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Winter came, and it was harsher on Jimin than it was on Yoongi.
Snowflakes floated and fell from the sky slowly but steadily. The clearing got completely covered by snow and the trees lost all of their leaves. Yoongi’s workstation, which had a peaking roof just like the main cabin, had been closed off and would stay that way until the end of winter.
Jimin spent most of his time sleeping next to the fireplace in his nest. He wore, over the pastel pink hanbok dress, a long and fluffy, grey fur jacket Yoongi had crafted for him over the weeks leading up to wintertime.
When Jimin was awake, he was either eating, reading, or listening to Yoongi gently play musical chords on the string instrument.
Yoongi had piled up a tall supply of wood for the fire next to the front door and would periodically fuel the fireplace with them.
Jimin
After a period of light snowing, it snowed for days without a pause.
At the moment, Jimin had just woken up from a nap. Yoongi noticed and walked up to his nest by the fireplace,
“Are you cold, Jimin-ah?” Yoongi asked him. It wasn‘t the first and certainly wouldn’t be the last time Yoongi asked him that same question. But the constant checks didn’t annoy Jimin. Apparently, it was important for Yoongi to know if Jimin was feeling cold.
The omega was sleeping on top of pretty much all the furs Yoongi owned, was wearing thick clothes and a fur jacket, and lying in front of a fireplace. But, somehow, Jimin only felt mildly warm.
“No, I’m not cold. Don’t worry about me.” Jimin lightly dismissed him, then asked, “Do you want me to help with dinner?”
“No, just keep yourself warm.” Yoongi immediately responded.
Jimin slowly sat up on the mattress, crossing his legs and bringing his covers up. He pulled them closer to his body, snuggling comfortably with their softness and warmth. He watched the alpha move around the cabin, seemingly busy and worried.
Yoongi was kneeling by the low table, cutting dried meat with a kitchen knife with much attention. His broad shoulders were slightly hunched over the table as he cut the food over a white ceramic plate.
Jimin salivated thinking about the delicious broth the alpha would prepare. Yoongi was so attentive with everything he did, from cooking and crafting metal works to taking care of Jimin who was simply his house servant.
It should be the other way around, Jimin thought, as he tilted his head curiously, watching from the other side of the room how the alpha’s hands moved meticulously. Jimin thought that he should be the one cooking for Yoongi instead.
Jimin couldn’t help but wonder why Yoongi, who was so kind and careful, was still unmated. Surely there would be many wolves who would like to be courted by him.
Jimin was too curious. Sitting with his legs crossed on top of his mattress near the fireplace, wearing long furs on top of his shoulders, Jimin softly broke the comfortable silence. “Yoongi-ssi, have you ever thought of… mating?”
The question made Yoongi cease his movements for a second in which he didn’t look up from the plate. When he raised his face to meet the omega’s innocent curiosity, he had a soft gaze.
“Yes.” Yoongi answered quietly, then went back to his task. As he resumed cutting the meat in small pieces so that the broth would be tastier and the omega wouldn’t have a hard time chewing on them, Yoongi commented calmly, “Sometimes.”
“But you haven’t mated yet.” Jimin added.
The fireplace behind Jimin softly crippled. With relaxed shoulders, Yoongi continued preparing the ingredients for their meal.
“Why?” Jimin asked, curious.
Yoongi calmly shrugged. “I never found anyone who made me feel like mating them.” The alpha explained simply, without looking up from his task.
“So you never had… a boyfriend or girlfriend?” Jimin asked quietly, feeling shy all of a sudden. The alpha, however, wasn’t much phased by the topic of conversation.
Yoongi tilted his head. “I wouldn’t call them that, but… when I was younger I used to shift and go out running during the full moon with other wolves in the woods… we’d shift back into humans and roll around. But it’s been a while since I’ve done that type of thing. I was a hormonal teenager back then.”
It was difficult for Jimin to imagine someone as serious as the alpha in front of him “rolling around” in the woods with strangers. He supposed it had been a long time ago like Yoongi said.
Yoongi hummed. “And you?” he asked the omega, “Have you ever had a boyfriend or girlfriend?”
Jimin thought it should have been obvious that he hadn’t, given how unattractive he was. Still, he politely answered his house master’s question, “No, I haven’t, Yoongi-ssi.”
Yoongi seemed to hesitate before asking the next question. The alpha spoke softly, his deep voice almost a whisper, “But do you think of finding a mate?”
Jimin’s lips felt dry. He gulped nervously and wetted them with his tongue quickly before looking down to his lap.
If he thought of finding a mate? Not much, before. But ever since he found himself in the blacksmith’s lair, he would constantly catch himself fantasizing about things he couldn’t have.
Yes, Yoongi was a kind and hardworking alpha who would genuinely devote himself to a lover, to a mate. But that would never be Jimin.
The omega’s heart would often flutter hopefully every time Yoongi doted on him so attentively, but he had to remind himself that he shouldn’t wish for impossible things, or mix reality with illusion. Yoongi was simply being kind to his house servant during the wintertime.
Still not looking up from his own lap, Jimin slowly shook his head at the alpha’s question. “No, Yoongi-ssi. I don’t see myself mating anyone.”
For some reason, the silence that followed Jimin’s answer was awkward. Jimin looked up.
Yoongi’s frame, which had been so relaxed before, seemed stiff. However, Yoongi met his gaze with a small, reassuring smile.
“That’s fine, Jimin-ah. I understand.”
Yoongi
It seemed like every single time Yoongi saw that omega’s puppy face, his heart broke more, for better or for worse.
