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12 months, 365 days, 8,760 hours and change— a year. A year of knowing Jungkook, a year of loving Da-Ae. A year of growth.
So much can happen in a year, so much can change, like how Taehyung was now a month away from graduating and getting that degree he had worked so long and hard for. Or how his daughter now had two gorgeous teeth that she used to chomp on so many tasty things. Or how Taehyung now called Jungkook, Kookie and had become so comfortable with the alpha, that most days he started stripping on his way to the shower not even realizing he was giving the alpha quite a show. Nor did he probably realize how he gravitated to the alpha’s side each night to cuddle him. Which also resulted in a problem for the alpha come morning that required him to slip out of bed early and take a long shower to ‘take care of it’ before Taehyung woke up.
Of course there were also things that stayed the same, constants. Things like the fact that Taehyung still wore Jungkook’s shirts around the house on most days. Or that Jungkook always made Taehyung’s favorite tea in the morning no matter how rushed he was to get out the door. They both remained the best possible co-parents to their daughter, the best of friends to each other and still completely oblivious to whether the other had feelings for them or if it was that they were just scared to act on their own feelings, worried that they’d ruin a good thing.
The feelings had been there for some time, felt but unspoken.
Jungkook had fallen first. Since the first time he laid eyes on the omega and caught the slightest hint of his own scent on Taehyung. He was amazed at how the moon goddess had gotten it so right. She had given him an ideal partner in every possible way. And he had the blessing of being able to grow in the role of Appa alongside someone who he was falling in love with more and more each passing day.
Taehyung, however, seemed to have fallen harder. It took him a while to pick up what would probably seem so obvious to an outsider. In fairness, he certainly had a lot to sort out those first months of parenthood. Back then, the omega hadn't even known he was an omega let alone pregnant! His first months were a big learning curve as they got their life 'pup ready'. Yet even in those first months the seeds were there. Somewhat dormant but still sowed. His realization of feelings for the alpha did not hit him like a ton of bricks, no. They crept in like a thief in the night, but once Taehyung began to feel their presence it was to late...the theft had already occurred, and his heart had been stolen.
At first he tried to fight against them, to not let them grow. But the more he tried to tamp them down, the more they budded and blossomed and bloomed. The once abandoned seeds were now a lush garden of emotion and Taehyung was stuck as the reluctant gardner. Sowing seeds, for flowers he feared would only get plucked sooner or later.
Now that they were here in this strange sort of limbo, Taehyung didn’t know how they should move forward without holding back. The omega was afraid that trying to become more than what they were would result in him losing what they had. He was scared to take the next step but also fearful of what it would cost him if he didn’t even try.
Maybe he needed to just take the leap. Fall and see where he would land. Taehyung reasoned that they could have a conversation about it when they returned from the Selene pack. They were all traveling to Jungkook’s hometown to celebrate the pup’s first lunar birthday–a fortuitous event for the pack. They had even reached out to some of the elder council of the Dal pack so that they would be present to represent Taehyung’s pack.
The alpha had expected some push back from the Dal pack because they had no way of definitively proving that Taehyung belonged to that pack, but the elders surprised him by immediately agreeing. As if they had been waiting for the alpha’s call.
Da-Ae’s little family got in the car and began their half day drive to the outlying forest. Taehyung sat in the back seat with Da-Ae still nervous to leave her to her own devices for such a long journey. Jungkook kept his eyes on the road, though they often found their way to the rear view mirror to look at the precious cargo seated in the back.
When they arrived at the pack grounds, Jungkook’s parents immediately grabbed their granddaughter before the car doors had been opened fully. The pair chuckled to see the grandparents eagerness to spend time with the pup. They were only going to be there for the weekend, but traveling with a pup always required lugging a lot more things back and forth.
Jungkook had just started to unpack the car, when the elders of the pack were already surrounding him claiming they had to discuss important pack business that couldn’t wait. Though the alpha had told Taehyung to leave the stuff in the car, that he would unpack it later, the omega wanted to lighten Jungkook’s load by at least getting the unpacking done for them all before Jungkook got back.
They hadn’t spoken about the lodging accommodations, but Taehyung just assumed that he would be staying in Jungkook’s hut during their stay. It never occurred to him otherwise, until a very nice beta approached him to help him carry the things to the hut.
“Oh, Lun– I mean sir. Please. You are a guest of the pack. Let us help you. We will get the head alpha’s things to his hut, and direct you and your belongings to the unmated omega huts.
