Thread by @carljungkook

LISTEN. listen. this photo but: namyoonjin au

yoonjin roommates-who-arent-married-but-act-like-it find a stray dog and adopt him and take cheesy photos but then one day their big dog is a naked dude laying on their carpet and he's very embarrassed but not too much to blurt out "so are you guys actually dating or...?"

and yoonjin get so flustered with that question they forget the naked guy in their living room so namjoon shrugs and goes back to eating kibble. turns out he was cursed and ended up a dog but it's been Years so he's kind of clueless and doesn't have any money or marketable skills

so yoonjin help him get a job and try to track down the person who cursed him but there's no leads so it's just a very sappy montage of them taking namjoon Christmas shopping and he's in awe of all the lights and people even tho he's still scared of cars and mailmen sometimes

and maybe eventually yoonjin realize that focusing on joon has helped them relax and worry less on the hangups they both had about their relationship, insecurities about both being in love with a seemingly uninterested best friend. joon draws out the loving and unapologetically

caring side of yoongi and the silly and less serious side of seokjin and just brings something new to their relationship. loving namjoon makes it obvious just how much they love each other. but there's concerns, obviously. namjoon's finally on his feet, and he deserves freedom,

to explore and live life in the way that he missed out on as a dog. he shouldn't be tied down to the men who last held him captive in canine form, which sucks, because yoonjin have realized just how much they want to keep namjoon in their life... and in their relationship

they say a tearful goodbye when namjoon moves into his own apartment, promises to stay in touch but an awkwardness in the air and a sadness in everyone's eyes. yoonjin leave to go back to their own home, and yoongi reaches for seokjin's hand as they go, out of habit, but his hand

falls to his side slowly instead. seokjin pretends not to notice and they leave in silence. namjoon watches them go and sighs deeply, then pulls out his phone and calls jungkook.

"you were right, they really are oblivious idiots."

namjoon shows back up at their door next morning, jungkook sheepishly hiding behind him as he knocks. yoonjin are... surprised, to say the least. jungkook starts talking immediately, a slurry of apologies and stuttered explanations as he tries to dance around the obvious question

"so... it was me. I made namjoon a dog. it was an accident! I was young and didn't know how to control my magic yet and my mom came home with my new step-brother and I was so mad and just wished I could have a dog instead and... yeah."

seokjin blinks. "but we found him on the streets."

jungkook looks down in shame. "my step-dad's allergic to dogs..."

namjoon steps forward and places a comforting hand on jk's shoulder. "it's okay, it's not his fault. I don't blame him. Just an unfortunate situation and a

failing of the magical education system."

yoongi scoffs fondly. "only you could get turned into a dog for years and call it an 'unfortunate situation'."

"so... we just somehow found the same dog that you, jungkook, our long time friend and pest who's constantly in our home, turned into a dog as a child?" seokjin asks, still on task.

"well..." jungkook turns an even more delicate shade of red.

"you guys are just so frustrating!" he finishes with a surprising burst of passion. "you're the most domestic couple I've ever seen, even before you moved in together, and you're not even a couple! I found namjoon and realized who it was but my dorms don't allow dogs and I knew

you guys would take good care of him but I also thought that maybe if you adopted a dog together you'd realize how married you are and finally get your shit together."

yoongi takes a deep breath, soaking that all in.

seokjin takes an indignant step forward. "and so what, you

just turned him back into a human only now? why? just to confuse us? as a joke?? where were you when he was confused and alone and needed help!?"

jungkook flinches but namjoon steps in before he can apologize. "of course not. he didn't change me back, he can't. and he had no

way to know that I'd ever change back."

namjoon levels a pleading stare at seokjin who nods, scolded. "sorry. but then how did you change back?"

namjoon nods back at jungkook, who timidly explains. "to undo normal, intentional magic, there's usually a counter-spell or a

standard way to reverse it. but since what I did was born out of instinct, not planned magic, there was no reversal spell to look up. that's why I couldn't do anything about it, even when I found namjoon." jungkook pauses and looks shyly between the other three. "my 'spell',

if you can call it that, was about need. I /needed/ namjoon to be a dog, at least in my mind, so he was one. so the only way to undo that was for someone to really need him to not be a dog..." jungkook trails off, then again looks pointedly at yoongi and seokjin.

"i dont get it," yoongi says, eyes narrowed.

seokjin clears his throat awkwardly. "I see."

"when i sent namjoon to guys, i was hoping he would help you two get together," jungkook starts. "you two were already in love with each other, i thought you just needed someone to help you see it."

yoongi and seokjin both flush, but they don't deny it.

"the thing is," jungkook pauses to glance over at namjoon, hesitant. "i think if that's all that you needed, namjoon would've stayed a dog. from what he's told me... he ended up more involved than that."

"oh..." yoongi breathes out. he turns to namjoon. "so... you like us too?"

namjoon's jaw drops. "what?" he turns to jungkook. "/what/??"

jungkook shrugs, sheepish. "you were complaining about how after all of this, they still weren't together, and that on top of that you'd fallen for them too, and amidst all the self-pitying and angst, i managed to

piece it together. it's... not exactly what i expected when i thought up the arrangement, but i think it's pretty clear that you're all into each other."

namjoon turns to look at yoongi and seokjin. "but i--you guys really--what does--"

"yes," yoongi cuts him off.

seokjin nods emphatically. "we like you. a lot."

"but... you two seemed so awkward with each other, i thought for sure..."

"because we didn't know how to move forward without you," yoongi says.

"it's true that we're close, and maybe that we've kind of willingly and mutually had our collective head in our ass about that," seokjin adds. "but meeting you didn't just change the way we saw the situation, it changed our relationship too, because now we had you in it."

"we didn't know what that meant for us, with you out of the picture," yoongi continues. "we... weren't really sure that there was a picture without you at all, to be honest. that's what we were being 'awkward' about."

"oh. huh."

"but you... do like us, right?" seokjin asks.

namjoon whines, face flushed.

"sorry, but i want to hear it from you."

"yeah. a..." namjoon clears his throat. "a lot."

seokjin beams.

yoongi silently takes seokjin's hand, then reaches across the threshold to their apartment and grab's namjoon's.

"then get in here," yoongi says, shy smile speaking volumes, and tugs on both hands in his.

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