Jimin was like a small flower Yoongi desperately wanted to care for, to cherish. He couldn’t help but want the omega to find a home in his home, not only for it meant Yoongi would be able to make sure the omega was safe and sound, but because Jimin made Yoongi feel happier, deep inside, than he could ever remember feeling.
The alpha would never admit that out loud, but having the cute omega with the pretty smile and sweet scent sharing a home with him made him feel so happy he could scream. He could shift into his wolf form and run for miles with the energy he felt.
In all his years of life as a lone wolf, Yoongi had never felt such gentle feelings. He had never found himself fantasizing about courting a delicate omega who smelled like sweet flowers and love. He had never dreamed of providing for a family of his own, of having pups run around his clearing, of going to sleep every night with the promise of soft kisses and happy words.
But those would only be the fantasies of a fool. Jimin was still young, and with time he would surely change his mind and join a pack, leaving Yoongi behind.
Yoongi still stood by his opinion that his lair was no place for a delicate omega. It was lonely, uncomfortable, and unsafe. Jimin deserved better than that, and Yoongi earned to provide the best he could possibly get, even though the pretty and soft omega would never be his.
Thinking of how doomed he was, Yoongi sighed and finished cutting the dried meat and vegetables for the broth he was preparing for Jimin. He used the knife to push the contents of the ceramic plate into a small metal cauldron that already had water and got up from the floor. He placed the cauldron on top of the cast-iron stove that was already burning with steady flames.
Jimin cutely watched him from his nest.
“Jimin-ah, the broth will be ready soon.” Yoongi informed and went to sit by his side near the fireplace.
“I can’t wait to eat it.” Jimin said in an excited croon. He smiled at Yoongi sweetly. “All the food you make is so delicious, Yoongi-ssi.”
Yoongi had to suppress himself from letting out a low growl in pride. Jimin liked the food he prepared for him.
-
Jimin lied in the soft furs and looked up to the cabin’s ceiling. The logs and wood boards had been seamlessly stacked on top of each other. It seemed like the cabin hadn’t been built such a long time ago.
He wondered about Yoongi’s mysterious past often, especially now that he had nothing to do outside as it was snowing on most hours of the days and nights.
He thought of how Yoongi seemed to know so much about fighting and self-defense. “Yoongi-ssi, how did you learn to fight so well?” Jimin turned in his lying position under wool blankets to address the alpha.
Yoongi had been lying on his own mattress on the opposite wall of the cabin, still awake.
“Keep this a secret between us, alright?” Yoongi began. He sighed and moved to sit up on his bed with his legs crossed, and rested his back against the wall. Yoongi faced the curious omega.
“I was a warrior.” Yoongi said.
Jimin gasped softly. “A warrior?”
Yoongi nodded slowly with a thoughtful expression. “I… I was born and raised in a pack very far from here. They were always at war. Things weren’t as peaceful as this side of the woods.”
Yoongi shrugged lightly. “When I presented as an alpha, I was twelve and was selected to start training to become one of the warriors. As I grew older, I became the leader of their army. The pack members looked up to me. I often led hunting trips too. Until…” Yoong looked away and sighed, “Until the pack leader’s son, who was around my age, started to feel threatened by me, by my power and influence in the pack. He set up an ambush and tried to kill me.”
The omega gasped in horror. Yoongi continued, “I could have reported him, but chose to not cause any trouble and just leave on my own. I traveled as far as I could from that place and lived as a lone wolf. Just a few years ago I found this clearing and decided to build a home here.”
“Do you miss that pack?” Jimin asked quietly, sad for the alpha’s story.
“Sometimes I wonder what they’re up to.” Yoongi shrugged, “But I grew to enjoy life as a lone wolf, more than I thought I would.”
-
Days later, Jimin had a runny nose thanks to a mild cold. For some reason, the alpha was silently panicking over it.
They were sitting on top of the furs in front of the fireplace and holding up bowls of steaming hot soup.
Jimin ate it happily while the alpha constantly checked Jimin’s temperature by pressing the back of his hand to Jimin’s cheek.
“Are you too hot? I’m not sure, but maybe you have a fever.” Yoongi mumbled, speaking mostly to himself than to the omega. Jimin shrugged.
“I’m fine, Yoongi-ssi.” Jimin dismissed it and ate more of the soup. It had peas, potatoes, and small pieces of dried meat. “The soup is delicious! Thank you. You are so kind to be taking care of your house servant so well when it should be the other way around.” Jimin said.
He looked over to the alpha and found him placing his own bowl of soul on the ground and getting up. Jimin called after him, “Hey, Yoongi-ssi, your soup will get cold, you should start eating it already.”
The worried alpha didn’t answer him. Instead, he walked over to his chest and leaned down to look for something in the bottom of it. Yoongi got up on his feet while holding a long piece of knitted wool and walked back to Jimin’s side.
“I’ll wrap this scarf around your neck, Jimin-ah.” the alpha informed him politely and, after Jimin placed the bowl down on his lap, Yoongi carefully wrapped the thick scarf around Jimin’s neck.
“Thank you for taking care of me, Yoongi-ssi.” Jimin smiled up at the alpha. “But don’t worry, I’m doing just fine.” he tried to reassure Yoongi, but the alpha still seemed overly worried about Jimin’s health.
-
Even more days went by. Now, Jimin lied down on his bed, covered by countless layers of furs and wool, but, somehow, his feet were still cold.
It was nighttime and the cabin was mostly dark as the only source of light was the fireplace. Jimin was lying right next to it and the sounds of the fire softly cracking through the log cuts distracted him.
