*******Aurora's POV*******

"Jimin?" I asked, looking at him and then down at my hands. "I didn't mean to...I...Y-You don't have to if you don't want to."

He stepped up to the side of my bed. "What makes you think that I don't want to?"

"Because you're not?" I asked him, pointing out the obvious. I paused, then looked up at him. "Why are you here?"

"To take care of you."

"But...why?" I asked, my eyes searching his handsome face. "You don't owe me anything, Jimin."

"Haven't we already been over this?" He asked me. "I care about you. I want to be with you. I was just trying to do what was best for you, Aurora."

"Then get in here and hold me, please?" I asked, still looking up at him.

He sighed, looked over my bed, and then nodded his head. "Yeah. Yeah, okay."

I giggled at him a little. "Sorry about the bed. I need all of this to be comfortable and sleep. I always have. I'm not sure why."

He climbed into my bed, careful not to disturb anything, then pulled me into his arms with my back against his chest. I didn't want to sleep like that, though. I wanted to be as close to him as possible. I wanted to be able to touch him if I wanted to. So I turned around in his arms and pressed my face up against the side of his neck, inhaling his scent and sighing happily against it.

"Did you just smell me?" He asked me with a laugh.

I shrugged one shoulder and snuggled closer to him. "I can't help it. You smell good, Jimin. Like...apples in the forest."

"You think that I smell like apples and trees?"

"I didn't say trees," I pointed out to him. "I said 'forest.' You smell like the whole damn thing. Like trees, yes. But also like grass and moss and wildflowers and filtered sunshine and Bambi."

"You think that I smell like Bambi?" He asked me with a chuckle. "The cartoon deer?"

"Uh-huh. Yep," I said, tilting my head back to look up at him. "If anybody in this world is going to smell like Bambi, it's going to be Park Jimin."

He laughed again. "Does that mean that Jungkookie smells like Thumper?"

"I don't know," I said with a shrug. "Probably. You've smelled him before, you tell me."

Jimin looked thoughtful for a moment. "Uhhh...All that I can say is that I've never made that connection before."

"But now you're going to be thinking about it whenever he's around, aren't you?" I asked.

He laughed and nodded his head. "Without a doubt." He looked down at me and stroked my cheek. "You should get some rest, sweetheart."

I shrugged at him and leaned into his touch a little. "I actually feel better at the moment."

"Oh yeah?"

"Yeah," I told him, nodding my head. "Better than I've felt in over a week." I frowned and looked up at him. "Did you give me some kind of fatal disease that could only be cured by your presence?"

"What?! No! I-"

"Oh calm down," I told him, patting his chest. "There's no such thing, you goober."

*******Jimin's POV*******

She's going to be really pissed off when she finds out that there is, indeed, such a thing for werewolves.

"Would you be quiet?"

I'm just pointing out the obvious. You had better be the one who takes the heat for it, because I am definitely not the one that wanted to leave her.

"I was trying to do what was best for her."

And look how that worked out.

"I didn't know that this was going to happen. But I get the feeling that you did. You could have warned me.

As if you ever listen. I could have warned you until I was blue in the fur, and it wouldn't have made a damn bit of difference.

"Jimin?" Aurora said, touching my cheek. "Where did you go, handsome?"

I shook my head to knock the annoying wolf out of it and looked down at her. "Nowhere. I'm here, sweetheart. Is there anything I can do to help you?"

She snuggled into me a little more and I tightened my arms around her. "You're already doing it, just by being here." She frowned and tilted her head back to look at me sadly. "How...how long are you going to be here?"

I sighed and cupped her cheek as I leaned in to kiss her forehead. "For as long as you want me here. I was stupid before, Aurora. I'm so sorry that I hurt you. It wasn't my intention."

"You could have just talked to me about what was going on, Jimin," she said, her eyes focused on mine. "But...what do we do now? Or...what do we do in a couple of weeks, when you have to go back to South Korea?"

"You could....come with me," I quietly suggested.

Aurora's eyes went wide as she sat straight up in bed. "What?!"

