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Jihyo was pissed. She had been bonded to Kang Daniel for just over a year and apparently in that time Tzuyu had forgotten how to share. Damn it, they had worked out RULES for how things were supposed to work with two alphas in a group, but now apparently Tzuyu has decided that she can have any girl she wants, whenever she wants, with no consideration of any other factors.
Jihyo paced back and forth in the common room. Through the apartment's thin walls, she could hear Tzuyu fucking Momo in the small bedroom, the one Momo shared with Jeongyeon.
"Please, Mommy! Please let me come!" Momo shouted.
Jihyo went from pissed to furious when she heard this - Momo wasn't supposed to call anyone but her "Mommy." She couldn't hear what Tzuyu's response was, but apparently it wasn't to let Momo come, because the begging continued. Finally, she couldn't take it anymore - she couldn't confront Tzuyu right now, because there was a chance Momo would be injured during the conflict, but she had to burn off some of this stress.
She stalked into the third bedroom, the one Dahyun, Chaeyoung, and Tzuyu shared. Ordinarily she wouldn't invade another alpha's territory like this, but she was furious with Tzuyu and she needed to fight or fuck something or she was going to burst.
Dahyun looked up from the magazine she was reading. The omega's face grew even paler when she saw the expression on Jihyo's face. She scrambled up onto her knees, holding her pillow in front of her. "H-h-h-hi Jihyo! Can I do something to help you?"
Jihyo flopped down on Tzuyu's bed and held out her arms to Dahyun. "Come here," she said.
Dahyun swallowed. On Tzuyu's bed? Was she about to get involved in some sort of conflict between Twice's alphas. She tried to resist. "Jihyo, I don't think that's a good idea," she said. "Why don't you come here instead?"
Jihyo growled deep in her throat. "No, I want you to come here. So come here!"
Dahyun got up from her bed and crossed the room to stand by Tzuyu's bed. She reached out and took Jihyo's hand, then lost her balance as Jihyo pulled her down into the bed. Jihyo nipped Dahyun on the neck, then moved up and started kissing her. She eagerly explored the younger girl's mouth, aggressively claiming her. At the same time, she slipped her hand into the waistband of Dahyun's shorts. She could feel that Dahyun was wearing the tiny bikini panties that Jihyo loved to see on her, but today she was too impatient to enjoy them. She pulled down her shorts and panties in one swift motion. Dahyun squeaked and reflexively clamped her legs together.
"Now Dahyun, you know better than that!" Jihyo said softly as she rubbed her hand softly up and down Dahyun's thighs. Gradually, she could feel Dahyun's legs come apart and she reached up and cupped Dahyun's sex.
"Mmmmm," Jihyo said, "you're already wet for me. What a good girl."
Dahyun moaned as she felt Jihyo slip a finger inside her. This finger was soon joined by a second one. Then Jihyo starting massaging Dahyun's clit with her thumb.
'Oh God, that feels so good," Dahyun said. "If you don't stop, I'm going to come soon."
"That's fine, babygirl," Jihyo said, looking Dahyun up and down. "Come for me whenever you're ready. She leaned down and nipped at Dahyun's nipples through her shirt, causing Dahyun to yipe and flinch, impaling in herself further on Jihyo's fingers. Jihyo started pistoning her fingers in and out of Dahyun's cunt while continuing to rub her clit with her thumb. Dahyun closed her eyes and bit her bottom lip, obviously getting close. Jihyo watched Dahyun closely, and when she judged that Dahyun was about to come, she stuffed a third finger in her cunt and started pistoning her hand more quickly. Dahyun cried out, her juices spurting, spattering Tzuyu's duvet. Jihyo slowed her hand and gradually pulled her fingers out of Dahyun. She alternated between licking her fingers and kissing Dahyun.
"You taste so good, babygirl," she said, smiling down on Dahyun.
Dahyun basked in the praise from the alpha. Then she realized she could feel Jihyo's girlcock pressing against her thigh. "I must have done something right," she said. "I made your cock come out. Do you want to fuck me? Do you want me to suck you off? Is there anything you want me to do?"
Jihyo leaned down and kissed Dahyun again. "Not right now, babygirl. I've got a feeling I'm going to need all my energy later."
All of a sudden Dahyun remembered where they were. She scrambled out of the bed and pulled up her shorts. "Oh my God! Tzuyu's duvet! If I hurry, I can wash it and have it back on her bed before she finds out what I did."
