PART TWO: YOU HAVE WINGS?!
Taehyung's apartment was small.
One bedroom. One couch. Way too many plants.
Jungkook discovered the plants were Taehyung's obsession approximately three minutes after entering.
"Don't touch that one."
Jungkook immediately pulled his hand back.
"Why?"
"It's poisonous."
"Oh."
Jungkook looked at another.
"And that?"
"Also poisonous."
"The one by the window?"
"Extremely poisonous."
Jungkook stared at him.
"Do you own anything that isn't poisonous?"
"My noodles."
"Finally."
Taehyung laughed.
It was the first time Jungkook had heard it.
He liked it. A lot.
They ate noodles sitting on the floor.
Then Jungkook's hoodie shifted.
Taehyung noticed.
"What was that?"
Jungkook froze.
"What?"
"Under your hoodie."
"Nothing."
"Jungkook."
"You know my name?"
"You work downstairs."
"Oh."
"You've been there for eight months."
Jungkook stared.
"You've noticed me?"
Taehyung looked away.
"Hard not to."
Jungkook smiled.
Later that night, after Taehyung had fallen asleep on the couch, Jungkook stood by the window.
He carefully removed the straps beneath his hoodie.
His wings unfolded.
Black. Small. Beautiful. And painfully stiff.
He stretched them.
One wing knocked over a plant. Jungkook winced.
"...Oops."
Taehyung opened one eye.
"What was that?"
"Nothing."
The second wing knocked over a lamp.
Taehyung sat upright.
"Dude."
Jungkook froze.
"You have wings."
"Technically."
"YOU HAVE WINGS."
"Keep your voice down!"
"You're a dragon?!"
"Hybrid."
"That's worse!"
"How is that worse?!"
Taehyung stared at him. Jungkook stared back.
Then Taehyung started laughing.
Jungkook crossed his arms.
"It's not funny."
"I'm sorry."
He wasn't.
"You've been living above me for eight months."
"Yeah."
"And you're a dragon."
"Yeah."
"And I thought you had a skin condition."
Jungkook smiled.
"Honestly? That's what I was hoping you'd think."
Taehyung walked closer.
He reached toward one of the wings.
"Can I-"
"No."
"Okay."
Jungkook softened.
"...You can."
Taehyung touched the edge.
His fingers immediately pulled back.
"Warm."
Jungkook smiled.
"Yeah."
Then the wing moved. It wrapped around Taehyung.
Taehyung froze.
"Jungkook."
"They have feelings."
"They just knocked over my entire bookshelf."
"They like you."
The wing tightened gently.
Taehyung swallowed.
"...They're warm."
Jungkook's smile faded.
"Yeah."
Taehyung whispered... "Stay like this."
Jungkook blinked.
"For a second."
Jungkook didn't move.
Neither did Taehyung.
And neither of them knew that somewhere between the warmth of dragon wings and the cold of vampire skin, they had already started falling in love.
