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Taehyung is in love with Jungkook. Although that much isn´t hard to tell.
Taehyung had a crush on Jungkook as soon as he'd lay eyes on him. Or well it more like, as soon as his angelic voice had reached his ears.
Opposite to what had happened to Jimin, who had fallen in love slowly, Taehyung had fallen in love all at once. He had been standing there one day and then BAM - love had punched him in the face out of nowhere in the form of Jeon Jungkook.
Here's what happened: Taehyung was divagating the music building after his saxophone practice when he heard a voice that tugged at his heart on the most unique way possible. He decided to follow the voice; it took him to a closed room. There were no windows he could look through and he didn't want to open the door and interrupt the beautiful singing, so he didn't get the chance to see the singer's face. However, he stayed until the other was done singing. He didn't know what it was, but something in the boy's voice called to his wolf.
Taehyung had left the place before the other boy got out of the room. When he got home, he'd asked Yoongi about it.
"Omegas are more sensitive to stimuli and way more perceptive than others. I don't know, maybe your wolf is able to tell something about this boy is important just by listening to his voice, even if you don't know what yet," his brother had tried to explain.
Taehyung, a believer of fate, thought that if it was that important then he'd meet the boy one way or another. So, he'd didn't bother looking for him.
But things never go as planned. Taehyung had accompanied Jimin to his dance class once, and his eyes had been instantly glued to one person in particular. A boy with raven black hair and the prettiest doe eyes, with the sculpted body of an Adonis. And boy, was he handsome. But that hadn't been the problem; by end the of the class, Taehyung had heard the other boy speak to Hoseok - and he'd almost had a seizure. This boy was the one with the beautiful voice. That day, Taehyung had asked Jimin for help to get to know the raven-haired boy.
That's how he got to this moment: in a date with Jungkook. He admits that, at first, he wanted to get to know because of sheer curiosity and attraction, but, as soon as the other had opened up to him, Taehyung had fallen in love - and with more than just his voice. His wolf still curls up in happiness every time he hears Jungkook speak, especially when he sings, but their bond goes deeper than that.
Because of how in love he is with Jungkook, he doesn´t want him to leave. Taehyung might not seem like it, but he feels very insecure at times. Sometimes people can be harsh and mean – he tries to ignore it, but he can´t be strong all the time. He knows people call him weird and stupid; and he knows Jungkook likes him for that same thing. But what Jungkook doesn´t know is that Taehyung´s a shifter, and, somehow, he thinks that the younger boy might not like that part of him.
That´s why he decides to ask subtly about it (if Jungkook would mind if hypothetically Taehyung wasn´t human) while they eat ice cream together.
“Hey, Kookie?”
“Mm?” Jungkook responds, way too entranced by his lemon ice cream to think about anything. He only turns to face Tae after he nudges him with his shoulder.
“Kook, do you like dogs?” he asks timidly. The question has more behind it than it seems. Wolves are similar to dogs, so, if Jungkook likes dogs, wouldn´t he like wolves by default too?
“Of course I like dogs, why'd you ask?” Jungkook asks back, clearly confused by Tae´s question. It´s not like Taehyung doesn´t ask random stuff all the time but one doesn´t get used to it (that´s what makes it fun).
“I wouldn't be in a relationship with a person who doesn't like dogs,” Tae says as an explanation. Relief flows through him as he hears the younger´s answer – even if it´s still not enough to completely sooth his worries.
“Oh, really?” Jungkook asks, quirking a sculpted eyebrow.
“Yep. Like dogs technically are ex-puppies and puppies are like in the top three of most innocent things in this world. It goes like, babies, puppies and... trees? Wait, no, the correct order is first puppies, then babies and finally trees.” That´s how logic works, fuckers, Taehyung thinks.
“I'm not sure you can call a dog an ex-puppy,” the younger argues.
“Why not? They used to be puppies and now they're not, so ex-puppies. Makes total sense!”
“Sure, Hyung.”
“Don't sure, Hyung me, brat,” Taehyung retorts.
“Sure, Hyung,” Jungkook teases him with a smug smile on his face.
