"Sleepless in Seoul" a holiday yoonmin au; "My Appa needs a new...

- IB Sleepless in Seattle
- Kid-fic
- A/B/O
"Dr. Jin, it's because he looks sad. He smiles, but only his lips smile. His eyes still look sad." Eunsong sneaks a glance to his Yoongi Appa.
"No? Dr Jin, that's not a very bright suggestion. Appa might chase me down the hall and ground me for calling!" The pup answers right away making Jimin giggle.
His day had been exhausting, driving up to Busan to spend some time with his parents.
"Then don't be afraid, I promise he won't be mad or ground you." Dr Jin replies.
Jimin shakes his head and says the same thing that Eunseong replies at the same time.
"You can't promise that."
Jimin looks at his car's dashboard before giggling at the wondeful coincidence. That pup is definitely a smart one.
"Of course, Eunseong-ah. I would give you something special if your Appa gets mad. Pinky promise." Jin replies, pinky finger out.
"Appa, there's someone on the phone for you." Eunseong says.
"Someone wants to talk to you." Eunseong says, giving his Appa the phone.
"Hello?" Yoongi speaks and before he could ask Eunseong how he got his phone, the pup dashes away from his sight.
"Eunseong's Appa?"
"Yes?" Yoongi leans back on the sofa, brows knitted.
"Ah, you're on "Heart Avenue" and I am Dr Jin. Welcome to our show." Jin says as he queues up the next music to play while he talks to the alpha.
"Eunseong's Appa, your pup called because he's worried about you." Jin explains. His gut feel is that the alpha was trying to look for the pup and make him explain what exactly was happening.
"Eunseong-ah's worried?" Yoongi replies, sighing.
Jimin's lips turn into a frown hearing the alpha seemingly in distraught. "Oh, alpha." Jimin mumbles.
"Well," Yoongi brushes his hair back as he takes a quick peek behind him. And there he sees Eunseong almost in the act of stepping out of his room.
"Do you have all night?" Yoongi jokes, but Jimin hears a tinge of sadness in the alpha's voice.
"Oh, wait." Jimin drives, turning the volume up again. Something in the deep voice of the alpha was coaxing him to listen more.
"Pup, don't hide. Come out here. We're going through this call together." Yoongi waits until he sees Eunseong dragging his Capy stuffed toy with him, eyes not even meeting his eyes.
Yoongi sits down with Eunseong in his arms. He puts the phone on speaker mode so both he and Eunseong could talk and hear what thar Dr Jin would say.
"It's just been hard. Days pass, and I feel like things are better. But there are still hard days when I remember my omega who passed. I remember him and wonder, shall I ever meet another one like him?"
"No, we're not. We love each other very much but we never got around to mating not when we discovered he was already very sick." Yoongi brushes Eunseong's hair noticing the pup yawning over and over.
A way for them to protect their other half from experiencing the pain of losing their mate permanently.
"He is, well was. Chaemin had such a caring soul. Always thinking about others more than himself." Yoongi hums then.
"Yes and no." Yoongi chuckles to himself. "Chaemin, he is unique, caring, beautiful. But even before I talked to him, I knew it."
In his car, Jimin takes a deep breath in remembering his conversation with his omega parent just the day. Before he left, they were discussing about an alpha courting him. An alpha who had expressed that he sees Jimin as the omega he would look and care after for the rest of his life.
Jimin remembers it clearly, the way his omega father asked if he felt it too. The connection. The butterflies in his stomach when they met. Just like what he felt when he met Jimin's alpha father.
Jimin answer at that time because he felt that connection with Eun Woo. But it wasn't anything majestic, it wasn't something extraordinary. It was a mutual connection borne out of the alpha's perseverance to get to know him and court him.
"Magic?" Jin asks.
"I know, I know. It sounds ridiculous, right? But I felt it. Magic. A connection so unique, as if we were meant to meet each other, as if we were meant to be in each other's lives." Yoongi explains, hand brushing again through Eunseong's hair.
"Ah, a modest alpha too. I'm sure an omega would be lucky to have you, Eunseong's Appa." Jin replies and he sees comments coming in volunteering to become the alpha's new omega.
