Instinct P.2 | Taehyung

Instinct p.2 | Taehyung

The request

Summary line: It’s Taehyung’s instinct that you will be a very important person in his life.

Last chapter

The best way you would describe your friendship with Taehyung is “endless shenanigans meets infinite sobriety”. One of the things you learn about Taehyung is that he’s never done searching for a new adventure. What you mean by that is, something like this:

“Y/N! Okay, so you know how I was thinking about how portraits have their own worlds and they can actually travel through portraits? I’m thinking about trying that this summer to grab you and we go to one of those muggle food stops.”

“Tae, remember, that’s only for portrait subjects who can do that. Wizards and witches get painted with the painter’s idea of them to create the character, and then that character has life within the portrait. We cannot turn ourselves into portrait subjects, and if anyone creates us, it’s still not us and we cannot leave the portrait to visit muggle food stops.”

“Okay. So, anyway. I heard a rumor that mermaids actually have a collection of treasures, and the Salazar actually communicated with them about allowing some of his own treasures to be stored there for safe keeping. Slytherin common room can see under the Black Lake, right? Well what if you…”

And that’s what he does.

Sometimes you feel like it’s a blessing and a curse to be his friend. For someone who is not nearly as wide-eyed adventurous as him, it sometimes feels like he just pulls you along like a kite. At the same time, if it isn’t for him, you, as the kite, would never fly so high. His adventures and his ideas keeps you on your toes as well as challenges you to figure out the pattern of his creativity as well as putting your practicality into his goals. You believe it’s one of the reasons he keeps you around, but you keep him around as well, so it’s fair.

Not only does your friendship add color to your life and yield to his, but you see why he is sorted into Gryffindor. There’s a sense of pride you have for having a friend that is so lion-hearted, to find a friend who is so authentically Gryffindor. But sometimes, you wonder if he would do well in Slytherin.

“Well, here we are again, Captain Min.” Taehyung stops in front of you and Yoongi who are walking out of the Great Hall to the Quidditch field. Of all the friends Taehyung has, Yoongi is a Slytherin. You two sometimes stick around each other in silence in the common room due to your mutual friend. You two have unspokenly agreed to be each other’s companion when you two are stuck without friends.

“I’ll see you out there, Taehyung. You better be on your toes, my beater is ready for revenge since you last stopped his girlfriend from scoring a goal.” Yoongi smirked.

“He’s just jealous that your team is no match for my defense/offense skills. It’s my job. And even if his girlfriend was able to dodge my bludger, Seokjin would have caught it. Just face it, Gryffindor is just better.” Taehyung taunted playfully. Yoongi just shook his head.

At this time, the aforementioned couple is walking past you two. The beater bumped shoulders with Taehyung, but before Taehyung can get in a word, Yoongi yanks the boy back and glares him down.

“Apologize to my friend, Bullens.” He says with gritted teeth.

Bullens tries to wretch out of Yoongi’s grasp, but no avail. Behind Yoongi, you also gave him a raised eyebrow, daring him to try anything.

“Sorry.” Bullens looks at Taehyung and Yoongi pushes him away back to his original direction, “Get to the Quidditch field.”

Yoongi turns back to Taehyung and pats him on the shoulder, “I’ll see you out there…be careful.” Taehyung just nods with a smile and Yoongi stalks off, glaring holes into Bullens’ back.

Taehyung looks back to you, “I think you should wear this today during the game.” He puts his scarf around your neck and wraps it around until it covers the bottom half of your face. You pull down the scarf from your face.

“You’re delusional. It’s Slytherin vs. Gryffindor. Why wouldn’t I root for my own house?” You took off the scarf and threw it back at him. He catches it but tries to put it on you again, this time you’re laughing as you raise up your hands to dodge his scarf.

“Aww, come on! It’s a way to cheer up my spirit to know my friend is cheering on for me. If I was a spectator and you were on the team, I would wear something of yours.”

“You do have more friends than just me, you know. If it isn’t for Slytherin against you today, I will definitely wear your scarf when you go against Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff.”