“Yah!” Tae replies, slapping Jungkook´s firm chest. And the brat dares to laugh at him – but well, it´s not like Taehyung could really hurt Jungkook, like, he´s a tower of muscle.
“Did you know that your adorableness increases when you're angry?” the younger messes with him a little more.
“Jeon Jungkook! Don't think I'll let you distract me with cheesy words!” Taehyung says, trying to sound annoyed but he's blushing anyway.
“But I succeeded, right?” he says with a smirk on his pretty lips.
“I hate you,” Tae says, jutting his lower lip out in a cute pout.
“Debatable.”
“You're gonna die if you keep talking,” he warns the younger. Agh, why does he have to now the effect he has on the elder? It makes it so difficult to tease him, jeez.
“That I believe. You taught me to never underestimate your fury.”
They both laugh the situation off, Taehyung´s insecurities forgotten at the moment.
***
Taehyung´s inner omega is barking in excitement, feeling giddy all over, trying to run towards his mate, guided only by his voice. Taehyung stands still backstage, watching Jungkook sing while Yoongi accompanies him with the piano. There´s a tornado of emotions swirling inside his chest, not only at Jungkook´s performance, but at he realization that came washing down on him when watching the younger.
Jungkook is Taehyung´s mate.
Or at least, that´s what Taehyung´s omega believes. And, as a believer of fate and soulmates, Taehyung would like to believe it too. He knows he´s the only one who can tell, after all, according to wolf shifters, omegas are only ones who can detect an unmated soulmate bond. And Taehyung finally realizes the reason why his wolf thought Jungkook is important, and why his voice called so much to him: Jungkook is his destined mate.
However, instead of bringing Taehyung comfort, the revelation makes him fear even more the younger´s reaction to him not being human. First, he doesn´t actually know if Jungkook will stay after he tells him, and the thought of his destined mate leaving him would crush him. And second, if his soulmate doesn´t want him, who ever will? (although it´s not like he´d ever consider anyone but Jungkook, who´s got his whole heart).
Taehyung thanks the universe for making him perform before the younger, he wouldn´t have been able to play his sax with these thoughts in his head.
“Taetae? You okay?” Jimin, who´s standing beside him asks with a worried look in his face.
“I´ll tell you later,” he answers with a little smile.
As soon as Jungkook comes down the stage, Taehyung runs over to tackle him into a hug. He´s not gonna let his gloomy thoughts ruin this afternoon. Because of Yoongi claiming he´s too tired to go out and party and Jimin refuses to go without Yoongi, Taehyung and Jungkook decide to go on an improvised date.
***
They agree to go stargazing. They are lying on the ground, tangled with one another. Jungkook is on his back with Tae nearly lying on top of him, tracing soft lines and circles down the younger´s torso. While Tae mindlessly draws patterns on his body, Jungkook looks at him like he´s his whole world.
“A thought for a confession,” Jungkook says, breaking the comfortable silence that had settled over them. Taehyung smiles softly at the memories his words bring.
A thought for a confession is kind of a game they played when they had just started hanging out. Since Jungkook was such a reserved person, Taehyung had invented a game to get to know him better. It was kind of like 20 questions, but the other person had the chance of choosing what to share, that way it was more comfortable opening up to the other. So, one person would ask what the other was thinking at that moment and, as payback, they'd share a random confession.
“I´m thinking I could probably scrub my clothes on your washboard abs,” Tae says with a devilish smirk in his handsome face. Jungkook chuckles and raises an eyebrow at him.
“Am I just a piece of meat for you?"
"Excuse you, you're my boyfriend and personal piece of meat, thank you very much," Taehyung says teasingly. The younger rolls his eyes at him, but smiles nevertheless. “Don´t try to cheat, Jeon, you´re still missing your part of the deal,” he reminds him. Jungkook thinks for a moment before speaking.
“I used to be afraid of microwaves. When I was a kid, I'd turn the microwave on and run to my room in case it would explode. They still freak me out a little if I'm honest," he says, a shy expression on his face.
"Oh my god."
"I think it's a valid and logical fear, although some kids would make fun of me for that," he continues.
