He had been correct about Yoongi being a valuable hybrid with almost flawless breeding. The perfectly formed cat ears and tail, the hairless and naturally thin body. He ticked all the boxes of a rich man's fantasy cat boy. "What did they do with you?" Hoseok asks though he has a million more questions flashing through his mind. "They gave me to a regular family, people who raised me as if I were fully human. They treated me just like my older brother, their real son. They already homeschooled him and when I became part of the family I started to learn about the world."
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The hybrid doesn't seem to be sad about this, he smiles as if reminiscing about his family and Hoseok's confused."Then ?" Hoseok starts. "Then why did you find me all alone, homeless in an alleyway?" Yoongi says. Filling in what Hoseok had been thinking. "No, they are not dead if that is what you are imagining." Hoseok would be a liar if he said that wasn't one of his main thoughts. "I was taught by my family that I should want to be my own person, that I should want to grow up and be as human as possible. I should start a family, work, and live the great dream that supposedly everyone strives for." The hybrid's voice changes then, a bitter added note to it. "But no matter how much they told me I could do just that, society told me I could not. My father tried to get starter jobs for me, but no one would allow me to be hired. Not only was I not human, but on paper, I officially don't exist, even as a pet."
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"You don't sound like you want that kind of life. Do you?" Hoseok can tell from the way the hybrid phrased it that the great white picket fence, day job, two kids, and a wife dream don't appeal to him, and from everything he has learned about Yoongi he doesn't think it would work out if he tried. Hoseok also never completely understood that dream, he himself knew in his heart that the thought of a family taking away from his time to help patients seemed wrong in his mind, he also wasn't sure that he wouldn't turn out like his father toward his own children. "No, I don't want that." "They wanted me to be one of the hybrids that showed the world how smart and capable we are, but that's not what I wanted. I do want to be my own person. I want to own things and maybe even work." He chews his lip nervously. "But I like the idea of being with someone who sees and respects me as a person most of the time, but also — sees me as a pet sometimes." He turns away, breaking eye contact, looking ashamed to have admitted that he wants to be a bit of what he was designed for.
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Alley Cat
FanfikceStruggling medical student Hoseok is on his way home when a shadowy figure crosses his path into an alleyway. Figuring it's a teen trying not to get caught out late at night he goes home not thinking about it again. But in the morning his curiosity...
