A SACCHARINE SMILE || YOONGI × JUNGKOOK || YOONKOOK AU

GRAND CENTRAL STATION

ADDITIONAL TRIGGER WARNING:
• Mention of violence and trauma
• Please read at your own discretion
• May be unsuitable for sensitive audiences
Gentle Reminder: This is a fictional story.

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Jungkook stuffs his hands into his pocket soon after Yoongi walks out of his apartment. It's his tell. He always does it when he feels like Yoongi is just too far from his reach. His hands ache to grab anything personal, even if it is just the lining of his pockets.

And that's when he feels it. It's something metallic and cold. He hopes it is not what he thinks it is but he slowly pulls it out of his left pocket.

The golden colored apartment key with a metal bunny keychain!

Yoongi left it and Jungkook is devastated. But this time he is willing to put up a fight. So he asks Jimin to take care of the guests and rushes out.

He takes the elevator in a hurry, pushing buttons like a maniac and pacing up and down the metal box until he reaches the lobby. He barges out of the building and looks for a cab.

It was such a stupid idea to ask him team to stay away, he thinks as he remembers his manager telling him to at least keep a car stand-by. But he was planning on spending a peaceful /NORMAL/ weekend with Yoongi.

And now he has no time to wait for his team to arrive. Their security alone will come up with excuses for not letting him get to Yoongi during rush hour traffic.

"Where are you going?" asks Taehyung who is helping his neighbor, a 73 year old pianist Mrs. Smith, get some essentials up to her apartment. Taehyung has grown fond of the sweet old woman after she invited him to show him her art collection. Now Taehyung runs errands for her every time he is in New York.

"I'm going to give this to Yoongi hyung whether he likes it or not." Jungkook flashes the key and Taehyung offers him the cab he is grabbing the essentials from.

"Freddy! Take my best friend to whenever he want to go ok? And bring him back home safe!" Taehyung taps the top of the yellow cab as Freddy turns the meter on.

Jungkook thanks Taehyung and asks Freddy to take him to Grand Central Station. He know Yoongi is headed southwards for some meetings before he flies back home and he thinks he can catch him on time.

Jungkook remembers Yoongi telling him that it's a late commute and assumes he might need to wait in the station for a while. And as he looks up the trains Yoongi might be taking, he wonders what could have made Yoongi feel like he was not welcomed back in his life. He wonders what made the other leave behind a slice of comfort away from home.

Freddy zips through busy roads and navigates through insufferable intersections before getting Jungkook to Grand Central in under 30 minutes.

"Here! Keep the change! I'll find a way to get back. Don't wait for me!" Jungkook starts running towards the station before he can hear Freddy yelling something important.

He adjusts his buckey hat as his eyes scan the busy and overcrowded space looking for Yoongi. But everyone seems to be wearing the same kind of long black coat and fluffy gray beanies. It seems impossible to find Yoongi until Jungkook spots someone sitting on one of the beaches with a familiar looking suitcase in his hand.

He fondly looks at the white cat name tag and right next to it hangs a fluffy bunny keychain. He was right about Yoongi wanting to have a bunny with him but then he gets angry again about how Yoongi left his apartment key behind. Jungkook feels like Yoongi left him behind instead of just a key on a silly little keychain.

"Hyung!" Jungkook calls out, not even trying to hide his face anymore. His little bucket hat can hide his beautiful features only for so long.

A worried Yoongi rushes towards him saying "You shouldn't be here. Where is your manager and your security? Why are you even here?".