"Why would you choose that one confession then?" Tae asks. Why would he confess something other people had mocked him about? Was he not afraid of rejection? Taehyung knows he´s reflecting his own fears on Jungkook, but he doesn’t care. He needs to know.
“I trust you, Tae,” the younger answers, looking straight into the older boy´s eyes. The sincerity on his voice makes Taehyung´s heart squeeze inside his chest.
“Don´t worry, Kookie. I will protect you from all the evil microwaves in this world and beat the hell out of everyone who dares make fun of you,” Taehyung answers back seriously. Jungkook laughs and holds Tae´s cheek with his hand, his thumb stroking gently the skin.
“Thanks, Hyung. Best boyfriend ever.”
And right then, Taehyung thinks of telling Jungkook the whole truth about being a shifter. Maybe even showing him. But he doesn´t. Of course he doesn´t. He doesn´t want to ruin the moment, he tells himself, but deep down he knows the real reason why he doesn´t say anything is because he´s a coward.
***
“What?” Jimin asks, jumping out of bed to look at Taehyung.
“You see, us shifters believe that some people have soulmates. Usually, you can´t know for sure unless you´ve mated. Unless you´re an omega, then you can detect your bond with your soulmate, if you happen to have one, even before you mate,” Taehyung explains. As he´s promised the night before, he´s gone to his best friend´s house to talk.
“So, you think you and Kookie are soulmates?” Jimin asks. Tae nods. “Shouldn´t you be glad instead of freaking out?”
“Maybe he´ll think I´m making stuff up to convince him to stay,” Tae says gloomily. Jimin lets out an exasperated sight.
“Taetae, I´m telling you, you don´t need to convince him to stay because he wants to, whether you´re human or shifter or a goddamned alien.”
“But how can you know?” Tae snaps. A broken sob comes out of his chest. The emotions and insecurities he´s been holding in come out in streams of tears. Jimin is fast to react, wrapping his arms around him and whispering comfort words in his ear.
***
“Why did Jimin lock us up here?” Jungkook asks, clearly confused at why Jimin would take him out of his dorm and shove him in a practice room with Tae at night.
“I-I need to show you something,” Taehyung says in a small voice, wringing his hands in nervousness.
“What is it, Hyung? Is everything alright?” the younger asks, worry flashing across his face at the elder´s behavior. He tries to reach out for him, but Taehyung steps back. That´s when Jungkook knows something is definitely wrong; Taehyung had never refused his touch.
“I just, don´t hate me.”
“I could never,” he answers wit firmness in his voice.
“Turn around, don´t look until I tell you to do so,” Taehyung commands. Jungkook does as told.
And Taehyung shifts. A caramel colored wolf walks towards the boy. He nuzzles the boy´s hand. Jungkook turns around to look at him. He takes a step back at first, but then noticing there´s no Taehyung, it dawns on him. Unlike Jimin, he is fast to connect the dots together.
Jungkook doesn´t touch the wolf, nor the wolf tries to get his affection. The boy thinks the animal is beautiful but doesn´t say anything about it. Meanwhile, Taehyung is so scared of Jungkook´s thoughts, he can barely breathe.
“Hyung, turn back, please?” he asks, unreadable look in his brown eyes. Taehyung complies.
“Kookie?” Taehyung says. He doesn´t dare to look at the other. Jungkook takes his hands in his hold and gives them a squeeze.
“Why didn´t you tell me before?” he asks with something akin to hurt.
“I didn´t think it was important,” Taehyung lies. Jungkook releases an exasperated breath. He grits his teeth, jaw clenched.
“How is you being able to turn into a wolf not important?” he snaps.
“You said you´d never hate me,” Taehyung says, a sob almost escaping his throat. Jungkook´s face softens.
“I don´t hate you,” he says, caressing Tae´s face. “I just don´t get why you´d choose to keep it hidden.”
“I-I” Taehyung starts. He will be honest, he tells himself. If he´s already here, he might as well let it out. Jungkook doesn´t seem afraid or disgusted or like running away. “I thought you might not like me if I told you I´m not completely human.”
