“What time is it?” Yongguk asked him.

Himchan looked at his wrist, a watch appeared. “It’s two in the afternoon.”

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        Yongguk remembered the first time he met the effeminate man. It was ten years ago, during orientation day of the Space Academy. Surrounded with a crowd of admiring females ten deep, Yongguk almost mistook the pretty boy as a girl. Incredulous, he looked at the tag on the other boy’s chest; it was pink, indicating a navigational class trainee. Yongguk shook his head, convinced that the other wasn’t going to last a month in the highly competitive Academy.                

         What a surprised it had been, five year later, to see Himchan opposite himself on the launch platform. The boy had grown into a man, his raven hair was cropped shorter, but there was no mistaking that smirk or those piercing black eyes.

       “Oh god,” Yongguk had groaned.

        “It’s always a pleasure to meet a legend like you,” Himchan had smiled, “I hope we get along during our five year long mission.”

        “Kill me,” Yongguk muttered, but only inside his mind. If he said that out loud, Youngjae would have raised his eyebrows and pulled him off the mission, citing suicidal tendencies. Then they would have sent someone else from Yongguk’s class. Maybe Jongup. That would have been bad. Yongguk couldn’t see the kind boy being heartless enough to destroy those enemy ships by Orion’s Shoulder.

        “I though it would be Daehyun,” Yongguk had said as they buckled into the seat, “I was sure they would choose him to be the navigator.”

         “Oh Gukkie,” Himchan had rolled his eyes oblivious to the look of horror on Yongguk's face, hearing his own name butchered with affection. The mechanical countdown started. “As soon as I heard it would be you, I worked hard enough to outperform him on every test. I had the biggest crush on you for ages. I’m sure we’ll have a lot of fun together on the mission.” The boy gave him a big, winning smile, as Yongguk’s eyes widened. He didn’t have time to reply as the roar of the launch filled the cabin. His weight doubled, tripled, and then quadrupled. He sunk into the seat as the Seditious blasted off noisily into the vast, lonely cosmos.

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AN: I found it difficult to paste any other part of the story without giving away a major plot point! Sorry the foreward is just the flashback and doesn't show any of the major action happening in the story.

This particular short story will be bisected into two chapters, and features all the members of B.A.P. because I love all of these precious, adorable dorks. Any constellation could have been picked for the title, but Orion was somewhat symbolic. I would appreciate it very much if you left a comment. C: