90 Day Fiance | ym

58 Days & Counting

Yoongi paused in the doorway of the assistant director's office, not stepping inside in order to adhere to the six-foot distancing they still tried to uphold as much as they could at the facility. "I'm not in trouble, am I?"

"No, of course not, Yoongi." Rachael assured him, although the serious expression on her face wasn't quite as reassuring. "But this is something that I wanted to tell you in person, as I know how disappointed you might be." Yoongi felt his heart rate increasing already in panic. "We are not able to approve you time off on August 13."

"...oh." Yoongi scratched at his arm, a nervous tic he'd had since he was a pup.

"I know it's the day before you're mating ceremony, and that you probably have a lot planned that day to get ready for it, but time off is given partially based on seniority, and that day already has the max number of people requesting off."

"...okay." Yoongi nodded, trying to keep his breathing steady. "I still get the two weeks after off though, right?"

Rachael immediately nodded. "Oh, yes, those are already approved, and I have you marked down as not being here for those two weeks." That definitely relieved Yoongi a bit. "I'm so sorry about that Friday though."

"No, yeah, I understand." Yoongi said, swallowing down his nerves before heading back to his classroom.

***

Yoongi's anxiety was increasing again as he unlocked the door to his apartment, skyrocketing to an all-time high as he saw Jimin sitting in the middle of the living room with an array of sticky notes, magazines, and binders spread around him. "Welcome home!" Jimin greeted him with a bright smile, puckering his lips for a kiss.

"Hey, where's Taehyung?"

"Apartment hunting." Jimin answered, humming happily into the kiss Yoongi finally gave him as he sat down next to him. "Why?"

"Because I'm about to tell you something that you might not want to hear..." Jimin furrowed his eyebrows and tilted his head as Yoongi took his hands in his. "I talked to my assistant director today, and she said that I'm not able to take the day before our ceremony off."

Jimin blinked. "Oh..." He looked down at his lap, where Yoongi could now see a detailed schedule of their ceremony weekend was outlined in a notebook. "But...we're supposed to set the venue up and have our rehearsal dinner and-"

"Baby, breathe." Yoongi said, letting go of Jimin's hands to rub his arms comfortingly as the omega had been starting to hyperventilate. "We can still do all that. We'll leave the second I get off work."

"It's two hours away!" Jimin exclaimed, standing up so he could pace around the room. "By the time we get there, it'll already be dinner time, and we can't have a rehearsal dinner without a rehearsal, and we can't have a rehearsal when nothing is set up."

Yoongi stood up and wrapped his arms around Jimin's waist to stop him, guiding his towards his scent gland. "I can talk to her again tomorrow and see about maybe taking a shorter lunch or just skipping my lunch complete so I can leave early. And we don't have to get it all completely set up Friday night. We can set up what's necessary for the rehearsal, then save the rest for Saturday morning."

Jimin took a shaky breath, obviously inhaling as much of Yoongi's scent as he could to keep him calm. "The ceremony is less than two months away, I cannot handle things like this happening."

The alpha sighed, pulling Jimin back so he could cup his face. "I hate to break it to you, but there's probably gonna be worse setbacks than this."

"Why'd you have to tell me that?" Jimin whined, pushing Yoongi's hands away so he could bury his face in his neck again.

Yoongi just held him tightly, tilting his head to press a kiss to his temple. "Everything's gonna work out just fine. I promise."

***

Yoongi and Jimin immediately stood up from their seats in the lobby as a tall, powerful alpha entered the room. "You must be the Min couple." He greeted them with firm handshakes. "I'm Alpha Tony Odom." He led them back towards his office. "I'm not used to a non-pack couple seeking me out to acknowledge their mating."

"We're friends with Namjoon." Yoongi explained, as Namjoon had grown up in the pack Tony led before gradually exiting it as he matured and realized he didn't agree with many of the old-fashioned values the pack still held.

Most packs tended to be extremely conservative and closed minded to some of the changes happening in modern society, hence why less and less people were staying with their packs. However, despite the dwindling numbers of people who identified with a certain pack, the government still required a pack alpha, whether it be hereditary or through mission and journey, to acknowledge a mating in order for it to be considered legal.

"Ah, yes, Namjoon." Tony nodded. "I haven't seen him since I acknowledged his own mating. How is he?"

"He's doing great, as is his mate." Yoongi answered politely as Jimin squeezed his hand.

Tony then cleared his throat. "Now, as you two are packless, there are certain things we must discuss pertaining to the ceremony, as I am not sure which route you would like to take." Jimin and Yoongi nodded. "The mating bite. Are you going to perform it in front of your guests?"

Jimin turned white at the question. "Excuse me?"

"Well, traditionally, the alpha claims his omega in front of everybody, a symbol of the omega's willingness to submit to them in their mating." Tony explained before turning to Yoongi. "Do you wish to do this?"

"Um...I mean..." He glanced over at Jimin. "It's really Jimin's choice, as he would be the vulnerable one in that situation..." He trailed off as Jimin quickly shook his head no, his face saying it all. "Yeah, that's a no."

From the way his jaw clenched, they could easily see that the pack alpha wasn't all too pleased that Jimin was the one to make that decision. "I see...now, as far as purity goes-"

"I don't believe that's any of your business." Jimin snapped, all too aware of some of the old-fashioned practices of 'proving' an omega's purity during a mating ceremony.

The rest of the meeting with Tony continued on with the pack alpha asking things that made Jimin uncomfortable while also ignoring Jimin for the most part, despite Yoongi's insistence that Jimin be the final say in any decision. "I don't like him."

"He's the only one that does it for free in the area." Yoongi reminded Jimin. "And now we only have to see him for the duration of the ceremony."

"If he says anything demeaning towards omegas during it, I will not hesitate to drop kick him."

"I wouldn't want you too." Jimin giggled, intertwining his fingers with Yoongi as they pulled out of the parking lot.