They were casually making out when Jeongguk pulled away and got out of bed, grabbing as many of Taehyung's hoodies and shirts as he could before he left the room.

Taehyung had stared after him, unsure of what to do, but followed him anyway.

His omega had walked down the short hallway then made a sharp turn into the nest room and threw the pile of clothes on the floor, walking past Taehyung who stood in the doorway to grab even more things from their bedroom. The beta could do no more than watch as Jeongguk had carried their bedsheets and pillows into the nest room next, laying it all down on the floor beside the clothes.

"Gukk-ah," Taehyung ventures to say now, "why are you nesting again? Your heat just ended."

Jeongguk looks up and blinks at him as if just realizing that he is not alone. "Oh, you're here. Good. Can you give me your sweatshirt, please?"

Taehyung blinks and looks down at his chest, shocked. "The one I'm wearing?"

"Please," Jeongguk smiles at him, eyes sparkling. "I need it."

Without really thinking on it, Taehyung takes his sweatshirt off and places it in Jeongguk's outstretched hand, still not completely understanding what exactly is going on. "Um."

"I want to cuddle," Jeongguk murmurs next, answering Taehyung's first question.

Taehyung scratches his head and tilts it sideways, watching as Jeongguk starts arranging things. "We could have done that in bed."

Jeongguk shakes his head and continues to work, the bedsheets spread across the pillows. "Not the same. Wanna do it in a nest. Can you bring me more pillows, please? I need them."

"Er, how many?"

"Four, I think. Yeah, four," Jeongguk says, holding up four fingers as he studies what he already has assembled.

Taehyung smiles and shakes his head as he walks out of the room, heading towards the linen closet in the hallway to grab four more pillows. He ventures into the living room and grabs the afghan from the couch before walking back into the nest room and handing Jeongguk the things. His omega brightens and quickly adds them to the almost finished nest, stepping back once he is done to study it.

His clothes are wrapped around the pillows on the floor with the bedsheets covering them all, making the pillows a makeshift sort of mattress. The afghan is thrown across the bedsheets and the nest looks more like a bed with its square shape, but when Jeongguk turns to him and tugs on his hands, he goes willingly.

Seokjin is no stranger to heats.

The first omega he had helped through a heat with was Yoongi. The omega had just presented and seeing as the two were roommates, it was easy for Yoongi to find an alpha he trusted. Seokjin had no experience with heats before, but he agreed because it was hard to deny a beautiful omega like Yoongi when he begged.

Seokjin had been gentle with him, only losing himself to his alpha urges when Yoongi began crying because Seokjin was moving too slow for his liking. The heat lasted almost a week and during the times that Seokjin could finally get Yoongi to sleep, he emailed their professors and called up their boss at the diner to explain why neither of them could come in for that week. Once that had been done, Seokjin called his mother and got the recipe for her heat stew, messaging his friend Jaehwan to get the ingredients he needed.

When Jaehwan arrived, Seokjin thanked his lucky stars that the beta was not as affected by pheromones because Yoongi had woken up again. Seokjin hastily explained the situation and trusted the beta to show himself out once he was done putting the groceries away as he headed down the hallway and let himself into Yoongi's room. He made sure to lock the room then pressed himself into Yoongi and waited until the omega had calmed down before he moved them back to the nest Yoongi had made on the floor and fucked him senseless.

Since then, they have gone through many heats together. They also began seeing another omega as well.

Namjoon is soft and strange, but he balances them out and their first heat had gone well. Yoongi had bathed Namjoon when his pre-heat began to bleed away into actual heat and then pushed Namjoon into the nest room and brought him options. Seokjin had double-checked that they had all the ingredients they needed for the heat stew before he let Yoongi lead him into the bathtub where he could still smell Namjoon. Yoongi had reassured him as he bathed and left with a searing kiss as he went to check on Namjoon's nesting progress.