Yoongi was currently fussing over him, adjusting the furs around his body.
Jimin didn’t want to inconvenience any further the alpha who had been so extremely kind to him until now, but, since Yoongi was already at it, Jimin thought it wouldn’t hurt to inform him of how he was feeling.
“Yoongi-ssi,” Jimin whispered from the blanket-cocoon with his eyes closed. His lips trembled and felt dry, his nose was runny and he had a mild headache. But, most importantly… “My feet are cold.” Jimin told the alpha in a whisper.
Jimin didn’t see the alpha’s reaction but he could feel him tense up.
“It’s the fucking snowstorm outside that won’t fucking stop.” Yoongi mumbled to himself, angry.
Jimin felt the alpha move around him until he was sitting next to his feet. Yoongi took Jimin’s feet while they were covered by all the layers of blankets and placed them on his lap. He began rubbing his hands over the blankets in quick motions in hopes that the action would produce heat that would reach the omega’s feet.
All the while Yoongi spoke angrily to himself.
“I shouldn’t have been this fucking selfish . I’m a monster. A lonely, selfish monster. He should be in a fucking pack right now.” Yoongi said under his breath, but Jimin could still bear him. “This is all my fault.”
Hearing the alpha in the dark, Jimin felt the urge to reply to his self-deprecating words with - No, you’re not a monster, Yoongi-ssi - but his trembling lips wouldn’t obey him.
Jimin felt weak, tired, sleepy. He sniffed with his runny nose.
-
Just minutes later, Jimin woke up from his slumber when he felt Yoongi taking him up into his arms. He noticed that the alpha had wrapped a second woolen scarf around his neck and shoulders and was now carrying him in his arms inside the cabin.
He wasn’t sure what was going on until Yoongi opened the front door and the raging cold wind of the winter hit them.
Yoongi hurried through the winter night, walking through the snow that had piled up to his calves in the clearing while carrying Jimin in his arms.
Jimin fell in and out of sleep during the time it took for Yoongi to carry his body snuggled against his chest along the edge of the take. Jimin faintly recognized that path in the forest as the way to the nearest pack where Jungkook, his fellow omega, lived.
The sounds of harsh knocks on a wooden door startled Jimin awake again. He noticed that he was still in Yoongi’s arms.
He heard muffled unknown voices asking - Who is it? Who are you? Are you the blacksmith?
Yoongi shouted over the loud wind at the ones who were on the other side of the door, “Please help us! My mate is dying!”
Jimin’s heartbeat quickened up. Mate ? Who was Yoongi calling his mate ?
The muffled voices on the other side ceased their questions and a door was pulled open.
-
The weeks Jimin spent in the pack’s omega dorms felt like a dream. Or a nightmare, considering the fact that Yoongi wasn’t with him anymore.
The new cabin Jimin was placed in was bigger, had more than one fireplace, and had several other people inside.
The group of omegas had received Jimin from Yoongi’s arms and had promised the alpha that they would take care of him for the rest of the winter. Jimin was placed on a mattress on the floor by one of the fireplaces, surrounded by the mattresses of many other omegas.
Jimin eventually woke up, feeling less sick than before, but quietly kept to himself. Not even the presence of Jungkook made him feel like chatting. He still wore the same gray fur coat and the scarf Yoongi had wrapped around him. When it was time to eat, Jimin would take whatever was handed to him and eat in his own bed wordlessly. The food wasn’t nearly as delicious as Yoongi’s, but it kept his belly full.
While in the omega’s dorm, Jimin missed Yoongi so much that he sniffed and cried.
A tall and beautiful male omega saw Jimin’s misery and approached him. He sat beside Jimin, on top of his mattress, and placed an arm over Jimin’s shoulders, hugging him sideways.
“Oh, little one, everything will be alright...” the male omega said reassuringly, “...But I know you miss your alpha, I know it’s hard.”
At the mention of his alpha , more tears fell from Jimin’s eyes. He sniffed and brought up a hand to push the wetness away from his cheeks.
“My name is Seokjin, I’m the omega pack leader.” the omega said and hugged Jimin harder. He pulled the smaller omega into his lap and caressed his light blonde hair gently, “In this pack, us omegas stay together even if some of us are already mated. It’s because the betas and alphas aren’t as affected by the winter as us.”
Jimin sniffed and raised his lunch to his mouth. It was a small paper package with buttered potatoes filled with shredded dried meat. He munched on it slowly, feeling sick and miserable, but, he would give Seokjin that, he did feel a little bit better, healthwise, now that he was sharing a big, warm cabin with forty other omegas and heat incoming from fireplaces.
Seokjin noticed that Jimin was still upset and added in a light-hearted voice, “Think of it this way: after you spend a few weeks without seeing your alpha, when you finally meet him again, your hug will feel even warmer and fresher. I’m sure he’ll hug you tight and kiss you lots as soon as it’s possible.”
Jimin knew he should probably speak up and tell the other omega that Yoongi wasn’t actually his alpha , much less his mate, but Jimin felt too weak and lazy to try to explain his real relationship with Yoongi.
-
After several boring and miserable days in the omega’s dorms, Jimin woke up one morning while people talked around him in celebratory voices.
The blizzard was finally over. It was safe for the omegas to go out in the snow. Winter was coming close to an end.
Jimin got up from his mattress, slipped on and tied up his leather boots, and hesitantly followed the other omegas on the way outside. The outside was so bright with the Sun shining in a clear sky. It wasn’t snowing anymore, but there was still a short layer of snow on the ground.
Jimin stepped out with the others and was met with the sight of many couples and families reuniting. People were hugging each other and chatting in front of the big cabin.
