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Taehyung saw the test for the nth time.
Two lines.
Taehyung felt like crying.
They had decided to not have kids.
Yoongi's work was too demanding, and Taehyung's work already involved dealing with kids.
He quickly got up, tossed the test to the trash and covered it with tissue so it wasn't visible.
He couldn't deal with that at 6:35 am.
"Everything alright, Tae?" Yoongi asked at the other side of the bathroom door. Taehyung promptly went to the sink, washed his hands and started playing with his hair. "Can I come in?"
Taehyung splashed some water to his face.
"Yeah, don't worry."
The door opened and soon his mate went to his side.
"Everything's fine?" the older asked while Taehyung styled his hair.
"Yeah, sorry, I just got a bit frustrated... my hair won't cooperate" he lied while rearranging his fringe.
Yoongi arched an eyebrow, but smiled.
"Tae, your hair looks amazing, but you are going to ruin it if you continue touching it, and if you end up running to get on time to the school, which will happen if you don't leave like in five minutes" the older said before picking his toothbrush.
Taehyung rolled his eyes but left the bathroom, knowing well enough that Yoongi wasn't wrong.
"Today is PT meeting, so I'll come back late" the youngest said before leaving their bedroom and walking to the kitchen, where his lunch was already packaged.
"Do you want me to pick you up?" Yoongi yelled after a few seconds.
"I hope I don't end up staying THAT late with the meeting! But sure!" Taehyung replied before leaving their apartment.
In his mind, Taehyung remembered that two meetings ago, Yoongi had been back to their place before him because a parent found unacceptable that her kid didn't scored a 100 after pulling an all-nighter. He shook his head deciding he needed to finish early so he could go to the pharmacy and buy another test.
***
Yoongi smiled at the receptionist of the building and went to the elevator, but before the doors closed he exited it and went to the main desk.
"Ji-yeon-ssi, could you give me a call like at 6:00 pm? Just to remind me to leave not that late today?" he asked, remembering that Taehyung would have his Parents-Teacher meeting.
The woman in behind the desk smiled.
"Sure, are you having a dinner date with Taehyung-ssi?" Ji-yeon asked while typing something in her computer, probably a memo to call Yoongi.
Yoongi shook his head.
"Oh, no, he has to stay for a meeting in the school, so I'll try to pick him up" Yoongi replied before humming a bit and smiling. "But now that you mention it, would you mind making a reservation under my name for that rooftop sushi place we took Park Jae-sang?"
"You mean The Rooftop Sushi?" the receptionist said before grabbing the phone and start dialing a number there. "At 7:00 should be fine?"
Yoongi though about the PT meeting, remembering that sometimes the parents got a bit carried away with the time, and if Taehyung had spent 20 minutes fixing his hair in the morning, he would probably have spent a whole hour getting ready to go out.
"At 9:00 pm should be better."
Ji-yeon smiled and nodded.
"I'm on it, I'll send the confirmation to your email."
"Thanks" he said before giving a quick bow and dashing thru the lobby to catch his elevator, getting to the doors just in time to see how they got closed and the elevator started going up.
The producer groaned, then sighed and pressed the button, calling for the elevator.
♥
"Are you ready to have a free trial from hell?" Jimin asked, offering him a to go cup.
Taehyug took it and immediately took a sip from it, enjoying the sweetness of the hot cocoa.
"I really needed that" he said, trying to relax and stop thinking about the pregnancy test in the bathroom's trashcan.
"Really? Rough night? You don't smell like Yoongi's rut..." his best friend said before sniffing his cardigan.
Taehyung felt his face warming up.
"Jimin, if Yoongi was in rut you wouldn't smell it, I use scent blockers, wash my clothes and keep them in other room so they remain scent free" Taehyung said before taking another sip of hot cocoa.
"Hate to break this to you sweetheart, but whenever Yoongi is in rut, you reek of him" Yoona said before leaving the teacher's break room.
"And you usually come limping" Jimin added chucking.
