HERMAPHRODITE

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True to his word, as soon as Jimin arrived at MNS HQ in the morning the first thing he did was boot up his computer. He set the program to search and made himself a cup of coffee. Returning to his office he was pleased to see a long list of possible sites for his search.

He sat down and began to sift through them all. After an hour of wading through possibilities he finally hit pay dirt. Smiling to himself, he quickly copied and pasted the relevant information to a document and began to print it out.

"Someone looks happy today. Get lucky, did we?"

Jimin looked up sharply to see the grinning face of Dr. Jung Hoseok in the doorway. "Morning, hyung," he said as the man's words hit home. "What did you say?"

Hoseok entered the doctor's office, still smiling. "I said you look happy today, did you get lucky?"

Jimin was about to take a mouthful of his coffee and quickly thought better of it. "Hyung!"

Hoseok chuckled.

Jimin shook his head. He couldn't believe that Hoseok was teasing him. Well, two could play that game. "All I'll say on that matter is whatever private activities I partook in with Yoongi hyung, we both agreed would've been made even better if you had joined us." he teased.

It was Hoseok's turn to nearly choke on his coffee at the younger doctor's comment. Jimin chuckled.

Hoseok finally calmed down, "How's our number one patient doing? I know you called there yesterday to do an ultrasound." he said, changing the subject.

Jimin chuckled again before quickly filling his fellow doctor in on the latest developments with Kook's pregnancy and the upcoming wedding, the wedding he was trying to help salvage. The printer finished the job and beeped, Jimin quickly pulled the printed sheets from the machine.

"I knew I was right," he stated. "And here's the proof." He passed the papers over to Hoseok who took them and scanned the pages quickly.

"Well, that's some good news at least," he said as he handed the pages back.

"Yes, it is. Now I need to contact Tae as well as Kook and let them know so that they can continue with their arrangements. Oh, I meant to ask you, when did you want to move into Tae and Kookie's place?"

"I really think that the sooner the better, don't you?"

"Yes, I do. I'm concerned for Kookie with his advancement in the pregnancy. The baby is formed pretty well and so there's really only the growth left. I'm worried about his insides, there isn't a lot of room in there and his organs are getting rather cramped. I've told him that he's to take it really easy, but knowing Jungkook he's not about to rest up as much as I'd like so I think the sooner you can move in, the better it will be for both Tae's and my nerves."

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Jungkook checked his email for the tenth time in the last five minutes. Still nothing. He sighed and leaned back in the chair, hand rubbing absently over his belly. He'd been waiting patiently beside the computer for the past hour. He knew he shouldn't be impatient, that Jimin would contact him as soon as he could with whatever news he had, but Kook couldn't help it. In one way his and Tae's future happiness depended on what Jimin found out.

He picked up his glass of milk and drained it. There wasn't much point in trying to organize anything further on the wedding until he had Jimin's findings. He sighed again and idly flipped through one of the wedding magazines that Jin had sent him. His eyes traversed the page, noting the flowers, the lovely dresses and handsome suits. His finger traced the lines of the charcoal one he'd picked out for Tae and he could feel the familiar lump lodging in his throat. He suddenly threw the magazine across the room in frustration.