“Oh!” Taehyung’s eyes grew large, surprised by that statement. He couldn’t believe they would be separating them. “And my baby?”
“Oh, the heir will stay in the head alpha’s lodgings, we will have one of the nannies from the nursery come help the alpha throughout the night should he need assistance.”
Taehyung tried his best to mask his frustration but he hadn’t imagined the pack would go this far to separate a papa and his pup because it would be inappropriate for an unmated omega and the head alpha to stay together under the same roof.
“Thank you for your kindness and gracious hospitality.” The omega tried his best to put on his sweetest voice as he issued his request. “Though, to be honest. I have never been separated from my pup before. Would there possibly be a way that she and I could lodge together? After all, I’m sure the head alpha will be tired from all of tonight’s festivities, and the last thing he will want is to be trouble or trouble anyone else in the middle of the night.” Taehyung even batted his eyelashes, to sell the plea even better.
It was a blatant lie, of course, Jungkook would never think that Da-Ae was a burden. But the idea that some random omega nanny would be watching over his pup and have access to Jungkook’s hut when he, said pup’s father, was in a completely other section entirely did not sit well with Taehyung.
The beta stumbled. One glance at the omega’s face, and he seemed to lose the capacity for words. “I…uh, that is… I will see what I can do Lun- eh, sir.” He bowed at Taehyung before bringing him to the omega dorms.
The unmated omega huts were lined up in a row 15 or 20 of them altogether. There were usually two omegas at each hut but since Taehyung was a guest, they gave him a single hut at the end of the row and he quickly settled in, hoping to get back to the center of the village and talk to Jungkook about what had transpired.
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Despite the fact the village was small, Taehyung had not been able to reach the alpha all day. If he didn’t know better, he would swear the elders were purposely trying to keep them apart. At a loss for what to do, and not wanting to spend the rest of the day by himself. He went to the Jeon's hut, hoping that passing some time with the alpha’s parents and his daughter would help assuage some of the ache he was feeling in his chest.
Mrs. Jeon welcomed him graciously into their hut and while she wasn’t surprised that the pack traditions had dictated that they would be sleeping apart, she did think it was an odd choice to lodge Taehyung in the unmated omega blocks and not let him stay with his pup.
“You are always welcome to crash here, sweetheart. Or at the very least, I can ask if they’ll let Da-Ae stay with us tonight, while they reconfigure your lodgings, hm?” She patted him on the shoulder as she passed by the omega to go get a snack for the hungry pup.
A handful of hours later, Taehyung found himself staring into a full-length mirror as he looked over his outfit for tonight. A white blazer with a tulle top underneath and a fluffy neckline and matching white pants. He looked ethereal. They had chosen the white ensemble to showcase the connection he had with the Dal pack, but he thought it suited him nicely.
He wouldn’t be the only one who thought so.
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Jungkook had been rushing around dealing with pack matters and had barely any time to breathe. When he arrived at the head alpha hut, all he wanted to do was curl up next to Taehyung and rest. He longed for the comfort of the wolf that had become his best friend in such a short time span provided. But there was no time to rest, he had to get ready for Da-Ae’s ceremony. He went to his room and grabbed the suit that had been left for him to dress all the while wondering why his hut had been so quiet.
Where was Taehyung? The pup?
One strong sniff and it was easy to tell that the alpha’s scent had been the only one in the hut. The black truffle scent was unadulterated. While his first thought was to panic, he quickly remembered where he was. His hometown, with his very, very traditional pack.
“Tch. Don’t tell me they really stuck to all the traditional rules and made him stay in the omegan huts.” He clicked his tongue, annoyed. All day, the elders had been weird about Taehyung.
Not exactly rude, but also not exactly treating him like a luna either. It had frustrated the alpha to no end. Many times he wanted to speak up for his best friend, educate the elders on the relationships of the modern world. Relationships that weren’t so black and white, but rather more blue and grey. Taehyung may not officially be his mate, and while he could understand why they would house him separately (though he doesn’t care for it) he still felt that it shouldn’t stop them from treating him with reverence for being the heir’s papa. He was shocked that the elders were behaving like this, as it wasn’t like them not to observe the basic rules of conduct at the very least..
The alpha decided to let go of his momentary ire favoring instead to seek out the omega and his pup. He had become so attuned to Taehyung’s scent that he was able to immediately pick out which hut the omega was in.