"Please tell me you are kidding me" he asked completely mortified. He knew his students wouldn't be able to smell Yoongi's rut in him since they would start presenting until they were fifteen, but the other teachers would, and even if there was nothing to be ashamed of he felt... embarrassed.
"If it helps, half of the people that work here get jealous whenever that happens, Yoongi is pretty, and by the way you end up limping he has to be a monster" Jimin said as he took his notebook and started checking his notes for his class.
Taehyung groaned.
"That doesn't help at all."
"Don't worry, like the last time it happened was a month ago... so you have three months to get over it and suck it up like the rest of us does" his best friend said, still checking his notes. "But seriously, what happened?"
Taehyung just shrugged.
"I don't really know, I'm just like, have a lot in my mind, and we have the PT meeting, and I really want to go home early, but the Chois are probably going to keep me here until midnight..." Taehyung rambled, thinking in the test that he did that morning.
Jimin sighed.
"Ugh, got you, I hate PT meetings too, but that's part of the drill..." the blond said before closing his notebook and packing it in his backpack. "Let's treat ourselves, before the PT meeting we will have a break of like two hours, let's go to Seokjin's."
Taehyung hummed, deciding that, as Jimin had said, he should just suck it up and continue with his day.
He let Jimin exit first, before noticing something.
"You aren't wearing your burgundy pants" Taehyung said offhandedly, remembering Jimin had said that those were his lucky PT meeting's pants, since they made his ass look good enough to distract some of the parents.
Jimin blinked and shrugged.
"I couldn't find them" Jimin sighed before checking his pants. "That's why I came a bit late, I had a 15 minutes crisis about that."
Taehyung smiled and slapped his soulmate's butt.
"I like this ones, I think they make your ass look even bigger."
"I hope that's enough for the parents in the PT meeting."
Both of them continued laughing until they got to Taehyung's classroom, where most of the kids were already seated.
"Good morning class" Taehyung sang.
♥
"So, how's Seokjin?" Yoongi asked without lifting his gaze from the computer screen.
"He finally went a whole day to the restaurant without going back to our house to check on the kids, so I think he is doing better" Namjoon replied, before playing the track they were working on and counting the beats. Yoongi nodded, remembering that his friend had a hard time getting back to work and leaving his kids with a babysitter. After a few seconds, Namjoon paused the track and looked at Yoongi. "Why are you asking?"
Yoongi shrugged.
"Well yesterday you mentioned he was going to try to start staying full shifts in the restaurant, and he hasn't done that in what? Two years?" Yoongi said smirking.
Namjoon flushed before closing his eyes.
"Not my fault."
The older smirked.
"Well you knocked him up three times, I think it was your fault."
"It wasn't on purpose, it's not my fault he is pretty fertile." As soon as the words left his friend, he closed his mouth and sighed, giving Yoongi a look he didn't like at all. "Sorry."
Yoongi shook his head.
"Please don't, don't apologize."
Namjoon nodded.
"How's Taehyung? It's been like a year?" Namjoon asked.
Yoongi nodded not needing a clarification about what they were talking about.
It had actually been fifteen months since the day that, while playing with Namjoon's eldest girl, Taehyung had said of handedly that they had decided not having kids. Hoseok had said that he couldn't wait to be able to see the coldhearted Yoongi going in full alpha mode when they had their children, getting a far too nonchalant reply from Taehyung. Everyone had been left speechless, it was known that Yoongi wasn't good with kids, Namjoon and Seokjin's kids included, but Taehyung loved kids.
As far as Yoongi knew, no one had questioned Taehyungs declaration.
No one but Namjoon, who two days later had cornered Yoongi and had asked him what had happened.
The reason: Namjoon knew the truth.
Because Yoongi hadn't been strong enough to keep to himself what Taehyung had been suffering.
His mate wasn't exactly infertile, but the possibly of Taehyung getting pregnant without medical assistance were low.
They had been trying to get the omega pregnant for months, way before Seokjin got pregnant the first time, until one day after what seemed hours of him wiping Taehyung's tears, they had decided to run some tests, receiving the news that Yoongi was extremely fertile, opposed to his mate. Taehyung had broken down right there, at the doctor's office, so they had to reschedule an appointment. It had taken another two heats and another two breakdowns from his mate before Yoongi got the courage to propose starting a fertility treatment, which had triggered another breakdown for the younger. After sometime, Taehyung had accepted his proposal and started what Yoongi considered a journey thru hell.
