Hold My Unstable Heart

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Kihyun: Sapphire Flame

This is inspired by their recent comeback, so the boys are interpreted as goblins (with some inspiration from folklore) and have the appearances they have in the Do What I Want mv + some magical abilities (+ Kihyun has a center tongue piercing hehe). The idea was also sparked by skzdarlings' The Same But Different fic, which you should definitely check out! She's a very talented writer! It's been fun to push myself outside of my comfort zone with this 💙 Depending on the response, I may write more, as there is definitely more of this world I am interested in exploring.

"Doesn't matter where it is, with your hot touch, I'm rеady to give my body to you" -Monsta X: Fire & Ice

Goblin!Kihyun x Fem Reader (+ Goblin!Changkyun). Smut (check under cut for specific warnings). 15.1k

Warnings: lowkey monster/creature fucker (including monster dicks whoops (this dildo illustrates what I had in mind)), fire (mostly temperature) play throughout, handjob, oral (f. receiving), protected intercourse

Your eyes drifted to the black beanie that sat unnaturally low on Kihyun's forehead, making his hair sit uncomfortably in his eyes. At least now that the weather was cooler it didn't look so out of place for him to be wearing it. He noticed your gaze and instinctively his fingers curled around the brim and yanked it further downward, almost covering his brow piercings.

"Kihyun, it's fine," you assured him, a comment you'd grown accustomed to making. He played it safe, never wanting people here to suspect anything out of the ordinary about his presence. But you knew no matter what he did and however "normal" he made himself look on the outside, on the inside he still felt out of place.

"Yeah, right, but let's hear you say that if someone saw them." He tucked his right ear further under the hat then put his hands back in his hoodie pockets. You reached up to run your fingers through the strands of hair that poked down over his eyes, in an attempt to clear them from his line of vision a bit. Your fingers brushed the little metal spikes that adorned the bridge of his nose.

"Well don't poke your eyes out in the process," you joked. You hummed as you cleared away a little space for him to see. "Changkyun just wears a baseball cap," you noted as you turned back around to keep walking towards your apartment, where the two of you'd be meeting him. It wasn't often Changkyun visited; he'd come to this realm from time to time, but usually traveled to whatever country he felt like that day. He was often wandering around some big city in Europe or South America. Not often he came to your little town. It was only to see you and Kihyun that he came here at all.

Kihyun just scoffed at your comment. "Right, and people notice. All the time." Well that was certainly true. The brim of a cap and some shaggy hair might obscure the small, flesh covered horns that protruded from their foreheads, but it couldn't cover them, nor their pointed ears, as effectively as Kihyun's trusted bulky beanie. Plus Changkyun refused to wear contacts, so his eyes always shone that strikingly unnatural light grey, almost silver. Kihyun wore a sensible dark brown set of lenses anytime he was roaming the human realm. Unless he was alone, that is. Or with you, the only human he chose to trust with his identity.

But you also knew that Changkyun could turn on the charm if he needed; if anyone had something to say about his appearance, he could find some way to talk himself out of the situation. You knew that very well in fact; that's exactly what he'd done to you all those years ago.

You curled your arm around Kihyun's, invigorated by the recently chilled air and colorful leaves surrounding you, on top of the excitement in getting to see Changkyun again. Kihyun smiled and wrapped his arm around your waist. There was an unspoken connection, an intimacy between you and Kihyun, that always drew you to each other. It spurred a content feeling that you chased, unable to find it elsewhere.

"Am I ever gonna get to meet any of your other friends?" Your question was practically rhetorical at this point. He always answered the same way, but still you asked, in case something had changed since the last time you'd asked.

"Sure, if they dec--"

"'--decide to come here', okay okay..." You pouted. They never came to the human realm. You heard about them from Kihyun and Changkyun frequently; they were all so close, practically brothers, and yet you had never been able to meet any except the two of them. They frequented other realms occasionally, but primarily just stick close to home in the goblin world. Humans held no interest to them; even you, evidently. You thought perhaps they could be as intrigued by your influence on Kihyun as you were to theirs. You sometimes wondered if there were other humans who had friendships with goblins like you had with them.

Although the myths said goblins loved to play tricks on humans, the people who spread those myths didn't seem to realize just how many goblins were popping in and out of human society, unseen. While overall they were certainly mischievous beings, the ones who made their identities explicitly known were often the same ones pushing their luck messing with humans.

Kihyun noticed the disappointment on your face, and rubbed his hand up and down your arm soothingly. "Don't take it personally, they don't like going anywhere much." You knew how protective Kihyun was of his friends; he never wanted them to get into trouble so it was just as well to him that they didn't want to come here. And just the same, he was protective of you.

You arrived at your apartment building and headed inside, Kihyun following closely behind. Though he tried to seem nonchalant, you knew he was happy to get to see Changkyun, and especially to spend time with you both together. His impatience with Changkyun's recklessness certainly didn't surpass his affection for him.

When you unlocked your apartment door, you both entered quietly, listening. It was silent, but that didn't mean anything. "Changkyun?" you called, then paused. Nothing. "Oh, he's not here yet," you noted to Kihyun as you hung up your bag.

"Yes he is," Kihyun said, sliding past you and walking to the kitchenette.

"Yes I am." A deep sly voice was suddenly right at your ear, making you jump like a cat.

"Ahh-- God, you are impossible!" You spun on your heel and slapped Changkyun's chest before even looking at him.

He snickered and grabbed at your hands, curling his fingers around the wrists. "A warm welcome as always."

You huffed, then relaxed, taking in the sight of him. He looked exactly the same as the last time you'd seen him. And the time before that. And the time before that. His eyes were each like an obsidian ring, pupils black as can be with metallic irises ringing them like a brilliant setting. His piercings glittered too, little flecks of silver here and there that caught the light. No hat, and hair pushed back, his soft horns and sharp ears were on full display. Though it was a visage with which you were well acquainted, it still held a unique beauty that caught you off guard every time.

Changkyun smiled. "Hi."

"Hi," you said finally.

"I missed you," he said uncharacteristically, letting go of your wrists.

Your eyebrows shot up in surprise. "You did?"

Now it was Changkyun's turn to look surprised. "What, friends aren't allowed to miss their friends?"

"Wh-- I, no is just that-- you never say that."

"It is a little unlike you," Kihyun chimed it, hand in a box of cereal, making himself at home as usual. He'd taken off his beanie and left it with his jacket on a hook by the front door. His soft brown hair fell in pieces between the protrusions on his forehead.

You caught a glimpse of something on the counter then and remembered you had something to tell Changkyun. "Oh, hey I got this spoon at the antique mall; do you like it? Did you use it?" You pointed at the beautiful antique spoon, with all its intricate detail. Though Kihyun could appear in this realm through any book, his favorite was a particular fantasy novel, so you left your copy of it on your coffee table at all times. In addition to its use, it reminded you of him when he wasn't there. Changkyun appeared through spoons, so you thought it would be nice to have a pretty one you could display that he might enjoy using more.

"Nah, I used that one," he answered, pointing to the sink, a simple everyday spoon you had left perched on the edge, used and with peanut butter still stuck to it.

"Eww." Your nose scrunched then you pouted, sad he hadn't used your gift.

He saw the way your lip poked out and touched a finger to it. "Aw, don't sulk. I'll use it to go back."

That made you feel better. He turned to meander then, glancing around your apartment, which you'd rearranged a bit since he'd last been there. "Apartment looks nice."

"Oh, thanks! Yeah I thought the couch would look better over here and I got this new rug and my parents bought me that plant over there to put on the windowsill..."

He picked up the scented candle sitting by Kihyun's book and gave it a sniff.

"Ooh that's my favorite candle," you said, coming over to take it from him to light. But before you could, he snapped and a small flame sparked right out of his fingertips, like a lighter at the end of his pointer finger. The flame was blue in color, a cool tone like the ocean, and as it connected to the candle wick it morphed into a more familiar yellow.

"Woah, what the fuck??" Your eyes widened at the sight. Your head snapped to see Kihyun's reaction but he was just rolling his eyes.

"What?" Changkyun's brow furrowed in confusion at your reaction.

"You can just like...make flames appear?? Out of your hand??"

Now it was Changkyun's turn to roll his eyes, chuckling as he closed his hand and set down the candle, then plopped onto the couch next to Kihyun. "Can't believe you haven't told her this," he muttered to his hyung. Ah, something else Kihyun hadn't told you. You thought after the few years you'd spent together, he would feel okay with letting you know things about goblins more fully. But he would rarely volunteer information, mostly only answering any questions you asked. Only problem with that was you needed to know which questions to ask specifically. How could it have occurred to you to ask about them shooting fire out of their hands? "Yeah, blue flame is like, kind of a big thing for us. Like how people recognize us."

"Exactly," Kihyun said pointedly through his teeth. Sometimes you wondered if it would be such a big deal if humans saw what they were. Evidently there were plenty of instances where humans and goblins interacted. But you knew how Kihyun felt. And Changkyun was the most rebellious, pushed the envelope the most.

Changkyun dropped his head back and sighed. "Bro, come on, it's just us here. It's not like I'm lighting things in front of strangers in public with it." But Kihyun still shook his head and pursed his lips. "Would be handy though," Changkyun mused offhandedly. "Then I wouldn't have to carry this stupid thing around. Fucking thing doesn't even work half the time." The cheap purple lighter rolled elegantly across the backs of his knuckles then ended up back in his palm before you could blink. "Well, I'm hungry. Can we get food now?"

You spent the evening catching up over takeout and movies, joking and talking restlessly. You had Changkyun show you the blue flame a couple more times throughout the evening. Kihyun was more lenient when he saw how entranced you were by the beauty of it, the way it flickered and danced above his palm, between Changkyun's silver tipped fingers. You could feel the heat emanating off of it from your safe distance, yet his skin remained unblemished. The way the blue glow stood out in the warm dim light of your living room at dusk was quite mesmerizing.

Hours passed quickly and soon you were drifting to sleep on Kihyun's shoulder, as he and Changkyun talked about some video game they were all playing back home. You hadn't realized you'd fully fallen asleep until you woke up in your bed, with Kihyun asleep beside you, where he always slept when he stayed over. You checked the time on your phone, the screen illuminating "2:42 am", stretched, then got up for a glass of water, careful not to disturb Kihyun.

You yawned and shuffled to your kitchenette, realizing you were still in your clothes and trying to decide if it was worth changing into pajamas at this point. You caught a glimpse of a small light coming from the couch and looked over to see Changkyun still up, on his phone.

"What are you still doing up?" You asked, throwing your voice into the dark room, but not too loud that you'd wake Kihyun in the other room.

Changkyun looked up, startled, and sat up on the couch. You noticed he was shirtless then, sweatpants hanging low on his hips. His phone dropped to his lap, so you could no longer decipher his expression, but you plugged in the little nightlight that you kept in your kitchen, usually on at night to keep yourself from clumsily running into something in the dark. The faint glow lit up the small kitchen just enough for you to find your way to the cabinet and get yourself a glass of water.

"Couldn't sleep," Changkyun shrugged as he got to his feet and walked over to you. You noticed he was holding the antique spoon you'd showed him earlier, and it made you happy to see him acknowledge your little gift again. "Thanks for letting me crash here." He leaned against the counter opposite you and crossed his arms, spinning the spoon at the stem between his fingers.

"Sure, you know you're always welcome here." You truly meant that, and you hoped he realized it. Especially with Kihyun's continuous wariness; you wanted them all to put some trust in you. There was only so much you could do to make that happen and you didn't want to come off too needy or overenthusiastic, no matter how enthusiastic you in fact were about being close with them. It took years to get to this point.

"None of your neighbors think it's suspicious, you having random guys over all the time?" Changkyun teased, a smirk pulling at his lip.

You rolled your eyes and shook your head good-naturedly. "Please, it's not 'all the time', and it's the same two guys, so it's certainly not 'random'."

He latched onto that and ran with it. "Oh, so no other guys?" His voice was still teasing, but you detected a hopeful positivity coloring it.

"I don't kiss and tell," you replied playfully, drinking the last of your water and setting down your glass. Although it was true; though you went on the occasional date, none had made it to the "coming home with you" phase in quite awhile, and you knew your connection with them, especially with Kihyun, had much to do with that. "Besides, what about you, Mr. World Traveler? Breaking hearts in Brazil or Budapest or wherever?"

Changkyun smiled and shook his head; you knew he traveled primarily for fun and sightseeing, exploring a new place, and he never did brag about bedding humans. But you saw the way he flirted with them when you were out together, sometimes seemingly involuntarily. He just had that effect.

And you were feeling the symptoms of that effect now as he stepped towards you, closing the gap between your bodies smoothly.

He reached around you to set the spoon down on the counter behind you, then left his hand on the edge, his tattooed arm half trapping you in. Your eyes flicked up to his, that still shone brightly even in the very low light, and you could see something new, something softer in them, that you'd never seen before.

"You know, I really have missed you."

You swallowed hard, unsure of what he would say or how this would go. "I...missed you too, Changkyun. I always miss you and Kihyun when you're not here. Things feel...better...when you're here with me."

Changkyun nodded and smiled sweetly, a kindness in his eyes now. "You're so good to us and you really don't have to be, you know."

Your brow furrowed. "Why wouldn't I be good to you? You're my friends, aren't you?"

"Sure, but...you can never come to us, we always come to you. And you let us into your home, treat us so nicely..." You noticed his fingers move in your peripheral vision, sliding down the handle of the spoon.

You hoped they didn't feel your relationship was one-sided. You really didn't mind it so much and were just happy to have them there when they could be. It wouldn't be fair to expect them to leave their home more often just for you, as much as the selfish side of you longed for it. You met his gaze again and noticed how close he was to you now, his sweet but woodsy scent strong on your senses. The warmth of his body, his bare torso, radiated to you and drew you in. And then the gap between you was closed completely; he surprised you with a kiss, leaving your body rigid for a moment. "Mm--!"

He held your lower back securely, his other hand coming up to tangle into your hair. Your mind was swimming, trying to parse through your feelings, but all the rational platonic feelings drowned when the pleasure of it all bubbled most prominently to the surface. An intoxication you'd not expected left you wanting more, relaxing in his arms and taking it upon yourself to deepen the kiss.

"Sorry," he mumbled against your lips. "Should have asked first." His fingers inched in, holding you to him tighter, his head turning with yours in synchronization. There was a mutual urgency, a hunger, fueling this, and it was one you hadn't fully realized was there until now. Your hands slid down his chest, his skin soft and smooth and hot under your touch. When you parted, you had no idea what to say.

Changkyun smiled at your somewhat incredulous expression and stepped back slightly. "'S okay. Doesn't have to mean anything if you don't want it to. I'll see you in the morning."

Your mind was in a haze as you got your glass of water and went back to bed, wide awake now. How could you go back to sleep at this point? You climbed back into bed and sat up, thinking back on your relationships with both Kihyun and Changkyun and the way you'd felt about them leading up to now. You loved them, of course. Just as you loved all your best friends. But was that it? It was so hard to say, when your relationships with them were so unique. Yes, okay, you had to admit you'd found yourself attracted to them. There was that distinctive beauty you responded to, and the connection you'd forged, particularly with Kihyun, felt unbreakable, even across realms.

You felt Kihyun stir, but didn't think anything of it until his voice broke into your thoughts, startling you.

"Is there a reason you're up right now?" His voice was deep and scratchy with sleep, and he yawned.

You looked at him, hair mussed and tumbled around his horns, eyes shining behind his droopy eyelids.

"Yes, but it's not important," you lied, unsure if you wanted to get into it right now.

"You wanna talk about it?" Kihyun let his arm fall behind you so you could cuddle if you chose to. So you did. You snuggled into his chest and let your tired eyes close.

You let the silence sit for a minute or two, the warmth of his body calming you effectively.

"I kissed Changkyun," you confessed suddenly. So much for 'I don't kiss and tell'...

"Oh, I know," he answered, his voice light and dismissive despite the grogginess. He always seemed to be two steps ahead of you somehow. Or perhaps he just assumed that at some point you had kissed Changkyun, and he didn't realize you'd meant about 10 minutes ago.

"What, how-- wait, you're not, like...jealous or anything?"

Kihyun just smiled and lifted your chin, his lips close to yours, noses brushing. His voice was a mumble, barely above a whisper, and his breath tingled like cinnamon against your mouth. "I mean, I am a little jealous he got to kiss you before I did." He pressed his lips then to yours, soft and gentle, yet with an inexplicable yet pleasurable sharpness all the same. Like an electric spark connected you. He pulled back just enough to speak, but you hardly let him, again chasing the content feeling that always linked you, which was stronger than ever. How could a link like that be? As far as you knew there was no way for you to ever reach the realm of his origin. What if he had never come here? What if you had never met? "But I don't really mind. I know you love him too." He continued before you could protest; you loved Changkyun as a close friend and found him attractive, but your feelings for Kihyun were different. "And I know you don't feel the same way about him that you do about me." Again his words were nothing but soft murmurs, but a previously unspoken truth that rang as clear as day.

Kihyun wrapped his arm around you and pulled you back in, hand coming up to curve under your jaw as your lips locked back together. Your fingers carded through his hair, fingertips dancing over the soft skin that covered his horns before pushing through the dark locks.

Kissing Kihyun was completely different than kissing Changkyun. And kissing them both was completely different than kissing any human. There was a particular energy than illuminated from them both when they kissed you that you couldn't describe, but it filled you with a sense of warm, otherworldly ecstasy. And with Kihyun, there was a gentle sensuality, a security that came along, in accordance with everything he did. The urgent control that Changkyun held when he had you in his arms was so divergent.

Your mouth opened for a gasping breath, and Kihyun took the opportunity to deepen the kiss, rolling you onto your back, holding your head securely and tilting it just so, then licking into your mouth, drawing a delicious moan from within you. The warm, unnatural smoothness of his tongue piercing bumped your teeth then rolled across your lip, and your mind felt totally overtaken by the thought of him alone.

Then he pulled back and sighed heavily, his gaze focused on your face. You swallowed hard and tried to catch your breath and regain...well, any thought. You noticed the way the tips of his sharp ears were reddened, and the blush in his cheeks, and found it endearing. You let your fingers touch his ears and smiled at the warmth.

"You know...this is only making me more confused, to be honest." In one night things had escalated between the three of you in unexpected ways, but though you were confused, you didn't regret any of it.

"Yeah, sorry about that..." Kihyun chuckled and rubbed the back of his neck.

"It's fine," you giggled. "We'll figure it out together in the morning."

"It is the morning," he pointed out jokingly.

When you woke hours later, the first thing you noticed was that you were alone in your bed. You rubbed your eyes as you went back out into the kitchen, your kiss with Changkyun at the top of your mind. You heard some noise coming from the kitchen and expected to find him there.

You turned the corner and jumped in surprise with a yelp at the person standing there. Not Kihyun, not Changkyun, not anyone you'd ever met before. His face a series of sharp angles: strawberry blonde hair spiked here and there, goblin-like horns and ears, and thin steely eyes. The eyes that were examining your green plastic broom with a look of slight confusion before you startled him with your sudden cry. The man's face suddenly softened, and you saw how round and plush more of his features were: soft cheeks and pillowy lips. Even those sharp eyes could look round and gentle with the right expression.

"Oh! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you," he said hurriedly, the broom clattering to the tile as he put his hands up with palms facing you, defensively. It clicked quickly in your head that this must be one of their friends from back home. By the descriptions you could recall, this was probably Jooheon.

"Jooheon?"

He looked at you inquisitively now. "How do you know my name?"

"Well...you know my name, don't you?" He hadn't said it yet, but you figured he must.

"Uh-- well...yeah." He picked up the broom and looked at it. "Sorry, I just, uh...it's been a long time since I've been around humans, I'm not used to your stuff." He furrowed his brow a bit at the broom. "Never seen a broom quite like that before, but it worked, so..." He shrugged and set it back against the wall. Ah, so brooms must be his gateway into the human realm. Now you wondered about the rest of them...you glanced at random objects surrounding you, as if at any moment another goblin would appear before you.

"Uh, it's okay," you reassured him, wanting him to feel comfortable, but also a bit on edge and feeling somewhat frazzled. Unexpectedly entertaining a guest in your home, after you'd just awoken, and with no idea of Kihyun and Changkyun's whereabouts, on top of everything else, was overwhelming.

Your heard the slide of the glass door of your balcony and turned to see Kihyun closing it behind him, his book in hand. "Oh, Jooheon!" He looked at you, seeing the look of desperate confusion you shot him, at an angle Jooheon wouldn't see. He sprung forward and set his book down, coming to your rescue. "I, I didn't realize you'd be here so soon." Kihyun placed his hand comfortingly on your lower back.

Your head snapped to his face. "You knew he was coming?"

"What, you didn't tell her?" Jooheon asked, surprised.

"He never tells me anything."

"That's not true, I tell you so much!" Kihyun whined, his cute little lisp slipping through.

"Not enough!" You turned your attention back to Jooheon. "Sorry. Anyway. Hi, I'm Y/N." You reached forward and stuck out your hand to shake. "But you already know that."

Jooheon smiled sweetly, adorable dimples indenting his soft cheeks. He looked at your hand with confusion for a moment then a look of recognition came across his face and he shook it. Well, he did say it had been awhile since he'd been around humans.

"Kihyun, will anyone else be joining us today?" You asked domestically, placing your hands on the stool in front of you.

"I don't...think so..." Kihyun said slowly, then looked to Jooheon for confirmation.

"Nah it's just me. Everybody else is out or gaming today." Jooheon glanced around your apartment, taking in the details. "Where's Changkyun?"

Oh right, shit, where is Changkyun? Your brain was feeling fried and you'd only just woken up.

"He just went for a walk, he'll be back soon," Kihyun answered.

Just like him to be wandering. "Well, I'm gonna go get dressed." You excused yourself and went to have a few minutes alone to get ready and maybe, maybe clear your thoughts. You heard Kihyun and Jooheon laughing in the living room as you sifted through your closet for something halfway decent. You had no idea what the day would bring. Were you going out? Staying in? Was Jooheon staying the night? Ugh, Yoo Kihyun.

You pulled on some clothes and went to the adjoining bathroom to wash up and brush your teeth, and then you heard Changkyun's voice, booming louder than usual, accompanied by an equally loud Jooheon. You heard a quiet knock on your door so you went over and opened it, seeing Kihyun standing there. He stepped into the room and closed the door behind him. "Sorry I didn't tell you about him coming," he whispered.

"Why didn't you?" You tried not to let your voice sound too annoyed.

"Because...I wasn't sure he would actually come and I didn't want you to get your hopes up if he didn't. You're always asking about meeting them..." He chewed his lip nervously. "And I thought if he did come, he'd come later in the day. I didn't think he'd be here as soon as you woke up. But I'll take care of it. If you want him to come back another day, I'll ask him to."

Though you had to admit that would probably be best, the idea of the opportunity to finally get to know some more of his friends slipping away sounded worse. "No! No, it's okay, I'm okay. Just a little surprised, that's all."

Kihyun let you get ready and when you came back out, the sight before you was very striking. Seeing all three of them together in your living room, ears, horns, everything distinctive fully visible, was jarring. The piercings that decorated all their faces caught the sunlight as they moved, contrasting the soft matte of their honey skin.

You threw on a big smile and got their attention by clapping your hands together. "Alright boys; what are we doing today?"

Together you spent the day showing Jooheon around your town, reminding him of the time he'd spent with humans in the past and introducing him to new things he'd never seen before. He borrowed a hat from you to cover his horns, but your neighbors still clearly noticed his unusual eyes. It wasn't exactly commonplace to see a group of young men with multiple facial piercings and nail art walking around the area either. But you had pretty much gotten used to the stares by that point.

Jooheon was fascinated by the Autumn leaves, the brilliant colors the trees bore, and it was endearing to see him marvel at all you passed. You noticed the way Kihyun kept an eye on him and Changkyun, and more than ever you got a glimpse into what life must be like for them back home. The dynamics they must have.

The affection you felt for Kihyun blossomed into something deeper: a distinct admiration, a specific sense of respect. While Changkyun and Jooheon went into a store, you tugged at Kihyun's jacket to get him to stay outside with you. He gave a glance to them, but did as you silently asked and stayed by your side. You pulled him in and curled one hand around his shoulder and one around the back of his neck, your back to the large window glass. He smiled at you and let a hand rest on your hip. "Thanks for showing him around," Kihyun said. His eyes shifted to the window behind you briefly, then back to your face. "I like seeing you with them."

You smiled brightly; that was exactly how you felt about him. You pulled at his neck and leaned forward, pressing your lips to his in a sweet, gentle kiss. Kihyun's arms quickly curled around your lower back and held you securely to him, releasing a host of butterflies in your stomach. You'd never kissed anyone like this, fully and passionately just out in the middle of a busy street, but it also felt so intimate and alone simultaneously, it was hard to register the strangers passing by.

That evening Jooheon returned to the goblin realm, hesitantly using your broom to get back. A very short visit. You let him know how much you appreciated him visiting though, and told him to pass along the message to the other boys in their little family. You very much hoped they would take some interest in stopping by someday.

Jooheon looked straight to Kihyun when you said this, a look clearly full of meaning, but a meaning you did not know. Then he looked back to you, eyes soft and round, dimples indenting his cushy cheeks as he smiled. "I'll let them know."

You both looked to the broom against the wall, and when you turned your gaze back in his direction he was gone without a trace.

You looked quickly back to Kihyun, to see if there was something you could decipher in his expression, but it was unreadable, blank.

You settled in for the evening with him and Changkyun, a movie you'd seen a hundred times playing in the background as you ate dinner together, later forgotten as your conversation became less prosaic and more involved.

Changkyun told you more about the Earthly travels he'd had recently, in Morocco and Rome, then over to Barcelona for a few weeks, before coming to your little town. One last stop before returning home for awhile. You knew there was no other reason for him to be here except for you and Kihyun.

"I don't think I've ever seen you drunk before," you noted when Changkyun told you about the many bars he'd stopped at this time.

"Your alcohol here is nothing compared to back home," Changkyun said. He held up the can of beer in front of him and shook it lightly. "This shit's like water."

You and Kihyun laughed, and you wondered how strong goblin alcohol must be, if human alcohol didn't have much of any effect on them.

Because Kihyun seemed inclined to answer more questions with Changkyun around, you thought it wise to take the opportunity to ask a few things you'd wondered about. And there was one thing you'd thought about but hadn't had the nerve to ask before, perhaps partly because you were anxious about the answer and how it would make you feel. But with the way things were going between you now, you almost felt you needed an answer.

"Can I ask you guys a question?" You said, keeping your eyes on the TV and fiddling with the tab on your soda can.

"Always," Changkyun answered quickly, downing the last of his beer. Of course he would answer you. You knew that would be the case. Kihyun stayed quiet, not promising an answer until hearing the question, as usual.

"Well, I uh...I know that you've slept with other goblins before..." You hadn't all talked much about your sexual experiences, just in passing, basically just enough to acknowledge you'd had them. "...but have either of you slept with a human before?"

"I sleep with you all the time," Kihyun teased, though his comment reminded you how often he was in your bed, well within your reach, but neither of you had taken the opportunity to do anything more than cuddle until recently. And yet, it was enough. Until now, that is. Now something was ignited within you and you didn't know if or how it could be extinguished.

"I've done...quite a few things with humans, but I've never had sex with one," Changkyun answered, more helpfully. That answer surprised you. He galavanted across your globe and had an indispensable charm in his arsenal, yet he never even had a fling with a human? A one night stand? "Despite what Kihyun may think," he started, a playful glint in his gaze as he glanced at him. "I do try and keep my identity under wraps. And even if I were to hide all of this successfully..." He gestured vaguely over his face. "...there are other things that are, well, not so easy to hide in a situation like that."

You heard a little huffed laugh behind you from Kihyun, and turned to look at him. He raised his eyebrows in an expression that told you he agreed with Changkyun's sentiment.

You were nosy, curious for details. "Such as...?"

"Oh really, Y/N, you can't hazard a guess?" Kihyun replied.

Well, certainly you could, but you didn't want to assume anything about a topic you knew so little about. You and Kihyun had discussed many things, but he was cagey on details sometimes, in his effort to protect you. And this was something you'd never discussed. Your eyes fell to Changkyun's pants, as if suddenly you'd be able to see through them and know exactly what they were implying. Your face flushed and your ears were probably turning red at the inappropriate visions that flashed in your mind.

He smiled to himself, noticing your gaze. "I can show you...if you want." There was a sensuality in his tone, the air in the room getting thicker with it as moments passed. You looked to Kihyun, and he quirked his brow in the same questioning way Changkyun's was. He didn't seem against the idea, and your curiosity was getting the best of you.

So you nodded, sitting up straighter. Changkyun swallowed and slowly slid down the zipper of his pants, then paused. "You're sure you're okay with this?" He studied your expression, but there was only curiosity and a vague lust there. You nodded again and sat patiently. Though you were all on the same wavelength and it was obvious there was sexual tension driving all of this, the idea of it being...educational for you was not untrue either.

So he pushed at his clothes just enough to reach in and free himself. He let his fingers curl around the shaft, stroking a couple of times, obscuring your view, and letting a soft groan rumble in his throat. When he let his hand slide down to hold the now half-hard length by the base, you could get a better look at it, and your heart pounded blood south. The tip was pointed, quite sharp like their ears and horns. The shaft had a sleek curve, that became more pronounced the stiffer it got, and the underside was decorated in strong, horizontal ridges like you'd never seen before: ribbed and layered all the way down. Those stood out to you most prominently, a unique texture that felt out of place yet also perfectly suited to him, to them. It bulged outward towards the bottom, thickening in the bottom half of the length. You couldn't help but wonder what it would feel like inside of you, and the idea left your head spinning.

Kihyun's hand on your waist suddenly broke into your thoughts, and you looked back at him. He had his eyes on Changkyun, then looked to your face to read your expression. His grey eyes looked concerned, as though perhaps this would be a final straw that would send you running for the hills, never to see him again. It was an expression he always had when you learned something new about him, or goblins in general. But as with every part of them that was different than what you were accustomed to, there was a peculiar beauty to you. So you just smiled reassuringly at him, and returned your attention to Changkyun.

"Can I touch it?" You hoped your voice conveyed the genuine interest and curious excitement you felt, for his and Kihyun's sakes.

He looked to Kihyun briefly, then back to you, eyes lighting up in a new way. "I-- Yeah, yeah, for sure."

You reached forward and touched your fingers to the tip. The whole thing twitched under your touch, bobbing upward and stiffening more. Already the tip felt somewhat harder than you were used to. You dragged your fingertips down the length, now feeling the various ridges your eyes couldn't see. They spidered out in ways unfamiliar to you, and seemed to shift and change under your touch. Then you let your hand curl around the length, fingers wrapping around the underside. Those deep ridges stirred something carnal inside you; your mouth watered and you felt a strong pull to feel these details within you.

Changkyun's breath hitched when your grip tightened and your hand stroked downward. Each crest slipped past your fingers, and you imagined them between your lips now.

"Well...?" Kihyun said, expectantly.

How should you answer? Should you say it's pretty? Should you voice what your body was telling you to do? Every response felt incorrect, despite the truth behind them all.

"Does it...y'know...work the same?"

You heard Kihyun huff out a short laugh behind you, one that sounded happily placated. An amused smile pulled at one side of Changkyun's lips. "As far as I know."

You inhaled a shaky breath and let your eyes wander where your hands touched him. "Suppose we could find out." You smiled at each other, then you leaned in to kiss him, feeling much more comfortable this time around, than when he'd caught you off guard in the kitchen. His hand came up to hold the back of your head and you let your tongue meet his gently, while your hand stroked repeatedly across the textured length.

When you parted from his lips, you felt Kihyun's fingers at your back, and turned your attention to him. He shifted, holding your face to kiss you himself, deep and passionate. You could feel he was pouring an appreciation to you into this kiss. He had a way of sweeping out thoughts from your brain so effectively, this time you nearly forgot Changkyun's dick was in your hand. Kihyun pecked your lips twice more, then let you return your attention to Changkyun. You watched his face twitch in reaction to your touch, then glanced back down to your hand. Your mouth watered again as you imagined your tongue running over each of these details before you.

He pulled your mouth back to his, the tip of his tongue meeting yours, his hand securely grasping your chin. "I told you before...you don't need to be so good to us..." Changkyun murmured against your lips between heated kisses. You felt that otherworldly buzz, that haze of pleasure that surrounded you when you kissed them again. The sounds that left him as you stroked your hand were more inhuman than any you'd ever heard from him or Kihyun before. It served to remind you of the fact that that's exactly what they were: inhuman. Despite the humanity that shined through in so many ways, and as similar as you were, at the end of the day, you were very different. These sounds were animalistic with an unnaturally pitched bite to them.

You pulled back and met Changkyun's gaze, his eyes now like ashen slate, intense and focused. His fingers brushed down your neck and they felt peculiarly heated, making your skin feel colder in comparison, sending a shiver up your spine.

"I like to be," you answered honestly in a watery voice. Your wrist twisted around the throbbing head of his cock, fingers enjoying the silky smooth curve. You imagined that point bumping the back of your throat, or somewhere deep within your pussy, and your thighs clamped closed for some desperate friction at the idea. You leaned forward again to take in the intoxication of his woodsy scent. "I wanna be good for you..."

Changkyun curled his hand around your jaw and attached his mouth to your neck in an open mouthed kiss, tongue laving at your pulse before sucking a bruise there and making your eyes roll back. You kept your hand moving, trying so hard to concentrate on doing that one thing right despite his distractions. "I know, that's why I love you," he mumbled against your skin, muffled but still very clear.

Your heart pounded harder all of a sudden, and you did your best to look at Kihyun, in spite of the awkward angle. He looked surprisingly calm, probably just happy you seemed to be enjoying yourself overall and not ready to run. "You-- you do?" Changkyun never said he loved you before. Another comment that was quite unlike him. If he loved you, you had a real problem on your hands. Although you hadn't said it, the connection you felt with Kihyun transcended many things, and you didn't feel that way about Changkyun.

He sensed your hesitation and pulled back, still holding your head in his hand. "What?"

"You love me?"

Changkyun huffed out a little exasperated chuckle. "Well, yeah, obviously. You're one of the most important people in my life." Oh man, having this conversation now, with his dick in your hand...why did you even mention it? "Just because I'm not in love with you, doesn't mean that I don't love you. Of course I love you." Oh, thank God. You seemed to feel the same way. You loved him too, so very much. You just wanted to know he meant it in the same way you did. "But even if I didn't...I don't have to love you to fuck you."

