Hiiii, Sol!! Wow, okay, so I've been wanting to write a MinChan Twilight AU S O B A D but obviously, I have no time to map out sth just yet, so thank you for sending this prompt my way and giving me an excuse to ramble about the Twilight MinChan I would love to write one day 😭💕

So the OG Twilight was the best thing sliced bread when I read it for the first time (I think I was like, 11/12? I read it in secret too, lmao) but as I grew older, I (like many others) realized that the whole thing between Edward-Bella-Jacob was just really, really gross and weird 🥲

HOWEVER. However. I can definitely appreciate the vampire vs. werewolf vs. human thing going on, and if I ever write a MinChan Twilight AU and were to add your twist to it, I think I'll probably make Chan a vampire, Minho a werewolf, and in this iteration of werewolves, the good old omegaverse dynamics exist bc then we can have the breeding-to-angst-arc with a half-vamp-half-werewolf MinChan baby with very little complications (plot-wise, ofc).

I'd also completely do away with the Volturi and the vampire's 'sparkly skin' + special abilities but keep the red-eyes when hungry, brown-eyes when sated concept for the vampires, and have the werewolves eyes reflect light like cats in the night as a marker of inhumanity while they're in their human skin. I also want to get rid of the whole 'imprinting thing' bc it's just kinda weird for me, and I’d change the vampires are immortal thing into vampires live for as long as werewolves do, and both kinds live for much, much longer than humans can ever imagine to.

As for how MinChan would meet, I'd say like in the movies, the vampire coven and the pack of werewolves live in the same territory thanks to a treaty dating back centuries between their kinds. Except unlike in the movies, the two species aren't overly antagonistic towards each other bc as long as the vampires stay in their lane and the werewolves keep to theirs, they really couldn't give less of a fuck about what the other kind is doing.

Chan would be the first adopted son of the leader of his coven, and Minho would be the firstborn luna and the next leader in line for his pack. Hyunjin, Felix, and Jeongin will be Chan's 'brothers', and Seungmin, Changbin, and Jisung will be Minho's packmates.

And since they're all really good at avoiding the other kind at all costs (unless one of them fucks up), Minho and Chan meet at a surprise get-together orchestrated by Chan's adoptive parents (the leaders of his coven) and Minho's parents (the current alpha and their mate of the pack) bc they've gotten word that a larger than average band of nomad vampires will be passing through their combined territory.

Chan's coven is 'vegetarian' and none of them hunt humans, only wild animals, but everyone knows that nomads are wildcards, dangerous to not just humans, but the existence of the supernatural as a whole. So, the elders of the coven and the pack come up with a patrol roster that pairs up vampires and werewolves together to make sure the humans in their territory remain safe, and surprise surprise, Minho and Chan get pushed onto one bc they're supposed to set a good example to the rest.

Chan is polite, Minho is polite, and they go about the patrol on the nights they're supposed to in dead silence, not a single word spoken between them. It should be awkward, and it kinda is, but it's also not at the same time bc they both just obviously want to get this done as soon as possible with the least amount of interactions and complications.

They meet like this, night after night, bowing in greeting, patrolling the section of their territories given to them, exchanging maybe three to five words if there's sth they want to point out to the other person, bowing in goodbye, rinse and repeat until the nomad threat is completely gone.
Until one night while they're patrolling a new section, Minho suddenly starts acting cagey, trying to tell Chan that they don't need to go any further, obviously there's nothing there, can Chan even sense anything out of the ordinary, they should just call it an early night, etc.

Chan is immediately on alert and tries to ask Minho why he thinks that but Minho just keeps telling him that they should turn around and go. Chan says, okay, fine, I'll find out for myself, and just stomps his way through the trees in the part of the forest they were given to patrol, and Minho calls him names and tries to drag him away but it's too late because Chan hears the growls right before both him and Minho go flying as sth heavy which smells like blood knocks them down.

That's how Chan finds himself pinned under a fucking mountain lion that he hadn't heard coming bc he and Minho had been yelling at each other, and Chan just thinks, "eh, whatever, early dinner for me," but before he can rip out the big cat's jugular, Minho's tackling the mountain lion off of Chan in his human form, rolling it away from Chan.

