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It would have been two or maybe three hours when Taehyung stirs awake. His eyelids are no more heavy but a slow ache makes it known in his lower belly and he curls into the comforter. It’s still dark outside, the moon is low on the horizon.
Blinking the sleep out of his eyes, he looks around the dim hut, his alpha’s scent lingering in the sheets and the pillows and on himself too but the alpha is nowhere to be found.
The floor is cold under his warm feet which makes a shiver jolt up his spine. Taehyung sniffs the air and walks towards the living room where the alpha’s scent seems to be more prominent.
His shoulders sag that he doesn't even realise were hunched at the sight of the alpha sitting upright on the couch, reading something in the glow of fire. He must have sensed his scent or maybe soft pats of his bare feet as he turns around and breaks into a small smile.
“Moon? It’s still pretty late at night, why are you up so early?” Jeongguk’s eyes don't leave his frame as Taehyung walks over to him and sits snug beside him, “Can’t sleep?” Jeongguk puts the book away and curls an arm around his waist, pulling him up on his lap like he weighs nothing and it makes Taehyung’s belly twist sweetly.
Taehyung buries his face in the crook of his neck, the scent thick there, he breathes in a lungful, “You weren’t there.” His voice almost sounds like a whine. The tips of Jeongguk’s fingers run up and down along Taehyung’s spine through the tunic.
“Sorry, love. My assistant from the city had a letter delivered to me so I got a little caught up with that.” Taehyung hums and after a beat pulls away with wide eyes, “D-did someone see me?”
Jeongguk’s hand cups his face and glides under his earlobe and into his hair, guiding his face back into his neck, fingers scratching his scalp lovingly, “Mina brought me the letter, don’t worry too much.”
Taehyung calms down, shifting a little in Jeongguk’s lap to adjust himself more comfortably, a whine slipping past his lips as the low thrum of pain in his belly increases. Jeongguk seems to notice his rigid shoulders and he pulls away, “Everything alright, baby?”
The omega shakes his head, a queasy feeling protruding in his body that only increases and his wolf feels incomplete. He doesn’t know how to explain it to the alpha so he just sighs, “My belly hurts.” It doesn’t conclude the whirlwind of emotions he is feeling but he shouldn’t make Jeongguk all worried about the heat stuff just yet. What if he is overwhelmed and decides that Taehyung is not someone he wants?
Taehyung snarls at his thoughts, he doesn’t understand why his wolf keeps thinking that their alpha will leave them? Why is it so insecure when Jeongguk has always made him and their relationship feel secure in the best way possible? Even when he has a mark of betrothal– the necklace, sitting around his neck ever since they were promised to each other.
Jeongguk seems to notice his changed demeanor and lifts Taehyung’s face by curling a finger under his chin, “What is it?”
Despite his own understanding, Taehyung meets his eyes and asks the question his omega seems to have, “You won’t leave me, right?” The alpha’s face falls which pushes Taehyung to elaborate, almost desperately, “I-I get so needy during heats and this time I can already feel myself feeling all those emotions intensely. I never had pre-heat mood swings but I am having them this time and I don’t know how to deal with it. I… it feels like I’ll be alone.”
“Moon.” Jeongguk softly starts, his hand cupping Taehyung’s face, eyes looking into his own so sincerely that Taehyung knows everything that would ever come out of those lips will be nothing but truth, “You won’t be alone, baby. We’ll mate in just a few days. Don’t worry yourself too much over it and about your mood swings please tell me how I can make it better for you?”
Taehyung bites down on his lower lip, the only thing he wants right now can’t happen. They can’t mate until his heat has fully set in. But, there is an alternative, he gulps.
“Leave your mark on me so these two days are bearable for me. They won’t let me see you and I know I will fall sick with all these daunting thoughts and emotions. Need something to ground me, to hold me.”
“Where? Where do you want my mark?”
Taehyung perks up at the acceptance in his tone, “Somewhere no one but me can see. They’ll be bathing me with milk and flowers as per ritual so they’ll be able to see if it’ll be on my neck or chest.”
Jeongguk nods, understanding, “Then,” Jeongguk’s hand that has been resting on Taehyung’s thigh all this time, hikes upwards, squeezing the supple flesh there, “Here?” Taehyung feels the alpha’s fingers dig on the inside of his thigh, behind his knee. Taehyung’s breath hitches, he gulps, “Higher.” He mumbles and Jeongguk’s hand goes up higher, Taehyung’s back straightening as Jeongguk presses his fingers over his mid thigh making him part his legs a little more.
