Neptune
Pairing: Mermaid!Taehyung x Space explorer/Scientist!Reader
Genre: Smut, Angst, Fluff
A/N: I really have nothing to say other than I took this way too far lol I hope you all enjoy it! The ending might be confusing lol send asks if you want to know anything and id love to hear what you thought!
Word count: 16k (yeah that happened)
Warnings: Oral male and female receiving, descriptions of fainting, drowning and death, guns, swearing, (I think thats it, let me know if i missed anything)
Tagging a few of you who seemed excited for this! :) @mischiefmakerliesmith5 @yeontanismypresident @oh-worm-yee-haw @kpopgirlbtssvt @zombiewerewolfqueen
Summary:
No one with legs lived on the surface of Neptune, walkers such as yourself lived on the moons. The spacecrafts that you traveled in constantly moved to and from all of the different moons, but no one ever went down to the surface. That's where the swimmers lived. You’d heard tales of the fishtailed people that swam in the great sea below the moons, some called them mermaids. But no one had ever actually seen one before, well, until now. You and the scientific research team that you had gathered together had built the first spaceship in your people’s history that could go into the waters below. You’d figured you’d snap a few pictures and return within the month, but things didn’t go as planned. Your ship was captured by the swimmers and they seemed just as in awe at you and your team as you were with them. They decided to let you go but only on the condition that you to bring their leading scientist back up to the moons with you, so you could learn from each other. You learn quite a bit from Taehyung, in particular, your anatomy seemed to be his favorite subject…
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Triton was a gloomy and desolate place, but the moons of Neptune were all your people had known. There were a few large cities on each moon, each looking identical to the others, all of the buildings were tall and gray and matched the one sitting next to it. Each neighborhood’s houses looked no different from the one on either side. Original thought and creativity seemed to be scarce in your society.
Even the clothes sold in stores seemed to fall into a range of plain styles and blacks and grays.
Ships flew back and forth between the moon’s daily exchanging supplies. Some citizens worked on other moons during the week and would return to their home moon for the weekends. You were lucky to not have to travel far for your work, in fact, you lived right on the same plot of land in dorms with all the other scientists at your facility.
You were the lead researcher and developer on a new type of shuttle that could fly through space, and also dive into water. You didn’t know too much about the engineering of it all, your studies had all mostly leaned to biology and astronomy and you had dabbled in geology and physics. But, your team had been from all different sciences and studies, so, together you had found many ways to overcome the struggles of its creation.
It was a particularly difficult task, considering Triton didn’t have many places for you to test out the ship you were developing. There were no lakes or big bodies of water.
Your life’s goal, from when you were a small child had always been the same. You’d stare out your window at the giant blue planet that hung in the sky, and you’d dream of what life would be like down there.
You’d heard stories, but everyone said they were nothing but fairy tales. Your science driven brain couldn’t quite escape the idea that you wanted to prove that they were real, and figure out the mysteries of the swimmers from the stories yourself.
You knew that it could possibly all be fake, maybe the planet wasn’t even made of water and just looked like it.
Those were the types of unanswered questions that motivated you to wake up every morning and continue your work.
You had been working on the ship with your team for about 3 years, and the day had finally come to put together the finishing touches and head out on your exploration.
You weren’t surprised that it had made the news, headlines read ‘Hopeful Scientist and Her Team will Attempt to Uncover the Mysteries Bellow.’ and unfortunately prompted some like
‘Chasing Fairy Tales? The Scientist who believes in Mermaids’ that one you weren’t quite fond of. The majority of people thought it was a ridiculous idea, but you never let it crush your spirits and excitement.
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It was going to take about 2 days to get down to Neptune, nothing compared to a lifetime of curiosity, work and waiting.
A large crowd of excited citizens and media came to see you and your team off. You smiled and waved out one of the windows before strapping yourself into your seat. You had traveled by shuttle many times before, though the design of your shuttle was different than most of the other looked, you were used to this part of space travel.
Yet, you still felt your stomach turning into knots.
There were so many things that could go wrong once you got down to the surface of neptune. One tiny leak could risk the safety of your whole group. Or a mistake in the system that was supposed to balance the pressure within your ship when you’d dive down into the depths could cause you all to perish almost instantly.
The team that was coming with you consisted of four others besides yourself.
A photographer named Jungkook that you insisted must be included to capture all of your findings.
The aerospace engineer that did most of the designing and tests on the shuttle, Namjoon, also joined your team. Most of those who actually had worked with you up until now had been too terrified to see this through all the way, but Namjoon had been so excited to see for himself, what he considered his greatest creation, put into action.
The government who had funded your project through the grants that you had basically had to sell your soul for, insisted on your bringing a military general with your team for protection. You had argued that you couldn’t imagine what kind of help he would be underwater in a small ship. Yet Jin was forced onto your team. You didn’t quite like him, or any of the vibes he gave off, but he had actually volunteered for this. Part of you thinks there must’ve been some good pay in it for him.
The final member was the pilot/mechanic named Hoseok, he would fly the ship and be tasked with quick fixes and repairs of the ship if anything were to go wrong.
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Everything had gone smoothly on the take off. Next was just time to wait and prepare yourselves for what you may discover.
You and Jin had gotten off to a rocky start when it came time for dinner the first day.
He’d mostly been silent and kept to himself but when you handed him his packaged space meal, he had scoffed and waved his hand away at it.
“This is literally what you’ll be eating for the next month we are here, I’d get used to it if I were you.” You snapped at him.
He grumbled something under his breath as he caved in and took it.
“I’m sorry what was that?” You raised your eyebrows.
“I said what idiot decided to go for the bland vitamin protein packs. You know they had ones with actual food right?”
You glared down at the black haired man. He was wearing the same uniform as the rest of your team, silver sweatpants, and a black t-shirt with a silver jacket with a blue stripe up the side. His nametag on his jacket read, General of Space Military Kim Seokjin.
“Well Mr. Kim Seokjin. I’m the one who purchased it. It saved us money, we didn’t have a big budget for food here. Probably so we could pay your enormous salary for your unnecessary presence here.” you growled back.
Namjoon had stepped in as he saw Jin’s face growing red.
“It’s only the first day guys, let's keep things civil okay?” he said putting his arms up between the two of you.
You sighed and nodded. “Sorry for being unprofessional. I’m on edge today.”
Jin sulked away to eat his meal in his room.
You stayed in the small dining area with Namjoon.
“I’m just so nervous this was all for nothing. What if we get there and It's literally just empty water.” You frowned.
Namjoon put a hand on your shoulder and gave you a comforting look.
“I know, but we’ve come this far. We should stay positive, I want this to go well too”
You nodded and wrapped him into hug, “Thanks Joon”
That was the other thing about Namjoon. He was your best friend. You had met in college and realized that he shared your curiosity for the life that may be on Neptune. He’s the one who encouraged you to go for it and offered his help in constructing the ship that would take you to your dream.
You’d hooked up with him once or twice, he was actually the man you’d lose your virginity to. But, it's always remained unromantic, purely a friends with benefits deal. You never wanted a relationship to get in the way of your dream research project.
The photographer Jungkook entered the room for a moment, noticing the two of you embraced.
“Oh sorry-” he stuttered thinking he walked in on a personal moment.
“No it’s fine,” you pulled away from Namjoon and smiled. “How’s it going?”
Jungkook settler down into a chair on the other side of the small chrome dining table.
“I’m pretty excited” Jungkook spoke “Tired of black and white. Ready for some blue” he chuckled.
The reason that you had picked Jungkook’s portfolio out of the many submissions of photographers to join the expedition was for that exact reason.
Everything on Triton and the other moons were so plain and colorless. Everyone’s submissions contained basically the same types of photographs. A grey building, the grey empty landscape of Triton or Neso. Even the wildlife back on the moons were colorless. Being adapted to blend into their environment, most every animal was some shade of pale gray. One person even just had an entire portfolio of the same photographed rock. They were well done, and artistic, but nothing stood out to you.
Jungkook on the other hand, when you were presented with his portfolio, your eyes lit up, it was a series of beautiful shots of objects sitting in front of the big blue planet of neptune in the sky. It was extremely creative, and you could tell his love for the blue glow of your destination planet.
Hoseok slept in the pilot's seat with the shuttle on the autopilot course most of the next two days, only coming out of the room for meal times and to do a routine check of all of the parts of the ship he was in charge of maintaining.
You passed the time double checking the inventory of equipment you’d brought, and playing cards with Namjoon and Jungkook.
The blue planet now took up almost the entire view from the windows of your shuttle. It was magnificent and you felt every part of your body tingling with excitement.
You were set to land in a few hours, your dream was coming true.
Everyone was rushing around getting prepared. Namjoon had come up with a suggestion a few months ago to design an underwater suit, similar to what the astronauts used to be able to breathe in space, but for underwater. Though none of you planned on leaving the ship, you all would wear them while the ship was first underwater just encase something malfunctioned.
You were getting changed and geared up in your room, when your door swung open on you still half naked.
Namjoon walked in chuckling at the way you scurried to cover yourself up.
“Just me” he spoke
“Fuck that scared me” you laughed.
He walked over to you and rubbed your shoulder up and down. “You ready? I can’t believe it's finally happening. I feel like I’m going crazy with anticipation.”