I put my hand on her shoulder to gently push her back down. "You have a break coming up, right? You could come visit for a few weeks."

"Okay, but..." she said as she snuggled back against me. "My break isn't for several weeks after when you'll leave. Not until the summer."

"If this is something that we both want, then we'll figure something out," I told her as I pulled her close. "Now...take a nap with me, would you?"

"I'm not tired anymore," Aurora said, trying to stifle a yawn.

"Uh-huh, sure," I told her, pulling her close until her head was tucked under my chin. "Then at least lay here with me while I take a nap, okay?"

There was no answer. I could feel that Aurora's breathing had evened out, so I relaxed, took a few deep breaths of her mouth-watering cinnamon smell and fell asleep with her in my arms.

Right where she belonged.

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*******Aurora's POV*******

I woke up to an intense warmth wrapped around me. I cracked an eyelid and stared at the beautiful face of my Jimin.

Wait...

Was he mine? No. I guess not. Not anymore. He never really was, if I'm being honest. But he had said that he wanted this, right? Does that mean that he wants to be with me? That we're dating? Really dating?

Was he my Jimin?

I sighed as I snuggled closer to him. Jimin tightened his arms around me and let out a happy sounding groan.

"Did you sleep, baby?" he asked me. His voice was deep and husky with sleep, and it was doing something to me.

"I did," I said, tilting my head back to press a kiss against his Adam's apple. "I feel a lot better."

"Good enough to get up and take a shower?" He asked me.

"Do I stink?" I asked, pulling an arm up to my nose and smelling my wrist. "I probably do."

"No, no," he said, shaking his head. "You really don't. I just thought that it would make you feel even better."

"I haven't showered in days, so don't lie to me," I said, pulling away from him to sit up. "I just haven't been able to stand long enough to do so. Or...stand at all, really. So yeah, I should probably take a shower now that I feel up to it."

He looked up at me as he ran his hand up and down my back. "Do you want me to help you to the bathroom?"

I shook my head at him. "No. I really do feel like I can do it on my own."

"How about if I order us some food?"

"Jimin?" I said, looking down at him. "You don't have to take care of me like that. I'm a big girl. I can take care of myself."

He sat up next to me, then turned his body towards me as he folded his legs and sat Criss-cross-applesauce next to me.

"Aurora, baby, I know that you can take care of yourself," he said, reaching for my hand and pulling it into his lap where he held it with both of his. "But I want to do something. So please tell me what you want so that I can order my girl some food."

His girl? Had I heard that right? Was that decided and I missed it in my delirious, sickly state? If I was his girl, then he was definitely my Jimin, then. I like the way that sounds, actually. Though there were obviously still many, many things that we needed to talk about and figure out. Starting with the fact that we live on opposite sides of the world and ending with the fact that he's a member of the most popular band on earth right now, and I know from experience just how crazy some of those fans could be. Not real ARMY, obviously. But the crazy ones.

"Aurora?" He asked, snapping his fingers in front of my face. Guess I zoned-out for a minute. "Food?"

I thought for a moment, then smiled at him. "Okay. I want a Mexican Pizza from Taco Bell and a blackberry Sprite and cheese sticks from Sonic."

"Done," he said, pulling out his phone. "Anything else?"

"No," I said, shaking my head. "Let me get my card, and you can order something too, for taking care of me."

"First off, I'm not letting you pay," he said as he typed on his phone. "And second, I didn't really do anything except fall asleep in your bed."

I shrugged my shoulders. "So? It worked. I feel better. I just needed you to hold me."

Jimin laughed and touched my cheek. "That's cute. I like that."

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She literally just needed us to hold her to make her better. So why is that cute?

"Shut up. She doesn't know that. So it's cute. Leave my girl alone."

When can I talk to my girl? Her Omega.

"Not now."

Come on! I've been plenty patient, Park Jimin!

"I said no, Varic. Stop pushing me. It'll happen when she's ready, which is not right now, after she's just been so sick."

Fine. I will relent. For now.

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A/N: Here's a new chapter. I'm, trying to do better. Thank you for sticking with me. Please stay safe and healthy, my lovely readers. -------Kat