The jasmine scent was always his favorite. He patted his front pocket lightly to ensure he hadn’t forgotten his gift for the omega. He knocked briefly, but did not wait for the omega to acknowledge the gesture as he was fearful that the elders would catch him, an unmated alpha, visiting an unmated omega…regardless if they had a kid together or not.
Rushing inside, he closed the door behind him as gently as he could. But he wasn’t expecting the sight that greeted him as he entered.
Taehyung looked like an angel, one the moon had sent him, so ethereal, so breathtaking, so…
“Beautiful.” The words left his lips without permission. But even though they were but a breathless whisper, they still echoed loudly in the silence of the room.
Taehyung gasped, alarmed as his eyes looked up at the alpha through the mirror. “Jungkook.”
“Tae, you look…so…wow. Just wow.” The alpha walked forward into the room until he was standing right behind the omega.
The omega smiled shyly. “Thank you. Though I’m not entirely sure you’re supposed to be here.”
“I’m the head alpha, so technically, I’m allowed everywhere.” The alpha stepped forward that last step that now brought his body flush against the omega’s.
Taehyung raised his eyebrow, staring the alpha down in the mirror, challenging his statement with just a look. He was about to tease his best friend with a witty retort when he felt the alpha’s palm against his waist, his grip tight as he whispered into the omega’s ear.
“Forgive me. I should have come sooner.” His face dipped, nose going closer to the omega’s scent gland. The alpha’s eyes locked with Taehyung’s in the mirror as if asking permission and when he saw Taehyung give an almost imperceptible nod, yes, he almost sagged in relief.
The alpha could smell Taehyung’s scent spiking, and while he loved the jasmine scent, it bothered him that no trace of his own scent lingered on the omega. At home, the omega would walk around in the alpha’s shirts all the time, and they’d sleep in the same bed…but here? Here they’ve been apart for hours in the fresh forest air and neither one of them was wearing their own clothes. And the alpha too quickly realized that he didn’t care for it. He liked it when Taehyung smelled like him.
“It’s not your fault. I’m sure you were, ahhh…b--busy.” The omega managed to squeak out the last bit despite feeling the alpha’s nose against his scent gland.
“Mhm…But still. I will always make time for you.” The alpha’s grip on the omega’s waist tightened even more.
“J-Jungkook.” The omega breathed out in response. It was bad enough that the alpha was so close to him, and his nose was on Taehyung’s scent gland, the black truffle already making him delirious, but what was making everything even more heady in the moment was the fact that he could see it in the the reflection of the mirror. The sight alone was spurring thoughts he had no business thinking about Da-Ae’s appa, about his best friend, about his soul…mate.
The word dangled there in his mind, unspoken but quite pronounced in his thoughts.
Jungkook quietly groaned, as the scent of jasmine invaded his senses even more. He found himself getting almost scent drunk by the omega. The combination of his scent and the feel of the omega’s body pressed against his was already doing something to the alpha.
“Ahhh… I know why they did it, but I still don’t like being apart from you, or our baby.” The alpha continued as his nose softly rubbed against Taehyung’s neck, black truffle now abundant in the air. He wanted more, so much more but they had a ceremony to attend and if they stayed like this Jungkook feared both of them would end up missing in action for their daughter’s special night.
“J-jungkook, we need to talk.” Taehyung would swear that his knees were about to give out if it wasn’t for the fact that the alpha was holding his waist. He closed his eyes tightly. This moment felt like a dream.
The alpha nodded into the crook of the omega’s neck. “We do. But right now, we need to get going otherwise we will miss our daughter’s lunar ceremony.”
“Right. The ceremony.” He could feel the alpha’s other hand gliding softly down his arm as he shakily began to open his eyes. Jungkook had never been so brazen before, so spontaneous.
In line with that new found spontaneity, the alpha suddenly spun Taehyung around so that they were now face to face. “The ceremony that’s starting in 15 minutes.” His lips were only an inch away from the omega’s as he spoke.
“Yeah…that’s close.” The omega replied, their lips so close he could practically taste them.
“So close,” the alpha answered, diminishing the space between their lips by half.
And just when the alpha was going to erase any remaining space between their lips, a knock was heard at the door.
“Jungkook! Are you seriously sneaking into an omega’s hut?” His mother playfully huffed. “Could you let go of that gorgeous boy for a few minutes while we head over to where the ceremony is about to take place? They are expecting you, and you're here…finagling.” She laughed at her son.
