little stupid question but what would all of dear y/n!skz have reader’s contact name in their phones be? would it be basic af like just her name or an emoji or smth….. also who would text her the most and who would text her the least, call her the most, etc etc
not stupid at all, under the cut!!
chan’s contact name is just your name. no extra anything.
he’s not about to put something stupid in there when he knows he might have to hand his phone to someone or use it in front of the others. like dada might be undeveloped emotionally but he’s not dumb.
but.
you are pinned.
always.
he texts like a functioning adult too???
(bold texts from now on will be the texts they send!!)
did you eat?
i’ll be there in twenty
stay inside
call me.
calls, yeah. he calls more than he texts. if you don’t pick up? he will call again.
minho’s contact name is also just your name, but he stared at it for a long time before saving it. it meant something, saving a victim’s number.
he doesn’t text much. at all. when he does, it’s short.
come here
where are you
i need you
i’m outside.
maybe, occasionally: don’t go out tonight.
???
if he calls, that’s because of something. he doesn’t call just to chat(when he can watch you from the other side of the street) the reason could be anything, could be han breaking a finger or minho just needed to hear your voice. but still, reason.
you’ll pick up and there’s just silence for a second. then “…you there.” yes sweetheart what do you want
changbin considered adding something small to your contact name. didn’t. it’s just your name. you would only have a contact photo if you took his phone yourself and set it.
are you home?
do you need anything?
how are you?
do you want me to pick you up??
he waits for you to text back. he uses periods and grammatically right shit. he edits before sending. also certified emoji user. you WILL get shit like 😊 🙂 😚 😨 😄 😏 🙁 🥵 🫣 and much more.
he likes calling you, loves hearing your voice, but always thinks about if it’s a right time for you. when you pick up he usually asks if it’s a right time. somewhere in the fic it’s already mentioned that he doesn’t usually call you in the mornings.
hyunjin also has your name only. no contact photo, nothing, but i hope y’all remember the fact that he knew you waaaay before the others did. he already had your number when you thought he was normal.
he doesn’t text much.
you okay?
you busy?
come out with me.
i’ll pick you up.
han wants to talk to you. lost his phone.
sometimes, late at night: you up?
calls? yeah. usually starts with a “you busy?” he calls to just talk, mostly.
han’s contact name for you is, what a surprise, also just your name. okay probably spelled wrong at first. fixed later because changbin or chan got annoyed looking at it.
he tried an emoji once. it was something stupid like 🔥 or ❤️. he didn’t understand why. he removed it. back to just your name.
this man texts you the most.
genuinely painful to read sometimes.
where r u
hello
are you the ere
hi
hi
hi
why arent u answreing
did i do something
im coming over
wait no dont be mad
im sory
hi
another row of messages you woke up to:
y rnt u her
come bak
i miss u come here now pls
helo??
r u mad at me
ok sory
he double texts. he triple texts. he will send 15 messages in a row because you didn’t respond in 3 minutes.
i saw a dog
calls? oh yeah. he calls the most too. accidental calls too, like you’ll just see missed call (3) and you know he sat there, stared at your contact, and hit call without thinking. if you don’t answer, he will call again. and again. and again.
felix, finally we have a not plain contact name here. well, it started as your name, but then he got bored. now it’s like “y/n!!!” or “y/n❤️❤️❤️” he’s a cutie when doesn’t rip humans apart with his bare hands!!
texts are… an experience.
hey
hey
hi
look at tgis
(blurry photo of something you cannot identify)
cool rihgt
helo
did u se e it
answer
autocorrect is fighting for its life.
i found somthing
its wierd
u woudl like it
you probably wouldn’t.
he also sends pictures. you don’t want the pictures.
calls? random. he’ll call just to show you something. not tell you. show you. like “look” and then the camera is shaking violently and you see nothing. then keeps talking to you and ends in his bed, swinging his legs and listening to you move around in your kitchen, completely locked in and SO interested in each move of yours.
seungmin also just has you as your name. he texts constantly, though.
where are you?
don’t ignore me
who are you with
i swear to god
whtever
seriously though where are you
pissy little hoe.
wow.
(that was because you took 3 minutes to reply)
he types fast. makes typos. refuses to correct them.
wht are u doin
idc jsut come over
forget it.
he calls when he wants to hear your voice. or when he wants to ask you to make food when he comes back. or when he thinks you’re with someone else. so… yeah. a lot.
he’ll call, let it ring twice, hang up, then text “pick up.”
you pick up to him breathing for a second before he goes “…what are you doing.”
why is he cute?????
jeongin had your name at first(like he saved it real quick) then changed it later. like “sweetheart” or “angel” or “my girl” or some shit that makes everyone else want to throw his phone into a river.
he thinks he’s funny.
he is, unfortunately.
texts are entertaining, that might be the best word for it. you love to see that he texted.
miss me yet?
don’t lie i know you do
what are you doingggg
come hang out with me???
i’ll take u out
he will send selfies.
loves calling you, loves talking to you, having his phone between his ear and shoulder while he walks around at home shirtless, dirty talking you or just listening to you shout chan’s head off for something(chan never minds those, you always have pretty good reasons. they fucking provoke you.) but he also likes showing up in person and being a problem directly.
han texts the most. and felix, but han is needy, felix is just stupid.
minho and hyunjin text the least. minho because he doesn’t like texting, hyunjin because he’d rather just come get you.
worst texter is felix. (honestly concerning)
most normal texter is changbin. thank god someone here can form a sentence.
calls the most is han.
calls the least would be minho. he genuinely enjoys your real life company way more, and when he wants it, he’ll go get it.
hello! i was just wondering if there is any investigation ongoing regarding all these deaths in the same area? if yes, is the police actively after them? are they close to being found? or has there been any time where they were nearly caught?
oh there is absolutely an investigation. like be serious you don’t get eight grown men running around stacking bodies in the same general area without someone eventually going hey what the fuck.
warnings, violence like killing obviously, blood, torture, mentions of men jerking off and sex and pregnancy(NOBODY is pregnant, just talking about pregnancy)
oh also answering another ask with this that goes pretty much into the same topic but different questions. the anon asked about the boys’ neighbors and the constant yelling and fighting(seungmin throwing random shi and shooting the wall) and how does felix like not get flagged for unusual things in his body at the doctors. so i’ll get there too.
now. to get to it. the killings don’t make sense. even though like… same city. overlapping timelines. similar levels of brutality. victims that, while not identical, fall into patterns if you squint hard enough.
but they’re not one person, as we know. they’re eight. eight completely different styles, impulses, preferences, some clean, some messy, some impulsive, some methodical as FUCK. sometimes it looks like it was done genuinely for the love of the game. sometimes it looks like a professional hit. sometimes it looks like a fucking accident. and sometimes it’s so disgusting that… that just ew.
every time the police think they’ve got something on it, the next body throws everything off again.
also, they don’t kill on a schedule. sometimes it’s quiet for weeks. sometimes it’s three bodies in two nights. sometimes it’s nothing, and then suddenly something so brutal it resets the entire investigation.
our eight sweethearts(worst men alive) got the police STRESSING.
are they actively being hunted? yes. very much yes. there are people specifically assigned to this. there are profiles being built, rebuilt, thrown out, rewritten.
have they ever gotten close? …yeah. a few times.
chan and minho handled most of that though. no one went out alone for a while, whatnot. felix had to get taken out on walks like a dog. seungmin made it worse because he hates being restricted, hates being told to wait, to hold back, to not do something when he wants to do it.
there was a day, just one, where he almost slipped. doesn’t even matter how, let’s say still in the period when they had to stay in, and i mean, he didn’t get caught but it was close enough that chan had to step in. hard. and that was… not pretty.
and minho notices when they’re being watched. and he has been right, more than once. he had to pull hyunjin back double digit amount of times and just stood in silence to listen because someone was after them.
jeongin doesn’t take it that seriously. that’s useful tho. because he’s unpredictable!! hard to track!! doing so good, baby!! he’ll change routes, change habits, change plans on a whim just because he feels like it. that randomness helps.
felix somehow doesn’t get caught purely by accident. this man should have been arrested years ago. there is no logical explanation for how he’s still free. none. he leaves things behind sometimes. it’s genuinely pure luck that he’s still with us. same goes to han. he’s a liability. straight up.
but they cover for each other. clean up after each other. adjust when someone makes a mistake. no one goes completely alone, even when it looks like they do.
and most importantly, they don’t look like what they are. they blend. different personalities, different behaviors, different ways of moving through the world.
are the police close? not really. they’re circling something. they know there’s a pattern, even if they can’t define it. they know this isn’t random.
but they’re still missing the biggest piece, the fact that it’s not one. it’s eight. so they’re always lowk going to be one step behind.
bigger forces than simple police even poked their heads in twice because the kill count’s climbing into brutal numbers and some of the bodies are… creative. felix’s half eaten ones especially.
him and han once had a body in the trunk for three days because han forgot where he parked the car. didn’t get in trouble.
about han, someone’s always covering for him. redirecting him. cleaning up after him. and when he is alone, it’s usually short, or in places where the risk is lower. still a liability, though. 100%
chan’s got a cop paid, some detective who owes him for covering up something. bribes in cash and we won’t tell your wife.
jeongin’s twenty plus fake personas help too. lots. seungmin also uses some of them. oh yeah on seungmin’s part, god i should start talking about the boys in age order but i write as ideas come and i get better materials out of this way, anyways, he kills messy and no matter how impatient he is, he will clean up good.
minho watches the detectives watching them. knows every cop’s schedule, their kids’ names, their whatnots. creepy as fuck but useful. if one gets too close he just… disappears them.
hyunjin is… quite simple, actually. kills then drags the corse away. that easy. sometimes buries it. genuinely, fuck knows how he’s not in jail yet. changbin sometimes does it instead of him to make sure. changbin also gets rid of a lot of shit, and charms any nosy person who comes asking questions. “oh that noise? just crafting for my girlfriend :)” works every time. he’s been questioned twice and both times the female detectives ended up flirting with him instead of arresting him. he brings them coffee. they blush. case closed.
once seungmin got sloppy and left a victim still twitching in their own driveway. neighbor called the police. he was long gone by then though.
yeah they leave fast, that helps lots too.
the police have arrested three wrong guys (all of whom “committed suicide” thanks to minho).
they’re not getting caught anytime soon. they’re too in love with you to be sloppy for long. you’re their reason to stay alive and free.
now, on the neighbors.
omg i want to start with seungmin. age order who? but okay i really do want to start with him because he lives in a quiet little apartment complex that’s 98% grandmas. actual sweet old ladies with crochet blankets, genuinely silver haired bingo addicts. it’s the funniest fucking thing on earth.
literally WHY does seungmin always get into grandma situations.
he will stomp in at 4am covered head to toe in someone else’s blood, shirt ripped, knuckles split, dragging a trash bag that’s definitely leaking. mrs. lee from 2b is out walking her ancient yorkie and just goes “oh good evening dear, rough night at work?” seungmin grunts “yeah something like that” and the old lady nods.
one time he got into a screaming match with jeongin in the hallway at 2am. seungmin threw a lamp, it shattered, then he pulled his gun and put three rounds into the wall simply because jeongin pissed him off.
mrs. lim (apartment 4c, makes killer tiramisu) actually shuffled over with a plate of cookies the next morning. “sweetie i heard some loud noises last night. you boys fighting over that pretty girlfriend again? here, sugar helps with anger.”
seungmin stood there, still shirtless with dried blood on his abs, gun tucked in his waistband, and took the fucking cookies. mumbled “thanks ma’am.”
ALL the grandmas love him. they bring him soup when he’s “sick” (hungover from post murder adrenaline) and knit him scarves. one of them even pinched his cheek and said “you’re such a nice young man, even if you’re a little loud.”
one time he came home dragging a half dead guy by the ankle, blood smear all down the hallway, and mrs. yoon (4b) just poked her head out and went “oh minnie dear, you’re tracking again! wipe your feet honey.” seungmin growled “yeah yeah” and she still left fresh cookies outside his door the next morning with a note “for my favorite handyman <3”
genuinely HOW do they not process the bodies. HOW does seungmin do this.
they constantly call him over to fix lights, move furniture, kill spiders. he’ll show up in a wifebeater with fresh knuckle bruises and they’ll coo “you work so hard sweetie, here’s lemonade.” one grandma even tried to set him up with her granddaughter. seungmin told her he’s taken. the man could dismember a body in the hallway and they’d just assume he’s “redecorating.”
he kinda likes the cookies.
mrs. lee knitted him a chunky sweater in deep burgundy because “it brings out your eyes, dear.” she made him bend down and stand in the hallway while she tugged it over his head, cooing the whole time even though seungmin had a fresh split lip from punching chan earlier. “hold still, honey, arms up, there we go! doesn’t that feel nice and warm?”
“yeah it’s fine”
bingo nights? constant invites. he never goes. but one night he showed up to their book club because they guilt tripped him with “we made your favorite lemon cookies” and he was hungry after dumping a body. he sat there in a circle of eight grandmas, zero clue what the book was, just shoving cookies into his mouth while they chattered. they love his company.
they all know he has a girlfriend (you). he mentioned it once in passing and it spread through the building in a day. now they knit for you too. scarves, mittens, fuzzy socks with little hearts on them. “tell your sweet girl we said hello!” they say, pressing another sweater into seungmin’s arms.
oh they’re obsessed with you. every single conversation circles back.
“how’s your lovely girlfriend, dear?” mrs. choi asks while forcing another sweater on him.
“she’s good.”
“does she like the color pink? i made her a cardigan!”
“she’ll love it.” (he never gives it to you but the pile in his closet is growing)
they ask about your favorite foods, what flowers you like, whether you’re eating enough, if he’s treating you right. seungmin is answering their questions because these tiny old ladies scare him more than the cops. “she likes when i’m… nice to her.” the grandmas swoon. “such a good boy!! bring her next time!!”
they do NOT leave him alone. he gets home and there’s mrs. yi from 3c already waiting in the hallway with tupperware. “oh minnie honey you look tired! i made you chicken noodle, extra carrots because you’re a growing boy.” she’s 82, half blind, and there’s seventeen cats weaving between seungmin’s legs. one’s climbing his jeans right now trying to get to his shoulder. he just stands there, dead eyed, letting a fluffy orange one headbutt his dick while he takes the soup.
he once got cornered for forty minutes while they showed him ultrasound pictures of their actual grandkids and asked very detailed questions about your cycle.
yeah they’re convinced that seungmin needs to knock you up like yesterday.
he goes over to fix mrs. kim’s bookshelf (because she “just can’t reach the top anymore sweetie”) and somehow ends up sitting at her tiny kitchen table with a tea cup, four cats on his lap, while she shows him photos of her granddaughter. “she’s such a nice girl but you already have your special someone! how is your y/n doing? still pretty? of course she is, you only deserve the best.”
seungmin just nods. then she pulls out a shopping bag. “i made her some things. for the future.” she hands him six tiny knitted baby sweaters. “you two are so young and in love! babies would be beautiful. strong like you, sweet like her probably.” dude they NEVER MET YOU. (not wrong about you tho)
seungmin takes a slow breath, eyes closed, the vein in his forehead throbbing.
“you make sure to fuck her right honey, grandmas know these things.”
he chokes on his tea.
another time he’s helping mrs. lee hang curtains and she just goes “so when are you putting a ring on that girl? my sangcheol knocked me up at 19 and we were married 52 years. happy ones.” seungmin is on a step ladder, power drill in hand, and she’s feeding him cookies while three cats try to crawl into his hood. he breathes through his nose so hard you can hear it from the hallway.
oh that one book club meeting he was at went back to your topic too.
“tell us more about her, minnie! does she like romance novels? we could pick one for next month so you can read it together.”
“is she a good cook? you need someone who can feed you properly after all that hard work.”
“does she want children? we’ve already started the blanket. it’s yellow, gender neutral you know.”
seungmin is holding a teacup that says “world’s best grandma” while a cat tries to crawl into his lap and another one is chewing on his shoelace. also one on each thigh. one on his shoulder purring. one headbutting his chin so hard his teeth click. another chewing aggressively on his sleeve. another perches on his shoulder and starts licking directly into his ear with that horrible sandpaper tongue. “she’s… good.” “yeah she cooks.” “we’re not… talking about kids yet.”
then comes the “back in my day we didn’t wait so long to have babies. you should get her pregnant soon. nothing keeps a man home like a full belly and a crying infant.”
seungmin takes a slow sip of the too sweet tea they forced on him.
another one says: “and breastfeed! it’s so important. you’ll have to help with the night feeds of course. very bonding.”
he closes his eyes. takes the deepest breath known to man. a cat is actively trying to crawl inside his hoodie. another is licking his neck. he can feel tiny claws pricking his balls through his jeans.
“she’s… not ready for that yet.” he manages, voice flat.
“nonsense! you’re both young and healthy. put a baby in her!”
he comes to you later with six baby sweaters, two blankets, a knitted onesie that says “grandma’s favorite” and a tupperware of soup. you’re on the couch when he walks in and just drops all of it on the counter.
“the fuck is this?” you ask, holding up a tiny yellow sweater.
“don’t. fucking. ask.”
you heard the story later from jeongin and almost pissed yourself laughing.
speaking of jeongin. he went there once. big mistake. or best day of his life, depending who you ask.
seungmin needed help moving a heavy dresser (there was a body inside, obviously) and jeongin tagged along because he was bored. the second the grandmas saw jeongin(young, pretty, shirt half unbuttoned, big smile) they lost their old little minds.
“oh my minnie you didn’t tell us you had such handsome friends!”
jeongin was an attention whore. “ladies, please, you’re all too beautiful to be calling me handsome.” he winked at mrs. lee and she actually blushed. within ten minutes he had three grandmas feeding him cookies, one fixing his hair, and another trying to set him up with her great niece.
okay i got carried away but the way grandmas keep swarming seungmin is unbelievable.
anyways, now that we’re at jeongin, i’ll continue with him. we were talking about neighbors, by the way. in case you forgot.
his whole apartment complex is a nonstop party zone. kinda. music blasting, girls and guys coming and going, random screaming. nobody bats an eye when he shows up with fresh scratches that are definitely fingernail shaped from a dying victim. they just assume he had an orgy. he once carried a severed head in a pizza box past three neighbors and they all went “late night snack huh?” jeongin winked “extra sausage.”
god he’s cheeky. so hot. that’s why his neighbors love him. most of the neighbors are usually on drugs tho, doesn’t matter if boys or girls. there’s not one healthy person in that building, they couldn’t give less fucks about murder as long as they’re not the ones dying.
he parties so loud and fucks so many randoms (before you locked him down) that nobody connects the occasional scream to murder. they just assume he’s railing some chick. he’ll blast music, throw shit, who cares. constant noise anyway. he once threw a whole chair off the balcony during a tantrum and nobody batted an eye.
he once dismembered someone in his bathtub while blasting music and the downstairs neighbor texted him “sick playlist bro” he also flirts with the building manager (a 40 year old divorced woman) so hard she lets him “borrow” the security footage whenever he needs to delete stuff.
chan’s place is in a quiet, manly bachelor complex full of gym bros and divorced dads. nobody blinks at blood because half of them come home from the gym looking like they murdered someone anyway. he just nods at the neighbors and they both grunt out a “sup.”
plus he doesn’t kill at his place. though once a nosy neighbor saw him hosing blood off his truck and chan just looked him dead in the eye and said “deer season.” guy nodded like it made perfect sense and offered him a beer.
he told one of them (one he hates) “got a girlfriend now, keeps me busy” and suddenly he’s “one of the good ones.” that single sentence gave him a halo.
oh yeah, our boys pulling the girlfriend card is not unusual. i’ll include it with the other boys too because they know that once they even mutter the world girlfriend, suddenly the world thinks they’re saints. works so well.
having a girlfriend somehow equals not a serial killer in people’s brains.
so it’s either he comes home looking like he just crawled out of a slaughterhouse and the neighbor just claps him on the back and goes “nice, bro! getting that good dick workout in, huh?” and chan just grunts and nods. or other daps him up and goes “respect man, keeping it together for your lady. she’s a lucky one.”
chan is SO fed up with them omfg😭
yeah we know hyunjin and changbin live fancy. they only have one neighbor on their level and that’s a disgustingly rich retired couple who are half deaf and think the screaming is “those boys watching football again.”
the two boys once had a full screaming match that ended with hyunjin throwing a chair through a window. security came up, changbin just smiled and talked themselves the fuck out of it. hyunjin’s looks also helped. money and pretty privilege gets them out of lots of shit.
like. the doorman once saw hyunjin stumble in drunk with blood on his collar and just went “long night, mr. hwang?” hyunjin replied “you have no idea” and slipped him an extra grand.
hyunjin is good at appearing normal. like, scarily good. he’s an angel. i mean, not overly nice, but so charming.
so when something does happen? it gets filtered through that image. “oh, it’s probably nothing.” “he wouldn’t—” yeah. he would. but you don’t think that, because he doesn’t look like it.
he’s so fucking pretty. as i said, pretty privilege. he walked into the building at 6am once holding a literal handgun in one hand and a half empty whiskey bottle in the other. nobody cared because his face is the kind of beautiful that makes people assume he’s the victim, not the killer. plus he mentioned having a girlfriend (“the love of my life actually”) and now the whole staff thinks he’s just romantic. he could carry a severed head in a designer bag and they’d compliment the bag.
they love changbin too. amazing car, pretty build, and he told the neighbors months ago “yeah i have a girlfriend, she’s the best” with that big sweet smile. now they think he’s a saint. he could drag a chainsaw through the hallway and they’d assume he’s borrowing it for “a diy project for his lovely lady.” one neighbor saw him carrying a suspiciously heavy duffel bag leaking something dark and just said “moving furniture for your girlfriend? you’re such a gentleman!” changbin blushed (actually blushed) and replied “something like that :)”
minho’s place is creepily tidy. not a speck of dust, only cat fur. the one time a nosy neighbor smelled something rotting and knocked, minho opened the door in a perfectly pressed black shirt, one of his cats circling at his feet, smiled with zero teeth showing, and said “just some forgotten takeout.” the neighbor left and moved out two weeks later.
the few neighbors he has are scared of him. they cross the hall when they see him coming.
he doesn’t even need the girlfriend card. his resting “i will wear your skin” face does all the work.
han’s apartment has floor to ceiling windows because he’s a dumbass who was immediately in love with the amount of light in there. just saying, but he has enough brains to at least close the curtains. neighbors just assume he’s on drugs when he’s being weird. one lady even left a kind note “sweetie try melatonin.” he ate the note.
but he’s so openly stupid and smiley that they think he’s just “special.” he once told the stoner downstairs “i have a girlfriend!! she’s really pretty!!” and the guy gave him a fist bump.
nobody would suspect him. plus he doesn’t usually bring kills back to his place. not because he knows it’s not wise, he just always kills at the given place.
the girlfriend card is stupidly powerful. it makes them look like normal men. less likely to be carving people up in their spare time. every single one of them has weaponized mentioning you at least once. you’re their get out of jail free card and you don’t even know it.
plus, people ignore more than you think. like, genuinely. you’d be shocked how much weird, concerning, objectively alarming behavior people will brush off with “eh, not my problem.” someone yelling? “couple’s fight.” something breaking? “clumsy.” weird hours? “night shift.” people ignore things like crazy when they don’t want to get involved. and these guys rely on that.
felix accidentally bought like seven luxury properties over the years because “the nice lady on the phone said it was a good investment!!” he rotates between them but mostly stays in the sleek modern one closest to you. the building staff think he’s just a weird trust fund idiot (which he is). he shows up giggling covered in blood and they just go “mr. lee had another one of his party nights again :)” he tips them in cash. they love him.
now, the felix at the doctor part of the questions.
felix is a walking medical anomaly and still doesn’t get flagged because he’s too stupid to be suspicious. he giggles at everything. everything.
he goes in(drove by seungmin) for a checkup because he ate some “probably bad” liver and his stomach felt funny. the nurse takes his blood pressure and he starts giggling because “it feels like a hug but tighter haha.” doctor presses on his stomach to check for tenderness and felix fucking loses it, full on wheezing, legs kicking a little. “that tickles!! your fingers feel funny on my side!! stop it haha!!”
they ask him basic questions.
“any nausea?”
“only when i think about y/n leaving me :((“
doctor presses on his side: “does this hurt?”
“hehehe that feels funny like when y/n tickles me for chasing the mailman!!”
“do you do drugs?”
“noooo hahaha!!”
“any unusual dietary habits?”
“i only eat y/n’s cooking :)” he doesn’t. i mean he loves your cooking, but the boys beat some of these automatic answers into his head before he leaves so he doesn’t send them straight to jail while giggling so hard he almost falls off the table. this is one of them.
blood draw? he watches the needle go in and goes “look it’s like i’m the one getting killed this time!!” full belly laugh. the nurse is concerned but thinks he’s just mentally disabled.
the doctor just writes it off as “patient exhibits childlike affect, possible developmental delay.”
his blood always comes back “weird” high iron from all the people meat, sure, but they assume he eats too much red meat.
one time they found a tooth fragment in his system and he just said “i must’ve swallowed my own haha oopsie” while kicking his feet on the table like a toddler.
they love him at the clinic. he’s their favorite patient because he’s so “happy and cooperative.” if only they knew he came straight from eating a guy’s kidney. they even give him lollipops on the way out. everyone wants to adopt him there.
so that’s about the neighbors situation and the other whatnot.
BUT. they do risky shi sometimes. we know that.
felix once went to buy food still wearing bloody shoes. security guard stopped him.
“why are your shoes red?”
“i stepped in ketchup!!”
guard thought he was on drugs and just let him go with a warning.
once minho was sitting in the car watching a detective who was getting too close. detective noticed the creepy staring, walked over to question him. minho just slowly ate a sandwich while maintaining eye contact and said in his pretty, flat voice “i like watching people.” detective got weirded out and left. wrote him off as “local weirdo.”
once chan and jeongin were killing a guy at jeongin’s place. guy screamed lots so eventually police got called. chan calmly answered the door in just sweatpants, dick print obvious(no, he wasn’t doing anything with jeongin if you’re thinking about that, if you’ve read my little explanation about how these boys got close then you know they don’t care about this anymore. and they like killing while comfy), while jeongin kept a hand over the guy’s mouth. officer asked about the screaming. chan deadpanned “rough sex, officer. sorry.” the cop got embarrassed, said “keep it down folks” and left.
these bitches have an explanation for anything. and they mostly impro too. sometimes help each other with it and reach flow state. they’re impressive.
now that we mentioned sex. well, this is self sex, but one of their lower neighbors irritated hyunjin once so he made up a whole case for them, got a police team raiding that apartment. about one floor down. hyunjin and changbin’s place have good soundproofing but it was so loud that you could still hear “police!” while hyunjin was jacking off. he started moaning louder on purpose “yes officer take me instead~”
hyunjin is fucking brutal in general.
let’s say, he’s in some abandoned warehouse in the middle of the night, phone wedged between ear and shoulder, voice all soft, beautiful, talking to you. “yeah baby… tell me again how your day was… mhm…” meanwhile he’s peeling a guy’s face off. like genuinely, knife going into the poor guy’s face, who is still twitching and making wet gurgling sounds. you ask “what’s that noise?” hyunjin answers with “oh that? just… han trying to cook again. you know how he is.” he flicks a strip of skin onto the floor and keeps talking dirty to you. when the guy starts thrashing too loud hyunjin stabs him in the throat mid sentence. “sorry angel, some cat knocked something over. love you, see you soon.”
jeongin’s twenty or whatever fake personalities helps lots too. i know i always say this but they really do help with everything.
he gets pulled over with a trunk full of bloody tools and two bodies zip tied in the back. he rolls down the window and instantly take up an accent, dad jokes, wedding ring he stole off a previous victim. he once pretended to be a cop himself to get out of a situation.
han and felix once tried to dispose of a body together at the river. han forgot the weights so they just pushed the corpse in and waved goodbye. the body floated right back up. a jogger saw it and started screaming. felix, brain empty, just yelled “it’s a prank!! he’s fine!!” while han stood there giggling “yeah it’s like a floatie!!” they had to kill the jogger too.
or seugmin is in his apartment mid torture, guy tied to a chair, SCREAMING(no, the grandmas don’t care that much), slowly breaking fingers one by one, when mrs. kim knocks with fresh cookies. seungmin sighs, wipes blood on his jeans, opens the door a crack. he has to keep a cat back with his foot that just tried to rush in.
“i heard yelling dear, is everything alright?”
the victim starts whimpering behind him.
“yeah just… watching a scary movie with the volume up.”
she nods understandingly and hands him the cookies. “tell your girlfriend we said hi and we’re still working on the baby blanket!”
fucking hell.
or changbin is carrying a black trash bag full of limbs through the parking garage of their fancy building when a neighbor sees him. changbin just smiles that big sweet smile and goes “oh this? gym equipment. heavy stuff for my girlfriend, she’s into fitness too!”
neighbor laughs “you two are so cute.”
changbin flexes one arm while holding pounds of corpse parts in the other. works every time.
or chan gets pulled over with blood on the steering wheel. cop asks what happened. chan just shrugs. “cut myself shaving this morning.” cop looks at the massive gash like stain and believes him because chan radiates responsible adult energy. chan even adds “my girl hates when i bleed on the seats” and the cop chuckles “women, am i right?” and waves him on.
some of them are smart, some of them are lucky. but they do get away with shit every time.
have any of the guys ever tried dating and how did that work out?
who were each of the boys’ first kill + feelings?
oki ily bai ! 🥰
yes, some of them tried dating. or at least attempted the motions of it. the rest either didn’t bother, couldn’t pull it off, or were too brainless to even register the concept as something worth pursuing. first kills, first feelings? here’s how it went for each of them:
warnings for below: dating obvi, murder(kinda in detail but not to the point of biological detail), mentions of sex, but no smut written
TRIED DATING?
hyunjin tried the most, because he is dramatic and poetic and convinced himself that love maybe could do something to his empty little heart. he dated a string of beautiful people. they always fell hard at first, called him intoxicating, said he made them feel alive. but hyunjin never felt it back. not the spark. not the ache. he’d lie there staring at the ceiling, listening to them breathe, and think “this is supposed to be something.” it never was. the sex was good, really good, but it felt like performing.
after a few months (sometimes weeks) they’d sense the distance behind his eyes, and leave. or he’d end it gently.
chan tried twice. once in his early twenties, before the garage was even a thing, first some quiet girl. they dated for almost a year. she’d cook him dinner, sit on his lap while he watched movies, kiss him. it was… nice. comfortable. he liked the routine. liked her hands on him. liked the sex. but he never lit up. never felt that possessive, violent pull he got when he looked at the boys later.
one night she asked why he never said i love you. he stared at the ceiling for a long time, then told her the truth: “i don’t think i know how.”
they broke up the next week.
the second try was shorter, a bartender who flirted hard and fucked harder. lasted three months. same story, nice, but nothing clicked deeper than skin. chan stopped trying after that.
changbin dated a nurse for six months. they’d go on real dates, dinners, walks by the river, movie nights where she fell asleep on his chest. gentle sex. but even with her, changbin never felt that full body click. he cared about her, but it was surface care. when she left (tearful but kind, said he deserved someone who could match his heart), he didn’t chase. he never tried again after that. decided this is fine like this. sure, girls are nice, maybe he’ll get into something when they come to him themselves. but otherwise he’s fine alone.
jeongin hit on girls constantly. bars, coffee shops, the street, didn’t matter. he’d get numbers, get dates, get laid more often than most. but dating? actual dating? never stuck. they’d go out once, maybe twice. he’d flirt hard, kiss, fuck but then he’d ghost. or they’d ghost. because jeongin never really showed up fully, he was always half in the moment, half thinking about the next kill or the next joke or the next way to make minho crash out. girls sensed it. called him a player, a tease, emotionally unavailable.
so yeah, he’s a flirt. he tries but not with real intent and if some even does work out, then not for long. because he’s not built for this shit.
minho never tried. saw no need. he watched people go all sappy over it, hyunjin’s dramatic breakups, and decided it wasn’t worth the risk. he fucked sometimes, quick, no names, no numbers. but dating never crossed his mind.
seungmin didn’t date. didn’t want to. saw people try and fail and thought why bother. he fucked around when the mood hit, bar bathrooms, back alleys, one night stands that ended with him walking out before they woke up. satisfying in the moment. but nothing stuck. he didn’t want it to. the idea of someone soft in his bed, expecting tenderness, made his skin crawl. he had the boys for closeness, han’s dumb hugs, jeongin gettin on his nerves, the annoying showers together. that was intimacy enough.
han was too dumb to date properly. he tried once, met a girl at a coffee shop who thought his rambling was adorable. they went on three dates. she kissed him goodnight, held his hand, laughed at his stories. han liked it! he really did. the kisses were nice. soft. warm. they never got far enough to have sex, because he never felt that spark everyone talked about. no butterflies. no obsession. just… nice. they were only together because she liked him.
she asked why he never texted back right away. he said “i forgot my phone was in the fridge.” she left after that.
han just shrugged, told the boys “she was cool but i think i like you guys more.” they hugged him. told him he was enough. he believed them.
felix was way too dumb. didn’t even understand dating as a concept. someone would flirt with him and he’d smile blankly, offer them a bite of whatever he was eating and they’d run. he tried kissing a girl once at a bar because han said that’s what people do. she kissed back. he bit her lip too hard (thought that’s how it worked). she slapped him and left. felix just stood there confused. “did i do it wrong?” han patted his back. “nah buddy. you’re perfect.” felix never tried again. decided the boys were better company anyway.
none of them ever felt the full thing. the chemistry. the obsession. the need that wasn’t just physical. kisses were nice. sex was fun. company was warm. but nothing ever lit their brains up the way a murder did, or the way the boys did when they were all piled in the garage laughing, bleeding, stupid.
FIRST KILL?
uuuh i already talked about chan’s. seventeen, he was at some party. he was there because he’d been invited by a girl he barely knew, mostly just to stand in the corner and drink. some drunk asshole kept grabbing girls who were trying to walk past him. chan just set his cup down, walked over, grabbed the guy by the collar, and dragged him out the back door like he weighed nothing.
outside, behind the garage, the guy laughed, sum “what, you her boyfriend now?” and swung. chan caught the fist, twisted, slammed the guy’s head into the brick once. twice. the crack was wet. chan didn’t stop. kept going until the body slumped, skull caved, blood pooling. he stood there breathing hard, hands shaking for the first time in his life, staring at what he’d done.
feelings, nothing at first. just static. then a slow, cold… clarity??? the world finally made sense.
he wiped his hands on his jeans, walked back inside, grabbed his beer, and sat on the couch like nothing happened. the girl found him later, kissed his cheek, said “thanks.” he nodded. felt nothing extra. went home and slept like a baby.
minho was twenty, he wasn’t fighting in rings yet. idk let’s say some warehouse job. fuck knows. doesn’t even really matter, the point is that a coworker kept pushing his buttons. “you’re a fucking robot, man. do you even feel anything?” one night after a shift they were alone in the parking garage. minho waited until the guy turned to unlock his car. stepped up behind him. wrapped an arm around his throat. held it. the guy thrashed, clawed, went limp. minho let go. checked pulse. none. dragged the body behind a dumpster, arranged it to look like a heart attack. walked away.
felt nothing. no rush. no regret. just confirmation that yes, this is easy. yes, i can do it again if i want. went home. slept fine. never stopped after that.
i talked about changbin too already. choked a guy in school. he felt horrible about it at first. like, absolutely horrible. first he couldn’t really process that he did it and he knew that it was wrong, later han and chan helped him realize that if he wants to do it then sure.
hyunjin was nineteen, drunk on cheap wine, wandering a park at night because he liked how the moonlight looked on water. some creep followed him, older guy, slurring, hand reaching. hyunjin felt… annoyance. let’s note that these boys never really felt much, i already said that hundreds of times, so annoyance was extra unpleasant. so he turned, smiled that beautiful, devastating smile, let the guy get close. we’re lucky young little hyunjin always made sure to protect himself, what a smart boy, he had a switchblade to stab into the guy’s body. guy screamed(into hyunjin’s hand but not like that did much) as hyunjin twisted until the damage was final. hyunjin held him while he died, watching the light fade. as the body slumped, he felt… inspired. went home and wrote sixteen pages about it. drew lots.
yeaaah we went over han too already. he killed the guy in chan’s garage. felt terror for about ten seconds, thought he was going to jail, thought chan would hate him, thought he’d ruined everything. when chan comforted him, the terror melted into something warm. excitement. pride. he’d protected the garage. protected chan. he knew he’d like to do it again.
felix’s first kill was at fourteen. it was summer. he was hanging around an abandoned lot near his house, kicking rocks, when a kid his age (some rich brat from the next neighborhood over) rode by on a shiny bike and called him “freak.” felix didn’t like that word. he followed the kid home. waited until the brat went into the backyard to smoke stolen cigarettes. felix walked up behind him, grabbed one of those little shovels that they use for gardens off the patio table, and stabbed him in the neck. once. the kid gurgled, dropped. felix stared at the blood pooling on the grass. then he crouched down, touched it, tasted it on his finger. interesting. he didn’t eat any meat that time, just tasted. but the flavor stayed in his mouth for days. he liked it more than he thought he would. he started tasting at seventeen, full bites, chewing, swallowing. never looked back. never even thought about it, because… he doesn’t think much in general.
seungmin’s first kill was petty and impulsive. nineteen years old, working shitty construction gigs to have some money, already angry at the world for existing. some guy higher than him singled seungmin out one day. called him “pretty boy” in front of everyone, yknow the usual asshole behavior. that night seungmin waited in the parking lot. stabbed the guy to death when he came out. seungmin watched the light leave his eyes. wiped the blade on the guy’s shirt. walked home. felt… satisfied. knew he’ll do it again when there’s need. that turned into being unable to stop.
jeongin’s first kill was at eighteen, just because. he was walking home when he passed a construction site. some drunk asshole was pissing on the chain fence. jeongin didn’t know him. didn’t need to. he just let the intrusive thoughts win. he picked up a loose brick from the pile, walked up behind the guy and cracked it across the back of his skull. one hit. clean. the guy dropped face first into his own piss. jeongin stood there for a second, breathing hard, then whistled. walked away like nothing happened. he felt… good. too good. he kept whistling all the way home. knew right there he’ll never stop. because bro, it was fun.
FIRST FEELINGS?
each other lowkey, but i know that’s not the answer y’all are waiting for.
so, they never really felt anything deep before you. that’s lowkey the point of the dear y/n series.
not the kind of feeling that sticks in your chest like a blade you can’t pull out. not the kind that makes the world tilt or your hands shake or your breath catch because y/n just looked at you.
they had flickers, little almost moments that flared up and died fast, snuffed out by the same cold wiring that made them killers.
but before you, here’s what little sparks they did have. the almost feelings. the ones that never grew legs.
i don’t know if i should go age order or intensity order now… like at the first question i went intensity but in the second i did age… ugh i’m a FUCKUP
age it is🥰
chan never had one. yeah this is why it wasn’t a good idea to go age order. or maybe it was because after this the ones with almost feelings will capture the reader more??? are you saying i should shut my fucking mouth??? sure😄 he watched the others crash through their little feelings and thought “good for them.” he liked routine. liked loyalty. liked the boys around him. but romantic? emotional? no. never crossed his radar. he didn’t miss it. didn’t look for it. when the others talked about exes or almosts, he just sipped his beer and listened.
minho is another that never had one. not a flicker. not a spark. he watched the others feel their little almosts and felt… nothing. just observed. he didn’t need it. didn’t want it.
changbin’s almost feeling was his dog. it was a good dog. changbin rescued him from somewhere when he was sixteen, fed him scraps, slept on the floor with him, talked to him. when the dog got old, changbin held him while they put him down. he felt it then, this huge, hollow ache. love. loss. the kind of pain that makes you want to rip your own ribs open.
the feeling lasted three days. then it dulled. not gone, just… quieter. he never got another dog. never let himself feel that soft again. not like any dog could replace that feeling.
hyunjin felt it after his first time having sex. sixteen. in the back of a borrowed car with a girl from his poetry club who smelled lowkey good. it wasn’t fireworks. it was quiet. her breath on his neck. her fingers in his hair. when he came he felt this sudden, overwhelming rush, not lust, but closeness.
he ghosted her the next day.
that’s about how emotionally available hyunjin is.
han’s first real almost feeling happened when hyunjin and seungmin dragged him to a strip club for his twenty first birthday. he’d never seen tits in the wild before, never even really tried. girls confused him. sex confused him more. he didn’t know what to think of porn because he never really thought. hyunjin and seungmin knew this the second they asked if he’d ever been to one and han blinked and said “is that where they sell chicken strips?”
they knew they had to fix it.
they got him drunk enough to loosen up but not so drunk he’d cry (again). sat him front row like a fucking sacrifice. stage lights. bass so brutal he was shaking from it. girls glittering. han stared with his mouth open. one dancer crawled toward him on all fours, smirking, tits swaying inches from his face. han’s eyes went huge.
when she straddled his lap for a lap dance, grinding slow, he felt it. this warm, fizzy thing in his chest. not just his dick (though that was definitely awake now) but something higher. like… wonder? affection? the way she looked at him. he tipped her everything he had. told her “you’re really pretty, like, really really” in that earnest han voice. she kissed his cheek. he almost cried.
later, in the car, hyunjin and seungmin were cackling. dying with laughter. (side note, before each other, the boys never really laughed much. the eight of them are so bonded together because they bring these out of each other, plus as i said they are lowk each other’s first feelings)
han just stared out the window, still flushed, still smiling like an idiot.
they teased him for weeks. he never went back. the feeling faded fast, too dumb to hold onto, too scattered to grow. he liked the dancer. he liked the boobs. but it wasn’t her. it was the newness.
felix never had one either. too dumb. too literal. he felt happy when he ate. felt safe with hyunjin and minho. felt excited when han talked to him. but it never went into anything bigger. never ached. never lit up. he just existed in the moment, hungry, full, happy, sleepy. the boys made him happy more often. that was all he needed.
seungmin felt flickers around the other boys. something close to loyalty so strong it scared him. gratitude. protectiveness. the kind of thing that makes you want to kill anyone who looks at them wrong.
first time was with han, han hugging him goodbye, arms tight, face smashed into seungmin’s shoulder, mumbling “you’re the best mean guy ever.” seungmin froze. felt this weird warmth in his chest. safe? wanted? he shoved han off, growled “get off me, idiot.” but oh there was something in his chest.
another flicker with changbin, who was spotting him on bench press, changbin’s big hands under the bar, his “i got you.” seungmin felt it again. trust. solid. grounding. he grunted “thanks” and that’s it.
and also with the others, he started developing a loyalty. those little feelings never grew. he buried them under meanness. but they were there. tiny.
jeongin had a dozen little almost feelings, quick. a girl in high school who laughed at his jokes too loud. someone at a party who kissed him without a word exchanged. a bartender who let him crash on her couch after closing. but it always went away. he never quite let them in. he’d ghost or get ghosted and shrug it off with a laugh. “eh, next.” the feelings never rooted because jeongin never let them. he liked the chase. liked the high. liked that the second someone tried to stay, he could shut it off.
then you showed up.
and suddenly every little almost feeling they’d ever had looked like ash next to the fire you lit in their empty little hearts.
hi i love you and your writing so much and also your big beautiful brain for coming up with these horrific yet sweet stories
also i am so !!!!! curious about how their little murder club began ??? how can fate be so kind to allow eight men with the same questionable hobbies and abnormal brains to find each other ?? lucky ducks
also i am wondering if the conclusion of dear y/n will end in an unconventional polyamorous relationship between nine people (because me personally, i believe more the merrier [only half-joking])
okay. so. warnings for below, killing obviously, gore, cursing, ppl being mean to han, men being naked around each other, platonic non sexual intimacy, you might take some parts sexual but nothing is sexual here. only violent💋
chan met han first.
chan started killing young. like, embarrassingly young for someone who looks like he’d rather be napping in a hammock than holding a knife. first one was at seventeen, some drunk asshole at a party who wouldn’t stop grabbing girls. chan just walked the guy outside, cracked his skull against the brick wall once, twice, then kept going until the guy stopped twitching.
he stood there for a solid minute staring at the mess, wiped his hands on his jeans, went back inside, finished his beer, and never told a soul.
after that it was occasional.
he opened the garage at twenty two because he needed somewhere to park his murder van and because he liked fixing shit.
han showed up looking for a job at nineteen. walked in wearing flip flops, a tank top and a backwards baseball cap. resume was a single sheet of notebook paper with “i like cars” written in crayon.
chan should’ve laughed him out the door.
instead he hired him on the spot because han had the most earnest “please don’t make me go home to my mom’s couch” eyes chan had ever seen.
han was (and still is) the single worst mechanic in human history. he once tried to change a tire and ended up putting it back on with bubblegum. customers would leave screaming. chan would just sigh, hand them a free oil change coupon, and go back to fixing what han broke.
it was a slow tuesday. han was supposed to be dealing with a customer’s pickup. instead he was in the back, panicking, covered in blood. some weird dude who’d been harassing him for weeks (calling him “special” every time he came in for something, idk do i look like i know shit about cars to you) had cornered him behind the shop, tried to swing on him. han, from instinct, zero brain cells, grabbed the nearest thing (a tire iron) and swung. one hit. skull caved. guy dropped.
“fuck i think i killed him. oh god i killed him. chan’s gonna fire me. i’m gonna go to jail. i’m gonna be someone’s prison wife. i don’t even know how to—”
chan walked in.
han froze. iron clattered to the concrete.
chan looked at the body. looked at han. looked back at the body.
long silence.
then he just… sighed. like han had spilled coffee on the floor instead of a dude’s brains. he stepped forward, put one big hand on han’s shoulder. squeezed once. gentle. “breathe.”
“i’m sorry. i’m so sorry. i’ll clean it up. i’ll bury him. i’ll eat the evidence. wait no that’s gross. i’ll—”
“han.”
“yeah?”
“shut up for five seconds.”
han clamped his mouth shut so fast his teeth clicked.
chan crouched down, checked the guy’s pulse (none), then stood back up. wiped his hand on his jeans. “you good?”
“am i… good? dude i just murdered someone. i’m the worst employee ever. fire me. please fire me before the cops come.”
chan snorted. first real laugh han had ever heard from him. “you’re not getting fired. you’re getting gloves. and trash bags.”
han stared. brain cells visibly dying one by one. “you’re… not mad?”
“kid, i’ve been killing people since i was seventeen. you think one more corpse is gonna ruin my day?”
han’s mouth opened. closed. opened again.
“wait. wait wait wait. you’re a serial killer? like… for real? not just, like, accidentally ran over a guy with the truck?”
chan raised one eyebrow. “you think i accidentally ran over sixty guys?”
“…maybe?”
chan pinched the bridge of his nose. “jesus christ you’re dumb.”
han blinked a few more times. “so… we’re both killers?”
“looks like it.”
“cool. cool cool cool. besties?”
chan stared at him for a long beat. then he sighed again. “sure. whatever.”
they cleaned up the body together.
after that it was easy. han started noticing the “late night jobs” chan would disappear for. chan started noticing han coming back from “errands” with blood under his nails. they never made a big deal out of it. just started sharing tips. chan taught han how to dispose of a body without leaving dna everywhere. han taught chan… well, nothing useful, but he did bring food and moral support. (“you got this, bro! one stab at a time!”)
the first time they killed together on purpose was three months later. some asshole tried to rob the garage at closing. han panicked, grabbed a wrench. chan grabbed a crowbar. han kept yelling “sorry sorry sorry” every time he hit him. chan just kept swinging until the guy stopped moving.
afterward han sat on the floor next to the body, covered in blood, staring at his hands. “that was teamwork. i’m proud of us.”
chan wiped the crowbar on a rag. “yeah. teamwork.”
now. changbin knew han from high school. everyone knew han from high school. he was the weird kid. had a thousand yard stare that made teachers wonder if he was high or just permanently concussed.
changbin was the only one who didn’t treat him like shit. one day, han dropped his textbook, pages flying everywhere. changbin just knelt down, helped pick them up, and said “hey man, no stress. happens to the best of us.”
han was mesmerized.
from then on changbin was just… nice. genuinely. shared his notes when han zoned out (which was always). walked him home on rainy days because han would forget his umbrella. once han tripped over his own shoelaces in the parking lot and fell the fuck down. changbin laughed, not mean, just surprised, and hauled him up. “you good, bro?”
han nodded, cheeks red, and mumbled “yeah thanks you’re like… super cool.”
changbin just ruffled his hair and said “you too, dude. don’t die out here.”
changbin had always fantasized about killing. he was obsessive about it, actually. he’d lie awake at night imagining how easy it would be to snap someone’s neck during a tackle. how clean a strangulation could look if you did it right. he told himself it was just intrusive thoughts. everyone has them. right?
then senior year he did it.
some bully had been cornering younger kids on the streets for months. one night the guy went too far with a kid who looked like han. changbin saw red. followed the bully home. one punch to the kidney to drop him, then hands around the throat. slow squeeze. watched the eyes bulge, the face turn purple, the body go limp. changbin let go when the twitching stopped. stood there shaking, staring at the corpse.
he panicked. dragged the body into the woods, covered it with branches, ran home and threw up for an hour. cried in the shower. swore he’d never do it again.
years later, changbin was driving a ridiculously luxurious black car he babied like a firstborn, and he needed a brake job. pulled into chan’s garage on a whim because it was the closest place with decent reviews.
han was under the hood of a civic, ass up, singing off key. he straightened up when he heard the engine rumble in, saw changbin, and froze.
changbin grinned. “han? no fucking way.” he laughed, big, warm, the same laugh from high school, and before han finished wiping his hands on his shirt, changbin was already pulling him into a bear hug. lifting him clean off the ground for a second. han squeaked.
“look at you, man.“ changbin said, setting him down but keeping both hands on han’s arms, squeezing. “you grew too. arms are solid now. you been lifting?”
han flexed. “kinda! mostly from swinging wrenches and running from angry customers! but you’re ripped. can i touch?”
“go for it.”
han poked changbin’s pecs.
“missed you, weirdo.” changbin said.
“thanks! i work here now! chan hired me! he’s the best! i break everything but he fixes it!“
changbin just laughed again, ruffled han’s hair (who leaned into it like a cat), then turned to chan, who was leaning against a workbench watching the whole thing with that calm psycho stare.
changbin sticked out a hand. big. “hey man. seo changbin. han’s old high school buddy. thanks for giving him a job. means a lot.”
chan looked at the hand for a second, then clasped it. they dapped each other up. boys are so cute.
“chan. he’s… useful. sometimes.”
changbin grinned. chan got positive vibes. instant. he felt it in his gut, no threat, no bullshit, just a big dude who genuinely liked han. rare.
they caught up for an hour while changbin’s car got worked on (han mostly stood around handing tools and dropping them). by the end changbin’s got han in a headlock, han laughing so hard he’s wheezing, and chan’s quietly deciding this guy might be okay.
days later, changbin and han were at a diner after closing, han was mid story about some customer who yelled at him when he says: “yeah so anyway i killed that guy last week because he called me stupid and then i buried him in his own backyard under tomatoes lol”
changbin froze with a fry halfway to his mouth.
han realized. eyes went wide.
“oh fuck. oh fuck oh fuck i didn’t mean—pretend i said something normal like ‘i killed it at mario kart’ or—”
changbin set the fry down slow. “han. it’s okay.”
han was shaking. “you’re not gonna call the cops? or hate me? or—”
changbin reached over, put a hand on han’s shoulder. same way chan did. same way he used to in high school when han was freaking out about a test. “i’m not calling anyone. and i don’t hate you.” pause. “i’ve killed too.”
han blinked. once. twice. “wait. you?“
changbin nodded. told him about it. abt the regret that never quite went away because the thrill never left either, bla bla bla.
han listened. didn’t interrupt. when changbin finished han just… reached over and hugged him across the booth. awkward booth hug. changbin’s huge arms came around him anyway.
“dude.” han mumbled into changbin’s shoulder. “that’s okay. you’re still good. killing doesn’t make you bad if the guy deserved it. and he sounded like a mega dick. so… you’re fine. we’re fine.“
changbin laughed, shaky, relieved, and patted han’s back.
han pulled back, smiling, head empty. “actually, chan kills too. he’s chill. he’ll like you more now.”
same day han bursted into the garage. “chan! chan! emergency! good emergency! changbin kills people too!” sweetie, he killed one guy. not people, jesus, this dumbass.
chan looked up from an oil change, rag in hand. “volume.”
han whispered. still loud. “changbin. from high school. the nice one. he strangled a guy in the street once. regretted it but also liked it. he told me at the diner. i hugged him. he hugged back. he’s like us!”
chan stared. then he sighed. fond. “bring him by tomorrow. we’ll talk.”
and just like that, they talked. they told each other this and that. opened up, kinda.
boom. trio.
they killed together too. first time all three, was a dealer who’d been selling bad shit to kids. han found out because the guy offered weed to him once. han got mad. like, genuinely mad. “he could’ve hurt someone’s little sister, chan. that’s not okay.”
chan and changbin didn’t even hesitate. not even one day later they waited outside the guy’s apartment. han knocked, guy opened the door, saw han’s dumb smile, relaxed for half a second.
then changbin stepped in from the side, massive hand over the guy’s mouth, dragged him back inside. chan followed, han bounced in last, locking the door behind him.
changbin held him down. chan slit his throat clean. han watched wide eyed, then helped wrap the body.
afterward they sat on the curb outside.
han leaned his head on changbin’s shoulder. “we did good, right?”
changbin nodded. “yeah. we did good.”
chan looked up at the sky. “we always do good.”
just the three of them.
every evening.
for a year.
han was walking home from the garage one night. he had his headphones in. he wasn’t paying attention. never did.
three guys stepped out from the alley behind the liquor store. hoods up, hands in pockets, they saw han, distracted, smiling at his phone like an idiot, and figured easy money, easy fun.
han didn’t even hear them at first. one grabbed his hoodie from behind, yanked him backward. headphones ripped out. phone clattered to the pavement. han yelped, more surprised than scared, then tried to twist away. he wasn’t good at fighting. never had been. he flailed, elbowed air, got a fist to the cheek that split his lip. another kick to the ribs. he went down hard, concrete scraping his palms.
a guy laughed. one knelt, started patting han’s pockets. “wallet, phone, keys.“
han just blinked up at them, dazed, blood trickling from his mouth.
seungmin had been two blocks over, already in a foul mood. bad night. bad week. he’d just finished work. he just left a body in a dumpster. he was walking home, fast, head down, when he heard the scuffle.
saw the three on one. saw the kid on the ground. you already know.
first guy didn’t even turn around. seungmin grabbed him by the hair, slammed his face into the brick wall. crack. teeth scattered. second guy swung, seungmin ducked, drove a knee into his gut, then an elbow to the temple. dropped like a stone. third guy tried to run. seungmin caught him by the collar, yanked him back, slammed him face first onto the hood of a parked car. something cracked. blood sprayed. seungmin didn’t stop. boot to the ribs. once. twice. until the guy stopped moving.
it was over in under thirty seconds.
quiet except for han’s shallow breathing and the drip of blood somewhere.
seungmin looked down at han.
he was sitting up now, one hand pressed to his bleeding lip, the other on the ground. he blinked up at seungmin. then he smiled. small. bloody. grateful. “thanks.”
seungmin grunted. turned. walked away without a word.
han sat there another minute. wiped blood on his sleeve. picked up his cracked phone. texted chan. chan and changbin were at the garage in fifteen minutes flat. chan cleaned han up, ice on the cheek, butterfly bandage on the lip, while han rambled the whole story.
“he just… appeared. three guys down in like five seconds. didn’t even ask questions. just boom. then he left. didn’t even say you’re welcome. so badass.”
changbin frowned. “you sure he wasn’t gonna rob you too?”
han nodded his dumb little head. “yes.”
two weeks later, they were at the a bar not too far from the garage. chan and changbin sitting, han bouncing between the table and the dartboard (he was terrible, darts kept hitting the wall). they were already halfway thru their second beers when han said he needed air.
he stepped outside. lit a cigarette he stole from the bartender (he didn’t even smoke regularly, just liked the aesthetic, made him feel cool). leaned against the brick, exhaling smoke.
then he saw him. same hoodie. same walk.
han’s cigarette fell from his mouth. “hey!”
seungmin turned. eyes narrowed. recognized him instantly, the bleeding kid. fuuuuuck’s sake.
(the bleeding kid, mind you he’s older than seungmin)
han jogged over, grabbed seungmin by the sleeve. “dude! it’s you! come inside! my friends are here, you gotta meet them!”
seungmin yanked his arm free. “fuck off.”
“nah. you saved my life. least you can do is have one beer with us. come on. they’re cool. promise. pleaseeeee.”
seungmin stared at him, trying to decide whether to punch him or walk away.
“i’m han jisung. my friends call me han because sometimes i forget that my name is jisung. you never told me your name. but you don’t have to. just come meet my friends. they’re good people. like you.”
seungmin exhaled through his nose. long. suffering. “one beer.”
han dragged him inside.
chan and changbin looked up when the door swung open. saw han leading in some mean looking guy with fresh bruises.
“guys! this is the dude! the one who saved me! he’s here! he said yes to beer!”
changbin stood up first. built. offered a hand. “hey man. i’m changbin. thanks for looking out for this idiot.”
seungmin shook it. looked like he wanted to kill himself. “seungmin.”
chan stayed seated. studied him for a long second. then nodded once. “chan. sit.”
seungmin sat. han slid next to him. poured him a beer.(is that how it works? sigh i need to do my research, i don’t drink) slid it over.
“so.” han said brightly. “you kill people regularly or was that a one time thing?”
the table went quiet.
seungmin looked at han like he might strangle him. “regularly.”
“sick! same!”
changbin raised his glass. “welcome.”
chan clinked his bottle against seungmin’s without a word.
seungmin stared at the three of them. these three idiots, the dumbest motherfucker alive, the tank, then the chill big nosed guy? they kill like he does? no fucking way. gotta be a joke.
he listened to them talk. answered when asked something. he was obviously so not in the mood for this.
eventually he finished his beer. set it down. stood up. “i’m out.”
just like he said he will.
han’s face fell.
seungmin paused. fuck’s sake. sure. “next thursday. same time. same table.”
then he walked out.
han stared after him. then turned to the other two, eyes shining. “he’s coming back!”
chan clinked his bottle against han’s “yeah. looks like it.”
it took weeks for seungmin to believe it wasn’t a setup. weeks of showing up, sitting mostly silent, watching them. weeks of han hugging him goodbye every time (seungmin shoved him off every time). weeks of chan offering advice on body disposal, changbin showing what he did to who now.
but seungmin kept coming back. because for the first time in years, he wasn’t alone in this life.
jeongin showed up because he has never, not once in his entire life, minded his own fucking business. he’s been into crime since he was twelve, reading true crime books under the covers with a flashlight, yknow, anything you can imagine. he killed for the first time at eighteen, just because. cracked a skull open with a brick. he walked away whistling. he was good at it. too good. so good he started noticing when other people were good at it too.
the disappearances around town were small at first. a dealer here. a creep there. random innocent people too. people nobody missed much. but jeongin noticed. so he started digging. obsessively. even sweet talked a cop at a bar once for scraps of info. everything pointed back to chan. the guy with the dead eyes and the garage that never quite closed on time.
instead of doing the sane thing, calling the cops, moving to another city, minding his own fucking business, jeongin decided to follow chan one night.
chan was locking up late. han had already left. chan stepped out the back door into the alley, black duffel slung over his shoulder (tools, tarp, the usual), when he felt that prickle on the back of his neck. someone watching.
he didn’t turn around right away. just kept walking. slow. casual. got into the car.
jeongin followed. trying to look like he was just out for a stroll at 1 am.
chan was heading for a solo job in the woods, quick disposal of some lowlife who’d tried to short the garage on parts and then threatened han when he got caught. when he got there, he dragged the wrapped body out from the car, then started doing his shi.
jeongin caught up.
chan’s blade was pressed to jeongin’s throat before jeongin even registered that something happened. chan’s other hand fisted in jeongin’s hoodie, slamming him back against a tree so hard the air whooshed out of his lungs.
“you’ve got five seconds to tell me why i shouldn’t open your windpipe before you finish your sentence.”
jeongin smiled. boyish. charming. “easy, big guy. i come in peace.”
chan pressed the knife harder. “talk faster.”
jeongin licked his lips. excited. “i know what you do. the disappearances. the jobs. the garage. i’ve been watching. not to snitch. fuck the cops. i just… wanted to see if it was real. if you were as good as i thought.”
chan stared. they don’t wear makeup in this btw. “you’re insane.”
“says the guy holding a knife to my throat. look, i’ve done it too. a few times. just because. i’m not here to blackmail you or turn you in. i’m here because… shit, man. you’re good. really good. and i’m bored. and lonely. and i think we’d make a hell of a team.”
“you think i need a partner? or a fanboy?”
“neither. i think you need someone who can talk his way out of anything. someone who can charm a witness into forgetting what they saw. someone who can make a disappearance look like a runaway instead of a murder. i’m good at that. really good. i’m useful, bro. worst case you kill me later.”
chan watched him. long. silent. breathing and the sound of the woods only thing audible.
“plus, i’m fun at parties. and i make killer playlists.”
chan exhaled through his nose. long. “you’re a fucking headache.”
“i’ve been called worse.”
chan held the knife there a bit longer. then slowly pulled it back. wiped it on jeongin’s hoodie. “one wrong move and i gut you. get in the truck. you fuck this up, i’ll bury you with him.”
jeongin practically skipped to the passenger seat.
they finished the disposal together. jeongin was annoyingly good, tied better knots, suggested good things, even cracked jokes about the guy. chan didn’t laugh. but he didn’t kill him either.
when they finished, jeongin’s first words were: “so… when do i start?”
chan stared at him. then sighed. the same sigh he used on han every day. “thursday. the garage. come after midnight. bring beer. and shut the fuck up when han starts singing.”
thursday came. jeongin showed up with a twelve pack of beer(i think there are??? beer??? types??? let’s say one that men like??? i dunno??) and a grin that could charm the devil.
han saw him first. froze mid wrench twirl. “whoa. who’s the pretty boy?”
changbin looked up, raised an eyebrow. seungmin was… a mean bitch, yea what did we expect, looking jeongin up and down with a snarl.
chan just jerked his thumb toward the folding chairs. “sit.”
jeongin sat. cracked a beer. offered one to han.
han took it. stared.
chan explained it to the others in a short summary. give the kid a chance, etc. han and changbin were up for that. seungmin tho…
jeongin pro ragebaiter. “so seungmin, scale of one to ten, how much do you wanna kill me right now?”
“eleven.”
“hot.”
seungmin threw a bottle cap at him. jeongin caught it mid air, winked.
jeongin fit right in.
he started showing up every evening. brought better beer. told better stories. ragebaited seungmin until seungmin actually laughed once. dapped everyone up. even managed to earn a single nod of approval from chan after he helped clean up a particularly messy kill without complaint.
“told you i’d talk my way in.”
and he did.
what a kid.
minho and hyunjin met separately.
the target was some guy, no one important. hyunjin had been trailing him for three night now. minho had been watching for two.
but like, they didn’t know each other yet.
one night, the guy stumbled out the back door of the bar he was in, fumbling for a cigarette.
hyunjin stepped from the shadows on the left.
minho stepped from the right.
they locked eyes.
identical expressions: are you fucking kidding me.
both weapons already drawn, hyunjin’s switchblade, minho’s pistol ready.
neither spoke.
neither moved back.
the guy noticed too late. tried to bolt. hyunjin went first, quick, elegant, blade sinking into the man’s throat with a soft gurgle. minho fired once, clean through the temple, silencer coughing once. the body dropped between them.
they stood over it.
hyunjin reached into his pocket, pulled out a pack of cigarettes. lit one with a silver lighter that looked expensive. took a long drag. exhaled smoke.
minho methodically wiped his gloved hands on a black handkerchief. folded it. tucked it away. then looked at hyunjin again.
hyunjin tilted his head, smoke curling from his lips. “you drink?”
“yeah.”
hyunjin offered the cigarette pack.
minho shook his head. doesn’t smoke.
hyunjin flicked his butt into a puddle. “there’s a bar three blocks east. opens late. quiet.”
“lead the way.”
they left the body where it fell. no need to hide it. they walked side by side. they took a booth in the back corner. hyunjin ordered vodka. minho ordered whiskey, no ice.
first drink went down in silence.
second drink, hyunjin spoke. “you always this quiet, or do i just bring it out in people?”
“you talk enough for both of us.”
“fair. i’m hyunjin.”
“minho.”
no last names. they’re so fucking cool.
they drank for hours.
talked about kills. they compared knives vs guns, so cute. hyunjin preferred the intimacy of a blade. minho preferred the distance of a bullet.
“we should collaborate sometime.“
minho looked at him over the rim of his glass. “maybe.”
they left the bar at four am. streets empty. they walked in the same direction.. at the corner where their paths split, hyunjin stopped. “same time next week? same alley. different target.”
“you pick the guy. i’ll bring the silencer.”
hyunjin’s smile was slow. beautiful. “deal.”
after that they were inseparable. they met once a week at first, always an alley, always a target they’d both been watching. killed together out of spite at the start (neither would let the other have the clean kill), then out of habit, then out of trust.
after each job they’d find a bar. different ones. never the same twice. vodka for hyunjin, whiskey for minho. they’d drink in near silence, minho would watch hyunjin smoke in near silence, exist in near silence. but the silence was comfortable now. companionable.
hyunjin’s beauty was their favorite bait. he’d lean against something, long coat open just enough to show the silk shirt underneath, cigarette dangling from those pretty lips, eyes half lidded. men and women would stop. stare. approach. offer drinks, rides, a place to crash. hyunjin would smile, and lead them into whatever dark corner minho was already waiting in.
once the victim was close enough, hyunjin would step aside and minho would move, one shot or one brutal twist.
they enjoyed each other’s company. the space between them felt intimate. it was one of a kind.
then one night when they were out to walk, they found a guy sitting on the curbside outside. legs stretched out in front of him, designer sneakers scuffed with dried blood. expensive coat open over a torn shirt. mouth red. eyes glassy, confused.
hyunjin stopped first. tilted his head. “you lost?”
the guy blinked slow. swallowed. blood was on his teeth when he spoke. “maybe?”
minho stepped closer. eyes narrowing at the stains on the coat, the way the guy’s knuckles were raw but not defensive. offensive. first he thought the guy was drugged, but they can tell that it’s not like that. “you hurt?”
the guy shook his head. “no. that was dinner.”
long pause.
hyunjin crouched down, elbows on his knees. “what’s your name?”
“felix.”
hyunjin looked up at minho. minho looked down at felix, who looked between them.
minho reached down. offered a hand. felix took it without hesitation. minho pulled him up.
“you eat people?” hyunjin asked, casual.