“Same here. We’ve waited for this moment for longer than I can even remember.”
Hoseok’s voice rang out from over the speakers “Landing in 30 minutes. Everyone gets in their seats and buckle up”
Namjoon gave you a quick smile and a thumbs up and left you to finish getting ready.
You shakily got the rest of your suit ready, lastly putting on the helmet and making sure it was secured to the oxygen source.
As you walked out to the seats, you noticed Jin was now equipped with a gun on his hip.
“And how the fuck do you plan on using that? I will literally kill you if you shoot any holes in my ship.” You hissed at him as you sat and started to buckle up.
He rolled his eyes. “Its for if we have to go outside of the ship obviously. Its made for underwater use”
“Well here’s to hoping nothing comes to that.” you sighed.
None of you knew what you were entering into. If there were any creatures living in the water, how large were they? How dangerous were they?
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The ship shook and rattled as it entered Neptune’s atmosphere, the deep blue water below looked so close that you could just reach your hand out and touch it.
You have to force yourself to keep your eyes open, not wanting to miss a moment of it.
With a giant thud that jolted all of you hard into the back of your chairs, the shuttle hit the surface of the water.
It was the smoothest landing that you could have hoped for, the ship was built for the impact.
Your shuttle now floated on top of the surface of the waters. You let out a sigh of relief, though the mission had only began, this was one of the moments you were most worried about. It was over and had been a success.
Your team cheered and clapped their hands for Hoseok and his successful piloting as you all un buckled and got out of your seats.
Hoseok turned around and smiled bowing like a performer on a stage.
Then looked to you,
“Alright boss. What now?” He asked.
You thought for a moment, you’d had a set schedule and plan, but you couldn’t help but want to take a moment to just let this sight set in.
The blue water was making your ship sway to and fro in soothing movements.
“Lets have Jungkook take some pictures” you decided. That would give all of you some time to adjust and observe as well.
Jungkook nodded excitedly and went to his trunk that stored his camera equipment, rifling through to find the best lense.
Your group now took off their helmets, feeling comfortable that nothing was going to go wrong at this point, but keeping them close on your hips just in case.
You walked over to the giant glass window that took up almost the entirety of one of the room’s walls, staring out in awe.
The sun made the water sparkle and glisten, it was the most beautiful thing you’d ever seen. You heart was jumping for joy, you felt it might just jump all the way out of your chest and dive right into the water.
Namjoon walked up and stood beside you. He opened his mouth to speak but then shook his head and just looked out the window with you.
You were speechless as well. You were the first people to have ever observed this sight, it was an honor and was almost a spiritual experience.
Jungkook now stood on the other side of you, snapping pictures with a giant grin on his face. He paused and turned to you.
“Oh my god, I never want to go back” He chuckled.
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After about a couple hours and all of you eating your lunch in front of the window, you decided it was time to begin your descent.
Hoseok got back in the pilot's seat, you could see him growing slightly nervous, so you walked to his side with a curious expression on your face.
“Everything okay?”
He sighed and nodded, fidgeting with some of the controls, “Yeah, I’ve done this in the simulator so many times. But, that was just a guess. I’m about to be the first pilot to shuttle underwater...Just...taking it all in”
“You’ll be famous for this” you smiled, putting a hand on his shoulder to reassure him.
He grinned widely “Yeah, We all will be huh? Thanks y/n.”
“Do we have to buckle up for this?” Jungkook asked
You shake your head “No it should be smooth and slow as we dive.”
“Awesome” he clapped his hands together “I’m gonna sit by the window and take a video of us diving then”
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Slowly your shuttle dove down until you were surrounded by water. So far there were no signs of life anywhere, you were starting to get a little discouraged until you heard Jungkook squeal loudly.
“Hoseok stall the descent!” you shouted. Hoseok listened and the ship stilled. Your group ran over to the window where Jungkook sat with his face pressed against the window.
A small creature no bigger than your hand was slowly moving along the window. It was yellow and round, and had a large fin that wiggled back and forth as it moved.
“Jungkook pictures!” you spoke quickly. He scurried to capture the creature.
It was so strange and new.
“Hoseok how many meters down are we?” you asked
Hoseok checked a screen near his pilot’s seat. “About 30”
“Hoseok I’m a scientist...can we not do ‘about’…” you chuckled
“29.8” he replied
You quickly jotted it down into your log of events that you’d been keeping.
When you lifted your head up from your writing you let out a large gasp.
A larger creature now swam past. It seemed to be a meter long and was snake like, it was bright red with black stripes around it.
Your team pouted slightly when the creatures disappeared from view. But you were still completely giddy over the excitement of having discovered new life.
“Let's go down further” you told Hoseok and he nodded and returned to his seat.
For the next few hours you ventured further down into Neptunes depths. Your team had discovered at least 30 unique creatures that Jungkook had been able to take pictures of. You documented the depth and time at which you’d seen each of them with a quick summary of their behaviors.
“I think we should go back to the surface for a while” Hoseok suggested. “It’ll be getting dark soon and we should surface for the night”
You were slightly disappointed about that “Are you sure? Can’t we just go a little deeper?”
“Honestly, pressure wise, this is as deep as we are going to be able to go. The pressure room that the ship was tested in wasn’t capable of testing pressures any more than what we are currently at. The ship might still handle it, but we don’t know for sure. For our safety I’m going to advise against it…”
“10 more meters?” You pleaded batting your eyelashes.
“Y/n. If he says it's not safe I’m not going to allow it.” Jin hissed.
“Allow it?” you spun to face him with your jaw dropping. “I’m sorry, I thought I was in charge not you?”
“I’d think that the guy with the gun in really in charge” he smirked, putting his hand to his hip.
So that's really why he wanted the gun on him. It wasn’t just for safety from the creatures of the waters. It was to make sure that he remained in a position of authority over the rest of the crew.
You shake your head.
“You wouldn’t do that in here. Hoseok. 10 more meters” you ordered sternly.
Jin slowly stepped so that his body was almost touching your own, he stared down at you angrily.
“I said no. I’m not dying over this stupid mission”
You gulped.
“I think if we do 10 more meters I can ascend fast enough that it wouldn’t be a problem. Any malfunctions would be solvable.” Hoseok spoke calmly, wanting to relieve some of the tension and calm down the man with the gun.
Jin’s eyes narrowed “Fine. But if anything happens. I’m calling this mission and we return immediately”
“You don’t have that authority!” you yelled out.
“Actually I do.” he pulled out a government note from his pocket and shoved it in front of your face.
“You really think the government was going to just let something like this happen without being in control of it?”
The sheet read that Jin was capable of overriding any decisions you’d make. Shit.
You groaned and hit the paper away from your face.
“Fine. But I don't think anything will go wrong”
Almost like you had jinxed it, the ship lunged to the side, rolling onto an angle that caused everything not secured to slide to one side of the room and your whole team to fall over.
“Fuck!” you heard Hoseok yell out as he tried to maintain balance while messing with the controls “I can’t do anything. Our systems aren’t working”
You felt your heart rate quicken, you tried to pull yourself back up as you stared wide eyed at Namjoon who had the same look of fear and surprise on his face.
Almost as soon as your team had regained their footing, it happened a second time.
This was not good…
“What the fuck is happening!” you screeched, pulling yourself over to the windows and looking around, not seeing anything but the darkening waters.
Your ship seemed to be...moving?
“Y/n...we have a big problem here” Hoseok’s voice trembled “We’re descending...fast…”
You felt yourself growing faint, had you just doomed every soul on this shuttle with your grand dreams and ideas?
Your eyes were fluttering shut as you fell to the side, you could hear Jungkook crying. And you swore you heard Namjoon throw up right before your consciousness slipped away from you.
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When your eyes started to open, you expected nothingness. Maybe you were still dreaming, because everything was bright. A warm yellow glow touched everything in the room. The room was a mess, Jungkook’s camera equipment scattered across the floor along with all of the notebooks and papers you’d been writing in. A coffee cup had spilled over and a giant puddle was surrounding the floor next to Hoseok who was lying unconscious.
Jungkook who was lying flat on his back had also not yet come to. Namjoon who was next to you seemed to be just waking up same as you. And Jin was nowhere in sight.
Your gaze followed the light up to the windows, it seemed you were still underwater, yet this looked like...a city? It was colorful and magnificent with sea life floating around everywhere. Your ship appeared to be landed on the steps of a very tall and heavily decorated stone building that had large colorful shells all around it.
What the hell?
You gasped and stood too quickly almost falling back over.
Have you found them?
You almost screamed out when a figure appeared in front of the window.
It looked like an adult man, in your human years he’d probably be in his 20’s, he was shirtless so you could see how muscular he was. He was the most beautiful thing you’d ever seen in your life. His skin seemed to have an iridescent glow glossed over every inch of himself.
Your eyes trailed down and you now noticed that his lower half, was definitely not human. Just below his waist, his skin stopped, and a navy blue scaling that you’d seen on some of the sea creatures you’d observed was on him. It bound his legs together into one long form, and where feet would usually be on a person was a translucent, large, tail that also had similarities to some of the smaller sea creatures you’d seen.
He had long flowing blue hair that floated in the water as he moved along the glass, peering in at you.
You really had found them, they were real.
As terrified as you were, you couldn’t help but feel a little excited too.
