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Smoke & Mirrors, part three | myg
✎ ˎˊ˗ Pairing: Min Yoongi x female Reader ✎ ˎˊ˗ Genre: Situationship, idol!au, angst, smut, coworkers, love triangle maybe ✎ ˎˊ˗ Summary: Across sleepless cities on tour, you and Yoongi cling to each other in an unspoken arrangement neither of you knows how to end until someone new makes you wonder if you should. ✎ ˎˊ˗ Chapter warnings: not in fic order: kim effin’ namjoon :3, probably wrong ways to set up mic packs, yoonmin, kim seokjin the knower, yearning, angst, i switched the tour schedule of paris and munich for the plot, lyrics of SDL used as a new song, the smut!, cock sucking, cockwarming, cum facial-ish, p in v, implied big dick yoongi <3, yoongi being bad at all kinds of sports except basketball, mc being bad at all kinds of feelings, yoongi’s toe (this is serious), the last smut scene is a lot to handle bec emotional sex, yoongi wants to make out with MC so bad lol ✎ ˎˊ˗ Word count: 9k ✎ ˎˊ˗ Betaread by: Aqua (this is for you!), Tea, and Catie. ILY my queens. ✎ ˎˊ˗ Playlist by @angellekookie ✎ ˎˊ˗ Banner by @risky-peaches ✎ ˎˊ˗ Notes: Thanks for waiting patiently for this one. To all the SM!Yoongi haters, let’s talk after 😀 Enjoy!
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Jungkook coming back from tour to your clit pierced ✮⋆˙ anon req!
Tags: explicit sexual content, pwnp, clit piercing, hes a yapper, lowkey nerd!koo, pussy eating, piercing play, fingering, overstimulation, p in v, 2 orgasms for her, i think that’s it.
Words count: 1.9k
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Clingy bf namjoon hc ♡ˎˊ˗ .nsfw. Anon req!
Tags: explicit sexual content, manhandling, size kink, big d joon🤤, fluff!!, and alot of things.
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The Size Difference. Omg. This is like a whole thing for him too, He's so big – tall, broad, big hands, big thighs, big dick. And he LOVES the contrast with you. Loves picking you up like you weigh nothing, loves how his hand can almost wrap around both your wrists, loves caging you under him and making you feel surrounded. It's not just a physical thing for him; it makes him feel protective and possessive in a way that drives him crazy.
He's not rough, but he's firm. He guides you. Moves you. Positions you. A hand on the back of your neck that's both comforting and controlling. Pulling you into his lap by your hips. Turning you over in bed with one easy motion. It's the effortless strength that's so hot. Like he's so strong he doesn't even have to try.
Hes a hot nerd. Foreplay starts at breakfast. Him telling you about a concept from a book, his eyes lighting up, his hands moving while he talks... you just sit there watching his brain work and get turned on. He'll catch you staring and get this little knowing smile. He knows. And later, he'll whisper something from that same conversation against your skin, making the whole day feel like one long, slow seduction.
His love language is 1000% physical touch, but it's claimed touch. His hand on the small of your back guides you through a crowd. Even when he's just resting a hand on your thigh while he drives, it's heavy and intentional. He needs to be connected to you.
Namjoon loves watching/being watched. He loves to observe you. Loves when u put on a show for him. He'll ask u to touch yourself for him and just watch with this focused, hungry look, like he's studying u. And he loves knowing you're watching him too – the flex of his back when he takes his shirt off, the veins on his arms. He's aware of his own effect and it's hot.
He has the patience of a saint and he uses it for evil (good evil). He'll edge you for what feels like hours, stopping every time you're close, whispering “not yet, baby” in that deep voice. He loves seeing you desperate and begging, loves the power of being the one who gives u permission to finally cum.
He leaves bruises where no one else can see. The inside of your thighs, your hips, the side of your breast. He likes seeing his fingerprints on your skin the next day. He'll kiss over them gently and say “pretty” or “mine,” and it makes you melt and shiver at the same time.
His dirty talk is so good. He doesn't just say generic stuff. It's so specific and it wrecks you. Stuff like, “I can feel you fluttering around me, so perfect,” or “You take every inch so well, like you were made for me,” or even just groaning “Fuck, you're so tight,” when he's balls-deep inside you. It's earnest and graphic and comes from him just stating what he's experiencing and it's SO hot.
And his cock.. is fucking huge, very thick and veiny. Namjoon won’t get his eyes off of the bulge his cock make on your tummy, sliding in and out of your stretched pussy. The wet noises, your desperate whimpers and pathetic pleads, begging him to slow down bcuz his cock is too big and you can’t take it. But hes not stopping, he will make you take it and stretch you to his size.
His pervert mind has fantasies about locations. His big, sturdy desk in his study, covered in his papers and books. The floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room at night (the blinds are closed, but it feels risky). The shower where he can pin you against the cool tiles. The couch where he was just reading peacefully before pulling you into his lap. He thinks about the setting, the ambiance. It's a whole production in his head.
Eye contact is another huge turn on for him. He will hold it while his fingers slide inside you, while he takes you deep, while he comes. It’s overwhelming.
He’ll spread your thighs with his hands, praising the stretch. “Look at that. Open so wide for me. Such a good girl.”
He loves sitting you on his massive thighs while he’s still fully clothed, just grinding you against the hard muscle of his leg until you’re a mess.
He’s obsessed with your collarbones. He’ll trace them with a blunt finger, then kiss along them. Something about their delicacy drives him crazy.
Yes, he manhandles, but he also serves. Washing your hair, massaging your feet, feeding you fruit. It’s all natural to him. He gets off on caring for you until you’re pliant.
He’ll kneel in front of you. To take off your shoes, to put your socks on. But he’ll stay there, his big hands on your calves, looking up at you with soft puppy eyes.
He’ll dress you. Put his own hoodie on you, slowly pull your panties up for you. Like his own pretty doll.
Namjoon’s very good with mixing praise and degradation. It’s all praise but it feels degrading bcuz of how specific and exposing it is:
“You were thinking about this all through dinner, weren’t you? My good, desperate girl.”
“You came just from my fingers? So sensitive for me.”
Hes a clingy sleeper. Big spoon, most of the time. His hand will cup your breast or rest possessively over your pussy in his sleep.
He’ll sometimes wake you up by already being inside you, moving slow and deep. He’ll shush you gently, “Go back to sleep, baby. Let me take care of you.” It’s the ultimate trust exercise for him.
He’ll teach u. About your own body, about sex. “This is your G-spot. Feel it? That’s how I’m going to make you squirt for me, princess.”
He might read smut to u, his deep voice bringing the words to life, his hand working between your legs.
Namjoon genuinely believes that the purest form of love is watching u fall asleep on his chest after a long day, knowing u trust him enough to let ur guard down completely, knowing that he made u feel so good, that he made u cum multiple times until your body is exhausted and satisfied with his touch ㅤ♡.
A/N: i just hit 600 followers 🥹 thank u sm my loves💕 I didn’t expect to be noticed this fast
I carried away with this hc bcuz i do study namjoon alot and i wanted to write everything ik but that would be a long series of a never ending hcs 😭 hope this was to ur expectations and req r still open!!
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i hesitated for a bit on sending this before, as it'll directly doxx where i live, but this is so important that i think it needs coverage.
on jan 22, 2026, jaque ramon was shot 11 times in the back and murdered by (at least) three unidentified san bernadino sheriff's department officers who refused to identify themselves when filmed and confronted at the scene.
they just. left jaque there. for paramedics to pick up. we still don't know why in the world they thought this could have ever been a necessary response to an unarmed Black man, no matter his supposed crimes; the department refuses to properly comment on the situation.
i have not been able to support his family financially because i am going through extreme hardship right now. however, this is my community, and this is my home; i try to be there for the gatherings (every 22nd, on the monthly anniversary of his death, at place it happened, by the petco across from the tyler mall) i can make it to.
if any of you can please help boost & support his case and his mother's gofundme, please please please do so.
we think the media has been suppressing his case, so there's been very little coverage even locally. despite being very involved in my community, both i and many others did not even learn about this until very recently. please try to signal boost, share, support, etc if you can. it is so important word gets out there.
jaque's mother is struggling a lot, too. i haven't been able to talk to her much, but it's very plain to see for anyone who sees or talks to her directly. she deserves answers, justice, and peace.
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Towering Heights 오: V — Kim Taehyung & Jeon Jungkook
Part 1 | Re: 1.5 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part V | JEON: 5.5 | Part 6 | Epilogue
a/n: YALLL THIS CHAPTER IS VERY HEINOUS ♡ this chapter has me on an emotional rollercoaster, and the smut is kinda insane?! Let's find out together how good Taehyung is at regulating and communicating emotions like a normal man that he is (ᶠᶸᶜᵏме) House of Cards just plays automatically in my head as soon as Y/N steps into Taehyung's apartment at this point pairing: drug dealer taehyung x young neighbour reader x gangster jungkook wc: 15.7k, ~1 hr (Chapter V deserves the longest chapter of this series, enjoy my doves) themes: angsty shit, power imbalance, LEGAL age gap, physical violence, guns!!!! emotional turmoil oh my goddd, smut, dom!tae, dada's employee sub!jk, tae is a big boss telling jk what to do to you, jk has a cock piercing!!!!!, bondage, blindfolding, MANHANDLING HELLOOO, humiliation, voyeurism, praise, forced kissing, spitting (absolute cinema) your dirty fucking taekook threesome of your dreams!!!! ᧔ෆ᧓ ✮ important!: If you'd like to be a part of my taglist, which means you'll get notified/tagged every time I post original writing, let me know in the comments ♡
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Taehyung left early the next morning. A quick pat on your head just to wake you up enough, and he had slipped out just as quickly as he had appeared in the wee hours of the morning.
Something came up for work. I’ll see you later.
And then he disappeared through your front door, leaving you tangled in your blanket alone before eight in the morning.
The sun was now higher in the sky, pouring through your slatted blinds, and you wiped the residual sleep from your eyes, your hair a tangled mess. You squinted at your surroundings, the room looking untouched, as if Taehyung had never been there last night. The only difference was the emptiness you suddenly felt in the bed next to you, and last night’s dress was draped neatly off the back of your couch.
Hiiii, I hope you are having a wonderful start to the year! I just wanted to ask if you could do more parts/drabbles of no warranty couple pretty pls 🥺❤️ Perhaps one where JK fulfils his wishes of eating out oc, facesitting? Ofcourse, whatever you give I'll be eternally grateful! Your writing is so good oh my gosh, like it's got me hooked, I spent the whole day just reading and re-reading all your work. I hope you have a wonderful dayyy 💖
can’t believe i succumbed to peer pressure and wrote this. i’m disgusted with myself. i have to write iwwu chapters 6 + 7. do not text me do not call just disown me on jeontumblr 💔💔
SUMMARY. Jeon Jungkook wants you to sit on his face at 3 PM on a Wednesday. You want to know if he’s your boyfriend. Priorities, right?
pairing. no warranty!jungkook x oc
word count. 4k
warnings/genre. smut, facesitting, oral (f receiving), mentions of sex (duh), fluff, the ‘what are we’ talk, jungkook being a relationship virgin
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“I want you to sit on my face.”
heartbeat, my heartbeat (nuts, pt 3) | k.nj
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rating/genre: angst with some fluff, smut, idol! namjoon x event planner! reader
summary: joonie and hanna spend some quality time together, then go their own ways as their hearts break.
warnings: shower sex, unprotected, penetration (p in v), MINORS DNI 18+, masturbation, throat fucking, oral, cussing, slapping, mating press, dumbification, joon says i love you, pet names, mentions of nipple piercings, brat taming… lmk if i missed anything
word count: 2.8k
hanna’s pov
we wake up tangled in each other. such an interesting way to start the day, with someone you met so long ago yet click so well with. everything is perfect right now, the sun hidden by blackout curtains, the room is cold but the blanket is weighted and his body’s warm.
he blinks his eyes open, subconsciously pulling me to lay on top of him, playing with my hair between his fingers. “come back to korea with me” he says, i’m quite shocked by this offer. it’s blind, he doesn’t actually mean it, he’s saying this because he’s pussy whipped. i look up at him, my cheek on his chest. eyes are looking at me so intensely, like if i say no, he might die.
i smile, “what? that’s crazy”, playfully pushing his shoulder. he grabs my wrist tenderly, kissing my knuckles, “i’m serious, princess. i’m serious about us”
my heart sinks, i can’t drop everything for him. maybe four years ago i would have, but im not twenty two anymore. back then, i was freshly out of college and confused on everything in my life. my career, what i wanted for my love life, if i wanted to live in los angeles or new york. but now i know what i want and its not anything serious. i can’t have anything serious when all i feel for life is grief, not in a suicidal way or anything, i really do love my life. but sometimes the weight of the world pushes me down and i can’t get up. i might not have woken up feeling like that today but i will eventually, i can’t imagine subjecting anyone to my mood swings, much less this sweet angel of a man.
“im not all that, you know?” i say, knowing i am all that, i’m the shit. but i can’t let him fall for me.
“you could just stay with me, i’ll cover everything. i have two free weeks” he pushes. i think about it, what it would be like to stay with him. we’d probably have sex too much for our own good, he’d probably teach me a lot of korean, show me around everywhere. maybe he’d even try to introduce me to his parents…
“i am employed, if you remember” i reply, hoping hell get me trying to say no.
“okay but what if you cleared your schedule sometime, not right now, to go?” he really isn’t quitting.
“can i think about it?” i ask, he nods, pulling his arms around me as i lay on top of him.
this morning, or rather this afternoon, is blissful. but this kind of bliss, i don’t trust, it never lasts.
-
kiwi woke up shortly after i decided i needed to get ready for the day. i only flew out here to work on the ama’s, but im here for a few days regardless, i love vegas.
namjoon told me he has a free day today, then two back to back shows after that.
“should we stay in and fuck all day?” he asks while peppering kisses all over my face. i smile, catching his lips, breaking the kiss only to say “that doesn’t sound like a bad idea”
i drop what i was doing to kiss him properly. we only made out last night, both too tired to do anything else. i’ve thought about that night we had for a long, long time.
he breaks the kiss to take off the top i just put on, mouth gaping at my chest. “these are new,” he states, talking about my pierced nipples. “yeah, got them pierced three years ago” i say, reconnecting our lips. he guides us to the couch, he’s sitting and im straddling him.
“i’ve fucked my hand so many times thinking about you like this,” he says between kisses, placing sloppy hickeys on my neck, collarbones… i’m a mess by the time he reaches my nipples.
“you like your breasts kissed, princess?”
“mhm” i mumble, feeling too good to actually say anything. he’s teasing the fuck out of me, playing with the metal around my nipples, holding onto my waist.
i push him off of me, giving me a confused look, i tell him to take his pants off. straddling him when his cock springs free, he’s so hard and i know it’s because of me.
