkook watches them silently until they let them both go. They walk back silently. Jungkook changes into his human form. Taehyung silently hands him a hanbok.
“You should not have done that”, Taehyung shakes his head, “you really should not have done that tonight.”
“The bear was going to attack you”, Jungkook says silently, looking at him warily, “I couldn’t just watch-”
“You could”, Taehyung snaps, surprising Jungkook to silence as the omega matches his blue eyes wide with tears, crazed as he takes a step towards him. “You could have just watched! You could have just run away!”
Jungkook’s eyes flicker red, “you don’t understand. That bear was going to attack you. It would be inhumane of me to leave you there. How could I just-”, Jungkook cuts himself off, watching the omega warily.
Taehyung’s jasmine scent withers around them, the pheromones rising till they clog the alpha’s airway. The omega is breathing hardly as he looks at Jungkook like Jungkook has done a sin against him.
“You”, the omega’s voice shakes, “you do not understand”, the alpha sees the omega breathing harder as if he is hyperventilating. He takes a step towards him, rising his hand, “Taehyung-”
“You do not understand”, Taehyung bursts, his shout resounding around their hut, shocking Jungkook in silence, “you could have died tonight. For a nobody like me whose life has become nothing, you could have died, Alpha! Do you”, the omega chokes, “even have an idea how I would have felt if anything happened to you?” his whole being shakes as he stabs Jungkook’s chest with his index finger. Jungkook red eyes dim, “Taehyung-”
“Do not take my name, do not take my name”, Taehyung shouts again. Jungkook raises his hand in surrender, “I won’t, I won’t, I am sorry, Taehyung, I wasn’t thinking, I only wanted to save you. I couldn't just leave you there. I am an alpha I have the protectiveness in me! So-”
“Stop”, Taehyung pushes at Jungkook’s chest, whimpers when the alpha does not move an inch, so he pushes both of his fists on the alpha’s chest, “stop that, no, no no, you are not. You are a city alpha. You do not even believe in mating”, Taehyung snorts derisively.
Making Jungkook’s insides flare up in anger, red shining again, “you-”
“Do you?” Taehyung asks, laughing bitterly when Jungkook only presses his lips together, “that is right. You do not. You city wolves are pretend wolves more like humans. You do not believe in mating. You do not believe in claiming. You never even hunted!” the omega wipes furiously at his tears, the bitter smile still on his face, “every single alpha in this pack has hunted. It is the norm and yet you”, he closes his eyes before he breaths out, all the fight leaving him in a breath.
His body shuddering from the defeat he lets out, “I do not blame you, Jungkook”, he whispers, shaking his head.
Jungkook somehow feels worser. His wolf howls in him.
“Do not try to be someone you are not for someone like me. You told me yourself you are here because of me and I respect that. So if something happens to you, I will blame myself. You do not need to protect me by putting yourself in danger. I will never blame you if anything happened to me tonight. I will never blame you if something does happen to me during our stay here. You do not need to feel any kind of kinship towards me, I am not your pack-”, he pauses before letting out another snort that grates against the alpha’s ears, “that is right. You do not even believe in packs. You came here because of me yes so just take me as someone you knew casually from your college, okay? That is what we are anyways.”
“You are not my real mate,” he does not notice Jungkook’s jaw tightening at that, does not notice his hands fisting, nor his fingernails digging into his palm, “You are not my real alpha so you do not have to do anything for me. The pack would not have blamed you either. They said so themselves. None of their alphas managed to kill such a big bear, they would have understood. They would have agreed that I would be unsavable. So just think about yourself from now on, okay? Do not try to be selfness now when I will not be able to forgive myself if something happened to you.”
A silence falls on them as he walks away to go inside the washroom. Jungkook watches him go, red eyes refusing to calm down as the taste of blood fills his mouth from how hard he is biting his tongue from saying anything.
“I am sorry, my moon”, he spits out, staring at the closed washroom door, “I was never good at listening to anyone, much less listening to you now.”
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