"And what made you say that?" Jin asks, following along the conversation, comments flooding with omegas saying otherwise.
"Eunseong is a sweet pup, he really is. But I know things can be complicated with a set up like we have."
"Let me read a comment from one of our listeners,"
But he just couldn't do it. Eunseong is his priority. Proving and caring for him.
"Oh my! Run away from that omega, Eunseong's Appa. Nope. That sounds like a love crazed omega! Run!" Jimin says to his dashboard even if he knows that the alpha wouldn't hear him.
"And there are actually more omegas messaging in, ready to meet you, meet Eunseong, and show you that they would be happy to be your omega and your pup's other parent." Jin scrolls through the comments, some comments were safe to read on the air but around 70% were not safe for work.
Eunseong's Appa was a stranger. Another alpha. Not his soon to be alpha. Not Eun Woo.
Eun Woo was kind, caring, sweet and mindful.
Jimin huffs his breath, hoping he could control his scent that suddenly smelt like burnt caramel. He had to pause for a quick stop over anyways, perhaps leaving his car would make him forget about the random alpha.
"Have you ever tried to go back out there and date?"
Immediately the comments section started asking Dr Jin if they could get the alpha's contact number and address to which he looks at the camera and waves his finger side to side, mouthing a silent no.
"Me and Eunseong." Yoongi breathes out and looks up. "I'm not sure as well if Eunseong is ready to have a new omega parent in his life."
"Why do you say so? I mean Eunseong-ah is adorable, but me? I don't think so." Yoongi jokes as he shakes his head.
"I guess so? If the right omega comes along, perhaps." Yoongi closes his eyes, searching his heart. He is ready but he doesn't just want to force a new relationship. It wasn't just about him. Finding a new omega meant having someone who would be open to getting to know him and his pup.
"Sure, I mean why not. Can you just give me a moment?" Yoongi answers. He leans forward reaching out to his phone, holding on to it. He fixes Eunseong and with a low grunt stands.
"Jiminie, focus. It's a random alpha. It might even be a pretend story so just calm your slick down."
Leaning forward, Yoongi plants a gentle kiss on his son's forehead muttering; "Sleep, pup. Appa's just here. Cappy's here."
But his stomach grumbles, he needed sustenance, he needed to stop thinking of a stranger alpha and his adorable pup.
With a pout, he walks away from his car. Grabbing a quick bite might take him 20 to 30 minutes and then he should be on the road again, arriving at his apartment a little after midnight.
This time, the video livestream was shown at the smart TV hanging in the middle of the restaurant.
"Sorry, that took me a moment. Had to put this pup to bed or else he would be grumpy saying his back hurts." Yoongi chuckles, that deep chuckle making omegas preen all over again.
"Go for it, Dr Jin." Yoongi responds, getting his headset and switching to it so the room would stay a bit more silent.
From where Jimin was seating, he hears a female omega behind him say out loud "Manage me, my whole life. But please, re-arrange everything inside of me, Alpha!"
That earned a lot of giggles, the omega receiving a pinch from her beta friend for saying such a thing.
"I do, but I love what I do. So, it's not really a big deal for me especially when our clients comeback and say that they are happy with what they see."
"Well," Yoongi pauses. He hasn't really thought about it all that much.
He loves pups, but he thinks that anything more than two would be too much for him, personally.
"No, not at all. And our listeners agree with me when I say this. You are such a Green Flag coded alpha, Eunseong's Appa." Jin smiles as he's reminded of another alpha just like the one he is talking to. The DJ who gave way to his show to continue, his alpha, Namjoon.
"Well, not really. For me, those are nice to haves to be perfectly honest because I'm really looking to find that connection with an omega. Because isn't finding your mate or your love all about loving both the good and the bad? Flaws included?" Yoongi wonders out loud.
"Exactly." Yoongi replies. He sighs and leans back on the headboard of his bed wondering to himself if he would find the same kind of spark he once had with Eunseong's omega parent before.
He and Eun Woo had a connection. They jive, they seem to be on the same wavelength. Good conversations that flow. But the spark that they were talking about, the magic? It wasn't there.
Was he possibly just thinking about it too much because of the conversation he had with his omega father and hearing how the alpha on air is talking about it.
Magic.
