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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

"Hyung."

this_peculiar_power

neither_rest_nor_peace

"I love you too."

this_peculiar_power

"Oh don't say that, Tae-gun-ah, I don't think I can—"

neither_rest_nor_peace

"I wanted to wait. To be away from you and know what I was really feeling, but... it was all real, wasn't it? You didn't—you said it's been a month. I looked over our texts. You were still—the you I think you are. I spent all day thinking and, and trying to figure it out.

"I don't want to lose you. I don't want to leave you."

this_peculiar_power

"...it wasn't all real. At first, I—you remember when I told you you could call me by my name? That wasn't the first thing I said then. I said you could call me 'hyung' and you—didn't like it. You felt uncomfortable. So I got rid of that."

neither_rest_nor_peace

"...does that matter? That's so, so small."

this_peculiar_power

"It's all small. Small this, small that. A lot of small things add up."

neither_rest_nor_peace

"But the last month was real."

this_peculiar_power

"Please stop giving me chances, Tae-gun-ah, I don't—I can't refuse you. I'm not strong enough to stay away from you if you don't push me away."

neither_rest_nor_peace

"Well then don't. We can, we can figure it out. We can make it work. We can deal with your backlash, and find ways for you to not slide into this again, and—it's not that bad. You know. Being bad at—people. At knowing what to say. People can still like you. I don't know how or why but they can.

"You like me."

this_peculiar_power

"That's different."

neither_rest_nor_peace

"It's not. If you can stop using your power around me you can do it around other people, too. And you can still be you. And, and you can still be mine."

this_peculiar_power

"Can you come over? If we're not breaking up, then, then—then I need a hug."

neither_rest_nor_peace

"...yeah."

He hangs up, and then Jaeha gets a request for a visitor to teleport to his door.

this_peculiar_power

He accepts the request and rushes over to open his door for Tae-gun and—

"Tae-gun-ah."

neither_rest_nor_peace

"...hi. Shut the door if you're not gonna put clothes on."

this_peculiar_power

He pulls Tae-gun inside, shuts the door, then wraps both arms around Tae-gun and rests his forehead on Tae-gun's neck. "Is it stupid that I missed you?"

neither_rest_nor_peace

"It is," Tae-gun says, hugging back and closing his eyes. "I'm stupid, too."

this_peculiar_power

God, he's not sure what he's gonna do, now, he doesn't think he has the strength to let go. He might just die of hunger while hugging Tae-gun by his front door.

neither_rest_nor_peace

Well, he's not going to because Tae-gun is tugging him towards his living room sofa. They can snuggle there.

this_peculiar_power

Whatever Tae-gun wants, he can get.

neither_rest_nor_peace

"...can you cancel tomorrow's dungeons too? I don't—I don't want to keep talking about it. We can talk more tomorrow. Please?"

this_peculiar_power

"What part of 'I'll become a housewife if you ask me to' didn't you understand?" He kisses the top of Tae-gun's head and summons his commscreen to cancel his assignments. "Done."

neither_rest_nor_peace