Once Upon A Fairytale

The Good Bargain

Author notes at the end

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Namjoon woke up to a wet patch of drool on his cheek and a shrill trilling in his ear.

It was the doorbell.

He ignored it. His eyes weren't ready to open yet and he still felt tired, so he lazily wiped his cheek with the back of his hand and turned over. Trying to drift off again.

But the doorbell just kept ringing.

"Whoever it is go away," he mumbled out, barely coherent. "Go sell your cookies somewhere else."

"Did someone say kookie?" a voice said, and Namjoon's head whipped around to see a young male peering in from the doorway.

He must've forgotten to lock it.

Namjoon sat up and rubbed his eyes, blinking at the dark haired stranger as he invited himself in.

"Good evening," he greeted warmly as his eyes scanned the room, and that's when Namjoon really looked and noticed the state of the front door.

Son of a whore, what happened to it? Mr Choi was going to lose his shit!

Namjoon stood, a little unsteady. It felt like his insides were rolling.

Did Taehyung put more of those girly multivitamins in his dinner again?

After assessing the room the male clicked his tongue. "Pixies have visited you first I see," he commented and Namjoon squinted at him.

Did he just say... Pixies?

"Doesn't matter," the male murmured, then walked up to him with a sly smirk. "I'm Jeon Jungkook, and I am here to make you an offer. A proposition that will make all your wildest dreams come true."

"One more step and I'm calling the cops," Namjoon warned.

Jungkook grinned. It looked wolfish. And now he could finally see how well conditioned the young guy was. Namjoon wasn't small but he clearly had him beat in both height and braun.

"I'm- I'm the one in charge here," he blustered weakly. "Get out. This is private property."

Jungkook ran his hand across the back of Namjoon's chair as he continued his approach.

"Believe me, you're not going to want to miss this," Jungkook insisted, then stopped in front of him and reached into his pocket. He pulled out a little black box, holding it in one palm as the fingers of the other settled on the lid.

Namjoon's face scrunched up. "Listen kid, if you're looking for your mail order husband, you won't find him here. Try Moon Taeil in apartment 13B."

Jungkook gave him a strange look but flicked the box open. A sliver of misted light flowed out and inside; laid on a little black cushion, was a brown bean the size of a thumbnail.

"Wow," Namjoon deadpanned. "And people say romance is dead."

Jungkook sucked his bottom lip between his teeth and turned around, strolling aimlessly around the room. "What I have for you is a unique, one time only, opportunity. In exchange for the location of your brother- I will give you this magical bean which, when eaten, will give you six wishes..."

Wishes? Where did this guy think he was, Disney on Ice?

Namjoon was about to tell him to get out again but was cut off when Jungkook abruptly twirled around, slack jawed.

"Is this Taehyung?" he asked, holding up a framed selfie of a smiling Taehyung.

"Uh- yeah, that's Tae," he answered, frowning as Jungkook brought the photo frame closer to his chest and ran his fingers reverently over the glass.