“yeah. they taste better when they’re scared. this one ran. made it fun.”
minho smiled. hyunjin laughed.
“you’re coming with us.”
“okay.”
they took him in. just turned and started walking, felix trailing behind.
at first they kept him on a short leash. they let him watch kills from a distance. then closer. then right beside them. when they finished with someone, hyunjin would step back, wipe his blade, and nod toward the body.
“go ahead.”
felix would drop to his knees, tear in with teeth first, ripping, chewing, moaning. blood down his chin, on his expensive coat, smeared across his cheeks. he ate like an animal. but he was grateful. happy.
sometimes felix would offer them bites and hyunjin would politely decline with a wave of his cigarette.(omfg take a second to imagine how hot that looks) minho would just shake his head once.
they clicked into three.
they killed together now. hyunjin luring with beauty, minho ending the life, felix cleaning up the evidence in the most literal way possible. afterward they’d sit around, hyunjin smoking sometimes, minho drinking whiskey, felix gnawing on whatever scraps he’d pocketed, humming to himself.
silence between them felt right.
felix would sometimes lean his head on hyunjin’s shoulder, trusting. didn’t mean much for a dumb fuck like him, but meant a lot from hyunjin to let him do it. he would pet his hair absently, even. minho would watch them both. say nothing. but he’d shift closer. just an inch.
friends.
now. chan was behind a bar one night, just snapped someone’s neck, and let the body slump against the dumpster.
he was already wiping his hands on a rag when a voice came from the opening of the alley. deep, slow, almost childlike.
“wait.”
chan froze. hand on the knife at his belt.
the guy came closer to chan. beautiful. stupidly beautiful.
chan actually paused. confusion.
the guy(felix) tilted his head at the corpse. “can i eat that?”
chan stared. “what.”
“please?”
chan’s brain shut down. this gorgeous idiot wanted to eat his kill. eat it.
he lowered his hand from the knife. stepped closer. “who the fuck are you?”
felix smiled. “felix. hi. you’re really good at that neck thing. snap! i tried once but i just broke my hand. you’re strong.”
chan blinked. “you’re serious.”
felix nodded so fast his hair flopped. “yeah! please? i’m really hungry. i haven’t eaten since yesterday and yesterday was just a finger. fingers are okay but not filling.”
chan opened his mouth. closed it. before he could decide whether to stab this beautiful moron or just walk away, two more figures appeared at the alley entrance.
minho, pistol already in hand. hyunjin with him. chan was stunned seeing that the whole trio is beautiful. hyunjin saw felix standing next to a stranger with a fresh corpse and his expression went from bored to alive in half a heartbeat. alive means a lot for these basically dead psychos. heartbeat means a lot.
“step the fuck away from him.”
chan’s hand was back on his knife. instant. mirror of hyunjin’s aggression. “he came to me. talking about eating the guy. you his babysitters?”
“he’s ours. back off before i paint this alley with you.”
minho didn’t speak. creepy fucker. finger resting on the trigger guard.
chan looked him up and down. “try it.”
“STOP FIGHTIIIING!” han burst into the alley, arms all around the place, eyes wide. “holy shit guys stop! chan! don’t stab the pretty people! pretty people! don’t shoot chan! he’s my friend!”
everyone froze.
hyunjin stared at han. then laughed right in han’s face. mocking. “friend? jesus christ you’re—”
chan’s right hook cracked across hyunjin’s jaw before the sentence finished.
hyunjin staggered. blood on his lip.
han yelped. “chaaaan!”
seungmin appeared next, the actual BITCH energy radiating off him. changbin right behind him, massive. jeongin jogged in last, hands in pockets(baby it’s not safe to jog with your hands in your pockets), grinning.
while seungmin and jeongin were whispering to each other about the situation, felix smiled at changbin. so sweet.
changbin blinked. “hey. you okay?”
felix nodded. “yeah. hungry though.”
han looked at felix. “dude same! i’m always hungry!“
felix looked at han. “i’m hungry for people.”
“…that’s so cool! i could never. you’re braver than me.“
changbin put a hand on seungmin’s chest. calm. “nobody’s killing anybody yet.”
jeongin bounced on his toes.
han grabbed felix’s sleeve. “come stand by me. they’re just posturing. it’s what boys do. right chan?”
chan exhaled hard through his nose. lowered his fist. but his eyes never left hyunjin.
hyunjin wiped blood from his lip. smirked at chan. “nice swing. next time i’ll bite it off.”
“we’re leaving.” minho spoke finally.
felix looked torn. glanced at han. then at changbin, who gave him a small nod. “okay. bye.”
he followed minho and hyunjin out, hyunjin throwing one last look over his shoulder at chan, minho silent as death.
the alley went quiet.
seungmin looked around. “who the fuck were those pricks?”
han bounced on his toes. “i think they’re cool. the blonde guy eats humans.”
jeongin cackled.
they left the alley separately. but not for long.
weeks later, it was late. seungmin was pissed off for no specific reason other than being seungmin. he just finished killing someone, jacket still smelled like blood. he cut through a side street because he didn’t feel like seeing anyone he knows.
and he nearly ran into felix, who was standing in the middle of the sidewalk, staring at a vending machine.
they just… looked at each other.
long pause.
felix squinted. tilted his head. “oh. hey. you’re one of the guys.”
seungmin narrowed his eyes. “you’re the cannibal.”
“oh my god, you remember!”
“why are you blocking the sidewalk.”
“i was deciding if i want chips or chocolate.”
“you could move five feet to the side.”
“…oh.”
felix shuffled over immediately, almost tripped, caught himself on seungmin’s arm by accident. seungmin stiffened out of reflex, then realized felix genuinely didn’t mean anything by it.
“…you good?” seungmin asked.
“yeah! you’re very solid.”
seungmin did not respond to that.
for reasons unknown to god, he ended up walking felix home. not intentional. just… happened. felix started talking, seungmin didn’t stop him, and suddenly they were moving in the same direction.
felix talked the entire time. at some point he asked, very sweetly: “hey, can you make me meet han again?”
“why?”
“he was nice.”
seungmin hummed.
“and also, i liked the buff one. and the angry one.” felix said.
“…the angry one.”
“yeah! the one that punched my friend.”
“you mean chan.”
“oh cool, that’s his name?”
seungmin rubbed his face. “fine. i’ll see what i can do.”
“yay!”
“but.” seungmin added. “don’t bring the other two.“
felix nodded immediately. “of course.”
cut to felix immediately telling hyunjin and minho everything. i mean he didn’t mean to tell them, he’s just… too dumb to keep it a secret.
hyunjin freezed. minho smiled.
so of course they came.
now. chan’s garage. the boys were talking, changbin and jeongin leaning against a car that han was actively ruining, chan working next to han to not let that happen.
seungmin arrived with felix.
aaaaand soon hyunjin walked in. minho.
and suddenly the temperature dropped ten degrees.
han, blissfully unaware, waved. “oh hi!”
felix waved harder. “hi!!”
nobody else moved.
minho watched seungmin, deep down already deciding how he will skin seungmin alive. hyunjin watched chan, who watched both of the guys.
changbin grabbed jeongin’s hand before he could put it up too.
seungmin exhaled through his nose. “fantastic.”
chan and hyunjin locked eyes. omfg. men.
but then han walked directly between them, holding a wrench upside down. “if you fight, you’ll bleed on the floor. chan hates that.”
chan blinked. “…i do.”
hyunjin exhaled. looked away. “fine.”
minho clicked his tongue. “boring.”
seungmin looked at minho. “you’re not welcome.”
“yet.”
that hangout… worked out only because han and felix wanted to be around everyone. chan and han worked. someone needed something fixed. chan did it. changbin helped. han handed the wrong tool six times. felix tried to taste the motor oil and jeongin quickly took it away from him. seungmin kept watch. hyunjin sketched on scrap paper. minho… observed. creepy fuck.
hours passed.
no one died.
which is huge for them.
changbin ordered food for everyone. even for minho and hyunjin. felix ate half of everyone’s order by accident. apologized. ate the apology too.
han laughed so hard he fell over.
that’s where it started.
they didn’t trust each other, but they recognized something familiar in each other.
the eight of them didn’t become friends that night. but they stopped being strangers.
so they kept hanging out in the garage.
then one night, hyunjin showed up drunk. bottle in hand. eyes glassy. sat on a crate and stared at nothing.
chan watched him for a while. said nothing. then took the bottle and drank from it.
hyunjin blinked. “…you don’t even like this shit.”
“correct.” chan said. took another swig anyway. “but i like silence less.”
they drank like that for a bit. passing the bottle. no eye contact.
eventually hyunjn muttered “i don’t like you.”
“same.”
another pause.
“…you hit hard.”
“you don’t go down easy.”
that was it.
the fight was over.
hyunjin stopped acting like a bitch when chan walked past. and chan started setting aside a chair for hyunjin.
han started talking to minho because minho was sharpening something. “that’s sharp.”
minho glanced at him. “yes.”
“i like sharp things.”
minho studied him for a long moment. then, slowly, smiled. because what the fuck is up with this kid. they talked after that. about this, about that, about killing without feeling much at all. minho liked that han didn’t pretend. han liked that minho didn’t explain.
they vibed. disturbingly so.
jeongin and hyunjin got along really well.
jeongin talked. hyunjin listened, sketched him while he did.
jeongin liked that hyunjin took him seriously. hyunjin liked that jeongin filled the silence.
they were insufferable together.
changbin got along with everyone. he spotted tension and tried to fix it. lifted heavy things. helped chan all the time, which was a good impression to everyone. asked hyunjin about his art. nodded politely at minho’s threats.
seungmin tripped felix once. intentional. felix ate shit on the concrete.
before seungmin could even blink, hyunjin was on him. knife to throat. eyes wild.
“do that again and i’ll decorate the floor with you.” hyunjin hissed.
felix, on the ground, looked up. “oh! did i do something wrong?”
seungmin froze. then laughed. hands up. “jesus christ, relax. i was joking.”
hyunjin didn’t lower the knife for another five seconds.
after that, seungmin stopped fucking with felix.
mostly.
han floated between everyone. sat wherever. listened to half of what was said. nodded enthusiastically.
at first it was separate. garage crew would do their thing, alley trio would do theirs, and the only overlap was han dragging felix to the garage to “show him the cool wrenches”
it took them almost six months to go from “eight separate murderers who tolerate each other” to “one single disgusting pack that literally cannot function without the others.”
at first it was just occasional group jobs. chan would plan a clean hit on some scumbag, and suddenly all eight of them were crammed into the back of the van. seungmin drove like a maniac and hyunjin always had to hold into the car and someone at the same time just to survive it, jeongin was on his phone the whole time, han was in the back humming, changbin was quietly watching out for felix so felix didn’t accidentally eat the seat cushions, minho had a knife pressed to someone’s side sometimes just for fun, and chan was in the passenger seat, so fed up.
but god, they got good at it.
hyunjin would lure with that pretty face and voice, drawing the target into the perfect dark spot. then the others would have fun. chan would handle disposal. changbin would carry the body. jeongin would film it on his phone for later laughs.
they started enjoying it. not just the kills, the teamwork. they realized that they were unstoppable together.
and with killing together came cleanup together.
at first it was separate. everyone retreating to their own bathrooms, their own corners.
but shi got in the way. eight grown men, one or two workable showers, limited hot water.
so they adapted.
so one night after a particularly splattery job, chan just sighed, stripped off his clothes, and started hosing himself down at the garage’s sink in nothing but boxers.
everyone stared for half a second.
then changbin shrugged and did the same. then seungmin. then jeongin, who made it a whole strip tease. hyunjin peeled off his expensive clothes, muttering about “ruined versace” while minho silently removed every layer, folding each piece. felix just… took everything off. everything. stood there naked as the day he was born, blood running down his abs.
he has no concept of privacy.
there was a solid three seconds of silence.
“why are you naked?” seungmin asked flatly.
“i’m dirty.” felix replied. “clothes are also dirty.”
“put some pants on.”
“why.”
“…because.”
eventually nobody cared enough to argue.
han was the last. he got stuck trying to get his jeans off over his shoes, hopping on one foot, nearly face planting into a puddle of someone else’s intestines. changbin had to hold han up while han finally got naked down to his boxers.
they all hosed off together under the cold spray, laughing, cursing, flicking water at each other.
it was easier for men, sure, less shame, more “bro it’s just skin” but it meant something. vulnerability in a group of killers who’d sooner stab than share feelings. being almost naked around each other cracked the walls. chan would stand there in his boxers, wiping blood from his chest with a rag, and han would keep touching him(which was a big no for chan, even a pat on the shoulder got him ready to kill) and for once chan wouldn’t shrug him off. seungmin would grumble about “not looking at anyone’s junk” but it loosened things. made them laugh about scars, “dude that one on your thigh looks like a smiley face!” and share stories while cleaning up. “got that from a guy who thought he could fight back with a fork. fork, man.”
two of them started taking showers together sometimes, practical at first, “save water, the blood’s everywhere.” but it became a thing. purely platonic, cute, how they were okay with each other naked now.
minho and chan once stood shoulder to shoulder under the spray, both staring straight ahead like soldiers. yeah that was back when they weren’t that bonded yet.
jeongin and changbin talked the entire time, jeongin gesturing wildly with a bottle of shampoo, nearly slipping and dying twice.
han had a staring problem. god, did he have a staring problem. especially with hyunjin. omg everyone knew that hyunjin was beautiful, and when han had to shower with him, he would just… stare. wide eyed. mouth open.
hyunjin would whirl around, soap in his eyes, and smack han upside the head. “eyes up!”
han would yelp, rub his head, but do it again five minutes later. got hit several times, punched in the arm by seungmin for staring at him too, kicked in the shin by jeongin for “being a perv.”
han kept staring. he didn’t mean to, he was just too dumb to… not.
once when hyunjin was forced to shower with han again, hyunjin got fed up and turned fully, hands on hips, dick just… there.
han’s eyes went wide.
hyunjin raised one perfect eyebrow.
han whispered “holy shit it’s prettier than i imagined.”
hyunjin’s jaw dropped. then he grabbed han by the throat (absolutely violent.), shoved him against the tile. “you little pervert—”
han wheezed “sorry sorry it’s just so symmetrical—”
hyunjin slapped him (wet hand, wet face, loud smack. hurt a lot.)
okay who am i kidding. everyone had a staring problem with hyunjin. hyunjin was fed up. so fed up. “i’m not a fucking exhibit! eyes on your own junk or i’ll gouge them out with a spoon!” he’d storm out dripping wet, towel barely around his waist, cursing while everyone snickered behind him.
jeongin catcalled him all the time. hyunjin always hit him.
they did what boys do. boys stink, they left wet towels everywhere, beer nights were just straight up disgusting. jeongin invented “sock bombs” balling up his sweaty gym socks and hurling them at people mid conversation. hit minho once, who just stared at him for thirty seconds until jeongin apologized. they’d wrestle in chan’s living room for no reason. they’d draw dicks on foggy mirrors during showers. at some point, jeongin spit toothpaste onto chan’s bare back while he was brushing his teeth shirtless in the garage bathroom.
chan froze.
slowly turned his head.
“…who.”
silence.
then felix giggled.
wrong move. chan chased him around the garage with a wrench.
the next night, it happened again.
and then it became a hobby. they’d wait until chan was distracted, shirt off, and someone would lean over and ptoo, minty splatter right between his shoulder blades.
“i’m going to end you.” chan would say calmly, not even raising his voice.
they’d scatter screaming, but he never caught them. deep down, he loved the company. or tolerated it. same thing.
and these boys got tired after so many killings. someone passed out on a couch. someone else sat on the floor. someone leaned against a wall and slid down without realizing it.
then beds were shared when space was tight. floors were fine. bodies touched accidentally at first, then not accidentally at all. a foot against a calf. a shoulder against a shoulder. backs pressed together for warmth.
han slept like a starfish. draped over people. limbs everywhere. snored. the first time he curled into minho in his sleep, everyone froze.
minho did not move.
han slept peacefully, drooling slightly.
after that, nobody questioned it. touch became normal for now, even for these hard psychos. helping hands. steadying grips. someone fixing a wound on someone else’s arm without asking. someone else tying a bandage too tight and being told to loosen it.
they looked for each other after a job. heads counted automatically. silence felt wrong if someone was missing.
after a bad stab wound on seungmin’s side, changbin stitched him up in the kitchen while everyone else sat around drinking beer and offering terrible advice. when han dislocated his shoulder trying to “help” move a body, minho calmly popped it back in while han screamed “thank you man!” through the pain. when felix got food poisoning from eating a guy who’d been on antibiotics (rookie mistake), hyunjin held his hair back while he puked and then read to him until he fell asleep.
they became each other’s emergency contacts.
men don’t do vulnerability easy, but there’s something about standing in your boxers, blood under your nails, scrubbing a stranger’s life off your arms while your buddy does the same three feet away. it built trust.
the first time they had to shower all eight at once was because something went very wrong. long night. messy kill. fire involved. chemicals. everyone covered in grime that absolutely could not be left to dry.
one functioning shower.
no time.
they stood there, staring at it.
“…no.” hyunjin said immediately.
“we don’t have options.” chan replied.
“i don’t wanna see anyone’s balls.” seungmin snarled.
felix was already undressing. “why are you all hesitating?” he asked, completely naked, stepping under the water.
hyunjin covered his junk with a towel, glaring daggers. “if anyone stares i’m biting it off.”
they were SO icked out. well, felix obviously wasn’t. the rest? dead silence as they crammed in. all eight. butt naked. water blasting cold at first because han turned the wrong knob. steam rising once it heated. shoulders bumping, elbows in ribs, feet stepping on toes.
seungmin growled “watch your ass” every two seconds.
otherwise dead silence. eight grown ass killers standing there naked, watery, staring at walls or ceilings or anything but each other. overstimulated as fuck, hot water pounding, bodies too close, steam thick. irritated grunts. “move your elbow.” “that’s my foot you dick.” “who farted?” frustrated sighs. even han and felix got shy, and we know that they don’t care about privacy. but now han was covering his junk with both hands, blushing like a virgin, felix suddenly aware and crossing his legs like “oh wait people care about this?”
it was fine for ten seconds.
then han slipped on soap, arms windmilling, yelling “whoa whoa whoa!” and crashed into jeongin, who yelped and grabbed seungmin for balance. seungmin shoved him off, kneeing han in the thigh, but lost his footing on the wet tile. seungmin went down, kneeing changbin in the balls on the way. changbin grunted, doubled over, and fell forward into minho, who slipped backward into hyunjin. hyunjin screamed “not the hair!” and grabbed chan for support. chan tried to stay up but han was already flailing back up and tackled him from the side. felix just stood there staring until jeongin’s elbow caught him in the ribs and he fell too.
all eight. falling. into a pile. butt fucking naked.
limbs tangled, water spraying everywhere.
seungmin got kneed in the balls three times during the fall. he howled, curled fetal in the middle of the pile, clutching himself. “fuck all of you!”
han was gasping, face smooshed against minho’s back. minho was dead silent but his eyes screamed murder. hyunjin was sputtering water out of his mouth, red in the face, draped over jeongin, who was cackling thru the pain. chan was pinned under at least two bodies, staring at the ceiling. changbin was trying to stand up and failing because there was nowhere to put his weight. felix got water straight into his face because the shower was still running, of course.
“FUCK—”
“STOP MOVING—”
“I’M NOT—”
“GET OFF MY FACE—”
“WHOSE FOOT IS THAT—”
“THAT’S MY HAND—”
“WHY ARE YOU HARD—”
“I’M NOT—”
“GET YOUR DICK OFF MY LEG—“
“WHO’S ELBOW IS IN MY ASS—“
“I’M DROWNING IN BALL SWEAT—“
oh they all hated it. irritated shoves, overstimulated curses as water kept pounding on their faces.
they untangled eventually, wet, bruised, egos shattered. chan stood first, yanked everyone up one by one. “never again.”
no eye contact for at least thirty seconds.
then jeongin started laughing.
then han.
then, unwillingly, changbin.
even chan cracked.
hyunjin tried not to.
failed.
and just like that, the ick dissolved.
the shower fall was the stupidest, most humiliating thing that ever happened to them, and it was exactly what broke the last of the ice. after that night, something shifted. they couldn’t pretend to be cool, distant, untouchable anymore. they’d seen each other’s dicks, heard each other scream like children, felt each other’s elbows in unfortunate places. there was no dignity left to defend. so they just… stopped trying.
boyish shit became their love language. because they were… boys. obvi. they loved sabotaging each other, if that’s the right word. chan would be elbow deep in an engine, focused, grease up to his forearms, when minho and seungmin would sneak up behind him. they’d wait for the perfect moment, chan cursing under his breath at a stubborn bolt, then yank the hood prop out in unison.
chan caught the hood before it fell on him. one handed. veins popping, biceps flexing, face red with rage. the hood hovered an inch above his head while he stared murder at the two culprits.
“you two have three seconds to run before i use this as a battering ram.”
seungmim and minho ran, seungmin cackling the whole way, minho actually moving fast for once.
summer came. july heat turned the garage into an oven. no ac, just fans that blew hot air and the smell of oil and sweat. one afternoon they were all shirtless, grease streaked, miserable. han found the hose first, turned it on, and aimed it at changbin’s back.
changbin roared, spun, grabbed the hose from han, and turned it on everyone.
boom. eight shirtless killers running around the garage like kids, screaming, laughing, splashing each other with ice cold water.
han slipped on wet concrete and face planted, came up spitting water and grinning. felix stood there letting the hose hit him full force, arms out. jeongin catcalled hyunjin the second the spray hit him and hyunjin chased him while laughing. seungmin got han in a headlock and tried to drown him. lovingly. chan grabbed the hose from changbin, turned it on fully, and soaked everyone.
they ran around until the sun started dropping, dripping, stupidly happy. hyunjin, minho, chan, the ones that usually don’t smile that much, even they were smiling ear to ear.
when they finally collapsed against the garage wall, panting, water pooling around them, nobody spoke for a minute. just breathing.
nakedness stopped being a thing. hyunjin would just sigh dramatically “yes, yes, stare at the masterpiece, peasants” and keep washing his hair. though he still kicked jeongin for catcalling, once sent him sliding across the tile.
the toothpaste spitting on chan’s back kept going. even minho got in once, spit landed square between chan’s shoulder blades, then walked away without a word. chan snapped one morning, chased all seven of them around the garage with a wrench. they scattered, laughing, slipping on oil slicks, hiding behind cars. chan caught jeongin first, held him in a headlock and pretended to spit toothpaste back in his face. jeongin begged for mercy while crying with laughter.
and through all of it, the falls, the hoses, the spits, the half naked water fights, they warmed. no more side eyes. no more “who the fuck are you” glares. just eight idiots who’d kill for each other, shower with each other, sabotage each other, and still come back every night to sit in folding chairs drinking shitty beer.
they were a pack.
disgusting.
violent.
stupid.
sweet.
and so fucking boyish it hurt.
i love you too and thank you so much<3 and yes, more the merrier is your answer!!
hi! question, does skz not have a job out of being serial killers? how do they get like money got like stuff, weapons, and like yea. thanks!
first things first, they all technically work. they all have enough money. they can pay rent, buy weapons, or the weird shit they occasionally spend on (like the industrial meat grinder felix begged for last christmas)
warnings for the explanations, stories below: sum gore(not explaining things that deep, the worst is a knife in a hand and like toes coming off), mentions of sex, having a j*b, men, shit’s pretty unserious
chan fixes cars. not just cars, he fixes everything that’s mechanical. broken washing machine? fixed. squeaky door? fixed. engine on fire? he’ll fix it, probably while carrying you on his back. he runs a garage that technically exists and technically doesn’t. no website. no signs. people just know.
he fixes engines. looks hot during. understands what he does. talks to them under his breath. doesn’t overcharge. doesn’t advertise. everything will be okay as long as he’s nearby.
his garage is always busy.
it’s also where han works. han works under chan. and when i say “works” i mean han holds tools, drops them, forgets what they’re called, hands chan the wrong thing, drops bolts into engines, once tried to tighten something that was already in place. chan caught him before he broke it, sighed, and said “buddy. that’s not… that’s not a screw.” he mixes up oil types, once tried to “fix” something by pouring in energy drink because “it needs more energy bro.”
chan pays him anyway. not because han’s useful, but because he tries. because he shows up. because he smiles when he does something right. because firing him would feel like kicking a puppy into traffic.
han thinks chan is the smartest man alive.
and you know what? he’s happy. he spends most of his money on stupid shit, new sneakers(i was going to write shoes first but he buys specifically sneakers), unhealthy foods, those giant plushies he insists on buying for your bed “so you’re never lonely when we’re out killing.” chan just sighs and hands him another paycheck.
besides the garage, he does odd jobs. and by “does” i mean “tries.” dog walking. lost three dogs once (they came back). delivery driving (got distracted). warehouse shifts (wandered off).
felix. this beautiful, brainless, cannibalistic dumbass is rich. like rich rich. the kind of rich where he forgets how much things cost and just shrugs when the card goes through.
why?
because this idiot went to med school.
med. fucking. school.
he made it through anatomy by sheer enthusiasm. like genuinely excited to be there. professors loved him because he was polite, respectful, always early, always smiling. classmates were terrified because he asked questions like “what happens if you remove this part while the patient is awake?”
he dropped out eventually because “it was taking too long” and also because he kept getting written up for biting things. didn’t fail out. just… stopped going. he got in the old fashioned way, fucked the university’s boss’(or whatever do they call those people) wife for six months straight until she pulled strings. when she started getting clingy and threatening to tell her husband, felix killed her. nobody ever connected it to him. he walked away with her jewelry, her husband’s rolex, and a lot of new connections.
the connections is how we get to now. now he does… consulting. black market medical shit. body disposal advice. (he puts lots of “:)”s in his emails) illegal transplants. rich people with problems they don’t want traced.
he doesn’t fully understand what he does.
he just knows people give him money and sometimes organs and sometimes both.
also he invests. accidentally. like someone once told him to buy something and he did and now he owns half of something illegal in another country.
his bank account is disgusting. he doesn’t even look at it most days. he spends his money on dumb shit. for an example, a pet tiger cub he had for three weeks before it tried to eat han.
so yeah. he gets paid stupid money. he doesn’t understand money, though. just has it. like oh i bought another apartment by accident
also explains the cannibalism. he knows exactly what he’s doing.
sometimes he gives you cash like “i had extra.”
felix. baby.
hyunjin does art. obviously. real art. gallery art. installations. paintings that make people uncomfortable in ways they can’t explain. he sells well. uses the money to buy alcohol, supplies, and silence. his art got better after he met you. he hasn’t acknowledged that once.
he also does interior design. (guys i’m not being unoriginal with these, i just think they fit my version of him perfectly!!) sometimes you leave for groceries and come back and your entire apartment is rearranged. he never asks. he just smiles that elegant, exhausted smile and says “it was calling for red. you look beautiful against red.”
minho fights. underground rings. illegal shit. he’s built for it. thrives on it. he wins. a lot. people bet obscene amounts of money on him because he doesn’t fight to win, he fights to hurt.
he’s got a reputation, the pretty one who doesn’t smile, doesn’t speak, just breaks jaws and collects envelopes.
it pays well. he doesn’t spend much. he puts most of it into the group pot. says it’s “practical.” really it’s because he likes knowing everyone’s taken care of while he’s out cracking skulls. okay daddy.
jeongin is… jesus christ. jeongin is a bartender. that’s his favorite. he loves chaos, drunk people, flirting, watching things explode. he’s incredible at it. tips are insane.
he’s also, unfortunately, a therapist.
illegally. no degree. of course. no training.
the worst part is that he’s good at it, bro.
half his clients are criminals who need to vent without snitching. he listens, nods, prescribes “self care” like “maybe don’t kill your wife next time” while pocketing thousands.
but bartending and illegal therapy is not the only thing. sometimes he gets paid just for being there. sometimes he steals. sometimes he blackmails. event planning. “consulting.” resale. social media management. you once saw his laptop and it had six different fake personas logged in.
there’s more tho.
crypto bro jeongin. minimalist jeongin. self help jeongin. boat guy jeongin. fashion jeongin. spiritual jeongin. mysterious european jeongin. art dealer jeongin. he even posed as a real estate guy once to get a property they needed to hide bodies in.
he steals. constantly. not out of need, out of joy. he doesn’t even need them so he mostly sells it, keeps the shiny stuff for you or the house. he also likes scamming assholes.
he has fake names. fake ids. fake lives.
none of you know how many. he said three last time but that has clearly been proven wrong.
seungmin works office.
and it’s fucking terrifying.
he wears button ups. answers emails. sits in meetings with that dead eyed focus that makes people uncomfortable without knowing why. his coworkers think he’s “intense” and “a little weird but very efficient.” they don’t know he once used the office shredder on a guy’s fingers for looking at you too long.
nobody fucks with him. he looks like he could snap your neck and go back to typing emails without blinking.
he manages people. fires them without raising his voice. stares through them until they agree with him. somehow climbs the ladder at an alarming rate.
his boss is terrified of him.
no question he gets paid so good.
changbin is a private personal trainer. simple.
he’s charming. encouraging. terrifyingly strong. makes people feel safe while pushing them to their limits. he also trains people who don’t want their names on paper. security type shi. bodyguards. people who need to learn how to hurt others efficiently.
he’s sweet about it, too.
“great form!” he’ll say, while teaching someone how to break a wrist.
behind the scenes he’s the organ guy. after they finish killing someone, changbin harvests what felix left from the victim. he moves product through a black market network minho knows from the rings.
it pays SO good. he spends most of his cut on protein powder, new weights, a really good car, and stupidly expensive shakes he leaves in the fridge with little notes for you: “drink this. love you.”
they do not all get weapons the same way, because that would require coordination, and that has literally never happened once.
chan is the backbone of it, obviously. chan knows people. junkyard owners. mechanics. guys who “found” things.
weapons come in as parts. broken. rusted. incomplete. chan fixes them like he fixes cars. cleans them. makes them better than new.
half the guns they use started as “this probably doesn’t work” and end as “holy shit, don’t drop that.”
the other one who gets them is minho. he gets weapons through fighting. prizes. bets. “gifts.” sometimes ripped straight out of someone else’s hands.
if it’s heavy, sharp, or designed to hurt someone, minho can probably get it by beating the shit out of the right person.
he prefers melee weapons. knives. blades. things that require effort.
guns bore him.
hyunjin buys some from the fancy art guys but nothing extra. he just does it for the aesthetic tbh.
they have too many weapons.
sometimes you open a cabinet looking for a mug and find a gun.
sometimes you find three.
sometimes seungmin calmly takes one out of your hand and says “that one’s loaded.”
okay.
but remember our first impression with them? where they kept running into each other, trying to catch you? yeah, they haven’t developed much. it’s a surprise that you’re the only one that survived their bullshit.
one time it’s three in the afternoon. you’re in the kitchen. there’s sunlight. jeongin is talking, loudly, obviously, about something. crypto? bartending? how bartending is therapy? how therapy is bartending? no one knows.
seungmin just says, flatly: “can you shut the fuck up.”
jeongin doesn’t.
so seungmin pulls the gun out of his waistband and fires.
or the time you wake up to the sound of a chainsaw.
inside the house.
you stumble out of the bedroom, hair a mess, and find jeongin in the living room cutting the couch in half.
the couch.
the couch hyunjin bought.
“what the fuck are you DOING?” you scream.
jeongin grins over the noise. “hey, babe.”
hyunjin is standing in the corner, arms crossed, looking exhausted but unsurprised.
turns out, context matters. the night before, hyunjin had redecorated again. “minor changes” he said. which apparently meant moving jeongin’s favorite chair into storage and replacing it with something fancier.
jeongin took that personally.
so now the couch is dead.
he turns the chainsaw off.
you just stare.
“you owe me a couch.” you say.
jeongin shakes his pretty head. “no, he owes you a couch.”
hyunjin sighs. “i’ll get another one.”
so now your living room is two couches. technically.
neither usable.
jeongin also once stole a grenade. no one knows from where. no one knows where it is now. you live in fear.
they do this constantly.
minho sharpening knives on surfaces that are not meant to be sharpened on. countertops. tables. once, the hood of chan’s car.
chan said nothing.
he just stared.
minho stopped.
another time, they’re all over again. god forbid you have one single quiet evening, and han is in the kitchen hovering near the counter, half listening to seungmin talk about something work related.
chan had just told him not to touch anything sharp. five seconds ago.
han nods, serious. respectful. earnest. “yeah. okay.”
immediately picks up a knife.
he shifts his weight.
the knife slips.
everyone watches it fall in silence.
it lands point first. right on the top of han’s foot. dead center.
“AAAAAA—WHAT THE FUCK—WHY—OW—OW—OW—OW—”
han starts hopping on one foot, hands flailing.
before anyone can even process what’s happening, felix is there. he grabs the handle and rips the knife out of han’s foot.
han screams again. higher pitch this time.
and then felix does the worst possible thing he could do in that moment. licks the blood off han’s foot.
you just stare. chan freezes. seungmin closes his eyes like that dog picture in tiktoks. jeongin lets out a noise that can only be described as a tea kettle having a nervous breakdown. hyunjin runs his hands down his face. changbin puts his hand in front of his mouth. minho stands, stunned. even him, stunned.
“FELIX.” you shout. “WHAT THE FUCK.”
felix looks up at you, bloody mouth, confused. “what? it’s fresh.”
“DON’T.”
“but—”
“DON’T.”
he stands up.
han is still sobbing, clutching his foot. chan finally moves, holding han up carefully, inspecting the injury.
“you’re okay.” he mutters. “it’s not deep.”
han sniffles. “it went inside me.”
“yes.” seungmin says flatly. “that’s generally what stabbing is.”
han turns to you.
arms open.
immediately.
without shame.
without hesitation.
you sigh, open your arms and he launches himself into you, curling up, face pressed into your shoulder.
“it hurts.” he mumbles.
“i know.” you say, rubbing his back. “you’re okay.”
he clings harder.
felix watches this with a pout. “i was just trying to help.”
“we know, sweetie.” you murmur.
han shifts in your arms, still trembling, but calmer now. safe. cuddled. absolutely convinced this is the correct response to injury.
“can i stay like this?” he asks quietly.
“yeah.” you say. “you can stay.”
felix crouches nearby, watching. intense. “…does cuddling help more than licking?”
“YES.” everyone yells at once. hyunjin even slaps a hand onto his forehead.
later, much later, after bandages and yelling and you threatening to ban knives entirely from your house, han is still glued to you. on the couch. all over you. foot propped up.
felix keeps glancing at the trash where the bloodied paper towels are.
you catch him once and point. “no.”
he sighs. “worth a try.”
how the fuck are you alive.
how the fuck are you friends with them.
han yawns, snuggles closer. “…i like when bad stuff happens if i get cuddles after.”
“let’s not test that theory again.” you say.
he nods. five minutes later he’s asleep.
the next day, he’s is using a knife to scratch his back.
minho could never tbh. once, during a quiet moment, he casually drops a machete on the table.
everyone jumps.
he smiles. “relax.”
“that’s not relaxing.” changbin says.
“it is for me.”
😭
they don’t learn. they never will.
seungmin is the worst because he thinks he’s untouchable. he’ll twirl his favorite lil knife while talking shit, blade spinning so fast it’s a blur, then nick his own palm mid sentence because he got distracted staring at your ass. “fuck—ow—whatever, it’s just a scratch.” five minutes later he’s bleeding through a paper towel, sitting on the couch, head in your lap, demanding you kiss the cut better. violent psychopath btw.
han(i know i know it’s always him, but he’s the only one dumb enough to pull this shi off) once tried to “test the balance” of a new machete by swinging it like a baseball bat on your balcony. caught the wall, sent the blade straight into his own shin. screamed , dropped the machete (which fell two inches from felix’s foot), and immediately started crying real tears.
immediately going to you.
“y/n it hurts so bad i think i’m gonna die—hold me—” you had to drag his dumb ass inside, blood trail the whole way, while he clung to you, sobbing into your neck.
he’s not even bleeding that bad. just wants cuddles and forehead kisses and you telling him he’s brave while you bandage him up. ends up napping on your chest for three hours, still sniffling.
hyunjin once tried to use a dagger to carve patterns into a wooden panel for one of his art pieces. slipped, stabbed straight through his palm, pinned his hand to the table. just sighed and waited for changbin to come pry it out.
it’s always his palm that gets the hit. blood drips onto his work those times, and stares at it, then quietly walks to you with his hand outstretched. “look what i made for you.”
you clean it, bandage it, and he immediately curls into your side on the couch, head on your chest, long legs tangled with yours.
changbin also gets dumb when the others egg him on. they once dared him to throw a scalpel at an apple on felix’s head. he refused at first, then caved because they kept bullying him.
it was a perfect throw, scalpel went right through the apple, grazed felix’s scalp, drew a thin line of blood. felix screamed like he was dying, changbin went pale, chan had to tackle han to stop him from running into traffic “to get help.” actually tackle. take a moment to imagine that.
changbin still has nightmares about it. refuses to play with sharp shit around the others anymore.
give felix a boning knife and he’ll start “testing” it on whatever’s in the fridge, steaks, leftovers, his own goddamn finger once because “i wanted to see how sharp it really was.”
once tried to “impress” you by juggling meat cleavers. dropped one on his foot. cut two toes clean off. changbin had to reattach them with a first aid kit and a lot of swearing. felix still limps when it rains. (guys i know this is unrealistic but plz just go w it😭)
they’re lethal when they need to be, cold, coordinated, unstoppable. but give them five minutes of boredom and a weapon? someone’s bleeding. someone’s cursing. someone’s laughing like a maniac.
men.
okay i got carried away. y’all get my point. they work. they buy shit. they’re boys.
Is it messed up that I want to know what was going through Changbin’s head when he was following Y/N? Like is it giving Joe from You with the internal narration
i can only hope u meant him following y/n around after like the murder attempt bc only after writing this i realized i also wrote about him following us in general in the second part. but after all he said he stopped doing that so maybe i wrote the right thing. anyways, changbin keeps his distance.
not because he’s scared of being seen, he’s good at not being seen. he just can keep a better eye on your surroundings like this. he could catch it if anything was about to happen to you.
you’re walking ahead of him, phone in hand. unaware.
he tracks the rhythm of your steps. counts them. left, right, left. you stop at a crosswalk. he stops behind a parked car.
he watches the way you tuck your hair behind your ear while waiting for the light. the way you shift your weight when you get bored. details no one else would notice, but he does.
his phone buzzes. (guys the following is meant to be a chat😓)
chan: where r u
changbin: out
chan: helpful
changbin: following her
chan: k. get gauze if ur near the shop
changbin types back with one hand, eyes never leaving you.
changbin: after
another buzz. different person tho.
han: whre re u
han: sA W u LEFT
han: did u se a CAT
changbin: no
changbin: stay home
three dots appear. disappear. appear again.
han: ok
you cut left. changbin cuts left a block later.
you stop to check your phone. he pretends to look at a storefront reflection. you laugh at something on your screen. his chest tightens. that’s a new feeling.
his phone vibrates again. fucking hell WHAT NOW
han: i got snack
han: i droped 1
changbin exhales through his nose. leaves han on seen.
you stop at a crosswalk. red light. a car splashes through a puddle too close to the curb and you jump back a step, startled.
changbin’s hand twitches, angry at a stranger who doesn’t even know you exist.
watch where you’re driving.
he imagines, briefly, what it would take to teach that driver to pay attention.
focus. this is about you. keeping eyes on you. making sure nothing happens before it’s supposed to.
his phone buzzes again.
chan: also get batteries
chan: aa
changbin glances ahead. you’re still waiting, tapping your foot, hair damp at the ends like you showered recently. that image does something to him. intimate. not his place to picture.
the light turns green. you cross. changbin comes after you, counting steps. keeping the angle.
he catalogues the man who looks at you too long. the woman who bumps into you without apologizing. the kid who runs past too close.
he thinks about earlier that morning, hyunjin walking through the apartment in just a towel, hair dripping. changbin had been making coffee. hyunjin had asked if the milk was still good. changbin said yes. it wasn’t. hyunjin splashed him with the milk.
they talked about you. everyone’s been circling hyunjin lately, asking questions about you. he knows more anyway.
cute, changbin thinks. desperate.
his phone buzzes again.
felix: did u kno rats taste diffrnt if u cook them slow
changbin: don’t
felix: ok sory
you turn suddenly, almost catching his eye.
his heart lurches. he looks down, shifts, pretends to tie his shoe.
you don’t notice.
relief washes through him so hard it feels like nausea.
this is the almost worst, maybe best part. the wanting to be seen. to be acknowledged. to be something other than a shadow.
he watches you walk again, relaxed, unaware.
han: i am eating
han: is she ok
han: u see h er
han: dont scaer her
han: pls
changbin: she’s fine
changbin: focus on something else
han: ok
han: i will count cars
you stop at the corner store.
shit.
that’s not part of your usual way.
he hesitates, then follows, keeping distance as you enter. harder to stay unseen.
he grabs a basket.
gauze, he remembers. batteries.
he watches you from the end of the aisle. you’re comparing little snacks. frowning slightly. not good at deciding. noted.
you grab one thing, put it back, grab another.
he imagines what you’d like best. what he’d pick for you if he were allowed.
his phone buzzes again.
chan: don’t forget antiseptic.
changbin: got it
you head for the register.
changbin times it so he’s two customers behind you. close enough to hear your voice. not close enough to matter.
you say thank you to the cashier. it’s angelic.
you leave.
he follows.
han: i lost m shoe
han: found it
han: it wa s on my foot
changbin exhales through his nose, then pockets the phone.
you rub your temple with two fingers like you’ve got a headache.
sleep more, he thinks. drink water.
felix: r we gettin food
felix: i found a bug
felix: nvm chan said no
changbin stops himself from responding with throw it away because felix will obviously misunderstand that.
changbin: later
changbin: stay inside
changbin: don’t touch anything.
felix replies with a thumbs up and a photo of something unidentifiable and very wet.
you check your phone. frown. then tuck it back into your pocket.
bad news? no. annoyance. small annoyance. maybe a friend cancelled something? changbin’s thrilled to know.
another buzz from his phone.
seungmin: WHY R U W HER
seungmin: THAT WAS MY TURN
seungmin: kys
seungmin: kys
seungmin: kys
seungmin: i will ruin you
seungmin: i swear to god i will make you regret breathing
seungmin: i will find you
seungmin: i will end you slowly
seungmin: i hope you choke on your own dick
seungmin: or mine
seungmin: you think you’re funny
seungmin: i swear to god i’ll tear you open and leave you like that
seungmin: i’ll pull everything out slow
seungmin: answer me
seungmin: ANSWER ME
changbin: relax
changbin: you’ll get another day
seungmin: im not relaxing
seungmin: don’t tell me to relax
seungmin: i’ll relax you permanently
seungmin: you want me to come find you
you stop at a small shop. coffee, maybe. he watches you through the window as you wait in line. you’re cute, y/n. people love you, he can tell.
you smile at the barista. polite. so sweet. so beautiful. hyunjin chose good with you.
he looks down at his phone just as you step back outside, cup in hand.
he adjusts immediately, turning his body away, pretending to check messages, letting you pass.
your shoulder brushes his.
accidental.
he freezes.
you don’t notice.
he definitely does.
he’ll think about this later. in his bed. wink wink.
felix: i found a bird
felix: it was ded
felix: maybe asleep
felix: i licked it
felix: tastd bad
changbin closes his eyes for half a second.
changbin: stop
felix: ok
felix: do u want fries
he doesn’t answer.
you turn down a quieter street. his pulse picks up from opportunity. fewer people. fewer variables. more clarity.
he slows his breathing. keeps his pace. no rush.
left foot first when you step off the curb. you always do that. why do you always do that?
dark thoughts slide in easily here, in the quieter spaces. how close he could get before you noticed. how long it would take you to recognize danger. whether you’d scream or freeze.
you slow down near your building. fish keys out of your bag. distracted.
he’s close now. closer than he should be. ten steps. eight.
he could reach you.
he stops anyway.
watches you go inside. watches the door close. waits for the light in the stairwell to flick on.
it does.
good.
he stands there longer than necessary, mind replaying details. the way you flinched at a loud car. the way you smiled at the cashier. the fact that you didn’t notice him once. that part is important.
he finally turns away.
duct tape. food. tell hyunjin you looked tired. pay minho back. wash jeongin’s clothes that he forgot at changbin’s place. remind felix not to eat anything he finds. check han’s phone later to make sure he didn’t text you by accident.
Hiiii I’m back with another question 🙂↕️ (I was supposed to ask like 2 days ago but I forgot lmao) Have the boys parents ever noticed? Up to a certain point they knew how other people acted and acted accordingly but what abt before that? Was it a ‘boys will be boys’ type thing or a ‘if he does something else we have to take him to so someone…’ Do their parent not visit and notice? Overall to what extent do their parents know about their lifestyle/brain wiring?
As always you don’t have to answer anything you don’t want to! I love you, I love your work, and have an amazing day🤗
oh this is SUCH a good question actually. short answer, none of them know about the killings. none of them suspect anything even close. and the long answer is under the cut!! also warning for mentions of physical fights and dead animals but none described in detail
chan having siblings means that he got overlooked. and he learned fast that being the “responsible one” meant he got left alone. being alone meant freedom. his parents saw him as mature. calm. dependable. the kid who didn’t need watching.
any weirdness? framed as stress. any emotional flatness? “he’s just tired.” any lack of empathy? “he’s focused.”
they never dug because he never caused problems at home. and because he was always looking out for his siblings, no one thought to look at him.
so when he started doing weird shit, pulling wings off bugs, killing small animals in the backyard, lining them up neatly, it either wasn’t seen or wasn’t addressed.
when it was noticed, it was reframed. “boys are curious.” “he’s just exploring.” “at least he’s not acting out like other kids.” no one stopped him because he didn’t cause problems for them. or when they found the actual remains of a small animal, they freaked out, but not in the angry way. they told him it was wrong. told him to stop. took him inside. never followed up. because dinner needed to be made. because the baby was crying. because chan was “such a good helper.”
he learned that if he didn’t make noise, nobody would look too hard.
he keeps in touch with his parents because he has to. calls on birthdays. holidays. checks in about his siblings’ stuff. sends money when needed.
they’re proud of him. they have no idea.
minho was creepy even as a child. his parents absolutely noticed something was off, they just misnamed it. quiet. withdrawn. strange reactions. flat affect. didn’t connect like other kids. didn’t react the way kids “should.” didn’t cry right. didn’t play right.
so they thought he was… special.
there were doctors. whispered conversations over his little head that he had absolutely heard just didn’t react to.
when he did something cruel, they reframed it. “he didn’t mean it.” “he doesn’t understand.” “he’s different.”
they let him be. in a “don’t push him too hard, he’s just different” way. they lowered expectations instead of asking why he dissected bugs and stared at roadkill for minutes. avoided conflict. let him isolate. which meant no one challenged his internal world at all.
he hurt animals too, but not like chan did. lil minho(omfg so cute. lil minho i would’ve loved you!!) was detached. he was just testing how things worked.
his parents didn’t confront it. just quietly removed the animals from his little hands and avoided the topic.
he calls once a month. short conversations. once he proved he could function, they stopped pushing. labeled him “odd but harmless.” huge mistake.
but they love him, after all.
changbin was clueless early on. socially awkward. didn’t always read rooms right. missed cues. stood too close. said weird things. too honest.
people thought he was awkward. maybe on the spectrum. maybe just shy.
lack of emotional response, inappropriate curiosity about pain. his parents noticed, and actually tried. therapy. encouragement. social exposure.
changbin adapted. he learned how to act. how to mirror. how to smile at the right time. so he smiled more. hugged them more. brought home good grades.
problem solved, right?
his parents think it worked. they’re proud of him. they love visiting. bringing food. checking in. asking questions. they think he’s doing great, even though they still see some odd stuff there and there. but they think it’s social anxiety. introversion. stress.
they’re proud of how much better he got with people.
they don’t know what he learned instead.
hyunjin was the nightmare scenario for catching this kind of shit early. a genuinely well adjusted kid on the surface. quiet, yes, but friendly. had friends. teachers liked him. parents adored him. and he was so pretty.
he didn’t act out. didn’t scare people. didn’t isolate himself. his parents thought they won the lottery.
any odd behavior got announced as just his brain developing, frontal lobe and allat. his calmness read as kindness. his emotional control read as maturity. no one notices a problem when the kid looks like an angel and never gives you a reason to worry.
if he felt off, he hid it. if he thought something disturbing, he buried it under manners.
angel kid.
he had sleepovers. birthday parties. parents trusted him with other people’s kids. and he didn’t hurt anyone. when someone got hurt, he watched. when something died, he observed. not fascinated, neutral.
his parents didn’t notice because there was nothing to notice.
he keeps light contact. visits occasionally. helps out. is fine with his dad, his mom loves him. they are so proud of him.
the signs were internal. flat when alone. no empathy behind the performance.
but you’d have to be looking for it.
no one was.
han’s parents noticed he was dumb. lovingly, but still. late development. poor body control. zero situational awareness. but because he was sweet, affectionate(he was a really affectionate kid, everyone loved him), and visibly not wrong in the negative way, everything got softened. “he doesn’t mean it.” “he’s just slow.” “he’s got a good heart.” and they were right, about the heart part, at least.
any concerning behavior got called lack of awareness. not being mature. him “not thinking.”
they worried about his ability to survive the world, not about the danger he posed to it. he was clumsy. walked into walls. forgot instructions immediately. laughed at the wrong times. his parents never thought he could do wrong, they thought “oh god he’s not very bright.”
everyone assumed he couldn’t possibly be any type of wrong because half the time he didn’t know where he was. they hovered. corrected him. protected him. they still think he’s harmless.
he keeps contact casually. forgets to call back. loves them.
felix was… jesus christ.
genuinely brainless. zero shame. zero filter.
as a kid, he tried to eat a rat.
more than once.
his parents screamed. horrified. confused. panicking. they watched him more closely after that. food rules. supervision. lots of don’t do that. but felix never really understood why it was bad. only that adults reacted loudly.
felix is the same category as han but somehow worse. beautiful. charming. dumb as a rock.
not only he tried to eat random shi, but he was… off. in general. attention problems. weird fixations. poor judgment. but he was polite. pretty. rich. dumb. so his parents assumed he was harmless because he was clueless. expensive clothes, good manners, empty head.
even though he had a fascination with blood. taste. texture. zero disgust. they filed that under “he’ll grow out of it. kids do weird shit.”
his parents also thought he was “sensitive” because he cried easily. they missed that he cried because he was overwhelmed, not actually feeling things.
if he said something disturbing, they laughed and said he was being weird. if he fixated on something gross, they assumed it was a phase. they never connected dots because felix never connected dots either.
so they assumed immaturity. maybe too spoiled.
no one expects the luxury wearing himbo to be a serial killer.
he calls them when he remembers. sends gifts. expensive ones.
they brag about him.
they should not.
seungmin was violent early. in a concerning way. he’d beat other kids bloody over nothing. stares too long. said things a little too honest. asked questions that made adults pause and go “haha… anyway.” broke toys instead of playing with them. teachers called it self control issues. his parents called it a phase.
his parents tried. grounding. yelling. therapy once, briefly. he didn’t cooperate.
BUT. his annoying ass grandma was around constantly. and oh my fucking god granny is just SO dumb
any time seungmin lashed out or said something fucked up, granny was like “ohhh he just feels things deeply 🥰” no ma’am, he is fantasizing about murder. said shit like “oh he’s just passionate” while seungmin is standing there with dead eyes and bloody knuckles from beating the shit out of some other kid behind a dumpster.
she adores him. spoils him. excuses everything.
“boys need to let it out.” she’d say, handing him cookies while a school counselor tried to explain why threatening other children was not normal.
she visits all the time. calls him constantly. leaves voicemails that are ten minutes long and say absolutely nothing.
seungmin loves her. genuinely. would kill for her. probably has.
parents assumed he’d “grow out of it.” he did not.
he calls them sometimes. they get along. he calls granny more tbh. regularly, even. brings her groceries. fixes things around her house. listens patiently to her dumbass stories. she says insane shit constantly. forgets half of it immediately. calls him by the wrong name sometimes. tells him to be nice to girls and eat more.
seungmin loves her and would absolutely die for her, but also internally screams every time she opens her mouth.
jeongin was just a “boys will be boys.” loud. flirtatious. troublemaker.
his parents absolutely noticed shit, just not seriously.
if he crossed a line? “he’s just being a boy.”
if he lacked boundaries? “he’ll grow out of it.”
if he treated people like toys? “kids experiment.”
“he just likes attention.”
“he’s a heartbreaker.”
“he’s just energetic.”
“he didn’t mean it.”
he absolutely meant it.
any inappropriate comments? jokes.
any manipulation? charisma.
any lack of empathy? confidence.
he lied for fun. stole small things just to see if he could. did absolutely evil shi but nobody realized it was him.
he learned how far he could go and still be forgiven. pretty far.
his parents never saw danger. just a future asshole with a nice smile.
he could talk his way out of anything. his mom especially ate that shit up.
“he’s just expressive.” she’d say. “he’s a flirt. that’s just jeongin.”
she thinks he’s misunderstood. he thinks it’s funny.
he still calls her all the time. she asks too many questions. sends food. worries. brags.
he plays the role perfectly.
so yeah. the parents noticed something. but it was always explainable. boys will be boys. he’s just quiet. he’s just special. he’s just angry. he’s just dumb.
nobody connected the dots because nobody ever wants to believe their kid is a fucking serial killer.
by the time they grew into what they are now? it was far too late. the boys were already gone.
Hello! Love your work but question? As we all know Felix is a cannibal in your story (we love an eater) but does he not get sick??? I know you mentioned the others checking if the person is healthy before he eats them but I swore there was something the makes people sick regardless if the person is healthy. Is he immune? Is it because he’s wired differently in the brain that it doesn’t affect him as much? Is that the reason why he’s so ditzy? What happens if he’s does get sick from it? Has that happened and how did the other deal with it? If it happened around the reader how would they deal with it? Will he be a cannibal in his separate story (similar to the one you did of just Chan)?
I know I’m asking a lot and you don’t have to answer everything I’m just really curious and needed to get it out!
Thank you so much for writing, you’re a very morbid angel and I love it!😚
short answers first then some story telling under the cut!!
no, felix is not “immune.”
yes, his wiring (neurological and psychological) absolutely changes how his body responds to sickness.
no, that is not why he’s dumb.
yes, he has gotten sick before.
yes, it was a nightmare.
yes, the others handled horribly.
and yes, if it happened around you, it would be horror.
why he doesn’t get sick is a combination of luck, pattern, and biology, plus a terrifying amount of denial.
he’s selective without knowing he’s selective. felix doesn’t eat everyone. he eats certain parts, certain people, certain amounts. he does it instinctively. he avoids brains most of the time without knowing why. that alone dramatically lowers prion risk. (i did research!! are y’all proud of me.)
his immune system is absurdly good. felix is the kind of person who gets food poisoning and goes “my tummy feels weird” and then is fine six hours later.
things that would make a normal person go oh my god, something is wrong, barely register as a problem to him. that doesn’t mean his body isn’t affected, it means he ignores warning signs until they escalate.
is this why he’s so fucking dumb?
no❤️
that’s unrelated.
okay now the story. felix is quiet. unusually quiet one day. that alone is a red flag big enough to be seen from space.
he’a sitting on the floor, back against the couch, knees pulled up, he hasn’t said anything stupid in at least ten minutes.
han notices first.
“hey.” he says, crouching in front of him. “you okay?”
felix blinks slowly. “my stomach feels funny.”
that gets everyone’s attention.
chan is already getting up. “what did you eat.”
felix opens his mouth. pauses. five minutes later, he is green. like, actually green. sweating. pale. rocking slightly like that’ll help.
han is hovering, deeply distressed.
“freak.” seungmin mutters.
chan sighs. “water. now. sit him upright. no, not like that—”
felix gags.
everyone scatters.
“BATHROOM.” changbin shouts.
they barely make it. felix starts violently throwing up.
minho is holding felix’s hair back. changbin is rubbing his back, murmuring things that sound supportive but useless. jeongin is making gagging noises.
felix is dying. “i think—” retch “—i did something wrong—”
“no shit.” seungmin says from the doorway. “you ate a man.”
“that usually works!” felix argues weakly, then immediately regrets speaking.
han stands in the corner, genuinely distressed. “is he going to die.”
“no.” hyunjin says flatly. “he’s going to learn consequences.”
another retch.
felix whimpers. “i don’t like consequences.”
they survive it. barely.
felix comes out an hour later wrapped in a blanket, hollow eyed, humbled, clutching a bottle of water.
chan sits across from him, arms crossed. “learned your lesson?”
felix nods solemnly. “i will be more selective.”
“that is NOT the lesson.”
now. if this happens around you? it’s not just “our weird friend is sick.” it’s “don’t let y/n see this.”
you notice something’s off immediately because they are all suddenly start covering felix, who looks nauseous.
han notices you noticing and immediately steps in front of him.
“hey!” he says loudly. “do you want a drink. or a snack. or to leave the room.”
“i just got here?”
seungmin is already shoving felix toward the bathroom. “MOVE MOVE MOVE.”
“what’s happening?” you ask.
“NOTHING.” jeongin says too fast.
felix gags.
you hear it.
there’s a pause.
chan puts a hand on your shoulder, guiding you gently toward the couch. “he ate something bad.”
you blink. “like… food bad?”
all of them freeze.
felix retches in the background.
and while the others are occupied… hyunjin sits down next to you, arms crossed.
you stare at him. “is now really the time?”
he shrugs. “i don’t know. they’re busy.”
from down the hall, another retch.
you grimace. “your friend is puking his guts out.”
“yes.” hyunjin agrees. “tragic. but you look cute when you’re worried.”
“are you hitting on me right now.”
“lightly.”
“actively?”
“respectfully.”
you snort.
when felix finally comes back, pale and shaky, he looks at you with genuine shame.
“…sorry.” he says quietly.
you just stare at him. “you are never kissing me on the cheek again.”
he nods immediately, sad. han strokes his hair. hyunjin’s hand is caressing yours. it feels nice.
the upside? he doesn’t eat people for a while after that. the downside? the others hover like lunatics whenever he even looks a little bit unwell.
and every single time he complains about a stomach ache now, seungmin just says “remember when you poisoned yourself with a human.”
and felix goes quiet.
traumatized.
as he should be.
and answering your other question, felix is totally a cannibal in his upcoming separate x reader too.
Hiii, I don't know if you've answered this before, you probably have, but I can't find it lol. Anyways, do you have a specific era/look of the boys in mind in the Dear Y/N series? And if you do, would you possibly give a couple example photos? Because I'm really bad at visualizing lol
hi!! sure, it’s under the cut<3 also omg this was a brutal challenge, there are no specific eras i did bc i had to throw in a bit of everything, that’s how these babes are made up in my mind. and holy shit let’s just imagine they’re not whitewashed okay???
notes: okay to start w dada, just imagine his current build but put a head on that w his hair not straightened. tried to find pics where he looks genuinely dead inside and about to kill everyone in the room. looks a bit young on the last pic but it captures the way he’s just a lil meow meow for y/n. where the middle pic is there was supposed to be one of him in some black tank top but he wasn’t as built there and it threw the picture off but this exact pic of his body throws the vibe off the three pics. BUT being accurate is more important than the vibe rn, so forgive me.
notes: the baggy eyed look is important on the first pic and the shining eyes is also important on the last bc the fic is all about these boys’ emotional development and the effect y/n has on them. this little bitch(lovingly) is so hard to find pictures of, babe hold your head STRAIGHT. if this man is capable of straight. khm khm. middle pic is there bc u need to feel this man’s idgaf aura. he’s so beautiful i wish i could’ve found pictures where he looks even more evil.
notes: get the earrings OFF this beautiful man and we’re done. not much to say here, this hairstyle is angel given in my head. i mean is him having a bit puffier(maybe curlier is the right word) hair a bit unrealistic? yeah absolutely but his killer version of him looks like this in my head and u asked for my opinion :p and in my head he has a little tummy fat that’s so adorable. omg this version of him and serial killer chan fit together as friends sm tell me u see the vision.
notes: def a bit longer hair hyunjin. i mean his buzz is stunning but this hair fits his character better. you can see that i-want-to-cry-then-slit-my-wrists poet soul in his eyes that’s needed for this characterization. looks cool and babe at the same time.
notes: omg what a babe. i hope i succeeded in capturing the lowk pathetic look of this man in the fic but with the lil detail of those arms bc we know babe is built. like look at the last pic and you know his ass would get jumped on the street for nothing. plus it’s important that you can’t really tell that he enjoys sliming people out.
notes: plus point if he has little red marks on his face from shaving but couldn’t find pics like that obvi. the two side pics are a general look and the middle one’s hair is a little off from how i see him but i put that in because the face card is giving there. i mean giving how i see him. that’s what’s important there. like look at this hoe you wouldn’t guess he eats people. in the fic it’s not mentioned but if u want a little more realistic mindset to read it with, his hair length changes sometimes because he picks the scissors up at home(dumb fuck) but never cuts it too short bc he likes his length rn. had an accident where the scissors slipped and he learned from that. as i mentioned, the others do his hair usually.
notes: oh this man needs his scary little stalker baseball cap. the makeup in the last pic is a lil throw off from the whole visualization, i only put that here because that’s his lovely little hairstyle!! like yeeaauuhh🤤 god he deserves lil cheek kisses
notes: omg is this hair color unrealistic in the sense that this characterization of jeongin’s lil bitch ass wouldn’t usually take the time to take care of it unless it’s for some crime shit where he has to look different to not get caught? absolutely, but omg this hair color on this man is THE holy. holy what, i dunno, but you get what i’m saying. it’s absolutely the move on him and idk make smth up for why is his hair like this bc jeongin in the fic would totally be a lazy loser to get his hair done like this. y/n sat him down and did it or he lost a boyish dumb bet or idk but this hair is HIM. gives the cheeky look sm.
summary: part v. some boyfriend content with each four of them. and like, feat the other dipshits. but you’re the one taking felix to his doctor’s check up.
warnings: non idol au, violence, blood, mentions of gore, cannibalism, obsessive behavior, jealousy, cursing, homicidal behavior/psychopathy, mentions of self harm and throwing up, sexual content(mentions of p in v, humping, heavy petting, love for men’s balls but it’s not sexual after all, light voyeurism), reader getting no privacy, so also talks about periods and the boys interacting with it but it’s in the funny way, the boys are not okay mentally
word count: 25k
hyunjin is not handling this well.
like, not even a little bit.
he wants to handle it well. he really fucking does. he’s trying to be normal about it, trying to be one of those “yeah man, we talked about it, it’s fine, i respect it” kind of guys… but he is not that guy.
and with the way he keeps it in, it just builds. and builds. and builds. until suddenly he’s three drinks in at noon, sitting somewhere he doesn’t even remember choosing, staring at his phone because you’re not answering fast enough.
not even ignoring him. just… busy. with someone else.
oh, so you’re with them. cool. great.
and then he orders another drink.
because obviously that’s the solution.
and we’re talking about a noon here but it’s already on in the mornings. hyunjin wakes up already pissed off at his fucking chungus life. with a headache, most time.
his hands don’t know what to do anymore. before you, they knew exactly what they were for. he was born to end lives. now… now he just holds shit when not stabbing with it. he always looks so off nowadays. but always plays with something in his hands when spacing out, that’s our point here.
one morning, early, hyunjin’s already up. he always wakes up early. can’t not. currently sitting at the counter of his and binnie’s place, hunched forward with that ass posture of his, why is this guy so long, turning a knife slowly in his hand. not like a big one, just… enough to do damage if he wanted to. but he’s not using it. he’s just holding it. plus you would worry about him if he hurt himself. so he’s… not going to do that.
changbin stands there for a second, watching. then he walks over, holds his hand out. “give me that.”
“fuck off.”
“hyune.”
“i said fuck off.”
changbin reaches out and takes the knife.
hyunjin lets him. lets his hand go slack, lets it be taken because nothing matters. fucking psycho.
changbin turns it once in his hand, sets it down out of reach. sighs. mr emo should calm the fuck down. (or maybe changbin should open up his eyes and realize hyunjin is not wrong here, just a more expressed and deeper version of what changbin also was once before you let him hit. changbin is kind of an asshole here, always on your dick and not helping his friend who’s having it way worse.)
that’s why for hyunjin, it’s not just that you’re with other people, it’s who. it’s the details. it’s the images that won’t leave his head no matter how much he tries to drown them out.
you.
on his bed.
changbin’s hands on you.
changbin’s mouth on you.
right there. while he was just asleep. he keeps seeing it, over and over, and it’s not even something he witnessed, it’s something he imagines only, fills in with way too much detail that destroy him but most likely didn’t even happen. like hyune i promise you that they did not kiss that close to you as you imagine it.
it makes his stomach twist. makes his grip tighten on whatevers in his hands at the time. makes him want to break something. or someone’s bones. or his own head on a wall.
and hyunjin can’t be mad at you. couldn’t even try. because to him, you’re, fuck, you’re everything.
when you look at him? it all just stops, just for that long. the constant torture in his head and everything that holds in itself, gone. that’s why he still wants you just as bad. maybe worse.
if you asked him to wait? he would.
if you asked him to share? he might.
if you asked him to stay like this, falling deep into this and mad and completely fucked up over you, just a simple little human? he’d do that too.
but all this waiting just ends up making him… hungrier.
he’s constantly trying to figure out where he fits. where he’s allowed to stand. he doesn’t openly hit on you like jeongin, he can’t give you that. doesn’t do what he wants like seungmin, would mess up everything if he did. doesn’t cling like han, he’d feel annoying. can’t over-daddy everyone like chan, could never be on that level. can’t have the same charm as changbin does, doesn’t have it, what changbin was born with, hyunjin learned himself. wouldn’t get away with being creepy like minho(god, only minho can do it like that, even hyunjin wants to drop his panties when he sees minho be a creep towards you. anyone else would be dead if the boys saw someone act like that, but not minho)
he just… waits. that’s what he does, lives in the back, in the others’ shadows, not even his looks saving him now.
first time having feelings going well so far.
oh, sweetie.
but at least he still has the privilege to steal you sometimes, because you do like hanging out with him. he’s grateful for that. (only has himself to be grateful for, is still grateful for you) he can grab your hand and pull and you won’t resist. you’ll giggle and go with him, even while han keeps making little noises.
“hey, hey, where are you taking her?”
“out.” hyunjin says.
“no—”
“yeah.”
he actually had to stab han in the thigh once just so that he wouldn’t follow you. hyunjin always. makes. sure. the others don’t follow you.
he needs the contact to stay sane. just the two of you’s. he doesn’t even talk much in these hangouts, just sits with you, smokes one maybe, watching you. accepting his heartache when you lean on him a little.
internally, he’s fine then. okay. life is good but then he remembers(just imagines, fuck he remembers if he didn’t see it) changbin on his bed, and it all comes back. he has to throw up again.