Although he was saying it playfully, there was a dark sensuality coloring those words, and it truly stirred something within you to hear him talk that way. You found yourself leaning right back in immediately to attach your lips to his, tongue meeting his in the middle again. His horns bumped at your forehead as you tilted your head, and you let your fingers play with the point of his right ear.

Changkyun warned you breathlessly that he was close, those unfamiliar sounds leaving him again as your hand sped up its ministrations. You let him replace your hand with his own, pushing himself that last bit, and keeping his eyes on you all the while. Kihyun's chest was pressed lightly to your back now, his gaze focused on Changkyun as well. A few quick tugs of his own hand and Changkyun hit his climax, hips stuttering and cum jumping from the sharp tip then spilling down his hand, slipping past each deep ridge and curve of his dick. Your heart pounded in your chest, adrenaline coursing through you at the experience. Changkyun's head fell back against the couch and one last metallic groan slipped sharply past his lips. His horns and ears were reddened, blushed like his cheeks.

"Shit..." Changkyun turned his hooded eyes to you, and your breath caught when you noticed the irises were a gorgeous sapphire blue now, though it faded quickly as he came down from his high. Everything about him looked and sounded unnatural. No wonder he was he was hesitant to have sex with a human that wasn't used to it. You were used to most of these parts of them yet you were still taken aback by the parts you weren't familiar with. Changkyun then caught a glimpse of Kihyun behind you and smiled. "She's good," Changkyun said simply, pointing at you with a bright smile.

Kihyun laughed slightly and pressed his lips lightly to your shoulder. "As expected." The action was simple and sweet, but in this context felt so much more intimate. You turned your head to look at him and found his face right there, mouth capturing yours in another impassioned kiss that cleared your mind.

Lying in bed next to Kihyun again that night was hard. But it was comforting to realize earlier that some of your questions were answered. It seemed you and Changkyun were on the same page with how you felt about each other. How all of that related to Kihyun was still a mystery to you though.

"...Kihyun?" He was lying facing the wall but you had no idea if he was asleep or not.

"Yes?" He sounded quite awake. Perhaps he was having the same thoughts you were.

"Can we talk?"

Kihyun turned his head to face you, not fully turning around. "About?"

You quirked your brow in a sarcastic expression. What else was there that you needed to talk about? "Gee, I wonder," you teased, fingertip on your chin. "Come on, I wanna talk."

You clicked on your lamp and took a sip from your glass of water, then put it down next to the notepad and pencil you kept there. He sat up so you both were seated against the headboard, and gestured vaguely, allowing you to continue.

"Well...how were you feeling tonight? When I..."

"...gave my friend a handjob?" A searing blush shot through you at the sudden explicit words. All three of his piercings shifted as his brow knitted around them. "What do you think I'm gonna say? That I'm jealous? That I don't like you doing things with other guys?"

"I don't know what you're going to say, that's why I'm asking!" You put your hands up defensively. "I just wanna be sure that you're okay with it."

Kihyun sighed. "I mean, it's not like it's some random guy. It's Changkyun. Like I said when he kissed you the first time, yeah, maybe I'm a little jealous he got to do something with you first, but I know how you feel about me, and about him. And I know you're not doing anything maliciously, so... what's the big deal?" He shrugged, and genuinely seemed at ease, so you did too. He did seem alright when you were in the living room. The smiles, laughter, and passionate kisses were pretty unmistakable. "Besides, you can make your own decisions. It's not like we're dating." You almost laughed at that. "Dating" felt so trivial a word, so removed from whatever connection you shared. But also it stung a bit to hear him speak so flippantly of your relationship.

You felt compelled to be close to him, so you moved to climb into his lap, straddling his waist, his hands settling on your hips, yours on his shoulders. "You're right, we're not dating..." You ghosted your fingertips across one of his horns, biting your bottom lip absentmindedly. His brow piercings caught the dim light and his eyes bore intensely into your face. "...but we're definitely something." You had no idea what to call this, but it was far from nothing.

Kihyun let his hands drag up your sides and he sighed heavily as he brought them back down to your thighs. You leaned in and kissed him sweetly, and when you pulled back, you kept your lips close to his. "Well...you can be first to do some other things with me if you want," you hinted suggestively. You rolled your hips forward, pressing down into his crotch, and he groaned lightly, airily, that cinnamon sweetness of his breath meeting your lips. His hands tightened their grip on your hips, silver fingertips digging into the fabric of your pajama shorts.

"Kihyun?"

"Hmm?" His nose brushed yours and lips passed a centimeter away from yours.

"Can you show me the blue flame?"

Up until that point only Changkyun had showed it to you. But it mesmerized you so and Kihyun appreciated how you loved it, so you knew he would take the opportunity to show you now. He wanted to give you what you wanted.

So he smiled and nodded, and let you sit back a bit. He held his hand up between your faces and the flame sparked, curling up and dancing ocean blue, almost neon in its brilliance, illuminating the room. He watched your entranced gaze then closed his hand gently, the flames extinguished as he rubbed his fingers together, as if by sleight of hand. You noticed the way the blue hue stayed behind, as though it boiled under the surface of his palm. Though the color reminded you of death, the cool tone of a corpse, when he placed his fingertips to your collarbone, the touch teemed with life, unnaturally hot. You gasped at the heat, recognizing it from when Changkyun touched you earlier.

You couldn't believe he'd never shown this part of himself to you before. It was one of the most magical things about him, though you supposed that was why he hadn't. He laid his palm flat against your heart, feeling the pounding pulse that only thrummed harder when met with his warm touch.

"You can let me in, you know," you said, pushing a section of hair away to gently touch one of his horns. The skin was soft and it was like bone underneath, a part of his skull as much as any other part. He kept his eyes on his hand, not meeting your gaze, and he said nothing. "I think you're really beautiful, Kihyun. I don't want you to change. You don't have to hide parts of yourself. Not around me."

He glanced up at your face briefly, then looked back to his hand, tracing his fingertips that were cooler now across the line of your collarbone and inward, until they stopped at the base of your throat. "I'm trying," was his soft reply that you barely heard.

That softened your heart; you knew he didn't want to make any promises he couldn't keep. He knew there was no known physical way you could ever join him in his world, even if you wanted to. But he could never stay in your world either. His discomfort at being so noticeably different, and his realm being his home with his family and his chosen brothers...how could he ever choose just one?

You placed your hands at either side of his face and brought your lips to his again, and his hand laid back against your chest, over your heart, while his other held your lower back to keep you close. If kissing Changkyun was a whirlwind, kissing Kihyun was a gentle, comforting breeze, one that paralleled the Autumn chill that delighted you. You felt you couldn't get close enough to him, pressing your chest to his and wrapping your arms around his neck, his hand now moved from your chest to the back of your head, as the kiss deepened to one of pure passion.

You felt your hips rock of their own accord, rolling lithely against him, his mouth falling agape and breaking the kiss in response. He kept his forehead pressed to yours, the many sharp edges pushing against your skin. You wanted him to feel he could let go with you, find the comfort he provided you, and your body craved more of him with every moment.

You could feel him growing harder beneath you, the thin material of underwear and your pajama shorts not doing much to hide that. The throbbing between your own legs was becoming hard to ignore, and you knew soon enough your own arousal would noticeably seep through the cotton.

Kihyun kissed his way across your cheek down to your jaw, ending at the exact place on your neck that Changkyun had marked you earlier. He pulled back and you felt his fingers, hot again from the fire that burned below his skin, touch the purple splotch. You wondered then, for the first time, if perhaps he could hurt you. If he could ever lose control of the fire and burn you accidentally. Even if he did, it could only be minor, but what worried you more was the way he would feel. You knew he would never harm you on purpose. Perhaps that was why he'd never shown you the flame. His lips pressed to the spot gently, then moved back up to nestle just beneath your ear. His inhuman sounds were very quiet but closer than ever, the low growl of a tiger mixed with something almost mechanical, like a buzz saw. But his lips were in direct contrast, warm and soft and comforting.

You let your hands drag through his hair, holding him to you. His hands fell to your thighs, the touch still unnaturally warm, palms like heating pads on your skin, and he gripped, helping pull your hips along his. Your shorts had ridden so far up your thighs, the hemline matched your panties'.

"God, Kihyun..." You sighed contently but gasped when he rocked his pelvis up, his hard pointed tip hitting your clit through the fabric.

Kihyun huffed out a sigh that sounded frustrated, his forehead and left horn now pressed to your cheek, his lips no longer on your skin. But his hands still held you tightly, his hips still rocked with yours. "I want you..." he breathed, but it sounded almost melancholy, like a confession of something he knew could never be. But his body betrayed his words, two opposing forces.

"Why're you saying it like that?" He didn't answer, just curved his head further into your cheek. "You can have me, Kihyun...I want you to have me."

You grasped his hand then and brought it down between your legs, laying his fingers on the damp fabric and feeling his warm breath fan across your throat as he sighed heavily again. You let go and he kept his hand there, moved it on his own, feeling your arousal, his vague touch over fabric already doing wonders at satiating the throbbing. A few curses slipped past his lips, his hand cupping you, fingertips sliding over the fabric.

You had him, so close, right there...

You pressed your body closer to him, moaning purposefully in his ear to draw him in further, to bring him to you that last bit.

"Fuck..." He moved suddenly then, holding onto you securely and rolling forward, putting you onto your back underneath him. Before you could really process what was happening, Kihyun was peeling off your clothes, your shorts and panties quickly tossed aside. Now you really did have him, and he would have you just the same. Just as you were about to sit up and address him, he brought his head between your legs, diving straight into your pussy with a defeated but happy sigh.

"Ahh-- yeah, yes, Kihyun," you whimpered, opting to stay flat on your back, gripping onto his hair and rolling your hips forward. He watched you, eyes shining in the moonlight that streamed vaguely through the blinds, as his lips closed around your sensitive clit. Your body reacted in ways you'd never felt, and it seemed as if the whole world fell away again. Kihyun curled his hands, now hotter than ever, around your thighs, and pushed his tongue forward, collecting your sweetness. The ball of his piercing rolled deliciously across your skin, swirling around your clit, unnaturally smooth and hard, surrounded by his velvety soft tongue.

Hungrily, desperately, he ate you out, reaching his tongue as deep as he could within you, nose bumping your clit and making you see stars. Your ears were filled with the lewd, wet sounds of his mouth lost in your sex, and the cutting growl that rumbled from his throat and through your body.

You kept your eyes on him, so many of his unique features framed by your thighs; the vision before you felt personal, made for your appreciation specifically. And when your eyes met his, hooded and sharp, you felt a new rush of pleasure accompany all that he was already giving you, making you thrash and whine.

You remembered then that Changkyun was in the living room. You wondered if he could hear you at all, if he was still awake.

Kihyun's tongue rolled figure eights across your pussy, then settled on repeatedly rapidly kitten licking your clit while you squirmed and begged him to keep going. Something shifted within you, a familiar pleasure mounting in an unfamiliar fashion, building higher than usual, without breaking as it usually did at this point. "I'm so close, I-- ah-- oh my God, Kihyun..."

His hips rutted against the mattress and he moaned uniquely, the sound unmistakably desperate as he shook his head, shaking his mouth across your cunt messily.

Your orgasm finally hit you, harder than one ever had before, and you bit hard on your lip to keep yourself from crying out, settling with gripping your shirt in one hand and his hair in the other, and whimpering pathetically. Your eyes closed and a vision flashed in your mind: a blue sky above you, with flowers hanging, almost floating, similar to how you felt at the moment. The vision quickly faded and you opened your eyes.

Kihyun kept working your clit, overstimulating you and making you shudder and leaving your mouth wordlessly agape. He dragged his tongue flat against you a few times, the metal ball hitting your clit dead on each time and making you jump like a shock. A sheen of sweat stuck your oversized tee to your skin.

He pulled your tired legs down at either side of his body and moved up your body, hands and lips trailing up your torso, gliding over your stomach and breasts. Then he stopped at your lips to kiss you deeply, hand petting soothingly across your hair. Despite feeling worn out at the swiftness of it all, you curled your legs around his waist and your arms around his neck, and hummed happily, feeling perhaps the most content that you'd ever felt.

"Kihyun?" you murmured, keeping his lips close.

"Yeah?"

"Will you fuck me?"

He smiled and you could vaguely see his little whisker dimples in the moonlight, then he pecked your lips a few more times. The taste of your own arousal on his mouth fueled the lust built within you even more. "Not tonight," he replied gently.

You pouted. "Why not?"

Kihyun wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, then took a deep breath and let out a long, shaky exhale. It seemed he was finding it difficult to deny you, and you got the impression that if you asked him again he might not be able to say no. "It's time to go to sleep." You hated to admit he was right. It must be so late now and you were getting quite sleepy. "Besides...I wanna do it right, wanna take my time when I do."

You thought back to your conversation with him and Changkyun earlier in the evening. You'd asked if either of them had slept with a human before, and Changkyun had answered, but you just realized Kihyun hadn't.

"Will I be the first human you've ever slept with?" You fully expected the answer to be something like "Well yes, of course." Especially since Changkyun's answer was "yes", and he was much more adventurous and flirtatious. But Kihyun paused.

He sighed and petted your hair again. "My first...in a very long time." He answered slowly, looking at his fingers in your hair instead of at you. "But my second ever."

You suddenly understood how he felt when he said he was a little jealous of Changkyun for getting to do things with you first. You were sure whoever this person was was someone you never had and never would meet, yet you still felt that jealous pang in your stomach.

"Can I ask for details?" You inquired, hoping you sounded innocently curious. A yawn betrayed you though, revealed how tired you were.

"In the morning, 'kay?"

"We keep saying that. Am I gonna wake up to another goblin in my kitchen tomorrow?"

"I don't think so."

There were in fact two goblins in your kitchen in the morning, but they were the two you expected. Breakfast was quiet, no one wanting to speak first, it seemed. You sat down with your cereal and looked at Kihyun, then at Changkyun, each silently busying themselves with pouring coffee and making toast. You figured you'd need to be the one to break the silence. No small talk came to mind; all you could focus on was the story Kihyun had promised to tell you before you fell asleep last night. So as soon as they both sat down, you asked about exactly that.

"Kihyun, will you tell me the story now about the other human?"

"What other human?" Changkyun chimed in, spreading some jam on his toast. At least he seemed at ease. You were glad you'd sorted out your mutual feelings the night before and that sex hadn't gotten in the way of your friendship. That was the last thing you wanted.

"The one he slept with."

"Woah, what?" Changkyun snapped his attention to Kihyun now, his knife clattering to the plate and making you all jump. "You never told me that! Who was it? When was this?"

That took you aback; you assumed Kihyun must have told all his friends about this encounter. It sounded as though they talked about everything. It hadn't occured to you that Changkyun might not have heard this story.

Kihyun looked a little bewildered. "Can we talk about this later?"

"Why, don't you want me to hear?" Changkyun asked, sounding slightly offended. He leaned forward, more interested suddenly. "Was it someone I know?"

Kihyun shot him a sardonic expression, and sighed. You didn't want to push him too hard, lest he clam up again and be even harder to crack. But at the same time, you felt you had proven your loyalty, and he had volunteered the information the night before. Though if his hesitancy was due to Changkyun, for whatever reason, you could understand that.

"You don't have to talk about it, if you don't want to."

Kihyun looked to you and shook his head. "No, it's okay. I promised I would." He grasped the coffee cup in both palms and told you the story, in a quite matter-of-fact tone.

"This was about...4 years ago..." Shortly before you'd met then. "I met someone and really enjoyed their company. I was a lot less careful back then, and so I told them what I was a week after I met them. They were really accepting, so I took that as a good sign and after a few more days, one thing led to another..." He cleared his throat, sparing you the unsavory details. Part of you bemoaned this internally, but any jealousy you held would be best remedied by surpassing such things. "The morning after, we went to a café together. We ran into a couple of their friends and they took off my beanie without asking, and told them what I was. Again, without asking. Their friends didn't respond so positively. So...I left. And, um...yeah."

You thought back to when you met Kihyun. Though you met Changkyun first, and he had persuaded you out of much suspicion quite slyly, Kihyun had done his very best to appear as human as possible; you held no suspicions about him at all for months. He had certainly been careful around you, and now you truly knew why. You thought back to what he'd said, back after he did finally tell you what he was, when you'd asked about the way he disguised himself in public. "It's not like I'm sad or ashamed about being a goblin, about looking the way I do, or having the abilities I have. I like what I am. I don't want to be a human. I just wish...things were easier." He just wanted to live his life. And you just wanted to share in it.

You smiled slightly, warmly, at him, and reached down to hold his hand. "Well...you don't have to leave this time. I like you just like this." You turned over his hand and let your fingertips drag gently over his palm.

Later that day, Changkyun was ready to head back home, to the goblin realm, the visit too short as always. You felt different this time though. You always felt a sadness when he left, a want for him to stay, but you had been thinking a lot lately. He placed the spoon you'd gifted on your coffee table and stood in front of it. You knew he would easily disappear in a blink. Your heart pounded faster and you grabbed his hand before he could go.

"Wait, Changkyun. Can we try going together? Can I try coming with you to the goblin realm?" They had both always told you that there was no way for you to get to their realm. That this traveling across worlds was a special power they held. So you hadn't even tried. But what if you could? What if there was a way, somehow, that none of you had discovered? That, apparently, no one had discovered?

"What?" Kihyun's response took your attention, his voice sounding thin.

Changkyun looked at your hand, then over at Kihyun's expression. "I...don't know. I don't think I can. I don't think it's possible."

"But what if it is? What if we found a way?"

Kihyun interjected, his tone harsh. "And what if you can't come back? What if we somehow get you there but we can't get you back here?"

You turned to him and spoke clearly. "If we can somehow get me there, I have all the confidence in the world that we can find a way to get me back." Kihyun was twisting his fingers anxiously now, so you walked to him and put your hands on his and looked him in the eye, speaking more gently. "It's all in my head, right? Going there? Coming home?" Home. Two different places for each of you. How selfish you each felt to want the other at your version of home.

"Yes..." He seemed hesitant to give you more information, as usual. He looked up at Changkyun, then back to you. He knew how determined you would be now. And he was trying so hard to let you in, while fighting to maintain the protection he strove for. "It's all in your thoughts. You have to will yourself there."

"Will you show me what you do? I'll try and emulate it." You wanted to try. If it didn't work, it'd be nothing but a thought experiment.

Kihyun sighed and washed a hand down his face, his silvery eyes nervously shaking a bit. "Okay...okay. So um...choose something...something common, but timeless. But remember that, should this work, whatever you choose will be your bound object for life."

You thought for a few moments as your eyes scanned the room around you. The dishes in your sink, the clothes and jewelry you wore...the writing utensils on your desk. Yes, that last one felt right. Perhaps pens, pencils? You walked over and picked up a pencil, feeling almost drawn to it, as if it were choosing you rather than you choosing it. You rolled it in your fingers, contemplative. Your bound object for life. Your fingers curled around it fully, confirming, locking it in. You turned to Kihyun, holding it up.

"Okay, yeah, that's good. Concentrate on it, and picture the realm you'd like to travel to."

You looked between him and Changkyun. "How can I picture something I've never seen?"

"That's okay, just imagine it," Changkyun said.

"Think of us," Kihyun added. "Think of us and Jooheon, and all that you do know about it...that's enough."

Now that you could do. Focusing your attention on the yellow pencil in front of you and allowing in all these thoughts of the boys you found so interesting and beautiful was simple. You thought of their unique appearance, the stories you'd heard of their home, the laughter they brought you, the peculiar comfort you felt when they kissed you...But minutes passed in silence and you didn't feel any closer to traveling to the goblin realm. You felt most firmly in your own, no matter how hard you concentrated.

You tried holding Changkyun's hand, as if to travel with him. You tried closing your eyes and holding the pencil. You tried all you could think of, but as the minutes rolled by, you were starting to feel ridiculous and like you were simply wasting their time. It probably was impossible for you to do this. Were you really so naive to think you could just sit down and do something that no human had ever done before?

You set the pencil back down and shook your head. "Alright, maybe I can't...I don't want to hold you up, I know you want to get home." You tried to sound unbothered, but it frustrated you that you couldn't seem to get anything. You felt silly for even trying, but were thankful they gave you time to attempt.

Changkyun patted your hand comfortingly and stood back up. "'S alright, we can try again another day." You stood too and faced each other and he held your chin in his hand. "If any human could do it, I'm sure you'd be the one. Anyone that good with their hands has gotta be good with their thoughts too, I think," he joked, making you smile and blush a little. Then he kissed you once more, disappearing back to the goblin realm before parting from your lips, leaving you kissing nothing but air.

Over the next few days, between work and visiting family, you spent your time focused on this new goal. Deep down you knew you would not be able to accomplish it, but the more you stared at that pencil, the more motivated you felt. Kihyun had planned to go home shortly after Changkyun, but he stuck around, and was patient with you, giving tips if you asked, but unsure if they would be of any help.

"Why do you want to do this so badly?" He finally asked on the third evening.

Your long gaze at the pencil broke and you sighed, throwing a paperclip at it, then sitting back on the couch next to him. "God, I don't know." Kihyun pulled you in, tucked you under his arm. "I know it's stupid..."

Kihyun tilted your chin up to look at him, his grey eyes shining. "It's not stupid. But I wish you wouldn't beat yourself up so much. It's not like you're doing anything wrong. It's just the way things are."

You reached up and sunk your fingers into his soft hair, pushing it back from his horns and settling at the back of his head. You knew he was right.

He leaned down and kissed you gently, an effective distraction. His lips molded to yours perfectly, sweet cinnamon tingling at your senses. You held him close, reveling in the blissful diversion, and his hand came down to rest at your thigh.

He parted from your lips only slightly, to speak, keeping his face close to yours. "Will you let me take my time with you now?" His hot breath fanned across your face, his scent surrounding you like a wonderful haze, and you nodded. You had distracted yourself with other things all week, hardly giving him the time you both craved, that you'd pushed to the back burner...that now engulfed you.

"Please..."

At the word, he pulled you to your feet and guided you to the bedroom, and you eagerly followed. The second you passed the threshold, you pulled him back to your lips, your tongue meeting his in the middle, clashing against his piercing, his horns bumping at your forehead. You threw your arms around his neck and smiled at the way he caught you with a surprised chuckle. There was a carefree feeling now, walls between you crumbled, delight in letting each other into parts of your respective worlds as well as you could.

And then the urgency calmed, falling into bed together, facing each other and kissing more sensually. Piece by piece you removed each other's clothing, a purposefully meandering process. With each piece removed, minutes spent appreciating the newly exposed skin, be it with caresses, lips, hands, tongues...and thoughts of sweet nothings finally spoken aloud.

When you were left in only your undergarments, you felt goosebumps rise on your skin, the many minutes passed leaving you almost embarrassingly aroused. But the tent in his boxers was quite literally pornographic, and confirmed the mutual desire.

Kihyun pulled at your bra straps and you helped undo the clasps, leaving your chest bare to him, feeling particularly vulnerable now. His hands cupped each of your breasts and his tongue met your right nipple, flat against the peak, the ball of his piercing making your eyes roll back. Your arms encircled his head and held him to you, chasing that feeling more. He moaned and hummed positively, sucking and rolling his tongue across the sensitive skin. You glanced down and saw him looking up at you, steely eyes gentle yet full of want, as you imagined yours must be. You pushed his hair back, appreciating all those lovely unique features. He held your gaze and rose to meet your lips with his again, capturing you in a moment of passion.

"God, you're beautiful," he murmured. You wondered if you looked to him half as beautiful as he looked to you. If so, that would be the most attractive you'd ever felt. Your hands were drawn to the waistband of his boxers, and he made a sound against your lips when they grasped it, placing his hand over yours, seemingly stopping you. He pulled back and you both looked down to your hands, then back at each other. You saw the way his eyes tightened slightly. He wanted you, you knew he did, but he still struggled to get past this last hurdle, to let you in this intimately, now that he was faced with it.

"Let me...please, Kihyun."

He paused but then let go of your hand and let you drag the fabric down, exposing him fully to you. Like Changkyun, the underside of his length was lined with deep ridges, the base bulbed thickly, the tip sharp and red. But he was slightly longer and uniquely curved, and the ridges held a specific pattern you yearned to touch. A throbbing need radiated from between your thighs.

You moved to crouch down and he moved with you, following your lead and getting onto his knees on the bed, resting his weight on his palms. Kihyun watched you with bated breath as your hand wrapped around the shaft and your lips took in the tip, and you made a show of groaning your satisfaction, so he knew how much you wanted him. His head fell back when he finally relaxed, letting himself fall into pleasure when he realized you weren't going to leave or back out.

Your heart was racing in your chest, and you wanted all of him at once, every move you made feeling like it wasn't enough. His cock pulsed in your grip, veins shifting peculiarly under your touch. The ridges rose and stiffened when you ran your tongue across them, and you couldn't help but rub your thighs together when you imagined them inside you. You swallowed most of the length and felt the arrow-like tip bump the back of your throat, toying with your gag reflex. The way he was curved made him quite a mouthful. His hand flew to your hair and the sound he let out was animalistic. You peered up, overwhelmed by the vision of him, sharp eyes clouded with lust and cutting through the dim backlight, the light that left his uniquely angular silhouette in shadow. He pet your hair and pushed ever so lightly at the back of your head, enough to motivate you to take him further, to see his face contort in even greater bliss.

"Oh, you look so pretty with my cock in your mouth, baby."

Despite the sordid words, the sentiment felt strangely heartfelt, and butterflies fluttered in your stomach. You knew how hesitant he had been to let you in like this, so you wanted him to see how worth it the wait was. It was also the first time he called you anything other than your name. "Baby" could quickly become your new favorite word, if it sounded as lovely as that on his lips. You pulled off, letting your hand stroke the now slick length.

"Hm, I love having your cock in my mouth," you stated honestly and matter-of-factly, holding it by the base with one hand and letting your tongue lick up the textured shaft, then pulling the sharp tip between your lips briefly. Yet still, the pulse between your legs was becoming unbearable. As much as you loved having him between your lips, your body longed to have him between your legs.

So you sat up and climbed onto him, making him stutter when you dragged your pussy across the underside of his length. Those ridges hitting your clit one at a time, running through the slick of your pussy, was heavenly, and you realized it would be easy for you to cum just like this, if you wanted to.

But you wanted more, you needed more. You grabbed his cock and slid the pointed tip through your slit, pulling another of those borderline mechanical groans from deep within him. Kihyun's hands gripped your ass strongly, his firey touch setting your heartbeat alight, and his gaze shot down to where you nearly joined.

"Fuck, I need to be inside you," he growled, rolling you onto your side before you could move again. Your stomach dropped into a pit of needy lust at those words. You yearned to feel him deep within you, to expand your connection from one of emotion and mind, to the physical. He reached across the other side of the bed into the nightstand, and retrieved a condom. He knew where you kept them, even if he knew the little box had stayed full for some time now.

You slid off your soaked panties then watched over your shoulder as he opened the small packet, a curiosity you hadn't really thought about entering your thoughts.

"Kihyun...um, could you, you know..." Oh, every phrasing you could think of felt too clinical or too silly, but you wanted an answer to this question, so you opted for the latter, with a scrunched up expression. "...knock me up?"

Kihyun huffed out an exasperated laugh and you heard the wrapper crinkle behind you. "Honestly, I have no idea." Hm, it seemed unlikely there was not other humans who'd had sex with goblins before, but who knew what the outcomes may have ever been? He pressed his chest to your back, sweaty skin on skin, and wrapped an arm around you, mouth behind your ear. "Don't think now's really the time to find out though."

You giggled, the sensuality returning as he lined himself up. With a low groan right at your ear, he pushed into your pussy slowly and carefully, leaving your mouth agape. "Yes, oh fuck yes, Ki..." You were absurdly wet by this point, but the newness of this feeling was much to take nonetheless. Though thick, the tip slid in easily, with the gradual pointed shape, then each ridge slipped past your entrance one by one. You swallowed hard, though your throat was dry, and your cunt fluttered and clenched in adjustment. You dropped your hand to rub at your clit, sending shockwaves that made your body crumple against his. "You feel so fucking good," you praised breathlessly, knowing how much it would mean to him, but still speaking the truth. Kihyun buried his face in your hair and kissed the back of your neck, breathing heavily against your skin as he thrusted, reaching further into you, his curve hitting just the right place that made you see stars.

He held your leg in place when he moved, his searing touch almost too much to bear. In any other situation, it probably would be, but in the throes of lust, it was nothing more than exhilarating. He rocked into you, filling you deliciously, and you grabbed at his hand that was tight around your middle, pulling it to your lips. He responded immediately, pushing two fingers into your mouth and curling them down onto your tongue, like two matches being extinguished in the soft wetness. You moaned around his fingers, sucking them needily, and he cursed gruffly, twisting them between your lips.

You moved off of your side and pushed Kihyun onto his back then, straddling him and leaning in to kiss him deeply, hands dragging down the expanse of his bare chest. You wanted to feel him fully, let gravity do the work in sheathing you entirely on his cock.

"Yeah..." he murmured against your lips as you sat back onto him. His hands held your face close, shaky humid breath mixing with yours. "Yeah, ride it like that. Just like that...Fuck, you're so good to me."

Just as Changkyun had said. You were good to them. But, as was the case with many of the things you did, this didn't feel as though you were doing anything for him, necessarily. It made you feel just as good as it did for him.

You kneeled up straight, arching your back and rolling your hips, feeling the details of his dick push against your plush walls as you sat down fully. Kihyun's hands traversed your torso, palms sliding up your sides, fingers playing briefly with your perked nipples, nails digging into your thighs to help pull you forward and back. Having him under you like this reminded you of when his head was between your legs: a vision for you and you alone. His visage splayed on the pillow below you, forehead damp with sweat, his dark hair sticking to his horns, his pointed ears blushed cutely, silver eyes shining brightly...it was enough to drive you crazy.

And it was enough to drive you to your climax. You felt it build within you, one hand rubbing at your clit, the other anchoring you on his chest. "I'm so close, Ki, ah--"

Kihyun pulled you in quickly, down to his level again to kiss you, fucking up into you swiftly and making you squeal against his lips. "Wanna see you cum, yes baby, cum for me..." He mumbled through heavy, gasping breaths. Your deft fingers stayed on your clit and the combination overwhelmed you. You had to part from his lips to cry out, a desperate whine of his name as you shuddered and clenched repeatedly atop him. "God, when you say my name like that..." He kept himself still as you rode it out, lodged deep within you and twitching and aching for his own release.

When you indicated he could, Kihyun rolled you once more, onto your back to hold himself above you. He locked his eyes with yours as he thrust back into you, and you felt your mind blank of all thoughts but him, like a slate being wiped clean in one swipe. You'd never felt more connected to another person in your life, and he wasn't even a person. Your hands came up to his face instinctively, shifting hair out of his eyes, caressing the soft skin that covered his horns, curving around his subtle but sharp jawline. He grabbed one of your hands and kissed your palm gently, a palm so ordinary and cold compared to his own. You could only assume the ways you differed from him were beautiful to him, as the ways he differed from you were to you. "If I could give you what you wanted, I would," he said airily, letting go of your hand. "If I could bring you with me to my realm, I would in a heartbeat."

You smiled softly, knowing it to be true. Though he was hesitant to let you in, to help you achieve what you hoped, since he knew it was what you truly wanted, that was enough for him to do what he could to help you.

"Ah--I know...You're so good to me." That was all he needed to hear. He leaned in to kiss you, then kissed his way down your chest, thrusting rapidly with your hands tugging at his hair and whimpers on your lips. When his eyes met yours again, your heart raced at the intensity of his gaze. You felt him pulse and twitch within you, his breath catching in a tight gasp. Just as you heard a gorgeously melodic groan escape him, brilliant blue flooded his grey irises until they shined like sapphire rings. You knew what that meant, and it filled you with desire and satisfaction. You couldn't recall a more beautiful sight. You let your fingers caress his face, so gentle despite the humid, desperate energy that hung in the air. "Your eyes are gorgeous," you breathed, and those sharp eyes softened slightly at your words.

He swept you into another kiss, raw and messy and perfect, then turned your head slightly to attach his lips to your jaw urgently, his cock stilled deep within you. Your chest heaved as you pulled in cooler air and your eyes met the pencil perched on the notebook at your bedside.

Then, more clouded your sight, a vision of a room you'd never seen before. You caught glimpses of photos of Kihyun and his friends crop up on the wall, a wall painted a muted blue, certainly not in your own room of off-white. And the vision grew around you, the darker walls rolling in like storm clouds and overtaking your familiar walls. There was greenery lining these walls too, vines creeping up and floral hanging from the ceiling, a strange mix of indoor and outdoor things. You realized then that the vision you'd seen the last time you were intimate with Kihyun was no sky as you had thought, but was instead the ceiling of his bedroom, his home. You had touched into the goblin realm without even realizing it. When the transition was complete, you tapped Kihyun's bare shoulder and he breathlessly parted from your skin. His head snapped to the side when he realized you were no longer in your room. He pushed up onto his palms and his now wide eyes darted all around. You realized then that even the sheets you laid on, that surrounded you both, had changed from your yellow cotton ones to a silky, moss green set.

"Oh shit," he gasped. "Wh- how did we..." He looked back to you and you saw the blue in his irises fading, the silver slipping back. "Did you do that?"

You shrugged quickly, at a loss for words. You supposed you had done this, but if so, you hadn't been trying. You knew exactly where you were, it was unmistakable. How ironic that after all this time, all this yearning and trying to get to his realm, you could do it by accident. Perhaps it took your bound object to really bring you there. Perhaps being this intimately intertwined with Kihyun was enough force to push you over the invisible threshold. Perhaps your will was not strong enough before. Or it was something else altogether.

He did have a penchant to make all other thoughts but him leave your head when he kissed you, when he touched you...maybe that was the focus you needed, the pure concentration you could not achieve otherwise.

But whatever it was, here you were.

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Kihyun: Sapphire Flame

This is inspired by their recent comeback, so the boys are interpreted as goblins (with some inspiration from folklore) and have the appearances they have in the Do What I Want mv + some magical abilities (+ Kihyun has a center tongue piercing hehe). The idea was also sparked by skzdarlings' The Same But Different fic, which you should definitely check out! She's a very talented writer! It's been fun to push myself outside of my comfort zone with this 💙 Depending on the response, I may write more, as there is definitely more of this world I am interested in exploring.

"Doesn't matter where it is, with your hot touch, I'm rеady to give my body to you" -Monsta X: Fire & Ice

Goblin!Kihyun x Fem Reader (+ Goblin!Changkyun). Smut (check under cut for specific warnings). 15.1k

Warnings: lowkey monster/creature fucker (including monster dicks whoops (this dildo illustrates what I had in mind)), fire (mostly temperature) play throughout, handjob, oral (f. receiving), protected intercourse

Your eyes drifted to the black beanie that sat unnaturally low on Kihyun's forehead, making his hair sit uncomfortably in his eyes. At least now that the weather was cooler it didn't look so out of place for him to be wearing it. He noticed your gaze and instinctively his fingers curled around the brim and yanked it further downward, almost covering his brow piercings.

