Closer and closer the steps reached until it suddenly came to a stop once the door was opened. Jimin believed it was just one of his caring servants, but the longer the silent pause took, the more Jimin began to doubt it. Instantly, his father's scent reached his nose and caused the omega to feel nauseous from the scent that became stronger compared to before. With that, Jimin slowly looked up at his father in pain before his blood began to boil once more.
"W-What do you... you want now? Do you have another al-alpha to marry me off to?!" Jimin hissed and frantically tried to dry every tear so he wouldn't be seen so little by his father.
"What's wrong with you?" Asked the father worryingly. Normally, he didn't care what the omega felt and only knew how to force many things onto his life. However, this was different. Mr. Park was different and only offered security and comfort. Not another marriage Jimin was bound to get out of.
"Why do you care? All you've ever done was cause me pain! I'm so stubborn, so selfish and frustrated because of the way I was made! You made me this way and now I don't know what to do with myself..." cried the omega. The heat of his blood only doubled as he shifted from crying, to arguing in seconds. With this, the minister began to pick up an off scent to Jimin. It was a mixture of sweet and a strong scent that was completely foreign to him.
"You're-" the father then strayed away from speaking his mind and tossed the foreign scent away. He let out an exhale and focused on caring for his son instead of picking on him.
The way Jihyun spoke to him before, opened his eyes to realize that Jimin was harmed every moment he spoke to him and he couldn't care less to ask him if he was alright. After many daggers shot at him, Jimin's scars were still visible to this day. Because of his father, Jimin became a selfish and stubborn omega when it came to the things he wanted in life. He was always given them in his hands without asking, so when it came down to arguing with Jungkook over the power of the decision, Jimin wouldn't let it go. He wanted what he couldn't keep.
With silence surrounding the room with anger as the decor, the father exhaled and finally stepped closer to the omega. Despite the change to the swan's scent, Mr. Park didn't try to yell at the boy for it, rather, he kept Jihyun's words in mind and finally allowed the side that cared about his son, stand in the light.
Once he approached Jimin, the omega's eyes widened as he began to press his body against the wall; fearing what his father would do next. Was he going to grab him by the hair again? Was he going to yell at him and lecture him once more? Or was he going to present Jimin the new alpha he intends for him to marry? Whichever it was, Jimin's nails dug into the fabric of his hanbok and feared what came next.
Suddenly, the minister wrapped his arms around Jimin and gave him a gentle hug. A shiver as cold as ice raced down Jimin's spine as his hands were held up once his strict father finally embraced him. His gaze became blurry with more tears daring to fall as he finally felt the gentle touch of his horrifying father. The feeling became bittersweet in seconds. Jimin couldn't tell if this was reality or if he couldn't even believe this was happening. He thought there were strings attached to this, but the longer the embrace took, the longer Jimin felt his guards being lowered.
This was his father, his strict father who never cared about the omega's feelings before. But now, here he was: hugging him, comforting him without asking too much or yelling at him. As abusive his father was, Jimin was confused on what to believe. Suddenly, he began to sob once his father held him close. Just as the father kept his head over Jimin's shoulder, his eyes fixed onto the top of the beautiful boy's mating mark.
"I... I haven't been very kind to you, my son," said Mr. Park, looking at the rare dents along Jimin's mating mark. Yet, he didn't say another word about it at all. "I no longer want to force anything onto you. You don't have to be who I want you to be, you can now be your own person. Independent, free, you can love who you want. As long as they are not lower class alphas. No matter what, that's how life is, I want you to be smart, Jimin. And most importantly, I want you to be strong."
Those caring words made the omega slowly move his hands up to hug his father in return. His breathing hitched and his arms wrapped around the minister to share the long awaited embrace they both needed to feel. Jimin couldn't recall the last time his father held him like this... and even the father himself couldn't remember the last time he spoke careful words to his son. But now, Jimin knew that he had to appreciate the moment he had with his father.
"Why are you... why are you doing this...? Why are you being so kind to me? Why n-now?" Jimin sobbed in his father's arms. "Where were you before...? W-Where?"
"I was so blinded by the thought of perfection, I forgot how it felt to comfort you; my son, my first born son..." the minister whispered and pulled away to look Jimin in the eyes. "I wanted nothing more but to give you the world... and I failed at that terribly. I made you into something so stubborn, so difficult, I'm sorry."