The first heat with Namjoon had gone well. Yoongi had stayed with them in the apartment, making the stew and keeping it warm then making other foods for Seokjin when Namjoon would fall asleep. Yoongi only left for classes and work, but during the night, Seokjin could smell him at the door of the nesting room wanting to join them. He stayed back though, not wanting his own heat to surprise all three of them.

After a few more heats, Namjoon sported two bites crisscrossed across his Scent gland, just as Seokjin and Yoongi did, proclaiming all three of them as mates.

Seokjin has found that life with them is easy. They all keep one another in check usually and though they have had fights and arguments, it is a rule that they never go to bed angry. It is easy being with the two omegas.

Now though, as Seokjin watches Yoongi make Namjoon's nest, Seokjin finds that things are not as easy anymore.

"Yoongichi, why are you making Namjoon's nest? I thought omegas always made their own," Seokjin ventures to ask when Yoongi continues to pretend like he is not standing right behind him.

Yoongi sighs but does not look up as he fixes another pillow. "When two omegas intend to share an alpha for their heats, it is customary that the older omega makes the nest. I'm just trying to make this look like the one Namjoon always makes."

Seokjin stands there, shell-shocked as Yoongi continues to work. He can smell Namjoon in the bathroom, still soaking in the bathtub as his pre-heat finishes running its course, but now that his senses are not being invaded by Namjoon, he can now smell what Yoongi has been hiding for most of the week.

"Sharing an alpha?" Seokjin asks, blinking as if he can do nothing else. "You're both going into heat?"

Yoongi sighs and nods, looking up to meet Seokjin's gaze. "Yes. It's okay though, Namjoon and I are mates so our bodies will accept the touch of the other during a heat. We won't make this hard for you, hyung."

"Hard for me?" Seokjin echoes, face flushing as his inner alpha's hackles rise. "My entire point of existence is to make things easier for you two. What do you mean hard for me?"

"We haven't shared a heat together between all three of us yet, so I didn't know how you'd take it," Yoongi says with a shrug, fixing the blankets spread across the floor. "Joonie said he wanted me to make the nest while he cleaned himself."

Seokjin sighs and reaches out to touch Yoongi, but knows better than to distract an omega who is in the middle of nesting. Instead, he sighs and takes off his shirt, throwing it beside the mostly formed nest and disappears into their bedroom, grabbing more of his clothes before he returns to the nesting room. Yoongi watches him as he drops the clothes on the floor, brow raised in question. Seokjin shrugs and crosses his arms over his chest, head tilted to the side as he studies Yoongi.

"You like it better when you can smell me even when I'm not in the room," Seokjin explains, nodding towards the clothes. "This nest is for all three of us so don't just focus on Joonie's needs."

Yoongi smiles and grabs the clothes, throwing himself into nesting with enthusiasm now. Seokjin watches him, only tearing his gaze away when he hears Namjoon approach them. The younger omega's scent has multiplied by three, the clear effects of his heat grabbing Seokjin's attention as he walks into the nesting room. Yoongi turns to watch the younger, opening his arms when Namjoon pauses right in front of the nest.

Seokjin lets out a breath he did not know he was holding when Namjoon goes easily. He lies down in the nest Yoongi made as the older omega quickly sheds himself of his clothes and kisses him. The omegas pause and look up at Seokjin, waiting for their alpha to join before they continue any further.

"What are you doing?"

Namjoon doesn't jump at the sound of his voice, had probably picked up on his scent a while ago. The omega grabs another pillow from the stack off to the side and contemplates where to place it for a moment, eyes scanning the growing pile around him. Seokjin walks into the room and stops just outside of the ring of pillows surrounding Namjoon, brows furrowed in thought.

"Making a nest," Namjoon responds a beat later as he lies the pillow on top of two others behind him, still not looking up to meet Seokjin's gaze.

Seokjin nods and then frowns when he remembers that Namjoon's heat isn't due this week. "Isn't your heat next week though?"

Namjoon nods, grabbing one of Seokjin's stolen hoodies and lying it flat underneath him, shifting his knees here and there to make it work. "Yeah, but I want to cuddle... unless you're busy, hyung?"