You’d been laughed at for wanting to install an underwater speaker system to your ship, but you now thanked yourself for that.
You shakily made your way to the control panel and picked up the corded microphone, holding down the button and pausing a moment to debate on what your first words should be?
‘We come in peace?’ ‘Hi?’ Shit. You’d always thought about what you’d say to a mermaid if you’d ever met one, but all of that seemed to have been lost to the nervousness that you felt.
The fish man saw that you had noticed him and was now floating right in your line of view, cocking his head to the side while he looked you over.
You cleared your throat and spoke into the microphone
“We are friends. Explorers” You spoke slowly, pointing to the others on your ship. Not even knowing if he’d understand you. He mouthed something back, you realize that he must be speaking. Shit, you’d forgotten to turn the receiving microphone on.
Your fingers fumbled over the control panel and you found the red button, pressing it so it now glowed ‘on’
“Sorry, what did you say?” you spoke into your mic, still not sure whether anything you were saying was getting across.
“I spoke, we are no friends. Your warrior injure one citizens. We have now”
You gasped. He spoke your language! Not perfectly but it was more than enough to have a conversation with him. How that was possible was a discussion for another time. As you realize now, that he was referring to the missing Jin. He must’ve left the ship to investigate and shot at one of them.
“I apologize for our…” you thought over if you should just use the word he used and decided that was best, “For our warrior. I’m sure he was just scared. Is your citizen going to be okay?”
The merman pressed his forehead to the glass looking around the room you were in.
“Will be okay. Getting medical care now they are. You have more weapon?” The merman suddenly seemed to get spooked and quickly turned around and swam a few feet from the ship, still looking in at you but hovering further back.
You realized Namjoon had just walked over to your side.
“W-what…” Namjoon gasped out “They are real? Oh my god they are real!” he grinned.
“They are real, and Jin shot one of them” you whispered in a hiss “They captured him. And us.”
Namjoon looked around the room realizing Jin was indeed missing.
“That idiot” he shook his head.
“Another friend” you spoke into the mic at the merman “No weapons. Our warrior had the only weapon”
The merman swam back over to the glass and looked unconvinced. “Don’t trust…” he muttered.
“Why here?” he spoke louder now
“We came to see you. To learn. Not to hurt. I’m very sorry about that. He isn’t a friend” you decided to just throw Jin under the bus with that, in hopes that the man would trust you better.
“Not friend?” he thought a moment. “Learn…”
“Yes, we came from the moons” you pointed up “We came to learn about this planet”
“We learn too” the man nodded “We like learn. We want learn”
“Awesome, well maybe we can learn some things from each other for a while before we leave” you threw in “We do need our warrior back, or we will be in trouble with our government”
“You said not friend?” He looked confused.
“Right, but we still can’t return without him” You told him.
“You don’t return” the merman crossed his muscular tan arms over his chest. “We don’t let return” he sternly spoke.
“Woah” a voice came from behind you. You realized Jungkook was now awake and approaching the glass with his camera in hand held up towards the merman
“Jungkook wait” you spoke to late.
“Weapon!” the merman yelled and hissed, pulling himself back from the glass, his hair now stood straight up as he bared his teeth growling animalistically at Jungkook. You noticed he had pointed teeth, every one of them sharp.
“Wait wait!” you waved your hands “It’s not a weapon, see”
You stood in front of Jungkook’s camera. “Take a picture of me Kook” you whispered.
Jungkook was now shaky after the behavior of the merman, but he nodded and held up his camera.
The merman got close to the glass again pressing his face against it with wide eyes as Jungkook took a picture of you.
“Can I?” you held your hand out to Jungkook asking for the camera. He shrugged and handed it over to you.
You pulled up the picture that was taken and brought the camera to the glass to show the merman.
“Picture” you told him “See. That's what he was doing.” you smiled, trying to show the merman you were being friendly.
He nodded slowly and repeated “Picture..”
Suddenly he was pulling himself away from the glass and swimming away quickly. He was gone.
Hoseok was now standing up and holding his head that had a slight bump on it.
“What the hell is going on” he groaned.
You filled him in on everything that had occurred.
“For real?” he gasped out. “But, they won’t let us leave...What are we going to do? We will definitely run out of breathable air if we don't recharge at the surface in about a day and a half…” he said looking at some of the gauges on the control panel.
You sighed. “Yeah, we need to figure out how to convince them to let us leave. Is there any contact to Triton available right now?” you asked.
Hoseok tried the radio then shook his head.
A knocking noise against the glass made you jump. You turned to see the merman was back, his mouth turned up in a smile.
“Hello” he spoke
“Welcome back” you chuckled, growing quite fond of his cute smile.
“Make deal.”
“You want to make a deal? To let us leave?”
“Yes. Deal.” he nodded.
“Okay…” you looked to Namjoon who shrugged “What’s the deal?”
“We keep warrior. For learn” the merman spoke
You shake your head “You can’t keep him...He’ll die soon if you don’t let him come with us. He can’t breathe down here, there isn’t enough air in his tank to last him. You won't be able to learn much from him dead.” You informed him.
The merman looked upset. “No deal?” he seemed to be pouting, which you shouldn’t be finding so cute considering it seemed this was the creature that held your fate in his hands currently.
“I make new deal. Must ask first.” he then turned and swam away like he did before.
“I say just leave the asshole.” Namjoon laughed.
“This isn’t funny!” Hoseok snapped. “But, yeah, why didn’t we just leave him”
“First of all, I don’t want that on my conscience for the rest of my life. And secondly, do you really think we won’t be in huge trouble if we return without him. He works for the governent”
“True” Namjoon sighed, “But if it comes to all of us dying...don’t you think that…”
The merman was now knocking at the glass again, snapping the attention of the four of you back to the window.
“New deal” The merman looked even more excited. “We give back. You take”
You didn’t quite understand what he was saying, he seemed to notice your confused expression.
“You take” he repeated pointing to himself.
“Take you with us?” you gasped. He wanted to come back to Triton with you?
“For learn. Want learn. You take. Me learn, you learn. Deal?”
“Deal!” you exclaimed instantly, realizing you should probably discuss it with your teammates but the idea of being able to take this merman back to Triton with you, and being able to learn everything about him and his kind seemed even more like a dream come true than anything that had happened so far.
“Right?” you turned to the rest of your crew
They all shrugged and nodded
“I don’t see why not” Namjoon spoke, but there was a hint of something uneasy in his voice.
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A few more mer-people swam over to your ship after the merman you’d been speaking with went and told them that the deal was on. Two of them had Jin in their arms who seemed to be squirming around and resisting until he realized he was being brought back to his ship.
There was a small metal room in the back of the ship meant for coming and going that drained the water once Jin was inside.
Hoseok went to grab him and brought him to his room. Yelling at him for being stupid the whole way there.
The merman you’d spoken to was now in front of the glass again.
“Gave back. You take now?” he pointed to himself.
“Yes. But, how are you going to breathe? We don’t have anything water here for you.”
He thought for a moment, putting his hand to his chin.
“One night. I return” he swam away, and the other mer-people followed.
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You spent the rest of the night discussing with the rest of your crew how you’d handle bringing the merman back with you to triton.
You’d all settled on keeping it a secret.
You knew Jin would have a hard time not telling his boss’s in the government so you’d brought him out to have a little talk.
He was still quite shaken up from the days events when hoseok dragged him from his room to the main room where you all had gathered.
“The merman is coming with us back home. I want to learn from him, but I don’t think it’s best if the media knows he’s there. everyone would want pictures and interviews and it’d all get in the way of our research. Can you keep it a secret?” You asked Jin
“And why would I protect any of them? Do you even know what they did to me in there?” He growled
“You did shoot one of their people…” Jungkook spoke hesitantly
“Well she snuck up on me. And what was I supposed to do?” Jin scowled down towards the floor.
“Please Jin. I’m begging you. You can report it to your supervisors only or whatever after we’ve taken him back here” you begged. You knew that if it was found out your team had brought a real mermaid back with them the media would swarm. You also were scared of what the government would ask to be done with him, they could easily take him from your team and give him to a different scientist for who knows what…
“I don’t want to lie about this…” Jin grumbled.
“We could’ve just left you there with them man. That was the original deal, and she turned it down.” Namjoon snapped at Jin, narrowing his eyes and clenching his fists at the man’s stubbornness to get on board with your plan.
Jin sighed and rubbed his temples.
“Fine.” he whispered “I won’t tell…”
You hoped that he was telling the truth.
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The next morning you were awakened to a tapping on the window. You had slept in the control room where you had seen the merman before so that you wouldn’t miss his return.
You lifted your head sleepily and looked to the noise, smiling widely upon seeing that the merman had his face pressed to the glass looking in at you.
You quickly stood and fumbled around to grab the microphone and turn on the receiving one for the outside.
“Hey, welcome back!” you chimed excitedly.
You noticed the merman seemed just as excited as yourself. His long blue hair floating just as beautifully in the water as you had remembered it. His skin was shimmering in the light, with that shiny iridescent glow covering his gorgeous caramel skin.
Your breathing quickened at the sight of him, it was almost like looking at a statue of an ancient god. You felt slightly unworthy in his presence, yet he looked more excited to see you than anyone ever had in your whole life.