“you said you fucked your hand thinking about me?” i say while circling his tip with my thumb, he nods. “show me” he looks at me like sin, not believing im asking such thing of him.
“cmon, joonie, show me…” i take my hands off him but stay straddling his legs, “…i wanna see what i’ve been missing this whole time”
“don’t be shy,” i say. i see his facial expression drop, “fuck this,” he grunts, pushing me off of him now. i know he’s not mad at me but i cant help myself, i wanna push his buttons more.
“you wanna see how i dealt with not seeing you for four years?” he asks, gripping my waist, making me follow him to the bathroom. he takes off every piece of clothing i have on, one by one. my top, my bottoms, my bra, panties… but he doesn’t touch me, not the way i want him to.
he’s taking off his shirt, pulling me into the shower, turning on the water. before i can even think he’s lifting me up to sit on the shelf by the window. he’s lined up exactly right to fuck me here, i can tell he sees that, but he controls himself. “every time i was in the shower, i thought about you…” his hands reach down to his cock, rubbing the tip with his big hands, “…and now you’re right in front of me acting like a fucking brat making me touch myself. so i’ll show you how”
his backs against the wall, water dripping all over his toned chest. his hair soaked, neck exposed as he looks up from pleasure, hands fisting himself, looking so hot. he groans as his eyes shut, dick looking painfully hard. there’s a vein that goes alongside it, pulsing. i know he feels so good right now, not as good as he could feel inside of me, though.
i get down from the shelf, moving over to him. “i can make you feel better,” i say, it comes out as a whisper. i go to touch him but he slaps my hand away, “oh now you wanna touch me?” he says, backing me into the wall. i nod and giggle like the brat i am and this clearly frustrates him. “such a fuckin brat, you love pissing me off, huh?”
i smile as i put my hands around him, he’s trying to act all tough but he melts as soon as my hands work him up and down.
“damn, you shut up real fast….” i tease, “…makes me wonder what you’d be like with my mouth on you”
his eyes widen, whispering “fuck” as i get down on my knees to take him in my mouth. feeling him hit the back of my throat, he’s big. his hands tangled in my wet hair as he starts fucking my throat out of pure lust. grunting and panting, sounding so good, i can image the sounds from my throat are turning him on, too.
“fuck, princess…” he groans, my nose brushing his pelvis with one deep thrust, “…i thought about you around my dick like this, never thought you’d feel this good”
i hollow my cheeks to suck him harder, lapping him up and down again as he lets go of my hair. he grabs my face with both of his hands as i’m going down on him again, using his thumbs to caress my cheek. “such a brat,” slapping me ever so lightly. he comes down my throat with the hottest groan i have ever heard.
“ruin me” i say, looking up at him. he lets out a laugh that sends chills down my spine and almost makes me regret telling him that.
“you don’t know what you’re asking for,”
except i very much do. i get up from the floor, not daring to break eye contact, running my hands up his toned stomach, sliding my finger over his nipples to see if i can get a reaction out of him; he sucks in a moan.
i ask, “are you gonna fuck me or do i have to do it myself?”
his smirk doesn’t hide anything as he’s moving me back to the shelf, hoisting me up by my waist once again. “how many guys have you fucked since me?” he unexpectedly asks,
“dated one for two years, had a fuck buddy for a few months after that” i admit, the fuck buddy was the ex.
“yeah? he fuck you good?” he says, slipping his tip inside of me. just the tip.
he’s teasing me so bad, but i feel like this is more of a punishment.
“he did, actually…” i start playing with my clit, “…he fucked me into my bed every night, like a man’s supposed to”
he slaps my manicured hands away from my own pussy, using his fingers as a replacement, still taking his tip in and out of me.
“these guys your age don’t know how to treat a woman, i know how to treat you” he says as his fingers lightly tap my clit. “who said he was my age?”
his laugh rumbles deep in my chest, all at once he’s sinking into me and i’m wet enough to take him. “prettiest fuckin brat ever, if i had you all to myself id fuck you all day”
he feels so good inside of me, sending electric shocks through my whole body. i feel him grab the back of my knees, pushing them up to my chest as he presses himself against me. going deeper, and harder.
i feel any sense of thoughtfulness in my mind go away, he’s fucking me dumb. he’s fucking me so good i can’t think. i feel him in my stomach, i feel him in my mouth, everywhere. it feels so, so good.
i mumble out something incoherent, my vision going hazy, tears slipping down my cheek because of how good im feeling.
“you crying because your cunt feels so good?”
i nod rapidly, taking the deepest breath Ive ever taken in my life. his thrusts get sloppier and deeper, burying his face into the crook of my neck as my arms wrap around him.
“my pretty girl, i’ve been yours since the day i met you…” he says as he spreads my legs, rubbing circles on me, “…been yours forever, will always be yours”
i’m a moaning mess and he keeps whispering sweet nothings to me as he shoots his load inside of me, he feels way too good. fucking me through my own orgasm, keeping a steady thumb on my clit. “joonie, too much. i’m gonna come again”
“squirt for me,”
and i do, leg twitching and all.
“good girl, doin what i say”
he brings his fingers up to his mouth, tasting me. doing this with him has to be the most satisfying feeling ever, we’re so compatible like this.
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two days later, namjoons pov
“when are you leaving” i ask, not wanting to let her go just yet
“in two days, what about you?”
“in two days too” i say, except that’s a lie. we’re leaving after we finish our two shows here, and tonight’s the last one.
we’ve been hanging out every day between my work schedule, with all our concerts and fittings i’ve made time to see her in between.
right now we’re in line to order coffee, some fans have recognized me, they we’re really respectful though, either just ignoring me or saying “hi joon” and going about their day. in which, id say “hi army” back to them.
i have to be back at my hotel in an hour, now im just cherishing my time with her. today’s the last concert in vegas, then im back in korea tomorrow. but i wanna spend more time with her.
moving up in the line, i confess, “im actually leaving tomorrow but…” i face her, “…ill stay if you want me to”
she looks at me with a smirk, “i always want you to stay”
i squeeze her hand at this, i love her i love her i love her.
“i can take whoever’s next” an old lady with white hair and blue eyes says. hanna steps up and asks how she is, “oh sweetie, i’m very well. been running this coffee shop for decades now and this past week has been a record in our sales.”
i smile, this is a cute coffee shop. there are people doing their work on the tables, families catching up, friends gossiping. “what’s your favorite part of the store?” hanna asks, always so thoughtful.
the lady looks up, thinking, “hmm, has to be the tree i built it around,” pointing to the left corner, where a tree stands. it looks like a bigger version of a bonsai tree, it’s so cute.
someone behind us says “can you guys hurry up?”. hanna apologizes, i roll my eyes, have some fuckin patience.
we order, i pay. she gets mad at me for this, “joon, i have money. you know that, right?”
“yeah, i do” i say,
“so why’d you pay?” she asks, sitting down in an empty booth, further away from the front
“because you deserve the world… and not to mention i could buy a mansion right now before our coffees even ready.”
the buzzer goes off, indicating the orders ready.
hanna sits up to grab it, but she’s my girl and she deserves to be taken care of; not just money wise, so i grab it.
“wow joon, you’re spoiling me right here” she giggles, taking a sip of her latte.
“you deserve to be taken care of, hanna”
looking up at me, eyes hazy, she says “okay”
and i know that’s her letting me.
-
two days of just me and her, tangled in each others souls. i extended my trip here, changed my flight, stayed with hanna. it’s been so surreal just living with her like this. we bring kiwi with us almost everywhere, she’s starting to think i’m her dad.
we had a wine tasting she was able to squeeze me into last minute, i never really thought i was going to be able to have a relationship this normal, one where i can freely go out in public, somehow she’s making that possible.
two days of absolute peace and happiness.
the hours before our flight was bittersweet, she had a red eye and i was out in the morning, i went to the airport with her anyways. we spent the whole night in bed, talking about nothing yet everything, kiwi in between us. she told me everything about her life, including that night on the rooftop.
“i wasn’t even supposed to be up there, it was the day after i graduated college, i was such a mess. i was on a graduation trip with my girl friends but i couldn’t take it, the weight of it all falling down on me.”
i listen attentively, never having been to college but understanding her nonetheless. i know what it feels like to have a constant pit in your stomach, like something’s always weighing you down. i play with her hair as she talks, “sometimes life is just like that, joonie. you hate it and then you love it and then you want to end it all, and then you come back around and figure out it’s not that deep, and then you actually realize it is that deep. everything in this world is about how long you can hold on, life is about how long you can hold on. people like us, we feel everything, there will always be a grief in our hearts about being alive.”
i’ve never met someone who feels what i feel.
“these feelings will never go away.”
-
me and her both have bloodshot eyes standing through tsa, paparazzi followed us all the way. i’m having a hard time caring about that, i know pictures of us will be out in the morning; my arms wrapped around her as she stands in my hoodie. but i don’t care, oh fucking well. we get into the lounge the company rented out for me, for privacy.
“you’re not gonna forget about me, right?” she looks up, teary eyed. i will absolutely never forget her, she doesn’t know what she’s made me feel. i felt like i was drowning but she held me up, even after all this time.
“i’m in love with you, hanna”
that makes her tears slip out, even though i can tell she’s trying so hard not to cry. the tears flow against her will, bringing her into my arms i say, “meeting you saved me”
it also ruined me, but that’s never something id admit.
after a long time of us holding each other, she whispers that her flight is about to leave. it goes against everything im feeling to let her go.
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riding namjoon (mdni 18+)
it's been a long week for the both of you — namjoon especially. between his early mornings and very late nights, he hasn't found a moment of time to spend with you. until tonight. and he missed you— a lot.
so you did what anyone would do, you crawl into his lap on the couch and kiss him like you've wanted all week. and part of you wants to take it slow, but fuck, that's impossible when he's been looking at you that way all night. making you shiver under his constant gaze.
he couldn't keep his eyes off you.
you hum as you move to straddle his strong thighs. his hands grasp at your hips as you start grinding on the growing bulge of his cock. namjoon lets out a deep groan.
you grab his face in both hands softly, pressing open-mouthed kisses to his lips. your tongues meet messily.
already soaking, namjoon slips his cock between your folds with almost no resistance. the thick stretch never fails to make you gasp out his name. you can feel every hard inch as you begin to move.
“fuck, darling…” he breathes out.
"joon, o-oh fuck.”
his chest tenses up as you start to rock faster. “ah, there you go, baby. fuck… jus' like that f'me.”
you're whining into his mouth, his words stirring something deep within your core, this time more intense. you grind against him faster, desperate to chase the pleasure.
he growls. "shit… this pussy was made for me."
“nngh don’t stop, don't— ohhh… ”
namjoon's other hand is gripping your plush hip so hard, you'll definitely find some small marks there the next day. he harshly guides the movement of your hips, but it's clear who's the one setting the pace for tonight — and it isn't him, this round.
fucking into you deeper, he forces you to stare into each his eyes. he wants to be able to see every reaction you have.
"yeah baby," he pants out. namjoon swears you just clenched tighter around him. "you gonna ride it — fuck — like you mean it?"
"fuck, joon. you c-can't... say shit like that t'me wh—" he cuts you off with an intentionally hard thrust to tease you. "nngh fuck."
namjoon lets out a dark, low laugh. he knows exactly what he does to you. "why not darling?"
his words send a out fresh gush of your wetness around his cock.
he loved watching you lose yourself on his cock, but god, he loved watching you ride him into oblivion more than anything. it was the way your hips had a mind of their own and you didn't hide your pleasure — he felt himself folding even faster for you.
"taking my cock so good, nngh."
“joon, ‘m so c-close. keep going baby— please."
your velvet walls pulse around him so perfectly. namjoon's thrusts become even rougher, losing yourselves in the shared pleasure. he snakes a hand up to cup your breast, squeezing it roughly. you arch in response and seconds later, his mouth is hot around one of your nipples
the stimulation makes your hips rock with more vigor, getting more soaked by the second. namjoon feels like he's going insane. "ohhh fuck— yes baby, jus' like that."
the angle of his cock shifts ever so slightly and hits your spongy spot, making you see stars. "joon, please. m'gonna cum," you whine.
"so needy..."
you're gasping out his name, head thrown back and he's memorized.
you cum hard around him, moaning so sweetly. he twitches every time you clench harder around him, riding out the rest of you high and soon milking his own.
"mmh, fuck baby. did s'good for me," he growls into the side of your neck, filling you with deep strokes. his arms shake around you, breath stuttering. he doesn't pull out right away, just holds you close to him and lets the weight of your body slowly into his.
a few moments later, your breathing calms and you smile up at him. namjoon's eyes are already locked on yours, smiling softly.
after a long moment, both of your breathing calms down. you begin to push yourself off his chest. his solid arms wrapped protectively around you squeeze a little tighter feeling you shift.
"don't," he stops you, “...don't think we're done yet, huh m' love?”
first smut on here yayyy (she a pro rider, hoo, hoo, hoo) big fat kiss to whoever likes and reblogs !! ( ˶˘ ³˘)♡

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The Things We Carry | PJM pt 11
SUMMARY: Performance specialist, Mina Seo has made a career out of taking care of everyone else. As BTS throws themselves into comeback preparations, she spends her days managing injuries, recovery plans, and the impossible task of keeping seven overworked artists healthy. What nobody realizes is that she’s becoming increasingly skilled at hiding her own struggles. When an unexpected connection with Jimin begins offering relief neither of them fully understands, it slowly becomes part of their routine. Late-night conversations, shared silences, and a comfort that grows easier to rely on with every passing week. But while Jimin is getting better, Mina isn’t. And sooner or later, someone is going to notice.
WARNINGS: chronic illness, overwork injuries, some medical scenes, slight cursing, eventual smut scene—This story contains a realistic depiction of chronic illness, including rheumatoid arthritis, pain flares, fatigue, hospitalization, and the emotional impact of long-term health conditions.
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The gym was quiet when Mina arrived. That was why she liked it early. Before rehearsal schedules crowded the day, before staff moved through the halls with coffees and tablets and production changes, before the building remembered how many people relied on it to keep several different worlds running at once. At this hour, the mirrors were clean, the racks were orderly, and the low hum of the ventilation system was the loudest thing in the room.
Mina set her bag beside the wall and took her time warming up. She always did.
It was not glamorous, but it was necessary. Ankles first, then hips, then a long sequence of controlled mobility work that would have bored anyone who thought training began when the weights did. Mina had learned the hard way that her body did not respond well to being surprised. It liked warning. Preparation. A proper negotiation before effort.
By the time she moved toward the trap bar, her joints had loosened enough to feel trustworthy…Mostly.
The weight was moderate. Heavy enough to require focus, not heavy enough to become stupid. She clipped the plates into place, stepped inside the bar, and adjusted her stance until both feet were exactly where she wanted them. Her hands closed around the handles. For one breath, she let the room narrow to the familiar sequence: brace, hinge, press through the floor, stand tall without leaning back, lower with control.
