Yoongi with an oral fixation he just....likes to have something in his mouth or near his lips.

At first, the easiest and most convenient way of satisfying this itch is to bite at his nails, or any hangnails that are on his fingers. Plus the little pricks of pain helps to -

Keep his anxiety at bay. It works and he's been used to it for years. The rest of bangtan doesn't like it that much though, tells him that it hurts them to see his fingers all bleeding red and raw, band aid that cover up his pretty fingers.

He tries to stop putting his fingers

Near his mouth but-- it's hard. It's been years of habit after all.

Next, he tries to chew on his lips, just to curb the feeling of doing /something/, but just after a few hours his lips are all bitten and swollen. He gets an earful from the make up noonas, saying that

His lips are too chapped and it doesn't show up nicely if the camera films him in close ups.

---

"Hey, anyone has a bandaid?" Yoongi calls out, brows furrowed at the open wound by his thumbnail.

"Are you bleeding again, hyung?" Jungkook, who is sitting nearby asks, standing up and walking closer. He picks up yoongi's hand gently,

Peering at his fingers. "you need to stop doing that..." Jungkook sighs, gingerly putting the delicate hand down.

"I know..." Yoongi whispers, curling both fists up and pulling down his sleeves so that they're hidden.

jungkook stays silent for a moment, thinking.

"Tell you what, hyung. Every time you feel like you need to bite on something, tell me. I'll hold your hand okay? Heck, tell any of us! I'm sure taehyung-hyung is more than willing to hold your hand!"

At the mention of his name, taehyung's head peers up from the back of the couch. He waves at yoongi with a big grin, "I'll hold your hand hyung!!"

Yoongi shakes his head and smiles, "Then I'll be holding hands with someone 24/7..."

jungkook laughs, his eyes turning into crescents and nose scrunching up. "You'd like that won't you!!"

Yoongi nods, but doesn't take it to heart. He knows jungkook is just trying to help, that's all.

---
Yoongi is deep in thoughts, looking through some drafts of lyrics, absently biting on a loose hangnail when his hand is abruptly snatched away.

"No biting, yoongi ah!" Seokjin scolds, his hand wrapped tightly around yoongi's.

Yoongi flushes, pressing his lips together. "sorry hyung.." he hangs his head in Shame.

seokjin tsks loudly, tugging on their connect hands. "I know you're trying. But you know it hurts us to see you always bleeding, right?"

Yoongi nods, still unable to look at the eldest member in the eyes.

He's still a little startled, he didn't think that seokjin even knows about this hand holding deal. It warms his heart a little to know that the members cares so much about him.

With a free hand, seokjin digs through the pocket of his sweat pants and pulls out a lollipop.

"I stole this off of Jimmie. Why don't you eat this? At least it'll keep you occupied for awhile."

He places the candy down on the table and gives yoongi's hand a squeeze before leaving.

Yoongi stares at the lollipop for a moment, before pulling it closer to tear the wrapper off.

---
Yoongi isn't sure if the lollipop his hyung offered is actually helping or not but--

He finds that if he doesn't actively suck or bite at the round candy, it can last him about an hour and a half. He rolls the ball around in his mouth, the sweet taste of strawberries

Bursting through his taste buds.

At the very least, it's an hour and a half of not attacking his poor abused fingers. He'll count that as a win.

---

That night, he goes to knock on jimin's door. He opens it slowly when he hears an affirmative.

"hey, yoongi hyung! What's up?" The younger man is lounging on his bed, scrolling through his phone.

Yoongi shuffles into the room slowly, suddenly shy.

"uh..do you have any extra lollipops? Do you think I could get a few more from you?" He asks, nibbling slightly at his lips.

JIMIN blinks for a few seconds, before smiling. "Of course, I have a whole bag left!" He twists his body a little to reach into his bedside table, rummaging around.

Yoongi is grateful that the younger man doesn't asks for a reason.

