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{Here is your ektu late birthday gift, apu💜}

Omegaverse

"Are you on your heat?"

Seokjin's hand stopped in mid-air, the doorknob a few inches away from his grasp. He contemplated on whether or not to respond to the question thrown bluntly at him by the alpha that was sprawled on the couch behind him. The omega cursed at himself for not wearing cologne to drown his oozing sweet pheromones.

"Are you?" The words rolled off the alpha's tongue with an underlying sense of dominance which Seokjin hated yet enjoyed so much at the same time.

"Nearly," Seokjin answered curtly, before continuing to twist the doorknob and escape from the madness of pheromones that intoxicated the living area. Only God knew why Jungkook always had to tow that heavenly scented alpha everywhere he went, including his shared dorm with Seokjin.

"Wait."

Seokjin hated how he sub-consciously followed the alpha's order.

Gentle hands were placed on his wide shoulders and he was soon turned around to face the breathtaking view of Kim Taehyung's face. If Seokjin had the courage, he would had asked Taehyung to model for one of his art assignments. That face and well-sculpted body would definitely make Professor Jung give him an A+ with smiley flower faces that his professor liked to gift students who aced the task.

Seokjin's mind was running several scenarios of Taehyung posing for him in a not so quite decent manner when he was enveloped with the dizzying scent of burning wood and spices he could not name. He suddenly felt his body temperature rise and his senses started to sharpen. Gulping, he was about to push Taehyung off when the alpha dipped his face in the junction between Seokjin's neck and right shoulder. His lips landed right on Seokjin's scent gland and began parted to leave hot breaths on that sensitive spot. Before Seokjin could push Taehyung off, a warm, wet muscle started lapping over the omega's scent gland. Seokjin stood there astonished.

Was Taehyung scent marking him?

The thought of Taehyung marking his dominance, his body pressed against his, his overpowering scent caging Seokjin and his tongue licking his scent gland, pushed Seokjin's heat over the edge and the omega let out a needy whine. His mind was so foggy with arousal from having the alpha in such close proximity and his triggered heat that he threw his dignity out of the window and began gliding his hands all over Taehyung.

"Please. . ." Seokjin drawled.

Taehyung paid no heed to the omega's calls until he was pleased with himself. When he pulled away, Seokjin's honey and apple scent was covered by Taehyung's musky scent.

Seokjin was breathing heavily as his heat had officially kicked in. He felt a strange satisfaction under Taehyung's intense gaze and leaned closer to the alpha involuntarily. There was a gleam in Taehyung's eyes and his lips began to curve upwards as the omega inched closer to him.

Who knew what could had happened if Seokjin's eyes did not drift off to Taehyung's exposed collarbones and reality crashed into him at the sight of the glowering red tattoo of broken shards of glass.

Taehyung's soulmark.

Seokjin pushed the alpha off him and hurried out of the apartment before he drowns in the burning wood scent again. Even from the other side of the door, he could sense Taehyung's pheromones that screamed frustration.