"Kihyun, it's fine," you assured him, a comment you'd grown accustomed to making. He played it safe, never wanting people here to suspect anything out of the ordinary about his presence. But you knew no matter what he did and however "normal" he made himself look on the outside, on the inside he still felt out of place.

"Yeah, right, but let's hear you say that if someone saw them." He tucked his right ear further under the hat then put his hands back in his hoodie pockets. You reached up to run your fingers through the strands of hair that poked down over his eyes, in an attempt to clear them from his line of vision a bit. Your fingers brushed the little metal spikes that adorned the bridge of his nose.

"Well don't poke your eyes out in the process," you joked. You hummed as you cleared away a little space for him to see. "Changkyun just wears a baseball cap," you noted as you turned back around to keep walking towards your apartment, where the two of you'd be meeting him. It wasn't often Changkyun visited; he'd come to this realm from time to time, but usually traveled to whatever country he felt like that day. He was often wandering around some big city in Europe or South America. Not often he came to your little town. It was only to see you and Kihyun that he came here at all.

Kihyun just scoffed at your comment. "Right, and people notice. All the time." Well that was certainly true. The brim of a cap and some shaggy hair might obscure the small, flesh covered horns that protruded from their foreheads, but it couldn't cover them, nor their pointed ears, as effectively as Kihyun's trusted bulky beanie. Plus Changkyun refused to wear contacts, so his eyes always shone that strikingly unnatural light grey, almost silver. Kihyun wore a sensible dark brown set of lenses anytime he was roaming the human realm. Unless he was alone, that is. Or with you, the only human he chose to trust with his identity.

But you also knew that Changkyun could turn on the charm if he needed; if anyone had something to say about his appearance, he could find some way to talk himself out of the situation. You knew that very well in fact; that's exactly what he'd done to you all those years ago.

You curled your arm around Kihyun's, invigorated by the recently chilled air and colorful leaves surrounding you, on top of the excitement in getting to see Changkyun again. Kihyun smiled and wrapped his arm around your waist. There was an unspoken connection, an intimacy between you and Kihyun, that always drew you to each other. It spurred a content feeling that you chased, unable to find it elsewhere.

"Am I ever gonna get to meet any of your other friends?" Your question was practically rhetorical at this point. He always answered the same way, but still you asked, in case something had changed since the last time you'd asked.

"Sure, if they dec--"

"'--decide to come here', okay okay..." You pouted. They never came to the human realm. You heard about them from Kihyun and Changkyun frequently; they were all so close, practically brothers, and yet you had never been able to meet any except the two of them. They frequented other realms occasionally, but primarily just stick close to home in the goblin world. Humans held no interest to them; even you, evidently. You thought perhaps they could be as intrigued by your influence on Kihyun as you were to theirs. You sometimes wondered if there were other humans who had friendships with goblins like you had with them.

Although the myths said goblins loved to play tricks on humans, the people who spread those myths didn't seem to realize just how many goblins were popping in and out of human society, unseen. While overall they were certainly mischievous beings, the ones who made their identities explicitly known were often the same ones pushing their luck messing with humans.

Kihyun noticed the disappointment on your face, and rubbed his hand up and down your arm soothingly. "Don't take it personally, they don't like going anywhere much." You knew how protective Kihyun was of his friends; he never wanted them to get into trouble so it was just as well to him that they didn't want to come here. And just the same, he was protective of you.

You arrived at your apartment building and headed inside, Kihyun following closely behind. Though he tried to seem nonchalant, you knew he was happy to get to see Changkyun, and especially to spend time with you both together. His impatience with Changkyun's recklessness certainly didn't surpass his affection for him.

When you unlocked your apartment door, you both entered quietly, listening. It was silent, but that didn't mean anything. "Changkyun?" you called, then paused. Nothing. "Oh, he's not here yet," you noted to Kihyun as you hung up your bag.

"Yes he is," Kihyun said, sliding past you and walking to the kitchenette.

"Yes I am." A deep sly voice was suddenly right at your ear, making you jump like a cat.

"Ahh-- God, you are impossible!" You spun on your heel and slapped Changkyun's chest before even looking at him.

He snickered and grabbed at your hands, curling his fingers around the wrists. "A warm welcome as always."

You huffed, then relaxed, taking in the sight of him. He looked exactly the same as the last time you'd seen him. And the time before that. And the time before that. His eyes were each like an obsidian ring, pupils black as can be with metallic irises ringing them like a brilliant setting. His piercings glittered too, little flecks of silver here and there that caught the light. No hat, and hair pushed back, his soft horns and sharp ears were on full display. Though it was a visage with which you were well acquainted, it still held a unique beauty that caught you off guard every time.

Changkyun smiled. "Hi."

"Hi," you said finally.

"I missed you," he said uncharacteristically, letting go of your wrists.

Your eyebrows shot up in surprise. "You did?"

Now it was Changkyun's turn to look surprised. "What, friends aren't allowed to miss their friends?"

"Wh-- I, no is just that-- you never say that."

"It is a little unlike you," Kihyun chimed it, hand in a box of cereal, making himself at home as usual. He'd taken off his beanie and left it with his jacket on a hook by the front door. His soft brown hair fell in pieces between the protrusions on his forehead.

You caught a glimpse of something on the counter then and remembered you had something to tell Changkyun. "Oh, hey I got this spoon at the antique mall; do you like it? Did you use it?" You pointed at the beautiful antique spoon, with all its intricate detail. Though Kihyun could appear in this realm through any book, his favorite was a particular fantasy novel, so you left your copy of it on your coffee table at all times. In addition to its use, it reminded you of him when he wasn't there. Changkyun appeared through spoons, so you thought it would be nice to have a pretty one you could display that he might enjoy using more.

"Nah, I used that one," he answered, pointing to the sink, a simple everyday spoon you had left perched on the edge, used and with peanut butter still stuck to it.

"Eww." Your nose scrunched then you pouted, sad he hadn't used your gift.

He saw the way your lip poked out and touched a finger to it. "Aw, don't sulk. I'll use it to go back."

That made you feel better. He turned to meander then, glancing around your apartment, which you'd rearranged a bit since he'd last been there. "Apartment looks nice."

"Oh, thanks! Yeah I thought the couch would look better over here and I got this new rug and my parents bought me that plant over there to put on the windowsill..."

He picked up the scented candle sitting by Kihyun's book and gave it a sniff.

"Ooh that's my favorite candle," you said, coming over to take it from him to light. But before you could, he snapped and a small flame sparked right out of his fingertips, like a lighter at the end of his pointer finger. The flame was blue in color, a cool tone like the ocean, and as it connected to the candle wick it morphed into a more familiar yellow.

"Woah, what the fuck??" Your eyes widened at the sight. Your head snapped to see Kihyun's reaction but he was just rolling his eyes.

"What?" Changkyun's brow furrowed in confusion at your reaction.

"You can just like...make flames appear?? Out of your hand??"

Now it was Changkyun's turn to roll his eyes, chuckling as he closed his hand and set down the candle, then plopped onto the couch next to Kihyun. "Can't believe you haven't told her this," he muttered to his hyung. Ah, something else Kihyun hadn't told you. You thought after the few years you'd spent together, he would feel okay with letting you know things about goblins more fully. But he would rarely volunteer information, mostly only answering any questions you asked. Only problem with that was you needed to know which questions to ask specifically. How could it have occurred to you to ask about them shooting fire out of their hands? "Yeah, blue flame is like, kind of a big thing for us. Like how people recognize us."

"Exactly," Kihyun said pointedly through his teeth. Sometimes you wondered if it would be such a big deal if humans saw what they were. Evidently there were plenty of instances where humans and goblins interacted. But you knew how Kihyun felt. And Changkyun was the most rebellious, pushed the envelope the most.

Changkyun dropped his head back and sighed. "Bro, come on, it's just us here. It's not like I'm lighting things in front of strangers in public with it." But Kihyun still shook his head and pursed his lips. "Would be handy though," Changkyun mused offhandedly. "Then I wouldn't have to carry this stupid thing around. Fucking thing doesn't even work half the time." The cheap purple lighter rolled elegantly across the backs of his knuckles then ended up back in his palm before you could blink. "Well, I'm hungry. Can we get food now?"

You spent the evening catching up over takeout and movies, joking and talking restlessly. You had Changkyun show you the blue flame a couple more times throughout the evening. Kihyun was more lenient when he saw how entranced you were by the beauty of it, the way it flickered and danced above his palm, between Changkyun's silver tipped fingers. You could feel the heat emanating off of it from your safe distance, yet his skin remained unblemished. The way the blue glow stood out in the warm dim light of your living room at dusk was quite mesmerizing.

Hours passed quickly and soon you were drifting to sleep on Kihyun's shoulder, as he and Changkyun talked about some video game they were all playing back home. You hadn't realized you'd fully fallen asleep until you woke up in your bed, with Kihyun asleep beside you, where he always slept when he stayed over. You checked the time on your phone, the screen illuminating "2:42 am", stretched, then got up for a glass of water, careful not to disturb Kihyun.

You yawned and shuffled to your kitchenette, realizing you were still in your clothes and trying to decide if it was worth changing into pajamas at this point. You caught a glimpse of a small light coming from the couch and looked over to see Changkyun still up, on his phone.

"What are you still doing up?" You asked, throwing your voice into the dark room, but not too loud that you'd wake Kihyun in the other room.

Changkyun looked up, startled, and sat up on the couch. You noticed he was shirtless then, sweatpants hanging low on his hips. His phone dropped to his lap, so you could no longer decipher his expression, but you plugged in the little nightlight that you kept in your kitchen, usually on at night to keep yourself from clumsily running into something in the dark. The faint glow lit up the small kitchen just enough for you to find your way to the cabinet and get yourself a glass of water.

"Couldn't sleep," Changkyun shrugged as he got to his feet and walked over to you. You noticed he was holding the antique spoon you'd showed him earlier, and it made you happy to see him acknowledge your little gift again. "Thanks for letting me crash here." He leaned against the counter opposite you and crossed his arms, spinning the spoon at the stem between his fingers.

"Sure, you know you're always welcome here." You truly meant that, and you hoped he realized it. Especially with Kihyun's continuous wariness; you wanted them all to put some trust in you. There was only so much you could do to make that happen and you didn't want to come off too needy or overenthusiastic, no matter how enthusiastic you in fact were about being close with them. It took years to get to this point.

"None of your neighbors think it's suspicious, you having random guys over all the time?" Changkyun teased, a smirk pulling at his lip.

You rolled your eyes and shook your head good-naturedly. "Please, it's not 'all the time', and it's the same two guys, so it's certainly not 'random'."

He latched onto that and ran with it. "Oh, so no other guys?" His voice was still teasing, but you detected a hopeful positivity coloring it.

"I don't kiss and tell," you replied playfully, drinking the last of your water and setting down your glass. Although it was true; though you went on the occasional date, none had made it to the "coming home with you" phase in quite awhile, and you knew your connection with them, especially with Kihyun, had much to do with that. "Besides, what about you, Mr. World Traveler? Breaking hearts in Brazil or Budapest or wherever?"

Changkyun smiled and shook his head; you knew he traveled primarily for fun and sightseeing, exploring a new place, and he never did brag about bedding humans. But you saw the way he flirted with them when you were out together, sometimes seemingly involuntarily. He just had that effect.

And you were feeling the symptoms of that effect now as he stepped towards you, closing the gap between your bodies smoothly.

He reached around you to set the spoon down on the counter behind you, then left his hand on the edge, his tattooed arm half trapping you in. Your eyes flicked up to his, that still shone brightly even in the very low light, and you could see something new, something softer in them, that you'd never seen before.

"You know, I really have missed you."

You swallowed hard, unsure of what he would say or how this would go. "I...missed you too, Changkyun. I always miss you and Kihyun when you're not here. Things feel...better...when you're here with me."

Changkyun nodded and smiled sweetly, a kindness in his eyes now. "You're so good to us and you really don't have to be, you know."

Your brow furrowed. "Why wouldn't I be good to you? You're my friends, aren't you?"

"Sure, but...you can never come to us, we always come to you. And you let us into your home, treat us so nicely..." You noticed his fingers move in your peripheral vision, sliding down the handle of the spoon.

You hoped they didn't feel your relationship was one-sided. You really didn't mind it so much and were just happy to have them there when they could be. It wouldn't be fair to expect them to leave their home more often just for you, as much as the selfish side of you longed for it. You met his gaze again and noticed how close he was to you now, his sweet but woodsy scent strong on your senses. The warmth of his body, his bare torso, radiated to you and drew you in. And then the gap between you was closed completely; he surprised you with a kiss, leaving your body rigid for a moment. "Mm--!"

He held your lower back securely, his other hand coming up to tangle into your hair. Your mind was swimming, trying to parse through your feelings, but all the rational platonic feelings drowned when the pleasure of it all bubbled most prominently to the surface. An intoxication you'd not expected left you wanting more, relaxing in his arms and taking it upon yourself to deepen the kiss.

"Sorry," he mumbled against your lips. "Should have asked first." His fingers inched in, holding you to him tighter, his head turning with yours in synchronization. There was a mutual urgency, a hunger, fueling this, and it was one you hadn't fully realized was there until now. Your hands slid down his chest, his skin soft and smooth and hot under your touch. When you parted, you had no idea what to say.

Changkyun smiled at your somewhat incredulous expression and stepped back slightly. "'S okay. Doesn't have to mean anything if you don't want it to. I'll see you in the morning."

Your mind was in a haze as you got your glass of water and went back to bed, wide awake now. How could you go back to sleep at this point? You climbed back into bed and sat up, thinking back on your relationships with both Kihyun and Changkyun and the way you'd felt about them leading up to now. You loved them, of course. Just as you loved all your best friends. But was that it? It was so hard to say, when your relationships with them were so unique. Yes, okay, you had to admit you'd found yourself attracted to them. There was that distinctive beauty you responded to, and the connection you'd forged, particularly with Kihyun, felt unbreakable, even across realms.

You felt Kihyun stir, but didn't think anything of it until his voice broke into your thoughts, startling you.

"Is there a reason you're up right now?" His voice was deep and scratchy with sleep, and he yawned.

You looked at him, hair mussed and tumbled around his horns, eyes shining behind his droopy eyelids.

"Yes, but it's not important," you lied, unsure if you wanted to get into it right now.

"You wanna talk about it?" Kihyun let his arm fall behind you so you could cuddle if you chose to. So you did. You snuggled into his chest and let your tired eyes close.

You let the silence sit for a minute or two, the warmth of his body calming you effectively.

"I kissed Changkyun," you confessed suddenly. So much for 'I don't kiss and tell'...

"Oh, I know," he answered, his voice light and dismissive despite the grogginess. He always seemed to be two steps ahead of you somehow. Or perhaps he just assumed that at some point you had kissed Changkyun, and he didn't realize you'd meant about 10 minutes ago.

"What, how-- wait, you're not, like...jealous or anything?"

Kihyun just smiled and lifted your chin, his lips close to yours, noses brushing. His voice was a mumble, barely above a whisper, and his breath tingled like cinnamon against your mouth. "I mean, I am a little jealous he got to kiss you before I did." He pressed his lips then to yours, soft and gentle, yet with an inexplicable yet pleasurable sharpness all the same. Like an electric spark connected you. He pulled back just enough to speak, but you hardly let him, again chasing the content feeling that always linked you, which was stronger than ever. How could a link like that be? As far as you knew there was no way for you to ever reach the realm of his origin. What if he had never come here? What if you had never met? "But I don't really mind. I know you love him too." He continued before you could protest; you loved Changkyun as a close friend and found him attractive, but your feelings for Kihyun were different. "And I know you don't feel the same way about him that you do about me." Again his words were nothing but soft murmurs, but a previously unspoken truth that rang as clear as day.

Kihyun wrapped his arm around you and pulled you back in, hand coming up to curve under your jaw as your lips locked back together. Your fingers carded through his hair, fingertips dancing over the soft skin that covered his horns before pushing through the dark locks.

Kissing Kihyun was completely different than kissing Changkyun. And kissing them both was completely different than kissing any human. There was a particular energy than illuminated from them both when they kissed you that you couldn't describe, but it filled you with a sense of warm, otherworldly ecstasy. And with Kihyun, there was a gentle sensuality, a security that came along, in accordance with everything he did. The urgent control that Changkyun held when he had you in his arms was so divergent.

Your mouth opened for a gasping breath, and Kihyun took the opportunity to deepen the kiss, rolling you onto your back, holding your head securely and tilting it just so, then licking into your mouth, drawing a delicious moan from within you. The warm, unnatural smoothness of his tongue piercing bumped your teeth then rolled across your lip, and your mind felt totally overtaken by the thought of him alone.

Then he pulled back and sighed heavily, his gaze focused on your face. You swallowed hard and tried to catch your breath and regain...well, any thought. You noticed the way the tips of his sharp ears were reddened, and the blush in his cheeks, and found it endearing. You let your fingers touch his ears and smiled at the warmth.

"You know...this is only making me more confused, to be honest." In one night things had escalated between the three of you in unexpected ways, but though you were confused, you didn't regret any of it.

"Yeah, sorry about that..." Kihyun chuckled and rubbed the back of his neck.

"It's fine," you giggled. "We'll figure it out together in the morning."

"It is the morning," he pointed out jokingly.

When you woke hours later, the first thing you noticed was that you were alone in your bed. You rubbed your eyes as you went back out into the kitchen, your kiss with Changkyun at the top of your mind. You heard some noise coming from the kitchen and expected to find him there.

You turned the corner and jumped in surprise with a yelp at the person standing there. Not Kihyun, not Changkyun, not anyone you'd ever met before. His face a series of sharp angles: strawberry blonde hair spiked here and there, goblin-like horns and ears, and thin steely eyes. The eyes that were examining your green plastic broom with a look of slight confusion before you startled him with your sudden cry. The man's face suddenly softened, and you saw how round and plush more of his features were: soft cheeks and pillowy lips. Even those sharp eyes could look round and gentle with the right expression.

"Oh! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you," he said hurriedly, the broom clattering to the tile as he put his hands up with palms facing you, defensively. It clicked quickly in your head that this must be one of their friends from back home. By the descriptions you could recall, this was probably Jooheon.

"Jooheon?"

He looked at you inquisitively now. "How do you know my name?"

"Well...you know my name, don't you?" He hadn't said it yet, but you figured he must.

"Uh-- well...yeah." He picked up the broom and looked at it. "Sorry, I just, uh...it's been a long time since I've been around humans, I'm not used to your stuff." He furrowed his brow a bit at the broom. "Never seen a broom quite like that before, but it worked, so..." He shrugged and set it back against the wall. Ah, so brooms must be his gateway into the human realm. Now you wondered about the rest of them...you glanced at random objects surrounding you, as if at any moment another goblin would appear before you.

"Uh, it's okay," you reassured him, wanting him to feel comfortable, but also a bit on edge and feeling somewhat frazzled. Unexpectedly entertaining a guest in your home, after you'd just awoken, and with no idea of Kihyun and Changkyun's whereabouts, on top of everything else, was overwhelming.

Your heard the slide of the glass door of your balcony and turned to see Kihyun closing it behind him, his book in hand. "Oh, Jooheon!" He looked at you, seeing the look of desperate confusion you shot him, at an angle Jooheon wouldn't see. He sprung forward and set his book down, coming to your rescue. "I, I didn't realize you'd be here so soon." Kihyun placed his hand comfortingly on your lower back.

Your head snapped to his face. "You knew he was coming?"

"What, you didn't tell her?" Jooheon asked, surprised.

"He never tells me anything."

"That's not true, I tell you so much!" Kihyun whined, his cute little lisp slipping through.

"Not enough!" You turned your attention back to Jooheon. "Sorry. Anyway. Hi, I'm Y/N." You reached forward and stuck out your hand to shake. "But you already know that."

Jooheon smiled sweetly, adorable dimples indenting his soft cheeks. He looked at your hand with confusion for a moment then a look of recognition came across his face and he shook it. Well, he did say it had been awhile since he'd been around humans.

"Kihyun, will anyone else be joining us today?" You asked domestically, placing your hands on the stool in front of you.

"I don't...think so..." Kihyun said slowly, then looked to Jooheon for confirmation.

"Nah it's just me. Everybody else is out or gaming today." Jooheon glanced around your apartment, taking in the details. "Where's Changkyun?"

Oh right, shit, where is Changkyun? Your brain was feeling fried and you'd only just woken up.

"He just went for a walk, he'll be back soon," Kihyun answered.

Just like him to be wandering. "Well, I'm gonna go get dressed." You excused yourself and went to have a few minutes alone to get ready and maybe, maybe clear your thoughts. You heard Kihyun and Jooheon laughing in the living room as you sifted through your closet for something halfway decent. You had no idea what the day would bring. Were you going out? Staying in? Was Jooheon staying the night? Ugh, Yoo Kihyun.

You pulled on some clothes and went to the adjoining bathroom to wash up and brush your teeth, and then you heard Changkyun's voice, booming louder than usual, accompanied by an equally loud Jooheon. You heard a quiet knock on your door so you went over and opened it, seeing Kihyun standing there. He stepped into the room and closed the door behind him. "Sorry I didn't tell you about him coming," he whispered.

"Why didn't you?" You tried not to let your voice sound too annoyed.

"Because...I wasn't sure he would actually come and I didn't want you to get your hopes up if he didn't. You're always asking about meeting them..." He chewed his lip nervously. "And I thought if he did come, he'd come later in the day. I didn't think he'd be here as soon as you woke up. But I'll take care of it. If you want him to come back another day, I'll ask him to."

Though you had to admit that would probably be best, the idea of the opportunity to finally get to know some more of his friends slipping away sounded worse. "No! No, it's okay, I'm okay. Just a little surprised, that's all."

Kihyun let you get ready and when you came back out, the sight before you was very striking. Seeing all three of them together in your living room, ears, horns, everything distinctive fully visible, was jarring. The piercings that decorated all their faces caught the sunlight as they moved, contrasting the soft matte of their honey skin.

You threw on a big smile and got their attention by clapping your hands together. "Alright boys; what are we doing today?"

Together you spent the day showing Jooheon around your town, reminding him of the time he'd spent with humans in the past and introducing him to new things he'd never seen before. He borrowed a hat from you to cover his horns, but your neighbors still clearly noticed his unusual eyes. It wasn't exactly commonplace to see a group of young men with multiple facial piercings and nail art walking around the area either. But you had pretty much gotten used to the stares by that point.

Jooheon was fascinated by the Autumn leaves, the brilliant colors the trees bore, and it was endearing to see him marvel at all you passed. You noticed the way Kihyun kept an eye on him and Changkyun, and more than ever you got a glimpse into what life must be like for them back home. The dynamics they must have.

The affection you felt for Kihyun blossomed into something deeper: a distinct admiration, a specific sense of respect. While Changkyun and Jooheon went into a store, you tugged at Kihyun's jacket to get him to stay outside with you. He gave a glance to them, but did as you silently asked and stayed by your side. You pulled him in and curled one hand around his shoulder and one around the back of his neck, your back to the large window glass. He smiled at you and let a hand rest on your hip. "Thanks for showing him around," Kihyun said. His eyes shifted to the window behind you briefly, then back to your face. "I like seeing you with them."

You smiled brightly; that was exactly how you felt about him. You pulled at his neck and leaned forward, pressing your lips to his in a sweet, gentle kiss. Kihyun's arms quickly curled around your lower back and held you securely to him, releasing a host of butterflies in your stomach. You'd never kissed anyone like this, fully and passionately just out in the middle of a busy street, but it also felt so intimate and alone simultaneously, it was hard to register the strangers passing by.

That evening Jooheon returned to the goblin realm, hesitantly using your broom to get back. A very short visit. You let him know how much you appreciated him visiting though, and told him to pass along the message to the other boys in their little family. You very much hoped they would take some interest in stopping by someday.

Jooheon looked straight to Kihyun when you said this, a look clearly full of meaning, but a meaning you did not know. Then he looked back to you, eyes soft and round, dimples indenting his cushy cheeks as he smiled. "I'll let them know."

You both looked to the broom against the wall, and when you turned your gaze back in his direction he was gone without a trace.

You looked quickly back to Kihyun, to see if there was something you could decipher in his expression, but it was unreadable, blank.

You settled in for the evening with him and Changkyun, a movie you'd seen a hundred times playing in the background as you ate dinner together, later forgotten as your conversation became less prosaic and more involved.

Changkyun told you more about the Earthly travels he'd had recently, in Morocco and Rome, then over to Barcelona for a few weeks, before coming to your little town. One last stop before returning home for awhile. You knew there was no other reason for him to be here except for you and Kihyun.

"I don't think I've ever seen you drunk before," you noted when Changkyun told you about the many bars he'd stopped at this time.

"Your alcohol here is nothing compared to back home," Changkyun said. He held up the can of beer in front of him and shook it lightly. "This shit's like water."

You and Kihyun laughed, and you wondered how strong goblin alcohol must be, if human alcohol didn't have much of any effect on them.

Because Kihyun seemed inclined to answer more questions with Changkyun around, you thought it wise to take the opportunity to ask a few things you'd wondered about. And there was one thing you'd thought about but hadn't had the nerve to ask before, perhaps partly because you were anxious about the answer and how it would make you feel. But with the way things were going between you now, you almost felt you needed an answer.

"Can I ask you guys a question?" You said, keeping your eyes on the TV and fiddling with the tab on your soda can.

"Always," Changkyun answered quickly, downing the last of his beer. Of course he would answer you. You knew that would be the case. Kihyun stayed quiet, not promising an answer until hearing the question, as usual.

"Well, I uh...I know that you've slept with other goblins before..." You hadn't all talked much about your sexual experiences, just in passing, basically just enough to acknowledge you'd had them. "...but have either of you slept with a human before?"

"I sleep with you all the time," Kihyun teased, though his comment reminded you how often he was in your bed, well within your reach, but neither of you had taken the opportunity to do anything more than cuddle until recently. And yet, it was enough. Until now, that is. Now something was ignited within you and you didn't know if or how it could be extinguished.

"I've done...quite a few things with humans, but I've never had sex with one," Changkyun answered, more helpfully. That answer surprised you. He galavanted across your globe and had an indispensable charm in his arsenal, yet he never even had a fling with a human? A one night stand? "Despite what Kihyun may think," he started, a playful glint in his gaze as he glanced at him. "I do try and keep my identity under wraps. And even if I were to hide all of this successfully..." He gestured vaguely over his face. "...there are other things that are, well, not so easy to hide in a situation like that."

You heard a little huffed laugh behind you from Kihyun, and turned to look at him. He raised his eyebrows in an expression that told you he agreed with Changkyun's sentiment.

You were nosy, curious for details. "Such as...?"

"Oh really, Y/N, you can't hazard a guess?" Kihyun replied.

Well, certainly you could, but you didn't want to assume anything about a topic you knew so little about. You and Kihyun had discussed many things, but he was cagey on details sometimes, in his effort to protect you. And this was something you'd never discussed. Your eyes fell to Changkyun's pants, as if suddenly you'd be able to see through them and know exactly what they were implying. Your face flushed and your ears were probably turning red at the inappropriate visions that flashed in your mind.

He smiled to himself, noticing your gaze. "I can show you...if you want." There was a sensuality in his tone, the air in the room getting thicker with it as moments passed. You looked to Kihyun, and he quirked his brow in the same questioning way Changkyun's was. He didn't seem against the idea, and your curiosity was getting the best of you.

So you nodded, sitting up straighter. Changkyun swallowed and slowly slid down the zipper of his pants, then paused. "You're sure you're okay with this?" He studied your expression, but there was only curiosity and a vague lust there. You nodded again and sat patiently. Though you were all on the same wavelength and it was obvious there was sexual tension driving all of this, the idea of it being...educational for you was not untrue either.

So he pushed at his clothes just enough to reach in and free himself. He let his fingers curl around the shaft, stroking a couple of times, obscuring your view, and letting a soft groan rumble in his throat. When he let his hand slide down to hold the now half-hard length by the base, you could get a better look at it, and your heart pounded blood south. The tip was pointed, quite sharp like their ears and horns. The shaft had a sleek curve, that became more pronounced the stiffer it got, and the underside was decorated in strong, horizontal ridges like you'd never seen before: ribbed and layered all the way down. Those stood out to you most prominently, a unique texture that felt out of place yet also perfectly suited to him, to them. It bulged outward towards the bottom, thickening in the bottom half of the length. You couldn't help but wonder what it would feel like inside of you, and the idea left your head spinning.

Kihyun's hand on your waist suddenly broke into your thoughts, and you looked back at him. He had his eyes on Changkyun, then looked to your face to read your expression. His grey eyes looked concerned, as though perhaps this would be a final straw that would send you running for the hills, never to see him again. It was an expression he always had when you learned something new about him, or goblins in general. But as with every part of them that was different than what you were accustomed to, there was a peculiar beauty to you. So you just smiled reassuringly at him, and returned your attention to Changkyun.

"Can I touch it?" You hoped your voice conveyed the genuine interest and curious excitement you felt, for his and Kihyun's sakes.

He looked to Kihyun briefly, then back to you, eyes lighting up in a new way. "I-- Yeah, yeah, for sure."

You reached forward and touched your fingers to the tip. The whole thing twitched under your touch, bobbing upward and stiffening more. Already the tip felt somewhat harder than you were used to. You dragged your fingertips down the length, now feeling the various ridges your eyes couldn't see. They spidered out in ways unfamiliar to you, and seemed to shift and change under your touch. Then you let your hand curl around the length, fingers wrapping around the underside. Those deep ridges stirred something carnal inside you; your mouth watered and you felt a strong pull to feel these details within you.

Changkyun's breath hitched when your grip tightened and your hand stroked downward. Each crest slipped past your fingers, and you imagined them between your lips now.

"Well...?" Kihyun said, expectantly.

How should you answer? Should you say it's pretty? Should you voice what your body was telling you to do? Every response felt incorrect, despite the truth behind them all.

"Does it...y'know...work the same?"

You heard Kihyun huff out a short laugh behind you, one that sounded happily placated. An amused smile pulled at one side of Changkyun's lips. "As far as I know."

You inhaled a shaky breath and let your eyes wander where your hands touched him. "Suppose we could find out." You smiled at each other, then you leaned in to kiss him, feeling much more comfortable this time around, than when he'd caught you off guard in the kitchen. His hand came up to hold the back of your head and you let your tongue meet his gently, while your hand stroked repeatedly across the textured length.

When you parted from his lips, you felt Kihyun's fingers at your back, and turned your attention to him. He shifted, holding your face to kiss you himself, deep and passionate. You could feel he was pouring an appreciation to you into this kiss. He had a way of sweeping out thoughts from your brain so effectively, this time you nearly forgot Changkyun's dick was in your hand. Kihyun pecked your lips twice more, then let you return your attention to Changkyun. You watched his face twitch in reaction to your touch, then glanced back down to your hand. Your mouth watered again as you imagined your tongue running over each of these details before you.

He pulled your mouth back to his, the tip of his tongue meeting yours, his hand securely grasping your chin. "I told you before...you don't need to be so good to us..." Changkyun murmured against your lips between heated kisses. You felt that otherworldly buzz, that haze of pleasure that surrounded you when you kissed them again. The sounds that left him as you stroked your hand were more inhuman than any you'd ever heard from him or Kihyun before. It served to remind you of the fact that that's exactly what they were: inhuman. Despite the humanity that shined through in so many ways, and as similar as you were, at the end of the day, you were very different. These sounds were animalistic with an unnaturally pitched bite to them.

You pulled back and met Changkyun's gaze, his eyes now like ashen slate, intense and focused. His fingers brushed down your neck and they felt peculiarly heated, making your skin feel colder in comparison, sending a shiver up your spine.

"I like to be," you answered honestly in a watery voice. Your wrist twisted around the throbbing head of his cock, fingers enjoying the silky smooth curve. You imagined that point bumping the back of your throat, or somewhere deep within your pussy, and your thighs clamped closed for some desperate friction at the idea. You leaned forward again to take in the intoxication of his woodsy scent. "I wanna be good for you..."

Changkyun curled his hand around your jaw and attached his mouth to your neck in an open mouthed kiss, tongue laving at your pulse before sucking a bruise there and making your eyes roll back. You kept your hand moving, trying so hard to concentrate on doing that one thing right despite his distractions. "I know, that's why I love you," he mumbled against your skin, muffled but still very clear.

Your heart pounded harder all of a sudden, and you did your best to look at Kihyun, in spite of the awkward angle. He looked surprisingly calm, probably just happy you seemed to be enjoying yourself overall and not ready to run. "You-- you do?" Changkyun never said he loved you before. Another comment that was quite unlike him. If he loved you, you had a real problem on your hands. Although you hadn't said it, the connection you felt with Kihyun transcended many things, and you didn't feel that way about Changkyun.

He sensed your hesitation and pulled back, still holding your head in his hand. "What?"

"You love me?"

Changkyun huffed out a little exasperated chuckle. "Well, yeah, obviously. You're one of the most important people in my life." Oh man, having this conversation now, with his dick in your hand...why did you even mention it? "Just because I'm not in love with you, doesn't mean that I don't love you. Of course I love you." Oh, thank God. You seemed to feel the same way. You loved him too, so very much. You just wanted to know he meant it in the same way you did. "But even if I didn't...I don't have to love you to fuck you."

Although he was saying it playfully, there was a dark sensuality coloring those words, and it truly stirred something within you to hear him talk that way. You found yourself leaning right back in immediately to attach your lips to his, tongue meeting his in the middle again. His horns bumped at your forehead as you tilted your head, and you let your fingers play with the point of his right ear.

Changkyun warned you breathlessly that he was close, those unfamiliar sounds leaving him again as your hand sped up its ministrations. You let him replace your hand with his own, pushing himself that last bit, and keeping his eyes on you all the while. Kihyun's chest was pressed lightly to your back now, his gaze focused on Changkyun as well. A few quick tugs of his own hand and Changkyun hit his climax, hips stuttering and cum jumping from the sharp tip then spilling down his hand, slipping past each deep ridge and curve of his dick. Your heart pounded in your chest, adrenaline coursing through you at the experience. Changkyun's head fell back against the couch and one last metallic groan slipped sharply past his lips. His horns and ears were reddened, blushed like his cheeks.

