☆ awake at night ☆

chapter 3

a/n: Im sorry this took so long.  I'm not too happy with this chapter but I just needed to get something out. hopefully from now on updates will be more regular

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yoongi wakes up at around ten thirty but lies in bed for another half an hour, just because he can. technically, yoongi is unemployed. hero work, (if you could call what he does work. or heroic) takes up most of his time, but it doesn't pay at all. there's producing music, but he hasn't really done that for a while. he released a song on his SoundCloud a few months ago, but since then he's not been working on anything. at some point he'll have to go back to playing piano in lobbies, which isn't terrible, but it's not what he wants either. he's not eighteen anymore. he's twenty-three, and he has bills to pay and shit to do. jin hyung always has a steady stream of money coming in nowadays, from somewhere or the other, but he can't depend on him forever.

yoongi finally gets up when he hears a crash from the kitchen. jin is supposed to be at some audition today. plus, he's usually really careful in the kitchen. when he moved in, the first thing jin did was set up a large collection of mario figurines. the second thing was clean yoongi's refrigerator, revealing a shocking amount of mold. yoongi wasn't aware refrigerators needed to be cared for that much. it was shiny and new when he bought it (with most of what would have been his college tuition money), and he assumed it would stay that way forever. he expressed this to jin, who gave him a long and judgmental look and told him to leave the cooking to him.

yoongi walks into the kitchen to find taehyung, one of jin's weirder friends, shoveling cereal from the floor back into the box. yoongi, almost completely instinctually, turns into a cat. yes, turning into a cat  is yoongi's superpower, which is why he doesn't consider it heroic. (hoseok tells him that it's extremely useful; that people trust cats and they can get information using him, which is bullshit. he doesn't trust cats. he tolerates them at best. he's also told that that is a very cat-like thing to say.) the benefits are mainly climbing up places and getting rid of pursuers.  the disadvantages are getting squished by taehyung right after he's gotten up.

he tries to turn back as discreetly as possible, before taehyung notices him, but he's having really bad luck today. and it's not because he turned into a black cat (more bullshit). He shifts back and ends up crouched in the fetal position on a pile of his clothes. taehyung, who seems to have super hearing or something, still notices.

'jin hyung?' he calls. 'is that you?' yoongi freezes, because what else can he do. taehyung comes out of the kitchen and finally sees yoongi, naked and shivering, curled up into a ball and trying not to make eye contact. taehyung blinks at him, but he looks more amused than shocked.

'hyung,' he says, clearing his throat.

'what,' yoongi says tersely. he feels a long and awkward conversation coming on.

'you have a tail.'

well, he wasn't wrong.

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'is he supposed to be here?' yoongi whisper-shouts to jin on the phone. he's locked himself in the bathroom. 

jin's laugh is masked by the static. 'yeah, he is. he won't be any trouble. just keep an eye on him, okay?'

'wait,' yoongi says incredulously. 'he's a grown-ass man, hyung. can't he take care of himself?namjoon and hoseok are coming over today. i don't have time to babysit today.'