“…you really didn’t wake me up, huh.” he mutters one time.
you look at him. you’re beautiful. “what?”
he shakes his head. looks good on him. “nothing.”
drinks again. conversation over. but it’s not over.
changbin has taken that knife out of his hand multiple times now.
walk in. see hyunjin. see knife. say “again?” take the knife. place it somewhere, knowing he’ll find it again anyway. “you’re going to cut yourself.”
“wouldn’t be the worst thing.”
“you’re being dramatic.”
“you’re in a fivesome.”
“…can’t even argue with you, dude.”
it hits him in waves. that would be the best metaphor, though he has lots more of those. one minute he’s fine. normal. functionalish. doing whatever the fuck he does during the day. then next he’s on his bed, flat on his back, staring at the ceiling, flushed, heart doing some weird, uneven shit in his chest.
his brain, all you. again. always you.
he’s just thinking. thinking about the way you act with him. the way you lean into him when he pulls you into him, how you trust him with being that close, trust him to protect you in that position. he feels so boyfriend when you do that. you’re the perfect girl. the way your hand fits in his like it was made to be there. he’s sure it was. it must. the way you went out with him before you knew the others. the way your tits look—holy shit tits. yeah these thought chains can be sweet, can be dirty, longing, desperate, needy, horny, everything.
it’s not just want, attraction. it’s this gross need that took over his perfect life.
it’s unhealthy.
but what the fuck is anyone gonna do about it. nothing. that’s what.
so he gets love drunk. and it’s pathetic. genuinely embarrassing for a man like this. ptoo. this was supposed to be the sound of spitting in him. anyways. he’s on his bed in these little episodes, arms behind his head, staring at the ceiling looking like he just got shot by cupid himself. feels like it too. even ears red, little boy neck warm, just a boy thinking about you. no distractions. no phone. no alcohol (at least not yet, give him ten minutes).
and then there’s the other problem, which is that all this feeling has to go somewhere. and hyunjin is not good at expressing it. at all.
so it leaks. kinda like that. like one late night, hyunjin is not sleeping again. shocking. he’s been staring at the ceiling for… fuck knows how long, thinking about you, replaying everything, overanalyzing shit.
he gets up. no thoughts that drive him, just feels like going. walks out of his room, down the hallway. to changbin’s door, and opens it without knocking. (them not knocking on each other’s doors has gotten them into multiple situations now)
changbin is asleep. shirtless, sprawled out, one arm thrown over his head. he’a cute. such a boy. more man, maybe.
hyunjin stands there, staring. kinda forget why he came for. so he walks in, closes the door, and climbs into the bed.
fucking cuddles up to changbin. like presses into changbin’s side, throws a leg over him, one arm tucked between them and the other over changbin’s body.
changbin obviously wakes up to this, eyes opening, looking down, seeing hyunjin. processing… processing…
“hey, buddy.” changbin says.
“…hi.”
changbin exhales, so soft, adjusting to get comfortable again, then puts an arm around hyunjin.
“you okay?” he asks.
“no.”
“yeah. figured.”
hyunjin presses his face into changbin’s shoulder, trying to hide.
changbin understands. wishes he could do something for hyunjin. these two kill people btw.
at some point, hyunjin falls asleep. changbin goes back to sleep too. cuties.
and they could be doing this more, would help a lot, but when not, they’re at your place. everyone is at your place. it’s not your place anymore. it’s theirs too. they have collectively decided that your space is now their space. your time is their time.
like, some days you walk in, and felix is on your couch, flipping through one of your magazines like he can actually read. (he can)
he looks up when you come in, smiling ear to ear. “oh, hey.”
“hi, lix. what are you doing?”
“reading.” such a cutie. “my horoscope says i’m gonna change the world.”
“amazing, sweetie.”
and when you turn your head because hyunjin is talking to you about how the moon looks like your left tit or whatever emo shit he’s on today, and when you turn back, felix is eating the paper.
you don’t even have the energy to yell anymore. you just take the rest of the magazine before he eats the whole thing.
you like your magazines.
sometimes when the boys are all too much, too loud, too physical, too on you, and you need to calm down before you lose your mind or commit a homicide of your own, you sit down, grab the latest issue, and you read it. close every single one of them out. usually perfect legs crossed, flipping pages while han is trying to climb on top of the fridge, seungmin is shooting at changbin(your neighbors just started moving not too long ago), that’s the game, changbin has to dodge, jeongin climbs onto the back of the couch, start braiding tiny sections of your hair while talking to you. “and then i told the guy i was gonna wear his face as a mask for you, but he screamed so loud i had to—” you hum and don’t pay attention. felix is usually on the floor gnawing on something (sometimes a bone, sometimes one of your socks) making happy little noises, watching the others or plays with them when invited, minho stands there holding one of your bras, sniffing it every few minutes(fucking creep??? hello???), hyunjin tries to read over your shoulder. “this writer doesn’t understand true longing. i would kill myself for you.” chan’s the only one who sometimes just sits next to you quietly(when not sharpening something with little metal shavings accidentally ending up in your hair), arm around your shoulders, scrolling on his phone like a normal(ish) boyfriend until seungmin starts shit talking and they throw hands. it drives them insane because they want your attention so bad but you’re over here reading about skincare while three of them have their dicks out.
you need it because they’re always on you. touching you. leaning on you. sitting too close. standing too close. breathing too close. you’ll be in the kitchen and suddenly there’s a hand on you, any part of you. sometimes head, arm, the boyfriends get private areas privilege of course, whatnot. you’ll be on the couch and someone’s arm is around you. you’ll be walking somewhere and someone’s grabbed your wrist, your hand, your sleeve, something.
“where are you going?”
“over there.”
“why?”
“because i want to.”
“…come back.”
so you need your magazines to ignore them sometimes. and, surprisingly, they don’t bother you that much when they see you’re reading. well, they don’t stop bothering you, they still talk your ear off, but at least don’t rip the magazine out of your hands so you pay attention to them.
when shit gets too… well, psychotic, these men are sick and need you to stop them sometimes, we know that, sometimes you just shove the magazine into seungmin’s hands. he’s usually the closest to you. and you know he’ll hold it.
“read this and shut up for five minutes.” you say, going to the kitchen where minho and felix are about to castrate each other.
seungmin bitches “this is fucking stupid, why do women need ten tips for everything, just suck dick better, why am i—” but two minutes later he’s fully invested in the “sex tips for women who like it rough” article, eyebrows raised, nodding while reading.
you come back ten minutes later with jeongin crying because felix tried to bite his dick and seungmin’s just quietly reading under his breath “pro tip, communicate your needs… yeah no shit.” he hands it back without looking at you, face a little red. “mid.”
they’re always on your dick. you try to pee in peace and the bathroom door creaks open and one of them is just standing there. like changbin, saying “just making sure you’re okay, baby.”
“fuck are you looking at, get out.”
“okay. you’re so cute.” he says, smiling and waving.
chan will knock once, then walk in anyway, starts talking to you. he acts the most normal of them. acts. doesn’t mean he is. he’s not.
han will wander in scratching his balls, go “oh shit sorry” then just stand there watching. fascinated. “you pee like a girl… that’s so cool…” ??? okay??? once he got so excited he started clapping. “wow you’re really going!! good job!!”
seungmin doesn’t really come in unless he needs something or just wants to annoy you, but not like he minds the fact that you’re peeing. once the second you wrapped your used pad up he took it from your hands and threw it into the tiny trash can for you. you, to this day, genuinely can’t decide if that was cute or fucking creepy.
and your bedroom? fucking circus. you have one bed. one. one! you’re lucky that it’s a big bed, but not big enough for the fact that all of these men, freshly feeling men, deeply in love men, want to sleep touching you.
han is glued to you, nonnegotiable. if he doesn’t get to be next to you, it’s “no—no, i’m staying—i’m staying right here—” it’s too much, but you love him. it’s also kind of sad. it’s also incredibly fucking inconvenient when there are also other people in the room.
seungmin is just “this is disgusting.” “move over.” “why is he breathing like that.” “why is everyone breathing like that.” but god forbid he’s not involved.
chan just decides where he’s sleeping and everyone else adjusts accordingly. daddy has built this system up himself.
and you want changbin there, and no way you don’t get what you want(except for peace but whatever) so changbin will be touching you one way or another. that gives him more confidence too nowadayd.
you wake up some mornings with han drooling on your tit, seungmin’s arm over your waist, changbin curled up at your feet the baby(execute him now), and chan somehow taking up half the mattress, with an arm behind your neck!! then you look down and felix is on the floor waiting for you to wake up and spend time with him, jeongin is spooning a pillow, hyunjin is writing something on the ceiling with a marker(???), and minho is standing in the corner watching everyone. waves to you. you hate them. (you love them more than anything and you’re unbelievably grateful for them no matter how horrible they are to the world)
and naturally, now that they’re all over you and see that the others are also all over you, they will… not want to be all over the others too. difficult wording, point here, jealousy.
not so serious that they’ll kill each other(except if you’re minho, he’d kill anyone), god no, but still. some of them are fine with sharing, some get a bit jealous. (but still would share if you told them to. anything you want, y/n.)
right now, the mainly hated one is chan.
well, they actually love chan, in the limited way serial killers can love anything that isn’t themselves and their needs to kill. they look up to him. he’s the most put together in any given situation, minho and felix trying to rip each other’s faces off or jeongin threatening to “end it all” over a bad haircut that’s not even bad and he’s the only one who thinks so, chan’s daddy ass steps in and everything is fine in five minutes. okay, sure, he had to break hyunjin’s collarbone once, but still settled shit.
they respect him. they copy him sometimes. they see how he acts with you and try the same. but right now, mostly they want to kill him.
he’s spending solo time with you today. they know. it makes them want to hang themselves.
right now, hyunjin and felix are… somewhere. no one really knows where they decided to go, just that hyunjin needed to get out and felix followed because he likes hyunjin’s company. (let’s note that he doesn’t know he likes hyunjin’s company, his brain likes it without him being conscious of it.) so they’re spending time together in an alley behind a building. felix is gnawing on a forearm, making disgusting, crunching sounds while he talks to hyunjin.
“and then i was like, wait, what if you just—”
“yeah.”
“right? like you don’t even have to—”
“no, yeah.”
“and then it just, like, came off, right? like, completely off. i didn’t even know that could happen, but then minho told me to put it down and i really—“
“deep.”
hyunjin hasn’t heard a single word. not one. he’s staring off into the distance, mind somewhere else entirely. guess where, you. every few minutes felix offers him a bite and hyunjin politely declines without even looking at felix, it would be hard for anyone else, felix is beautiful. hyunjin just doesn’t care now. it’s sweet that felix still keeps offering the boys bites even though they always say no. he’s either thoughtful or thoughtless and forgot they keep declining. anyways, he swings his legs, talks, goes on, while hyunjin drinks, and drinks, and drinks.
minho and jeongin are out getting rid of a body together, the two of them dragging a trash bag through the woods. they don’t talk much. but they’re having fun. seungmin is waiting in the car, he’s not in the mood for moving around now.
changbin and han are at changbin’s(and hyunjin’s but whatever he’s not home) place.
han is whining. “i miss her already, man, what if—”
changbin has him by the collar, holding him in place with one massive fucking arm holy shit so hot while he stirs something on the stove. “she’s fine, buddy. just chill. i made pasta. eat.”
han tries to run toward the door again and changbin yanks him back. brutal respect to him for never once raising his voice, by the way.
so. you and chan have your place to yourselves. you’re in the kitchen doing shit, chopping things or stirring whatever’s in the pot, while chan is behind you.
he’s such a sex symbol. moves behind you without a sound, psychopath quiet really, big hands on your hips. he leans down, presses a soft kiss to the side of your head. “smells good.” reaches around to steal a piece of whatever you’re chopping, puts it in his mouth, and hums. approval. “missed you today.” he whispers. that, is harder to say. but he did great.
you lean back into him. “missed you too. how was the… thing?” you don’t say kill out loud. ew ew ew. sometimes you dance around it, sometimes you don’t. today feels like dancing.
it’s brutal development, where we are now, where you are about what they do. but you love them this way, learn to accept it.
“i did good. guy begged like a lil bitch at the end but that’s nothing new. told him to shut up and think about his family. made it faster for him.”
you turn your head enough to look at him, to see his pretty face, tasting the sauce off the wooden spoon. offer it back over your shoulder for him. “here. try this. too much basil?”
he takes the spoon, tastes it. nods. “perfect. you always nail it.” he sets the spoon down and wraps both arms around your waist now, pulling you back against him.
it’s weird, that killing gives him this much of a rush. a man who can be this gentle with you is that evil.
and you also give him that rush. you do the same shit to his nervous system but worse. or better, y’know. he gets these random adrenaline rushes just from the way you do even the most insignificant shit like sneezing. now his heart rate raises like it does when he’s chasing someone, so blood reacts to that, and oh look at that, his dick is filling slowly because his body chose you.
the part in his brain that used to only light up for, to react to violence, now does that for your voice. for your anything really, your whole being. he loves it, living with this now. weird. makes him feel human, that used to make him want to peel his skin off.
he’s so in love it’s dumb. lame. his psychology’s new, attachment that used to be impossible for a guy like him now feels like oxygen. you’re the only thing that brings him good emotions all the time. every little interaction with you, or just thinking about you really, gets his dopamine, his dumb man body, higher than any kill ever did.
so, his cock’s half hard now, pressing against the front of his jeans, and it’s not even because his brain got sexual information, it’s because you simply make him this happy.
before you, he thought this shit, talking, touching, just existing in the same room, was a waste of time, oh he didn’t need it. now he’d watch you do this for hours. he’d watch you sleep, he does.
you turn your head to look at him and he catches your mouth in a kiss, no tongue, just wet mouth on mouth. when he pulls back his eyes are dark, pupils big from the love and lust flooding his system. looks good on him. the white feather hawk tail deer hunter likes to keep me cold in the hot breeze summer ever.
“keep cooking, i’m good right here.” he murmurs, not wanting to stop your little woman activity for his dumb dick. but he could cum like this if he let himself, really could, humping you while you finish dinner, spilling in his pants because you do that to him. but he won’t.
“mm.” you reply. “give me time then, i want you to try this for sure. just thought i’d make something you like. i know you love spicy.”
he puts his cheek to your cheek. heartless psychopath, by the way. “i do. you know me so well.”
let’s ignore that he can’t deal with spicy. loves it, tolerating it is another case entirely. you know that, he forgets sometimes.
“i want to know you so well. i care about you, you know. so i worry. what if one day something goes wrong out there? what if you don’t come back? i don’t know what i’d do with all these assholes without you keeping them in line.”
chan smiles. he presses another kiss to your temple, then your cheek. “i always come back. got too much to come home to now.” his hands slide a little higher, palms on your sides, holding you closer. “tell me about your day. you were out earlier. anything interesting?”
“usual. ran into jeongin at the store. he obviously followed me there, but didn’t cause trouble so it was fine. i told him to tone it down or i’m banning him from the apartment for a week, and han tried to cheer him up by offering to share his ‘special’ energy drink. which is just vodka and red bull. they both ended up puking in the bathtub. they left after that. nothing else, actually.
chan hums and holds you to himself, letting you feel him. “fuck, baby. you feel good. always do.”
you bite your lip, getting all horny now too. “yeah?”
“mhm.” he hums, grinding against you a bit. just a little bit, not like, han, who would be full on humping you now. he looks away. “feels good when you worry.”
this is huge, coming from someone this closed off. the progress you made with these boys should get an award, no joke. it’s serious shit.
you add more things into the pan because they need vegetables and thankfully all eats them. then lean back into him more, letting him hold your weight. he’ll always hold your weight. “i do worry, chan. you’re not invincible. promise me you’ll be careful?”
his hips press in again, cock going between your asscheeks over the clothes. it’s not to start anything, just to relieve the situation in his pants. he’s obviously listening to you, kisses the side of your neck even, open mouthed and wet. hot. “i promise, baby. careful as i can be.” another press of his hips, more upwards, breath hitching just slightly. “talk to me more.”
you hum, giving everything a stir in the pan. “okay, fine. i’ve been thinking about getting a bigger place. this one bedroom is killing me with all eight of you basically living here. but then i think about moving and i get this weird panic because… what if the new place doesn’t feel like home? what if it’s too big and you all spread out?”
“mm. i get it. it’s grown on me too.”
you hum, focusing on the food even as your body responds to this man’s whole being. “i’ve been reading this article in one of my magazines about how to deal with difficult people. thought it was funny because none of the tips apply to you guys. ‘set boundaries’ yeah right, tried and didn’t work. ‘communicate calmly’ i do but it doesn’t do anything. but with you they work. you listen.“ you mumble. this is not favoritism, you love the others just as much as you love chan, it’s just a fact that he’s easier to deal with. “anyways, how was your day besides the thing? you went out earlier with minnie, right? didn’t come back covered in blood this time, so i’m guessing you two ate out or something? went well?”
“no that was murder too.”
“oh.”
“seungmin got a little creative with a crowbar, but it wasn’t that serious. you should be proud.”
you put your head back against his chest, smiling. “i am. the others couldn’t do that. han told me he almost set the couch on fire yesterday trying to ‘impress’ felix with some dumb lighter trick. you hear about that?”
he rocks you a little. it’s not even to relieve his boner, it’s just to be close to you. “heard the smoke alarm. changbin had to put the fire out. should’ve seen his face, he thought he ruined dinner for you.”
“poor bin.” you say, genuinely feeling a little bad. you add some soy sauce to the pan. sizzles. “he tries so hard. last week he brought me flowers, it was so cute. you notice how he’s been smiling more since… well, since he got added?”
he watches over your shoulder as you toss the things in the pan around. “yeah. innie’s worse though. he tried to do push ups in the living room to ‘bulk up’ so you’d notice him more. got to twenty, then felix walked by eating a sandwich and jeongin got distracted, fell on the carpet. nosebleed everywhere. han laughed so hard he pissed himself a little. changbin tried to help clean it up but used your good towel. the pink one.”
“NO.”
he hisses. “yeah, sorry.”
you sigh, reaching back with one hand to pat his thigh. “whatever, i’ll ask felix for a new one. speaking of, did you see what he did to my last magazine? ate half of it. i don’t even know how to respond to that anymore.”
his hands squeeze your hips as he rolls against you again, his cock pressing nicely between your cheeks. still patient though. “i’ll talk to him.”
“god, he’s so empty up there.” you say fondly. the food’s starting to look done. “but he tries. in his weird way. two days ago he brought me a flower. like one. picked it himself. it was sweet.”
chan’s hips keep humping into yours, sometimes in circles. “they all try. even seungmin. he bitched about your magazine the other day but i saw him reading the how to squirt article when he thought nobody was looking. turned the page so fast when i walked in. almost ripped it.”
you giggle. “he’s an angel. he leaves hickeys shaped like hearts sometimes. don’t tell him i noticed.“
“wouldn’t dream of it, baby.” oh, his voice is getting a little rougher, but he keeps the conversation going like nothing’s happening below the waist. skill. his free hand reaches around to steal a piece of broccoli from the pan, pops it in his mouth.
you turn the heat down and you lean back into him completely now, and he takes this deep, slow breath.
you smile, god, it’s weird that a smile comes so natural for you, compared to them, eyes half closed, enjoying him.“hey. i saw a bruise on your ribs two days ago when you were changing. it looked kinda nasty. you never told me how you got it. still hurting?”
he huffs against your hair, hips moving against your ass because he can’t help it. “no big deal. just some guy got lucky. nothing broken. barely even feel it anymore.”
you don’t buy it for a second. you turn around in his arms, grabbing the hem of his shirt and tugging it upward. “let me see anyway.”
chan raises an eyebrow, the one without the cute little mole, but lifts his arms to help, that calm, sexy smirk on his face(embodiment of dr dr feel good come make me feel real good fr) as you peel the shirt off over his head and drop it on the counter behind him. oh that’s dada right there. even with the bruise on his left side, ugly, purple yellow thing spread across his ribs, fresh.
your heart does a little twist, these guys are brutal, survive anything basically, but seeing him like this still makes you worry.
you’re the only one who worries for them like this. who knows them like this.
“fuck, chan… that looks like it hurts more than you’re letting on.”
you keep looking at him, not the bruise only,(of course) but just savoring that this is your man. that your man has this chest, these shoulders, these traps, these biceps, triceps, and not to forget that light little happy trail starting under his belly button, leading down into his jeans where his cock is visibly straining, begging for your attention.
it’s really important that it’s begging for yours specifically.
your hand slides down his stomach, fingertips moving over his abs, then lower. you cup him through his jeans, feeling how he presses against the layers of clothing. giving him a gentle squeeze, then a slow little tug, petting the outline of his cock.
chan takes a cute, deep little breath but he stays still, letting you touch however you want. “y/n…” he mutters, plea. there’s a tiny smile on his mouth. you want to rip him apart.
instead, you pull your groping hand away(the way his chest rises at that is panty dropping) and press under his belly button instead, pushing him back gently until his ass hits the edge of the counter.
he goes easy, leaning against it, watching you, letting you manhandle him because it’s you. his hands settle on the counter behind him.
you step in, rise up on your toes, and kiss him.
it’s slow. loving. a psychopath’s love on your lips, really. tasting each other.
one of his hands comes up to cradle the back of your head, the other on your waist, the soft wet sounds of making out in the quiet kitchen or the occasional pop from the cooling pan.
when you finally pull back you tilt your head and kiss along his jaw, then down to his neck. your mouth latches on, sucking blood up to the surface hard, leaving a trail of dark hickeys across his skin. so everyone will see it tomorrow and know exactly who put it there.
one goes right over the tendon that flexes when he swallows. that’s your favorite.
chan tilts his head to give you more room, sighing and grabbing into your hair in pleasure, letting you mark him up.
you keep going, down, down, down, kissing down the center of his chest now. your knees don’t even mind their position so just that your tongue can flick out over one of his nipples, circling it before you close your lips around it and suck gently.
chan’s hand pulls lightly at your hair, a soft grunt escaping him.
you part from him, giving the peaked little nipple(god you’re crazy about men’s nipples) one last little flick before you leave to lick across to the other one, giving it the same love, teeth involved now to make his abs tense under your finger.
lower. you sink down slowly, knees bending until you’re crouching in front of him, eyes locked on his the whole way. your hands slide up his thighs, feeling the muscle there before you lean in and press a soft kiss right to the bruise on his ribs.
soft, careful kisses right over the discolored skin. little pecks that turn into longer presses of your lips, tongue poking out on his hot skin. he’s such a man. a babe too, deep down.
“kissing it better.” you murmur on his skin, lips on the bruise where it’s turning yellowish now.
“it’s better already, baby. swear.”
you smile on the bruise and kiss it again. “good. i hate when you get hurt and don’t tell me. i want you to come home to me in one piece.”
“i always do.” he murmurs. his hand strokes your scalp gently. “always come back to you.”
you move across his stomach then, kissing every inch of skin, dipping your tongue into his belly button for a second to hear the way his breath stutters. he likes that. then back up a little, licking over his nipples again on the way, sucking one into your mouth while your hand strokes lightly over his side.
back up, eventually, standing up again so you can kiss his mouth once more. this time chan meets you halfway, kissing you deeper now, tongue trying to meet yours immediately. big bad psycho man needed this now.
and he’s still so, so hard for you.
when you break the kiss you go back down again, lips finding his neck for more hickeys. you suck a particularly dark one on his collarbone, then soothe it with your tongue. not even close to the tendon’s number one spot in your favorites, but this looks good too. chan’s head is tipped back, eyes half lidded, blissed the fuck out. you kiss lower again, across his chest.
you move down to give the bruise another round of soft kisses, murmuring “still kissing it better.”
“it’s perfect now. doesn’t hurt at all. you fixed it.”
you always fix everything.
you give his hipbone a loving squeeze with both hands, then just again, rise up and kiss his neck again, add another hickey, then find his mouth.
now it’s getting mf wet. lips pulling and sucking until your knees are weak and it’s practically chan holding you up. but why wouldn’t he when you pour this much care into every kiss, every lick, every mark?
he can’t believe that he’s this lucky to have you. he’ll have to go and thank hyunjin for choosing you back then. hyunjin, who chan doesn’t feel bad for even while clearly seeing what he’s going through. he simply couldn’t care when you’re there and in his mind instead. plus the dude will live anyway.
you lose track of how many times you travel that path. down and up, kissing, licking, sucking, making out. each round slower than the last. his neck is a mess of hickeys now, a field really, body hot and flushed, the bruise looking the same but he said you fixed it so you fixed it. his cock stays hard the whole time, straining, leaking a little but no seeping through, but you never touch it again after that first tease. this isn’t about getting him off. it’s about you caring for your man, showing him with your mouth and hands that he matters, that his bruises get kissed, that his cold little psycho heart is safe with you, as crazy that is to say.
you could do this all night.
you pull back to look at him. his eyes are heavy, so beautiful, biiiiig lips a little red, fresh hickeys looking good on his skin. he looks thoroughly kissed and completely content. the dream man.
“hungry?” you ask quietly, nodding toward the cold food.
chan smiles, so rare. “starving, baby. but not for that.”
he leans in and kisses you again, slow, hands sliding to your skin now.
you make everything perfect in his feelingless little world. you make the black and white colorful. you put a meaning into everything.
hours later you’re tangled up in your bed now, sheets kicked halfway off because the two of you went at it like animals after allat slow kissing in the kitchen getting both of you hot and bothered. clothes gone in a second, man fucked you into the mattress until both of you were shaking and swearing and cumming so loud(the way chan was shouting was delicious) the neighbors probably thought someone was getting murdered (again). now the afterglow has you both… like this, naked, sticky, limbs around each other.
chan’s face is on your tummy, cheek on your skin, arm draped over your hip. babe’s almost asleep, breathing slowly, warm puffs ghosting over your belly button every time he exhales. he’s about to fall asleep.
you’re on your back, legs loosely tangled with his, one hand buried in his hair while the other rests on his broad shoulder.
the state you left him in is fucking brutal.
his whole torso is… wow. dark hickeys on his chest, some overlapping where you sucked the same spot twice. a lot of them. like an unsettling amount at this point. there’s a line of them down his stomach, fading into smaller ones right above where his cock is now soft and tucked against your thigh. his nipples are still a little puffy and red from how long you licked and sucked them. you even left a set of teeth marks on the inside of his left pec because you got carried away when he hit that spot inside you. his eyes rolled back then.
his back is shredded with your nail marks, long, red scratches running from his shoulder blades all the way down to the dimples above his ass. you can feel the raised lines under your fingertips when you slide your hand down there. that’s how rough you went. you’ll have to put something on it tomorrow. some cream. one particularly wild scratch is around his ribcage, right next to the bruise you spent so long kissing better earlier. on the side of his face, right under his cheekbone, there’s a fading set of nail marks where you grabbed him while he was pounding into you and you were cumming so hard you saw stars. and then there’s the hickey on his right ass cheek, even though it’s currently hidden under the crumpled sheet.
but right now, your full focus is on his curls.
you’re obsessed with them. they’re so soft, a little damp from sweat, so cute over his forehead and around his ears. like wdym boys have their little hairs too and they live with it.
you thread your fingers through it slowly, scratching lightly at his scalp with your nails when not gently tugging at the hair itself.
chan’s eyes are closed but they’re rolling the fuck back from pleasure under his pretty lids. he even lets out these tiny little “mhmfp” sounds and (which he doesn’t notice) his legs kick a little.
you smile at your big strong scary boyfriend and massage the base of his skull with your fingertips. another soft sound from him. his arm tightens around your hip before it loses tension again because you hit a good spot.
“your hair’s so fucking pretty.” you murmur. you don’t expect an answer. chan isn’t big on pillow talk about feelings, but he listens. he always listens when you talk. he’s okay with you talking.
he knows you know. communication, obviously. hyunjin should learn.
you gather a handful of curls at the crown of his head and give a gentle tug, then release, watching them bounce back into place. chan’s eyelashes flutter against your skin and he makes almost a purr now. you repeat, scratching behind his ear with your nails, then smoothing the curls down only to mess them up again on purpose. all the tension he carries around (the kills, the other seven, the constant everything on everything) just drains out through your touch.
you were born to deal with these psychos, and each of them was born to be right in your palm.
you twirl one curl around your index finger until it’s tight, hold it for a second, then let go so it springs free. cute. chan’s lips part against your tummy and he lets out a quiet “fuck…” under his breath. he can feel his love for you in his arms, not just his huge chest.
you’re like some cat, entertained by this. just playing around. how are they supposed to take your seriously like this??
you drag your nails from his hairline all the way back, then repeat, over and over. soothing. every pass earns you another one of those little sounds, sometimes a hum, sometimes just the tiniest hitch in his breath. big bad man who can choke someone out with one hand and stay completely calm while doing it is currently putty because you’re giving his hair some love.
you trace the shell of his ear with one fingertip, then bury your fingers back into the hair behind it. chan nuzzles closer to your tummy, nose(that you like riding so much) pressing into the soft skin there.
“i could do this for hours. they’re softer than they look, you know that? and the way they curl right here at the nape of your neck… fuck, channie. it’s so cute how hot you are even when you’re being all sweet like this.” type shit good dick makes you say.
“not sweet.” he mumbles, voice muffled and kinda raspy from all the groaning he did earlier. it sounds adorable. “just… tired. you wore me out.”
“hm.”
you know him. he won’t suddenly start talking about his feelings or how much he loves you out loud. but the way his arm squeezes your hip, the way his whole body relaxed on yours(means a lot coming from a psycho who was never felt attachment before) the way he keeps making those baby little noises every time you hit a good spot, that’s his version of i’m so fucking in love with you.
you keep playing with his hair for a long time. sometimes you just let your fingers rest in the curls, feeling the warmth of his scalp. boy warmth. sometimes you tug a little harder, and he rewards you with a deeper sound on your belly.
his nail marked back rises and falls under your arm. so sweet. he’s just a little meow meow(an unbelievably disgusting man to walk this earth)
you tug at a curl, watch it bounce, and smile when chan makes a little sound again. it’s so attractive. more attractive when you remember how fast he can snap spines. weird, how slowly you began to get over these little images. they’re not upsetting anymore, but seeing it in real life would still freak you out, no doubt.
you do it once more, then smooth everything down with your palm, only to mess it all up again because you can’t help yourself.
“love your curls so much.” you murmur scratching behind his ear. “love you, baby.”
chan, sleepy psycho he is, turns his face to press a kiss right below your belly button, then settles again, cheek back on your tummy.
god, you really do love this man.
“Y/N!!!”
han.
home.
the front door slams. immediately after you hear changbin’s slightly panicked voice “jis, buddy, please, calm down, they’re probably resting—”
something crashes. glass? a lamp? maybe the coffee table. another crash, louder. a third noise sounds suspiciously like a chair being thrown across the living room???
you and chan both sigh at the exact same time.
“should’ve locked the door.” he mutters.
before you can answer, the bedroom door flies open.
“hi y/n!! hi chan!!” han says, already kicking his shoes off so hard one of them smacks the wall and leaves a black little stain. you keep telling him to take them off at the door. “you guys won’t believe the day i had! i tried to steal this guy’s car but the keys were in his pocket so i had to cut his pocket off first and then the pocket had a hole and the keys fell into a sewer grate and then felix tried to reach in after them but his arm got stuck and—” he’s talking a mile a minute while simultaneously peeling his shirt off over his head. pants next, he hops on one foot, almost falls, catches himself on the dresser, then yanks them down along with his boxers halfway before stopping and pulling the boxers back up. he leaves them on, thank god. “—and then the guy woke up even though i swore i hit him hard enough and he started screaming so i had to sit on his face until he stopped moving and his nose made this wet crunch sound and blood came out his ears and it was so gross but also kinda funny and then changbin said i couldn’t keep the car anyway because it had blood on the seats—”
he fucking lifts the covers like it’s his god given fucking right and crawls into bed, wiggling between you and chan. half on top of you, one arm over your waist, face nuzzling into the side of your bare boob. his leg kicks out, his foot ends up between chan’s ass cheeks under the sheets.
chan doesn’t even fucking care anyone, just shifts his hips because whatever it’s han.
han’s pretty voice is slightly muffled against your tit now. “anyway i missed you so much i thought about you the whole time even when i was pulling that guy’s teeth out with pliers and you smell like sex. that’s nice. did chan make you cum a lot? he’s good at that. i’m getting better too, remember last time i lasted four minutes instead of two—”
changbin catches up, now at the door too looking exhausted. “i tried. i really tried to keep him outside longer. he just… ran.”
you smile, still playing with chan’s hair with one hand while the other reaches out toward changbin “c’mere, baby. it’s fine.”
he doesn’t need telling twice. he strips fast, shirt folded (really important that he folds it), pants folded, everything placed carefully on the chair(seungmin usually sits in when is not in the mood but still wants to be involved in some way) like a good boy before he closes the door behind himself. then he climbs into bed on your other side, under the covers and cuddling up to you with his head on your shoulder, one big arm going on you too, just under han’s dumb arm and above chan’s being.
now. we got, chan’s face still on your tummy, han’s face in your tits, changbin’s face tucked into your neck, his thigh just where his underwear ends next to chan’s head, and han’s foot still living happily between chan’s asscheeks. chan doesn’t mention it. han sure as fuck doesn’t notice.
you hum, a little sleepy. “seungmin is gonna be so fucking mad when he finds out he missed this. left out again. he’s gonna lose his shit. someone should text him.”
han lifts his pretty head to nod. “yeah. last time he found out we had group time without him he got so pissed he took it out on that one delivery guy. seungmin dragged him into the alley, beat his face in with the pizza box, then used the guy’s own belt to strangle him. the pizza was cold by the time we ate it. sad.”
changbin noses at your skin. “or remember when han accidentally sat in min’s favorite spot on the couch? he didn’t say anything, just waited until han went to take a piss, then followed him into the bathroom, slammed his head into the mirror three times, and made him apologize to the toilet while bleeding everywhere.”
han giggles. “yeah!! my forehead scar is from that! looks kinda cool though. he said ‘next time i’ll use the plunger’ and i believed him so i don’t sit there anymore.”
you snort, still playing with chan’s hair. “jesus. and the stranger thing last month?”
han is visibly excited to tell you about that, foot flexing happily between chan’s cheeks. “oh oh!! seungmin was already mad because jeongin stole his last cigarette, so when this random dude at the gas station bumped into him and didn’t say sorry, he grabbed the guy by the hair, slammed his face into the pump like eight times, then ripped the nozzle out and shoved it down the dude’s throat. started pumping gas straight into his stomach. guy died. we had to hose min off.”
changbin sighs into your shoulder. “he does get… creative when he’s angry. last time he thought chan was hogging you too much he keyed chan’s car with the word ‘selfish’ and then slashed all four tires. chan just fixed it and told seungmin to grow up. seungmin punched a hole in the wall after.”
“he’s lucky i like you more than i like my car.” chan mumbles into your stomach.
“mhm.” comes from han. “he also stabbed jeongin in the thigh with a fork then. jeongin screamed so loud felix dropped his human finger sandwich. he still walks funny sometimes. anyway, he can stay mad. i’m comfy. can i sleep here forever? even if seungmin comes home and tries to castrate me with a spoon?” home. like aw his psycho brain recognized this place as home.
changbin yawns, cuddling closer. “he probably will try. but i’ll protect you. mostly. unless he brings the brick again.” the brick. what could have that been.
you hum an agreement out. too lazy to speak. (but not to play with chan’s hair)
yeah long story short seungmin did end up losing his shit the next morning.
he walked in, already tired and done with everything(but when is he not) saw the four of you tangled up naked and cuddly, and went aaaall the fuck out. didn’t touch you, didn’t even look at you wrong. you’re his god. instead he grabbed changbin by the throat, slammed him into the wall, and started hitting him. men.
changbin, brutal respect to him here(zero respect he’s a murderer), took the first three punches like a champ, blood already dripping from his lip, before he finally swung back because seungmin wasn’t stopping.
they took it to the living room. seungmin headbutted changbin, so he picked seungmin up and body slammed him through the coffee table. seungmin came up laughing like a fucking maniac, genuinely what the fuck is his problem, tackled changbin into the tv, and they rolled around punching and choking and bleeding all over your floor.
they finally stopped when seungmin bit changbin’s shoulder hard enough to draw blood and make him unable to use that arm since the muscle hurt that much and changbin accidentally elbowed him in the balls. both of them ended up on the floor panting, covered in each other’s blood, too tired to keep going.
you made them both clean the mess while you and chan and han ate in bed.
but seungmin never once got mad at you. not even a little. you’re the only thing in his life that doesn’t get this treatment. you’re sacred.
he respects you like crazy. dead serious.
example, last week you told him “minnie, babe, can you keep an eye on felix? i won’t be home and he keeps chasing the mailman and i’m tired of it.”
“got it.”
later you come home and felix is tied to a kitchen chair with zip ties and a gag in his mouth. gnawing on the gag making happy cannibal noises but doesn’t move an inch. package is sitting untouched on the counter. that night you licked seungmin head to toe for that. he melted the fuck away. submissive babe.
another time you’re running late and you text him “make sure han eats something before 8pm. he gets hangry and starts humping the furniture.”
seungmin replies with a thumbs up emoji (which is the most effort he ever puts into texting). when you get home han is sitting at the table eating a full plate of spaghetti while seungmin stands over him with crossed arms. han has sauce all over his face and is mumbling “this is so good bro thank you”
you once told him “if jeongin is in the kitchen for more than twenty minutes, drag his ass outside and make him run laps until he keeps his cocktail recipes to himself.”
next day jeongin comes back sweaty and red faced, thighs burning, muttering “seungmin made me sprint while he timed me.”
seungmin just shrugs when you look at him. “he did eight laps. you’re welcome.”
you told him once that the group chat was getting too spammy and you wanted one day of peace. he immediately changed the group name to “shut the fuck up unless someone’s dead” and then threatened to remove anyone’s tongue if they messaged you after 8pm. jeongin sent a dick pic next to a corpse at 8:45. seungmin showed up at jeongin’s place ten minutes later with a pair of pliers. innie still can’t feel his left pinky. you took this rule out of order because you knew worse shit will happen.
he’s a violent, mean, sick fuck to everyone else on the planet, but the second you speak he turns into the most loyal little dog who ever lived. it’s actually kinda hot.
anyway.
days later you told the others you needed one single afternoon of peace with just changbin. they all whined except seungmin, and he teamed up with jeongin and hyunjin to entertain han for the day. they took him to the zoo.
han, to start the day, tried to climb into the monkey enclosure but luckily fell off. jeongin flirted with three different zookeepers trying to get them to let han “pet the big cats.” hyunjin drew the penguins and showed it to the sea lions. seungmin mostly stood there smoking, threatening to skin anyone who looked at the others wrong, but even he cracked a smile when han tried to hug a llama and got spit on.
at some point hyunjin stood at the lion exhibit monologuing about how the lions understood his pain and maybe he should just live in the savanna now. why is he fucking hilarious. han tried to feed the monkeys his own fingers. seungmin slapped his hand away. jeongin tried to steal a peacock feather for you and got chased by security. hyunjin cried because the butterflies were “too free and i am trapped in my longing for y/n.” seungmin threatened to throw all three of them into the shark tank if they didn’t behave. they behaved for exactly eleven minutes before han saw the gift shop and sprinted inside.
by noon, he almost got fucking bitten like three times. he kept pointing at every animal and yelling for the others to look too, jeongin flirted with the zookeeper girl so hard she gave him free popcorn, then immediately turned around and told hyunjin “she’s nothing compared to y/n.” they lost hyunjin for twelve whole minutes. he was talking with a dad whose kid was running around screaming.
at the end of the day they had dirt on then, ice cream, and a new knife. jeongin had hickeys from making out with the gift shop girl who slapped him after he moaned “y/n” into the kiss. he really did it just to imagine it was you kissing him. hyunjin was quietly crying into his notebook.
which brings us here.
you and changbin are finally alone in the big corner bathtub, water hot enough that steam is fogging the mirror and changbin is fucking dying inside but would rather boil alive than complain. the jets are not on a big setting, so they’re just working a bit on binnie’s back, and the whole bathroom smells like your fancy bath salts that you love and of course the boys will buy for you!!
the water is perfect for you, relaxing, changbin is lowkey dying. his chest and shoulders are turning red from the heat, little beads of sweat rolling down his temples, but he doesn’t say a single word. whatever you want goes.
you’re straddling his lap facing him, arms around his neck. his hands rest gently on your hips under the water, giving you all the love his sick little heart has.
you lean in and kiss him softly, lips sliding together warm and wet from the steam. really wet, he has to die from the heat. send help. but he kisses back just as gentle, tongue brushing yours in wet little strokes. you pull back a little, smile, then kiss him again, noses bumping, water sloshing quietly around you. creates a nice atmosphere.
your hands go down to move up and down his sides, nails dragging lightly over his wet skin. just teasing, running from his ribs down to his hips and back up again. naked men hips are breathtaking, on all eight of them.
every touch makes changbin shiver even in the boiling water. he makes a soft little sound into your mouth, almost a little moan, and kisses you again, sweeter. he could do this for hours and never get tired. well maybe he could pass out from the heat instead whatever.
you tilt your head, kiss the corner of his mouth, then his bottom lip, sucking on it gently before sliding your tongue back in. his hands tighten on your hips, then relaxes again, brain trying to deal with all these feelings.
you keep running your nails up his sides, soothing. he shudders, has to pull away to breathe for a second, then captures your mouth again in another kiss. innocent one.
his hands slide up from your hips, slow. sweet, not the palms that break bones but the palms that find your tits, cupping them both from underneath. so precious to him. he’s holding. thumbs brushing little circles over the soft skin next to your nipples, the more inside of your boobs, closer to your sternum. so loving. a man’s love, for you.
his psycho mind is still catching up to all of this, you can tell. the only high he ever chased was the wet pop of a neck snapping or the way blood sprayed across his face when he carved someone the fuck up. that was love to him. that was everything. (and his car. he loves that car.)
now he feels for you. love. actual love. really a still going crush that makes his chest hurt in the middle of a kill and get him excited that he’ll get to see you later.
but god, it also makes him do shit like this.
he leans in and kisses you again, wetter, weaker this time, mouth slow and so fucking sweet. his lips are plush from the steam, a little swollen already from how long you’ve been making out. he parts them on yours, tongue sliding in, tasting the inside of your mouth, he’s got all day to explore after all.
no rush.
just gentle, the soft suck of his bottom lip pulling yours in, then releasing, then doing it again.
you feel the way his jaw moves under your palm when you cup his face, the pretty shape of it flexing while he kisses you. it’s so intimate. only you can give him this.
one of his hands stays on your tit, while the other slides down your side, not once leaving your beloved skin, all the way to your ass. grips it gently, palm full of you, pulling you bit closer so your chests press together.
his little tummy squishes nice against your stomach when you settle in, so attractive. combined with the manly smell of him, intoxicating. plus he’s sweating so much now the water on his shoulders looks like it’s glowing under the bathroom light, fucking droplets sliding down his body before disappearing into the tub.
even though nothing about this is sexual to him right now (he’s not thinking about fucking, he’s thinking about how you feel, how much he loves you, how lucky he is), his cock is hard between you anyway. pressed up against your mound under the water, twitching everytime you shift or your nails drag up his face, or down to his side again. so sweet, the little guy reacting too.
he doesn’t even acknowledge it, though. just keeps kissing you, the hard on is nothing, something his body does because it’s stupid and in love.
every pass of your nails on his body earns you a tiny sound from him, little moans. so cute.
he kisses you harder for a second, tongue moving around yours, then pulls back to breathe. he needs it.
you drag your nails up his ribs again, slow, smiling at him, and he shudders, hard, mouth going back to yours immediately. he smiles into the kiss, the cutie(only feels excitement when snuffing out a human life) can’t help it, and tries to pulls you closer by the ass, just to feel more of you on him. his sweaty chest slides against your tits, the hand still cupping one of them giving the softest squeeze... was that a giggle he let out against your lips?
this is what you did to him. turned a man who only ever got hard from the smell of blood into someone who gets hard from your smile and your nails and the way you look at him.
he pulls back just a tiny baby bit, side of his nose brushing the side of yours.
“…y/n.”
“mm?”
he swallows, pink face somehow getting even pinker. “it’s… so hot.”
you giggle. he thinks you’re beautiful. “the water, baby? or me?”
“the water.” he mumbles, looking guilty. “i mean you too. but i’m boiling alive. my skin feels like it’s gonna peel off.”
you laugh, tilting your head back. he’d die for you. “and you didn’t say shit?” you lean back in, kiss the tip of his nose, then his flushed cheek. “get the fuck out then. go cool off.”
he moans. maybe at the relief, maybe because he doesn’t want to leave your touch yet.
you pat his chest. “go. i’ll follow in a minute. promise.”
he nods, presses one last slow kiss to your mouth, a little long, but no tongue this time, then carefully lifts you off his lap and sets you back down in the water. the jets keep working on your prettt back as he stands up.
fuck, the view.
water runs off his body, in sheets, on his muscles, his shape, his little soft tummy, water dripping from his still hard cock that bobs between his thick thighs. his skin is almost red everywhere the water touched. chest, shoulders, arms, even the tops of his ears. the nail marks you left on his sides stand out. the hickeys you sucked into his neck look almost purple now, they fit him. you almost wrap a hand around his cock, it’s so there, but really don’t want him overheating so you behave. he steps out of the tub carefully, feet leaving wet prints on the rug you love so much and hit felix once with when he was bad, and reaches for the towel hanging on the rack.
you watch every second of it. chewing on your nail.
the way his back muscles shift when he grabs the towel, the long red scratches you put there. the way his ass flexes, round, soft. the way his little tummy jiggles just slightly when he turns to face you again, towel in hand, cock still hard, now not visible because the towel in his hand just hangs over it. it hasn’t gotten the memo that nothing dirty is up.
he starts drying off slowly, rubbing the towel over his chest, down his stomach, on the scratches, then lower, patting his thighs dry while water keeps dripping from his hair onto his shoulders. fuck.
the way you’re biting your lips, he’s resisting the urge to dive back into the water to you.
towel now wrapped around his hips so it barely covers the bulge, he leans down, presses a quick kiss to the top of your head. “i’ll be in the bedroom. take your time.”
you watch him walk out, towel moving on his cute little ass.
the door clicks shut behind him, leaving you alone in the hot water with a stupid smile on your face.
weird.
duality of man. killer but also oh i won’t say anything about my organs getting boiled because y/n is comfy.
y/n is comfy.
you sink a little deeper into the water, grinning, letting the heat soak into you while you picture his cute ass in the bedroom, probably lying on the bed in just the towel, fanning himself, waiting patiently for you. the best boy.
yeah long story short after you got out of that boiling tub you rode him to almost death.
he was waiting on the bed in just a towel like you imagined he would, still pink and sweaty, looking at you with those big shining eyes. (those only go for his lady, no victim or hyunjin puking at home could make him feel what you feel) you climbed on top of him, pushed him flat, and took what you wanted. rode him until he was shaking, until his eyes rolled back, until he came so hard he went cross eyed and almost passed out. then you kept going until you got yours too, grinding down on him while he whimpered and begged and told you he loved you.
afterward he just laid there like a dead man, chest heaving, covered in fresh scratches and hickeys, towel long gone, cock soft and messy against his thigh. you curled up on his little tummy like it was a pillow and passed out with his arm around you.
next morning.
but today’s mission is simpler.
take felix to his doctor’s check up.
dumb fuck knows the way to your place at least(one of the things he doesn’t forget)
when he arrives he’s wearing one of your stolen hoodies, baby give it back, (oh he’ll get the bathroom mat again for that), and a pair of sweatpants that are backwards. his hair is not messy, surprisingly.
“y/n, we’re going to the doctor together, a date!”
you sigh and walk over to fix his pants(expensive pants, wtf) the right way around. he giggles the whole time, blushing when you pull his pants down and also blushing when you pull them up. “felix, baby, pants go front first. we talked about this.”
“oh. right.“ then he leans in and nuzzles your neck, breathing you in. “you smell like binnie. that’s nice.”
you pat his head, fingers sliding through his soft hair. he’s so stupidly beautiful. why does he have to eat magazines and people?
“come on, dummy. shoes on. let’s not be late.”
you finally get him out the door. he holds your hand the entire walk to the car, swinging your arm, and every few steps he stops to point at random shit.
“look, a bird. do you think it has feelings? i have feelings now. mostly about meat and you.” “that cloud looks like a kidney. i’m hungry now.”
he’s not fucking brain dead, no matter how much we refer to him to as one, so you don’t even have to tell him to buckle himself in. literally the dumbest thing anyone can do is not buckle themselves in. please i’m begging you to and stay safe.
“you’re so pretty. and smart. and you let me sleep in your bed sometimes.” he tells you while you drive.
“thank you, lix.”
crazy. a pretty face that makes people do double takes right before he rips their throat out with his teeth. and last week he bought you a diamond necklace. the range these boys move on is unbelievable. and sweet, considering that you’re their first… first of most things. there’s only one of you in their lives, like a “once-in-a-lifetime connection, essentially love at first sight” says google about a zing from hotel transylvania. “where monsters immediately identify their soulmate.” our only off here is that it wasn’t an immediate realization, anyways “it represents an undeniable, electric attraction, bla bla bla(i’m skipping sentences here, not quoting dracula) that often leads to a lifelong bond.” there we go. you’re their almost zing.
the waiting room is quiet. normal people. magazines (the ones he hasn’t eaten at home). his pretty ass sits next to you, looking around.
“remember what i told you in the car?”
he nods. “mhm. no talking about eating people. no talking about the mailman. no talking about killing. or the boys.”
“good boy.”
the nurse calls you both and she’s immediately smitten with you. her eyes light up when she sees how gently you’re guiding felix by the hand. she chats with you the whole time you’re in the exam room while felix sits on the paper covered table swinging his legs.
“he’s so lucky to have you.” she says warmly while taking his vitals. “most patients his age come in alone and act like it’s the end of the world. you two are adorable.”
felix smiles at her, then at you, then leans over and tries to rest his head on your chest right there in front of her. “she’s the best. i love her so much i’d die for her. or kill for her. or—”
“lix.” you cut in sweetly.
“—or just be really good and not say anything weird.” he finishes, giggling.
he’s so underweight the scale actually beeps in concern when they weigh him.
the nurse frowns at the number. “he’s lost three more pounds since last visit. are you sure he’s eating enough?”
you sigh and launch into the usual cover story while felix distracts himself by counting the dots on the ceiling tiles out loud. “he’s just got a crazy fast metabolism. burns everything off. we try to keep him on high calorie stuff but he’s picky. likes… meat. a lot of meat.”
felix perks up. “yeah, big chunks of meat. sometimes raw if i’m in a hurry—”
“cooked.” you interrupt smoothly, shooting him a look. “always cooked. he’s just dramatic about textures.”
the nurse nods sympathetically, clearly buying it because you’re so calm and put together and she already likes you.
she starts checking his arms and freezes when she sees the mess. bite marks. deep ones. some fresh, some old and scarred over. bruises in the shape of fingers, knuckles, teeth. scars. one perfect crescent bite right above his elbow that definitely came from changbin during one of their play fights.
“oh my… what happened here?” she asks, concerned.
felix giggles again, swinging his legs harder. “oh those? that’s from—”
you clamp a hand over his fuckass mouth and lean in to whisper to the nurse. “he’s… a little mentally disabled, you know? just a touch. gets confused sometimes. wanders off, bumps into things, doesn’t always understand personal space.” fucking lie. there is nothing wrong with felix that can be diagnosed. well, except him being a total psycho, but that has nothing to do with him being dumb. he really is just this empty. but that’s not a disability. “he doesn’t know he’s different. we try not to make him feel bad about it. the bruises are from him playing too rough with the other boys at home. and the bite marks, well, he gets excited and nibbles when he’s happy. like a puppy.”
the nurse’s eyes go big immediately. she nods. “oh, bless his heart. that makes so much sense. you’re such a good girlfriend.”
felix is sitting on the table swinging his legs, humming a little song under your hand while he stares at the poster of the human digestive system. every few seconds he reaches out to touch your arm or your hair, smiling when you let him.
you take the hand away, keep chatting with the nurse while she checks more of him. she asks about his diet again and you spin the same story “he only likes certain textures, lots of protein, we’re trying to get him to eat more veggies but it’s a process.” you don’t mention that his version of protein usually comes from humans and the changes in weight is because he can’t always get what he’s craving, throws tantrums and doesn’t eat or eats lots at one sitting or just a little fruit plate you made him. he’s okay, no reason to worry about his weight, it always changes and he’s doing fine. human is just… not what usually humans eat.
the nurse looks horrified but also impressed by how casually you handle it. “that sounds exhausting for you. you’re such a good partner taking him to all these appointments.”
felix leans over and plants a loud, wet kiss on your cheek, leaving a little spit trail. “she’s the best partner. i’d eat the world for her. wait no, i’d buy her the world.“
you pat his head, smiling at the nurse.
she laughs softly, clearly charmed by the whole thing. “you two are honestly the cutest couple i’ve seen in months. most guys his age are rude. he’s an angel.”
felix smiles. “thank you.”
the nurse melts. “oh my gosh, he’s adorable. so innocent.”
you manage to keep a straight face. innocent. sure. the same guy who rips people apart with his bare hands and teeth.
okay. doctor. another woman. when the doctor tries to check his blood pressure and he starts giggling uncontrollably because “the squeeze feels funny!! like when seungmin chokes me but nicer!!”
when she asks him to open his mouth for the tongue depressor he sticks his tongue out as far as it goes and tries to lick the stick.
you have to physically hold his hand down when she goes for the reflex hammer because he keeps trying to snatch it.
the doctor ends up looking at you. “does he… always do this?”
“yes.” you say flatly. “every single day.”
doctor looks at the nurse. nurse nods in confirmation. great.
“any recent injuries?”
“uhhh i cut my finger last week but then i ate the scab so it’s fine now!!”
“any dietary concerns?”
“i only eat… beef.“ that was a taught answer.
“any sexual activity?”
“y/n and me haven’t had sex yet but i really really want to. she lets me cuddle though and that’s almost as good. sometimes i hump her leg when she’s sleeping but i think that’s normal right?”
you smack his arm. “felix.”
“sorry!!” he giggles, not sorry at all.
the doctor just sighs and moves on.
blood draw, felix sits there swinging his legs, holding your hand, and when the needle goes in he doesn’t even react??? fucking crazy, what he is.
on the way out he gets a lollipop. he unwraps it, sucks on it happily, leaning against you in the parking lot, so pretty it hurts.
“that was fun.” he mumbles around the lollipop. “can we come back next week? i wanna see if they have bigger lollipops. i want you to take me the next time too.”
you sigh, pull him down by the collar of your hoodie to kiss his forehead. he calms down immediately, eyes closing, making a dumb happy noise in his throat.
so. getting back to your place, finally, holding felix’s hand while the other unlocks your door.
han is on your couch, legs kicked up on the coffee table, looking too hot and manly like that for the fact that he’s watching a cartoon about talking animals solving mysteries. a really colorful cartoon. next to him, also watching the dumb cartoon, is hyunjin. grown ass, pretty as sin hyunjin, one elbow on the armrest, temple resting on two fingers, eyebrow pushed up so high it’s basically in his hairline. his face screams i am getting closer to the void and also why the fuck is this rabbit wearing pants. think of the steve harrington picture in tiktok comment sections.
it’s fucking hilarious.
you pat felix’s back. “go play with them, baby.”
“okay!” he skips over (actual skips) and drops himself right between han and hyunjin.
now it’s han on the right, giggling and pointing at the screen, felix in the middle swinging his legs and making little “hehehe” sounds, and hyunjin on the left still doing the exact same temple finger pose, eyebrow frozen in existential crisis.
you shake your head and head toward the kitchen.
changbin is standing by the counter in nothing but sweatpants(that he left at your place for occasions exactly like these, just a reminder, you two fucked last night) the second he sees you his whole face does that adorable thing, big dumb smile breaking out, shoulders dropping, his posture getting better. there are faint nail marks visible across his sides, one dark hickey peeking above the waistband.
he meets you halfway, arms already open.
you cup his face and kiss him soft and sweet. he melts into it immediately, like melts, big hands settling gently on your waist, humming happily into your mouth.
“missed you.” he mumbles when he pulls away. “how was the doctor?”
“fine. he didn’t slip. you guys described it as worse.”
“because with us, it is.”
over at the kitchen counter seungmin and jeongin are sitting on the stools, seungmin is shoveling cereal into his mouth, while jeongin gestures with his spoon. they both waved when you came in.
“—so then i told the guy if he screamed again i’d shove the pliers up his urethra instead of his nose.” seungmin says around a mouthful of cereal.
jeongin nods. “solid. i prefer the slow eyeball route. makes them really panic, y’know?”
“yeah but eyeballs pop too fast. nose takes longer.”
you sigh and reach over to grab jeongin’s empty bowl. seungmin still has half a bowl left so you leave his alone. you rinse jeongin’s out quick, put it into the dishwasher, then, a loud crash comes from the bathroom. something heavy hitting tile, followed by a grunt and the sound of something hitting the wall.
you stop.
from the couch han yells without looking away from the cartoon “minho and chan are in there settling something!!”
hyunjin is still not breaking eye contact with the talking rabbit. “they’ve been at it for twenty minutes. something about whose turn it was to hide the last body.”
whatever. they’ll sort it out.
seungmin finally glances at you, spoon halfway to his mouth. “you good?”
“yeah. it’s fine.”
jeongin looks up at you. sweet boy. (if we made a chart of who’s the worst from the boys he’d be in the top three) “want me to go break it up?”
“no. let them fight. they’ll tire themselves out.”
another crash, this one sounds like the toilet paper holder getting ripped clean off the wall and then immediately used as a weapon. there’s a wet smack, then a low grunt from chan that turns into a growl. something heavy drags across the floor. then a loud metallic clang that can only be the shower curtain rod being bent into a new shape.
you sigh. “whatever.“
comes the sound of a head being bounced off the sink. then the unmistakable noise of the medicine cabinet exploding open, bottles and tubes falling, then plastic crack against bone.
wetness that sounds suspiciously like someone’s face getting pressed into the toilet bowl, followed by gurgling and chan laughing. then a high pitched metallic screech as the towel rack gets torn off the wall.
glass shatters, probably the mirror, and there’s another crash. then a wet slap like someone just got bitch slapped onto the wet tile, followed by both of them breathing hard and… is that minho laughing?
you keep loading the dishwasher, rinsing a spoon, plates.
more thuds, the crack of knuckles against jaw, mean groaning, the shower turning on by accident and spraying water everywhere, someone slipping and eating shit with a loud “fuck—” then both of them cursing at the same time.
men.
silence.
the bathroom door finally opens. out stumble minho and chan looking… fucking horrible, jesus.
both shirtless, obviously. clothes got shredded somewhere between the sink and the shower curtain. chan’s got his left eye shut, swelling, a perfect imprint of your toilet brush handle branded across his cheek, and three long gashes across his chest that look suspiciously like they came from minho’s nails trying to claw his heart out for sport. there’s a fork, a FUCKING DINNER FORK sticking straight out of his left shoulder, blood trickling down his abs. more bruises on his ribs already. what happened to his nipple?
minho’s not doing any better. he’s limping hard on his right leg because there’s a broken piece of the shower curtain rod jammed into his thigh. what the fuck. blood’s soaking his pants. his whole torso is filled with bite marks, type shit anger makes men do, and his neck has a perfect circle of teeth where chan tried to rip his throat out. one of his ears is red and bloody, and there’s soap still bubbling in a nasty open cut across his forehead. he’s leaning sideways, same as chan.
you whine. “boys!”
they both freeze. chan tries to play it chill, blood dripping off his chin, but even he looks sheepish. minho just stares at you with those dead creepy eyes, blood trickling down his temple.
you point at the kitchen stools. “sit! fuck’s sake.”
they drag their feet over and drop onto the stools with grunts of pain. chan winces when the fork in his shoulder shifts. minho’s whole being makes a wet squelch.
the other three in the kitchen watch the whole thing, eyebrows raised. not at the injuries, just trying to guess it you’re gonna freak out internally or you’ll break a wooden spoon on their heads.
you grab the giant fucking first aid kit from under the sink (the one that’s basically a hospital in a box at this point, you need it with them) and stand between chan’s spread knees. first the fork. you grip the handle gentle, thumb stroking his collarbone to distract him.
“deep breath.”
you yank. chan hisses through his teeth. blood wells up and you immediately press a thick pad of gauze to the hole, holding it firm while you murmur “good boy, that’s it, almost done.”
you tape it down tight, then move to the toilet brush imprint on his cheek. you dab it with antiseptic, lots of it, blowing cool air on the sting. he could snap a neck one handed. “this one’s gonna bruise pretty. makes you look tough though. my tough man.” he leans into your touch, looking up at you. such a pathetic little sweetpea. (worst man to exist)
next the chest gashes. you clean each one with a warm cloth, wiping away blood, then smear antibiotic over the red lines. the other four watch your ass while you do it. some of jeongin’s drool end up on the countertop.
you save the (looks like bitten) nipple for last. it’s swollen and angry and… seeping a little. you clean it extra gentle, tongue clicking softly. “minho really went for blood huh?”
by the time you’re done with him he has gauze everywhere, tape crisscrossing his chest, but at least he’s not leaking on your floor anymore. looks good though. new thing to try in the bedroom.
now minho.
you look at the curtain rod in his thigh. “boys?”
jeongin immediately stands up. “of course.”
changbin holds minho’s shoulders. “i’m here.”
seungmin is lazy to help. just sits there with his now finished bowl, also lazy to put that into the dishwasher, watching the two other boys fight the rod out of minho’s leg.
they succeed. the rod comes out with a wet schlick and a fresh gush of blood.
you shove gauze into the injury immediately, your other arm curling around his pretty head to rock him a little. “there you go, deep breaths, i got you.” he gets a head kiss too. “innie, can you get his pants?”
“yeah.”
minho holds into you. arms around you. he’s adorable.
when he gets minho’s pants off for you, you wrap the whole thing, around and around his thick leg(hot) until it looks like he’s wearing a cast.
you move up to the ear next. it looks horrible. you clean the torn, TORN parts, murmuring “pretty boy” he holds onto your hip, eyes squeezed, breathing hard.
but survives. gets a temple kiss and a “good as new.” from you when he’s done.
the bite marks across his torso take forever. there’s like twenty of them, some overlapping though. you clean every single one, slow and loving, so loving, wiping away dried blood and fresh fluids, then smoothing ointment over each perfect imprint of chan’s teeth.
minho feels crazy. crazy in love. and crazy violent from it. he feels like he’s going to blow up.
you finish with the cut on his forehead. you wipe it clean, dab some cream on it, then press a butterfly bandage over it while blowing gently on the sting. “all done, creepy.”
meanwhile, oh your fucking god, the shit jeongin and seungmin talk about. just running their mouths.
jeongin: “look at her go. nurse y/n in the house. bet she’s got better bedside manner than the one who stitched my dick back together last month.”
seungmin, when he had a mouth full of cereal: “minho’s thigh looks like a glory hole.”
“a hole is a hole, bro.”
changbin gives your back a supportive caress from time to time. at least he’s helpful.
in the living room, han keeps tugging on hyunjin’s sleeve, watching the dog fly on some cheese rocket now. what the fuck are they watching seriously. “hyune, look!! the dog’s flying, that’s so cool! do you think i could fly if i ate enough cheese too??”
felix tugs the other sleeve. “hyunjin hyunjin hyunjin!! what if the cheese was made of people?? would it fly faster??”
hyunjin sighs through his nose. “yes, han. flying cheese is a legitimate theoretical concept in cartoon physics. and no, lix, human cheese would probably just smell bad and attract more cannibals. now watch the rabbit, he’s about to say something stupid.”
back in the kitchen you step back and look at your work. gauze, tape, bandages, kisses on every injury. both of them are still leaning sideways but at least they’re not bleeding on your floor anymore. you did great.
you wipe your hands on a towel and plant a hand on each of their heads, ruffling minho’s hair and smoothing chan’s. “you two are idiots. next time settle it by arm wrestling like normal men.”
chan hums. minho’s pretty ass just stares up at you with those wet eyes. you fixed more than just the holes in his body.
felix tugs hyunjin’s sleeve again. “hyu!! the cheese is winning!!”
hyunjin sighs. “yes. the cheese is indeed victorious. profound metaphor for life.” ???
“yo.” jeongin says, holding his pretty face in his hands. “this is exactly like that time hyunjin and seungmin went for each other’s throats in the woods house. remember? shit was biblical, bro.”
seungmin sighs. “biblical my ass. pretty emo bitch tried to slit my throat with a fucking wine opener.”
changbin bounces a little against the counter. “i was there. thought we were gonna have to bury one of them in the backyard. or both.”
minho looks up at you(he looks like a wet kitten) and then back at the others. “hyunjin ended up with a corkscrew through his left nut.”
chan nods, watching the floor. “yeah. he tried to stab min with the fireplace poker. missed and put it through his own foot instead. then seungmin shoved his head into the deer head mounted on the wall. hyunjin looked horrible. then they started rolling around on the rug. seungmin ended up with a black eye shaped exactly like hyunjin’s ring. hyune had teeth marks on his ass so deep we could read min’s dental records.”
jeongin leans forward. “don’t forget the part where seungmin tried to drown hyunjin in the hot tub. then hyunjin started talking about how min’s mother was a whore while bleeding from the mouth. seungmin threw him through the glass coffee table. hyunjin had glass shards in his back for days.“
“still managed to kick me in the balls so hard i pissed blood for three days.” seungmin mutters.
“but you ripped his pants off with teeth and then tried to shove a whole fucking log up his ass as revenge.“ jeongin says.
“then he smashed my face into an anthill.” god, seungmin being bratty is so hot.
chan shifts, even though it clearly hurts his ribs. “they both ended up tied to the same tree with duct tape because we got tired of the noise.”
“okay but what even is the woods house?” you ask.
changbin is a babe. “it was this rich victim’s vacation cabin. super cool, big stone fireplace, hot tub on the deck overlooking the lake, full kitchen, basement we turned into a playroom for… you know, guests who don’t leave. sorry. innie put the deed in his own name after we cleaned the place out, so now it’s technically ours. we go there sometimes.”
jeongin wiggles his eyebrows at you. “and it’s been way too long since we went. the hot tub’s probably lonely. the basement’s collecting dust. we should all go. take you with us this time, y/n.“
seungmin leans down to slap the side of your thigh. “yeah. i could chase you through the trees a little. hm?”
“ew ew ew.” jeongin puts his hands up. “not in front of me, bro.”
“pussy.”
minho’s creepy eyes actually sparkle for once. “i could show you the basement. lots of hooks. soundproof.” ???
chan grunts in agreement, looking half asleep on his stool. “you’d like it.”
“hyunjin!! hyunjin!!”