"Dahyun," Jihyo said, a note of steel coming into her voice. "Leave the damn duvet. If Tzuyu has a problem with it, tell her I did it."
Dahyun's eyes got huge. "You want me to lie to an alpha?"
"You won't be lying," Jihyo said with a smile as she stood up. "I made you come, so technically I'm the one who made a mess of Tzuyu's duvet."
Dahyun shifted from foot to foot nervously. "You and Tzuyu are going to start fighting again, aren't you?" she asked. "Can't you just remind her of the rules and give her a free pass this time? I hate it when you two fight!"
Jihyo reached out and stroked Dahyun's hair. "Don't worry about what happens between me and Tzuyu - that's alpha business. But to answer your question, no, I can't give her a free pass this time, not even if I remind her of the rules and she apologizes for what she's been doing wrong. She'd see it as a sign of weakness on my part and that would lead to even more fighting, because she'd get the idea that she could challenge me for leadership of Twice." Jihyo smiled indulgently at Dahyun. "But really, it's nothing an omega needs to be worrying over. Thank you for letting me relieve some stress, and I'll let you get back to your reading now."
And after one last kiss, Jihyo turned and walked out of the room. Dahyun sat down on her bed and picked up her magazine, but whenever she tried to read, her eyes kept being drawn back to the stain on Tzuyu's duvet. She turned around to Tzuyu's bed was behind her, but that was even worse, because she couldn't resist turning her head to stare at the mess she and Jihyo had made. Finally, she realized she wasn't going to get any reading done here, so she grabbed her purse, stuck her magazine in it, and got ready to leave the apartment. As she put her shoes on, she called out to Jihyo "I'm about to go to the coffee shop. Do you want me to bring you anything when I come back?"
"If you could bring me an iced Americano, that would be great," Jihyo said.
"Okay," Dahyun said. "But I won't be back for an hour or so, I was going to sit there by the fireplace and read while I drink my coffee."
"That's fine," Jihyo said, grabbing the remote for the TV and then leaning back on the couch.
Tzuyu stormed into the living room and threw her duvet down on the couch next to Jihyo. "What the hell, Jihyo?" she yelled. "What makes you think you can disrespect me like this?"
Jihyo looked up from the yogurt she was eating, her face an impassive mask. "I'm just repaying disrespect with disrespect," she said calmly.
"What are you talking about?" Tzuyu asked, incredulous.
"You know I'm the only one Momo's supposed to call 'Mommy'." Jihyo said, taking another bite of yogurt.
"Is that what this is about?" Tzuyu yelled. "Really?"
Jihyo nodded.
Tzuyu rolled her eyes. "I can't believe you," she said. "You decided to take Kang Daniel, and even to bond to him, and that's fine, but for over a year, there were seven girls here who keenly felt your absence. I had to step up. Momo was so sad being without a Mommy. She thought it was something she'd done wrong. I basically had to build her back up from nothing - she was so sad and so scared. And so, what, since your bond with Kang Daniel didn't work out, now you think you can just come back and everything will be the same as it was before? Because in case you haven't noticed, we've all grown and changed in the past year, and things aren't going to be exactly what they were before, so you're just going to have to deal with that."
Jihyo put her yogurt cup and spoon down on the coffee table and stood up. Even though she had to look up to stare into Tzuyu's eyes, it was obvious that Jihyo was in no way intimidated by the younger alpha. "Is that a challenge?" Jihyo asked. "Because if it's a challenge, we can-"
Jihyo stopped talking suddenly when Mina scurried into the room. Mina had picked up the duvet and was about to head for the laundry room when she realized that both alphas were looking at her and she suddenly froze in her tracks. "Please don't fight," she said quietly. "I could hear you screaming in the bedroom and it was horrible. I'll wash the duvet, just please don't fight."
Tzuyu looked from Mino to Jihyo, then back at Mina again. She took the duvet from Mina's hands and said "No, I'll wash the duvet. You don't have to do that." As she turned to head to the laundry room, she fixed Jihyo with a stare that said "This isn't over" as clearly as any words could.
With Tzuyu out of the room, Mina suddenly realized she was alone with Jihyo, who was still angry. She cringed a little bit and said "I'm sorry for interfering in alpha business. I just didn't want to hear you fight. I. . ." She trailed off as she waited to see what Jihyo would say.
Jihyo took a deep breath and let it out slowly, struggling to master her temper. Mina had always been the most delicate of Twice's omegas, and for the past several months she'd been especially fragile. Jihyo took another deep breath and forced a smile onto her face. "It's okay, Mina. I don't think we were really going to fight, and we definitely didn't want to upset you." She stepped forward and gently placed a kiss on Mina's cheek. "Are you okay?"