“Yeah but you’re my only girl friend right now. That’s so much more special than my guy friends cheering me on.” You raise your eyebrow at that and you wait until Taehyung catches your lull and his own words.

“M-my friend that’s a girl.” He corrected himself. You two revert back to the silly scarf fight.

You finally take his scarf but you don’t put it on. Instead, you brush your hair behind your ears and show him your amber colored earrings.

“And these don’t match my emerald ensemble either. I got you, okay?”

He pouts, “It’s still not my scarf.” You roll your eyes as you two walk towards the Quidditch field. It’s obvious to him that it’s the best compromise you can come up with.

It’s 80/70, Slytherin to Gryffindor. You cheer so hard for Slytherin, but whenever Taehyung looks at you, you send him a few claps and brush your hair back, making him smile.

A Slytherin chaser zooms past your gaze, making the both of you focus back on the game. The Slytherin chaser ducks under a Gryffindor chaser and moves to the right, past the other Gryffindor beater, and  passes the quaffle to another Slytherin chaser.

The chaser zooms forward towards Taehyung and knocks into him as he passes, making Taehyung fall sideways off his broom.

You gasp and shout out his name as he hangs from his broom. At this time, Bullens beats a bludger towards Taehyung, before Taehyung can see the bludger, it hits him in the ankle. His face contorts in pain as he drops his bat but a Gryffindor chaser grabs it from underneath before it falls to the ground. She flies back up to hand him the bat and use her broom to lift his lower body up so he can sit upright on his broom again. He thanks her and she nods before she zooms off.

That chaser that knocked him off threw the quaffle at the Gryffindor goal post but Seokjin is able to catch it in time. His handsome face is contorted as he throws the quaffle as hard as he can as it bounces off the chaser’s head and into a Gryffindor chaser’s arms.

For the rest of the game, you can’t focus on the game anymore. Your eyes focus on Taehyung, Bullens, and that Slytherin chaser.

Yoongi caught the snitch. Despite the Slytherin’s victory, the first thing Yoongi did when his team land on the field is grab and throw the Slytherin chaser onto the ground. The rest of the team had to pull him back from beating him up.

“Not only is he my friend, but I will not tolerate anyone who tarnishes the Slytherin house by acting so despicable. Laps around outside the Quidditch field. 20. Don’t even think about walking 3 feet away from this field until you’re done, unless you want to be off the team. I want you to know what it feels like to have your feet give out.” Yoongi seethes with anger as he points to the exit. Bullens clutches onto his bleeding nose and the chaser at his bruised cheek as they run off.

Yoongi sees you coming in and he walks away from the team to go over to you as you two run off to the Gryffindor gate at the field to see how Taehyung is doing.

Once you get there, his other friends are already there. To both your surprise, he’s laughing as he pats Jimin’s hand that’s on his knee.

“It’s not that bad.”

“Not bad? You’re on an infirmary stretcher!” Namjoon protests.

“Seokjin’s just over-careful to call Madam Pomfrey. I can probably walk there.”

“Is that right?” Seokjin crosses him arm. Taehyung gives him a boxy grin and makes grabby hands towards Seokjin, “I’m just letting you guys know that you don’t need to worry about me. I’m grateful that I don’t have to walk.”

“Uh-huh.” Seokjin cocks an eyebrow.

The boys all help carry his stretcher out of the Quidditch field as you trail after them.

“I feel like you’re all pallbearers for me right now.” Taehyung laughs.

“Oh, shut up. Patients should save their breath.” You flick his forehead.

At this time, Bullens and the chaser had just come around their second lap. Fire burns up from your toes to your head when you see them and you grab Taehyung’s bat that’s lying on his stomach.

As they run towards you guys, you walk closer to meet them a fraction of the way and start beating the both of them with the bat.

“What. The. Hell. Is. Wrong. With. You. Two?!!! You two should know better. How dare you call yourself a Slytherin? You’re not worthy if you resort to such underhanded ways to win. That’s not way of a Slytherin!” You continue to yell out profanities until you feel hands grabbing you by the arms.