"No, I'm not busy. Do you want to sleep in the nest tonight too?" Seokjin asks, only daring to lean over and brush the tips of his fingers across Namjoon's back as the omega grabs another pillow.

"If you don't mind," Namjoon replies easily, only pausing to grab Seokjin's hand and press a kiss to his knuckles before letting go and going back to building his nest.

Seokjin grins at him, standing upright once more as he turns on his heels and heads to the bedroom to grab a few more things Seokjin is certain Namjoon will want for the nest. He's still new to this comfortable way of being that he has with Namjoon. Making a nest simply for the sake of it is not something that Seokjin has ever been used to. His own mother and father only spent time in a nest when his father's heats came around because it was the only time he let himself take time off from work.

As CEO of his own company, it was rare that he got any free time and Seokjin was used to his parent's hiding themselves away in the back house for a few days when his father was in heat. His mother spent a lot of her own time directing the cooking and cleaning staff, planning book club meetings, and helping Seokjin and his older brother with their homework when they got home from school. Seokjin would be hardpressed to say that he had ever seen his parents' nest because he cannot recall a single instance where it might have happened.

So Namjoon's odd instances of nesting confused Seokjin at first, but he quickly got used to it. He came to understand that Namjoon wanted to have intimacy with him outside of his heat as well even if they are not official mates yet. Namjoon likes the simpler things and it is one of the many reasons why Seokjin loves him so.

From their bedroom, he grabs one of the larger Ryan dolls that Namjoon always snuggles with when he is asleep and one of his workout shirts before he grabs their blanket from the bed. He walks back down the hallway and pauses in the doorway, checking Namjoon's progress. Namjoon waves for him to come in without looking and descends upon the things Seokjin brought once the alpha has dropped them on top of the pile of remaining pillows.

Namjoon works quietly then, murmuring to himself as Seokjin watches him. He throws a few pillows into the corner of the room as far away from the nest as they can be, then returns to fixing the rest of the items in their places. Seokjin leans against the wall and smiles with his arms crossed over his chest as Namjoon lies the Ryan doll down in the center of the nest, propped up against two pillows and tucks it in with the blanket Seokjin brought.

Seokjin is more than content to watch Namjoon fix up his nest, rearranging pillows and hoodies before contemplating what to do with Seokjin's workout shirt. Namjoon ends up pulling it over one of the spare pillows from the corner of the room and adds it to the ring of pillows that give the nest its circular shape. The alpha laughs, pressing his hand over his mouth when the omega looks over to glare at him, but he can't help it.

When Jimin's rut is approaching, he is not surprised when he comes home to Hoseok making a nest in their living room.

It is a habit that most of their friends know nothing about and something that Hoseok's mother instilled in him back when everyone expected him to present as an omega. It shocked just about everyone in his family when he presented as an alpha instead and started dating Jimin, another alpha.

Not like Hoseok cared much since his family was very supportive, but when Jimin's first rut approached, he found himself nesting. He told himself he would make the nest while Jimin was still out and then put it all back before Jimin arrived. Except, he fell asleep in the nest and when Jimin got home and found him, Hoseok did not have the time to feel embarrassed because Jimin was joining him in the nest, curling around him until Hoseok was the little spoon.

Of course, afterward, Hoseok explained what it was for and Jimin had only nodded and kissed him silly, reassuring him that he could make nests whenever he wanted to.

Hoseok almost cried when his own rut approached and Jimin made a nest as well, pulling Hoseok to him until the older alpha could not help but let his rut take control and pushed Jimin's thighs apart. Since then, they have gone through a handful of ruts together and Jimin's is due tomorrow, but it might spring up on them during the night so Hoseok is making the nest now.

Jimin watches him, remembering his last rut when Hoseok had begged him for a knot and the only reason Jimin had obliged was because Hoseok had fucked himself on dildos bigger than his knot before. He doesn't think Hoseok will ask him for it again because last time he had cried himself sick and Jimin was afraid to touch him for an entire week, but even if he does, Jimin won't let his rut decide for him.