"Shit..." Changkyun turned his hooded eyes to you, and your breath caught when you noticed the irises were a gorgeous sapphire blue now, though it faded quickly as he came down from his high. Everything about him looked and sounded unnatural. No wonder he was he was hesitant to have sex with a human that wasn't used to it. You were used to most of these parts of them yet you were still taken aback by the parts you weren't familiar with. Changkyun then caught a glimpse of Kihyun behind you and smiled. "She's good," Changkyun said simply, pointing at you with a bright smile.

Kihyun laughed slightly and pressed his lips lightly to your shoulder. "As expected." The action was simple and sweet, but in this context felt so much more intimate. You turned your head to look at him and found his face right there, mouth capturing yours in another impassioned kiss that cleared your mind.

Lying in bed next to Kihyun again that night was hard. But it was comforting to realize earlier that some of your questions were answered. It seemed you and Changkyun were on the same page with how you felt about each other. How all of that related to Kihyun was still a mystery to you though.

"...Kihyun?" He was lying facing the wall but you had no idea if he was asleep or not.

"Yes?" He sounded quite awake. Perhaps he was having the same thoughts you were.

"Can we talk?"

Kihyun turned his head to face you, not fully turning around. "About?"

You quirked your brow in a sarcastic expression. What else was there that you needed to talk about? "Gee, I wonder," you teased, fingertip on your chin. "Come on, I wanna talk."

You clicked on your lamp and took a sip from your glass of water, then put it down next to the notepad and pencil you kept there. He sat up so you both were seated against the headboard, and gestured vaguely, allowing you to continue.

"Well...how were you feeling tonight? When I..."

"...gave my friend a handjob?" A searing blush shot through you at the sudden explicit words. All three of his piercings shifted as his brow knitted around them. "What do you think I'm gonna say? That I'm jealous? That I don't like you doing things with other guys?"

"I don't know what you're going to say, that's why I'm asking!" You put your hands up defensively. "I just wanna be sure that you're okay with it."

Kihyun sighed. "I mean, it's not like it's some random guy. It's Changkyun. Like I said when he kissed you the first time, yeah, maybe I'm a little jealous he got to do something with you first, but I know how you feel about me, and about him. And I know you're not doing anything maliciously, so... what's the big deal?" He shrugged, and genuinely seemed at ease, so you did too. He did seem alright when you were in the living room. The smiles, laughter, and passionate kisses were pretty unmistakable. "Besides, you can make your own decisions. It's not like we're dating." You almost laughed at that. "Dating" felt so trivial a word, so removed from whatever connection you shared. But also it stung a bit to hear him speak so flippantly of your relationship.

You felt compelled to be close to him, so you moved to climb into his lap, straddling his waist, his hands settling on your hips, yours on his shoulders. "You're right, we're not dating..." You ghosted your fingertips across one of his horns, biting your bottom lip absentmindedly. His brow piercings caught the dim light and his eyes bore intensely into your face. "...but we're definitely something." You had no idea what to call this, but it was far from nothing.

Kihyun let his hands drag up your sides and he sighed heavily as he brought them back down to your thighs. You leaned in and kissed him sweetly, and when you pulled back, you kept your lips close to his. "Well...you can be first to do some other things with me if you want," you hinted suggestively. You rolled your hips forward, pressing down into his crotch, and he groaned lightly, airily, that cinnamon sweetness of his breath meeting your lips. His hands tightened their grip on your hips, silver fingertips digging into the fabric of your pajama shorts.

"Kihyun?"

"Hmm?" His nose brushed yours and lips passed a centimeter away from yours.

"Can you show me the blue flame?"

Up until that point only Changkyun had showed it to you. But it mesmerized you so and Kihyun appreciated how you loved it, so you knew he would take the opportunity to show you now. He wanted to give you what you wanted.

So he smiled and nodded, and let you sit back a bit. He held his hand up between your faces and the flame sparked, curling up and dancing ocean blue, almost neon in its brilliance, illuminating the room. He watched your entranced gaze then closed his hand gently, the flames extinguished as he rubbed his fingers together, as if by sleight of hand. You noticed the way the blue hue stayed behind, as though it boiled under the surface of his palm. Though the color reminded you of death, the cool tone of a corpse, when he placed his fingertips to your collarbone, the touch teemed with life, unnaturally hot. You gasped at the heat, recognizing it from when Changkyun touched you earlier.

You couldn't believe he'd never shown this part of himself to you before. It was one of the most magical things about him, though you supposed that was why he hadn't. He laid his palm flat against your heart, feeling the pounding pulse that only thrummed harder when met with his warm touch.

"You can let me in, you know," you said, pushing a section of hair away to gently touch one of his horns. The skin was soft and it was like bone underneath, a part of his skull as much as any other part. He kept his eyes on his hand, not meeting your gaze, and he said nothing. "I think you're really beautiful, Kihyun. I don't want you to change. You don't have to hide parts of yourself. Not around me."

He glanced up at your face briefly, then looked back to his hand, tracing his fingertips that were cooler now across the line of your collarbone and inward, until they stopped at the base of your throat. "I'm trying," was his soft reply that you barely heard.

That softened your heart; you knew he didn't want to make any promises he couldn't keep. He knew there was no known physical way you could ever join him in his world, even if you wanted to. But he could never stay in your world either. His discomfort at being so noticeably different, and his realm being his home with his family and his chosen brothers...how could he ever choose just one?

You placed your hands at either side of his face and brought your lips to his again, and his hand laid back against your chest, over your heart, while his other held your lower back to keep you close. If kissing Changkyun was a whirlwind, kissing Kihyun was a gentle, comforting breeze, one that paralleled the Autumn chill that delighted you. You felt you couldn't get close enough to him, pressing your chest to his and wrapping your arms around his neck, his hand now moved from your chest to the back of your head, as the kiss deepened to one of pure passion.

You felt your hips rock of their own accord, rolling lithely against him, his mouth falling agape and breaking the kiss in response. He kept his forehead pressed to yours, the many sharp edges pushing against your skin. You wanted him to feel he could let go with you, find the comfort he provided you, and your body craved more of him with every moment.

You could feel him growing harder beneath you, the thin material of underwear and your pajama shorts not doing much to hide that. The throbbing between your own legs was becoming hard to ignore, and you knew soon enough your own arousal would noticeably seep through the cotton.

Kihyun kissed his way across your cheek down to your jaw, ending at the exact place on your neck that Changkyun had marked you earlier. He pulled back and you felt his fingers, hot again from the fire that burned below his skin, touch the purple splotch. You wondered then, for the first time, if perhaps he could hurt you. If he could ever lose control of the fire and burn you accidentally. Even if he did, it could only be minor, but what worried you more was the way he would feel. You knew he would never harm you on purpose. Perhaps that was why he'd never shown you the flame. His lips pressed to the spot gently, then moved back up to nestle just beneath your ear. His inhuman sounds were very quiet but closer than ever, the low growl of a tiger mixed with something almost mechanical, like a buzz saw. But his lips were in direct contrast, warm and soft and comforting.

You let your hands drag through his hair, holding him to you. His hands fell to your thighs, the touch still unnaturally warm, palms like heating pads on your skin, and he gripped, helping pull your hips along his. Your shorts had ridden so far up your thighs, the hemline matched your panties'.

"God, Kihyun..." You sighed contently but gasped when he rocked his pelvis up, his hard pointed tip hitting your clit through the fabric.

Kihyun huffed out a sigh that sounded frustrated, his forehead and left horn now pressed to your cheek, his lips no longer on your skin. But his hands still held you tightly, his hips still rocked with yours. "I want you..." he breathed, but it sounded almost melancholy, like a confession of something he knew could never be. But his body betrayed his words, two opposing forces.

"Why're you saying it like that?" He didn't answer, just curved his head further into your cheek. "You can have me, Kihyun...I want you to have me."

You grasped his hand then and brought it down between your legs, laying his fingers on the damp fabric and feeling his warm breath fan across your throat as he sighed heavily again. You let go and he kept his hand there, moved it on his own, feeling your arousal, his vague touch over fabric already doing wonders at satiating the throbbing. A few curses slipped past his lips, his hand cupping you, fingertips sliding over the fabric.

You had him, so close, right there...

You pressed your body closer to him, moaning purposefully in his ear to draw him in further, to bring him to you that last bit.

"Fuck..." He moved suddenly then, holding onto you securely and rolling forward, putting you onto your back underneath him. Before you could really process what was happening, Kihyun was peeling off your clothes, your shorts and panties quickly tossed aside. Now you really did have him, and he would have you just the same. Just as you were about to sit up and address him, he brought his head between your legs, diving straight into your pussy with a defeated but happy sigh.

"Ahh-- yeah, yes, Kihyun," you whimpered, opting to stay flat on your back, gripping onto his hair and rolling your hips forward. He watched you, eyes shining in the moonlight that streamed vaguely through the blinds, as his lips closed around your sensitive clit. Your body reacted in ways you'd never felt, and it seemed as if the whole world fell away again. Kihyun curled his hands, now hotter than ever, around your thighs, and pushed his tongue forward, collecting your sweetness. The ball of his piercing rolled deliciously across your skin, swirling around your clit, unnaturally smooth and hard, surrounded by his velvety soft tongue.

Hungrily, desperately, he ate you out, reaching his tongue as deep as he could within you, nose bumping your clit and making you see stars. Your ears were filled with the lewd, wet sounds of his mouth lost in your sex, and the cutting growl that rumbled from his throat and through your body.

You kept your eyes on him, so many of his unique features framed by your thighs; the vision before you felt personal, made for your appreciation specifically. And when your eyes met his, hooded and sharp, you felt a new rush of pleasure accompany all that he was already giving you, making you thrash and whine.

You remembered then that Changkyun was in the living room. You wondered if he could hear you at all, if he was still awake.

Kihyun's tongue rolled figure eights across your pussy, then settled on repeatedly rapidly kitten licking your clit while you squirmed and begged him to keep going. Something shifted within you, a familiar pleasure mounting in an unfamiliar fashion, building higher than usual, without breaking as it usually did at this point. "I'm so close, I-- ah-- oh my God, Kihyun..."

His hips rutted against the mattress and he moaned uniquely, the sound unmistakably desperate as he shook his head, shaking his mouth across your cunt messily.

Your orgasm finally hit you, harder than one ever had before, and you bit hard on your lip to keep yourself from crying out, settling with gripping your shirt in one hand and his hair in the other, and whimpering pathetically. Your eyes closed and a vision flashed in your mind: a blue sky above you, with flowers hanging, almost floating, similar to how you felt at the moment. The vision quickly faded and you opened your eyes.

Kihyun kept working your clit, overstimulating you and making you shudder and leaving your mouth wordlessly agape. He dragged his tongue flat against you a few times, the metal ball hitting your clit dead on each time and making you jump like a shock. A sheen of sweat stuck your oversized tee to your skin.

He pulled your tired legs down at either side of his body and moved up your body, hands and lips trailing up your torso, gliding over your stomach and breasts. Then he stopped at your lips to kiss you deeply, hand petting soothingly across your hair. Despite feeling worn out at the swiftness of it all, you curled your legs around his waist and your arms around his neck, and hummed happily, feeling perhaps the most content that you'd ever felt.

"Kihyun?" you murmured, keeping his lips close.

"Yeah?"

"Will you fuck me?"

He smiled and you could vaguely see his little whisker dimples in the moonlight, then he pecked your lips a few more times. The taste of your own arousal on his mouth fueled the lust built within you even more. "Not tonight," he replied gently.

You pouted. "Why not?"

Kihyun wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, then took a deep breath and let out a long, shaky exhale. It seemed he was finding it difficult to deny you, and you got the impression that if you asked him again he might not be able to say no. "It's time to go to sleep." You hated to admit he was right. It must be so late now and you were getting quite sleepy. "Besides...I wanna do it right, wanna take my time when I do."

You thought back to your conversation with him and Changkyun earlier in the evening. You'd asked if either of them had slept with a human before, and Changkyun had answered, but you just realized Kihyun hadn't.

"Will I be the first human you've ever slept with?" You fully expected the answer to be something like "Well yes, of course." Especially since Changkyun's answer was "yes", and he was much more adventurous and flirtatious. But Kihyun paused.

He sighed and petted your hair again. "My first...in a very long time." He answered slowly, looking at his fingers in your hair instead of at you. "But my second ever."

You suddenly understood how he felt when he said he was a little jealous of Changkyun for getting to do things with you first. You were sure whoever this person was was someone you never had and never would meet, yet you still felt that jealous pang in your stomach.

"Can I ask for details?" You inquired, hoping you sounded innocently curious. A yawn betrayed you though, revealed how tired you were.

"In the morning, 'kay?"

"We keep saying that. Am I gonna wake up to another goblin in my kitchen tomorrow?"

"I don't think so."

There were in fact two goblins in your kitchen in the morning, but they were the two you expected. Breakfast was quiet, no one wanting to speak first, it seemed. You sat down with your cereal and looked at Kihyun, then at Changkyun, each silently busying themselves with pouring coffee and making toast. You figured you'd need to be the one to break the silence. No small talk came to mind; all you could focus on was the story Kihyun had promised to tell you before you fell asleep last night. So as soon as they both sat down, you asked about exactly that.

"Kihyun, will you tell me the story now about the other human?"

"What other human?" Changkyun chimed in, spreading some jam on his toast. At least he seemed at ease. You were glad you'd sorted out your mutual feelings the night before and that sex hadn't gotten in the way of your friendship. That was the last thing you wanted.

"The one he slept with."

"Woah, what?" Changkyun snapped his attention to Kihyun now, his knife clattering to the plate and making you all jump. "You never told me that! Who was it? When was this?"

That took you aback; you assumed Kihyun must have told all his friends about this encounter. It sounded as though they talked about everything. It hadn't occured to you that Changkyun might not have heard this story.

Kihyun looked a little bewildered. "Can we talk about this later?"

"Why, don't you want me to hear?" Changkyun asked, sounding slightly offended. He leaned forward, more interested suddenly. "Was it someone I know?"

Kihyun shot him a sardonic expression, and sighed. You didn't want to push him too hard, lest he clam up again and be even harder to crack. But at the same time, you felt you had proven your loyalty, and he had volunteered the information the night before. Though if his hesitancy was due to Changkyun, for whatever reason, you could understand that.

"You don't have to talk about it, if you don't want to."

Kihyun looked to you and shook his head. "No, it's okay. I promised I would." He grasped the coffee cup in both palms and told you the story, in a quite matter-of-fact tone.

"This was about...4 years ago..." Shortly before you'd met then. "I met someone and really enjoyed their company. I was a lot less careful back then, and so I told them what I was a week after I met them. They were really accepting, so I took that as a good sign and after a few more days, one thing led to another..." He cleared his throat, sparing you the unsavory details. Part of you bemoaned this internally, but any jealousy you held would be best remedied by surpassing such things. "The morning after, we went to a café together. We ran into a couple of their friends and they took off my beanie without asking, and told them what I was. Again, without asking. Their friends didn't respond so positively. So...I left. And, um...yeah."

You thought back to when you met Kihyun. Though you met Changkyun first, and he had persuaded you out of much suspicion quite slyly, Kihyun had done his very best to appear as human as possible; you held no suspicions about him at all for months. He had certainly been careful around you, and now you truly knew why. You thought back to what he'd said, back after he did finally tell you what he was, when you'd asked about the way he disguised himself in public. "It's not like I'm sad or ashamed about being a goblin, about looking the way I do, or having the abilities I have. I like what I am. I don't want to be a human. I just wish...things were easier." He just wanted to live his life. And you just wanted to share in it.

You smiled slightly, warmly, at him, and reached down to hold his hand. "Well...you don't have to leave this time. I like you just like this." You turned over his hand and let your fingertips drag gently over his palm.

Later that day, Changkyun was ready to head back home, to the goblin realm, the visit too short as always. You felt different this time though. You always felt a sadness when he left, a want for him to stay, but you had been thinking a lot lately. He placed the spoon you'd gifted on your coffee table and stood in front of it. You knew he would easily disappear in a blink. Your heart pounded faster and you grabbed his hand before he could go.

"Wait, Changkyun. Can we try going together? Can I try coming with you to the goblin realm?" They had both always told you that there was no way for you to get to their realm. That this traveling across worlds was a special power they held. So you hadn't even tried. But what if you could? What if there was a way, somehow, that none of you had discovered? That, apparently, no one had discovered?

"What?" Kihyun's response took your attention, his voice sounding thin.

Changkyun looked at your hand, then over at Kihyun's expression. "I...don't know. I don't think I can. I don't think it's possible."

"But what if it is? What if we found a way?"

Kihyun interjected, his tone harsh. "And what if you can't come back? What if we somehow get you there but we can't get you back here?"

You turned to him and spoke clearly. "If we can somehow get me there, I have all the confidence in the world that we can find a way to get me back." Kihyun was twisting his fingers anxiously now, so you walked to him and put your hands on his and looked him in the eye, speaking more gently. "It's all in my head, right? Going there? Coming home?" Home. Two different places for each of you. How selfish you each felt to want the other at your version of home.

"Yes..." He seemed hesitant to give you more information, as usual. He looked up at Changkyun, then back to you. He knew how determined you would be now. And he was trying so hard to let you in, while fighting to maintain the protection he strove for. "It's all in your thoughts. You have to will yourself there."

"Will you show me what you do? I'll try and emulate it." You wanted to try. If it didn't work, it'd be nothing but a thought experiment.

Kihyun sighed and washed a hand down his face, his silvery eyes nervously shaking a bit. "Okay...okay. So um...choose something...something common, but timeless. But remember that, should this work, whatever you choose will be your bound object for life."

You thought for a few moments as your eyes scanned the room around you. The dishes in your sink, the clothes and jewelry you wore...the writing utensils on your desk. Yes, that last one felt right. Perhaps pens, pencils? You walked over and picked up a pencil, feeling almost drawn to it, as if it were choosing you rather than you choosing it. You rolled it in your fingers, contemplative. Your bound object for life. Your fingers curled around it fully, confirming, locking it in. You turned to Kihyun, holding it up.

"Okay, yeah, that's good. Concentrate on it, and picture the realm you'd like to travel to."

You looked between him and Changkyun. "How can I picture something I've never seen?"

"That's okay, just imagine it," Changkyun said.

"Think of us," Kihyun added. "Think of us and Jooheon, and all that you do know about it...that's enough."

Now that you could do. Focusing your attention on the yellow pencil in front of you and allowing in all these thoughts of the boys you found so interesting and beautiful was simple. You thought of their unique appearance, the stories you'd heard of their home, the laughter they brought you, the peculiar comfort you felt when they kissed you...But minutes passed in silence and you didn't feel any closer to traveling to the goblin realm. You felt most firmly in your own, no matter how hard you concentrated.

You tried holding Changkyun's hand, as if to travel with him. You tried closing your eyes and holding the pencil. You tried all you could think of, but as the minutes rolled by, you were starting to feel ridiculous and like you were simply wasting their time. It probably was impossible for you to do this. Were you really so naive to think you could just sit down and do something that no human had ever done before?

You set the pencil back down and shook your head. "Alright, maybe I can't...I don't want to hold you up, I know you want to get home." You tried to sound unbothered, but it frustrated you that you couldn't seem to get anything. You felt silly for even trying, but were thankful they gave you time to attempt.

Changkyun patted your hand comfortingly and stood back up. "'S alright, we can try again another day." You stood too and faced each other and he held your chin in his hand. "If any human could do it, I'm sure you'd be the one. Anyone that good with their hands has gotta be good with their thoughts too, I think," he joked, making you smile and blush a little. Then he kissed you once more, disappearing back to the goblin realm before parting from your lips, leaving you kissing nothing but air.

Over the next few days, between work and visiting family, you spent your time focused on this new goal. Deep down you knew you would not be able to accomplish it, but the more you stared at that pencil, the more motivated you felt. Kihyun had planned to go home shortly after Changkyun, but he stuck around, and was patient with you, giving tips if you asked, but unsure if they would be of any help.

"Why do you want to do this so badly?" He finally asked on the third evening.

Your long gaze at the pencil broke and you sighed, throwing a paperclip at it, then sitting back on the couch next to him. "God, I don't know." Kihyun pulled you in, tucked you under his arm. "I know it's stupid..."

Kihyun tilted your chin up to look at him, his grey eyes shining. "It's not stupid. But I wish you wouldn't beat yourself up so much. It's not like you're doing anything wrong. It's just the way things are."

You reached up and sunk your fingers into his soft hair, pushing it back from his horns and settling at the back of his head. You knew he was right.

He leaned down and kissed you gently, an effective distraction. His lips molded to yours perfectly, sweet cinnamon tingling at your senses. You held him close, reveling in the blissful diversion, and his hand came down to rest at your thigh.

He parted from your lips only slightly, to speak, keeping his face close to yours. "Will you let me take my time with you now?" His hot breath fanned across your face, his scent surrounding you like a wonderful haze, and you nodded. You had distracted yourself with other things all week, hardly giving him the time you both craved, that you'd pushed to the back burner...that now engulfed you.

"Please..."

At the word, he pulled you to your feet and guided you to the bedroom, and you eagerly followed. The second you passed the threshold, you pulled him back to your lips, your tongue meeting his in the middle, clashing against his piercing, his horns bumping at your forehead. You threw your arms around his neck and smiled at the way he caught you with a surprised chuckle. There was a carefree feeling now, walls between you crumbled, delight in letting each other into parts of your respective worlds as well as you could.

And then the urgency calmed, falling into bed together, facing each other and kissing more sensually. Piece by piece you removed each other's clothing, a purposefully meandering process. With each piece removed, minutes spent appreciating the newly exposed skin, be it with caresses, lips, hands, tongues...and thoughts of sweet nothings finally spoken aloud.

When you were left in only your undergarments, you felt goosebumps rise on your skin, the many minutes passed leaving you almost embarrassingly aroused. But the tent in his boxers was quite literally pornographic, and confirmed the mutual desire.

Kihyun pulled at your bra straps and you helped undo the clasps, leaving your chest bare to him, feeling particularly vulnerable now. His hands cupped each of your breasts and his tongue met your right nipple, flat against the peak, the ball of his piercing making your eyes roll back. Your arms encircled his head and held him to you, chasing that feeling more. He moaned and hummed positively, sucking and rolling his tongue across the sensitive skin. You glanced down and saw him looking up at you, steely eyes gentle yet full of want, as you imagined yours must be. You pushed his hair back, appreciating all those lovely unique features. He held your gaze and rose to meet your lips with his again, capturing you in a moment of passion.

"God, you're beautiful," he murmured. You wondered if you looked to him half as beautiful as he looked to you. If so, that would be the most attractive you'd ever felt. Your hands were drawn to the waistband of his boxers, and he made a sound against your lips when they grasped it, placing his hand over yours, seemingly stopping you. He pulled back and you both looked down to your hands, then back at each other. You saw the way his eyes tightened slightly. He wanted you, you knew he did, but he still struggled to get past this last hurdle, to let you in this intimately, now that he was faced with it.

"Let me...please, Kihyun."

He paused but then let go of your hand and let you drag the fabric down, exposing him fully to you. Like Changkyun, the underside of his length was lined with deep ridges, the base bulbed thickly, the tip sharp and red. But he was slightly longer and uniquely curved, and the ridges held a specific pattern you yearned to touch. A throbbing need radiated from between your thighs.

You moved to crouch down and he moved with you, following your lead and getting onto his knees on the bed, resting his weight on his palms. Kihyun watched you with bated breath as your hand wrapped around the shaft and your lips took in the tip, and you made a show of groaning your satisfaction, so he knew how much you wanted him. His head fell back when he finally relaxed, letting himself fall into pleasure when he realized you weren't going to leave or back out.

Your heart was racing in your chest, and you wanted all of him at once, every move you made feeling like it wasn't enough. His cock pulsed in your grip, veins shifting peculiarly under your touch. The ridges rose and stiffened when you ran your tongue across them, and you couldn't help but rub your thighs together when you imagined them inside you. You swallowed most of the length and felt the arrow-like tip bump the back of your throat, toying with your gag reflex. The way he was curved made him quite a mouthful. His hand flew to your hair and the sound he let out was animalistic. You peered up, overwhelmed by the vision of him, sharp eyes clouded with lust and cutting through the dim backlight, the light that left his uniquely angular silhouette in shadow. He pet your hair and pushed ever so lightly at the back of your head, enough to motivate you to take him further, to see his face contort in even greater bliss.

"Oh, you look so pretty with my cock in your mouth, baby."

Despite the sordid words, the sentiment felt strangely heartfelt, and butterflies fluttered in your stomach. You knew how hesitant he had been to let you in like this, so you wanted him to see how worth it the wait was. It was also the first time he called you anything other than your name. "Baby" could quickly become your new favorite word, if it sounded as lovely as that on his lips. You pulled off, letting your hand stroke the now slick length.

"Hm, I love having your cock in my mouth," you stated honestly and matter-of-factly, holding it by the base with one hand and letting your tongue lick up the textured shaft, then pulling the sharp tip between your lips briefly. Yet still, the pulse between your legs was becoming unbearable. As much as you loved having him between your lips, your body longed to have him between your legs.

So you sat up and climbed onto him, making him stutter when you dragged your pussy across the underside of his length. Those ridges hitting your clit one at a time, running through the slick of your pussy, was heavenly, and you realized it would be easy for you to cum just like this, if you wanted to.

But you wanted more, you needed more. You grabbed his cock and slid the pointed tip through your slit, pulling another of those borderline mechanical groans from deep within him. Kihyun's hands gripped your ass strongly, his firey touch setting your heartbeat alight, and his gaze shot down to where you nearly joined.

"Fuck, I need to be inside you," he growled, rolling you onto your side before you could move again. Your stomach dropped into a pit of needy lust at those words. You yearned to feel him deep within you, to expand your connection from one of emotion and mind, to the physical. He reached across the other side of the bed into the nightstand, and retrieved a condom. He knew where you kept them, even if he knew the little box had stayed full for some time now.

You slid off your soaked panties then watched over your shoulder as he opened the small packet, a curiosity you hadn't really thought about entering your thoughts.

"Kihyun...um, could you, you know..." Oh, every phrasing you could think of felt too clinical or too silly, but you wanted an answer to this question, so you opted for the latter, with a scrunched up expression. "...knock me up?"

Kihyun huffed out an exasperated laugh and you heard the wrapper crinkle behind you. "Honestly, I have no idea." Hm, it seemed unlikely there was not other humans who'd had sex with goblins before, but who knew what the outcomes may have ever been? He pressed his chest to your back, sweaty skin on skin, and wrapped an arm around you, mouth behind your ear. "Don't think now's really the time to find out though."

You giggled, the sensuality returning as he lined himself up. With a low groan right at your ear, he pushed into your pussy slowly and carefully, leaving your mouth agape. "Yes, oh fuck yes, Ki..." You were absurdly wet by this point, but the newness of this feeling was much to take nonetheless. Though thick, the tip slid in easily, with the gradual pointed shape, then each ridge slipped past your entrance one by one. You swallowed hard, though your throat was dry, and your cunt fluttered and clenched in adjustment. You dropped your hand to rub at your clit, sending shockwaves that made your body crumple against his. "You feel so fucking good," you praised breathlessly, knowing how much it would mean to him, but still speaking the truth. Kihyun buried his face in your hair and kissed the back of your neck, breathing heavily against your skin as he thrusted, reaching further into you, his curve hitting just the right place that made you see stars.

He held your leg in place when he moved, his searing touch almost too much to bear. In any other situation, it probably would be, but in the throes of lust, it was nothing more than exhilarating. He rocked into you, filling you deliciously, and you grabbed at his hand that was tight around your middle, pulling it to your lips. He responded immediately, pushing two fingers into your mouth and curling them down onto your tongue, like two matches being extinguished in the soft wetness. You moaned around his fingers, sucking them needily, and he cursed gruffly, twisting them between your lips.

You moved off of your side and pushed Kihyun onto his back then, straddling him and leaning in to kiss him deeply, hands dragging down the expanse of his bare chest. You wanted to feel him fully, let gravity do the work in sheathing you entirely on his cock.

"Yeah..." he murmured against your lips as you sat back onto him. His hands held your face close, shaky humid breath mixing with yours. "Yeah, ride it like that. Just like that...Fuck, you're so good to me."

Just as Changkyun had said. You were good to them. But, as was the case with many of the things you did, this didn't feel as though you were doing anything for him, necessarily. It made you feel just as good as it did for him.

You kneeled up straight, arching your back and rolling your hips, feeling the details of his dick push against your plush walls as you sat down fully. Kihyun's hands traversed your torso, palms sliding up your sides, fingers playing briefly with your perked nipples, nails digging into your thighs to help pull you forward and back. Having him under you like this reminded you of when his head was between your legs: a vision for you and you alone. His visage splayed on the pillow below you, forehead damp with sweat, his dark hair sticking to his horns, his pointed ears blushed cutely, silver eyes shining brightly...it was enough to drive you crazy.

And it was enough to drive you to your climax. You felt it build within you, one hand rubbing at your clit, the other anchoring you on his chest. "I'm so close, Ki, ah--"

Kihyun pulled you in quickly, down to his level again to kiss you, fucking up into you swiftly and making you squeal against his lips. "Wanna see you cum, yes baby, cum for me..." He mumbled through heavy, gasping breaths. Your deft fingers stayed on your clit and the combination overwhelmed you. You had to part from his lips to cry out, a desperate whine of his name as you shuddered and clenched repeatedly atop him. "God, when you say my name like that..." He kept himself still as you rode it out, lodged deep within you and twitching and aching for his own release.

When you indicated he could, Kihyun rolled you once more, onto your back to hold himself above you. He locked his eyes with yours as he thrust back into you, and you felt your mind blank of all thoughts but him, like a slate being wiped clean in one swipe. You'd never felt more connected to another person in your life, and he wasn't even a person. Your hands came up to his face instinctively, shifting hair out of his eyes, caressing the soft skin that covered his horns, curving around his subtle but sharp jawline. He grabbed one of your hands and kissed your palm gently, a palm so ordinary and cold compared to his own. You could only assume the ways you differed from him were beautiful to him, as the ways he differed from you were to you. "If I could give you what you wanted, I would," he said airily, letting go of your hand. "If I could bring you with me to my realm, I would in a heartbeat."

You smiled softly, knowing it to be true. Though he was hesitant to let you in, to help you achieve what you hoped, since he knew it was what you truly wanted, that was enough for him to do what he could to help you.

"Ah--I know...You're so good to me." That was all he needed to hear. He leaned in to kiss you, then kissed his way down your chest, thrusting rapidly with your hands tugging at his hair and whimpers on your lips. When his eyes met yours again, your heart raced at the intensity of his gaze. You felt him pulse and twitch within you, his breath catching in a tight gasp. Just as you heard a gorgeously melodic groan escape him, brilliant blue flooded his grey irises until they shined like sapphire rings. You knew what that meant, and it filled you with desire and satisfaction. You couldn't recall a more beautiful sight. You let your fingers caress his face, so gentle despite the humid, desperate energy that hung in the air. "Your eyes are gorgeous," you breathed, and those sharp eyes softened slightly at your words.

He swept you into another kiss, raw and messy and perfect, then turned your head slightly to attach his lips to your jaw urgently, his cock stilled deep within you. Your chest heaved as you pulled in cooler air and your eyes met the pencil perched on the notebook at your bedside.

Then, more clouded your sight, a vision of a room you'd never seen before. You caught glimpses of photos of Kihyun and his friends crop up on the wall, a wall painted a muted blue, certainly not in your own room of off-white. And the vision grew around you, the darker walls rolling in like storm clouds and overtaking your familiar walls. There was greenery lining these walls too, vines creeping up and floral hanging from the ceiling, a strange mix of indoor and outdoor things. You realized then that the vision you'd seen the last time you were intimate with Kihyun was no sky as you had thought, but was instead the ceiling of his bedroom, his home. You had touched into the goblin realm without even realizing it. When the transition was complete, you tapped Kihyun's bare shoulder and he breathlessly parted from your skin. His head snapped to the side when he realized you were no longer in your room. He pushed up onto his palms and his now wide eyes darted all around. You realized then that even the sheets you laid on, that surrounded you both, had changed from your yellow cotton ones to a silky, moss green set.

"Oh shit," he gasped. "Wh- how did we..." He looked back to you and you saw the blue in his irises fading, the silver slipping back. "Did you do that?"

You shrugged quickly, at a loss for words. You supposed you had done this, but if so, you hadn't been trying. You knew exactly where you were, it was unmistakable. How ironic that after all this time, all this yearning and trying to get to his realm, you could do it by accident. Perhaps it took your bound object to really bring you there. Perhaps being this intimately intertwined with Kihyun was enough force to push you over the invisible threshold. Perhaps your will was not strong enough before. Or it was something else altogether.

He did have a penchant to make all other thoughts but him leave your head when he kissed you, when he touched you...maybe that was the focus you needed, the pure concentration you could not achieve otherwise.

But whatever it was, here you were.

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Kihyun: Sapphire Flame

This is inspired by their recent comeback, so the boys are interpreted as goblins (with some inspiration from folklore) and have the appearances they have in the Do What I Want mv + some magical abilities (+ Kihyun has a center tongue piercing hehe). The idea was also sparked by skzdarlings' The Same But Different fic, which you should definitely check out! She's a very talented writer! It's been fun to push myself outside of my comfort zone with this 💙 Depending on the response, I may write more, as there is definitely more of this world I am interested in exploring.

"Doesn't matter where it is, with your hot touch, I'm rеady to give my body to you" -Monsta X: Fire & Ice

Goblin!Kihyun x Fem Reader (+ Goblin!Changkyun). Smut (check under cut for specific warnings). 15.1k

Warnings: lowkey monster/creature fucker (including monster dicks whoops (this dildo illustrates what I had in mind)), fire (mostly temperature) play throughout, handjob, oral (f. receiving), protected intercourse

Your eyes drifted to the black beanie that sat unnaturally low on Kihyun's forehead, making his hair sit uncomfortably in his eyes. At least now that the weather was cooler it didn't look so out of place for him to be wearing it. He noticed your gaze and instinctively his fingers curled around the brim and yanked it further downward, almost covering his brow piercings.

"Kihyun, it's fine," you assured him, a comment you'd grown accustomed to making. He played it safe, never wanting people here to suspect anything out of the ordinary about his presence. But you knew no matter what he did and however "normal" he made himself look on the outside, on the inside he still felt out of place.

"Yeah, right, but let's hear you say that if someone saw them." He tucked his right ear further under the hat then put his hands back in his hoodie pockets. You reached up to run your fingers through the strands of hair that poked down over his eyes, in an attempt to clear them from his line of vision a bit. Your fingers brushed the little metal spikes that adorned the bridge of his nose.

