The World You Want is All Yours, for itachibana13
Title: The World You Want is All Yours
Recipient: itachibana13
Characters: OT7
Rating: PG
Warnings: Minor Character Death
Summary: Superpowers AU. Seokjin grumbles, and Taehyung doesn't think its that big of a deal.
Seokjin cries a lot, but Taehyung doesn't think its that big of a deal. Well, it might be. He can remember it being one when it first started. It seems like a long time ago now, he knows its not, in the scale of things. His scales just been a little messed up.
Things started changing for him earlier than they had for Seokjin, at least that's what Seokjin tells him when they first find each other. Taehyung had only been seventeen, but he wasn't scared. Well, maybe he was. He just wasn't as scared as Seokjin.
The first thing to change was his eyes. The red in his left eye had been copper at first, almost indiscernible from their regular brown, but in his right eye he wasn't so lucky. The blue swirling in his iris stood out too much. He thought about trying an eye patch, he always thought being a pirate might be cool, but people had already noticed by then.
People noticing was really the thing you had to worry about.
Seokjin was even less lucky than him. Pigmentation changing could kind of be explained, but starting to disappear around the edges was another matter.
Seokjin says there was no one to explain it to him when it started. There hadn't been anything like this in his family as far back as anyone could remember. Taehyung thinks about telling him its possible they were lying, but Seokjin needs something to believe in. He needs to believe they live away from all their family and old friends because its the only choice they have, not because no one wants them around.
Taehyung's mom had explained it to him, sort of. It started with her shrieking that he was a freak like her brother, and ended with him on the sidewalk. Sort of an explanation. Taehyung at least knew about his uncle, even if he wasn't supposed to.
He tried to use it for the first time that night. He'd reached his hand out and grasped the mail box in front of his mother's home, concentrating harder than he'd ever had in his life. Unfortunately he forgot which hand was which, and all his right hand did was freeze it shut. In December that hardly mattered. Revenge wasn't really his thing anyway.
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Seokjin tries to teach him about control after Taehyung nearly torches the squat they're living in. He doesn't think its that big of a deal, after all, he'd put it out right away. Of course, that just meant everything was frozen instead of on fire. Maybe he needs to know a little about control, but Seokjin probably isn't the best person to teach him about it considering he still accidentally disappears whenever he gets frightened.
Its different, Seokjin had snapped, I can't accidentally kill anyone by turning invisible, now can I?
Taehyung maybe thinks that's a big deal. Maybe. Its hard to think things are a big deal when you spend night after night running away from everyone, trying to get enough to eat and a somewhat dry place to sleep.
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Seokjin hates stealing. Not just kind of hates it, but really passionately hates it. Taehyung doesn't get it, its not like he can get caught when they can't see him. If he concentrates hard enough Seokjin can make the things he touches invisible too. They could walk out of stores with warm clothes and food and no one would be the wiser.
They compromise, sort of. Seokjin holds onto Taehyung, who shoves everything in a bag and leads them around the store because Seokjin refuses to keep his eyes open. Out of sight, out of mind, or something like that. The problem is that keeping both of them and their loot bag invisible takes a lot out of Seokjin, so they can only steal things when they know they have somewhere safe to sleep already.
Seokjin sleeps a lot after they steal, enough where it makes Taehyung nervous. Seokjin taught him that staying in one place for too long is dangerous. There's not a lot that Seokjin says that he takes too seriously, but there's enough cautionary tales that he takes this one seriously.
-
Before Taehyung, Seokjin has roamed around with another boy. He was younger than him too, but he was a charmer. He got them into hotel rooms for the night, got them free food, and whatever else they could possibly need. Living with Yoongi had been nicer than living with his own parents in some ways, there was nothing Yoongi couldn't get for them.
Yoongi is his cautionary tale. He's the kind where the character in the story gets too cocky, and uses his all self-assurance to do nothing but get himself in trouble. Seokjin can't remember if any of the stories end as brutally as Yoongi's, so he tends to leave out the details. Its hard to remember all of them anyway, not when he'd taken one look at what was left of his small body and run for it.
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Taehyung didn't hear too much about what happened to people like him before he knew he what he was. No one really wants to talk about it, either because they feel guilty or they're just as scared as the people who set out at night to kill people who defy nature. Taehyung thinks the whole thing is silly. If they're defying nature, then how come they're born this way?
When Seokjin tells him about Yoongi he leaves out all the gristly details, but Taehyung can guess how awful it was by the way Seokjin's edges start to blur.
Its nothing we should talk about anyway, Seokjin tells him, I don't want to jinx us.
