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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, two A-ranks and one B-rank, each lasting a handful of months and ending in the normal way these things do, with two of them finding partners they're more compatible with and one stepping away from dungeoneering. 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

Oh that works too.

this_peculiar_power

"Kiss me, Tae-gun-ah."

neither_rest_nor_peace

He does. He kisses Jaeha, and he rides Jaeha, and he fucks Jaeha, his Jaeha, a Jaeha that's all his, that he gets to keep, who's so, so good to him, whom he likes so much, who likes him so much, he's—also a bit overwhelmed, actually.

this_peculiar_power

And he hugs Tae-gun and pets Tae-gun and kisses Tae-gun's forehead and washes Tae-gun's hair and lies in bed snuggling Tae-gun.

"You're very cute when you backlash into babbling like that."

neither_rest_nor_peace

Tae-gun covers his face. "It's embarrassing."

this_peculiar_power

"Was the way you called me your Jaeha embarrassing, too?"

neither_rest_nor_peace

Yes!!!!!

this_peculiar_power

"How about the way you came as soon as I called you 'my Tae-gun'?"

neither_rest_nor_peace

Also yes!!!!!!!!

this_peculiar_power

"Well. It's all true. I'm your Jaeha, and you're my Tae-gun."

neither_rest_nor_peace

"How can you say things like that with a straight face???"

this_peculiar_power

"Tae-gun-ah. Look at me."

neither_rest_nor_peace

He does.

this_peculiar_power

Jaeha is, in point of fact, himself blushing.

neither_rest_nor_peace

Oh. That's—that's the first time Tae-gun's seen Jaeha blush.

...he looks so cute.

"I like you, hyung," he says, leaning his head against Jaeha again.

this_peculiar_power

Now he has to hide his face, too. It's the first time Tae-gun said that out loud. "Haah... You drive me insane, Tae-gun-ah."

neither_rest_nor_peace

"Hopefully in a good way."

this_peculiar_power

"Of course it's in a good way. And of course I like you too. For fuck's sake, Tae-gun-ah, I've never liked anyone this much before. I don't know what to do with myself, I just want to spend all my time with you, even when I'm backlashed I still look forward to seeing you, it's embarrassing to need you as much as I do but I do. I need you." It's only been a couple of months and it's terrifying that when he said "I like you too" he actually wanted to say "I love you" because if this isn't love he has no idea what love is. He's constantly feeling like he's out of his mind, like this isn't him, except obviously it's the opposite, this is him, he hadn't been himself in years and now he is and he doesn't fit in his skin anymore, he feels like he's going to burst out of it at any moment, and he feels it more whenever he sees Tae-gun, whenever Tae-gun calls him "hyung", whenever Tae-gun looks at him and blushes, whenever Tae-gun moans, whenever he wakes up before Tae-gun and sees his sleeping face and kisses his nose and watches him smile blearily and hears him mumble a "good morning" with that dumb, besotted look on his stupidly gorgeous face.

Jaeha really, really doesn't know what to do.

neither_rest_nor_peace

Okay that was a way cooler confesion than Tae-gun's and he also doesn't know what to do. His heart is pounding so loudly in his chest he's certain even an unaugmented human would be able to hear it and he's flushed from head to toe. He had no idea it was possible to feel this way about someone, he feels so unprepared for it, and he feels like it's got to be fake. It's got to be fake that he's liked this much when he's not even trying, that he doesn't need to try, that he can be pathetic and whiny and clingy and horny and impulsive and Jaeha will just keep on liking him.

In summary: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

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