Jimin pulls out a colourful bag of lollies and rolls off the bed towards yoongi. He reaches up to hold yoongi's chin between his small fingers and gently pulls out the bottom lip from between yoongi's teeth with his thumb.

"you're not supposed to be doing that, remember?"

Yoongi flushes, heat crawling up his face at the sudden boldness of his younger bandmate.

"y-yeah, sorry..." Yoongi stutters, looking away. JIMIN swipes his thumb gently across his lip before releasing his face.

"I know, hyung. Here, the candy you asked for." Jimin smiles,

Giving the bag of candy to yoongi. With a swift thank you and good night, yoongi flees the room.

---

The next few days sees yoongi sucking on more lollipops. The skin around his fingers are healing, but just barely. The urge to bring his fingers to his mouth is still there, but the Candy is helping.

Yoongi's sucking on a cola-flavored lollipop when taehyung's plops down

Next to him on the couch. The younger man slides his large, warm hand into yoongi's own cold, clammy ones with a light squeeze.

When yoongi looks over at taehyung, confused, the younger only sends him a night boxy smile.

Yoongi always has a soft spot for taehyung, and the sight of the younger man only makes yoongi's own lips twitch up.

"Whatcha doing?" Taehyung asks, pressing the sides of their body close together. He brings their connected hands onto his own lap.

Yoongi pulls out the stick of candy with his free hand, "nothing much. Just waiting for my turn to get my hair styled."

He replies, licking his lips to get rid of the residue stickiness.

Taehyung nods his other hand reaching across to take the lollipop from yoongi.

"Oooo, cola? I like cola!" Taehyung exclaims, bringing the candy up to his mouth and popping it in.

yoongi stares as taehyung sucks on the sweet loudly.

"Heh, sorry..." Taehyung pulls the candy out, offering it back to the older man.

But before yoongi could take it back from him, taehyung presses the hard candy against yoongi's pink lips.

"open up, hyung!" Taehyung grins, poking the older man a few times in the mouth.

In a trance, yoongi does as he's told. He opens his mouth slightly, tongue peeking out from between his lips.

Taehyung pushes the candy on yoongi's tongue, sliding it up and down a little before pushing the entire lollipop into his mouth and pulling it out again.

At that, yoongi flushes beet red, squeezing hard on their intertwined fingers. He makes a little sound, leaning back and away from taehyung.

The younger stares, eyes widened.

"Oh..."

---

“I think we should do something about the beat here...sounds a little off, don’t you think so, hyung?” Namjoon asks, pointing to the big PC screen in front of them.

They’re sitting next to each other in Namjoon’s studio, trying to come up with new songs for their album.

Yoongi nods, eyebrows furrowed as he tries to listen to the track again. He twirls a pen in his long fingers, thinking. “Yeah, maybe we can lower the bass and space out the beats a little. Try it, joon-ah.”

Yoongi leans back against the chair, bringing the pen up to his lips.

He absentmindedly tracing the back of the pen along his lips before biting on the cover.

The elder member shakes his head, “No...that just sounds weird.”

Nothing seems to be helping to improve the track. The two rappers have been stuck on this particular part for the past four hours, and needless to say, Yoongi is feeling a little frustrated.

He closes his pink lips around the tip of the pen, still deep in thought.

He’s dragged out from his train of thoughts when he feels large hands tugging on his own, pulling the pen away. Instead, an unwrapped lollipop is offered to him.

“Jiminie told me about the candy. He said we should try to get you to stop tearing your fingers apart. And frankly biting on the pen is just nasty, hyung. Have a candy instead.” Namjoon teases.

Yoongi makes a face as the younger rapper, but takes the offered sweet anyways.

He puts it in his mouth, feeling a little at ease from the now familiar feeling of having lollipops in his mouth.

Namjoon eyes the open bag of lollipops and the scattered wrappers. He opens one for himself. “Though...you shouldn’t be eating so much candy. It’s not good for your teeth.”

With a tiny pout, yoongi nods. “I know..but what else can i use to occupy my mouth with? My fingers? It’s not like I can suck and bite on something else.”