Chan sits up on high alert, more than a little confused, and he only gets even more confused bc he sees that Minho's on the ground on his ass, and the mountain lion isn't trying to eat him like it had tried to attack Chan, but was actually standing in front of Minho all puffed up and growling, clearly trying to keep Chan away from Minho like it thinks that Chan is the threat.

"What the fuck?" Chan says out loud from his place on the ground and Minho glares at him as he gets to his feet, walks around the mountain lion, and places a hand on the still-growling puma's head like he's some sort of furry Snow White.

And that's how Chan finds out that Minho had saved this particular Puma from some trophy hunters when it was just a cub, that he calls it KitKat, and that this was KitKat's territory that they were in which is why he was trying to lead Chan away from it bc he didn't want to bother his Puma.

Chan's honestly a little flabbergasted bc he never expected a werewolf to inspire such loyalty in a wild cat considering one of them is a full-blooded feline and the other is a half-human-half-canid supernatural being, and Chan realizes that this is the most Minho and he had ever talked.

Minho manages to soothe KitKat into backing off, and he tells Chan to go ahead and leave and that he'll follow, and Chan listens bc he's honestly too surprised to do anything but. Sure enough, Minho does join Chan who had been slowly making his way back down the territory line given to him and Minho, and Chan has so many questions that he can't help but ask Minho for answers.

Minho is a little reluctant at first, a little stiff, but he does slowly start answering Chan's questions about how he found KitKat, what he did to the trophy hunters who had been after baby KitKat, how Minho had practically raised KitKat for the last three years, teaching her everything about survival bc Minho's much bigger than KitKat when he's in his wolfskin and the Puma sort of sees him as her parent.

When they say goodbye to each other that night, it's not as clinical, and the next night they're scheduled together, Chan comes armed with a small album full of all the dogs he and his coven have raised over the decades.

Minho seems shocked when Chan asks if they can take a small fifteen-minute break citing that the others do the same, but somehow agrees. And Chan spends that entire fifteen-minute break showing Minho the album of dogs he had raised. Minho says that he's never heard of a coven raising dogs bc all animals are weary around vampires, but Chan says that it's different bc all the dogs they raise and have raised are strays or dogs with disabilities that were abandoned with no home, and that it's a hobby for the younger members of his coven atp to break into pounds and steal the sickest, frailest dogs and the occasional cat to raise in their home in the middle of the woods where there is more than enough space for everyone to run around.

Minho then asks Chan if he and his coven-mates had anything to do with the break-in reported by one of the biggest animal shelters the next town over and Chan grins and says that he has no idea. Minho rolls his eyes but Chan sees how the corners of the wolf's mouth turn up, so he takes it as a win.

After that, patrol nights become some of both Chan's and Minho's favorites, and Minho finds himself reluctantly charmed by the vampire who, the more he gets to know, is more of a puppy than any of the newborn pups in Minho's pack.

They slowly but surely become friends, Minho and Chan, and one day Minho asks Chan if he'd like to meet him during the day, right at the border of KitKat's territory. Chan jokingly asks if Minho's about to make a meal out of him and share him with KitKat, and Minho just gives Chan his polite-cat smile and tells him to come and find out for himself.

Still, Chan goes bc he's curious and Minho asked him to, and he tells his parents that he's going to meet a friend and that he'll be back a little late. When Chan comes to the place Minho asked him to meet him at, he's shocked when he sees a gorgeous white wolf that he knows is Minho without even having to smell him.

Minho's much bigger and taller than Chan in his wolf form - Chan ignores how Minho's a little taller than him in his human skin, too - and Chan is awed when Minho walks up to him and lowers his head for Chan to pet. Minho's fur is thick and soft, healthy, and even if Chan can't speak to him like this, he understands when Minho trots away with a single backward glance that he's meant to follow.

Minho takes him deeper and deeper into the forest and KitKat's territory and that's how Chan spends the rest of his day watching Minho play with KitKat and try to convince her to befriend Chan instead of trying to eat him. It's a work in progress, but by the end of the day, KitKat isn't growling at Chan every time Chan looks at her, so it's alright.

