he smells like wolf;

8 years old

3 years later
" It feels so good in my hood, tonight ."
Jimin smiles, waving to the couple that lives directly across them in their new neighborhood and sets down the refilled chip bowl on the picnic table. Hoseok's loud laugh carries over to where he is and he sees the older talking with a few other neighbors.
Yoongi is sitting by the speakers, looking on his phone and being antisocial around humans as usual. And Jungkook is looking at him while the other kids run around him, Jimin smiles at him encouragingly, getting a weak smile in return.
Jimin sighs and gets a drink, he feels like such a bad parent for not socializing Jungkook more in the past but luckily they're finally settling so Jungkook should have time to adapt those skills.
"Jimin!"
He turns from the snack table to the couple Hoseok was just with and sees Hobi run off to the kids and get Jungkook more comfortable. He smiles warmly at them, walking over to them with drinks.
They take them gratefully, "this so nice, you know we've never really had a neighborhood party?"
Jimin shrugs, "we've never had a neighborhood."
They laugh, the perky blonde gripping her lethargic wife's arm, "I don't want to seem rude but
Jungkook does seem a little shy."
Jimin sighs with a nod, "we like to move around a lot usually, Jungkook didn't get to make
friends as much as I would've liked."
She puts a sympathetic hand on his shoulder, "well no worries here, were a very friendly community, i'm sure Jungkook will fit right in."
"He's fast." her wife mumbles, watching a now hyper Jungkook chase Hoseok around the yard along with the other kids who have trouble keeping up with the little wolf.
Jimin laughs it off passively, "he's always been very athletic."
The vampire politely excuses himself, smile dropping as he walks back into their new home. He looks at the beautiful crown molding and holds back his vomit. Vampires aren't made for settling, they get antsy when they try to revert to human ways.
Jimin bites his lip, looking over his shoulder before slipping up the stairs and into Jungkook's new room. His room isn't very kid-like, there's a lot of books, a lot of antiques and stuff the kid picks up from wherever they moved.
Jimin doesn't know if that's just how Jungkook was or if they made him like that. Something that's all Jungkook for sure is the staring, god Jungkook just stares at anything for what seems like hours on end and yet when Jimin asks what he's thinking about Jungkook can't give him an answer.
Jimin plops on his twin bed with a huff and looks out the basic suburban window Jungkook decorated with charms from an occult shop one of their friends own.
"Jiminnie?" Jungkook's clear voice rings from the hall and he yells back to tell Jungkook where he is.
Jungkook walks quickly into his room with a red solo cup from the party but Jimin immediately smells the blood from it. He tilts his head and Jungkook hands the cup to him.
"Yoongi told me to bring you a drink when I asked where you were." the younger crawls up on the bed beside Jimin and swings his legs, staring off into space once again.
Jimin pours half the cup down his throat, sighing in relief and taking a deep breath to calm down until his eyes dim back to brown, "were the other kids nice?"
He looks down and Jungkook blankly stares at his grandfather clock.
"Hey," Jimin nudges the little wolf's knee with his own and Jungkook blinks up at him, "did you like the other kids?"
Jungkook silently shrugs with a frown and looks down to his feet swinging. Jimin pets his head and Jungkook all the sudden growls.
"Yah," he flicks the younger's head, "just because you're upset doesn't mean you can growl at me like that."
Jungkook gets down from the bed, nose tilted up slightly, "someone's here."
Jimin rises quickly, speeding Jungkook down the steps, away from the sight of people in the backyard and into their basement. Jungkook crawls out of his arms in between the wine rack and the wall furthest from the door.
"Don't move baby i'll be back soon." he whispers, kissing Jungkook's head.
Jungkook nods and scoots back as far as he can while Jimin goes back up to the first story and out in the back where Yoongi is already standing, waiting for him, the other vampire nods two unfamiliar men and a woman in the middle of their yard.
Jimin puts on a smile but there's a clear warning in his eyes as he walks up to them, werewolf scent hitting his smell right away.
"Hello." the vampire greets carefully.
The woman growls and the tallest man glares at her, "hello, you're new to the neighborhood?" he asks. Jimin nods once, extending a hand out to him that the werewolf doesn't hesitate shaking, although the woman still doesn't look pleased.