But could Seokjin really choose an alpha whose soulmark did not match his?

~~~~~~~~~~

Seokjin fired a series of curses, that he often heard Jungkook spout while playing video games, when his phone rang after the sixth time of hanging up. Seokjin silently resolved in his head to strangle whoever was phoning him at such an ungodly hour, unless it was his mother.

He looked at the caller ID and muttered more curses before picking it up.

"Taehyung, do you realize what time it is?" Seokjin grumbled.

"Time to knot you~" said the unusually high-pitched tone of an obviously drunk Taehyung.

"No. I'm hanging up. My sleep is more important than your drunken nonsense," Seokjin said.

"Wait! No. . .I will knot you later. . .but. . .hehe you sound so sexy in your sleepy voice. . .and you'll look sexier picking me up from this smelly club. . .hehe," Taehyung said with uncharacteristic giggles.

"Club?!" Seokjin exclaimed. "Which club?"

"I dont know. . .hehe. . .oh! There's a sign, wait. Saeg. . .uh. . .yog. Oh! Saeg-yog Night Club! Hehe. . . oh, you smell nice. . ." followed by Taehyung's voice was the slurring of a female. Seokjin's sleep disappeared when the seductive words of the female reached his ear from the other end.

"Alpha. . . .do you want me to get on my knees for? I'll be a good girl~" said the sickly sweet female into Taehyung's ear.

And that was the last straw for Seokjin.

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"So cute~" Taehyung said in a sing-song voice while rubbing Seokjin's alpaca pyjama pants, oblivious to the effect the act had on Seokjin who was on his last say of heat and still had not got over the incident of scent marking.

Seokjin slapped his hand away. He had to literally dump a bottle of musky perfume over him before going to the club in order to avoid drunk alphas and betas from assaulting him. The smell was making him nauseous and he so wanted to take a long, warm shower but stupid Kim Taehyung was not letting him leave the couch.

"Why. So. Serious?" Taehyung asked in horrible mimicry.

If only Taehyung had enough sanity to tell him his address or if Jungkook had not been a heavy sleeper, Seokjin would have deposited the alpha to where he lived inside of having to endure the hardship of hauling his heavy body over four flights of stairs.

"You better have a good enough reason for getting wasted alone in a damn strip club!" Seokjin raised his voice in frustration.

Taehyung did not reply to that and instead he suddenly squashed his face against the side of Seokjin's neck and began sniffing shamelessly.

"You smell funny. No apples. No honey," Taehyung said against his neck before giggling at the rhyme he made accidently.

Seokjin blushed at the fact that Taehyung had memorised his scent. He pushed the younger into the couch and arranged the pillows so he was comfortable when he slept.

"Why were you in the club?" Seokjin asked as he kneeled down next to the couch.

Taehyung's face fell immediately at the question and his eyes darkened.

"You."

Seokjin would be lying if he denied not getting shivers down his spine as Taehyung's baritone voice rumbled out the word.

You

"Me. . . .?" Seokjin asked in a barely audible whisper.

The atmosphere was suddenly heavy with Taehyung's overwhelming pheromones. His fiery gaze pinned Seokjin to the spot and his scent started to overtake Seokjin's mind, causing his heat to flare up once again.

"Just because our marks don't match. . . .you keep pushing me away. Soulmates? They don't exist! Just- just-" Taehyung closed his eyes and inhaled and exhaled deeply.

"Just please. . . .just try. I want to try but you- you don't care! You only care about a- a stupid mark. You. . . .you. . . ."

The mind of a drunk had always amazed Seokjin, especially then when Taehyung's anger condensed into tears and began weeping while gripping onto Seokjin's wrist.

"You. . . ." Taehyung kept chanting in between his sobs.

Seokjin did not know what to do other than caress his hair and hope that he fell asleep soon because Seokjin himself wanted to curl on his bed to ease the symptoms of his heat. A soft hum started to lull Taehyung to sleep slowly while Seokjin's fingers threaded through his sweaty locks and massaged his scalp lightly but effectively.

Soon, the alpha drifted into slumber because of the unknown melody and Seokjin's calming pheromones.

You

Seokjin could not get the word out of his head when he was showering and begging his inner omega silently for some peace. However, the wolf listened to none of Seokjin's plea and kept repeating the word in his head like a broken record.

You

Even when Seokjin sunk into the soft mattress of his beloved bed, he could not erase the stares Taehyung threw at him or the way he marked him temporarily a few days back.

You

Seokjin was at war with his omega who refused to let him sleep until he came to a proper conclusion. Images of Taehyung advancing on him several times and him rejecting the alpha because of their different soulmarks flooded his dark vision.

You only care about a stupid mark.

But how can he not?

What if his soulmate has somewhere out there waiting for him to arrive but he was fooling around with some other unmated alpha?

The same goes for Taehyung's soulmate.

But why are you so affected by him?

Seokjin did not know how to answer his omega. He looked at his wrist were his luminescent blue tattoo shaped like a wing losing its feathers was embedded into his skin. Sighing, he requested his omega one last time to let him sleep before closing his eyes.

You know what you want, Jin.

~~~~~~~~~

Told you so.

"Hush," Seokjin told his omega as he focused on the sky again, waiting for colours to explode.