“dude look!! they’re getting married!!”
“hush.”
you smile.
chan finally pushes himself up from the stool with a groan, his little fork hole hurting. he gives minho one or those manly pats on the shoulder, good fight, no hard feelings, they’ll do it again next week. then he limps over to you, presses a soft, lingering peck to your lips. “i’m gonna go lie down before i fall over. thanks for patching us up.“
you kiss him back gently, thumb brushing his bruised cheek. “go rest. yell if you need anything.”
chan limps off toward the bedroom, still leaning sideways. he looks horrible and also unbelievably hot. like bandages stay ON.
you lean back against the counter, listening to your leftover boys in the kitchen plan their cute little vacation. like aw. they’re men and they want to be there with their friends and they’ll go. aww.
“hyunjin, the rabbit’s throwing the bouquet, catch it!”
“sure.”
you turn back to minho. he looks horrible. “you gonna be fine, creepy? need anything before i—”
“y/n!!”
“y/n y/n y/n!!”
what NOW. you look over. han and felix are both half standing, leaning over the back of the couch. huge puppy eyes. han’s waving both arms. felix is bouncing on his toes, hoodie sleeves flapping. fucking twink.
“come sit!l
“please please please we saved you the best spot, it’s warm!”
seungmin grunts, spoon scraping the bottom of his bowl. “let her go.“
changbin leans over and kisses the side of your head, sweet as ever. “go on.“
you sigh, give minho’s cute little psycho head a pat, and head for the couch before the begging turns into actually yanking at your clothes.
you sit down between felix and hyunjin. han needs to learn that he doesn’t get to have you every single time just because he’s loud and cute and dumb, even if we’re starting with small steps like this, sitting only a person away.
felix’s arm wraps around yours, fingers lacing with yours so he can hold your hand against his chest. oh he disgustingly in love, nuzzling into your shoulder, humming happily, leg thrown over your thigh.
on your other side hyunjin shifts to drape his arm along the back of the couch behind you.
han whines from the other end. “but i wanted to sit next to her, i saved the spot with my butt warmth.”
felix giggles and nuzzles closer to your arm. “too slow.”
you ignore han completely and turn your head toward hyunjin. “what’s up? you okay?”
“mm.” he says, thumb moving to stroke your neck. he’d like that if you did that to him one day. “how are the wounded soldiers? did you have to perform surgery with a spoon again?”
you hum and lean into his side a little. “the usual. they behaved.”
from your right felix tugs your arm, trying to get your attention. “y/n y/n look, the dog is in court.”
you don’t even glance at him. keep your eyes on hyunjin. “tell me more. how you feeling?”
hyunjin’s eyes actually sparkle a little. you caring about him drives him crazy. makes him forget all the dread that the picture of you kissing his roommate on his bed brings to him.
han leans over felix’s lap. “y/n, the cheese just exploded into glitter, look!”
felix whines and pushes han’s head away gently with his free hand while still clinging to your arm with the other. “stop it, she’s talking to hyunjin… but y/n the glitter cheese is really funny though.”
you reach over with your free hand, pat felix’s head once without breaking eye contact with hyunjin, then pull your hand away. han makes noise and flops backward, arms crossed, pouting.
han will learn eventually. or he won’t.
“you didn’t answer me earlier.” felix says, voice softer. so deep, so cute. “i asked you something.”
you watch hyunjin’s face. “they told me about that house in the woods.”
“yeah?” he says.
you nod. “they said it’s under innie’s name. invited me.”
felix tugs at your arm. “hey.”
han leans over again. “what are you talking about, what house?”
hyunjin exhales quietly through his nose. the fucking dog keeps talking on the tv. “they would. show off a little.”
“been there?”
“few times.”
“they said it’s quiet.”
“it is.”
“and kinda hidden.”
“very.”
his hand slides slightly, fingers on your arm.
“why aren’t you answering?” felix says, insistent. “i’m talking to you.”
han makes another noise, frustrated. “yeah, why aren’t you?”
it’s like they don’t exist. it’s killing them.
hyunjin has to hold back a smirk. like a cocky smirk. this feels good after his little heartbreak. let’s not forget that these boys are pure evil, after all, them being funny and in love with you doesn’t change the way they act with each other. unfair assholes.
“you thinking of coming?” he asks you.
“maybe. they made it sound nice.”
his gaze drops to your mouth. then back up. “it is.”
your shoulder presses a little more into his side. “you’ll come too, right?”
direct.
felix straightens a bit, eyes widening. “hey—what—”
han leans over him again, draping himself across felix now just to get closer to you. “what are you saying?”
hyunjin looks at you more… private. biting his lip. “if you want me there, i’ll be there.”
you smile. his hand moves on your arm.
“okay, no, this is—this is weird.” felix says. “you’re not talking to us.”
han nods. “you’re ignoring us, y/n why are you ignoring us—”
you turn just a bit more toward hyunjin.
his eyes don’t leave yours. “gets real dark out there.”
“you like it?”
“i do.”
“why?”
he tilts his head slightly, considering. “no distractions. just… what’s in front of you.”
your gaze holds his. “and what would that be?”
silence.
“…depends.” he says.
felix makes a frustrated sound, tugging on your arm slightly.
“hey.” han says. “hey, look at me.”
felix whines.
han is trying to catch your eye. “can you—can you look at me for a second—” his posture’s off, his hands keep fidgeting, eyes flicking between your face and hyunjin’s. “did i—did i do something?”
you don’t even glance. hyunjin bites a smile back. he pulls you closer.
han notices that. “okay, no, that’s—hey—that’s not—”
he reaches over felix, trying to touch your arm.
felix holds you closer to him. “no, wait, i’m holding it—”
“move—”
“no—”
they start wrestling over your arm.
you do not acknowledge this. at all. hyunjin watches it happen out of the corner of his eye. takes a slow breath.
“this is so unfair.” felix whispers loudly.
“i know.” han whispers back, equally loud. “she’s not even looking at us.”
“i asked like three times.”
“i asked five.”
“that’s more.”
“i know.”
they both look at you.
you continue ignoring them with impressive consistency.
han makes a small, desperate sound. “i can be quiet, i can—i won’t talk, i’ll just—just—”
felix nods. “yeah, me too. i’ll be quiet.” he lasts exactly two seconds. “…hey.” you don’t react. “…this is really hard.”
“yeah.” han says miserably.
hyunjin runs his hand over your arm. he thinks you’re doing great.
they sit there. quiet. for maybe three whole seconds.
“hey!” both of them at once.
“no.” hyunjin says.
“okay.”
silence again.
“chan.” han blurts out, sudden and loud. “where’s chan?”
“yeah, yeah, get chan, he’ll fix it—”
they both look around. for the first time in, what, an hour? two? han’s hands flap uselessly. they both spin around, searching the room for chan.
chan is nowhere in sight.
there’s a pause.
“…wait.” felix says.
han’s pretty head snaps toward him. “where is he?”
felix looks around again. “he was here. he was just here.”
han’s breathing changes to fast. “no, no, no—he was—he—he was here— where did he go—”
you ignoring them. talking to hyunjin. not looking at them. not answering. and now chan(who usually solves things for them) isn’t even here.
nothing is making sense.
han’s face crumples. “what the fuck? what the fuck is happening—”
“i don’t like this.” felix says, grabbing tighter onto your arm, yanking at it. “i don’t like this at all—”
han lets out the most pathetic sob you’ve ever heard and launches himself over felix and into your lap. his arms lock around your neck so tight you almost choke, face burying into your shoulder. “y/nnnnnn.” he wails, voice muffled and wet and adorable. “don’t ignore us please please we’ll be good we’ll eat vegetables and i’ll stop humping the couch when you’re not looking i swear—”
felix throws himself half on your lap too, arms wrapping around your waist, face pressed into your neck. “y/n we love you so much it hurts when you don’t look at us—my please—“ hic “please still love me!”
they’re heartwarming. big ugly sobs, snotty and loud, bodies shaking on you.
han keeps repeating “y/n” whining for his girlfriend while felix just sobs “we’re sorry we’re sorry we’re so sorry” into your collarbone.
you and hyunjin lock eyes over the top of their heads.
hyunjin’s eyebrow is arched so high it’s basically touching the ceiling. he lets out the longest, most exhausted sigh you’ve ever heard from him.
well. that didn’t work.
“alright, alright.” you murmur. your very loving arms come up, one around han’s back, the other sliding around felix’s waist, pulling both of them in tighter. “shhh, babies. i’m right here. i was just talking to hyunjin for a minute.”
all your they need to learn space effort? completely fucking gone. forget about it.
han is shaking, body convulsing. “i thought—” he starts, then stops because he doesn’t even know what he thought. “you weren’t—i didn’t—just don’t do that—”
“y/nnnn—” felix cries. “you weren’t—why weren’t you—”
“don’t, don’t do that.” han mumbles into your neck. “don’t ignore—euh.”
“i’m right here.” you coo.
“okay, okay.” felix sobs.
hyunjin is… weirdly turned on by this.
“don’t do that again.” han mumbles into your neck. “don’t—don’t pretend i’m not there.”
“i wasn’t pretending.” you say, squeezing felix.
“…you were.” felix insists, but he’s just confused.
“i was making a point.”
“…i didn’t get it.”
“…yeah.” hyunjin mutters. “we noticed.”
you shoot him a look. he lifts his hands slightly. what? it’s true.
han pulls back to look at you, eyes big, glassy, beautiful. “what point?”
“that you can’t have my attention every second.” you say.
“…why not?”
genuine confusion.
felix nods. “yeah.”
“because i’m a person.” you say. “not something you pass around or grab whenever you want. you boys always do this, since the very beginning i met you guys. i need some space too. i always tell you. but you’re right for crying, and i’m sorry i made you feel bad, okay? i was kind of mean, sorry.” means a lot that you teach them that apologizing is mature, that it’s fair, that they should, that recognizing your faults is the right thing to do. “just keep my needs in mind the next time.”
they both go quiet. not because they understand, but because… that sounded important.
“…okay.” han says slowly. “but can i still be here?”
“yes.”
he cuddles back to you.
felix relaxes too with a satisfied little exhale. “okay. that’s fine then.”
that’s all it took.
you lean back into hyunjin again. “they’ll get it eventually.”
“no, they won’t. but it’s cute that you think that.”
you keep rubbing their backs, big slow strokes, pressing little kisses wherever you can reach, han’s forehead, felix’s cheek, the top of han’s ear when he tilts his head.
hyunjin wants to pounce on you.
eventually the sobs go off into wet sniffles and hiccups. han’s death grip around your neck loosens. felix stops shaking and starts making those tiny contented hums he does when he’s happy again. their teary little faces slowly turn back toward the tv. they’re adorable. (ruthless serial killers)
the cheese rocket has landed and now the rabbit is talking to some carrot.
they both go quiet after that, just watching the screen in silence. han’s thumb rubs over your collarbone. felix nibs and drools on your shoulder but you don’t mind now.
you glance at hyunjin again.
“lesson learned?” he murmurs.
“slow steps.” you whisper back, still rubbing han’s back and felix’s hip. “they’ll get there. eventually.”
you’re definitely sucking han off later for this pathetic little performance. but for now you just hold them.
crisis over.
lesson… not really learned.
but attempted.
okay not even attempted because han lets out a shaky little breath on your neck, then another, hotter one, and his arms tighten around you again, but now to hold himself up better.
“y/n, i… i need you…” he whimpers into your neck, voice wet and needy.
lesson definitely not learned.
you close your eyes, taking a big breath, then… then… fuck’s sake he’s humping you.
“han. baby. we’re on the couch. there are people around. public living room. not the time.”
he doesn’t hear you. or he hears you and his single brain cell can’t process what you just said. he nuzzles into your neck, lips on your skin, hips grinding, desperate. “i’m so hard it hurts, please, just a little… i’ll be quick i promise i’ll be so quiet.”
“han.” you hiss, trying to push his hips back gently. “not here. the others are right fucking here.”
“but they’re watching cartoons, they won’t mind, i love you so much my balls feel full and sad…”
hyunjin and felix are watching with enormous eyes.
holding their fucking breath. hyunjin’s eyebrow is frozen in pure fascination, lips slightly parted. his whole body has gone still, drinking in every second of han’s pathetic grinding and whimpering. felix’s eyes are even bigger, hungry, mouth hanging open a little as he stares at the way han’s hips move against you.
they watch, breathing a little faster, clearly turned on by the fact that they’re this close to something they’re not allowed to have yet. it’s hot to them, seeing one of the “chosen four” get needy right in front of them, knowing they don’t get to touch you like that. they don’t get to fuck you, don’t get to be inside you, don’t get to be openly needy like this in front of everyone. but now they see it this close up. voyeuristic.
they’re both leaning in unconsciously, eyes glued to you two. like fucking porn.
you try again, one hand pushing gently at han’s slutty little hip. “han. public. people. stop.”
“but it hurts. please just touch it a little, i’ll be so quick, i promise.”
he needs to be put down. euthanized. neutered. something.
it’s even deeper for the other two after those words because han is being so relatable right now. like literally yes y/n it hurts just please touch it a little. that’s all they want too.
you’re about two seconds from dragging him off to the bedroom by his ear to chan when minho slowly limps over.
stops in front of han. says in that flat, creepy monotone: “you want to see my cats?”
han’s head snaps up. his eyes go wide. “all of them?”
minho nods. “yes. they missed you.”
“holy fuck yes!!” he scrambles off your lap, dick still visibly hard in his pants but suddenly irrelevant. he grabs minho’s arm (not careful of the bandages) and starts dragging the limping murderer toward the door. “let’s go let’s go i wanna pet dori he let me hold him last time—”
minho lets himself be pulled, but right before they disappear out the door he glances back at you. his version of i love you is saving you from situations like these. he did this for you.
you mouth a “thank you” and he gives a tiny nod before limping after han.
“bye y/n i love you i’ll be good i promise!”
the living room goes quiet except for the cartoon still playing.
felix, seeing that that situation is over, gently takes your hand. sighs. what does this angel could possibly have to sigh about. he brings two of your fingers to his mouth, innocent for a murderer, and slides them between his soft lips. oh, sweetheart. he starts sucking gently, tongue moving under your fingers.
god, he’s heartwarming(you shout his head off at least twice a week because he got blood inside the apartment again). you pump your fingers once because you know he likes it and he deserves it now, and felix’s eyes roll straight back into his head. actually moans, the sweetie. his whole body shudders.
hyunjin is going to combust just from watching. he’s genuinely starting to think about acting dumb just so that you’d give him this treatment too. like give him your fingers now.
you finally peel your eyes away from felix’s pretty little face(that does things to you, you can’t deny) and glance toward the kitchen.
jeongin has lost his shirt somewhere in the last five minutes??? hello?? his back is breathtaking. broad. literal work of art covered in old scars and fresh little bruises from whatever he got into yesterday. cutie. the muscles shift and flex as he does something in the sink.
you can see the little dimples above his ass. he really is hot. annoyingly hot. unbearably hot. fucking hot. has the kind of back you want to drag your nails down just to watch him arch. fuck.
thinking all this while the official boyfriend(well, one of them) is right next to him btw. shoulder to shoulder, both of them with their backs to the living room but at least seungmin has his shirt on. you’d be lowkey worried they’re plotting something again, but then changbin walks over to your little trio on the couch.
you want to RIP this man apart. bare chest and soft little tummy on display still, like put a baby in me. especially with the way he leans down and pats felix’s head, GENTLY.
felix makes a happy little sound around your fingers but doesn’t stop sucking.
changbin looks at you. “i’m heading home soon. you wanna come with me?” his eyes go to hyunjin. “you coming too?”
hyunjin leans his head back. “yeah. might as well.”
you smile up at changbin. “sure. sounds good. let me wrap things up here.”
felix makes a sad noise when you finally pull your fingers out of his mouth. a thin string of spit connects your fingertips to his bottom lip for a second before it breaks. he whines softly, lips chasing them for a second, disappointed.
“felix. hey.” you say gently, cupping his face with both hands, he doesn’t mind his own spit on him anyway. “i’m going out with binnie and hyune for a while, okay? you did so good at the doctor’s today. i’m really proud of you for not telling the doctors about the mailman or anything weird. you were good.”
he smiles, nuzzling into your palm. “really?”
“really. now go watch the rest of the cartoon. behave while i’m gone.”
he nods. “i’ll be so good. i’ll only eat one crayon if i get sad.”
you kiss his forehead and stand up. hyunjin gives your neck one last slow stroke before he pulls his arm back, rising with you.
you head into the kitchen for a quick glass of water. jeongin and seungmin are still at the sink, talking about something that sounds suspiciously like the best way to dissolve teeth.
“i’m heading out with bin and hyunjin for a bit.” you say, reaching past jeongin for a glass then to fill it.
seungmin nods. “don’t do anything i wouldn’t do.”
“that leaves a lot of options open.”
you step up behind him, lean in, and press a sweet kiss right to the side of his neck. was it on purpose that it was right over that sensitive spot you know drives him crazy? yeah, don’t be silly.
seungmin stiffens. there we go. you love leaving him horny on purpose.
jeongin turns his head just in time to catch the end of it. then he shoves his pretty face into the side of your head, nose burying in your hair, arms trying to snake around you. “my turn, my turn—”
you shove his face away with your palm. “down, boy.” you bend down to put your empty glass in the dishwasher and notice both seungmin’s and jeongin’s cereal bowls are already inside. well, you put jeongin’s there, but not seungmin’s. “look at you two actually putting shit away by yourself. i’m proud of you.”
seungmin turns around, sporting a half hard bulge you left him with. “it was me.” he’s so cute because like you need to know that he did it for you!!
pulled a face off in one move yesterday btw.
you give jeongin’s cheek a quick pat before heading back toward the living room. changbin got a shirt on since that(went into your room for it, the sleeping chan didn’t even wake up). hyunjin’s eyes flick over to the couch where felix is watching his cartoon.
“ready?” changbin asks, reaching for your hand.
you take it, lacing your fingers with his. “yeah. let’s go.”
changbin presses a soft kiss to your temple(my boy changbin getting feelings even though he’s a brutal psycho!! fuck it up changbin!! be a good boyfriend changbin!!) then the three of you leave.
god, you love how fancy their apartment is.
you love eating breakfast here. sitting at the island in one of changbin’s or hyunjin’s big shirts while one of them makes food, usually changbin, and those times hyunjin usually reads the news on his fucking ipad(this man and his fucking apple ecosystem), occasionally glancing over at you.
you love watching the city out those big windows, especially at night. you love the soft lighting in the living room that makes everyone look so hot. like why don’t they throw orgies in here? (you don’t know this but hyunjin once did, next day he cleaned up so good that changbin never found out)
now that we’re at this topic, you also really love fucking like animals with changbin when hyunjin’s not home. like, really, loud, sweaty, no restrictions, no rules or limitations sex on every surface. you love curling up by the windows with a mug, watching the city lights while his tongue is between your legs or while you’re just… sitting. could be either.
he gets loud when he cums. manly shouts that bounce off the pretty ceilings(yours has pesto stains on them from one of minho’s and seungmin’s fights). you love that he gives noises. you’ve broken two chairs and one coffee table because he gets too enthusiastic and forgets what his thick thighs can do.
but right now? right now you mostly love how fucking all about you they both are.
changbin unlocks the front door with one hand, keys jingling, then steps aside and gestures for you to go first. hyunjin does the same on the other side, holding the door open.
partly because they’re gentlemen.
partly because they’re in love with you.
and partly because you have a great ass and they both want to watch it as you walk in.
“go on.” changbin says, nodding inside.
“yeah.” hyunjin says. “after you.”
you can feel their eyes on it the whole three steps it takes to walk inside.
hyunjin is fucking mad tho. mad over the fact that changbin gets to tap that. changbin gets to fuck that perfect ass whenever he wants. changbin gets to bury his face between those ass cheeks and thighs and make you scream while hyunjin is stuck in the next room.
it burns. he wants it so bad it makes his stomach twist, makes him have to throw up.
he was there before changbin even considered looking at you like that.
and if he’d just… if he’d just said something earlier… if he’d just… but he didn’t.
and now look where that got him. fucking idiot.
changbin shuts the door behind you, kicking off his shoes. “client today was a fucking nightmare.” he says, running a hand through his hair. “he was calling me the whole time you were away with felix. some rich asshole who wants to ‘get shredded for his mistress.’”
hyunjin heads straight for the kitchen, already reaching for a glass.
“yeah?” you ask, cutely getting your shoes off.
“yeah. i’m thinking okay, cool, leg day, cardio, whatever. then he starts asking if i can meet now. i already have told him no a hundred times at least. fucker. then told me he’ll do it himself then and i tell him what to do. no.”
hyunjin snorts from the kitchen. “hate those.”
“he’s going to hurt himself.” changbin continues. “and then he’ll come back acting like it’s my fault.”
“it will be your fault.” hyunjin calls out, already pouring himself a drink. “you didn’t stop him.”
“i did.”
“clearly not enough.”
changbin shoots him a look.
hyunjin just raises his glass slightly in response, completely unbothered.
“what’d you do?” you ask.
“told him we’ll redo everything.” he says. “properly. slower. he hated it.”
“good.”
“yeah.”
there’s a pause.
“had to deal with a buyer after that.”
ah. there it is. changbin’s little side job of selling organs.
hyunjin lets out a low whistle, taking a sip. “bad one?”
hyunjin sets the glass down, then reaches for a cigarette, tucking it between his lips. he flicks his lighter. click, flame, inhale.
there it is. drink in one hand. cigarette in the other. leaning back against the counter.
like, how?
how the fuck is he this beautiful while living like this?
you stare for too long. he notices. his gaze flicks to you, then away again. inhales. exhales.
“price wasn’t even the issue.” changbin says. “he just wouldn’t shut up.”
“should’ve shut him up.” hyunjin mutters.
“considered it.”
“and?”
“wasn’t worth it.”
hyunjin taps ash into a tray, looking at you looking at changbin, paying attention to changbin, not him. but at least you’re here.
he’ll take it.
even if it’s not everything he wants. he’ll take it.
meanwhile all that’s in your mind is how comfy the couch looks. insert that picture where squidward looks like death and next to him spongebob is throwing his hands up smiling ear to ear. you and hyunjin fr. anyways, you do go and make yourself comfy on the couch, then pat it on either side of you. “come here, both of you. tell me more.”
changbin drops down on your left, big arm around your shoulders. hyunjin sits on your right, long legs laid out, cigarette letting that pretty smoke come. changbin tried to get him to stop smoking at least in the apartment but i think we see it didn’t do much.
changbin is still irritated but relaxed now that he’s home, that he’s with you. “guy kept calling his biceps the guns. i wanted to tell him the only gun was the one i had in my back pocket.” now that he said that, he begins to wonder where did it go. it sure got out his pocket at your place, must be there somewhere if nobody took it.
hyunjin hums. flicks ash into a fancy crystal tray. tf. “clients get stupider every week. last week some guy asked me if i could ‘source’ a liver that still had the gallbladder attached because ‘it adds flavor.’” he takes another drag, exhales “i charged him extra.”
changbin groans and squeezes your shoulder. “at least your idiots pay in cash sometimes. mine keep trying to pay in bitcoin. like fuck your mom.”
you don’t know if you should be turned on or deeply concerned and upset about what you’re hearing. both work.
changbin’s phone starts buzzing in his pocket.
he gets it out. looks at the screen and sighs. “it’s minho.” he picks up. “yeah? what’s up?”
you and hyunjin go quiet, watching bin’s face. it stays neutral for the first ten seconds. then his pretty jaw moves. then the vein on his forehead starts popping. another vein bulges in his huge left bicep. the big arm around your shoulders slowly turns hard. just again, turned on or, well, terrified is the other option in this scenario, you don’t know what you should be.
he listens for another thirty seconds, says “mm” twice, then hangs up. without saying goodbye, by the way. the phone gets placed down with way too much care. looks like if he slams it he’ll break the entire table.
he stares straight ahead at the window for a long time.
“han and jeongin fucked up. bad.”
you and hyunjin look at each other. you both can tell the two aren’t in danger or with police, changbin would be out the door already if that was the case, so you’re not worried.
changbin, though.
“they picked up some guy from the bar. everything was going fine until they cut off the guy’s fingers, all ten of them, and told him if he could juggle them for thirty seconds without dropping any, they’d let him go. minho said the guy was screaming, blood everywhere, fingers all around the place.” his hands flex on his (thick)thighs. the veins in his forearms are now basically fucking his skin. “they found it funny. apparently, they were laughing so hard they didn’t notice the guy’s girlfriend had followed him from the bar and tried to record. they almost got caught on camera. minho had to go clean it up, drag the girlfriend inside, and deal with the mess.”
so that’s what the case is. an almost caught. he gets angry at those.
the psycho part of changbin doesn’t come out in the way he acts, like minho having defects with communication, for an example. seungmin also has a hard time communicating sometimes but he’s significantly better. anyways, changbin’s defect doesn’t work socially.
what his main problem is, is dealing with anger.
this is why he killed for the first time, we already know that. it was pure, blinding anger. he can’t process it. never could. it doesn’t leak out in mean little comments or creepy staring like the rest of the boys. changbin explodes.
therapy? useless. talking? makes it worse. even fucking it out doesn’t work, so you don’t even come in handy now. plus getting his dick hard is difficult when he’s having one of these anger meltdowns. nothing helps. he just has to deal with it until it’s gone.
he stands up slowly. “i can’t deal with this shit.”
you’re mortified by what you just heard about what the two boys did but you’re also lowkey excited to see what he’ll do now. like that’s your boyfriend, go boyfriend, crash out!!
“those fucking idiots.” he says, voice shaking. “i told them. i fucking told them to keep it clean. but nooo, han has to turn every kill into a fucking children’s birthday party and jeongin just has to let him do it.”
“hyunjin. we are SO fucked.” you whisper.
something flies past your heads.
(not aimed at you, never at you, changbin would rather saw his own arms off)
hyunjin takes a slow drag from his cigarette. “myeah.”
you both get behind the couch. it looks stupidly cute from the outside, you two not visible but his smoke coming out anyway.
changbin flips the coffee table with one hand. it crashes into the wall. “i do everything right! i train those stupid clients, i move the organs, i keep the bodies from piling up in the fucking hallway, and these two dipshits treat it like a fucking joke!”
a lamp flies past. then the remote. then one of hyunjin’s fancy poetry books (hyunjin winces).
you peek out to take a look at your boyfriend now throw a little vase hyunjin purely keeps on the (now flipped over)coffee table for decoration. you turn back quickly and look at hyunjin with big eyes.
and he exhales a smoke ring???
“are they fucking five!? i told them, i fucking told them, keep it simple! strangle and dump! but nooo, they gotta make it into amateur porn! ‘funny’ my ass! i’m gonna shove my foot so far up han’s dumb fucking colon he’ll taste my toes for a week!”
another object flies, this time it’s the heavy crystal ashtray hyunjin was just using.
“i’m gonna skin jeongin alive and turn his little face into a fucking puppet. i’m gonna make han eat every single finger he juggled. raw.”
he grabs the expensive leather ottoman and throws it into the kitchen. wow.
hyunjin calmly takes another drag of his cigarette.
“binnie, baby—” you start.
“and the woooooorst part?! they’ve did this hundreds of times already! and they never.” he claps his hands. “fucking.” clap. “learn!” clap clap clap clap. “i’m gonna shove both their heads up each other’s asses and—”
another object flies. it bounces off the wall and lands in the potted plant hyunjin mothers so hard. he actually puts his hand out towards it but pulls it back into his lap almost immediately.
he sheds a tear for his beloved plant then moves on. “this is your boyfriend.” he whispers, tapping ash into an empty glass he grabbed on the way down. “romantic.”
“shut up. you’re hard, aren’t you?”
“painfully.”
crash.
silence.
changbin finally stops, chest heaving, standing in the middle of everything. he looks around at the mess, then at the couch you’re both hiding behind.
“…sorry.” he mutters. “didn’t mean to scare you.”
you peek over the couch, smiling. “you didn’t scare me.”
hyunjin takes one last drag, flicks the cigarette butt into the glass, and stands up. “i’ll order new furniture. again.”
he was two seconds away from leaning in and stealing a first kiss while changbin was distracted. his lips were already tingling with the possibility. but changbin came down from the rage too fast. damn it.
changbin rubs the back of his neck. “i’ll pay for it.”
you crawl out from behind the couch, smiling ear to ear and stepping over the shit he destroyed, and wrap your arms around his waist from behind. “you’re okay.”
he leans back into you. in the smallest, saddest voice you’ve ever heard from him “they juggled fingers, baby.” like aw okay binnie :(
hyunjin watches the two of you. jealous. fuck. he needs another drink. what happened to his earlier one anyway? oh, it’s pouring down the wall right there. okay.
yeah, shit like this happens all the time.
like seungmin’s mean little bitchass gets set off and suddenly it’s world war iii. (yeah he’s the worst, just blows up over anything small) last month jeongin ate a little yoghurt (the one seungmin had been thinking about all day) and seungmin tied him to a dining chair with duct tape and zip ties, then spent forty five minutes beating the absolute shit out of him with a bag of frozen chicken breasts.
chicken breasts everywhere. raw meat juice all over the floor. when seungmin finally calmed down he just cut jeongin loose, patted his bloody cheek, then crawled into your bed at 3am and cuddled up to you.
han once got mad at felix for eating the last of his crayons (the blue ones taste best, apparently, han just uses them to draw). han started screaming at the top of his lungs, stomped into the kitchen, grabbed a plate, and smashed it directly onto his own forehead. the plate shattered. his eyes rolled back and he dropped, out cold for six minutes. you had to ice his forehead.
once minho wordlessly took one of chan’s knives and left it covered in some random guy’s spinal fluid. chan found it, then destroyed every single plate in minho’s kitchen by throwing them one by one into the bathtub. when he was done he sat on the edge of the tub, covered in shards, and whispered “i need a minute.” he let you patch up his cut hands.
chan is fucking HILARIOUS in general. like another one was when he smashed a blender in one hand because jeongin pissed him off.
now that we’re at jeongin, oh he’s the hot babe ever(deserves death), you left him on seen once and he spent three hours shouting at hyunjin at the top of his lungs while carving lines into his own thigh with a razor. then crawled to your door at 2am covered in blood, begging you to kiss it better.
yeah he’s really… unstable.
not as unstable as hyunjin tho. last time he got jealous of changbin he disappeared for six hours and came back with someone else’s tongue in a jar as a gift. you made him throw it away but let him cuddle you while he read you something. he wants so badly to be allowed.
minho is… fucking terrifying. once chan accidentally sat in minho’s favorite staring at y/n spot. minho killed ten people that day.
felix doesn’t get mad lots. or angry. or any of those. he once got mad because you called han baby and not him. he disappeared for three hours and came back dragging a whole ass traffic cone he stole. he tried to eat it.
and we already saw today what happens to changbin. like he does this. once jeongin made a your mom joke and changbin flipped the entire couch, punched a hole through the wall, then spent twenty minutes doing pushups.
they are genuinely horrible at dealing with feelings. well, who can blame them, this is their first time experiencing them, but still, this canNOT be good for you. your mental health. your pussy, sure, the boyfriends do fuck it out sometimes, but let’s be real, it’s extremely unhealthy that you have to deal with these fuckers all day long.
but you like it. so, it is what it is. you’re fine.
you have fun with them. that fun can mean going out with hyunjin for coffee or yanking felix off the couch by both hands on his hips because he keeps humping it, but you really did grow attached to these boys. who cares that they tried to kill you.
that fun can also mean just hanging out with the boyfriends. little dates. seungmin once dragged you to a hardware store just so he could “look at knives and feel better.” you ended up making out in the aisle between the chainsaws. han likes when you let him eat you out. LET him. he has to beg. chan just wants to lie on your chest and have you play with his curls. changbin just needs to touch you to have fun, that can mean his toe in your ear, even. just please omg he has to touch y/n.
lol. men are so fucking adorable you might actually have to smash a plate on your own head too at this point.
like wdym these eight brutal psychos have little feelings??? wdym they get genuinely upset and their little hormones work and testosterone works and it comes from their balls?? AWWW MEN’S BALLS!!! balls gotta be the cutest fucking thing on earth istg. they’re so vulnerable!! they protect them!! they cup them when they’re scared!! the others kick them during fights and they curl up and it HURTS them!! sensitive little guys just hanging out between their legs, trying their best, getting cold and going up inside then dropping back down!!! hello to you too balls!! but they also make cum and babies and rage and horniness and all the stupid boy things and they’re just. down there. existing. between their stupid little legs. swinging. awww.
what do you meeeeaaaann all eight of your psychos have their own pair!!! men are SO cute.
you had to literally bite your fist the other day when hyunjin was manspreading on the couch and you remembered there’s a whole sensitive little sack there, vulnerable and warm and full of his lowk suicidal sperm. aww.
i’m crine the FUCK is your problem y/n😭😭😭
seungmin has straight up slapped your hand away in public before when you tried to sneak a feel. didn’t even look at you. just smack on your wrist, then kept talking to the cashier like nothing happened while you stood there grinning.
you MIGHT have gotten soft on these psychos.
you’re a freak.
but tbh each of the four you’re actually dating needs exactly you. exactly your sex drive. exactly the way you are.
cute. so fucking cute. men are awesome.
sometimes when chan is just sitting on the couch minding his own business, biiiig thighs spread, you’ll casually reach over and grope him through his pants. you’re brutal. palm covering his soft cock and balls, squeezing around.
he just sits there. letting you play w the jewels. sometimes he’ll keep watching whatever he’s watching, sometimes he’ll look over at you(calm, MANLY) murmur a “having fun, baby?”
you love how he feels. that he has those there. love how he trusts you completely with the most sensitive part of him.
when you get a little too enthusiastic and squeeze too hard he just jerks his hips away once and says “ow”. then you lean in and kiss his cheek as a little apology.
he accepts it. patting your head. he loves it. truly thinks he found a once in a lifetime gem with you.
god you’re so down bad.
you feel lucky too. unbelievably. what do you mean you have these psychos at your feet.
kinda… literally at your feet.
what we mean here, is once han is being annoying again, all around you. he keeps bumping into you, pushing you, giggling around, trying to “help” you reach the top shelf even though he’s only about two inches taller and mostly useless.
“y/n you’re so short it’s cute, wait no, i’m short too, we’re both short, that’s why we fit so good when i’m inside you!!”
you spin around and slap him lightly across the face. not hard. it’s genuinely just playful. doesn’t even hurt.
his eyes cross instantly. his mouth drops open, body jerking. he squeaks a “hnn?”
his knees buckle. he drops to the floor, landing on his ass with a pathetic little whimper. one hand flies between his legs, cupping his dick through his pants as his stomach and crotch and abdomen muscles flex.
his face has pure confusion. bliss. eyebrows furrowed, eyes crossed, mouth open.
he came so hard.
“wha— whaaat?” he whines, voice high. his hips twitch up into his own hand as ropes of cum flood his pants. he has tears pricking his eyes from how hard he came and how sudden and so not ready to. his hand is squeezing his twitching cock. that just came while soft. from a slap.
he’s never looked more pathetic or more adorable in his entire stupid life.
you stare down at him. “han. baby. i barely touched you.”
“i knowwww. i think i need new pants, ma—maybe new baaaaalls. y/n, can you slap me again but harder this time?”
you end up crouched in front of him, cradling his dumb flushed face while he keeps making little hiccupps, still gently palming his spent cock. he leans into your touch, nuzzling. dumbest fuck on earth. you’d keep him in a jar if you could.
now that we’re at a sexual topic, it deserves some recognition that seungmin is… surprisingly pathetic in bed. he talks a big game but the second he’s inside you he gets just… whiny. a lil flower, basically. “fuck— you’re so tight, gonna make me cum too fast again, shit—” he tries to stay confident and a mean cunt but ends up whimpering into your mouth, hips stuttering, begging you not to clench because he’s embarrassingly close. the dream boyfriend.
and about changbin, so we include all the four, he has stamina. like stamina. that man can fuck you for hours. (can, not always will. it’s only realistic that you tap out after about two rounds if not one.) then he’ll kiss every tear off your face and ask if you want another round “just to be sure you’re satisfied, baby :)”. insane. built different. (built himself to be different, he didn’t get those muscles and fat out of nowhere. he worked for this, let’s appreciate that)
anyways,
you watch them play sometimes from the safety of the couch(and by play you mean fists, wrestling, knives, guns), chin in your hands.
morons with weapons.
like minho has jeongin in a headlock on the living room floor. the others are doing their own shit around, they’re fine with anything as long as they can breathe your air in.
you watch them. they be rolling around on the floor trying to choke each other out and the second one of them senses danger near the crotch region their hips do that instinctive little squirm/twist away. protecting the goods. always protecting the goods. hips do that instinctive little tuck. ass clenching, balls drawing up, hiding. it’s so automatic. so fucking adorable.
the attackers are absolutely going for the sack on purpose because they know it would hurt them too.
men are sweet.
“quit guarding your little grapes, you pussy.” minho snarls, trying to knee jeongin in the balls while jeongin twists.
“my grapes are precious, you cum gargling— OW FUCK—”
felix once bit chan’s thigh so close to the balls that chan yelped. like imagine that scary ass psycho yelping. because he doesn’t usually yelp.
han knees seungmin in the nuts while giggling while playing tag. hyunjin will grab a handful of minho’s package mid grapple just to hear that cold motherfucker make a high pitched noise. changbin can always end a fight with shouldering into someone’s crotch.
can’t stress it enough, men are unique and funny and cute.
you were made for men.
not just any men, these men.
and oh, the way they come back to you. each get their little asses beaten by each other or get angry and destroy everything or get confused about their huge feelings for you, but since they know you’re safe, you’re y/n, they immediately come to you.
let’s start with chan’s baby ass(should fucking behead him) he’ll limp to you with fresh bruises, split lip, whatnot, and just collapse onto the bed or couch of yours. he just wants you close.
he lets you baby him then. enjoys it, wants it.
let’s go age order now, mkay? minho shows up covered in blood, silent, and just stares at you with those dead eyes until you open your arms. crawls into them. wraps himself around you in the weirdest positions, face buried somewhere on your body (neck, stomach, between your tits, wherever), and just breathe you in. for hours. that, calms him down.
changbin is the usual when he crashes down from their boy fights. after one of his big meltdowns he gets so guilty it’s painful. you can’t tell him enough times that it’s okay that he acts like this when he’s angry. he’s just a man. anyways, he’ll find you immediately, wrap those huuuuuge arms around you, and hang on you while you do whatever. he needs the reassurance that you still love him.
hyunjin will rest his head on your thigh while you play with his hair. he needs you. needs to find you. he yaps about how the world is empty and meaningless except for you. the FUCK is his problem. he needs your attention more than anything else. first boy or whatever.
han is… fuck, you already know, a dumb little bitch. like he got mad and did something stupid again. he’ll launch himself at you full force, wrapping around you, talking into your chest. same boy that tried to kill you once.
felix… aww. he comes back to you literally whimpering, covered in blood and whatever he was eating, and immediately tries to climb into your lap. baby, no, shower. after that, he’ll nuzzle into you and sometimes ask if you still love him. (he wouldn’t by himself, but he saw it on tiktok. also asks if you’d love him if he was a worm)
seungmin is a tsundere little bitch about it. done with his little blow up? start looking for you. crawling back to you. stomps around(with the exact movement a horse would) while hugging your arm only. grown ass man btw. you have to coax him into letting you clean him up. he’ll grumble the whole time (“i don’t need this shit”) but the second you kiss the bridge of his nose he goes boneless.
jeongin is such a personality. didn’t we already talk about him screaming into his pillow about you? well he acts like that didn’t happen, just finds you after to get relief, kneels on the floor, clings to your lap, sighing loudly, telling you in great detail how everyone is against him and how he suffered. you have to play along and kiss his “wounds” (even the fake ones) while he preens under the attention.
slut.
i mean him, not you.
never you.
that’s because they trust you this much. they’re also so fucking comfortable with you it’s actually insane.
and they expect you to be just as unbothered as they are.
example, you’re in your bathroom, brushing your teeth. the door opens(not a single knock knocked) and minho walks in without a word. steps up to the toilet, unzips, pulls his dick out, starts peeing. he doesn’t even look at you just stares at the wall. shakes off then tucks himself away. washes his hands and leaves. no big deal to him. meanwhile you’re standing there with your toothbrush hanging out of your mouth bc like ???
han will barge into the bathroom while you’re on the toilet just to show you something on his phone. he’ll stand there holding the screen in front of your face.
“han i am peeing give me two seconds”
“why?”
the other rock brained is felix. the empty headed little cannibal has walked in on you showering multiple times. you’ve had to start locking the door(though we already talked about them just fucking picking the lock then), and every single time he stands outside whimpering. (doesn’t remember he can literally pick locks)
you try to change shirts and jeongin walks in mid titty out. “oh don’t mind me, keep going.” you tell him to get out and he looks heartbroken. “but i’ve seen them before. why are we regressing as a society?”
changbin is horrible. fucking hell you think about him and have to hold your head in your hands. he’ll walk in while you’re changing pads and starts running his finger through your hair. “you cramping bad today, baby? want me to rub your tummy?” fucking horrible.
hyunjin sometimes sits on the edge of the bathtub while you’re soaking and read you something he wrote, completely ignoring the fact that you’re literally naked in the water. and if you dare tell him you need five minutes alone he’ll sit outside the door and monologue sadly about “the cruel walls you build between us” until you let him in.
seungmin will stand outside muttering “the fuck is the point of being together if i can’t even watch you wash your ass?” like y/n this is human rights violation. let him IN.
minho just… appears. you’ll be changing and suddenly he’s in the corner staring. no words. you undress to take a shower, turn to the shower, he’s standing inside. at the end of the day you get into bed, pull the covers down and he’s UNDER THEM.
how did he not kill you then if he’s THIS good?
felix, as we know, has zero concept of personal space or gendered boundaries. he’ll try to go into the shower with you “to help wash your back.” he’ll stick his cold hands up your shirt in the middle of the kitchen because “your tummy is warm and mine is cold.” when you tell him no he gets this heartbreakingly confused look. “but you let changbin do it, why not me? i love you too?”
chan is at least dada about it. he’ll come out of the shower with just a towel around his shoulders, everything else hanging out, and start making coffee like that. like okay wet daddy put that weapon away. and he tells you “what’s mine is yours, baby.” okay i take it back.
you whine one day that your boobs hurt, maybe pms, maybe han was too enthusiastic the night before, whatever, and chan reaches over, hooks two fingers in the collar of your shirt, and tugs it down.
just pulls your tits out into the open air.
he stares, few fingers poking at them, then tucks them back in and gives you a little forehead kiss. “they look fine.”
but when felix does the exact same thing two days later, it’s different!!
you’re on the couch complaining that your chest is sore and felix, who is very much not your boyfriend, is like “oh no!! let me see!!” and reaches over to yank your shirt down. full tits out in the living room while jeongin and minho are playing cards on the coffee table. you have to slap his hands away and pull your shirt back up while he looks… so lost. he genuinely doesn’t get why that’s crossing a line. to him, your body is community property because he loves you so much and he shares everything with the other seven boys.
they’ve seen you naked, fucked you (some of them), bled on you, cried on you, so why does the bathroom door need to be closed? why can’t they just walk in while you’re peeing? why can’t felix crawl into bed with you and han?
you close the bathroom door. han: “but why?? you’ve seen me naked before!! i’ve seen you bleed from the pussy!! why can’t i watch you pee???”
minho gave you the saddest stare when you told him you didn’t want company while you were changing a tampon.
and you’ve seen every inch of them (and they’ve seen plenty of you) so why the fuck would they hide anything?
because these boys are so comfortable with you.
take hyunjin, for example. you go over to their place one afternoon because he said he wants to show you this new painting he’s been working on. he leads you into his room, closes the door, and immediately starts stripping. shirt off. pants off. underwear too. your heart stops. his dick swings free for a second, soft, while he casually steps into clean boxers like. you’re not even there. your heart starts beating again.
he pulls his sweatpants up, grabs the painting, and turns around. “so what do you think?”
seungmin will casually scratch his balls while talking to you. full hand down the front of his pants, digging around, rearranging while he tells you about the guy he stabbed earlier.
you make a face.
he raises an eyebrow. “what? they itch.”
even better when he walks into your room completely naked, dick swinging, just out of your shower, and lies face down onto your bed. starfish. he’ll throw a leg over you and go straight to sleep while you’re trying to watch a show. if you complain he just “you’ve had it in your mouth, don’t act shy now.”
jeongin is tiring. you actually have to cry laugh. he’ll come up behind you while you’re cooking, press his morning wood against your ass(you’re fine with him doing this, he wouldn’t do it if it made the love of his life uncomfortable), and talks to you. “so then i was strangling the guy and his head turned purple and— waaaaaait, you’re not wearing panties under this? slut.”
“because i thought i was spending the night with changbin. where is he?!”
sometimes they?? switch?? places?? randomly??? like genuinely hyunjin walks into your bathroom and minho comes out. and hyunjin is nowhere. and there is no possible exit he could have gotten out on. or you send chan to the shop to get you something and felix comes home with it. then you think you’re talking to felix and when you turn around it’s hyunjin answering, two completely different voices mind you. you’re always so confused.
they genuinely don’t get it when you try to enforce boundaries. you’re their safe person. their person. so why would they hide basic bodily functions from you? it doesn’t compute in their boy brains.
underneath all the boundary issues is the fact that they trust you completely. that’s sweet though. they feel safe with you in ways they’ve never felt safe with anyone, only the others, but you’re different. so they offer you every part of themselves, the gross, the vulnerable, the naked, the soft dick, post shower, morning wood, post fight, post rage, post cry parts, without hesitation.
they all know, on some level, that women are more physically fragile. no sexism here, this is biology, though some of them know of it in the sexist way, some the biological. men and women are built different. standard knowledge. they’ve killed enough of both to notice the physical differences. they know your body is softer in places, more sensitive, bleeds differently, gets sore easier, boobs aren’t the same as pecs. they know you can’t just punch you in the arm like they punch each other. but the social boundary thing? the “this is my body and sometimes i want it to be private even from people i love” thing? can’t get it at all.
jeongin, hyunjin, changbin, and chan(chan respects you as his girl) are the ones who at least register the differences. they know boobs aren’t just funny squishy chest lumps like their own. they know periods suck and make you more fragile. they understand that randomly grabbing your ass in public might get them slapped while they can slap each other’s asses during fights and it’s just bro shit. they know girls need a little more… finesse. socially. emotionally. physically.
the others though, their brains simply do not… do not most of the time. they could understand if they tried, really could, but they simply don’t use those brain cells. well, the sunshine twins don’t, and minho and seungmin just don’t want to.
so you scold. they listen. sort of. for about three days. then han is back to trying to hold your tit in the middle of clothes shopping and felix is asking if he can sniff your armpit.
before you, there was nothing. we know that. now it’s just a big wobbly thing inside of them. love? terrifying. jealousy? torture. longing? makes them want to chew their own hands off.
their little hearts are really fragile right now.
and they relieve that by being quite the opposite on the outside. by murdering just as brutal as they used to. (crazy, the fact that they enjoy doing that)
chan has this weird little system that turns the feelings, the itch to kill inward first, then lets it go(aka murdering) when it’s a little more upset at him. bout to blow. he’ll go out, find someone who reminds him of his own insecurity, usually slowly, calmly choke them out while staring into their eyes. almost he’s having a conversation with himself. last time he came back with someone’s tongue in his pocket. forgot to take it out and you did when you were washing those jeans. you cried. he felt horrible.
feeling sad is also a new feeling. it’s heartbreaking. they actually feel bad for normal people because oh they had to live with this through their entire lives? but they mostly feel bad for you, because you also did. and you’re above everyone.
back to chan, he ends up lying down with you usually, needing you to give him any type of physical touch. but when he gets it he’s fine. (if we ignore his feelings fucking messing his system up)
about minho, when the feelings get too messy he goes out and does his cute little horror shit (keeping people alive for days, removing things slowly, enjoying their screams. he once kept a guy alive for twelve hours just so he could ask him philosophical questions about love while cutting out his liver piece by piece. then he came home, crawled into your arms, and stared at you for hours. you don’t even mind anymore. he your lil creep.)
changbin is unstable, just not (usually) in front of you. he caught someone looking at you wrong once and spent the next four hours breaking every single bone in the guy’s body. then came home, clung to you.
hyunjin suffers beautifully. little bitch always does. he’ll write twenty pages of the most heartbreaking shit about unrequited love, then go out and slowly take someone apart. he takes his time. makes it artistic. removes organs one by one while talking about the void you left in his chest(insert that talking to wall gif). babe(fucker) just needs you to let him rest his head on your chest.
han is dumb but evil. they all are, let’s not forget that. his brain can’t handle the new emotions so he always does shit with no clear purpose. last week he got jealous of chan taking you out and went on a rampage. caught some poor jogger, beat him unconscious, then tried to share the body with felix by playing tug with the intestines??? he came back covered in blood, tackled you onto the couch(you threw up). feelings are hard.
felix’s empty little brain wasn’t built for this much emotion. when it hits him he gets confused and restless and jealous(worse now that he knows what that is) and freaks out.
last week he got sad because you patted han’s head and he literally jumped at a random pedestrian in broad daylight, sank his teeth into the guy’s neck, and started eating him alive. blood everywhere. still managed to not get caught. tf. came home with blood in his hair and on his face and immediately pouted and crossed his little legs when you scolded him.
seungmin takes his emotional instability out on whoever’s unlucky enough to cross his path. the other day he was pissed because you smiled at changbin when you should have been making seungmin an omelette!! (still got it tf he pissed off about) he went out and found some random dude, tied him to a chair, and spent two hours explaining in great detail why the guy’s existence offended him while slowly peeling the skin off his arms like orange peels. slow. talking the whole time. “she smiled at him. smiled. you ever smile at someone that pretty? no? then shut the fuck up.” when the guy passed out from pain seungmin just slapped him awake and kept going???
he came home with blood in his hair and crawled straight into your lap. was relieved that you couldn’t see the blood in his dark hair but then you smelled it. he got outside time.
jeongin will have a childish breakdown. usually midkill, his lil(huge) ass sobbing about how you don’t love him enough while carving hearts into some girl’s chest. “do you feel this? this is what my heart feels like!!” he once begged you to tell him he’s pretty. it’s actually heartbreaking how undeveloped he is, we’ll talk about it more later.
they’re all so fragile now.
the new emotions are eating them alive from the inside.
they don’t know how to process love or jealousy or fear of abandonment. they don’t know anything, and especially not how to express it. they’re actually in a terrifying situation. especially for men.
hands constantly shaking. all eight’s.
but no matter how bad it gets, no matter how brutally they take it out on the world, they always come back to you.
summary: part v. of course the others find out about you and changbin, and of course that’s because minho can’t keep his smart mouth shut, what did we expect? not all of them knows the difference between left and right but they sure know how to ruin your peace.
warnings: non idol au, violence, blood, mentions of gore, cannibalism, obsessive behavior, jealousy, cursing, homicidal behavior/psychopathy, mentions of a past porn addiction and throwing up, sexual content(protected and unprotected p in v, fingering, cunnilingus, fivesomes, mentions of pillow humping, mentions of ball shaving if that counts??), alcoholic hyunjin
word count: 24k
chan stands in the middle of his garage with his hands on his hips, staring at your car with a slow shake of his head.
the driver’s side door is still slightly misaligned from where someone, seungmin and jeongin, obviously, forced it open.
chan runs a hand over his face and exhales.
he walks around the front of the car, crouches a little to check the lock, then stands again. it’s not badly damaged. he can fix it in five minutes. but then he leans back against his workbench and crosses his arms, thinking. because the car itself isn’t really what’s on his mind. what’s on his mind is you.
more specifically, you, your other two bitches, and now changbin too. apparently.
chan tilts his head slightly, replaying whatever happened earlier in hyunjin’s bedroom. you on top of changbin. the way his hands were on you.
well, he’s not surprised. not really. because if there’s one thing chan has noticed since you came into their sad little lives, it’s that you have this… effect. and like let’s not misunderstand the situation, you don’t manipulate them. you don’t try to control them. you’re not like a whore or anything. no, not at all. you just exist around them and love them with confidence and patience that they never received from anyone else before.
and one by one… they fall into it. and it’s so fucking right. each of them just fits with you.
he thinks of the kisses he gets. still faintly remembering the feeling of your fingers on his face the night when he had his face in your lap. that kiss, the first kiss. the way his chest had tightened and pulled and felt.
it had been… a lot.
he’s still adjusting to the concept of emotions happening inside his body like that. but he knows one thing very clearly. he wants more of it.
you’re impressive, y/n. seriously.
he’s not even offended by it. if anything… he shifts his weight against the bench, thinking it through… it’s kind of hot.
the thought of you being wanted like that. multiple dangerous, violent men just all over you. and you letting them close, one by one, because you decide who gets that access.
chan rubs the back of his neck. yeah. he’s definitely a little into that.
“huh.”
and how will you tell your new addition to the collection to seungmin and han? seungmin in particular is going to have opinions. han probably won’t even fully process it for another week.
he could do it for you. he’s not afraid of the conversation. but realistically, you’re better at this stuff. you somehow manage to talk to them like they’re human beings with emotions instead of unstable murder machines. it’s honestly impressive. so maybe you’ll handle it. eventually.
chan checks the door lock again and grabs a small tool from the bench, adjusting the bent metal.
you’ll figure it out. you always do. you survived eight serial killers, for fuck’s sake.
a few seconds later the door clicks properly into place again. one problem solved. comes the next. (most likely)seungmin hotwired the car. those two idiots are gonna get their dicks hotwired next time he sees them. chan wipes his hands on a rag and starts working on that.
hm. maybe he’ll take you out today. because you on changbin? that shit was hot. chan’s been missing you extra since seeing that.
maybe take you somewhere. just a little time together. the idea of staying over crosses his mind too. that would be nice.
he pauses. then he sighs. because of course, han will be there. that little bitch is everywhere. literally doing anything but working. “anything” means you. all over you or literally doing you. only if he’d use his hands in the garage the way he uses his dick. okay maybe not, he’s still horrible at work, but still. just always on you. how do you even deal with that?
chan’s not actually bothered though. not really. if anything it just makes the whole thing more interesting. still. he’d like some time with you today.
maybe he’ll swing by later. see who’s around. see if you’re free. or not free. either way works. dinner maybe. or just a drive somewhere quiet. he glances at your car again. you’ll probably need a ride anyway.
you’ll figure it out. after all, this whole thing seems to be working so far.
he can text you.
he… doesn’t text much though. he’s the type who prefers short sentences, direct conversations, things that actually do something instead of floating around in messages.
and now that we cleared that up, he’s here anyway, standing in the quiet of his kitchen, one hand on the counter, phone in the other, staring at the screen.
his thumbs hover for a second.
chan: you busy tonight?
he stares at it.
he sends it.
then he throws the phone on the counter.
for someone who spent most of his life emotionally blank, the fact that he’s even asking that question at all is… kind of huge.
cut to you. in your kitchen. you managed to get the house quiet. which is honestly a miracle. it took effort. a lot of effort. han had to be convinced there was something “very important” he and minho needed to go look at together. jeongin immediately attached himself to that plan because jeongin attaches himself to anything that smells like something bad is about to go down. seungmin followed because he likes violence. felix followed because he heard the word “look.” so they left. hyunjin is doing better now. you have no idea where he is. we know where chan is.
you’re standing at the kitchen counter, phone in one hand. you snort under your breath because yeah, you’re doing something. you’re doing changbin. or more accurately changbin’s doing you without even putting it in yet. he’s pressed up behind you, big arms caged around your waist, chest pressed so tight it squeezes up against you. his mouth hasn’t left your skin once, lips dragging slow, open mouthed kisses down the side of your neck, over your shoulder, back up to that spot behind your ear that makes your knees dip. he’s kissing down your shoulder now, nosing under the strap of your tank top, breathing you in.
you’re trying to text back with one hand, phone balanced on the counter, thumb fumbling.
you: no i’m free
(you had to backspace multiple times because you kept writing no i’n fr ee)
chan: come over after work?
you feel changbin’s breathing against your back. not the one currently fanning on your neck, we’re talking about the movement of his chest. fast. unsteady. this big sweet murderer who used to choke people out for fun is shaking a little because touching you feels that good. that’s new. he’s never had this before. none of them have. and now he can’t stop. won’t stop. has to keep his mouth on you or he might actually combust from how much he likes you.
you: sounds good baby
chan: need anything?
you: no thx u sweet
you tilt your head to give changbin better access. he takes it immediately, lips trailing higher, sucking gently. it’s so fucking intimate.
you drop the phone because changbin finally nudged your chin up enough to kiss your mouth. soft. deep. no tongue yet, just lips moving. you kiss with one arm reaching back to thread into his hair.
you’re fucking impressive, y/n.
it’s hard to deal with them. hard to part from changbin, hard to go on with your day without han in your ass. not literally. or you could mean it literally, whatever y’all are into. anyways. it can be much when he’s constantly on you, but you got used to it and love it, after all.
being alone is nice though, sometimes. walking to chan’s alone was nice too. (god, you need to ask him about your car) knocking on his door is nice, knowing you’ll see him. seeing his eyes, hungry the second they land on you, is even nicer.
he just reaches out, hooks two fingers in your pants, yanks you inside, and kicks the door shut.
you crash into him mouth first.
his hand immediately finds your ass, big, feels so good. squeezes hard enough to make you gasp into his mouth. he groans low, manly as fuck, the sound vibrating against your tongue.
“missed you.” he mutters between kisses. he’s been thinking about this since he sent that one pathetic text from the garage. probably popped a boner under a car just imagining your mouth.
he spins you, backs you up against the wall with a controlled thud. one thigh goes between yours, pressing. his other hand comes up to cup the back of your neck, thumb stroking your jaw because you’re delicate to him even though he’s about to fuck you stupid against drywall.
he’s thorough with you. always is. kissing slow at first, savoring, then deeper, hungrier. licks into your mouth. sucks your bottom lip till it’s swollen. nips just hard enough to sting. hand on your ass keeps kneading, pulling you tighter against the hard line of him. he’s already rock solid through his jeans. hasn’t even tried to hide it. why would he? you did this to him.
“fixed your car.” he says quietly, pulling back just enough to speak against your lips.
“mm. thanks.”
his mouth back on yours. he’s not rushing to fuck you yet. just… needs this. needs to feel you solid and real and here after a whole day of pretending he’s a functioning adult who doesn’t daydream about bending you over the hood of every car.
you tug his hair. he growls. hips roll once.
“fuuuuuck.” he breathes. “been hard since lunch thinking about this.”
and now you’re here smelling like you and changbin’s leftover cologne (he knows, he fucking knows.)
“poor baby.” you tease, voice so soft.
he huffs a laugh, we know that’s rare from him. “yeah. poor me.” then he’s kissing you again, deeper, dirtier. hand hard on your ass, lifting you just enough that your toes barely skim the floor. pins you there with his body. lets you feel every inch of how much he missed you.
wall’s cold against your back. chan’s warm everywhere else. ticklish softness of his nose on your neck now because he’s working his way down, sucking mark after mark.
“gonna fuck you right here.” he mutters against your skin. not a question.
you grin, fingers in his belt loops, yanking him closer.
“better.” you say. “car’s fixed. now fix me.”
“mhm.” he mutters, then he’s kissing you again. like really kissing you. deep, wet kisses.
needs you. now. he gently helps your shirt up and over your head, tosses it somewhere behind him. mouth finds your collarbone, then lower, open kisses over the tops of your tits, his pretty hands unclasping your bra lovingly.
he’s bigger on groping tits rather than sucking. that’s more seungmin and han territory. chan’s best entertainment is grabbing your tits, which he does when your pretty little bra hits the floor.
you gasp, head thunking back against the wall. his other hand’s already working your jeans open, pulling away from your tits too to shove them down your hips with both hands.
impatient man.
you kick them off one leg, still half tangled around your ankle because who gives a fuck.
he’s on his knees for a second, yanks your panties to the side, doesn’t even bother pulling them off. tongue flat against your clit, one loooong slow lick that makes your knees buckle.
this is fast, he usually takes his time better, little kisses and love, but both of you are clearly impatient now.
you grab his hair. he growls, pleased, and does it again. sucks. flicks. messy, desperate. he’s been starving for this taste all day. two fingers slide into you easily even, you’re soaked already, and he curls them the way you just love, stroking around.
he knows you too well.
“chan, fuuuck—”
he pulls back just enough to look up at you, lips shiny. “missed this pussy.” he says, voice the usual monotone, which is so hot. then dives back in, making up for lost time.
when you’re grinding down on his face(which he loves, just wants a little more now), he stands up fast. gives the side of your ass a loving squeeze as his mouth crashes back to yours.
his jeans are open now(when did that happen?) cock out, heavy and leaking. it’s been crying for you all day. he fishes in his pocket one handed, pulls out a condom. rips the packet with his teeth.
you see it and burst out laughing. full on, head thrown back, wheezing. “you planned this. bitch.” you say, girly and teasing, poking his chest.
he smirks, rolling it on slow, eyes locked on yours. strokes himself once, twice, just to watch your pupils blow.
“bitch.” he mocks your voice, voice high and as girly as he can make it.
you slap his cheek. it’s loud. playful. mean in the hot way.
he just smiles at you, then quickly gets your panties off you. one hand hooks under your knee next, hikes your leg around his waist.
once he’s in… okay, wow, you two really start going at it. all so erotic, the way it starts slow at first, the way you start grinding down because you want more quickly, and the fucking way he gives it to you immediately.
your head falls forward, breathing on his skin. look back up, you want to see his face more.
god, he’s so in love with you.
the closeness hits different tonight. it’s not just sex against a wall. it’s him knowing. it’s that he knows of you and changbin. it’s that he knows your power, the way you’re collecting and loves you exactly like this and he loves his boys too.
it makes him want you more. makes him harder. makes every thrust feel like claiming you all over again, feel like proving he’s still a pick even when you’ve got four.
it’s in the way he holds your gaze while he moves his hips into you. that’s like… unnervingly attractive combined with those empty eyes. in the way his free hand cradles the back of your head so it doesn’t bang the wall too hard. in the way he kisses you between thrusts, slippery.
he knows he’s handling a girl. knows you don’t just cum from dick alone like porn. he’s not han, jackhammering around. he’s chan. he’s patient. he’s careful. he’s a man.
every thrust pulls a little whimper out of you. he finds that adorable. his free hand slides between you, fingers finding your clit. does this bitch have a map. actually, he’s watched you touch yourself enough times (creepily romantic, in his defense) to know the rhythm. those wide fingers pressing, rubbing, flicking just right while he fucks you against the wall.
“there she is.” he murmurs when your hips start chasing his hand. “good girl. let me feel you squeeze.”
you do. clench around him hard. he curses under his breath, something filthy about how tight you are, how wet, how fucking perfect.
his mouth finds your neck again. sucking softly. marking you gentle because he knows seungmin will see them later and lose his shit, and the thought makes chan’s thrusts get a little harder. deeper. rougher.
you wrap both legs around him now. arms around his neck. he fucks up into you desperately. every snap of his hips punches a moan out of you.
“fuck, you feel so good.” he breathes. voice cracking just a little. “always so fucking good.”
the changbin thing bubbles under it all. makes him fuck you deeper now, pouring all that new obsession into every thrust. you’re collecting and he was one of the firsts and wants you even more because of it.
you clench around him on purpose. he swears, buries his face in your neck. pace picks up, harder, faster. skin slapping. wet sounds.
you whine and cry out and squeal when you cum. heels digging into his tense little man ass, slapping on his back, shoving your face into his neck. he fucks you through it, he always does, doesn’t stop, chases his own with short, brutal thrusts. jackhammering now that he got you there. gives you one long beautiful moan when he cums, hips stuttering, cock pulsing deep inside the condom.
he doesn’t pull out right away. just holds you there. pressed tight. breathing hard. lips brushing your temple.
you stay like that for a minute. maybe two. wall’s probably got a permanent ass print now.
finally he eases out slow, careful. sets you on your feet but keeps an arm around your waist because he likes it. kisses you again, gentle this time.
“shower?” he mutters.
you nod, smiling gently. “you’re buying me food after, bitch.”
he snorts. slaps your ass lightly. “yeah yeah. whatever you want.”
you both know he means it.
that night, you tell him about how the whole thing went down with changbin. how you feel about it, how you think he feels about it. he’s lying on his back, listening to you, watching you swing your legs and run your pretty little fingers down his chest as you talk. he understands you perfectly.
so, life keeps going on with these assholes. it’s still hot outside. it always makes hyunjin so irritated.
one afternoon you’re sitting on your couch trying to read something on your phone when jeongin and minho come over.
“—i told you it would work!”
“it didn’t work, you idiot.”
“it mostly worked!”
you look up slowly. “what did you do?”
minho just hums to let you know you’re not ignored and he’s just not in the mood to talk and grabs a beer from the fridge. jeongin flops down onto the couch next to you. which would be fine, except the second his elbow hits the cushion you hear a wet sound.
you look down. his elbow is absolutely pouring blood. like. pouring. a steady, disturbing stream that is now soaking directly into your couch fabric. hyunjin is going to lose his mind. why is it always jeongin who fucks up the couches hyunjin gets you?
you stare. “…jeongin.”
“yeah, baby?”
“your elbow is bleeding.”
he looks down. “yeah.”
“why?”
he shrugs. “i think i scraped it.”
the wound is not a scrape. it looks like someone tried to remove part of his arm.
“minho, sweetie, can you grab a towel on your way back?” you half shout.
he does. throws it at jeongin’s head.
hyunjin was stomping around when he saw another couch ruined.
another night you fall asleep early. your room is dark. window cracked open for the summer air.
the mattress shifts slightly. warm weight beside you. arms wrapping loosely around your waist. honestly it’s nice. one of them must’ve come over late.
you don’t even wake up fully. just mumble something and roll slightly toward the warmth.
morning. you wake up slowly, stretching slightly under the arms around you.
and immediately notice something very wrong.
the sheets are wet.
wet. sticky.
you sit up. look down. dark red stains everywhere. sheets. blanket. your shirt. someone’s arm draped across your stomach. blood is everywhere.
seungmin is sleeping next to you. completely shirtless. covered in dried blood.
you stare at him. then at the bed. then back at him.
now that you moved, he cracks one eye open, sees your face, then looks down at the sheets. “oh. shit. did you start your period or what? that’s a lot.”
you stare at him. blink. then shove him so hard he almost rolls off the bed. “you absolute fucking moron.” you hiss, already scrambling out of the sheets. “you got this in.”
he props himself up on one elbow in the bloody sheets. “relax. it’s not even a lot. guy barely bled. mostly on my pants anyway.” he pats the wet spot like it’s a pet. “you’re cute when you’re mad tho.”
you grab a pillow (the least bloody one) and start beating him with it while yelling every curse word you know. he catches your wrists eventually, flips you under him (still in the blood soaked bed, gross), and kisses you hard enough to shut you up. “love you too.” he mutters against your mouth. you bite his lip. he groans. you actually end up throwing up. he pats your back through it.
injuries are constant. they stab things. they punch things. sometimes they punch each other. sometimes they stab each other.
once you walk into the kitchen to find han and minho standing there bleeding.
