Beneath the City ✔️

Competitive

When I woke up I was not where I fell asleep. Taehyung had me on his lap, and his arms were wrapped around me like a shield. I wriggled out of his grip and stretched out the morning ache in my limbs. Everyone was home, and the place had never felt so crowded. Jungkook was asleep on the table, Namjoon had a book lying open on his knees, and Jin was asleep sprawled out on his mattress.

I picked up Namjoon's book and closed it, then shook him awake. Once we'd all awoken and eaten, we sat around the table like some sort of meeting for misfits. Nobody was sure what to do today. All my goals had been reached, and we had enough money to last, so we needn't work. It'd be safer to keep our heads down, especially with our two newest members  not exactly being popular with some folks. Tae sat up.

'What about we play a game?' He suggested, with a childish grin. Namjoon leaned forwards.

'How do you mean?' He asked.

'We used to do training games back at Chrome, some were kinda fun.' Tae told us.

'What do you want to play.' Jungkook asked sceptically.

'Capture the flag, a team based game where you have to catch the other team's flag without getting caught, but we'd want a couple more players.' Tae told us.

'I know one guy.' I said.

'You do?' Tae asked.

'Suga, but he'd be tricky to peg down.' I told him. He frowned.

'I know the name.' Tae said thinking.

'Me too,' Jungkook joined in, 'the guy's sort of a criminal for hire, I'm not surprised you know him.'

'Short guy?'

'That's the one.' Jungkook said.

'How do you know him?' Jimin asked Jungkook. He sat for a moment, forming the right way to phrase it.

'Work.' He said simply.

'You still haven't explained what you do.' I pointed out.

'Yeah.' He stated, and I rolled my eyes. 'You can often find Suga around Stretten's pub, he gets a fair bit of work there.' Jungkook said.

'Ok,' I said, 'we should head there tonight.' I say. 'I like the sound of the game, so why not?' I say with a smile. Everyone nods, and I can see a gleam of quiet competitiveness in Jungkook's eyes, and knowing Namjoon, the look in his eyes is that of a strategist. Taehyung won't want to get beaten by Jungkook, and even Jimin and Jin have sat forwards.

Looks like we're all out to win.

First, we need two more players.

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And I wonder who those could possibly be...?

I feel like the story could've ended quite easily already, but there's still a lot Missing, and as the author I wouldn't get closure.

I still need more Jimin moments, I want to get Tae closer to Y/n and Jungkook, and JK still has a lot of stuff going on that I haven't explained, and goals he may need help reaching, although...

Also tempted to write some spin off stuff the (JK story arc, the Yoongi and Hobi side of things, and the Namjin stuff, even if I'm not a serious shipper.)

So much to do, but writing takes so long. 😭

Oh well.

All my love,
Blue