Namjoon stares at his elder member, lips pursed around the stick of lolly. His lips wet and shiny from sucking on the sweet.

Namjoon swallows, eyes slowly trailing from the inviting lips to yoongi’s long skinny fingers, tapping a random beat on the table top. Fingers, huh.

He wonders what it’ll looks like if he--

“Hey, Joon-ah..you okay? Why are you spacing out! Maybe we should take a break.” Yoongi suggests, giving Namjoon's arm a pat.

The younger man jolts out of his fantasy, the tips of his ears red.

“Y-yeah of course. I need a break!” Namjoon exclaims, standing up so abruptly that his chair clatters back on the floor.

He rushes out of the studio, door slamming shut behind him.

---

“Where’s hoseok?” Yoongi asks, head popping into the doorway to their living room.

A few of the members are lounging on the sofa watching tv, but seokjin looks up and points at the direction of the kitchen. “He’s making a snack.”

“Thanks hyung!” With that, he makes his way into their frankly obscenely large kitchen. He walks in to see Hoseok bend suspiciously over the island counter.

Seok-ah...I thought you wanted me to let you hear the track Namjoon and I have been working on?” Yoongi asks, walking closer to tap hoseok on his back.

It seems like the younger member is unaware of Yoongi’s presence, so he jumps a little when he feels Yoongi’s touch on his body.

“H-hyung!” Hoseok yells, dropping what seems like...cucumber? Onto the counter top.

“What are you doing?” Yoongi asks, an amused smile starts to spread on his face.

“I’m just snacking...you want some?” Hoseok offers the half eaten cucumber. He pushes a container of opened gochujang across the counter. Yoongi blinks, before bursting out in laughter.

“Are you really eating cucumber with gochujang? Just cook a pack of noodles!” Yoongi giggles, but takes the cucumber anyways.

He dips one end into the paste and brings it up to his lips. His teeth bite into the cucumber.

“Oh-- damn this is pretty good..” Yoongi comments, chewing slowly. Hoseok nods eagerly, grabbing another cucumber.

He lips closes around the girth of the cucumber for a moment before chewing again.

“Maybe I should snack on cucumbers instead of lollipops. These are healthier..” Yoongi muses. The elder rapper licks the corners of his lips where some sauce is still lingering.

Hearing that, Hoseok chokes on his own mouthful, slamming his closed fist on his chest. He swallows. “Y-yeah...I guess.” He laughs nervously, eyeing Yoongi and the cucumber in his hand.

---

( The silhouette of six men huddling around in the corner may seem a little alarming to passerbys, but at this point of time, they hand more important things on their hands.

“We need to do something!!” Hoseok whispers scream, pulling at his hair. Taehyung pats the elder on his back in an attempt to calm him.

“This has gone too far...from candy to fingers...to cucumbers now? He’s driving us crazy!” Jimin pouts, stamping his foot on the ground.

“Honestly? I just want to push two of my fingers into his mouth and make him suck on them.” Jungkook declares with his arms crossed. A few moments of silence pass.

“What? Don’t tell me you guys didn’t even have a single dirty thought of just pushing yoongi hyung down and--” Jungkook tries to defend himself but Seokjin cuts him off.

“Okay! We get it. But, same.” The eldest huffs, peering around their huddled bodies to see if anyone has taken notice of their little group.

“So...what should we do..?” Taehyung asks, his eyes wide.

Silence once again consumes them as they think about how to approach yoongi with their new...measures.

“Let’s just...start slow. Maybe once he gets used to...uh..bolder things we can just ask him if he wants our help.” Namjoon suggests. The rest of the members nod in agreement.

“Okay..then we better start soon…” Hoseok says, eyes trained on Yoongi who was sitting alone on the other end of the room, lips wrapped around yet another lolipop.

They watch as yoongi purse his lips into a pout and rolls the sweet across his lips. )

-tbc-

I'll stop here just for a bit. In the next update, things will start to move really quick!

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