#i try pretty hard to give everything a fair shake instead of letting Fandom Cringe (which mostly comes from seeing people have fun

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i think sometimes about how some of the things i love i could've discovered through the context of hearing everyone telling me they sucked and i should hate them and taken that at face value, and i find it pretty saddening to think how much it would've made me miss out on a lot of media i find really compelling and even friends I've met through em

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7 times the SHINee pack had issues, but worked through it, and that one time where everything just worked (Taemin’s part)

Fandom: SHINee + Jongin Pairing:  Ot6 + Jongin Genre: Fluff and Angst Au: Canon / Omegaverse au (Hidden Omega verse) Length: 2k

Summary:

Every pack has issues, even SHINee, but they work through it cause they love each other. Even if some people are a little insecure.

Covers one chapter for each member being insecure, and one extra chapter which is just smut

Is part of Hidden Omega verse, but can be read without the main story.

People had always been assholes and he had always been sensitive to it. People criticized his singing and his looks all the time. He normally always tried to ignore it, but with their Japanese debut, it had just become too much for him.

He rubbed the bite on the side of his neck the memory of Jonghyun giving it to him still vibrant in his mind 6 months later. He was fine with being an omega… He really was, but with everybody saying he looked so girly he started to hate being an omega. He ripped out the hair tie keeping his hair up accidentally snapping it with the force, he stared at the snapped band in his hand. This was how he felt like now, too worn, to pulled until he just snapped.

The 18-year-old newly presented omega wanted to cry. The rest of SHINee was out eating dinner, but Taemin had excused himself with being tired. Really he just… Didn’t want people to look at him, people just saw a feminine omega when they looked at him. People compared him with Kibum, Kibum who was the sassy and strong-willed omega, Kibum who never got confused with a girl.

He pulled a lock of his hair out, wondering if people would like him better if his hair was shorter. He would look like less of a girl, right? Everybody would stop saying those things! He stumbled up from his position curled on the bed, stumbling his way to the kitchen, his entire body shaking so badly that it seemed as if he was drunk. His mind was muddy and confused only able to focus on the task at hand, finding those stupid scissors where had Jinki hid them!?

Had he been a little more in his right mind he would have noticed the fact that he was making a lot of noise and even more of a mess. He would probably have noticed how the door was opened and his name was called. He didn’t notice though, instead he had with shaking hands managed to find the scissors. He pulled on a strand of his hair hands shaking badly as he prepared to cut the strand and free himself from his feminine looks.

“TAEMIN?!” A yell came from behind him, leading Taemin instead to hit his cheek with the scissor slicing up a mark on his cheek.

Gasping out in pain, he dropped the scissor spinning around almost losing his balance to see who was yelling at him. Jinki was across the room and cupping the young omega’s cheek faster than anybody else could react. “Minnie what have you done?”

His voice was concerned and worried as he checked the wound on Taemin's cheek, he could feel how the younger man was shaking in his hold. “Minnie what is wrong, please talk to us.”

Instead of answering the question really he just looked away from Jinki focusing on the ground instead. “Why are you back already? I thought you guys went for dinner.”

Jonghyun was now behind Jinki looking over Taemin. “We have been gone for 4 hours.” His voice was soft and comforting, he knew that this was his first big test being pack alpha for Taemin. To be honest, he wasn’t really sure what was wrong, he had watched Taemin close when he had presented to make sure they didn’t reject it as first like Minho and Kibum, but Taemin had seemed… fine? He didn’t seem to mind being an omega, he seemed happy with it. They had all more or less expected him to be an omega after all Jongin had called himself Taemin’s alpha since they were 15, he couldn’t figure out why Taemin would be acting like this.

Luckily for them, Kibum seemed to be a little more in sync with what was going on.“Come here, Minnie.” He opened his arms signaling a hug with his fellow omega, knowing that no matter what was wrong physical contact always helped.

