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— Appa, story time!
Seokjin sighed, almost out of the twins bedroom after saying his good night. Hoseok stared at him from his bed with his heart shaped smile and the King knew he didn’t stand a chance. In the other bed, Namjoon was yawning.
— Which story do you want to hear today, precious? — in his nightgown, Seokjin seated beside the older twin, scooping him to his side.
As Royal Omega King, he had a lot of duties and responsibilities to his kingdom which resulted in having little to no time to be with his family: his oldest, Yoongi, was an incredible 10 year old alpha and was often in lectures and classes. Hoseok and Namjoon, his precious 6 year old twins, were always up for some danger around the castle and giving his nannies some white hair. But one thing he was always made sure to do: their bedtime routine.
This was the only time of the day where he was sure that he had his kids all to himself for cuddle time and of course some water war in the bath. Every other night he joined all his creativity to come up with different stories to entertain his kids until they fell asleep in his arms.
But today, man, he was really not up to it. He had a pretty fucking long day in reunion with some fucked-up minsters and financial counselors that tried to raise their salaries. Of course Jin opposed them, they didn't need raises and were doing fine as they were, but this had taken all the energy he had.
— Don’t wan war story, appa. — he helped Namjoon climb his twin bed and hugged him close to his chest.
— Right… So, a fairytale story?
— No! Fairies don’t exist, silly appa. — Hoseok giggled.
— Hmm, let me think. — he tilted his head to look at the ceiling to think, and when he did so, a silhouette was standing at the door frame. Small enough to not be one of the soldiers or his dear husband. — Yoongi-ah? C’mon baby.
— It’s story time, Yoon! — if Seokjin didn’t know that Hoseok was energetic all the time, he literally would be crying now knowing that he wouldn’t sleep.
— What story will you tell today, appa?
Just as he was told, Yoongi entered the room already wearing his night clothes as well. The feline eyes scanned his father and brothers to try to know where to sit. Seokjin shrinked his legs to make room for all four of them in the single bed.
— I don’t know, Joon doesn’t want war stories.
— Don’t wan. — he repeated, comfortably snuggling against Jin chest.
— Have you already told them how you and dad got together?
— Dad Kook? I want to know! Please, appa!
Hoseok literally bounced, Jin let out a little laugh.
— Okay, little ball. I can tell you that.
He did a dance, shuffling his arms in a round circle and wiggling his butt, still seated. They all laugh, even Namjoon that was in and out of dreamland.
— Gather round, kiddos. Make yourself comfortable that this is a good story! — all the kids made themselves comfortable. The twins close to him, and Yoongi lay on his father’s leg, looking up to him. — OK, first of all, you remember how special us, male omegas, are, right?
— Like me, appa? — Joon raised his head.
— Yeah baby, like you, and like me. We are super hyper special, because there aren’t many people like us out there. And that thing makes us pretty much desirable to wed, everyone wants a male omega.
When it was time for me to marry an alpha, all kinds of princes and princesses were trying to get to me. Sending letters for my parents, pieces of clothes with their scent and tons and tons of gifts. I thought that all of that was useless, since neither one of them tried to talk to me, only to my parents.
And I didn’t want to marry someone that wasn’t giving his full attention to me, my mom always told me how special I was and how important it was for me to step up to the throne one day as Omega King of Korea. I knew what I wanted for a husband or a wife and none of that bunch of alphas achieved.
But when the time came, I was annoyed about my choices and I was running out of time. So, my best idea was to put on a show and have a lot of alphas fighting for me.
— Dad was one of them? — Hobi asked, his voice a little muffled from the blanket he was holding.
— Yeah, babe, dad was one of them. In fact, there were 30 alphas.
He was one of the thirty that applied for the contest, and I came up with three tests to see if they fit to be my husband. The word spread fast right here, kids, so in fact we received thousands of letters of alphas that wanted to participate, but me and my sires decided to only take 30 of them, we choose based on skills that they were telling us in their letters. And I did fight to have your dad as one of the chosen ones, because he is a bit younger than me, technically he was out. But, he had great combat and tracking skills, and he had a great scent.
— I like dad’s scent. Smell good.
— Yeah, Joon? I know you like to snuggle him, his scent is really one of the best I know.
Back to the story. When all of them were here, I welcomed them but the first task was already happening: I asked a staff to hide ten pieces of fabric that I scented, somewhere inside the woods around the castle. And the first ten that founded it, were allowed into the castle. The ones who didn’t, were sent home before even entering.
