Thread by @subminjiminie

Yoongi had always resented being a cupcake fairy when all he wanted was to join his music fairy friends, thinking his powers useless.

Then he stumbles across Jimin, who's struggling to start up his dream bakery, and Yoongi thinks maybe his powers could be good for something.

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Ever since he was a young fay, Yoongi had always wanted to become a Music Fairy.

He loved music, breathed it, wrote and composed it. It was all he wanted to do.

He'd never considered the possibility that Magic would have other plans for him when his powers manifested.

He was the last of his friends to come into his powers. Hoseok was a Love Fairy, Jungkook and Namjoon were both Music Fairies. They'd become what they'd always dreamed to be.

So when he wakes up one morning to magic pulsing through his fingertips, he expects to hear music.

What he doesn't expect is for a cupcake to fall on his face.

Well, multiple cupcakes.

"I can't believe Magic betrayed me," Yoongi complains to his friends later during lunch, kicking away another cupcake that appears out of nowhere.

"Magic didn't promise you anything, you just assumed," Hoseok points out. "Magic just gives us the tools to make us happy."

"Music makes me happy."

"Honestly, Yoongi? You've never tried anything else. Maybe this will be good for you," Namjoon pipes up, picking up another cupcake that Yoongi's new magic keeps conjuring. "You never know what cupcakes could lead to."

Yoongi is an angry Fairy for three years after Magic makes him a Cupcake Fairy.

Magic never does anything without a reason, powers are always given that will help the Fairy perform a duty that will change their life or someone else's for the better.

But Yoongi feels useless.

His friends have found their purpose.

Hoseok's works in a niche market where his powers help Fairies and Humans who fall in love. It's not a common problem, but the Magic he was blessed with make him one of the only Fairies able to bridge the gap between the Fairy and Humans.

Jungkook and Namjoon have made a place for themselves at a place called BigHit by revealing themselves to one of the artists there, Kim Seokjin. The human keeps them a secret, and in return they use their Magic to help the trainees and employees under the label prosper.

But in three years, Yoongi has not been able to find a use for his abilities in the Fairy or Human world.

Not until he seems /him/ one day. A soft blonde man worriedly crunching numbers in a bakery, looking stressed and tired as he closes shop and cries in the back room.

Yoongi sneaks into the bakery one evening after close, hiding behind some of the mixing bowls in the kitchen as the young man cries into his sleeves between talking to someone on the phone. He watches and listens, learning what he can from the conversation.

The young man's name is Jimin, fresh out of culinary and pastry school with the dreams of opening a bakery that specializes in cupcakes. He took out loans and used all his savings, but it was only enough to buy the bakery. Getting it off the ground was proving to be difficult.

Jimin knew going it that it was going to be hard, but unexpected expenses kept popping up. His oven kept breaking down, one of his ingredient shipments never showed up.

He didn't have the money to keep throwing at all his problems, and soon he would have nothing at all.

It's long after Jimin has gone home, wiping his tears away and leaving the bakery for the day, that Yoongi decides on what he can do to help.

Yoongi's a cupcake fairy, dammit, and Jimin seems like a good kid willing to work for his dreams of having a cupcake shop. It's his duty.

He doesn't make drastic changes. He just fixes the kitchen.

The broken oven? State of the art. Those mixers that never cut off at the right time? Good as new. The cheap ingredients Jimin has to buy because it's all he can afford? Works and tastes the same as the high end stuff.

There's nothing artificial about it, the finished products will still be the results of Jimin's own talent and technique. Yoongi is just giving him the resources to make the best cupcakes possible.

((He also leaves behind a cupcake or two...to give Jimin some flavor ideas.))

Yoongi is there in the next day when Jimin unlocks the back door of the bakery and stumbles in, eyes still heavy with sleep, face still an ugly red from crying he must have done at home.

The younger doesn't notice any of the changes until after he's had a cup of coffee.

"That's weird," Jimin mumbles under his breath, looking between the cupcakes left on his prep table and the preheating oven. "The oven's actually working."

((Also there's magic cupcakes, Yoongi thinks to himself, but priorities I guess.))

The Cupcake Fairy breathes out a sigh of relief when Jimin doesn't question the oven or cupcakes, taking it all in stride and preparing the bakery for a new day of business, preferring to get everything done while the oven was working rather than wait on it to break like normal.

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Jimin was still in shock at how his luck had turned around. From paying hundreds every week to fix another broken appliance and crying every night to bringing in thousands of dollars and customers who recommended his bakery to every person they knew.

It was a miracle.

Every time he expected his luck to run out, it somehow got better.

After a month, he was able to recoup most of his major loses. After half a year, he was able to buy the property his bakery stood on outright.

After a year, Jimin was being featured in magazines.

Jimin knew that his skills were a major part of his success, but there was a part of him that knew there was something, or someone, that was also responsible.

Something that had fix his kitchen and someone who was always leaving new flavor combinations on his counters.

It’s not until almost 18 months after his initial success that he realizes he can install cameras in the kitchen for when he’s gone, and he does so quickly, one camera for each corner aimed at his center island.

What he finds on them the following morning leaves him baffled.

“Whatcha lookin at Chim?” Taehyung asks, bringing in Jimin’s weekly food order, sacks of flour thrown over his shoulder.

“It’s...just a ball of light?” Jimin tests out loud, watching said ball of light roam around his kitchen on video before cupcakes appear from nowhere.

“What the fuck,” Jimin mutters under his breath, rewinding and playing the appearance of the cupcakes repeatedly. “Magic?”

“Very shoemaker and the elves,” Taehyung remarks, looking over Jimin’s shoulder. “Handy.”

“Is magic real?”

“You can always stay tonight and find out.”

- - - -
As Yoongi took off the enchantments, almost two years after he initially charmed Jimin’s kitchen, he was expecting it to be his last time in Jimin’s bakery.

He was not expecting to have Jimin spring from behind him and trap him in a mixing bowl.