“Y/N! Y/N! Stop, they still need to finish their laps.” Jimin pulls you away from the two boys. The boys had put down Taehyung’s stretcher to hold you off, well except Yoongi, who still has his arms crossed, glaring at the boys.

“Screw the laps. They need a beating.”

“I think the laps are good enough. Especially after your beating.” Yoongi smirks and nods over to them so you look over to look more closely at your work. Bullens used to only have a bloody nose and the chaser only had a bruised cheek. Now the chaser’s head is swollen and he’s rubbing his arm. Bullens has two black eyes and he’s clutching to both his stomach and his nose.

“You still have 18 more laps. I suggest you get going before you miss supper.” Yoongi commands.

“Yoongi, come on! We need to go to the infirmary now too! We can’t do your laps.”

“I don’t care, she didn’t beat your legs. I gave you an order. Whatever Y/N did to you was outside of anyone’s prediction. As far as I can tell, you still have my order to follow. Go. You can go to the infirmary afterwards.”  Yoongi points as they both grumble and get up. The rest of you go on your way.

“I’m still confounded by their actions. How dare they act so appallingly?” You can’t stop your anger even when Taehyung finally settled in an actual infirmary bed. Seokjin and Hoseok took you outside of the infirmary to calm down as Madam Pomfrey took a look at Taehyung.

“Y/N, do you know that Moreau likes you?” Seokjin asks you about the chaser.

“Moreau? No. He’s never spoken to me in his life. And why does that matter? What makes him think that hurting my friend would ever help his case? I will never befriend, much less date, someone who doesn’t think through like that and acts so stupidly.” You threw your hands up.

“Kind of like Taehyung?” Hoseok asks you.

“No, Taehyung is an honorable guy, still. Moreau acts out of reasons beyond me and acts in such a way that puts a bad name to Slytherin. Taehyung is a reckless adventurer, but he’s still brave, noble, chivalrous, and daring. He might not think things through all the time, but he doesn’t act on his recklessness until he collects  the right information to go about, and that’s why I’m there for him. At least he can be a true Gryffindor; that merits him credit.” You blew your hair out of your face and shake your head as you look down over the stairwell balcony.

Seokjin and Hoseok look at each other with a grin on both their faces. You know what they were thinking, what they were insinuating. But all of that is beyond your concerns. Taehyung is your friend, and Moreau’s jealousy for whatever he sees in you and Taehyung is beyond you. You don’t have to explain yourself. You tap on their arm and have them move out the way.

“Come on, let’s see what Madam Pomfrey has to say about Taehyung.”

“Not bad, not bad at all. Just overnight, and you’ll be well enough to make it to first period tomorrow.” Madam Pomfrey pats Taehyung on the shoulder and moves out of the way for the rest of you  to crowd around his bed. He grumbles about hoping to skip out tomorrow.

“Don’t complain. It’s a good thing it’s not that bad.” You smack him on the arm. He salutes you, “Yes, m’am.”

“You better listen to Y/N, Taehyung, or else she’ll beat you with the beater bat.” Jungkook laughs. You glare up at him.

“Yeah, Y/N, who knew you had it in you. They’re probably in worse state than Taehyung now.” Namjoon joins in Jungkook’s chuckles.

“Hey, Y/N, can you hit my ankle too? Just enough for me to stay in for a week.” Taehyung hands you his bat and wiggles his eyebrows at you.

You grab the bat and lightly tap his head.

“What the hell, Tae? No chance. And anyways, if you have to stay here for a week, what happens to your plans for swimming with the giant squid this weekend? You don’t want to be bedridden for a week.” You frown at him and he returns one to you, “You’re right. I want to feed him. What do giant squids eat again?”

“Worms and small shellfish.”

“Well, I mean, he’s giant. Any shellfish to him is small.” Taehyung shrugs.

“Shrimp, Taehyung. He’ll eat shrimp, clams, and other mollusks.”  He nods at you.

