Chapter 24
Point out the mistakes you see. I'll correct them later.
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It was middle of the night and Jungkook was switching positions in his bed, procrastinating about all the wrong decisions he took in his life and what steps should he take next, when he heard faint noises coming from the room beside his. The room that happens to be his mate's. Taehyung was moaning softly. In pain.
And even though his inner wolf didn't interact with him in anyway, he still yearned for his mate very desparately. Jungkook could feel his emotions waver everytime anything happened to Taehyung and that according to Jungkook was absolutely selfish. Ever since his wolf left him, he never felt his presence again, until recently when his mate showed up. Not like they'd turned into best friends or anything, nah, his wolf hated him just the same, but now he was a lot more active. He could feel him getting jubilant everytime he laid his eyes on Taehyung, he could feel him pushing him to get closer to the elder, and he could feel him getting sad everytime Taehyung pushed him away. Jungkook doesn't mind that, but what hurts him is that he feels like his wolf is using him. Using him to get closer to his mate. His mate who belongs to both of them, but something tells Jungkook that his wolf doesn't feel the same. Something tells Jungkook that his wolf wants Taehyung all to himself. And Jungkook is only left to wonder why?
Shaking off his head to not dwell too much into his thoughts he made his way towards his mate's bedroom to find out what's making his mate moan out in pain.
"Hyung may I come in?" He asked the elder with a knock on the door.
"The fuck you want?!" Apparently his Hyung wasn't just in pain, but he was also very frustrated, and Jungkook had learnt from experience that frustration is always the next stage of agony. Coming to a conclusion that the elder will never willingly allow him to enter on his own, he decided to invite himself in.
"Are the cramps too much?" He made sure his voice was soft enough to not agitate Taehyung more than he already was. His heart was already jumping in its cage, wanting to take away every misery that his mate was experiencing.
"No shit Sherlock." Came out Taehyung's muffled voice. He was on his knees right now, ass in the air, with his face buried deep under the pillows. A very weird position if you ask him. And if you ask Taehyung then this was the most presentable position among all the yoga poses his cramps made him do.
"Should I get painkillers for you?" At this Taehyung turned to look at him with fire burning in eyes, as if the idea of taking pills was equivalent to committing a sin.
"I am a legendary fucking wolf. What use is this little whore if he can't even handle my cramps for me." At first Jungkook was confused as to who Taehyung was referring to, but then he understood that he must be talking to his wolf. Jungkook didn't know how that works. And legendary wolf? What exactly does that mean? The youger thought.
"Hey don't drag my ass into this." Taehyung heard his wolf fight back, making him angrier.
"Then use your fucking powers bitch. It's not like you save the world anyway, that you're saving up your energy." Jungkook stared with parted mouth as Taehyung fought with his wolf. Out loud. He had a very foul mouth for a person who takes care of a four year old toddler.
"That's unfair to all the girls and women out there who fight these cramps on their own. And you've went through child birth bitch, how is this pain even significant after that."
"No you're right. I'll ask some random Alpha to knock me up, so that I can save you some more trouble for the next 9 months. Bitch!" Jungkook couldn't help the growl that escaped his lips at Taehyung's words. Without any warning he flipped the angry male on his back, making him yelp in surprise.
"Hyung!" He yelled at the latter, eyes wide in warning, that he won't so much as allow even the thought of another Alpha to cross Taehyung's mind. And seeing the way the elder gulped in nervousness, Jungkook understood that he got the message.
"Which side does it hurt?" He inquired next, and as if in a trance Taehyung immediately answered with, "Left."
"What are you doing?!" Taehyung yelled with a red face as he felt Jungkook lowering the left side of his pants slightly.
"Shh let me take care of you." And the young Alpha was soon rubbing soothing circles in a clockwise fashion, right where Taehyung's left ovaries must be situated, his eyes fixed on his face, not once darting it down to the exposed skin of his mate. He soon felt him relaxing under his touch and even taking his hand to guide it to the perfect spot. This moment felt so intimate to Jungkook, he felt as if they had gotten so much closer. He felt like a boyfriend or husband taking care of his partner. This moment was therapeutic to Jungkook. But he also knew that Taehyung didn't feel the same. He knew that soon when Taehyung will have better consciousness of his actions, he'll be pushed away. He will be subject to his anger again. Yet he swore to himself to cherish every good moment he gets to spend with his mate, not knowing when this opportunity will be seized away from him completely.
Taehyung's consciousness came back to him, a lot sooner than Jungkook wished for. Or maybe 20 minutes just weren't enough for him. Those minutes felt like ten thousandth part of a second to him. Finished when he so much as blinked.
"I'm fine now, leave me alone." His hand was removed from the elder's lower front, as he turned to face away from him. Jungkook just gave a small pretentious smile as a response as he stood up to leave his mate alone, doing that only to come back with a heating pad in his hand. He handed it to Taehyung this time, not wanting to push his luck any further
"Call me if it hurts again." He muttered softly before going back to his own room.
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The next day when Taehyung woke up, making his way downstairs in his unkept state, he was met Jungkook's properly dressed figure, putting breakfast on the dinning table.
"Oh I was about to call you Hyung. Come down and have breakfast." Taehyung nodded his head at his words, internally preparing himself to be rude to the younger again. Bracing his heart for the pain he'll inflict on his mate and himself.
"I'm not very good at cooking so I simply simply made toast and bread. I hope you don't you mind." 'Here goes nothing' Taehyung thought in his head before opening his mouth to complaint.
"You can't even fix a good meal and then you dream of being my mate. You know if I accepted you, you'll also have to care for Taejung right? This is what you're going to feed him? Half burnt bread and boiled eggs whose shell isn't properly peeled?" Jungkook looked down in shame, feeling extremely hopeless for not being able to do the smallest of thing right. All he had to do was peel the eggs and take out the bread before it's burnt. And he failed to do even that.
"You couldn't boil water when you were 18. Comparing him with you, he could pass as a restaurant chef." Taehyung heard his wolf scoff in his head.
"I am sorry, Hyung. I promise to work on my cooking skills. I'll never make Taejung eat something that will be bad for him." Hearing Jungkook's sad, defeated voice Taehyung wanted nothing more than to cup his face and tell him that he's perfect the way is, that if his fate wasn't so fucked up then he would happily cooked meals for his family for all his life and he wouldn't have to worry about anything. Sadly he couldn't do any of those things.
"Why are dressed up so early in the morning anyway? You work even on Sundays?" Taehyung asked him as he took the egg in his hand and peeled off the tiny shells that were still sticking on it.
"We left in a hurry last night so I did not get the chance to inform my landlord that I will no longer be living in the apartment. I still have to pay him half of the rent too." Jungkook informed him. This immediately shifted Taehyung's mind to that boy he met yesterday. He still had to find out more about him and see if he had a guardian or not.
"I'll come with you too. I have to meet that boy from yesterday." Jungkook immediately nodded with a big smile, delighted to go out with his mate.
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"It's fine boy. I can't make you pay when you won't even live here. I'll find someone else to live here." Jungkook already knew that the old man was kind, but he never knew he would be this generous.
"I even broke your chair, at least accept the compensation for it." Jungkook insisted.
"It's alright, it was pretty old anyway." Jungkook felt like he might cry at this point.
"Is this fine man the reason you're leaving?" The landlord asked pointing with his eyes towards Taehyung.
"Ah yes. He's my mate." Jungkook stuttered out the last part, getting overwhelmed with shyness.
"Hmm you're very lucky boy." Jungkook agreed with the man wholeheartedly, while Taehyung did not. He believed that Jungkook had to the unluckiest man on the face of earth to have him as his mate.
"We actually wanted to ask you something." Taehyung voiced out interrupting them.
"About?"
"Remember you told me about a boy who runs errands for the people in the neighborhood? We met him yesterday and Taehyung Hyung saw a mark on his neck. He obviously is too young to be marked, so we wanted to ask you why he has it? Who does he live with? With his parents?" The old man narrowed his eyes at them not at all expecting to be shot with these many questions. Especially not about the little boy.
"Why should I tell you all this?" The man inquired back. He did not think that they were bad people but he also did not know them for long. So he wasn't sure if he could trust them.
"It's okay if you don't want to tell us what happened to him. Just tell us if he's safe or not. Who does he live with?" Taehyung asked with a little desperation in his voice. All he wished for, was the boy's safety. He was too young to face these hardships.
"His family abandoned him. He lives on his own in this very apartment. I told him to live with me but he never agreed." The landlord answered curtly.
"He's a baby! He's not supposed to live on his own. What kind of shitty parents abandon their own child." Taehyung almost yelled getting angry with each passing second.
"Really shitty one. But this has happened a lot in this town. Some Alphas who think they own the world, treat Omegas like their plaything. They lie to young Omegas that they're their mate and try to have their way with them, but if they refuse then they mark them against their will. And the victim's family instead of supporting them, try to make peace with the Alpha and send their child away. Afraid that if they didn't then no one else with mate with them in the future." Taehyung's heart clenched hearing all this. All this had been going on in this town and he had no idea. Even when his own pack was a part of this town. He could now already guess what happened with the boy. He must have been marked against his will and when his parents would have come to know about it, they must have tried to send him with whoever that Alpha was and when he would have refused to do so, they must have kicked him out of the house.
"Where is he right now?" Taehyung asked the old man.
"Why do you want to know?"
"He's just a kid. He shouldn't live on his own. He needs a guardian, a parent to take care of him. I'll give him that."
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