"Hmm?" Came a deep hum from beside him.

Seokjin shook his head to shrug it off. He could feel other people bumping into him as they waited for the firework show to start. Usually, he would have wanted to escape crowded places as soon as possible but right then the fragrance of burning wood and spices calmed his nerves.

"It's starting," the alpha said, grabbing Seokjin's hand in excitement.

Seokjin's lips stretched into a grin so wide that his cheeks hurt but he could not suppress it as he was truly amazed at the spectrum of colours that started to paint the sky. He immediately took out his phone and began snapping pictures, hoping that he could frame at least one shot. Then he panned his camera a little bit to his right where Taehyung stood and began clicking his photos as the alpha admired the fireworks. He was sure to keep one of those photos in his room.

Who knew Seokjin would fall so deep in the matter of a few months?

I did.

"Shut up," Seokjin told his wolf with a smile.

Seokjin loved the firework show, no doubt, especially with Taehyung's hand in his but there was something he had planned for that night, something that he had promised Taehyung. His toes curled at the mere thought of it.

An beta came from the back and stood beside him, their shoulders bumping. A hand glided up from Seokjin's waist to his shoulder and pulled him close followed by a possessive growl.

"Move," Taehyung snarled at the stranger who remained unfazed at first but moved away when he felt the alpha's gaze still on him.

"Taehyung, you can't do that to everyone!" Seokjin whisper shouted at his alpha who looked satisfied and smiled smugly at the spot where the beta stood a few seconds ago.

Taehyung had been showing more of his possessive side that particular day and Seokjin understood why but he wished he could resist it a little. He was afraid Taehyung might get into a fight with some beta or another alpha just because they looked at Seokjin in a weird way.

"Yes I can and I will," Taehyung stated like a child. "I should have scent marked you before we left."

Seokjin knew what a simple scent marking could had led to, especially since Taehyung was having his rut so he refused it.

Sighing, Seokjin just leaned closer to Taehyung and enjoyed the fireworks and the alpha's ignited wood scent while the latter basked in his apple and honey fragrance.

