Ambrosial | Jikook

Honey Tea

Soothes the throat and lifts the spirits

Jimin had been caught red-handed staring at the alpha, internally he begged the moon goddess for him not to remember anything because otherwise he would be mortified to have been caught by none other than Jungkook.

After having whispered a ''Who are you? '' which took Jimin by surprise, the alpha fainted again. Jimin could see how beads of sweat began to accumulate on his forehead, so he decided to put a wet cloth on the alpha's forehead and go looking for his father.

A couple of minutes later, the beta returns to the room with a bunch of amber bottles, some herbal compresses, and a series of steps to follow, so he dedicates himself to that. He carefully removed the bandage from Jungkook's right arm. The wound itself was quite small, only two punctures on his bicep, what was worrisome was the surrounding area, full of small black threads and swollen to the touch.

He took a cotton ball, moistened with a disinfectant lotion from one of the bottles, and then carefully cleaned the wound area. Then with a toothpick, he put a dose of the herbal mixture that served as an antidote and quickly put the bandage back on the wound.

Due to the characteristics of the wound, it was clearly poisoning by wolfbane, and although it isn't usually serious when it is treated in time, something was not working well in this case, the alpha still had traces of the poison in his system as if the antidote wasn't working.

Jimin was changing the damp cloth on the alpha's forehead and being so close to his scent gland, he couldn't help but breathe in that woody scent, his nostrils fluttering as his lungs filled with that addictive scent.

He was confused, being a beta implied that his animal instincts were attenuated if not non-existent; he hardly reacted to the scents of other wolves, nor their pheromones. So, it was out of the ordinary that his wolf was getting drunk on the scent of this unknown alpha, hanging on the woody, chocolatey notes and even purring at the spicy amaretto ones.

The alpha woke up for a few seconds every now and then, and in those moments of lucidity, he just babbled nonsense. Jimin was partly relieved that not only had he made fun of himself. The alpha kept trying to ask his name, murmuring cheesy things like "cute, sweet, mine, pretty'' and so on, only to fall unconscious again before Jimin could give him an answer.

If Jimin didn't know that the alpha was still high on poison, he would feel awkward and even uncomfortable that a stranger—Alpha—kept saying those kinds of things to him, but knowing that the alpha was fighting a fever, he couldn't help but find it endearing.

Time passed so quickly that Jimin did not realize it was already dawn until Jin entered the room to let him know that he was going to take care of the alpha. The news did not sit well with his wolf, but Jimin knew it was the most logical thing, his Hyung was a healer, and this was his work, Jimin was only here helping his father—nothing more—so he said goodbye to his Hyung and left the room ignoring the screeches of his wolf, but not before taking one last look at the alpha.

When Jimin left the infirmary, the sun was beginning to break through the fluffy clouds, luckily for him his little cabin was close by so it didn't take him long to get home.

His wolf was still howling—even when he was lying down and wrapped in his blanket—so Jimin tried to find comfort in his dreams, attributing his wolf's attitude to the fact that he had been emotionally stressed the last few days.

It doesn't have to mean anything. Just sleep over it, he tried to convince himself.

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Jungkook woke up disoriented, not knowing if he had hallucinated the handsome boy who was healing his wounds. He couldn't ignore the throbbing of his head, plus his throat burned and his eyes were heavy; When he finally mustered the energy to open them, the sight that greeted him was not what he expected, a tall, handsome man in a white coat.