In Germany the 6th December is celebrated as Saint Nikolaus Day. Nikolaus was a bishop in Myra (today Demre in Turkey; back in the day Roman territory) about whom many legends are told, but it is considered a fact that he gave most of his possessions to the poor. To remind of that, on the 6th December children would get sweets and fruit and nuts put in their shoes like it is told Nikolaus did. Though if you've been bad, you'll get coals instead of goodies.

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"If you would just look at him," a voice whispered from somewhere above him while Taehyung tried to prep a birthday cake for Yoongi in the metropolitan dimness of the early morning, fighting against sleepiness and the shivers that crawled up his legs under the thin pajama pants. He should probably put on some sweatpants over his pajama to yield off the inevitable feeling of coldness after leaving the tight embrace of his warm bed to be a good friend and make a cake at this unsparkly hour.

"Can't you give him some talent in keeping things tidy or at least in cooking?" the same voice whispered again. And albeit Taehyung should be used to having voices in his flat, it still startled him. But what startled him even more was the fact that he considered hearing voices as normal.

However, when he looked up to where the hushed voice came from, he found two fairies sitting on the once useful curtain rod, oblivious to their exposure. One had green hair and wore what looked like a student uniform with a disturbing light-pink tie with palm trees, its nose buried in a book, the other was blond and wore a gray pullover with short black pants, talking in a hushed voice and gesturing wildly. All in all, both looked like they had been thrown into a bag with thrift shop clothes that had gotten a nice shake before being emptied. "Have you seen the collection of empty toilet paper rolls? And the cheese under his fridge is about to get legs and reign the army of dust mice that banded together under the cupboards," the blonde thrift shop fairy rambled on about him.

The green-haired seemed not bothered at all, all too different from Taehyung who blushed a little at the words of the blonde. He probably should clean up before Christmas.

"My grandma always said:" the pink-tie-fairy began, "A sausage that cannot open the fridge from the inside isn't even close to ripe."

For some reason those strange words caused Taehyung's brain to play a little movie of his sausage climbing out of the fridge and meeting the cheese under the fridge to form a hotdog of the living dead together with the molding bread he had discovered two days ago in his cupboard. And they rotted happily until they joined the army of dust mice.

Maybe he should go to bed again.

"Yeah," the blond fairy growled, "Your grandma also said that time is a random construct to allow chaos. She was weird."

"She was brilliant," the reading fairy replied and smiled softly into his book like he understood the cryptic words, which were replaying in Taehyung's head like an echo in an empty room. That probably said much about his head at an early hour like this.

"Lo," he greeted his guests, receiving two pairs of raised eyebrows and softly flittering wings. "I'm Taehyung." And he looked at the pair expectantly.

For some seconds they just stared at one another before the green-haired apparently decided that it was enough awkwardness and time to introduce himself. "I'm Namjoon. And this is Seokjin," he said with a gentle smile that made cute dimples pop on his cheeks.

"You're an awful baker," the blonde stated rudely like Taehyung had personally affronted him with his less than admirable skills. He might not be a chef of grandeur, but he put all his heart into this cake, so why was this blondie mobbing him for his efforts? Especially at this hour of the day? "You just used cinnamon instead of cacao," the Seokjin-fairy explained his grudge.

Taehyung looked down into the bowl with the brown dough and sighed. He knew something had been weird about the smell. Well, it was more Christmassy that way. A little more sugar and no one would notice. Sugar made everything better. Jimin had even called it the human fairy sparkle, and Taehyung had not been able to shake off the feeling that this was in an inexplicable way true.

"You could assist me instead of being rude," he mumbled into the bowl while continuing to stir the creamy mix with chopsticks. The mixer still was broken.

A little sigh could be heard before the two fairies settled on the windowsill in front of him, the green-haired resolutely looking into his book while sitting down on Jungkook's former bed (Where was Hoseok?) while his grumpy friend came closer.

"This, my friend, is unsavable," the blonde said arrogantly and crossed his small arms in front of his chest. "But if you allow me I'll make a new one. Who's the cake for?"

A little startled that the fairy seemed to have no reserves talking to and interacting with a human, Taehyung put down his bowl and smeared his sticky fingers on the apron before he answered, "You can use everything you find. It's for the first birthday of a Christmas fairy."

The Seokjin-fairy's eyes became wide. "You have a Christmas fairy at your place that's having a birthday party? How's that possible? They don't become that old."

Taehyung just shrugged. "He's sleeping in that cupboard," he stated matter-of-factly and gestured at the door to his right.