Maybe his omega did lead him to the right person.

~~~~~~~~~

"Stupid belt," Seokjin grumbled as he tried to get Taehyung's belt off while being engaged in a make out session against the wall of Taehyung's bedroom. The alpha lived alone in his apartment so they had all the privacy they wanted.

Taehyung's skillful hands took off Seokjin's shirt and began tracing his warm skin, stopping at his sensitive buds and pinching them lightly which elicited a lewd hum from the omega.

"Oh Tae. . . ." Seokjin moaned against the alpha lips as the latter pushed his warm tongue inside his mouth and began gliding over the omega's one.

Seokjin felt something warm grow within his stomach as Taehyung's hands travelled southwards and groped his globes. The omega responded by grinding against Taehyung's growing erection. His omega howled at being so close and intimate with the alpha.

Taehyung's bedroom, which was previously scented like the alpha himself, was now humming with the strong smell of apple and honey mixed with musk and swear. Seokjin's arousal heightened at the mere thought of the air being denser due to their ecstatic wolves.

Seokjin, with some help from Taehyung, finally managed to get those interrupting pants off the alpha and immediately rubbed the latter's semi-stiff member. Seokjin pulled away from the busy kiss and trailed kisses down Taehyung's neck to his defined collarbones, down his chest, which had taken a shiny tan hue because of sweat, and finally to the middle of his thighs where he stopped with his mouth a few centimetres away from the alpha's bulge. The omega looked up at Taehyung who had a crazed look in his eyes, a bead of sweat trilling down his temple and his mouth parted slightly, breathing heavily.

Taehyung nodded and Seokjin hooked his fingers onto the waistband of Taehyung's boxer when the doorbell interfered what could had been the best night of Seokjin's life.

Seokjin growled and continued to roll down his boyfriend's underwear when the bell rang again, causing the omega to intensify his glower. Taehyung groaned loudly and gently pushed Seokjin off. He just had an unbuttoned shirt on and a pair of wet boxers from precum. He buttoned his shirt messily, got into his pants, not minding to zip it up, and exited the bedroom, leaving a very horny Seokjin on the bed.

Seokjin counted to forty but Taehyung had not returned so he threw his shirt on and opened the door to his alpha locked in the embrace another omega who smelled suspiciously too sweet, as if he was nearly on his heat. Seokjin did not like how Taehyung's musk mingled perfectly with the blonde's scent of lavender.

"I missed you so much, TaeTae!" The dwarf exclaimed as he pulled away and gazed up at Taehyung with gleaming eyes. Taehyung himself had a wide boxy grin on his face as if nothing was cooking in his pants!

Seokjin was frustrated and furious.

"Jin!" Taehyung called out to him and smiled when he noticed his boyfriend was already there.

"Meet Jimin, my best friend. He came here from Busan," Taehyung introduced with his arm thrown over Jimin's shoulders.

Seokjin could had said a warm hello or a you must be so tired or even a hi I'm Seokjin, nice to meet you but instead he said, "But I thought Jungkook was your best friend?"

Taehyung chuckled and Jimin gave him a playful side glance.

"Jungkook, huh? You- um. . ." Jimin paused in his sentence once he realised he didn't know the other omega's name.

"Seokjin," Seokjin introduced.

"Seokjin," Jimin smiled cutely but Seokjin was not having any of it because his junior and wolf was wrecking havoc.

"You need to tell me more about this guy who's stealing my best friend from me," Jimin said playfully, earning a dramatic gasp from Taehyung.

"Jimin, I would never," Taehyung swore with a hand over his chest, making Seokjin roll his eyes.

"Now, give me a tour, will you? Your best friend comes to see you from another town and you stand there- oh." Jimin stopped mid way in his self tour around Taehyung's apartment. He stuck his nose in the air infront of Taehyung's bedroom and took a long sniff.

"Oh- oh no," Jimin said, turning around to face Seokjin and Taehyung with panicked eyes. "TaeTae I'm so sorry! Seokjin, I'm really sorry. I arrived at the wrong time."

There's a window! Throw him out!

Seokjin was tempted to follow his omega's command but he resisted himself for Taehyung's sake. He watched Taehyung laugh awkwardly before showing Jimin the spare room. Seokjin was about to get back to Taehyung's room and fix a movie for them because the mood was ruined when he noticed something that stifled him.

Right under Jimin's left ear was a blue soulmark, shaped like broken shards of glass.

Seokjin's world crashed in a matter of milliseconds.

~~~~~~~~~~~

"Jin? Jin, please talk to me," Taehyung pleaded through the phone, oblivious to the omega who had a hand over his mouth to suppress his sobs.

"Jin, if it's about Jimin then please understand that I tried my best to give the both of you my time. Jimin is visiting after months and-"

"Why don't you get it?" Seokjin croaked, sniffing his nose. He rubbed his hand over his chest to try lessen the growing tightness in vain. His omega had been thrashing restlessly ever since he left Taehyung's apartment unannounced around a week ago on the night Jimin arrived.

"Are you crying?" Taehyung asked with his voice laced with heavy worry.

"Don't do this to me, Jin. Please tell me what's bothering you. I wish I could come over but I can't leave Jimin alone-"

"I knew it! I knew this will happen! That's why I did not want to fall for you because- because we have soulmates of our own but still we- we-" Seokjin choked on his words before continuing, "-and now this. I always dreaded this. You found your soulmate now. You'll. . . .you'll forget about me soon."

"Jin, what are you talking about? Soulmarks? You still believe that a stupid mark will determine our love? And you. . . .you're saying I'll forget you? That's the faith you have in me? And all because of a mark?" Taehyung fired, his voice raising with every sentence and his anger was so prominent that Seokjin could feel it from the other end of the line.

Seokjin did not answer and continued to allow his tears to fall. He knew it would kill him but he had to let go off Taehyung because if he did not, poor Jimin would have to live without a soulmate. Besides, Taehyung had known Jimin for his whole life so they would make their relationship work smoothly.

"Jin?"

Seokjin bit his lips.

"Well then, this says it all. Goodbye," and with that, Taehyung's voice was there no more.

