Trust & Loyalty | ym

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Hyunjin paced angrily in front of his father, detailing exactly what he would do to punish Jimin once the omega was returned to him. He was interrupted from telling his dad about how he would mark Jimin the second he saw him to prevent something like this from ever happening again by Youngsoo, the alpha that had been sent to retrieve Jimin, entering the chamber. The alpha was covered in gashes and bite marks, but Hyunjin ignored them as he immediately began interrogating Youngsoo. "Did you find him?"

Youngsoo nodded, holding his side which was still bleeding from his fight with the alpha that had protected Jimin. "Yes, but-"

"Then why is he not here?" Hyunjin growled, already prepared to put Youngsoo through far worse than whatever it was that earned him those injuries.

"Another pack has taken him. One of their alphas nearly killed me for him." Youngsoo explained.

Hyunsoo, the pack alpha and Hyunjin's father, watched silently to see how his heir would react. "Then we must gather our strongest alphas. We will reclaim him and show this pack that we are not to be messed with."

Hyunsoo nodded in approval until Youngsoo spoke again. "I also found Seokjin."

Hyunsoo stood up in shock and Hyunjin paused in his pacing. "Seokjin?" Hyunsoo asked for confirmation. "As in Hyunshik's mate?"

Youngsoo nodded. "The rogues that took him and killed Hyunshik, they have a pack now...they're the ones that took Jimin."

Hyunjin was ready to gather all of the alphas in their pack to leave immediately, but his father placed his hand on his shoulder. "Then we must not underestimate them." Hyunjin began to argue with his father, but Hyunsoo held his hand up to silence him. "Hyunshik was our best fighter and they managed to overpower him when there were only two. If they are now a pack, then we don't know how many of them there are." He looked to Youngsoo and told him to go to the healing den to have a beta overlook him and help his injuries.

Once the injured alpha was gone, Hyunjin looked at his father angrily. "Father, we-"

Hyunsoo silenced his heir once again. "They are obviously very strong and they probably expect us to come. It is better for us to wait and build up our strength and skills, then strike when they're least expecting it. It will limit the risk of losses on our side." Hyunjin sighed, knowing his father was right. That's why he was the pack alpha after all. "Don't worry, Hyunjin, we will get your omega back."

~*~

Jimin shifted slightly as he began to wake, confused by the soft texture under his fingers. As his body became more aware of his surroundings, he realized there was someone looming over him. Sure it was Hyunjin, waiting to punish him for sleeping on his furs instead of his place on the floor, he shot up, his eyes wide as he backed away from the person and wrapped his arms around his legs to protect himself. Confusion filled him as he finally realized that it wasn't Hyunjin.

"Woah, calm down, it's just me, Taehyung. I didn't mean to scare you." The pup spoke in what was obviously supposed to be a calming voice, but was still a bit too loud and energetic to have the full effect it should have. Jimin glanced around the den as memories of the past 36 hours finally came to the forefront of his mind. He noticed Hoseok in wolf form lying in the middle of the entranceway, the position being one of relaxation but the tenseness of his muscles under his fur and the way his ears twitched every few seconds showed that he was on guard and aware of everything. The way he managed to ignore Jungkook, also in wolf form, playfully bounding around him and occasionally nipping at him was a mystery to Jimin. His gaze then landed on Seokjin who was sitting by the fire, his lips drawn into a pout as he sadly rested his chin on his knees. Taehyung must have noticed the concern on Jimin's face, because he then said, "Don't worry about Seokjin. He always gets pouty whenever Namjoon goes to hunt before he wakes up. That's where he and Yoongi are right now! I hope they bring in something bigger for breakfast today. Rabbits and squirrels are yummy, but they can get tiring after a while. Maybe they'll get a bear or something to celebrate you being in our pack now!" Taehyung was talking so fast that Jimin could barely register everything he was saying, so he just nodded along, hoping that Taehyung wouldn't notice that he wasn't fully paying attention. "Seokjin said that you're the same age as me and that you just presented a month ago. That made me feel better because I'm a late bloomer too. So is Jungkookie. I hope I'm an alpha, because it would be fun to go on hunts with Yoongi and Namjoon. I'm almost positive Jungkookie will be one. He's almost an exact copy of Yoongi sometimes. Speaking of Yoongi, I can't believe he let you sleep on his furs last night." Of all things for Jimin to actually pick up on during Taehyung's rant, that had to be it. "If me or Jungkook try to sleep there, he drags us off and huffs at us. He loves and cares for us, we know that, but he's extremely territorial. Of course he would be, because he's an alpha, but he's even more territorial than Namjoon sometimes. But he let you sleep there. That's weird." It took this long for Taehyung to realize that the omega was confused. "When we were all going to sleep, you insisted on sleeping by the fire because you didn't want to take anyone's bed. When we woke up, we saw that you were on Yoongi's furs instead and he said that he put you there when he changed guard shifts with Namjoon because there was no point in you sleeping on the floor if there was an empty bed. That's very nice of him, don't you think?"