“I come back. Go with you now. Made way to travel with.” he spoke. And as he said that, a group of four other merpeople swam up carrying a large glass tank that looked plenty big enough for the merman to comfortably fit into.
“That's perfect!” you clapped your hands together. “So what you’ll want to do is be in the tank when you get into the room. The room will drain out the rest of the water, but the water in your tank will stay and we can carry you in”
He nodded. You saw an older couple, a merman and merwoman approach him and hugged him tightly.
“Careful you” The woman said kissing him on the forehead.
You assumed those must be his parents. Their family dynamics seemed to be similar to your people. Those were the types of things you couldn’t wait to learn about, you had so many questions.
You pressed the button to open the door to the chamber Taehyung would enter from. He swam into his tank and you watched the merpeople swim it over and place it inside.
“All good?” you said over the microphone to the outside of the ship.
“Good. Ready” A voice called back to you
You took a deep breath. Nervously you pressed the button to close the doors and drain the water from the room.
You then called over the announcement speaker system, realizing you should’ve probably done this first,
“Everyone, I’m gonna need your help carrying him in. He’s here”
You made your way to the room, Namjoon had joined up with you and you saw a sleepy Hoseok and Jungkook following close behind.
“Jin’s not up?” you raised an eyebrow to Namjoon.
He shrugged and you sighed. Oh well, the four of you could probably do this on your own.
You felt your skin tingling with the excitement of what lay behind the door you now stood in front of.
Your childhood dreams and fantasies within your reach.
You shakily placed your hand on the door and turned the handle to open it.
When you entered the room the merman was sitting with his head, arms and shoulders all out of the tank. His head resting cutely on his hands at the edge of his tank.
“Hello” he spoke. His voice sounded a bit different when not distorted by the water. It was deep and soothing and made you just want to melt on the spot.
“Hello” you returned. “This is Namjoon, Jungkook, and Hoseok. And I’m y/n” you pointed to them respectively.
“Taehyung” he pointed to himself.
“Nice to meet you Taehyung” you approached him holding your hand out to shake his hand. He looked curiously at you and you realized that was probably not a gesture that he understood.
“Oh. Sorry. It’s what humans do to greet each other. We shake hands”
“Shake hands to greet.” He nodded like he was making a mental note of it.
“So we’re going to carry you out of here now, I’ve made space in my room to put your tank and secure it so it doesn’t slide around the ship when we take off.” You did now notice that the tank didn’t have a lid, you hoped that the trip back to Triton wouldn’t make the water spill out, you’d have to come up with something for that…
The four of you picked up the tank, noticing that it had handles to carry it, you were extremely thankful for that convenience. It was quite heavy, about four feet high, and six feet in length. You wondered if he’d start to miss swimming in the open waters. You’d have to build a bigger tank for him back at your lab.
“We make last night” Taehyung proudly tapped the glass on his tank as you carried him.
“You made this in a night? It’s nice, the handles helped” You complimented him sweetly.
So they have the means to make things like this. And very quickly. You were going to have to ask more about that.
Once he was set down and secured in your room, you let out a small chuckle at the way he looked around wide eyed at all of your things.
Hoseok and Jungkook had decided to go get something to eat.
“Want me to stay?” Namjoon asked “For safety?” he whispered the last part in your ear. Not being able to tear his eyes from the sharp teeth showing as Taehyung smiled.
“He seems gentle, you can go eat. I want to just take some notes and talk with him for a while”
Namjoon nodded and left the two of you alone in the room.
You sat down on your bed, which was only a few feet from where his tank sat.
He rested his chin on his arms at the top of the glass, looking at you with a cute and curious stare.
“I have so many questions I don’t even know where to start” you chuckled, feeling slightly shy now that you were alone with him.
“I have question too. Many” he laughed lightly, he didn’t seem to be nervous about this at all. If he was he was doing a good job not showing it.
Your mind raced through all of your questions, wondering what to ask first as you pulled out a pen and your research notebook. Writing at the top
‘Taehyung, Mermaid Research Notes’
“So, did you know that we existed?” You asked him
Taehyung thought for a moment. “Little know.” he answered “See your ships move in sky? Not know what look like. Or why ships”
You wrote down his answer in your notes. So they could see your ships going from moon to moon.
“So you go to the surface of the water, you can breath like we do it seems. Like right now you’re out of the water and seem to be fine?”
He nodded “Breath is both. Tail need water or maybe die. Have question? You say two, not fair, take turn” he winked at you in what almost seemed like a flirtatious gesture, your cheeks grew hot and you wanted to cover your face in embarrassment.
“Sorry. We’ll take turns” you smiled nervously at him.
“Good. I ask, You say warrior would die under water. Not breath underwater?” He furrowed his brow as he asked.
“No, we have to hold our breath if we go underwater, and that can only last for like a minute or two.”
“Oh. Interesting” Taehyung’s eyes widened as he nodded again. “I ask again?” he cocked his head to the side.
You chuckled at his gesture “Yeah, I got two so you should get two”
“We speak same. You know Why?”
“Actually I was wondering that too!” You put a hand to your face as you thought “ I really have no idea though. It seems you speak our language, just in a more…” you didn’t want to offend him so you tried to think of a way to phrase your thoughts. “With less words?”
“Less words. Yes. You speak extra words”
Extra words, you found that an amusing way to put it.
“Maybe at one point in life, a long time ago our people lived together somehow.” you guessed “I don’t know for sure, but we had heard of you. It was all supposed to be just a story that you’d tell children, and no one really believed it. But I actually had hoped it was true, and that’s the main reason that we came to your planet. I wanted to find out if you were real” you told him.
“Maybe.” he nodded as he agreed with your guess, yet something strange flickered over his dark eyes. He suddenly dunked his head under the water and surfaced again. It seemed random, you wondered if he was just missing the feeling.
“Don’t like dry hair. Feeling weird” he told you, as if he knew what you were thinking.
“Oh okay” you nodded. “Um...so my turn?” you still were feeling shy and awkward around him. His beauty was enough to make you nervous alone, let alone the fact that he was the embodiment of a life long dream achieved. You wanted to make every second with him count.
The door to your room swung open, causing Taehyung to jump slightly and splash a bit in the water.
“Hey. Just brought you some food and wanted to check in” Namjoon spoke, handing you one of the protein packs and looking Taehyung over skeptically.
“Thanks Joon. We’re doing well. Just talking” you smiled at him
“Okay, just radio me if you need anything.” his eyes not leaving the merman in the room “Hoseok is going to start the ascent to the surface soon” he let you know.
You gave him a quick smile and a wave as he left the room. You had expected him to be far more excited about all of this, it was his dream as well, yet something seemed to be bothering him.
“Not like me” Taehyung said after Namjoon had shut the door. He said it as if it was a fact and not a question.
“I’m sure that's not true. He’s wanted to meet your people too. He might just be nervous”
You were almost trying to convince yourself that was the case.
You felt the ship jolt forward a little bit, a small creaking sound rang out as the ship complained from having been still for so long. Taehyung's water shook slightly in his tank and he looked scared.
“It’s just the ship moving up to the surface” You told him “Its safe”
He smiled slightly “Okay. Safe” he nodded “Trust”
The two of you exchanged questions back and forth the whole way to the surface. You found out that he was also a scientist, that they seemed to have most of the same careers that your society had. Doctors, teachers, store owners, construction. Even one job that was basically a veterinarian, they liked to keep some types of fish and aquatic animals as pets.
Once you reached the surface of the water and it was time to take back off into space, you had to say goodbye to Taehyung and go sit buckled into your seat. You had made a makeshift lid, hoping it was enough to keep him safe and his water in the tank.
Right before you put it on, he could see your worried expression and he reached out his hand to you, taking your hand in his own. He brushed his thumb along your palm, sending a shudder throughout your body.
“Safe. Trust” He spoke, his dark eyes sparkling as they met yours.
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When your shuttle arived back to Triton, your crew was met with cheers and camera crews everywhere. The large crowd gathered at the station were excited that you had all returned safely, and you were sure they were dying to hear all about it.
Your team went out to the steps where you could address the crowd. You told them that your team would be releasing the pictures and notes that you’d taken on your trip within the week. That seemed to satisfy their hunger for curiosity.
Really all you could think about though, was getting Taehyung safely into your lab without him being seen.
You had discussed with Hoseok plans to dock the ship in the back entrance after waving away the crowd, so now it was time to do just that.
Jin had left to go update his higher ups on what had happened on the trip. You nervously hoped he’d keep his word about what had really happened down on neptune.
Hoseok, Namjoon and Jungkook helped you carry Taeyhung’s tank from where the ship was now discreetly docked in the lab.
You were happy to see that he was already from the landing.
“Nice see you again y/n” he purred out as he saw you. Namjoon rolled his eyes and sighed, you still didn’t quite understand what had him so upset about this whole thing.
Once Taehyung was brought to one of the rooms in the lab that only you and Namjoon had access to you thanked Hoseok and Jungkook and told them they could go.
“That was a hell of a trip boss” Jungkook grinned at you “These pictures we took really are going to make me the top photographer on all of the moons.”
“Just remember not to publish any of the ones of Taehyung or the other merpeople. Also the ones I selected to be exclusively for my research papers I will be posting”
“Right” he nodded giving you a small wave as he left the room.
Hoseok then stepped forward towards you.
“Hey let me know when you need me for the return alright? You have my number” he put a hand on your shoulder.