They didn’t break eye contact even once. Taehyung’s hand clutches tight over his overcoat while his knees dig in the plush couch on either side of Jeongguk’s thighs. He takes in a deep breath, eyes shining azure as Jeongguk’s glow carmine, “Higher.” He whispers.
Resisting the moan that burbles in his throat but fails as he lets out a soft one anyway when Jeongguk’s fingers press so close to his crotch, so close yet so painfully far away. Jeongguk quirks his eyebrow in question, eyes flicking from his eyes to his lips and the fabric of his tunic falling off his shoulders exposing his collarbones and chest. Jeongguk wets his lips.
“Right there.” Taehyung hums, feeling the heat of Jeongguk’s palm through the sheer fabric. Head nodding, he leans in, giving in to the urges and pressing his lips on Taehyung’s collarbone, “Anything else you want apart from my mark, moon?” His voice is soothing but his lips are relentless on his skin, kissing and licking the honey tanned skin as if he has been parched of the omega.
Taehyung tilts his head, fingers tangling in Jeongguk’s hair, “M-make the ache go away, alpha.” To emphasize he pushes his pelvis forward and Jeongguk grunts at the movement, hand curling around his thigh and another secured on his waist, he stands up.
The omega yelps, winding his arms and legs around the alpha to not fall on the hard ground but Jeongguk’s grip around him tells him that he won’t let him fall.
As gently as he can, Jeongguk lays the omega on the soft bedding and perches himself between his legs, “We can’t go all the way just yet, moon. But I’ll relieve you, hmm?”
Taehyung’s back arches at the way their hips slot together perfectly, the sweet weight over his pelvis that is more than welcome, “Will you touch me, alpha?”
Jeongguk’s lips trace a known trail down his neck, the V-cut of the tunic exposing Taehyung’s chest, his dark, perked nipples visible through the sheer material, “Do you want me to?” He counters, nosing at the nub.
“Yes– ah .” Taehyung’s words die on his tongue as Jeongguk’s tongue laps around the hard nipple. The fabric rubbing over his nipple almost harshly making him let out a whimper but not having it in himself to push the alpha away. He enjoys the rub.
Taehyung’s hips undulates, the touch seeming feather-like and leaving a sweet aftertaste in both their mouths. Jeongguk’s fingers dig into Taehyung’s waist, pulling him flush to himself as he sucks on both nipples one by one. There’s a wet patch on the tunic over Taehyung’s chest when Jeongguk pulls away and looks at the omega’s heaved chest and flushed face, eyes hooded with lust which makes his stomach twist, something sugary making way in the pits of their bellies.
Jeongguk ruts his hips into Taehyung’s crotch, their cocks rubbing against each other easily. The omega’s slick wetting his tunic making the fabric slippery.
“Oh moon!” Jeongguk breathes out harshly, rocking his hips to find their rhythm. Taehyung bucks his hips trying to match Jeongguk’s movements. It feels too much, too soon. But he isn’t complaining, can’t bring himself to when the pleasure runs wild in his veins, shushing the ache in his belly.
It takes them a while to set a proper rhythm and the pace and once it’s there, Jeongguk leans down to press kisses on his face, his neck, his chest, his stomach while their cocks rub against each other, desperately.
Jeongguk reaches out to interlace their fingers together and Taehyung holds his hand so tight that his knuckles turn white but neither is complaining. Moans fill their little hut, mindful to not be too loud since the crack of dawn is visible through the curtains and in a few hours the people will be out and about and so they need to be quick, but the need to savour it is there too.
“A-alpha.. Ah hah- f-faster puh-please faster .” Jeongguk leans his weight on his elbow, placing a hand on the inside of Taehyung’s thigh to push it apart, to have more room to hump into him.
Taehyung’s back arches off the mattress, incoherent babbles slipping off his tongue along with high pitched moans. Jeongguk hisses as he lets out a rather loud grunt.
The alpha smashes his lips down on Taehyung’s parted ones, “You’re too loud, moon.” Jeongguk chides softly over his lips, “We can’t afford to get caught.” With that Jeongguk envelopes his lips in a kiss, swallowing down each of his moans, grunts and huffs he lets out, silencing them while he pleases his omega the way he needs.
Taehyung thighs shakes, legs giving out and the sweet moans turning to soft whimpers around his lips. His hands curled tight on his own and another one clutched the front of Jeongguk’s hanbok, his own hips stuttering and breathing getting shallow.