Jungkook chuckled, tilting his face slightly to plant a kiss on the omega’s check instead. “Save me the midnight dance, yeah?”
Taehyung smiled, “Okay.” His cheeks were dusted with a rosy color, flushed.
“Good.” The alpha stepped away before he was tempted to stay. “See you later, beautiful.” He uttered before opening the door to the outside.
Mrs. Jeon smiled widely at Taehyung in greeting, which made him even more embarrassed because it meant she knew. She quickly waived goodbye and ushered her son towards the ceremony.
Jungkook left feeling happier, lighter. Having at least been able to scent Taehyung made him feel more at ease. The alpha couldn’t wait to see his daughter and Taehyung at the ceremony. He couldn’t help the excitement bubbling inside him. There was something different about tonight, something special.
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When the door closed behind the alpha, Taehyung let out an exhale. This alpha, his best friend, was absolutely positively driving him nuts. In all the best possible ways.
The night was supposed to be about Da-Ae. Celebrating her first 12 lunar cycles, Taehyung couldn’t help but feel this event was just as much for Jungkook and him as it was for their child.
Taehyung almost yelped when the same nice beta from before brought him to the ceremony site. It was set up exactly like the one in his dream. Except this time, there weren’tjust snowy white wolves lining the path. It was also russet brown ones and midnight black ones. Wolves from both packs. It made Taehyung’s heart clench. For the first time in his life, he was starting to feel like he had roots, a family.
Growing up in an orphanage was difficult, worse still when you watch everyone around you get picked and find loving homes and families of their own and you’re left behind time and time again, unchosen.
Now, standing at the beginning of that line of wolves with his pup in his arms and Jungkook by his side, it felt like the pieces were finally coming together.
As they walked down the path with their daughter, the wolves began their howls of acknowledgment. It was just like his dream! Was that what his dream was? His own lunar celebration? His initiation into the pack?
They walked to the altar, this one specially crafted of both wood and stone, and handed the baby first to the cloaked elder from the Selene pack. She said the prayers to the moon goddess and bestowed her blessings on the pup. Then she passed the child onto the elder from the Dal pack who did the same.
Taehyung couldn’t help but feel like he recognized the elders' voice. As if he had heard it before, was it the voice from his dream?
The elder placed her finger in the middle of the pup’s forehead. “Welcome Da-Ae, child of the moon, when stone and wood collide, great things happen.” The elder said as she lifted the baby towards the moon.
Fierce howls erupted from the wolves behind them, and the pair looked at each other wondering if their daughter would be scared, but she wasn’t. Far from it. A wide smile erupted on her face and Taehyung could swear she was trying to imitate their howls.
Everything after the ceremony felt like a blur, the banquet and festivities held after were a source of entertainment for all. Taehyung did think it odd that the alpha and he were being separated a large chunk of the night but perhaps that was just coincidence and Taehyung was just overthinking things. Even if every time he looked over, the elders seemed to be introducing Jungkook to what seemed like another omega. Curiously, none of them had mating marks.
He tried to push those thoughts to the side as he stood there with his daughter sleeping in his arms. A moment later he felt a tap on his shoulder.
“Here, let me.” Mrs. Jeon extended her arms to take the little girl from her papa. “Go find your alpha before those mangy wolves get to him.” She winked at Taehyung before she walked away with her granddaughter in her arms.
Taehyung excitedly made his way through the gathering of wolves to where he had last seen the alpha as it was almost midnight, and he wanted to keep his promise. The omega was excited to finally get to dance with Jungkook.
He didn't realize, however, that he wasn't the only one expecting to do so.
When he found the alpha, he was standing next to an elder with a line of unmated omegas before him. Taehyung walked in just in time to catch the tail end of the conversation.
“I… I don't understand, Elder Hwang. What is this?”
“As you know, head alpha needs his dance partner and the pack needs a Luna…”
“Wh-what?” Jungkook turned to the elder confusion, “I'm not understanding. What does that have to do with them?” The alpha points in the general vicinity of the line of omegas in front of him.
“They are the omegas you met tonight, of course.” The elder fanned his arm out in front of him “You can have your pick. Any one of them.”
Taehyung wasn't sure he was seeing everything clearly. Was the pack really doing this? Trying to court the alpha off to someone else? Was that what this was all about? Why they had separated both of them all day?