The first rep moved cleanly. So did the second.
By the fifth, warmth had begun to spread through her legs in a way that felt almost like relief. Strength work had a clarity to it that Mina appreciated. It did not care what she had lost. It did not ask whether she used to dance, whether she missed it, whether her body could still draw a clean line if she asked carefully enough. The bar only asked whether she could lift it with good form right now—Right now, she could.
She finished the set, lowered the bar to the floor, and let her hands release before her grip began to complain. She stood still for a moment, breathing evenly, counting the sensations that followed effort. Quads warm. Hamstrings active. Hips steady. Knees present but not angry. Acceptable.
She reached for her water.
A voice from the doorway said, “Mina-noona.”
Mina closed her eyes briefly. There were many ways Jungkook could say ‘noona’. This one sounded like discovery. She turned. Jungkook stood just inside the gym, dressed for training, hair still damp from what must have been an earlier warm-up, one hand curled loosely around the strap of his bag. His eyes moved from Mina to the trap bar, then back to Mina again with an expression that was not disbelief so much as recalculation.
“I didn’t know you lifted like that.”
Mina looked at the bar, then at him. “I am choosing to believe you meant that respectfully.”
“I did.” He stepped farther into the room, still looking at the weight. “Your form is good.”
That softened the edge of her reply before she could decide whether she wanted it softened. “Thank you.”
“I thought you did more mobility. Ballet conditioning. Controlled work.”
“I do.”
Jungkook nodded slowly. “But also deadlifts.”
“Also deadlifts,” Mina said, reaching for her towel.
He absorbed that with visible interest, the same look he got when a choreographer gave a correction he actually wanted to understand. Mina could see the idea rearranging itself in his head: ballet did not mean delicate, conditioning did not mean easy, and her body being carefully managed did not mean it was weak.
“Can I watch your next set?” he asked.
Mina glanced at him. “You’re not here to train?”
“I am.”
“Then train.”
“I can do both.”
She should have told him no. This was her quiet hour, one of the few places in the week where no one needed her to manage anything but herself. But Jungkook did not feel intrusive in the way some people did. He was not asking because he doubted her. He was asking because he had seen something he did not know about her and wanted to pay attention properly.
Mina took another sip of water and set the bottle down, “Fine,” she said. “But watch properly.”
His expression settled at once. Not playful now. Focused.
Mina stepped back into the bar. The second set moved slower than the first, partly because she was more aware of being watched and partly because fatigue liked to introduce itself politely before becoming difficult. She kept the reps clean. No ego. No grinding through a pull just to prove she could. When the fourth rep slowed a fraction more than she wanted, she finished the fifth and stopped there.
Jungkook noticed, “You had more,” he said.
Mina stepped out of the bar and reached for the towel beside her water. “Probably.”
“Then why stop?”
She wiped her hands slowly, giving herself a second before answering. “Because ‘probably’ is not a training plan.”
He took that in without the immediate impatience she had expected, “You don’t lift to failure.”
“Not often.”
“Because of recovery?”
“Because of tomorrow.” Mina wrapped the towel around the back of her neck and looked at the bar rather than at him. “Being able to do this again matters more than proving I can ruin myself once.”
The room went quiet after that. Not awkwardly. Jungkook did not rush to fill it, which she appreciated. He looked at the trap bar, then at the mobility mat she had used earlier, then at the notebook open beside her bag where she had written the day’s sets in small, precise lines.
“You train carefully,” he said.
“I try to.”
“No.” His voice was thoughtful now. “I mean, you know exactly where that line is.”
Mina’s fingers stilled briefly on the towel. She did not answer right away because that was too close to something larger than lifting. The line was not always clear. Some days it shifted without warning. Some days she guessed wrong and paid for it later. But Jungkook had seen the part she wanted people to see: not fragility, not fear, but discipline. A body managed with intelligence because strength was not useful if it could not be sustained.
“I’ve had practice,” she said eventually.
Jungkook nodded once, then set his bag down near the bench and began his own warm-up properly, which Mina chose to interpret as a small miracle. He did not jump straight to heavy weight. He moved through mobility first, then activation work, his focus narrowing into something quieter and more serious. Mina watched without meaning to and found herself approving despite every effort not to.
He was good—Of course he was good. She knew that. Everyone knew that. But there was a difference between knowing Jungkook was athletic and seeing the way his attention changed when he trained. He listened to his body without making a performance of it. Adjusted quickly. Asked once about foot placement and took the correction the first time. When she told him to slow the eccentric portion of a movement, he did it without complaint, eyes tracking the motion in the mirror as if he wanted the reason, not just the instruction.
They trained separately for a while, sharing the room without filling it with unnecessary conversation.
Mina moved from deadlifts into single-leg work, controlled split squats with one hand resting lightly near the rack for balance. She kept the range precise, not shallow enough to be pointless and not deep enough to invite consequences later. Her left side complained more than it had during the deadlifts. Not loudly. Just enough for her to note it.
By the time she set up for back squats, the fatigue had begun to creep in around the edges. She knew the feeling.
It was not ordinary muscle tiredness. That had a clean burn to it, a straightforward exchange between effort and response. This was slower, duller, a heaviness that made her joints feel as if they were receiving instructions half a beat late. The kind of fatigue that did not announce itself as pain until she had already overdrawn the account.
Mina set the safety bars first. Then she loaded the bar. Moderate weight. Sensible weight. A working set, not a test. Still, when she ducked beneath the bar and settled it across her upper back, she felt the day beneath her skin more clearly than she wanted to. The music video shoot, the cold, the long hours of standing, the recovery sessions, the way she had been staying more, choosing more, wanting more. All of it counted, whether she wrote it down or not.
The first set went well. Clean descent. Controlled depth. Steady drive up. No knee collapse, no dramatic compensation, no reason for anyone watching to think the lift had cost more than it should have.
Mina reracked the bar and stood with her hands still on it, breathing through the effort.
Jungkook looked over from where he had been adjusting dumbbells near the bench, “You okay?”
“Yes.” The answer came automatically. Then she paused.
He had not asked like Jin would have. He had not asked as if her body were something that needed managing by someone else. He had asked like a training partner noticing the difference between a clean set and a costly one. That distinction mattered.
Mina looked at the bar, then at him, “Can you spot this next one?”
Jungkook’s expression changed at once. The curiosity left, replaced by immediate focus.
“Yeah,” he said. “Tell me what you want.”
That made it easier. Not, ‘are you sure?’ Not, ‘should you be doing this?’ Not, ‘I’ve got you’ in a way that made the lift about him…Just ‘tell me what you want.’
Mina adjusted the collars on the bar though they were already secure. “Stay close. Don’t touch unless I say rack, or unless I shift enough that I’m not correcting it. If I miss depth, tell me. If my left side lags, tell me.”
Jungkook nodded once. “Okay.”
He stepped behind her as she moved under the bar again, close enough to help, not close enough to crowd. His hands stayed ready near her ribs without touching. Mina appreciated that more than she wanted to. A bad spot could make a lift feel more dangerous than no spot at all. Jungkook seemed to understand that the point was not to take the weight from her, but to watch the line she might miss while she was inside the work.
She unracked the bar. One step back. Second step to settle. Brace.
The first rep was clean. The second was slower but acceptable. On the third, fatigue pressed harder through her legs, a subtle delay in the left hip as she came out of the bottom. She corrected it before it became visible to anyone who did not know what to look for—Jungkook knew what to look for because she had told him.
On the fourth rep, the shift came again. Not dangerous. Not obvious. Just enough.
“Left,” Jungkook said quietly. One word. No alarm.
Mina corrected on the way up, finished the rep, and breathed at the top. For half a second she considered stopping there. Then pride, or stubbornness, or the old familiar need to prove she could read her own body better than anyone else, told her one more was fine
She did one more. It moved. It was not pretty. Jungkook did not touch her, but she felt him stay close, attention steady behind her until she stepped forward and guided the bar back onto the hooks.
The moment the weight settled, Mina knew. Her breath was controlled. Her form had not fallen apart. Nothing dramatic had happened, But the line had moved while she was already crossing it.
She stepped back from the rack and rested one hand lightly against the bar, already calculating whether another set was sensible or whether she only wanted it to be.
Jungkook watched her for a moment,
“I think that was the line,” he said.
Mina looked over. He did not sound worried. That was what made it difficult to dismiss. There was no pity in his expression, no alarm, no careful softness that made her feel like glass. He sounded like someone who had been asked to watch and had done exactly that.
“You shifted left on the fourth,” he added. “Not much. But enough.”
Mina looked back at the bar. The irritating part was that he was right. She knew her body better than anyone else in the room, and still, sometimes, the line moved while she was already crossing it. That was the part people did not understand. Management was not mastery. Discipline helped, routine helped, strength helped, but none of it turned a body into something fully predictable.
Chronic illness did not make her fragile. It did make the margin thinner. And today she had misjudged it by one rep.
Mina let out a slow breath and stepped away from the rack, “No more squats,” she said.
Jungkook nodded as if that had always been obvious. “Okay.”
No praise for being sensible. No comment about stopping. No question about whether she was sure.
He simply accepted the decision and began stripping one side of the bar without waiting to be asked. Mina watched him for a moment, caught by the quiet ease of it. He did not make helping feel like a rescue. He made it feel like part of training.
That was worse, somehow. Worse because it made accepting it easier.
“Thank you,” she said.
Jungkook glanced at her, then back at the plates. “You asked me to watch.” Such a simple answer. Such an irritatingly kind one.
Mina took a drink of water and let herself sit on the bench for longer than she usually would have allowed. Jungkook finished unloading the bar, then sat on the floor nearby, stretching one leg out in front of him. For a while they were quiet. Not the stiff silence of people avoiding a subject, but something steadier. Shared effort. Shared breath. The peculiar trust of someone seeing a limit and not mistaking it for weakness.
Eventually Jungkook looked at her, “You’re careful with yourself,” he said.
Mina’s thumb moved over the side of her water bottle. “I try to be.”
His gaze drifted toward the squat rack, then back to her. “Jimin-hyung is careful with you like that.”
Her hand stilled. Jungkook noticed immediately, “I don’t mean people are watching,” he said, quieter now.
Mina looked at him then.
“At HYBE,” he added. “I don’t mean that. You’re both careful there.” The answer should have reassured her. It did, a little.
Jungkook rubbed one hand over his knee, choosing his words with unusual care. “I mean I know him. I know when he wants to move closer and doesn’t. I know when he’s pretending not to look because he thinks looking will make it harder for you.”
Mina looked away first. That was harder to dismiss than teasing would have been.
“At the retreat, when it was just us, I saw it more,” Jungkook said. “He was careful with you. That’s all I mean.”
The gym felt very quiet around them.
“It’s complicated,” Mina said.
“I know.”
“You don’t, actually.”
“Not all of it,” Jungkook admitted.
Mina tightened her grip on the bottle, then loosened it again before the plastic could crackle too loudly in the silence.
“I don’t want to become a cliché,” she said.
Jungkook’s brows drew together slightly.
“The staff member and the idol,” she continued, voice lower now. “The woman who got too close because she had access. The person people decide must have confused kindness for something else, or used proximity, or crossed a line she should have known better than to touch.”
She swallowed, “I have worked too hard to be good at my job for that to be the story.”
Jungkook did not answer immediately. That helped. When he did speak, his voice was careful. “That’s not what it looks like to us.”
Mina looked at him. He held her gaze for a moment, earnest and steady. “Not to me.”
The correction mattered. He was not claiming the whole world would be fair. He was not pretending the line did not exist. He was only telling her what he had seen.
“And Jimin-hyung isn’t careless,” Jungkook added. “You aren’t either.”
Mina looked down at the bottle in her hands.
“I’m happy for him,” he said quietly. Then, after a moment, “For you too. Whatever it is.”
For some reason, that was harder to answer than the rest.
The gym was quiet around them, the early morning interrupted only by the low hum of the air conditioning and the faint clink of equipment from the far side of the room. She could have corrected him. She could have said there was nothing to be happy about, that he was imagining things, that whatever he had seen between her and Jimin belonged to a private language she had not agreed to translate.
Instead, she took a slow sip of water and set the bottle down, “You’re very observant,” she said.
Jungkook’s mouth softened, but he did not smile fully, “So are you, noona.”
Mina looked back at the rack, at the unloaded bar, at the place where she had almost pushed past sense because wanting to be capable had always been easier than admitting capability still had limits.
“You should finish your last set before rehearsal,” she said.
Jungkook nodded, letting her have the change of subject, “Okay.”
He stood without another word and returned to his own station. Mina stayed seated for a moment longer than necessary, watching him reset his stance with the same focus he had given her lift. She had expected the conversation to make her want distance. It did not. That frightened her more. Because Jungkook had not teased. He had not accused. He had not turned what he saw into gossip or pressure or a demand for clarity she did not yet have. He had simply noticed the shape of something and told her it looked gentle from where he stood.
Jungkook stood without another word and returned to his own station. Mina watched him finish his final set, the correction she had given him earlier still visible in the slower control of the movement. He did not rush it. He did not turn it into a performance because someone was watching. He simply did the work properly.
When he was done, he unloaded the plates, wiped down the bench, and came back toward her with his towel around his neck.
“You were right,” he said.
Mina looked up. “About what?”
“The tempo.” He glanced back at the bench. “Slower was harder.”
“It usually is.”
He nodded, accepting that, then looked toward the squat rack again. “You can ask me next time.”
Mina’s fingers tightened loosely around her water bottle, “To spot?”
“To spot. To watch your form.” His voice stayed even, not too careful but not casual either. “Whatever you need.”
The offer was simple enough that it should not have made anything in her chest shift. It did anyway. Mina looked at him for a moment, at the earnestness he did not try to disguise, at the quiet confidence of someone who had seen one of her limits and had not mistaken it for weakness.
“I usually train alone,” she said.
Jungkook nodded. “I know.”
He did not argue with it. Did not tell her she should change. He only waited, giving her the choice without making it dramatic.
Mina looked back toward the unloaded bar, “Next week,” she said finally. “If you’re actually warmed up before I get here.”
Jungkook’s smile came slowly, small but unmistakably pleased, “I’ll be warmed up, noona.”
Mina believed him. That was new too.
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Few days later—Taehyung had gone to the small practice room because it was one of the few places at HYBE where the walls did not seem to hum.
The building had been restless all day. Every corridor carried some piece of the upcoming Netflix live comeback show: vocal runs bleeding through closed doors, managers speaking into phones, production staff moving too quickly with tablets pressed to their chests. The date had started to feel less like something approaching and more like something pulling everyone toward it by the collar.
He usually liked the noise. Today, he needed a room quiet enough to hear himself think.
The practice room was small, more lounge than studio, with a couch pushed against one wall and a low table covered in the usual evidence of long workdays: two empty water bottles, a folded hoodie, a pencil case someone had forgotten, and a charger that probably belonged to Jungkook because most abandoned chargers eventually did. Taehyung sat at one end of the couch with one knee tucked beneath him, lyric sheets spread across the cushion beside him.
