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The Cat Before Platform 6: Chapter 2

Jimin offers to help Seokjin because of the guilt at letting his holder lose. In exchange, Seokjin gives Jimin a taste of the mortal world and offers a home, a friend, and the chance to understand what it feels like to be human. What Jimin thought would be an easy tasks ultimately brings him to the greatest sacrifice he’s ever made in hundreds of years of life. But will he do it? Especially if eventually, nobody will remember anything? Not Jungkook who gave his all, nor Seokjin who came back from the dead, nor that good for nothing cat who dealt out propositions like it was the devil. In the end, it was only Jimin; The great and lonely god who had finally found a home, but couldn’t keep it anywhere else but in his heart.

“I’ve never felt so alive,” Seokjin whispers one day, while the rain sounds plattered rhythmically on the road besides them and slid melodically down the grass they were roaming through.

“Me neither,” Jimin whispers back.

Seokjin asks him how old he is. For the first time Jimin replies honestly that he’s older than the Earth itself. Seokjin then asks how Jimin could have not felt very ‘alive’ during all of his many years in the universe. Jimin replies that things can live, but not be alive.

“Why do you feel so alive now then?” Seokjin inquiries

Pairing: Jinkook Words: 3130

Summary:  jin chokes, and he drowns. but what he drowns in is not water, he drowns in a sea of flowers. specifically acacias.

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Excerpt:

he wakes up gasping for air, his heart pounding too hard and his mind racing too fast. what is happening to me? he asks himself, choking on something inside of him, trying to take deep gulps of air which only in turn, burns the inside of his throat even more. he feels something rising up his throat, and he coughs, violently, hands covering his mouth before the said thing falls into his hands, and he can finally breathe again. it feels velvety, he thinks, before he looks into his palm and what he finds is an acacia petal.