He’s overworked. As much as they want to savour it, their bodies just surrender to each other and just want to please. Taehyung’s toes curl and his back arches, lips falling open making the alpha lick into his mouth with ease, suck on his tongue, snap his hips faster.
“C-close… alpha ‘m so so close. Don’t stop, p-please.” Taehyung whimpers, too tired to move his hips so he lets Jeongguk take the lead.
Jeongguk places open mouthed kisses along his jaw, “Me too, baby.”
The sound of slick against their clothes and the heavy scent of thick pheromones clouds them. Taehyung’s vision whites, Jeongguk bites down on his bottom lip to keep himself from moaning as he feels spurts of cum stain the omega’s tunic more.
Taehyung whimpers, thighs shaking. Jeongguk slips his hand under the fabric. Taehyung's body jerks as Jeongguk’s callous hand fists his cock, pumping him and helping him cum hard.
“So so good, alpha.” Taehyung breathes at the foreign feeling and thrusts into Jeongguk’s hand, head thrown back on the pillow as warm cum stains Jeongguk’s hand, his own dick spilling precum.
He flicks his wrist and presses his thumb on the slit, thumbing the sensitive tip which does the thing and Taehyung spills thick, warm cum in Jeongguk’s hand with a whimper and a chant of “my alpha, so good” falling off his lips.
Jeongguk milks his orgasm, fingers fiddling with the ball sack which makes Taehyung softening dick twitch.
Taehyung’s body falls soft in the bed, chest heaving up and down harshly as he looks at the alpha through wet lashes, Jeongguk’s cock still hard.
Jeongguk pulls his hand away and with eyes on the omega licks his fingers free of cum. Taehyung’s heart skips a beat, he pushes himself off the bed and on his elbows, eyes trained on the outline of the alpha’s thick girth through the night hanbok. His whole body shakes from the aftershock of the orgasm, head feeling mushy.
“C-can I?” Taehyung reaches out. Jeongguk sits back on his folded legs, “I have to mark you first.” He shakes his head.
“Let me relieve you too then- then you can mark me, alpha.” Taehyung nibbles on his bottom lip, eyes shifting from his face to the tent with a very obvious and big patch.
Jeongguk nods, not being able to bear the pain. Taehyung prances onto him then, pushing the single layer of the overcoat over his stomach and without a second thought attaching his lips to the flushed out tip.
The alpha bites on the inside of his cheek to hold the moan at bay. Taehyung gives his wet tip a few kittenish licks as if testing before wrapping his swollen lips around the head hearing the alpha take a sharp inhale above him.
“I won’t last long now, moon. J-just use your hand.” Jeongguk tugs at Taehyung’s hair softly to pull him away. Taehyung looks up, his almond eyes rounded and the sparkle evident in his eyes as he speaks through a pout, “Come in my mouth.”
“Fuck Taehyung!” Jeongguk loses it, his fingers tugging a tad tighter in Taehyung’s hair, “How can you say that with those eyes?”
“Please? Can I suck you off?” Taehyung’s round eyes stay on Jeongguk until the alpha curses again and nods his head rapidly.
The wet warmth is back on his cock and this time Taehyung takes him deeper, his hands holding the cock he can’t fit in his mouth. The spurts of cum are hungrily swallowed by Taehyung, some of the cum mixed with drool dribbles down the omega’s chin. He just bobs his head faster wanting to relieve the alpha.
Jeongguk hisses, hand slipping from his hair to below his ear, to rub his thumb there so Taehyung doesn’t end up with an aching throat and a sore jaw. Taehyung moans against his cock, the vibrations sending his mind reeling.
It’s when the omega starts deep throating him, Jeongguk loses the semblance, “I’m gonna cum.” He warns, feeling the need to do so but Taehyung just hums again and hollows his cheeks around his shaft, eyes rolling back at how full his mouth feels.
Jeongguk moans at the feeling of the omega’s tight throat around his cock, eyes closing in concentration to chase his orgasm. Taehyung sucks, tongue lapping around the cum that spurts until there's a load of white and warm in his mouth and he gulps it down his throat.
Jeongguk’s fingernails softly scrape against Taehyung’s scalp while he sucks him to the last drop, until his dick falls soft in his hands.
The omega pulls away, lips fuller and redder as he wipes his mouth like one does after a good, appetizing meal and looks at Jeongguk who just opens his arms for him to fall into.