“Into the Sun” played softly from his phone.
It was one of the warmer songs for the comeback show, though not bright in an easy way. The guide track carried piano beneath the vocal line, gentle but steady, the kind of song that felt as if it had to be held carefully or the feeling would spill out too far. Taehyung had helped write part of it months earlier, back when the comeback still felt distant enough to discuss without everyone checking the time. Now the song was real. Soon they would sing it live, under lights, in front of cameras, after years of people waiting for seven voices to fit together again. He played the same section twice, then paused it to mark a breath on the paper.
The door opened. Mina stood in the doorway with her tablet held against her chest. She looked as though she had meant to find an empty room and had discovered a problem instead.
“Sorry,” she said, already shifting back. “I didn’t realise anyone was in here.”
Taehyung looked at her for a moment. Her hair was neat. Her badge was clipped properly. Her expression was composed in the careful way it became when the rest of her was less so. But the day had left marks anyway. A dullness around her eyes. Shoulders held too deliberately. One hand curled tight around the edge of her tablet, as if she had forgotten how hard she was gripping it.
“You can stay,” he said.
Mina hesitated, “I don’t want to interrupt.”
“You’re not.”
“You’re working.”
“So are you.” That seemed to leave her without an easy exit.
After a moment, she stepped inside and let the door fall almost closed behind her. She crossed to the far end of the couch, leaving a careful amount of space between them, and sat with the tablet balanced on her knees. Taehyung looked back down at his lyric sheet because looking at her too directly would only make her leave.
For a while, the room held them quietly.
He replayed the section of “Into the Sun,” pencil moving across the page now and then. Mina opened her tablet and tried to review whatever schedule she had escaped into the room with, but Taehyung could feel the moment her attention drifted. Her stylus stopped moving. Her eyes stayed on the screen, but she was listening.
The guide vocal moved softly through the room. Taehyung sang one line under his breath, barely louder than the track.
Mina looked down at her tablet without reading it.
“I like this one,” she said quietly.
Taehyung looked over. She seemed to realise she had spoken aloud and glanced back at the screen. “Sorry. That wasn’t meant to interrupt.”
“It didn’t.”
“It’s lovely,” she said, simpler this time. “That’s all.”
For a moment, Taehyung only looked at the lyric sheet in his hand. Then his mouth softened before he could stop it. “I helped write it.”
Mina looked up again. “You did?”
He nodded.
She glanced toward the paper, then back at him. “Then I like it even more.”
The answer was small. Honest. No technical opinion. No attempt to sound like she understood a process she did not. For some reason, that mattered more to him than a longer compliment would have. Taehyung looked back at the lyric sheet, still smiling faintly, and played the section again. This time, Mina let herself listen for a little while before returning to her tablet.
After that, she grew quieter.
At first, Taehyung thought she was reading. Mina could go still when she worked, narrowing herself down until the rest of the room seemed to fade. But then her stylus stopped moving again. The tablet dimmed. Her head tipped back against the couch cushion, not enough to look comfortable, only enough to betray that her body had taken a moment before her mind agreed to it. Taehyung did not say her name.
The guide track remained paused in his hand. Mina’s breathing changed slowly, settling into a rhythm too even to be concentration. Her fingers loosened around the stylus. One foot shifted, then the other, as if even asleep she was trying to find a position her body would accept.
She had fallen asleep. At HYBE. In the middle of the day. Taehyung looked at her for a long moment, lyric sheets forgotten on his lap.
Mina did not do this. He knew that much without Jin telling him and without Jimin looking at her like he was trying not to worry. She rested in fragments, if she rested at all. Five minutes with her tablet open so it could still count as work. A few breaths in a hallway before someone found her again. She made tiredness look like efficiency and pain look like concentration.
But now she was asleep at the far end of a couch, her tablet sliding toward the cushion, one ankle tucked awkwardly beneath the other.
Taehyung set his pencil down. Carefully, he reached for the tablet first. Mina stirred when he lifted it from her lap, but she did not wake. He placed it on the low table within reach, screen down so no one passing the doorway would see her schedule. Then he looked at her legs, at the uncomfortable angle of her knees, and considered leaving them alone.
She would hate being fussed over. She would wake hurting if he did nothing.
Taehyung moved slowly, giving her every chance to wake and stop him. When she did not, he slid one hand beneath her ankles and eased her legs out of the cramped position. Mina made a small sound, not quite pain and not quite relief, and turned her head against the cushion.
He froze. She settled again.
Only then did he draw her feet gently across the couch, resting them over his lap. There was nothing romantic in it. Nothing arranged or sentimental. It was only practical: warmer than the couch, better than letting her knees twist badly while she slept. He took the folded hoodie from beside him and tucked it beneath her knees so her legs were not hanging unsupported.
Mina exhaled in her sleep. The sound did something strange to his chest. Taehyung picked up the “Into the Sun” lyric sheet again, but he did not restart the guide track.
By the time Yoongi opened the door twenty minutes later, Taehyung had stopped pretending to work.
Yoongi stepped in with his phone in hand, already speaking quietly. “Tae, they’re moving the vocal run by—”
He stopped. His eyes moved from Mina asleep at one end of the couch to her feet resting across Taehyung’s lap, then to the hoodie beneath her knees and the tablet turned face down on the table.
Taehyung lifted one finger to his lips.
Yoongi lowered his voice. “How long?”
“Not long.”
Yoongi came farther into the room and let the door close softly behind him. He looked at Mina again, his expression still, but Taehyung had known him long enough to see the thought beneath it.
“She never sleeps here,” Yoongi said.
“I know.”
Mina shifted slightly. Both of them went quiet until she settled.
Yoongi glanced at the lyric sheets. “You were working on ‘Into the Sun’?”
Taehyung nodded. “She said she liked it.”
That made Yoongi’s mouth move slightly, “She has good taste sometimes.”
Taehyung looked down at the page, then at Mina’s feet across his lap. “She was trying to read her schedule. I don’t think she made it through one page.”
Yoongi leaned one shoulder against the wall. “That bad?”
Taehyung did not answer immediately. He watched Mina sleep, the guarded lines of her face eased in a way he almost never saw when she was awake. The tiredness was clearer like this. Not weakness. Not fragility. Just the cost of showing up every day and making it look as though the cost did not exist.
“She’s been slower this week,” Taehyung said eventually. “She hides it.”
Yoongi gave a short breath through his nose. Not quite a laugh. “She hides everything.”
“Not everything.”
Yoongi looked at him.
Taehyung kept his gaze on Mina. “Not with Jimin.”
For a moment, neither of them spoke. Outside the room, HYBE continued moving: distant music, a door closing somewhere down the hall, someone calling for a manager in a voice that tried to stay calm and failed at the edges.
Yoongi slipped his phone into his pocket. “He’s been better.”
“His hip?”
“That too.”
Taehyung understood. He had seen it in Jimin, the quiet change that had settled over him in the last few weeks. Jimin was still Jimin, still bright when he wanted to be, still playful when the room needed it, still sharp and focused when rehearsal demanded it. But around Mina, something stopped performing. Not all at once. Not publicly. Just in small places: the way he waited before stepping closer, the way his shoulders eased when she stayed, the way he seemed less restless when she was near enough to reach but still free to move away.
“She balances him,” Taehyung said.
Yoongi’s gaze stayed on Mina. “She doesn’t flatter him.”
“No.”
“She doesn’t need him to be charming.”
“No.”
“And he doesn’t ask her to be easy.”
Taehyung looked at Yoongi then. That was closer to the truth than anything he had been trying to say.
Across his lap, Mina’s ankle twitched once in sleep. Taehyung adjusted the hoodie beneath her knees with the smallest movement he could manage.
“I like her,” he said.
Yoongi did not tease him for it. He only nodded, as if the statement was obvious enough not to need explanation, “Me too.” That, somehow, said more than a speech would have.
Yoongi stayed another minute. Long enough for the quiet to settle again. Long enough for Taehyung to understand that he was not the only one who had noticed the way Mina was becoming part of the spaces between schedules, not because of Jimin alone, and not because she was useful, but because they had started wanting her there.
Then Yoongi straightened, “The vocal run moved by twenty minutes,” he said.
Taehyung nodded, “She’ll ask.”
“I know.” Yoongi looked toward Mina again. “Let her wake up first.”
Then he opened the door carefully and stepped back into the hallway, leaving it almost closed behind him. Taehyung sat with the lyric sheets loose in one hand and Mina’s feet warm across his lap. Outside, the building rushed toward the comeback show with all its noise and pressure and polished expectation. Inside the small room, for a little while, nothing was required of her. Not usefulness. Not explanation. Not even wakefulness.
When Mina finally stirred, it happened slowly. Her fingers moved first, then her brow furrowed, then her eyes opened to the dim room and went unfocused with confusion.
Taehyung did not move. He waited.
Her gaze dropped to her legs. Then to his lap. Her whole body went still.
“How long was I out?”
Her voice was rough with sleep, and the question came too quickly, too controlled, as if time were the only part of this she could bear to address.
“Not long,” Taehyung said.
Mina pushed herself upright too fast, pulling her feet back at once. Pain crossed her face before she could hide it properly. Taehyung looked down at the lyric sheet in his hands, giving her the privacy of not being watched.
“I didn’t mean to fall asleep.”
“I know.”
That was worse, somehow. Not because he sounded disappointed. Because he did not. Her eyes flicked toward the low table. Her tablet was there, face down but within reach. Safe. Not moved far. Not taken from her.
“Yoongi came by,” Taehyung said.
Mina went still again. Her gaze moved toward the door, then back to Taehyung. “Did he—”
“No.”
The answer came before she could finish.
No, he had not made a thing of it.
No, he had not gone to tell anyone.
No, he had not looked at her like she had failed some invisible test by falling asleep in the middle of the day.
Taehyung let the quiet settle before adding, “He said the vocal run moved by twenty minutes.”
Mina stared at him for a second, caught off guard by the plainness of it—A schedule change. That was all. Not concern sharpened into questions. Not a lecture. Not a careful conversation about rest that would have made her want to disappear into the floor. Just a shifted vocal run and a room that had let her sleep.
She looked down at the folded hoodie that had been beneath her knees. Her expression tightened with embarrassment, but beneath it was something smaller and more uncertain.
“Thank you,” she said eventually.
Taehyung only nodded. He did not tell her it was fine. He did not tell her she looked tired. He did not ask whether she needed anything. He simply picked up his pencil again and looked back at the lyric sheet, letting the room return to what it had been before she woke. Quiet. Undemanding.
After a moment, Mina reached for her tablet. Then stopped. The screen stayed dark on the table. Taehyung noticed. He did not look at her.
Outside the practice room, HYBE kept moving toward the comeback show with all its noise and pressure and polished expectation. Inside, the guide track for “Into the Sun” remained paused, the lyric sheets loose in Taehyung’s hand, and Mina stayed on the couch for another minute without pretending she had a reason.
For once, no one gave her one. That made staying easier.
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By the time Jin’s dinner became a real plan, Mina had already found several reasons not to go.
The Netflix live comeback show was close enough now that every hour seemed to arrive already claimed. Rehearsal blocks stretched past their original end times. Production notes changed faster than anyone could update them. The members were tired in different ways, trying to prepare for the kind of return that could not be treated like an ordinary schedule, and Mina had begun to feel the pressure of it in her own body as much as she saw it in theirs.
There were recovery notes to finish. Treatment windows to adjust. A revised nutrition schedule waiting on her tablet. She could have filled the evening twice over with things that sounded responsible.
The real problem was that Jin’s apartment was not work.
It was not HYBE, not a treatment room, not a rehearsal studio, not a shoot location, not a space where she could justify her presence because someone’s ankle needed checking or someone’s shoulder needed heat before a run-through. If she went, she would be going because they wanted her there. That remained harder to accept than a schedule conflict.
She was packing her bag after rehearsal when Jungkook found her near the mirrors.
“You’re coming tonight, right?”
Mina looked up. “Coming where?”
“To Jin-hyung’s.”
“I’m not invited.”
Jungkook frowned, not offended, only genuinely confused. “This is me inviting you.”
She blinked at him.
He seemed to believe the matter was now settled.
Jungkook shifted the strap of his bag higher on his shoulder. His hair was still damp from rehearsal, his expression open in a way that made simple refusal feel more complicated than it should have. Since the gym, something had changed between them. Not loudly. He did not hover, did not make a performance out of concern, did not treat her as fragile because he had seen one of her limits. He had simply become someone who expected to be useful if she asked, and somehow that made his invitation harder to dismiss.
“It’s dinner, noona,” he said. “Not a meeting.”
“That is precisely the problem.”
He looked at her for a moment, and she could almost see him deciding not to push too hard. “Jimin-hyung didn’t ask me to ask.”
Her hand tightened slightly around the strap of her bag. Jungkook noticed. Of course he did.
“I mean it,” he added. “This is from us.”
Across the room, Jimin was speaking with Namjoon near the monitors. His attention moved briefly toward Mina and Jungkook, only long enough to register that they were talking. He did not come over. He did not try to help convince her. He turned back to Namjoon and let the invitation remain what Jungkook had made it: a group one.
Mina hated how much that mattered.
“What time?” she asked.
Jungkook’s face changed before he could stop it. Not victory. Relief.
“Eight.”
“I’m not staying late.”
“Okay.”
“And I’m bringing something.”
“Jin-hyung is cooking.”
“I’m aware.”
Jungkook paused, then nodded as if he had remembered that Mina arriving anywhere empty-handed was apparently not something the universe allowed. “Okay.”
“Text me the address.”
“I will.”
“And don’t make it a thing.”
His expression sobered. “I won’t.”
To his credit, he did not. Still, when Mina arrived that evening with a bottle of wine in a narrow paper bag and a level of nerves entirely disproportionate to dinner with people she already saw almost every day, she suspected most of them had been expecting her.
The apartment was warm when Jin opened the door. Not staged. Not too neat. Lived in, but in the way of someone who had prepared for people he wanted in his space. Shoes gathered near the entrance. Low light from the living room. The smell of food rich enough to make her realise she had eaten too little that day. Voices deeper inside, overlapping and familiar: Hoseok laughing, Jungkook answering too quickly, Namjoon saying something low that pulled Yoongi’s dry response out of him a second later.
Jin looked at the paper bag in her hand Then at her face, “You brought wine.”
“I was raised correctly.”
“You don’t drink.”
“I didn’t bring it for me.”
That was not entirely true. She could drink. She simply avoided it most of the time because alcohol had a way of turning into inflammation and poor sleep and regret by morning, and her body had enough ways to punish her without being handed extra material. Jin knew that. He did not say it.
He only took the bag from her with a nod. “Thank you. Come in.”
Mina stepped inside and removed her shoes with unnecessary focus.
Jin waited until she straightened, “You’re not working tonight.”
“I haven’t done anything.”
“You were preparing to.”
“That seems difficult to prove.”
“I know your face.”
Mina looked at him. His tone was light, but the line beneath it was firm. He was not fussing over her health. He was setting the terms of his own home.
“You can be useful tomorrow,” he said. “Tonight you’re a guest.”
The word sat strangely in her chest—Guest. Not staff. Not patient. Not a problem being quietly managed. Not a professional presence permitted because she had earned her place through usefulness…Guest.
“I can help carry something,” she said.
“You can carry yourself to the living room.”
“Jin.”
“Mina.”
The stalemate might have lasted longer if Hoseok had not appeared around the corner with the easy warmth of someone who had never met tension he did not think could be softened, “You came.”
“I was invited,” Mina said.
“Good.” He said it simply, as if the invitation and her arrival were both things the room had expected.
Jungkook appeared behind him a second later. “Noona.”
“I’m here.”
“I see that.”
“You seem pleased with yourself.”
“I invited you.”
“And I arrived. A successful transaction.”
His smile widened, but he did not turn it into more. He only stepped aside so she could come fully into the living room.
The apartment pulled her in carefully. No one made a show of it. That was what disarmed her. Taehyung looked up from the sofa and lifted one hand in quiet greeting, leaving room beside him without asking whether she needed somewhere safe to sit. Yoongi, already settled low in an armchair, nodded once over the rim of his glass. Namjoon paused in the middle of whatever conversation he had been having with him and said, “I’m glad Jungkook succeeded.”
Mina looked at him. “That makes it sound like there was a campaign.”
“There may have been morale involved.”
“Noted.”
Namjoon smiled, small and warm, and let the joke go before it could become something she needed to defend against.
Jimin was near the dining table, setting down a stack of plates. He looked up when she entered properly.
The apartment did not disappear. The others were still there. Jin was carrying the wine into the kitchen. Hoseok was telling Jungkook not to crowd the doorway. Taehyung had gone back to whatever he was looking at on his phone. Namjoon and Yoongi’s conversation resumed quietly behind her.
But for one breath, Mina felt the familiar stillness that came with Jimin’s attention. He did not cross the room. He only smiled. Small. Private enough to matter. Public enough to be safe.Mina looked away first, but not before she smiled back.
Dinner was easier than she expected. That was not the same as easy.
For the first few minutes, Mina sat with her posture too neat and her hands too carefully placed in her lap, aware of the plates being passed, the open bottle of wine on the counter, the water Jin had placed in front of her without comment. Her instincts kept reaching for work. Refill a glass. Clear a dish. Ask about someone’s hip, ankle, shoulder. Find the role that made her presence make sense.
Namjoon, seated across from her, seemed to notice the exact moment she started calculating whether she could stand without being obvious.
He passed her a dish before she could move.
“You mentioned the middle rehearsal block was the one getting messy,” he said. “Was that because of the choreography or because production keeps stacking interviews before it?”
The question was close enough to work to give her footing, but his tone kept it from becoming a meeting.
Mina accepted the dish. “Both. The choreography is manageable if everyone reaches it fresh. The problem is that no one does.”
Namjoon nodded, listening properly. “So it’s an order issue.”
“Mostly. Also recovery time between takes. Everyone says five minutes is enough until they have to actually use the five minutes.”
Hoseok leaned forward. “I feel accused.”
“You should.”
Jin pointed at Hoseok with his chopsticks. “She’s right.”
“She usually is,” Yoongi said.
Mina looked down at her plate before anyone could see how much that simple agreement unsettled her.
Jimin sat beside her, close enough that their knees brushed beneath the table now and then. The first time it happened, Mina felt the familiar impulse to move away.Then she remembered where she was—Jin’s apartment.
No staff passing the door. No managers. No cameras. No one here who had not already seen enough to know that something had shifted between her and Jimin and chosen not to make her feel exposed for it.
So she stayed. For a while, that was enough. She ate, listened, lost pieces of the conversation when the Korean moved too quickly, found them again when Namjoon slowed naturally or Hoseok circled a story back without making it obvious. Jimin did not translate for her every time. He did not lean in and make himself responsible for keeping her included. He let the room hold her too.
Maybe that was why she reached for him. It was not dramatic. It was not hidden in panic or excused by pain. During a lull in the conversation, while Jin was scolding Jungkook for taking the last piece of something he had absolutely intended Jungkook to take, Mina lowered her hand beneath the edge of the table and found Jimin’s.
His fingers went still. Only for a second. Then his palm opened for her.
Mina slid her hand into his and kept it there. The relief came softly, familiar enough now that she almost missed the more frightening part: she had not reached for him because she needed the pact. Not only. She had reached because he was beside her, because the room was warm, because she wanted the quiet certainty of his hand around hers while everyone talked around them.
Jimin did not look at her immediately. That helped. He continued listening while Namjoon and Yoongi debated whether the live show’s pacing would feel too heavy if one of the slower songs landed before the final stage, but his fingers closed around hers beneath the table, careful and steady.
Across from them, Jungkook dropped his fork. It clattered softly against the floor, and when he bent to pick it up, his gaze caught on their joined hands. Mina felt the moment happen. Her whole body prepared to pull away.
Jungkook straightened with the fork in his hand. For half a breath, his eyes met hers. Then he looked away first. No smile big enough to embarrass her. No teasing. No announcement to the table. He only reached for a napkin, wiped the fork, and returned to the conversation as if he had seen nothing more fragile than two people trying to be careful with something new.
Mina’s fingers tightened around Jimin’s. This time, she did not let go.
Jimin’s thumb moved once against the side of her hand, small enough that only she could feel it.
At the other end of the table, Namjoon said something that made Yoongi huff under his breath and Jin argue on principle. The room carried on, ordinary and warm, and Mina sat in the middle of it with Jimin’s hand in hers, slowly understanding that being seen by these people did not feel like being exposed. Not here. Not tonight.
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After dinner, Jin announced games with the grim formality of a man trying to pretend this had not been his plan from the beginning. Mina attempted to help clear the table and made it as far as picking up two plates before Jin removed them from her hands.
“You are very committed to misunderstanding the word guest.”
“I am helping.”
“You are avoiding sitting down.”
“That is a bold accusation.”
“It is an accurate one.”
Before she could answer, Jungkook appeared at her side and took the plates from Jin.
“I’ll do it.”
Mina looked at him. “You don’t have to.”
“I know.” That stopped her more effectively than if he had argued.
He carried the plates away without making a thing of it. When she looked back at Jin, he only nodded toward the living room—She went.
The first game involved cards, which Mina understood in principle and lost in practice because the rules seemed to change depending on which member was losing. Namjoon tried to keep order, failed within five minutes, and eventually became the person everyone appealed to after ignoring the rules he had just explained. Jin accused Jungkook of cheating with such conviction that Jungkook looked genuinely offended, while Yoongi asked whether misunderstanding the rules counted as strategy if it worked.
Mina caught about two-thirds of the argument before the Korean became too fast and too layered to untangle. Namjoon noticed, but he did not translate the whole thing. He only leaned slightly closer and murmured, “Jungkook is claiming innocence. He is not innocent.”
Mina glanced across the table, where Jungkook was defending himself with far too much confidence, “That much I understood.”
Namjoon’s smile appeared slowly. “Then you understood the important part.” It was small. Almost nothing. But it let her stay inside the room without making her feel as though someone had stopped the room for her.
The next game moved them to the floor and involved enough accusation that Mina suspected the game itself mattered less than the opportunity to betray one another with structure. She ended up on the sofa beside Jimin sometime during the third round. She could not have said exactly how.
At first, she sat with a safe amount of space between them, one leg folded beneath her, blanket tucked around her shoulders because Jin’s apartment was warm but the week had left her cold from the inside out. Then Jungkook leaned across the coffee table to move a piece he insisted was legal, Namjoon objected with the weary patience of someone who had already explained this twice, Hoseok laughed hard enough to lose track of his own turn, and Mina shifted closer to see what everyone was arguing about.
Her hand landed on Jimin’s thigh. She did not notice immediately. That was the thing that would undo her later, when she thought back on it and realised there had been no calculation. No careful weighing of who might see. No inward negotiation about whether touch was permitted in this particular room. No attempt to make it clinical, practical, or necessary.
She simply reached. Jimin went still for half a second. Then his hand came down over hers, gentle and warm, not covering it completely at first. Waiting.
Mina should have moved. She did not. His fingers settled more securely around hers. The conversation continued around them.
Jungkook noticed first, because Jungkook noticed everything he had decided mattered. His eyes flicked to their hands, then away again, something pleased and private softening his expression before he turned back to the game. Hoseok saw a moment later and kept speaking, easy and bright, holding the room’s attention elsewhere without making his protection obvious. Taehyung glanced over from the floor, then shifted slightly so the blanket did not pull tight around Mina’s shoulder. Yoongi saw, said nothing, and played the wrong card with such calm confidence that it restarted the entire argument.
Namjoon noticed too. Mina only realised because when the conversation began to tilt toward them, when Jin’s eyes moved briefly from their joined hands to her face, Namjoon asked Yoongi a question about the live show arrangement that drew everyone back into familiar debate before the moment could become too visible.
No one laughed. No one teased. No one asked what they were. The room saw them and chose kindness by continuing to be ordinary That made it possible to stay.
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By the time the games dissolved into loose conversation, Mina had stopped pretending she was fully following every thread. Her Korean was good, but tiredness softened the edges of comprehension. When the members spoke over one another, voices quick and familiar, words slipping into slang and inside references she had no hope of catching, she let some of it pass over her instead of fighting to hold every piece.
Jimin sat on her right, close enough that their knees rested together. Mina’s right hand was still linked with his left near his thigh, her fingers held loosely between his. It had started as a small choice beneath the table at dinner, then somehow followed them to the sofa without either of them naming it.
Jimin’s thumb moved once against the side of her hand. Not a question exactly. A check.
Mina looked down at their joined hands. She could have pulled away. She did not. Instead, she leaned a little more into his side, slowly enough that he would have time to shift if he wanted to.
His breath changed beneath the movement, but he stayed still, letting her decide how much closeness she meant. The room continued around them: Jungkook arguing softly with Jin, Hoseok laughing under his breath, Namjoon trying to make sense of the game pieces someone had abandoned, Taehyung listening with that quiet half-smile, Yoongi watching the chaos like he had given up on all of them.
Mina let her head rest against Jimin’s shoulder. The room did not stop. That was the part she would remember.
No sudden silence. No teasing. No meaningful looks made obvious enough to embarrass her. No one asked what they were. The members kept talking around them, voices warm and familiar, and Jimin remained still until her weight settled fully against him.
Only then did his hand loosen from hers. Not pulling away. Making room.
His left arm moved carefully from beside his thigh to around her shoulders, settling over the blanket rather than beneath it, light enough that she could have sat up if she wanted to. She did not.
Her right hand stayed where it had fallen, resting against his thigh beneath the edge of the blanket. After a moment, his fingers brushed lightly over her shoulder, then went still. It was not the pact.
There was no sharp pain to bargain with in that moment, no icy fingers needing warmth, no practical reason she could have offered if anyone asked why being close to him made breathing easier.
No one asked. So Mina stayed there with her head on his shoulder, his arm around her, and her hand resting quietly against him while the members talked until their voices became something softer than language.
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Eventually, the apartment shifted toward the balcony. It happened gradually. Jin opened the doors to let in air. Hoseok carried out glasses. Namjoon and Yoongi continued a conversation that had started at the table and somehow become about the setlist order for the live show. Taehyung took one end of the outdoor couch, long legs stretched out in front of him, while Jungkook settled on the floor with his back against it because he said the view was better from there.
Mina stepped out last, blanket still around her shoulders. The air was cool enough to wake the skin but not cold enough to hurt. The city spread below in layers of light, cars moving like slow sparks between buildings, Seoul carrying on beneath them as if nothing important were happening on one quiet balcony. Someone had placed a glass of water near the couch for her. The wine she had brought was open on the table, half-poured between the members who wanted it, but no one asked why she did not take any. She was grateful for that.
Jimin sat near the middle of the couch, one arm resting along the back cushion. Not around her. Not yet.
Mina looked at the open space beside him. Then she sat there. Close. Closer than she meant to, perhaps, but not closer than she wanted.
The blanket brushed his side. Her knee settled against his. After a moment, her hand found his thigh beneath the edge of the blanket, resting there with a familiarity that should have startled her more than it did. Jimin’s arm remained along the back of the couch, loose and careful, but his fingers shifted slightly against the fabric near her shoulder. An offer without pressure. Mina leaned back. His arm came around her slowly, settling over the blanket rather than beneath it, light enough that she could have moved away without needing to explain. She did not. Instead, she tucked herself a little more securely into his side and let the warmth of him meet the tiredness she had been carrying all day.
Across the balcony, Jungkook glanced over. This time, he did not smile in a way that asked to be noticed. He only looked content.
Hoseok saw too and continued speaking, his voice easy as he responded to something Namjoon had said. Taehyung’s gaze moved briefly to Mina’s face, then away again, giving her the same quiet privacy he had given her in the practice room. Yoongi lifted his glass, eyes on the skyline, and did not react at all.
Jin came out last with another blanket folded over one arm. He looked at Mina tucked into Jimin’s side. Then he placed the spare blanket over Jungkook’s shoulders instead. No one said anything about that either.
The conversation settled into the softer part of night. They talked about the live show in pieces, circling it the way people did when the work was too large to hold directly for too long. Namjoon sat forward with his glass between both hands, looking out over the balcony instead of at any of them when he said the first camera run-through would probably make it feel real.
“It already feels real,” Hoseok said.
“Different real,” Namjoon answered.
Jin said this was exactly why no one should think too deeply after dinner, then immediately ruined his own argument by admitting he had been thinking about it all week. Yoongi said very little, but when he did, the others quieted just enough to listen. Jungkook talked about the first rehearsal where the harmonies had settled properly, how there had been a moment when he stopped counting and simply heard them as seven again. Taehyung answered softly, his words low enough that Mina only caught part of them, but she understood the feeling anyway.
She did not need every word. That was new too.
Usually, missing parts of a conversation made her work harder. She would listen more sharply, translate context in her head, search faces for meaning, prepare an answer before anyone realised she had fallen behind. Tonight, she let some of it pass over her. The members’ voices moved around the balcony in familiar rises and falls, quick Korean and overlapping laughter and old references she did not always have, and for once she did not feel as though understanding everything was the price of staying.
Jimin’s arm rested around her shoulders, warm over the blanket. Mina’s hand had found his thigh again beneath the edge of it. Not hidden exactly, but not displayed either. Her fingers rested there with a familiarity that should have startled her more than it did, and when Jimin’s hand brushed lightly over her shoulder, she leaned further into his side instead of straightening.
