pluto || jikook

your sweltering stare

it had been about three days since dahae and jitae ordered all the clothing for the comeback, and all of it had arrived. actually the last of it arrived today and jitae was carrying what was left to their space from the front admin desk, a huge smile on his face. as he entered the wardrobe space he held the package up, dahae spun on her heels and gasped as jitae announced his arrival.

"the final package!" he cheers, dahae bounces and skips over to the table where jitae then places the package, opening it quickly to reveal the clothing within. it was a blazer in tidy navy blue. it was also a bunch of pants and a few other little accessories. dahae snapped up the blazer and quickly put it on a hanger, adding it to one of the racks that had now been put to one side of the room. these racks were all placed neatly, there were five, on each was the name of a member of txt and hanging on them were each of the items they had purchased for the boys to wear.

"okay! that's everything, thank god," dahae says with a relieved look spread over her face as he hands clap together with an element of pride. the racks were full, completely.

"i should go get soobin then, right?" jitae asks.

"and yeonjun, i need to pin the jacket for around his waist, it needs to be sewn so when they dance it doesn't come off," dahae began to ramble, though she caught herself off and silenced her words. she shooed jitae and he just laughed, leaving.

he headed down the hall to the stairs, heading up to the next level where the band were all working on choreography. jitae knocked loudly upon hearing that there was currently a pause in the music and laughter erupting from within the room. he opened the door and stuck his head in, spotting quickly what he assumed was the cause of the laughter.

taehyun quickly stopped chasing soobin, the elder passing the phone in his hand back to the owner upon seeing jitae enter the room, yeonjun was currently on the floor and had the two continued running beomgyu and kai may have joined him. the four standing members bowed politely and greeted jitae, who bowed back just as politely.

"soobin and yeonjun, may i borrow you for fittings?" he asked, also looking over to hoseok, who he had re-met all of about two days ago, the choreographer that just waved the pair of them off. the pair of boys jogged over and quickly followed jitae back.

"did that blazer show up?" soobin asks, keeping pace with jitae as the three of them walked back to wardrobe.

"yeah, i think dahae wants to see you in it, and there was a jacket she had to pin for yeonjun, just quickly."

"sweet," yeonjun nodded. they went down in the elevator this time, though it was only one floor they couldn't be bothered with the stairs just now. the ride down was short and when they reached the bottom a familiar face was waiting - well he happened to be there but shut up.

"hey, jitae," jungkoook forced a grin, it felt like the pair of them hadn't had time to just hang out in a while, with all this comeback stuff.

"hey, jungkook, i'm super busy, but i'll catch you at home, yeah?" he says a little stiffly, knowing their relationship was very well known among the employees. jungkook nods and enters the lift as jitae, soobin, and yeonjun leave it. the three others head-on, making their way down the hallway to the room labelled 'wardrobe'.

"are you and jungkook okay?" yeonjun asks aimlessly as they walk, "usually you two are super happy to see each other."

"losing your memory is hard, but i'm working on it," was jitae's answer. it was a little cold, surprising to yeonjun who looked to beomgyu with a face of 'that seemed off to you too, right?'

the three slipped into the room and dahae grabbed yeonjun instantly, surprising the older of the two of the band member and causing the other to laugh. the look on yeonjun's face was hilarious, the surprise at suddenly being dragged and made to stand on a podium was clearly visible on every feature of his face, which just made soobin laugh harder. jitae had to admit, he laughed a little at it too before he led soobin over to try on the blazer that had finally arrived earlier in the day.

"what out fit does this go with exactly?" soobin asks, seemingly curious about the thoughts the stylists were having about what to put them in. while waiting for jitae to answer, soobin pulled off the jacket he had been wearing, leaving him in just a long sleeve shirt.

"the white t-shirt and beige pant combo we had you try yesterday," jitae says, holding the blazer up and allowing soobin to slip is arms into the sleeves and up on his shoulders.

"and this was for the concept photos, right?" soobin's curiosity was nice, it let jitae make sure he was learning things properly, because he knew if he said something wrong then dahae would step in and correct him.

"dahae said concept photos and music video, not sure much else than that but it wouldn't surprise us if you ended up wearing this for the stages and promotional stuff too," he explained, smiling and pulling at parts of the blazer.

it seemed to fit well, jitae's first thought was the motion in the shoulders, so he made soobin move a little to check, but it seemed fine. the other main worry was sleeve length and the fit around the waist, but both seemed fine - the waist was easier though considering it was supposed to stay open most of the time.

"hey, dahae, come check this over?" jitae calls, dahae spinning around and taking a step in soobin and jitae's direction. yeonjun looked up too, smiling and staring a little.

"soobin, you look so cool," yeonjun says in surprise. the younger laughs and shakes his head, fiddling with the hem of the blazer a bit. dahae checked the same place jitae had and came to the same conclusion, the blazer was fine, so they chose that they would just leave it as is.

"now, help me get this off yeonjun?" dahae asks, waiting for jitae to re hang the blazer. soobin stood off to one side and watched, the two stylists moving to take the jacket off. they decided on down, though they had to be careful with the amount of pins in it.

soon enough they had the jacket off and the two boys were allowed to leave. jitae relaxing and realising quickly that that was the last thing they had to do today. they would be packing everything tomorrow for work off site, but they surely wouldn't be gone long. he had packed all his things and was ready to go, checking his phone to see if there were any messages.

"shooting tomorrow," dahae reminds, "so be here early. and bring your own cutlery, the van always runs out," dahae advises. jitae nods and slings his bag back on his back, waving as he slips out of the room.

"see ya, dahae."

"see you tomorrow, jitae."

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