“Well, we’ll leave you two now. Supper is soon. We’ll visit you afterwards.” The boys wave bye to Taehyung and looks at you to see if you’ll join them. You shake your head and they wave bye to you too.

“Moreau and Bullens have such nerve.” You huff as you sat down next to Taehyung.

“You’re not over it, yet? Come on, Y/N. It’s over. They’re battered, bruised, and probably exhausted and passed out outside the field by now.” He pats your hand that’s next to his.

“Seokjin tells me that Moreau likes me. He’s an idiot if he thinks hurting you will make me notice him in any good light.” Taehyung looks at you and smiles, “I know he likes you.”

“So stupid.” Taehyung just smiles at you.

“I’m actually surprised that you didn’t hit a couple bludgers back at them.”

“Why? I don’t need to. Seokjin hit Moreau’s head, Yoongi made them do laps, and you hit them enough for me. A smart man doesn’t need to even lift a finger when he’s got friends like you guys.”

“How clever of you.” You squint at him, marking that bit of Slytherin in him.

“I’m just a smart man.” Taehyung grins.

“Smart boy.” You stand up and pat his head. He stops your hand from rubbing his head.

“I’m a man.”

“You’re 16. If you were a man, you wouldn’t have to defend yourself.” You flick his forehead with your other hand.

He tugs your scarf to pull you closer to him, “You’ll see. One day, you’ll say your friend is a smart man.”

You tug your scarf away from his grasp and lightly smack him with it, “It’s supper time. Enjoy your hospital gruel.” Taehyung moans at the thought of his hospital food as you laugh. You walk out of the infirmary with steady steps, but you’re still flustered at how close he pulled you. Not because there’s anything between you guys…it’s just, you’re just usually not that close, you know?

Edit: Tae is not 14, he's 16. Sorry

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An Angel with Wings and One Without

Imagine pocket-sized you swinging your legs on the edge of the desk excitedly as you train your eyes on the same small white craft Jungkook’s eyes are focused on. You look at Jungkook with appreciation as you notice his careful actions to glue the fingertip-sized white fluffy feathers on the wing-shaped piece of paper. His last job is to glue the small spandex string in the middle of the wings.

At the end, he lightly holds up the two spandex loops for you to put your arms through and you strap the wings on your back with glee.

You start running around his desk, flapping and giggling as you announce your new status as an angel.

You feel so daring and excited, that you run and jump off his table. Jungkook’s eyes widen and he quickly holds his hands out to catch you with his ever-swift reflexes. You laugh when you fall into his hands, feeling the rush. You crawl and hug his thumb tightly as he scolds you for your reckless behavior.

He blushes when you reply with the giddiest of smiles that you may be the one with the wings, but you always have faith in him to be your guardian angel.

Music Tag

Thanks for the tag @evangelene, thanks for thinking of me :)

Rules: Put your music on shuffle and list the first 10 songs then tag 10 people.

Butterfly Prologue Mix - BTS. Awwwww I’m happy :) *pats itunes on the head* Good itunes.

See You Tonight - Scotty McCreery. LOL the only country country pop I have (I don’t count Taylor Swift)

孩子王- Deep Ng. Lol this is such a cute song. Even if you don’t know the lyrics, you should watch the MV, it’s super cute, I promise you, the guy is like the village babysitter. The song is about kids’ philosophy of living happily is much simpler and more enlightening than adults (anyone who knows better Cantonese, by all means, please correct me.)

Angel - Jay Chou. It’s instrumental soundtrack of the movie 不能說的秘密

Lost Good Things - Initial D. Instrumental soundtrack of the Chinese live-action movie of Initial D

我發誓以後 - William So. This song brings back so much memories because my mom owns this concert dvd and she and my godmother played karaoke at home all the time and this happens to be one of my favorite concerts to watch (HYYH take first place though, omg!). William So has a wonderful voice. I believe this song is about vowing to be by the girl’s side forever.

Canon in D Music Box Version - Cover. If you can’t already tell from my blog’s music, I love music box and instrumentals...