He looked around in hopes of seeing Yoongi in the group, but after running his eyes over the faces three times, he accepted the fact that Yoongi wasn’t there. Jimin’s shoulders deflated. Of course, Yoongi wasn’t there, why would he be…
Seokijn, walking along an alpha Jimin would guess was his mate and the alpha pack leader, approached him with friendly smiles.
“Hey, Jimin-ssi,” Seokjin greeted him, “This is my mate, Hoseok. He’s the pack leader.”
Jimin bowed politely to them.
“Your alpha is not here,” Hoseok informed him, “I’m afraid Yoongi-ssi is too busy building your new cabin here on our side of the lake.”
Jimin was confused by what Hoseok said. “Yoongi-ssi is building a new cabin?” Jimin asked.
“Yeah, now that he has a mate, he decided to join the pack and settle down. He’s building his new cabin in the woods over there.” Hoseok pointed to the area right behind the omega dorm.
Jimin could only see trees in the snow from where he stood, but he thanked the leader couple and decided to walk in that direction to meet Yoongi.
The snow on the ground wasn’t as high as before, but it was still deep enough to make Jimin walk slower than usual. His thick woolen scarf and coat on top of a thick hanbok also made it difficult for him to move.
Jimin gripped the gray fur coat tighter around himself and called for Yoongi as he walked into the woods.
“Yoongi-ssi? Are you there? Yoongi-ssi?” Jimin called for the alpha while unsurely looking around. The vision of his one eye that wasn’t blind was blurred from afar, Jimin was only able to see details if he was standing right in front of things.
He heard sounds of someone chopping wood in the distance. Jimin followed it and soon reached a clearing.
Several freshly cut trees were piled up on a corner of the clearing. In the middle, Yoongi was holding an ax and facing Jimin from the distance. He had been in the process of cutting another tree from the edge of the clearing.
“Yoongi-ssi?” Jimin called.
Even if he was unsure of the future, Jimin couldn’t help but smile and be happy to see that Yoongi was just fine after the blizzard. The alpha was as healthy as ever. He wore his usual black boots and pants, but only a dark sleeveless buttoned shirt over his torso. His muscular biceps were bare, leaving Jimin in awe at how he could do such a thing when it was still cold.
Yoongi dropped the ax on the forest floor and walked towards Jimin with a focused gaze. Jimin also stepped closer, although stumbling on the snowy ground with his boots. The omega had a thick woolen scarf around his neck.
The alpha stopped right in front of him. He didn’t move to hug Jimin, only stood in place, gulping dryly.
Jimin felt an urge to jump and give Yoongi a hug, but he also held back, unsure if it would be welcomed by the alpha. They weren’t mates, after all. Jimin was simply his house servant. Maybe Yoongi wouldn't appreciate it if Jimin hugged him out of nowhere.
“Jimin-ah,” Yoongi breathed out as if he was relieved. His expression remained serious, almost unreadable. “I’m glad to see you’re well.”
“It’s all thanks to you, Yoongi-ssi.” Jimin said, emotional. He had tears at the corners of his eyes. “Thank you.”
Yoongi breathed in deeply and looked down at their feet. He nodded his head.
Jimin sniffed and quietly dried the corners of his eyes with his fingers.
“But, Yoongi-ssi, why is everyone talking to me like I’m your… mate?” Jimin questioned, frowning.
Before answering Jimin, the alpha looked around warily to check if anyone could be listening near them.
Yoongi leaned closer to Jimin and whispered, “It’s a lie I told them to convince them to take you in.”
Jimin frowned. Something about it bothered him. The omega looked at the new clearing which was still covered by a layer of snow. There was a big pile of recently-cut tree logs on the side. In the middle of the clearing, the base of the new cabin was already being built with rocks piled up to form a big rectangular shape. The base of this new cabin was double the size of Yoongi’s old one.
“Will I keep living with you in this new home?” Jimin asked quietly, his chest sorrowful, “Or will I have to stay in the common dorms from now on?”
Yoongi’s shoulders tensed for a moment, then he breathed out. “You can do whatever you want, Jimin-ah.”
Jimin frowned at the vague answer. The alpha didn’t elaborate on it but just turned around and went back to the same spot Jimin had found him. Yoongi picked his ax from the ground and went back to hitting a tree’s base with it.
Jimin huffed annoyedly and slowly made his way closer to the working alpha. His big leather boots almost made him stumble and fall on the snow at times, but he managed to stand beside the alpha soon, even if clumsily.
“What does that mean? I can do whatever I want?” Jimin asked exasperatedly, “I don’t understand! Why are you moving into the pack? I thought you were happy as a lone wolf.”
Yoongi didn’t look up as he calmly answered, “I have new priorities now.”
The answer just confused him even more.
“But what about me?” Jimin asked, “Should I keep working as your house servant?”
The alpha paused for a second before answering calmly, still focusing on his work, “You can do whatever you want, Jimin-ah.”
Jimin’s confusion and annoyance were worsening with the alpha’s vague answers.
“So you don’t care?” Jimin asked and crossed his arms over his chest.
“I care.” Yoongi cryptically answered.
“And your blacksmith’s work? Are you going to quit?”
“No, I’ll bring the furnace down here and build a new shed.”
Jimin watched the alpha work with his arms crossed and a pout.
“I don’t understand what you’re trying to do, Yoongi-ssi, I really don’t.” Jimin mumbled, “But I suppose it is none of my business.”
Yoongi parted his lips and closed them, hesitating over what to say. “...I want you to do whatever you want to do, but I also need to make sure you’re safe.”
