Namjoon woke up to the lovely scent of some sort of soup cooking, and he sat up to see Jimin, Taehyung, and Seokjin curled up together in the corner, murmuring softly while a pot of cooking food laid over the small fireplace inside the den.

"Namjoon." Seokjin's voice cut through the cave and Namjoon looked up a little dreamily at the handsome werewolf, smiling.

"Yes?" He asked softly, grinning. "Are we going to school today?"

Seokjin looked gravely down at the male. "Ah, no. We'll take a break today...Jimin and Taehyung will go, just to make sure nobody grows suspicions." He nodded at the boys in the back of the cave and both Taehyung and Jimin left briskly, with Jimin pausing to wave at Namjoon before slipping out.

Namjoon sighed and yawned, sitting up and wrinkling his nose at how fucking crusty he felt, covered in saliva and cum and other fluids. "Seokjin, I feel gross."

"I could boil some warm water for you to bathe in." Seokjin suggested, spooning some soup out of the canister above the fire and setting it down in front of Namjoon who sipped it happily.

"Yes please." Namjoon grinned.

"Oh, if Namjoon's looking for a bath he can use the pool in my den. I just cleaned it out with warm water if that's okay with you, Alpha."

Namjoon looked up and spotted Jisoo, her elegantly dappled figure hovering by the door, looking expectantly at Namjoon who flushed when her amber eyes scanned the dried white substance on his thighs. But instead of a judgmental look, her eyes lit up and she looked at Seokjin. "You've mated?"

Seokjin sighed and shook his head while Namjoon choked. "No, unfortunately he didn't want to go that far." He brushed a bit of dust shamefully off his lap and bit his lip. "He's still uncomfortable, being a virgin and all."

Namjoon's cheeks turned into a rosy hue and he finished his little bowl of soup, feeling a little bad at Seokjin's depressed state. He padded over and kissed the side of Seokjin's cheek lightly, and scuttled over to Jisoo's side in humility, shyly waving before darting over to Jisoo's den. The Healer joined him a little after, in her human form, a little cheeky grin on her face.

"The alpha definitely enjoyed that." She said, leading him over to a pool that had pretty vines of ivy shading over it like some sort of natural shower tub. "You can clean yourself off in here. Don't worry about how dirty the water gets, it drains into the rocks and new water flows through up there." She pointed to the little holes above the cave. "Morning dew. I just have to scoop it up and warm it."

Namjoon blinked. "Th-thank you." He said softly, dipping his feet in and slipping his jacket and boxers off before sliding in and sighing happily, the warmth of the water engulfing his body and swirling around him. It felt like he was tucked safely in the arms of his math teacher, the werewolf's ability to just be warm all the time was always so fascinating to Namjoon.

"Wash up and hurry on out." Jisoo called. "Seokjin will become impatient if he's separated from his lover for too long."

Namjoon flushed. Lover? He liked that word.

He hoped it stayed.

-

Mei had stepped on a thorn.

He hissed as his paws felt a stab of pain and he jolted back, the deer in front of them snapping towards the noise and scurrying away. Two other wolves burst out of the bushes and darted after it, while three other wolves emerged and groaned.

"Mei! What the hell? You scared it off!" One of the wolves snapped and Mei growled, nursing his heavily bleeding paw. "Alpha's not gonna be happy."

"Fuck, okay, I stepped on a fucking bramble." Mei retorted. "I can't get it out."

The female wolf prodded forward and licked at the bleeding paw, her gaze worried. "You should have Healer check that."

"Thanks, Sook, but I don't need to waste her herbs." He responded, licking at the blood that was continuously oozing out from beside the thorns.

"No, Sook's right, you should go." The male wolf sighed. "We don't want it infecting and you getting sick. We'll go after the deer, Jihoon and Kan have already gone after it, those two."

Mei sighed, shaking his head and standing. He winced a little, limping as he threw a playful smirk over his shoulder. "Alright, alright, I'll go. But you better make up for my mistake and get that deer, Jaem!"

Jaem rolled his eyes. "Of course I will! Jimin's pregnant, we've gotta get fresh deer for the pregnant wolves."

Mei nodded, limping away towards Healer's den. He walked steadily through camp and pushed through the ivy that hung at the entrance, peeking in. "Healer?" He called out, frowning when he got no response.

"Healer?" Mei padded further in, plopping down and studying his paw. He licked at it again, frowning. "Jisoo?"

Mei looked up when he heard the stirring of water and he looked up. There was a figure behind the ivy pool and Mei flushed, humiliated. Was Jisoo washing up?

"Oh, Jisoo, I'm sorry—"

But as Mei drew closer, he realized that the figure didn't smell like Jisoo. "Jisoo?"

The figure stirred again and sat up, their face hidden by the ivy. "J-Jinnie?" The voice whimpered out softly.

Mei froze, recognizing the voice almost instantly. His eyes widened and a weird, fiery emotion burst in his chest and he smirked. "Namjoon? Is that you?"

Namjoon paused, not speaking for a while. "Mei...?"

"Namjoon! I was just looking for you." Mei feigned, drawing as close as possible to the vines. "Are you taking a bath?" He glanced at the pile of clothes beside the little pool, and noticed Namjoon's briefs and jacket.

"Y-yes..." Namjoon stuttered. "Do you need anything? If it's important I can come out now...but you can't look, you've gotta wait outside..."

"Oh, I just needed to ask you something." Mei said airily. "Can I come in...?" He treaded closer to the edge of the bath, anticipation brimming at his paws.

Namjoon sloshed, the water spilling a little over the smoothed stone edge. "Wha—? No, wait!" The human scrabbled hastily behind the ivy. "I'm not wearing clothes!"

Mei pushed the ivy to the side, his eyes glowing in triumph as he was exposed to the beautiful glory that was Namjoon's body. The human yelped and hid his crotch, his face a bright red, body slick with water and hair damp and splayed all over his head adorably.

"M-Mei!" Namjoon yelped, his mouth open in shock, face turning redder and redder the more Mei stared.

"Namjoon, you...you're so  beau--" But before Mei could tread any closer, there was a guttural growl by the door and Mei swung around.

Seokjin, coat ruffled with snow and bristling, his yellow eyes glinting red, the alpha's hackles raised dangerously.

"What the fuck do you think you're doing?"