The phone slipped out of Seokjin's hand and landed on the mattress with a bounce. Seokjin buried himself under his blankets because a) he wanted to feel isolated and b) they smelled faintly of Taehyung from that one night a few weeks ago Taehyung had slept with him. The alpha's strong scent seemed to linger on anything he got in contact with. Seokjin himself had his pheromones of apple and honey mixed with burning wood and spices; a strange fragrance but it was satisfying to Seokjin nevertheless.

Gah, he needed to stop thinking about Taehyung and finding comfort in his memories. He knew he could not avoid Taehyung wholly because Jungkook would drag him over and they went to the same university.

Seokjin wondered if he could stand seeing the alpha with another omega. A three months ago, Seokjin would not had cared as much as right turn.

Should he try finding his soulmate?

You're a wolf, Jin, not a goat.

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Seokjin writhed in pain on hid bed. It seemed like his omega was set on fire for the past few days. His heart was heavy with unspoken sadness and longing and his mind kept playing memories of a particular alpha and how crestfallen he looked when Seokjin ignored his attempts at reaching out to him.

Seokjin saw Jimin waiting for Taehyung at the entrance of their university and even witnessed them hugging each other when Taehyung arrived after his classes. Seokjin felt a strange urge to walk over and snatch Taehyung from the other omega but he was not in the mood to create a scene. He had caught a waft of Jimin's pheromones and they were less sweeter than the first time they met which suggested his heat ended and he hoped it's because of suppressants.

Seokjin could not pin point the reason behind his pain. He did not understand why it was so hard to grow out of his feelings for Taehyung. Everytime he tried to push the alpha out of his head, his omega would make him reminisce Taehyung's vibrant smile that sometimes changed shape to seem mischievous, his gentle hands that had never tried dominating him other than the times they got intimate, his gaze that looked at him with both adoration and lust and his alluring scent that never failed to calm him down.

"Taehyung. . ." Seokjin called out to his empty room. The printed out picture of Taehyung against the night sky with fireworks silently jeered at Seokjin from its position on the wall. The other photos just looked down in pity.

Seokjin realised that even if he found his soulmate, he would never fall for them as deep as he did for Taehyung. He knew he would keep hanging on the what-ifs of having a matching soulmark with Taehyung.

And how do you know Taehyung isn't falling for you too?

Seokjin's answer was unspoken as he was too afraid to word it aloud; he did not want to crush completely under false hopes.

How do you know they are false?

"Because they are!" Seokjin yelled out.

A moment later, he realised how stupid he sounded.

Are they?

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Seokjin was tempted to just open the door and get inside but he waited for it to open. After what felt like an eternity, the door opened to reveal Jimin, his lavender fragrance hitting Seokjin straight in the face with dismay.

"Seokjin. . . .um, can you come back later? Taehyung is kind of sick-" Jimin was pushed aside by Seokjin who marched towards the alpha's bedroom.

"Seokjin, wait!" Jimin tried to stop him.

Seokjin looked back and saw how Jimin's eyes widened instantly. There was a mirror in the corridor and Seokjin saw the reflection of his blue eyes that were brown usually.

He opened the door and was half choked with the intense pheromones that oozed inside the room. On the bed, lay his alpha with a hand clutching his chest and his face staring at the ceiling blankly. His orbs were blood red.

"Taehyung!"

Taehyung tried to sit up before Seokjin crashed into him and wound his arms around him, burying his face into his neck like his life depended on it. Taehyung wasted no time on securing Seokjin in his arms tightly and indulged in the omega's honey scent.

"I don't care, Taehyung, I don't care! I don't care about these useless soulmarks! Taehyung, it's only you for me, it's definitely you. . ."

Taehyung pulled away from the embrace and kissed Seokjin, the warm contact of their lips making both of their wolves howl. A simple mark would not determine their love.

Seokjin intensified the kiss by pushing in his tongue and exploring ever corner of Taehyung's warm cavern. He pulled apart momentarily to take of Taehyung's shirt and his own before latching their mouths together once again. Taehyung groaned into the kiss as he felt Seokjin's hand palming his growing bulge. He pulled from the kiss to trail needy kisses down Seokjin's suck and bite marks all over the smooth expanse of skin.