Seokjin smiles like he means it, but the way his body is slowly disappearing tells Taehyung he's not worried about being jinxed, he just can't stand to live through it again.
They're already jinxed anyway.
-
Taehyung learns control eventually. He wishes he could make water instead of ice, but he gets good enough at it to clasp his hands together and have water flow from them. Seokjin is unreasonably proud of him, but it makes things easier when they can have hot or cold water whenever they want it.
-
They meet Hoseok in the summer. He's so friendly it makes Seokjin uncomfortable, he's learned not to trust people quickly. Taehyung likes Hoseok immediately.
Hoseok says he can change people's moods. Taehyung doesn't believe him at first, tells him he has to prove it. When Taehyung started crying uncontrollably on a park bench in the middle of the day, with people looking, he believed him. He'd punched Hoseok hard enough, once he was back to normal, that Hoseok had had a giant bruise on his arm. It wasn't very satisfying, it faded almost as quickly as it appeared.
Seokjin had grumbled and complained about people needing to feel the way they feel. Hoseok is so good natured he doesn't do anything but smile. Seokjin stops complaining when Hoseok heals his summer cold anyway.
Hoseok comes with Jungkook, who looks too young to have matured enough to have any powers yet. Seokjin frets about him constantly, though truly there's nothing to fret about. Jungkook is, well, he's probably better off than any of them.
They stick together because Seokjin says the more the merrier. Taehyung isn't sure he's right, and he hates when Seokjin uses cliches like that. He likes the other two too much to really complain about the extra people.
They even each other out, in good ways and in bad ways. They all get too goofy sometimes, and Seokjin isn't loud enough or mean enough to get them to calm down. Its dangerous, sure, but they're all still kids. They should play around a little.
-
Runs to the store are made much easier with Jungkook and Hoseok around. Hoseok doesn't really have to try to hard to make the people around him calm, and even if it makes Seokjin mad he appreciates it in the moment.
Jungkook pipes up one day that he can do it instead, all Seokjin has to do is sit outside the store. He says as long as a persons close enough for him to tell how their power feels he can use it. Taehyung doesn't get it, his power doesn't feel one way or another, but he supposes if he could use someone else's it might. Seokjin grumbles about it, same as always, says he doesn't feel right about Jungkook shoplifting, he's just a kid. Jungkook smiles about that a lot, somewhere between mocking and pleased. Not a lot of people think about them as just kids, even if that's really all they are. Just kids who can do some stuff other kids can't.
Hoseok and Taehyung always wait down the block, just in case. Although he's not too sure what they'd do if anything happened. Hoseok could convince someone not to do anything bad, he supposes, but all he could do is, well, its like Seokjin says. He could kill someone. He'd much rather make hot water for tea, or be the best at building snowmen even when there's no snow.
Nothing ever happens anyway. Seokjin says they're just lucky, and Taehyung throws an arm around his shoulders because he knows that they're just lucky is Seokjin's way of saying he's still scared.
-
They don't meet Jimin really, he just sort of falls onto them. Taehyung has never heard anyone scream as loud as Seokjin had in that moment.
Jimin apologizes a lot, between his laughter. Sometimes when he falls asleep, he says, he can't control himself and he goes oozing everywhere. Seokjin doesn't think its very funny, but Hoseok and Jungkook are already seeing how far they can pull Jimin's arms from his body.
You have no bones! Seokjin had screeched, and if Hoseok weren't radiating so much glee he might've cried all night. Taehyung thinks being human silly putty is possibly the dumbest thing ever, but he'll admit that pulling Jimin's body around is kind of fun.
Jimin becomes the new baby, a spot Jungkook easily gives up. He's not younger, but he acts like it often enough for them to forget. Jimin yells at Jungkook a lot for not respecting his elders, to which Seokjin always points out the no one respects him enough and he's the oldest.
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The last person they meet brings them all together. No one really knows what it is that Namjoon can do, but they know what he's good at. He stops Seokjin from tearing his hair out, stops Jimin from tearing Jungkook's hair out. He's good at being around them, at staying calm when they're all screaming, from laughter or from fear.
Namjoon makes them all fit with each other nicer than they had before they met him, and eventually they can't even remember when he wasn't there.
-
Taehyung doesn't think about his home much, the home he had before he started changing. Sometimes he wonders if his mother thinks about him, and if she does whether its with disgust or guilt. He thinks about his bed, it had been terribly comfortable. Mostly he doesn't think about it all, it doesn't even really seem like home is the right word for it anymore. Its just a place he lived that he'd been forced to leave when something he couldn't control happened, but he'd met Seokjin. He'd met Seokjin, and then Hoseok and Jungkook, Jimin and Namjoon. Now it doesn't seem right to call anything home but wherever the six of them are.