"Well don't poke your eyes out in the process," you joked. You hummed as you cleared away a little space for him to see. "Changkyun just wears a baseball cap," you noted as you turned back around to keep walking towards your apartment, where the two of you'd be meeting him. It wasn't often Changkyun visited; he'd come to this realm from time to time, but usually traveled to whatever country he felt like that day. He was often wandering around some big city in Europe or South America. Not often he came to your little town. It was only to see you and Kihyun that he came here at all.

Kihyun just scoffed at your comment. "Right, and people notice. All the time." Well that was certainly true. The brim of a cap and some shaggy hair might obscure the small, flesh covered horns that protruded from their foreheads, but it couldn't cover them, nor their pointed ears, as effectively as Kihyun's trusted bulky beanie. Plus Changkyun refused to wear contacts, so his eyes always shone that strikingly unnatural light grey, almost silver. Kihyun wore a sensible dark brown set of lenses anytime he was roaming the human realm. Unless he was alone, that is. Or with you, the only human he chose to trust with his identity.

But you also knew that Changkyun could turn on the charm if he needed; if anyone had something to say about his appearance, he could find some way to talk himself out of the situation. You knew that very well in fact; that's exactly what he'd done to you all those years ago.

You curled your arm around Kihyun's, invigorated by the recently chilled air and colorful leaves surrounding you, on top of the excitement in getting to see Changkyun again. Kihyun smiled and wrapped his arm around your waist. There was an unspoken connection, an intimacy between you and Kihyun, that always drew you to each other. It spurred a content feeling that you chased, unable to find it elsewhere.

"Am I ever gonna get to meet any of your other friends?" Your question was practically rhetorical at this point. He always answered the same way, but still you asked, in case something had changed since the last time you'd asked.

"Sure, if they dec--"

"'--decide to come here', okay okay..." You pouted. They never came to the human realm. You heard about them from Kihyun and Changkyun frequently; they were all so close, practically brothers, and yet you had never been able to meet any except the two of them. They frequented other realms occasionally, but primarily just stick close to home in the goblin world. Humans held no interest to them; even you, evidently. You thought perhaps they could be as intrigued by your influence on Kihyun as you were to theirs. You sometimes wondered if there were other humans who had friendships with goblins like you had with them.

Although the myths said goblins loved to play tricks on humans, the people who spread those myths didn't seem to realize just how many goblins were popping in and out of human society, unseen. While overall they were certainly mischievous beings, the ones who made their identities explicitly known were often the same ones pushing their luck messing with humans.

Kihyun noticed the disappointment on your face, and rubbed his hand up and down your arm soothingly. "Don't take it personally, they don't like going anywhere much." You knew how protective Kihyun was of his friends; he never wanted them to get into trouble so it was just as well to him that they didn't want to come here. And just the same, he was protective of you.

You arrived at your apartment building and headed inside, Kihyun following closely behind. Though he tried to seem nonchalant, you knew he was happy to get to see Changkyun, and especially to spend time with you both together. His impatience with Changkyun's recklessness certainly didn't surpass his affection for him.

When you unlocked your apartment door, you both entered quietly, listening. It was silent, but that didn't mean anything. "Changkyun?" you called, then paused. Nothing. "Oh, he's not here yet," you noted to Kihyun as you hung up your bag.

"Yes he is," Kihyun said, sliding past you and walking to the kitchenette.

"Yes I am." A deep sly voice was suddenly right at your ear, making you jump like a cat.

"Ahh-- God, you are impossible!" You spun on your heel and slapped Changkyun's chest before even looking at him.

He snickered and grabbed at your hands, curling his fingers around the wrists. "A warm welcome as always."

You huffed, then relaxed, taking in the sight of him. He looked exactly the same as the last time you'd seen him. And the time before that. And the time before that. His eyes were each like an obsidian ring, pupils black as can be with metallic irises ringing them like a brilliant setting. His piercings glittered too, little flecks of silver here and there that caught the light. No hat, and hair pushed back, his soft horns and sharp ears were on full display. Though it was a visage with which you were well acquainted, it still held a unique beauty that caught you off guard every time.

Changkyun smiled. "Hi."

"Hi," you said finally.

"I missed you," he said uncharacteristically, letting go of your wrists.

Your eyebrows shot up in surprise. "You did?"

Now it was Changkyun's turn to look surprised. "What, friends aren't allowed to miss their friends?"

"Wh-- I, no is just that-- you never say that."

"It is a little unlike you," Kihyun chimed it, hand in a box of cereal, making himself at home as usual. He'd taken off his beanie and left it with his jacket on a hook by the front door. His soft brown hair fell in pieces between the protrusions on his forehead.

You caught a glimpse of something on the counter then and remembered you had something to tell Changkyun. "Oh, hey I got this spoon at the antique mall; do you like it? Did you use it?" You pointed at the beautiful antique spoon, with all its intricate detail. Though Kihyun could appear in this realm through any book, his favorite was a particular fantasy novel, so you left your copy of it on your coffee table at all times. In addition to its use, it reminded you of him when he wasn't there. Changkyun appeared through spoons, so you thought it would be nice to have a pretty one you could display that he might enjoy using more.

"Nah, I used that one," he answered, pointing to the sink, a simple everyday spoon you had left perched on the edge, used and with peanut butter still stuck to it.

"Eww." Your nose scrunched then you pouted, sad he hadn't used your gift.

He saw the way your lip poked out and touched a finger to it. "Aw, don't sulk. I'll use it to go back."

That made you feel better. He turned to meander then, glancing around your apartment, which you'd rearranged a bit since he'd last been there. "Apartment looks nice."

"Oh, thanks! Yeah I thought the couch would look better over here and I got this new rug and my parents bought me that plant over there to put on the windowsill..."

He picked up the scented candle sitting by Kihyun's book and gave it a sniff.

"Ooh that's my favorite candle," you said, coming over to take it from him to light. But before you could, he snapped and a small flame sparked right out of his fingertips, like a lighter at the end of his pointer finger. The flame was blue in color, a cool tone like the ocean, and as it connected to the candle wick it morphed into a more familiar yellow.

"Woah, what the fuck??" Your eyes widened at the sight. Your head snapped to see Kihyun's reaction but he was just rolling his eyes.

"What?" Changkyun's brow furrowed in confusion at your reaction.

"You can just like...make flames appear?? Out of your hand??"

Now it was Changkyun's turn to roll his eyes, chuckling as he closed his hand and set down the candle, then plopped onto the couch next to Kihyun. "Can't believe you haven't told her this," he muttered to his hyung. Ah, something else Kihyun hadn't told you. You thought after the few years you'd spent together, he would feel okay with letting you know things about goblins more fully. But he would rarely volunteer information, mostly only answering any questions you asked. Only problem with that was you needed to know which questions to ask specifically. How could it have occurred to you to ask about them shooting fire out of their hands? "Yeah, blue flame is like, kind of a big thing for us. Like how people recognize us."

"Exactly," Kihyun said pointedly through his teeth. Sometimes you wondered if it would be such a big deal if humans saw what they were. Evidently there were plenty of instances where humans and goblins interacted. But you knew how Kihyun felt. And Changkyun was the most rebellious, pushed the envelope the most.

Changkyun dropped his head back and sighed. "Bro, come on, it's just us here. It's not like I'm lighting things in front of strangers in public with it." But Kihyun still shook his head and pursed his lips. "Would be handy though," Changkyun mused offhandedly. "Then I wouldn't have to carry this stupid thing around. Fucking thing doesn't even work half the time." The cheap purple lighter rolled elegantly across the backs of his knuckles then ended up back in his palm before you could blink. "Well, I'm hungry. Can we get food now?"

You spent the evening catching up over takeout and movies, joking and talking restlessly. You had Changkyun show you the blue flame a couple more times throughout the evening. Kihyun was more lenient when he saw how entranced you were by the beauty of it, the way it flickered and danced above his palm, between Changkyun's silver tipped fingers. You could feel the heat emanating off of it from your safe distance, yet his skin remained unblemished. The way the blue glow stood out in the warm dim light of your living room at dusk was quite mesmerizing.

Hours passed quickly and soon you were drifting to sleep on Kihyun's shoulder, as he and Changkyun talked about some video game they were all playing back home. You hadn't realized you'd fully fallen asleep until you woke up in your bed, with Kihyun asleep beside you, where he always slept when he stayed over. You checked the time on your phone, the screen illuminating "2:42 am", stretched, then got up for a glass of water, careful not to disturb Kihyun.

You yawned and shuffled to your kitchenette, realizing you were still in your clothes and trying to decide if it was worth changing into pajamas at this point. You caught a glimpse of a small light coming from the couch and looked over to see Changkyun still up, on his phone.

"What are you still doing up?" You asked, throwing your voice into the dark room, but not too loud that you'd wake Kihyun in the other room.

Changkyun looked up, startled, and sat up on the couch. You noticed he was shirtless then, sweatpants hanging low on his hips. His phone dropped to his lap, so you could no longer decipher his expression, but you plugged in the little nightlight that you kept in your kitchen, usually on at night to keep yourself from clumsily running into something in the dark. The faint glow lit up the small kitchen just enough for you to find your way to the cabinet and get yourself a glass of water.

"Couldn't sleep," Changkyun shrugged as he got to his feet and walked over to you. You noticed he was holding the antique spoon you'd showed him earlier, and it made you happy to see him acknowledge your little gift again. "Thanks for letting me crash here." He leaned against the counter opposite you and crossed his arms, spinning the spoon at the stem between his fingers.

"Sure, you know you're always welcome here." You truly meant that, and you hoped he realized it. Especially with Kihyun's continuous wariness; you wanted them all to put some trust in you. There was only so much you could do to make that happen and you didn't want to come off too needy or overenthusiastic, no matter how enthusiastic you in fact were about being close with them. It took years to get to this point.

"None of your neighbors think it's suspicious, you having random guys over all the time?" Changkyun teased, a smirk pulling at his lip.

You rolled your eyes and shook your head good-naturedly. "Please, it's not 'all the time', and it's the same two guys, so it's certainly not 'random'."

He latched onto that and ran with it. "Oh, so no other guys?" His voice was still teasing, but you detected a hopeful positivity coloring it.

"I don't kiss and tell," you replied playfully, drinking the last of your water and setting down your glass. Although it was true; though you went on the occasional date, none had made it to the "coming home with you" phase in quite awhile, and you knew your connection with them, especially with Kihyun, had much to do with that. "Besides, what about you, Mr. World Traveler? Breaking hearts in Brazil or Budapest or wherever?"

Changkyun smiled and shook his head; you knew he traveled primarily for fun and sightseeing, exploring a new place, and he never did brag about bedding humans. But you saw the way he flirted with them when you were out together, sometimes seemingly involuntarily. He just had that effect.

And you were feeling the symptoms of that effect now as he stepped towards you, closing the gap between your bodies smoothly.

He reached around you to set the spoon down on the counter behind you, then left his hand on the edge, his tattooed arm half trapping you in. Your eyes flicked up to his, that still shone brightly even in the very low light, and you could see something new, something softer in them, that you'd never seen before.

"You know, I really have missed you."

You swallowed hard, unsure of what he would say or how this would go. "I...missed you too, Changkyun. I always miss you and Kihyun when you're not here. Things feel...better...when you're here with me."

Changkyun nodded and smiled sweetly, a kindness in his eyes now. "You're so good to us and you really don't have to be, you know."

Your brow furrowed. "Why wouldn't I be good to you? You're my friends, aren't you?"

"Sure, but...you can never come to us, we always come to you. And you let us into your home, treat us so nicely..." You noticed his fingers move in your peripheral vision, sliding down the handle of the spoon.

You hoped they didn't feel your relationship was one-sided. You really didn't mind it so much and were just happy to have them there when they could be. It wouldn't be fair to expect them to leave their home more often just for you, as much as the selfish side of you longed for it. You met his gaze again and noticed how close he was to you now, his sweet but woodsy scent strong on your senses. The warmth of his body, his bare torso, radiated to you and drew you in. And then the gap between you was closed completely; he surprised you with a kiss, leaving your body rigid for a moment. "Mm--!"

He held your lower back securely, his other hand coming up to tangle into your hair. Your mind was swimming, trying to parse through your feelings, but all the rational platonic feelings drowned when the pleasure of it all bubbled most prominently to the surface. An intoxication you'd not expected left you wanting more, relaxing in his arms and taking it upon yourself to deepen the kiss.

"Sorry," he mumbled against your lips. "Should have asked first." His fingers inched in, holding you to him tighter, his head turning with yours in synchronization. There was a mutual urgency, a hunger, fueling this, and it was one you hadn't fully realized was there until now. Your hands slid down his chest, his skin soft and smooth and hot under your touch. When you parted, you had no idea what to say.

Changkyun smiled at your somewhat incredulous expression and stepped back slightly. "'S okay. Doesn't have to mean anything if you don't want it to. I'll see you in the morning."

Your mind was in a haze as you got your glass of water and went back to bed, wide awake now. How could you go back to sleep at this point? You climbed back into bed and sat up, thinking back on your relationships with both Kihyun and Changkyun and the way you'd felt about them leading up to now. You loved them, of course. Just as you loved all your best friends. But was that it? It was so hard to say, when your relationships with them were so unique. Yes, okay, you had to admit you'd found yourself attracted to them. There was that distinctive beauty you responded to, and the connection you'd forged, particularly with Kihyun, felt unbreakable, even across realms.

You felt Kihyun stir, but didn't think anything of it until his voice broke into your thoughts, startling you.

"Is there a reason you're up right now?" His voice was deep and scratchy with sleep, and he yawned.

You looked at him, hair mussed and tumbled around his horns, eyes shining behind his droopy eyelids.

"Yes, but it's not important," you lied, unsure if you wanted to get into it right now.

"You wanna talk about it?" Kihyun let his arm fall behind you so you could cuddle if you chose to. So you did. You snuggled into his chest and let your tired eyes close.

You let the silence sit for a minute or two, the warmth of his body calming you effectively.

"I kissed Changkyun," you confessed suddenly. So much for 'I don't kiss and tell'...

"Oh, I know," he answered, his voice light and dismissive despite the grogginess. He always seemed to be two steps ahead of you somehow. Or perhaps he just assumed that at some point you had kissed Changkyun, and he didn't realize you'd meant about 10 minutes ago.

"What, how-- wait, you're not, like...jealous or anything?"

Kihyun just smiled and lifted your chin, his lips close to yours, noses brushing. His voice was a mumble, barely above a whisper, and his breath tingled like cinnamon against your mouth. "I mean, I am a little jealous he got to kiss you before I did." He pressed his lips then to yours, soft and gentle, yet with an inexplicable yet pleasurable sharpness all the same. Like an electric spark connected you. He pulled back just enough to speak, but you hardly let him, again chasing the content feeling that always linked you, which was stronger than ever. How could a link like that be? As far as you knew there was no way for you to ever reach the realm of his origin. What if he had never come here? What if you had never met? "But I don't really mind. I know you love him too." He continued before you could protest; you loved Changkyun as a close friend and found him attractive, but your feelings for Kihyun were different. "And I know you don't feel the same way about him that you do about me." Again his words were nothing but soft murmurs, but a previously unspoken truth that rang as clear as day.

Kihyun wrapped his arm around you and pulled you back in, hand coming up to curve under your jaw as your lips locked back together. Your fingers carded through his hair, fingertips dancing over the soft skin that covered his horns before pushing through the dark locks.

Kissing Kihyun was completely different than kissing Changkyun. And kissing them both was completely different than kissing any human. There was a particular energy than illuminated from them both when they kissed you that you couldn't describe, but it filled you with a sense of warm, otherworldly ecstasy. And with Kihyun, there was a gentle sensuality, a security that came along, in accordance with everything he did. The urgent control that Changkyun held when he had you in his arms was so divergent.

Your mouth opened for a gasping breath, and Kihyun took the opportunity to deepen the kiss, rolling you onto your back, holding your head securely and tilting it just so, then licking into your mouth, drawing a delicious moan from within you. The warm, unnatural smoothness of his tongue piercing bumped your teeth then rolled across your lip, and your mind felt totally overtaken by the thought of him alone.

Then he pulled back and sighed heavily, his gaze focused on your face. You swallowed hard and tried to catch your breath and regain...well, any thought. You noticed the way the tips of his sharp ears were reddened, and the blush in his cheeks, and found it endearing. You let your fingers touch his ears and smiled at the warmth.

"You know...this is only making me more confused, to be honest." In one night things had escalated between the three of you in unexpected ways, but though you were confused, you didn't regret any of it.

"Yeah, sorry about that..." Kihyun chuckled and rubbed the back of his neck.

"It's fine," you giggled. "We'll figure it out together in the morning."

"It is the morning," he pointed out jokingly.

When you woke hours later, the first thing you noticed was that you were alone in your bed. You rubbed your eyes as you went back out into the kitchen, your kiss with Changkyun at the top of your mind. You heard some noise coming from the kitchen and expected to find him there.

You turned the corner and jumped in surprise with a yelp at the person standing there. Not Kihyun, not Changkyun, not anyone you'd ever met before. His face a series of sharp angles: strawberry blonde hair spiked here and there, goblin-like horns and ears, and thin steely eyes. The eyes that were examining your green plastic broom with a look of slight confusion before you startled him with your sudden cry. The man's face suddenly softened, and you saw how round and plush more of his features were: soft cheeks and pillowy lips. Even those sharp eyes could look round and gentle with the right expression.

"Oh! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you," he said hurriedly, the broom clattering to the tile as he put his hands up with palms facing you, defensively. It clicked quickly in your head that this must be one of their friends from back home. By the descriptions you could recall, this was probably Jooheon.

"Jooheon?"

He looked at you inquisitively now. "How do you know my name?"

"Well...you know my name, don't you?" He hadn't said it yet, but you figured he must.

"Uh-- well...yeah." He picked up the broom and looked at it. "Sorry, I just, uh...it's been a long time since I've been around humans, I'm not used to your stuff." He furrowed his brow a bit at the broom. "Never seen a broom quite like that before, but it worked, so..." He shrugged and set it back against the wall. Ah, so brooms must be his gateway into the human realm. Now you wondered about the rest of them...you glanced at random objects surrounding you, as if at any moment another goblin would appear before you.

"Uh, it's okay," you reassured him, wanting him to feel comfortable, but also a bit on edge and feeling somewhat frazzled. Unexpectedly entertaining a guest in your home, after you'd just awoken, and with no idea of Kihyun and Changkyun's whereabouts, on top of everything else, was overwhelming.

Your heard the slide of the glass door of your balcony and turned to see Kihyun closing it behind him, his book in hand. "Oh, Jooheon!" He looked at you, seeing the look of desperate confusion you shot him, at an angle Jooheon wouldn't see. He sprung forward and set his book down, coming to your rescue. "I, I didn't realize you'd be here so soon." Kihyun placed his hand comfortingly on your lower back.

Your head snapped to his face. "You knew he was coming?"

"What, you didn't tell her?" Jooheon asked, surprised.

"He never tells me anything."

"That's not true, I tell you so much!" Kihyun whined, his cute little lisp slipping through.

"Not enough!" You turned your attention back to Jooheon. "Sorry. Anyway. Hi, I'm Y/N." You reached forward and stuck out your hand to shake. "But you already know that."

Jooheon smiled sweetly, adorable dimples indenting his soft cheeks. He looked at your hand with confusion for a moment then a look of recognition came across his face and he shook it. Well, he did say it had been awhile since he'd been around humans.

"Kihyun, will anyone else be joining us today?" You asked domestically, placing your hands on the stool in front of you.

"I don't...think so..." Kihyun said slowly, then looked to Jooheon for confirmation.

"Nah it's just me. Everybody else is out or gaming today." Jooheon glanced around your apartment, taking in the details. "Where's Changkyun?"

Oh right, shit, where is Changkyun? Your brain was feeling fried and you'd only just woken up.

"He just went for a walk, he'll be back soon," Kihyun answered.

Just like him to be wandering. "Well, I'm gonna go get dressed." You excused yourself and went to have a few minutes alone to get ready and maybe, maybe clear your thoughts. You heard Kihyun and Jooheon laughing in the living room as you sifted through your closet for something halfway decent. You had no idea what the day would bring. Were you going out? Staying in? Was Jooheon staying the night? Ugh, Yoo Kihyun.

You pulled on some clothes and went to the adjoining bathroom to wash up and brush your teeth, and then you heard Changkyun's voice, booming louder than usual, accompanied by an equally loud Jooheon. You heard a quiet knock on your door so you went over and opened it, seeing Kihyun standing there. He stepped into the room and closed the door behind him. "Sorry I didn't tell you about him coming," he whispered.

"Why didn't you?" You tried not to let your voice sound too annoyed.

"Because...I wasn't sure he would actually come and I didn't want you to get your hopes up if he didn't. You're always asking about meeting them..." He chewed his lip nervously. "And I thought if he did come, he'd come later in the day. I didn't think he'd be here as soon as you woke up. But I'll take care of it. If you want him to come back another day, I'll ask him to."

Though you had to admit that would probably be best, the idea of the opportunity to finally get to know some more of his friends slipping away sounded worse. "No! No, it's okay, I'm okay. Just a little surprised, that's all."

Kihyun let you get ready and when you came back out, the sight before you was very striking. Seeing all three of them together in your living room, ears, horns, everything distinctive fully visible, was jarring. The piercings that decorated all their faces caught the sunlight as they moved, contrasting the soft matte of their honey skin.

You threw on a big smile and got their attention by clapping your hands together. "Alright boys; what are we doing today?"

Together you spent the day showing Jooheon around your town, reminding him of the time he'd spent with humans in the past and introducing him to new things he'd never seen before. He borrowed a hat from you to cover his horns, but your neighbors still clearly noticed his unusual eyes. It wasn't exactly commonplace to see a group of young men with multiple facial piercings and nail art walking around the area either. But you had pretty much gotten used to the stares by that point.

Jooheon was fascinated by the Autumn leaves, the brilliant colors the trees bore, and it was endearing to see him marvel at all you passed. You noticed the way Kihyun kept an eye on him and Changkyun, and more than ever you got a glimpse into what life must be like for them back home. The dynamics they must have.

The affection you felt for Kihyun blossomed into something deeper: a distinct admiration, a specific sense of respect. While Changkyun and Jooheon went into a store, you tugged at Kihyun's jacket to get him to stay outside with you. He gave a glance to them, but did as you silently asked and stayed by your side. You pulled him in and curled one hand around his shoulder and one around the back of his neck, your back to the large window glass. He smiled at you and let a hand rest on your hip. "Thanks for showing him around," Kihyun said. His eyes shifted to the window behind you briefly, then back to your face. "I like seeing you with them."

You smiled brightly; that was exactly how you felt about him. You pulled at his neck and leaned forward, pressing your lips to his in a sweet, gentle kiss. Kihyun's arms quickly curled around your lower back and held you securely to him, releasing a host of butterflies in your stomach. You'd never kissed anyone like this, fully and passionately just out in the middle of a busy street, but it also felt so intimate and alone simultaneously, it was hard to register the strangers passing by.

That evening Jooheon returned to the goblin realm, hesitantly using your broom to get back. A very short visit. You let him know how much you appreciated him visiting though, and told him to pass along the message to the other boys in their little family. You very much hoped they would take some interest in stopping by someday.

Jooheon looked straight to Kihyun when you said this, a look clearly full of meaning, but a meaning you did not know. Then he looked back to you, eyes soft and round, dimples indenting his cushy cheeks as he smiled. "I'll let them know."

You both looked to the broom against the wall, and when you turned your gaze back in his direction he was gone without a trace.

You looked quickly back to Kihyun, to see if there was something you could decipher in his expression, but it was unreadable, blank.

You settled in for the evening with him and Changkyun, a movie you'd seen a hundred times playing in the background as you ate dinner together, later forgotten as your conversation became less prosaic and more involved.

Changkyun told you more about the Earthly travels he'd had recently, in Morocco and Rome, then over to Barcelona for a few weeks, before coming to your little town. One last stop before returning home for awhile. You knew there was no other reason for him to be here except for you and Kihyun.

"I don't think I've ever seen you drunk before," you noted when Changkyun told you about the many bars he'd stopped at this time.

"Your alcohol here is nothing compared to back home," Changkyun said. He held up the can of beer in front of him and shook it lightly. "This shit's like water."

You and Kihyun laughed, and you wondered how strong goblin alcohol must be, if human alcohol didn't have much of any effect on them.

Because Kihyun seemed inclined to answer more questions with Changkyun around, you thought it wise to take the opportunity to ask a few things you'd wondered about. And there was one thing you'd thought about but hadn't had the nerve to ask before, perhaps partly because you were anxious about the answer and how it would make you feel. But with the way things were going between you now, you almost felt you needed an answer.

"Can I ask you guys a question?" You said, keeping your eyes on the TV and fiddling with the tab on your soda can.

"Always," Changkyun answered quickly, downing the last of his beer. Of course he would answer you. You knew that would be the case. Kihyun stayed quiet, not promising an answer until hearing the question, as usual.

"Well, I uh...I know that you've slept with other goblins before..." You hadn't all talked much about your sexual experiences, just in passing, basically just enough to acknowledge you'd had them. "...but have either of you slept with a human before?"

"I sleep with you all the time," Kihyun teased, though his comment reminded you how often he was in your bed, well within your reach, but neither of you had taken the opportunity to do anything more than cuddle until recently. And yet, it was enough. Until now, that is. Now something was ignited within you and you didn't know if or how it could be extinguished.

"I've done...quite a few things with humans, but I've never had sex with one," Changkyun answered, more helpfully. That answer surprised you. He galavanted across your globe and had an indispensable charm in his arsenal, yet he never even had a fling with a human? A one night stand? "Despite what Kihyun may think," he started, a playful glint in his gaze as he glanced at him. "I do try and keep my identity under wraps. And even if I were to hide all of this successfully..." He gestured vaguely over his face. "...there are other things that are, well, not so easy to hide in a situation like that."

You heard a little huffed laugh behind you from Kihyun, and turned to look at him. He raised his eyebrows in an expression that told you he agreed with Changkyun's sentiment.

You were nosy, curious for details. "Such as...?"

"Oh really, Y/N, you can't hazard a guess?" Kihyun replied.

Well, certainly you could, but you didn't want to assume anything about a topic you knew so little about. You and Kihyun had discussed many things, but he was cagey on details sometimes, in his effort to protect you. And this was something you'd never discussed. Your eyes fell to Changkyun's pants, as if suddenly you'd be able to see through them and know exactly what they were implying. Your face flushed and your ears were probably turning red at the inappropriate visions that flashed in your mind.

He smiled to himself, noticing your gaze. "I can show you...if you want." There was a sensuality in his tone, the air in the room getting thicker with it as moments passed. You looked to Kihyun, and he quirked his brow in the same questioning way Changkyun's was. He didn't seem against the idea, and your curiosity was getting the best of you.

So you nodded, sitting up straighter. Changkyun swallowed and slowly slid down the zipper of his pants, then paused. "You're sure you're okay with this?" He studied your expression, but there was only curiosity and a vague lust there. You nodded again and sat patiently. Though you were all on the same wavelength and it was obvious there was sexual tension driving all of this, the idea of it being...educational for you was not untrue either.

So he pushed at his clothes just enough to reach in and free himself. He let his fingers curl around the shaft, stroking a couple of times, obscuring your view, and letting a soft groan rumble in his throat. When he let his hand slide down to hold the now half-hard length by the base, you could get a better look at it, and your heart pounded blood south. The tip was pointed, quite sharp like their ears and horns. The shaft had a sleek curve, that became more pronounced the stiffer it got, and the underside was decorated in strong, horizontal ridges like you'd never seen before: ribbed and layered all the way down. Those stood out to you most prominently, a unique texture that felt out of place yet also perfectly suited to him, to them. It bulged outward towards the bottom, thickening in the bottom half of the length. You couldn't help but wonder what it would feel like inside of you, and the idea left your head spinning.

Kihyun's hand on your waist suddenly broke into your thoughts, and you looked back at him. He had his eyes on Changkyun, then looked to your face to read your expression. His grey eyes looked concerned, as though perhaps this would be a final straw that would send you running for the hills, never to see him again. It was an expression he always had when you learned something new about him, or goblins in general. But as with every part of them that was different than what you were accustomed to, there was a peculiar beauty to you. So you just smiled reassuringly at him, and returned your attention to Changkyun.

"Can I touch it?" You hoped your voice conveyed the genuine interest and curious excitement you felt, for his and Kihyun's sakes.

He looked to Kihyun briefly, then back to you, eyes lighting up in a new way. "I-- Yeah, yeah, for sure."

You reached forward and touched your fingers to the tip. The whole thing twitched under your touch, bobbing upward and stiffening more. Already the tip felt somewhat harder than you were used to. You dragged your fingertips down the length, now feeling the various ridges your eyes couldn't see. They spidered out in ways unfamiliar to you, and seemed to shift and change under your touch. Then you let your hand curl around the length, fingers wrapping around the underside. Those deep ridges stirred something carnal inside you; your mouth watered and you felt a strong pull to feel these details within you.

Changkyun's breath hitched when your grip tightened and your hand stroked downward. Each crest slipped past your fingers, and you imagined them between your lips now.

"Well...?" Kihyun said, expectantly.

How should you answer? Should you say it's pretty? Should you voice what your body was telling you to do? Every response felt incorrect, despite the truth behind them all.

"Does it...y'know...work the same?"

You heard Kihyun huff out a short laugh behind you, one that sounded happily placated. An amused smile pulled at one side of Changkyun's lips. "As far as I know."

You inhaled a shaky breath and let your eyes wander where your hands touched him. "Suppose we could find out." You smiled at each other, then you leaned in to kiss him, feeling much more comfortable this time around, than when he'd caught you off guard in the kitchen. His hand came up to hold the back of your head and you let your tongue meet his gently, while your hand stroked repeatedly across the textured length.

When you parted from his lips, you felt Kihyun's fingers at your back, and turned your attention to him. He shifted, holding your face to kiss you himself, deep and passionate. You could feel he was pouring an appreciation to you into this kiss. He had a way of sweeping out thoughts from your brain so effectively, this time you nearly forgot Changkyun's dick was in your hand. Kihyun pecked your lips twice more, then let you return your attention to Changkyun. You watched his face twitch in reaction to your touch, then glanced back down to your hand. Your mouth watered again as you imagined your tongue running over each of these details before you.

He pulled your mouth back to his, the tip of his tongue meeting yours, his hand securely grasping your chin. "I told you before...you don't need to be so good to us..." Changkyun murmured against your lips between heated kisses. You felt that otherworldly buzz, that haze of pleasure that surrounded you when you kissed them again. The sounds that left him as you stroked your hand were more inhuman than any you'd ever heard from him or Kihyun before. It served to remind you of the fact that that's exactly what they were: inhuman. Despite the humanity that shined through in so many ways, and as similar as you were, at the end of the day, you were very different. These sounds were animalistic with an unnaturally pitched bite to them.

You pulled back and met Changkyun's gaze, his eyes now like ashen slate, intense and focused. His fingers brushed down your neck and they felt peculiarly heated, making your skin feel colder in comparison, sending a shiver up your spine.

"I like to be," you answered honestly in a watery voice. Your wrist twisted around the throbbing head of his cock, fingers enjoying the silky smooth curve. You imagined that point bumping the back of your throat, or somewhere deep within your pussy, and your thighs clamped closed for some desperate friction at the idea. You leaned forward again to take in the intoxication of his woodsy scent. "I wanna be good for you..."

Changkyun curled his hand around your jaw and attached his mouth to your neck in an open mouthed kiss, tongue laving at your pulse before sucking a bruise there and making your eyes roll back. You kept your hand moving, trying so hard to concentrate on doing that one thing right despite his distractions. "I know, that's why I love you," he mumbled against your skin, muffled but still very clear.

Your heart pounded harder all of a sudden, and you did your best to look at Kihyun, in spite of the awkward angle. He looked surprisingly calm, probably just happy you seemed to be enjoying yourself overall and not ready to run. "You-- you do?" Changkyun never said he loved you before. Another comment that was quite unlike him. If he loved you, you had a real problem on your hands. Although you hadn't said it, the connection you felt with Kihyun transcended many things, and you didn't feel that way about Changkyun.

He sensed your hesitation and pulled back, still holding your head in his hand. "What?"

"You love me?"

Changkyun huffed out a little exasperated chuckle. "Well, yeah, obviously. You're one of the most important people in my life." Oh man, having this conversation now, with his dick in your hand...why did you even mention it? "Just because I'm not in love with you, doesn't mean that I don't love you. Of course I love you." Oh, thank God. You seemed to feel the same way. You loved him too, so very much. You just wanted to know he meant it in the same way you did. "But even if I didn't...I don't have to love you to fuck you."

Although he was saying it playfully, there was a dark sensuality coloring those words, and it truly stirred something within you to hear him talk that way. You found yourself leaning right back in immediately to attach your lips to his, tongue meeting his in the middle again. His horns bumped at your forehead as you tilted your head, and you let your fingers play with the point of his right ear.

Changkyun warned you breathlessly that he was close, those unfamiliar sounds leaving him again as your hand sped up its ministrations. You let him replace your hand with his own, pushing himself that last bit, and keeping his eyes on you all the while. Kihyun's chest was pressed lightly to your back now, his gaze focused on Changkyun as well. A few quick tugs of his own hand and Changkyun hit his climax, hips stuttering and cum jumping from the sharp tip then spilling down his hand, slipping past each deep ridge and curve of his dick. Your heart pounded in your chest, adrenaline coursing through you at the experience. Changkyun's head fell back against the couch and one last metallic groan slipped sharply past his lips. His horns and ears were reddened, blushed like his cheeks.

"Shit..." Changkyun turned his hooded eyes to you, and your breath caught when you noticed the irises were a gorgeous sapphire blue now, though it faded quickly as he came down from his high. Everything about him looked and sounded unnatural. No wonder he was he was hesitant to have sex with a human that wasn't used to it. You were used to most of these parts of them yet you were still taken aback by the parts you weren't familiar with. Changkyun then caught a glimpse of Kihyun behind you and smiled. "She's good," Changkyun said simply, pointing at you with a bright smile.

Kihyun laughed slightly and pressed his lips lightly to your shoulder. "As expected." The action was simple and sweet, but in this context felt so much more intimate. You turned your head to look at him and found his face right there, mouth capturing yours in another impassioned kiss that cleared your mind.

Lying in bed next to Kihyun again that night was hard. But it was comforting to realize earlier that some of your questions were answered. It seemed you and Changkyun were on the same page with how you felt about each other. How all of that related to Kihyun was still a mystery to you though.

"...Kihyun?" He was lying facing the wall but you had no idea if he was asleep or not.