“it barely touched you.” han mutters, frowning.
minho points at the blood dripping down his side. “there is a hole in me.”
“small hole.”
“a hole is a hole.”
“doesn’t jeongin say that always?”
you shake your head. “sit down.”
they both immediately obey. no matter how psychotic they are, they all behave when you’re patching them up. minho stays still the whole time, watching you work. han watches with complete fascination.
han is a usual victim. once he’s working again, meaning he holds a wrench next to chan and drops it on his own foot. screams, hops around on one leg, blood soaking through his sock because he split his big toe open.
chan had to drive him back to you.
“y/n it hurts so bad.” he wails. you make him sit on the toilet while you wrap it. he’s crying real tears, snot running, begging for kisses on his booboo like a toddler. you give him one peck on the forehead. he immediately gets hard. you slap a band aid on harder than necessary. he yelps. still hard. seungmin calls him a “thong wearing concussed fuckwit”
or seungmin and jeongin are in the park “training.” training means they duct tape kitchen knives to their hands like wolverine claws and try to spar. they both end up on the grass rolling around, bleeding, laughing, calling each other “pussy” and “bitchboy” while they try to pin each other. you watch from from a bench with hyunjin and a popsicle, unimpressed.
that said, hyunjin ties some random delivery guy to a chair somewhere, then spends three hours carving your name into the dude’s thigh in perfect cursive with a box cutter. he’s shirtless, sweat glistening on those pretty lines of his body, hair falling in his eyes while the guy screams. yeah no this is brutal, but he pauses every few letters to jerk off a little, slow, dreamy strokes, because your name makes him feel things.(???) finishes on the carving when he cums, then sighs dreamily.
felix “misses your taste” so bad he tries to recreate it. your taste is from when he chews on your fingers, but he kills a jogger, carves out a chunk of inner thigh, marinates it in strawberry jam then pan fries it while humming the spongebob theme. eats half, saves the other half on a plate in the fridge labeled “y/n’s dinner <3 do not touch or i bite dick.” han opens the fridge, sees it, screams “WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS RED SHIT” assumes it’s evidence, and flushes it down the toilet. felix finds out, cries actual toddler tears, punches han in the dick. han punches back. they end up wrestling.
hyunjin tries to be romantic. i mean, he’s already romantic but for you he has to try. wrote a poem about you. he reads it to you in the bathroom while you’re brushing your teeth. you spit toothpaste on his thigh by accident. he cums in his jeans on the spot. whispers “that’s the hottest thing anyone’s ever done to me” you’re still not sure if he’s joking???
minho keeps leaving you “gifts.” last week it was a necklace made of teeth. human teeth. cleaned, polished, strung on black cord. “i pulled them myself. for you.” he said. you put it into one of your drawers gently.
or when jeongin invented a game. he called it “can hyunjin bend that way.” you still don’t fully understand how it started. apparently they were bored at hyunjin’s and changbin’s apartment, when jeongin said “you’re tall.”
hyunjin, who was sitting on the couch sketching something, didn’t even look up. “correct.”
“like really tall.”
“still correct.”
jeongin sat next to him. “do you think you bend?”
“…everyone bends.”
“yeah but like. do you bend?”
five minutes later they were in the middle of the living room with jeongin physically trying to fold hyunjin in half. hyunjin lasted about twenty seconds before yelling.
you’ve also accepted that you are permanently surrounded by muscle. seriously. the house gets hot and suddenly everyone’s shirtless. biceps everywhere. shoulders leaning in doorways. little freckles and lines and omfg. someone always lifting something heavy for no reason. sometimes you walk into a room and three of them are just standing there shirtless arguing about something stupid while holding knives and you have to mentally reset for a second.
and through all of this, you’re sneaking around with changbin. well, not sneaking around, just at each other when it’s possible. a hand brushing your back when no one’s looking. a look across a room full of idiots. sometimes a quick kiss in a hallway before someone inevitably barges in. you carding fingers through his hair, whisper “easy baby” against his ear, him exhaling shakily, then occasionally dragging someone to the sink because oh my god stop bleeding on my floor.
just again, these men did not feel before you. and before you, they didn’t touch much either. not the way people do when they like someone. sure, they fought. shoved each other. grabbed arms during arguments. wrestled occasionally when someone was being an asshole. fucked some people. that kind of touch. violent touch. practical touch.
but gentle touch? affection? holding hands? sleeping tangled together? all of those combined with feeling something? absolutely fucking not.
they weren’t lonely exactly. they had each other. nobody needed hugs. nobody needed someone to hold their hand. nobody woke up in the middle of the night wanting to curl around another human body just because it felt good.
and when you came into the picture, their brains, these cold, predatory, emotionally underdeveloped brains, went oh. oh shit. this feels good. suddenly their nervous systems are working in ways they’ve literally never experienced before. dopamine spikes. adrenaline mixed with comfort. physical closeness triggering weird chemical responses their bodies don’t understand.
now they want to touch you.
han is the most obvious case. we know that already. he’s draped over you constantly. arms around your waist. chin on your shoulder. face buried in your neck. legs thrown across yours whenever you sit down anywhere. it’s not even sexual most of the time. it’s just pure physical closeness. his brain figured out that touching you makes everything in his body feel calm and good and safe, and now he just neeeeds it!!
when you walk past him he reaches for you automatically. when you leave the room he looks confused for a second like someone turned the lights off in his brain. and if you sit down anywhere, couch, chair, bed, the floor, there’s about an eighty percent chance han will eventually appear and climb on you.
minho is violent by default. his baseline emotional state is somewhere between simmering rage and quiet murderous thoughts. so when his brain started wanting physical contact with you, it processed that information… hard.
when you’re walking together, say, through a store, his hand will reach out and take your pinky finger. and if you pull your hand away because you need to grab something from a shelf? his head snaps toward you. he stomps two steps closer and grabs your pinky again. like there. fixed it.
felix is even simpler. felix just loves you. that’s the only way to describe it. his brain has absolutely no complicated interpretation of what he feels. he just likes you. a lot. so he hovers. if you’re sitting somewhere, felix will eventually wander over and sit nearby,,not even necessarily touching you at first, just being in your space. then leaning closer. then his arm touching yours. then eventually resting his head on your shoulder. sometimes he’ll just look at you with that blank sweet expression and say something like “you smell nice.”
or “i saw a dog earlier.”
“cool.”
“i liked him.”
“great.”
he just wants to be near you.
changbin has this habit of placing a hand on your back when he walks past. sometimes he squeezes your shoulder when you say something funny. sometimes he rests his arm along the back of a chair behind you when you’re sitting together. he always knows exactly where you are in the room.
chan is a gentleman about it. seriously. the man will open doors for you, carry things, guide you through crowds with a hand lightly at your waist. always telling you he’s here.
seungmin is interesting. he loves touching you. he really does. but he doesn’t need it the way, i dunno, han does. seungmin could go hours without physical contact and be completely fine. but when he decides he wants you, then he wants you. he’ll grab you. pull you into his lap. hook an arm around your shoulders. kiss the side of your head.
hyunjin likes small contact. quiet contact. holding your hand while you’re walking somewhere. your shoulder leaning against his when you sit together. sometimes he’ll rest his head lightly against your shoulder when he’s tired.
he gets lots of it from the people he seduces just for them to kill later, but with you it’s completely different. yours, he wants.
jeongin… struggles with touch.
he doesn’t like people touching him. not really. he’ll tolerate it from the others when they’re fighting or drunk or wrestling, but real physical closeness makes something in him tense up. most physical contact annoys him. crowds irritate him. people grabbing him makes his skin crawl. his nervous system is wired for distance.
but he wants your touch. badly. but the second it actually happens, part of him hates it. not you. the sensation. the vulnerability. the skin on skin.
sometimes he’ll grab your wrist mid conversation just to hold it for a second. then he’ll suddenly let go.
“what?”
“nothing.”
“you grabbed my hand.”
“didn’t happen.”
five minutes later he’ll do it again. he’s a mess.
so when he holds your hand, it’s weirdly intense. gripping it a little too tightly. he’ll grab your hand and hold it obsessively while walking somewhere. like really hold it. then suddenly he’ll yank his hand away and step back two feet because something in his brain said too much.
you’ll look at him. he’ll glare at the ground. then ten seconds later he’ll grab your hand again. repeat this cycle for an entire afternoon.
sometimes he’ll lie down next to you and fall asleep with his head on your stomach without any problem. other times you’ll touch his arm and he’ll flinch slightly before forcing himself not to move away. because he wants it. he really does. he just doesn’t understand why it feels so overwhelming.
that’s the core of it for all of them. their brains are learning emotions late. most people start figuring this stuff out as teenagers. awkward first crushes. nervous hand holding. the understanding of what affection feels like. these men skipped all of that. they jumped straight from emotional numbness to full blown attachment.
their nervous systems are scrambling to process it. touch releases oxytocin. comfort. bonding. safety. chemicals their brains barely used before.
they don’t understand it. they just know it feels good. but none of them know how to handle what’s happening to them.
they’re not just experiencing emotions for the first time. they’re experiencing them all at once, and absolutely zero coping skills. which means their brains do what brains always do when confronted with something overwhelming, they start to panic.
they’re not used to missing someone. that concept literally didn’t exist for them before. before you, if someone left the room, that was it. they left. cool. whatever. now sometimes you’re gone for a few hours and something in their chest starts feeling.
and their brains don’t understand it. so they start acting strange.
one afternoon, for example, you left for a couple hours to run errands.
would be perfectly normal. but at hyunjin and changbin’s place, something weird started happening. hyunjin was sitting at the dining table, sketching something. quiet, focused, pencil moving across paper.
then he stopped. stared at the page. sighed. shifted in his chair. picked the pencil up again. drew two lines. stopped again.
changbin noticed eventually. “what’s wrong?”
“nothing.” hyunjin stared at the paper. “…she’s been gone a while.”
“yeah.”
“…hm.”
meanwhile somewhere else in the city, seungmin and minho were sitting on the hood of a car. seungmin had a cigarette. minho had a knife just… in case. god, he’s creepy. so creepy it’s a total panty dropper.
then seungmin looked at his phone. scrolled. locked it again. a minute later he unlocked it again.
minho watched him. “text her already.”
“i’m not texting her.”
“you’ve opened your phone six times.”
“i’m checking something.”
“you’re checking if she texted.”
“shut up.” they sat in silence for a while. “…i might go see her later.”
han doesn’t process emotions logically. some of the others at least realized that something is happening inside of them. he doesn’t. his brain just reacts. so when he starts missing you, it comes out as confusion. pure, bewildered confusion.
he’ll be sitting somewhere with the others. talking. laughing. then suddenly his face changes. he looks around.
“…where’s y/n?”
someone sighs. “not here.”
han blinks. “…oh.” then ten seconds later “…where’s y/n?”
“still not here.”
“oh.” five minutes pass. then he stands up. “i’m gonna go find her.”
someone grabs his shirt and drags him back down. “sit.”
“…okay.”
they went straight from nothing to oh my god what the fuck is this feeling and why is it happening inside my body. it scares the shit out of them. like the time someone casually mentioned you cut your finger. it was nothing. a tiny kitchen accident earlier that day. you sliced your finger while opening something and wrapped it in a bandage. you told someone about it, that someone mentioned it later while the guys were hanging out.
everyone else just nodded and kept doing whatever they were doing. except minho. he didn’t move. he didn’t react. he didn’t even blink much. he just sat there. staring straight ahead. completely still.
because inside his head something had just exploded. not outwardly. minho doesn’t do outward panic. his brain doesn’t process fear like that. but internally? imagine fucking hell. the idea of you being injured triggering this sudden, violent rush of adrenaline he didn’t know how to handle. his chest tight. jaw clenched. hands slowly curling into fists on his knees.
he didn’t say anything. didn’t move. just sat there staring forward while his brain tried to figure out why the thought of your finger bleeding made his entire body feel like it was about to tear something apart.
nobody noticed. they were too busy arguing about something.
eventually the conversation moved on and the feeling faded. but for a few minutes minho had been having what was basically a silent, internal panic attack. and he had absolutely no idea that’s what it was.
han is the opposite. han doesn’t hide it at all. when he worries, everyone knows.
one time someone mentioned you were out somewhere alone later than usual. that was it.
he immediately got up. “i’m going to check on her.”
“she’s fine.” someone said.
“what if she’s not?”
“she’s literally just at the store.”
han was already halfway to the door.
by the time you got home later that evening he had run across half the neighborhood looking for you. actually run. when he saw you walking toward your place he nearly tackled you in the middle of the sidewalk.
“there you are!” he grabbed you immediately, arms wrapping around your shoulders and waist at the same time, squeezing you tight. “i was worried.”
“i went to the store.”
“yeah but what if something happened.” his voice had that slightly whiny tone it gets when his brain is overwhelmed.
you patted his back. “i’m okay.”
he pressed his face into your neck. “i was very worried.”
“i can tell.”
he stayed like that for a while. just hugging you. your physical presence was the only thing convincing his nervous system to calm down.
the others handle the emotions differently. sometimes it turns into frustration, like when you’re not around for a while, the atmosphere changes. they don’t always realize why at first. they just get… irritated. restless. something important is missing. seungmin is even a bigger asshole. god he needs to be put in his place, i’m begging someone to shove a strap on into your hands and show him what’s up. anyways. his patience drops to zero. chan throws himself harder into work. garage. projects. anything to keep his brain busy. changbin goes to the gym and lifts weights, trying to exhaust the feeling out of his body. hyunjin drinks a little more than usual. someone take it AWAY from him omfg. jeongin becomes a whiny bitch. he’ll pace around, complain loudly about how boring everything is, accuse people of having no personality. really he just misses you. felix is the easiest to read. he’ll literally say it. “i miss y/n.” everyone ignores him, but they’re all feeling it.
their brains learned that being around you makes things better.
and their bodies react to all of this. because emotions are physical. love, attachment, comfort, excitement, those things all trigger actual biological responses. heart rate changes. hormones spike. blood flow shifts. and since their bodies have never really dealt with this combination of emotional and physical stimuli before, sometimes their systems just… glitch. like random arousal. popping brutal boners around you from total accident.
they’ll just be sitting next to you, your head resting on someone’s shoulder, your hand playing absently with their fingers, and suddenly their body reacts. it can come off as awkward sometimes, but luckily you’re understanding with them.
take jeongin. you were just… nice to him. that’s it. you passed him in the hallway one morning, ruffled his hair, said “looking good baby” and that’s fucking it.
he gets home, slams the door so hard the frame cracks, stomps to his bed he never makes, faceplants into a pillow, and just screams. legs kicking. fists pounding the cushions.
he stays like that for twenty minutes. screaming. then he sits up, panting, staring at the ceiling. he used to gut people for fun and now a compliment from you makes him want to cry and hump the nearest surface.
or he’ll be sitting at the kitchen table doing something with his crypto persona on dark web, minding his own business, and bam, your name pops into his head and his dick just wakes up. like gets rock hard just because sometimes his brain doesn’t know how to deal with you. he’ll groan, adjust himself, mutter “not again fuck” while the others snicker. worst is when han points it out (“bro u got a boner again??”) and jeongin keeps throwing forks at him. you always have to stop that.
and when you stop their bullshit in those lil shorts that are just so cute and jeongin likes so much? instant tent. han drops something so you bend over to pick it up for his dumbass? jeongin’s crossing his legs, muttering “fuck fuck fuck not now.” he’ll be mid conversation with chan about where to dump the next body and suddenly freeze, eyes glazing over because he remembered the way you pulled his his hair playfully last night. “yo man hold up i need a minute” and he just turns around, adjusts himself aggressively, and tries to play it off with a wink. chan actually laughs in his face.
minho is another one that becomes really affected by your tiny acts of affection, he just doesn’t show it. you give him one absent forehead kiss while passing through the living room, barely a peck, and he freezes. stands there for a full minute, unblinking, processing.
seungmin gets a casual “miss you already” text from you and punches a hole in the drywall. bc like why the fuck does that make him wanna smile. smiling is for pussies.
changbin paces the hallway holding his phone waiting for your “home soon” text. when it comes he does a little fist pump. “yes. yes. she still likes me. fuck yeah.” then immediately panics “what if she stops liking me tomorrow.” he’s sweet. (a fucking MURDERER)
the others take it better, but they’re all acting out in general. screaming into pillows. running laps. punching walls. humping furniture. crying on kitchen floors. jerking off to innocent memories. staring at walls. felix holding your hand, muttering “don’t go to the bathroom alone okay? bad things happen in bathrooms.” ???
you do try to be patient with them. you really do. you try to treat them like people. you try to redirect instead of scold. you try to keep the peace. gentle parenting might be the best word for it.
and sometimes it almost works. almost. other times… well. the beach days is a perfect example. let’s say even the beach day is going manageable. like… they haven’t killed anyone yet. maybe felix is splashing around in the water, playing with hyunjin. anything.
then seungmin walks past minho, who glances up, and casually says “your lazy eye’s worse in the sun.”
there’s a brief moment of silence. the kind of silence where everyone within ten feet instinctively knows something is about to happen.
seungmin slowly turns his head. “what.”
minho shrugs. “just saying.”
seungmin stares at him for about two seconds. then suddenly grabs minho by the hair and drags him toward the water. yanks him straight into it, then shoves his head under the water. hard.
you’re sitting on the towel watching them. just waiting.
after about ten seconds minho finally surfaces again, gasping slightly, wet hair stuck to his face. he wipes water from his eyes, then slowly smiles. now he smiles.
and just like that they walk back toward the towels like nothing happened. because for them that wasn’t even a fight, that was a casual interaction.
minho ends up next to you. so wet. he looks like a wet bird. it’s brutally adorable, and you just can’t resist.
you tug lightly on his arm. “come here.”
he comes closer and lets you pull him down until he’s half sitting in your lap. you wrap your arms around him, hold him while he’s completely still and nonverbal. he stares straight ahead at the water with that terrifying blank expression he has. except now his hair is dripping and you’re holding him like he’s your baby.
“hey y/n, do you want ice cream? me and felix are gonna buy some.” doesn’t even matter who asked, really.
“yeah, sure.”
they wander off. you rub your hand slowly up and down minho’s wet arm.
brutal respect for you tbh. because you try, you really try. you don’t yell. you don’t lecture like they’re children. you just talk. calm voice. soft tone. understanding. hold them like this.
“maybe next time we don’t comment on people’s eyeballs.” you say.
minho considers that. then shrugs slightly. “maybe.” which in his language actually means fine, whatever.
progress. sort of.
it matters a lot that they let you. no one else gets away with this. no one else could hug minho after he nearly drowned and not get shoved away. no one else could tell seungmin to calm down and have him actually listen. no one else could treat them the way they are and still be here.
gentle parenting serial killers is exhausting. but every once in a while, when minho sits quietly in your lap like a wet bird while you talk to the others and rock him a little at the same time, you think maybe it’s working. a little.
before you, wanting something was simple. they wanted food. they wanted alcohol. they wanted violence. they wanted the thrill of a hunt. you wanted something, you went and got it.
but they want you constantly, and they cannot always have you. and that, apparently, drives them fucking insane.
you’re in the living room folding laundry or whatever thing you do for murderers and han is in the shower, minding his own dumb business. but then he thinks about you. just one thought in his usually thoughtless little head, your laugh, how patient you are with him(which he can’t process as patience, he just knows it feels nice), the way you called him “good boy” last night, and boom, he wants you now. not sexual, just misses you.
turns the shower off, soap still dripping down his stomach, he steps out butt naked, dripping everywhere, cute little patch of pubes all dark and damp, those lil man nipples pebbled from the cold air, men are built so cute omg. he doesn’t even grab a towel. just pads straight to you, water trailing, arms out, big wet eyes, and launches himself into a hug from behind you.
“missed you.” he mumbles into your neck. his wet skin soaks your shirt instantly, and he’s trembling a little, and he just clings.
you pat his cheek. “baby you’re getting me all wet.” give him one more cheek pat, maybe a quick kiss on the tip of his nose, and gently push him back toward the bathroom. “go dry off, han. you’re dripping on the floor.”
he pouts the whole way back, ass cheeks flexing with every step(men and their tense little asses omfg) muttering something that you can’t quite catch.
you hear the hairdryer start up and then immediately stop what you’re doing and go after him because you do not want him electrocuted.
jeongin also… deals with it. it’s just with murder, but let’s be fucking for real what did we expect from him. he currently has some poor fucker tied to a workbench who doesn’t stand a chance.
jeongin has his axe. first swing takes the guy’s left arm clean off at the shoulder, blood sprays. second swing, right leg at the knee, bone shatters loud. guy’s screaming.
jeongin is not even looking at the body anymore, he’s monologuing to the ceiling about you, complaining about your current trio of bitches(that he knows of) third swing, axe buries in the sternum, cracks ribs. fourth, fifth, sixth, he’s swinging wild now, just pure emotional overflow. torso splits open. guts spill around. head lolls, jaw unhinged from the force. by the tenth swing the guy’s face is unrecognizable.
jeongin finally stops, panting, axe dripping, covered head to toe in red. stares at the mess. blinks. then mutters “fuck. i think i overdid it.” wipes his face with his sleeve (just spreads it more), pulls out his phone with bloody fingers, texts you, sends it. then sits on the floor in the gore puddle and waits for you to text back.
or like you’re at the stove flipping pancakes (because felix begged for them at 11pm), and felix is behind you, chin on your shoulder, arms around your waist. doesn’t say anything at first, just smells around.
then he grabs your free hand, brings your fingers to his mouth, and starts sucking on them. not gentle. full on nursing. tongue swirling, cheeks hollowing, little happy hums vibrating against your skin.
you try to pull away to flip the pancake. “felix, baby, i’m cooking.”
and he whines around your fingers, muffled “buf whey tasste lihe youuuw.” keeps sucking harder. moves to the next finger. then the thumb. then tries to fit three at once because “more better.” drool running down your wrist. you think maybe what development was supposed to go into his brain maybe went into instincts instead and his senses. like i don’t talk enough about how good his nose is.
now seungmin paired up with yearning is just fucking brutal. so when he wants you and you’re busy or across the room talking to someone else, he reacts the only way his brain knows how. he gets mean, because his brain, emotionally, is undeveloped. suddenly he’s starting arguments. throwing things. shooting walls again. picking fights with the others for absolutely no reason.
jeongin will be sitting on the couch minding his own business and suddenly seungmin is like “you breathe loud.” and jeongin is like “what.” and seungmin just stares at him with the quiet rage of a man who desperately wants to be kissing someone right now but can’t.
you’ll walk over five minutes later, touch his arm, and he immediately relaxes.
chan is not as obvious about it, but you can see it on him. typical manly shi. the way his hands settle on your waist when you pass by him. the way he always stands close to you.
it fascinates him, this new feeling inside of him. he’s curious about it. sometimes he’ll just sit next to you, arm around your shoulders, and quietly enjoy the fact that the ache goes away when you’re there. that’s enough for him. for now.
changbin is longing. yes, even now that he’s in the bitch circle. god that’s weird to write down but you know what i mean. but he’s patient. he’s controlled. even though he just found his person.
hyunjin is… hyunjin is a fucking circus. he’s so horrible. it can be gentle from him, like sitting beside you instead of across the room. sometimes you’ll look down and realize he’s absentmindedly holding your hand while sketching with the other.
but it can also be like… he can have whole breakdowns over how you’re “ruining him” because you made him feel this. he thinks he was fine before. he was empty and perfect, that’s what he knows of himself. sometimes jerks off to this whole thought chain because the way you messed him up is lowkey hot. he cums while crying real, pathetic tears. wipes his hand on the dead guy’s shirt next to him.
he used to carve faces off corpses for fun. now he carves little hearts with your initials into his own thigh just to feel something close to the way you make his chest hurt. writes your name in the steam on car windows after he kills someone in the backseat. fogs up the glass with his breath, traces “ y / n” with a bloody finger, then stares at it until it fades. one time he got so lost in thought he let the victim crawl halfway out the door before he even noticed. “shit, sorry man, she was just… really pretty today.” wrote you another poem later but puked on it.
he’d actually die for you. is already half dead without you anyway. he needs rehab. he needs you more.
minho kills more when he’s thinking about you too much. he trains harder. fights more. breaks things. and yet somehow, no matter how violent he is, his hand still finds your pinky when you’re walking together.
the unfortunate side effect of all this yearning, of all this sudden emotional awakening in eight psychopaths, is that they’re also… kind of creeps. not on purpose!! that’s the important part. they genuinely don’t mean to be. but when you take a group of men who have spent most of their adult lives stalking people through dark alleys, breaking into houses, watching targets from parked cars, and generally operating like highly functional predators… and then you give them a crush? their brains default to the only behavior patterns they know. which means sometimes they do things that would make a normal person go why the fuck are you standing there like that.
for example, the staring. they stare. they don’t even realize they’re doing it half the time.
you’ll just be in the kitchen doing something completely normal like pouring yourself a drink and suddenly you feel that they’re watching you. you turn around and three of them are just standing there. leaning in doorways. sitting at the counter. arms crossed. watching you.
han stares with his mouth open. chan is slightly better about it, he has enough self awareness to look away when you catch him watching you from across the room, but that doesn’t stop him from doing it. when you ask what’s up he just pulls you closer. what a man. changbin at least tries to behave like a normal human being, but even he occasionally forgets himself. sometimes you’ll turn around and find him standing there with that soft, slightly distracted look on his face. when you notice, he usually smiles a little and looks away.
minho just always ends up near you. you’ll move to another room, ten minutes later he is there too.
if felix he wants to look at you, he looks at you. if he wants to sit next to you, he sits next to you. if he wants to smell your hair because it smells nice? he might just lean down and do that.
seungmin does the slow walk by touch. the hand on your waist when passing behind you. the fingers brushing the back of your neck when you’re not expecting it. he loves scaring you. such a boy.
hyunjin sometimes stands slightly too close when you’re looking at something together. or rests his hand on the back of your chair while you’re sitting. or leans down a little when you’re talking.
and jeongin is probably the most self aware creep in the group. he knows exactly when he’s being weird, he just doesn’t always stop. sometimes he’ll lean in too close while talking. sometimes he’ll grab your hand and play with your fingers absentmindedly while staring at something else. sometimes he’ll rest his head on your shoulder and then immediately pull away. he’s a cunt.
or take the time you were walking down the street in the middle of the afternoon and had that strange feeling people get when they’re being watched. you glanced over your shoulder. nothing. kept walking. all until you spotted three very familiar idiots crouched badly behind a trash can.
jeongin was wearing sunglasses. minho was crouched. felix was not even hiding. he was just standing there smiling and waving when you made eye contact.
“why are you following me?” you asked.
jeongin leaned casually against the trash can. “we weren’t.”
“coincidence.” minho muttered.
felix was still waving.
or the time you accidentally bumped into a woman on the street.
“sorry.” you said.
she nodded.
you both moved on.
then you heard a sound behind you, a quick movement, a wet noise.
you turned.
and… hyunjin was standing there calmly. one, he wasn’t invited. two, he was wiping his knife clean. the woman was swimming in blood behind him on the pavement. then he slipped the knife away and offered you his hand like you were about to continue a pleasant afternoon walk.
being near you feels good.
and god, changbin feels that too.
just think of his hand brushing your lower back when the others aren’t looking. you hugging him just a little too long when he brings hyunjin over because hyunjin really wanted to see you but wasn’t in the mood to drive(he almost falls out the window while you and changbin are hugging). passing glances that last half a second too long before someone inevitably throws a knife into the wall or starts yelling.
the boys are always doing something stupid. that’s what makes it possible. they’re too busy fighting each other or inventing new dumb games to notice the way you and changbin disappear into another room for “a minute.”
for example. you’re all at hyunjin and changbin’s place. everyone is there except chan, who is apparently busy doing something mysterious and mechanical that involves his garage and probably a body. seungmin and minho are arguing about whether it’s physically possible to break a chair over someone’s back without the chair breaking first. felix is listening. head empty, maybe one thought of you and one of the mailman rolling around. han is half asleep on you. jeongin is just trying to mog the others in the room but isn’t doing very well so far. hyunjin is passed the fuck out on the couch, one arm over his face. he’s tired. he’s been working all day. probably drank something strong earlier. the man is unconscious.
you catch changbin’s eye across the room. neither of you says anything but somehow a full conversation happens anyway.
you slowly move han’s head off your shoulder. he grumbles but doesn’t wake up. you stand up. stretch casually. “i’m going to pee.” you say.
you are so not going to pee. you walk to the hall, ten seconds later changbin follows. you barely make it past the bathroom doorway before he grabs your waist and pulls you against him.
“hi.” he murmurs.
“hi.”
and then you’re kissing. immediately. he has been thinking about it all evening anyway.
it’s slow at first, then suddenly not anymore. suddenly you’re pressed against the counter and he’s leaning into you and you’re both trying not to make noise because oh my god there are literally six murderers in the other room.
somewhere behind the wall you hear jeongin yell “IF YOU BEND IT LIKE THIS—” followed by hyunjin shouting something in pain even though he was asleep two seconds ago.
when you two come back, minho looks at you immediately, broken leg of a chair in his hand. “i was right.”
“good job.” you say.
he narrows his eyes.
you two repeat the first kiss situation. the next to the sleeping hyunjin in his room one, which is extra awkward considering he designed that entire apartment himself and takes weird pride in it. like you go in to ask him if he wants food and instead you end up pressed against the wall by changbin, kissing again. grinding against him for a second before both of you immediately freeze again because hyunjin shifts in his sleep.
fuuuuck, you like him. he’s so unique, all eight are. and you also like han. and seungmin. and chan. you like them all the same, but maybe like chan a little more now.
like, take this, you’re sitting on the couch. chan is sideways on the couch with your legs draped across his lap while the two of you are talking about something. he talks with his hands sometimes, tapping lightly against your leg while he explains things.
changbin is heading somewhere. keys in one hand. jacket over his shoulder. he slows when he sees you, and his eyes flick to your legs in chan’s lap. then to chan. then back to you.
there’s a little pause and you can literally see the thought forming in his head.
chan glances up. their eyes meet for half a second. he lifts an eyebrow. like go on then.
“i’m heading out.” changbin says to you, and now that chan gave him that “permission”(wasn’t needed), he leans down to press a kiss on your cheek.
you smile. “okay.”
he straightens up again. “see you later.”
gets himself together. walks out. door closes.
silence.
chan is still holding your legs. he’s staring at the door for a second, then he looks back at you. “…bold.”
okay he deserves a big fat kiss for that.
what he doesn’t deserve(he deserves fucking prison for being a serial killer but anyways) is that the other boys keep hanging out at his place. he never invites anyone(except you). he never agrees. they keep coming over uninvited???
which is actually because they each trust chan with their lives, but whatever.
like today, he only invited you and hyunjin over. and everyone else showed up anyway. they’re fucking brutal. someone’s drinking straight from chan’s water bottle.(that his sister got him because why would chan buy himself a water bottle) someone else is already shirtless and sweaty and is rubbing all that sweat over chan’s couch. han already ate half the fridge. jeongin spat into one of chan’s shoes when chan wasn’t looking. (insert the cherry on top picture from tiktok comment sections)
you’re sitting for a while, surrounded by noise and bodies and heat and men, until eventually you stand up. “bathroom.” you mutter.
han looks up immediately. “i’ll—”
“no, honey.” you cut him off gently. “i’ll survive.”
he frowns. you slip away before he can attach himself to you again.
the hallway is dark, the light isn’t on. the noise from the main room muffled behind walls. chan keeps his place dim anyway, but at night it’s really calm. good to walk around when you wake up sometimes in the middle of the night.
you make it halfway down the hall before you hear footsteps behind you. one arm around your waist, other on your wrist to pull you back.
changbin’s scent, then his lips on yours.
and then you’re kissing him.
your back hits the wall with a soft thud.
his mouth is a little clumsy because changbin’s always a little too eager when it’s just the two of you. lips just all over yours, the bottom one fuller, slightly chapped but getting wetter now. his tongue slips in next, slow, sliding against yours.
there’s too much spit, too much hunger. drool starts to gather at the corner of his mouth, a shiny string slipping down his chin because he’s so focused on devouring you he forgets to swallow. you feel it drip onto your jaw.
you part from him and chase the saliva line with your tongue, licking the warm wet trail right off his skin. he shudders hard at that, hips jerking forward so his bulge presses heavy against your thigh.
“fuck… baby.” he mumbles against your lips, the word ending in another messy kiss. his hand cups the back of your head, fingers threading into your hair, holding you exactly where he wants while he tilts his head and goes deeper.
he accidentally bumps your teeth with his when he gets too excited, lets out a soft embarrassed laugh that turns into a moan when you bite his bottom lip. his free hand slides down to grip your ass, squeezing once, twice, then gripping when he feels your hand slide up his neck. with that hand, you feel a tiny bead of sweat roll down the side of his neck, warm, slick, and you part to lick that too, dragging your tongue up the column of his throat until he tilts his head back with a quiet “shit… yeah, just like that.”
one of his hands leaves your hair to cup your face, thumb stroking your skin while his tongue fucks slowly into your mouth again. more drool slips, messy, dripping down both your chins now. you lick it all up, greedy, sucking on his tongue when he offers it, then pulling back just to plant three rapid little kisses on his top lip, his bottom lip, the corner where it curves up when he smiles at you. then just kissing again.
a voice from behind him in the dark: “i’m fucking after you two.”
you jerk away from changbin so fast you nearly hit the wall again. “what the fuck—”
changbin doesn’t react much, just turns his head slightly.
you squint into the darker part of the hallway. “…minho?”
a shape shifts slightly. he steps forward just enough for you to make out his pretty face. yes, confirmed, that’s minho. he’s been standing there. just… standing there. in the dark. watching.
you watch him. “why are you just standing there? in the dark?”
“i like it here.”
“…oh.”
changbin, meanwhile, has not moved far. and he just leans in again. minho isn’t even a factor, like there isn’t a whole third person standing in the dark watching this, changbin’s hand slides back to your waist, pulling you closer again, and his mouth finds yours like nothing interrupted in the first place. that’s about how much he cares of being caught.
you make a small, surprised sound against his lips because seriously? right now?
yeah changbin doesn’t care. and… even to you, there is something deeply, ridiculously, unfairly hot about being kissed like that while someone else is watching. think back to when seungmin made you kiss chan in front of him. hot.
“you’re not even subtle.” minho mutters. his tone is flat but not pleased. interested though.
changbin pulls back just enough to look at you, then over his shoulder at minho again, completely calm. “don’t have to be.”
minho huffs quietly.
“you’re not going to, like… leave?” you ask. “i mean not that i don’t like you here babe, you know that, just—“
“no.”
“why?”
“i was here first.”
“…you were just hiding in the hallway?”
“i wasn’t hiding.”
“you were in the dark.”
“i like the dark.”
you stare at him for a second in silence.
then changbin tilts his pretty head and kisses you again.
minho shifts his weight, still leaning against the wall. “you’re taking a while.”
both of you ignore that. it makes it ten times hotter.
“okay.” you say after a bit, breath a little uneven. “i actually came here to pee.”
“right.” changbin murmurs.
minho gestures lazily toward the bathroom door. “it’s right there.”
“thank you.” you say dryly.
then you walk past them, muttering under a “fucking psychos…” your breath.
when you finally make it into the bathroom, alone, you lock the door behind you(though all of them can pick the lock, even han and felix because the others taught them and they’re not that dumb that they don’t have muscle memory), and finally pee.
and when you’re done, you move to the sink, turning the tap on, cool water running over your hands. it’s quiet in here. calm. chan’s man bathroom. so… man. manly is not even the right word, this is just such a man environment.
you stare down at your hands for a second as you rub soap into them, and you think about felix.
he’s lucky as fuck that he stumbled into these boys, because left to his own devices he’d probably have eaten something poisonous by now or accidentally set himself on fire. he needs to be taught. constantly. patiently. sometimes with a firm hand on the back of his neck.
you’re the one who had to sit him down in the bathroom like a toddler and make him watch while you scrubbed your own hands, then guided his small paws under the faucet. “soap, dummy. actual soap. not just water.” he stared at the bubbles, then grinned so wide when they foamed up that he almost forgot why you were there. now he washes his hands every single time he comes in from a kill or handles “dinner” but he still sings the alphabet song (wrong order, wrong tune) under his breath because that’s what you taught him to time it. he gets proud as fuck when you check and say “good boy, no blood under your nails this time.”
years back, when he first discovered porn(the dumbass clicked every pop up) he got hooked fast and hard. didn’t understand moderation, didn’t understand why his dick hurt after the tenth video in a row, didn’t understand why he felt guilty and empty after. he’d just sit there in the dark with his laptop each night and feed into the new addiction.
chan caught him one night looking like death warmed over, eyes bloodshot, chafed to hell, dehydrated, and chan just sighed, closed the laptop, and sat him down on the couch.
chan didn’t judge. just talked him through it in that calm, manly way of his. explained why it is bad for him, explained how the brain gets fried on endless new things, explained that real sex is better than any screen anyway. he made felix delete the tabs, block the sites, and report back every day. limited access to his phone too. kept him busy. physically dragged him into other activities when he started getting restless. took months, but felix kicked it. still gets random boners from nothing now, but at least they’re because of you, not because he binged sixteen hours of step sibling roleplay.
minho was the one who taught him how to approach cats.
felix loves animals, like genuinely, deeply, innocently loves them. especially cats. but his problem is, he has no concept of not being overwhelming.
so his version of approaching a cat used to be see cat, get excited, walk straight at it, reach out immediately. which obviously resulted in the cat running away every single time. or scratching him. or both.
minho watched him get scratched to shit three times in one week, then finally grabbed him by the collar mid sprint. dragged him to a curb, made him stay still while minho crouched down, clicked his tongue soft, let the cat come to him. felix mimicked it, awkward, too loud at first, then quieter when minho glared. took weeks of daily lessons. now felix can get almost any cat to rub on his legs if he’s patient enough. when one finally lets him pet it he looks back at minho like “did you see?? i did it!!”
hyunjin taught him how to walk a dog properly, even though hyunjin doesn’t even like dogs. his family had one lil ratty dog while hyunjin grew up(that he always wanted to kick into the wall but never did), that’s genuinely only why he knows that skill. (yup in this universe there’s no kkami and hyunjin just has to die when a ratty little dog interacts with him. doesn’t even like the big ones that much either)
once, felix’s aunt’s let’s say normal sized dog was at felix’s place. just for a week. felix used to yank the leash, or let the dog drag him into traffic because “he wants to go fast!!”
hyunjin showed him loose leash walking, treats, how to read tail wags. felix kept forgetting and sprinting ahead, so hyunjin just took over and made felix follow him, who eventually got it.
hyunjin also taught him how to shave his balls. felix came to him one day red faced and complaining about he tried and it itches now and this and that and hyunjin laughed so hard he spilled whiskey, but ended up explaining to him with zero shame. talked him through it step by step. felix was terrified the whole time, kept squeaking “what if i cut it off???” and hyunjin told him “then you’ll have a cool scar story, won’t you.” felix survived with only one tiny nick.
these boys really are brutally adorable when you zoom out. eight grown ass serial killers who carve people up for fun, but half their brainpower goes to making sure felix doesn’t poison himself with expired yogurt or chase han into traffic. they’d burn the world down for you, but they’ll also spend forty minutes showing felix how to fold a fitted sheet because “y/n likes a tidy house.”
they’re completely, fundamentally fucked up, but then there’s this side of them. this… taking care of each other. teaching each other things they should’ve learned years ago. filling in the gaps where something in their development just… didn’t happen.
made for each other. all of them. felix is the luckiest dumbass alive to have them. to have you.
it’s quiet in the hallway. you love them. you do. but jesus christ sometimes you need a breather. and here comes your mistake, thinking you’d get five minutes of peace in a house full of men who collectively share one brain cell when it comes to you.
you stand there for a second. just… silence. no boys being boys. no seungmin shooting something. no jeongin talking. no hyunjin deep throating a bottle of whiskey. no minho throwing things around. no chan catching the things and breaking it on seungmin’s head. no changbin to hold felix back from going after the mailman. no han accidentally knocking into furniture.
you take a breath. this is nice. this is… too nice. something is wrong.
you hurry back to the living room, really hoping that your boys are still alive(yes, your boys, crazy that we got here from them following you on the street)
but they look… fine. almost how you left them, just now han jumps up when he sees you and comes over to hold onto you. arms around your waist, lifting you slightly off your feet for a second before settling, face buried into your shoulder.
“hi, y/n. you won’t believe what happened, chan totally got into an argument with hyunjin over hyunjin breaking the glasses in the house again but then minho came back and told us that he saw you and changbin kiss in the hallway and that shut everyone up he’s so nice—“ he goes on, way too loud, way too happy.
you look past him. everyone is staring. openly.
chan is leaning back on the couch, completely calm, one arm draped over the backrest, meeting your eyes. there’s that tiny, knowing psycho look of his. he saw this coming three business days ago.
seungmin is next to him, one leg bouncing, expression somewhere near annoyed. “took you long enough.”
you raise a finger at him. he shrugs, unbothered.
it’s so weird, sometimes he obeys and sometimes you just can’t deal with him.
jeongin groans. kicks and bitches around. falls into hyunjin’s lap. hyunjin immediately pushes him off the couch with a soft thump onto the floor.
felix is sitting forward, elbows on his knees, staring at you. “do we get turns?” he asks.
everyone turns to look at him.
“what?” he says sweetly. he does not understand. at all. but he’s supportive in spirit.
changbin is sitting on the couch like a good fucking boy. watching you. there’s a softness in his gaze(which is always there for you), which is crazy for a killer this brutal, but also a quiet tension now that it’s out in the open. he doesn’t mind, but wants you fine before anything else.
and minho is looking very pleased with himself.
“i think it’s good.” han says, genuinely. “more is better.”
you let out a short laugh. “yeah baby, whatever.”
“i just thought transparency was important.” minho says casually.
“you enjoyed this.” you mutter.
he shrugs. “a little.”
you can’t even blame him. he’s in love for the first time in his life, that kind of feeling doesn’t sit quietly. not in him. not in any of them. it rots. it claws. it demands attention.
and you have multiple of them already, letting more in. of course he had to get immature. of course he told.
seungmin leans his head back, looking at the ceiling.
“i don’t care that much.” he tells you. it’s important that he’s saying this so you know, not so that the others know. who cares about them. he wants you to know. “i just hate that he gets to feel special now.” he jerks his thumb toward changbin.
changbin huffs a quiet laugh. “i don’t feel special.”
“you should.” jeongin mutters.
han squeezes you tighter. “you kissed him like you kiss me?”
“not the question to ask right now, baby.”
he thinks about that. “…okay. but was it the same?”
you cover his mouth with your hand.
felix raises his hand sweetly. “is it too late to join?”
everyone turns to look at him again. always this fucker.
“you should come over tonight.” han tells changbin, still on you. “to our place.”
you look at him. “…you mean my place. where you just… live now without asking.”
“yeah!”
changbin huffs a quiet laugh, rubbing the back of his neck. aware of all the eyes on him. he glances at you. “if that’s fine with the boss.”
you shrug. “it’s fine.”
han lights up immediately. yanks at your sleeve a little in happiness.
“oh, so we’re doing sleepovers now.” jeongin mutters from the couch.”
“we’ve been doing sleepovers.” seungmin says. “you’re just not invited.”
“yet.” jeongin says, pointing at him.
“keep dreaming. anyways, i’m coming too.”
chan exhales softly, already pushing himself up from the couch. “i’ll come by later.”
jeongin’s eye actually twitches.
felix leans over to him, patting his back. “it’s okay.”
“don’t talk to me right now.” he kicks the leg of the couch. hard.
and in that fucking second chan grabs jeongin’s arm, twists it back.
jeongin yelps. “okay— okay— point made— jesus—”
“don’t kick my furniture.” chan says calmly. lets go.
jeongin rubs his arm, glaring. “…you’re all in terrible moods.”
han, meanwhile, is still focused on the important part to his little brain. he looks at changbin again, genuinely excited. “you can stay in my spot.”
you snort. “you don’t have a spot.”
“i do.” he insists. “it’s the left side.”
“that’s just where you end up every night.”
“mhm.”
“yeah. okay.” changbin mutters.
felix suddenly perks up. “should i come too?”
“no.” seungmin, hyunjin and jeongin say at once.
he blinks. “…okay.”
han tugs at your hand lightly. “let’s go, y/n.”
you look at him, at the others. “yeah. sure, baby. bye.”
there’s a chorus of “bye, y/n” from the ones not coming with you.
outside, han is still holding your hand, swinging it slightly, completely forgot everything else the second you stepped out. changbin walks beside you, a little closer than before. seungmin behind you, complaining to chan who is already on his phone.
“i’ll drive.” changbin says. he’s already pulling his keys out, glancing at you just long enough to check your reaction, but han is already dragging you into changbin’s car(he loves that car) so whatever guess it’s decided. seungmin just pats changbin on the shoulder and starts to get into the car too. great.
chan is still by the curb, leaning against his car, phone in hand, typing something out.
you catch his attention without saying anything, so he looks up. he reads the situation instantly. his gaze flicks from you, to changbin, to han on you, to seungmin already halfway to the car.
“i’ll catch up.” he says. he always moves on his own timing.
you fight han off to give him a kiss on the cheek.
behind you, seungmin makes a small annoyed noise. “are we done with the goodbye tour or—”
“relax.” chan says without even looking at him.
seungmin clicks his tongue but doesn’t push it further.
“…i didn’t get one.” han says.
you turn to him. “you get like ten a day.”
he pouts. annoying little bitch. you roll your eyes, grab his face, and kiss his cheek quickly just to shut him up. problem solved.
changbin is unlocking the car. “get in before someone else decides they’re coming too.”
“felix might still try.” you mutter.
“don’t even joke about that.” seungmin says, already in the passenger seat.
he ends up entertaining changbin through the drive there. they talk while you have to deal with han’s bitch ass. okay jk you love him.
what does chan have to do that is more important than his queen y/n? the answer is, of course, burying a body with hyunjin. it’s about an hour later, they’re already somewhere deep in the woods, the dirt is wet, and it makes the shovel heavier a bit. but they’re strong, they can deal with it.
chan’s sleeves are rolled just enough to keep them clean. his hands, though, are a different story.
hyunjin is not like that. hyunjin is standing knee deep in the half dug grave, breathing.
“i’m just saying,” he mutters, jamming his shovel down harder than necessary. “this is fucking ridiculous.”
chan doesn’t look up. “you say that about everything.”
“yeah, because everything lately is fucking ridiculous.”
there’s a dull thud as hyunjin hits a rock. he swears under his breath, kicks it like that’ll fix anything, then bends to yank it out. he tosses it aside with more force than needed.
“we used to be normal.” hyunjin continues, wiping his forehead with the back of his wrist, leaving a faint smear of something dark. “you know? kill, dump, move on.”
chan lifts another heavy scoop of dirt and tosses it aside neatly. “we were never normal.”
“you know what i fucking mean.”
“i do, i just don’t care.”
“ha. of course you don’t. you’re one of the boyfriends.” god, that feels good to finally say into chan’s face.
chan finally straightens a little, resting one hand on the shovel handle. “if you have something to say, say it properly.”
“oh, i’ve got a lot to say. i’ve been holding it in all fucking night, because god forbid i ruin the little polycule you’ve got going on.”
chan exhales slowly through his nose. patience. always patience. “be specific.”
hyunjin looks ridiculous. dirt on his arms, jeans ruined, a smear of something definitely not dirt across his pretty jaw. cigarette tucked behind his ear. “four. she’s dating four of you.”
“i’m aware.”
“no, like—four.”
“i can count.”
“can you?”
chan keeps digging. “it’s handled.”
“handled. yeah, man. looks real fucking handled from where i’m standing in a grave at two in the morning.”
“you’re in the grave because you lost rock paper scissors.”
“i lost because seungmin cheats.”
“you always say that.”
“because he does.”
chan shrugs like that’s not his problem. because it isn’t.
“han is just useless. like, actually fucking useless. i don’t even know how he’s still alive. he’s glued to her and she just—lets him.”
“i don’t see the issue.”
hyunjin stares at him like he wants to throw something, but there’s nothing to throw except dirt and honestly that would just make his life worse. he continues. “seungmin is always starting shit. i swear to god, one day he’s gonna fuck something up so badly we can’t clean it. someone like him is not good for y/n, but i can’t say it into his face because he will kill me in my sleep.”
“he kills people over less.”
“exactly why i don’t want him around y/n. and when did changbin even—what, grow a heart? since when does he get to just walk in and— ugh. fuck. it’s messy, all of it. it’s fucking messy, chan. it’s not what y/n deserves.” y/n deserves you, you mean to say, hyunjin.
“…you’re not wrong.” chan admits.
“then why the fuck are you acting like it’s fine? you’re being selfish. all of you are. there is no universe where this is good for y/n.” there we go. it’s not just about him being jealous, he’s also scared of something bad happening to you. he’s looking out for you, that’s what’s really happening. he loves his boys but thinks this is terrible for you, and for fuck’s sake, he was the first, he’s supposed to know you better than any of them but that chance flew away the second han kissed you.
“because it is.”
hyunjin lets out a disbelieving scoff. “you’re fucking delusional.”
“careful.”
hyunjin lets out a long breath, looking off into the dark like he’s trying to find patience out there somewhere.
“i don’t like them touching her.” he admits.
“yeah.” chan says.
“that’s it?”
“what do you want me to say.”
“i don’t know, man, something deep. you’re usually better at this.”
“dig.”
hyunjin groans but bends down anyway, starting to actually move dirt now instead of just standing there like a decoration. i mean he does look good but c’mon he has shit to do. “if she dumps all of you, i’m gonna laugh.” he mutters.
“she won’t.”
“you sound very sure.”
“i am.”
“you would kill for that or—”
“dig, hyune.”
“yeah, yeah, alright, fuck.”
the hole’s deeper now. the air’s colder. chan’s pace hasn’t changed, but there’s a weight sitting between them now that wasn’t there before. heavy. annoying.
hyunjin drags the back of his hand across his mouth, leaving another streak of dirt.
“it’s stupid.” he mutters.
chan closes his eyes because why is this bitch speaking again. “what is?”
“this.”
“be specific.”
“this, man.” he gestures, nearly losing his balance in the hole and catching himself with a curse. “i don’t even know what the fuck this is. it’s not like before, nothing’s like before. i used to know exactly what i wanted. it was easy. now it’s… it’s y/n. all the time. i see something, i think of her. i hear something, i think of her. it’s fucking annoying. i don’t like that they get to have her.”
chan’s shovel hits something harder, rock maybe. he adjusts, keeps going. “i know.”
“no, you don’t.”
“i do.”
“no, you don’t. because you have her. you don’t get it from the outside. you weren’t even upset today when minho told us her and changbin made out.”
“because i knew.”
“since when?”
“weeks.”
hyunjin blinks. “weeks? weeks?”
“yeah.”
“since when, chan?” there’s a tone there now. dangerous, coming from him. not at chan, not really, but it’s there.
chan glances down at the hole, then back at him. “when you cut your arm.”
hyunjin frowns, thrown.
“you were asleep.” chan continues. “i came over to check on you. i went to your room.”
there’s a pause.
hyunjin’s expression changes. slowly. something clicking into place that he really, really wishes hadn’t. “…no.”
“yeah.”
“no.”
“yeah.”
“you’re fucking with me.”
“i’m not.”
“chan.”
“they were kissing on your bed next to you.”
silence.
hyunjin rubs a hand over his face. “…did she—” he stops, swallows. “did she look at me?”
“no.”
“cool. cool. that’s great.”
chan watches him. “you gonna keep digging, or just stand in the hole?”
“…fuck you.”
“valid.”
hyunjin exhales hard, reaches up, grabs the cigarette from behind his ear, shoving it between his lips.
pats his pockets.
left. right. back.
nothing.
he freezes.
pats again. harder this time.
“no, no, no—”
chan doesn’t even look surprised. “lost it?”
“i didn’t lose it.” hyunjin growls, already climbing out of the grave in a rush, boots slipping in the dirt. “it’s here.”
“you always say that.”
“because it is.” he hauls himself up, stumbling slightly as he hits solid ground, immediately digging through his jacket pockets. “where the fuck—” he checks again. and again. and again. getting more frantic each time.
“you’re gonna tear your clothes.” chan says.
“i don’t give a shit about the clothes—where is it— did you take it.”
“why would i take your lighter?”
“because you’re a controlling asshole.”
“i have my own.”
“well i don’t, apparently—”
he checks his pockets again. useless. empty. cigarette still hanging from his mouth in a weird little angle. his breathing’s off now. not huge, just enough to notice for a psycho like chan.
chan watches him for a second, then goes back to digging. “check the car.” he says.
“i had it at the car, chan.”
“then retrace your steps.”
“my steps are here. i’ve been here.”
“then it’s here.”
“i know that, that’s the fucking problem—”
he looks horrible. hair messy. moving fast.
“you good?” chan asks.
“yeah, man.” hyunjin says. “i’m fucking fantastic. love hearing that the girl i’m—” he cuts himself off, jaw tightening. “that she was making out with someone else on my bed while i was bleeding out. really adds to the night.”
“you weren’t bleeding out.”
“you get the point.”
“i do.”
hyunjin shakes his head, looking away. “…i need that fucking lighter.”
“you need to calm down.”
“i’ll calm down when i find it.”
“that’s not calming down, that’s distracting yourself.”
“same thing.”
“not even close.”
hyunjin exhales, long and slow, cigarette still unlit between his lips. “i’m gonna find it.” he says, more to himself.
“good plan.”
“shut up.”
he starts walking off a few steps, scanning the ground.
chan watches him for a second longer, then sighs quietly, grabbing hyunjin’s lighter from his pocket. bitch had it there the whole time. “hey.”
hyunjin turns.
chan flicks it once. holds it out.
hyunjin just stares at it. then at him. then back at it. “…you’re a dick.”
“i know.”
he walks back over anyway. leans in. the flame catches the cigarette, tip glowing faintly in the dark. he inhales, deep. holds it. then exhales, shoulders dropping just a fraction. “…thanks.”
chan nods, snapping the lighter shut, putting into into hyunjin’s pocket himself. that’s brutally intimate. “yeah.”
hyunjin takes another drag, quieter now. not calm, not really, but less like he’s about to rip something apart with his bare hands. he flicks ash to the side, glancing back at the half dug grave.
“…we still gotta finish this, huh.”
“we do.”
“fuck my life.”
“get back in the hole.”
“…yeah, man. yeah.”
chan finally gets to your place around three am. he’s got his own key, has for months now, the chill motherfucker earned it by never making a big deal out of anything. he steps inside, locks it behind him.
you’re on the couch, legs spread wide across seungmin’s lap, back arched, han around your leg. changbin on your other side, and the four of you are locked in the sloppiest, hungriest three way kiss he’s ever seen in his fucking life.
it’s obscene.
seungmin has one hand fisted in your hair, tilting your head so he can claim the left side of your mouth, tongue sliding in deep, slow drags, teeth catching your bottom lip hard enough to make you whimper into him. changbin’s mirroring from the right, softer but no less greedy, lips plush and wet, sucking gently on your tongue before letting it slip back into your mouth so he can chase it again. your lips are swollen, shiny with spit from both of them, and every time one pulls back even a fraction the other dives in deeper, tongues meeting over yours, filthy, sliding. spit strings between your lips when seungmin pulls back for a breath, only for changbin to lick it up immediately, chasing the taste.
han is too busy being a dumb desperate fucker. face buried in your thighs, tongue lapping wet stripes up your skin. he’s grinding his hips forward in helpless little jerks, hard cock rubbing against your calf through his pants, whining pathetically every time you shift and give him more friction.
chan just stands there for a solid five seconds, keys still dangling from his fingers, watching this absolute clusterfuck of limbs and mouths and grinding.
why the fuck does this always happen to him?
every single time he walks in it’s the exact moment someone’s got their tongue down your throat or their hand up your shirt or their dick halfway inside you. last week it was han and seungmin spit roasting you over the kitchen island while you tried to eat cereal. the week before that seungmin had you bent over the arm of this very couch with his face between your legs. and of course let’s not miss that chan had walked in on you kissing next to the sleeping hyunjin. it’s brutally hilarious. he’s not even mad. he’s just… resigned. and hard as fuck already.
for changbin, this is insane. this is huge. they all just found out about him today. today. and now he’s here, in the middle of this, not stepping aside, not waiting his turn. jumped into the cold, deep water, now listening to the wet sounds of tongues and han’s puppy whimpers. that’s not just a step, that’s a fucking leap.
“…didn’t take you long.” chan murmurs, mostly to himself.
seungmin breaks the kiss with a slow, filthy pull, string of spit snapping between his lip and yours. looks over your shoulder at chan with that shit eating smirk. “took you long enough. we started without you.”
“you couldn’t wait?” chan asks.
“oh.” seungmin snorts, face shiny with spit. “please.”
changbin flushes bright red, poor thing still gets embarrassed even when he’s literally got his tongue in your mouth two seconds ago, but he doesn’t pull away. again, huge for him.
chan glances at him briefly. “you’re adjusting quickly.”
“…i decided not to hesitate.” changbin replies, quiet.
chan hums. approving. a little. “good.”
all while han is whining some “chan, hi, come here—she smells so good today—”
chan exhales through his nose, half laugh half groan, and finally moves. drops his keys on the side table, shrugs out of his jacket, adjusts the obvious bulge in his jeans because han’s desperate humping is doing things to him. “y’all are animals.” he mutters.
he climbs onto the couch, knees sinking into the cushions, hovering over you, caging you in with seungmin and changbin still on you.
you tilt your head back immediately, lips parted, still glossy from the other two.
“hey, sweetheart.” he says, low, then he leans down and kisses you slow. deep, controlled, tongue sliding in lazily, tasting the mess the others left behind. one big hand cups the back of your neck, thumb stroking your jaw, while the other braces on the couch so he doesn’t crush you.
seungmin gives a sound, pleased. changbin makes this soft noise against your shoulder. han slows a little, humming into your skin.
chan glances at the other three. “move over. i’m not watching from the doorway again.”
seungmin snorts. “make us.”
chan sighs, so done with seungmin’s shit, but changbin scoots away a little to give him space, eyes wide.
up until right now? the most he ever got was grinding against you in the dark, both of you still fully dressed, your little moans in his ear while he tried not to bust in his jeans. that was it. that was the peak.
and now he’s watching three other guys absolutely maul you.
the tension is fucking brutal, thicker than the blood they all spill on a daily basis. sexual tension so thick it’s choking him. he’s never felt anything like this. not even close.
now seungmin is mouthing on your neck while chan is kissing you. han has his face pressed to the inside of your thigh, grinding his cock against you still, little wet spot already forming. he’s whining, hips jerking in helpless rhythm while he mouths at your skin.
changbin is sitting there frozen, cock so hard it hurts, leaking through his boxers, staring at all of it. he’s never seen you like this. the energy isn’t normal sex energy. it’s more. overwhelming.
they notice him staring.
seungmin pulls away from you. “c’mere. she’s been waiting for you.” he shifts so he’s kneeling next to the couch, pulls you a little toward the middle so there’s space right in front of you.
chan helps, behind you now, sitting upright against the arm of the couch, big calm chest your new backrest. he pulled you back against him easy, one massive hand splayed across your stomach under your shirt, thumb stroking slow circles. he’s not rushing anything. just holding you open, chin on your shoulder. “easy, baby. let him learn. he’s been waiting real polite.”
han is the pathetic cherry on top, just hugging your leg and humping and whining, teeth scraping the skin right above your knee while he humps faster, little pathetic “uh-uh-uh” noises escaping every thrust.
changbin’s heart’s hammering so loud he can hear it over han’s noises. he never felt anything like this before you. never wanted anything this bad. killing used to be enough, now it’s just background static while his entire soul spins around the wet spot he can already see forming on your shorts. the others are letting him have the most. because he’s new. because they’re generous bastards when they wanna be. or maybe they just love watching him lose his mind.
“c’mere.” chan says, voice so so so calm, and he adjusts you higher on his chest so your ass is basically in changbin’s face now, legs spread wider. “go on, she’s yours tonight.”
seungmin helps, mean hands gripping your thighs, yanking them apart, presenting you.
changbin’s throat clicks when he swallows. “i—fuck—”
“don’t be shy.” seungmin murmurs, reaching over to grab changbin’s wrist and pull his hand to your thigh. “touch her. she wants it.”
watching you nod, changbin’s fingers shake as they land on your skin. warm. soft. trembling himself. he looks up at you and you give him that smile. he leans in slow, kisses you. soft at first, then deeper when you open for him, tongue tentative until seungmin growls “harder” and chan chuckles “she can take it.”
han tugs at the hem of your shorts, whining “off—please—”
seungmin nuzzles his pretty face into yours lovingly, mockingly. “you heard the man, binnie. go on. take her clothes off. we’ll help.”
changbin watches you, legs spread shameless, shorts still on but riding up so high the seam’s digging into your pussy lips and everyone can see the wet spot blooming dark.
his hands are shaking when he reaches for the buttons. you lift your hips for him, god you’re so good, and seungmin and chan both slide their fingers under the fabric when changbin’s dumb little fingers are done with undoing your buttons and zipper, helping peel the shorts down your legs slow, teasing. han actually whimpers when your panties come into view, soaked through, and he starts humping your leg harder like the dumb bitch he is.
“look at that.” seungmin chuckles, flicking the wet spot with one finger.
changbin swallows so hard it clicks. he’s never been happier in his entire murderous life. his face is flushed, lips parted, eyes glued to the dark patch on your panties.
chan reaches down, hooks a finger in the crotch of your panties and pulls it aside for changbin, exposing you completely. “see that?” he watches changbin’s pathetic face, then clicks his tongue to get your attention, driving his pretty hands down to the part between the bottom of your ass and start of your thighs and lifts your legs gently.
your legs stay in the air when he hooks his fingers into your panties and pull them down, exposing you to the room.
changbin’s eyes go wide, breath hitching.
chan spreads your thighs wider, holds you open so changbin can see everything. “look at her.” chan murmurs. “all for you right now.”
you’re looking down at him, biting your bottom lip. god, he looks beautiful like this. in pure awe.
“eat her out.” chan says, voice low. he slides one hand into changbin’s hair, gentle but guiding and pushes his face forward. “she likes it slow at first.“
seungmin has his cheek on your arm. “don’t be a pussy, take what you want. we’ll hold her for you.”
chan’s hands slide under your shirt, rucking it up so your tits spill out. han immediately jumps up and latches onto one nipple, sucking sloppy and desperate. seungmin takes the side of that same boob into his mouth, biting gently.
it all feels so good.
changbin’s staring at all of it, three mouths on you, three sets of hands, and they’re all moving you for him. positioning you. offering you up like a fucking sacrifice. he’s shaking so bad his teeth chatter but he’s never been happier. never felt this wanted, this included, this fucking alive.
he finally leans in. he starts gentle because he’s always gentle to you, you’re just a human compared to the absolute killing machines they are, but the second his tongue touches you he loses the plot. broad, flat lick right up your center, savoring, finally tasting you. you taste like heaven. he moans loud into you, and his big shoulders shudder.
chan’s hand leaves changbin’s hair, lets him on his own, but seungmin takes over instead. seemed fun when chan did it.
god it’s so fucking hot changbin might actually die happy right here between your thighs.
changbin wraps his lips around your clit and sucks like he was born for this exact moment. he’s a natural. zoned in on you, every whimper, every twitch of your thighs, every time your back arches harder against chan’s solid frame. when you buck he just presses one thick arm across your hips to hold you down, the other hand sliding up to spread you wider with two fingers so he can fuck his tongue inside you.
when he does that, his nose is buried right against your clit, rubbing every time he pushes his tongue deeper. you can feel the soft wet heat curling inside, licking at your walls, then pulling out to lap messily at your entrance before diving back in. spit and your slick are dripping down his chin, onto everything.
because every single brain cell he has is screaming “her pleasure her pleasure her pleasure.” all lost in how slippery you are, groaning loud into your pussy because fuck you taste even better than he dreamed. sucking your juices out of you then spitting it back right on your clit to suck it off again.
every time you twitch, their hands adjust you, tilting your hips up so changbin can slide his tongue deeper, pressing you down so he can suck your clit between his lips and hum.
hands everywhere. chan’s rubbing slow circles on your legs while he holds you open, seungmin puts two fingers in your mouth making you suck them while he watches changbin’s tongue disappear inside you, han went back down to the floor to hump you better but reached up to squeeze your tit and knead it.
you’re whining, thighs trembling in their grip, little “changbin, fuck—oh my god—” falling out of your mouth around seungmin’s fingers.
changbin looks up at you through his lashes, those big sweet eyes all glassy and desperate, and the eye contact alone makes you lean your head back on chan’s shoulder. changbin keeps licking you all up, then sucks your clit hard, two fingers sliding in easy because you’re so wet they just glide, curling around, exploring you, making you arch and squirm around.
“that’s it.” chan praises, voice low and warm. “feel how she squeezes? keep doing that, exactly that.”
seungmin pulls the hand out of changbin’s hair to spit on his fingers then reach down to smear it over your clit right where changbin is sucking, making everything messier, slicker. “faster with the tongue.”
changbin’s never been happier, mouth full of you, three sets of hands roaming everywhere, on your tits, your stomach, your ass, his own back, his hair, guiding him deeper, praising him, using him.