The anger he felt at the initial discovery quickly subsided into hurt. This would have been the moment, should have been the moment when Taehyung walked forward and claimed the alpha. He should have kept his promise to dance the midnight dance with him just as he said he would. But he found himself rooted to the spot, unable to move instead.
Visions of him as a little kid danced in his head, torturing him. Images of lining up time and time again, waiting for a family to pick him, to choose him, To finally claim him. But no one ever did. And now, seeing the lineup of omegas, which he wasn't even a part of, made him feel like no one ever would.
Maybe he was destined to remain unclaimed and unchosen. The omega couldn't help the sob that escaped his mouth, deafening despite all the noise around them. He clasped his hand to his mouth to stop the rest of the sobs from coming out. But it was too late. Both the elder and Jungkook had heard them and turned around slowly to locate the source.
“Taehyung?”
“I-” The omega didn't know what to say. The hurt that was flooding his body was crushing his chest. That was numbing him. “I…can’t.” He turned to run. Escape.
His mind went blank. All he could think at that moment was that he didn't want to think, to feel, to exist in a space where he was unwanted. If he were rational, he would've stopped when he heard Jungkook calling after him. He would've listened but the fear of what the alpha had to say propelled him forward. Running till his legs ached and the forest was finally in sight.
And once the omega cleared the trees, he knew exactly what he needed to do. Taehyung began shedding his clothes piece by piece–the weight of them was suddenly suffocating. The omega could sense his body suddenly start to heat up as he felt the shift come on. His body, one moment human now wolf, continued to run as a forest of green blurred around him.
In his wolf form, Taehyung could sense the alpha behind him struggling to catch up. The omega had tried to widen the gap, to get away but it was no use. The alpha was gaining on him. Desperate, he took a leap. As the snow white wolf lept into the air, he felt the warmth of the black wolf that had followed him almost on top of him. In a panic, he shifted mid air and the alpha shifted immediately after him, swapping places so that when they fell he would be the one to hit the ground first and the omega would land on top of him, cushioned and protected by the alpha's body.
“Jungkook!” The omega yelled when he realized what the alpha had done they both landed with a dull thud. “What do you think you're doing?” He demanded.
Jungkook did not waste a moment, quickly turning their positions over so that he was now on top and staring at Omega face-to-face.
“No, beautiful. The question is what do you think you're doing? Why did you run?” The alpha’s eyes looked hurt, sad.
That urge to run, to hide wood was what had gotten Taehyung in this position to begin with and now there was nowhere left to run or hide. Yet the omega couldn't bear to look at the alpha anymore. “And why should I have stayed? To watch you choose someone else?” He chuffed.
Jungkook shook his head, lifting one hand to turn the omega’s face to look him in the eyes. “And what makes you think I would have chosen anyone else, hm?”
“Be-because.” The omega shook his head, “No one picks me. They don't. I've never been chosen. That’s just how it is. That’s how it’s always been my whole life. Plus, the elders, they said… And you…”
“And I?”
“You…were going to have to pick a Luna.”
“Yeah but Tae, Don't you see? I did pick. I had chosen my Luna a year ago, the day I found you on this very same forest floor. I was always just waiting for you to pick me back.”
“You…picked … me?”
“I picked you.” He booped the omega on the nose, resting most of his weight on his one elbow so as not to crush him. “You see, the moon Goddess may have made our paths collide but it was I who chose to continue to walk it with you, every single day since I found you again. And if you give me the chance, I'd continue walking it with you for the rest of forever.”
“Is this real? Or am I imagining it?”
Jungkook laughed, “well that depends, do you usually dream of me on top of you naked, asking you to pick me back, to choose me for the rest of forever too?”
Taehyung laughed to cover up his blush. “Well, in my dreams, we’re usually not naked when it happens.”
“You mean to tell me, the Kim Taehyung, the most amazing papa I know, and my bestest of friends, also dreams of me, too?”
‘Shush.” Taehyung replied, feeling embarrassed. He could feel the heat growing between their bodies. Though he hadn’t even chanced a look downward for fear his scent would spike and give his thoughts away, the adrenaline from his run was starting to fade and all other sensations were coming to the forefront.
It seemed that the alpha’s thoughts had already caught up to the omega’s, as he was already leaning down to nuzzle the omega’s cheeks. “You never answered my question. Do you pick me? Do you choose me?”
Taehyung nodded his head, opening his eyes once again to look the alpha in the eyes. “I love you.”
It happened in a flash, lips meeting lips, bodies touching bodies. The alpha had cocooned him with his scent as he continued to feverishly kiss the omega’s lips.
