Jamais Vu

How Are You Alive?

Yoongi wakes the next morning, intending to make breakfast. He's surprised to see the panda standing in their tiny makeshift kitchen, already making food.

Yoongi quietly sits at the table, watching the panda move despite his injuries.

"I wanted to thank you for helping me and letting me stay but i see you guys don't have much." He turns, smiling at the leopard. "I'm Seok-Jin. Kim Seok-Jin. Just call me Jin"

"Min Yoon-gi" the leopard watches carefully, unsure if he can trust this panda.

Panda's may be sweet but in the end they are bears and bears can have terrible tempers when provoked or in pain.

"I have to say, i have never met a snow leopard or a coyote before. Don't you usually stay within pack?"

Yoongi hears the coyote come out and sit beside Yoongi.

"I was kicked out of my pack, that's when this one found me" Yoongi doesn't know why he's even telling the panda anything at all. Something about him seems comforting.

The last time he was this comfortable he met Namjoon, so he decides to go with it.

"I grew up on the streets so Yoongi is the first pack i've ever had." Namjoon smiles and that's when he sees the hair change.

"Woah~ Platonic Soulmates? You two? Fate sure has a funny way of showing it"

The panda comes over with breakfast, which consists of kimchi pancakes and some bacon. He sits across from them and digs in.

"What about you? Have you met yours?" Yoongi asks politely.

Something in the panda's eyes flash before he shakes his head.

"I had a girlfriend. I suppose now we aren't together" he whispers, touching the sore on his head.

"Did she do this to you?" Namjoon's brows furrow in his frown.

"Indirectly, i guess so"

"What happened?" Yoongi asks, putting his fork down.

Seokjin sighs as he thinks back to last night.

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Seokjin had run to his work office to file away the paperwork he had done in his personal home office, wanting to catch up since he slacked all week at work.

So after getting the cold shoulder and then unable to fall asleep, he decides to drive to his office.

When he got out, the air was a bit chilly and he suddenly wished he brought a jacket. He pulls his car keys out of his pocket when he gets a text.

He looks down to see it's Suri, asking where he is and if they can meet up. He quickly replies that he is at his work and just about to leave when she immediately texts back to wait for her there.

He sighs and gets in the car to warm up and waits.

After about 30 minutes he still doesn't see her. He pulls his phone out when he hears a knock on his window that makes him jump almost out of his own skin.

He rolls his window down.

"Mr. Kim Seokjin?"

"Yes?"

The man smiles before reaching into the car and the world falls black to Jin as he slumps forward onto his steering wheel.

He doesn't open his eyes again until some time later, when he feels the stinging pain in his stomach and again on the back of his head.

He hears voices and decides to lay still and listen to them.

"Now he will learn when i want attention, i expect to get it. This handsome little insurance policy will be a nice reward for my troubles" Jin recognizes that voice but it can't be.

Him and Suri were together 3 years. She wouldn't betray him like this.. would she?

"Finish him off" the woman scoffs and Jin turns his head just in time to see her.. his Suri. She turns and walks away while the guy stalks closer, intending to finish him off.

The door opens with a bang and he hears some loud footsteps coming closer as his vision blacks out all over again.

He hopes whomever made the noise is a good guy or else this may be the end for Seokjin.

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"So she killed you for your insurance money? Why?" Yoongi looks like a mixture of disgusted and appalled, which is endearing to the panda.

"Panda's are almost extinct, Yoongi" he says quietly. "We have insurance because we are rare and people will kill us just to end a hybrid species for the glory"

"I'm so sorry. You have us now. We can be your friend, anytime you need us" Namjoon dimples at Seokjin and it's as if that's all he needed to feel safe.

"Thank you guys, really" he resumes eating until Yoongi speaks up.

"How are you okay right now? You were stabbed and hit over the head" Yoongi looks at the panda wearily until he lifts up his borrowed shirt to reveal shotty stitching.

"I used what materials you had around here to fix me up. I am a doctor" he chuckles.

"I'm... impressed" Yoongi smiles, finishing the last of his breakfast.

Once breakfast is done, Yoongi does the dishes even though Jin protests and Namjoon walks him to the door, handing him his keys.

"I didn't smash it, i promise." He blushes when Yoongi snorts. "Ahh.. will you be okay going home?"

"What are my other options? Give up my apartment to stay here? If you ever need me, here's my number" he hands Namjoon his business card, but Namjoon memorizes the number before writing his own on the back of it.

"More like, here's mine if that girlfriend of yours shows up again"

Jin nods and walks away to his car, shoving the card in his wallet, limping the whole way.

He was brave in front of the strangers but man does he hurt.

He doesn't understand why but he just knows he will see the two again.