No one had told them the toll that the fertility treatments took on the patients, physically and mentally.
Taehyung became physically weak, as his body started getting hormone bombs every other day, but the doctor pressured him to maintain certain health, when it was clear that the treatment was making him sick. And Taehyung was stubborn, that was one of the qualities that had gotten Yoongi's heart, but at that time was something that Yoongi cursed everyday he saw all those bruises in his mate's skin or heard him dry heaving on the bathroom just before going to bed.
And the worst of it had been the hope.
The worst had been seeing Taehyung's eyes light up with hope and three weeks later saw him crumble when the test turned out negative or when the doctor said that they had a false positive.
So when Seokjin and Namjoon broke the news for them, that they were expecting their first child, Taehyung was devastated, making everything even more difficult for Yoongi, who shamefully had to search for some support from Namjoon.
So obviously, when Namjoon had heard that they weren't planning in having kids, he had been concerned.
"How is Taehyung?" Namjoon asked.
"He's fine, today he was frustrated because he couldn't do his hair, but he's OK" Yoongi said, remembering Taehyung's overreaction about his hair, that looked great as usual. Maybe his heat was going to hit earlier, whenever he got close to it, the omega tended to be annoyed easily, even if he denied it every time it happened. "He doesn't cry anymore when he sees your kid's photos."
Namjoon sighed and took a look to his phone, where the lock screen was a photo of his daughters hugging his son.
"Don't get me wrong, I cried from happiness when Jin told me he was pregnant again, but somewhere in my mind, I remembered thinking that I was praying for Taehyung been the one telling you that" the younger confessed.
Yoongi chuckled and shook his head.
"I know you really mean it, but don't worry, we're fine."
Namjoon just crossed his arms.
"Are you? I mean, you always say that if Taehyung is happy you are happy, but this is also... well your family. I know he's the one that would carry them, but it should have been also your decision, hyung" Namjoon said, and in something in the younger's voice told Yoongi that he had been thinking about that for a long time.
Yoongi frowned and let his scent to show he had gotten angry, making his friend tense.
"It was my decision, I was the one that called it quits" Yoongi declared, remembering how they didn't slept that night, Taehyung crying his eyes out and apologizing, and Yoongi trying to comfort his mate. "I couldn't take it anymore. Taehyung was getting really weak, and every treatment was worse than the previous... No one saw it, but God, his stomach was so bruised, and it always hurt him so so much. It took him two hours to fall asleep because of the pain. And when we got the negative tests... He would just crumble and cry... I couldn't saw him like that anymore..."
Namjoon gulped and sighed.
"I'm so sorry hyung."
Yoongi sighed and stood up, before picking his wallet from his desk.
"Don't be, as long as we have each other we'll be OK."
Yoongi threw a glance to his top drawer, were some adoption information was stored, for when he gathered the courage to ask his mate to try another way to have a family.
As long as Yoongi had Taehyung in his life, he knew he was going to be happy, but every time the younger talked about the kids in his class he understood that his mate really wanted a pup.
Maybe after his heat would be a good idea.
♥
"Your food is great as always, Jin-hyung" Taehyung said between bites.
"That's great to hear, this is the second day I work the full shift!" the older declared before checking his phone.
"Really? Who's watching your little imps? Hobi's sister?" Jimin asked before stuffing his mouth full with two pieces of broccoli.
"Yeah, she's great" Seokjin agreed before starting to text.
"I told you so, Kookie’s brother's love her" the blond said after chewing for a whole minute.
"Well Hoseok has to be great with kids if he agreed to date both of you" Taehyung said off handedly. "And if his sister is half as good as him, she has to be a super baby sitter."
Jimin rolled his eyes and Seokjin chuckled.
"So what brings you two here? Your lunch time was a while ago, and you usually don't come here because you spend your whole lunch time in the traffic."