That seemed to break the dam, at first Taemin just stared at his bottom lip wobbling slightly trying to hold back the tears. But then he couldn’t hold it back anymore and he almost knocked Kibum on his ass as he jumps attacked him in a hug with tears running down his cheeks. That was when they knew it was really wrong, Taemin never cried. He always tried to be the tough one, even when he didn’t have to.

They all kinda surrendered the two omegas in a group hug. Taemin still sobbing into Kibum’s shoulder, they wanted to let him settle before they tried to get out of him what was actually the issue. That was when Minho made a mistake he ran his hand through Taemin’s hair. Normally he loved having his hair stroked. (And pulled they had once found Jongin getting Taemin off just by letting him suck him off while pulling his hair. Which had given the older members blue balls for a month since there was a rule that you didn’t touch members who had not presented! But that's another story for another day.)

Taemin went completely stiff in their arms, and he mumbled in a sad voice. “Please don’t touch it.” It was hard to explain just how out of character it was for Taemin not to want them to touch his hair. So Minho pulled his hand back like he had been burned.

“Minnie please talk to us, we can’t fix this if you don’t talk to us.” Jinki pleaded with him, wishing that Jongin was here with them. He hated that Jongin had trainee duty to see to, and he couldn’t be with them while they were in Japan. Jongin always knew what to say to Taemin.

“I just want it gone!” His voice was almost a scream now as he grabbed a handful and ripped in a movement that made the rest of SHINee cringe. Jonghyun was quick at grabbing Taemin’s hand to stop the young omega before he actually did some real damage to himself.

Kibum tightened his grip on the dancer, he hated seeing Taemin like this especially when he didn’t know how to make him feel better. He just wanted to help! “Please tell us what’s wrong, you can’t hurt yourself like this.” He begs.

“I don’t want to be like this!” he half yells into Kibum’s shoulder, “I want them all to stop calling me a girl! I just want it all gone! I work hard, I know I’m not the best singer! But I try my best!”

Oh, how had they not noticed this? They had all been so busy with their comeback that they hadn’t even noticed any of the hate Taemin was getting online. While they knew that people weren’t always nice online and that Taemin got more than his fair share of the hate, he had seemed to handle it better after he presented. He had been better at relying on his pack and speaking with them about what was wrong.

To be fair none of them could really wait for Jongin to present, and hopefully ending up picking them, it was weird and dysfunctional to only have Taemin without Jongin there.

Kibum exchanges a lost look with Jonghyun, the pack alpha not really sure what to do. He knew he had to do something, but he wasn’t sure what the right thing to do was. Luckily and surprisingly Minho was the one to step up when everybody else seemed lost. The youngest alpha lightly petted the young dancer still hiding his face in Kibum’s shoulder. “This is what happens when you keep it into long, you need to talk with us. You said it yourself we can do everything when we are together, but if we keep stuff from each other we break.”

Taemin let out a whine, but he didn’t look up still crying into the other omega’s shoulder. It took the rest of SHINee a good 20 minutes to finally talk him down, at that point all of them sitting in the corner of the kitchen.

The maknae had refused to let go of Kibum, the omega’s soft scent of kiwis calming to him. The rest of them sitting around them so they could all keep in physical contact with Taemin who was breaking apart. All of them were shaken up over what was happening. This really was their first real test as a pack. Of course, they had arguments and other stuff like that before, but never like this.

When Jinki pulled his hand away from Taemin and stood up. Taemin finally looked up confused and what seemed to be a little scared about why Jinki was trying to get away from them. As if Jinki was leaving permanently.

The betas heart broke a little for Taemin as he bowed down quickly to give him a quick peck. “I am just getting my phone and some medical stuff. I want to clean the wound on your cheek.”