“look at him go.” seungmin sneers.
han is crying actual tears now, face smashed against your thigh, tongue occasionally darting out. “changb—changbin you’re so lucky—fuck—i love her pussy too—can i just—”
“no.” seungmin spits out, but he’s grinning, mean and proud. he leans down and spits right on your clit, right where changbin’s tongue is working.
he’s pumping his fingers slowly while his mouth stays glued to your clit, sucking and licking and humming. his free hand is everywhere, gripping your ass, spreading you, thumb rubbing circles right above where his tongue is.
seungmin puts one hand on changbin’s back, rubbing up and down his spine, and changbin is crying. actual happy tears mixing with your wetness on his cheeks. he’s never been happier. never felt this wanted, this centered, this fucking alive.
the others are generous, they’re pushing him forward, hands on his shoulders, in his hair, on your body guiding him, egging him on with every filthy word. “harder, man, suck her like you’ll die without it—” “she’s close, feel her clenching? don’t stop—” “good, keep going—” “oh my god oh my god when is—“ “shut the fuck up, han.”
your hands are in his hair too now, tugging, nails scraping his scalp, and he groans so loud it sends another wave through you. he’s a natural. completely devoted.
the wet sounds are obscene, slick schlick of his fingers, loud sucking on your clit, his desperate moans, han’s whimpering humps, seungmin and chan’s low dirty praise mixing together.
it feels so good for him to be in the focus. to have all the attention to himself, everyone watching his tongue fucking you deeper, fingers speeding up, eyes sliding shut in pure bliss while the others hold you open for him, pet him, praise him, use their hands to make sure you stay exactly where he needs you.
it’s actually fucking catastrophic for him when he makes you cum. he has never felt better about himself before. seeing how your whole body locks up against chan’s chest, back arching so hard your tits shove forward, thighs clamping around changbin’s ears like you’re trying to crush his skull in the sweetest way possible. his fingers are still curled inside you, pumping through every spasm, sucking on you until you’re shaking and whimpering and clawing at chan’s arms because you’ll die if you don’t hold onto something.
when you finally slump back, boneless and panting, whining and squeaking, changbin pulls away slow, lips swollen dark red, chin glistening, eyes wide, breathing hard through his mouth(and it tickles), chest heaving under that tight shirt, cock so hard it’s probably painful against his zipper.
seungmin, the fucker, slides two fingers down your soaked folds, spreads you open wide right in front of changbin’s face, holding your lips apart so changbin can see every pink, fluttering inch still twitching from the orgasm he just gave you.
“look at that pretty cunt.” seungmin says. “still dripping for you. go on. hit it raw tonight. fill her up like you’ve been dreaming about.”
changbin’s brain glitches. actually stops. pupils blow so wide his eyes look black. mouth drops open, no sound comes out at first, just this broken little wheeze like someone punched the air out of him. he’s never heard anything hotter. never felt anything hotter. and seungmin just said raw. raw. inside you. no barrier. just him and heaven and the promise of pumping you full until it leaks back out.
han makes this pathetic noise from the floor. “what? he gets raw? i never get to go raw, that’s not fair she always makes me wear one i—”
“shut the fuck up. you get what she gives you. tonight’s his. cry about it later or i’ll make you lick it off the floor when he’s done.” seungmin says.
han whimpers, but he shuts up fast, goes back to humping your calf in slow, defeated little rolls while he stares up at changbin with big wet puppy eyes full of jealousy and lust.
chan chuckles against your ear, big hand still petting your stomach. “you good with that, y/n?”
you nod, still hazy from the orgasm, lips parted in this soft smile. “yeah. want him raw. want him to feel everything.”
that’s it. changbin’s done. he scrambles to his feet, knees shaky, hands fumbling at his belt like he’s never undressed before in his life. audience watching him strip. seungmin smirking, chan calm, han pouting and grinding, you laid back against chan’s chest looking like every wet dream he’s ever had. it’s humiliating. he manages, shirt yanked over his head first, revealing that chest you’ve been drooling over for weeks, muscles flexing with every ragged breath. jeans next, button, zipper, shoved down with his boxers in one clumsy push. cock springs free, thickness more interesting than the length and flushed dark, tip already leaking.
“fuck.” he breathes. “i—i don’t know if i can last—”
“you will.” seungmin says, still holding you spread. “or i’ll edge you myself with a knife. now get over here and sink in.”
changbin crawls back onto the couch, knees sinking into the cushions between your legs. chan shifts you a little higher, props your hips up perfect so changbin’s got the best angle. seungmin keeps those fingers there another second, spreading you one last time, then pulls them out slow, strings of slick connecting to his fingers before he wipes them on changbin’s chest.
changbin lines up. tip nudges your entrance, hot, slick, so fucking wet from your orgasm and his spit. he pushes in slow at first, just the head, and his whole body jerks like he got electrocuted.
“oh—fuck—oh my god—”
it’s heaven. actual heaven. he’s had pussy before but never anything like this. never this tight, this hot, this wet, this perfect. it’s overwhelming. brutal. his eyes roll back for a second, mouth falling open in this silent scream of pure bliss.
“so tight—fuck—you’re so—uh—” he’s babbling, hips stuttering forward inch by inch until he’s buried to the hilt. balls pressed flush against you, cock throbbing inside. he stays there, still, breathing hard through his nose, trying not to cum right then and there.
chan’s hand slides up to cup the back of changbin’s neck, thumb stroking soothing. “breathe, big guy. you’re doing good. feel how she’s squeezing you? that’s all for you.”
seungmin leans in, voice fucking honey in changbin’s ear, a charm. “move. fuck her slow at first.”
changbin tries. pulls out halfway, slow, torturous drag that has you both moaning, then slides back in deep. once. twice. building a rhythm that’s really, really desperate. full of feeling. every thrust makes wet, filthy sounds go around the room.
han is whining louder now, humping your leg faster like he’s trying to match changbin’s pace. seungmin reaches down and pinches your clit lightly, rolling it between his fingers while changbin fucks you, making your walls flutter harder around him.
“god—fuck—she’s gripping me so tight—i can feel everything—” changbin’s voice cracks, hips starting to snap harder. “never felt—never—shit—i’m gonna—”
“not yet.” chan murmurs, calm as ever. “hold it. make her cum again first. you can do it.”
changbin nods frantically, leans down so his chest presses to yours, big arms caging you in while chan holds you from behind. he fucks deeper now, long, rolling thrusts that hit that spot every time, cock dragging against your walls like it was made for this.
his mouth finds yours, messy, desperate kiss, tongue sliding in(though way more messier now) while he keeps moving, keeps filling you up raw.
you’re moaning into his mouth, hands in his hair, nails scraping his scalp. you feel just as good as he does. seungmin is still playing with your clit, fast little circles now. han’s tongue is on your thigh again, licking up the mess that’s dripping down. chan is whispering praise in your ear, “so good for him, baby, taking his cock so pretty” and it’s too much and building and building and building and oh my god i’m gonna—
this orgasm is harder. walls clamping down, milking him, fluttering so violently changbin’s hips stutter and he chokes out a broken “fuck—fuck—i’m—baby—”
he tries to hold it. really tries. but you’re too much. too hot. too perfect. he buries himself deep one last time, cock pulsing, and cums inside you, hot, thick ropes painting your walls, filling you up until it’s leaking out around him.
when he finally stills, seungmin smiles wide, pulls his fingers away from your clit, smears the slick across changbin’s lips.
han is still whining, cock leaking through his pants. “my turn next? please?”
chan gives a strict little hum. “give it a minute.”
changbin doesn’t move, can’t really, just stays buried inside you, soft now but still twitching, arms wrapped around you. he’s never been in anything hotter. never will be.
you smile, kiss his sweaty temple, murmur: “good job, baby. you did so good.”
he lets out a brutally shaky breath. chan actually chuckles at him because he’s been there too. changbin leans back slow, cock softening but twitching every time your walls flutter around him from the aftershocks. he’s a sweaty, flushed mess, chest heaving, stomach slick, that big sweet face all dazed and blissed out like he just got hit by a truck made of pussy.
he finally pulls out with this wet, obscene sound that makes han whine like a kicked dog from the floor. cum leaks out of you immediately, thick and white, dripping down your ass onto the couch that hyunjin will crash out over again.
changbin stares at it because it’s the most beautiful thing he’s ever seen, one shaky hand reaching out to smear it back inside you.
“holy fuck.” he breathes, voice fucked. “that was… i can’t… huh.”
han scrambles up from the floor so fast he almost faceplants, pants shoved down just enough that his cock springs free, already leaking, flushed angry red, bobbing. he’s whining nonstop, these high pitched desperate sounds that would be pathetic if they weren’t so fucking endearing. “baby, please, my turn, need you—been so good—please—”
your legs are shaky, cunt puffy and sensitive, your back sweaty, connected to chan’s shirt, but you reach for him anyway. cup his face with both hands, thumbs stroking his cheeks while he pants into your palm. “c’mere, baby.” you murmur. “i got you.”
han climbs up clumsily, knees on the couch, cock bumping against your thigh as he tries to line up. you guide him, small hand wrapping around his base, stroking once, twice, slow and loving while he whimpers around.
he sinks in slow at first because you’re guiding him, because you’re sweet to him, because even though he’s a brain dead horny mess you always give him love. the stretch is different after changbin, han is not as thick but he’s longer, hits in a way that makes your toes curl even though you’re still oversensitive.
you gasp softly, kiss his temple, whisper “easy, baby, just feel me.”
and he actually tries… for like five seconds.
then the desperation wins. he starts jackhammering. fast. sloppy. hips snapping like he’s trying to fuck his soul into you, cock pistoning in and out with these wet, filthy slaps that echo in the room. he’s so vocal it’s ridiculous, moaning loud, babbling nonstop, every thrust accompanied by a high whine or a “love you” or a choked “shit shit shit.”
it’s too much. way too much. you already came and your clit’s swollen, nerves fried, pussy still pulsing. the jackhammering feels good in that overwhelming, almost painful way, but it’s not gonna make you cum again. not like this. not with him going a million miles an hour like a rabbit on crack.
you’re moaning anyway, because it’s han, because he’s so fucking desperate for you it’s cute, because the stretch and the heat and the way he’s shaking are all hot.
seungmin’s hand works your clit, making your hips jerk because it’s too sensitive, too direct, sparks shooting up your spine that are almost painful. you whine around, thighs trembling, but he just laughs. “too much? tough shit. take it.”
chan is everywhere else, big hands roaming your tits, pinching your nipples, then soothing with slow circles. one arm locked around your waist holding you down so han can pound deeper.
han is fucking losing it, face buried in your neck, teeth grazing your skin, hips stuttering faster, sloppier. “gonna cum—fuck—can’t—baby—love you—gonna—y/n—” he’s shaking like a leaf, cock throbbing inside you, and you just pet his hair even though your body’s screaming from overstimulation.
changbin is watching the whole thing from where he slumped back against the arm of the couch, still naked, cock half hard again just from the sight. his eyes are wide, lips parted, breathing shallow like he can’t believe what he’s seeing.
first he watches han, how the dumb fuck goes from sweet and trembling to feral in seconds, how you handle him so gently. changbin feels this weird warm ache in his chest. god, he knew the guy in high school and now he sees him like… this. han is so open about it, so shamelessly needy, and you give him exactly what he needs without making him feel stupid. changbin never had that. never been that vulnerable. it makes him feel… soft. protective almost. even he wants to wrap han up after and tell him he did good too.
then seungmin. changbin’s stomach flips. there’s something brutal and hot about how seungmin handles you without ever asking permission, so confident and always right. changbin’s not like that. he’s jealous for half a second, then just… in awe.
he watches chan holding you together. changbin feels safe just looking at him. like if chan is chill, everything’s okay.
and you, oh his fucking god, hips twitching from the overstimulation, petting han’s hair while he cries into your neck about how much he loves you. you’re glowing. fucked and happy and so fucking loved it’s written all over your face.
changbin is really happy right now.
like, stupid happy.
he’s sitting there covered in sweat and cum and your juices, watching the four of you. his heart’s doing this weird fluttery thing because he’s part of it now. really part of it.
han slams in deep one last time, whole body seizing, whining “baby—fuck—eeuughghh—” as he unloads, adding to changbin’s mess, hips jerking while he rides it out.
then he collapses on top of you, panting, babbling into your collarbone.
seungmin holds your face to kiss you. chan bounces you a little, comforting, loving, manly, so fucking characteristic because what do you mean this is a ruthless serial killer doing this.
changbin crawls closer, big hand sliding up your thigh, careful not to jostle han. you reach for him, tug him up so he’s half draped over han, face close to yours.
“you were good, baby.” you tell him.
han mumbles something happy and incoherent against your neck. then starts moving again. this bitch. just one little thrust, testing the waters, like he thinks nobody’s gonna notice.
you feel it immediately. that oversensitive drag inside you, walls already raw and fluttering from changbin’s thick cock and han’s frantic pounding, clit throbbing. it’s not pleasure anymore, it’s too much.
“han, no.” you gasp, voice cracking, hands pushing at his shoulders. “baby, stop. stop stop stop.”
he freezes for half a second, big dumb eyes blinking up at you all confused and heartbroken. “but… but i’m still hard. felt so good, wanna go again, please? just one more? i’ll be quick i swear—”
seungmin snorts, already grabbing a fistful of han’s hair and yanking his head back hard enough to make him yelp. “the fuck you will. she said no. you deaf or just that fucking stupid?”
han whines high and pathetic, hips still twitching forward on instinct. “but she always lets me go multiple rounds, i’m good—i was good—”
changbin is still kneeling there, eyes wide, hand hovering like he wants to help but doesn’t know how. he looks between you and han, then at seungmin and chan, clearly torn between feeling bad for the dumbass and being grateful someone’s finally putting a leash on him. “she… she okay?” he asks soft, voice all sweet concern. “i didn’t hurt her did i?”
you manage a shaky laugh, reach out to pet changbin’s cheek because god he’s precious. “no baby you were perfect. just too much now. all of you. need a break.”
“want me to get you water? or… or a towel? anything?”
you nod, grateful. “water would be good, thank you.”
changbin scrambles off the couch, still naked and gorgeous, dick swinging as he heads to the kitchen like a man on a mission. han watches him go with pure jealousy, then slumps against you again, defeated.
you close your eyes for a second, breathing through the overstimulation, feeling the four of them around you, seungmin soothing your thighs, chan bouncing you softly, han nuzzling his pretty face into your chest, changbin coming back with a cold glass of water and a damp towel like the sweetest boy alive.
you sip the water slow, let changbin dab gently between your legs, cleaning up the mess without making it worse.
changbin is happy, happy to be included, happy you’re okay, happy to wait.
after everyone took a five second breather (you mostly just trying not to vibrate out of your skin from the overstimulation), the other two got their turns. fair’s fair.
long story short, seungmin went next, condom on, slid in deep, slow at first, then picked up this brutal rhythm that had you seeing stars behind your eyelids, growling shit like “feel that, babe? that’s how you take it when i want you to” while chan held your legs open and changbin just stared with his mouth hanging open.
every thrust bottomed out because seungmin always gets what he fucking wants, and while he was balls deep, you wrapped a hand around changbin’s still sensitive dick, jerking him lazy and sloppy while seungmin kept pounding.
his eyes rolled back, big chest heaving, whispering “fuck—baby—thank you—oh god—” then came all over your stomach, literally couldn’t believe he was allowed to participate again. adorable.
seungmin didn’t chase your orgasm though. he knew chan was saving that for last, so he just railed you until you were a shaking, whimpering mess, clit too fried to even twitch right, and then he pulled out, snapped the condom off, and came across your stomach.
then chan, the other condom king, finally got his turn and holy shit did he deliver. he flipped you onto your stomach, pulled your hips up and slid in slow and thick, we can act like it was an out of body experience but tbh you were too slippery to actually feel him sliding in and only felt him hitting your cervix. you were so sensitive by then, pussy puffy, walls raw, every thrust sending sparks that were half pain half heaven, but chan fucked good.
one big hand rubbing slow circles on your clit while the other pinned your hips so you couldn’t squirm away. all while you reached over and jerked han off because he was literally crying about it. he came instantly, lots. like, ropes on ropes on your arm, your side, the couch. and then—oh. again. wow. immediately after. just kept spurting.
after all the overstimulation and edging and jackhammer bullshit, chan fucked you into a proper, shaking, toe curling orgasm that had you sobbing into the cushion. walls clamping so hard he groaned like he was in pain, then filled the condom while holding you through the aftershocks. perfect. gentlemanly murder daddy shit.
han came so many times it stopped being impressive and started being concerning.
after chan pulled out and kissed your back all sweet, han climbed on one more time and got all pouty and “y/n please please please” until you sighed, spread your legs one more time, and let him go crazy.
you felt everything, the burn of overstimulation, the wet slide of all the cum already inside you, the way his cock dragged against raw nerves until it hurt so bad it looped back around to feeling insane.
he came again. and again. and again. you lost count somewhere around the sixth because every time you thought “okay that’s gotta be it” he’d whine “one more please baby i’m so close—” and then dump another load. by that time even everyone grew tired of it, even seungmin shut his fucking mouth and just laid back to watch. maybe slap changbin on the arm a few times just to get him flustered. or han’s ass but stopped when he realized that han liked it.
that went on until han finally, f i n a l l y, emptied his balls for real. like literally came without anything coming out, just his cock twitching and pulsing, whole body seizing, eyes crossing adorably in pure brain melt pleasure, mouth open in this silent scream while his balls tried to push out anything.
and changbin? jesus christ, what an experience for him.
this man walked in thinking maybe he’d get a big talk and seungmin holding a knife to his throat just for you to save him, maybe a blowjob if he was lucky. instead he got… tongue fucked you to an orgasm, went raw and came inside you, watched seungmin rail you deep while you jerked him off, saw han cum approximately seventeen times, witnessed chan give you the orgasm of the century, and then watched han rabbit fuck you into the ground until the poor bastard finally ran out of ammo.
he couldn’t believe it was real every time someone came or you moaned or han whimpered through another dry orgasm. at one point he just stared at the mess on your thighs (his, seungmin’s condom lube, han’s endless loads, chan’s sweat) and actually made a whiny little sound. chan heard and patted him on the back.
you felt like you’d been hit by a truck full of dicks in the best and worst ways. pussy throbbing, clit numb, thighs sticky with everyone’s mess, throat raw from moaning and crying out, but also this warm floaty satisfaction because your murderous idiots had all gotten what they needed.
overstimulated to fuck, yeah, but loved to death. literally.
soo yeah. you’re the whole center of this shitshow. take han and felix, if you told them to sit, they’d sit. if you told them to stay, they’d stay. if you told them to follow you into a burning building, they’d do it without a second thought. not because they’re obedient, but because it’s you.
everything spins around you.
changbin changed, and it happened fast. like, concerningly fast. the kind of fast where if this were normal people, you’d be like “hey man maybe slow down before you ruin your life” but none of you are normal people, so instead it’s just… impressive. terrifying. a little hot. mostly insane.
he saw you, saw the others, saw the situation, and instead of pulling back like he normally would, he stayed. he participated. he let himself be seen.
that’s not just physical, that’s emotional as fuck for him.
the single four are… in fucking hell, let’s be real. like jeongin goes out more. flirting harder. partying like he’s trying to physically outrun the fact that you’re not choosing him. he’ll come back smelling like alcohol and someone else’s perfume, grin all cocky, act like he doesn’t give a shit, and then the second he sees you with them? yeah. that grin drops real fucking quick.
minho is creepy about it. not new, he’s always been creepy, but now it’s targeted.
he watches. like, a lot. he’ll just be there sometimes. in the background. leaning against a wall, sitting somewhere he shouldn’t be, eyes on you and whichever combination of your boyfriends you’ve got that day.
and he comments. at the worst times. “you let him touch you like that?” “you didn’t do that with me.” “you look better when you’re with him. interesting.” like bro shut the fuck up??? no one asked??? okay he’s actually a little funny but still.
he’s struggling the most internally, probably. because he feels it, but instead of dealing with it like a semi normal psycho, he just… lets it rot and then pokes at it. which is so much worse.
felix. oh my god. felix. you can literally see the jealousy on his face sometimes, because it comes out as confusion. he’ll be standing there, watching you with them, and you can see the gears turning (slowly, painfully) in his head. “…i want that.” he’ll say at some point. and everyone just stares at him because yeah. no shit, felix. we all know.
he’s supportive, though. weirdly. but mostly because he’s too dumb not to be.
hyunjin drinks a lot more. he’s so not fine it’s actually embarrassing. he doesn’t talk about it, except when he’s drunk, which is often now, and even then it comes out sideways. complaining about the others, making comments, acting like it’s about them when it’s very obviously about you. he humps his pillow a lot too, yeah that’s actually connected to the absolute mental fuck he’s living in at the moment.
but they don’t back up, why would they? this is their first time experiencing this and they, no matter how much it hurts, love it and love you. it just… comes out weird sometimes.
like minho. you already know it’s gonna be bad when he walks in holding something behind his back.
“i got you something.” he says.
never a good sentence from him. not once. not ever.
“i don’t want it.” you reply immediately.
“you haven’t even seen it.”
“i don’t need to, sweetheart.”
you end up throwing up straight to the nearest surface because oh my god that is a severed arm. stitched. badly. like he tried to fix it.
“i thought you’d like it.” he says, watching you die around. “i sewed it back together.”
he didn’t think you’d like it. he just wanted some attention.
you’re gagging. violently.
the already boyfriends can be problems too. you take han and changbin shopping once and han is useless. completely useless. he follows you around, holding whatever you hand him, getting distracted every five seconds.
“which one?” you ask, holding up two shirts.
he stares at them. “…the… that one.”
“they’re both ‘that one,’ love.”
he smiles, proud of himself anyway.
changbin is actually trying. paying attention. noticing what you look at, what you hesitate on, what you put back.
but even for some minutes, they can behave. and god, they’re such good company. and then han trips over absolutely nothing and takes out an entire rack of clothes. okay nvm.
hyunjin is a disaster. one night he stumbles into you, literally like actually collides into you because his coordination is shot, and then just… doesn’t move. just stands there. holding you. arms around you, head dipping down like he forgot how to hold it up.
“…hi.” you say.
he hums. that’s it.
he never felt shit before you, just empty murder highs, and now he’s got this crush that’s eating his pretty little brain alive and the only way he can cope is by humping his fucking pillow. the second he’s in his soft black sleep pants and oversized shirt, ready to go to sleep, his dick is already twitching while he’s crawling into bed.
he starts slow usually, hugs the pillow to his chest like it’s your waist, leans all the way over it so his whole torso is curved down, smushing that beautiful face right into the sheets right next to it, nose buried, mouth open and panting against the fabric while his hips start slamming forward.
he looks so pretty like that, back arched, ass up, sweatpants barely hanging on his hips, cock sliding wet and messy between the pillow and his stomach. or pulls his pants just low enough under his balls so his bare cock can drag along the pillow seam over and over.
he’ll grind in these fast little rabbit thrusts at first, all desperate, then switch to these long powerful strokes where he rears back and drives forward like he’s actually fucking you. his pretty hair sticks to his forehead, eyes squeezed shut, hips snapping hard and sloppy.
he grinds in circles sometimes, then switches to straight pounding thrusts that make the whole bed creak, drooling a little because he’s so lost in the fantasy of you under him moaning his name, telling him he’s the prettiest killer you’ve ever let inside you.
he’ll hump faster and faster, face completely smashed into the mattress now, one hand clawing the sheets while the other keeps the pillow in place.
when he cums he’ll freeze up, whole body shaking, shooting all over the pillow and his own stomach and the sheets in thick ropes. all while he knows han is probably balls deep in you right now being a dumb happy fuck, seungmin is rocking you into the bed, chan is using you all calm and deep like he owns that pussy, and changbin is lifting you with those stupid sweet muscles and making you cum while smiling.
and hyunjin is here alone on his knees, humping fabric, cuming so hard his vision whites out, then immediately cuddling the cum soaked pillow like it’s you. he’d carve his own ribs out and hand them to you if it meant you’d let him be the fifth.
it’s pathetic, it’s constant, it’s the only release he has since you made feelings happen inside of him, and every single orgasm just makes the crush worse because it’s never enough.
he’s out there killing people and writing your name in their blood by day, then coming home to destroy his poor pillow by night, knees digging into the mattress, face buried, cock throbbing, wishing harder than anything that one of these nights you’d just walk in and catch him like this so you could finally add him to the collection and put the poor pretty boy out of his humping misery.
the others text him proof of life from your bed and he just humps harder, tears mixing with drool, still in those sleep clothes, still on his knees. you did this to him and he wouldn’t trade it for all the corpses in the world.
sometimes he even gets on his back with the pillow shoved between his thighs, squeezing it tight with his legs while he bucks up into it, hands fisting the sheets, pretty eyes rolling back as he imagines you riding him instead of that stupid lump of cotton. or switch to side lying next, spooning the pillow hard, pinning it down, one hand reaching down to guide his cock against the edge, other hand pinching his own nipple through the shirt because he imagines it’s your mouth. teeth sunk into the sheets to stay quiet because changbin gets pissy when he doesn’t get his sleep.
he’ll twist his hips side to side sometimes, grinding in little circles, pretending it’s you riding him slow and teasing. the t shirt he wears to sleep bunches under his armpits, sweat making it cling to his skin, nipples hard against the cotton.
i totally got carried away with this but you get my point. he’s stupidly obsessed.
or take when you and chan are out. just the two of you. rare. calm. walking down a quiet street, talking about nothing important. it’s nice. suspiciously nice.
chan is mid sentence when he suddenly stops. looks at a bush. just a random bush. and he kicks it. hard.
and out of the bush? jeongin comes rolling out.
you blink. “…what the fuck.”
chan doesn’t even look surprised, just stares down at him.
jeongin groans, pushing himself up, leaves in his hair. “…rude.” he mutters, brushing himself off like this is all very inconvenient for him. then he looks at you. “hey.”
“hi.” you reply.
“you look good.”
“thank you. what were you doing in there?”
“i was passing by.” stalking you.
“through the bush?”
“short cut.”
“okay. we are going to that cafe we’ve been to once with felix, wanna come along?”
“absolutely.”
chan has to close his eyes and take a breath.
you get coffee. he makes chan buy him something too.
and when the three of you are sitting and you and chan start fucking MAKING OUT right in front of jeongin’s face, not only his pants get tighter but also his short little temper. glares into his ice coffee, listening to the wet sounds coming from the coolest guy he knows and the love of his life. you don’t even feel bad, it’s his fault for stalking you.
or you walk into your kitchen one day, half awake, expecting maybe coffee, maybe peace, and instead you get felix hunched over your sink making the most horrific noise you’ve ever heard. like wet, choking, absolutely disgusting.
you freeze. “…what the fuck.”
he doesn’t answer, he just… throws up.
and it’s blood. and teeth. actual fucking teeth. they hit the sink with this awful little clink clink clink and you just stand there, staring, your brain refusing to process what you’re seeing.
“…felix.”
he wipes his mouth with the back of his hand, looking mildly inconvenienced. “yeah?”
“why are there teeth in my sink.”
he looks down. squints. “…oh.”
“oh??? felix, what the fuck is that—”
“not mine.” he says quickly.
“i KNOW they’re not yours, why are they HERE—”
“i ate a guy earlier.”
“…and that results in this?”
he shrugs. “sometimes.”
you actually scream. like a loud, gut wrenching scream that scares felix too.
chan of course immediately comes in, ready to fucking die for you, but when he sees that it’s just a felix situation he takes one glance and sighs. “he ate too fast.”
you make a noise that is not human.
and when minho gets in one of his moods, which is happening more often now, you have to physically remove him from whatever dark corner he’s chosen to brood in.
“we’re going outside.” you tell him one time, grabbing his wrist.
he doesn’t resist. watches you tell the other boys around that you’re taking minho on a walk and them replying with grunts.
so you take minho on walks sometimes.
“you don’t have to hold my hand.” he says at one point, staring at your fingers laced with his. he likes it, he’s just confused.
“you were about to follow a random guy into an alley.”
“he looked interesting.”
you tighten your grip. “we’re walking. not following people.”
“…you’re treating me like a dog.”
“you’re acting like one.”
“would you still keep me if i bit someone.”
“depends. did they deserve it?”
“…probably.”
“then yeah, i’d keep you.”
he goes quiet after that. walks a little closer.
and you’re… fine. content, even. you like them the way they are. yes, even when they come home from killing or felix bolts after the mailman again. even while emotionally, they’re toddlers. this is their first time dealing with something actually happening inside of their hearts and they’re grown men who can and will commit felonies about it.
instead of tantrums in a grocery store, you get: “where are you going?”
“out.”
“with who?”
“alone.”
“…no.”
“what do you mean no?”
“you’re not going alone.”
“i’m literally just—”
“i’m coming.”
“you’re not invited.”
“i don’t need to be.”
and that’s on a good day.
because god forbid you try to do anything independently. god forbid.
you don’t really go anywhere alone anymore. not because they won’t “let” you, but because dealing with the aftermath is so fucking exhausting it’s just not worth it.
the second you’re not within arm’s reach, it’s: “where is y/n?” “she said she’d be here.” “why isn’t she here?” “who has her?” who has her. bro.
they’re foaming at the mouth for you, basically.
if you’re alone with one of them, the other will make you know he thought of you.
take felix, he’ll bring you things. random shit. completely useless. sometimes horrifying.
“i got this for you.”
“…is that a bone?”
“yeah.”
“why?”
“thought you’d like it.”
“…thanks.”
“you’re welcome :)”
so your life lowkey stops being yours but you’re fine with that because you can tell these boys love you.
that they need you.
like, minho holds your hand when he’s with you. when you’re going somewhere and take him along, his hand is in yours. he used to do that as a child too, grab onto adults’ hands. walk with them like that. and now, it’s you. he trusts you like a kid trusts an adult.
anytime you get a moment of piece from the four boyfriends, jeongin is like “hey, c’mon. ditch them.” like it’s that easy. like the four other guys wouldn’t absolutely throw hands about it. he’s cheeky about it too. always pushing. stealing your attention in little ways, pulling you aside, whispering shit in your ear, making you laugh when you really shouldn’t be laughing. all because he really wants to spend time with you.
yeah they all tried to slit your throat at some point but whatever, people grow. life’s good. you’re getting dicked down proper and you’re loved by psychos who have never felt anything before you.
you have to go with han everywhere. like, let’s say he’s dragging you by the wrist to the gas station at 2am because he wants food. you have to drive there because he’s also not in the mood to walk. he talks to you the whole way(or paces out in silence, who knows what’s in that tiny brain), giggling when you let him place his hand on your thigh, then immediately tries to finger you because he was close. you didn’t let him.
oh yeah han likes fingering you. is actually mesmerized by it. like the second his clumsy fingers slide inside you he is just in awe. and since normal in and out fingering barely pleasures any woman, he has to do it RIGHT because you deserve the best.
he’ll be knuckle deep, tongue poking out in concentration, staring at his own hand in your cunt while he mutters “fuck baby you’re so warm and wet and i’m IN you, like actually inside your body, this is crazy, i’m touching your squishy bits and you’re letting me, holy shit i love you.” ??? so dumb.
he gets so lost in the sauce he forgets basic rhythm. sometimes he just holds his fingers still and wiggles them like he’s trying to scramble eggs, or he’ll do these weird little helicopter spins. sometimes even mimics the helicopter noises. half the time it doesn’t even feel that good, it’s just pressure and awkward poking and you’re trying not to laugh because he looks so happy. but the second you grab his wrist and go “han, baby, curl them up like this, yeah just like that—fuck, right there” his whole face lights up. then he locks in.
suddenly he’s doing it right, pumping and curling and rubbing your clit with his other hand in these sloppy enthusiastic circles while he babbles “is this good? am i doing it right? omg your pussy just clenched on me like it likes me, i think it likes me more than chan does, wait no don’t tell him i said that.”
and he watched when chan made you squirt all over his cock. this is not random i promise i have a point. anyways. you and chan were going at it hard, chan had you folded basically in half, that manly grip on the backs of your thighs, pounding you slow and deep while you moaned like a whore. han was “allowed” to watch but the idiot kept creeping closer and closer until his face was two inches from where chan’s cock was splitting you open.
he was being such an inconvenience, breathing heavy, whispering “whoa” every time chan bottomed out, occasionally poking your clit with one curious finger. chan just grunted “stay out of the way” but didn’t kick him off because han looked so pathetically grateful.
then you started squirting on chan’s cock. loud, messy, gushing in powerful arcs that soaked chan’s abs, your own tits, and sprayed all the way up to han’s stupid face. his eyes were so wide, mouth open, getting absolutely blasted by your squirt while chan kept thrusting through it, calm as ever, growling “that’s it, good girl, soak me.”
han got a full facial of your cum, blinking through it, cum dripping off his eyelashes, and all he could say was “holy shit… it’s warm… and it tastes a little like… pineapple??” while licking his lips.
he looked so creepy and so delighted at the same time, just sitting there covered in your mess. tbh it was the best day of his life. you and chan both started giggling mid orgasm because han was trying to catch more in his mouth.
here comes my point, finally, but when you gave HAN one? when he was knuckle deep, following your instructions like a good boy, and you suddenly gushed all over his hand and wrist and halfway up his forearm? he lost his entire fucking mind.
his mouth fell open, eyes went brutally wide, and he let out this high pitched “EEEEEEEEEEE” noise. he didn’t even know squirting had a name, to him it was just “the magic hose thing that means i fingered y/n good.” he kept his fingers inside you, gently stirring through the mess, whispering in total awe “baby… you peed? no wait that’s not pee, that’s… that’s girl cum? did i make you do the sprinkler? oh my god i made you do the sprinkler with my fingers, i’m the best boyfriend ever, i’m gonna tell the boys but not seungmin because he’ll call me a virgin again.”
talks about it too, he’ll be in the middle of a kill and he’ll turn to the tied up victim like “hey man, guess what, last night my girlfriend squirted on my hand so hard it looked like a water gun, i didn’t even know that’s what it was called, it was awesome.” then he stabs the guy extra happy because he’s still riding the high.
he chases it like a crackhead. the second you’re alone he’s pawing at your pants going “can we do the sprinkler thing again? please? i’ll be so good, i’ll curl my fingers exactly like you showed me, i’ll even use two hands if you want, just tell me when it’s coming so i can watch it shoot out like a fountain, it’s the coolest thing i’ve ever seen and i once watched a guy’s guts fall out like spaghetti.”
he still doesn’t fully get what squirting is. he just knows it’s hot, knows it means he did good, knows it means you felt so fucking good because of him, and that’s enough to make him hump the air every time he thinks about it.
the others are so fucking done with him.
hyunjin needs you the most maybe, so he steals you sometimes. he’ll just go up to you(with brutal confidence btw) wrap one arm around your waist and whisper “come with me tonight, please” yeah no that’s it you’re bought.
he’s so romantic, he doesn’t understand why you don’t want him like you want the others.
he’ll hump your leg a little when he thinks you’re not noticing because the crush still hurts so bad, but he never pushes because why would he want to force anything on this lovely human? just needs you there so the ache feels a tiny bit less like dying.
jeongin likes to take you just… anywhere with him tbh. breaking into places after hours(you stay outside and he brings you shit back), stealing a car(you’re terrified and don’t get in), or just dragging you to the beach so he can show off by doing backflips in the water. lives his best life when you let him put a hand into your back pocket.
minho grabs your hand like i said and tugs you along to wherever the fuck his creepy brain wants to go that night. old graveyard, rooftop, back alley where he just killed someone ten minutes ago. he never tells you about it and you always get scared to death.
chan, gladly, makes plans before and actually tells you about it. but knows deep down that you’d be down even if he didn’t tell you about it beforehand. bc like… that’s dada. changbin is pretty much the same, except that you can tell he’s trying to be good.
seungmin either asks you at the very start of the day or growls “move your ass, we’re going” and slaps it on the way out??? bitch.
one night hyunjin steals you for deep talking and gentle thigh humping against a tombstone. next night jeongin has you giggling while he spray paints dicks on cop cars and tries to talk you into letting him eat you out. minho just silently pulls you into dark alleys but you don’t know it’s him so you always get scared to death. han will literally start crying if you try to say no, so you always end up with him. chan will get you to hang around in the garage while it’s incredibly boring but he’s having fun with the cars and you so sure whatever. felix never knows what he wants so you take him to a zoo or something. the animals always like him. changbin spends much more time with you now that you’re together, it’s mostly staying in tho because that’s calm and you need the peace, and of course, babygirl(buff evil serial killer) wants the best for you.
they’re all such immature little shits about it. can’t handle their own feelings so they make it your problem by physically hauling you around.
but to be honest… you like that they panic and steal and grab and whine and need you this bad. you like that the ones who tried to kill you once are now so stupidly in love they can’t function without your hand in theirs.
so yeah. you go with them. every single time. because saying no would probably make one of them actually combust, and honestly it’s kind of cute watching eight grown serial killers turn into clingy manchildren the second you walk into the room.
so, in a nutshell, you’re the fucking boss, y/n. the fucking queen. your collection’s growing, you’re just enjoying the ride(literally and figuratively) while they all fight over who gets to hold your hand next.
summary: part iv. if only gentle parenting worked. but it doesn’t. changbin is gentle tho. spending some almost alone time with him could help a bit, right? what do you two do in that alone time exactly, though?
warnings: non idol au, violence, blood, mentions of gore, cannibalism, obsessive behavior, jealousy, cursing, homicidal behavior/psychopathy, sexual content(p in v, condom or no condom not mentioned so it’s pretty much up to preference, threesomes and foursomes, light voyeurism in the form of the others can lowk hear what’s going on), lowk alcoholic hyunjin
word count: 15k
“put the fucking chair down, minho.”
“i swear i’ll launch it—”
“DO IT.” seungmin shouts, crouching on your kitchen island, one hand braced on the ceiling light like he’s about to swing from it. “throw it. see what happens.”
“han.” hyunjin groans from his seat at the island, fingers digging into his temples. “shut up. please. for once in your miserable, empty headed existence, shut up.”
felix is standing in the corner holding a cereal box. upside down. just watching it pour onto the floor. “are we mad? is this mad?”
changbin is in the middle of the room, palms up in a sign of peace. he is also holding a knife.
“okay.” he says calmly, gesturing with the blade. like a motivational speaker with a laser pointer. “we can talk about this without furniture flying.”
minho adjusts his grip on the chair. “i’m going to cave his skull in.” seungmin’s skull, by the way.
chan is calmly walking around the kitchen punching people in the shoulder. in that boyish way, just boxing around. he hits jeongin in the back of the thigh while jeongin’s mid shout. jeongin yelps and almost falls. hyunjin’s back, but not hard so poor hungover boy doesn’t throw up on your kitchen island. han’s shoulder.
“why am i being yelled at?” han asks, genuinely confused.
“because you’re stupid.” seungmin says instantly from the island.
“i didn’t even do anything.”
the door unlocks.
all of them freeze.
you step in.
you stand there for a full three seconds.
minho holding a chair. seungmin crouched on your kitchen island. changbin waving a knife around. chan mid punch. jeongin mid yell. han with his mouth open. felix ankle deep in cereal. hyunjin looking like he died but got reheated in your microwave.
you close the door slowly. “…what the fuck.”
“he started it.” jeongin says immediately, pointing at seungmin.
“oh fuck off, man—“
“you dissed my hair.”
“because it looks like shit.”
“IT DOES NOT—”
minho throws the chair.
chan catches it. sets it down carefully.
you rub your face. “why are you all in my house.”
felix waves. “hi.”
chan smacks the back of seungmin’s head. “don’t stand on her island.”
“don’t hit me in front of her.”
“then act right.”
minho laughs darkly. “none of us act right.” god, he’s… unsettling.
hyunjin groans. “i’m going to vomit.”
changbin steps forward, still holding the knife. “okay, so the issue started because jeongin found out about—”
felix looks up from the cereal puddle. “i’m hungry!”
“eat the cereal.”
“it’s on the floor.”
“then pick it up.”
seungmin finally hops down from the island. “there you are.” he says to you, walks through the room, wraps himself around you from behind, arms around your waist. “missed you.” he murmurs, loud enough for everyone to hear. evil. EVIL.
minho’s eye twitches. jeongin kicks once, just a petty little kick with no target. changbin has to put a hand on hyunjin’s so hyunjin doesn’t pull a knife out of your knife block and starts cutting himself up. felix watches, tilting his pretty head, wanting to see it.
han perks up immediately and scurries over too. “hi hi hi!” he says, pressing into your side, smiling like he wasn’t just seconds away from being executed for something he didn’t understand.
chan exhales in relief but doesn’t join the clinging on you bullshit next to the other two. he’s more mature than that. (seungmin is immature by doing it to make the others seethe, han is immature by… god, just look at him.)
seungmin rests his chin on your shoulder. kisses your cheek. exaggerated. slow. “they were being pissy.” he says softly.
“YOU STARTED IT—“
“i FUCKING hate you dude—“
“shut UP—“
“I’M HUNGRYYYY—“
seungmin just tightens his hold on you.
changbin points the knife at no one in particular. “okay, let’s all just—”
“put the knife down.” you say.
immediately puts it down. “sorry.”
you look around your destroyed kitchen. one chair overturned. something broken on the floor. that being broken next to the ocean of cereal. changbin’s jacket is also there. a crack in the wall that definitely wasn’t there this morning. seungmin bleeding a little from his knuckles. jeongin clutching his thigh even though no one stabbed him this time. hyunjin one inconvenience away from murder. minho vibrating with homicidal energy. changbin trying to soothe felix by running a hand over his arm. chan ready to physically destroy all of them. han smiling because you’re home now.
“out.” you say flatly.
they stare.
“out.”
jeongin sputters. “you can’t just—”
“out.”
minho opens his mouth. chan steps forward slightly. minho closes it.
hyunjin mutters something about fresh air and walks toward the door.
changbin follows, apologizing to you as he goes.
felix looks at you with big eyes. “am i in trouble?”
“out, love.”
“okay.”
jeongin lingers, glaring at seungmin like he wants to bite him.
seungmin smiles sweetly.
“OUT.” you stomp.
jeongin storms past you.
minho shoulders through the doorway last.
the door slams.
silence.
inside, you and the three boyfriends. outside, five grown psychopaths pressed against your door. you can already hear the faint shuffle of shoes repositioning for optimal eavesdropping.
you sigh. “explain.”
han starts immediately. “okay so jeongin said that chan looked at you weird yesterday but chan always looks like that so then minho said that seungmin was being territorial but seungmin is always like that and then changbin said we should communicate but he had the knife so that felt mixed message and then—”
“han.” you interrupt gently.
he stops mid breath.
chan rubs the back of his neck. “they’re just being jealous.”
seungmin shrugs. “they’re insecure.”
outside the door, something thumps.
“WE CAN HEAR YOU.” jeongin hisses through the wood.
“good.” seungmin says, brutally calm.
you glare at him. he kisses your temple.
han tilts his head. “are they sad?”
“yes.” chan says.
“oh.”
outside, muffled voices.
“move your head.”
“you’re breathing on my neck.”
“shut up.”
you cross your arms. “this can’t keep happening in my house.”
chan looks back at you softly. “we’ll figure it out.”
outside, jeongin yelps. “STOP PINCHING ME.”
minho mutters “move.”
hyunjin groans.
felix asks “are we still killing someone later?”
you stare at the door.
doesn’t help that seungmin’s got his hands everywhere. waist. hips.
han, not to be outdone, comes even closer. “oh, we’re touching? great, i love touching.” he presses his face into your shoulder. “you smell good.”
you look at chan.
he looks at you.
you motion him over with your finger.
outside your door, jeongin has his ear flat against the wood. so does minho. and changbin. hyunjin is sitting on the floor, back against the wall, eyes closed. and felix… felix looks wrong. not physically. physically he looks like he always does, like an angel, but his face is… droopy. there’s a little flower or gardening or whatever it is pot next to your front door, a life in that, grass, little flowers, whatnot, and he’s picking at the grass blade by blade and eating them one at a time.
jeongin turns slightly, still listening at the door. “if you’re going to vomit, do it away from me.”
minho rolls his eyes. “you ate something weird again, didn’t you.”
felix shakes his head. “no. not that kind of sick.”
jeongin hisses. “shh, they’re moving in there.”
changbin gently pulls felix a few steps away from the door. “what kind of sick?”
felix frowns, pressing a hand to his chest. “this part feels bad.”
changbin softens. “your chest.”
“yeah. it feels… tight. and pressed down. and i don’t like when they touch y/n.”
changbin pauses. hyunjin opens one eye. minho looks over. jeongin slowly peels his ear off the door.
“i feel like i swallowed a rock.” felix whispers. god, he’s so cute.
minho snorts. “that’s called being pissed off.”
“or, you’re jealous.” changbin says quietly, saying it slow. “why do you think it’s medical?”
felix shrugs. “because it feels bad. and bad feelings are diseases.”
hyunjin actually sits up a little.
changbin rubs his hands together gently. “felix. buddy. jealousy isn’t a disease.”
felix pouts. “are you sure?”
“yes.”
“because it feels like my organs are being rearranged.”
“that’s called emotions.”
felix recoils slightly. “ew.”
jeongin pinches the bridge of his nose. “you cannot be this stupid.”
changbin takes a breath. “okay. imagine you have something you like.”
“like ribs.”
“sure. and someone else has those ribs.”
“then i take them.”
“no, in this scenario you can’t.”
“why?”
“because they aren’t yours. right. now imagine someone else gets to eat it first. and they’re moaning about how good it is. and you’re just standing there with an empty plate. that feeling in your chest? that’s jealousy.”
felix stares at him. “…that’s unfair.”
“sometimes it feels that way.” changbin says gently. “it means you want something.”
“i want a lot of things.”
“specifically, you want y/n.”
“i don’t want to eat y/n.” felix says quickly.
“good.” hyunjin mutters.
three hours. it takes three whole fucking hours to make felix understand jealousy. they sit in that hallway and it takes three hours to explain jealousy. changbin tries metaphors. simple explanations. the others don’t help a lot.
inside, meanwhile, seungmin has you bent over the arm of the couch, face down ass up, fucking you slow and deep from behind while you brace on the cushions. yeah this was a rough point to start from. anyways, he’s not being violent tonight. every thrust is deep, really going into you, slamming quite literally would be the best word, both hands on your hips to keep you in place.
chan is sitting on the couch right in front of your face, legs spread, jeans open, cock out. you’ve got your mouth on him, sloppy, spit everywhere, taking him as deep as you can while seungmin rocks into you from behind. chan’s hand is gentle in your hair, thumb stroking your cheek.
han is on his knees beside the couch, one hand between his legs to hold himself up, humping his own lower arm. watching how your mouth looks so full, seungmin so deep. he can see it.
chan groans when you hollow your cheeks, hips twitching up. “good girl… just like that… fuuuuuck—“
outside, jeongin suddenly stiffens. “are they..?”
“shut up.” minho growls.
hyunjin drops his head back against the wall.
felix presses a hand to his chest again. “oh. it’s back.”
changbin sighs. “let them have their fun, buddy. we’ll get our turn.”
hyunjin mutters a “speak for yourself. i just want silence and a bloody mary.”
minho stays quiet, but his eyes are fixed on the door, already planning how many ways he can make them regret locking him out. not you though. you didn’t do wrong.
this was in the three hour period where they had to explain jealousy. now, later, you finally peel yourself off the couch while seungmin is sprawled on one end of the couch, jeans still unzipped, smiling to himself. chan’s on the other end, shirt pushed up, breathing slow and even almost like he just finished killing someone(in his defense that calms him down) instead of shooting cum down your throat. han’s flat on his back on the floor, arms next to him, staring at the ceiling with the most blissed out dumb grin.
you stand up, getting yourself together. clothes, hair, etc. “i’m letting the others back in.”
seungmin rolls to his side. “let ‘em suffer five more minutes.”
chan just nods once, already tucking himself back into his jeans like nothing happened.
han sits up so fast he almost headbutts the coffee table. “do i get to say hi? i wanna say hi! i love them!”
you ignore all three of them, walk to the front door now all fixed up, and yank it open.
the second the lock clicks, five grown ass serial killers FALL inside.
jeongin falls in first, face first because he was leaning hardest. he hits the floor and immediately starts flailing. minho falls right after him, trying to catch himself but only managing to land half on jeongin’s back with a low, annoyed grunt. hyunjin rolls in next, knees first, cursing the entire way down. changbin tries to stay upright but gets dragged by felix’s massive shoulder check, so he ends up sprawled sideways across hyunjin’s legs. felix belly flops on top of the pile. all jammed in the doorway, heads, groaning, swearing right at your bare feet.
you just stand there. arms crossed. looking down at them.
jeongin’s face is smooshed against your ankle. he mumbles into your skin “hi queen we missed you so much.”
minho’s voice from somewhere under felix: “get your elbow out of my ribs.”
hyunjin wheezes “air… need air…“
changbin, ever the gentleman even upside down: “sorry!”
felix pops up, eyes bright, nose already twitching. before anyone can blink he’s on his knees in front of you, shoving his face straight into your crotch. deep inhale. long, loud sniff. another one. practically motorboating your shorts just because he can smell the earlier sex on you.
you shriek, grab him by the hair and yank his head back. “felix! no! personal space! boundaries! we’ve talked about this!”
he blinks up at you, big innocent eyes. “sorry.” so not sorry.
jeongin sits up. “don’t worry, he does that to all of us. last week he sniffed minho’s neck for a solid minute. he almost stabbed him.”
minho stands, brushes dust off himself. “he still has the scar on his tongue from when i made him bite the knife.”
hyunjin drags himself upright using the doorframe, looking green. “he sniffed my armpit once. i threw up in my mouth.”
changbin, finally vertical, rubs the back of his neck sheepishly. “he means it as a compliment. it’s… his love language.”
felix tilts his head at you, still on his knees, chin resting on your thigh now. “are you mad? i can stop. but it’s really nice.”
you exhale through your nose so hard it whistles. shove his forehead gently until he scoots back a foot. “great. no more crotch sniffing. ever. or i’m putting a cone on you.”
felix pouts.
the others finally get to their feet, brushing off clothes, cracking necks, looking at you.
you step back, gesture at the living room where they can see chan, seungmin and han sitting around. “okay. if you all calm the fuck down, stop sniffing people, stop throwing furniture, and stop screaming…”
jeongin inhales.
“…i will order food.”
“YES.” “fuck yes.” “oh my god.” “finally.” “bro.” “yes!”
minho straightens his shirt. psycho. “what do you mean by calm?”
“no fighting.”
“verbal?”
“no.”
“physical?”
“especially no.”
seungmin from the couch: “you’re taking all the joy out of it.”
you don’t even look at him. “one more comment and you’re outside next.”
he shuts up.
han scrambles to sit properly. “i can be calm.”
chan nods. “we can manage that.”
jeongin stands SO straight. “i am the picture of composure.”
minho snorts.
changbin steps closer to you, softer. “we’ll behave.”
hyunjin rubs his temples. “just order something greasy.”
chan just stands up slow, walks over, slides an arm around your waist from behind and murmurs against your ear “you good?”
you lean back into him. “mhm.”
he kisses your temple. soft. “good.”
the five newcomers immediately start arguing over who’s paying, what toppings are allowed, and if they can get extra this and that and no hyunjin you won’t eat all of that pick one only.
summer comes, slowly.
the boys start wearing less clothes.
which is a problem. a massive, unfair, constant problem. seungmin is suddenly shirtless 80% of the time. just walking around your apartment with shorts that you end up yanking off. chan switches to tank tops. thick arms on display. veins in his forearms when he carries your groceries. he wipes sweat off his neck with the hem of his shirt and doesn’t even realize what that does to you. han and felix also go shirtless, and goood they’re hot. when hyunjin was shirtless and washing blood off his stomach at your kitchen sink? kinda disgusting but way more attractive. changbin and his tanktops? hot. minho and his t shirts because his body physically doesn’t overheat so he sees no need to go shirtless? kinda sad because you do want to see him shirtless, but maybe him being this creepy and unique hits just as hard as some chest. now that we’re at chests, the way jeongin pushes his into your face? pure bliss.
you absolutely love your situation.
and sure, sometimes you still throw up when someone tracks in blood. but c’mon, you love these boys.
chan gets more confident. stands a little taller next to you. doesn’t look over his shoulder when he kisses you. doesn’t hesitate to put a hand on your waist in front of everyone. fixes things. fills your gas tank. replaces lightbulbs. calls you his girlfriend. the first time he says it casually, “my girlfriend likes that place” the world freezes.
only han goes “yeah she does.”
and that’s that.
he’s finally accepted that he’s allowed to have this. allowed to have you. he waited his whole life to feel something. now he has it.
summer seungmin is insufferable. i mean he was always insufferable, but he’s just a bitch now.
someone bumps into you at the beach? seungmin is already staring them down. he takes you out at night. hands in your back pockets, enjoying the city now that he has a pretty girlfriend to show off. he buys you drinks(lots, that office jobs pays disgustingly good) and watches you over the straw of his. certified straw drinker.
han brings you random things he thinks you’ll like. flowers that are slightly wilted because he forgot water exists. candy he half ate but saved the good pieces. you eat it anyway, y’know the way parents eat things that were already in their toddler’s mouth.
he kisses you constantly. cheek, head, anywhere. forgets where your mouth is sometimes and just presses his lips to your jaw instead. he lays on top of you when it’s too hot and then doesn’t understand why you’re complaining. baby you’re heavy.
he forgets sunscreen. forgets shoes. forgets that you cannot just wander off mid conversation to look at a seagull. he also burns immediately. like instantly. you watch him turn pink in real time.
“i’m fine.” he insists, peeling slightly.
you physically tackle him into shade.
felix once brought you a steak. raw.
“i thought of you.” he said.
“thank you, sweetie… why?”
“because i like you and i like this.”
hyunjin redesigns your entire living room. again. like actually gets minho and changbin to paint your walls. chan to install better lighting. rearranged furniture. art that he made just for this.
you hug him for it. he loves it so much.
changbin loves taking you out. loves paying for you, loves being a man. loves proving that not only the three musketeers can spoil you.
minho buys you weapons. that’s real romantic of him btw. “for protection.” he says.
you stare at the crossbow. “…from you?”
he actually smiles at that. brutal emotional development.
and jeongin insists on going with you everywhere. i don’t mean like you have to take him shopping with you(and han and felix because they still love it) but like. stands in front of the bathroom door listening to you pee level of everywhere. things like that are not really taboo to him, well, not when it’s about you.
and god, it’s hard to deal with them. han once tried to put sunscreen on his biceps and forgot the rest of his body. or another time he got sunburned in a perfect tank top outline and couldn’t understand why.
there goes your hot girl summer. because they’re just so… boys. it’s weird to put into words. you’ll get some examples instead.
for starters, they collectively refused to reapply sunscreen one day. all eight of them. grown ass men btw. two days later they were RED. that just got hyunjin ten times more overstimulated. seungmin kept poking his own sunburn just to see if it still hurt. it did. felix tried to peel his skin off. you had to physically slap his hands away while he insisted he was shedding and he saw on tiktok that women do it also when do you shed y/n. the others surprisingly didn’t do weird shit with their sunburns(except like maybe jeongin jerking off on himself to see if his cum soothes the burn but you weren’t there so this doesn’t even matter), they just suffered.
there was the incident where they decided to see who could hold their breath underwater the longest. seungmin tried to pull minho down by the ankle. minho responded by attempting to drown seungmin. chan had to physically separate them while han, who had absolutely no idea what was happening, resurfaced and proudly announced he counted to thirty seven. felix said he counted to purple.
they tried to build a bonfire once. just started breaking apart a wooden bench nearby. in public. but that’s nothing compared to how han once lost track of a body. lost. track. of. it. he set it down “for a second” and then couldn’t remember where he put it. you watched eight grown murderers retrace their steps in a forest whisper shouting “where did you last see it.” they found it eventually. felix was sitting on it.
hyunjin spent an entire week terrorizing everyone with a water gun. not a small one. a massive one. like he’d sit and just calmly shoot at any of the boys, never at you though. or he would wait silently around corners and then absolutely soak whoever walked by. he got seungmin three times in one day. seungmin got back at him by filling the water gun with ice water and waiting until hyunjin was asleep on the couch. you’ve never heard a grown man scream like that.
they once found an old tire and rolled it down the sidewalk for an hour. just… rolled it. taking turns. cheering when it didn’t fall over.
minho spent most of the summer being deeply unsettling. he took up birdwatching but only because he liked knowing which trees would hide a body best. he stood motionless in the lake once for so long that a child asked if he was a statue. he did not blink. he absolutely heard that. he once followed a couple for six blocks because they were holding hands and he wanted to imagine them as you and him. also he doesn’t sweat like a normal person???? he just gets shinier????
they tried fishing once. none of them had patience. chan yanked the thing(i don’t know fishing) every thirty seconds. seungmin stabbed at the water instead of waiting. minho stared at the horizon. jeongin kept being loud even though everyone told him that it scares the fish away.
they absolutely terrorized ice cream shop employees without technically doing anything illegal. just standing too still. smiling too long. asking oddly specific questions about freezer storage temperatures. hyunjin said nothing but looked exhausted. you made them sit outside after that.
changbin tried to teach the others how to do backflips and only two of them landed it and neither of those two were the ones you’d expect. didn’t help that hyunjin kept sabotaging the whole thing.
hyunjin was a bitch. if chan was building something, hyunjin would casually loosen a screw and walk away. if jeongin was flirting with someone for information, hyunjin would walk past and say “he cries after sex.” he pushed minho into a pool fully clothed and then acted offended when minho dragged him in too. he once locked all of them out of your apartment.
chan also decided one afternoon that he was going to build you a better coffee table. this would’ve been sweet if it didn’t turn into a shirtless, sweat covered, borderline primal competition between him and minho about who could hammer nails harder. at some point they were just aggressively hitting wood while making eye contact. it was erotic.
the mailman has started carrying pepper spray specifically for felix, who got stuck in a tree once. felix, who starts drooling when you wear shorter bottoms through summer.
not only him tho. you bent over to grab a bottle of water from the cooler and every single one of them just froze. men. purely. han always dropped what he was holding, seungmin’s muscles actually flexed, chan’s hand tightened so hard on his beer glass the glass cracked, changbin fell, jeongin’s sunglasses slid straight down his nose while he stared open mouthed, minho’s knife stopped twirling in his fingers and just hung there useless and hyunjin let out this long sigh that ended in a whimper.
yeah but like… only the three boyfriends have the privilege to grab a handful whenever they want to. the other five were straight up pathetic because damn they want that cookie bad.
jeongin tried begging on his knees once, literally clasping his hands going “please just one cheek squeeze i’ll be good i swear on my collection of stolen earrings.” hyunjin wrote you an entire serenade about your ass on a napkin and tried to read it aloud until seungmin crumpled it and stuffed it in his mouth. changbin kept flexing his pecs whenever you looked his way like maybe if he got strong enough you’d let him motorboat you. baby, that’s not why we love you. minho would stare so hard and so long you could feel it like a physical touch. felix just cried real tears one afternoon while hugging your leg until you had to pry him off and tell him to go eat a sandcastle or something.
they kept trying increasingly stupid ways to get your attention without crossing the only han seungmin and chan get to hit that line. jeongin started doing cartwheels in the sand every time you looked his way. changbin carried you around, which was fun tbh. felix kept bringing you gifts from the beach, half a crab shell, a tampon applicator he found, a live jellyfish in his hands until it stung him and he screamed. hyunjin’s tall ass couldn’t get off you. minho sharpened every stick he found into a spear.
they once found a really big stick. that was it. that was the event. a massive branch had fallen after a storm and all eight of them were mesmerized by it. because they’re men. they lost their fucking minds.
they took turns carrying it home. all eight were so excited to get their turns. they brought it home to you.
“look.” han said breathlessly.
“it’s a stick.” you said.
“it’s a very good stick, y/n.” jeongin bitched around.
you said it was a nice stick. you might have never seen them happier. that stick lived on your balcony for three weeks before someone used it to break a car window.
but wait. what do you think of all this, y/n? god, we never even asked you. like seriously, how do you feel about being the boss of this weird lil murder harem? you absolutely love it. you feel chosen as a person. they listen to you. even when they don’t understand. even when it takes three hours and a whiteboard to explain that jealousy is not a bacterial infection. they adjust for you because they want to, because the murder attempt went wrong and now for the first time in their life they feel romantic love. so you make space for them in your heart too.
uuuh what did i start this summer section with? summer comes? yeah, han, seungmin, and chan also do. they “come” lots. get it? come. cum. hahhahaha okay i’ll go kill myself i’m sorry.
han will be be balls deep in you on the living room floor, windows open because “fresh air makes it better babe!” and mid thrust he’ll stop, look around confused, and go “wait… is the ac on? or is that just my balls sweating?” dumb fuck. you have to physically guide his hips back into you sometimes because he’ll get lost in his own head thinking about seagulls.
chan’s finally okay with group sex. well, not that he’s the life of the party but not that tense about it. he’ll watch seungmin fuck you from behind while he’s got your mouth full, one hand gentle on your cheek, the other fisted in seungmin’s hair pulling him closer just to hear you choke. he’ll fuck you slow and deep right after han pulls out, sliding into the mess left behind. he doesn’t touch the other two directly ever, but he’s fine with them touching you at the same time. progress. his little progress, good job baby girl!! (ruthless psychopath who kills people on a daily basis)
you have one of those bathtubs that are like big, in the corner of the bathroom and have jets. now they love that. han loves underwater handjobs so much he’ll beg for them daily. you’ll be sitting between his legs in the steaming water, jets blasting against your back, and he’ll be whimpering “babe faster faster the bubbles feel funny!” and moaning like a porn star while you stroke him under the surface.
seungmin still gets the ick hardcore if one of them get too close to him while naked. so he’ll sit on the edge of the bathtub fully clothed, watching you three(because han BEGGED chan to come into the water and chan doesn’t even care anymore, you could set his garage on fire with him in it and he would be calm as ever but if han was in there he’d save the guy) while han begs “c’mon man just get in! the jets feel like tiny angels massaging my dick! no touching! swear!” no. seungmin stays dry. being in the bath with you? he loves that. it’s not even sexual most of the time. being in the bath with one of those two assholes? ew ew ew.
beach days with them only are worse. or better. depending. han once tried to finger you under the water but he forgot he can’t actually see what he’s doing so he ended up rubbing your knee for like five minutes going “why isn’t this working? is your pussy shy today?” seungmin laughed so hard he almost drowned. chan actually giggled.
okay sex talk over. the beach becomes their natural habitat. i mean all eight’s, seriously, sex talk over. and that is unfortunate for everyone else at the beach.
let’s start with the umbrella. oh my god, the umbrella. you have never seen eight killers so excited about shade in your life. chan reads the instructions. seriously. seungmin ignores the instructions and tries to force it into the sand. minho insists it needs to go deeper. jeongin keeps holding it wrong and getting smacked in the face by the fabric. felix spins it once and almost takes out a child. changbin keeps stabbing the boys’ backs with the pole. han digs a hole for no reason. hyunjin is already lying down in the sand. forty five minutes later, the umbrella stands. they all step back and admire it.
so you sit down on the towels, under the umbrella now that they just built for you.
they stand there. all eight of them. looking at you. waiting. (guys let’s note that they wear no makeup and aren’t whitewashed)
“what?” you say.
seungmin tosses a bottle of sunscreen into your lap. “apply.”
“you’re all grown.”
“but you do it better.” han stomps.
fucking hell. sure.
chan first. stands in front of you like a good boy while you squeeze sunscreen into your palm and press your hands to his neck. you start there, fingers sliding over the muscles there, down to his traps. he hums, eyes half lidded.
“feels good.” he mutters.
you work down his shoulders, kneading the lotion in circles. pecs firm, nipples hardening in the breeze (or from your fingers, let’s be real), he stands still, trying not to react to the fact that your hands are sliding over him in public.
“turn.” you say.
he does.
you cover his back carefully, fingers dragging down his spine. you kneel slightly to get his legs. god, men and their hairy ass legs. you rub sunscreen down his thighs, over his knees, along his calves. thorough.
when you finish, he leans down and presses a lil kiss to your cheek. “thanks.”
the others are staring. drooling, practically.
seungmin next. he really wanted to go next, so much that he pushed jeongin out of the way. “don’t rush.” he tells you lazily.
you roll your eyes and squeeze more sunscreen out.
his skin is hot. you press your palms to his shoulders and he actually exhales. low. satisfied. he tilts his head slightly when you drag your hands over his collarbones. you move down his chest, spreading the lotion over every inch of muscle. he doesn’t look at the others. he looks at you.
always at you.
when you reach his stomach, he makes a quiet, pleased sound.
“shut up.” minho mutters from behind him.
when you reach his cute little v-line, he mutters a “don’t stop there” but you do.
you kneel to do his legs and he spreads his legs slightly just to be a whore. you rub sunscreen over his thighs, down his calves, reaching around to get everything.
“spin.” you order, standing up.
he obeys instantly. when your hands move across his back, he leans into it.
you smack his shoulder lightly when he moans. “behave.”
he just smiles.
okay. you smack seungmin’s shoulder when he’s done, using your other hand to motion closer whoever’s next. it’s hyunjin.
“be gentle, muse.” he sighs, closing his eyes. you start at his face, cheekbones jawline, lips gently. he moans softly. shoulders next, slim, muscles rolling under your fingers.
as you work the sunscreen down his back, spine straight, ribs visible when he breathes in deep, he leans forward a bit.
“don’t fall asleep.” you warn.
“might.” he mutters.
you turn him around. his chest is a little little hairy, just the really center of it at the top of his sternum, nipples pink and sensitive, he shivers when you circle them accidentally(or not). cute little tummy lean.
“write your name on me.” he whispers. you do, sort of, spelling it out in sunscreen.
arms long and elegant, forearms with veins popping. you kneel to get his legs and he holds onto you, hand resting lightly on your shoulder. you rub the sunscreen in, feeling the light hair under your palms, knees knobby, feet sandy already.
he opens his eyes when you’re done, kisses your forehead. “eternal gratitude.” (WHO does blud think he is😭)
changbin’s up next, been eyeing you the whole time. you start high, lotion on his traps that feel brutal under your hands, moving down to his arms. biceps bulging when you squeeze, forearms thick with veins and hair. he grins down at you, sweet as pie. “thanks. feels nice.” pecs next, huge, firm, holy shit. you spread the lotion over his nipples, and he flexes playfully, making them bounce. “oops.”
“you got magic hands.” he says when you’re doing his tummy. stomach done, you drop to his legs, thighs brutal, hairy, popping under your touch. he helps by lifting each foot so you can get everything, ticklish apparently because he chuckles a little.
you flick his knee. “stop being cute.”
he giggles. same man that kills for fun btw.
minho stands rigid. arms slightly out. you rub sunscreen over his shoulders and he doesn’t react. but when your hands move down his chest, you feel the tension. you cover him thoroughly, efficient.
back next. he doesn’t relax, just stands there while you work down to his lower back. arms about average but looks cute on him, forearms smooth, like smooth in no veins, he has hair there of course. same hands that snap bones.
when you kneel for his legs, he swallows. otherwise that he doesn’t react much, just a slight nod when you’re done. high praise from him.
jeongin winks as he steps up. “be gentle.”
you shove his shoulder lightly and start at his face, then shoulders, rubbing in circles while he hums approval.
he arches slightly when you move down his chest. he’s sensitive. chest waxed or something, nipples perky. cute little happy trail faint but there. forearms veiny. legs hairy, thighs strong, so boyish.
“you missed a spot.” he lies when you’re done, pointing at his crotch.
you smack his arm. it’s so easy to fall into his charm though.
“me next!” felix smiles.
you start with his face first. then skinny little whore neck. you work down his chest, light hair there that’s so human and so adorable and so damn, and he watches your hands, squirming when your palm runs over his nipples.
freckles scattered all over his slutty little body. so cute. even cuter happy trail, dark leading down. you bite your lip, keep it to yourself, but god it’s adorable on his dumb ass. especially his chest hair, darker compared to his hair(which minho bleaches for him, by the way.)