"PT meetings, they start at five" Taehyung replied after finishing his food. "God I love your food."
Seokjin smiled and ruffled the raven's hair.
"Sorry but I gotta get back to the kitchen, it was nice to see you two" the chef said before stretching. "Don't forget about Sunday's brunch, I'll prepare those waffles that Jungkook likes."
"I like them too" Jimin said while pouting.
Seokjin rolled his eyes before getting into the kitchen.
"And don't you dare to pay!" the older yelled.
Jimin smirked before stuffing his mouth full with chicken.
"We are going to pay, right?" Taehyung asked taking out his wallet.
The blond chewed for a whole minute before nodding.
"By the way, would you mind if I go to the pharmacy before going back to the school?" Taehyung said, trying to sound nonchalant about it. "I noticed we run out of cotton pads..."
Jimin shrugged and Taehyung took a sip of his water.
.
Yoongi frowned as he heard his call to Taehyung go to voicemail for the sixth time.
Probably a couple of parents were been insufferable about their kid' grades. He sighed and shook his head. To that date he still wondered how someone would choose to deal with kids and parents on daily basis.
Suddenly, his thoughts about his mate's career got interrupted by this ringtone. He spected to see his mate’s name and photo on the screen, but it was Jungkook's name the one that appeared in his screen.
"Hey" he said as a greeting.
"Hey hyung, how are you?" he youngest of his pack said on the other side of the phone.
"Not much, trying to contact Tae, but he doesn't pick up, so I guess he's still trapped with some parents" Yoongi said, not bothering in explaining Jungkook about the PT meeting, since one of his mates also had PT meeting's that day.
"Actually that's why I called you for" the youngest said. "I'm going to pick Jimin from the meeting, I'll pick Tae too and give him a ride to your place."
Yoongi smiled and nodded.
"Thanks kid, I really appreciate it, and I'm sure Tae will too."
"Don't worry, Jimin told me that it seemed like he had a rough day, so I wanted to at least drive him to your home."
Yoongi frowned.
Was Taehyung that upset about his hair?
Something didn't add up.
"Yeah, he seemed a bit stressed today, I guess that the PT meeting had him on edge" Yoongi said trying to sound casual.
"Yeah, something like that happened to Jimin" the other alpha said before taking a deep breath. "Then I'll tell Tae to shoot you a text when I pick him up"
"Thanks" said the eldest before exchanging goodbyes and hanging up.
Yoongi bit his thumb before starting the engine, he gave a glance to the school building and drove to their apartment. Taehyung would probably come back stressed about the meeting and would stress more if he had to pick an outfit to go to dinner, so he would pick an outfit for him.
"Yeah, the light gray one with that beige shirt would do" he muttered.
♥
"Thanks again Kookie" Taehyung said while climbing to his friend's car as he sent a quick test to his mate.
"No problem, I your place isn't that far from ours" the youngest said before kissing his mate's cheek.
Taehyung nodded and closed his eyes, enjoying the low rumble of the car.
"Tae, is everything OK? You have been acting a bit... off" Jimin's voice shattered his quiet moment.
"Huh?" Taehyung said trying to feign ignorance.
Jimin looked back at him from the front passenger's seat.
"You know what I mean, you have been on edge all day, and you look so stressed... Is everything alright? Did something happened between and Yoongi-hyung?" the blond said.
Taehyung remained silent for a few minutes, pondering his options.
He could try to do a test run about is situation with his friends, so he could be prepared for when he broke down the news to his mate.
"Do you remember when last year I said hyung and I didn't want to have kids?" he asked trying to not give to much information to his friends.
"You mean that bullshit you said in Jin and Joon's apartment?" Jimin replied in an instant.
"W-Well... yeah... but I wasn't... bullshitting..." Taehyung stammered not expecting that answer.
The couple chucked.
"Sorry Tae, but I think none of us thought that you were serious about that" Jungkook said before stopping at a red light and turning to see his friend. "You love kids, it's obvious you would want a pup of your own."
Taehyung shrugged.
"I work with kids for a living, that's w..."