Across from them, Jungkook saw. He looked away almost immediately, not embarrassed, not teasing, only quietly pleased in a way that made Mina’s chest tighten. Hoseok continued talking as if nothing about the room had changed. Taehyung’s gaze passed over her once, soft and calm, then returned to the skyline. Namjoon lowered his voice when the conversation drifted near her, not because she was asleep yet, but because the whole balcony had begun to soften. Yoongi noticed everything and said nothing. Jin leaned back with his glass in hand and let his apartment hold them all without needing to name what it was doing.
No one made her feel caught. That was what undid her. Mina had spent so long believing that being seen would mean being questioned. Corrected. Warned back into her proper place. Staff did not curl into idols on balconies after dinner. Staff did not bring wine they would not drink, lose track of games, tuck themselves beneath blankets, and let someone’s arm settle around their shoulders while seven men who should have been impossible to reach simply kept talking around them like she belonged there.
But no one looked at her as if she had crossed a line. No one looked at Jimin as if he had taken something he should not have. They only let the night continue.
Mina turned her face slightly toward Jimin’s shoulder, close enough that the fabric of his shirt brushed her cheek when she breathed. His arm tightened by the smallest degree, still loose enough that she could leave, steady enough that she did not have to.
She did not want to leave. The thought arrived quietly. Not like a confession. Not like panic. Only truth, plain and inconvenient beneath the blanket—She wanted this. Not only Jimin’s hand, though she wanted that too. Not only the relief that came with touching him, though her body had begun to recognise him as safety before her mind could argue. She wanted Jungkook saving her a place without making it obvious. Wanted Taehyung’s quiet rooms. Wanted Hoseok’s warmth, Jin’s food, Yoongi’s dry little observations, Namjoon’s calm way of making space in a conversation. Wanted to be invited again. Wanted to be expected. Wanted, maybe, to be wanted.
The realisation should have frightened her…It did. But not enough to make her move.
The city spread below them in layers of light, and the future waited somewhere beyond the balcony doors with its cameras, rehearsals, rules, and all the difficult lines she still did not know how to cross safely. For now, the members were still talking, Jimin was warm beside her, and Mina let her eyes close for a moment longer than she meant to.
Only a moment, she told herself. Then Jimin’s thumb moved once against her shoulder, and the sound of their voices carried her under..
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Jimin noticed when she fell asleep because of course he did. Her weight changed first, head settling more fully against him, fingers loosening where they rested near his thigh. He glanced down, then went still in that careful way the others had all begun to recognise.
Jin saw from across the balcony. So did Namjoon. Jin lifted one hand slightly, not quite a gesture, more a quiet instruction not to wake her. Namjoon lowered his voice mid-sentence without breaking the conversation, easing the whole balcony down with him until the others followed naturally.
Jimin looked from Jin to Namjoon. Both of them gave him the same answer in different ways—-Let her sleep.
The conversation lowered by degrees, not stopping, only softening around her. Jungkook shifted on the floor so his shoulder blocked more of the breeze. Taehyung reached for the edge of Mina’s blanket and drew it a little higher over her lap. Hoseok continued speaking, gentler now, giving the quiet somewhere to rest. Yoongi leaned back with his glass in one hand and looked out over the city as if this, too, was something worth protecting without naming.
No one made it a moment. That was what made it one. Mina slept tucked into Jimin’s side, surrounded by their voices, calm in a way she had not expected to feel. Safe, not because nothing could hurt her there, but because for once she did not feel like she had to keep watch for it.
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This is Latasha Harlins all over again.
The Things We Carry | PJM pt 9
SUMMARY: Performance specialist, Mina Seo has made a career out of taking care of everyone else. As BTS throws themselves into comeback preparations, she spends her days managing injuries, recovery plans, and the impossible task of keeping seven overworked artists healthy. What nobody realizes is that she’s becoming increasingly skilled at hiding her own struggles. When an unexpected connection with Jimin begins offering relief neither of them fully understands, it slowly becomes part of their routine. Late-night conversations, shared silences, and a comfort that grows easier to rely on with every passing week. But while Jimin is getting better, Mina isn’t. And sooner or later, someone is going to notice.
WARNINGS: chronic illness, overwork injuries, some medical scenes, slight cursing, eventual smut scene—This story contains a realistic depiction of chronic illness, including rheumatoid arthritis, pain flares, fatigue, hospitalization, and the emotional impact of long-term health conditions.
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By the second morning, Jimin’s hip felt better than it should have. Not healed. He knew enough about his own body not to mistake temporary relief for recovery, and Mina had made it very clear the night before that he was not to interpret one good session as permission to become careless. Still, when he woke and sat up slowly, waiting for the familiar pull to catch through his hip and low back, the resistance was duller than expected. Softer around the edges. The joint still carried the memory of the lift, the cooking, the long day of filming, but the deep guarded tightness that usually greeted him first thing in the morning had loosened.
He thought about Mina’s hands on his back. Then, because that thought was not particularly safe before breakfast, he got dressed and went downstairs.
The house was already awake by the time he reached the kitchen. Jin stood near the stove with the expression of a man who had decided breakfast needed leadership whether anyone had asked for it or not. Hoseok was leaning against the counter, laughing at something Taehyung was trying to explain with both hands. Jungkook had taken over part of the island with a bowl of something and a concentration that suggested he had already turned eating into a task. Namjoon was reading the day’s call sheet on his phone, one ankle stretched out in front of him exactly as instructed, which Jimin noticed with quiet approval mostly because Mina would have.
Mina was not there. That was the first thing.
It should not have mattered. People came downstairs at different times in a house like this. Yesterday had been long, and she had gone upstairs late after spending the evening carrying too much of herself in silence. But Mina was usually precise about mornings. She liked having time before the house filled completely, liked reviewing the schedule before production arrived, liked making sure everyone’s food and recovery windows were in order before the day had enough momentum to become difficult.
Jimin waited. He told himself he was waiting for coffee.
Mina came down nearly fifteen minutes later with her tablet under one arm and her hair tied back more loosely than usual, as if she had fixed it quickly and without much patience. She was dressed properly. Composed, in the way she always tried to be composed. But she took the last two stairs more carefully than the rest, one hand resting briefly on the banister after her feet had already reached the floor.
The pause was small enough that no one else reacted. Jimin saw it anyway.
“Morning,” Taehyung called, already shifting a mug toward her from the counter.
Mina looked at it, then at him. “Is this tea or something experimental?”
“Tea.”
“That was too quick an answer.”
“It is mostly tea.”
“Give over.”
Taehyung smiled as though the accusation had pleased him and pushed the mug closer. Mina accepted it with a faint look of suspicion, and for a few minutes the kitchen carried on around her. She answered Jin when he asked about breakfast portions. She reminded Namjoon not to skip the afternoon ankle check. She told Jungkook that eating more because he had “earned it emotionally” was not a recognized nutrition category, which made him grin into his bowl.
On the surface, she was herself. Only Jimin had begun to understand that Mina’s surface was not always a reliable witness.
The morning briefing happened around the kitchen island rather than in the living room, informal enough that production seemed content to let the conversation shape itself. The day’s filming would be lighter than yesterday’s: a few house segments, some outdoor footage if the weather held, a casual group activity after lunch, then interviews later in the evening. It sounded simple, but simple never survived with all seven of them. Within minutes, the members were asking questions over one another, turning a schedule into a debate and a debate into several smaller conversations that seemed to have no intention of returning to the original subject.
Yesterday, Mina would have tried to follow longer.
Today, Jimin watched her eyes move from one speaker to another, catching pieces, losing others, then quietly deciding not to chase the whole thing. She drank her tea and looked down at her tablet, making a note when production mentioned recovery windows, but when Taehyung said something that made the others laugh, she only smiled faintly after the reaction had already passed.
She had missed it. No one made a fuss.
Namjoon, perhaps noticing her expression, slowed down when he answered the next question and kept his explanation more direct. Hoseok repeated one detail with a gentle clarity that did not make her feel singled out. Taehyung leaned over to show her the call sheet on his phone rather than trying to explain the entire joke again. It was smoother that way, more natural, and Jimin stayed quiet because she did not need him turning every conversation into something he could hand to her…Still, he noticed.
By midday, the filming had settled into the kind of loose content production liked best, the members moving between house and deck while cameras followed at a respectful distance. They talked about old stories, rearranged parts of the living room for a segment, filmed a short outdoor sequence that involved more sitting than movement because Mina had quietly cornered a producer after breakfast and reminded them that “rest retreat” and “unexpected endurance test” were not the same concept. Nobody called it a game. Nobody needed to. The house had enough of them already.
Mina stayed mostly at the edges. She was working, even when the cameras treated her as part of the background. Tablet in hand. Water bottles counted. Snack timing adjusted. A quiet word to staff when Namjoon stood too long on the uneven part of the deck. A reminder to Jungkook that he could eat the extra portion later, not five minutes after breakfast purely because it existed and candy did not count as a meal. She sat whenever she could, but never long enough for anyone to call it resting.
Jimin saw the pattern before he understood it. It was not dramatic. That was what made it difficult. If she had limped badly, if she had winced, if she had admitted to pain in any ordinary way, someone would have intervened. Mina did none of those things. She simply made smaller choices. Sat on the arm of a sofa instead of the floor. Chose the shorter route through the kitchen. Let Taehyung carry a crate of props after telling him twice where to put it. Braced one hand against the edge of the dining table for a second after standing, then lifted that same hand to adjust her tablet as if the gesture had meant nothing.
The retreat had pulled her out of routine. He could see that now, even without knowing the details of what routine meant for her. She was sleeping in a different room, waking in a house full of people, eating around filming blocks instead of whatever schedule she normally kept. She had danced the day before, truly danced, even if only for a few minutes. She had worked through treatment sessions, cooked, monitored meals, sat through cameras and noise and conversations that moved too quickly when she was tired.
The pact had helped. His hip was proof of that. But it had not solved whatever was happening to her.
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After lunch, Hoseok was scheduled for a recovery slot. Jimin was not meant to be anywhere near the office then, but the hallway was narrow, and he had gone in search of a charger someone claimed to have left on the desk. The door to the small treatment room was mostly closed, not latched, leaving a narrow gap through which light spilled into the hall. He heard Hoseok’s voice first, warm and easy, followed by Mina’s lower reply.
Jimin slowed before he could stop himself. He did not look inside immediately. It felt too close to spying, and Mina guarded this work carefully. But then Hoseok laughed softly and said, “You’re doing too much today.”
Mina answered in that dry tone she used when she wanted a concern to slide off her before it found anything real. “That is an interesting accusation from a man whose calves feel like concrete.”
“They are not that bad.”
“They are personally insulting.”
Hoseok laughed again, but it faded into a breath when Mina found a tight spot.
Jimin glanced through the gap despite himself. Hoseok lay face down on the treatment table, arms folded beneath his head, while Mina worked along one calf with slow, sustained pressure. The work looked simple if someone did not know what they were seeing. A hand moving through muscle. A shift of weight. A pause when tissue resisted. But Jimin had spent enough time on treatment tables to know how much effort it took to do that well, especially for a body already tired. Mina was not just using her hands. She was using her shoulders, her core, her own weight, controlling pressure through her entire frame so she could give Hoseok relief without forcing the muscle to guard harder.
She was good at it. She was also tired.
Jimin saw it in the way she changed stance before she needed to, in the careful breath she took when she moved from Hoseok’s calf to his shoulder, in the brief moment her own knee bent as if the floor had shifted beneath her. She recovered so quickly that Hoseok missed it. Or perhaps he saw and chose, kindly, not to make it bigger.
“You should sit after this,” Hoseok said, quieter now.
“I am sitting. Eventually.”
“That is not the same thing.”
“You sound like me.”
“I learned from the best.”
Mina huffed, but there was affection in it. “Flattery will not make this hurt less.”
“No, but maybe you’ll be nicer.”
“I am being nice.”
Hoseok made a sound into the towel that suggested disagreement, and Mina’s laugh came softly enough that Jimin almost stepped away smiling. Then she shifted again, and the smile went out of him.
For one second, when she thought Hoseok could not see her face, Mina closed her eyes. Not from emotion. From exhaustion.
It passed quickly. She opened them, adjusted her stance, and returned to the work with the same composed precision as before. By the time she finished, Hoseok would probably leave looser and grateful, and Mina would write a clean note on her tablet, and anyone watching casually would think the session had gone exactly as it should.
Jimin moved away before she could catch him there. He found the charger in the living room after all.
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By dinner, her mask had begun to slip. Only slightly, but the day had been long enough for Jimin to understand that slight meant more with Mina than it did with most people. She arrived at the table after everyone else, apologizing for being late even though no one had started eating yet. She sat between Jin and Taehyung, a placement that looked accidental until Jimin saw Jin move her water closer and Taehyung shift his chair so she had more space on one side.
The conversation rolled on without asking much of her at first. That was deliberate too.
Jin kept directing questions away from her whenever the table grew too focused. Hoseok, freshly treated and clearly more comfortable, filled space with an easy story from the afternoon. Namjoon picked up a thread about the next day’s schedule. Taehyung stayed close, occasionally nudging something within her reach before she had to ask for it. Jungkook started to say something directly to her once, stopped when Jin caught his eye, then changed course so clumsily that Mina looked at him with faint suspicion, “What was that?”
Jungkook blinked. “What?”
“That. You were about to ask something and then looked like someone unplugged you.”
Taehyung coughed into his hand.
Jin reached for the side dish between them. “He does that sometimes.”
“I do not.”
“You absolutely do,” Namjoon said.
The argument that followed was harmless enough, and Mina’s mouth curved as the attention moved away from her. Jin had done it neatly, with the sort of practiced ease that would have looked like coincidence if Jimin had not been watching for it.
That was the second thing that did not add up. Jin was not guessing. Jin knew when to redirect. He knew when to move food closer before Mina had to reach. He knew when her quiet had become too quiet. He had known the night before. He had known after the dance. He knew now.
That was the part that unsettled him most.
Until then, he had been building the only explanation that made sense to him. Mina had danced seriously. She had wanted it professionally. Maybe there was an old injury somewhere in the story she did not want to discuss. A hip. A knee. A back. Something that belonged to ballet, to overuse, to a body that had once been asked for more than it could give and had carried the reminder forward.
That explanation had been familiar enough to feel believable, But it no longer fit.
Mina tried to stand halfway through dinner to get something from the kitchen. Jin was already on his feet, “I’ll get it.”
“I am perfectly capable of getting soy sauce.”
“I’m already up.”
“You were not already up. You became up.”
“That is how standing works.”
Mina narrowed her eyes, but Jin took the excuse and carried it away before she could fight him properly. The table laughed, and she smiled with them, but Jimin saw the strain beneath it. The slight delay before she shifted back in her chair. The way her shoulders lowered once she no longer had to stand. The way she closed her eyes for one breath when everyone else looked toward the kitchen.
The question was no longer whether Mina was hurting. It was how long she had been arranging her life so no one could tell.