One night when they have patrol, Minho doesn't show up alone. Chan is a little surprised but doesn't let it show when Minho introduces him to another werewolf named Seungmin who's even more polite than Minho. That night is one of the most awkward nights bc none of them speak unless it's absolutely necessary, and it's also when Chan realizes that he's actually become friends with Minho who he misses when he can't yap his ear off.

Chan feels Seungmin's eyes on him the whole night and Minho doesn't look at him even once. When they part ways, Minho doesn't smile, but Chan sees Minho stop halfway to bend down to tie his shoelace with Seungmin patiently standing next to him, and when Chan goes to the spot, he sees a small balled-up scrap of paper with a time and a drawing of a little cat.

Chan pockets it and goes to KitKat's territory and sure enough, Minho is there in his wolf form, and Chan feels happy that Minho seems interested in still being his friend regardless of whatever weirdness happened last night with Seungmin.

Minho runs around with KitKat, and when KitKat flops down on the forest floor to catch her breath, Minho pads over to Chan who is sitting cross-legged on the ground watching the wolf and the Puma play, and slides down to his belly and lays his white head on Chan's lap.

Chan's surprised but touched, and they spend the rest of their time together like that, Minho dozing with his head in Chan's lap, Chan gently petting Minho's white fur and his fluffy ears, and when they have to say goodbye, Minho bumps his wet nose against Chan's neck until Chan's squealing and giggling and trying to get away bc it's ticklish.

When Chan goes home that night, Hyunjin keeps shooting him weird looks but doesn't say anything, and Chan chalks it up to the younger vampire being in one of his moods.

The next time Chan's supposed to meet Minho for patrol, it's a different wolf who says that there was a change in plan and introduces himself as Jisung. Chan's confused and a little worried but he says, "that's alright, I don't mind, Jisung-ssi," and that's who Chan does patrol with for a few nights.
Chan's really, really worried about Minho, and he hates himself a little bit for not at least asking for a number so that he can call him to see if he's okay, but then just as suddenly as Minho disappeared, he reappears one night right on time for patrol and Chan's both relieved and worried bc Minho looks like shit.

He had lost weight, he looks sleep-deprived, and he smells...strange. Sweet. Chan opens his mouth, but Minho shakes his head, unkempt hair flopping over his tired eyes, and says, "later, Chan-ah," and Chan shuts up because Minho asked him to and Minho has never called Chan this comfortably before.

They complete the patrol but they don't say goodbye, and Minho leads Chan to a different area of the forest Chan has never been to. It's a little meadow of sorts with a ring of trees surrounding a small clearing of wildflowers, and with the rising sun, the whole place looks magical.

Minho sits down in the middle of the flowers and Chan follows. Minho sighs and he sounds so exhausted when he asks Chan to ask whatever questions he has about Minho's disappearance, and the only question that Chan can think of, the only question that really matters to Chan is,

"Are you okay, Minho-yah?"

Minho looks surprised that Chan would ask that instead of any other question probing for details of his disappearance, but Chan only cares about whether Minho's okay or not, and if he isn't, if there's any way for him to help.

That's how Chan learns about what being a luna really means; the heats that are agonizing to spend without a partner, the rules that forbid Minho from seeking out a partner by himself in the first place, the pressure from his elders to mate with the second-born of another powerful pack from a different area bc Minho can never leave his pack bc he's the luna and the next leader. Chan is shocked to say the least bc he would've never guessed Minho had so much going on bc Minho always carries himself so calmly all the time.

They talk the day away in that small meadow, and when Minho starts yawning bc he's more tired than usual since he's just off a heat and an all-nighter patrolling, Chan gently offers to keep watch if Minho would like to take a small nap in the flowers.

Minho looks at Chan then, in a way that he had never looked at Chan before, and Chan feels him going red bc it's...intense. Still, he doesn't look away and lets Minho look for whatever it is that he's looking for, and Chan is a little flustered when Minho scoots closer and slowly lowers himself down next to Chan, laying his head on Chan's lap and closing his eyes.

