TXT Oneshots

4. Soobin - Four Letters, One Word

Summary:

Four times the boys realized they love Soobin; and the one time he realized he loved them back.

[platonic/friendship]
[birthday gift for aribi]

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If anyone wanted to know where Yeonjun was, all they had to do was go to the library.

In their small colony of fairies, there was a library that they had built underground. Yeonjun, being a fairy of knowledge, spent his spare time when he wasn't working perusing the many books that adorned the walls of the vast library.

Unlike others, he had not got the job from his parent fairy, who was a blessing fairy. As a whole, reproduction of fairies was much different than human reproduction and only 1 fairy was enough to give birth to another. So every fairy had 1 parent normally, with the rest of the colony considered as a close family.

Seokjin, Yeonjun's father, should have had a blessing fairy as a baby (because that's how reproduction worked in them) but by some sort of a twist of fate – Soobin refuses to call it anything other than “a miracle, hyung!” – Yeonjun had turned out to be a knowledge fairy.

Knowledge fairies tended to be shy and kept to themselves. Even then, Yeonjun stuck out because he had taken on his father's excitement and overflowing love and was one of the loudest and brightest fairies in the Hive colony. And the feeling of being the odd one out always followed Yeonjun wherever he went.

Eventually, that had pressed the enthusiasm out of him and he just stuck to doing his work and reading quietly in the library that was currently overlooked by Jeongguk, the older knowledge fairy of the colony. On a normal day, Yeonjun just had to go and read up on various topics so he could get ready to start work when he finally grew old enough.

Knowledge fairies went around and cast affinities for certain things onto newly born human babies. When those babies grew up, they usually found themselves excelling in those fields and the task of choosing what to assign to them was a knowledge fairy's.

"Yeonjun?" Jeongguk's voice startled the young pink haired fairy that was staring at one of the bookworms working on the higher shelves. "You okay there? You never space out and I'm worried."

The frown on the older fairy's face was enough to snap Yeonjun into an automatic reassuring smile as he immediately replied, "I'm fine, hyung. Just thinking about whether I'm prepared enough for my first job next week."

"You won't be alone," Jeongguk said encouragingly, his doe eyes softening even more than usual as he looked at Yeonjun fondly. Really, fairies had only one parent by nature but Yeonjun had been raised by both Jin and Jeongguk so he found himself considering both of them as his parents in his head. "I'll be there overlooking it. Don't worry, I taught you myself and I know you're ready."

"Of course, hyung," Yeonjun just smiled, not being able to convey why he was feeling nervous. He knew he was ready, he knew he could do it without any problems… but there was still an inkling of doubt somewhere in the back of his mind that told him something is going to go wrong.

"Now, I have to go and deliver some of the books to the Sweet Maple colony," Jeongguk said apologetically, "so can I entrust you with taking care of the library?"

"Wait," Yeonjun's eyebrows furrowed in confusion. "Why are you going to deliver them yourself? Isn't there a worker fairy who can do it?"

"They are unfortunately all swamped with fixing the houses that got broken because of the recent picnic those humans did," Jeongguk said sadly. "I couldn't bother them with something so simple that's why I'm going over myself. I'll be back by midnight, just watch over the register and keep track of who comes and goes. You know how everything works, I don't need to tell you."