天才與白痴 - Leo Ku. Uh, I believe the song is talking about how there’s always one genius and one idiot in a failed relationship. Once again, any native Cantonese speakers, correct me if I’m wrong

Just the Way You Are - Bruno Mars. Honestly, I’m never in the mood to listen to this

1, 2, 3, 4 - Plain White T’s. Or this

I’ve got 646 songs...I should clean some of this out...

I tag you who’s reading this! Let me get to know you :) But I mean, you don’t have to if you don’t want to. But don’t be nervous that itunes might embarrass you!

Hello! I am the slytherin anon who asked for the taehyung x slytherin reader writing! OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR REPLYING AND WRITING IT SO FAST! It was really cool reading it (as I said, your writing style is super cool and the plot that you choose is really good) I'm so happy right now you can't even imagine! I can't wait for the rest of the story! Slytherin justice will be made hahahahaa (by the way I'm sorry if there are any mistakes but I am not a native speaker so... hahahahaha)

Lol your writing and expressions are on point, you’re doing great sweetie. Thank you so much! I really hope you continue to like it!

:O omg thank you so much for rebloging me as a fic rec! This is the first for me. This is a nice surprise to wake up to :) Thank you!

I Ship It | Jungkook ft. Jimin and Taehyung

Summary line: Different members of BTS are subtly matchmaking other members to you

Jimin had one arm, and Taehyung had another. Together, they attempted to pull their young Jungkookie out of bed. Unfortunately, all they got was a sliding slug from the couch to the floor.

Namjoon had fallen asleep before Jungkook again, which is never a surprise because Jungkook hardly sleeps early. Namjoon’s snoring has been getting worse and Jungkook was too irritated to try sleeping above the bed of a bulldozer last night.

“Come on! It’s fun! Our friends from high school are fun!” Jimin crouched down to Jungkook’s body on the floor and nudged his shoulder.

“I’m surprised you still keep in touch with them.” Jungkook mumbled and turned his head away from Jimin. Jimin “tsked” him and got up, letting Taehyung come in to give it a shot.

“We’re going for ice cream. I’ll treat you and Jimin.” That got a twitch from Jungkook’s eyebrows though his eyes stayed closed. Tae doesn’t really pay for people a lot. That’s interesting.

“Mmm…” Jungkook groaned and rolled over before sitting up with his eyes still closed. Taehyung patted his back with a smile and got up, telling him that he has 20 minutes before they leave.

“Your treat, huh?” Jimin put an arm on Taehyung’s shoulder as they waited for Jungkook to get ready, “You’re being pretty obvious.”

“Ah, he’s too tired to think about that right now anyway. Besides, one day, he’ll be treating us to a whole wedding feast.” Taehyung winked and Jimin laughed.

Jungkook had his head down at his phone playing games for a while now. The trio was already at the ice-cream parlor and sat down, waiting for Jimin and Taehyung’s old high school classmates. If he had noticed his surroundings, he would have recognized Taehyung’s nervous habit of bouncing his knees and Jimin who keeps glancing at the door.

There was a ring of a bell that signaled customer entry into the shop. Taehyung and Jimin shot up, which to Jungkook also did belatedly.

“Hi!” You threw your arms outward as you walked over to your two ex-classmates. You would have shouted their names, but you didn’t want to cause that much attention. Just by checking out their corner table, you knew they want to keep it on the down-low.

Jimin let go of you and then Taehyung came in next for your embrace. You looked at the corner of you eye to see a very familiar face through a screen, but never in person.

“Hi, Jungkook.” You said very friendly. He smiled and nodded at you.

“Have you guys picked your ice cream yet? Let me pay. I haven’t seen you guys in forever.” You pointed to yourself and led the boys to the line in front of the ice cream display.

“I promised that I would treat Jungkook and Jimiin if he came out because it’s so rare, so it’s okay.” Taehyung smiled at you.

“Well it’s even rarer that I get to see you guys, so I want to. I’ll treat Jungkook. It’s okay, right?” You looked at all three of them.