"Taehyung~" The pup was already diving into the next topic on his mind when Seokjin interrupted. "I think you're overwhelming him a bit."

Taehyung smiled sheepishly, flashing Jimin an apologetic look. "Sorry. I get too excited sometimes."

Jimin gave him a small smile. "It's okay." He climbed off the furs – Yoongi's furs – and went to join Seokjin by the fire while Taehyung shifted and left to join Jungkook in bothering Hoseok. "Is what Taehyung was saying-"

Seokjin nodded before Jimin could even finish his question. "I was still awake when it happened. I usually have trouble going to sleep without Namjoon anyway, but it's gotten harder with me being pregnant." Seokjin began to explain. "Namjoon was already snoring away but I hadn't quite gotten to sleep when I saw Yoongi carry you over to his furs."

Jimin stayed quiet, mimicking Jin's pose as he thought over all the reasons why Yoongi would do that. He was deep in his thoughts when he suddenly heard Taehyung and Jungkook yipping in excitement. He looked over to the entrance to see Namjoon and Yoongi, the latter dragging a deer carcass in. Hoseok and the pups followed Yoongi as he dragged the deer over by the fire for all of them to enjoy while Namjoon shifted and moved to sit behind Seokjin.

"You didn't wake me up," was all Seokjin said, pouting harder as Namjoon wrapped his arms around him from behind.

"I knew that you'd had trouble sleeping last night and you looked too peaceful to disturb." Jimin watched as the pack alpha began pressing kisses on the omega's neck, lingering over his scent gland.

"I don't like waking up and not seeing you there. It always makes me think the worst." Seokjin intertwined their fingers, letting their hands rest on his protruding abdomen as he tilted his head to the side to give Namjoon more room to scent him.

"I'm sorry~" The alpha mumbled against his skin, playfully biting the skin of Seokjin's neck and earning a small yelp followed by a series of giggles.

Jimin was torn away from looking at the couple when he heard a thud coming in front of him. He turned his head to see Yoongi's wolf sitting in front of him, a chunk of deer meat lying on the floor between them. It didn't take long for Jimin to realize that Yoongi had brought the meat over to him and was expecting him to eat it. "I'm not-"

"Jimin," he looked back over at Seokjin. "You need to eat." Jimin had confided in Seokjin that Hyunjin's favorite form of punishment was starving him and that he wasn't even sure how long it had been since he'd last eaten properly.

Unable to take the sadness in the older omega's eyes, Jimin turned back and looked at the wolf in front of him. Yoongi laid down and used his nose to nudge the meat closer to Jimin, sending the message that he wasn't moving until Jimin had eaten. Jimin sighed and quickly shifted, preferring to eat raw meat in wolf form as it was easier. Yoongi huffed in approval, resting his head on his paws as he watched Jimin eat until he no longer could.