“Will do, seriously thank you for everything. I couldn’t have done this without you”
“I know” he winked and gave you finger guns as he walked backwards out of the room.
Taehyung had been watching you say your goodbyes silently under water, tiny bubbles ascending to the surface of the tank. He seemed to be anxious to get your attention back over to him again.
You gave him a small smile and put your finger up to say ‘just wait one second’
You still had to say goodbye to Namjoon, who stood scowling at Taehyung.
You realized you needed to have this conversation in private and motioned for Namjoon to join you right outside the door to Taehyung's room.
“So what’s going on with you? I thought you’d be excited that we finally found merpeople? This was our dream remember?” You narrowed your eyes at him, biting on your lower lip.
Namjoon crossed his arms across his broad chest.
“Yeah, this was our dream. Our, dream. But you seem to want to do this all on your own.” He glared at you
“On my own? I’m sorry but you were right there with me? You came on this trip too, I didn’t leave you out of anything” you hissed in a whisper
“Yeah. Okay. Well have fun with your new best friend. And your research papers. Don’t bother putting my name on them. If you even planned on it” he growled and stomped away from you.
“Namjoon wait!” You yelled after him. “What the hell” you mutter to yourself shaking your head angrily as you walked back into the room where Taehyung was waiting for you.
He had an expression of confusion laid on his features.
He was poking only the top of his head out of the water, just his eyes peeking above.
“Sorry about that. I really don’t know why he thinks-“ you stopped yourself, not wanting to rant about your problems to this man you’d just met. “Never mind” you sighed.
Taehyung cocked his head to the side. “Okay?” he pointed to you.
“Yeah I’m okay” you faked a smile.
“Lie” he shook his head, “Alright, don’t tell.” he seemed to pout slightly.
“It’s nothing really. Namjoon is upset, but he’ll get over it”
Taheyung pulled himself up to rest his arms on the top of the tank. “Hope.” he nodded slowly “Don’t like you sad” he frowned and reached a hand out to you.
You purse your lips, debating whether to step into his touch. Deciding that it couldn’t hurt.
You reached your hand out to him as you walked forward. He took your hand gently in both of his and turned it over, brushing fingers lightly over your palm and staring at it inquisitively, his gaze flickering from your hand to your confused face every once in a while. His hands were cold, and seemed to glitter in the light, they were so beautiful, wet and soft as they touched you. You shuddered slightly.
After what felt like hours of him doing this he gave you your hand back.
His eyes were locked on to yours and you awkwardly wiped your hand on your pants.
“So I still have so much more I want to know about you” You spoke
“Same” he nodded “Many question”
“I’ll start?” you chuckled as you pulled up a chrome metal chair to the side of his tank, taking out your notebook.
“So,” you cleared your throat “What are relationships like there?”
“Relationship?” Taehyung furrowed his brow.
“Yeah, like do you get married?”
“Not married” He spoke slowly pointing to himself “But, yes married happens.”
“Oh, okay so you aren’t, but that's a normal thing”
He nodded. “You?”
You chuckled “No, I’m not, but we do here too”
He seemed relieved at your answer.
“Turn?” he pointed to himself.
“Yeah, go ahead”
“How do…” he smirked slightly, his tail flicking some water up in the air that fell right back down into the tank. “How do you, create new people”
You choked on air at his question. As a scientist you shouldn’t feel uncomfortable talking about these things, but for some reason discussing sex with him seemed more intimate than it should.
“Oh, I-” you shook your head, trying to shake away the embarassement, “Sex is, um. Men have an…” you wanted to try and say this like a mature professional as best you could “an appendage, their genitalia, and they enter the woman’s, entrance...that fits the man’s appendage inside and releases sperm that combines with an egg to create a baby” you coughed, still feeling uncomfortable and shy.
He nodded understandingly. “Us different. Not enter. Female release, then male release, combines outside in water to an egg where young grows”
“Oh!” you found that interesting and quickly jotted it down in your notes.
You talked back and forth a bit more with him explaining further and asking more questions as well.
“I did have one more question before I turn in for the night…”
Taehyung smiled at you, nodding for you to go ahead.
“You said that you can’t leave the water or you’ll dry up. Has that happened before?”
Taheyung thought hard for a moment “Only told. Only a story. No dry to test theory. Only water at home. Wanted to create raft to test theory, no one willing. Much risk.” he seemed to be thinking hard on this thought. “Always wondered…”
You wrote down a few more notes on your paper, then flipped your notebook shut.
“I think that’ll be it for the night” You smiled at him “I’m going to look into getting you a bigger tank, will you be fine sleeping here for the night?” you asked
“Yes, fine. Sleep good” he smiled, holding his hand out again to you. You put your hand into his and he gave you a quick squeeze “Will miss…” he murmured almost inaudibly.
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The rest of the night you tossed and turned in the sheets. Taehyung was on your mind the whole time.
When you finally drifted off to sleep, the world you were sent to was familiar but not your own.
You felt yourself falling down slowly through dark water, a small light in the distance was getting closer and closer as you sank.
You didn’t feel like you were drowning, you felt serene and weightless. The light was now almost to you, nothing else was visible in the pitch black water, and you were starting to make out the object giving off the warm yellow glow.
It was a lamp, somehow still lit underwater, and a hand was holding tightly to it.
Soon you recognized the face that owned that hand. It was Taehyung. His tanned skin glowing against
You smiled and opened your mouth to greet him, when suddenly his face was mere inches from your own.
His razor sharp teeth were bared and your blood froze. You felt your entire body start to clench up with fear, a shock running down your spine at the monstrous sight of this man.
His hand shot out and gripped you around your throat. He screamed something but for some reason you couldn’t make out the words, maybe it was a different language?
Your eyes shot open and you were sitting straight up in bed, gasping and sweating. What the hell was that dream about?
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After eating breakfast, showering and getting dressed for the day, you made your way over to your lab. Excited to see Taehyung again despite the dream still slightly haunting your mind.
As you opened the door, starting to step into his room, you called out for him in a singsong voice “I’m baaaack”
Only to drop everything you are holding in your hands in shock. Your heart seemed to sink all the way to your feet and fall to the floor with your notebook and coffee that now was spilling across the tile on the ground.
He was...gone. He just wasn’t there.
No, this isn’t possible! Who got to him? Did Jin lie? Did he tell his supervisors and they came and took him to a different lab so they could steal away your credit and research?
Catching you completely off guard and making you almost jump straight out of your skin, a hand touched your shoulder from behind.
You almost turned around to punch the attached person in the face, when he spoke.
“No! Sorry. Accident scare”
You knew that voice.
You whipped yourself around to see that standing behind you was a completely naked Taehyung. Standing. Behind you. On LEGS.
Your eyes scanned over him, his tail gone and his lower half of his body now matching the humanness of his upper half. You also took note of the fact that the iridescent glow that usually blanketed over every inch of his skin was also gone. He looked completely human.
“W-what…” you stammered out, your eyes flickering up and down his body.
“Y/n. Experiment, success!” He clapped his hands together and motioned to himself up and down, as if you weren’t already looking him over obsessively.
“Tried out of water. Thought you save if went wrong” he shrugged “Look! Like you now. Strange.” he grinned excitedly.
“Taehyung. I don’t understand...I thought you were sure you’d die out of the water”
“Scientist?” he pointed to himself “Never sure without facts. Want see for self. Much surprise” he chuckled. You now noticed he was absentmindedly playing with the new body part he had discovered between his legs.
Your breath caught in your throat and you quickly pulled your eyes away from what he was doing. Your eyes had lingered a bit too long already. Enough that you’d realized how impressive his cock was.
“I-I, need to get you some clothes” you muttered, now facing away from him.
“Oh” he spoke quietly “Yes, you people clothes here” he laughed lightly.
You hurried out of the room and grabbed a spare lab coat, then went to Namjoon’s locker in the breakroom to find that he thankfully had some spare basketball shorts left there.
You brought them back to Taehyung and turned your back to him while he dressed.
“Feel weird” Taehyung muttered. “Don’t like dry”
You spun back around to face him. It wasn’t the most stylish attire but at least he was covered now and you could speak to him without feeling a warmth building between your legs at the mouth watering sight of his naked form.
“I don’t understand how this happened” you whispered.
“Same” he took a seat in one of the metal chairs in the room, lifting his legs up and down and kicking them around, rolling his ankles while he stared at his feet.
“Toes?” he asked cocking his head to the side as he wiggled his newfound appengages.
“Yeah” you giggled “How’d you know what they were called?”
Taehyung stood up and walked over to the desk in the corner of the room where you now saw a bunch of opened books laying out. One being an anatomy book.
“Oh, woah you’ve had a long night huh?”
Taehyung smiled and nodded.
“I learned much”
Suddenly he was walking over to you, you felt your breathing break it’s steady pace as he reached his hand out to rest on your shoulder.
“Haven’t learned enough...explain? Something wrong happening” his expressed was shifting into one of confusion and worry.
“I-I don’t quite understand what you mean?” you stammered out, hoping that he doesn’t realize how much his closeness was making you nervous. The way his eyes trailed over you was sinful and you were trying to convince yourself that it wasn’t what you thought it was. But, his eyes seemed to be hungrily taking you in, and now his hand was sliding down from your shoulder, fingers trailing lightly down your arm as he did. It slightly tickled and made you shudder, which he definitely noticed. Yet he still seemed concerned about something.