Recipient: itachibana13
Characters: OT7
Rating: PG
Warnings: Minor Character Death
Summary: Superpowers AU. Seokjin grumbles, and Taehyung doesn't think its that big of a deal.
Seokjin cries a lot, but Taehyung doesn't think its that big of a deal. Well, it might be. He can remember it being one when it first started. It seems like a long time ago now, he knows its not, in the scale of things. His scales just been a little messed up.
Things started changing for him earlier than they had for Seokjin, at least that's what Seokjin tells him when they first find each other. Taehyung had only been seventeen, but he wasn't scared. Well, maybe he was. He just wasn't as scared as Seokjin.
The first thing to change was his eyes. The red in his left eye had been copper at first, almost indiscernible from their regular brown, but in his right eye he wasn't so lucky. The blue swirling in his iris stood out too much. He thought about trying an eye patch, he always thought being a pirate might be cool, but people had already noticed by then.
People noticing was really the thing you had to worry about.
Seokjin was even less lucky than him. Pigmentation changing could kind of be explained, but starting to disappear around the edges was another matter.
Seokjin says there was no one to explain it to him when it started. There hadn't been anything like this in his family as far back as anyone could remember. Taehyung thinks about telling him its possible they were lying, but Seokjin needs something to believe in. He needs to believe they live away from all their family and old friends because its the only choice they have, not because no one wants them around.
Taehyung's mom had explained it to him, sort of. It started with her shrieking that he was a freak like her brother, and ended with him on the sidewalk. Sort of an explanation. Taehyung at least knew about his uncle, even if he wasn't supposed to.
He tried to use it for the first time that night. He'd reached his hand out and grasped the mail box in front of his mother's home, concentrating harder than he'd ever had in his life. Unfortunately he forgot which hand was which, and all his right hand did was freeze it shut. In December that hardly mattered. Revenge wasn't really his thing anyway.
-
Seokjin tries to teach him about control after Taehyung nearly torches the squat they're living in. He doesn't think its that big of a deal, after all, he'd put it out right away. Of course, that just meant everything was frozen instead of on fire. Maybe he needs to know a little about control, but Seokjin probably isn't the best person to teach him about it considering he still accidentally disappears whenever he gets frightened.
Its different, Seokjin had snapped, I can't accidentally kill anyone by turning invisible, now can I?
Taehyung maybe thinks that's a big deal. Maybe. Its hard to think things are a big deal when you spend night after night running away from everyone, trying to get enough to eat and a somewhat dry place to sleep.
-
Seokjin hates stealing. Not just kind of hates it, but really passionately hates it. Taehyung doesn't get it, its not like he can get caught when they can't see him. If he concentrates hard enough Seokjin can make the things he touches invisible too. They could walk out of stores with warm clothes and food and no one would be the wiser.
They compromise, sort of. Seokjin holds onto Taehyung, who shoves everything in a bag and leads them around the store because Seokjin refuses to keep his eyes open. Out of sight, out of mind, or something like that. The problem is that keeping both of them and their loot bag invisible takes a lot out of Seokjin, so they can only steal things when they know they have somewhere safe to sleep already.
Seokjin sleeps a lot after they steal, enough where it makes Taehyung nervous. Seokjin taught him that staying in one place for too long is dangerous. There's not a lot that Seokjin says that he takes too seriously, but there's enough cautionary tales that he takes this one seriously.
-
Before Taehyung, Seokjin has roamed around with another boy. He was younger than him too, but he was a charmer. He got them into hotel rooms for the night, got them free food, and whatever else they could possibly need. Living with Yoongi had been nicer than living with his own parents in some ways, there was nothing Yoongi couldn't get for them.
Yoongi is his cautionary tale. He's the kind where the character in the story gets too cocky, and uses his all self-assurance to do nothing but get himself in trouble. Seokjin can't remember if any of the stories end as brutally as Yoongi's, so he tends to leave out the details. Its hard to remember all of them anyway, not when he'd taken one look at what was left of his small body and run for it.
-
Taehyung didn't hear too much about what happened to people like him before he knew he what he was. No one really wants to talk about it, either because they feel guilty or they're just as scared as the people who set out at night to kill people who defy nature. Taehyung thinks the whole thing is silly. If they're defying nature, then how come they're born this way?
When Seokjin tells him about Yoongi he leaves out all the gristly details, but Taehyung can guess how awful it was by the way Seokjin's edges start to blur.
Its nothing we should talk about anyway, Seokjin tells him, I don't want to jinx us.
Seokjin smiles like he means it, but the way his body is slowly disappearing tells Taehyung he's not worried about being jinxed, he just can't stand to live through it again.