"Don't get us wrong, we know you were serious when you said that back then" Jimin said, with that tone that soothed everyone's nerves. "We know Yoongi isn't the fatherliest guy out there, but I bet he would love to have a pup, after all he loves you too much..."
"Yeah, if you tell him that you want a pup he'll change his mind about kids" Jungkook assured him.
Taehyung didn't understand what is friends were saying.
"Wait, do you think I said that about not having kids because hyung doesn't like kids?" Taehyung said, a bit shocked about his friend's words.
"Wasn't that the reason?" Jimin asked with knowing look, like he was being polite and playing along with Taehyung. "Come on Tae, we all know that the only reason you said that was because you think Yoongi-hyung doesn't like kids, but let me tell you, he would love your kids."
"Yeah, just talk to him... You'll see" the youngest said, smiling.
Taehyung felt his eyes welling up, but said nothing and just nodded.
"And please hurry up, I want to our pups be born in the same year so they can be soulmates like us" Jimin said while rubbing his stomach.
Taehyung gasped.
"Guys... are you...?"
Jungkook groaned while Jimin giggled.
"We were supposed to tell them at the brunch!" Jungkook whined.
Taehyung got closer to his best friend.
"H-How far..." said Taehyung while reaching to his best friend's stomach. "May... I?"
Jimin was tearing up, but nodded.
"Three months, we were waiting for the end of the first trimester to give you all the news."
Taehyung nodded.
"I'm so happy for you" Taehyung declared noticing that his cheeks were wet.
"So please, don't be afraid to talk to Yoongi, we all see how you look to Jin's kids" the blond declared just as they got to his apartment block.
Taehyung nodded and grabbed his backpack before thanking his friends and saying good bye.
Then when he was about to close the door, he froze.
"That's why you didn't wore your PT meeting's pants?" he asked blinking as the realization settled in. "And why your ass looked bigger?"
Jimin's face redden in an alarming rate.
"Yeap, he threw a fit today when his pants didn't zip up all the way" Jungkook declared.
"Jeon Jungkook!" Jimin yelled.
♥
Yoongi looked at the clock when he heard the door been unlocked, it marked the 7:19 pm, they had plenty of time before their reservation.
"Darling, I'm home" said the baritone voice of his mate.
"At the bedroom, would you care to come?" Yoongi said as he lounged on the bed.
A few seconds later Taehyung was entering their bedroom.
"Huh? Is that my suit?" the younger asked as he eyed the clothes Yoongi had selected for him.
"Yeah, I wanted to take you to dinner, we haven't done that in a while..."
Taehyung smiled and kissed Yoongi.
"That would be great. Do I have time to freshen up a bit? I'll be quick" the younger said as he headed to the bathroom.
"Just don't take 20 minutes fixing your hair and it should be fine, our reservation is at 9" Yoongi said, arching a brow as he saw his mate enter the bathroom with his bag.
"I promise I won't!" Taehyung assured thru the closed door.
♥
The raven went out of the shower, securing a towel around his hips and carefully drying his hair with another. He side-eyed the pregnancy test that remained unopened in the counter. The test instructions were that the best time to do it was at the morning, just after waking up, that way the hormones would be more concentrated, making the detection easier. But he had already tested positive in the morning, wasn't it more logical that he got tested at night? That way his hormone levels should be lower, and if the test picked them up he would be sure.
Taehyung nodded to himself and took the test out of the package.
Once he did the test, he closed the cap and put the test face down over the counter. He didn't want to peek the test before it was completely done. He washed his hands and started doing his skincare routine. Once he finished he decided that he wasn't ready to see the result, so he started doing his makeup. And once again, once he finished doing his makeup, decided that couldn't look the result, not yet, so he began to fix his hair.
He groaned when saw that his hair was perfect once he combed it with his fingers.
He had run out of distractions, he needed to check the result.
But he couldn't, so he went out to the bedroom in order to collect the clothes that Yoongi had picked for him. He opened the door, and saw that Yoongi was at the bed, just as he had expected, the alpha was scrolling in his phone.