“You really think something as this would scare me away from you? You really think my feelings are that shallow?” Jungkook asks, angry that Taehyung would think he means so little to the younger. Had he not noticed he was his world?
“I don´t know,” he admits. Jungkook draws his hands away. Taehyung, not knowing that younger was only going to pace around the room to release some energy, grabs the back of his shirt desperately. “Don´t leave, please.”
“I won´t leave you, Hyung. Not unless you get tired of me,” he says. “But I am hurt that you didn´t think you could trust me.”
“I trust you,” Taehyung says, almost begging. “Please don´t be mad at me.”
“I´m not mad at you, just disappointed that you´d think I would ever leave you, most of all because of this,” Jungkook confesses. He takes Tae´s face between his hands, looking at him straight in the eyes. He swipes away the tears rolling down the other´s smooth cheeks. “You are the person I care about the most, Tae. I love you. And I don´t know what I did wrong for you to think otherwise.”
Taehyung, too struck by Jungkook´s words to reply verbally, just kisses him. Jungkook loves him. And now he´s the one feeling guilty? Taehyung conveys how sorry he is for making the younger worry, how relieved he is at his confession and how much he loves him too. It is a wet kiss, with tears rolling down his face, but they don´t care.
“I love you, Jungkook. I don´t know what I´d do if you left me.”
Jungkook bites his lower lip in reply, making Taehyung whine. His hands settle possessively on the elder´s hips, squeezing them. He deepens the kiss, asking for entrance to Taehyung´s mouth. Tae´s hands got o his hair and pull at the roots, Jungkook groans at the action.
“Let me show you then, how much I love you,” he whispers in a low voice. Taehyung´s inner omega is begging at him to offer up his neck and submit and tell him to make him his and only his. Instead he has to settle for making out.
Jungkook presses his Hyung against the wall. Jungkook´s mouth traces the elder´s neck up and down, softly brushing his lips against the other´s neck, and it sets his nerves on fire. Not being able to control his inner omega, Taehyung lets out a whimper and tilts his head to the side, granting the younger access to his throat. Jungkook takes his chance and latches his lips to the exposed side of his neck, nipping and licking at the tanned skin, surely leaving a hickey behind. Taehyung is getting hard embarrassingly fast. He can also feel the first drops of slick oozing out of him.
Then, he pulls back to admire his work. A proud look crosses his face at how fucked Taehyung looks, with red lips and messed up hair. But he isn´t any better, Taehyung notices his dilatated pupils, the irregular heaving of his chest and he can smell the younger´s arousal in the air. He bites on his lower lip to stop himself from shuddering at the inappropriate thoughts going through his mind at the sight of Jungkook.
Jungkook leans forward, taking his lip between his own teeth and tugging at it to release it. He kisses Taehyung fast and hard and deep, trying to make him understand everything he feels. And he picks Taehyung up and presses him harder against the wall, placing his hands on the back of the shifter´s thighs to hold him up. Taehyung doesn´t like to admit it, but he´s turned on by how easily the younger boy could carry him (he has a high-key muscle kink, okay, don´t judge him) – besides, if can lift him up like that, what would it feel like to be pinned down under his taut body? He wraps his legs around the boy´s strong torso.
That´s when he decides he´d had enough; he grinds down on Jungkook, releasing a sinful moan in the process. The boy groans at the movement, his hands feeling up the other´s thighs and his tongue doing wonders inside Taehyung´s mouth.
“I love you – every part of you, don´t you dare to think otherwise,” Jungkook practically growls against his mouth. Taehyung feels slick running out of him in rivers and his dick is rock-hard. His only comfort is that he can feel Jungkook´s own hardness pressing against his own. “You´re so beautiful, both the wolf and human you, but most of all as a person. It is because of that that I´m in love with you.”
“Kookie, I was just so afraid to lose you, because I love you too,” he breathes out as a reply.
“You´re never losing me, baby,” the younger reassures him. Their kissing turns sweet and slow, but still maddeningly heated. “Doesn´t change the fact that I want you to be completely honest with me now, about everything.”