"Yes?" He sounded quite awake. Perhaps he was having the same thoughts you were.

"Can we talk?"

Kihyun turned his head to face you, not fully turning around. "About?"

You quirked your brow in a sarcastic expression. What else was there that you needed to talk about? "Gee, I wonder," you teased, fingertip on your chin. "Come on, I wanna talk."

You clicked on your lamp and took a sip from your glass of water, then put it down next to the notepad and pencil you kept there. He sat up so you both were seated against the headboard, and gestured vaguely, allowing you to continue.

"Well...how were you feeling tonight? When I..."

"...gave my friend a handjob?" A searing blush shot through you at the sudden explicit words. All three of his piercings shifted as his brow knitted around them. "What do you think I'm gonna say? That I'm jealous? That I don't like you doing things with other guys?"

"I don't know what you're going to say, that's why I'm asking!" You put your hands up defensively. "I just wanna be sure that you're okay with it."

Kihyun sighed. "I mean, it's not like it's some random guy. It's Changkyun. Like I said when he kissed you the first time, yeah, maybe I'm a little jealous he got to do something with you first, but I know how you feel about me, and about him. And I know you're not doing anything maliciously, so... what's the big deal?" He shrugged, and genuinely seemed at ease, so you did too. He did seem alright when you were in the living room. The smiles, laughter, and passionate kisses were pretty unmistakable. "Besides, you can make your own decisions. It's not like we're dating." You almost laughed at that. "Dating" felt so trivial a word, so removed from whatever connection you shared. But also it stung a bit to hear him speak so flippantly of your relationship.

You felt compelled to be close to him, so you moved to climb into his lap, straddling his waist, his hands settling on your hips, yours on his shoulders. "You're right, we're not dating..." You ghosted your fingertips across one of his horns, biting your bottom lip absentmindedly. His brow piercings caught the dim light and his eyes bore intensely into your face. "...but we're definitely something." You had no idea what to call this, but it was far from nothing.

Kihyun let his hands drag up your sides and he sighed heavily as he brought them back down to your thighs. You leaned in and kissed him sweetly, and when you pulled back, you kept your lips close to his. "Well...you can be first to do some other things with me if you want," you hinted suggestively. You rolled your hips forward, pressing down into his crotch, and he groaned lightly, airily, that cinnamon sweetness of his breath meeting your lips. His hands tightened their grip on your hips, silver fingertips digging into the fabric of your pajama shorts.

"Kihyun?"

"Hmm?" His nose brushed yours and lips passed a centimeter away from yours.

"Can you show me the blue flame?"

Up until that point only Changkyun had showed it to you. But it mesmerized you so and Kihyun appreciated how you loved it, so you knew he would take the opportunity to show you now. He wanted to give you what you wanted.

So he smiled and nodded, and let you sit back a bit. He held his hand up between your faces and the flame sparked, curling up and dancing ocean blue, almost neon in its brilliance, illuminating the room. He watched your entranced gaze then closed his hand gently, the flames extinguished as he rubbed his fingers together, as if by sleight of hand. You noticed the way the blue hue stayed behind, as though it boiled under the surface of his palm. Though the color reminded you of death, the cool tone of a corpse, when he placed his fingertips to your collarbone, the touch teemed with life, unnaturally hot. You gasped at the heat, recognizing it from when Changkyun touched you earlier.

You couldn't believe he'd never shown this part of himself to you before. It was one of the most magical things about him, though you supposed that was why he hadn't. He laid his palm flat against your heart, feeling the pounding pulse that only thrummed harder when met with his warm touch.

"You can let me in, you know," you said, pushing a section of hair away to gently touch one of his horns. The skin was soft and it was like bone underneath, a part of his skull as much as any other part. He kept his eyes on his hand, not meeting your gaze, and he said nothing. "I think you're really beautiful, Kihyun. I don't want you to change. You don't have to hide parts of yourself. Not around me."

He glanced up at your face briefly, then looked back to his hand, tracing his fingertips that were cooler now across the line of your collarbone and inward, until they stopped at the base of your throat. "I'm trying," was his soft reply that you barely heard.

That softened your heart; you knew he didn't want to make any promises he couldn't keep. He knew there was no known physical way you could ever join him in his world, even if you wanted to. But he could never stay in your world either. His discomfort at being so noticeably different, and his realm being his home with his family and his chosen brothers...how could he ever choose just one?

You placed your hands at either side of his face and brought your lips to his again, and his hand laid back against your chest, over your heart, while his other held your lower back to keep you close. If kissing Changkyun was a whirlwind, kissing Kihyun was a gentle, comforting breeze, one that paralleled the Autumn chill that delighted you. You felt you couldn't get close enough to him, pressing your chest to his and wrapping your arms around his neck, his hand now moved from your chest to the back of your head, as the kiss deepened to one of pure passion.

You felt your hips rock of their own accord, rolling lithely against him, his mouth falling agape and breaking the kiss in response. He kept his forehead pressed to yours, the many sharp edges pushing against your skin. You wanted him to feel he could let go with you, find the comfort he provided you, and your body craved more of him with every moment.

You could feel him growing harder beneath you, the thin material of underwear and your pajama shorts not doing much to hide that. The throbbing between your own legs was becoming hard to ignore, and you knew soon enough your own arousal would noticeably seep through the cotton.

Kihyun kissed his way across your cheek down to your jaw, ending at the exact place on your neck that Changkyun had marked you earlier. He pulled back and you felt his fingers, hot again from the fire that burned below his skin, touch the purple splotch. You wondered then, for the first time, if perhaps he could hurt you. If he could ever lose control of the fire and burn you accidentally. Even if he did, it could only be minor, but what worried you more was the way he would feel. You knew he would never harm you on purpose. Perhaps that was why he'd never shown you the flame. His lips pressed to the spot gently, then moved back up to nestle just beneath your ear. His inhuman sounds were very quiet but closer than ever, the low growl of a tiger mixed with something almost mechanical, like a buzz saw. But his lips were in direct contrast, warm and soft and comforting.

You let your hands drag through his hair, holding him to you. His hands fell to your thighs, the touch still unnaturally warm, palms like heating pads on your skin, and he gripped, helping pull your hips along his. Your shorts had ridden so far up your thighs, the hemline matched your panties'.

"God, Kihyun..." You sighed contently but gasped when he rocked his pelvis up, his hard pointed tip hitting your clit through the fabric.

Kihyun huffed out a sigh that sounded frustrated, his forehead and left horn now pressed to your cheek, his lips no longer on your skin. But his hands still held you tightly, his hips still rocked with yours. "I want you..." he breathed, but it sounded almost melancholy, like a confession of something he knew could never be. But his body betrayed his words, two opposing forces.

"Why're you saying it like that?" He didn't answer, just curved his head further into your cheek. "You can have me, Kihyun...I want you to have me."

You grasped his hand then and brought it down between your legs, laying his fingers on the damp fabric and feeling his warm breath fan across your throat as he sighed heavily again. You let go and he kept his hand there, moved it on his own, feeling your arousal, his vague touch over fabric already doing wonders at satiating the throbbing. A few curses slipped past his lips, his hand cupping you, fingertips sliding over the fabric.

You had him, so close, right there...

You pressed your body closer to him, moaning purposefully in his ear to draw him in further, to bring him to you that last bit.

"Fuck..." He moved suddenly then, holding onto you securely and rolling forward, putting you onto your back underneath him. Before you could really process what was happening, Kihyun was peeling off your clothes, your shorts and panties quickly tossed aside. Now you really did have him, and he would have you just the same. Just as you were about to sit up and address him, he brought his head between your legs, diving straight into your pussy with a defeated but happy sigh.

"Ahh-- yeah, yes, Kihyun," you whimpered, opting to stay flat on your back, gripping onto his hair and rolling your hips forward. He watched you, eyes shining in the moonlight that streamed vaguely through the blinds, as his lips closed around your sensitive clit. Your body reacted in ways you'd never felt, and it seemed as if the whole world fell away again. Kihyun curled his hands, now hotter than ever, around your thighs, and pushed his tongue forward, collecting your sweetness. The ball of his piercing rolled deliciously across your skin, swirling around your clit, unnaturally smooth and hard, surrounded by his velvety soft tongue.

Hungrily, desperately, he ate you out, reaching his tongue as deep as he could within you, nose bumping your clit and making you see stars. Your ears were filled with the lewd, wet sounds of his mouth lost in your sex, and the cutting growl that rumbled from his throat and through your body.

You kept your eyes on him, so many of his unique features framed by your thighs; the vision before you felt personal, made for your appreciation specifically. And when your eyes met his, hooded and sharp, you felt a new rush of pleasure accompany all that he was already giving you, making you thrash and whine.

You remembered then that Changkyun was in the living room. You wondered if he could hear you at all, if he was still awake.

Kihyun's tongue rolled figure eights across your pussy, then settled on repeatedly rapidly kitten licking your clit while you squirmed and begged him to keep going. Something shifted within you, a familiar pleasure mounting in an unfamiliar fashion, building higher than usual, without breaking as it usually did at this point. "I'm so close, I-- ah-- oh my God, Kihyun..."

His hips rutted against the mattress and he moaned uniquely, the sound unmistakably desperate as he shook his head, shaking his mouth across your cunt messily.

Your orgasm finally hit you, harder than one ever had before, and you bit hard on your lip to keep yourself from crying out, settling with gripping your shirt in one hand and his hair in the other, and whimpering pathetically. Your eyes closed and a vision flashed in your mind: a blue sky above you, with flowers hanging, almost floating, similar to how you felt at the moment. The vision quickly faded and you opened your eyes.

Kihyun kept working your clit, overstimulating you and making you shudder and leaving your mouth wordlessly agape. He dragged his tongue flat against you a few times, the metal ball hitting your clit dead on each time and making you jump like a shock. A sheen of sweat stuck your oversized tee to your skin.

He pulled your tired legs down at either side of his body and moved up your body, hands and lips trailing up your torso, gliding over your stomach and breasts. Then he stopped at your lips to kiss you deeply, hand petting soothingly across your hair. Despite feeling worn out at the swiftness of it all, you curled your legs around his waist and your arms around his neck, and hummed happily, feeling perhaps the most content that you'd ever felt.

"Kihyun?" you murmured, keeping his lips close.

"Yeah?"

"Will you fuck me?"

He smiled and you could vaguely see his little whisker dimples in the moonlight, then he pecked your lips a few more times. The taste of your own arousal on his mouth fueled the lust built within you even more. "Not tonight," he replied gently.

You pouted. "Why not?"

Kihyun wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, then took a deep breath and let out a long, shaky exhale. It seemed he was finding it difficult to deny you, and you got the impression that if you asked him again he might not be able to say no. "It's time to go to sleep." You hated to admit he was right. It must be so late now and you were getting quite sleepy. "Besides...I wanna do it right, wanna take my time when I do."

You thought back to your conversation with him and Changkyun earlier in the evening. You'd asked if either of them had slept with a human before, and Changkyun had answered, but you just realized Kihyun hadn't.

"Will I be the first human you've ever slept with?" You fully expected the answer to be something like "Well yes, of course." Especially since Changkyun's answer was "yes", and he was much more adventurous and flirtatious. But Kihyun paused.

He sighed and petted your hair again. "My first...in a very long time." He answered slowly, looking at his fingers in your hair instead of at you. "But my second ever."

You suddenly understood how he felt when he said he was a little jealous of Changkyun for getting to do things with you first. You were sure whoever this person was was someone you never had and never would meet, yet you still felt that jealous pang in your stomach.

"Can I ask for details?" You inquired, hoping you sounded innocently curious. A yawn betrayed you though, revealed how tired you were.

"In the morning, 'kay?"

"We keep saying that. Am I gonna wake up to another goblin in my kitchen tomorrow?"

"I don't think so."

There were in fact two goblins in your kitchen in the morning, but they were the two you expected. Breakfast was quiet, no one wanting to speak first, it seemed. You sat down with your cereal and looked at Kihyun, then at Changkyun, each silently busying themselves with pouring coffee and making toast. You figured you'd need to be the one to break the silence. No small talk came to mind; all you could focus on was the story Kihyun had promised to tell you before you fell asleep last night. So as soon as they both sat down, you asked about exactly that.

"Kihyun, will you tell me the story now about the other human?"

"What other human?" Changkyun chimed in, spreading some jam on his toast. At least he seemed at ease. You were glad you'd sorted out your mutual feelings the night before and that sex hadn't gotten in the way of your friendship. That was the last thing you wanted.

"The one he slept with."

"Woah, what?" Changkyun snapped his attention to Kihyun now, his knife clattering to the plate and making you all jump. "You never told me that! Who was it? When was this?"

That took you aback; you assumed Kihyun must have told all his friends about this encounter. It sounded as though they talked about everything. It hadn't occured to you that Changkyun might not have heard this story.

Kihyun looked a little bewildered. "Can we talk about this later?"

"Why, don't you want me to hear?" Changkyun asked, sounding slightly offended. He leaned forward, more interested suddenly. "Was it someone I know?"

Kihyun shot him a sardonic expression, and sighed. You didn't want to push him too hard, lest he clam up again and be even harder to crack. But at the same time, you felt you had proven your loyalty, and he had volunteered the information the night before. Though if his hesitancy was due to Changkyun, for whatever reason, you could understand that.

"You don't have to talk about it, if you don't want to."

Kihyun looked to you and shook his head. "No, it's okay. I promised I would." He grasped the coffee cup in both palms and told you the story, in a quite matter-of-fact tone.

"This was about...4 years ago..." Shortly before you'd met then. "I met someone and really enjoyed their company. I was a lot less careful back then, and so I told them what I was a week after I met them. They were really accepting, so I took that as a good sign and after a few more days, one thing led to another..." He cleared his throat, sparing you the unsavory details. Part of you bemoaned this internally, but any jealousy you held would be best remedied by surpassing such things. "The morning after, we went to a café together. We ran into a couple of their friends and they took off my beanie without asking, and told them what I was. Again, without asking. Their friends didn't respond so positively. So...I left. And, um...yeah."

You thought back to when you met Kihyun. Though you met Changkyun first, and he had persuaded you out of much suspicion quite slyly, Kihyun had done his very best to appear as human as possible; you held no suspicions about him at all for months. He had certainly been careful around you, and now you truly knew why. You thought back to what he'd said, back after he did finally tell you what he was, when you'd asked about the way he disguised himself in public. "It's not like I'm sad or ashamed about being a goblin, about looking the way I do, or having the abilities I have. I like what I am. I don't want to be a human. I just wish...things were easier." He just wanted to live his life. And you just wanted to share in it.

You smiled slightly, warmly, at him, and reached down to hold his hand. "Well...you don't have to leave this time. I like you just like this." You turned over his hand and let your fingertips drag gently over his palm.

Later that day, Changkyun was ready to head back home, to the goblin realm, the visit too short as always. You felt different this time though. You always felt a sadness when he left, a want for him to stay, but you had been thinking a lot lately. He placed the spoon you'd gifted on your coffee table and stood in front of it. You knew he would easily disappear in a blink. Your heart pounded faster and you grabbed his hand before he could go.

"Wait, Changkyun. Can we try going together? Can I try coming with you to the goblin realm?" They had both always told you that there was no way for you to get to their realm. That this traveling across worlds was a special power they held. So you hadn't even tried. But what if you could? What if there was a way, somehow, that none of you had discovered? That, apparently, no one had discovered?

"What?" Kihyun's response took your attention, his voice sounding thin.

Changkyun looked at your hand, then over at Kihyun's expression. "I...don't know. I don't think I can. I don't think it's possible."

"But what if it is? What if we found a way?"

Kihyun interjected, his tone harsh. "And what if you can't come back? What if we somehow get you there but we can't get you back here?"

You turned to him and spoke clearly. "If we can somehow get me there, I have all the confidence in the world that we can find a way to get me back." Kihyun was twisting his fingers anxiously now, so you walked to him and put your hands on his and looked him in the eye, speaking more gently. "It's all in my head, right? Going there? Coming home?" Home. Two different places for each of you. How selfish you each felt to want the other at your version of home.

"Yes..." He seemed hesitant to give you more information, as usual. He looked up at Changkyun, then back to you. He knew how determined you would be now. And he was trying so hard to let you in, while fighting to maintain the protection he strove for. "It's all in your thoughts. You have to will yourself there."

"Will you show me what you do? I'll try and emulate it." You wanted to try. If it didn't work, it'd be nothing but a thought experiment.

Kihyun sighed and washed a hand down his face, his silvery eyes nervously shaking a bit. "Okay...okay. So um...choose something...something common, but timeless. But remember that, should this work, whatever you choose will be your bound object for life."

You thought for a few moments as your eyes scanned the room around you. The dishes in your sink, the clothes and jewelry you wore...the writing utensils on your desk. Yes, that last one felt right. Perhaps pens, pencils? You walked over and picked up a pencil, feeling almost drawn to it, as if it were choosing you rather than you choosing it. You rolled it in your fingers, contemplative. Your bound object for life. Your fingers curled around it fully, confirming, locking it in. You turned to Kihyun, holding it up.

"Okay, yeah, that's good. Concentrate on it, and picture the realm you'd like to travel to."

You looked between him and Changkyun. "How can I picture something I've never seen?"

"That's okay, just imagine it," Changkyun said.

"Think of us," Kihyun added. "Think of us and Jooheon, and all that you do know about it...that's enough."

Now that you could do. Focusing your attention on the yellow pencil in front of you and allowing in all these thoughts of the boys you found so interesting and beautiful was simple. You thought of their unique appearance, the stories you'd heard of their home, the laughter they brought you, the peculiar comfort you felt when they kissed you...But minutes passed in silence and you didn't feel any closer to traveling to the goblin realm. You felt most firmly in your own, no matter how hard you concentrated.

You tried holding Changkyun's hand, as if to travel with him. You tried closing your eyes and holding the pencil. You tried all you could think of, but as the minutes rolled by, you were starting to feel ridiculous and like you were simply wasting their time. It probably was impossible for you to do this. Were you really so naive to think you could just sit down and do something that no human had ever done before?

You set the pencil back down and shook your head. "Alright, maybe I can't...I don't want to hold you up, I know you want to get home." You tried to sound unbothered, but it frustrated you that you couldn't seem to get anything. You felt silly for even trying, but were thankful they gave you time to attempt.

Changkyun patted your hand comfortingly and stood back up. "'S alright, we can try again another day." You stood too and faced each other and he held your chin in his hand. "If any human could do it, I'm sure you'd be the one. Anyone that good with their hands has gotta be good with their thoughts too, I think," he joked, making you smile and blush a little. Then he kissed you once more, disappearing back to the goblin realm before parting from your lips, leaving you kissing nothing but air.

Over the next few days, between work and visiting family, you spent your time focused on this new goal. Deep down you knew you would not be able to accomplish it, but the more you stared at that pencil, the more motivated you felt. Kihyun had planned to go home shortly after Changkyun, but he stuck around, and was patient with you, giving tips if you asked, but unsure if they would be of any help.

"Why do you want to do this so badly?" He finally asked on the third evening.

Your long gaze at the pencil broke and you sighed, throwing a paperclip at it, then sitting back on the couch next to him. "God, I don't know." Kihyun pulled you in, tucked you under his arm. "I know it's stupid..."

Kihyun tilted your chin up to look at him, his grey eyes shining. "It's not stupid. But I wish you wouldn't beat yourself up so much. It's not like you're doing anything wrong. It's just the way things are."

You reached up and sunk your fingers into his soft hair, pushing it back from his horns and settling at the back of his head. You knew he was right.

He leaned down and kissed you gently, an effective distraction. His lips molded to yours perfectly, sweet cinnamon tingling at your senses. You held him close, reveling in the blissful diversion, and his hand came down to rest at your thigh.

He parted from your lips only slightly, to speak, keeping his face close to yours. "Will you let me take my time with you now?" His hot breath fanned across your face, his scent surrounding you like a wonderful haze, and you nodded. You had distracted yourself with other things all week, hardly giving him the time you both craved, that you'd pushed to the back burner...that now engulfed you.

"Please..."

At the word, he pulled you to your feet and guided you to the bedroom, and you eagerly followed. The second you passed the threshold, you pulled him back to your lips, your tongue meeting his in the middle, clashing against his piercing, his horns bumping at your forehead. You threw your arms around his neck and smiled at the way he caught you with a surprised chuckle. There was a carefree feeling now, walls between you crumbled, delight in letting each other into parts of your respective worlds as well as you could.

And then the urgency calmed, falling into bed together, facing each other and kissing more sensually. Piece by piece you removed each other's clothing, a purposefully meandering process. With each piece removed, minutes spent appreciating the newly exposed skin, be it with caresses, lips, hands, tongues...and thoughts of sweet nothings finally spoken aloud.

When you were left in only your undergarments, you felt goosebumps rise on your skin, the many minutes passed leaving you almost embarrassingly aroused. But the tent in his boxers was quite literally pornographic, and confirmed the mutual desire.

Kihyun pulled at your bra straps and you helped undo the clasps, leaving your chest bare to him, feeling particularly vulnerable now. His hands cupped each of your breasts and his tongue met your right nipple, flat against the peak, the ball of his piercing making your eyes roll back. Your arms encircled his head and held him to you, chasing that feeling more. He moaned and hummed positively, sucking and rolling his tongue across the sensitive skin. You glanced down and saw him looking up at you, steely eyes gentle yet full of want, as you imagined yours must be. You pushed his hair back, appreciating all those lovely unique features. He held your gaze and rose to meet your lips with his again, capturing you in a moment of passion.

"God, you're beautiful," he murmured. You wondered if you looked to him half as beautiful as he looked to you. If so, that would be the most attractive you'd ever felt. Your hands were drawn to the waistband of his boxers, and he made a sound against your lips when they grasped it, placing his hand over yours, seemingly stopping you. He pulled back and you both looked down to your hands, then back at each other. You saw the way his eyes tightened slightly. He wanted you, you knew he did, but he still struggled to get past this last hurdle, to let you in this intimately, now that he was faced with it.

"Let me...please, Kihyun."

He paused but then let go of your hand and let you drag the fabric down, exposing him fully to you. Like Changkyun, the underside of his length was lined with deep ridges, the base bulbed thickly, the tip sharp and red. But he was slightly longer and uniquely curved, and the ridges held a specific pattern you yearned to touch. A throbbing need radiated from between your thighs.

You moved to crouch down and he moved with you, following your lead and getting onto his knees on the bed, resting his weight on his palms. Kihyun watched you with bated breath as your hand wrapped around the shaft and your lips took in the tip, and you made a show of groaning your satisfaction, so he knew how much you wanted him. His head fell back when he finally relaxed, letting himself fall into pleasure when he realized you weren't going to leave or back out.

Your heart was racing in your chest, and you wanted all of him at once, every move you made feeling like it wasn't enough. His cock pulsed in your grip, veins shifting peculiarly under your touch. The ridges rose and stiffened when you ran your tongue across them, and you couldn't help but rub your thighs together when you imagined them inside you. You swallowed most of the length and felt the arrow-like tip bump the back of your throat, toying with your gag reflex. The way he was curved made him quite a mouthful. His hand flew to your hair and the sound he let out was animalistic. You peered up, overwhelmed by the vision of him, sharp eyes clouded with lust and cutting through the dim backlight, the light that left his uniquely angular silhouette in shadow. He pet your hair and pushed ever so lightly at the back of your head, enough to motivate you to take him further, to see his face contort in even greater bliss.

"Oh, you look so pretty with my cock in your mouth, baby."

Despite the sordid words, the sentiment felt strangely heartfelt, and butterflies fluttered in your stomach. You knew how hesitant he had been to let you in like this, so you wanted him to see how worth it the wait was. It was also the first time he called you anything other than your name. "Baby" could quickly become your new favorite word, if it sounded as lovely as that on his lips. You pulled off, letting your hand stroke the now slick length.

"Hm, I love having your cock in my mouth," you stated honestly and matter-of-factly, holding it by the base with one hand and letting your tongue lick up the textured shaft, then pulling the sharp tip between your lips briefly. Yet still, the pulse between your legs was becoming unbearable. As much as you loved having him between your lips, your body longed to have him between your legs.

So you sat up and climbed onto him, making him stutter when you dragged your pussy across the underside of his length. Those ridges hitting your clit one at a time, running through the slick of your pussy, was heavenly, and you realized it would be easy for you to cum just like this, if you wanted to.

But you wanted more, you needed more. You grabbed his cock and slid the pointed tip through your slit, pulling another of those borderline mechanical groans from deep within him. Kihyun's hands gripped your ass strongly, his firey touch setting your heartbeat alight, and his gaze shot down to where you nearly joined.

"Fuck, I need to be inside you," he growled, rolling you onto your side before you could move again. Your stomach dropped into a pit of needy lust at those words. You yearned to feel him deep within you, to expand your connection from one of emotion and mind, to the physical. He reached across the other side of the bed into the nightstand, and retrieved a condom. He knew where you kept them, even if he knew the little box had stayed full for some time now.

You slid off your soaked panties then watched over your shoulder as he opened the small packet, a curiosity you hadn't really thought about entering your thoughts.

"Kihyun...um, could you, you know..." Oh, every phrasing you could think of felt too clinical or too silly, but you wanted an answer to this question, so you opted for the latter, with a scrunched up expression. "...knock me up?"

Kihyun huffed out an exasperated laugh and you heard the wrapper crinkle behind you. "Honestly, I have no idea." Hm, it seemed unlikely there was not other humans who'd had sex with goblins before, but who knew what the outcomes may have ever been? He pressed his chest to your back, sweaty skin on skin, and wrapped an arm around you, mouth behind your ear. "Don't think now's really the time to find out though."

You giggled, the sensuality returning as he lined himself up. With a low groan right at your ear, he pushed into your pussy slowly and carefully, leaving your mouth agape. "Yes, oh fuck yes, Ki..." You were absurdly wet by this point, but the newness of this feeling was much to take nonetheless. Though thick, the tip slid in easily, with the gradual pointed shape, then each ridge slipped past your entrance one by one. You swallowed hard, though your throat was dry, and your cunt fluttered and clenched in adjustment. You dropped your hand to rub at your clit, sending shockwaves that made your body crumple against his. "You feel so fucking good," you praised breathlessly, knowing how much it would mean to him, but still speaking the truth. Kihyun buried his face in your hair and kissed the back of your neck, breathing heavily against your skin as he thrusted, reaching further into you, his curve hitting just the right place that made you see stars.

He held your leg in place when he moved, his searing touch almost too much to bear. In any other situation, it probably would be, but in the throes of lust, it was nothing more than exhilarating. He rocked into you, filling you deliciously, and you grabbed at his hand that was tight around your middle, pulling it to your lips. He responded immediately, pushing two fingers into your mouth and curling them down onto your tongue, like two matches being extinguished in the soft wetness. You moaned around his fingers, sucking them needily, and he cursed gruffly, twisting them between your lips.

You moved off of your side and pushed Kihyun onto his back then, straddling him and leaning in to kiss him deeply, hands dragging down the expanse of his bare chest. You wanted to feel him fully, let gravity do the work in sheathing you entirely on his cock.

"Yeah..." he murmured against your lips as you sat back onto him. His hands held your face close, shaky humid breath mixing with yours. "Yeah, ride it like that. Just like that...Fuck, you're so good to me."

Just as Changkyun had said. You were good to them. But, as was the case with many of the things you did, this didn't feel as though you were doing anything for him, necessarily. It made you feel just as good as it did for him.

You kneeled up straight, arching your back and rolling your hips, feeling the details of his dick push against your plush walls as you sat down fully. Kihyun's hands traversed your torso, palms sliding up your sides, fingers playing briefly with your perked nipples, nails digging into your thighs to help pull you forward and back. Having him under you like this reminded you of when his head was between your legs: a vision for you and you alone. His visage splayed on the pillow below you, forehead damp with sweat, his dark hair sticking to his horns, his pointed ears blushed cutely, silver eyes shining brightly...it was enough to drive you crazy.

And it was enough to drive you to your climax. You felt it build within you, one hand rubbing at your clit, the other anchoring you on his chest. "I'm so close, Ki, ah--"

Kihyun pulled you in quickly, down to his level again to kiss you, fucking up into you swiftly and making you squeal against his lips. "Wanna see you cum, yes baby, cum for me..." He mumbled through heavy, gasping breaths. Your deft fingers stayed on your clit and the combination overwhelmed you. You had to part from his lips to cry out, a desperate whine of his name as you shuddered and clenched repeatedly atop him. "God, when you say my name like that..." He kept himself still as you rode it out, lodged deep within you and twitching and aching for his own release.

When you indicated he could, Kihyun rolled you once more, onto your back to hold himself above you. He locked his eyes with yours as he thrust back into you, and you felt your mind blank of all thoughts but him, like a slate being wiped clean in one swipe. You'd never felt more connected to another person in your life, and he wasn't even a person. Your hands came up to his face instinctively, shifting hair out of his eyes, caressing the soft skin that covered his horns, curving around his subtle but sharp jawline. He grabbed one of your hands and kissed your palm gently, a palm so ordinary and cold compared to his own. You could only assume the ways you differed from him were beautiful to him, as the ways he differed from you were to you. "If I could give you what you wanted, I would," he said airily, letting go of your hand. "If I could bring you with me to my realm, I would in a heartbeat."

You smiled softly, knowing it to be true. Though he was hesitant to let you in, to help you achieve what you hoped, since he knew it was what you truly wanted, that was enough for him to do what he could to help you.

"Ah--I know...You're so good to me." That was all he needed to hear. He leaned in to kiss you, then kissed his way down your chest, thrusting rapidly with your hands tugging at his hair and whimpers on your lips. When his eyes met yours again, your heart raced at the intensity of his gaze. You felt him pulse and twitch within you, his breath catching in a tight gasp. Just as you heard a gorgeously melodic groan escape him, brilliant blue flooded his grey irises until they shined like sapphire rings. You knew what that meant, and it filled you with desire and satisfaction. You couldn't recall a more beautiful sight. You let your fingers caress his face, so gentle despite the humid, desperate energy that hung in the air. "Your eyes are gorgeous," you breathed, and those sharp eyes softened slightly at your words.

He swept you into another kiss, raw and messy and perfect, then turned your head slightly to attach his lips to your jaw urgently, his cock stilled deep within you. Your chest heaved as you pulled in cooler air and your eyes met the pencil perched on the notebook at your bedside.

Then, more clouded your sight, a vision of a room you'd never seen before. You caught glimpses of photos of Kihyun and his friends crop up on the wall, a wall painted a muted blue, certainly not in your own room of off-white. And the vision grew around you, the darker walls rolling in like storm clouds and overtaking your familiar walls. There was greenery lining these walls too, vines creeping up and floral hanging from the ceiling, a strange mix of indoor and outdoor things. You realized then that the vision you'd seen the last time you were intimate with Kihyun was no sky as you had thought, but was instead the ceiling of his bedroom, his home. You had touched into the goblin realm without even realizing it. When the transition was complete, you tapped Kihyun's bare shoulder and he breathlessly parted from your skin. His head snapped to the side when he realized you were no longer in your room. He pushed up onto his palms and his now wide eyes darted all around. You realized then that even the sheets you laid on, that surrounded you both, had changed from your yellow cotton ones to a silky, moss green set.

"Oh shit," he gasped. "Wh- how did we..." He looked back to you and you saw the blue in his irises fading, the silver slipping back. "Did you do that?"

You shrugged quickly, at a loss for words. You supposed you had done this, but if so, you hadn't been trying. You knew exactly where you were, it was unmistakable. How ironic that after all this time, all this yearning and trying to get to his realm, you could do it by accident. Perhaps it took your bound object to really bring you there. Perhaps being this intimately intertwined with Kihyun was enough force to push you over the invisible threshold. Perhaps your will was not strong enough before. Or it was something else altogether.

He did have a penchant to make all other thoughts but him leave your head when he kissed you, when he touched you...maybe that was the focus you needed, the pure concentration you could not achieve otherwise.

But whatever it was, here you were.

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This is inspired by their recent comeback, so the boys are interpreted as goblins (with some inspiration from folklore) and have the appearances they have in the Do What I Want mv + some magical abilities (+ Kihyun has a center tongue piercing hehe). The idea was also sparked by skzdarlings' The Same But Different fic, which you should definitely check out! She's a very talented writer! It's been fun to push myself outside of my comfort zone with this 💙 Depending on the response, I may write more, as there is definitely more of this world I am interested in exploring.

"Doesn't matter where it is, with your hot touch, I'm rеady to give my body to you" -Monsta X: Fire & Ice

Goblin!Kihyun x Fem Reader (+ Goblin!Changkyun). Smut (check under cut for specific warnings). 15.1k

Warnings: lowkey monster/creature fucker (including monster dicks whoops (this dildo illustrates what I had in mind)), fire (mostly temperature) play throughout, handjob, oral (f. receiving), protected intercourse

Your eyes drifted to the black beanie that sat unnaturally low on Kihyun's forehead, making his hair sit uncomfortably in his eyes. At least now that the weather was cooler it didn't look so out of place for him to be wearing it. He noticed your gaze and instinctively his fingers curled around the brim and yanked it further downward, almost covering his brow piercings.

"Kihyun, it's fine," you assured him, a comment you'd grown accustomed to making. He played it safe, never wanting people here to suspect anything out of the ordinary about his presence. But you knew no matter what he did and however "normal" he made himself look on the outside, on the inside he still felt out of place.

"Yeah, right, but let's hear you say that if someone saw them." He tucked his right ear further under the hat then put his hands back in his hoodie pockets. You reached up to run your fingers through the strands of hair that poked down over his eyes, in an attempt to clear them from his line of vision a bit. Your fingers brushed the little metal spikes that adorned the bridge of his nose.

"Well don't poke your eyes out in the process," you joked. You hummed as you cleared away a little space for him to see. "Changkyun just wears a baseball cap," you noted as you turned back around to keep walking towards your apartment, where the two of you'd be meeting him. It wasn't often Changkyun visited; he'd come to this realm from time to time, but usually traveled to whatever country he felt like that day. He was often wandering around some big city in Europe or South America. Not often he came to your little town. It was only to see you and Kihyun that he came here at all.

Kihyun just scoffed at your comment. "Right, and people notice. All the time." Well that was certainly true. The brim of a cap and some shaggy hair might obscure the small, flesh covered horns that protruded from their foreheads, but it couldn't cover them, nor their pointed ears, as effectively as Kihyun's trusted bulky beanie. Plus Changkyun refused to wear contacts, so his eyes always shone that strikingly unnatural light grey, almost silver. Kihyun wore a sensible dark brown set of lenses anytime he was roaming the human realm. Unless he was alone, that is. Or with you, the only human he chose to trust with his identity.