“I love you, Taehyung.” The alpha murmured while kissing the omega’s eyelids, his nose, his cheeks. “I know we’re naked, but we don’t have to…to do anything other than just this. I can wait.”
Taehyung kissed his nose in return. “Well, I can’t. I’ve waited too long to tell you, to show you that I pick you, too. I chose you, too. I don’t know when or how it happened, just that I’ve never known home before until I knew you.” He leaned upwards to kiss the alpha, taking Jungkook's breath away with the suddenness.
“Beautiful,” The alpha whispered out between kisses. “Do you know what you're asking me?”
“Yes.”
“Are you sure?”
The omega nodded. “Claim me. Make me yours.”
“Ahhhh! I swear you’re gonna be the death of me.” And Jungkook did exactly that, claiming the omega’s lips again.
When the kisses grew to heated touches and Jungkook’s body began to rut against the omega’s, Taehyung let out a strangled moan.
“Wh-wh-wait.” He whispered, seemingly reluctant to stop kissing the alpha’s plush lips.
“What is it, is everything okay?”
“I don’t really remember our first time, I’ve never really… done this before…with a–”
“An alpha?” Jungkook smirked.
"A man." Taehyung deadpanned, though the blush was still visible on his face.
“Good. Cause that means you’re mine. Only mine.” He leaned down to nip at Taehyung’s scent gland sending shivers down his spine. “And while we both may not remember our first time entirely, I’m going to make sure you can't forget this time.”
Taehyung could feel it then, the delicious feeling of desire overtaking his body as slick began to run down his legs. He was aroused by the mere sound of Jungkook’s voice and the feel of his skin against his whole body. The sensation made his entire body tingle in ways it had never done so before.
And the alpha was no better. His cock was hard, leaking and ready. Each slide of his body against the omega’s only made him more desperate and more greedy to taste every inch of the omega. To make him feel good. To fill him in a way only the alpha could.
Jungkook traveled lower down the omega’s body, kissing every inch of exposed flesh he could find along the way.
“I know we don’t have too much time and that we should be getting back. But I want to make sure you enjoy this. Okay?”
Taehyung nodded, eyes wide, unsure of what to expect next but knowing whatever it was, his body would welcome it because he was ready, and because he trusted Jungkook.
The alpha bit his lip and tried to mask his nervousness by focusing on spreading Taehyung’s slick on his fingers, letting the tip of his finger slip inside the omega’s tight rim.
“Nnghh.”
Taehyung's body was hot and snug around the digit and Jungkook couldn't help but thrust it in deeper. “So tight, mmmph.”
The alpha couldn't help himself, wanting to give the omega as much pleasure as he was able, he dipped his head down to take the omega’s cock in his mouth, all the while continuing to work his finger in and out of Taehyung’s slicked hole.
At one particularly hard thrust, Tae gasped, “J-jungkook!”
The alpha took it as a sign he was doing it right and continued, this time slipping in a second digit.
“Ahhh.” Taehyung could no longer hold back his moans. His body was writing underneath the alpha’s, arching up every time Jungkook curled his just right, hitting a certain spot inside of him.
This was a bliss unlike any other.
Flashes of their first night together filled the omega’s mind–the unbridled intensity of the moments as Jungkook made love to him the first time.
“Oh moon. Oh… OH…oooooohhhhh.” Taehyung felt like he was going to come at any moment. The dual sensations of Jungkook’s mouth sucking, licking and swallowing his cock and the way the alpha’s fingers kept hitting that same spot inside of him was more than enough to send the omega over the top.
“Jungkook, I’m gonna… I’m gonna…”
“Do it.” The alpha managed to say before he ended up swallowing everything Taehyung had to offer him.
"Ahhhhhhh." Taehyung moaned out closing his eyes and giving in to the overwhelming feeling. “That felt amazing.” He sighed, trying to catch his breath. “I…I had flashes of the first time. Our first time.”
Jungkook was on his knees in between Taehyung’s legs now. He smiled at the omega, his eyes growing soft yet still molten hot as he stared at the omega. “I think I’m remembering bits and pieces as well. It’s like our bodies remember and our wolves too.”
“Yeah.” Taehyung bit his bottom lip. “I think I really enjoyed myself the first time.” It was the first time the omega was getting an unadulterated look at the alpha’s physique…Those washboard abs, hard like steel despite how soft and supple the alpha’s skin was. Those chiseled pecs, nipples erect and begging to be licked. Those strong arms, capable of lifting him like he weighed nothing and pressing him again the nearest tree while he fucked into Taehyung.