“Okay, I’ll treat you next time, Jungkook.” Taehyung patted Jungkook on the shoulder. You and Jimin were up ahead to chat while Jungkook and Taehyung stayed behind you two.

“Don’t you guys have more friends, I thought more people were coming.” Jungkook asked Taehyung.

“Y/N doesn’t have a normal schedule, so we’ll meet up with the others. We’re just meeting up with Y/N right now. She’s all we need anyway. She’s really cool. She’s majoring in Kinesiology to be an athletic trainer. She works at a gym and volunteers at that children’s foster home we went to a couple years ago, we introduced it to her and now she goes every other week.” Taehyung smiled gleefully, gushing about his wonderful friend as he watched his other wonderful friend staring at the back of your head as he listened about you.

“What do you guys want?” You turned back to them. Jungkook stared at you for just an extra two seconds to see your face with a relaxed smile. He mirrored yours.

“Are you eating? I feel like I should have told them to give you an extra scoop.” You nudged Jimin at your side.

“I eat!” Jimin promised.

“He just exercises twice as much to lose what he gained.” Taehyung also shared your disapproving look at Jimin.

“Look, I’m all about exercising, but please don’t exhaust yourself. Overdoing it will just give you a backlash.” You stuffed another spoonful of your ice cream.

“I don’t want people to worry about me. I won’t let it go too far.” Jimin said. You frowned because you felt like it wasn’t enough for you.

“Jimin, I really care about you, I know you. I really care about all of you.” You emphasized, looking around the table, “No one will love you any less for gaining an extra pound. No one will love you any more just because you have abs. You’re you and ARMY loves you. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t be ARMY and you don’t have to worry about those people, okay.” You ducked your head to get better eye contact with Jimin.

Jimin nodded and leaned his head on top of yours, “Thanks.”

Jungkook watched the exchange and his eyes were locked in on your contact. He cleared his throat. What was he doing?

“So, y/n, where do you study?” At Jungkook’s interjection to have a direct conversation with you, Jimin and Taehyung exchanged looks.

“SNU. I’m starting my third year at the next term, so it will be more about my major’s core classes. I’m so excited to be done with the general ed.”

“You want to know how she got in? She was the lifeguard of the school swimming pool and saved the child of the dean. He personally reviewed her transcripts, application, and handpicked her to be one of the people to have an in-person interview. It was so cool!” Jimin jumped excitedly. Jungkook looked at you and you looked down to your ice cream as you scooped your last bit and smiled.

“That’s so cool!” Jungkook leaned in with a grin.

“Thank you. But Jimin, you’re not my mother, stop telling that story to everyone. It’s getting embarrassing.”

“What, I’ve only told Jungkook, and Yoongi-hyung, Hoseok-hyung, Seokjin-hyung, Namjoon-hyung, our makeup noona, coordi noona, teacher Son, Bang – “

“Jimin!” You laughed.

“How come the others heard about y/n first?” Jungkook asked, specifically his hyungs.

“They’ve actually met her before. Even Yoongi-hyung. You’re last on the list.” Taehyung licked his spoon and dropped it in the empty cup.

“If you want to meet other cool people, you should come out more. Even Yoongi-hyung beat you to y/n!” Jimin teased.

“One’s all I need.” Jungkook mumbled. You raised an eyebrow. He thought he was quiet, but even if the shops fans spun faster, you could have heard him. Not only you, Taehyung and Jimin also heard him. It amused them two because they know competitive Jungkook, but this is the first time anyone has ever seen him like this.

“I need to catch the bus. I’ll see you guys next time.” You collected everyone’s empty cups and dirty napkins and got up to throw it in the trash can. You came back to the table and the boys stood up. Jimin and Taehyung gave you a good bye hug. You looked at Jungkook.

“I know it’s the first time I met you, but can I give you a hug?” Jungkook gave a smile, suppressing the nervous expression, and nodded. You stepped forward and gave him a hug. Oh my God, you smell like fresh laundry.

You waved bye to them and they walked in the opposite direction of you. Jungkook was the last to turn away from your retreating figure.