Once his hand reached your own he took it and slowly guided you forward. He placed your hand over his crotch, which you felt harden even more than it most likely already was under your touch. It was his turn to shudder.
“Why is this?” he muttered.
“Um…” you tried to speak but your mind was taken over by the fact that he was holding your hand to his dick currently. You didn’t want to feel as turned on as you did, you wanted to keep this professional. But you felt yourself growing warm and wet between your legs.
“It's what happens when men are turned on” you murmured
“What turned on?” he was still confused.
“It’s nothing bad. It means…” you wanted to find the right words to communicate this. He seemed to understand most things you said even if he didn’t know the words, why couldn’t he get this one, you groaned silently in your mind.
“It means you want to mate?” you tried.
“Mate?” He suddenly smiled, “Ah yes. Understand now. Yes want that.” he nodded, your heart skipping a beat as his lustful gaze was now admitted to be something real and not an idea you were creating just to flatter yourself.
“Taehyung you know we shouldn’t right? We are just here to learn-”
Taehyung cut you off with his other hand bringing a finger to your lips. He brushed over your bottom lip delicately, his eyes staring into your own so intensely that you swore he was staring into your soul.
“Want to learn human body, help?” his voice was innocent but his expression and body language was anything but. He was still holding your hand to his clothed cock over Namjoon’s basketball shorts and he was starting to move your hand slightly up and down his shaft that you could feel so distinctly through the loose fabric.
“Mmmm” he moaned out lowly, his deep voice so erotic and inticing.
“For learning?” you whispered, hesitantly moving your face towards his.
He broke into a boxy smile that made you want to melt.
“Show me” he spoke softly, his hand now tugging at the button on your jeans.
He pressed his forehead against your own, biting down on his lower lip.
“Please” he breathed out.
At this point you were too far gone to think clearly. He was begging, and he was too tempting to deny.
You nodded your head slightly, closing your eyes as you felt him now undoing your button and unzipping your jeans. So slowly it was almost as if he was teasing you.
He dropped to his knees as he pulled down your pants and panties all in one swift motion. His tongue darted out and he wet his lips quickly as his eyes widened at the sight of your lower half naked in front of him.
“Never...Never done...never seen” he muttered, his eyes flicked up to meet yours.
“I’ll teach you”
“Please” he groaned, bringing his attention back to your pussy that was eye level with him.
His forefinger trailed across your outer folds ever so lightly. You felt a chill of pleasure and want run over your skin, giving you goosebumps all over.
“Show me” he repeated his request from earlier.
You decided to step back from him to go lay on the desk, so you could spread your legs and give him a better view. He pouted until he realized what you were doing. Now he was walking towards you and dropping to his knees again, returning to face your dripping center at eye level.
“Wow” he whispered, he was so close that you could feel his breath against you.
“You...can touch me. Explore around I guess” you chuckled nervously, not sure if you were excited or scared to be in this position with him. You felt like if any of your crew found out what you were doing they’d be upset, especially Namjoon.
You closed your eyes tightly, breathing quickly anticipating the likely touch that was soon to come.
Taehyung stared into your center in awe, he didn’t quite know why he was so attracted to this part of you that he’d never seen on anyone before. Mermaids didn’t actually have sex. It wasn’t about pleasure or getting off, it was purely for creating children, you never even had to touch the other during the act. It wasn’t intimate, it wasn’t this…
The urges that he was having were so foriegn to him, he knew it was coming from the new body part he’d found dangling between his legs that seemed to somehow be growing even harder as he stared at your nakedness laid out in front of him.
You were becoming wet, Taehyung liked the wet, it was so inviting, he wanted to feel it on his fingers.
You shuddered as he started to feel around, brushing against your clit every so often, never entering you.
You realized he might not understand that he could. One of your hands crept down to join his, he almost jumped back in surprise, he had been so entranced in touching you he’d almost forgotten anything else in the world existed. When your hand reached down he snapped back to reality a bit. You started to press a finger into your dripping hole. Moaning as you brought the finger in and out. Taehyung felt his cock twitch at the sound of your pleasure, he realized he wanted to do whatever he could to be the one making you create those beautiful noises. He didn’t understand why, but the thought of pleasuring you made him more excited than he’d ever been in his life.
“You can do this to me” you told him, “Try”
Taehyung nodded and brought his finger to replace yours that had just retracted itself from your hole.
Without even realizing why he did this, his other hand snapped up and grabbed your wrist before you could pull your hand away. He brought his lips to the finger you’d had inside of you and pulled it into his mouth, carefully avoiding touching you to his sharp teeth, sucking and licking, growling in satisfaction at how unexpectedly pleasent the taste was.
“Wow” he whispered as he released your hand from his grip.
He then returned his focus to his other hand.
“Another?” he asked as he started to tease your entrance with two fingers.
“Yes. I can probably only take two though” you moaned,
Taehyung chuckled, and decided he was going to try a third after he played around with two fingers. The scientist in him needed to test that theory that you could only take two.
The louder your moans got, the more Taehyung felt this urge for you to be touching him back. When your hand was on him over his clothes earlier it was all he could think about, and he needed you to touch him again.
He started to push into you with a third finger.
“Fuck, Taehyung, Thats too” you gasped out in high pitched moans.
Taehyung smirked as he continued, “Shh, Will be okay” he muttered. You were so tight but adjusting to him. He started to move his fingers around, and then remembered that you had shuddered and moaned every time that he had brushed against the nub that rested right above where his fingers were going in and out of you. And the way you had tasted when he licked your wetness off of your fingers still lingered on his tongue, he needed another taste, Maybe he should be giving some attention there too…
He brought his mouth to your clit and started to give small licks, you responded more than he’d anticipated, bucking your hips up into his mouth, it makes Taehyung swell with pride that he’d figured out how to make you feel even better.
“Taehyung I’m g-gonna cum soon, I’m getting so close” you gasped out.
Suddenly his head snapped away from you, you whimpered at the loss of him.
“Cum?” he looked up at you in confusion.
“Um yeah, like have an orgasm” You explained.
“Hmmm” he hadn’t fully realized he was working towards a finish here, he had just been having fun. But now that he knew there was an end purpose to his actions it only motivated him to work harder. His tongue dove back into you, flicking and licking faster than before. He had to hold your squirming hips down with his free hand so he could keep his pace.
“Fuck!” you screamed out loudly “Taehyung don't stop! I’m cumming”
Taehyung smiled widely against you as he continued his surprisingly skilled tongue work, lapping up every bit of the wetness that you were giving to him as you came. He felt the walls around his fingers pulsing and tightening around him as you rode out your high.
He didn’t stop for a moment after you had came. You were giggling as you tried to wiggle away from him.
“Ah, Taehyung, Ahh, Stop. It’s too sensitive now!” you squealed.
He chuckled and continued for a few seconds more before pulling himself away from you. Wiping your juices from the corner of his mouth.
“That was the best orgasm I’ve ever had.” You put an arm over your forehead, your chest heaving up and down heavily. “Are you sure you’ve never done that before?”
Taehyung felt so proud of himself. “No never...Really good?”
“So good” you smiled at him, sitting up now. “Want me to return the favor?”
Taehyung nodded slowly, “Meaning...Touch me?” he asked, his hand now palming his hard and aching cock over his short.
“Yes, I want to touch you” you smiled sliding yourself off the table and getting down on your knees in front of him. He cocked an eyebrow up, curious at what you are doing now. Your fingers hooked around the hem of the shorts and pulled them down to his ankles. His cock sprung free now, so hard and needy, a small bead of precum already forming on his tip. You licked your lips and brought a hand up to grip the base of his cock.
“Oh” he whimpered as he threw his head back and shut his eyes tightly.
You then brought your lips to wrap around him, not fully taking him in, but enough that he could now feel your tongue laying flat against the underside of his tip. His hand reflexively snapped to the back of your head, wanting to push himself into you all the way, but not wanting to hurt you. You started to bob your head as your lips moved up and down his shaft. Taehyung's other hand now held the back of your head as well, gently moving with you as you moved on him.
Your tongue flicked over him in a way that felt like heaven, and he, without meaning to jerked his hips forward, causing you to take him in all the way. You quickly pulled away from him coughing and giggling.
“Sorry” Taehyung gasped, “Hurt?” he felt awful for his unintentional action that seemed to have caused you discomfort. Here you were making him feel so good and he was getting overly greedy.
“No, you’re fine. I get it” you chuckled “Let me adjust and you can do that more if you want”
Taehyung’s eyes widened dramatically as you now started to take him in fully, your lips now all the way at the base of his cock, your nose brushing against his abdomen.
“Do your thing now, I’ll tap your thigh hard three times if it’s too much for me okay? Then you have to stop, but unless I do that you can use my mouth however you want” you smirked up at him.
Taehyung nodded, and for a brief second a thought floated through the front of his mind. He was in love…
Taehyung’s hands returned to the back of your head, he started out slowly, moving his hips forward into your mouth as he gripped you tightly, pushing himself into your mouth all the way, and back out again. A loud grunt that surprised even him escaped his lips as he sped up.
Your eyes were watering as you choked a bit around him, but you didn’t want it to stop, you wanted him to cum. This beautiful godlike man was using your mouth so perfectly.
Taehyung felt himself tightening as the pleasure was building, was this his orgasm? He was slightly nervous for the feeling, when you came it seemed to be quite an intense thing. He didn’t quite know what to expect but if it felt anything like what he did right now he didn’t want to stop chasing it.
Suddenly you hummed around him, a low moan that sent vibrations through his cock. The feeling was overwhelmingly pleasurable. It was happening.
“Cumming” he whispered, his eyes rolling back as he shakily fucked himself into your mouth. The sensation that flooded over him as he poured his hot cum into your mouth couldn’t even be compared to anything he’d ever felt in his life. His cock twitched wildy inside your mouth and you moaned around him a few more times, swallowing every drop that he gave you.
He pulled away once it became too sensitive for him to continue.
It was your turn to wipe the corners of your mouth.
Taehyung cocked his head to the side as he stared down at you with a fucked outlook.
“Good.” he whispered through deep breaths, extending out his hand and brushing a thumb over your cheek and then your lower lip. You gently grabbed his wrist and kissed the palm of his hand.
“Very good”
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The next few weeks you and Taehyung continued to learn from each other, in every way possible. Learning about each other's societies and cultures. And continuing extensive first hand anatomy lessons.
Taehyung had been falling more and more in love with you.
Now that he had legs you were able to take him out into the towns, showing him all of your favorite spots and places to go.
Everytime you grabbed his hand and pulled him over to something that excites you, that warm feeling of love and joy filled him up to the point that he felt he might explode.
Your happiness was irresistible, all of you was irresistible to him.
You were feeling similar, yet that dream you had weeks ago hasn't stopped appearing. Almost every night you dreamed of Taehyung’s hand around your throat as he dragged you down into the dark water, the dream had actually continued even longer than the first time. In the most recent dream everything was the same, expect that you could feel the water filling your lungs, you could feel yourself drowning. You woke up choking and grabbing at your throat. You hated yourself for somehow having this subconscious fear of Taehyung due to these dreams. Yet you’d still flinch away from in the morning’s where the dream had visited you during the night. You’d shudder slightly when you caught a glimpse of his teeth.
Namjoon had avoided you ever since your fight. He had turned in a resignation notice and that was the last you’d heard of him. It hurt that he felt like you were trying to steal all of the credit, you really weren’t. You would’ve put his name right next to yours on every research paper. You had cried when you saw Namjoon’s notice that he was leaving, Taehyung held you and kissed you on the cheek, telling you everything would be okay. You did feel some comfort in that, you’d lost your best friend...but gained a new one.
Then many things happened. All too fast and none of them good. About a week ago your office was broken into and you found all of your research had been stolen. You hated that you suspected Namjoon, but who else could it have been. Who else had access?
You suspected that he was going to publish the papers with just his name on them, same as he thought you were going to do to him.
You had tried calling him only to find that your number had been blocked.
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You and Taehyung were cuddling in your bed, enjoying a day off from work and just hanging around your house.
Your head was on his chest and your arms wrapped tightly around him. You felt him sigh heavily.
“Hey what's wrong” you wondered.
He simply sighed again.
“Tell me or I’ll tickle you” you chuckled.
Taehyung avoided meeting your eyes as he spoke, a small frown on his lips. “Miss home”
“Oh” you frowned
“Love here with you. But, Miss home. Miss water.” he sighed again.
You didn’t know what to say, and simply nuzzled your head against him. He brought an arm around your shoulders pulling you in tightly and kissing you on the top of your head.
Suddenly your phone was beeping wildey. You groaned and rolled over to your nightstand table picking it up.
Text from Jungkook: Call me.
Text from Jungkook: Y/n????
Test from Jungkook: Y/N CALL NOW
You were completely confused at what might be so urgent. You clicked the button to return his many calls that he’d also tried.
“Y/n oh my god” Jungkook was frantically gasping.
“What the hell Kook are you okay?”
“Have you seen the news?”
Your body froze and you got extremely nervous. What news? What could possibly have happened.
“Y/n everyone been lying to us. Jin lied to us, The government lied to us. Taehyung has been lying to you” Jungkook was shakily gasping out.
You spun around to Taehyung who was glaring at your phone, he seemed to have overheard that last part and his jaw was clenched tightly.
“W-what do you mean?” You stammered.
“Y/n, Off phone now.” Taehyung growled. “Please”
Your eyes widened at how aggressive Taehyung seemed to be getting.
“Jungkook just tell me what happened!”
Taehyung lunged forward and grabbed your phone out of your hand, breaking it in half with ease and tossing it across the room.
“No.” he spoke with a grim quietness.
You scrambled out of bed running to the other side of the room away from Taehyung, your heart beating fast and your stomach filling with a sickening feeling.
“Taehyung what the hell!” you yelled “What did Jungkook mean?”
Taehyung was shaking his head and running his fingers through his hair.
“Y/n. Not what it seems. Please. Didn’t want wrong idea. Please” he was starting to tear up. “Hear from me not from him” his voice shook as he spoke.
“Hear what from you!” you spoke through gritted teeth.
“y/n…” he whispered,
Suddenly there was a loud crash, and you heard the door to your house being opened and footsteps running towards your room. The door flung open wide and a frantic Namjoon stood in the entrance now.
“Y/n! Thank god you’re okay. I thought maybe he’d already taken you to the ship.” he was gasping.
“What the actual fuck is happening?” you screamed.
Taehyung was now standing and walking towards Namjoon, his body shaking with rage.
“Step back!” Namjoon screamed holding an arm out to Taehyung, your stomach dropped when you saw what was clutched in his hand. A gun, just like the one that Jin had on the ship.
Taehyung snarled and hissed animalistically at Namjoon, but backed up a few steps. His eyes flicking over to you.
“Y/n please. Love you y/n. Promise” Taehyung was whimpering. “Trust.”
“We have to go y/n” Namjoon spoke urgently pulling on your arm, still holding the gun out in warning at Taehyung.
You didn’t want to leave him though, you wanted to hear Taehyung explain himself. You wanted him to make this awful sinking feeling go away. You needed the man you loved…
Yet Namjoon was pulling you away from him and out of the house, then into his car. Speeding away from your house, you could see Taehyung running out of your home, his gaze following the car as you drove away, your eyes meeting. You could see him screaming something out at you.
The sight outside was shocking, you now realize why Jungkook was asking you if you’d seen the news.
The sky was scattered with ships that looked so familiar...they all looked identical to your one of a kind shuttle you’d taken to Neptune!
“Namjoon, what is happening?”
Namjoon didn’t tear his eyes away from the road, but he answered you in a very serious tone.
“Taehyung. This whole time he’s been playing you. His people wanted the plans on how you’d built the ship they’d seen and that's why they sent him with us. I’m assuming, once he’d tested out his theory that he could become just like us out of water he radioed that down to all of them too. Now they are here. And they aren’t being friendly.”
Your jaw dropped, you didn’t understand. Taehyung had been stealing your plans for the ship the whole time? And how did Namjoon know all of this? Was it Taehyung that had broken into your lab?
“And Taehyung isn’t the only one that’s been playing you. Our own fucking government was. They knew that they existed. It was never a question. They just hid it from the rest of society. It turns out each of our ruling powers had a similar idea. Neptune has been wanting to colonize on our moons, take them over. And our government wanted you to go down there and scope it out because they were thinking the same thing. Thats why Jin was there. And that's probably why he left the ship right away when we had arrived at their city. That's how my suspicions started, why would the government send a man with a gun like that unless they already had an idea. And the way Taehyung was so willing to be handed over and didn’t even seem to be worried. I just couldn’t get it off my mind that something was up.” He shook his head.
“B-but...Taehyung loves me” you stuttered
“Y/n I’m sorry, but he doesn’t love you. Hes been faking everything just to steal your research. They are literally here to wipe us all out and we need to get the fuck off of this planet before that happens” His hands shook on the steering wheel.
“I can’t...I don’t want to leave him. He may not love me. But...I love him” You started to sob uncontrollably.
“You’ll get over it” Namjoon scoffed, pulling into the hanger where your ship that you had taken to Neptune still sat.
“I got Hoseok and Jungkook here since they are familiar with this ship, and I made the government promise to get our families on the evacuation ships”
This was all happening so fast. Did Triton really not stand a chance against Taehyung’s people? Your mind flashed to the dream you’d been having and you felt that you might throw up. Your mind had been trying to tell you something was off this whole time. You were too infatuated with the hypnotizingly handsome merman you’d now fallen in love with to see the truth, you’d fed him enough information to destroy your entire civilization.
You quickly boarded your ship. Hoseok and Jungkook were already inside as Namjoon had mentioned.
You sat in silence, still in shock over everything that was happening as the ship took off.
“So where are we going” you muttered, turning to Namjoon.
“I know this sounds bad, but we are actually going down to Neptune...It’s big enough that we can hide out in this ship for now until the president issues out a notice that our people have found another planet or place to live... all the ships going out are scattering.” He sighed
“I-I’m so sorry Namjoon. Why didn’t you tell me sooner that you thought something was up. I could’ve stopped telling him things. Been more careful around him” you frowned “Not fallen in love with him” you spoke in a whisper.
