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“hey, tae”
taehyung and jungkook were huddled together on namjoon’s bed. they had just finished the latest episode of yuri on ice on jungkook’s phone. taehyung connected his own phone to jungkook’s charger as he replied,
“yeah?”
“do you want to go record a christmas cover with me?” taehyung looked at him quizzically “like right now?”,
“like right now, right now”
they both giggled and an “okay” fell off taehyung’s lips.
less than ten minutes later they were shoving on boots and gloves at the doorway.
“and where are you two going?” namjoon called from the couch,
“to record some things” taehyung called back, while tugging a beanie on to jungkook’s head while the boy laced up his timberlands.
“you can use my studio” namjoon smiled,
“thanks hyung” jungkook cheered,
“bring masks” jimin insisted from the kitchen.
“okay mom” taehyung replied grabbing two and pushing jungkook out the door.
the walk there was fast and careful. their was a gap between them and they kept their heads down and frequently fixed their masks, avoiding all eye contact with anyone until they reached the building. that didn’t stop them from quietly humming all of the christmas songs they knew on the way.
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after messing around in the studio for almost five hours, they managed to cover not one but two songs; the iconic ‘all i want for christmas’ by ‘mariah-sunbaenim’ and after taehyung’s relentless begging they covered ‘begin’ as a duet as well. they even left a couple easter egg voice recordings in obscure files for namjoon to find later.
the walk home, taehyung realised, was much slower even though the cold biting at them. there was no one else in the streets and very few cars went by. seoul never sleeps but right now, at ass o’clock in the morning on the 20th of december, taehyung thought, it was pretty damn close.
the walk home had them both wrapped up tightly, with jungkook tucked into taehyung’s side, their arms linked. their breaths puffed in small clouds in front of them into the winter air, and a quick glance at jungkook showed his face was red from the cold. taehyung squeezed their elbows together and jungkook glanced at their arms before meeting his eyes with a smile. lights reflected in his brown eyes and taehyung looked around to see someone had left their christmas lights on. they slowed down and gazed up.
on the second floor of an apartment building through the ceiling to floor window, they could see soft yellow-white lights clinging to a tree, reflecting off shiny red baubles and tinsel, and more lights strung up along the top of the window, both emitting a warm glow. they both sighed. taehyung looked up to the clear sky, his hood falling down and jungkook followed his gaze.
they paused and just looked into the night, their breaths billowing upwards. there weren’t many stars, taehyung could probably count them and he internally cursed at seoul's light pollution.
“it’s pretty” jungkook muttered, teeth chattering softly,
and yeah, taehyung thought, despite the small amount the ones that shone were no less beautiful.
he sighed again and started to walk again.
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taehyung’s fingers and toes were numb and he could practically see the frost forming on the ground, but in the moment he didn’t care. they ambled at a soft pace in relative silence but it was nice. he could feel jungkook’s heat off his arm, pleasantly spreading to his shoulder. taehyung couldn’t help but think if they were in an alternative universe maybe he’d be swinging their interlaced fingers or maybe even have his face pressed against jungkook's shoulder as he carried him on his back all the way home. but taehyung didn’t dwell on it, he was happy with what he had and smiled at the thought.
jungkook caught his expression and poked fun at him “what are you thinking about?” he wiggled his eyebrows and pointed at himself.
“not you, loser, just about how many tits i would’ve frozen off by now” and jungkook giggled
“oh probably in the 4000s edging 4600 tits by now i would say”
“really i was thinking more in the 7000 zone”
“weirdo” jungkook teased, earning a punch to his shoulder from taehyung.
jungkook jumped away and stood like a boxer and jokingly threw a few punches to the air.
“hey” taehyung pouted,
“what?” jungkook paused, lowering his fists.
“it’s cold” he murmured mostly to himself,
a laugh escaped jungkook and he slung his arm over taehyung’s shoulder and pulled him close. on instinct taehyung’s arm curled around Jungkook’s waist and he let out a sigh.
maybe things didn’t have to be in an alternative universe.
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they didn’t detach from each other until they were standing outside of the dorm door. jungkook pulled the keys out of his pocket fumbling to unlock the door. taehyung stood beside him rubbing his hands together and stomping his feet, admiring the wreath on their door. taehyung heard jungkook curse under his breath and drop the keys. he picked them up and tried again but this time taehyung’s hand rested on top of jungkook’s and /miraculously/ his hand stopped shaking and they door clicked.
taehyung silently barged in and ran to reset the alarm before the robotic women’s voice woke up the whole dorm. they then proceeded to shuck off their heavy layers.
“it’s so cold” they said in unison hugging their arms to their bodies.
“i’m not hungry” jungkook whispered,
“neither” taehyung replied,
and so they made their way to the bedrooms.
taehyung’s hand was on the doorknob to the sunshine line bedroom door when he realised.
“jungkook, my phone”
“oh yeah”
taehyung followed him inside closing the door behind him. when their eyes met in the darkness, they came to nonverbal agreement. namjoon was in a deep sleep, mouth opened and snoring lightly. jungkook took a step closer and pulled taehyung in for a hug, taehyung hugged back instantly. after a minute jungkook breathed a “thank you” into taehyung’s shoulder and taehyung smiled although not quite sure what he was thanking him for.
they broke apart and took off the last of their clothes staying in just a tshirt and boxers. jungkook finished and climbed up to his bed and pulled taehyung’s phone out from his charger.
“jungkook yah” he heard taehyung whisper,
“what?” he replied looking down at taehyung who was standing stock still.
“could i um..” he paused, “borrow some” another pause, “underwear?” he said weakly.
jungkook could hear the embarrassment in his voice and almost spluttered, but a “yeah sure” came out instead.
when taehyung finally crawled up to join him, jungkook opened the duvet and whispered “quick”. taehyung got the cue and dove under the duvet trying to retain some of the heat jungkook had made. jungkook draped the duvet back over him keeping his arm around taehyung. taehyung moved closer and snuggled his head into jungkook’s shoulder and rested a hand on jungkook’s hip.
“tae” jungkook whispered against his temple,
“yeah”
“were you going commando?”
taehyung hissed and slapped his shoulder but jungkook could feel the heat off his cheeks. jungkook giggled and taehyung humphed and turned around so his back faced jungkook. jungkook smiled and slipped his arms around him and pulled him closer to spoon.
“cute” jungkook mumbled into taehyung’s hair.
taehyung blushed and waited a lengthy silence filled only with breathing before whispering “cuter”
taehyung could feel jungkook’s heart beat faster and he cooed internally. he placed his hands on top of jungkook’s and whispered, “g’night”
but jungkook was already dozing off.
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the next morning, after letting the maknaes have a lengthy sleep in, the rest of the members piled into the room and namjoon pulled the duvet off them. they were still entangled and the hyung’s smiled fondly before jimin noticed
“KIM TAEHYUNG ARE THOSE JEON JUNGKOOK’S UNDERWEAR!!”
chaos erupted around the hyungs but taehyung only cracked open an eye before turning around, jungkook automatically wrapping his arms around him.
“welp” yoongi commented and walked out of the room.
“i second that” hobi said following out.
“thirded” jimin yelled jumping on the bandwagon.
jin pulled the covers back over them before grabbing namjoon’s hand, interlacing their fingers “fourth and fifthed” he sighed as namjoon closed the door once more.
a few more hours wouldn’t harm them.