“this is nice.” he says when you’re doing his legs.
“mhm. sunscreen.”
“and you’re doing it.”
aw.
“i won’t burn now.” he says when you’re done.
“you won’t.”
“i like when you take care of us.”
so genuine. so sweet.
“do my ears.” han says immediately.
“i will.”
your hands are gentler with him. not because you have to be, because you want to be. you start at his neck, he giggles because ticklish, down to muscles that flex under your hands. back wide, nipples sensitive, he whines “babe that feels weird good.” abs soft, almost not visible but there, stomach warm. arms strong, forearms hairy.
since he’s yours, you slide your hands under his trunks from the back, coating his ass cheeks, just to protect from burns. really, nothing dirty about it, you just know that he’ll burn there. plus they’re round and soft and heheheh.
he squeaks “cold!” but pushes back into your touch.
the others are… drooling. seungmin licks his lips. chan bites his. jeongin whistles. minho stares unblinking. hyunjin sighs, changbin audibly swallows. felix tilts his head confused but horny.
when you’re done with his legs, you pull your hand back, patting it on his body a few times so the sunscreen comes off them. “done.”
han turns around, smiling ear to ear. “thank you.”
when you’re done, eight men stand in front of you. glistening. protected. completely devoted. SO cute.
chan, like the man he is, takes the sunscreen bottle away from you, squirts a generous palmful into his hand, rubs them together once, and then he’s looking at you. “stay still.”
you do. bikini top doing its best to contain the girls, but it’s summer and the fabric is fighting for its life and chan doesn’t even blink??? he starts at your shoulders. big hands, strong from fixing engines and snapping necks, spreading sunscreen over your skin. no fumbling. no lingering. down your arms. across your collarbones. your cleavage, the part of your tits that spill out and between them. he rubs it in. slow circles. thumbs brushing the inner curves. knuckles grazing the undersides. the jiggle is obscene. your boobs are bouncing softly with every pass.
and chan is CALM. now that’s a psycho. zero thirst on his face. zero. he’s so fucking cool. like a responsible adult who happens to be a psychopath with a body count higher than most people’s follower count. and he’s not even hard. not visibly. no obvious bulge. no lip bite. no “fuck baby you’re so hot” growled under his breath.
and not because he’s not attracted. god, he’s SO attracted. but because he’s a man. he’s a man and he’s setting a mature example for the seven other assholes and because he respects you. oh that’s dada.
oh and about the others. han’s mouth is wide open. seungmin has his arms crossed so tight his biceps are about to pop. jeongin is biting his fist so hard there’s actual blood. changbin is just straight up staring, breathing hard. minho’s eyes are locked on chan’s hands as chan reaches the small of your back, palms running over the curve of your ass for exactly the amount of time it takes to cover skin, then up again. felix has forgotten how to blink and is just staring at your tits. hyunjin, already half dead from hangover, lets out the smallest, most pathetic whimper.
the only sound is the wet schlick of chan’s hands working sunscreen into your body. they’re intimidated and aroused and they hate him and they look up at him. he’s doing it on purpose. showing them how it’s done. respect tbh.
chan finishes. wipes his hands on his thighs. gives your shoulders one last gentle squeeze. “all covered. don’t burn.”
you smile, sweet. nod at him.
then he turns to the boys. the man EVER.
felix looks chan dead in the eyes. “i wanna be you when i grow up.“
the beach itself is horrible because they can’t behave for the lives of them. you sit under the umbrella, towel beneath you, sunscreen within reach if they need it again. you watch them. because someone has to.
seungmin and minho are in the water shoving each other within seconds. han runs in without testing the temperature. screams because it’s cold. felix follows but gets distracted halfway by a crab. squats down to talk to it. you hear him say “you look edible.” hyunjin dies around on the towel next to you. changbin has jeongin on his shoulders in seconds. abusing chan.
and when chan comes back out later? the CURLS on this man’s head. omfg. the water brings them out. oh he’s getting it tonight.
minho nearly drowns jeongin “accidentally.” when you shout at them(just a loud “BOYS?” god, you hate being loud in public but if it keeps your boys alive then who cares) minho shouts back a “he’s fine.”
jeongin emerges sputtering, hair plastered to his face. “you tried to kill me.”
felix chases seagulls. you’re ninety percent sure he’s considering eating one. you make eye contact from under the umbrella. he gives you a thumbs up. concerning.
changbin brings a football, which is a mistake, because now they’re tackling each other in the sand. chan lifts seungmin clean off the ground. han gets hit in the face with the ball. jeongin falls every time someone breathes near him. minho kicks the ball back when it goes in his direction but he’s watching felix try to catch a seagull with breadcrumbs.
at some point han presses a seashell into your palm. “for you.” you smile at him. kiss his cheek. proudest boyfriend ever. behind him minho is floating on his back like a corpse, eyes open, staring at the sky.
they can dismember someone without a single emotional reaction but give them a beach ball and they lose their minds.
right now you’re watching felix who’s on all fours, enthusiastically shoveling wet sand into his mouth with both hands.
hyunjin is dying next to you.
he’s flat on his back on the towel, one arm flung over his eyes, the other clutching a half empty water bottle. he’s pale, sweaty, miserable. the hangover is biblical.
you lean over him, hair falling forward, voice soft. “are you okay, honey?”
he uncovers one eye. looks up at you in the bikini top, sunlight haloing you. his breath catches. “yeah… i’m okay.”
you trail your fingers down, lightly over his collarbone, across his chest, just soothing. his chest is skinny compared to the others. maybe the same size as felix. lean. tense under your touch. you do slow, soothing circles around his ribs, down the faint line of hair under his navel. he shivers hard. goosebumps everywhere despite the heat.
“you’re burning up.” you murmur.
his breathing gets uneven. you can see the exact moment his cock starts to thicken under the loose swim trunks. he tenses, glances down, then quickly rolls onto his stomach with a groan that’s half pain, half pleasure.
“sorry.” he mumbles into the towel. “fuck. embarrassing.”
you don’t stop touching him. just slide your hand up his back now, nails dragging lightly over his spine. “it’s natural, hyunjin.”
he hums. you’re right. god, you just always understand them. you never judge, you know what’s natural and what’s not. that means a lot to him.
“you need more water?” you ask.
“i need to be put down.”
you laugh, nails resuming their slow path up and down his spine. he shivers violently. hips shift once, tiny grind into the sand, then freeze.
out in the water, felix is now trying to eat a jellyfish. han is yelling “no! bad!” while jeongin is recording it. god, he’s gonna drop his phone in the water. changbin is rescuing a kid’s beach ball that drifted too far. minho is still floating like a corpse. chan is walking next to the water, about to help han take the jellyfish out of felix’s mouth, curls dripping, eyes locked on you from fifty yards away. tonight is gonna be brutal.
and seungmin is coming back towards you and hyunjin. he drops to one knee beside the umbrella, water still running off him, reaches down, gives your ass a firm, cheeky smack that echoes, then drops onto the towel beside hyunjin with a grunt.
“he looks like death.” seungmin says, nodding at hyunjin. “you finally drink yourself into the grave?”
hyunjin doesn’t lift his head. voice muffled. “if only.”
seungmin huffs, leans back on his elbows, legs stretched out but making sure one of them is touching you. “you’re missing the show out there. earlier the lifeguard thought han drowned. felix is… shit, i think he’s eating sand again.”
“hm. i’m fine.” you say, running your nails over the back of hyunjin’s neck now. he’s seeing heaven. he sighs under your hand.
hours later, you’re still at the beach. the sun is lower now. you’re still on the towels, and so are they now. the day absolutely exhausted them. which is impressive, considering half of them have the stamina of apex predators.
han is asleep on you. fully asleep. face smushed into your stomach, hugging your body, drooling onto your bikini bottoms in a little spot. his curls are crunchy with dried water and sand, sticking up in every direction. you’re absently running your fingers through them, untangling little knots, and he sighs in his sleep.
felix is curled into hyunjin’s side a few feet away, knees pulled up, face buried in hyunjin’s skinny chest. he’s whining, soft, pathetic little “ow ow ow” sounds every time he shifts. it’s because of his earlier sand eating before chan calmly walked him away from people, stuck two fingers down his throat, and made him puke it all up. felix came back crying, sand still in his teeth, but now he’s just clingy and miserable.
“my tummy feels crunchy.”
“that’s because you ate the beach.” hyunjin mutters, exhausted, but his hand is moving gently up and down felix’s back. slow. soothing.
meanwhile on your other side, chan is absolutely demolishing hotdogs. just stacking them. one after the other. you’re pretty sure this is his seventh.
“are you even chewing?” changbin asks.
“yes.”
he is not chewing.
seungmin is next to him, trying to stack empty hotdog trays into a tower.
that’s the peaceful side of it. but behind the row of food stalls some dipshit made the fatal mistake of staring at you for too long. not just a glance. full on, mouth open, sunglasses sliding down his nose, licking his lips like he was about to approach. jeongin noticed first. nudged minho. minho grabbed the guy by the throat, slammed him against the back of some stand so hard the metal rattled just so that jeongin could stab the guy. stomach, then went back in, again, again, stabbing the guy to shreds. they dropped the body in a dumpster.
now they’re walking up the sand toward the umbrella, casual as fuck. jeongin’s licking salt off his fingers. minho’s wiping his knife on his swim trunks.
you see the blood speck on jeongin’s cheek. your stomach drops. “really?” you say.
they freeze.
jeongin tries the grin. “babe—”
“this is a beach.” you hiss.
“technically behind the stalls.” jeongin corrects.
han stirs slightly against you.
you lower your voice. “we talked about this.”
minho crosses his arms. “it was quick.”
“i don’t care if it was quick.”
“no one saw.” jeongin insists.
“that’s not the point.”
they blink at you. it absolutely is the point to them.
you sit up slightly, adjusting han so he doesn’t fall off you. “pack up.”
silence. chan stops mid bite. seungmin looks over slowly. changbin freezes with a hotdog tray in hand. felix peeks up weakly from hyunjin’s side.
“what?” jeongin says.
“pack up.” you repeat.
minho’s stomps. it’s brutally cute for the creepiest guy on the beach. “seriously?”
“yes. if you can’t not kill people while we’re at the beach, we’re leaving.”
collective groan. eight grown men.
“y/n nooooo.” felix whines, clutching his stomach.
“i just got comfortable.” hyunjin mutters.
“the tower isn’t finished.” seungmin says calmly.
chan looks between you and the remaining hotdogs. calculating risk. is he gonna say no to his angelic girlfriend? does he want to die?
“we’re not leaving because of that.” jeongin argues.
“we are.” you stand up carefully, shifting han into chan’s arms, who catches him. “we’re done for today.”
more whining. actual whining. minho drags a hand down his face. “you’re being dramatic.”
“am i?”
“yes.”
you stare at him.
he holds your gaze.
you don’t blink.
seungmin snorts quietly.
minho sighs first. “…fine.”
“thank you.”
jeongin throws his hands up.
“start packing.”
changbin immediately begins folding towels because he’s the only one with functional conflict resolution skills. chan sets han down gently and starts gathering bags, one hand still putting the leftover hotdogs in his mouth. it’s unbearably hilarious because that is such a man thing to do but you’re mad now. he’ll get sucked off later. anyways. hyunjin helps felix sit up. seungmin kicks over the hotdog tray tower.
you point at him. “don’t.”
he raises his hands innocently.
jeongin stomps while shoving things into a cooler.
han wakes up halfway through packing and tries to help by holding one flip flop for five straight minutes.
“what are you doing, baby?” you ask.
“helping.”
chan gently takes the flip flop from him.
you herd them toward the parking lot. you’re so done. “next time, no killing near me. we’ve talked about this hundreds of times, and if you can’t follow it, this is what you get.”
“near?” jeongin mutters.
you stop walking.
he immediately shuts up.
felix tugs lightly on your sleeve. “i’m sorry i ate the beach.”
you sigh. “it’s okay.”
and like… han technically has his own place. no one really knows how. he has an apartment. keys. furniture. a fridge that sometimes contains food and sometimes contains nothing but a single lemon and three energy drinks. how he maintains it? mystery. how he remembers to pay rent? conspiracy. how it hasn’t burned down? fuck knows. he still sleeps at your place almost every night.
seungmin sleeps over a lot too. less clingy about it, but consistent. he won’t say he prefers your place, but he absolutely does.
chan sleeps over less, not because he doesn’t want to, because he works early. because he’s responsible. but he does stay sometimes.
this was just a quick clear up to help you understand better what’s coming next. right now, you’re in changbin’s car. still the same day after the beach when you made them pack tf up. backseat. because felix begged for you to go in the same car he does. so here you are. felix on one side of you, han on the other because he didn’t want to go without you. hyunjin is in the passenger seat looking like death reheated. changbin is driving.
“please please please let felix sleep over.” han is saying to you for the fifth time.
hyunjin makes a noise.
“window.” changbin says gently to him. “look out the window. breathe.”
hyunjin presses his forehead to the glass.
“breathe.” changbin repeats softly. “in through your nose.”
all while han clings to your arm. “please. please let him sleep over. he won’t eat anything weird.”
felix leans closer. “i will not consume household items.”
“you consumed terrain today.”
hyunjin gags quietly.
changbin rubs his back one handed at a stoplight. “you’re fine. it’ll pass.”
“i saw god.” hyunjin whispers.
“focus on the trees.”
“please let him sleep over.”
you pinch the bridge of your nose.
“please.” han whispers into your ear.
you look at felix. felix looks back with the most hopeful, empty brained expression you’ve ever seen.
you cave. “fine.”
han gasps. grabs your face and kisses you hard, sand and all. “thank you thank you thank you.”
felix claps softly. “i will behave.”
hyunjin turns slowly in his seat. “help.”
changbin pats his arm gently. “almost home.”
you look at the other two. “you guys want to sleep over too?” han is wrapped around you as you ask by the way.
changbin smiles softly. “we have to be up early.”
hyunjin nods weakly. “mhm.”
“okay. next time.” you say.
changbin nods. “next time.”
hyunjin closes his eyes. “i’m going to throw up.”
“window.” changbin says gently.
when you get home, the others are already there because seungmin drives like a fucking maniac. minho, chan and jeongin get out of the car after seungmin slammed the door so hard the car almost tipped over. seungmin immediately walks over to you.
“how many are we keeping?” he asks casually.
“felix is sleeping over.”
“minho can stay too, right?”
“sure.”
and that’s it.
minho gives you an unsettling little smile. the effort is adorable. (serial killer)
chan walks over, kisses you. “i’ve got work.”
“i know.”
“i’ll take jeongin.”
jeongin looks at the sky. “finally someone who appreciates me.”
“i do not.” chan says calmly.
they leave. chan is not getting pussy tonight then like you planned, but anyways. changbin and hyunjin head off with tired waves.
so. now it’s the two og boyfriends, the cannibal and the creepy one at your place. and you, of course.
minho gently gets his shoes off. god, he can remember clearly when they first came in all unwanted. good old times.
“where’s the bathroom?” felix asks. he’s been here at least fifty times.
“left.” you say.
he turns right. walks into a closet. comes back out.
you stare at him.
han is watching the other two do shit, so shirtless and so still in his swim trunks. he probably won’t change at all unless you tell him to.
minho and seungmin go into your kitchen. you hear drawers opening.
“if you break something—” you start.
“we won’t.”
you immediately hear a knife block clatter.
“…that wasn’t me.”
felix comes back. “i found it.”
“found what?”
“the bathroom.”
“great.”
he stands there. waiting.
“…are you going to use it.”
“oh.”
he disappears again.
so. eventually you start to make food.
“i’m hungry.” han says from the floor. he’s sitting there, leaning against your legs.
“food is happening.”
“i love when you cook.”
“thank you.”
seungmin is leaning against the counter, flipping a knife between his fingers in a way that absolutely should not be attractive but unfortunately is. “what are you making?”
“that shrimp pasta you guys like.”
all while minho stands too close. “you smell like sunscreen.”
“thank you.”
“not a compliment.”
“i’m choosing to take it as one.”
he watches you flip the shrimp around in the pan.
felix comes back in. “i washed my hands.”
“with soap?”
“yes.”
“both hands?”
“yes.”
“left and right too?”
he freezes. stares at both hands. you watch the gears turn. slowly. painfully.
minho from behind you: “he doesn’t know left and right but somehow he knows the exact date i lost my virginity.”
felix points immediately at minho. “2021 august 14th.”
“can i have some?” han asks you before you can even process the conversation that just went down behind you.
“it’s not done.”
“but when it’s done.”
“yes.”
“promise?”
you look down at him. he’s looking up at you with the prettiest eyes you’ve ever seen on a serial killer. “yes, love.”
“okay. i love you.”
“i know.”
“how do you tell left and right?” felix asks.
seungmin just… looks at him. “you’re fucking with us.”
“no.” felix says seriously. “how do you tell.”
and this bullshit goes on until you’re finished with the food.
“plates.” you say, putting the wooden spoon aside.
they stare.
“plates.” you repeat.
han grabs two. seungmin grabs forks. minho grabs three more plates because han is a dumb little bitch. felix tries to grab a knife and you smack his hand lightly.
they eat fast. aggressive. hungry. whatever you can see into brutal psychos who spent their entire days on the beach. you lean against the counter watching them. they’re loud. dangerous. there’s dried salt still in their hair. sand on their ankles. small scratches from whatever stupid shit they did earlier. and they look comfortable. so adorable.
by the time they’re finished, felix is sprawled halfway off his chair.
“i feel better.” he announces.
“because you stopped eating sand.” minho mutters.
they’re full🥺🥺🥺their little tummies full of shrimp and pasta🥺🥺🥺because you fed them🥺🥺🥺and they just🥺🥺🥺ate🥺🥺🥺they were swimming in human guts just a few days ago🥺🥺🥺
you lean down and kiss the top of felix’s head. “goodnight.”
he smiles sleepily. “you’re nice.”
minho stiffens when you approach. then you kiss the top of his head too. he freezes. completely.
“goodnight.” you say softly.
he doesn’t answer, but his ears turn slightly red. or face. or fucks knows how men’s blushing system works.
you have a hand on seungmin’s shoulder to press a quick kiss to his temple. his face stays neutral but his hand slides around your waist when you pass.
han looks up at you with sleepy eyes the moment you touch his bare shoulder. his skin feels nice. “bed?”
“bed.”
you kiss his head.
he grabs your wrist instantly. “i’m coming.”
“okay.”
let’s note that he begged you to let felix sleep over today. even with his friend here, he chooses to sleep with you. and sure enough the moment you turn toward your bedroom, he scrambles up and follows. looks like the other two are up to seungmin for tonight.
felix mumbles to them: “which one’s left again?”
minho pinches the bridge of his nose. “how are you alive.”
and what do you wake up to the next day? your phone ringing. you groan and blindly slap at your nightstand, knocking over something glass in the process. you don’t care. the phone keeps ringing. unfortunately, han is currently on top of you. on you. full body weight. his face smashed into your neck. drooling. you feel a warm line of it sliding down your collarbone.
“han. baby.” you croak.
he makes a sleepy noise. your phone keeps vibrating against the wood. you squint at it through half open eyes, finally grabbing it and dragging it toward your face.
changbin. immediately concerning. he doesn’t usually call this early, he knows you’re asleep.
you pick up. “what.”
“hey.” he says. “sorry to wake you.”
“no problem.” you mumble. “what’s up?”
you glance down at the human crushing your lungs. han snores louder. also in the background of the call, you hear movement. something clattering. then: “y/n.” it’s faint. whiny. pained.
“…was that hyunjin?” you ask slowly.
“yeah.” changbin says.
“y/nnn…” god. he sounds miserable.
you sit up slightly. han slides with you and immediately tightens his dumb little grip.
“don’t move.” he mumbles into your neck.
“i have to move.”
“no.”
“han.”
“no.”
on the phone, changbin sighs. “hyunjin got hurt.”
your brain wakes the fuck up. “what?”
“y/nnn…”
jesus christ.
“what happened?” you ask.
“well, he got a knife to the arm—“
“a knife?” you shove the blankets off and try to stand, which would be easier if han wasn’t clinging to you. because now he’s awake enough to realize you’re leaving. which he hates.
“where go?” he mumbles, grabbing your waist. his hair is sticking up everywhere. his cheek is imprinted with your shirt.
you attempt to untangle him while still holding the phone.
changbin keeps talking to you. “you see, he would be fine and i really didn’t want to wake you, but—“ something clatters. “jeez, man. calm down.” he whispers to hyunjin, then back to the phone: “he really wants you here, y/n.”
“i’m coming. obviously.” you drag yourself upright. han ends up half hanging off your side, face smushed into your shoulder. “send me the address.” you tell changbin, kicking han off already stumbling toward your dresser.
“sure.” he says. “it’s not bad, he’s just—” in the background, hyunjin whines again. “—being dramatic.”
you’re already yanking open drawers. shirt. pants.
han starts hitting the bed with his cute little fists. “stay.”
“i can’t stay. hyunjin got stabbed.”
“but stay.” all while he’s hard, by the way. morning wood. lightly grabbing at himself too to relieve some of it, though it’s unconscious, he’s still too tired to realize he’s doing it. “where you going?”
“to help hyunjin.”
“i help.”
“no you don’t.”
“y/n help.”
you ignore him. talk into the phone again. “i’ll call you back, alright?”
changbin hums. you can hear a faint “y/n.” from the phone before you hang up, now listening to han talk bout some “tell him i said hi.”
your phone buzzes. the address. and a text too.
changbin: please hurry.
great!
“take me.” han whines.
“i’ll call you.” you promise, which works because han believes promises. plus you don’t usually lie to him.
you step into the hallway, and immediately hear: “hold still.”
“i am holding still.”
“no you’re not.”
you round the corner into the kitchen and stop dead. minho is lying shirtless on your kitchen counter. arms folded behind his head and allat while felix is standing next to him, holding a brutally large knife.
“wanna play doctor?” felix asks.
minho shrugs. “sure.”
felix looks up at you as he notices that you came in. smiles ear to ear. “good morning.”
minho doesn’t move. “morning.”
seungmin is there too, leaning back in a chair, one leg stretched out, scrolling on his phone. ts is completely normal to them.
you point at the knife. “why does he have that.”
seungmin glances up briefly. “he found it.”
felix looks back at minho thoughtfully. or thoughtlessly. “i could remove something.”
minho smirks. “try.”
you move fast. like fast fast. because the exact moment you step forward, felix raises the knife slightly and angles it toward minho’s stomach. the knife stops an inch above skin.
felix blinks down at your hand as you hold his wrist. “…hi.”
minho sighs. “coward.”
you yank the knife out of felix’s hand. it’s heavy. absurdly heavy. “where did you even get this?”
felix shrugs. “drawer.”
you stare at the knife.
you do not own this knife.
you are absolutely sure you do not own this knife.
“no more doctor.” you say, shoving the knife into seungmin’s hand. i mean, the handle. you don’t stab him. he catches it without looking, still scrolling. “hold this.”
“why.”
“because felix was about to perform surgery on minho.“ you’re telling me he wasn’t paying attention to that at all?
seungmin finally looks up. looks at the knife in his hand. looks at felix. looks at minho, who is still shirtless on the counter. “…tempting.”
felix smiles. “see?”
“NO.”
you lean down and press a quick kiss to seungmin’s cheek. you usually do that before you leave. it’s automatic now.
“where are you going?” he asks.
“hyunjin got stabbed.”
“bad?”
“knife to the arm apparently.”
“call if it’s serious.”
“i will.”
he nods once. you try to step away but he tugs you closer and kisses you properly this time, slow, manly. “drive safe.” he murmurs.
behind you, felix is still looking at the empty space where the knife used to be. “…we were gonna do doctor stuff.”
minho sighs from the counter. “ruined my morning.”
seungmin lazily spins the knife in his hand while you pull away. “you two are fucking idiots.”
“you’re just jealous you didn’t think of it first.” minho says.
“if i wanted to stab you i wouldn’t call it a game.”
normally you’d worry about where you’re parking, whether you’ll have to come back later, whether you’ll be stuck without a ride. normal adult shi. that version of you died the day you started caring about eight violent lunatics. they’re somehow your responsibility now tbh. so you just leave the four assholes back at your place and you drive.
knife to the arm. which technically isn’t life threatening, but with these idiots that could mean anything from “tiny scratch” to “he removed half his bicep and forgot.” and hyunjin was whining for you. he really was.
you pull up to the address changbin texted and spot his car immediately. the one everyone’s so jealous of. that huge expensive ass black car. heated cupholders type shi and anything else you can think of.
you don’t even bother parking properly. you just slide your car halfway into a spot and hop out. if it gets towed, it gets towed. priorities.
changbin is leaning against the passenger door when you approach, arms crossed. he straightens immediately when he sees you. “hey.” he says.
“hi, sweetie. how bad?” you ask, already moving toward the back seat because hyunjin is currently banging on the window of it.
he shrugs. “not terrible. he just… wanted you.”
you open the back door. hyunjin is dying around. sprawled across the backseat, head is lolling against the seat. hair a mess. shirt half open. one arm wrapped in a quickly tied bandage that’s already spotted with blood.
“y/n.” he whines the second he sees you.
oh my god. you climb in beside him immediately. “i’m here.” you say, reaching for his injured arm to look at it.
he immediately leans toward you. his head tips. straight between your tits. (guys your chest size doesn’t really matter here. if it’s small then his forehead knocks your sternum, if the girls are big then his face is on them, what matters here is that he’s all in there) nice try, man.
you pause. he just groans softly and shifts closer. “it hurts.” he murmurs into you.
changbin closes the door and moves around to the driver’s seat, already starting the car again. “he’s been like that for hours.” he says over the seat.
you gently push hyunjin’s head back just enough to actually see his face. his eyes are glassy. tired. definitely milking this situation at least a little.
“let me see the arm.” you say.
he sighs. lifts it. the bandage is messy but functional. the cut underneath is probably deep but not catastrophic. poor baby. (bitch he took lives he deserves it)
hyunjin slowly lets his head fall sideways again. directly back into your chest.
you sigh. “babe.”
no response from him. just another faint, miserable “y/n…” as he rolls his face slightly, getting comfortable. unbelievable. somehow manages to bury his face deeper into your chest.
you stare at the roof of the car.
changbin finally loses the battle and laughs under his breath. mind you there is BLOOD EVERYWHERE. you’re swimming in it. and he’s laughing at you.
“how the fuck did this happen?” you ask, trying to peel back enough cloth to see the cut.
“knife slipped.” changbin says.
“slipped.”
“yeah.” the car goes through traffic smoothly. it’s hot that changbin can drive this good. “we’re going to our place.”
“y/nnn…”
“i’m here, hyunjin.”
“it hurts.”
“i know.”
“i might die.”
“you are not dying.”
“i might.” his breath is warm against your skin. his voice softer now, the drama fading just a little because you’re actually there holding him together. it’s… weirdly intimate.
blood smears onto your wrist. somehow a drop ends up near your ear when he shifts again. then your phone buzzes in your pocket. you juggle the bandage with one hand and fish it out with the other. a message.
han: i want baby
you stare at the screen.
han: wher you
you: in changbin’s car. i’ll be back soon
han: ok
“thanks for coming.” hyunjin murmurs into your chest.
you sigh. “anytime.”
the engine shuts off. for a second everything goes quiet except for hyunjin’s weak little dying noises.
“we’re here.” changbin says.
“finally.” hyunjin mutters. you look down at him. blood is still slowly soaking the bandage. your hands are sticky. your sleeve is ruined. there’s probably still a drop somewhere near your ass crack. great.
“okay.” you say, trying to shift him upright. “let’s get you inside.”
“don’t move me.”
changbin opens the back door. “alright. i got him.”
you scoot aside to give him room. and changbin just… picks hyunjin up. not like awkwardly hauling him. not struggling. not even grunting.
holy shit. oh. okay. hello. you didn’t realize he was like this. hyunjin is a full grown man. not tiny. not light. and changbin is just standing there holding him. literally no effort. damn. like damn.
your lip almost catches between your teeth before you finally look back at hyunjin and realize he’s still bleeding. right. yes. medical emergency. blood. dying man. you slam the door and hurry around the car.
the lobby of the building alone makes you pause. shiny ass floors. clean modern lighting. plants that are definitely real and definitely expensive. fuck yeah. of course they fucking live here. and the elevator ride is quiet except for hyunjin occasionally making little miserable noises.
changbin doesn’t even look tired. you keep staring at his arms every few seconds and then aggressively reminding yourself this is not the time to admire muscles.
elevator dings. the doors open. changbin walks straight down the hall, looks like he’s done this exact route a hundred times. he unlocks the apartment door with one hand.
holy shit. their place is gorgeous. brutally well designed. you are SO jealous. SO. even with hyunjin redesigning your apartment hundreds of times, turning out better each time, this is still just so… them. and oh my god the windows are huge. there’s art on the walls. actual art. plants that look healthy in this economy?? a couch that’s not cut into two by jeongin??? wow that lamp is gorgeous. is that marble. holy shit that kitchen island—
Y/N FOCUS HYUNJIN IS BLEEDING.
right. yes. you watch changbin carry him straight to the living room and gently lower him onto the couch.
“…home.” hyunjin murmurs.
you sigh. this bitch. “do y’all have anything we can take care of him with?”
hyunjin weakly gestures toward the hallway. “bathroom cabinet.” he says. then his head tips back dramatically. “if i pass away—”
“shut up.” you and changbin say at the same time.
you hurry toward the bathroom while muttering under your breath. the bathroom is just as brutal. fancy tile. you look hot af in the lighting. you throw open a few cabinets until you find a kit you’re sure y’all can work with. you grab it and hurry back.
hyunjin is still lying on the couch. one arm draped over his eyes now. changbin is sitting on the edge of the coffee table watching him.
you drop the supplies on the table and point at hyunjin. “sit up.”
he groans. “i’m weak.” but he slowly pushes himself upright anyway with a long sigh. he looks at you with tired eyes. “be gentle.”
“be quiet.” you murmur, but caress his hair a little anyway. because you love him. you find… ooh, some scissors in the kit. so you snip the bandage open.
it’s not pretty. there’s a long slice across his upper arm, deep enough to really bleed but not deep enough to actually destroy anything important. messy, though.
“…am i dying.” hyunjin asks weakly, watching your face.
“no.” you say.
“are you sure?”
“very sure.”
changbin leans over beside you, already rolling up his sleeves. WOOOOF WOOF WOOF. “we need to clean it.” he says calmly. and he just… takes over.
you glance at him. and immediately have to look away again. because wow. changbin taking care of a wound? changbin leaning over someone with his sleeves rolled up, hands so sure? girl are you ovulating or something.
changbin pours antiseptic over the wound. hyunjin hisses out a soft little “fuck.” while changbin’s hand presses firmly against hyunjin’s arm, keeping it still while he cleans the cut.
you help by holding the gauze and dabbing away the blood while he works. wipe. press. clean. bandage. the whole time hyunjin keeps glancing between you.
“you two make a good team.” he says weakly.
you just smile at hyunjin.
“yes we do. hold this.” changbin says to you, handing you a pad of clean gauze.
you press it against the wound while he prepares shi for the stitching.
hyunjin looks down at you. his eyes are a little hazy from blood loss and exhaustion, but there’s something soft there too. something that is always there for you and wasn’t before he met you. love. his little brain actually activating chemistry and a feeling. “you came fast.” he says.
“of course i did, babe. i would always for you.”
“this might hurt.” changbin says meanwhile.
“everything hurts.” hyunjin replies tragically. “more than usual.”
“great.”
the first stitch goes in.
hyunjin sucks in a sharp breath and grabs the couch cushion with his good hand. “fuck.”
“almost done.” changbin says calmly. he just started. this is actually fucking hilarious.
the whole thing is… weirdly intimate. like between the three of you now. blood on your hands. changbin carefully stitching. hyunjin leaning against you.
changbin finishes the last stitch and ties it off neatly. “there.” he says.
you both step back slightly to look at the result.
“see?” you say. “not dying.”
hyunjin looks down at his arm. then up at you. “disappointing.”
changbin laughs quietly. “you’ll live.”
hyunjin sighs dramatically and sinks back into the couch cushions. “…it still hurts.”
“yeah, love.” you say. “that’s how injuries work.”
changbin gathers the bloody gauze and cleans up. goes away to put this and that into the trash. washes his hands. whatnot. being a responsible guy. “you should sleep.” he says when he comes back.
“don’t want to move.” hyunjin mutters.
“too bad.”
hyunjin looks at you.
you point. “up.”
he sighs dramatically but eventually pushes himself upright. he sways slightly.
“hyunjin, you’re not actually that dizzy.” you mutter.
you and changbin walk him down the hallway anyway. he’s just being dramatic.
halfway down, changbin nudges your shoulder lightly and points at a door. “mine.” he says.
“sweet.” you say.
hyunjin mutters something before pushing his door open. and holy shit. now that’s a bedroom. this man has taste. the lighting is soft and warm. the bed is huge, low, dark wood frame. white sheets n all. there’s art on the walls again. he must have made it. the windows are also massive, curtains half drawn so city light spills across the floor in that dramatic way that’s so fucking cool man. wow. what wouldn’t you like to do in here.
Y/N. NO. BAD. STOP.
focus.
hyunjin collapses onto the bed with a relieved groan. “fuck.”
changbin helps him shift back against the pillows so his injured arm stays safe.
“this bed is good.” hyunjin murmurs.
“you designed the whole apartment.” changbin says.
“mhm.”
you sit on the edge of the bed. hyunjin immediately relaxes further just from you being there.
“don’t go yet.” he mutters.
“i’m not going.”
“promise.”
“i promise.”
you and changbin talk, both of you sitting next to the currently falling asleep hyunjin. just random shit. quiet conversation. stories. you talk about the cut and that you had a similar one once. changbin talks about how hyunjin insisted on finishing the job before anyone looked at his arm. you mention how your morning started with surgery. hyunjin is listening to all of this. he’s not talking much anymore. just lying there, eyes drifting shut, breathing slow. eventually his head shifts toward you. he’s asleep now.
the quiet is… nice.
“…he doesn’t drool. han does.” you whisper.
changbin glances down. sure enough, hyunjin looks like a fucking angel even asleep. “hm. he drooled on me back when we didn’t know each other that well yet. slept on my shoulder.”
“still.”
“still.”
you both fall quiet again.
“he scared me.” you admit. voice barely above a whisper. “when the blood just kept coming. i thought something was really wrong. but you were calm. then i knew there was nothing to worry about.”
he smiles. gentle for a psycho. “thanks.”
you smile.
he turns toward you a little more. elbow on his knee. studying your face in the lamplight. “you okay?”
“i am.”
he reaches out. slow. careful. cups the side of your face with one massive hand. thumb brushes your skin. “i’m glad.”
and then, slowly, he leans in.
closes the distance.
finally.
it’s a real kiss too. not some shy little peck. his mouth is warm. the skin itself is soft but he moves the muscle firmly. his other hand slides to the back of your neck, fingers threading into your hair, tilting your head exactly how he wants it. you make a small, surprised sound against his lips. he swallows it. deepens the kiss.
you shift. climb onto his lap without really thinking about it. knees bracketing his hips. his hands immediately slide to your waist, big, steady. he shifts back against the headboard as you lean into him.
the kiss deepens. messy, physical, hot.
your knee presses into the mattress near his hip, your body halfway on top of him while he tilts his head to kiss you again. somewhere beside you, hyunjin hums softly in his sleep and rolls slightly. neither of you stops.
teeth catch your bottom lip. tug. release. then his tongue is in your mouth, deep. stroking. fucking your mouth slow and filthy while his hand slides under your shirt. his other hand slides down to grip your ass hard. fingers sinking into soft flesh.
pulls you down onto him again and again, dry humping you right there on top of him like hyunjin isn’t right there. like he wants to crawl inside your skin. like he wants to eat you alive.
“bro i heard what happened—” chan’s voice cuts off mid sentence. the doors hyunjin made changbin install are so good that you two didn’t even hear it opening. “are you—”
silence.
you and changbin both freeze. slowly, very slowly, you turn your heads.
chan is standing in the doorway. one hand still on the door. looking directly at the two of you. you half lying on top of changbin. changbin’s hand still on your ass. your mouths about two inches apart.
the room goes very quiet.
nobody moves.
chan just stares at you both for a second.
hyunjin turns in his sleep.
chan’s expression is… not shocked exactly. more like ah. okay.
“…am i interrupting?” he asks calmly.
no one answers.
hyunjin takes a weird little breath in his sleep. the three of you all glance at him automatically. still asleep. still not drooling.
chan exhales slowly through his nose. “good. he’s alive.” then he looks back at you and changbin again. “…so. should i come back later?”
changbin finally clears his throat. “probably.”
another pause.
chan gestures toward the bed. “okay. you gonna keep doing that next to him or…?”
you finally sit up a little. “…maybe.”
chan considers that. “respect.”
little more silence.
“…okay.” chan says finally. starts digging in his work pants’ pockets and casually tosses a small box onto the bed. it lands near hyunjin’s leg. “brought him chocolates.”
you slowly sit up. changbin clears his throat once but otherwise doesn’t react much either.
chan walks further into the room, completely chill about the entire thing. “how bad is it?” he asks, nodding toward hyunjin’s bandaged arm.
“he’ll live.” you say.
“hm.” he stops beside the bed and leans down slightly to press a quick kiss to your cheek. his hand slides briefly along your lower back when he does it before pulling away again. “tell him i came by.”
you nod. “i will.”
he glances once more between you and changbin. “carry on.” he adds dryly.
then he turns and walks out of the room. the door closes behind him.
silence.
hyunjin hums again.
“…he took that well.” changbin murmurs.
“he always does.” you say.
“i’m starting to notice.”
his hand slides up your side again. silence.
“so.” he says quietly.
“so.” you reply.
so what? so you lean down and kiss him again. this one is slower. now both of you know the rhythm of each other’s mouths. his other hand comes up to your neck again, thumb brushing lightly under your jaw while he tilts his head to deepen the kiss.
you shift further onto the bed without thinking, one knee pressing into the mattress beside his hip. also besides hyunjin’s cut arm but whatevs.
changbin exhales softly against your mouth, one hand sliding along your back slowly. feeling you up, but not sexually. though you two could easily go down with that too if neither of you had anywhere to be. which is exactly why he pulls back slightly.
“…i have to go to work.” he says.
you groan immediately. “seriously?”
“seriously.”
“after that?”
“after that.”
you sit back on the bed with a sigh.
he laughs quietly and pushes himself up from the pillows. “i have a client in an hour.”
you swing your legs off the side of the bed. “i told han i’d come home anyway.”
you pull your phone out of your pocket to check the time, though you also meet with multiple messages from seungmin.
a photo. it’s clearly taken from the passenger seat of your car, in the driver’s seat, jeongin. one hand on the wheel.
seungmin: we got your car dw
seungmin: it’s at chan’s garage now
seungmin: we had to break in
“…what the fuck is wrong with them.”
changbin looks over your shoulder at the photo and immediately starts giggling. “they broke into your car?”
“apparently.”
“why?”
“i don’t fucking know.”
you: WHY WERE YOU IN MY CAR
seungmin: keys weren’t there
you: BECAUSE I WAS USING THEM
seungmin: problem solved now
“…walk home it is.” you murmur.
he chuckles and stands. “i’ll drive you halfway if you want.”
“no, it’s fine.”
“you sure?”
“yeah. i need it anyway. you guys been driving me everywhere, can’t let myself go spoiled.”
you make it almost all the way to the front door. almost. changbin grabs his keys from the little table near the entrance. you lean against the wall for a second while he slips his jacket on, both of you clearly doing that thing where you should leave but neither of you is actually committing to the motion yet.
“you’ll text me when you get home?” he asks.
“yeah.”
“good.”
you kiss him goodbye. simple. quick. soft.
and then you pull back. “okay.” you say. “i should—”
he nods. “yeah.”
you both stand there for half a second.
then you kiss again.
this one lasts longer. his hand slides up your arm, thumb brushing your shoulder while your fingers catch lightly in the front of his shirt.
when you pull away again you both laugh under your breath.
“seriously.” you say.
“seriously.”
you reach for the door.
and then somehow you’re kissing again. neither of you even remembers who started that one.
your back bumps lightly against the wall near the door, his hand coming up to your jaw as he leans in, the kiss slower this time. warmer. just a little too long. head moving with it and all.
when you finally break it, you both exhale.
“okay.” he says, slightly breathless.
“okay.”
you take two steps toward the door.
and then he touches your arm again. you turn. aaaand yeah, another kiss.
when you finally stop, you both kind of just… stand there for a second. smiling slightly. breathing.
and changbin feels weird. really weird. not bad weird. just new. his heart is beating faster than it should be for something as simple as standing in his own apartment hallway. there’s this weird energy under his skin, like adrenaline but not the kind he gets from violence. this is different. he’s very aware of you. the warmth where you were leaning against him, the scent of you, the way your laugh sounded just now.
it hits him in small waves. this rush. his body reacting but fucked up little brain unable to label the feeling.
he’s spent most of his life operating in a pretty controlled emotional range. calm, practical, detached when necessary. violence never really rattled him, and affection was always… simple. casual. this? this feels like stepping into cold water and realizing it’s deeper than expected. or like when you miss a step on the stairs and your heart just drops. and there’s adrenaline in it. genuine adrenaline. his pulse still hasn’t settled.
and he kind of likes it. which is new too.
“…okay now i’m actually going.” you say.
“good plan.”
you open the door. step halfway out. then lean back in and kiss him one last time.
then this time you actually leave.
changbin stands there for a second after the door closes. then he exhales, running a hand through his hair.
first time feeling love is apparently a lot.
by the time you finally get home, you’re tired. maybe from… spending your morning elbow deep in someone else’s blood, emotionally comforting a serial killer, accidentally making out with his very attractive roommate, and then discovering one of your boyfriends and a friend broke into your car and relocated it. what was the thought process behind that even??
you unlock the door. you don’t even get the chance to step fully inside.
“y/n!”
han wraps both arms around you immediately and drags you into the apartment before you even get your shoes off, burying his face in your shoulder.
“you’re back.” he says into your neck, voice muffled because his face is already buried there. “i missed you.”
“i was gone for like five hours.”
“longest five hours of my life.” this man is enormous. you forget sometimes. well, not height wise, but he’s wide. real strong too. “i counted the seconds. then i lost count. then i cried a little. then i ate cereal. then i cried again. then i waited by the door.” he’s clinging so tight you can feel his heartbeat hammering against your ribs.
you rub slow circles between his shoulder blades, trying to coax him into loosening up just enough so you can actually breathe and kick your shoes off. “missed you too, baby.”
he makes this tiny, wounded noise as you try to close the door behind yourself. you succeed.
he pulls away. “will you let me have a baby with you?”
you stare at him. “…what.”
“a baby.” he repeats helpfully.
“i know what a baby is.”
“okay good.”
“han where the fuck did that come from.”
he shrugs. “i was thinking about it earlier.”
you rub your face with one hand. this man murders people on a weekly basis. “sweetheart, you’re a serial killer.”
“babies are cute.”
“you cannot even keep track of your own shoes.”
“i could learn.”
“you lost your phone in the fridge last week.”
“please, y/n. i’d be the best dad. please? just think about it? i’ll be so good. i swear.” no, he’ll never get a fucking baby out of you. like absolutely won’t, ever.
and… and oh, he’s humping your hip already. great. it’s not even sexual. not trying to start anything. just pure, overwhelming excitement leaking out through his body. like a fucking dog.
“let’s revisit that topic in about five years.” you say.
“okay.” he accepts that immediately. “i was bored without you. seungmin kept throwing things. felix tried to microwave a fork. minho told him to do it again. then they left because minho had somewhere to go and he took felix and then seungmin left too and i was all alone.”
“must have been horrible.” you say, brushing his hair back from his face with your hand.
“it was.”
and just like that, your door opens again.
“—i’m telling you, they literally let me hold the baby.” jeongin is saying as he walks in, gesturing around.
you look up from han’s pretty face. “what baby?”
jeongin drops onto the arm of the couch. “a baby i delivered once.”
you stare at him.
what’s with babies today?
seungmin walks straight over to you. han is still attached to your side, but that doesn’t stop seungmin from grabbing your face and kissing you hello. not quick either. not polite. just a little too long. all because jeongin is right there.
when he pulls back his hand stays on your waist for a second.
jeongin squints at him. “you’re doing that on purpose.”
“doing what?”
“that.”
“saying hello to my girlfriend?”
“you held it for like five seconds.”
“six actually. also you didn’t actually deliver a baby.”
“i did.”
“where.”
“hospital.”
“why were you in a hospital.”
“i had a knife wound. anyway the doctors were busy and the woman was screaming and i said ‘don’t worry, i got this.’”
you stare harder. “how did they let you in?”
“i was very confident.”
the worst part is that this is true. he genuinely gets into situations like this, his 20+ personalities just make it easier.
you rub your temples. han is still wrapped around you. “did a medical professional actually allow you to assist with childbirth?”
jeongin shrugs. “they were panicking.”
seungmin looks between the two of you. “did the baby survive?
“yes.”
han looks deeply impressed. “you made a baby?”
“i didn’t make it.” jeongin says. “i delivered it.”
“and did you name the baby?”
“no but i suggested jeongin.”
“you’re so cool, man.” han mutters, slightly tugging on your clothes to make sure you see it too, how cool jeongin is. pffft.
seungmin opens the fridge. “so what happened with hyunjin?”
you open your mouth. “so basically he got stabbed in the arm—” han kisses you. “—and changbin drove him—” kiss “—to their place and we had to—” kiss “—clean the wound—” kiss “—we stitched his arm and then—” kiss “…and then…” kiss “…and then…” kiss “—i swear to god—”
“keep going.” seungmin says.
“i’m trying. so after that changbin and i sat there for a bit and talked, and hyunjin fell asleep pretty fast because—” kiss.
you pinch his side lightly. he giggles.
okay. deep breath. new approach. you clap your hands lightly. “okay.” you put on your sweetest voice. “boys.”
immediate attention. they’re so predictable.
“i need a favor.”
han straightens, still doesn’t let go of you. seungmin raises an eyebrow. jeongin tilts his head suspiciously but is already smiling because you’re being nice to them.
“what kind of favor?” seungmin asks.
“i need someone to go check something outside for me.”
han immediately perks up. “check what.”
you tap your chin like you’re thinking very hard. “well… i heard a weird noise earlier.”
three pairs of eyes narrow.
“what kind of noise?” seungmin asks.
“maybe someone messing with the dumpsters.”
jeongin stands straighter. “like a suspicious noise?”
“very suspicious.”
han looks thrilled.
you keep your tone gentle, encouraging, like you’re explaining a fun mission to a group of overly enthusiastic toddlers. “i was thinking maybe the three of you could go check it out for me.”
seungmin is the only one that senses that you’re doing something. he folds his arms. “you’re sending us outside.”
“just for a little bit.”
“why?”
you smile sweetly. “because you’re the bravest.”
han gets off you and grabs jeongin’s arm. “let’s go check the noise.”
“there might be a criminal.” jeongin says excitedly.
“or a raccoon.” han adds.
“either way we investigate.” jeongin agrees.
seungmin pinches the bridge of his nose but follows them toward the door anyway.
before they leave you reach over and pat his shoulder. “thank you.”
“we’re not gone long.”
“take your time.”
han waves enthusiastically as they head out. “we’ll protect you!”
“i believe in you.” you say warmly.
the door shuts.
silence.
you wait ten seconds. twenty. then you pull your phone out. mission accomplished. you promised changbin you’ll text, and the other three would totally be all over your phone, so you sent them out. there we go.
you: home safe
changbin: good
changbin: you made it walking?
you: unfortunately yes
you lean against the counter smiling faintly at the screen.
changbin: are they bothering you now
you glance toward the door.
you: i sent them on a heroic mission
changbin: poor city
you laugh quietly. outside, somewhere down the street, you hear distant shouting. probably your boys. probably already causing problems.
you: text me when your client’s done
changbin: i will
aaaand someone’s already dead outside by the hands of the three you sent out.
author’s note: the baby talk doesn’t actually mean anything, clearing this up in case someone is afraid that i’ll ruin the series with a baby. i won’t.
genre: crackfic, dark comedy, dark romance, horror
summary: part iii. seungmin shoots his shot! so does chan, or maybe you shoot your shot with chan?
warnings: violence, blood, gore, cannibalism(still not in detail), obsessive behavior, cursing, homicidal behavior/psychopathy, sexual content(protected and unprotected p in v, threesomes, one mention of roleplaying), jealousy, physical fights(not serious, just boys being boys), lowk alcoholic hyunjin
word count: 15k
“go on a date with me.”
seungmin says, standing at your front door, flowers in hand. slightly crushed. definitely stolen from somewhere.
you’re in a towel.
two towels, technically. one around your body, one on your head, dripping water onto your shoulder.
you stare at him. he stares back. there’s a long, deeply uncomfortable silence.
“…hi.” you say.
“hi.” he says.
he does not look away. not at the towel. not at your legs. not at the fact that you clearly just got out of the shower. his eyes are locked on your face.
you glance down at yourself, then back up at him. “you couldn’t have waited like. five minutes.”
“no.”
“why.”
“because then i might’ve talked myself out of it.” one of the flowers drops. he doesn’t notice. “i brought these.” he says, holding them up a little higher.
you sigh. “thanks. would you… look away? perhaps?”
“why. you gonna drop the towel?”
“i will pepper spray you.”
“don’t. please.” he shifts his weight. “i want to take you out.”
“out where.”
“don’t know.”
“great start.”
“i didn’t say i had a plan.”
you raise an eyebrow.
he runs a hand through his hair, frowns at the flowers.
“look. you’re with han or whatever is between you two. chan is getting annoying. jeongin jerks it to you audibly. everyone’s losing their shit. i hate it.”
“jeongin’s wha—“
“go out with me.”
you stare at him. adjust the towel tighter around you. “real nice, bringing flowers and all that. i don’t know, though.”
“i’m not asking because i’m nice.” he says. “i’m asking because i want you.”
this is the guy who throws glasses at walls. who shoots around left and right, not caring if he accidentally shoots jeongin’s knees out.
“and what, exactly, is this date?” you ask.
he thinks. you can tell because his face does that thing where he looks like he has to shit himself. “we go somewhere. i don’t kill anyone. you don’t pepper spray me. you sit with me. i don’t have to watch someone else touch you.”
you study him. the mean set of his mouth. the way he’s standing too straight, smth he obviously learned to look more like a normal human. the flowers trembling slightly because despite all the attitude, he’s nervous as fuck.
“you’re dripping on the floor.” he adds.
“okay?”
“i’ll get you a mop after the date.”
you stare at the flowers again.
he steps closer. “i don’t want to be patient.”
“i know.”
“i don’t want to share.”
“i really know.”
he exhales through his nose. so pretty. “but i can behave. for a few hours.”
you reach out, take the flowers from his hand. they’re cold. damp. one petal falls off immediately. “wait in the hallway. i’ll get dressed.”
“take your time.” he watches you walk away. “you look nice.” he says, louder, so you’ll hear. he’s desperate for you to hear it.
the date ends up weirdly normal, compared to what these assholes usually are like.
it’s a simple walking date. street. seungmin next to you, hands in his pockets at first, then eventually holding your bag. you didn’t even ask. he just took it.
“you don’t have to—”
“i do.” he says. “i’m being a man.”
“that’s not a requirement.”
“don’t ruin this for me, y/n.”
you snort.
you’re talking about nothing. dumb shit. a place you passed. some argument he had with minho earlier that ended in a chair being broken “on accident.” something stupid jeongin said, the way han forgot his own phone number last week. god, he’s an asshole. i mean seungmin, not han(your lovely almost boyfriend at the moment).
and you enjoy his company.
you’re mid sentence when something small and fast collides with his leg. a kid. tiny. like six, maybe. running too fast.
the kid bounces back, startled, looks up.
you’re already opening your mouth. “oh my god, are you—”
seungmin kneels. right there on the sidewalk. smooth. calm. he gently cups the kid’s head in both hands. and he leans in, mouth close to the kid’s ear.
you can’t hear it. traffic noise, footsteps.
“listen to me, you little fucker.” he whispers, voice soft as velvet. “you ever run into someone like that again, you might hit the wrong leg. the kind that doesn’t stop walking. the kind that drags you. real slow. scrapes your knees raw on the pavement while you scream and nobody helps because they think you deserve it.”
the kid’s breathing goes shallow.
“i could tell you how easy it is to make someone disappear. how bones sound when they crack. how small you’d feel. but i won’t.”
he squeezes the kid’s head just a little.
“because i’m nice today.”
he leans back, meets the kid’s wide, glassy eyes.
“so walk. away.”
the kid nods. once. jerky.
seungmin lets go.
the kid stands there for half a second like his soul left his body and hasn’t come back yet. then he walks away. not runs. walks. in dead silence.
you stare.
seungmin stands up, dusts his knee off like he just tied his shoe.
you blink at him. “what did you say to him.”
“i asked if he was okay. told him to be careful.”
“…that’s it?”
“yeah.”
you look at the kid’s stiff little back as he disappears into the crowd.
“…okay.” you say.
wtf sure.
pffft.
after a bit more of walking and talking, he reaches out and takes your hand.
you look up at him.
he looks down at you.
damn.
you never realized how hot he was until now.
he raises an eyebrow. “what.”
“nothing.”
but his hand tightens just a little. and you keep walking.
you two start flirting real fast.
it starts as teasing. eye contact. his thumb starting to caress your hand. you calling him an asshole. muttering things. lip biting. y’know the drill.
you’re still on the street when he mutters something that makes your stomach drop.
you stop walking.
he stops too.
you look at each other.
one second you’re outside under streetlights and the next you’re basically falling through your front door together.
you’re kissing already. like full on making out, spit everywhere. teeth clacking. hands grabbing blindly, missing half the time, grabbing anyway.
“fuck—” someone says. probably both of you.
he fumbles with the lock behind you, still kissing you, pushing you back. the key drops. clatters to the floor.
“ignore it.” he mutters against your mouth.
“door—”
“later.”
he finally kicks it shut with his foot, doesn’t even check it, just turns back to you and you’re on him again, fingers in his hair, pulling hard enough that he hisses through his teeth.
shit gets knocked over immediately. a chair tips. something crashes off a surface.
you stumble backward, laughing breathlessly, he follows, hands everywhere, back, sides, hips, giving exclusive attention to your ass. he kisses down your jaw, your neck, messy.
you bump into the kitchen counter.
he lifts you. just scoops you up and plops you onto it. your legs hook around his waist.
oh. that’s hot.
he’s between them, body pressed in, his pretty body everywhere. his hands slide to your thighs, squeezing, whining, mouths meeting again and again, sloppy.
tongue everywhere. just sliding in, around, out, back in. you make a noise into his mouth that surprises both of you and he pulls back half an inch just to laugh at you, and then dives back in harder, hand gripping your jaw.
your hands are useless. grabbing his shoulders, then his hair, then his collar, then realizing his jacket is still half on and aggressively shoving it off.
it gets caught on his arm. he growls. actually growls.
you snort.
he does not appreciate being laughed at and immediately presses closer, tongue sliding back into your mouth. zero mercy.
it’s sloppy now. spit actually running down his chin. lips swollen already. you pull back just long enough to breathe and he chases you, mouth catching yours again immediately.
tongue tracing the inside of your lip. teeth dragging. then softer for half a second, just enough to fake you out, before he’s back to absolutely devouring you.
he kisses down your jaw, mouth open, tongue on your skin licking down, and you tilt your head back automatically, giving him more room. he leaves spit along your neck, then goes back to your mouth.
you grin against his lips.
he bites you for that.
his jacket gets yanked off finally and tossed somewhere. your shirt follows. buttons pop. something skids across the floor.
you knock over a utensil holder with your elbow. it crashes. neither of you give a single fuck.
then both of you are fumbling with jeans.
it’s embarrassing. truly. his knee bumps the cabinet. hard.
“fuck.” he mutters, mad at the kitchen.
you snort, trying to unbutton your own jeans while he’s doing the exact same thing to his, except his fingers are bending five different directions and NONE into the direction of his pants getting down.
“why are these—” he yanks. nothing happens. “—designed like this.”
“they’re… normal jeans.” you say, breathless, hands shaking.
he finally gets his open and immediately drops to his knees. the sound he makes is somewhere between a sigh and a grunt. a rlly hot grunt tbh.
you blink down at him. “…wow.”
“shut up.” he says, but he’s smiling.
he hooks his fingers into the waistband of your jeans, tugging them down slowly. you grab the edge of the counter behind you, laughing under your breath because this is intense and kinda wrong but also not but really is but it’s not but god is it hot.
your jeans finally hit the floor and he just stares at your spread legs for a second, your little panties covering your cunt up.
“…nice.” he says, deep down knowing that han got here before he did.
he eats you out. yeah i really wanted to write this but decided that writing it in detail is not important for the plot whatsoever. i might write it separately later. you can practically hear something else getting knocked over off screen.
you wake up the next morning with a shirtless man in your bed. which, honestly, could describe half your life at this point, except this one is seungmin. obviously. but a shirtless man is a shirtless man, i hope y’all get shirtless men like i do. he’s on his back, arm flung, hair a mess, mouth slightly open. he slept like a fucking baby.
your phone is buzzing. han. five messages.
han: hi
han: ar you awwake
han: i had a drea m abbou you
han: nt a bad 1
han: i think
you have two bitches now.
seungmin wakes up as his little psycho brain sensed that you’re awake and thinking bout someone else who’s not him.
“morning.” he says, rolling over to put an arm over you.
god, you JUST taught han to not forget about you the second someone jingles keys in front of him. and now this? this is gonna be hard. but you got yourself into it, and… you want it. you want both of these ruthless serial killers. and you’re gonna have them. (you’ll end up crazy)
“hi.” you murmur.
later, when you’re in the kitchen with the others, trying to restore some order because apparently if you don’t supervise them they will try to hunt jeongin down again.
“why is there BLOOD on the COUNTER.” you’re yelling, hands on the island. “i said CLEAN. not ‘wipe it with your sleeve and call it a day.’”
minho opens his mouth. thinks better of it. closes it. chan is already scrubbing something aggressively.
han is leaning against the fridge, smiling at you, brain empty, heart full.
“i did clean.” felix says.
“felix. that is a footprint.”
“oh.”
jeongin snickers. changbin hides his face. hyunjin watches you with those pretty eyes.
you’re mid screaming at them, fully locked in, when suddenly, arms wrap around you from behind.
seungmin.
he presses his chest to your back, chin on your shoulder. “hey.” he murmurs, loud enough for everyone to hear. on purpose btw.
the room goes silent.
he nuzzles your shoulder, absolutely shameless. “did you sleep okay?” he asks, voice evil.
evil, evil, evil.
you close your eyes. “seungmin.”
he kisses the side of your neck. “you were out cold. snoring a little.”
han blinks. looks at you. looks at seungmin. then smiles. genuine. “okay.” and goes back to his cereal.
felix claps his hands. “did you guys cuddle.”
everyone yells at him at once.
and because they are men, everything gets worse from there. they were already gross. now they fight more. louder. dumber. not about you directly. never that clean. it’s always something else. who sits where. who uses what. who touched whose stuff.
hyunjin throws seungmin’s jacket onto the floor one day just to see what happens. seungmin immediately tackles him. they crash into a table. someone yells. jeongin laughs.
shit like this.
and through all of this, they keep being on you. han mostly, obviously. fingers brushing your wrist. chin resting on your shoulder. kisses pressed to your cheek while he listens to something he does NOT understand.
seungmin watches. always watches. then later steals you.
“come with me.” he says, already grabbing your jacket. “i need help with something.”
“with what.”
“y’know what.”
han waves as you go. “bring food.”
seungmin doesn’t tell han he’s going to dick you down.
seungmin makes sure to be extra handsy with you in common areas. arm around your shoulders. hand at your back. leaning in too close. he makes eye contact with the others when he does it. holds it. mean loser behavior.
han follows you around all day. he kisses you whenever he wants when you’re alone. then he’ll pull back, grin, and immediately get distracted by something shiny.
“did you see that bird.”
you just stare at him.
“han i was just—”
“yeah yeah but look at it.”
the others are about to kill themselves.
and because they’re serial killers, they process it the only way they knew how, while elbow deep in someone else’s intestines. shit talking about han that he probably high fived his own balls when you let him hit. just shit talking a lot.
like, chan is choking some guy. hyunjin sits nearby, going on and off about how irritating seungmin is. chan finally snaps the neck with a soft pop, wipes his hands on his jeans, then talks to hyunjin. “chill, pretty boy. we’ll just kidnap her back. or, y’know… accidentally on purpose drop han into a woodchipper. ‘oops, he thought it was a bouncy castle.’”
or “i’m going to remove seungmin’s tongue and feed it to han. he’ll think it’s a gummy worm.” that’s minho to changbin.
once seungmin finally gets what he wanted, he becomes unbearable. but… he’s not even that territorial about han anymore. because once seungmin gets his, he doesn’t feel threatened by han.
plus han is so fucking dumb that it’s hard to feel threatened by him.
sometimes han will start kissing your neck and then pause. “…wait.”
you’ll sigh. “what.”
“i forgot what i was doing.”
seungmin, from across the room: “jesus.”
han will smile at him. “hi.”
chan notices the two of them constantly on you most, because chan notices everything and hates it. jeongin comments on it constantly. minho pretends not to care but is visibly irritated. changbin just looks tired. hyunjin keeps his distance but his eyes linger. felix is just happy people are touching each other.
sometimes you’re lying in bed, staring at the ceiling, sheets tangled, room dim, air heavy with that post sex air.
han is on one side of you. warm. face tucked against your shoulder, breathing slow and even already because he gets sleepy immediately after anything remotely intense. babygirl behavior.
seungmin is on the other side. awake. one arm behind his head, the other draped over your waist, thumb tracing the same spot over and over.
you lie there between them and think: what the fuck.
han shifts slightly, mumbling something incoherent.
“what did he say?” seungmin mutters.
“no idea.”
han hums happily in his sleep.
you snort.
han wakes up later, confused as always. “can i have water?”
seungmin sighs heavily.
han looks at him. “can you get it.”
seungmin stares at him. then at you. then gets up anyway.
han beams at him when he comes back. “thank you.”
oh yeah i basically just revealed you three fuck at the same time. that didn’t happen immediately tho. han was already the clingiest, sweetest dumbass alive. after you two finally clicked he’d just glue himself to you every chance he got. and that also means sex when you two are alone. big hands everywhere, always asking “this okay? this feel good? babe wait lemme try again i think i can do it better”
he’d finish inside you and then start talking about the cool bug he found with felix while still half hard and leaking.
at first, it was just seungmin being in the room more while you and han were at it. neither of you were really shy, not in front of someone who you already let cross the line.
seungmin would be leaning in the doorway while han was between your thighs, arms crossed, that mean little smirk on his pretty face.
han would look up, face shiny, eyes wide. “bro. you wanna see? she makes this cute noise when i do the swirl thing with my tongue.”
“you’re doing it wrong, asshole. she’s faking half those moans to make you feel better.”
you’d laugh because it was mean but also han would just beam like “really? cool! i’ll try harder next time then!” and dive back in twice as enthusiastic.
seungmin would stay. longer each time. eventually sitting on the edge of the bed, close.
one night han’s got you on your stomach, slow lazy thrusts, mumbling dumb shit. “you’re so warm inside babe, feels like home, fuuuuck i love you” actual tears in his voice. i mean in his eyes. stfu u know what i mean. what matters is that you’re melting, whimpering his name, music to seungmin’s ears.
he’s there again. this time he’s shirtless, jeans still on, sitting against the headboard.
han notices, slows down, looks over with those big dumb puppy eyes. “you wanna touch her too? she likes it when i hold her hands while we do this. makes her squeeze around me real tight. maybe you could try holding it now.”
you watch seungmin freeze for half a second. the offer actually did something in his mean girl brain.
han keeps going, gentle, rocking into you. “it’s okay if you don’t wanna yet. but… she’s really soft. and she tastes good. and she can talk nice to me sometimes. you’d like that part i think.”
seungmin exhales through his nose. “you’re so fucking pathetic.” but he reaches out anyway. slow. fingers brush your cheek first, then slide into your hair.
you turn your face into his palm. then he just keeps petting you, thumb tracing your bottom lip. eventually he leans down, kisses you rough while han’s still fucking you slow and deep. it’s messy, teeth and tongue and han whimpering “oh fuck that’s hot” against your back.
after that it… escalates. han starts asking seungmin questions. “seungmin, when you choke her does she like the front or the side more? cause i tried the front once and she tapped out so fast but maybe i was doing it wrong—”
seungmin rolls his eyes so hard but he still answers. still shows up. still guides han’s hands on your clit while he’s buried inside you, murmuring “like this, dumbass, circles, not just mashing it like you’re mad at it.”
han learns fast when it’s for you.
“this is nice. we should do this every night.” han says one time.
you three lowk end up doing that.
the occasional han yelp of “wait babe i think i pinched my balls” or the kitchen at 3am because han got hungry for cereal and then decided your pussy looked tastier, ending with him bending you over the counter while seungmin stands behind him, talking bout sum “slower you moron she likes it when you drag it out” and han’s nodding all serious while he’s balls deep and whimpering into your neck.
living room floor during movie night when seungmin got bored of the plot and just shoved your leggings down.
back of their car after a killing because blood makes seungmin horny in a way and han just wants to be included so bad he’ll lick anything off your skin if you ask.
shower’s a favorite for seungmin. he likes pinning you to the tiles, cold, fucking you hard and fast while the water drowns out han’s confused “wait where’d you guys go???” from the bedroom.
he usually wanders in eventually, still sleepy and hard, and just joins without asking.
seungmin gets a brutal ick from han touching him. it’s not homophobia, plz don’t misunderstand me, it’s just seungmin being an unbearable asshole. he doesn’t do soft shit like this. han never quite gets it. seungmin swats him away every time. “touch me again and i’ll cut your fingers off and make you eat them, dipshit.”
han just laughs. “okay! noted! hands to myself unless it’s y/n!” and five minutes later he’s trying to high five seungmin after they both cum on your stomach.
seungmin stares at the offered hand, then wipes his dick on han’s shirt instead.
one night everyone’s in the living room playing cards (because serial killers need hobbies too). seungmin stands up, grabs your wrist, mutters “we’re going upstairs”
han perks up immediately. “oh! can i—”
“no.”
“okay! have fun!”
seungmin drags you away without another word.
chan just sighs, deals another hand. changbin, mid bite of pizza, groans. minho doesn’t look up from sharpening his knife, just shakes his head. hyunjin is lying on the floor staring at the ceiling. long sigh. jeongin looks like he’s about to snap his own neck. han keeps on watching his cards, not really knowing how to play. felix has been eating from the cereal box for a while now.
changbin pauses. “wait… are they fucking right now? like. can we hear it?”
changbin covers his ears with his hands like a kid. “i’m happy for her. i’m happy for her. i’m happy for her.”
jeongin sits there, gripping his cards so hard they bend. veins popping in his forearms.
chan glances over. “you good man?”
