Dangerous Woman - BTS 8th Member

The Grammy Awards

Note: this is a bit long. Over 5k words which is the longest thing I've ever written. I wanted something different and while I still think the Grammy's did BTS dirty, I wanted my girl to have some love. I don't expect everyone to agree to it but it is fanfic after all.

When Grace had created her first solo album that wasn't a mixtape, she had no plans to submit anything to the Grammys. The history between the Grammy's and BTS had left a bad taste in her mouth - they were used as eye candy for performances, to bring in the audience and leave them till the last minute, even with five nominations and no wins. So when she was asked if she wanted to put the 'In My Head' album in for any categories, she shut the idea down.

Really, she should have realised that Bang PD would have just done it anyway.

The first she heard about it was when Chaelin, CL from 2NE1, had sent her a text of congratulations followed by IU. Then her parents called her to say congratulations and there was a flurry of messages in the BTS group chat.

Of course, she thought they were all off their heads because there was no way in hell that she was nominated for a Grammy, let alone three. But when she went on the website, sure enough, under her name were the following categories:

7 Rings - Record of the Year

In My Head - Album of the Year

7 Rings - Best Pop Solo Performance.

It left her feeling very conflicted.

While she was proud of herself and the team behind the song as well as the album, she remembered the disappointment on the rest of the boy's faces when they received no nominations for their solo music and the bigger disappointment when they didn't win as a group, sitting there in the audience with cameras in their faces and once again, no win.

She didn't want the award for the very reason that she didn't want to go all the way out there, to dress up, to sit there and then nothing. Feeling nothing but pure disappointment.

So, she kept silent and kept on preparing herself for the tour that would be happening in a few months after the November nomination announcement. Everyone was excited, including the boys, yet she felt absolutely blank about the whole thing. In her head, it was just another ploy to get the BTS name attached to the Grammys.

A week later, after the nominations were released, she got called into a meeting with everyone including Bang PD, their choreographing team, the CEO and PR and some others that she didn't know. Grace sat down next to Sejin, wondering why most of the important people in Big Hit had been called to the table.

"Okay as everyone is aware, Hea has been nominated for three Grammy awards. They've been in touch and asked if Hea would be interested in either opening up the Grammy's with a song or if there would be a medley performance at some point," the CEO explained. "We've already got an idea but wanted to hear what everyone's thoughts were before we went forward and if Hea wanted to go through with this as well."

Grace glanced towards Sejin out of the corner of her eye. He knew her better than most and he knew the thoughts of the boys as well. They were proud of her and this would be a big thing for not only her, but for the boys, Big Hit and Korea as a whole. If she won, she would be the first K-Pop Korean and the first Korean female. If she didn't win, she would still be highly regarded because of the nomination.

Though she knew full well that some antis would see this as an opportunity to bash and slander.

Sejin knew her thoughts about the Grammy's and he returned her look, giving her a slight nod. If he thought she should go, then off she went.