Mina smiled at Jihyo, her eyes glistening with unshed tears. "I'm okay. I just - ever since you bonded with Kang Daniel, nothing was the same around here. And now that your bond has failed and you're back with us again, everything's changing again, and I just don't know where I fit in anymore."
Jihyo stepped forward and took Mina in her arms. Mina wrapped her arms around Jihyo and clung tightly, resting her head on Jihyo's shoulder. "You're our Mina," Jihyo said. "You'll always be special to us."
Jihyo sniffled and looked at Jihyo. "It's just-" she started to say. "I'm just-" She took a deep breath and tried again. "I'm sorry, I just don't know how Twice works anymore. You left us alone for a year and then you came back, and now you're telling me I'm special and I don't even know what that means now."
Jihyo reached up and stroked Mina's hair. "I wasn't really gone. I was still here."
Mina shook her head, and the tears that she'd been struggling to hold back started flowing down her cheeks. "You were here, Jihyo, but you weren't really here," she said. "Your heart wasn't here - it was with Kang Daniel."
"I just-" Jihyo was never really sure how to handle it when Mina cried. She wished someone else would come in and comfort Mina. "It was a bond, you know? I couldn't really help it. Someday you'll bond, and then you'll understand."
Mina glared at Jihyo. "Was it really a bond Jihyo? Or did you just get tired of us? And then you got tired of Kang Daniel so you came back to us? I don't even know who you are anymore." She wriggled out of Jihyo's arms and rushed into the bedroom, shutting the door behind her.
"So that's what this is all about," Jihyo thought to herself. Because of the way bonds are portrayed in dramas, everyone had the idea that when you bonded for someone, everything was automatically fine and the two of your would be together forever. But in actuality, nearly half of all bonds broke within the first two years, and then the initial pull you felt toward that person became a gradually increasing, inexorable push. And so far as anyone knew, there was no way to repair a broken bond; all you could do was get away from the person and try to get on with your life, which is what Jihyo was trying to do.
Just then Jihyo heard the apartment door open. She turned and saw Dahyun and Nayeon come in. "Look who I found on the elevator!" Dahyun called out as she slipped off her shoes and brought Jihyo her coffee.
Jihyo looked at Nayeon. "You've been gone all day. I didn't even see you this morning."
Nayeon nodded. "I needed to get away from the apartment for a while," she said. "I could feel that things were building up to a confrontation between you and Tzuyu and I didn't want to be around for that." Nayeon looked around. "Things feel calmer - did the confrontation happen while I was gone? Is everything okay now?"
Nayeon was a beta, but at times she seemed almost alpha-like; she had empathic abilities almost as strong as an alpha's, and she tried to control events in a way most betas never dared. Jihyo had lost count of how many times Nayeon had sensed a fight brewing between members and managed to head things off before they got serious.
"The confrontation sort of happened," Jihyo said. She told Nayeon about the afternoon events: About Tzuyu and Momo, about what she and Dahyun had done, about the confrontation with Tzuyu, and about Mina's intervention. "So that's where things stand," Jihyo said. "If you had come in just 30 seconds earlier, you'd have seen Mina."
"Oh Jihyo," Nayeon said, reaching out and patting Jihyo on the shoulder. "Always using brute force in situations where finesse is called for. Don't worry about Mina - I'll have her calmed down by dinner. But do try to find a way to get along with Tzuyu. Things were so good right before you bonded, and everything's been so chaotic since then." And with a final squeeze of Jihyo's shoulder, Nayeon headed off to the bedroom that she and Mina shared with Jihyo and Sana.
Jihyo stared out the window as she took a sip of her coffee. Then she remembered that Dahyun was there and had seen the whole exchange with Nayeon. She turned to her. "I suppose you think I'm wrong too?" she snapped.
Dahyun hurriedly shook her head. "Like you said earlier, that's alpha business. I don't really understand why you let Nayeon get involved with it, though."
Jihyo reached out and cupped Dahyun's cheek. "Oh Dahyun, it's sweet that you want to get involved, but just let me handle it, okay?"
Dahyun nodded, but inside she was seething. Alpha business! As if she didn't care about Twice just as much as either of the alphas did! Still, there was nothing to be gained by making Jihyo mad again today, so she stuffed these feelings down inside and hoped that a time would come when she'd be able to deal with them.