Yoongi got up to face Jimin with an intense gaze, his jaw shut tight and his shoulders tense. “If you wish to keep living with me,” Yoongi said deeply, “If that’s what you want, Jimin-ah, you can.”
Still with his arms crossed, Jimin stepped closer to Yoongi until they were face to face. He looked up to the tall alpha, “You are still avoiding my question. You don’t want to tell me why you decided to move here out of nowhere.” Jimin accused the alpha.
“Please don’t be angry at me.” Yoongi pleaded softly.
Surprised, Jimin watched the alpha with raised eyebrows. Yoongi seemed to still hesitate over his words, looking to the ground and breathing deeply. After a moment, Yoongi faced the omega again, saying in a soft and deep voice, “One day, I’ll tell you my reasons. I’m still not ready to talk about my feelings.” the alpha confessed in an earnest whisper. Jimin’s breath stuttered. The tips of Yoongi’s ears were red. “Can we wait until the new cabin is ready? I want to show it to you when it’s done.”
With his heart beating heavily in his chest, Jimin nodded in agreement to the alpha’s request.
“But…” Jimin asked finally, “What should we do about the people that believe that we are mates?”
“I want to wait at least until the cabin is ready to tell the truth,” Yoongi said, “But you don’t have to lie on my behalf if you don’t want to.”
Jimin silently nodded in understanding to the alpha’s opinion. Jimin wasn’t sure if he wanted to tell people the truth just yet either.
Jimin huffed and looked away, blushing. “We don’t even share mating bites. Shouldn’t the correct term be intended mates.” Jimin grumbled. He turned around to sit on a nearby log that had been cut.
Yoongi shrugged and went back to cutting the tree’s base.
-
In the last days of winter, Yoongi worked day and night to finish his new and bigger cabin inside the pack’s territory. Meanwhile, Jimin split his time between checking up on the alpha and bringing him treats, and getting to know the pack members.
Jungkook, the omega boy, and Taehyung, the young alpha Jungkook had a crush on, became Jimin’s first friends within the pack.
Jimin noticed how this pack treated him differently than his old pack had. Jimin supposed it was because this pack didn’t share the belief that Jimin was cursed. The only relatively bad treatment Jimin received was from some pack members who clearly were unsettled because of his white blind eye and his different hair color, but even then, at least those people didn’t cuss Jimin out loud.
Every day Jimin would visit Yoongi at the clearing, bringing him treats like berries he would pick by the lake with Jungkook and Taehyung. When it was dinner time, on some days Jimin ate at the main hall with Yoongi and all the other pack members, but on other days Yoongi would simply hunt prey himself and cook the meat on sticks over the fire, and Jimin would eat it as well, sitting on a log by the alpha’s side.
Jimin would mostly sleep in the omega common dorm while Yoongi had set up a temporary tent for himself in the new clearing, next to the cabin in construction.
On a certain night, when the new cabin was more than halfway built, Jimin walked to Yoongi’s new clearing in the pack. The snow was mostly gone from the ground and grass was starting to grow again.
Jimin found the alpha sitting on a log by a campfire in the clearing, cooking meat on sticks. The omega approached Yoongi quietly and sat beside him.
Yoongi turned to inform Jimin, “Dinner is almost ready.”
Jimin nodded in understanding.
Yoongi made small talk, “You told me that you would try fishing in the lake with Jungkook and Taehyung.” the alpha commented, “How did it go?”
Jimin shrugged, “I didn’t catch anything, obviously.”
Yoongi let out an endeared laugh. “It was your first time. Just keep trying and you’ll start catching some.”
Jimin nodded, watching the fire with a thoughtful expression. “I will. And when I finally catch one, I’ll cook it for you.”
“I’ll be waiting for it, then.” Yoongi said with a smile.
The two chatted under the moonlight. The meat finished cooking and Yoongi handed one of the delicious sticks to the omega.
“Thank you.” Jimin said happily and began biting at it.
As he ate, Jimin talked to Yoongi about how his transition back into a life of pack was going.
“A lot of people refer to me as ‘the blacksmith’s mate’ and refer to you as my mate or alpha.” Jimin commented, laughing, “Isn’t it hilarious? As if an alpha like you would ever want to mate an ugly and weird omega like me.” Jimin shook his head, chuckling.
Yoongi tensed by his side. He didn’t laugh with Jimin, but said seriously, “That is not how I feel. I don’t think you’re weird or ugly.”
Jimin was taken aback by how overly serious the alpha had sounded. Still, he didn’t really believe Yoongi’s words. He supposed the alpha was just too nice to verbally agree with Jimin’s self-deprecating statement.
In the following weeks it took for spring to fully arrive upon the forest, Jimin eased into his new life within the pack. Yoongi would be mostly busy finishing the new cabin and hunting, now not only for himself and Jimin, but as one of the pack’s official hunters as well.
Jimin ended up joining the farming work team. He worked with the potato crops on most days. They were located in a large field west of the pack. As per tradition, the crops were the responsibility of the omegas of the pack. Jimin was welcomed into the workforce and was taught his new duties by patient older omegas.
On a refreshing spring morning, Jimin wore a light-colored hanbok with an apron over the skirt and a large straw hat over his head. He held a garden fork with a long handle and used it to plow the land to prepare it to receive the seeds.
Jimin carefully dragged the long metal fork through the land in a long straight line. A few other adult omegas did the same work in the field around him. The omegas sang a song Jimin didn’t know beforehand and, even if the lyrics were simple enough to learn, Jimin felt too shy to join their singing at that moment.