Taemin hadn’t even felt or thought about the pain on his cheek. Now he let his hand up to his cheek flinched a little as the pressure sent pain down his spine, and when he pulled his fingers back there was blood on them. He looked sadly at Kibum. “I’m sorry I got blood on your shirt,”

“It really wasn’t a pretty shirt anyway.” Jonghyun teased from the side as he lightly stroked Taemin right below where his bite was.

“Hey!” The Kibum pouted, “I liked it! It was a pretty shirt right Minnie?” Taemin just nodded, siding with Kibum by default like always, making life hard for their dear pack alpha. “See this is why you are my favorite.”

Taemin still felt sad and like giving up but it was better now that his pack was here with him as he lightly giggled before Kibum kissed him softly. Kibum was always a good kisser, even if he was a little too careful with Taemin.

Their kiss first broke when Taemin felt Jinki cleaning the wound on his cheek and he couldn't stop himself from releasing a little whiny noise from the pain. “I didn’t mean to hurt myself… I just wanted to cut my hair.”

Now that he was more calmed down Taemin felt guilty from worrying them all so much and creating such a mess. But Jonghyun spoke up then decided that it was about time he actually did some work as pack alpha. “It is okay Taemin, I just wish you had spoken to at least one of us about this. We are a pack.”

Taemin just nodded sadly, he knew that he had a bad habit of keeping everything on the inside until it became too much and it just exploded out without him being able to control it. When the wound was clean and a pink plaster was put over it Jinki asked him in a soft tone. “You wanna talk to Jongin?”

The younger looked shyly on the ground still in Kibum’s lap. “Is it okay?” He didn’t want his pack to feel like they weren’t enough for him, he could be happy with just them.

Jinki smiled softly at Taemin. “Of course it is, we know how hard it is for him with only one of you having presented.”

The phone was already dialing when Taemin got it in his shaking hands holding it up to his ear while leaning on Kibum’s shoulder relaxing with the other omega’s thin fingers brushing through his hair removing the knots from it. Jonghyun was sitting next to them, his hand resting on Taemin’s thigh petting it as well.

Taemin could feel the last knot in his stomach release when he heard Jongin pick up. “Jinki-hyung? What is wrong? It’s late.”

Taemin hadn’t even noticed that it was Jinki’s phone and not his own that he was using. “It is me.” The omega mumbled with unstable voice.

Jongin who always seemed to have a magic ability to sense when something was wrong with Taemin. “Minnie what happened?” He was clearly worried about the older male, even if he hadn’t presented himself yet, he still saw himself as Taemin’s alpha.

“I… I felt bad. I let all the hate get to me, and I accidentally hurt myself when I tried to cut my hair.”

It was clear that Jongin was worried when he responded, but he also managed to keep himself mostly calm and collected. He knew that it was what Taemin needed, he needed calm and he needed soft. “Are you okay now?” A soft yes from Taemin. “It’s okay to be sad sometimes Minnie, but you need to talk to us when you feel sad so it doesn’t happen like this. You mean so much to all of us, we don’t want you to end up being hurt.”

Taemin just nodded, Jongin and he spoke for another 15 minutes with other members of the SHINee pack speaking up from time to time but sticking to just listening to the two friends talk. All of them could feel the slight doubt they had. The mild fear that they ended up not being the right pack for Jongin. With him being placed in Exo K there was a real chance that it was the real pack for him, but now was not the time to worry about that. Especially since if Jongin didn’t join the SHINee pack, none of them were sure what it would do to Taemin, but god knows it wouldn’t be pretty.

When they all went to bed that night with Taemin between them, the thin long haired omega being the first to fall asleep Jonghyun looked over his pack with a little smile. Like every other pack they had issues and problems, but how they solved them and worked through them with open mind and heart was what would keep them together.

Authors note:

I forgot to publish this yesterday! Sorry! 6 more parts of this story, mainly I will publish this story when I simply don’t have the time to do a real story for request Friday! I have been sick all week and it has been very hard to get stuff published on time, sorry if I have been rude this week ^^

- Prussia