"Do you know how much pain I've been through? Being told every day that my worth did not matter until I was married? Father, for the longest I thought you hated the idea that your first born son was an omega and not an alpha! I thought you never cared about me compared to how much you cared for Jihyun, I was created into something I now hate about myself. Being made into a stubborn boy from the way you treated me," Jimin cried and longed to hesitate on his words, but the way he looked at his father's familiar stares, it brought out every part in him to speak out.
"I never wanted you to feel as if you did not matter. Jimin, I only wanted you to have everything but I ended up taking away so much from you. From now on, you will live the life you want. I will no longer pressure you into being perfect. Jihyun begged me to hold him higher, but now I know how harsh I could be. I don't want to hurt any of you."
His caring words soothed Jimin's worries for the moment, but it wasn't enough to help the pain he still felt in his heart after arguing with his alpha. Jimin wanted to talk to someone about the king and how awful he was towards him, but he knew better to tell his father about the whole story. Jimin knew the older man was sorry and sat there to comfort him in every way, but trusting him was going to be difficult after the abuse he suffered from him. He just couldn't let his father know so much as if there weren't many issues standing in their way.
Just as the minister dried his son's tears, his scent alone seemed to make Jimin nauseous. He closed his eyes tightly and turned away to cover his mouth. The sudden urge to throw up seemed to haunt him further. The sudden scent of his father becoming so nauseating to his sensitive nose, the endless tears he shed all day, and the shift of his scent was enough to make the elder question, but never pressure Jimin to answer.
Instantly, Jimin cupped his mouth and exhaled heavily. He tried to keep it in, but it was too much to hold back since his father was sitting too close.
"Father..." Jimin whispered and looked away. "Please, I would like to be alone.."
Of course, Mr. Park didn't understand why he was acting this way after such a moment, but he didn't know much about omegas to stay and ask if he was alright. The only things that stuck out to the older man was the fact that Jimin's normal scent no longer seemed the same and there was such a peculiar mark on his neck. The minister knew Jimin must have been marked, but in order to gain the trust of his son and allow Jimin to turn to him whenever, he had to let these things go. No matter what Jimin did, Mr. Park never wanted to make the swan feel as if he didn't matter in this world.
"Okay."
That simple and honest response was enough to make Jimin smile to himself as he watched his father stand up and leave the room. No arguments, no scolding, just the two finally patching things up and understanding each other. Jimin wanted to fully trust him, but he knew he had yet to finally re-build his relationship with his father. Until then, they had yet to walk before they could run.
By the next day, the sun had yet to rise for the morning. It was still dark outside when Jimin suddenly woke up with the same nausea from before. He was able to sleep through the feeling after his father's scent left him feeling as if he longed to throw up. The night was long as he cried himself to sleep due to the pain on his neck, his chest, and his heart where only thoughts of Jungkook wandered around so freely.
Jimin sat up and panted to himself. He knew this was different, the sensitivity to scents and his nausea only doubled in the mornings. The swan longed to reach Taehyung's residence to receive answers, but he alone feared the worst.
"Ah... another morning with the same feeling..." Jimin thought as his hand shot up to cover his mouth before he leaned forward to face the hard ground. "I-I don't feel well... is it Jungkook? Is he nauseous as well? Is that how it works? I don't know what's happening to me!" Jimin complained in his mind so no one else could hear him. "Maybe if I could just sleep this off again, it won't-"
As quick as he thought he could finish those words in his mind, he suddenly threw up against the ground right by the covers to his bed made over the ground. He huffed after and suddenly felt a sting over his neck. Everything confused Jimin at the moment. He longed to ponder these questionable actions further, but even he himself didn't know what this meant. With the fear of what he had marching around in his mind, he wanted to keep this to himself.
"Am I sick...? Am I going to die? What about Jungkook?!" Jimin whispered and moved away from the ground he threw up on. "I'm going to die and Jungkook will never see me again!"
While the omega panicked, he stood up and hoped to find a nearby remedy underneath the folds of his hanboks neatly placed over a low table. But as he desperately searched for a medical infusion. He stumbled upon the bottle of the empty elixir Taehyung gave him before to avoid becoming pregnant. Ever since that day, he made sure he took the infusion after sharing a passionate moment with his alpha. However, something in the back of Jimin's mind worried that it wouldn't work... but deep down, he hoped it did.
"I took it properly... there's no way," Jimin assured himself and kept searching for any remedies within his room. Hoping to avoid letting anyone else know about his constant morning sicknesses.