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After dinner, the house drifted toward the living room with less energy than the night before. Production still filmed in the background, though nobody seemed particularly interested in performing for the cameras anymore. The members sprawled across the room in the loose, tired way they did when the day had been full but not unpleasant. Mina sat near the edge of the sofa with her tablet balanced on her lap, pretending to update notes while barely touching the screen.
Jimin sat beside her. Not too close at first. He waited until the conversation around them thickened enough to give her privacy, then shifted slightly so his knee rested against hers.
The contact was small enough to be accidental. Mina knew it was not. Her fingers stilled on the tablet.
Jimin kept his gaze on the room, giving her the dignity of not being watched while this ‘bond’ answered between them. It came quietly this time, not with the startling force of the first moment they had noticed pain move between them, but with a slow awareness that settled under his skin and made him draw a careful breath.
It was different again. That was what made his chest tighten.
Not his hip. Not the wrist-ache he had felt in pieces before. This was lower, heavier, mixed with fatigue in a way that made him think of a body asked to keep going after already giving up. It was not sharp enough to make him flinch. It was worse than that, in some ways. Dull, persistent, spread through the legs like weather pressing down through bone.
Mina shifted away. Only a little. Enough to break the contact.
Jimin looked at her then. She stared at the tablet, face carefully blank.
“Mina.”
“Don’t.”
The word came quietly, without the sharpness she usually used to protect herself. That made it harder to obey.
Jimin lowered his voice so the room could continue around them. “This isn’t just an old dance injury, is it?”
Her throat moved.
For a moment, he thought she would pretend not to understand. She could have blamed the noise, her tired Korean, the softness of his voice. She could have made a joke, looked away, told him not to start.
Instead, she looked at him. The expression on her face was not fear exactly, but it was close enough to make him regret asking and know he would have regretted silence more.
“You’re becoming inconveniently observant,” she said.
It almost sounded like a joke..Almost.
Jimin did not smile.
Around them, the others kept talking. Jin returned from the kitchen and paused only long enough to take in the space between Mina and Jimin before setting the soy sauce on the table as though he had not just been watching both of them carefully. Taehyung laughed at something Hoseok said. Jungkook leaned back against the sofa, half-listening, unaware that the air beside him had changed.
Jimin let the silence sit. He wanted to ask what it was. Where it hurt. How long she had been hiding it. Why Jin knew. Why she could make space for everyone else’s pain and none for her own. The questions crowded his mouth, but none of them felt like care once he imagined saying them out loud.
Mina had not pulled away completely. That was all she could give him.
So he stayed beside her, close enough that she could choose the contact again if she wanted it, far enough that she did not have to. After a long moment, while the evening moved around them and the house settled deeper into its tired warmth, Mina’s knee found his again.
This time, neither of them looked down. Jimin felt the heaviness return, low and unfamiliar, not his pain but no longer something he could pretend existed far away from him. Mina’s breathing eased by the smallest fraction beside him.
The pact had helped. It had not fixed her. He understood that now.
Touch softened the edges, but it did not explain the shape of what she carried. It did not give him the right to pry, and it did not give Mina the power to pretend forever. It only gave them this: one quiet point of contact in a crowded room, enough relief to make the next breath easier, and a truth neither of them was ready to say aloud settling carefully between them.
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By the third morning, Mina came downstairs on time. Jimin noticed that first.
Not because she looked better than she had the day before, but because she had clearly decided that being late once was unacceptable and had corrected for it with the kind of stubborn precision that told him very little had actually improved. She arrived with her tablet tucked beneath one arm, hair tied neatly back this time, expression composed, tea already in hand as though she had made it before anyone else could notice whether she needed it.
On paper, she looked like herself. Jimin was beginning to understand that Mina had built a great deal of her life on looking like herself.
She stood at the edge of the kitchen island while production discussed the lighter filming plan for the day. House footage in the morning. Short individual interviews. A few group shots outside if the weather held. Nothing like the first day’s missions, no elaborate point system, no ingredient cards, no full-house chaos disguised as a game. The schedule sounded gentler, which made Mina’s shoulders relax by a fraction before she seemed to remember herself and wrote something on her tablet.
Jimin saw it. He also saw Jin see it. Neither of them said anything.
The morning moved more softly than the day before. Production followed the members through low-effort segments meant to capture the retreat rather than manufacture it: Jungkook making coffee with unnecessary concentration, Jin reorganising the refrigerator because apparently the house had failed to meet his standards, Taehyung taking a camera outside to show the view and returning with footage of a tree he had decided looked lonely. Hoseok spent ten minutes trying to convince everyone that stretching counted as content if you did it with enough enthusiasm, while Namjoon read in the corner until three separate interruptions turned his quiet moment into a group discussion about whether anyone in the house could actually sit still.
Mina stayed near the edges for most of it, but the edges had become less reliable. Every time she found one, someone moved it.
Taehyung was the worst offender because he did not announce what he was doing. He simply appeared beside her with tea, or sat near her while she updated notes, or placed himself between her and the louder part of the room without ever making it seem protective enough for her to object. He had a gift for quiet proximity that made refusal feel unnecessarily rude. Mina had no defence against it except mild suspicion, which he seemed to find entertaining.
At one point she glanced down at the mug he had placed beside her tablet and narrowed her eyes, “This is the third tea you’ve handed me in two days.”
Taehyung looked at it, then at her. “Is that too many?”
“It’s suspicious.”
“It’s hospitality.” His mouth curved. “Drink it anyway.”
She did, which Jimin thought was the important part.
Jungkook was less subtle. He liked having Mina in the room, and once Jungkook decided he liked something, his whole body seemed to consider subtlety a waste of time. If she stood too long near the hallway, he asked where she was going. If she tried to take notes from the kitchen while everyone else had drifted toward the living room, he looked personally betrayed until she moved closer. When production paused before lunch and Mina attempted to slip into the office to update the afternoon treatment schedule, Jungkook caught her before she made it three steps.
“Noona—”
Mina stopped and turned on him immediately. “Absolutely not.”
Jungkook blinked. “What?”
“You only call me that when you want something.”
“I call you that because you’re older.”
“By two years.”
“Still older.”
“That is hardly the point.”
He grinned, entirely unrepentant, and pointed toward the living room with the pen he had apparently stolen from someone’s call sheet. “Work there.”
“I have actual work.”
“You can do actual work with us.”
“That is not usually how work functions.”
“It can be today.”
Mina looked around for support and found none. Jin was pretending not to hear. Namjoon had the deeply unhelpful expression of someone who saw both sides and had decided not to rescue her from either. Hoseok only smiled and patted the cushion beside him.
“You treated me yesterday,” Hoseok said. “Now I prescribe five minutes of sitting down.”
Mina stared at him. “That is not how prescriptions work.”
“You taught me enough. I’m qualified.”
“You are absolutely not.”
“Emotionally qualified.”
Jungkook looked delighted by this argument and used it to slide her tablet onto the coffee table, as if relocating the device settled the issue.
Mina should have argued harder. Jimin expected her to.
Instead, after a long look at all of them, she muttered, “You lot are insufferable,” and sat down beside Hoseok. The room accepted her surrender without celebrating it, which was probably why she stayed.
That was what Jimin noticed most on the third day. Not the pain, though he still saw traces of it in the careful way she rationed movement. Not the fatigue, though it lingered behind her eyes and made her quieter whenever conversation moved too quickly. What he noticed was the way the others had begun learning how to keep her near without cornering her.
Taehyung gave her quiet. Jungkook gave her insistence. Hoseok gave her warmth. Namjoon gave her space that still included her. Yoongi gave her the courtesy of pretending he was not watching while seeing far too much.
And Jin, who had been doing some version of all of those things for years, watched the rest of them begin to learn with an expression Jimin could not quite name—Relief, maybe..
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In the afternoon, when production broke the members into individual interviews, Mina found herself briefly alone on the deck with Namjoon. He had come outside between questions, ankle taped beneath loose trousers, one hand resting on the railing while he looked out over the trees surrounding the property. Mina joined him because the deck was quiet and because she still had three notes to review before Hoseok’s next mobility check. For a while neither of them spoke.
Then Namjoon glanced at her tablet and smiled faintly, “You know,” he said, “I meant what I said before.”
Mina looked up. “You say a lot of things.”
“That I’m glad you came back to prep.”
The answer was quiet enough that she did not have an immediate deflection ready. Namjoon did not push into the silence. He looked back toward the trees, giving the words somewhere else to land.
“The house feels steadier with you here,” he said after a moment. “Not because you’re working. Though obviously you are always working.”
“Rude, but accurate.”
His smile deepened. “Because you notice things before they become problems.”
“That is also work.”
“Sometimes,” he said. “Sometimes it’s care.”
Mina looked away first, down at the tablet that had saved her from too many conversations to count, “That sounds dangerously sentimental.”
“It probably is.”
“I thought you were meant to be the reasonable one.”
“I never agreed to that.”
She huffed softly, and Namjoon let the conversation end there, which made it easier for her to hold onto than it would have been if he had asked whether she understood what he meant. She understood. That was the problem.
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By dinner, the house had settled into a strange kind of ease. Not restful, exactly, because seven members and a film crew could only be restful by comparison, but gentler than the day before. Mina ate more than she had at breakfast. Jin noticed and did not comment, which was perhaps his greatest act of restraint all week. Taehyung sat close without crowding. Jungkook passed her a side dish before she reached for it and looked pleased when she took some. Hoseok told a story slowly enough that she caught most of it the first time, then repeated the punchline with such exaggerated seriousness when she asked for clarification that the explanation became funnier than the original.
Yoongi, watching from across the table, made a low sound of amusement.
Mina looked at him. “What?”
“Nothing.”
“You never mean nothing.”
“I was thinking you’ve been drafted.”
“Drafted into what?”
He lifted his chopsticks vaguely toward the table, the room, the absurd sprawl of all of them. “This.”
Mina stared at him for a second. Then she looked around and realized far too many people were watching her reaction.
“Oh, give over,” she said, because anything softer would have been dangerous.
Jin smiled into his rice.
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After dinner, production suggested the fire pit. It was one of those ideas that sounded simple until ten people began organizing blankets, cameras, microphones, snacks, drinks, seating, lighting, and whether the wind would ruin the audio. By the time everyone made it outside, the sky had deepened to a dark blue and the first real chill of evening had settled over the property. The fire caught slowly at first, then warmed into steady gold, throwing light across the circle of chairs and blankets arranged around it.
The cameras stayed farther back than they had during the day. Present, but less intrusive.
Mina helped carry mugs out, checked that Namjoon had the chair with the best angle for his ankle, reminded Yoongi to keep his shoulder warm, and made it halfway toward the back door with her tablet before Jungkook noticed, “Where are you going?”
Mina stopped with the familiar expression of someone caught committing a very reasonable crime. “Inside.”
“Why?”
She glanced toward the fire pit, where the seven of them had begun settling into the kind of circle that belonged to them before it belonged to anyone else. The easy answer would have been work. The honest answer came out instead.
“This feels like a you lot conversation.”
Jungkook frowned. “You’re here too.”
The sentence was so simple that Mina had no idea what to do with it.
Taehyung, already wrapped in a blanket, shifted on the bench and made space beside him without saying anything. Not a demand. Not even quite an invitation. Just an opening left for her to take if she wanted it.
Namjoon looked up from adjusting the blanket over his lap. “You don’t have to talk.”
Jin glanced at Mina, then at the empty space beside Taehyung, and wisely said nothing at all. That was probably what made her stay.
She set the tablet down inside the door where she could still pretend it was nearby if she needed it, then crossed back to the fire and sat beside Taehyung. He handed her the edge of his blanket without comment. Mina looked at it, then at him, “I have my own.”
“I know.” He smiled into the fire.
She took the blanket.
For a while, the conversation stayed light. Jungkook complained about the smoke following him no matter where he sat. Jin claimed smoke recognized weakness. Hoseok immediately accused him of making that up, which Jin accepted as if invention and wisdom were close enough to be cousins. Taehyung leaned back against the bench and watched sparks lift into the dark, occasionally adding a comment that made perfect sense to him and required three follow-up questions from everyone else.
Mina caught most of it.
The pace was slower out here. The fire softened the edges of the conversation. People paused more. They looked at whoever was speaking. When she missed something, she could usually gather the meaning from the shape of the response rather than needing someone to rebuild the whole sentence for her.
Eventually, as these things often did with them, the joking found its way into something quieter. Namjoon was the first one to say it plainly.
“It feels strange,” he admitted, looking into the fire rather than at any of them. “Being here like this again.”
No one rushed to answer. The silence that followed was not uncomfortable. It belonged to all of them.
Jimin sat across from Mina, half wrapped in a blanket of his own, the firelight catching the side of his face. He looked relaxed at first glance, but she could see the attention in him, the way he listened before he moved. He had been doing that more lately. Listening with his whole body.
Jin poked lightly at the edge of the fire with a long stick someone had deemed safe enough for him to hold. “You mean with cameras? We’ve had cameras in our faces since we were children.”
“That’s not what he means,” Yoongi said.
Jin sighed. “I know that.”
The honesty in the admission shifted the group again.
Namjoon looked down at his hands. “I thought I would know how to come back because we’ve done hard returns before. Long breaks. Album pressure. Tours after chaos. But this feels different. Everyone keeps saying it’s the same because it’s us, but we’re not exactly the same people.”
Hoseok nodded slowly. “That’s what scares me sometimes.”
Jungkook looked over. “Hyung?”
Hoseok’s expression remained warm, but there was something bare beneath it now. “I missed the stage. I missed us. I missed the noise and the rehearsals and even the parts that made me tired. But I think about going back and people expecting us to be exactly where we left off.” He looked around the circle, mouth curving without much humor. “As if time stopped because they waited.”
Taehyung pulled the blanket closer around his shoulders. “I don’t think I want to be exactly the same.”
The sentence landed softly. Mina looked at him.
He was still watching the fire, his profile calm, voice lower than usual. “I missed this,” he continued. “All of us together. The noise. People talking over each other. Someone eating too loudly. Someone getting annoyed. Someone laughing at nothing.” He glanced toward Jungkook, who immediately looked suspicious. “But I don’t want to pretend the time away did not change anything.”
“It did change things,” Yoongi said.
Everyone looked at him then, because Yoongi did not often enter conversations like this unless he meant to. He sat with his hands around a mug, shoulders slightly hunched against the cold, gaze fixed somewhere past the flames. “That isn’t always bad. But it means we have to meet each other where we are now, not where we were before.”
Jin’s expression softened. Namjoon looked down with the faintest nod, as though Yoongi had put words around something he had been carrying all day.
Jungkook was quiet for longer than Mina expected. When he finally spoke, his voice had lost its usual brightness.
“I’m excited,” he said. “I really am. I want it. I want to perform together again, and I want to see ARMY, and I want to feel that thing that only happens when all seven of us are on stage.” He rubbed both hands over his knees, searching for the next words. “But sometimes it feels like everyone has already decided what it has to be. Like the comeback became too big before we even started.”