“Where did you learn that from?” Is the first thing Jeongguk asks and Taehyung giggles against his chest, “I have a collection of books and most of them are erotica. I have enough theoretical knowledge about this… stuff . It was my first time doing it, though.” Taehyung matches his eyes, “Was I good?”
Jeongguk kisses his lips, “More than just good, baby.”
With a happy giggle, Taehyung holds him close, “You called me by my name. I liked it, can you do that again sometimes?”
“Only if you call me by name too.” Jeongguk replies looking down at his omega with a fond smile.
“Is ‘Jeonggukie’ okay?” He asks, voice lower than a whisper, shy of raising it and Jeongguk chuckles.
“More than okay, Taehyungie.”
The omega lets out a shy squeal and hides his face in the alpha’s chest who holds him close with a broad smile.
My every breath is fragrant like a rose. Your love is like a moonlight that falls on my heart keeping it alight.
Jeongguk resists the urge to blush at the small note he received. Tomorrow is the full moon night and the alpha is busy with the many rituals of the pack before the mating ceremony, amidst which Yoongi sneakily handed him a note saying that Jimin gave it to him who got it from Taehyung.
Rightfully, the two haven’t seen each other after that night and spending a whole day without as much as a glimpse of his omega made him frenzied. If not for the omega’s scent all around his hut, he would have lost his mind.
This is the fifth note he has received from the omega, each one a little more romantic and cheesy than the other but he isn’t complaining. He loves when Taehyung declares his love for him so unabashedly. Makes him fall for Taehyung all over again.
Taehyung must have fallen sick or worse had his omega be weak if the alpha had not put his mark on his skin, partially claiming while fully claiming his heart. It’s the second day without the alpha and Taehyung must have gone crazy by now but the sweet stinging of the alpha’s mark on the sensitive skin of his inner thigh and the subtle scent of roses that wafts around him is keeping him sane.
A group of omegas are singing a folk song while they prepare the bath for Taehyung. He came to know it as a purity bath where with the help of milk, rose petals and turmeric they wash the omega of any impurities of both body and mind and prepare him for the mating ceremony which symbolizes a new life, a new start.
Nothing but a loincloth around his waist he sat in a beautifully painted clay tub decorated with flower petals floating on water.
The whole ceremony brings him utmost joy.
He misses Jeongguk a lot but while preparing for the mating night along with his heat already here he seems to not pay too much attention to the dull throb in his abdomen.
Taehyung blushes furiously when an omega rushes towards him and tells him that the heat hut has been decorated and ready for them to spend Taehyung’s heat in. He had chased the woman away but the thought made his belly coil and nerves act up.
Tonight, he’ll be Jeongguk’s mate. The thought alone makes electricity thrive in his veins.
The whole pack is decorated with fairy lights and flowers. The streets, houses and trees aglow with the lights while the folk songs were a distant hum in the cold night.
Taehyung is clad in a white hanbok with work of golden zari. It was the most beautiful hanbok he had ever seen and he immediately hugged his parents to express his happiness that his words weren’t able to.
His hair were held together with a golden stone accessory and trails of golden chain decked with small stone flowers hanging across the length of his hair and back.
A beautiful tinkle of his anklet resounded the place as he took a step out of the hut, a bouquet of roses clutched to his chest as he made his way towards the altar. Jimin held his hand tight, aware how it’s getting clammy.
The spicy fragrance of roses drowns out his own thick heat pheromones and soothes the ache in his body.
There’s a sheer white cloth held between them as Taehyung takes a seat on the floor cushion across from Jeongguk making his heart thud in his chest loudly. He couldn’t make out Jeongguk’s features due to the cloth and the dark night kept aglow with lanterns and fairy lights but it’s not like he tried.
He’s close to Jeongguk for the first time after their night together and no matter how much he wants to shove the memories aside, they resurface making a deep blush coat his cheeks.
The head omega recites some prayers to the moon goddess who shines bright in the dark sky along with millions of tiny stars. Rings are exchanged. Jeongguk holds his hand tighter than needed as he slips a beautiful ring on his fourth finger. His hands tremble only a little but the alpha’s hold grounds him.
Jeongguk’s breaths hitch which receives a lot of teasing from his family when the cloth is removed and he gets to see the omega for the first time in days.
Taehyung can’t bring himself to match his gaze just yet, lifting his eyes feels like the most difficult chore so he just keeps them lowered to his lap, feeling the alpha’s gaze all over him; hot and steady.