“Yes, yes, of course,” Taehyung answers, nearly delusional with how turned on he is at the moment. He only comes out of his daze when the other boy puts him down on his wobbly legs, gives him a last peck and steps back. “What- “
“You deserve that. Now let me walk you home so that you can sleep and we´ll talk about this tomorrow,” Jungkook says with a sly smile on his pretty face. Taehyung whines but it is to no avail (if Jungkook was something it was determined, and he couldn´t let Taehyung get away with this).
“Fine,” the elder says with a pout. “But call a cab or something because it´s uncomfortable to walk when I´m this wet.” At that, the younger turns to him with wide eyes, which are full of lust. His Adam apple visibly bobs.
“You – you can…?” Jungkook starts asking. He is too shy to complete his sentence, a hand going up to scratch the back of his neck in embarrassment. Taehyung rolls his eyes at him: if he will suffer, Jungkook will too. He decides to explain properly tomorrow and give him a vaguer and innuendo-like reply.
“Let´s say my rank as a wolf allows me to produce slick. You know, to make the slide easier and the fit better,” he says, now with a smirk of his own and a wiggle of his eyebrows. He sees Jungkook trying to calm down his breaths and shake his head to clear his mind.
“I´m calling a cab.”
***
The next day Taehyung explains everything to Jungkook the same way Yoongi and him had all those months before to Jimin. They are sitting on the couch of Jungkook´s dorm – or well, it´s more like Taehyung is sitting and Jungkook is sprawled on the sofa, his head on the elder´s lap. He cards his long fingers through the younger´s black hair as the human boy looks at him with those beautiful doe eyes.
“Any questions left?” Tae asks when he´s finished with the explanation. Jungkook hadn´t interrupted, just silently taking in the information. Taehyung knows the other is a quiet person when he´s not being playful, so he doesn´t worry over the silence.
“So, you´re a shifter,” says the younger. Taehyung nods his head.
“I thought that was settled.”
“Is the reason why your puppy eyes are so effective because you´re an actual puppy?” Jungkook asks then.
“I´m not a puppy, I´m a wolf,” Tae huffs indignantly. He knows he´s cute and that his own reasoning was to relate wolves to puppies, but it´s not the same. Wolves are much better lovers while puppies will stay in the friendzone forever.
“Pff. You´re more like a puppy though,” the younger says, pinching Tae´s cheeks.
“I am a wolf – a big, fierce and scary wolf,” Taehyung whines.
“You are fierce, big and scary, not so much,” the brat continues to tease him. Although Taehyung is trying to act annoyed, he is extremely relieved at how well Jungkook is taking the news. Yesterday, he thought he´s lose the younger, and not for being a shifter but for being an idiot. It is good that he´s being playful about the topic.
“Jeon Jungkook! I am!”
“Sure, Hyung,” the other says while chuckling.
“Don´t start with your sure, Hyung, brat,” Taehyung spats.
“Or what? Will you bite me?” the younger challenges, quirking a sculpted eyebrow.
Being a shifter, biting someone has a special meaning to Taehyung. When wolves talk about biting, they usually talk about the mating bite. He knows Jungkook didn´t mean it that way, but his inner omega can´t help but be pleased that his human alpha wants to be his as much as Taehyung wants to be Jungkook´s.
Instead of giving him the soulmate and mating and emotional stuff, Taehyung decides it´s better not to overload his little bunny man (who is he kidding, the boy is like a muscle tower). He goes for the safer option aka flirting and/or making an inappropriate comment.
“Maybe I will. Depending on which part of your body you want to put in my mouth,” Tae says with a smirk. He knows he´s won when Jungkook profusely blushes – and then tries to cover it up with his hands.
“Hyung!” the younger boy whines. The shifter doesn´t know if it´s out of shyness or arousal (by the smell of it, it could be both).
“Okay, okay, too fast for you, I get it.”
“You think I´m slow?”
“Well, Kookie…” Taehyung says, pretending to think.
“You´ll regret saying that later,” the younger come back at him. There is a mischievous glint in his eyes and Taehyung has a slight suspicion of where this is going. “I´ll show you how fast I can be, baby, and you´ll love every second of it.”