[UNION] Superfluous » BGTM 2 || XIUCHEN/ CHENMIN

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Timeline: Before Minseok met Jongdae

Minseok starts to feel it again, and he bites his lips harshly, squeezing his eyes shut as he tries to catch his breath.

Make it stop, please.

I don't want this anymore.

Minseok's stomach churns with the potency of the combination of sickening sweet scents, and tears fall from his eyes once again. He clenches his hands into fists to force himself to take it.

And yet no matter how hard Minseok tries, Minseok just can't appease them.

"Kim Minseok!"

Minseok flinches, lowering his gaze as he keeps his mouth closed, feeling blood fill up, but he can't keep it and starts to cough it out. "Please," he breathes, shaking his head from side to side.

"This is your purpose. We are only helping you do it, Minseok. If you are this incompetent then you shouldn't have chosen to be an alpha!"

Minseok sobs, clutching his chest where his heart is. "I have a mate.." he cries out. "I'm not made for this.. I'm not made for this.."

"You are a zilch, Minseok!"

Minseok shakes his head, closing his eyes when his father grabs his face. "I have a mate," Minseok rasps out. "The moon gods gave me a mate.."

"How could you be so fucking stubborn!"

Minseok is met with a harsh fist, and he stumbles down to the ground, coughing out blood as he digs his nails into the soil to force himself to get back up.

His throat and nostrils feel like they are on fire, being scratched by a million, sharp claws while he inhales all of the common scents of omegas mixed and made even more potent.

When Minseok was younger, he was a special case beta, having the freedom to choose which rank he wanted as a final rank.

As he knew that his parents expected him to be an alpha, he had chosen that rank, but he also wished to have someone to keep as himself rather than staying as a zilch, so that he could focus on being the best for one rather than being compatible to everyone.

"We let you wish for your final rank alone, Minseok. And look what you did! You wished for a mate and now you are not a zilch anymore! You wasted the opportunity of glorifying our family!"

"Just let me be. I'll be a good alpha to my mate. Please don't do this anymore. D-Don't force me to be what I am not.." Minseok mutters, wiping blood off his mouth and getting into a kneeling position. "I'm so sorry. Please let me be happy. Please just let me be happy."

"You keep being a disappointment to us. One day you would bring downfall to our family. One day you would ruin our bloodline!"

Minseok closes his eyes as fresh tears stream down his face, clenching his fists around his shorts.

Minseok had always wanted to be able to fall in love and be loved, wondering how it would feel. To be liked and favored just because. To be liked as Minseok.

Not as an alpha, or as a part of this family.

Just Minseok. Minseok and his wolf.

Minseok hopes his mate can do that.

Minseok so dearly hopes his mate can do that.

Minseok would give up everything to have such a mate.

* * * * *

Minseok slides his windows open and looks up at the full moon.

He furrows his eyebrows, heaving a sigh.

If I wish to meet my mate tomorrow and have the opportunity to take him with me to that union, you'll grant me that wish, right?

Minseok looks down, staring at his bruised thighs, all from being whipped by silver floggers.

Even when he possesses so much luck in having the freedom from the moon gods to choose, his parents won't let him use it.

If he manages to use it without their permission, then he'll have to face consequences for 'causing trouble again'.

Minseok swallows, gazing back up at the moon.

He is aware that his wolf eyes shine pink under the light of the full moon, signifying his ability to be granted all the wishes he howls to the gods.

Born from a family of good reputation, while also having pink werewolf eyes, while also having special case beta as an initial rank..

Others would think such a life is perfect.

Minseok's eyes burn with his sorrow, and he clenches his fists around his shorts.

Zilch alphas have the duty to always be available to omegas and attend to their heats. They are given a strong scent and a dominant aura which would affect any omega who asks for their help.

Minseok was born a zilch, a rare kind of werewolf, much to his parents' excitement.

For them, it's a blessing, but to Minseok, it is grief, knowing that being a zilch means not having been assigned a destined mate of your own.

It means he shall not expect and dream to experience a love that is both received and given, as it will breach into the duties he's born with.

But having pink werewolf eyes had given him the opportunity to change this fate and ask the moon gods for a mate, and they have given him 'a zilch omega who can be compatible with him'.

Minseok doesn't understand why his parents care more about him not being able to be a rare, lonely kind of werewolf than the moon gods entrusting him an omega who was initially destined to be expected to be pleasing to everyone.

Now, that omega shall only have to please him.

Now, that omega can put his trust and depend on him whenever he feels the need to.

Minseok wants to do everything to be a good alpha to him after changing his fate.

That is, until, his parents harshly tried to tweak his destiny for him again.

Again and again.

Jongdae was already in his palms, soft against his lips, the most mild and sweet scent, the prettiest thing he'd ever laid his eyes on.

And then Jongdae slipped through the gaps between his fingers, too quick, too abrupt, like someone wanted him to immediately know that he wasn't meant to have a fragile heart to keep, with such calloused hands.