There was a short pause in the singing of some of the omegas. Jimin looked up just as one of them called him, “Jimin-ssi! Your alpha is here to see you.”
They pointed at an edge of the crop field. Standing where the field ended and the forest began, Yoongi was waving at Jimin with a small smile.
Jimin was a little confused at the action. Yoongi had never come to visit him while he was working in the crops.
Seeing Jimin’s hesitation, one of the older omegas smiled at him and said, “It’s alright, Jimin-ah, you can go talk to him.”
Jimin was unsure if he should leave his work incomplete. But the others were telling him to go, so he stuck his fork on the land and walked out of the field to go meet Yoongi.
As he walked up to the alpha, Jimin slipped his gardening gloves off his hands and stored them on the front pocket of his apron.
The first thing Yoongi told Jimin when he reached him was an apology. “I’m sorry for interrupting your work, Jimin-ah. I just wanted to tell you that our…” Yoongi stopped himself and cleared his throat. The tips of his ears were blushing, “I mean, I wanted to let you know that the cabin is completed. Can I show it to you now?” Yoongi asked.
Jimin was happy to hear that the cabin Yoongi had been so busy building was finally finished. He could imagine that the alpha was proud of his work.
“Sure, I wanna see it.” Jimin smiled.
Jimin raised a hand to push the straw hat away from his head, letting it fall back and hang over his back from a soft cord around his neck.
Jimin walked along a path in the woods with Yoongi in comfortable silence. The alpha seemed mildly nervous but Jimin chose to not comment on it.
When they arrived at the new clearing, Jimin gasped in surprise. The new cabin was bigger than twice the size of the smaller one. It had a large porch on the front, a door, and two windows, one on each side of the front door. Yoongi had installed pink checkered windows and had brought all of Jimin’s flower pots from the older house to the windows of the new one.
Yoongi looked from the cabin to Jimin with silent expectation. “What do you think?” he asked the omega.
“It’s beautiful, Yoongi-ssi.” Jimin smiled, emotional.
“Come see the inside.” Yoongi said and walked up the steps of the front porch.
Walking in, Jimin was in awe to see that the cabin had a living room with a large brick fireplace to the right, a kitchen area on the wall on the left side with a wooden table by the window, and two doors on the wall opposite to the entrance.
“This is the bedroom,” Yoongi pointed to the door on the right, “And this is a built-in bathroom.”
“Wow…” Jimin was surprised by the detail and care in which Yoongi had prepared everything.
Yoongi guided him through the house. The bathroom had a toilet and a bathtub, a mirror, and a small window high on the wall.
The bedroom had a bigger window with the same cute pink curtains as the rest of the home. A brick fireplace was on the wall on the right side of the room. Yoongi had brought his and Jimin’s chests and belongings from the older cabin, as well as Jimin’s nest.
Jimin noticed that Yoongi’s blankets and mattress weren’t in the bedroom, only Jimin’s nest was.
“Where will you sleep, Yoongi-ssi?” the omega turned to him.
Yoongi cleared his throat. “In the living room.”
For some reason, the idea of sleeping alone in the bedroom bothered him. “Why not here? We used to sleep together, before.” Jimin asked the alpha, confused and a little sad.
Yoongi shook his head and said somewhat hesitant, “It’s not right for an unmated omega to share a room with an alpha. Especially not in a pack.”
“Oh…” Jimin nodded. His mattress and nest of furs had been placed near the bedroom’s fireplace, his blankets neatly folded on top of it.
Jimin was sad to remember that, eventually, he would have to tell the truth to everyone else. He has gotten quite used to having everyone around him act like he and Yoongi were mates. Of course, he’d been silly to believe that for even a second.
“...Your cabin is beautiful, Yoongi-ssi.” Jimin said quietly, without meeting the other’s eyes, “But I have to go back to work now.”
“Of course, yes.” Yoongi vehemently agreed, “I’m sorry for keeping you here for so long. I just couldn’t wait to show it to you.”
With a heavy heart, Jimin smiled at Yoongi and got out of the beautiful cabin. He began walking back to the crop field.
Alone with his thoughts, Jimin feared what would happen once word got out that he and Yoongi weren’t actually mates. He’d bet that other unmated omegas would try to get Yoongi’s attention. Maybe Yoongi would even fall in love with one and they would mate, and Jimin would be kicked out of the alpha’s cabin and be doomed to a loveless life at the omega dorm.
Jimin’s eyes burned with unshed tears and he pulled the straw hat up on his head in an attempt to hide his face. He felt disappointed at himself for crying. No, he shouldn’t cry. He should have accepted his fate by now. Such was the fate of a cursed omega.
Jimin reached the crop fields and wordlessly went back to the place he left his gardening fork. He pulled it from the land and went back to work.
-
When it was time for Jimin to spend his first night at Yoongi’s new cabin, he quietly laid down on his nest in the bedroom while Yoongi got ready to sleep in the living room.
Yoongi had noticed that Jimin was sad, and he looked conflicted. Jimin wondered what was going on in the alpha’s mind at the moment.
In the dark bedroom, Jimin lied on his side and tried to fall asleep, but his heavy heart wouldn’t let him.
It turned out that Jimin wouldn’t have to wonder what was going through Yoongi’s mind, because the alpha soon knocked on his bedroom door softly.
Jimin sat up. “Yes?” he called.
“Jimin-ah,” the alpha’s voice was muffled from the other side of the door. He spoke gently, “Can I speak with you for a moment?”
Jimin sighed, feeling like he would start crying at any moment. Oh, now was the time Yoongi would kick him out, wasn’t it.