They're already jinxed anyway.
-
Taehyung learns control eventually. He wishes he could make water instead of ice, but he gets good enough at it to clasp his hands together and have water flow from them. Seokjin is unreasonably proud of him, but it makes things easier when they can have hot or cold water whenever they want it.
-
They meet Hoseok in the summer. He's so friendly it makes Seokjin uncomfortable, he's learned not to trust people quickly. Taehyung likes Hoseok immediately.
Hoseok says he can change people's moods. Taehyung doesn't believe him at first, tells him he has to prove it. When Taehyung started crying uncontrollably on a park bench in the middle of the day, with people looking, he believed him. He'd punched Hoseok hard enough, once he was back to normal, that Hoseok had had a giant bruise on his arm. It wasn't very satisfying, it faded almost as quickly as it appeared.
Seokjin had grumbled and complained about people needing to feel the way they feel. Hoseok is so good natured he doesn't do anything but smile. Seokjin stops complaining when Hoseok heals his summer cold anyway.
Hoseok comes with Jungkook, who looks too young to have matured enough to have any powers yet. Seokjin frets about him constantly, though truly there's nothing to fret about. Jungkook is, well, he's probably better off than any of them.
They stick together because Seokjin says the more the merrier. Taehyung isn't sure he's right, and he hates when Seokjin uses cliches like that. He likes the other two too much to really complain about the extra people.
They even each other out, in good ways and in bad ways. They all get too goofy sometimes, and Seokjin isn't loud enough or mean enough to get them to calm down. Its dangerous, sure, but they're all still kids. They should play around a little.
-
Runs to the store are made much easier with Jungkook and Hoseok around. Hoseok doesn't really have to try to hard to make the people around him calm, and even if it makes Seokjin mad he appreciates it in the moment.
Jungkook pipes up one day that he can do it instead, all Seokjin has to do is sit outside the store. He says as long as a persons close enough for him to tell how their power feels he can use it. Taehyung doesn't get it, his power doesn't feel one way or another, but he supposes if he could use someone else's it might. Seokjin grumbles about it, same as always, says he doesn't feel right about Jungkook shoplifting, he's just a kid. Jungkook smiles about that a lot, somewhere between mocking and pleased. Not a lot of people think about them as just kids, even if that's really all they are. Just kids who can do some stuff other kids can't.
Hoseok and Taehyung always wait down the block, just in case. Although he's not too sure what they'd do if anything happened. Hoseok could convince someone not to do anything bad, he supposes, but all he could do is, well, its like Seokjin says. He could kill someone. He'd much rather make hot water for tea, or be the best at building snowmen even when there's no snow.
Nothing ever happens anyway. Seokjin says they're just lucky, and Taehyung throws an arm around his shoulders because he knows that they're just lucky is Seokjin's way of saying he's still scared.
-
They don't meet Jimin really, he just sort of falls onto them. Taehyung has never heard anyone scream as loud as Seokjin had in that moment.
Jimin apologizes a lot, between his laughter. Sometimes when he falls asleep, he says, he can't control himself and he goes oozing everywhere. Seokjin doesn't think its very funny, but Hoseok and Jungkook are already seeing how far they can pull Jimin's arms from his body.
You have no bones! Seokjin had screeched, and if Hoseok weren't radiating so much glee he might've cried all night. Taehyung thinks being human silly putty is possibly the dumbest thing ever, but he'll admit that pulling Jimin's body around is kind of fun.
Jimin becomes the new baby, a spot Jungkook easily gives up. He's not younger, but he acts like it often enough for them to forget. Jimin yells at Jungkook a lot for not respecting his elders, to which Seokjin always points out the no one respects him enough and he's the oldest.
-
The last person they meet brings them all together. No one really knows what it is that Namjoon can do, but they know what he's good at. He stops Seokjin from tearing his hair out, stops Jimin from tearing Jungkook's hair out. He's good at being around them, at staying calm when they're all screaming, from laughter or from fear.
Namjoon makes them all fit with each other nicer than they had before they met him, and eventually they can't even remember when he wasn't there.
-
Taehyung doesn't think about his home much, the home he had before he started changing. Sometimes he wonders if his mother thinks about him, and if she does whether its with disgust or guilt. He thinks about his bed, it had been terribly comfortable. Mostly he doesn't think about it all, it doesn't even really seem like home is the right word for it anymore. Its just a place he lived that he'd been forced to leave when something he couldn't control happened, but he'd met Seokjin. He'd met Seokjin, and then Hoseok and Jungkook, Jimin and Namjoon. Now it doesn't seem right to call anything home but wherever the six of them are.