*******Jin's POV*******

"Are you okay?" I asked Kris as I watched her pace back and forth in the hallway of the condo where the interviews were taking place.

"Yeah, I'm just...I'm nervous," she told me. "I'm not used to being on camera. What if I mess up? What if I say something stupid?"

I reached for her, wrapping my fingers around her wrist, then pulled her to me and hugged her tight. "Hey...It's going to be okay, angel. Just be you. You're pretty amazing."

"You have to say that," she mumbled against my chest. "You're my soulmate."

All the same, I felt her take a deep breath, then relax in my arms. I held her close and kissed the top of her head.

"Yeah, I am. Lucky me." I cleared my throat. "But...what I meant was...are you okay with what just happened? With Joon? I want to know what you're thinking."

"Well...No," She said, putting her hands on her hips as she stepped back to look at me. "I'm not okay with what just happened. Is he fucking kidding us right now? How can he possibly think that we would believe that he wants another chance. He's done nothing but push us away the past two weeks."

"Yeah, I agree..."

"I'm sensing a 'but' here," she said.

"But...I've known him a really long time," I try to explain to her, hoping that I don't upset her even more. "I know when he's being sincere and when he's not. And I'm telling you...that is the most sincere that I have ever seen Kim Namjoon. I think he really wants us to give him a chance."

"Do..." she started, her green eyes looking right into mine. "Do you want to give him another chance?"

I shrug. "I don't know. On the one hand...he's our soulmate, so yeah. I think it would be awesome if we were all fully-bonded and happy with each other."

"And on the other hand?"

"And on the other hand..." I sigh and pull her back to me, needing the comfort of having her in my arms. "He's really hurt me. And you. I don't like that at all. I don't know if I can just forgive him so easily."

"But you want to forgive him eventually?" she asked me.

"I...I don't know, angel," I tell her honestly. "I'm happy with you. Really happy. I love what you and I have together, even if it's only been a couple of weeks. I'm glad that you and I could figure out our shit together and really give this a try. I don't want to take the chance of him ruining it or coming between us."

"I, for one, can promise that nothing he could do or say would ever take me away from you, Jinnie," she tells me with a smile. "I'm yours. If we decided, together, to let him back in, nothing will ever change that fact."

"So then you're...open to the idea?" I ask her. To be honest, I'm a little surprised.

She shrugs at me. "I don't know. I get what you're saying, on both points. He's our soulmate and it would be awesome to have our entire bond together. But at the same time... I worry that he might change his mind again and push us away, and I don't think that either one of us could take that again."

"Can you start with your name, age, where you're from, and what you do?"

"My name is Kim Seokjin. I'm 29, I'm from Gwacheon-si, but I live in Seoul, which isn't too far away from home. I'm also known as Jin, from BTS."

"Do you have a soulmate marking?"

"Yeah. I have two. One on one wrist, which is the name of the ship that one of my soulmates teaches on, and one on my other forearm, which is my other soulmate's phone number."

"Can you tell us who your soulmates are?"

"Kristina and Namjoon."

"Namjoon as in RM from BTS?"

"The one and only."

"How did the two of you meet Kris?"

"When Mairette, Hobi, and Kook had soulmate sickness, we were all trying to get them around each other again, so that it would fix itself. Kris and Joon had been texting a lot, and they met when we were finally able to get the other three together. When they touched, that's when I got my marking for Joon. At least...we think that it happened at the same time. I was inside the studio at the time, but the time table seems to fit that it was at the same time, since Joon's mark for her burned in completely when it happened, too."

"But you already had her mark?"

"Yeah..." I subconsciously rubbed the ship name on my wrist. "She's a teacher, and it's the name of the ship that she teaches on. I got it when I turned 24, like a normal person. But it didn't make sense. Not only was it not a phone number, like everybody else gets, but uhh...I was born at home. I didn't get The Elixir. I hid it with makeup for a really long time, since it didn't make any sense. Even Joon didn't know that I had it until recently, and we've been together a long time."

"Did you think that your mark was messed up because you didn't get the Elixir?"

"I have had that thought a time or two, yes."

"How did you feel when Namjoon found Kris?"

"Jealous."

"Why were you jealous?"

"Because he had been mine for nine years, and I didn't know how to share him."

"You and Namjoon have been together for nine years? How did you keep it a secret?"

"We were very, very careful. Extremely careful. It's almost an extreme sport how careful we were. But...it's kind of nice to be able to say it outloud for once."

"I bet. That couldn't have been easy. Did it put a strain on your relationship, having to keep it so secret?"

"Not really. We knew what had to happen going into it. But we loved each other enough to make it work, and we did."

"But not recently, as I understand?"

"No. Not recently. Wait...don't take how I said that the wrong way. I still love him. I am still 100% in love with him. But...Finding Kris has kind of...taken a toll on us. It's not her fault. It's ours. I know she'll probably tell you something about being the common thread of distress or some shit like that, but it's absolutely not true. I don't regret finding her one bit. I...I love her. It's just taking us all a while to work things out."

"So when Kris tries to take the blame for everything, you want us to know that that's not the case?"

"It is absolutely not the case. If I'm being honest, it's all of our faults, and it started with me. I didn't know how to share my boyfriend, and I had just found out that he was actually my freaking soulmate, and it was a lot for me to take. I didn't handle it the best. I was really rude and mean to Kris, and she didn't deserve that. All she did was be there on the right day, at the right time. By the time that I found out that she was also my soulmate...we had fully bonded, without even knowing it was happening. Not until right after, when she got her mark for me. And then Joon...he was mad that we bonded, when she kept trying to run away from him and he had to get her friends to force her to talk to him. He still hasn't gotten over it. He's been ignoring us and pushing us away for weeks. And Kris...she just keeps trying to leave. She thinks that everything is her fault. And she seems to think that if she removes herself from the equation, then everything in the entire world will right itself. No more war. No more hunger. The whole world will just live in lovey-dovey world peace if she leaves us." I paused to roll my eyes at the ridiculousness of it. "It's a really long, confusing, drawn-out, angsty, teenage K-Drama, to put it mildly. We've all been stupid. We're all to blame."

"Do you think that your soulmates would agree with that statement?"

"No, actually. I think that they're both going to try to take all of the blame on themselves."

"You said that you didn't get the Elixir, right? Why do you think that you have soulmate markings?"

I shrugged at the producer and shook my head. "I have absolutely no idea. I overheard one of the doctors say something about transference. Basically, my parents both got the Elixir, and found their soulmate, so the Elixir transferred to me, and probably my brother, too."

"Do you think that all of the new differences in soulmate bonds make it any less special?"

"Do you mean because some have three people?" I asked, and the producer nodded. "No. I don't. I actually think that there are different kinds of soulmates. Romantic, friendship, pets...it doesn't matter. They're all special in their own way. They're all supposed to be in your life for a reason. You should probably not fight it and just let them in, because the universe is just going to keep throwing them at you, anyway." 

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A/N: I know, I know...I need to update more. I suck. I'm sorry. Thanks for sticking with me. -------Kat