Layover

4. Late nights, bad decisions

It was ten o'clock at night and the sound of Jungkook's keyboard was the only sound in the vast empty office. But Jungkook wasn't alone. Taehyung was still in his office.

Up until now, a solution still hadn't been found about the substitute for the cover. Taehyung and Jimin had a long meeting but now Jimin was somewhere in the building, working with a few people from his team, leaving Taehyung alone in his office, working on his laptop.

At six o'clock after Jungkook went to Taehyung's office, he was given a few notes and things that needed to be improved and was sent back to his cubicle to work.

Jungkook was tired and hungry. He prayed to finish as fast as possible, and for Taehyung to approve the changes, so he can finally go home.

He typed a few last words and stood up to go and deliver the article. Taehyung was sitting in his office, elbows on the desk, supporting his head with both his hands. He looked tired. He had taken his suit jacket off and the sleeves of his white shirt were rolled up his forearms. His eyes were running along some lines on his screen and examining the papers that were spread all over his office.

Jungkook knocked on the already open door.

"Mr. Jeon. Come on in," Taehyung rubbed his eyes standing up and gestured for Jungkook to sit down on the couch he had in his office. He made his way towards the younger and sat down next to him.

Jungkook handed him the article. As Taehyung took the papers and started reading, he raised his hand to slightly loosen his tie. Jungkook followed the move with his eyes and gulped.

Taehyung's moves were so smooth, so suave. He just loosened his tie and still he managed to capture the younger's attention. How his long bony fingers pulled the fabric, how he moved his neck, how he slowly unbuttoned the first button of the shirt, revealing a part of his honey coloured skin and a small part of his collarbone..

Jungkook was biting on his bottom lip as he kept thinking about the elder's moves.

"Is there something interesting where you are looking at?" Taehyung's voice startled Jungkook who had once again spaced out while looking at him.

"No! I- um, I was thinking about something and my eyes drifted," he lowered his head, eyes wide from terror. He couldn't recognise himself. It was like since last night, his brain had been rewired and he didn't like it at all.

"I'll need you to focus, I don't like babysitting," Taehyung said absent-mindedly.

"You are being unfair," Jungkook replied, making Taehyung pause and look at him. "I've been working many late nights and I've done everything you've asked me to do. How is that babysitting?"

"We are all tired mr. Jeon, especially today," Taehyung went back to looking at the article.

"Are you doing okay?" Jungkook fought against his better judgement and won. It was a plain, simple question, nothing too personal. Just one human, showing interest in the well being of another.

Taehyung raised his head and looked at him with a puzzled expression as if he was trying to understand what motives the younger had for asking him this. After looking into Jungkook's doe eyes that were looking at him innocently, he sighed and decided to reply.

"It's been a tough day but we will pull through. I'll make sure not to make you do more work," his face wasn't as serious as before. His expression was a bit more relaxed and it made Jungkook wonder if Taehyung would ever smile at him - just like he did to that other man this morning.

"I'm sure you will do what's best. You are good at your job. You should be proud of yourself," Jungkook said and Taehyung looked at him surprised. The younger had caught him off guard.