“I’m sorry y/n. It wasn’t the right call. I just felt like it was safer if I didn’t say anything. But I was wrong” he shook his head.
In a few days your ship was nearing Neptune, the four of you had mostly slept the entire trip, trying to not look out and back on your moons. You’d caught a glimpse of what was happening and you couldn’t help but scream out as you saw the once gray surface of your home lit up red with explosions and flames. You hoped and prayed that your family and everyone else who had lived there had been fast enough to the evacuation ships.
“Landing! Get buckled” Hoseok yelled out over the intercom. You did as you were told shakily buckling yourself into your seat.
Once you hit the water, you just stayed still for a while. You all did. Probably sharing the same silent thought. What now?
Your questions were answered when suddenly a door that led to a storage room creaked open.
“Put your fucking hands in the air and don’t come any closer!” Namjoon shouted out. His gun he had brought with him now raised for a second time.
Your breath caught in your throat. And you knew you shouldn’t feel any happiness at the sight of this stow away. But you couldn’t help it.
“Tae-Taehyung” you whimpered.
Taehyung looked like he hadn’t slept in days, his blue hair messy and bags under his eyes.
“Please. Want explain” He choked out, stepping forward towards you.
“I said don’t move!” Namjoon boomed narrowing in on Taehyung with his gun.
“No! Please!” you ran directly in front of the gun with your hands out.
Namjoon let out a frustrated growl “Y/n…”
“I want to hear what he has to say…” you cried.
The room fell silent, and all eyes locked on to Taehyung. Namjoon nodded reluctantly for Taehyung to explain himself, lowering his gun, but staying on alert.
“Your people. Government. The date was set. Destroy date. I Hacked files and saw. You came and took pictures. The last pictures of my people. Government wanted kill us all. Date was set” he muttered looking down at the floor. “I wanted...save my people….I wanted also save you” he looked to you with sad eyes “Wouldn’t have let you hurt. Would’ve got you away!”
You wanted to believe him so badly. You wanted to hug him and kiss him, and share more cuddles on your bed at home like you had gotten so used to. But now you had no home, and it was because of him. Yet, if what he said was true, his people were only returning the favor in advance for what was about to happen on their planet.
“Y/n. Something about four…” He pointed to you, then to Namjoon, Hoseok and Jungkook, “You dream of water all your life. Want to see Neptune. Want to explore.” Taehyung turned to Jungkook “Pictures of Neptune so beautiful. And You” he pointed to Hoseok, “Knew the water well, fly ship in water, no one has ever done yes?”
Hoseok nodded, none of you understanding where he was going with this. Taehyung turned to Namjoon.
“Why Neptune? Why here now? Whole galaxy. Yet here.” he asked as if he already knew the answer. Then Taehyung turned to you.
“Trust?” he muttered, holding out his arms wide.
You had no idea why, but you did trust him. His dark eyes had done nothing but lie to you, yet all you wanted to do was keep believing in them.
You nodded and ran to his arms. He embraced you in a giant bear hug, twirling you around.
You smiled as he kissed you on your head.
“Go water now” He whispered in your ear.
“You’re leaving?”
“No. Two” he pointed to you and then to him.
“I can’t, remember, we can’t breath under water”
“Theory.” he stated.
“Fact?” you raised an eyebrow. “Humans die underwater if they don’t get enough air.”
Taehyung groaned “Trust,” he grumbled.
Despite the rest of your crew pleading for you to stop, you followed Taehyung out a hatch that led to the roof of the ship. You now stood on top, sunlight shining down on Taehyung’s glowing skin. He grinned at you as the two of you looked over the vast un ending water laid out in front of you.
“Jump?” Taehyung asked, holding out his hand to you.
You sighed, feeling slightly uneasy about whatever this was. But, still, you put your hand in his and let him hold on tight to you.
“Trust…” you muttered under your breath, taking a deep breath in as the two of you did a running jump off of the top of your ship and into the water.
Taehyung instantly changed back into his iridescent mermaid form, his tail flowing elegantly in the water. You pointed for him to swim with you back up to the surface, you already felt yourself craving a breath.
He smirked and shook his head. You did not like where this was going.
Instantly after you had a thought of swimming back to the surface even though he’d said no, he was holding you tightly, and dragging you down, down, down.
Everything was so dark, and your lungs felt like they might explode. Your dream came into your mind again. Though this time his hands weren’t on your throat they were holding you around your waist, holding you under. You beat him with your fists hoping to free yourself from him. But you knew, even if you were to be released, he’d dragged you too far down for you to make it up in time.
This was it.
It was over.
Your fight or flight instinct failing, as there was no way to save yourself anymore. You gave up.
Taehyung pulled back from you as you started to go dizzy and limp. He spoke something you couldn’t hear...as if it were another language...Like in your dream.
He planted a soft kiss on your lips. Far too loving and delicate for someone that was murdering you.
Yet somehow, you were glad.
You had loved him so much.
You were only sad that now you’d never see him again.
As everything faded away and your eyes closed, you felt your body try to take in a breath. Only to have your lungs fill with water.
Then complete darkness, complete nothingness.
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Namjoon, Hoseok and Jungkook ran to the top of the ship. Looking down into the water.
“She hasn’t come back up yet...it’s been 10 minutes” Jungkook cried out.
Namjoon shook his head, tears burning his eyes as he clenched his fists.
“I shouldn’t have let her go with him. I can’t believe I let him…” his voice cracked.
Suddenly the water broke. A wet mess of blue hair was popping up from the water.
Taehyung….
As soon as he was within earshot Namjoon screamed out.
“Where is she!?”
“Come see” Taehyung grinned with a sing song voice. “Take you to her...Follow?” he said cutely.
“Fuck.” Hoseok whispered. “This is bad. She's not with him. He killed her” he growled.
Jungkook shook his head “No, no NO! This can’t be happening. Y/n…” he cried.
Namjoon glared down at the man who was at the edge of the ship now, smiling up at the three of them, his blue tail peaking out ever so slightly from the water.
“Why shouldn’t I just shoot you right now” he pulled the gun up and aimed it directly to the forehead of the blue haired merman who seemed unphased by the threat.
“Want see her yes?” he asked cheerfully. “Trust” he smiled mischievously, motioning for Namjoon to come into the water with him. Namjoon was sure it was a lie, it was a trick. But, he even if it was in death, he wanted to see y/n again.
“I’m sorry guys.” Namjoon whispered, tossing the gun aside on the top of the ship and diving down into the water next to the grinning merman.
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Your eyes fluttered open, there was a weird feeling of weightlessness around you. Everything surrounding you was colorful, you definitely weren’t back on Triton. Which means there's no way all of this had just been a dream.
You were laying on a stone bed in an odd room, the walls were decorated with shimmering shells and glass.
In your confusion you went to stand up and go investigate your surroundings. Yet something stopped you.
You couldn’t move your feet.
Well, something moved. But it wasn’t feet. You looked down and screamed out loudly.
Where legs used to be was now a glittering silver scaled tail, resembling the one that Taehyung had, only differing in color.
At your screams Taehyung quickly swam into the room.
“Y/n. Awake!” his eyes widened.
You jumped and backed away from him, closer to the wall.
“Taehyung what the fuck is happening. I-I thought…” you thought he had killed you. It was the last thing that you can remember.
“Never.” he shook his head. “Y/n. Never hurt you” he held out his hand to you. “Learn? Swim?”
You nervously swam towards him, it wasn’t elegant and graceful like how he always swam, but you got to him.
He pulled you into a loving embrace, petting the top of your head as he held you to his soft and warm chest.
“y/n is awake?” A voice rang out.
You broke yourself away from Taehyung's arms to find where that familiar voice was coming from.
Namjoon swam over to you. Like you, he was missing legs, and his were replaced by a long green tail.
“This is crazy isn’t it?” his eyes widened. “I still can’t quite believe it. But I’m loving it” he swam up and did a backwards flip. “It’s kinda like flying. Hoseok And Jungkook are somewhere around here ” he looked around searching for your other companions.
Taehyung chuckled putting an arm around your shoulders.
“What is going on here?”
Namjoon swam to face you and Taehyung.
“Y/n. The reason Mermaids speak our language. The reason both our people knew about each other” he paused collecting his excitement. “They all just explained this to me, so Taehyung, let me know if I’m leaving anything out. Everyone up on the moons was originally from here on Neptune. A long long time ago, the mer people learned that they could walk on dry land, but there was no dry land, so they set out to see if there was any where that they could. They had made it to the moons but a cruel leader at the time destroyed all of the ships and all records of how to get back home. The knowledge of the merpeople was passed down through stories, until a journal was found not too long ago of a scientist that had built the ships that could go back and forth between the worlds. It was turned into the government and that’s when they started plotting to wipe them out, and figure out a way to colonize. I had no idea but It was actually one of the books that were given to me by the government for research help while I was building the ship. They were going to use us and our research to kill everyone here” he finally stopped for a moment after his long speech “did I get everything?” He turned to Taehyung, who nodded.
“Not all moon people can turn back. But, More than realize though. Can tell” he pointed to himself “always drawn to water. Always need learn, explore, color, need more…” he informed you.
So he knew, he knew the whole time what all of you were.
“And we can stay here with you?” You whispered, it all still felt like a dream.
Taehyung smiles and kissed your cheek.
“Yes” he whispered “please stay”
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