The alpha’s sitting cushion is placed a lot closer to the omega now given they have to perform the rituals that take place before the mating ceremony meal and after the garland exchange.
With a calm hum of the prayers being recited by the head omega, Jeongguk is presented a lotus flower to place it in his omega’s hair while Taehyung gives him the flowers he had with him. It’s recognised as the garland ceremony which symbolizes that they’re both accepting each other and welcoming one another in their lives. The flowers bless them so their mated life would be soft and fragrant like a flower.
“You look beautiful, moon.” Jeongguk whispers after putting a lotus in his hair. Taehyung’s lips betray him and stretch, unable to stop himself from smiling any wider Taehyung holds a hand to his mouth making people around them gush and coo.
There’s just something about tonight that’s making the two a lot shy and jittery around each other.
As the last of prayers are recited, thanking the moon goddess for being the witness of a beautiful bond being tied, cloves are presented to the omega.
Now, this makes his heart thud. He’s been a witness of this ceremony ever since he was a kid but now performing it himself in front of everyone is making his skin grow hot.
Jeongguk and his pack don't seem to know about this ritual, so Jimin takes it upon himself to explain it to everyone while the omega grows hot in the face all over again.
“In the pack we don’t let the couples kiss just like that. The omega is to hold a clove in his mouth, the flower pointing towards the alpha who is supposed to bite the clove flower off right from where the omega has it between his teeth.” Jimin’s teasing gaze found Jeongguk who just resisted the urge to blush as well.
They’ve kissed plenty of times but doing it among the onlookers makes their stomach flutter. He moves his golden and red hanbok out of the way to have the omega sit closer to him.
Without meeting his eyes, Taehyung holds the clove between his teeth, biting onto the very end of the clove which prompts Jimin to snicker, “Oh no Taehyungie, you’re supposed to bite the middle of the clove not the end. Come on, hold it properly. I know you know how to do it.”
Taehyung’s gaze says enough how he’s planning to disown Jimin but the omega doesn’t care as he makes him bite the middle, the clove flower now in his mouth instead of being a little over his lips.
For the first time tonight, he lifts his gaze to look at the alpha and the clove threatens to fall from between his teeth with the way he intakes a sharp breath.
His white hanbok embroidered with golden and red thread sitting snug on his beautifully built body gave him a royal look. His wavy bangs falling around his face and the bouquet Taehyung gave him now cradled in his lap. Everything about the alpha screams soft and delicate and it has the omega biting on the clove harder, threatening to break it.
“Ready, moon?” Jeongguk asks, leaning closer so that their noses are brushing. Taehyung holds his breath as if it’s their first time being so close to each other, his heart beats like he’s never had the alpha so close to him.
Taehyung’s eyes flutter close and he hums. Jeongguk cradles the side of his face in his warm palm and their lips brush. Taehyung’s hand rests over Jeongguk’s chest, resisting the urge to curl his hand in the silky fabric of his hanbok and pull him close in front of the whole pack.
Their lips slot and soon the happy giggles of the onlookers become a distant voice as Jeongguk’s scent surrounds him whole while his teeth brush past the clove. Taehyung pushes it and Jeongguk effortlessly bites the flower off and their lips close around each other.
His hand curls over Jeongguk’s chest as Taehyung kisses him back with a satisfied hum in the back of his throat as their minty breaths mingle and the spicy taste of the clove coats their tongues.
“I love you.” Jeongguk nestles their foreheads together. Taehyung bites down on his own bottom lip, suppressing the wide grin spreading on his lips.
Taehyung steals a peck which makes everyone around them coo a lot louder than before as he whispers back, “I love you, Jeonggukie.”
Their eyes meet and there’s a promise being shared, a promise to cherish each other like the sun cherishes the moon. A promise to love each other like the stars love the moon– always surrounding her, waiting for her religiously when she disappears. A promise to understand each other and be together through thick and thin. A promise to bare their souls with a trust that the other will understand.
As the night grows young and the couple find themselves wrapped around each other, closer than they’ve ever been. The sting of a forming mark sitting on their necks as they share another promise to stick by each other until death parts them, to love each other until the moon falls off the sky.
“I promise to love you more each day. Love you more than the ocean loves the moon, love you more than the moon loves the sky. Love you like the first time, like it's my first life. Love you like I have never loved before. Love you until I take my last breath.”