"I'm Jimin, that's Hoseok and Yoongi-" he points to the two wary vampires standing by the doors.
"You had a child with you too right?" the woman says, almost accusingly.
Jimin opens his mouth to respond but the couple from earlier comes up to them, "great party but we're really old so I think we're gonna head out."
Jimin laughs and hugs them gently, "well i'm so glad you could make it anyway, don't be strangers okay?"
They wave goodbye, smiling at the werewolves that nod in greeting back. It's a small town, Jimin would be worried if they didn't know each other.
"You mean Jungkook?" Jimin asks and the woman raises her eyebrows in the form of a shrug.
Jimin runs fingers through his hair nonchalantly, "he's upstairs at the moment, crashed early after such a long day."
The man nods and Jimin's eyes flit over to the shorter man beside him who looks expressionless.
"I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to be rude, i'm Namjoon." the tall man said and Jimin smiles back.
"This is Jackson and Moon." he gesture to the man and woman and Jimin nods in greeting to them as well.
Namjoon clears his throat and lowers his head to speak lowly, "I came just to tell you we're a peaceful pack, there's a witch coven that lives here and we get along with them well, I wouldn't mind putting aside pesky old school hatred for the better of the community?"
Jimin looks up at him with raised eyebrows and looks back to Hobi and Yoongi who no doubt listened to their whole conversation, "come here."
They hesitate before huffing and walking up behind Jimin and bowing politely at Namjoon, the obvious pack leader.
"We raise a werewolf child together." Jimin says clearly and the boys behind him gasp. Namjoon nods, "we smelled him when you arrived."
"He's ours."
"He seems happy with you." Namjoon agrees.
The smaller man, Jackson, speaks up, "would you mind letting us meet him?" Jimin narrows his eyes at the wolf and Namjoon holds up his hands in defense.
"We mean no harm-"
Yoongi scoffs, "we've heard that shit before."
Namjoon looks down guiltily, "we have no intention of taking him away or causing him any harm."
Yoongi and Hoseok look to Jimin nervously, Jimin bites his lip and looks back to the house.
"He's very territorial you shouldn't get too close to us or him."
Namjoon nods with his hands clasped behind his back, "I would expect."
Jimin glances to the women who sneers but takes a step back, hands raised. Jimin inhales deep and goes back in the house, unlocking the basement door and calling for Jungkook who comes running to the vampire.
Jimin kneels in front of him, "Kookie, there's some people that want to meet you and you have to be careful in front of them okay?"
"Wolves?" Jungkook whispers sadly.
Jimin says yes, rubbing his cheek comfortingly before getting back up and holding his hand back up the steps and out to the yard that's now void of any humans. Namjoon smiles warmly at the little wolf who sticks to Jimin like glue.
"This is Namjoon, Jackson, and Moon...this is Jungkook." Jungkook steps carefully in front of his family, scrunching up his nose at the scent of other wolves.
Namjoon kneels on one knee and scans over the child's face, lingering on his neck. All three vampires catch it and they grab Jimin's arms to stop from causing a fight.
Namjoon looks apologetically at them and then back to Jungkook, "have you shifted yet?"
Jungkook nods, "when I was five."
Namjoon whistles, "that's very young."
"He does it every so often, mostly when he thinks there's a threat around." Jimin says with his arms crossed.
Namjoon looks up at Jimin curiously, deciding to keep the question for the elephant in the room packed away for later. He rises back up, ruffling the pup's hair with a smile.
"It was lovely meeting you Jungkook."
Jungkook blinks up at him before going back to Jimin and leaning against his legs, "your question earlier, I wish for peace too if that's possible?"
Namjoon nods rapidly, huge bright smile and all. Moon whispers something in Namjoon's ear that makes it drop slightly.
"We have to get back to the pack." they excuse themselves, staring at Jungkook carefully and leaving from their house.
Jimin hangs his head with a sigh of relief, Jungkook runs back inside with Hoseok and Yoongi squeezes his shoulder.
"You think they're for real?" he whispers, Jungkook's hearing not as developed as theirs but still heightened.
Jimin shrugs, "I want eyes on Jungkook at all times."He looks back over Yoongi's shoulder to the child cleaning up the trash from the kitchen counter, whining because someone moved the recycle trash can again, and snorts.