Chan keeps his promise and watches over Minho as the wolf falls asleep in his lap, softly running his fingers through Minho's hair, and all he can think is that he's so, so fucked.
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They get closer after that, and Chan knows that Minho knows that what they’re doing is starting to get a little blurry around the edges of friendship. But they don’t stop and continue meeting each other for patrol, and then spending the rest of the day together in the meadow.

Chan gets Minho’s number and they start texting each other, too. Calling is out of the question with a bunch of supernaturals hovering over their shoulders day in and day out, but they manage to meet each other during the day sporadically, either in the forest, in KitKat’s territory that apparently Minho’s pack stays clear of bc they know about the Puma, and sometimes even a few towns over when they can get away with it.

It’s innocent, their meetups. In the forest, Chan starts to slowly win over KitKat and braids little wildflowers into Minho’s white tail when he’s in his wolf form. When they drive to a different town to meet up, they just get snacks and catch a movie and walk around talking about everything and nothing. Chan can’t eat, but Minho eats enough for the both of them, and Chan feels happy whenever he gets to watch Minho eat so it’s a win-win anyway.

One day, right as Chan is getting home after spending the day with Minho and KitKat, Hyunjin corners him and asks him where he’s been disappearing off to so often. Chan says nowhere, but Hyunjin keeps pushing and then the younger vampire asks him why he smells like wolf all the time.

Chan reminds Hyunjin of the patrolling he has been doing with Minho and Hyunjin asks him if that’s all he has been doing with Minho but before Chan can respond, Felix walks in and asks them why they’re arguing. Hyunjin tells Felix that it’s nothing before he walks away, and Chan’s left confused and a little weary bc it seems as if Hyunjin knew sth that he wasn’t telling any of them.

The nomad vampires that they’ve all been on the lookout for eventually turn up in small groups at first, just twos and threes. They’re given warnings to pass through this particular territory without touching a single human, and they listen for the most part. The wolves all stick to their inhuman skin during patrols now, but Chan doesn’t feel lonely even if Minho stays in his wolf form the whole time.

It’s on a night when Chan and Minho are walking the border that a group of six nomads find them. They greet both Chan and Minho respectfully, and Chan is the one who speaks to them and explains the terms of passing through their territory.

But Chan notices that there’s something weird about these nomads bc they keep looking at Minho in his wolf form who’s standing tall next to Chan, white fur pressed against the black leather of Chan’s jacket, silent as the dead, heartbeat steady.

Chan feels on edge bc the de facto leader of this group refuses to end the conversation and be on their way, finding excuses to keep Chan talking while the other nomads shamelessly stare at Minho who Chan feels starts to bristle at it.

Then the leader asks Chan if it’s true. If this really is the first luna for this pack within the last ten generations of wolves. Chan stiffly tells the leader that it’s none of their concern and that it’s best if they are on their way. The leader asks Chan if he knows about the prophecy of the seers in the east. Chan goes to tell them to fuck off, but Minho gently nudges him and Chan grits out, “no, I don’t.”

The leader doesn’t say anything, just smiles and says, “maybe it’s best that you don’t,” with one more look at Minho before he bows and the other vampires follow his lead, finally walking into their territory to cross over.

Chan and Minho are both on edge until the sun comes up and they get the message that the six nomads who had entered through Minho’s and Chan’s sides have left. Minho shifts back, suddenly, and Chan has to quickly look away before he sees Minho naked, and he only turns back around when he knows Minho had tugged on the shorts he had kept securely wrapped around a hind leg with a later cord.

Chan asks if Minho knows what the nomads were talking about and Minho says no. His pulse stays steady so Chan knows that Minho’s telling the truth. Minho asks him if he wants to spend the day with him and Chan agrees bc there’s nothing more he’d like to do.
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TO BE CONTINUED, I CAME UP WITH SO MUCH LORE FOR THIS JFC SOL, BUT I'M AT WORK RN AND I COULD ONLY WRITE DOWN THIS MUCH THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SENDING THIS MY WAY, BABY, ILY, I HOPE YOU'RE HAVING A BANGING DAY/NIGHT!!!😭🩷💕😭🩷💕😭🩷💕