Apparently, that had also woken the Namjoon-fairies interest because he put down his book and came over as well. "What are you?" the green-haired asked, smart eyes drilling into Taehyung's. "Are you a changeling?"

"A what?" Taehyung asked confused. What was wrong with those two? Why were they even here? He had not made any pancakes and it was no special day apart from Yoongi's birthday.

Namjoon still looked at him scrutinizing, and somehow this situation irritated him. Why did he have to be nice to two fairies who only treated him rudely? There was a limit to his endurance of bad folk, and those two thrift-shop-weirdos were exceptionally close to crossing it.

"What are you here for?" he asked annoyed and resumed with his baking.

"Your neighbor's child lost a tooth, so I came by-" the blonde began, but Taehyung would not let him finish that sentence.

"You're a tooth fairy?" he asked in awe, grudges all forgotten.

"Yeah," Seokjin answered with a shrug. "No reason to be so excited."

"So, you brought the money I found under my pillow when I lost my teeth?" Taehyung wanted to know. He would have never thought that this story was true. Hope fairies and Valentine fairies okay, but tooth fairies? There were even movies about tooth fairies, so he thought they could not possibly exist.

"Money? Why would I bring you money?" Jin asked, sounding slightly disgusted. Why was that handsome face always crunched into some grimace? This blonde could look so nice with a smile instead of a frown.

"But what do you bring then in exchange for the teeth?" Taehyung asked dumbfounded.

"In exchange? Boy, what kind of strange dreams do you have?" the blonde asked and shook his head. "We don't take the teeth. What would we need them for? And why would we bring something as useless as money? We bring the little ones a nice dream when they lose one of their teeth." That explanation made way more sense, now that Taehyung thought about it. What relation would fairies have to human money? It was only logical that the gift was something more abstract. Just like Hoseok did not walk around in a Frankenstein costume but chased away bad spirits with his light.

"Cool," he just said at the revelation, eyes glued to the blonde in fascination.

"If you say so," the tooth fairy mumbled, looking unsure of why someone would think that. "However, when I was there, I sensed a strange magic vibe from your place, so I came by to take a look and saw your fairy friends, who share that little bed in the living room, and I was a witness to the chaos you are. So, today I brought Namjoon, he's a gift fairy, to gift you with some talent in housekeeping. But when I look at your baking skills, he should probably give you cooking talent instead."

Taehyung looked at the small brown dough in the little baking form. The other fairies had liked his cakes very much. He was not that bad. Of course, he was no connoisseur, but they had eaten all his creations, including Jungkook's birthday cake, with joy.

"I can't give him a talent now," Namjoon growled, back on the bed with his nose buried in the little book. "I don't know why you dragged me here."

"Why can't you gift me?" Taehyung asked, curious about every information concerning the fairy world.

The green-haired sighed like this situation was pulling on his nerves but put away the book to explain it to him. "Because gift fairies, such as I, are only allowed to awake talents on the first birthday of a little one. We can gift inspiration or ideas after that, but we mustn't give out talents anymore. We're not even allowed to evoke talents that're simply undeveloped. We can just do that much; the rest is up to the person."

"Ah," Taehyung mused. That was interesting. "What's my talent?" He was no master in anything. He was musically to an extend and he was able to manage his life and job, but he would not call himself extraordinary in any sense. Except maybe for the fact that his roommates were fairies.

The green-haired sighed, but then he stood up and held out a hand for Taehyung, so he placed his little finger in the small palm, watching attentively. With a soft tickle, purple sparkles began to seep into his skin before Namjoon closed his eyes and allowed the serious face to relax. "I can sense curiosity and a very warm and open heart." But suddenly the fairy furrowed his eyebrows and Taehyung became a little scared of what has caused the change in the small man's expression. "It's almost as if... you are... no, forget that," the small man said and let go of his finger.

"What?" Taehyung asked, curiosity now almost killing him.

"Are you sure you're not a changeling?" the gift fairy asked again, eyes suddenly soft instead of scrutinizing.

"I don't even know what that is," Taehyung admitted.

"Then it's not important," Namjoon said and smiled. "Let Jin help you with the cake. He knows what he's doing."

A tooth fairy that knew how to make cake seemed slightly ironic to Taehyung, but maybe the blonde could make something great. "Suit yourself," he said with a shrug and gestured at the kitchen. "I'll put mine in the oven, then you can use it afterwards."

"Why don't you throw it away?" Jin asked like the idea of baking what Taehyung had produced seemed absurd to him.

