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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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freefall

"Me! Me! Pick me!"

first_and_only_law

"Woo-young."

there_to_stay

"—me?"

first_and_only_law

"You're the newest addition to the group other than Kang Jaeha-shi, and this clown here gets off on being embarrassed so it's no fun," says Juheon, hiking a thumb in Si-yeon's direction.

freefall

"Harsh but fair."

there_to_stay

"...alright. There's... well, there's this person I like..."

Tae-gun gets an emergency dungeon notification.

Then Woo-young does, too.

Then Jaeha.

One by one, everyone else does, too.

Park Yoo-min

yoo_min_max

"...ah, shit."

neither_rest_nor_peace

Tae-gun arrives home before Jaeha and he's so exhausted he can barely jerk off. He hasn't been taking the pills often at all, not since he and Jaeha partnered, but he has no idea how long Jaeha is going to be with how unpredictable confluence dungeons are, so he takes them this time and then waits. He's shivering, his body is hot all over and his skin is flushed, the stimulation of his erection trapped between his stomach and the bedsheets almost but not quite enough in itself to make him come, but he just doesn't have the energy for it right now.

The pills take the edge off, and by twenty minutes later he's fallen asleep.

this_peculiar_power

Jaeha doesn't get home until a couple of hours later, and he's similarly exhausted. He doesn't even undress, just walks into their bedroom and lies next to Tae-gun.

neither_rest_nor_peace

He stirs a bit and snuggles closer in his sleep but doesn't actually wake up.

this_peculiar_power

"...I like you, Lee Tae-gun," Jaeha murmurs. It's gotten to the point where he can feel it even when he's this deep in backlash. It's no longer just a giddy happy honeymoon romance, it's something that permeates every piece of him. The parts of it that remain right then are the possessiveness, the jealousy, the fear of losing him, the need—but he knows that's not all he has, he knows that his love is so much more than that, and that awareness also remains and carries him. "I like you far, far too much. I don't know what to do with myself. You're my everything."

neither_rest_nor_peace

Tae-gun smiles and makes a soft hmming noise but still doesn't wake up.

this_peculiar_power

Yeah.

"Good night, Tae-gun-ah," he whispers, closing his eyes and drifting off to sleep, himself.

this_peculiar_power

...it's the noises that wakes him up, because the feeling had worked its way into his dreams, steering them in a very different direction than they'd been going up until then. A much less pleasant direction than reality, though, because waking up to getting head from his boyfriend is hard to beat, dream or reality.

"Morning, Tae-gun-ah."

neither_rest_nor_peace

He pulls away to reply with a "good morning" and then he's back at it.

this_peculiar_power

"Ah, fuck—" Okay, apparently it wasn't just the noises that woke him up, it was also how close he was to climax.

neither_rest_nor_peace

Heheheheheheheh

this_peculiar_power

"Are you still backlashed?" he asks, hooking his hand behind Tae-gun's head to pull him closer.

neither_rest_nor_peace

"Just a bit." He just woke up and his boyfriend had morning wood and he wanted to do something about that.

this_peculiar_power

He licks Tae-gun's lips and the line going down to his chin then kisses him. "Well it's a great way to wake up." Even if he feels like he needs a shower, but they've had this conversation before and Tae-gun has stated that he feels like "free-use" should not have exceptions.

neither_rest_nor_peace