"I'm almost ready, I'll just dress and fix my hair" Taehyung said while picking his underwear.
"Don't worry, we have time" the older said glancing at him. Then, as Taehyung put on the shirt, Yoongi suddenly got up. "You know what? I'm gonna fix my makeup a bit."
Taehyung hummed for a second, and then froze.
The pregnancy test.
He ran to the bathroom, just in time to see Yoongi picking the pregnancy test.
♥
Yoongi frowned at the sight of the test.
That was the reason of his mate's frustration that morning. He mentally did some math, his rut had been a month before, and Taehyung's heats tended to be a month or two after his rut, give it or take since he had become extremely irregular after all the fertility treatments, his mate was probably trying to know if he should prepare for his heat or not.
He felt his heart breaking to the idea of his mate still trying to cling to the idea of getting pregnant.
He decided that he didn't need some pamphlet to tell his mate that he was willing to adopt a pup. He had memorized the requirements, and even more, since they had a clinical record of Taehyung and his low fertility, they would have more possibilities to getting up in the list.
But first he had to reassure his mate that a negative test wasn't the end of the world.
They had a lot of options, he would give him a pup, one way or another.
He sighed and looked for the test result.
And everything froze.
Everything other than his tears and his mate's eyes.
"Two lines" Yoongi muttered. "P-Posi... Positive."
He barely felt the pain of his knees hitting the hard tiles of the bathroom floor.
Taehyung ran to him and started sobbing before him.
Everything was blurred, so he noticed he was crying, just like his mate. He knew that the raven was sobbing and saying something, but he couldn't think straight. He just knew that he was in the bathroom floor, holding the proof that they were going to have a pup, and that his mate was infront of him, half dressed with some boxers and an unbuttoned shirt, face red with the effort of crying, and that he hadn't look more beautiful that at that moment.
"I'm so s-sorry... sorry Yoongi, please don't... P-Please don't l-leave me" Taehyung bawled.
That pulled Yoongi out of his daze.
"W-What? What are you talking about?" Yoongi sobbed.
Taehyung scrambled trying to get closer to him, before throwing his arms around Yoongi's neck.
"I-I know we agreed to... to not h-having kids... But p-please let me k-keep the pup" Taehyung sobbed, clenching his fists around the fabric of his jacket.
Yoongi couldn't understand.
Did Taehyung thought he didn't want a pup?
After mating him, that's everything he wanted.
"Tae..."
"I-I know that with o-our j-job... jobs i-it will b-be difficult but... but please..." Taehyung sobbed.
And Yoongi couldn't hold it anymore.
"T-Tae, there i-isn't... any... anything that I-I want m-more... that... that having a p-p... p-pup of our o-own" Yoongi bawled.
"M-Me t-too" Taehyung sobbed before engulfing Yoongi in a hug.
♥
Taehyung was sprawled on the bed, still in boxers and an unbuttoned shirt while Yoongi rubbed his stomach.
"I still can't believe it" Taehyung whispered.
Yoongi nodded.
"I'll take care of you both" Yoongi said in the same way he had declared all those years ago that he would make him his mate just after meeting him.
"I know" Taehyung whispered, enjoying the feeling of Yoongi caressing his belly.
Then something came to his mind.
“The dinner reservation, did we lost it?” he asked biting his lip.
Yoongi chucked.
“Yeah, but I’m kinda hungry… do you wanna eat something?” the older asked with a grin.
Taehyung smiled and nodded.
“Yeah I’m really hungry.”
“Any preference?” Yoongi asked never stopping rubbing his still flat belly.
“I was thinking in something fresh, like sushi?” Taehyung asked thinking about the small sushi stand that was about to blocks from there.
Yoongi shook his head.
“I was asking the baby” said Yoongi while flashing Taehyung his gummy smile.
Taehyung scoffed but didn’t move Yoongi’s hand.
“Well, the baby want’s sushi too.”
Yoongi chucked and nodded, but didn’t moved from their bed.
“Anything you two want” he said before kissing him.
Taehyung couldn’t help but shiver at the thought.
The two of them.
Soon they were going to be three.