"Because I don't want to waste it," Taehyung answered shyly. He wanted to make something for Yoongi, even if it was not perfect. "It's my kitchen, so don't boss me around," he pouted. He would not let that blond fairy ruin his birthday present.

With a shrug the little man turned away from him to evaluate the content of his kitchen, leaving behind a trail of green sparkles.

"Didn't you mess up the color thing?" Taehyung asked after his little oversized muffin was in the oven and he could sit down at the table to watch Jin rummaging through the cupboards.

"The color thing?" the tooth fairy asked confused.

"You know," Taehyung tried to explain, "Silver-blue hair, silver sparkles; pink hair, pink sparkles; orange hair, orange sparkles." He had to admit that Kookie was falling out of the picture, but the Valentine's fairy at least had worn a red coat and red was the color of love.

"No, no we didn't mess up," the blonde said, already starting a dough, orchestrating five moving things at the same time with sparkle clouds. "Green hair and green sparkles are spring fairies. Namjoon, explain it to him."

"Yeah, spring fairies. And blonde hair and yellow sparkles are summer fairies," the gift fairy added, putting the book aside that he had just grabbed.

"Not golden sparkles?" Jin asked without looking up.

"No, golden sparkles are healer fairies. They're strawberry blonde," the green-haired corrected.

"You sure?"

"Yes, of course."

"I always thought... well, however, there are many combinations," the tooth fairy ended the discourse.

Somehow Taehyung was reminded of an old couple. The way those two interacted so casually with one another was endearing. Maybe they were a couple like Jimin and Jungkook? Though he was not sure if something like couples existed in the fairy world when fairies were born from the creativity of the little ones. On the other hand, Namjoon had a grandmother, so there was probably some construct like a family in the fairy realm.

"Have you known each other for a long time?" he asked the green-haired.

"I know him since the day he was born," the gift fairy said with a loving smile as if he remembered a little Seokjin toddling around. Somehow that expression made Namjoon look like a happy grandpa.

Amazed he looked back and forth between the two fairies. He would have guessed that the two were about the same age. "How old are you?" he asked the green-haired.

"Ninety-seven years," the gift fairy said with a proud smile.

"Holy shit," Taehyung breathed out. "I thought fairies died with the believe of the little ones. How can you be this old?"

Jin jumped into the conversation again, apparently done with prepping the very creamy and very fluffy looking dough. "Gift fairies are special. Just like Hope fairies. But they become even older. His grandma became two hundred and eighty-one and she was a reckless woman. She could have become much older."

"She became just as old as she wanted to," Namjoon intervened with a cheeky smile.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever. I need the oven," Jin interrupted and looked at Taehyung expectantly.

"Ten more minutes," he replied after a look at the clock. "I can introduce you to the others, if you'd like that?"

"Sure. Why not," Namjoon agreed, apparently giving up on continuing his book.

"Just give me a minute to wake them up," Taehyung excused himself.

"Yeah, you leave. I'll prepare the frosting," Jin said when he stood up to leave the room. Rude tooth fairy.

As quiet as possible, Taehyung walked towards the sound system to wake up the fairies with some Christmas swing, knowing they liked to be woken up by soft tunes rather than a timer. And after putting on some cheery soul, he sat down in front of the CD shelfs to look at the bed Jimin and Jungkook shared.

The raven and the pink mop were clearly visible, but what was Hoseok's orange mop doing in the middle? Why were there three fairies squished into one small bed? They could have just asked for a bigger one. Amused by the bundle, he pulled back the small blanket and revealed a Hope fairy that was tightly sandwiched by a Valentine's and an Easter fairy, wings crumbled and orange curls standing in all directions.

Taehyung was a little confused, but when he thought about Hoseok's fear of the dark this made sense. With a happy grin he watched the snoring bundle and thought of all the happy days they had already spent together. Sometimes he had the feeling that the orange strands gleamed brighter with every day the Hope fairy spent with them, and the thought made him feel light. If he could, he would make a home for every stranded and lonely fairy that needed help.

"Wake up. We have guests," he said quietly and Jungkook began to stir.

"Hu?" the raven asked drowsily, blowing orange strands out of his nose and trying to fiddle his arms out of the knot of limbs.

"We have guests. Would you wake up Jimin and Hoseok?" Taehyung asked of the Valentine's fairy and received a sleepy nod, before the raven placed a wet smooch on Hoseok's and Jimin's forehead.

Satisfied, Taehyung stood up and went back into the kitchen where he found a very peculiar picture. The whisks of his non-functional mixer were rotating by themselves in a bowl of white cream. No machine attached. He truly loved magic.

