Trust & Loyalty | ym

VII

Shocked silence fell across the pack, six heads turning to look at the alpha that had spoken. Jimin was the first to break, his features forming into a mixture of confusion and irritation as he scoffed. "Excuse me?" The omega was unaware of the way his scent thickened in the den, causing the two already on edge alphas to tense even more while Jungkook and Taehyung slowly backed away from the situation, the two pups leaning into each other for comfort as they watched the scene play out.

"You don't want Hoseok to help you." Yoongi said through clenched teeth, obviously trying to hold back whatever urges he was having. Hoseok took Yoongi's statement as a challenge, growling lowly and baring his teeth. The action was enough to make Namjoon step away from Seokjin, much to the omegas displeasure as a whine left his mouth, to mediate.

Jimin, however, ignored all of this. "And who are you to decide what I do and don't want?"

Yoongi bit down on his lip hard enough to draw blood, holding back from saying what was truly on his mind. Instead he settled for, "You just presented less than six months ago. This is only your second heat." Jimin rolled his eyes as he stood up, Yoongi following after him. Both of them ignored Namjoon's commands to calm down as Yoongi continued. "You don't know what alphas get like, how rough we get. You could get seriously hurt, especially with it being your first time, and you seriously trust Hoseok, who originally wanted to throw you back into the forest and leave you for your pack to find, who hated you until only a month ago, to take care of you?"

Hoseok tried to push past Namjoon to go at Yoongi, a series of growls leaving both alphas as the leader held them apart. The continuously thickening scent of the angry omega did nothing to aid in calming the two alphas. "Jimin~" Seokjin said quietly from where he was still sitting on the floor, hoping to get his friend to calm down.

Instead Jimin exploded. "Why the fuck do you care?! You've barely said a word to me in all the months I've been here, you've even gone as far as to completely avoid me! And now all of a sudden you think you can just walk up and tell me what I 'want' to be doing during my heat?!" Jimin started to walk backwards towards the entrance to the den as he continued to let out all of the pent-up frustration that had been building up against the infuriating alpha. "Fuck you, it's my choice, and unless you're going to offer to put your cock in me, then you don't get to say anything about it." He turned around and managed to take a few steps outside by the time Yoongi pushed away from Namjoon and ran after him.

"Jimin, get back here!"

At the tone of Yoongi's voice, Jimin whirled around and pushed at his chest. "Don't you dare try to use an alpha voice on me right now!" And for the second time the entire pack was in complete shock. "I didn't risk my life running away from my pack just so another asshole alpha could try to control me." They all stared in silence as Jimin stalked away.

"Yoongi-" Namjoon started, keeping his voice calm, but Yoongi cut him off.

"Don't~" Yoongi turned around and glared at him. "I already know what you're going to say. I was out of line, everything I said was uncalled for, I only reacted that way because of Jimin's scent, Hoseok and I need to apologize to each other. Just spare us all the lecture and go take care of your mate." Yoongi gestured to a slightly dazed Seokjin. The omega was not as affected by Yoongi as he would have been had the command been directed at him, but he was still under the influence enough that he definitely needed an alpha to tend to him until the effects fully wore off. Namjoon opened his mouth to speak again, but Yoongi was already shifting and running off in the opposite direction that Jimin had gone in, although Namjoon had a feeling the alpha was planning on circling back to find and watch Jimin.

Namjoon sighed before walking back into the den and coming face to face with an embarrassed Hoseok. "I'm really sorry, Namjoon, I don't know what came over me."

The pack alpha waved off his apology as he moved to sit with his not yet claimed mate, pulling the still dazed Seokjin into his lap. "It was Jimin's preheat scent. It gets the best of every alpha. If I wasn't already technically mated to Seokjin, I probably would have been brawling with both of you."

Hoseok chuckled slightly as he sat down next to Jungkook and Taehyung, wrapping an arm around each of them and sending out calming pheromones to help the still shaken up pups. "I doubt that, you have the most patience out of us." He softly smiled down at Taehyung as the older of the two pups started nuzzling against his scent gland. "Besides, I've never been that affected by an omega's preheat before. Not even in my old pack when I was freshly presented. Something was just off this time."

"I know." Namjoon said, intriguing Hoseok. "It is different this time." The alpha said vaguely, not yet sharing what he had just realized mere minutes ago.

After a moment of silence, Hoseok finally realized that Namjoon wasn't planning on saying any more. "Well are you going to tell us?"

"Later, after everyone's cooled down and in a better mindset." Namjoon said with a tone of finality, making it clear that he didn't want to talk about it from that moment on.

~*~

It was well after dark when Jimin decided to make his way back to the den, the only reason being the increase in his body temperature that alerted him to the fact that his heat was fast approaching. Based on the position of the moon through the trees, Jimin was guessing that it was already the next day, and he was sure everyone was worried about him, but he couldn't bring himself to care. He was still furious with Yoongi, so much so that he couldn't even think of the alpha's name without feeling a burst of anger rush through him. He was hoping to get to the den and grab Hoseok to go to the meadow without having to see the alpha, and it seemed luck was finally on his side as he entered the den and only saw Namjoon, Seokjin, Jungkook, and Taehyung, all of who were sleeping except for the omega.

"Jimin!" Seokjin stood up from his and Namjoon's furs to hug his friend. "I was worried you had gotten hurt or something.

"Nope, I'm all good." Jimin assured Seokjin as he pulled back from the hug. "Where's Hoseok? I think I'm ready to go to the meadow now."

Seokjin gave him a small smile, his expression otherwise unreadable which confused Jimin as to if that was good or bad. "He's out hunting for breakfast right now." A splash of color caught Jimin's eye, as there wasn't very much color in the den to begin with, causing him to turn his head to find the source. "We weren't expecting you to be ready this early. I can go ahead and take you, though, and then send Hoseok to you when..." The older omega's voice faded to background noise as Jimin stared at Yoongi's furs where the source of the color was. All the anger he'd felt towards the alpha before faded away, replaced with the same calmness that he hadn't felt in years, soon followed by a burst of happiness. He almost didn't even notice when Seokjin stopped talking and looked over to find what it was that Jimin was staring at. "Jimin, what-"

"Where's Yoongi?"

Seokjin was surprised by Jimin's sudden interest in the alpha's whereabouts, even more so by the glint in Jimin's eyes when he'd said Yoongi's name. "Uh, he came back a couple of hours ago, but left again. I guess he needed to cool down some more. Why-"

"I need to find Yoongi." Jimin turned to run back out of the den, only to be stopped by Seokjin grabbing his arm. "Seokjin, let go, I need-"

"You don't have time." Seokjin insisted. "I can smell your heat, so we need to get you to the meadow, then I'll send Hoseok-"

Jimin shook his head frantically. "I don't want Hoseok, I want Yoongi. Get me Yoongi."

Seokjin looked at the younger omega with sadness in his eyes. "Jimin, you know he doesn't-"

"I don't care. It's either Yoongi or no one."

Seokjin wanted to argue more, but the determination in Jimin's eyes kept him from doing so. He sighed and said, "I'll try, but I can't promise anything." Jimin smiled and thanked him, bounding out of the den and expecting Seokjin to follow him to take him to the meadow. Seokjin did so, but first looked back at Yoongi's furs and tried to figure out why a purple flower made Jimin completely change his mind.