Luna above, Taehyung was lucky.
Jungkook smiled from ear to ear and then leaned down to peck the omega’s lips. “Well, Luna, you’ll enjoy yourself this time too. Maybe even more than the first time.”
The alpha stared at the naked omega underneath him, equally entranced. Taehyung looked like perfection that had been chiseled out of the finest carrara marble, like the old masters who painted the classic beauties, immortalizing them with their brush strokes had also done the some for the omega.
Luna above, Jungkook was lucky. How many wolves found their soulmates nowadays? It was unheard of. But Jungkook, had not only found his soulmate that the moon goddess had picked for him, but his soulmate also chose him too! Not just because they were meant to be together because they wanted each other as well.
Jungkook positioned himself closer to Taehyung’s entrance, his cock throbbing and his wolf already feral with the idea of getting to officially mate the omega. The idea so enticing he found himself quickly bending down to align his cock with the omega’s hole.
Taehyung’s eyes traveled down to the alpha’s shaft, it was hard, thick and long. As amazing as it looked, the omega still found that panic was momentarily taking over. He still wanted the alpha but the idea that he’d be split in half when Jungkook's cock made his way into Taehyung’s hole was slightly less appealing.
“Wait.. Wait.” Taehyung pressed his hand against the alpha’s chest, holding him at bay. “Koo, that thing is monstrous. Are you sure it’s going to fit?”
The CEO stopped his approach, wanting to reassure the omega instead, “Beautiful, no need to be worried. You’ve already taken me before. You were made to take me, just like I was made to fill you.”
“O-okay.” The omega replied. Taehyung leaned back against the soft patch of ground, trusting the alpha's words.
Jungkook kissed the omega softly trying to quell the omega’s fears as best as he could. "Here lift your legs like so, that should help a little. I'll go slow okay, beautiful?"
Taehyung nodded and his knees up with his hands, just like Jungkook suggested. His chest was rising and falling heavily, his breath erratic as the anticipation of the moment mounted.
Jungkook scooched forward, with his cock in his hand as he tentatively began to approach Taehyung’s hole. The alpha slowly pushed into Taehyung's body.
The stretch burned for a moment and then, as if his body remembered Jungkook it began to let him in easily, as if the pair were meant for each other. They fit into each other like two pieces of a puzzle begging to be connected.
The omega whimpered softly, his head was now pushing back onto the soft grass beneath him with pleasure.
The alpha for his part was so overwhelmed with joy at finally being joined with Taehyung like this, he could barely utter a syllable other than ‘ahh’. With every thrust he felt himself climbing higher and higher. Taehyung was hot, tight, amazing but most of all his. And he was Taehyung’s and that thought alone was enough to send the alpha almost over the edge.
“Beautiful, I…” The alpha’s breathing was heavy, still panting as he spoke, “you need to tell me now if you want me to pull out, because otherwise I’m going to knot you and claim you in any freaking way I ca—”
Taehyung pulled the alpha against his body in response, pushing him in deeper as his limbs wrapped around him caging the alpha in. He gasped in the alpha’s ear. “Do it.”
Those two words were all the alpha needed. Jungkook sped up his thrusts, he could feel the omega clenching around his cock, close to orgasm as well.
“Alpha!” The omega moaned as he felt Jungkook’s knot expand inside him. He whimpered in ecstasy as the alpha came inside him.
Jungkook leaned his forehead against the omega’s for a moment to catch his breath, whispering “I love you.”
“I love you, too.”
The alpha nosed down the omega’s cheek, nuzzling into his neck, nibbling and licking the omega’s scent gland until he felt his fangs elongate and his knot finally lock in place.
He pressed his fangs down gently at first, giving the omega a chance to say no, stop him but when he felt Taehyung’s arms tighten around his own neck, bringing him closer still, he knew it was time…it was right. They were right. So, he bit down hard on the omega’s scent gland, mating him for the rest of forever.
“Ahhhh….” The pleasure was so great that seconds later, Taehyung was coming all over his own stomach.
They could both feel the soulmarks on their skin getting heated, as if they were linking them together even more. After all, they were not just mates now, they were officially bonded soulmates. The two laid there for a few moments, Jungkook’s weight comfortably spread on top of Taehyung, while the alpha’s knot deflated.
