The Night is Never Over (Nox Aeterna III) | Jikook

The Night is Never Over (Nox Aeterna III)

The train journey may have taken well over an hour to get from the capital back to Jimin's university town, but there was less than a minute's interval between the omega stepping onto the platform, and him being tightly enveloped in the loving ginger-scented embrace of his ridiculously affectionate lover.

Jimin giggled as he was swept up into Jungkook's arms and hoisted into the air, his bag long-forgotten at their feet and his legs flailing uselessly in the air as the alpha twirled him around like a Disney prince. Jimin tried to say something to stop Jungkook from swinging him round endlessly like a ragdoll, but Jungkook was too busy planting noisy kisses on every inch of skin available to him to pay the small omega much mind. Eventually, though, Jimin did start to feel dizzy, and he tugged mindlessly at the brunet's slightly overlong hair, hoping the light sting of pain would have some effect.

"Put me down, Alpha, please. Otherwise I'll bite you again."

Jungkook slowed his movements, but didn't relax his tight grip around Jimin's waist. "Baby, how many times do I have to tell you? Don't threaten me with a good time."

Jimin extricated himself from Jungkook's needy embrace to slap his pectoral with mock-chastisement. "Alpha, please: you know you should only say those jokes at home, and not in the middle of a busy train station."

Jungkook winked lasciviously. "Baby, both you and I know that's not true - my taste for exhibition is only outstripped by yours."

Jimin shrieked in outrage and swatted Jungkook's chest again, causing the alpha to chortle even more loudly. They were obviously attracting attention, but Jungkook just as obviously didn't give a fuck: he'd once proclaimed proudly to Jimin that 'he was in love, and he didn't care who knew it', and the omega, for all his reserve, had been too endeared by Jungkook's unabashed openness to mind the mild embarrassment all that much: it was a small price to pay.

Going from exasperation to fondness in a nanosecond upon witnessing (again) Jungkook's truly uncaring attitude toward naysayers, Jimin's small hands crept up from Jungkook's shoulders to his neck, where he started playing with the baby hairs curling at the nape. He looked deeply into the alpha's starlit eyes, re-memorising all the details he'd only seen through FaceTime over the past fortnight or so. When the blond spoke, it was with utmost seriousness and affection.

"Alpha, I've reallymissed you."

"Oh, baby, you have no idea how much I've missed you." Jungkook then gazed searchingly at Jimin, his alert eyes roving over the omega's elfin face. "But...how's your week been? I'm worried: you look tired."

The omega smiled ruefully. "I am a little tired. It's been a tough week."

God, was that the understatement of the century: the omega was in his second month of full-time employment at a prestigious publishing company, and the experience so far had been a stressful combination of 6am alarms, information overload, and snippy, not particularly friendly colleagues. Plus, after almost a year of practically being in each other's pockets, Jimin had struggled to cope with the Jungkook-shaped hole in his life since his move to the capital. He knew the Alpha felt similarly, because the brunet had been texting him incessantly despite his jam-packed schedule, sending routine morning, lunch, and evening selfies, but even the knowledge that they were in the same boat hadn't been enough - it just made his yearning even more acute.

Jimin would've been alarmed by the way his inner Omega was constantly rioting at his Alpha's absence, terrified that he'd let Jungkook into his heart so thoroughly that he would be devastated if the relationship soured, but Jungkook and his inner Alpha seemed equally besotted, and, sick as it sounded, there was something...comforting in that. So, instead of worrying too much about his increasing dependency on his Alpha, Jimin decided to focus on making sure that he felt the deprivation as little as possible, carefully scheduling his weekends and work leave so that he could judiciously split his time between his family, his friends, his own self-care, and Jungkook.