But you also knew that Changkyun could turn on the charm if he needed; if anyone had something to say about his appearance, he could find some way to talk himself out of the situation. You knew that very well in fact; that's exactly what he'd done to you all those years ago.

You curled your arm around Kihyun's, invigorated by the recently chilled air and colorful leaves surrounding you, on top of the excitement in getting to see Changkyun again. Kihyun smiled and wrapped his arm around your waist. There was an unspoken connection, an intimacy between you and Kihyun, that always drew you to each other. It spurred a content feeling that you chased, unable to find it elsewhere.

"Am I ever gonna get to meet any of your other friends?" Your question was practically rhetorical at this point. He always answered the same way, but still you asked, in case something had changed since the last time you'd asked.

"Sure, if they dec--"

"'--decide to come here', okay okay..." You pouted. They never came to the human realm. You heard about them from Kihyun and Changkyun frequently; they were all so close, practically brothers, and yet you had never been able to meet any except the two of them. They frequented other realms occasionally, but primarily just stick close to home in the goblin world. Humans held no interest to them; even you, evidently. You thought perhaps they could be as intrigued by your influence on Kihyun as you were to theirs. You sometimes wondered if there were other humans who had friendships with goblins like you had with them.

Although the myths said goblins loved to play tricks on humans, the people who spread those myths didn't seem to realize just how many goblins were popping in and out of human society, unseen. While overall they were certainly mischievous beings, the ones who made their identities explicitly known were often the same ones pushing their luck messing with humans.

Kihyun noticed the disappointment on your face, and rubbed his hand up and down your arm soothingly. "Don't take it personally, they don't like going anywhere much." You knew how protective Kihyun was of his friends; he never wanted them to get into trouble so it was just as well to him that they didn't want to come here. And just the same, he was protective of you.

You arrived at your apartment building and headed inside, Kihyun following closely behind. Though he tried to seem nonchalant, you knew he was happy to get to see Changkyun, and especially to spend time with you both together. His impatience with Changkyun's recklessness certainly didn't surpass his affection for him.

When you unlocked your apartment door, you both entered quietly, listening. It was silent, but that didn't mean anything. "Changkyun?" you called, then paused. Nothing. "Oh, he's not here yet," you noted to Kihyun as you hung up your bag.

"Yes he is," Kihyun said, sliding past you and walking to the kitchenette.

"Yes I am." A deep sly voice was suddenly right at your ear, making you jump like a cat.

"Ahh-- God, you are impossible!" You spun on your heel and slapped Changkyun's chest before even looking at him.

He snickered and grabbed at your hands, curling his fingers around the wrists. "A warm welcome as always."

You huffed, then relaxed, taking in the sight of him. He looked exactly the same as the last time you'd seen him. And the time before that. And the time before that. His eyes were each like an obsidian ring, pupils black as can be with metallic irises ringing them like a brilliant setting. His piercings glittered too, little flecks of silver here and there that caught the light. No hat, and hair pushed back, his soft horns and sharp ears were on full display. Though it was a visage with which you were well acquainted, it still held a unique beauty that caught you off guard every time.

Changkyun smiled. "Hi."

"Hi," you said finally.

"I missed you," he said uncharacteristically, letting go of your wrists.

Your eyebrows shot up in surprise. "You did?"

Now it was Changkyun's turn to look surprised. "What, friends aren't allowed to miss their friends?"

"Wh-- I, no is just that-- you never say that."

"It is a little unlike you," Kihyun chimed it, hand in a box of cereal, making himself at home as usual. He'd taken off his beanie and left it with his jacket on a hook by the front door. His soft brown hair fell in pieces between the protrusions on his forehead.

You caught a glimpse of something on the counter then and remembered you had something to tell Changkyun. "Oh, hey I got this spoon at the antique mall; do you like it? Did you use it?" You pointed at the beautiful antique spoon, with all its intricate detail. Though Kihyun could appear in this realm through any book, his favorite was a particular fantasy novel, so you left your copy of it on your coffee table at all times. In addition to its use, it reminded you of him when he wasn't there. Changkyun appeared through spoons, so you thought it would be nice to have a pretty one you could display that he might enjoy using more.

"Nah, I used that one," he answered, pointing to the sink, a simple everyday spoon you had left perched on the edge, used and with peanut butter still stuck to it.

"Eww." Your nose scrunched then you pouted, sad he hadn't used your gift.

He saw the way your lip poked out and touched a finger to it. "Aw, don't sulk. I'll use it to go back."

That made you feel better. He turned to meander then, glancing around your apartment, which you'd rearranged a bit since he'd last been there. "Apartment looks nice."

"Oh, thanks! Yeah I thought the couch would look better over here and I got this new rug and my parents bought me that plant over there to put on the windowsill..."

He picked up the scented candle sitting by Kihyun's book and gave it a sniff.

"Ooh that's my favorite candle," you said, coming over to take it from him to light. But before you could, he snapped and a small flame sparked right out of his fingertips, like a lighter at the end of his pointer finger. The flame was blue in color, a cool tone like the ocean, and as it connected to the candle wick it morphed into a more familiar yellow.

"Woah, what the fuck??" Your eyes widened at the sight. Your head snapped to see Kihyun's reaction but he was just rolling his eyes.

"What?" Changkyun's brow furrowed in confusion at your reaction.

"You can just like...make flames appear?? Out of your hand??"

Now it was Changkyun's turn to roll his eyes, chuckling as he closed his hand and set down the candle, then plopped onto the couch next to Kihyun. "Can't believe you haven't told her this," he muttered to his hyung. Ah, something else Kihyun hadn't told you. You thought after the few years you'd spent together, he would feel okay with letting you know things about goblins more fully. But he would rarely volunteer information, mostly only answering any questions you asked. Only problem with that was you needed to know which questions to ask specifically. How could it have occurred to you to ask about them shooting fire out of their hands? "Yeah, blue flame is like, kind of a big thing for us. Like how people recognize us."

"Exactly," Kihyun said pointedly through his teeth. Sometimes you wondered if it would be such a big deal if humans saw what they were. Evidently there were plenty of instances where humans and goblins interacted. But you knew how Kihyun felt. And Changkyun was the most rebellious, pushed the envelope the most.

Changkyun dropped his head back and sighed. "Bro, come on, it's just us here. It's not like I'm lighting things in front of strangers in public with it." But Kihyun still shook his head and pursed his lips. "Would be handy though," Changkyun mused offhandedly. "Then I wouldn't have to carry this stupid thing around. Fucking thing doesn't even work half the time." The cheap purple lighter rolled elegantly across the backs of his knuckles then ended up back in his palm before you could blink. "Well, I'm hungry. Can we get food now?"

You spent the evening catching up over takeout and movies, joking and talking restlessly. You had Changkyun show you the blue flame a couple more times throughout the evening. Kihyun was more lenient when he saw how entranced you were by the beauty of it, the way it flickered and danced above his palm, between Changkyun's silver tipped fingers. You could feel the heat emanating off of it from your safe distance, yet his skin remained unblemished. The way the blue glow stood out in the warm dim light of your living room at dusk was quite mesmerizing.

Hours passed quickly and soon you were drifting to sleep on Kihyun's shoulder, as he and Changkyun talked about some video game they were all playing back home. You hadn't realized you'd fully fallen asleep until you woke up in your bed, with Kihyun asleep beside you, where he always slept when he stayed over. You checked the time on your phone, the screen illuminating "2:42 am", stretched, then got up for a glass of water, careful not to disturb Kihyun.

You yawned and shuffled to your kitchenette, realizing you were still in your clothes and trying to decide if it was worth changing into pajamas at this point. You caught a glimpse of a small light coming from the couch and looked over to see Changkyun still up, on his phone.

"What are you still doing up?" You asked, throwing your voice into the dark room, but not too loud that you'd wake Kihyun in the other room.

Changkyun looked up, startled, and sat up on the couch. You noticed he was shirtless then, sweatpants hanging low on his hips. His phone dropped to his lap, so you could no longer decipher his expression, but you plugged in the little nightlight that you kept in your kitchen, usually on at night to keep yourself from clumsily running into something in the dark. The faint glow lit up the small kitchen just enough for you to find your way to the cabinet and get yourself a glass of water.

"Couldn't sleep," Changkyun shrugged as he got to his feet and walked over to you. You noticed he was holding the antique spoon you'd showed him earlier, and it made you happy to see him acknowledge your little gift again. "Thanks for letting me crash here." He leaned against the counter opposite you and crossed his arms, spinning the spoon at the stem between his fingers.

"Sure, you know you're always welcome here." You truly meant that, and you hoped he realized it. Especially with Kihyun's continuous wariness; you wanted them all to put some trust in you. There was only so much you could do to make that happen and you didn't want to come off too needy or overenthusiastic, no matter how enthusiastic you in fact were about being close with them. It took years to get to this point.

"None of your neighbors think it's suspicious, you having random guys over all the time?" Changkyun teased, a smirk pulling at his lip.

You rolled your eyes and shook your head good-naturedly. "Please, it's not 'all the time', and it's the same two guys, so it's certainly not 'random'."

He latched onto that and ran with it. "Oh, so no other guys?" His voice was still teasing, but you detected a hopeful positivity coloring it.

"I don't kiss and tell," you replied playfully, drinking the last of your water and setting down your glass. Although it was true; though you went on the occasional date, none had made it to the "coming home with you" phase in quite awhile, and you knew your connection with them, especially with Kihyun, had much to do with that. "Besides, what about you, Mr. World Traveler? Breaking hearts in Brazil or Budapest or wherever?"

Changkyun smiled and shook his head; you knew he traveled primarily for fun and sightseeing, exploring a new place, and he never did brag about bedding humans. But you saw the way he flirted with them when you were out together, sometimes seemingly involuntarily. He just had that effect.

And you were feeling the symptoms of that effect now as he stepped towards you, closing the gap between your bodies smoothly.

He reached around you to set the spoon down on the counter behind you, then left his hand on the edge, his tattooed arm half trapping you in. Your eyes flicked up to his, that still shone brightly even in the very low light, and you could see something new, something softer in them, that you'd never seen before.

"You know, I really have missed you."

You swallowed hard, unsure of what he would say or how this would go. "I...missed you too, Changkyun. I always miss you and Kihyun when you're not here. Things feel...better...when you're here with me."

Changkyun nodded and smiled sweetly, a kindness in his eyes now. "You're so good to us and you really don't have to be, you know."

Your brow furrowed. "Why wouldn't I be good to you? You're my friends, aren't you?"

"Sure, but...you can never come to us, we always come to you. And you let us into your home, treat us so nicely..." You noticed his fingers move in your peripheral vision, sliding down the handle of the spoon.

You hoped they didn't feel your relationship was one-sided. You really didn't mind it so much and were just happy to have them there when they could be. It wouldn't be fair to expect them to leave their home more often just for you, as much as the selfish side of you longed for it. You met his gaze again and noticed how close he was to you now, his sweet but woodsy scent strong on your senses. The warmth of his body, his bare torso, radiated to you and drew you in. And then the gap between you was closed completely; he surprised you with a kiss, leaving your body rigid for a moment. "Mm--!"

He held your lower back securely, his other hand coming up to tangle into your hair. Your mind was swimming, trying to parse through your feelings, but all the rational platonic feelings drowned when the pleasure of it all bubbled most prominently to the surface. An intoxication you'd not expected left you wanting more, relaxing in his arms and taking it upon yourself to deepen the kiss.

"Sorry," he mumbled against your lips. "Should have asked first." His fingers inched in, holding you to him tighter, his head turning with yours in synchronization. There was a mutual urgency, a hunger, fueling this, and it was one you hadn't fully realized was there until now. Your hands slid down his chest, his skin soft and smooth and hot under your touch. When you parted, you had no idea what to say.

Changkyun smiled at your somewhat incredulous expression and stepped back slightly. "'S okay. Doesn't have to mean anything if you don't want it to. I'll see you in the morning."

Your mind was in a haze as you got your glass of water and went back to bed, wide awake now. How could you go back to sleep at this point? You climbed back into bed and sat up, thinking back on your relationships with both Kihyun and Changkyun and the way you'd felt about them leading up to now. You loved them, of course. Just as you loved all your best friends. But was that it? It was so hard to say, when your relationships with them were so unique. Yes, okay, you had to admit you'd found yourself attracted to them. There was that distinctive beauty you responded to, and the connection you'd forged, particularly with Kihyun, felt unbreakable, even across realms.

You felt Kihyun stir, but didn't think anything of it until his voice broke into your thoughts, startling you.

"Is there a reason you're up right now?" His voice was deep and scratchy with sleep, and he yawned.

You looked at him, hair mussed and tumbled around his horns, eyes shining behind his droopy eyelids.

"Yes, but it's not important," you lied, unsure if you wanted to get into it right now.

"You wanna talk about it?" Kihyun let his arm fall behind you so you could cuddle if you chose to. So you did. You snuggled into his chest and let your tired eyes close.

You let the silence sit for a minute or two, the warmth of his body calming you effectively.

"I kissed Changkyun," you confessed suddenly. So much for 'I don't kiss and tell'...

"Oh, I know," he answered, his voice light and dismissive despite the grogginess. He always seemed to be two steps ahead of you somehow. Or perhaps he just assumed that at some point you had kissed Changkyun, and he didn't realize you'd meant about 10 minutes ago.

"What, how-- wait, you're not, like...jealous or anything?"

Kihyun just smiled and lifted your chin, his lips close to yours, noses brushing. His voice was a mumble, barely above a whisper, and his breath tingled like cinnamon against your mouth. "I mean, I am a little jealous he got to kiss you before I did." He pressed his lips then to yours, soft and gentle, yet with an inexplicable yet pleasurable sharpness all the same. Like an electric spark connected you. He pulled back just enough to speak, but you hardly let him, again chasing the content feeling that always linked you, which was stronger than ever. How could a link like that be? As far as you knew there was no way for you to ever reach the realm of his origin. What if he had never come here? What if you had never met? "But I don't really mind. I know you love him too." He continued before you could protest; you loved Changkyun as a close friend and found him attractive, but your feelings for Kihyun were different. "And I know you don't feel the same way about him that you do about me." Again his words were nothing but soft murmurs, but a previously unspoken truth that rang as clear as day.

Kihyun wrapped his arm around you and pulled you back in, hand coming up to curve under your jaw as your lips locked back together. Your fingers carded through his hair, fingertips dancing over the soft skin that covered his horns before pushing through the dark locks.

Kissing Kihyun was completely different than kissing Changkyun. And kissing them both was completely different than kissing any human. There was a particular energy than illuminated from them both when they kissed you that you couldn't describe, but it filled you with a sense of warm, otherworldly ecstasy. And with Kihyun, there was a gentle sensuality, a security that came along, in accordance with everything he did. The urgent control that Changkyun held when he had you in his arms was so divergent.

Your mouth opened for a gasping breath, and Kihyun took the opportunity to deepen the kiss, rolling you onto your back, holding your head securely and tilting it just so, then licking into your mouth, drawing a delicious moan from within you. The warm, unnatural smoothness of his tongue piercing bumped your teeth then rolled across your lip, and your mind felt totally overtaken by the thought of him alone.

Then he pulled back and sighed heavily, his gaze focused on your face. You swallowed hard and tried to catch your breath and regain...well, any thought. You noticed the way the tips of his sharp ears were reddened, and the blush in his cheeks, and found it endearing. You let your fingers touch his ears and smiled at the warmth.

"You know...this is only making me more confused, to be honest." In one night things had escalated between the three of you in unexpected ways, but though you were confused, you didn't regret any of it.

"Yeah, sorry about that..." Kihyun chuckled and rubbed the back of his neck.

"It's fine," you giggled. "We'll figure it out together in the morning."

"It is the morning," he pointed out jokingly.

When you woke hours later, the first thing you noticed was that you were alone in your bed. You rubbed your eyes as you went back out into the kitchen, your kiss with Changkyun at the top of your mind. You heard some noise coming from the kitchen and expected to find him there.

You turned the corner and jumped in surprise with a yelp at the person standing there. Not Kihyun, not Changkyun, not anyone you'd ever met before. His face a series of sharp angles: strawberry blonde hair spiked here and there, goblin-like horns and ears, and thin steely eyes. The eyes that were examining your green plastic broom with a look of slight confusion before you startled him with your sudden cry. The man's face suddenly softened, and you saw how round and plush more of his features were: soft cheeks and pillowy lips. Even those sharp eyes could look round and gentle with the right expression.

"Oh! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you," he said hurriedly, the broom clattering to the tile as he put his hands up with palms facing you, defensively. It clicked quickly in your head that this must be one of their friends from back home. By the descriptions you could recall, this was probably Jooheon.

"Jooheon?"

He looked at you inquisitively now. "How do you know my name?"

"Well...you know my name, don't you?" He hadn't said it yet, but you figured he must.

"Uh-- well...yeah." He picked up the broom and looked at it. "Sorry, I just, uh...it's been a long time since I've been around humans, I'm not used to your stuff." He furrowed his brow a bit at the broom. "Never seen a broom quite like that before, but it worked, so..." He shrugged and set it back against the wall. Ah, so brooms must be his gateway into the human realm. Now you wondered about the rest of them...you glanced at random objects surrounding you, as if at any moment another goblin would appear before you.

"Uh, it's okay," you reassured him, wanting him to feel comfortable, but also a bit on edge and feeling somewhat frazzled. Unexpectedly entertaining a guest in your home, after you'd just awoken, and with no idea of Kihyun and Changkyun's whereabouts, on top of everything else, was overwhelming.

Your heard the slide of the glass door of your balcony and turned to see Kihyun closing it behind him, his book in hand. "Oh, Jooheon!" He looked at you, seeing the look of desperate confusion you shot him, at an angle Jooheon wouldn't see. He sprung forward and set his book down, coming to your rescue. "I, I didn't realize you'd be here so soon." Kihyun placed his hand comfortingly on your lower back.

Your head snapped to his face. "You knew he was coming?"

"What, you didn't tell her?" Jooheon asked, surprised.

"He never tells me anything."

"That's not true, I tell you so much!" Kihyun whined, his cute little lisp slipping through.

"Not enough!" You turned your attention back to Jooheon. "Sorry. Anyway. Hi, I'm Y/N." You reached forward and stuck out your hand to shake. "But you already know that."

Jooheon smiled sweetly, adorable dimples indenting his soft cheeks. He looked at your hand with confusion for a moment then a look of recognition came across his face and he shook it. Well, he did say it had been awhile since he'd been around humans.

"Kihyun, will anyone else be joining us today?" You asked domestically, placing your hands on the stool in front of you.

"I don't...think so..." Kihyun said slowly, then looked to Jooheon for confirmation.

"Nah it's just me. Everybody else is out or gaming today." Jooheon glanced around your apartment, taking in the details. "Where's Changkyun?"

Oh right, shit, where is Changkyun? Your brain was feeling fried and you'd only just woken up.

"He just went for a walk, he'll be back soon," Kihyun answered.

Just like him to be wandering. "Well, I'm gonna go get dressed." You excused yourself and went to have a few minutes alone to get ready and maybe, maybe clear your thoughts. You heard Kihyun and Jooheon laughing in the living room as you sifted through your closet for something halfway decent. You had no idea what the day would bring. Were you going out? Staying in? Was Jooheon staying the night? Ugh, Yoo Kihyun.

You pulled on some clothes and went to the adjoining bathroom to wash up and brush your teeth, and then you heard Changkyun's voice, booming louder than usual, accompanied by an equally loud Jooheon. You heard a quiet knock on your door so you went over and opened it, seeing Kihyun standing there. He stepped into the room and closed the door behind him. "Sorry I didn't tell you about him coming," he whispered.

"Why didn't you?" You tried not to let your voice sound too annoyed.

"Because...I wasn't sure he would actually come and I didn't want you to get your hopes up if he didn't. You're always asking about meeting them..." He chewed his lip nervously. "And I thought if he did come, he'd come later in the day. I didn't think he'd be here as soon as you woke up. But I'll take care of it. If you want him to come back another day, I'll ask him to."

Though you had to admit that would probably be best, the idea of the opportunity to finally get to know some more of his friends slipping away sounded worse. "No! No, it's okay, I'm okay. Just a little surprised, that's all."

Kihyun let you get ready and when you came back out, the sight before you was very striking. Seeing all three of them together in your living room, ears, horns, everything distinctive fully visible, was jarring. The piercings that decorated all their faces caught the sunlight as they moved, contrasting the soft matte of their honey skin.

You threw on a big smile and got their attention by clapping your hands together. "Alright boys; what are we doing today?"

Together you spent the day showing Jooheon around your town, reminding him of the time he'd spent with humans in the past and introducing him to new things he'd never seen before. He borrowed a hat from you to cover his horns, but your neighbors still clearly noticed his unusual eyes. It wasn't exactly commonplace to see a group of young men with multiple facial piercings and nail art walking around the area either. But you had pretty much gotten used to the stares by that point.

Jooheon was fascinated by the Autumn leaves, the brilliant colors the trees bore, and it was endearing to see him marvel at all you passed. You noticed the way Kihyun kept an eye on him and Changkyun, and more than ever you got a glimpse into what life must be like for them back home. The dynamics they must have.

The affection you felt for Kihyun blossomed into something deeper: a distinct admiration, a specific sense of respect. While Changkyun and Jooheon went into a store, you tugged at Kihyun's jacket to get him to stay outside with you. He gave a glance to them, but did as you silently asked and stayed by your side. You pulled him in and curled one hand around his shoulder and one around the back of his neck, your back to the large window glass. He smiled at you and let a hand rest on your hip. "Thanks for showing him around," Kihyun said. His eyes shifted to the window behind you briefly, then back to your face. "I like seeing you with them."

You smiled brightly; that was exactly how you felt about him. You pulled at his neck and leaned forward, pressing your lips to his in a sweet, gentle kiss. Kihyun's arms quickly curled around your lower back and held you securely to him, releasing a host of butterflies in your stomach. You'd never kissed anyone like this, fully and passionately just out in the middle of a busy street, but it also felt so intimate and alone simultaneously, it was hard to register the strangers passing by.

That evening Jooheon returned to the goblin realm, hesitantly using your broom to get back. A very short visit. You let him know how much you appreciated him visiting though, and told him to pass along the message to the other boys in their little family. You very much hoped they would take some interest in stopping by someday.

Jooheon looked straight to Kihyun when you said this, a look clearly full of meaning, but a meaning you did not know. Then he looked back to you, eyes soft and round, dimples indenting his cushy cheeks as he smiled. "I'll let them know."

You both looked to the broom against the wall, and when you turned your gaze back in his direction he was gone without a trace.

You looked quickly back to Kihyun, to see if there was something you could decipher in his expression, but it was unreadable, blank.

You settled in for the evening with him and Changkyun, a movie you'd seen a hundred times playing in the background as you ate dinner together, later forgotten as your conversation became less prosaic and more involved.

Changkyun told you more about the Earthly travels he'd had recently, in Morocco and Rome, then over to Barcelona for a few weeks, before coming to your little town. One last stop before returning home for awhile. You knew there was no other reason for him to be here except for you and Kihyun.

"I don't think I've ever seen you drunk before," you noted when Changkyun told you about the many bars he'd stopped at this time.

"Your alcohol here is nothing compared to back home," Changkyun said. He held up the can of beer in front of him and shook it lightly. "This shit's like water."

You and Kihyun laughed, and you wondered how strong goblin alcohol must be, if human alcohol didn't have much of any effect on them.

Because Kihyun seemed inclined to answer more questions with Changkyun around, you thought it wise to take the opportunity to ask a few things you'd wondered about. And there was one thing you'd thought about but hadn't had the nerve to ask before, perhaps partly because you were anxious about the answer and how it would make you feel. But with the way things were going between you now, you almost felt you needed an answer.

"Can I ask you guys a question?" You said, keeping your eyes on the TV and fiddling with the tab on your soda can.

"Always," Changkyun answered quickly, downing the last of his beer. Of course he would answer you. You knew that would be the case. Kihyun stayed quiet, not promising an answer until hearing the question, as usual.

"Well, I uh...I know that you've slept with other goblins before..." You hadn't all talked much about your sexual experiences, just in passing, basically just enough to acknowledge you'd had them. "...but have either of you slept with a human before?"

"I sleep with you all the time," Kihyun teased, though his comment reminded you how often he was in your bed, well within your reach, but neither of you had taken the opportunity to do anything more than cuddle until recently. And yet, it was enough. Until now, that is. Now something was ignited within you and you didn't know if or how it could be extinguished.

"I've done...quite a few things with humans, but I've never had sex with one," Changkyun answered, more helpfully. That answer surprised you. He galavanted across your globe and had an indispensable charm in his arsenal, yet he never even had a fling with a human? A one night stand? "Despite what Kihyun may think," he started, a playful glint in his gaze as he glanced at him. "I do try and keep my identity under wraps. And even if I were to hide all of this successfully..." He gestured vaguely over his face. "...there are other things that are, well, not so easy to hide in a situation like that."

You heard a little huffed laugh behind you from Kihyun, and turned to look at him. He raised his eyebrows in an expression that told you he agreed with Changkyun's sentiment.

You were nosy, curious for details. "Such as...?"

"Oh really, Y/N, you can't hazard a guess?" Kihyun replied.

Well, certainly you could, but you didn't want to assume anything about a topic you knew so little about. You and Kihyun had discussed many things, but he was cagey on details sometimes, in his effort to protect you. And this was something you'd never discussed. Your eyes fell to Changkyun's pants, as if suddenly you'd be able to see through them and know exactly what they were implying. Your face flushed and your ears were probably turning red at the inappropriate visions that flashed in your mind.

He smiled to himself, noticing your gaze. "I can show you...if you want." There was a sensuality in his tone, the air in the room getting thicker with it as moments passed. You looked to Kihyun, and he quirked his brow in the same questioning way Changkyun's was. He didn't seem against the idea, and your curiosity was getting the best of you.

So you nodded, sitting up straighter. Changkyun swallowed and slowly slid down the zipper of his pants, then paused. "You're sure you're okay with this?" He studied your expression, but there was only curiosity and a vague lust there. You nodded again and sat patiently. Though you were all on the same wavelength and it was obvious there was sexual tension driving all of this, the idea of it being...educational for you was not untrue either.

So he pushed at his clothes just enough to reach in and free himself. He let his fingers curl around the shaft, stroking a couple of times, obscuring your view, and letting a soft groan rumble in his throat. When he let his hand slide down to hold the now half-hard length by the base, you could get a better look at it, and your heart pounded blood south. The tip was pointed, quite sharp like their ears and horns. The shaft had a sleek curve, that became more pronounced the stiffer it got, and the underside was decorated in strong, horizontal ridges like you'd never seen before: ribbed and layered all the way down. Those stood out to you most prominently, a unique texture that felt out of place yet also perfectly suited to him, to them. It bulged outward towards the bottom, thickening in the bottom half of the length. You couldn't help but wonder what it would feel like inside of you, and the idea left your head spinning.

Kihyun's hand on your waist suddenly broke into your thoughts, and you looked back at him. He had his eyes on Changkyun, then looked to your face to read your expression. His grey eyes looked concerned, as though perhaps this would be a final straw that would send you running for the hills, never to see him again. It was an expression he always had when you learned something new about him, or goblins in general. But as with every part of them that was different than what you were accustomed to, there was a peculiar beauty to you. So you just smiled reassuringly at him, and returned your attention to Changkyun.

"Can I touch it?" You hoped your voice conveyed the genuine interest and curious excitement you felt, for his and Kihyun's sakes.

He looked to Kihyun briefly, then back to you, eyes lighting up in a new way. "I-- Yeah, yeah, for sure."

You reached forward and touched your fingers to the tip. The whole thing twitched under your touch, bobbing upward and stiffening more. Already the tip felt somewhat harder than you were used to. You dragged your fingertips down the length, now feeling the various ridges your eyes couldn't see. They spidered out in ways unfamiliar to you, and seemed to shift and change under your touch. Then you let your hand curl around the length, fingers wrapping around the underside. Those deep ridges stirred something carnal inside you; your mouth watered and you felt a strong pull to feel these details within you.

Changkyun's breath hitched when your grip tightened and your hand stroked downward. Each crest slipped past your fingers, and you imagined them between your lips now.

"Well...?" Kihyun said, expectantly.

How should you answer? Should you say it's pretty? Should you voice what your body was telling you to do? Every response felt incorrect, despite the truth behind them all.

"Does it...y'know...work the same?"

You heard Kihyun huff out a short laugh behind you, one that sounded happily placated. An amused smile pulled at one side of Changkyun's lips. "As far as I know."

You inhaled a shaky breath and let your eyes wander where your hands touched him. "Suppose we could find out." You smiled at each other, then you leaned in to kiss him, feeling much more comfortable this time around, than when he'd caught you off guard in the kitchen. His hand came up to hold the back of your head and you let your tongue meet his gently, while your hand stroked repeatedly across the textured length.

When you parted from his lips, you felt Kihyun's fingers at your back, and turned your attention to him. He shifted, holding your face to kiss you himself, deep and passionate. You could feel he was pouring an appreciation to you into this kiss. He had a way of sweeping out thoughts from your brain so effectively, this time you nearly forgot Changkyun's dick was in your hand. Kihyun pecked your lips twice more, then let you return your attention to Changkyun. You watched his face twitch in reaction to your touch, then glanced back down to your hand. Your mouth watered again as you imagined your tongue running over each of these details before you.

He pulled your mouth back to his, the tip of his tongue meeting yours, his hand securely grasping your chin. "I told you before...you don't need to be so good to us..." Changkyun murmured against your lips between heated kisses. You felt that otherworldly buzz, that haze of pleasure that surrounded you when you kissed them again. The sounds that left him as you stroked your hand were more inhuman than any you'd ever heard from him or Kihyun before. It served to remind you of the fact that that's exactly what they were: inhuman. Despite the humanity that shined through in so many ways, and as similar as you were, at the end of the day, you were very different. These sounds were animalistic with an unnaturally pitched bite to them.

You pulled back and met Changkyun's gaze, his eyes now like ashen slate, intense and focused. His fingers brushed down your neck and they felt peculiarly heated, making your skin feel colder in comparison, sending a shiver up your spine.

"I like to be," you answered honestly in a watery voice. Your wrist twisted around the throbbing head of his cock, fingers enjoying the silky smooth curve. You imagined that point bumping the back of your throat, or somewhere deep within your pussy, and your thighs clamped closed for some desperate friction at the idea. You leaned forward again to take in the intoxication of his woodsy scent. "I wanna be good for you..."

Changkyun curled his hand around your jaw and attached his mouth to your neck in an open mouthed kiss, tongue laving at your pulse before sucking a bruise there and making your eyes roll back. You kept your hand moving, trying so hard to concentrate on doing that one thing right despite his distractions. "I know, that's why I love you," he mumbled against your skin, muffled but still very clear.

Your heart pounded harder all of a sudden, and you did your best to look at Kihyun, in spite of the awkward angle. He looked surprisingly calm, probably just happy you seemed to be enjoying yourself overall and not ready to run. "You-- you do?" Changkyun never said he loved you before. Another comment that was quite unlike him. If he loved you, you had a real problem on your hands. Although you hadn't said it, the connection you felt with Kihyun transcended many things, and you didn't feel that way about Changkyun.

He sensed your hesitation and pulled back, still holding your head in his hand. "What?"

"You love me?"

Changkyun huffed out a little exasperated chuckle. "Well, yeah, obviously. You're one of the most important people in my life." Oh man, having this conversation now, with his dick in your hand...why did you even mention it? "Just because I'm not in love with you, doesn't mean that I don't love you. Of course I love you." Oh, thank God. You seemed to feel the same way. You loved him too, so very much. You just wanted to know he meant it in the same way you did. "But even if I didn't...I don't have to love you to fuck you."

Although he was saying it playfully, there was a dark sensuality coloring those words, and it truly stirred something within you to hear him talk that way. You found yourself leaning right back in immediately to attach your lips to his, tongue meeting his in the middle again. His horns bumped at your forehead as you tilted your head, and you let your fingers play with the point of his right ear.

Changkyun warned you breathlessly that he was close, those unfamiliar sounds leaving him again as your hand sped up its ministrations. You let him replace your hand with his own, pushing himself that last bit, and keeping his eyes on you all the while. Kihyun's chest was pressed lightly to your back now, his gaze focused on Changkyun as well. A few quick tugs of his own hand and Changkyun hit his climax, hips stuttering and cum jumping from the sharp tip then spilling down his hand, slipping past each deep ridge and curve of his dick. Your heart pounded in your chest, adrenaline coursing through you at the experience. Changkyun's head fell back against the couch and one last metallic groan slipped sharply past his lips. His horns and ears were reddened, blushed like his cheeks.

"Shit..." Changkyun turned his hooded eyes to you, and your breath caught when you noticed the irises were a gorgeous sapphire blue now, though it faded quickly as he came down from his high. Everything about him looked and sounded unnatural. No wonder he was he was hesitant to have sex with a human that wasn't used to it. You were used to most of these parts of them yet you were still taken aback by the parts you weren't familiar with. Changkyun then caught a glimpse of Kihyun behind you and smiled. "She's good," Changkyun said simply, pointing at you with a bright smile.

Kihyun laughed slightly and pressed his lips lightly to your shoulder. "As expected." The action was simple and sweet, but in this context felt so much more intimate. You turned your head to look at him and found his face right there, mouth capturing yours in another impassioned kiss that cleared your mind.

Lying in bed next to Kihyun again that night was hard. But it was comforting to realize earlier that some of your questions were answered. It seemed you and Changkyun were on the same page with how you felt about each other. How all of that related to Kihyun was still a mystery to you though.

"...Kihyun?" He was lying facing the wall but you had no idea if he was asleep or not.

"Yes?" He sounded quite awake. Perhaps he was having the same thoughts you were.

"Can we talk?"

Kihyun turned his head to face you, not fully turning around. "About?"

You quirked your brow in a sarcastic expression. What else was there that you needed to talk about? "Gee, I wonder," you teased, fingertip on your chin. "Come on, I wanna talk."

You clicked on your lamp and took a sip from your glass of water, then put it down next to the notepad and pencil you kept there. He sat up so you both were seated against the headboard, and gestured vaguely, allowing you to continue.

"Well...how were you feeling tonight? When I..."

"...gave my friend a handjob?" A searing blush shot through you at the sudden explicit words. All three of his piercings shifted as his brow knitted around them. "What do you think I'm gonna say? That I'm jealous? That I don't like you doing things with other guys?"

"I don't know what you're going to say, that's why I'm asking!" You put your hands up defensively. "I just wanna be sure that you're okay with it."

