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this_peculiar_power

Lee Tae-gun. Korea's first and, currently, only S-rank. There are A-rankers who could get the promotion to S-rank, if they wanted to, if they revealed enough of their powers—or, at least, there is one, in Kang Jaeha himself—but this flash in the pan boy was the first one to decide to just go for it and now he's probably learning about how much it sucks to be the center of attention.

Not that you'd know from just looking at him. He's always gorgeous, stepping out of dungeons, and that's genuinely impressive in itself, but it's even more impressive if Quasar is right that they might be compatible. This implies things about the shape of Lee Tae-gun's backlash, things that suggest he's quite good at self-control, and that he must be holding quite a lot in, to be able to look like that. So that piques Jaeha's curiosity, and he looks into the boy.

Lee Tae-gun is 21; manifested really late, about a year and a half ago; has had three partners so far, none of them particularly impressive in their own rights, each lasting a handful of months and ending in the normal way these things do, with them finding partners they're more compatible with. As far as Jaeha can tell, there's nothing particularly out of the ordinary in the boy's history. He's really just very straightforwardly boring.

And, well, Jaeha is also between partners right now. The story with him is also usually the same: he's never found anyone he had great compatibility with, and they'd all eventually leave, even if they never found someone else. Better alone than with Kang Jaeha. But he doesn't take it personally. He knows they probably want more out of a partnership than he can give. This boy will be no different, they'll spend a while together and help each other survive and eventually the boy will move on and Jaeha won't take it personally either.

So Kang Jaeha is in a meeting room, reading some files and waiting for Lee Tae-gun to arrive so they can figure out whether they'll do business together or not.

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neither_rest_nor_peace

"...I'm not sure I know what you mean?"

this_peculiar_power

"Hmm." Google to the rescue. "...RPF? Real person fiction? Or... fanfiction?"

neither_rest_nor_peace

It does seem like a name that could refer to—wait.

this_peculiar_power

Some more googling takes him to a cute website called "Archive Of Our Own". Ooh, they can look for stories by relationship tags! Promising!

neither_rest_nor_peace

Wait.

this_peculiar_power

Lee Tae-gun/Kang Jaeha

neither_rest_nor_peace

WAIT.

"Kang Jaeha?"

this_peculiar_power

"...oh, we've only been partnered for a week now and there are already twenty-three stories about us?"

neither_rest_nor_peace

!!!!!!!!!!

"Kang Jaeha?????"

this_peculiar_power

"A couple of these are pre-partnership hypothetical ones but the rest..." He starts scrolling through the descriptions and stops at one of them.

"Well well well, what have we here?" Kang Jaeha wonders aloud, a peculiar smirk spreading on his lips. "My, my, Lee Tae-gun-shi, I didn't know this side of you."

Lee Tae-gun can't show his face. Can't, can't let Kang Jaeha see him like this. "Please go away, I need—I need some time—"

"What you need is guiding," Kang Jaeha argues, turning the light on and loosening his tie.

"Don't turn the light on—!" Tae-gun pants, but it's too late, and he's now exposed in all of his glory, the layers of clothes he wears in public gone to reveal a body sculpted by years of effort and training.

"But then how will I see you?" Kang Jaeha counters in something that could almost be a purr if it didn't sound so hungry. You're mine, now, he thinks to himself.

or

Kang Jaeha is about to discover that his new partner Lee Tae-gun's backlash makes him submissive and breedable.

neither_rest_nor_peace

If Kang Jaeha were looking at this on his phone, Tae-gun would be trying to steal it away from him. As is, the best he can do is try to cover the screen with his hands. "Don't read that!!!!"

this_peculiar_power

It's easy enough for him to move the screen away from Tae-gun's reach. "Why not? It could give us inspiration for things to try in the future." He clicks through to the author's page. "...wow, they're really prolific about their esper pairing stories, huh?"

neither_rest_nor_peace

"Kang Jaeha—!"

this_peculiar_power

"Yes, Lee Tae-gun?"

neither_rest_nor_peace

neither_rest_nor_peace

"...stoooooooop," he whines, covering his face.

this_peculiar_power

Jaeha grins and waves the screen away, turning his body to more properly face Tae-gun. "You're so very lovely like this," he says, reaching under the bed covers to run the tips of his fingernails against Tae-gun's inner thigh, feather-light and slow. "We could read these together, play them out... Would you hate to see me in a suit while you're naked and pleading? I wouldn't hate that."

neither_rest_nor_peace

He lowers his hands from his face.

Then he twists around and pushes Jaeha onto his back, straddling his hips with his legs and pinning his wrists with his hands. "No."

this_peculiar_power

"You're going to need to stop me."

neither_rest_nor_peace

"I will."

neither_rest_nor_peace

"I'm not totally sure why you're B-rank," Tae-gun says, humming thoughtfully after discussing Min Woo-young's power with him and seeing it in action.

Min Woo-young

there_to_stay

It's really nice, the way Lee Tae-gun says this kind of thing. The sentence sounds like it's almost meant to be a compliment but Lee Tae-gun says it matter-of-factly, like he's analysing facts and reaching a logical conclusion and it's not a matter of opinion. It is, if anything, more flattering than a compliment.

"It's my backlash. I get really, really impaired by it, and the accrual rate is pretty bad."

neither_rest_nor_peace