“Sure.” Jimin mumbled with a wet voice.
Yoongi opened the door and approached Jimin in careful steps. He sat on his knees in front of the omega and slowly reached out to take one of Jimin’s hands in his. Jimin softly gasped at the warm touch but didn’t try to pull his hand away.
Yoongi met the omega’s gaze somberly, sorrowful. “Jimin-ah. I’m sorry for assuming you would want to sleep in this house without asking first.” Yoongi apologized, “I’ll help you move your things to the dorm, don’t worry.”
Jimin tried to swallow back his tears. He took a deep breath and said evenly, “But I don’t want to sleep at the dorm, I want to sleep here.”
“Then why are you so sad?” Yoongi asked. He held Jimin’s hand in between his and softly caressed it with his thumbs.
Jimin’s chest heaved, “I’m not sad.” he said, but started crying despite it.
“Please tell me what’s going on.” Yoongi’s deep voice sounded worried, “Did someone do something to you?”
Jimin shook his head quickly as he sniffed. He used his free hand to dry his cheeks from the tears.
“Yoongi-ssi…” Jimin said in a wet voice, breathing deeply. He felt a new wave of tears coming and smiled through them, “I’ve let my silly feelings have the best of me, that’s all.”
“Your feelings aren’t silly.” Yoongi countered, “Although I don’t know which feelings they are.”
Jimin faced Yoongi with a sad smile, “Sadness. Jealousy. Love.”
The alpha met his gaze with confusion and surprise. “I don’t understand,” he whispered.
“I can’t be here anymore, Yoongi-ssi.” Jimin said, and sniffed through tears. He didn’t smile anymore, only eyed the alpha sadly, “I’m a weird, ugly, c- cursed omega.” Jimin sobbed, heartbroken. Yoongi heard his words with visible astonishment, but Jimin continued speaking, “You deserve to mate and share this beautiful home with a proper omega. One that is pretty and kind like you. If I stay here, I will only inconvenience you.”
By the time Jimin was finished talking, Yoongi was watching him with tears of his own. The alpha had his jaw closed tight and held Jimin’s hand tighter in his.
“You…” Yoongi whispered, heartbroken. “You really think that way?”
Jimin nodded quietly.
A tear slid down Yoongi’s cheek. Yoongi held Jimin’s hand and slowly brought it up to his chest, gently pressing the omega’s palm to his chest.
“Jimin, can you feel my heart?” Yoongi asked in a trembling voice. “Can you feel how it beats for you? Jimin-ah, my heart beats for you. You’re precious to me.”
“W-what?” Jimin whispered, crying.
“You’re the most precious to me.” Yoongi confessed earnestly in the dark bedroom, gently holding Jimin’s small hand against his chest. “I would do anything for you, Jimin. You wanted to know why I moved here, right? I built this home for you . I moved into this pack because I wanted you to be safe and happy.”
Jimin cried and confessed, “You're the one that makes me happy, Yoongi-ssi.”
The omega lifted his free hand and slowly pressed his palm to Yoongi’s cheek.
Yoongi let go of Jimin’s other hand and leaned closer to place his hands on the omega’s waist. He pulled Jimin closer and their lips met in a kiss.
They pressed their closed lips together for a long second, kissing each other chastely. Jimin closed his eyes and moved his hands to rest of the alpha’s broad shoulders. He got on his knees to get even closer to Yoongi, who responded by holding his waist tighter and pressing their chests together.
The sudden pull made Jimin gasp softly against Yoongi’s lips. The alpha took the chance to run his tongue against the omega’s plump lower lip and deepen the kiss.
Jimin had never kissed anyone before so he only followed the other’s guidance. Yoongi pulled Jimin closer until the omega was sitting on his lap, his legs straddling the alpha’s hips.
Yoongi kissed Jimin’s lips, his chin, and under his jaw, making him moan breathly with his eyes closed.
“Yoongi-ssi…” Jimin sighed. The alpha’s chest rumbled against his.
“Call me Yoongi-oppa.” the alpha asked, his voice rough from arousal, “I want you to call me Yoongi-oppa.”
Jimin felt a familiar warmth in his lower belly. He nodded and obediently said with a breathy voice, “Yoongi-oppa.”
The alpha growled lowly and kissed Jimin’s lips again, savoring the omega’s sweet lips with his. Yoongi ran his big hands over the omega’s waist and hips over the layers of clothes, wanting to touch and feel more.
-Smut-
During the kiss, Jimin moved his hips on the alpha’s lap and felt something hard under him. He gasped in surprise and broke the kiss only to find the alpha watching him intensely.
Jimin bit his lower lip, feeling hot under his clothes, but not from a heat this time around.
“Jimin-ah, I want to court you, and mate you.” Yoongi said roughly.
Jimin nodded eagerly and asked, needy, “Mate me tonight, please? I’m tired of waiting.” Jimin confessed breathily. He pressed his forehead against Yoongi’s and breathed out, “I wanna be yours, Yoongi-oppa.”
Yoongi looked up to him intensely and said with a low, growling voice, “I’ve wanted to mate you ever since I brought you into my house, pup.”
Jimin moaned at the confession, “Make me yours, alpha, please.”
“I will.” Yoongi growled and, holding onto the small omega’s waist, slowly laid him on top of the nest. Yoongi got on top of him while supporting his weight on his knees and elbows.
Yoongi left wet kisses on the omega’s neck and under his jaw. He whispered hoarsely by Jimin’s ear, “I’ll mate you and breed you, little omega.”
“Yoongi-oppa!” Jimin whined, feeling his entrance glossy with slick.
“That’s what you want, isn’t it?” Yoongi teased the omega with a deep growling voice, “You want your alpha to breed you full of cum. You wanna be a mommy, Jiminie?”
Jimin moaned and nodded his head eagerly. His petite body writhed on top of the blankets and furs of his nest. The alpha lifted one of his hands from the nest and placed it under Jimin’s long skirt to hold his thigh. Yoongi squeezed the small omega’s thigh with his big hand possessively.
Jimin placed his arms over the alpha’s shoulders and pulled him into a kiss. Yoongi kissed him passionately and slowly.
Yoongi sat up to take off his shirt. He then leaned down to help Jimin out of his hanbok.
The omega was slightly out of breath from excitement when he was finally lying naked on the furs. He looked at the alpha and found him watching him hungrily. Yoongi growled lowly and held Jimin’s thin waist with his palms, slowly running his hands over the omega’s soft stomach and flat chest.
He ran his thumbs over the omega’s nipples and watched Jimin squirm under his hold.
“Yoongi-oppa…” Jimin moaned with half-lidded eyes.
The alpha wanted to take his hard cock from his pants and push it into the pliant omega’s small pussy right then, but he knew he shouldn’t be so sudden. He brought a hand to the omega’s thigh and slowly caressed the skin, making Jimin’s legs tremble.
Yoongi gently touched the omega’s hairless folds and pressed the pad of his thumb to the clit. Jimin moaned and arched his back.
The alpha was fixated on Jimin’s reactions to the way he pleasured his small entrance with his big hands. Yoongi pushed a finger in very slowly, then another.
“Yoongi-oppa!” Jimin cried, “I want you in me.” he begged, arching his back off the mattress.
Yoongi tutted, “Shh, little one, be patient.” and, with his free hand that was still on Jimin’s chest, pinched one of his nipples lightly.
Jimin gasped and whined.
The alpha had inserted his index and middle fingers in the omega and began to slowly fuck him with them. The omega trembled under him, overwhelmed with the new feeling.
After Yoongi made sure Jimin was ready to take his knot, he pulled his fingers out of the omega’s hole and licked his slick coated fingers.
Yoongi impatiently pulled his pants down and off his body, quickly discarding them. His thick cock was fully hard and he wrapped a hand around it and fisted in while locking gazes with the small blonde omega.
Yoongi leaned down to face Jimin, supporting his weight on one elbow near the omega’s head. He brought his lips to Jimin’s ear and whispered gravely, “Spread your legs for me.” he instructed darkly and Jimin, moaning softly at each breath he took, obeyed, pulling his knees up. “Good boy.” Yoongi whispered, “I’m gonna breed you and mate you, is that what you want, little one?”
Jimin nodded eagerly. “Y-yes, alpha, please.”
Yoongi kissed the side of Jimin’s neck wetly at the same time that he guided the blunt head of his thick cock to Jimin’s virgin hole and started pressing in. Jimin gasped and moaned at the feeling of the alpha’s big cock penetrating him.
Jimin was a small omega and his body couldn’t immediately take in such a thick cock, but Yoongi kept pushing into him steadily. Jimin had his eyes shut tight and his mouth open in a silent moan.
Yoongi slowly pushed his long hardness all the way inside the omega. Jimin whined in a mix of both pleasure and pain and lightly scratched at the alpha’s back with his nails.
Only after Yoongi was deep in the omega was that he pulled back and began slowly fucking him.
“Ah!” Jimin moaned breathily with each thrust of the alpha.
Yoongi growled by Jimin’s ear as he fucked him with firm and deep thrusts. He had his eyes closed and kissed and lightly bit at the omega’s neck, shoulders and jaw, leaving little hickeys on his skin.
The alpha picked up a faster pace. The slick made the glide of his big cock easier in and out of the omega’s pussy. With the quicker thrusts, Jimin’s moans got louder and his orgasm closer.
Yoongi noticed it and brought a hand down to rub at the omega’s clit.
“Yoongi-oppa!” Jimin cried as he came. His legs trembled and Yoongi began fucking into him with quick and forceful thrusts, pushing the thick hardness deep inside the small omega.
Yoongi kissed the underside of Jimin’s jaw with his eyes pressed shut. The knot was forming at the base of his cock and he pushed it into the omega at each thrust, making Jimin moan and hold on to the alpha’s shoulders.
His thrusts got slow and deeper as he pushed the knot in the omega’s hole and pulled it out, stretching Jimin to the limit. Yoongi growled under his breath in satisfaction and kissed the omega’s neck as he pushed the knot in one last time, and came.
He saw stars as he came inside Jimin, filling his womb with his warm load. The omega moaned breathily, exhausted, and begged him with a sweet trembling voice,
“Mate me, Yoongi-oppa, please.”
-Smut end-
Yoongi’s chest rumbled. He kissed the omega’s neck lovingly and licked the skin patiently before parting his lips and biting meaningfully, properly mating his omega. Jimin gasped, lying on the furs and under the alpha’s frame.
Yoongi licked the bleeding wound left by his sharp teeth and turned his head to present his neck to Jimin.
The omega leaned closer to him and bit his neck as well, completing the mating process.
Even exhausted from all the love, Jimin felt emotional. He had just mated with the one he loved and who loved him in return. He was so happy.
“I’m so happy, Yoongi-oppa.” Jimin said, crying.
The alpha leaned down to his face and licked his tears of joy, making Jimin giggle.
“I love you, Jimin-ah.”
“I love you too.”
Jimin knew he wouldn’t have to be lonely anymore.
~THE END~