“What gym does she work at?” Jungkook asked, super subtle.

“It’s the fourth closest gym near BigHit. We don’t go to that one because ours is still closer to between us and BigHit.” Taehyung informed. Jungkook only hummed and looked back down at his phone.

“It’s not that far. It would be a good run.” Jungkook mumbled to himself as he zoomed in the map on his phone.

Jimin and Taehyung exchanged winks. They’ll see you again very soon.

Originally posted by jibeom

This is a short series I’m going to be doing. Not every member will be matched, but every member will appear in the series. If you wanna know who is going to be matched, I’ll give you a hint. During the “BTS, please choose” corner, there was one question where they were split 4-3 where Suga and Jin were not in the same group. That question has all the extroverts in the same group +1.

Also, thank you @bangtan-writing for helping me out with sorting out some throughts for this scenario series. Mwah!

1 (Guess who!) | 3 (Guess who!)

Instinct pt.1 | Taehyung

The request

Summary line: It’s Taehyung’s instinct that you will be a very important person in his life.

It starts in the Great Hall on a Saturday morning, before the first Quidditch match of the year. Ravenclaw vs. Hufflepuff. You are already speculating who would be the winner. There are great chasers and beaters in Ravenclaw, but Hufflepuff has good beaters and chasers too. So it’s down to the seeker.

The Ravenclaw seeker is very intuitive but he lacks a proper sense of surroundings, to be honest, you would know because that’s kind of the same way you are. The Hufflepuff seeker, Jungkook, is ridiculously competitive for a Hufflepuff, but it’s been three years since you’ve been here to recognize that just because he is a Hufflepuff does not mean he can’t be extremely competitive.

So not only is he competitive, his strength is Ravenclaw’s weakness. You bet the game is Hufflepuff’s victory.

You are a people watcher. You enjoy understanding people’s motives in order to deduce their actions and the outcomes. Is it so you can manipulate the people around you? No. Is it to manipulate the surroundings so people will go the way you want? No. See, not all those in Slytherin have the manipulative motive.

You weren’t sure what your motives were in understanding people either, until you finally chose Arithmancy for one of your electives for this year, the other, Divination. You want to be a predictor of sorts, maybe even work in the Department of Mysteries as an Unspeakable. By age 13, you had your goal; almost all of Slytherin felt competitive to have a goal at a young age, you were no exception.

But as known, you lack proper sense of your surroundings. You’re too busy thinking about the Quidditch game that you miss the Gryffindor boy running down the column of space between the Gryffindor and Slytherin table.

It’s like hitting a wall dressed in wool and you rebounded off the boy. Before you fall on your butt though, the Gryffindor boy reaches out to your elbow to steady you.

“Oh, I’m sorry. Are you okay?” After you steady, you look up the boy. Kim Taehyung. Gryffindor beater, same year, Ravenclaw mother, muggle father.

“I’m fine.”

“You’re in my divination class. The one who wrote an eight page essay instead of two about Chinese fortune sticks.” Taehyung gives a boxy grin. With his words and his grin, one would think he’s mocking at your overachieving self. When you turned in the paper, Professor Trelawney had the audacity to tell you that you can take away the extra pages. You had a, unique discussion, about how your analysis couldn’t be compressed into two pages and she needs to take it as is. You handed in all eight pages and got full marks. Exceeds expectations indeed.

But rather than a mocking stance, his tone and his eyes shows something different. Recognition and validation. But you don’t trust that. Not yet.

“Yeah.” You cross your arms and stare up at him, daring him to begin his mockery.

“Don’t tell anyone this, but I’m actually interested in that paper. Would you mind borrowing it to me so I can read it?” You are taken aback. He doesn’t usually show much enthusiasm in class and he only turned in a page and a half for that essay.

“I guess. I can give it to you in class.”

“Great! By the way, who do you think will win today?” What a quick switch of conversation!

“I believe Hufflepuff.”

“Me too. But I think my reasons are not as analytical as yours. I’m just rooting for my friends. But I’ll take your word for it. If they win, I will share with you my winnings.” Ah, so he plans to make a bet for the match.

