Collision

Chapter 136

"Does that mean that Yoongi and Koo are like the first wolves? Spirit and Raksha?" Ara asks, sitting up on her knees and bouncing excitedly, clapping her hands.

Seokjin pauses in his cleaning, peering from around the corner and into the living room where the fourteen-year old twins are settled near Namjoon, who was perched on the couch as he told the story of the first Lycan's.

A story he had told him a long time ago, when they first started getting together for real as a true couple when Namjoon had discovered what he truly was beneath the human mask. He hadn't really believed it back then, but ever since he had woken up a wolf after Yoongi was mauled, he leaned more in favor of the Moon Goddess.

"That's impossible, Ara-yah," Mingyu grumbles from next to her, brushing back his mahogany colored hair and shaking his head. "The Moon Goddess probably doesn't exist anymore."

"But Yoongs was human once," Ara argues, frowning. "How did he become a wolf?"

"Dormant genes?" Mingyu offers, shrugging, and adjusting his reading glasses with a slight sniff. "Scientifically, his transformation doesn't make any sense unless he already had wolf blood in his body."

Ara groans, throwing back her head. She hit her brother's arm. "Stop pulling a dad. Let us dumber people have a rest!"

"You're not dumb," Mingyu argues, lower lips jutting out in a pout. "You're better at history than me."

"And Korean literature," Ara preens, flicking her long brown hair over her shoulder with a wicked grin. "But you're better at maths. I hate numbers."

Namjoon smiles, shaking his head. "You're both incredibly smart, but intelligence has nothing to do with whether or not the legends are true. They are stories passed down from the centuries. Many Lycan's believe in their Moon Goddess."

Mingyu tilts his head. "Do you?"

Namjoon hesitates. "I used to not believe in her, but it still seems like a miracle to me. To be a Lycan." He ruffles his blue-grey hair, hints of white tinting the roots to match Seokjin's. "But you can believe anything you want to believe. I won't tell you otherwise."

"I believe in her!" Ara says, grinning and nudging her brother with her elbow. "Mingyu-yah, are you going to determine science?"

Mingyu's face scrunches, eyes flickering between his father and sister, before settling on a shrug and leaning his back against the couch and twirling his finger over the rug. "I believe that sometimes things don't make sense."

Ara smiles knowingly, pleased, before she leans over and kisses her brother. Mingyu grunts, wiping his face quickly and casting a glare towards his sister, but there was no heat behind it.

Turning back towards her father, Ara leans closer. "When we get older, can we be like Dal? Go to college and learn things like humans do?"

Seokjin's heart squeezed in his chest. It had been two years since Dal had left for college, and a year and a half since Seyeon had left, too. The absence of the two eldest girls really took a hammer to the rest of them pups, but it also encouraged them to really consider their future more.

It was heartwarming and heartbreaking all the same. How many times had he seen Yoongi stare off into the distance, the same forlorn expression on his face as he worries about his eldest daughter?

The long nights when Namjoon would disappear from their bed and stare up at the moon in desperation for his daughter to be back where he can see her again. Or how Seokjin would howl with every note his body could produce in hopes that Dal could hear it from the city or Seyeon would sense him and know she was missing.