“We should probably get back.” The omega lamented.
Jungkook chuckled, “Yeah, I suppose they’re probably wondering where we went off to.”
“Yeah and you're technically one of the guests of honor! And you left before you got to dance!”
That’s ‘cause I needed my dance partner.” Jungkook pecked the omega on the lips. “Now, come on. Let’s go show elder Hwang who my new luna is.”
Taehyung giggled in disbelief. “I can’t believe you chose me.”
Jungkook immediately replied, “I can’t believe you ever thought I wouldn’t. I will choose you in this lifetime, and in every other.”
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Walking back to the celebration felt a lot like taking a ‘walk of shame’. Not because they did anything wrong, neither of them regretted it all. On the contrary, they had never felt so happy before, though the birth of their daughter did come quite close.
No, the shame lay in the fact that there would be absolutely no hiding what they had gone off into the forest to do. If the omega’s once pristine white suit now crumbled from being tosed on the floor less than gingerly wasn’t already enough of a dead give away, then the freshly punctured mating mark would be.
“There you two are! We were worried sick.” Jungkook’s mother rushed toward them as she saw the pair walk out front the canopy of forest trees. “Where have you bee–oh!” Her face instantly went from concerned to surprised to teasing.
“Oh, we just wanted to take some time to, uh reflect on the night’s activities, is all.” The alpha answered, not able to look his eomma in the eyes as he said it.
Mrs. Jeon giggled. “I see. And did this reflection happen to involve some horizontal dancing, by any chance?” Her eyes caught the freshly made mating mark on Taehyung’s neck as soon as they got close enough.
“Eomma!” The alpha chastised.
“What?” she shrugged. “You both have leaves in your hair and you smell like you bathed in each other’s scents. It’s not like people won’t notice.” She teased again, pointing to the leaf sticking out of Taehyung’s hair.
The omega’s cheeks turned beet red as he pulled the leaf out. “I…I’m gonna go say goodbye to the elders from my pack.” Taehyung gave Mrs. Jeon a quick side hug and rushed away, leaving Jungkook to figure out and arrange what he still needed to do with his pack.
Taehyung looked around the main gathering area, hoping to still see members of the Dal pack lingering around. That’s when he caught sight of her, the same woman from his dreams, and from earlier with Da-Ae. The omega waited for the hooded figure from the Dal pack to walk closer to him.
“Do I know you?” The omega asked as the figure stopped in front of him.
“I was wondering how long it would take you to figure it out, pup.” She pulled down her hood and revealed her face. She was older though her features were still beautiful. Taehyung could make out the same feline eyes and boxy grin.
“Who are you?” he asked in awe.
“I’ve gone by many names in many lifetimes, but you can call me Dal-Ae, elder of the Dal pack. And you must be my long lost prodigal grandson… Kim Taehyung.”
Taehyung was stunned… family? Grandmother? Was she really his family?
“I—-” He stopped and tried again. “You—family?”
She chuckled, ”I was waiting for you to seek us out when your wolf awoke. Did you not feel us calling in your bones?”
Taehyung hung his head, ashamed. “I did. I was just worried about what I’d discover if I answered the call.”
She smiled and extended her arms out to engulf her grandson in a hug. “Family. That is what would have awaited it. It’s what still awaits you.” She smiled as she leaned to place a soft kiss on the omega’s forehead. “Don’t be a stranger.” She pulled away from the omega, still holding his hands. “Go, my beautiful grandson. Someone is waiting to dance with you.”
Taehyung squeezed her hand in good bye. He was reluctant to leave her, but he promised to come visit the mountains soon with his daughter and his new mate.
His mate, who looked ever the gentleman as he waited in the middle of the gathering for Taehyung to join him in the dance.
His mate, who had patiently waited for Taehyung to come around to the idea of soulmates and the moon goddess’s universal design.
His mate, who was the most amazing co-parent and best friend.
Taehyung was lucky to have him and to be able to call him family.
As he looked at Jungkook’s face and the face of his sleeping daughter nestled in the comfort of the arms of her grandmother, Taehyung felt a peace settle in his heart.
For the first time in a long time, he was happy and could confidently say there was nothing else that he wanted from life.
As Jungkook twirled him on the faux dance floor, Taehyung thought about all the events that had happened in the last year. The saying was definitely right–the days are long but the years are short. And this year has been absolutely, positively a blur, a beautiful one…
And neither one of them would have it any other way.