Kihyun sighed. "I mean, it's not like it's some random guy. It's Changkyun. Like I said when he kissed you the first time, yeah, maybe I'm a little jealous he got to do something with you first, but I know how you feel about me, and about him. And I know you're not doing anything maliciously, so... what's the big deal?" He shrugged, and genuinely seemed at ease, so you did too. He did seem alright when you were in the living room. The smiles, laughter, and passionate kisses were pretty unmistakable. "Besides, you can make your own decisions. It's not like we're dating." You almost laughed at that. "Dating" felt so trivial a word, so removed from whatever connection you shared. But also it stung a bit to hear him speak so flippantly of your relationship.

You felt compelled to be close to him, so you moved to climb into his lap, straddling his waist, his hands settling on your hips, yours on his shoulders. "You're right, we're not dating..." You ghosted your fingertips across one of his horns, biting your bottom lip absentmindedly. His brow piercings caught the dim light and his eyes bore intensely into your face. "...but we're definitely something." You had no idea what to call this, but it was far from nothing.

Kihyun let his hands drag up your sides and he sighed heavily as he brought them back down to your thighs. You leaned in and kissed him sweetly, and when you pulled back, you kept your lips close to his. "Well...you can be first to do some other things with me if you want," you hinted suggestively. You rolled your hips forward, pressing down into his crotch, and he groaned lightly, airily, that cinnamon sweetness of his breath meeting your lips. His hands tightened their grip on your hips, silver fingertips digging into the fabric of your pajama shorts.

"Kihyun?"

"Hmm?" His nose brushed yours and lips passed a centimeter away from yours.

"Can you show me the blue flame?"

Up until that point only Changkyun had showed it to you. But it mesmerized you so and Kihyun appreciated how you loved it, so you knew he would take the opportunity to show you now. He wanted to give you what you wanted.

So he smiled and nodded, and let you sit back a bit. He held his hand up between your faces and the flame sparked, curling up and dancing ocean blue, almost neon in its brilliance, illuminating the room. He watched your entranced gaze then closed his hand gently, the flames extinguished as he rubbed his fingers together, as if by sleight of hand. You noticed the way the blue hue stayed behind, as though it boiled under the surface of his palm. Though the color reminded you of death, the cool tone of a corpse, when he placed his fingertips to your collarbone, the touch teemed with life, unnaturally hot. You gasped at the heat, recognizing it from when Changkyun touched you earlier.

You couldn't believe he'd never shown this part of himself to you before. It was one of the most magical things about him, though you supposed that was why he hadn't. He laid his palm flat against your heart, feeling the pounding pulse that only thrummed harder when met with his warm touch.

"You can let me in, you know," you said, pushing a section of hair away to gently touch one of his horns. The skin was soft and it was like bone underneath, a part of his skull as much as any other part. He kept his eyes on his hand, not meeting your gaze, and he said nothing. "I think you're really beautiful, Kihyun. I don't want you to change. You don't have to hide parts of yourself. Not around me."

He glanced up at your face briefly, then looked back to his hand, tracing his fingertips that were cooler now across the line of your collarbone and inward, until they stopped at the base of your throat. "I'm trying," was his soft reply that you barely heard.

That softened your heart; you knew he didn't want to make any promises he couldn't keep. He knew there was no known physical way you could ever join him in his world, even if you wanted to. But he could never stay in your world either. His discomfort at being so noticeably different, and his realm being his home with his family and his chosen brothers...how could he ever choose just one?

You placed your hands at either side of his face and brought your lips to his again, and his hand laid back against your chest, over your heart, while his other held your lower back to keep you close. If kissing Changkyun was a whirlwind, kissing Kihyun was a gentle, comforting breeze, one that paralleled the Autumn chill that delighted you. You felt you couldn't get close enough to him, pressing your chest to his and wrapping your arms around his neck, his hand now moved from your chest to the back of your head, as the kiss deepened to one of pure passion.

You felt your hips rock of their own accord, rolling lithely against him, his mouth falling agape and breaking the kiss in response. He kept his forehead pressed to yours, the many sharp edges pushing against your skin. You wanted him to feel he could let go with you, find the comfort he provided you, and your body craved more of him with every moment.

You could feel him growing harder beneath you, the thin material of underwear and your pajama shorts not doing much to hide that. The throbbing between your own legs was becoming hard to ignore, and you knew soon enough your own arousal would noticeably seep through the cotton.

Kihyun kissed his way across your cheek down to your jaw, ending at the exact place on your neck that Changkyun had marked you earlier. He pulled back and you felt his fingers, hot again from the fire that burned below his skin, touch the purple splotch. You wondered then, for the first time, if perhaps he could hurt you. If he could ever lose control of the fire and burn you accidentally. Even if he did, it could only be minor, but what worried you more was the way he would feel. You knew he would never harm you on purpose. Perhaps that was why he'd never shown you the flame. His lips pressed to the spot gently, then moved back up to nestle just beneath your ear. His inhuman sounds were very quiet but closer than ever, the low growl of a tiger mixed with something almost mechanical, like a buzz saw. But his lips were in direct contrast, warm and soft and comforting.

You let your hands drag through his hair, holding him to you. His hands fell to your thighs, the touch still unnaturally warm, palms like heating pads on your skin, and he gripped, helping pull your hips along his. Your shorts had ridden so far up your thighs, the hemline matched your panties'.

"God, Kihyun..." You sighed contently but gasped when he rocked his pelvis up, his hard pointed tip hitting your clit through the fabric.

Kihyun huffed out a sigh that sounded frustrated, his forehead and left horn now pressed to your cheek, his lips no longer on your skin. But his hands still held you tightly, his hips still rocked with yours. "I want you..." he breathed, but it sounded almost melancholy, like a confession of something he knew could never be. But his body betrayed his words, two opposing forces.

"Why're you saying it like that?" He didn't answer, just curved his head further into your cheek. "You can have me, Kihyun...I want you to have me."

You grasped his hand then and brought it down between your legs, laying his fingers on the damp fabric and feeling his warm breath fan across your throat as he sighed heavily again. You let go and he kept his hand there, moved it on his own, feeling your arousal, his vague touch over fabric already doing wonders at satiating the throbbing. A few curses slipped past his lips, his hand cupping you, fingertips sliding over the fabric.

You had him, so close, right there...

You pressed your body closer to him, moaning purposefully in his ear to draw him in further, to bring him to you that last bit.

"Fuck..." He moved suddenly then, holding onto you securely and rolling forward, putting you onto your back underneath him. Before you could really process what was happening, Kihyun was peeling off your clothes, your shorts and panties quickly tossed aside. Now you really did have him, and he would have you just the same. Just as you were about to sit up and address him, he brought his head between your legs, diving straight into your pussy with a defeated but happy sigh.

"Ahh-- yeah, yes, Kihyun," you whimpered, opting to stay flat on your back, gripping onto his hair and rolling your hips forward. He watched you, eyes shining in the moonlight that streamed vaguely through the blinds, as his lips closed around your sensitive clit. Your body reacted in ways you'd never felt, and it seemed as if the whole world fell away again. Kihyun curled his hands, now hotter than ever, around your thighs, and pushed his tongue forward, collecting your sweetness. The ball of his piercing rolled deliciously across your skin, swirling around your clit, unnaturally smooth and hard, surrounded by his velvety soft tongue.

Hungrily, desperately, he ate you out, reaching his tongue as deep as he could within you, nose bumping your clit and making you see stars. Your ears were filled with the lewd, wet sounds of his mouth lost in your sex, and the cutting growl that rumbled from his throat and through your body.

You kept your eyes on him, so many of his unique features framed by your thighs; the vision before you felt personal, made for your appreciation specifically. And when your eyes met his, hooded and sharp, you felt a new rush of pleasure accompany all that he was already giving you, making you thrash and whine.

You remembered then that Changkyun was in the living room. You wondered if he could hear you at all, if he was still awake.

Kihyun's tongue rolled figure eights across your pussy, then settled on repeatedly rapidly kitten licking your clit while you squirmed and begged him to keep going. Something shifted within you, a familiar pleasure mounting in an unfamiliar fashion, building higher than usual, without breaking as it usually did at this point. "I'm so close, I-- ah-- oh my God, Kihyun..."

His hips rutted against the mattress and he moaned uniquely, the sound unmistakably desperate as he shook his head, shaking his mouth across your cunt messily.

Your orgasm finally hit you, harder than one ever had before, and you bit hard on your lip to keep yourself from crying out, settling with gripping your shirt in one hand and his hair in the other, and whimpering pathetically. Your eyes closed and a vision flashed in your mind: a blue sky above you, with flowers hanging, almost floating, similar to how you felt at the moment. The vision quickly faded and you opened your eyes.

Kihyun kept working your clit, overstimulating you and making you shudder and leaving your mouth wordlessly agape. He dragged his tongue flat against you a few times, the metal ball hitting your clit dead on each time and making you jump like a shock. A sheen of sweat stuck your oversized tee to your skin.

He pulled your tired legs down at either side of his body and moved up your body, hands and lips trailing up your torso, gliding over your stomach and breasts. Then he stopped at your lips to kiss you deeply, hand petting soothingly across your hair. Despite feeling worn out at the swiftness of it all, you curled your legs around his waist and your arms around his neck, and hummed happily, feeling perhaps the most content that you'd ever felt.

"Kihyun?" you murmured, keeping his lips close.

"Yeah?"

"Will you fuck me?"

He smiled and you could vaguely see his little whisker dimples in the moonlight, then he pecked your lips a few more times. The taste of your own arousal on his mouth fueled the lust built within you even more. "Not tonight," he replied gently.

You pouted. "Why not?"

Kihyun wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, then took a deep breath and let out a long, shaky exhale. It seemed he was finding it difficult to deny you, and you got the impression that if you asked him again he might not be able to say no. "It's time to go to sleep." You hated to admit he was right. It must be so late now and you were getting quite sleepy. "Besides...I wanna do it right, wanna take my time when I do."

You thought back to your conversation with him and Changkyun earlier in the evening. You'd asked if either of them had slept with a human before, and Changkyun had answered, but you just realized Kihyun hadn't.

"Will I be the first human you've ever slept with?" You fully expected the answer to be something like "Well yes, of course." Especially since Changkyun's answer was "yes", and he was much more adventurous and flirtatious. But Kihyun paused.

He sighed and petted your hair again. "My first...in a very long time." He answered slowly, looking at his fingers in your hair instead of at you. "But my second ever."

You suddenly understood how he felt when he said he was a little jealous of Changkyun for getting to do things with you first. You were sure whoever this person was was someone you never had and never would meet, yet you still felt that jealous pang in your stomach.

"Can I ask for details?" You inquired, hoping you sounded innocently curious. A yawn betrayed you though, revealed how tired you were.

"In the morning, 'kay?"

"We keep saying that. Am I gonna wake up to another goblin in my kitchen tomorrow?"

"I don't think so."

There were in fact two goblins in your kitchen in the morning, but they were the two you expected. Breakfast was quiet, no one wanting to speak first, it seemed. You sat down with your cereal and looked at Kihyun, then at Changkyun, each silently busying themselves with pouring coffee and making toast. You figured you'd need to be the one to break the silence. No small talk came to mind; all you could focus on was the story Kihyun had promised to tell you before you fell asleep last night. So as soon as they both sat down, you asked about exactly that.

"Kihyun, will you tell me the story now about the other human?"

"What other human?" Changkyun chimed in, spreading some jam on his toast. At least he seemed at ease. You were glad you'd sorted out your mutual feelings the night before and that sex hadn't gotten in the way of your friendship. That was the last thing you wanted.

"The one he slept with."

"Woah, what?" Changkyun snapped his attention to Kihyun now, his knife clattering to the plate and making you all jump. "You never told me that! Who was it? When was this?"

That took you aback; you assumed Kihyun must have told all his friends about this encounter. It sounded as though they talked about everything. It hadn't occured to you that Changkyun might not have heard this story.

Kihyun looked a little bewildered. "Can we talk about this later?"

"Why, don't you want me to hear?" Changkyun asked, sounding slightly offended. He leaned forward, more interested suddenly. "Was it someone I know?"

Kihyun shot him a sardonic expression, and sighed. You didn't want to push him too hard, lest he clam up again and be even harder to crack. But at the same time, you felt you had proven your loyalty, and he had volunteered the information the night before. Though if his hesitancy was due to Changkyun, for whatever reason, you could understand that.

"You don't have to talk about it, if you don't want to."

Kihyun looked to you and shook his head. "No, it's okay. I promised I would." He grasped the coffee cup in both palms and told you the story, in a quite matter-of-fact tone.

"This was about...4 years ago..." Shortly before you'd met then. "I met someone and really enjoyed their company. I was a lot less careful back then, and so I told them what I was a week after I met them. They were really accepting, so I took that as a good sign and after a few more days, one thing led to another..." He cleared his throat, sparing you the unsavory details. Part of you bemoaned this internally, but any jealousy you held would be best remedied by surpassing such things. "The morning after, we went to a café together. We ran into a couple of their friends and they took off my beanie without asking, and told them what I was. Again, without asking. Their friends didn't respond so positively. So...I left. And, um...yeah."

You thought back to when you met Kihyun. Though you met Changkyun first, and he had persuaded you out of much suspicion quite slyly, Kihyun had done his very best to appear as human as possible; you held no suspicions about him at all for months. He had certainly been careful around you, and now you truly knew why. You thought back to what he'd said, back after he did finally tell you what he was, when you'd asked about the way he disguised himself in public. "It's not like I'm sad or ashamed about being a goblin, about looking the way I do, or having the abilities I have. I like what I am. I don't want to be a human. I just wish...things were easier." He just wanted to live his life. And you just wanted to share in it.

You smiled slightly, warmly, at him, and reached down to hold his hand. "Well...you don't have to leave this time. I like you just like this." You turned over his hand and let your fingertips drag gently over his palm.

Later that day, Changkyun was ready to head back home, to the goblin realm, the visit too short as always. You felt different this time though. You always felt a sadness when he left, a want for him to stay, but you had been thinking a lot lately. He placed the spoon you'd gifted on your coffee table and stood in front of it. You knew he would easily disappear in a blink. Your heart pounded faster and you grabbed his hand before he could go.

"Wait, Changkyun. Can we try going together? Can I try coming with you to the goblin realm?" They had both always told you that there was no way for you to get to their realm. That this traveling across worlds was a special power they held. So you hadn't even tried. But what if you could? What if there was a way, somehow, that none of you had discovered? That, apparently, no one had discovered?

"What?" Kihyun's response took your attention, his voice sounding thin.

Changkyun looked at your hand, then over at Kihyun's expression. "I...don't know. I don't think I can. I don't think it's possible."

"But what if it is? What if we found a way?"

Kihyun interjected, his tone harsh. "And what if you can't come back? What if we somehow get you there but we can't get you back here?"

You turned to him and spoke clearly. "If we can somehow get me there, I have all the confidence in the world that we can find a way to get me back." Kihyun was twisting his fingers anxiously now, so you walked to him and put your hands on his and looked him in the eye, speaking more gently. "It's all in my head, right? Going there? Coming home?" Home. Two different places for each of you. How selfish you each felt to want the other at your version of home.

"Yes..." He seemed hesitant to give you more information, as usual. He looked up at Changkyun, then back to you. He knew how determined you would be now. And he was trying so hard to let you in, while fighting to maintain the protection he strove for. "It's all in your thoughts. You have to will yourself there."

"Will you show me what you do? I'll try and emulate it." You wanted to try. If it didn't work, it'd be nothing but a thought experiment.

Kihyun sighed and washed a hand down his face, his silvery eyes nervously shaking a bit. "Okay...okay. So um...choose something...something common, but timeless. But remember that, should this work, whatever you choose will be your bound object for life."

You thought for a few moments as your eyes scanned the room around you. The dishes in your sink, the clothes and jewelry you wore...the writing utensils on your desk. Yes, that last one felt right. Perhaps pens, pencils? You walked over and picked up a pencil, feeling almost drawn to it, as if it were choosing you rather than you choosing it. You rolled it in your fingers, contemplative. Your bound object for life. Your fingers curled around it fully, confirming, locking it in. You turned to Kihyun, holding it up.

"Okay, yeah, that's good. Concentrate on it, and picture the realm you'd like to travel to."

You looked between him and Changkyun. "How can I picture something I've never seen?"

"That's okay, just imagine it," Changkyun said.

"Think of us," Kihyun added. "Think of us and Jooheon, and all that you do know about it...that's enough."

Now that you could do. Focusing your attention on the yellow pencil in front of you and allowing in all these thoughts of the boys you found so interesting and beautiful was simple. You thought of their unique appearance, the stories you'd heard of their home, the laughter they brought you, the peculiar comfort you felt when they kissed you...But minutes passed in silence and you didn't feel any closer to traveling to the goblin realm. You felt most firmly in your own, no matter how hard you concentrated.

You tried holding Changkyun's hand, as if to travel with him. You tried closing your eyes and holding the pencil. You tried all you could think of, but as the minutes rolled by, you were starting to feel ridiculous and like you were simply wasting their time. It probably was impossible for you to do this. Were you really so naive to think you could just sit down and do something that no human had ever done before?

You set the pencil back down and shook your head. "Alright, maybe I can't...I don't want to hold you up, I know you want to get home." You tried to sound unbothered, but it frustrated you that you couldn't seem to get anything. You felt silly for even trying, but were thankful they gave you time to attempt.

Changkyun patted your hand comfortingly and stood back up. "'S alright, we can try again another day." You stood too and faced each other and he held your chin in his hand. "If any human could do it, I'm sure you'd be the one. Anyone that good with their hands has gotta be good with their thoughts too, I think," he joked, making you smile and blush a little. Then he kissed you once more, disappearing back to the goblin realm before parting from your lips, leaving you kissing nothing but air.

Over the next few days, between work and visiting family, you spent your time focused on this new goal. Deep down you knew you would not be able to accomplish it, but the more you stared at that pencil, the more motivated you felt. Kihyun had planned to go home shortly after Changkyun, but he stuck around, and was patient with you, giving tips if you asked, but unsure if they would be of any help.

"Why do you want to do this so badly?" He finally asked on the third evening.

Your long gaze at the pencil broke and you sighed, throwing a paperclip at it, then sitting back on the couch next to him. "God, I don't know." Kihyun pulled you in, tucked you under his arm. "I know it's stupid..."

Kihyun tilted your chin up to look at him, his grey eyes shining. "It's not stupid. But I wish you wouldn't beat yourself up so much. It's not like you're doing anything wrong. It's just the way things are."

You reached up and sunk your fingers into his soft hair, pushing it back from his horns and settling at the back of his head. You knew he was right.

He leaned down and kissed you gently, an effective distraction. His lips molded to yours perfectly, sweet cinnamon tingling at your senses. You held him close, reveling in the blissful diversion, and his hand came down to rest at your thigh.

He parted from your lips only slightly, to speak, keeping his face close to yours. "Will you let me take my time with you now?" His hot breath fanned across your face, his scent surrounding you like a wonderful haze, and you nodded. You had distracted yourself with other things all week, hardly giving him the time you both craved, that you'd pushed to the back burner...that now engulfed you.

"Please..."

At the word, he pulled you to your feet and guided you to the bedroom, and you eagerly followed. The second you passed the threshold, you pulled him back to your lips, your tongue meeting his in the middle, clashing against his piercing, his horns bumping at your forehead. You threw your arms around his neck and smiled at the way he caught you with a surprised chuckle. There was a carefree feeling now, walls between you crumbled, delight in letting each other into parts of your respective worlds as well as you could.

And then the urgency calmed, falling into bed together, facing each other and kissing more sensually. Piece by piece you removed each other's clothing, a purposefully meandering process. With each piece removed, minutes spent appreciating the newly exposed skin, be it with caresses, lips, hands, tongues...and thoughts of sweet nothings finally spoken aloud.

When you were left in only your undergarments, you felt goosebumps rise on your skin, the many minutes passed leaving you almost embarrassingly aroused. But the tent in his boxers was quite literally pornographic, and confirmed the mutual desire.

Kihyun pulled at your bra straps and you helped undo the clasps, leaving your chest bare to him, feeling particularly vulnerable now. His hands cupped each of your breasts and his tongue met your right nipple, flat against the peak, the ball of his piercing making your eyes roll back. Your arms encircled his head and held him to you, chasing that feeling more. He moaned and hummed positively, sucking and rolling his tongue across the sensitive skin. You glanced down and saw him looking up at you, steely eyes gentle yet full of want, as you imagined yours must be. You pushed his hair back, appreciating all those lovely unique features. He held your gaze and rose to meet your lips with his again, capturing you in a moment of passion.

"God, you're beautiful," he murmured. You wondered if you looked to him half as beautiful as he looked to you. If so, that would be the most attractive you'd ever felt. Your hands were drawn to the waistband of his boxers, and he made a sound against your lips when they grasped it, placing his hand over yours, seemingly stopping you. He pulled back and you both looked down to your hands, then back at each other. You saw the way his eyes tightened slightly. He wanted you, you knew he did, but he still struggled to get past this last hurdle, to let you in this intimately, now that he was faced with it.

"Let me...please, Kihyun."

He paused but then let go of your hand and let you drag the fabric down, exposing him fully to you. Like Changkyun, the underside of his length was lined with deep ridges, the base bulbed thickly, the tip sharp and red. But he was slightly longer and uniquely curved, and the ridges held a specific pattern you yearned to touch. A throbbing need radiated from between your thighs.

You moved to crouch down and he moved with you, following your lead and getting onto his knees on the bed, resting his weight on his palms. Kihyun watched you with bated breath as your hand wrapped around the shaft and your lips took in the tip, and you made a show of groaning your satisfaction, so he knew how much you wanted him. His head fell back when he finally relaxed, letting himself fall into pleasure when he realized you weren't going to leave or back out.

Your heart was racing in your chest, and you wanted all of him at once, every move you made feeling like it wasn't enough. His cock pulsed in your grip, veins shifting peculiarly under your touch. The ridges rose and stiffened when you ran your tongue across them, and you couldn't help but rub your thighs together when you imagined them inside you. You swallowed most of the length and felt the arrow-like tip bump the back of your throat, toying with your gag reflex. The way he was curved made him quite a mouthful. His hand flew to your hair and the sound he let out was animalistic. You peered up, overwhelmed by the vision of him, sharp eyes clouded with lust and cutting through the dim backlight, the light that left his uniquely angular silhouette in shadow. He pet your hair and pushed ever so lightly at the back of your head, enough to motivate you to take him further, to see his face contort in even greater bliss.

"Oh, you look so pretty with my cock in your mouth, baby."

Despite the sordid words, the sentiment felt strangely heartfelt, and butterflies fluttered in your stomach. You knew how hesitant he had been to let you in like this, so you wanted him to see how worth it the wait was. It was also the first time he called you anything other than your name. "Baby" could quickly become your new favorite word, if it sounded as lovely as that on his lips. You pulled off, letting your hand stroke the now slick length.

"Hm, I love having your cock in my mouth," you stated honestly and matter-of-factly, holding it by the base with one hand and letting your tongue lick up the textured shaft, then pulling the sharp tip between your lips briefly. Yet still, the pulse between your legs was becoming unbearable. As much as you loved having him between your lips, your body longed to have him between your legs.

So you sat up and climbed onto him, making him stutter when you dragged your pussy across the underside of his length. Those ridges hitting your clit one at a time, running through the slick of your pussy, was heavenly, and you realized it would be easy for you to cum just like this, if you wanted to.

But you wanted more, you needed more. You grabbed his cock and slid the pointed tip through your slit, pulling another of those borderline mechanical groans from deep within him. Kihyun's hands gripped your ass strongly, his firey touch setting your heartbeat alight, and his gaze shot down to where you nearly joined.

"Fuck, I need to be inside you," he growled, rolling you onto your side before you could move again. Your stomach dropped into a pit of needy lust at those words. You yearned to feel him deep within you, to expand your connection from one of emotion and mind, to the physical. He reached across the other side of the bed into the nightstand, and retrieved a condom. He knew where you kept them, even if he knew the little box had stayed full for some time now.

You slid off your soaked panties then watched over your shoulder as he opened the small packet, a curiosity you hadn't really thought about entering your thoughts.

"Kihyun...um, could you, you know..." Oh, every phrasing you could think of felt too clinical or too silly, but you wanted an answer to this question, so you opted for the latter, with a scrunched up expression. "...knock me up?"

Kihyun huffed out an exasperated laugh and you heard the wrapper crinkle behind you. "Honestly, I have no idea." Hm, it seemed unlikely there was not other humans who'd had sex with goblins before, but who knew what the outcomes may have ever been? He pressed his chest to your back, sweaty skin on skin, and wrapped an arm around you, mouth behind your ear. "Don't think now's really the time to find out though."

You giggled, the sensuality returning as he lined himself up. With a low groan right at your ear, he pushed into your pussy slowly and carefully, leaving your mouth agape. "Yes, oh fuck yes, Ki..." You were absurdly wet by this point, but the newness of this feeling was much to take nonetheless. Though thick, the tip slid in easily, with the gradual pointed shape, then each ridge slipped past your entrance one by one. You swallowed hard, though your throat was dry, and your cunt fluttered and clenched in adjustment. You dropped your hand to rub at your clit, sending shockwaves that made your body crumple against his. "You feel so fucking good," you praised breathlessly, knowing how much it would mean to him, but still speaking the truth. Kihyun buried his face in your hair and kissed the back of your neck, breathing heavily against your skin as he thrusted, reaching further into you, his curve hitting just the right place that made you see stars.

He held your leg in place when he moved, his searing touch almost too much to bear. In any other situation, it probably would be, but in the throes of lust, it was nothing more than exhilarating. He rocked into you, filling you deliciously, and you grabbed at his hand that was tight around your middle, pulling it to your lips. He responded immediately, pushing two fingers into your mouth and curling them down onto your tongue, like two matches being extinguished in the soft wetness. You moaned around his fingers, sucking them needily, and he cursed gruffly, twisting them between your lips.

You moved off of your side and pushed Kihyun onto his back then, straddling him and leaning in to kiss him deeply, hands dragging down the expanse of his bare chest. You wanted to feel him fully, let gravity do the work in sheathing you entirely on his cock.

"Yeah..." he murmured against your lips as you sat back onto him. His hands held your face close, shaky humid breath mixing with yours. "Yeah, ride it like that. Just like that...Fuck, you're so good to me."

Just as Changkyun had said. You were good to them. But, as was the case with many of the things you did, this didn't feel as though you were doing anything for him, necessarily. It made you feel just as good as it did for him.

You kneeled up straight, arching your back and rolling your hips, feeling the details of his dick push against your plush walls as you sat down fully. Kihyun's hands traversed your torso, palms sliding up your sides, fingers playing briefly with your perked nipples, nails digging into your thighs to help pull you forward and back. Having him under you like this reminded you of when his head was between your legs: a vision for you and you alone. His visage splayed on the pillow below you, forehead damp with sweat, his dark hair sticking to his horns, his pointed ears blushed cutely, silver eyes shining brightly...it was enough to drive you crazy.

And it was enough to drive you to your climax. You felt it build within you, one hand rubbing at your clit, the other anchoring you on his chest. "I'm so close, Ki, ah--"

Kihyun pulled you in quickly, down to his level again to kiss you, fucking up into you swiftly and making you squeal against his lips. "Wanna see you cum, yes baby, cum for me..." He mumbled through heavy, gasping breaths. Your deft fingers stayed on your clit and the combination overwhelmed you. You had to part from his lips to cry out, a desperate whine of his name as you shuddered and clenched repeatedly atop him. "God, when you say my name like that..." He kept himself still as you rode it out, lodged deep within you and twitching and aching for his own release.

When you indicated he could, Kihyun rolled you once more, onto your back to hold himself above you. He locked his eyes with yours as he thrust back into you, and you felt your mind blank of all thoughts but him, like a slate being wiped clean in one swipe. You'd never felt more connected to another person in your life, and he wasn't even a person. Your hands came up to his face instinctively, shifting hair out of his eyes, caressing the soft skin that covered his horns, curving around his subtle but sharp jawline. He grabbed one of your hands and kissed your palm gently, a palm so ordinary and cold compared to his own. You could only assume the ways you differed from him were beautiful to him, as the ways he differed from you were to you. "If I could give you what you wanted, I would," he said airily, letting go of your hand. "If I could bring you with me to my realm, I would in a heartbeat."

You smiled softly, knowing it to be true. Though he was hesitant to let you in, to help you achieve what you hoped, since he knew it was what you truly wanted, that was enough for him to do what he could to help you.

"Ah--I know...You're so good to me." That was all he needed to hear. He leaned in to kiss you, then kissed his way down your chest, thrusting rapidly with your hands tugging at his hair and whimpers on your lips. When his eyes met yours again, your heart raced at the intensity of his gaze. You felt him pulse and twitch within you, his breath catching in a tight gasp. Just as you heard a gorgeously melodic groan escape him, brilliant blue flooded his grey irises until they shined like sapphire rings. You knew what that meant, and it filled you with desire and satisfaction. You couldn't recall a more beautiful sight. You let your fingers caress his face, so gentle despite the humid, desperate energy that hung in the air. "Your eyes are gorgeous," you breathed, and those sharp eyes softened slightly at your words.

He swept you into another kiss, raw and messy and perfect, then turned your head slightly to attach his lips to your jaw urgently, his cock stilled deep within you. Your chest heaved as you pulled in cooler air and your eyes met the pencil perched on the notebook at your bedside.

Then, more clouded your sight, a vision of a room you'd never seen before. You caught glimpses of photos of Kihyun and his friends crop up on the wall, a wall painted a muted blue, certainly not in your own room of off-white. And the vision grew around you, the darker walls rolling in like storm clouds and overtaking your familiar walls. There was greenery lining these walls too, vines creeping up and floral hanging from the ceiling, a strange mix of indoor and outdoor things. You realized then that the vision you'd seen the last time you were intimate with Kihyun was no sky as you had thought, but was instead the ceiling of his bedroom, his home. You had touched into the goblin realm without even realizing it. When the transition was complete, you tapped Kihyun's bare shoulder and he breathlessly parted from your skin. His head snapped to the side when he realized you were no longer in your room. He pushed up onto his palms and his now wide eyes darted all around. You realized then that even the sheets you laid on, that surrounded you both, had changed from your yellow cotton ones to a silky, moss green set.

"Oh shit," he gasped. "Wh- how did we..." He looked back to you and you saw the blue in his irises fading, the silver slipping back. "Did you do that?"

You shrugged quickly, at a loss for words. You supposed you had done this, but if so, you hadn't been trying. You knew exactly where you were, it was unmistakable. How ironic that after all this time, all this yearning and trying to get to his realm, you could do it by accident. Perhaps it took your bound object to really bring you there. Perhaps being this intimately intertwined with Kihyun was enough force to push you over the invisible threshold. Perhaps your will was not strong enough before. Or it was something else altogether.

He did have a penchant to make all other thoughts but him leave your head when he kissed you, when he touched you...maybe that was the focus you needed, the pure concentration you could not achieve otherwise.

But whatever it was, here you were.

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KIHYUN + HIS HEART STICKER @ WATERBOMB BUSAN 2025.

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Alright well. I've tried many things, and it seems tumblr is determined to keep my fic out of the tags 😔 Really pissing me off and making me sad because i worked hard on this one.

If you're a monbebe and see this and you're interested in a monster/creature fucker, kinda magical, kihyun/changkyun x reader thing, pls take a look at my new fic 🥺👉👈

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Sapphire Flame Preview

Alright friends, here's a lil preview of the Monsta X thing I've been working on! Feat. some lowkey monster/creature fucker stuff :] The full thing is virtually done (just need to do some last edits 😊) and will be about 15k! Hope you like it! -🍑

Changkyun told you more about the Earthly travels he'd had recently, in Morocco and Rome, then over to Barcelona for a few weeks, before coming to your little town. One last stop before returning home for awhile. You knew there was no other reason for him to be here except for you and Kihyun.

"I don't think I've ever seen you drunk before," you noted when Changkyun told you about the many bars he'd stopped at this time.

"Your alcohol here is nothing compared to back home," Changkyun said. He held up the can of beer in front of him and shook it lightly. "This shit's like water."

You and Kihyun laughed, and you wondered how strong goblin alcohol must be, if human alcohol didn't have much of any effect on them.

Because Kihyun seemed inclined to answer more questions with Changkyun around, you thought it wise to take the opportunity to ask a few things you'd wondered about. And there was one thing you'd thought about but hadn't had the nerve to ask before, perhaps partly because you were anxious about the answer and how it would make you feel. But with the way things were going between you now, you almost felt you needed an answer.

"Can I ask you guys a question?" You said, keeping your eyes on the TV and fiddling with the tab on your soda can.

"Always," Changkyun answered quickly, downing the last of his beer. Of course he would answer you. You knew that would be the case. Kihyun stayed quiet, not promising an answer until hearing the question, as usual.

"Well, I uh...I know that you've slept with other goblins before..." You hadn't all talked much about your sexual experiences, just in passing, basically just enough to acknowledge you'd had them. "...but have either of you slept with a human before?"

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Sapphire Flame Preview

Alright friends, here's a lil preview of the Monsta X thing I've been working on! Feat. some lowkey monster/creature fucker stuff :] The full thing is virtually done (just need to do some last edits 😊) and will be about 15k! Hope you like it! -🍑

EDIT: The full fic is published! Link here :)

Changkyun told you more about the Earthly travels he'd had recently, in Morocco and Rome, then over to Barcelona for a few weeks, before coming to your little town. One last stop before returning home for awhile. You knew there was no other reason for him to be here except for you and Kihyun.

"I don't think I've ever seen you drunk before," you noted when Changkyun told you about the many bars he'd stopped at this time.

"Your alcohol here is nothing compared to back home," Changkyun said. He held up the can of beer in front of him and shook it lightly. "This shit's like water."

You and Kihyun laughed, and you wondered how strong goblin alcohol must be, if human alcohol didn't have much of any effect on them.

Because Kihyun seemed inclined to answer more questions with Changkyun around, you thought it wise to take the opportunity to ask a few things you'd wondered about. And there was one thing you'd thought about but hadn't had the nerve to ask before, perhaps partly because you were anxious about the answer and how it would make you feel. But with the way things were going between you now, you almost felt you needed an answer.

"Can I ask you guys a question?" You said, keeping your eyes on the TV and fiddling with the tab on your soda can.

"Always," Changkyun answered quickly, downing the last of his beer. Of course he would answer you. You knew that would be the case. Kihyun stayed quiet, not promising an answer until hearing the question, as usual.

"Well, I uh...I know that you've slept with other goblins before..." You hadn't all talked much about your sexual experiences, just in passing, basically just enough to acknowledge you'd had them. "...but have either of you slept with a human before?"