"Can you stay with us?" he asked without thinking, only focused on the possibility of adding a housekeeper to the family. Jin could make food for the others when he was at work, so the fairies did not need to eat sweets or cold pancakes all day long.

Jin looked at him flabbergasted, but Namjoon snorted amused. "That's the solution for your problem, Jin," the green-haired said with a knowing look in the smart eyes.

"What problem?" Taehyung wanted to know. If there was a fairy in need, he was more than happy to help.

Namjoon grinned widely. "He has been thrown out of his clan because baking is not what tooth fairies should like, much less do."

So, Taehyung had not been wrong thinking that this was a weird hobby for a tooth fairy. "You can live with us. You, too, Namjoon."

The green-haired smiled appreciatively while Jin was still frozen in place and looked hesitant. Was something wrong with Taehyung's offer? The other fairies had come happily, so why was Jin struggling? "You don't have to stay," he backtracked cautiously.

"I... Can I really stay?" the blonde asked shyly, no sight of arrogance left.

"Of course. You can also use my kitchen as you like. If you need anything, I'll get it for you," Taehyung doubled his offer. If he could make Jin happy while having someone who could truly cook, this was a win-win situation. Still, the tooth fairy would have to learn some modesty and manners.

"Thank you," Jin said and a shy smile curled his plush lips, and for the first time he looked loveable. "Your cake is done, by the way."

Taehyung gasped and hurried towards the oven to get out his creation. Not burned yet, he noticed with relief.

"Morning!" Jimin's voice cheered behind him, while he tried to get the palm-sized cake out of the form and onto a plate for decorating. "I'm Jimin. Who're you?"

"You're the-" Jungkook interrupter the conversation.

"Yes. My name's Namjoon," the green-haired introduced himself, cutting the raven's words short, and when Taehyung turned around he found a Jungkook with wide eyes, staring from their guest's outstretched hand to his face, back to his hand, and to his face, apparently not quite realizing that he made an idiot out of himself. "And you are?" Namjoon helped, not lowering his hand.

"Jungkook," the Valentine's fairy eventually answered and took the hand. "I-I'm honored to... uhm..."

"Stop making an idiot out of yourself," Hoseok commented with an amused but loving smile on his face and slung an arm around the still baffled raven's shoulders.

"Ah, the Hope fairy. What's your name?" Namjoon asked politely.

"Hoseok," the orange-haired answered and shook the newcomer's hand with an inviting smile. "Pleased to meet you, your h-"

"Wonderful," the green-haired said and looked honestly pleased to meet the whole bunch of roommates, albeit Taehyung was confused why the green-haired would constantly cut into his friend's words. "The rude blond one over there is Seokjin. He's a tooth fairy."

"A baking tooth fairy?" Jungkook asked.

The raven was, like so often, on a track to confrontation, so Taehyung decided to jump in. "A relationship-destroying Valentine's fairy?" he asked back, ending the uncomfortable conversation before it could start.

"True," the raven admitted and smiled. "We're probably all a little... different."

"I'm not different," Jimin said puppy-eyed.

But Jungkook and Hoseok just smiled at the pink-haired. "Of course not," the Hope fairy said and pulled the smaller into his other arm before he placed a peck on the pink-haired fairy's cheek.

"Wanna help me?" Taehyung asked, now that the introductions were over.

"Sprinkles!" Jungkook shouted and flew over to him.

"Candle!" Jimin cheered and followed before Hoseok came over last.

"What can I do?" the orange-haired asked.

From the corner of his eye, Taehyung could see a gawking Jin and suddenly he understood something about the tooth fairy. Jin had probably never cooked with someone else. The blonde had always been by himself, learning perfectly how to do things, but never experiencing the joy of preparing something together for the mere purpose of fun.

"Why don't you ask Jin how to melt the chocolate for the glaze?" he suggested to Hoseok who nodded eagerly.

A little unsure, the tooth fairy looked between Taehyung and Hoseok, but the Hope fairy would not let the blonde stand around uselessly but pulled him over to where the chocolate lied on the counter. "Show me, please."

A brief look at Namjoon told Taehyung that he had made something right. The green-haired happily looked at his fairy friend, before he also looked at Taehyung and nodded gratefully. Grinning like an idiot, Taehyung turned back to Jimin and Jungkook. "Wanna search for the candles with me?"