Spark.
"Mmmhmmm." Yoongi just hums.
Jimin and the other guests in the restaurant all look up at the TV, all waiting for a sign that the alpha was still on the call. All waiting for what he had to say.
In the process of it all, his omega would always kid and joke. That he won't get angry and visit him in his dreams to tell him that he shouldn't have a new omega.
"Chaemin, he would have wanted me to find a new omega. He would always remind me of that." Yoongi starts.
"Well then, Eunseong's appa. I hope you find the omega you are looking for. And before we wrap up, would it be alright with you if we have one of our listeners ask you a question or say something to you on air?" Jin asks, already opening the lines for people to call in.
"Alright, listeners, our lines are open and one of you would be picked to talk to talk to Eunseong's Appa, our Sleepless in Seoul Alpha." Jin queues the music.
Jimin really shouldn't call. Jimin already had Eun Woo. Calling in would be odd, especially when he didn't really have a question for the alpha.
Jimin looks up and sees the imo-nim encouraging every omega in the restaurant until her eyes land on him.
"You!" The imo-nim points at Jimin.
"M-me?" Jimin points at himself, eyes wide, head tilted to the side.
"But, imo. I'm—" Jimin starts only to be cut off with a question.
"Are you mated? I don't see any mating marks! Call, call!" The imo-nim looks around and says "If anyone gets through and talks to the alpha, your meal is on me, just call and don't miss this chance."
He knows his chances were slim to none anyways. In that restaurant alone, there were more than 10 omegas aside from him. So he dials, he calls.
"Hello, this is Dr Jin. And you are our lucky caller who would have the chance to speak with Eunseong's Appa. What's your name?" Jin patches through the call on-air. And that's when Jimin realizes, it was him. He was picked, amongst the omegas who were calling in. He was chosen.
"Hello there, Chim. As I said let's keep everything pup-rated okay. Are you ready to talk to our alpha on the other line?" Jin asks, preparing to patch through the two calls.
"Y-yes, I'm ready." Jimin replies, biting his lower lip down.
Jimin closes his eyes, focusing on keeping his breath stable, to not stutter. But then he hears it. That deep voice, coming through the other end of the line and not through the radio or the tv.
"Hi, Chim. It's nice to meet you."
"Hello, Eunseong's Appa. It's nice to meet you too."
Soft, sweet, melodic.
He can’t explain it. It doesn’t make any sense.
Or was it?
Jin winks at the camera and says, "Nice indeed."
There's nothing much that can happen during a short Q&A or conversation, right? And Jin needed to pause for a commercial break in a few minutes and then come back to wrap up the show.
"Eunseong's Appa?" Jin asks the alpha.
"Of course, it's alright with me." Yoongi says and hums signaling yes, he's okay with either a question or a message.
“Good, good. Now, Chim, just a quick reminder from your dear Dr Jin,"
"Play nice. The moment I deem your message inappropriate—“ Jin stops and wriggles his eyebrows for emphasis to the people tuned in the livestream. “I will cut the call, okay?” Jin finishes.
"Thank you, Chim. Thank you." Yoongi says.
"Hello, Chim." Yoongi replies, he and his alpha definitely liked the way the omega called their name.
"And with that, we unfortunately have to wrap up the show. Thank you Eunseong's Appa for sharing your story with us and Chim for calling in. We will pause for a break and I'll be back to close the show." Jin plays the queued up commercials, muting his mic before talking to Eunseong's Appa on line 1 and Chim on line 2.
"Thank you again for joining the show, and please do let Eunseong know we appreciate his call too!" Jin says and just preps his checklist for wrapping up the show.
"Wonderful! So just to run you through, I would wrap up the segment and share a few final words, you two can also share your final messages or questions, but only if you want to."
"And then I would let you two go before I do my final spiel, as I know it's pretty late already and you two might need to rest as well." Jin adds just in time for him to shift and turn his mic on again.
Yoongi shakes his head and wonders if it was a case of a lost signal, drained battery, or the omega simply not comfortable to answer his question. Maybe he pushed it too much, maybe that turned the omega off.
So he walks back up to the restaurant only to be met by the imo-nim.
"You're welcome. Just, have a safe trip back home."