So he keeps watching him, heart fluttering with each sound Hoseok makes. His brows scrunch together as he shifts the blankets again, doing his best to make the nest circular. A pillow is dislodged in the struggle and Jimin's dick jumps at the sound of the growl Hoseok makes in response. Hoseok manages to fix the nest again, grumbling to himself under his breath as he does and Jimin can't help but smile.

The elder is now stepping back from the nest though, examining it before he steps farther away and finds Jimin, scenting him in welcome. Jimin wraps an arm around him and scents him in return, his heart soaring when Hoseok hums under his breath and bends to nuzzle his face into Jimin's chest.

As soon as Yoongi gets home, he drops his things in the living room and dashes to the bedroom, pilfering the closet as quickly as he can.

He grabs a multitude of clothing, avoiding all those that belong to him, and drops them in a pile on the floor. He can hear the other two in the apartment as well, both in the kitchen eating dinner probably, but he focuses on his task instead. He opens the linen closet and grabs blankets and a few pillows, retreating back to the bedroom once he can't see past hill formed by the objects in his arms.

The trek to the bedroom is short, but eventful as Yoongi trips twice in his haste to get there. The two in the kitchen rise at the sound, but Yoongi ignores that, getting back up to reach the bedroom.

Once there, he drops the linens beside the clothes and gets to work. Yoongi is moving on instinct alone, pulling and squishing certain things into a shape his brain is satisfied with. He knows that this is just a part of his omega biology and that having two alphas nearby constantly only eggs his inner omega on often, but he does not try to fight it. His subgender is something he is used to by this point and whatever makes his omega happy will, in turn, keep Yoongi's head clear and focused.

He can smell the alphas at the door now, but they don't say anything as he works. He zips up a sweatshirt around a pillow and lays it back down, adding it to the circular border of pillows he already has arranged. Yoongi holds up two blankets in his hands, sparsing them both a glance as he decides between the two before deciding to use the baby blue instead of the yellow.

His alphas laugh when he throws the yellow blanket over his shoulder somewhere, but Yoongi does not pay attention to that. The nest is almost finished, but something is missing.

Yoongi sits back on his haunches and examines the nest, tilting his head in every direction he can manage before his mouth curls in distaste, ready to shred the nest to pieces for not being the way he wants it to be.

"Hyung," a voice behind him trills. Yoongi turns to blink at the two in the doorway, barely paying attention to the smile on Hoseok and Jimin's faces before he rushes to stand and grabs their hands.

"Come with me," Yoongi orders, his inner omega torn between the satisfaction of his alphas obeying without a thought and the discomfort of telling an alpha what to do. "Need you two in the nest."

Jimin giggles as Yoongi pushes them down, his mind finally slowing as the nest is completed. "Better."

Hoseok chuckles under his breath and pulls Yoongi down to join them, curving around the omega to hold him between their warm bodies. "Hyung. What brought this on?"

Yoongi shrugs, shifting to accommodate Jimin's hand on his hips when the younger alpha presses his chest to Yoongi's back. "Shitty day. I deserve some cuddles."

His alphas scent him quietly as they throw their arms over him, holding him close. "Can't disagree with that," Jimin says behind him, breath hot on Yoongi's neck as Hoseok nods his agreement.

The smile that graces Yoongi's lips is hidden in Hoseok's chest, but he knows that his alphas can tell that he is grinning anyway and they lay like that for a while, only getting up again when Yoongi's stomach growls. Yoongi flushes red with embarrassment, but Hoseok only kisses his nose and gets up to get food from the kitchen, returning before Yoongi can begin to miss him.

All three of them sit up then and Yoongi eats slowly, sharing with his alphas when they won't stop looking at his food. He knows they should not be eating in the room and definitely not in the nest either, but for the moment, Yoongi does not care about that.