Your dad, well, he was the first to get to one of the pieces, but another alpha fought him. He was to finish first if didn’t for this so he came eighth and injured as hell.
— Did you kiss kiss his owie, appa?
Jin chuckled: — I didn’t kiss kiss his owie, but I helped him bandage it.
I went to visit him in the infirmary that night and we talked. He seemed like a pretty cool guy and he made me laugh so much, kiddos. Even in pain he came up with jokes and things to say that simply took out of me giggles and you know how important for me is to just laugh, right?
The next day I couldn’t see him because my eomma set me up with the other alphas. And one after another they came and went, they were so boring and annoying. I met like four or five of them that afternoon and all I could think about was Jungkook and his jokes, and how easy it was for me to be around him. So, after dinner I went to his room with some card games I had and we played and chatted the whole night.
You know, I was born royal but Jungkook was a citizen, I was afraid that he wouldn’t talk to me as equals or would have too much politeness but he was so young and had that sort of rebellious spirit. He talked to me like I was one of his friends and with the same age.
And that night I started to fall in love with him.
— Like you love us?
— No, Joonie, the love appa has for you is different from the love I have for you dad.
— How?
Seokjin sometimes forget how curious his little baby omega was.
— Hm, the love I have for him is reserved only for adults. It’s romantic love. For you three it’s an appa love, it’s stronger and greater than everything else. It’s different, you see?
Namjoon nodded his head and started to play with Jin’s fingers.
Three days later, the second task was to track down an alpha soldier inside the woods and beat him in a sword fight. Tracking is one of the best skills an alpha could have, and tracking down a threat? Great! There were two soldiers hiding amongst the trees, and the two alphas who could beat them, were up to the grand finale. For that, Jungkook came first even if he still had some wounds from the previous task. One guy named Mingyu came second.
He didn’t have too much trouble with that soldier, but I came to his room to check on him. And we kissed. He promised me that he would win the finale and would become my husband. And…
— What are you all doing awake in the middle of the night?
Hoseok’s face lit up seeing who was at the door.
— Dad!
— Appa is telling a story. — Yoongi said, looking at him, his eyes already heavy with sleep.
— Which story?
Jungkook approached the bed, taking up the only spot that was available behind Yoongi and began stroking his hair affectionately.
Namjoon answered from his place curled up in Jin’s leg: — How you met. It’s a romantic love.
The alpha raised his eyebrows, looking at his husband with a smile on his face.
— And where are we?
— When we kissed after the second task
— That night was pretty good. — he smiled a little more and Jin rolled his eyes.
— Continue appa!
Ok, so for the next four days leading to the finale, me and your dad met every night just to be together, chat and play some games. He also escaped from me sometimes during the day to workout, I wasn’t very happy about that.
— I had to win a fight! With Mingyu! I had to train or else I wouldn’t win.
— This is just an excuse! — the omega rolled his eyes, but with a smile on his face.
— Jin!
— Jungkook!
The family started to laugh, since this was a pretty common thing for the two adults to do.
The last task was for the two remaining to win a physical fight with each other. And oh my Goodness I was so afraid that Jungkook would lose that I couldn't eat anything that day. I got dressed and went to the field and it was a show, everyone reunited to know what alpha would earn the right to marry the most pretty omega male across the world.
— Jin…
— Are you telling me I’m not pretty, Jungkook-ah?
— Of course not, babe! You’re the most precious thing.
— Okay. — he sighed and chuckled. — Moving on…
Of course they fought and Jungkook won, and I was so so so sooo happy that I descended and kissed him right away. Even covered in sweat and some blood, we were finally going to be husbands. After that we married in a ceremony that lasted five days, and now we are here. With three beautiful kids, two powerful alphas and one sweet omega.
— That 's us! — Namjoon remarked.
— Yes, that’s you, precious. — he kissed the head of each of his kids. Yoongi far too gone into sleep nestled in his dad’s arms. — Now, off to sleep you go. Time for bed.
The two adults tucked each kid into the bed, kissing them goodnight.
— Appa, Dad… — Yoongi murmured when they were leaving the room. — Am I ever going to find love like you did?
Jin felt Jungkook's hand reaching and holding his one palm, squeezing.
— Of course you are, Yooni. You have so much time to find love, ok? We love you.
When Jin and Jungkook returned to their shared room, the alpha wrapped his arms around his omega.
— And I love you. I would do everything all over again just to have you with me.
— I love you, alpha.