Eager, the two nodded and flew off to different corners of the kitchen, starting the raid. They found a baby blue pencil sharpener, a ladle without a haft, three single cubes of sugar in three different places, the lunchbox Taehyung had been missing for about half a year with content that looked like something in-between sandwich of the living dead and dust mouse (and made Jin pale in horror), the inner part of something that had been blinking blue, red and green but now was stripped down to mere electronics (probably the blinking ball he had won for Yoongi at the fun fair they had visited), a ballpoint pen with two mines instead of one (what made it look strangely scary), and a light bulb that looked more like a blowfish than something to light a room with until Jungkook located the candles in the freezer. Who had put the candles in the freezer?

Well, however, in the time they had searched for the missing equipment, Jin and Hoseok had molten the white chocolate, so they waited while the two let the small cake vanish under a thick white cover before Jungkook emptied the whole box of colorful sprinkles over it, so that the chocolate was barely visible anymore and Jimin popped in the candle of the form of a baby blue 1.

Taehyung's heart jumped at the sight of the little oversized muffin. Yoongi had made the impossible possible and celebrated his first birthday. What a weird feeling. That must be how parents feel when their baby becomes one year old.

A look at Jin told him what the fairy thought of their creation, but the blonde kept his thoughts to himself. An improvement.

"Watch out," the tooth fairy said before he levitated his own hot cake directly out of the oven over to him to continue his own work.

"Do you need help?" Jimin asked, curiously looking over the blonde's shoulder.

"Uhm, no thanks," Jin said, looking unsure from one of their little group to the other.

Jimin and Hoseok looked like they could not understand how someone liked to do everything alone, while Jungkook seemed to understand very well and pulled the two over to the table. "Leave the man to his work."

"How did you find your way here?" Namjoon asked the other fairies, abandoning his place on Jungkook's former bed to accompany the group that had sat down on the table, or in Taehyung's case, at the table.

"He makes great pancakes," Jimin blurted without second thought, making Taehyung smile.

"He does?" Namjoon asked, giving Taehyung an unreadable look. "That's all?"

"It's... uhm... the magic here is different," Hoseok said quietly. "It feels... warm."

Namjoon looked a little more pleased at that answer and nodded slowly. Much to Taehyung's disliking. What was it that the green-haired fairy would not tell him? Was it still about the changeling thing? What even was a changeling? He was about to ask when Jin proudly announced, "Done!" and everyone took a look at the work of the tooth fairy. A baby blue cake with white letters reading Happy Birthday lied on the plate and shimmered glossily. It looked store-window-good.

"'ning," a raspy voice said from the cupboard and a blue mop peaked through the gap. "Cake!" the Christmas fairy realized while Taehyung gestured Jimin to light the candle.

Within one second Yoongi stood next to Taehyung's oversized muffin, stumbling slightly sleep-drunken at the landing, and smiled like a happy idiot. "For me?" he asked, looking at Taehyung with big gleaming eyes.

"Yes. You can blow out the candle and make a wish," Taehyung said smiling while he stood up to turn off the light to leave nothing but the flickering fire and the dim light from outside the window.

"Will it come true?" Yoongi asked quietly while staring into the flame, and Taehyung's heart became soft. What could his small friend want so desperately that he sounded so sad?

"It's said that it will, if you keep it a secret," he answered.

"Okay, then," the blue-haired said and closed his eyes, and suddenly a small blizzard whirled around the little blue 1 and the flame died down. This probably had also cooled down the cake to an extend that the chocolate was no longer flowing away with the sprinkles in tow.

"What about mine?" Jin asked when Taehyung turned the kitchen lights back on.

"Who are you?" Yoongi asked startled when he noticed the two new members of their squad.

"I'm Jin and that is my cake for you," the tooth fairy said confidently.

"How's that a cake?" the Christmas fairy asked confused and everyone around him, including Taehyung looked flabbergasted. "It has no sprinkles and no candle."

Namjoon was the first to laugh, until the whole table was giggling, apart from dumbfounded Jin and confused Yoongi.

"You have much to learn, my friend," the green-haired said and shook Yoongi's hand. "I'm Namjoon. Happy birthday. I'm pleased to meet someone as extraordinary as you."

"This is enough to eat from until Christmas," Jimin stated with a gesture at the normal-sized cake and stuck his tongue out to lick at the blue frosting. In the next second his face was pressed into the cream by an evilly chuckling Valentine's fairy and the biggest cake battle in the history of fairies broke out.

Laughing, Taehyung watched the spectacle while Yoongi sat next to his elbow, munching on his cake. "I like the cinnamon taste," the blue-haired said and looked up at him. "Thank you."

With a wide smile, Taehyung ruffled the fluffy blue strands and placed a kiss on top of the small man's head. "Happy birthday."

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I hope you liked this one. The next one will be cuter again ;)