Hoseok reached over and squeezed the back of his neck briefly. Jungkook leaned into it without looking embarrassed.
Jin exhaled through his nose, eyes on the fire. “I worry about being eldest again.”
That made several members look at him in surprise.
He waved one hand before anyone could respond too heavily. “Not because I became younger while we were apart, unfortunately. I checked.”
Mina smiled despite herself.
Jin saw it and looked pleased before his expression settled again. “I mean this version of it. Everyone coming back. Everyone carrying different things. I want to be funny and helpful and not make everything serious all the time.” He poked at the fire again, more gently now. “But sometimes I wonder if I will know when to be which person.”
Mina looked away. She knew that feeling better than she wanted to.
Namjoon’s gaze flicked toward Jin, then toward the fire. “You usually do.”
Jin did not answer, but his shoulders lowered slightly.
Jimin had not spoken yet. Mina noticed because she had been trying not to notice him too much.
He sat with one elbow resting on his knee, fingers loosely wrapped around his mug. His face was turned toward the fire, and for a while she wondered if he would let the conversation move without adding anything. That would have been understandable. Not every thought needed to be given to the cameras, even distant ones.
Then he inhaled quietly.
“When I was alone,” he said, “I kept thinking I was fine because I knew all of you were still there somewhere.”
The circle stilled. Jimin did not look up.
“Even when schedules were separate, even when we were not seeing each other much, even when everyone was doing their own thing, I still knew where home was. Maybe I took that for granted.” His thumb moved along the side of his mug. “Being away made me realize how much I rely on just knowing you’re nearby.”
No one teased him for it. That was how Mina knew they had all understood.
The fire cracked softly between them. Mina sat very still beside Taehyung, hands wrapped around her mug, feeling the conversation settle over her in a way she had not expected. She had known, professionally, that the comeback carried pressure. Anyone with eyes could have seen that. The schedules, the meetings, the careful planning around bodies that had changed, voices that had been used differently, lives that had expanded beyond the shape they once held together.
But hearing them say it here, without performance polished over the top, was different. They were not afraid of returning because they did not love it enough. They were afraid because they loved it too much to come back carelessly.
After a moment, Namjoon looked toward her. Mina immediately sat a little straighter, as if called on in a meeting.
His smile was small. “You don’t have to answer.”
“That sentence always means someone is about to ask something dreadful.”
“It’s not dreadful.”
“That is exactly what someone would say before asking something dreadful.”
A few of them laughed, and the sound loosened the air without breaking the mood.
Namjoon’s expression remained gentle. “From where you stand, does it feel different?”
Mina looked down into her tea. The easy answer would have been professional. Something about schedules, stamina, vocal conditioning, performance readiness, the practical process of rebuilding a group after time apart. She could have given them that answer without revealing anything of herself. It would have been true. It would not have been enough.
“Yes,” she said.
The fire shifted. No one interrupted.
Mina kept her gaze on the mug between her hands. “But not in a bad way.”
Jungkook leaned forward slightly. “How?”
She took a second to arrange the thought in Korean carefully enough that it would survive the crossing. “You all make more sense together.”
The words came out quieter than she intended. No one moved.
Mina looked back toward the fire, choosing her words carefully. “You’re all brilliant on your own. That’s obvious. But when you’re together, there’s this… balance. Like everyone brings back a piece the others were missing.”
The silence after that felt different. Warmer. Taehyung’s shoulder brushed hers lightly beneath the shared blanket. He did not say anything. He did not need to. Namjoon looked down, smiling in a way that made his face seem younger.
Hoseok blinked at the fire for a few seconds before clearing his throat. “That was a very Mina answer.”
Mina frowned. “What does that mean?”
“It means it sounded practical until it punched everyone in the chest.”
Jin nodded solemnly. “Accurate.”
“That was not my intention.”
“That makes it worse,” Yoongi said.
Jungkook looked at her with the same earnest intensity that had made her thank him properly after the dance, and Mina felt her chest tighten.
“It feels better when you’re here too,” he said.
Mina stared at him. Jungkook looked briefly embarrassed but did not take it back.
The fire made a small breaking sound as part of the wood collapsed inward, sending sparks up into the dark. The moment gave Mina enough time to breathe. She looked away before the emotion on her face could become too easy to read.
“You’re all very sentimental tonight,” she said.
Jin leaned back in his chair. “It’s the fire.”
“Is it?”
“Fire makes people dramatic.”
“You lot hardly needed assistance.” That got the laugh she needed.
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The conversation moved again after that, not away from honesty, but around it. They talked about songs they wanted to revisit, stages they were nervous to stand on again, the strange feeling of preparing for something familiar while knowing they were not the same people who had left it. Mina listened more than she spoke, but no one let her disappear completely. Taehyung asked her opinion on whether a stage arrangement sounded exhausting from a body-management perspective. Hoseok wanted to know if she thought the new schedule was realistic. Jin asked whether she had factored in the possibility that Jungkook would ignore rest days out of spite.
“I would never,” Jungkook said.
Mina gave him a long look. He held her gaze for approximately two seconds before laughing.
As the night grew colder, people shifted closer to the fire. Blankets were rearranged. Empty mugs collected near the legs of chairs. Production stayed back, quiet enough that the circle felt less filmed than witnessed. Mina’s tablet remained inside by the door, untouched for longer than she wanted to admit. Some part of her kept meaning to retrieve it. Another part, the part sitting beneath Taehyung’s blanket while BTS talked about the fear and hope of becoming seven again, could not quite make herself leave.
Jimin did not move toward her. That was what she noticed.
He watched her sometimes. She felt it more than saw it. But he did not cross the circle, did not turn the evening into something that belonged only to the two of them. He let her sit beside Taehyung. Let Jungkook talk to her. Let Namjoon ask for her thoughts. Let the others hold pieces of her attention until she forgot to guard all of it at once.
Only later, when Hoseok went inside for more hot water and Jin followed to supervise whatever he was absolutely certain Hoseok would do wrong, the seating shifted. Jungkook moved closer to the fire. Taehyung stood to stretch his legs and ended up beside Namjoon, looking at something on his phone. Yoongi claimed he was going in soon and then made no effort to move.
Mina found herself with an empty space beside her. Then Jimin sat down there. Not pressed close. Just near.
His hip seemed better tonight, though she knew better than to trust appearances alone. He lowered himself carefully but without the tightness she had seen earlier in the week, and a small, professional part of her felt satisfied. Another part, the one she was trying very hard not to encourage, remembered the night before in the treatment room: bare skin beneath her hands, his breath changing under pressure, the quiet way he had said she looked like herself.
“You’re quiet,” he said.
Mina looked at the fire. “I’m often quiet.”
“Not like this.”
She turned her head just enough to give him a look. “You are developing a very annoying habit of noticing distinctions.”
“I learned from you.”
“That is deeply unfair.”
His smile appeared and faded softly. For a while, neither of them spoke.
The conversation continued around them, gentler now, broken into smaller pockets. Taehyung laughed at something Namjoon showed him. Jungkook leaned over Yoongi’s shoulder and was immediately told to stop breathing so close to his ear. Jin’s voice carried from the kitchen, followed by Hoseok protesting that he had been perfectly capable of handling hot water unsupervised.
Mina smiled into her mug. Jimin saw it. She knew he did, but for once the attention did not make her want to hide.
The ache in her legs had settled into something low and persistent as the temperature dropped. Not terrible. Not enough to send her inside. Just present, reminding her that the day had been easier emotionally and still not easy physically. She shifted under the blanket, trying to find a better angle without making it obvious.
Jimin did not ask. He only placed his hand palm-up on the bench between them. Mina looked down.
The offer sat there in the narrow space separating them, quiet and unmistakable. No medical explanation. No spoken reference to the pact. No insistence that he knew she was hurting. He did not reach for her or make the decision for her. He simply left his hand there, warm in the firelight, and looked back toward the others as though nothing about the gesture demanded an answer.
That was what made her throat tighten. This bond had given them reasons. Pain. Relief. Treatment. Practicality. A pact built because their bodies had found each other before they were ready to admit anything at all. This was not practical…Or not only practical.
Mina stared at his hand for another second, long enough to feel the fear rise and settle and fail, for once, to win. Then she placed her hand in his. Jimin’s fingers closed carefully around hers.
The relief came, subtle but immediate, softening the deep ache through her legs by degrees rather than erasing it. It did not fix the fatigue. It did not give her back the routine she had lost or undo the cost of the week. It simply made the next breath easier.
Beside her, Jimin’s thumb moved once over her knuckles.
Mina kept her eyes on the fire. So did he.
Around them, the members drifted back into the circle one by one, carrying hot water, snacks, another blanket someone had found near the door. Nobody commented on the joined hands resting between Mina and Jimin on the bench. Jin noticed, of course he did, but after one glance he only handed Mina another mug and pretended the faint smile on his face belonged to the firelight.
Taehyung reclaimed the space on Mina’s other side without asking, his shoulder settling lightly against hers beneath the blanket.
Jungkook dropped down near their feet and began arguing with Hoseok about something that had apparently started in the kitchen and required immediate public judgment. Namjoon listened. Yoongi pretended not to. The fire burned lower.
Mina sat in the circle with Jimin’s hand in hers, Taehyung warm at her side, Jin fussing over mugs, Jungkook at her feet, Namjoon and Hoseok and Yoongi completing the ring around the flames, and realized with a slow, frightening clarity that she had stopped feeling like someone allowed to stay.
Somewhere between the kitchen, the office, the living room, and the fire, they had begun behaving as though her place had already been made. As though the only person still debating it was her.
Jimin’s fingers tightened gently around hers, not enough to pull her attention from the others, only enough to remind her that he was there. Mina did not let go.
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Makin’ Love Faces || K. Namjoon
Paring: F!Reader x Namjoon | SMUT (Dumbification + Praise)
The first thing you notice is the stretch, the delicious, burning fullness that steals the breath from your lungs and replaces it with a gasp. Namjoon is already moving, a deep, steady rhythm that has you arching off the mattress, your fingers scrambling for purchase on the sweat-slick planes of his back. The room is dark, except for the sliver of moonlight cutting across his shoulders, illuminating the intense focus on his face.
“There you go,” he murmurs, his voice a low, rumbling vibration you feel more than hear. His hips snap forward, and you cry out, a broken sound swallowed by the heavy air. “Just like that. Taking me so well.”
His praise , each filthy, adoring word loosens something in your mind, untethering your thoughts. You’re not thinking about tomorrow, or your name, or anything beyond the feeling of him, the sound of him, the sight of his blown-wide pupils fixed on yours.
“You can take it, baby,” he coaxes, his pace increasing incrementally, each thrust landing with pinpoint accuracy against that spot inside you that makes stars burst behind your eyelids. Your vision whites out for a second, your mouth falling open on a silent scream. “I know you can. So good for me. Just a dumb, pretty thing for me to love, right?”
The word, dumb, should sting. Instead, it sinks in. You don’t need to think right now. He’s thinking for both of you. Your coherence begins to slip, thoughts dissolving into pure sensation. A plea tries to form on your lips, but it comes out as a garbled moan, syllables smearing together.
Namjoon’s breath hitches, a feral, pleased sound. “What was that, sweetheart? Can’t understand you.” He leans down, his lips brushing your ear. “Use your words.”
You try. You really do. But all that emerges is a whimper, high and desperate, as he angles his hips again, hitting that perfect place with relentless precision. “R-right… there…?” you manage to slur, the words thick and clumsy on your tongue.
A slow, cocky smile spreads across his face. “Yeah?” he breathes, his own control fraying at the edges. “Right there? That’s my girl. Knew you could find it. Just a little more, come on.”
The pressure is building, a coil tightening low in your belly, threatening to snap. Drool gathers at the corner of your mouth, forgotten as every nerve ending fires for him and him alone. You’re babbling now, a continuous stream of “Joon, Joon, please, ‘s too much, ‘s so good,” that makes no logical sense.
He sees it. His thrusts become shorter, harder, punishingly deep. With a tenderness that contrasts violently with the carnal act, he brings his thumb up and gently swipes the strand of saliva from your lip. His eyes are dark with awe and possession. “Look at you,” he whispers, his voice rough with reverence. “So far gone.. I’ve got you.”
That’s all it takes. His words, his touch, the fullness, it shatters you. The climax crashes over you not with a choked, sobbing gasp, your body seizing around him as your mind finally, blissfully empties of everything but him. You tremble violently, seeing nothing.
He follows you over the edge with a groan, his own release wracking his powerful frame. For long moments, the only sounds are your ragged breaths mingling in the dark.
As the aftershocks subside, he doesn’t pull away. He collapses beside you, gathering your boneless, pliant form against his chest. He presses a kiss to your damp temple, his fingers carding through your hair. You nuzzle into his neck, capable only of making a soft, contented noise.
“Shhh,” he soothes, his voice back to its normal, gentle timbre, though laced with deep satisfaction. “Just rest. You did so well, love.” And in the warm, safe darkness of his arms, with your mind quiet and your body sated, you know there’s nowhere else you’d rather be.
(Ik it’s short but it’s just a little thought I wanted out there.)

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u take requests? cause seeing taekook earlier in jks live has me thinking about morning after a two man mission
oh you fucking HARLOT.
I’m sitting down and writing this in one session because this is a gorgeous request and I was daydreaming about the exact same thing during JK's live this morning, great minds think alike <𝟑 .ᐟ
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Body to Body — Kim Taehyung and Jeon Jungkook
summary: after signing two very extensive and detailed NDAs, you wake up after the wildest night of your life. What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, right? pairing: kim taehyung x fem!reader x jeon jungkook wc: 5.3k, 24 min themes: ugh this is SO horny I'm shaking in my seat, a bit of fluff, sweet gentle after(and technically before)care, lots of praise, a little bit of humiliation, big dick tete agenda, even bigger dick jk agenda, voyeurism!tae, BUSAN AND DAEGU SATOORI BOYS, headpusher tae, my dream fuckin eiffel tower, Jungkook films you (asldfjsdlf imagine being in his private folder), morning sex, squirting, showering together!!!! I pay attention to details to try to make this as head cannon as I could make it, enjoy my beautiful freaky readers ₊˚⊹♡
All of your body beside me ♪
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The sun cut through the gap in the blackout curtains, the blade of golden light stirring you from your slumber. You rose from your sleep slowly, first with a twitch of your eyelids, then a furrow of your brow, until your eyes cracked open, letting the blurry shapes of the room come into focus.
And for a moment, you completely forgot where you were.
You lifted your head off your pillow slightly, the room still spinning a little from the liquor being served to you nonstop last night. You looked around in the still very dim room, with just a slice of sunlight cutting across the edge of the bed and floor. You squinted, taking in your surroundings in the darkness. You were in a hotel room, a large one. The little thump in the back of your head came almost immediately, and you blinked slowly.
when someone is talking to me but BTS does something