*******Namjoon's POV*******

"Where are you taking me?" Isaac asked me as I held his hand and pulled him along behind me.

"Somewhere that Jimin and Kook can't find us," I told him, glancing back at him for a moment.

"Okay, but can you slow down?" He asked me. "I don't possess those giant tree trunks that you call legs."

I laughed and slowed down, so that he didn't have to run to keep up with me. "Sorry, baby."

He smiled at me. "I love when you call me that."

"Good," I told him, pulling him to my side and wrapping my arm around his waist as we walked. "Because I like calling you that."

He looked around, then back at me, trying to move away from me. "Joonie, somebody could see us."

I shrugged at him. "Nah. I think we'll be fine. It's dark out. And besides, I want to touch you. I had to go all day without seeing you, and I didn't like it."

"You missed me?" he asked me, his tone hopeful.

"I always miss you when you're not around, Isaac," I told him. I leaned down to kiss the side of his head. "I don't like being apart from you."

He giggled in that cute, little way of his and snuggled into my side. "I missed you, too."

"Can I ask you something?" I questioned, as I stepped over a crack in the sidewalk.

"As if my answer to that question will ever be no."

"I'm just wondering..." I started, then stopped walking and turned to look at him. "If we mate-"

"If?" He asked me. "Were you planning on not?"

I shook my head. "No, baby. That's not what I meant. I just wanted to know where you want it to happen."

"Honestly?" He looked up at me, putting his hands on my sides and gripping my shirt in his fingers. "I want it to be at our spot."

"Outside?"

He nodded and smiled at me. "Yeah. Why not? It's an important place in our story. It's in nature, which our wolves will love. And they'll have a place to run after, if they want to. I know you told me the other day that you didn't want it to happen like that, but I think it would be perfect."

I stared down at him, noticing how happy he looked at the thought of what he'd just suggested. While I thought it would be more romantic for our first time together to be in a bed, now I was starting to think that maybe he was right.

"Okay," I told him.

"Okay?"

"Yeah. I like that idea." I smiled as I reached up to brush my thumb across the freckles on his cheekbone.

"When?" He asked me.

"Now?"

"Now?!" his pretty emerald eyes widened in surprise. "You want us to mate right now?"

I shrugged at him. "Did you have other plans or something?"

"Well...no, but..."

"We can wait, if you want," I said. "No big deal. I was just thinking that the South Korean government is really accepting of mates and focuses on keeping them together."

"But I'm not Korean, Joonie," he reminded me.

"I obviously know that, Isaac," I said with a laugh. "But maybe my people can work with your people, so that they won't separate us."

"Oh yeah," he said, a frown on his beautiful face. "I've heard that can be bad."

I started walking again, slowly, but heading in the general direction of the forest so that we could head to our spot.

"It can be. When Jimin found his mate, she didn't know that she was a werewolf," I started. "She was adopted and since she'd never been with werewolves before..."

"Her wolf never presented," he finished for me.

"Exactly." I nodded my head. "It was really bad for Aurora. They hadn't even mated yet, and it got bad. Jimin, the idiot that he is, decided she would be better off without the stress that is our lives and tried to separate himself from her. After a couple of days, she could barely stand up. A few more, and she'd been to the ER several times. Jimin felt like something was off, and called to talk to her. Her cousin told him what was going on with her. So he went to her. Like I said, they hadn't mated, yet, so it shouldn't have been that bad for her. But her wolf was trying to present at the same time. Aurora almost died."

"Yikes," he said. I felt a small shiver run down his body. "That sounds really bad."

"It was," I told him. "And Jimin, rightfully so, even though he thought that he was doing what was best for her, felt so guilty for a while. There are some wolves that I've met, that I would love to see get hit with what she did. But not Aurora. Wait until you meet her. She's such a sweetheart."

"How does she get around not being with him while he's in the military?" Isaac wondered out loud.

"She doesn't have to," I said, smiling down at him, then looking back in front of me so that I wouldn't trip over anything. "Like I said, the South Korean government is really accepting of mates. They know all about werewolves and do what they can to accommodate those of us who are one, without telling the whole country about our existence. So when Jimin had to enlist, they found her a house right off of his base. He sleeps there every night. We all try to get together for a family dinner there every other month, if we can. The government really helped Jimin and Aurora, and I think they would help us, too. If yours can agree to it, that is."

"How far away from here are you stationed?" he asked me. "I never thought to ask before. I think I was mentally blocking out that you'd be leaving after the games are over."

"I'm stationed in Gangwon-do," I told him. "It's about 75 miles away."

"Oh...that's not too bad."

"It's not," I said. "But I would prefer not to be 75 feet away from you, let alone 75 miles."

"And you think that they would help?" He asked me. The hopeful look on his face was adorable.

"Yeah." I smiled at him again. "I think that they would."

"So if we become mates tonight, we won't die?" He asked like he wanted to double-check.

I laughed. "No, baby. We won't die." I squeezed where my hand was resting on his hip. "I would never do it if I thought you'd be hurt or sick afterwards."

"So then there's just one question," he told me.

"What's that, baby?"

"Who's going to have to bottom?" 

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A/N: Just in case you haven't read Jimin and Aurora's story, The Setlist, yet, I wanted to toss in a little background. -------Kat