Seokjin pulled at Taehyung's hair which elicited a growl from the alpha. Taehyung felt Seokjin's ass for a while before discarding his pants with ease. He bent down and gave attention to Seokjin's perky buds and his toned stomach. Seokjin in return moaned out his name loudly.

Taehyung spread Seokjin's legs open and left tingling kisses on his inner thighs and sighed at the sweet smell of the slick that was starting to drench Seokjin's boxers. He rolled the wet article of clothing slowly while looking straight into Seokjin's eyes that were shrouded with want.

"My, my. . . ." Taehyung said with a smirk as he took Seokjin's length in his hand and began pumping it.

Seokjin let out broken moans at the sensation. He opened his legs wider to expose his leaking hole to Taehyung as a sign that his patience was running short. As there was natural lubrication, Taehyung inserted one finger into Seokjin's hole with ease and kept pumping it until it hit a certain bundle of nerves, making Seokjin cry out in pleasure.

Taehyung added another finger and scissored the opening while his other hand held down Seokjin's hips that were trying to buck up. Taehyung's own member throbbed in his pants and his alpha screamed for release. He just wanted to ruin Seokjin's pretty hole but he wanted their first time to be gentle.

"Taehyung, please. . ." Seokjin moaned out.

Taehyung removed his fingers from the omega's hole and licked them sensually before unbuckling his belt and discarding his pants off him.

Seokjin gulped as he eyed Tae's thick member that had precum gathered at its tip. He flipped himself around and raised his ass up for Taehyung to ravish. He gripped on the sheets as Taehyung slipped his hard length inside him and waited for Seokjin to adjust to his size. Seokjin gritted his teeth and told himself that the sting would go away soon before permitting Taehyung to move.

Taehyung began to move steadily and increased his pace slowly. Seokjin screamed out at the jolts of pleasure that coursed through his body while Taehyung groaned out Seokjin's name on repeat. It felt like their wolves were rejoicing as the two rode on ecstasy.

With every thrust, Seokjin neared to his release. He could feel Taehyung's knot grow inside him, signalling to his release as well. Taehyung's grip on his hips tightened as he pushed in and out for the last few times before spraying his seeds inside of Seokjin who came right afterwards.

They moved to the less messy side of the bed and lay in each other's hold, breathing heavily and smiling like fools.

This is our alpha, Jin. Throw that omega out. He's small enough to fit through the window.

Seokjin decided to think of Jimin later. He just wanted to enjoy being surrounded by the scent of spices and ignited wood and Taehyung's warmth.

~~~~~~~~~~

"And what about Jimin?" Seokjin asked the alpha who lay next to him, looking so glorious in the first rays of sunlight with his bed hair and puffed face.

"We can never afford a romantic relationship between the two of us. It's too awkward," Taehyung reasoned, scrunching his nose at the thought of kissing his friend.

"But he won't have a soulmate. . . ." Seokjin mumbled with a subconscious pout, looking away from Taehyung in slight guilt.

"He will. Believe me," Taehyung reassured.

"Jin, can I tell you something?" Taehyung asked after some silence.

"Hmm" Seokjin said, his eyes closed because he still was drowsy.

"This is just a tattoo."

Seokjin's eyes bulged open. He looked at Taehyung to see if he was just pulling his leg but the alpha seemed honest in his words.

"I wanted to love my partner not just because of matching soulmarks but because of their souls. Remember?" Taehyung asked slowly.

"Ofcourse," Seokjin said. The entire chaos started from that.

"I did not want my mate to just look at the mark and force themselves to love me and vice versa. I did not want a mark to define our love, so I got this tattoo to fool people into thinking this is my soulmark," Taehyung explained.

In spite of how surprised Seokjin was, he moved closer to inspect Taehyung's red mark. Indeed, it did not seem to have that natural red glow that the tattoo of an alpha should have.

"Then where is your real mark?" Seokjin asked in wonder, slowly sitting up along with Taehyung.

Taehyung turned around and took off his night shirt. Seokjin's eyes watered.

Right beneath his left shoulder was a red soulmark shaped like a wing losing its feathers.

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