“You’re using me to make a bet?” You ask with contempt.

“What? No, no! I’m not betting. Well, okay, kind of. Not with money though. With chocolate frog cards. I’m betting with a couple other Gryffindors about the game today. I already made the bet, I’m just seeking for a second opinion to validate it, and you are the best for that!”

“How do you know that my conclusions are accurate?” Not saying that they aren’t, but is he watching you or something?

“Because I seek out the strengths of people I want to befriend.”

Before you could ask him more about his apparent desire to befriend you, he bounds away to his friends who are calling him from the entrance of the Great Hall. He tells you to stay warm as he darts off, this time, he dodges all the people in his way.

But he doesn’t even know your name! He recognizes you as the girl with the eight page paper!

You shake your head and walk over to your spot for breakfast. You put these thoughts off for now. He’s far too enigmatic for you right now. And that bothers you

As predicted by the both of you, for different reasons, Hufflepuff won. You sit down in your seat in the Divination classroom. Before you even take a second breath, Taehyung drops to the table next to yours. He drops 6 chocolate frog cards in front of you.

“These are my winnings. You can choose half and I’ll keep the rest.”

“I have no interest in chocolate frog cards, I don’t collect them. You can keep it all.” You take your essay out of your bag, “But here’s the essay.”

“Thanks. But, do you want anything in return anyway? You’re like a partner for predictions; I’d hate to take away that credit from you.” The credit sure feels good.

“Just return the essay to me when you’re done with it. Thanks.” And with that, Divinations begin and there‘s a test today.

Twenty minutes in the test, your table starts shaking. Your table partner, some Ravenclaw, is bouncing his knee and you grit your teeth in annoyance and look up to hiss at him to quit it. But when you look up, you notice exactly how much he’s shaking as if he’s in a moment of confliction. You study his eye movements and see him darting about to other student’s papers. How dare he think of cheating! He hasn’t noticed your attendance to his thoughts as he darts his eyes back to your paper, three times.

Before you can do or say anything, you see his eyes widen at his paper and you look down too.

If you continue look at other people’s papers and cheat, I will make you grown antlers and so much hair, you trip every step.

You widen your eyes as well, what is that? Who is that?

You look at Trelawney who is busy fiddling with her hands and looking into her pot of tea. All other students are busy scrawling away on their papers except for three people: you, the Ravenclaw, and Taehyung.

You look at Taehyung, who’s in the table over, and he gives you a wink. The Ravenclaw begins to write on his test; it seems that he’s made his choice.

“He would have never followed through, but it was only to ensure it.” Taehyung said to you on the way down the North Tower.

“And how did you catch him cheating?” You asked.

“Your table was bouncing and it was annoying.” You quirk a smile.

“What’s so funny?”

“It’s how I started to notice him cheating too.” You admit. He gives you another boxy grin.

“Why do you want to be my friend?” You ask, nearing the last steps.

“It’s a secret method, but it’s my instinct that you will be a good friend.” It doesn’t satisfy you, but you understand instinct.

“So, friends?” He turns to you and sticks his hand out.

You take it.

“Friends.”

Aww the first gif i find is the one I was thinking of. Good call!

A/N: By the powers vested in Slytherin anon, the format of my choosing is a short scenario series. Not one, because friendship to love takes progress that can’t be confined in one scenario, and fanfiction is too chronologically-one-after-another. This is more of The Adventures of...type series with progressive plot that eventually leads to love in the last one. Besides, as Slytherin anon says, there’s not enough Slytherin readers, so we must even out the odds by making more scenarios!

There will be no more than 4 original scenarios to this series, but if anyone enjoys this plot, you are all welcome to send in imagines and/or headcanons that keep this story alive, adding more and more adventures and love progress to this. I may or may not make references to the hogwarts au I’ve already created previously. You can read all of them all here!

To Slytherin anon: I hope you find this to your liking. Once again, thank you for your trust in my plot and story, it means a lot. I hope to do Slytherin justice.

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