“peachy. just peachy.”
at the other end of the apartment seungmin has you bent over the desk, hand over your mouth so you’re not too loud, fucking you so deep you see stars.
jeongin gets on his feet, makes a frustrated, bitchy noise, and walks out.
ten minutes later you hear the front door slam again, he’s back, knuckles bloody, shirt splattered. he drops into his chair like nothing happened, picks up his cards with red stained fingers.
“whose turn?” he asks, voice flat.
chan doesn’t even blink. “yours. you fold or what?”
“all in, motherfuckers.”
they know he went out and found some poor random to take it out on. it’s his routine now. seungmin fucks you loud on purpose sometimes just to trigger it, because seungmin is a violent asshole and jeongin’s jealousy is the closest thing he gets to happiness. besides you, of course. jeongin’s gonna run out of strangers to kill at this rate.
hyunjin sighs to the ceiling. “i need a drink.”
yeah about hyunjin and his drinks. he starts staying up late, sketching until his fingers cramp. then he combines that with drinking.
none of the others are taking it well. chan decides this is beneath him. he has better shit to do. important shit. horrible shit. felix is blissfully fucking clueless. changbin eats a lot to drown it out.
but jeongin and minho cannot get off your dick. the solution they land on is, of course, spying. because why talk about feelings when you can commit light to moderate stalking. be fr.
you, han and seungmin are in a cafe.
across the street in the little outdoor seating area of the rival cafe, jeongin and minho are “disguised.”
you three haven’t noticed them yet.
hyunjin is parked two blocks away in the blacked out suv, waiting for these two clowns. (they begged him to take them)
“i don’t understand why you’re dressed like that.” minho mutters to jeongin.
because jeongin is dressed as a woman. bright red sundress that hugs his ripped shoulders, terrifying, blonde wig with beachy waves that he keeps flipping dramatically, red lipstick, and black strappy heels that click. he’s got sunglasses perched on his nose and he’s sipping an iced latte through a straw. he was born for this shit. minho next to him in his usual black hoodie and jeans.
jeongin leans in close, voice pitched up in this exaggerated breathy girl tone he’s been practicing all week. “it’s called a disguise.” he flips his hair. “hides how much i want to kill them.”
minho just keeps staring. “i’d peel seungmin’s smirk off. slow. make him watch while i feed it to han piece by piece. han would probably thank me. ‘wow minho that’s so thoughtful!’ fucker.”
jeongin snickers, high and delighted, then reaches over and trails a manicured nail (he painted them cherry red to match the dress) down minho’s arm. “you’re so tense, daddy. want me to loosen you up? i could sit on your lap right here. give the barista a show.”
minho slaps jeongin’s hand away hard enough that the table rattles. “touch me again and i’ll snap your wrist like a twig and use the bone to carve my initials into han’s forehead.”
jeongin winks, adjusts his wig. “seriously though. why does han get to hold her hand like that? look at him. he’s petting her. i’d pet her better.“
minho’s eyes narrow as seungmin leans over and kisses your temple. “i want to gut him from navel to sternum.” he says, voice flat. “reach in, pull out his intestines while he’s still breathing. tie them around han’s neck like a bow.“
jeongin cackles so loud the couple at the next table glances over. he waves sweetly. “sorry darlings, just admiring the view!” then back to minho, quieter, meaner. “han first though. bash his skull in with the heel of this shoe. these things are pointy as fuck. i tested it on a melon last night. imagine his dumb brain all over the floor. ‘oopsie! guess i can’t count to three anymore!’”
minho actually cracks a tiny, terrifying smile. “then we string seungmin up by his own tendons. make him watch while we take turns with her.“
jeongin sighs dreamily, chin in hand. “god yes.”
he tries to boop minho’s nose. minho grabs his finger and bends it back until jeongin yelps.
“i will dislocate every joint in your hand if you don’t stop.”
jeongin pouts, rubs his finger.
they sit there snickering. talking bout how they’d carve han’s tongue out so he stops babbling. how they’d break seungmin’s fingers one by one for every time he touched you. jeongin keeps flirting with minho just to piss him off, crossing his legs so the dress rides up, blowing kisses, calling him “big boy” in that fake girl voice. minho keeps slapping him away, threatening amputation.
inside the cafe, han is sitting across from you, legs tangled with seungmin’s under the table. seungmin is not particularly happy about that but he guesses he can deal with it now. han’d holding his drink with both hands.
“…so yeah.” he says, nodding to himself. “my name is jisung, actually. but nobody calls me that. i don’t know why.”
seungmin snorts into his coffee. “because you didn’t answer to it.”
han looks genuinely surprised. “i didn’t?”
“no.” seungmin says. “we tried. you stared at a wall for like ten seconds and then asked if anyone else heard a noise.”
han’s eyes light up. “oh yeah.”
“you only listened to han.”
han leans closer to you, lowering his voice. “sometimes i forget jisung is me.”
you smile. “that’s… nice.”
“but you can call me jisung if you want.”
your chest does a small, stupid thing. god, you really like this boy(brutal killer). “okay.”
he grins. immediately spills half his drink trying to adjust in his seat. “fuck— wait— no—”
seungmin grabs the cup before it tips completely. “jesus christ.”
han looks up at him. “not my name.”
eventually jeongin’s phone buzzes.
hyunjin: status? or are you two just jerking each other off in public again?
jeongin looks up. you reach out and fix han’s collar inside.
jeongin exhales. “i’m sick.”
“me too.”
they just sit there for a second, watching, silent.
minho finally mutters “this is unhealthy.”
jeongin nods. “extremely.”
“we should stop.”
“absolutely.”
neither of them moves.
from the car, hyunjin watches them in the side mirror. jeongin, in a dress, not texting back. minho, posture absolute ass. hyunjin sighs, rubs his face.
jeongin limps back toward the car, heels clacking wildly. minho half drags him.
hyunjin starts the engine when they slide in “well?” he asks, voice beautiful and exhausted.
jeongin rips off the wig, tosses it in the back. “they’re disgusting.“
dealing with all of them is brutal. you don’t get a day off. you don’t get a quiet morning. you get chaos(guys i know this is a cringe word to use but there’s literally nothing better for it). constant, bloody, horny, stupid chaos. and you’re the center of it because apparently your pussy (and/or your ability to tolerate their bullshit) is the gravitational pull.
hyunjin thinks he’s deep but mostly just deep throating bottles of whiskey at 10 am. he’ll corner you in the hallway in the middle of the night, eyes glassy, slurring actually beautiful words, way too beautiful for a serial killer, then immediately pukes on the rug.
he paints when he’s not drinking. or drinks when he’s not painting. or does both at once. he still manages to look like an angel while doing it, which makes you want to strangle him and kiss him at the same time. mostly strangle.
chan never fucking rests. ever. he’s never not on edge because someone always needs babysitting. you catch him staring at the wall sometimes, because if he closes his eyes the whole house might burn down or han might try to microwave a live cat again.
he’ll smile at you softly, say “i’m good, babe” and then go clean blood out of the bathtub for the third time that week.
cleaning blood off the floor, disposing of bodies, making sure the fridge is stocked with actual food instead of just severed hands (thanks felix). he’ll collapse on the couch at 4am covered in blood, sigh, and mutter “i just wanted a nap, man. one fucking nap.” then han will bounce in going “chan! look i found a new way to high five with my tongue!” and chan just watches han do whatever bullshit now. he’s one bad day away from snapping and joining the body count as a victim.
han is constantly on you, we know that. poor boy’s obsessed.
“do you think if i forget to eat, my body will remind me.”
“han. that’s hunger.”
“ohhh.”
or he’ll stare at you for a full minute, smiling, then say “i was gonna say something but i forgot.”
seungmin is meaner than anyone you’ve ever met. he’ll fuck you raw against the fridge while han’s in the next room counting how many fingers he has (he gets stuck at eight sometimes), then call you a slut for moaning too loud like it’s your fault his dick’s magic.
he loves you so much, just… he’s mean when he likes people, he’s mean when he doesn’t. because growing up, he learned that he can. that he can be mean, and if there are consequences, he’ll kill them. easy.
they fight over who gets to sleep closest to you every night. han wants to spoon. seungmin wants to sleep on top of you. they can never get an agreement.
minho wants to kill everyone. full stop. “i could snap your neck and jerk off to the sound” energy.
he’ll stare at han eating cereal and mutter “i’m going to carve your tongue out and use it as a bookmark.” then he’ll turn to you, and ask if you want coffee.
changbin brings you food constantly, flexes accidentally-on-purpose when he hands it over. he’s so fucking nice it’s painful. (he’s a fucking serial killer girl tf u on about)
now. the mailman. you hear the doorbell, you sprint to the front door like it’s the olympics, and there’s felix crouched behind the couch with a butcher knife. you have to physically drag him back by his hoodie. you lock him in your room sometimes just so the poor delivery guy can live another day.
chan has to pry his jaw open like a dog when felix eats things he wasn’t supposed to.
jeongin is trying so fucking hard to be the dream man. he’ll bring you flowers he definitely stole off a grave, cook you dinner that’s suspiciously red. he’s desperate. it’s embarrassing. it’s endearing. it’s exhausting.
they’re all so morally fucked it’s laughable. murderers. cannibals. alcoholics. obsessives. and they’re sad, actually, pathetically sad, because you won’t spread your legs for the whole group. mind you having two boyfriends is already more than usual relationships.
they kill together, clean up together, exist together, but when it comes to you they come apart. changbin spends too much time thinking in the shower. hyunjin drinks until he blacks out. minho sharpens knives to keep his hands busy. felix eats strangers to fill the void. jeongin performs. chan never stops moving so he doesn’t have to feel it. feeling is new to all of them, just a reminder. and han and seungmin just take and take and take because they can.
you love these psychotic fuckers.
and tomorrow morning? it starts all over again. han will ask what day it is. felix will try to eat the newspaper. hyunjin will puke. chan will sigh and mop it up for him. changbin will do pushups at your feet. minho will kick him so hard he rolls away. jeongin will trip seungmin when seungmin’s about to walk up to you, that resulting in six of your glasses in the kitchen breaking.
then seungmin will drag you back to bed. han will follow like a lost puppy. i’m not even talking about sex, just quality time. and for five minutes, everything else disappears.
until felix starts banging on the door yelling “is it lunch yet i smell mailman.”
fuck.
oh how much this tires chan out. now it’s late. reaaaally late. it’s just you and him at your place.
chan sits on the floor at first, back against the couch, arms folded loosely. you watch him for a second as you’re sitting on the couch.
“you okay?” you ask.
he exhales through his nose. “yeah.”
“how are you doing?”
“…busy.”
you snort. “no shit.”
he shifts, sliding forward until his chin rests on your thigh. your fingers go into his hair.
“fuck.” he mutters.
you ask, softly “what’s going on in that head?”
“everything.”
“hm.”
“i’m tired.”
there it is.
total psycho. planner of deaths. final fucking boss of violence. man who decides who lives and who doesn’t.
curled at your feet like this.
looking three apples tall.
tired.
“always tired?” you ask.
“always. when i’m with the boys. or while killing.”
“do you ever feel bad?”
he thinks about it. “no.”
his chin presses a little harder into your legs. trust, whether he names it or not.
you know he wants you. god, you know. it’s in the way his thumb rubs absently against your knee. the way his breathing changes when you shift. the way he never, ever says it.
“sometimes,” he says instead. “i wonder how long this can keep going.”
“us?” you ask gently.
he shakes his head. “everything.”
“hm.”
total psycho. killer. monster. and right now? just a man with his chin on your legs, exhausted.
“you know…” you say softly, staring at the wall for a second. “i’m… i’m grateful. for you. for all of you.”
he looks up then, confused. listening.
“i mean it. i’m even grateful that you tried to kill me.”
he looks up fully now, brows pulling together, disbelief written all over his face. “you shouldn’t be.”
“maybe.” you say softly. “but if you hadn’t, i wouldn’t be here. not like this. not with you. not knowing you. i like knowing you, chan.”
your pretty little hands cup his face. you hold him gently, thumbs brushing along his cheekbones.
“i wouldn’t know how loyal you are.” you murmur. “how much you carry. how much you protect everyone else, even when it’s killing you. or how much you kill, now that i’ve said it. you’re fucked up. all of you are. you hurt people. you do things that can’t be undone. i know that. but i know you guys love me. and i don’t feel alone anymore. i don’t feel invisible.“
his eyes shine.
“i don’t regret you.” you say, firm now. “any of you. not even the worst parts.”
his breath stutters. it’s barely noticeable, but you feel it through your palms. his chest rises too fast, then stills. he swallows once. hard.
a tear slips down his cheek. just one. he freezes.
“…fuck.” he mutters under his breath, embarrassed, angry, confused all at once.
he doesn’t know what to do with this. you do. you brush it away with your thumb, heart aching. “hey.”
his breath stutters. just barely. his system is overloaded. too much. too many feelings at once.
“i don’t—” he starts, then stops. swallows. “this isn’t—”
“it’s okay.” you say, sweet.
another tear follows the first. then another. he doesn’t sob. he just… leaks?? plz don’t take this the dirty way. chan’s silent crying. overwhelmed. eyes red, lips pressed together.
god, he’s beautiful.
crying is the body’s natural response to too much emotion. i hope we know that. and this man, this controlled, ruthless, hyper functional psycho doesn’t feel things like we do. it’s either nothing or everything. and right now, you gave him everything.
you tilt his face up gently.
and you lean down and kiss him.
his lips part in surprise, then not melt into it, but shake into the kiss. it’s soft. slower than anything you’ve shared with the others. his hands come up, then settle on your wrists.
you pull away.
total psycho. killer. exhausted, emotional, beautiful man who just felt too much at once and ended in this.
a sound slips out of him before he can stop it. it’s small. ugly. a pathetic little noise, ripped straight out of his chest.
it’s not him crying. it’s his body. his mind is still doing what it always does, observing, taking things apart, trying to regain control. but his body has had enough. it’s been carrying years of violence, tension, adrenaline, sleepless nights, blood under nails, plans stacked on plans stacked on plans, and now you went and added care to the whole thing.
his shoulders jerk once. his breath catches in a way that makes his throat stutter. it hurts him.
this man is built like a fucking weapon. broad shoulders, thick arms, veins running under his skin. a man who spends afternoons elbow deep in someone else’s insides without blinking. a man who has strangled, stabbed, planned, cleaned, erased.
and now he’s shaking. on you.
he’s breathing like he just ran miles. “i don’t—” he starts, then stops, swallowing hard. “i don’t feel like this.”
“i know.” you say gently, even though his sentence didn’t make any sense. because you know how he feels. how he finally feels.
“i don’t.” he repeats.
his chest spasms again. his throat works. his eyes burn. more tears spill, completely uninvited. he’s feeling too much.
you tap his shoulder once, then open your arms a little. you’re inviting him up.
he moves. slowly. awkwardly. he pushes himself up from the floor on his hands, knees scraping softly, shoulders hunched. looks brutal on a man built like him. he looks pathetic.
what the fuck is this feeling.
how can he feel like this?
how can he feel at all?
he crawls onto the couch, movements careful. he doesn’t look at your face at first. keeps his eyes on your hands, your knees, the space between you.
you lift your legs just slightly and wrap them around his waist. a sign for you can be here.
he lets himself sink down, weight settling on you, chest to chest, head tucked awkwardly near your shoulder. he doesn’t know what to do with his arms at first. they hover, useless, then finally rest at your sides.
his face crumples. his brow knots, lips trembling despite his best efforts, a sound catching in his throat that he swallows back hard. this is wrong. this is new. this is terrifying.
he doesn’t understand. his little psycho brain can’t process this.
you run a hand down his back. fuck. his mind is still trying to analyze it, still trying to build walls and explanations, but his body has already chosen. it decided that this is safe.
oh. so this is what seungmin and han gets. chan realizes that just now. this is what seungmin gets when he’s done being an asshole. this is what han gets all the time.
fuck. he’s been missing out on this.
his head lifts slightly from where it’s tucked against you. his eyes are red, lashes still clumped a little. “is this what han and seungmin usually get?”
“yeah.” you say quietly. “pretty much.”
he exhales, shaky. “…what about them?”
you shift just enough to look at him properly, one hand coming up to his cheek again. “what about them?”
he swallows. “are they… are you and them… together. or.”
or am i crossing a line.
or am i late.
or am i fucking this up.
you don’t dodge it. you’ve learned better than that with these men. “honestly? there’s no label.”
his eyes flicker, searching your face. “no label.”
“yeah. it’s… complicated. it happened naturally. we never sat down and named it.”
he nods slowly, absorbing that.
“maybe it should have one.” you add gently. “maybe not. i don’t know yet.”
he considers that in silence. then, quieter, almost embarrassed, he asks, “would it… make you uncomfortable? sharing this. with them.”
your thumb brushes under his eye, wiping away the last trace of wetness. “would it make you uncomfortable?”
he shakes his head immediately. too quickly. honest. “no.”
“there we go.”
“you’re okay with that?”
“i am.” you say. “are you?”
he thinks about it. “…yeah. i think i am.”
you take a breath. this next part matters. you keep your voice gentle, giving him space to say no without consequence. “do you want to be… in it?” you ask. “with us. with me.” you don’t push. don’t frame it like an invitation he has to accept. it’s just an opening.
his throat works around the words. his face is still tear stained, eyes red. “…if seungmin doesn’t rip my balls off, then yeah. i’d like that.”
you smile softly, thumb brushing his cheek again. “i’ll talk to him.”
that makes him smile. a real, little smile. he settles back down on you, body heavy, relaxed.
chan’s next day starts like nothing happened. which is funny, because everything happened. he’s driving jeongin to the hardware store, one hand on the wheel, expression back to neutral like he didn’t cry into someone’s chest twelve hours ago and then agree to emotionally ruin himself further by wanting something. jeongin is in the passenger seat, feet on the dashboard, sunglasses on.
“you could’ve walked.” chan says, eyes on the road.
“didn’t feel like it.” jeongin replies cheerfully.
chan sighs. deep. suffering. the sigh of a man who has murdered people and somehow this is still worse.
jeongin peeks at him over the rim of his sunglasses, sensing chan being tenser than usual. “is this about me and minho.”
“it’s about you and minho stalking y/n.“
“we were observing.” jeongin corrects. “very respectfully.”
“you were wearing a dress.”
“a disguise.” jeongin says defensively. “also i looked amazing, bro.”
chan finally looks at him.
“okay, okay.” jeongin says, hands up. “fine. maybe it was a little… impulsive.” sweetheart let’s not act like you know what that word means. “but can you blame us? everyone’s fucking everyone now.”
chan grips the steering wheel harder. “that does not give you the right to spy on her.”
“i didn’t spy. i watched. there’s a difference.”
the car stops. they arrived.
“get out.” chan says.
jeongin sighs, grabbing the door handle. “you’re no fun since you started feeling things.” he hops out of the car. “love you, dude.”
your day starts loud. seungmin just arrived not too long ago at your place. you two are in the kitchen.
“han’s lost.” he says casually.
“he’ll find his way.”
“eventually. or he’ll make friends with a dog.”
“he’s gonna get eaten by one one day.”
“hope so.” he bites your earlobe, not hard, just enough to be cheeky. to be a boy. “missed you last night. house felt empty without your annoying little moans.”
the door opens. han walks in. “i took a wrong turn.” he announces proudly. “and i made a friend.” he smiles at you and immediately kisses your cheek. then the other cheek. then misses your mouth entirely and kisses your nose.
they both immediately start talking over each other, talking about what they did yesterday and this morning. han tells you about almost falling into a dumpster. seungmin talks about almost shooting someone for cutting in line. normal stuff.
they finally pause.
seungmin squints at you. “you’re quiet.”
han leans in. “did something happen yesterday?”
you take a breath. “yeah. actually. yesterday…” you say carefully. “chan came over.”
seungmin stiffens. his lil psycho brain catches something in your voice.
“we talked.” you continue. “he was tired, really tired.”
han nods seriously. “he is always tired.”
“yeah.” you say softly. “and he… kind of broke down.”
seungmin’s brow furrows. “he doesn’t do that.”
“i know. and i talked him through it. then…” you make a lil ugh. “we kissed. it calmed him down.
…
you… really could’ve chosen a better way to announce this, y/n.
han’s mouth drops open. “that’s so cool.”
you blink. “that’s it?”
“yeah.” he says easily. “i like chan. he’s quiet but nice. and he makes sure we don’t die accidentally.” fair. “does this mean more cuddles?”
you laugh. “probably.”
“awesome.”
“…does he want you?” seungmin asks finally. it’s not even really a question, he knows chan does.
“yeah.”
silence.
han looks between the two of you, sensing tension but not understanding it. “do you want him too?”
you nod. “i do.”
seungmin stays quiet a moment longer. then he exhales, slow. “…i’ll need time.” he says honestly.
you nod. “i know.”
he looks at you, then at han, then back at you. “but i won’t stop you.”
you call chan later. it’s awkward for about half a second, and then it’s… not. you talk about nothing important at first. then, inevitably, you circle back. you tell him you told seungmin and han.
“…and?” he asks.
“they took it better than expected.” you say honestly. “han’s excited. seungmin needs time. but he’s not against it.”
“…okay.” chan says. just that.
you smile to yourself.
that same night, your place fills up. seungmin is on the floor. han is with him, cross legged, poking at something on his phone and giggling. hyunjin sits quietly for a while, then yawns, clearly running on just the idea of you close. changbin brings food over, kisses your cheek, leans into you. chan arrives last. he doesn’t say much when he comes in. just a nod. brutal aura.
jeongin, minho and felix are out to kill. i’ll write that for y’all. the woods are pitch black except for the thin beams of their flashlights cutting through the fog. the guy they’re chasing has been stumbling for twenty minutes now. he’s bleeding from a gash on his thigh (jeongin’s doing, playful slash with a switchblade), panting, crashing through branches.
minho leads. always does. his flashlight is off. he doesn’t need it. he tilts his head, listening to the distant snap of a twig. “he’s slowing. leg’s giving out.”
jeongin laughs, bright, boyish. he’s jogging easy, hoodie down, knife flipping open and closed in his hand. “aw man, this is fun.” fucker.
felix is behind them. he’s already drooling a little, eyes wide and glassy with hunger.
then minho is gone in a blink??? one second he’s beside them, the next he’s in the woods. they hear a scream thirty seconds later.
jeongin grins so wide. “there he goes. minho’s got him.”
when they get there, the guy’s on his knees in the mud, hands up, face pale under the flashlight beam jeongin has in his face. minho’s standing over him, boot on the guy’s wounded thigh, pressing reaaaal hard. the guy whimpers. tries to crawl backward. minho’s boot stays planted.
minho’s knife moves, slow slice across the guy’s collarbone, peeling a thin strip of skin.
the scream is loud, animal. human.
“scream louder.” minho says quietly. “it helps me focus.”
felix drops to his knees beside the guy, sniffing. “can i start? please? i’ve been good all week. didn’t eat the mailman. y/n didn’t even had to hold me back.” you totally had to.
jeongin ruffles felix’s hair. affectionate. fond. “you’re such a good boy, man. yeah, go ahead.”
felix doesn’t wait for more permission. he lunges, teeth first, right into the meat of the guy’s neck. rips. chews. moans. blood sprays across his face, drips down his chin. he’s grinning through it, dumb and blissful.
the guy finally goes still. silence except for felix’s chewing and the sound of the woods.
jeongin stretches, yawns. “that was fun. clean up’s gonna suck though. mud everywhere. y/n’s gonna shout at us.”
“felix. stop eating. we need to move him.” minho mutters, cold. daddy af.
felix whines but obeys, licking blood off his fingers. “but he’s so yummy. can we keep a piece for later?“
jeongin laughs, slings an arm around felix’s shoulders. “sure, buddy.“
felix beams. blood smeared, happy as fuck.
“let’s go home.” minho says.
anyways. back at your place. things are… chill. unnervingly so.
eventually, around 11pm hyunjin finally stands, sways a little. “i’m done.” he kisses the top of your head on his way out, soft, lingering. “sweet dreams, darling.”
changbin follows him, shoulders a little slumped. “gonna hit the gym then crash. night everyone.” he squeezes your shoulder on the way past, thumb brushing your neck. he can’t help it, fuck. “text if you need anything.”
the door shuts.
and suddenly it’s just four of you. you and chan on the couch. seungmin and han on the floor.
the air changes.
han is completely oblivious. fully unaware. he’s leaning back on his hands, legs stretched out. seungmin’s been quiet for a few minutes now, watching the room.
“…so.” seungmin says casually. “you two kissed, right?”
han looks up. “oh yeah! what about that?”
chan stiffens.
you swallow. “yeah.”
seungmin tilts his head, eyes flicking between the two of you. “…kiss him then.”
silence.
han blinks. “right now?”
seungmin shrugs. “why not.”
your heart speeds up. you glance at chan. he looks back at you. he doesn’t say no. doesn’t say yes. he waits. which somehow makes it hotter.
seungmin leans back on his hands, completely at ease. “we’ll watch.”
han nods. “oh cool.”
your heartbeat spikes. your mouth goes dry. “seungmin.”
“no, i’m serious. if this is gonna happen, i wanna see it.”
you look between them. between seungmin and chan. seungmin is not angry. not really. there’s tension, sure, but it’s layered with something else. curiosity. maybe even trust, in his own fucked up way. chan is waiting for your call.
han tilts his head. “is this like a test?”
“kind of.” seungmin says.
“oooh okay.”
“go on. you two have been dancing around it since yesterday. stop being pussies.”
you swallow. “chan?”
he hesitates. just a second. then he nods. “okay.”
you swallow. lean in first. slow. hesitant. your lips brush his, soft, testing. he inhales sharp through his nose, hand coming up to cup your jaw. the kiss stays gentle for maybe three seconds. careful. almost polite.
then seungmin makes a low sound in his throat. annoyed. impatient. he reaches up from the floor, grabs the back of your neck, hard, and pushes your face into chan’s harder. “like you mean it.”
(guys. partition. beyonce. 2:04. from this moment. omfg, listen while reading. i’m not usually a music and write/read typa person but this is heavenly. exactly the moment where seungmin pushes u two together)
that’s the spark. chan’s hand tightens on your jaw. he kisses you deeper. hungrier. tongue sliding in slow. you moan soft into his mouth, fingers curling into his shirt.
seungmin doesn’t let go of your neck. keeps you pressed there while he watches.
han’s gone completely silent. no babbling. no dumb comments. just breathing heavy through his mouth, one hand pressed flat over the bulge in his sweats. gripping. hard.
chan breaks the kiss first, just enough to breathe, then dives back in, teeth grazing your bottom lip. you whimper. arch toward him.
seungmin’s hand slides from your neck to your hair. twists. pulls your head back so chan can kiss down your throat instead. chan doesn’t hesitate now, mouth open, sucking marks into your skin.
seungmin watches every second. eyes flicking between chan’s mouth on you and han’s wide, stunned stare from the floor.
then seungmin tests it. he leans up, slow, and kisses you himself. rougher than chan. tongue pushing in, reminding everyone who usually owns this mouth.
you gasp against him, hand fisting chan’s shirt tighter.
chan growls, actual fucking growl, grabs seungmin by the shoulder and yanks him back hard enough that seungmin stumbles a little on his knees. chan yanks you back into him, kisses you filthy. deep.
seungmin doesn’t fight the yank. just smirks, mean, satisfied. he got exactly what he wanted.
han’s just staring. eyes huge. hand still clamped over his dick through the fabric. chest rising and falling fast. the front of his sweats is dark with a wet spot already.
chan pulls back from the kiss, breathing ragged. “fuck.” he mutters. glances down at seungmin, then at han. “you two gonna just sit there?”
seungmin snorts. wipes his mouth with the back of his hand. “ask han about that.”
han finally makes a sound. small. pathetic. “i… uh… yeah. yeah that’s… hot. really hot. like… really.” his voice cracks. he squeezes himself harder. shivers. “keep going. please. don’t stop. i’m good. i’m so good down here.”
chan laughs, quiet, rough, friendly, then looks at you. eyes soft for a second. “you okay?”
you nod. breathless. “yeah. keep going.”
chan grabs your face with both hands, and kisses you again. slow. deep. filthy.
you melt into it, spit running down your chin. it feels disgusting. erotic.
seungmin’s hand finds your thigh, squeezes.
han whimpers from the floor.
the room’s thick with it now, really. sweat, spit, heavy breathing, the tension that’s been building since chan first put his mouth on you yesterday. his cock is rock hard, straining against his jeans, actual torture, but he hasn’t made a single move to grind up or beg for relief. just holds you there, breathing ragged, eyes on yours when he pulls away. omfg take a deeper second to imagine how he looks up at you because i want y’all to see it how i see it.
“han’s about to pop just from watching.” seungmin jerks his chin toward the floor without looking away from you and chan. “you gonna help him with that boner, sweetheart? or we leaving him to suffer like the pathetic little voyeur he is?”
han makes a tiny noise, half whimper, half plea. he’s shaking.
you feel chan tense under you. his grip on your waist tightens. he swallows hard.
you see it. that something’s up now. you cup his face with both hands. thumbs brushing over his cheekbones. you turn your head just enough to look at seungmin. keep one hand on chan’s face, the other sliding to the back of his neck, fingers threading into his hair.
“he’s not ready to see that yet.” you say. calm. “han can wait. or take care of himself later. but not here. not now.”
seungmin studies you for a long time. then chan. then han. his face is mean, but there’s something almost approving on it. he respects the line you just drew. you sensed that chan doesn’t want this yet, and you made that known. that’s his girl.
“fair enough.” he shrugs one shoulder. casual as fuck. gives han a lazy once over. “you heard her, idiot. no show tonight. go jerk off in the bathroom if you’re that desperate. or hold it. your choice.”
han makes a sound, a lil whine. he nods once. jerky. “okay.” he whispers, then slowly pushes to his feet. legs shaky. he glances at you one last time, big, pleading puppy eyes, then shuffles toward the hallway. the door to the bathroom clicks shut down the hall. faint. distant.
silence again.
chan leaves eventually. not because he wants to, god, that’s obvious, but because his entire system is overloaded and flashing warning lights. you can see it in the way he keeps glancing around. the way he stands a little too stiff.
han tries, of course. “you can stay.” he says immediately. “there’s space. and blankets. and you don’t even have to talk.”
chan smiles at him, small, genuine, tired. he reaches out and squeezes han’s shoulder once. “not tonight.” he says. “okay?”
han nods, accepting it instantly. “okay.”
you look up at chan. “you okay?”
he exhales slowly. “yeah. i just… need to go process.”
that alone tells you everything about how big this is for him. before tonight, processing emotions wasn’t a thing. he didn’t sit with feelings. he didn’t have them. now he cried. now he laid on you. now he let himself want something without immediately locking it down. this is his first time doing this. it’s a lot.
you reach up and kiss him. just a small kiss. soft. on the mouth. you smile when you pull away. “text me when you get home.”
he nods, then forces himself to turn and leave before he changes his mind.
after that, you shower while seungmin and han brush their teeth. you come out in a towel, hair damp, and han immediately brightens, hand already on your arm. “you smell nice.”
they finish up and follow you to bed. clothes get kicked off. lights go out. they tangle into you instinctively. han curls in close, arm slung over your waist, leg hooked over yours. seungmin settles behind you, one hand resting at your hip.
han whispers, half asleep: “today was a lot.”
“yeah.” you murmur.
“i liked it.” he adds. “even the confusing parts.” he shifts, presses a lazy kiss to your cheek, then promptly elbows seungmin in his sleep.
“watch it.” seungmin mutters.
“sorry.”
you lie there between them, ceiling barely visible in the dark, heart full and head spinning.
after that night, things… well, develop. things always develop, no matter what we do, so this doesn’t really make sense, i just needed a way to open this next section. anyways i’ll shut up. how things develop between you and chan, is with kissing first. a lot of kissing. quiet kisses. stolen kisses. kisses in hallways, in doorframes, in cars, in that weird five second window when no one else is looking.
chan really likes kissing. why wouldn’t he, he just discovered how it is like with someone you like. like oh. oh this is a thing. this is a good thing. people do this. this feels like that. or whatevs his little psycho brain is cooking up in that pretty head.
it’s his first time feeling.
and holy shit does it show.
this man has murdered people with surgical calm and now he’s standing in your kitchen at 2 am, hand on your waist, whispering: “i think about this all the time.” sir. sir. relax. except he can’t. because once he gets an emotion(one he didn’t have before his whole life, let’s note that), he wants to be near you constantly because it was you who stirred that alive in him.
and you keep it secret from the other five. which is ridiculous, because you live with a pack of hyper observant psychos. but somehow they don’t notice. mostly because everyone is too busy being a mess. hyunjin is drowning himself in art and alcohol. minho is vibrating with rage, mostly out just being creepy and killing. jeongin is… god, what do we expect, a boy. that says enough. felix is thinking about absolutely nothing besides when will the mailman come. changbin is pretending not to be upset about not getting to have you.
so you and chan get away with a lot. like kissing behind the laundry room door while felix is loudly explaining to hyunjin why is the mailman evil. like sneaking into your room while minho is chasing jeongin around the house with a knife. like sneaking out the house while changbin is catching han the split second before han falls off the couch. like whispering around the kitchen while seungmin… you don’t have to hide from him, he’s just not interested in the two of you. well, he’s interested in you, fucking crazy about you actually, but who the fuck cares about watching chan kiss you. seungmin will get his turn later, he knows that. so no big deal.
but slowly, annoyingly, he adapts. once he gets over the initial adjustment (read: after two days of being a sulking asshole), he starts accepting it. he sees the way chan looks at you. the way he listens. the way he never interrupts you. god, they’ve been friends, dare i say best friends, for so long. he knows chan. he also knows you now. but he knows chan better, and seungmin’s fucked up little brain can sense that there’s no danger in this situation. not to you, not to them. that this is fine.
sometimes you’ll be sitting on the couch with han half in your lap, seungmin stretched out on the floor with his head against your knee, and chan having an arm over you. sometimes it’s messy. sometimes it’s sweet. sometimes han says something so stupid everyone has to stop and stare.
for sex life, the days after that couch night with seungmin and han watching you kiss have been… charged. sweet, but there were moments.
he kisses you lots. always starts soft, then gets deeper, hands sliding under your clothes but never rushing. he still hasn’t fucked you yet. he wants to. you can feel it every time he hardens against your thigh. but he waits.
because chan is patient.
your first time with him is two weeks later, when seungmin and han are both out, maybe with hyunjin, you don’t even remember what they said. chan’s been kissing you on the couch for an hour, slow, deep, hands under your shirt. you finally grab his wrist, guide his fingers between your legs, whisper “i want you inside me tonight. just us.”
shit’s so soft. you two get to your bed. he lays you down so careful, strips you slow, hypnotized by you. he uses a condom, responsible king, thank fuck, he’s the only one in this house with any fucking sense about fluids and dna. and also because this man is fighting a breeding kink so brutal it scares even him.
you both are way too horny for the romantic let’s go down on each other foreplay. instead of that, he immediately pushes your knees apart. he slides in slow, inch by inch, groaning low when you clench around him.
“so fucking warm… jesus.” he fucks you deep and steady, like a fucking psycho, hips rolling like he’s got all night, one hand laced with yours above your head, the other cradling your face so he can watch every moan.
it’s just a first time, i don’t feel like there’s need escalating this. i’m not big on writing smut if it’s not important for the plot. you cum. he does too. u two sleep all tangled up, skin to skin. that’s it, nothing special tbh.
now what is important for the plot and i’ll write, is that he’s addicted from then on. (it’s important bc it’s connected to his emotional development process) he will pull you into the garage while he’s cleaning tools and bend you over the workbench, condom already in his pocket because he’s prepared. fucking hell.
but you know he’s fighting the urge to rip it off and breed you raw. he knows that if he does it once he won’t stop. it’s hot in the most terrifying way.
he loves when you ride him. sometimes the psychopathy slips out in the sweetest, creepiest ways. he’ll be balls deep, thrusting steady, and murmur “if anyone ever touched you like this i’d skin them alive and wear their face to our next date.” ??? bro. then he kisses you soft like he didn’t just say the most unhinged shit imaginable.
meanwhile han and seungmin are a whole different circus about condoms and it drives you fucking insane.
han forgets. every single time. the dumb bitch will have you bent over the kitchen counter, already pushing in raw because his brain literally turns off the second he gets hard or feels how wet you are. wait this doesn’t make sense, his brain is never turned on. “babe—oh fuck—feels so good—wait was i supposed to?”
you have to shove him off mid thrust, make him roll one on while he pouts. “but raw feels like we’re married!”
seungmin is worse. seungmin hates them.
every time you reach for one he’ll grab your wrist, pin it above your head, saying sum “i want to feel all of you.” he’ll try to bully his way in raw, thick head already nudging your entrance while he bites your neck. it’s never violent, let’s note that, he’s just sure of himself, but would never do anything you’re actually against.
you have to fight him, literally slap his chest, grab his jaw, make him look at you. “condom. now. or you get nothing.”
you argue for ten minutes while he’s still hard and leaking against your thigh. sometimes you win by promising to let him cum on your tits instead. sometimes he wins by eating you out until you’re too stupid to argue and then slides in raw anyway, fucking you mean and deep while muttering “mine—fuck the rules—you’re mine.”
you always make him pull out at the last second and finish on your stomach, then you sit there panting while he gets petty. whore.
you mostly win with him tho. mostly. he fucks you twice as hard to punish you for making him wear it. “happy now? feel how much i hate this shit?” but he never actually does anything you disagree with. as mean as he is, he loves you enough to not risk knocking you up.
he still bitches every time. “this shit feels like fucking a balloon.” “i hate this.” “one day i’m gonna throw every condom in this house in the fireplace and you’re gonna let me fuck you proper.” but he does it. mostly. the breeding kink runs deep in him too, he just doesn’t fight it as clean as chan does.
chan stays completely out of your threesome sex life with seungmin and han at first. he’ll kiss you after one of them has already fucked you stupid, slide into you slow and gentle while you’re still dripping from them, but he never joins when all three of you are in the room. not yet. he’s not ready to watch them touch you while he’s inside you. not ready to share the act itself. when clothes come off, it’s still just you and him.
until one night. han’s gone for the whole evening, minho dragged him out to “help” with some body disposal because felix ate too much last time and he threw up and minho doesn’t want to deal with that again.
seungmin has been all over you since breakfast. hands on your ass while you make coffee. biting your shoulder while you’re trying to load the dishwasher. cornering you in the hallway twice just to finger you until your knees buckle then walking away laughing. by evening you’re soaked and pissed and aching.
now it’s just you, chan and seungmin in the living room. when you walk past the couch to grab water, seungmin grabs your wrist, pulls you down so you’re straddling his lap, kisses you filthy and slow. “right here.” he mutters against your mouth. “wanna fuck you right here while he watches.”
you glance at chan. he doesn’t move. just nods once. slow. “go ahead.”
seungmin peels your clothes off gentle, shirt first, leaves your bra on, then shorts. he lays you on the couch on your stomach, ass up, face turned toward chan.
only then he pulls your panties down your legs.
chan’s right there, watching, hands on his thighs.
seungmin gets behind you, hands on your hips, cock sliding between your cheeks slow.
“look at him. look at his jealous little face.” he murmurs, pressing his tip against you, slowly pushing in, a fucking surprise that you let him hit without a condom, and you both groan.
he fucks you deep and lazy at first. long strokes. hips rolling. one hand on your lower back, the other reaching around to rub your clit soft circles.
chan doesn’t touch himself. just watches. eyes flicking between your face and where seungmin is disappearing inside you. you can see the muscle in his jaw flex every time seungmin bottoms out.
seungmin keeps it slow for ages. you’re moaning into the cushion, pushing back against him, chasing it. he finally picks up the pace, just a little.
the wet sounds fill the room. skin on skin. your whimpers. seungmin’s low grunts.
chan leans forward. reaches out and brushes hair out of your face so he can see your eyes. his thumb strokes your cheek. gentle. manly.
seungmin fucks you harder because of it. makes sure every wet slap echoes. makes sure you moan loud enough to fill the room. he leans down, bites your shoulder, and also makes sure to straight at chan while he does it.
chan watches your face twist in pleasure, then looks into seungmin’s eyes. then back at you. “you look so pretty like this.” he murmurs. voice the usual calm even though his cock is straining against his jeans. “taking him so well. my girl.”
seungmin laughs again, slaps your ass. “your girl? she’s dripping down my balls right now, man. you hear that wet sound? that’s all me.”
he angles his hips, hits that spot that makes you cry out, combines it with a series of circles rubbed on your clit until you cum, clenching around him, shaking, face pressed into chan’s palm. seungmin follows not much after, burying deep, finishing inside you with a low groan, hips stuttering.
he stays inside you for a long minute, catching his breath, then slowly pulls out. kisses the back of your neck. “good girl.”
god, you must be so full now. chan watches it. eyes locked. that breeding kink in his head clearly screaming.
seungmin kisses your shoulder, lazy. “your turn if you want, chan. she’s nice and ready.”
chan shakes his head once. slow. “not tonight.” but he leans in anyway, kisses you soft and deep, tasting. wanting to taste,
seungmin rolls his eyes but doesn’t push. just collapses on the other end of the couch, satisfied. one day chan’s gonna snap and fuck you raw in front of seungmin. he can’t wait.
anyways. outside of this, your life keeps being loud. it’s always loud. murderers, for fuck’s sake. men.
right now, they’re all at your place. at their favorite girl’s place. someone’s arguing about music. someone else is bleeding a little (nonchalantly). han is sitting upside down on the couch for reasons no one understands. felix is staring at the ceiling. minho is sharpening your knives. hyunjin is quiet in a corner with a drink. changbin is hovering near you. seungmin is on his phone. jeongin is picking at one of your plants, listening to the others talk.
you glance at chan. he glances back. you subtly tilt your head toward the hallway. he nods once.
you slip away first. chan follows a second later. no one notices because han is loudly asking if anyone knows where his shoe went (it’s on his hand).
you duck into the laundry room. the door barely clicks shut before his hands are on your waist.
you smile, so cute. “hi.”
“hi.” he murmurs, then kisses you.
it’s cheeky.
hungry.
private.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA—”
jeongin.
jeongin has walked in.
jeongin has seen.
jeongin is screaming. high. like a little girl.
“jeo—” you start.
“NO.” he yells, already backing away. “NO. I KNEW IT. I FUCKING KNEW IT.”
he spins on his heel and runs back to the living room. full sprint. still screaming.
“I SAW THEM KISSING— THEY WERE KISSING— LIKE ON THE MOUTH— WHORES— CHAN AND Y/N ARE KISSING.”
“what?” minho murmurs.
“KISSING.” jeongin yells. “WITH FEELINGS.”
felix looks up, delighted. “chan has feelings?”
han nods sweetly. “yeah, they do that.”
jeongin whips around. “YOU KNEW?”
“uhuh.”
“AND YOU DIDN’T TELL ME?”
han tilts his head. “you didn’t ask.”
hyunjin sighs. deep. long. tired. then puts his face fully into his hands. “of course.”
you and chan come back. you would expect everyone staring at you, but no. not really. their pretty little eyes are either on the wall or jeongin. only seungmin and changbin are looking at you. you, not chan.
jeongin collapses onto the couch. “i can’t believe this. first those two. now chan. anyone but me. what’s next, the fucking mailman?”
felix turns, dead serious. “no.”
….
nobody has ever seen him this serious before.
seungmin finally looks up at jeongin. “you done?”
changbin leans back, arms crossed, amused. “honestly i respect it.”
minho watches the air in front of himself. “i don’t.”
felix raises his hand. “can someone explain what’s happening.”
han immediately starts. “okay so y/n is dating seungmin and me and also chan now but not like like called anything and—”
“han.” seungmin says.
“—and jeongin is loud—”
“han.”
“—and kissing is nice—”
“stop.”
hyunjin drags a hand down his face. “i’m going to bed.”
chan exhales slowly, then looks at you. then at jeongin. “i’m sorry, dude.”
“don’t talk to me.”
seungmin stands, stretches, and slings an arm around your shoulders. “anyone else got something to confess or are we done.”
jeongin stares at the ceiling. he’s so fucking dead inside.
the others have to learn to deal with it. really. but oh, how it hurts their fucked up little hearts.
hyunjin… sinks. he paints more. drinks more. sleeps less. the art gets darker. he’s always watching you.
he should’ve been first. he was supposed to be.
changbin tries. god, he really fucking tries.
he tells himself he’s happy for you.
he tells himself it’s fine.
he tells himself love isn’t a limited resource.
he tells himself a lot of shit while staring at the ceiling at night.
and he’s so confused with this new feeling suddenly in him, he really is.
minho wants to kill.
preferably chan. possibly seungmin. maybe han. maybe the fucking couch. the emotion doesn’t really care about accuracy.
he hates the loss of control. hates that you made a choice without him. hates that feelings are interfering with the clean, violent order of things.
he doesn’t want you happy.
he only wants you happy with him.
jeongin is unbearable. he makes jokes about it constantly. calls you a heartbreaker. sighs loudly when you walk into a room.
but when he’s alone, he crashes.
he sits in his room scrolling through nothing. replaying moments. imagining alternate universes where you said yes to him instead. where he didn’t joke too much. didn’t push.
he wants you so badly it physically hurts. obsessively. he wants to be chosen. to be special. to have a place in your heart like the other three have.
felix is… confused.
he watches you with seungmin and han and chan and feels something weird in his stomach. something hot and sour and uncomfortable. he does not know this is jealousy. he just knows he doesn’t like it.
he thinks maybe he’s hungry. so he eats. he starts chasing the mailman again. full sprint. barefoot sometimes.
the mailman screams. again.
felix comes back beaming. “almost got him this time.”
oh, baby.
“do you feel weird sometimes?” he asks when you’re with him.
“yeah.” you say carefully.
he nods. “okay. good.”
seungmin is at the top of the world. he got what he wanted. finally. in reality. you chose him. you let him in. you let him touch you and omfg he has a girlfriend that’s not labeled as a girlfriend but totally is one because he said so!!
and he’s unbearable about it.
he’s smug. glowing. meaner than ever. more easily violent. there’s a new confidence to him, a certainty.
he knows he’s wanted.
he wants you constantly. not just physically, though, yeah, that too, but psychologically. he wants to be in your head. wants to be the one you think of when something goes wrong. wants to be the one you rely on.
he’s never loved before.
he doesn’t know how to do it gently.
you love the fire in him. his whole character. the unapologetic… him.
he’s dangerous, and he knows it, and he doesn’t pretend otherwise. he is what he is, and the confidence of that is intoxicating. so hot.
you love how fast he moves. how decisive. how when something irritates him, it’s dealt with immediately. like when jeongin gets too loud, too invasive, too much, and seungmin doesn’t even sigh, just reaches into your kitchen block, pulls a knife, and goes straight for jeongin’s thigh with zero hesitation.
you just keep doing what you were doing while jeongin screams and runs away.
you should be horrified. you’re not. you’re wet.
he’s terrifying.
and you trust him.
han is euphoric and clueless and terrifying in how sincere he is. he’s discovered something that feels better than killing, and that’s amazing for his little brain.
he’s happier. visibly. smiles more. hums. gets distracted mid conversation because he’s thinking about you. the others notice the difference immediately.
it makes his killing sloppier. not because he’s careless, because he’s excited. because he wants to get it over with and go back to you. because his brain is now running two tracks at once, murder and you.
he’s never had emotions like this. never had to regulate them. never learned the difference between want and need and attachment and obsession.
so he collapses them all into one thing.
you.
he doesn’t understand jealousy yet. doesn’t understand competition. when the others get snappy, he just blinks and asks questions. when seungmin gets possessive, han doesn’t fight it, he just assumes there’s enough of you to go around.
he likes you, so he sticks close. he kisses your cheek because it feels good. he holds you because his body says yes. he smiles because he’s happy and doesn’t see a reason to hide it.
you love that he doesn’t overthink. doesn’t torture himself with questions like the others do.
he wants you, so he wants you.
simple.
you love how he gets distracted mid sentence. how he forgets what he was talking about because you touched his arm. how he asks questions with genuine curiosity, not suspicion.
he’s a killer. a genuine psychopath.
he loves you so much.
chan notices the way his chest tightens when you smile at him, the way his body reacts to you. he kills more now, too. he needs the violence to stay functional because the emotions are overwhelming. because crying is new. wanting is new. being wanted is new.
he’s careful with you. terrified of doing it wrong. terrified of being too much, even as he wants more.
this is his first love and he feels it horribly. horribly good.
you love how manly he is. not desperate to be seen as strong, he just is. he fixes things. the shelf that wobbled? suddenly solid. the door that squeaked? silent now. something heavy needs moving? he’s already there, hands on it, saying “i’ve got it” DAAAAMN.
and it’s not just you. he shows up for the others too. patches them up. keeps them moving.
you love that he never asks for praise. you love that when he looks at you, there’s love there. awe.
and god, when he lets himself lean on you? when this man who’s been the one holding everything his whole life finally cracks just enough to rest his chin on your legs and breathe? yeah. that does something to you.
you’ll love the others like this too. later. in their own ways. when they’re ready. when you’re ready.
for now, this is enough. the house is loud enough already.
hyunjin will be walking past han in the hallway, barefoot and hungover, saying something deep under his breath.
han’s carrying a bowl of cereal in one hand. scratching his balls through his boxers with the other.
hyunjin sticks his foot out as han walks past.
he trips han.
han’s arms are windmilling, milk flying, cereal raining.
he lands face first on the hardwood with a cartoonish thud. the bowl shatters. he just lies there for a second, then lifts his head, milk dripping from his nose, and goes “bro… why?”
hyunjin doesn’t even look back. just keeps walking toward the kitchen muttering “gravity’s a bitch today” bro you did it on purpose.
han scrambles up, cereal stuck to his shirt, and immediately sprints after hyunjin.
they disappear around the corner. you hear crashing. laughter. more crashing. then han comes running back into the living room with hyunjin slung over his shoulder in a fireman’s carry, both of them cackling like hyenas.
“hyunjin threw the vodka bottle at me! missed! pussy!”
hyunjin is smacking han’s ass. playful. talking bout sum “put me down you absolute moron i’m gonna puke on your back.” han just spins in circles until they both collapse on the rug, giggling.
that’s a tuesday morning.
minho and changbin are worse in the kitchen. one day changbin is making something in there when minho walks in, sees the blender, and decides it’s the perfect moment to test if he can throw the entire appliance at changbin’s head without breaking it. changbin ducks. blender smashes against the fridge. milk and banana chunks everywhere.
changbin immediately grabs the pan off the stove, still hot from breakfast, and swings it like a baseball bat. minho dodges, grabs a loaf of bread, and starts throwing slices at changbin like throwing knives.
changbin charges. they crash into the island. fists fly.
minho gets a black eye. changbin gets a fat lip. they end up on the floor laughing while you stand in the doorway eating cereal, watching shirtless muscles flex and ripple under kitchen lights.
“you two done?” you ask.
minho looks up, blood on his cheek, grinning. “he started it.”
“you threw a blender.”
you roll your eyes. they both get forehead kisses and ice packs.
jeongin and felix in the woods is a straight up nightmare. “they’re just playing” yeah bro, that playing means you sitting in the car, watching as jeongin comes sprinting out of the tree line shirtless, covered in mud and pine needles, chainsaw roaring in his hands.
felix’s “FIIIIIND MEEEEEEE” is heard from the trees. when he sees jeongin charging at him with a running chainsaw, he screams like a little girl, then he takes off running, full sprint, shrieking.
they tear through the bushes for twenty minutes. you can hear the chainsaw roar, felix’s panicked yelps, jeongin’s boyish laughter.
eventually felix trips over a root, face plants into pine needles, and jeongin catches up, kills the engine, drops the saw, and flops on top of him. they wrestle in the dirt for a bit, until they’re both laughing so hard they can’t breathe.
if they do it nearby, you watch from the car with a beer, enjoying the view of two shirtless lunatics covered in leaves and each other’s blood from minor scratches.
felix ends up with a shallow cut on his shin from a branch. nothing stitches can’t fix. he limps back to the car proudly showing it off. “look y/n! jeongin tried to murder me! it was so fun!”
you clean it at home, kiss the bandage, and he immediately tries to climb you while chanting “kiss it better kiss it better kiss it better.”
one night seungmin is in a mood. chan’s just chilling on the couch in low sweats, reading some manual on how to dispose of bodies more efficiently. seungmin walks past, grabs the ceramic table lamp, and smashes it over chan’s head without warning.
ceramic shatters. chan doesn’t even flinch. just looks up slow, piece of lamp hanging off his ear, blood trickling from a cut on his scalp.
“really?” he says, dead calm.
seungmin shrugs.
chan stands, wipes the blood with the back of his hand, licks it off, then tackles seungmin into the wall so hard a picture frame crashes.
they grapple, seungmin trying to knee chan in the gut, chan pinning seungmin’s wrists above his head with one hand while he headbutts him just enough to stun. blood smears between them. there’s sweat and red streaks everywhere.
“y/n!” seungmin yells mid struggle, face smooshed against the floor by chan’s knee. “tell him he’s a bitch!”
“y/n!” chan yells, pinning seungmin’s arm. “tell him he hits like a toddler!”
you just wave lazily. “you’re both bitches. carry on.”
it ends with seungmin on his back on the floor, chan straddling his hips, forearm across seungmin’s throat, both of them breathing hard and grinning like lunatics.
“you good?” chan asks, voice soft.
seungmin coughs. laughs. “yeah. you?”
“yeah.”
chan flops off. they lie there for a minute. chan coughs one more before standing up and offering a hand. seungmin takes it.
you walk into the bathroom to find them shirtless, bloody, laughing quietly. later you stitch the gash on chan’s temple.
chan kisses your face. “thanks.”
“you’re the best.” seungmin murmurs into your shoulder.
assholes.
and every single time, every bruise, every cut, every black eye, every sprained wrist, they come running to you.
“y/n look what hyunjin did”
“y/n it stings so bad kiss it better pleeeease”
“y/n minho broke my nose fix me”
“y/n felix bit me again”
“y/n i can’t feel my balls”
“y/n hyunjin poured vodka into my open wound”
“y/n minho waterboarded me”
“y/n chan said hold still and now my shoulder clicks when i blink”
“y/n i think seungmin cracked something inside it whistles when i breathe”
“y/n felix tried to eat my finger there’s teeth marks to the bone”
“y/n hyunjin smashed a bottle over my head glass in my scalp help”
“y/n seungmin carved a smiley face into my ass cheek”
“y/n felix licked my cut now it’s infected”
“y/n kiss my shattered kneecap seungmin ran it over with the lawnmower”
“y/n my ribs are making funny noises listen”
“y/n felix tried to eat my ear i’m bleeding out of my head babe”
“y/n chan just shocked me with the cattle prod my nipples are still buzzing come feel”
“y/n my ear is leaking something clear”
“y/n jeongin superglued my foreskin to my thigh i can’t pee”
“y/n hyunjin drowned me in the bathtub then revived me with cpr”
“y/n chan electrocuted my toes because i stepped on his clean floor with shoes”
“y/n felix is barfing up someone’s eyeball and it rolled under the couch help”
this is their normal. knife chases through the living room at 3 am. hyunjin tying han’s shoelaces together while he’s asleep so he faceplants when he tries to get to you in the middle of the night. jeongin throwing seungmin onto the coffee table because seungmin called his hair mid. changbin holding felix up into the air then throwing him across the room. chan tripping minho who falls face first into the corner of the counter.
the worst injury of the week is when seungmin “accidentally” throws a knife at han during an argument about who gets to sit next to you at dinner. it grazes han’s bicep. a cut. maybe eight stitches. blood everywhere.
you drag han to the bathroom. clean it. stitch it yourself because felix would suck on the blood and the others are back there still eating.
han sits there the whole time going “ow ow ow babe you’re so good at this. you’re like a sexy doctor. can we roleplay later? i’ll be the patient. pleaseeeee.”
fucker.
when you’re done, han pulls you into his lap (careful of the stitches), kisses your cheek. “thanks babe. love you.”
the next injury is jeongin’s cut up hand because he heard this conversation and gripped the glass so hard in jealousy that it shattered in his hand.
yeah. they can’t deal with jealousy like this, because this is their first time loving someone.
their first time wanting to live for something other than the next high, the next body, the next rush.
dealing with them is a full time job. you love them, sure. but god, they are exhausting. you can’t even have a moment of peace. you try to take a shower and there’s a knock. you try to nap and there’s an argument about who gets to sit closest to you. you try to eat and someone is bleeding on the table. again. you light a candle and someone uses it to cauterize something. you attempt to take a bath and someone knocks because he misses you even though you’ve been gone seven minutes. you wake up at 3am because someone had a nightmare about losing you and decided the solution was to check your pulse. you try to lock the bathroom door and someone picks it. you try to leave the house and someone chains the front door shut with their own handcuffs then swallows the key while staring you dead in the eye. you ask who broke the lamp and five men say not me in five different tones of guilt. you close your bedroom door and within three minutes someone is jiggling the handle. you make coffee and someone silently fixes the cabinet hinge someone ripped off during a jealousy incident you weren’t even present for.
you are tired, and you are overstimulated, and you are weirdly fulfilled. because as fucked up as they are, as irreparably wrong as their brains came out, they are trying. badly. they are learning how to love by watching you. and it’s sweet, and it’s them, and, felix, sweetie, stop chasing the mailman. felix. FELIX—
author’s note: the only girl i’ve ever loved is jeongin in draaag
genre: crackfic, dark comedy, dark romance, horror
summary: part ii. well, you survived them last time. now you have to live your life with them constantly on you. they keep killing people. they keep fighting each other. they keep getting blood everywhere. and you keep letting them fall in love with you, but doesn’t that get hard when one of them becomes your boyfriend, even accidentally?
warnings: non idol au, violence, blood, little mentions of gore(like holding a kidney up once?) and vomiting, cannibalism(felix, it’s not in detail but still gross), obsessive behavior, cursing, homicidal behavior/psychopathy, felix and han are still dumb, sexual content(no smut written but there’s talk about sex, mentions of humping, riding and virginity loss), jealousy, physical fights(not serious, just boys being boys), slight mention of alcoholism(hyunjin), reader is not that right morally and let’s not even talk about the boys, plz read the author’s note on the bottom it’s important
word count: 16k
you’re not like… dating these serial killers, are you?
no.
not yet, at least.
where did we leave off last time? something about you getting used to them. so yeah, you have your boys now. your eight brutally capable and deeply evil boys who cannot leave you alone for a minute now.
you sit down and three of them sit closer on instinct, it can escalate to the point that they’re sitting in your lap. like you stand up and at least one goes “where are you going.” you laugh and the room looks at you like you just invented happiness. cringe thing to say, but for them, you did. even if we’re cringe we have to be literal. the only thing that brought them happiness so far was human guts in their hands, and now a sweet, pretty, normal girl is willing to spend time with them?? they’re living their best lives.
there’s always at least one of them touching you at any given time. shoulder, knee, ur hoodie sleeve, the back of your neck, whatnot.
they are NOT slick.
and a tension started developing for a while now. like, between you and them. you could cut it with one of the suspiciously well maintained knives in the house.
this is hyunjin’s fault, let’s start there. he started this with the “is this yours” bullshit and now look at him. he acts the calmest but is actually the most cooked. always standing just slightly too close behind you. hand on your lower back when he passes. casually brushing hair out of your face like that’s a normal friend activity??? but he’ll say shit like “you have something on your face.” and just stare at your lips. sir. be serious.
almost heartless psycho who feels the hottest with human blood smeared all over his face, but for you, he refills your water before you realize it’s empty, turns the heat up if you’re cold, swaps seats if he thinks you’re exposed to any type of danger in your current one. (unc what danger you’re in a cat cafe)
chan acts like he’s above all this. he is not, clearly. he pretends he’s just “looking out for you” but he’s the worst for staring. you’ll look up and he’s already looking. no shame. zero.
but he’s also the one who pulls you behind him automatically in public, adjusts your jacket collar, wipes something off your cheek with his thumb. pffft he’s adorable. and so blank. mostly his eyes are, they look dead. he’s clearly short on feelings, but he has the most for you. like he barely felt before but not he has an instinct to care for you, how cute is that!
changbin is the safest, probably. for you. he’s also the most openly affectionate, arms around your shoulders, leaning on you on the couch, or just… sitting in your lap in public. y’all lost count of how many times you pushed him to the floor for that.
he doesn’t even realize how couple coded he is. the others notice. they hate it.
and jeongin is not subtle. jeongin has never been subtle in his life.
“you look really good today.” “you smell nice.” “you know you could just sit on my lap, right?”
goooood he’d give anything to hit. okay not just hit, this man has a deep crush on you, it just comes off as him basically humping your leg 24/7.
minho flicks your forehead for attention. steals your phone. complains when you don’t sit near him. grown ass serial killer but he really really needs your attention. if someone else is getting too much of it he’s like “okay damn, are we done with that or—” sir you kill people for fun. okay i take that back, he’s really attached and you’re really special to him, he doesn’t think anyone else will accept him, accept them like you do. so he has all the rights to be so hung up on you.
seungmin is just a bitch. most of the time he’ll just silently appear next to you, no footsteps to hear, no warning, just suddenly “move over.” and now your thighs are pressed together and he’s acting like that’s not doing anything to him. he watches how the others touch you, memorizes it, then does the same thing later but gentler, hoping you’ll like his version more. he’s not good with emotions, all he can do is copy others and hope for the best outcome.
felix, the walking head injury, is physically incapable of subtlety. he’ll just drop his whole body weight onto you on the couch. hug you from behind with zero warning and always forget it scares you. rest is chin on your shoulder and breathe really really loud.
you have to physically turn his face toward you when he gets distracted by a ceiling fan. or hold him back when he wants to run after the mailman. but he’s so head over heels for you it’s ridiculous, if you look even mildly sad, he’s panicking. and that’s a big word, panic for this guy.
han, the other walking head injury but in the form of him actually having one most times because he cannot make a difference between clean breathing air and glass, is just as fond of you if not more. he holds your hand a lot, plays with your fingers. he also loves your cheeks. i mean the ones on your face, but damn can he be hypnotized by your ass too.
he will absolutely walk into a table while looking at you. frequently. it’s brutal how the others don’t even react anymore.
you’re genuinely the this is fine dog. y’know that meme. because you really do like them, even though they’re evil. off. they don’t feel bad about hurting strangers but will absolutely be on your dick all day because you sounded slightly tired when you said good morning.
you’re not “a person” to them in the general sense.
you’re their person.
big difference.
like, you wake up, and at least one of them is already in your space. not even in a creepy way anymore. ANYMORE!!! hyunjin could be sitting at the edge of the bed scrolling on his phone, or changbin could be asleep on the floor with a blanket because he knows you’d push him off the bed. han is halfway off the mattress, in a starfish position. felix could be hugging you from behind, so he’s the one who gets pushed off the bed.
or you wake up to jeongin on the floor next to your bed, scrolling on his phone. the second he notices you’re awake, he leans over and presses a kiss to the side of your head. he does that quite easily.
“hey, i brought breakfast.” he says, holding up a crumpled bag. “also i couldn’t sleep. also i missed you. also i think you should fix your front door, i broke in.”
you take the bag. there’s one croissant. bitten. you still eat it.
seungmin usually shows up not long after, pretending he was just in the area, the area being your entire life. he drops onto your couch, legs spread, acting like he’s the fucking boss, but the second you walk past him he grabs your wrist and tugs you between his knees, murmuring a “come here.” okay jeez little bitch.
felix is worse. sometimes he’s asleep on your couch(he would’ve climbed into the bed next to you, it just didn’t come to mind because he… doesn’t think a lot) and he wakes up because he rolled into a table leg.
“did we win.”
no one knows what he means.
sometimes, if they’re not in your bed in the morning, they’re somewhere else in the house while you clearly don’t remember going to sleep with any of them over. sometimes minho is leaning against the counter, pretending not to look at you, but the second you sit down he nudges your knee with his, like a cat headbutting your hand.
jeongin always finds a way to tell you you look hot before noon. every day.
they don’t just like you. they’ve imprinted, if that’s the right word. and people like them don’t attach easily. they mimic, they perform, they understand emotions cognitively, not instinctively. but with you, it’s not performance, it’s real and a fixation. protective. possession and genuine care in a way that would make any therapist quit on the spot.
you get cold, and six hoodies appear. you get quiet, and the whole house lowers its volume. you get hurt, and they’re ready to throw hands.
and you don’t get scared of their intensity anymore. you let them be them. you let han play with your fingers. you let felix use your shoulder as a chinrest. you fall asleep with someone’s hand fisted in your hoodie.
you also started meeting their eye contact instead of dodging it. started touching back, sometimes, but only with actual intention. like, comforting one of them or smth.
stockholm syndrome? trauma? maybe. or maybe humans just get used to the weather they live in.
what still takes effort though, is when they come home bloody. yeah, we’ve never really got over that. you’ll be sitting at home like “hey, how was—” when they come over and then you clock the red and your brain has to run over all possible things that could’ve happened before you finish with a “—your night.”
hyunjin washes his hands like he just changed a tire. chan tells minho to stop tracking mud in (it’s not mud). changbin asks if you ate dinner yet. jeongin tries to hug you and you have to go: “shower. now. immediately.”
later, when they’re clean, they come back to you again. felix will curl around you, han will hold your hand with both of his, hyunjin’s hand always ends up at your back, and whatnot.
you’re not scared of them anymore. you’d miss them if they were gone.
because, for an example, you can’t even imagine going shopping alone now.
han always wants to push the cart. dead serious, both hands, focused. crashes into a display of cereal within two minutes.
“i was avoiding a child.” he says.
there was no child.
felix is grabbing everything in sight. you end up buying three types of cookies a watermelon none of you know how to cut so chan ends up doing that, and a brutal amount of fruits. all this while he’s holding your hand.
han turns around to talk to you while still pushing. the cart goes sideways. you grab the handle before he takes out an elderly woman.
they look so fucking pleased just existing near you that you don’t even mind their bullshit anymore. if only the people around you knew you hang out with brutal murderers.
for clothes shopping, when not your friends, you take chan and hyunjin now.
like, you come out of the fitting room.
chan leans back in the chair, squints. “turn around.”
you do.
he nods. “yeah. that’s good.”
and hyunjin’s staring like you just stepped out in a wedding dress, not a shirt with a little more cleavage than usual.
“do you like it?” you ask.
he clears his throat. “yeah. i mean. yeah. you look— yeah.”
and after you pay(which they try to do instead of you multiple times), chan immediately grabs the bag for you. you end up walking between them while they hold all your bags, and it’s not even because they saw it in movies or whatnot. it’s because their horribly made up little brain told them this is the right thing to do for their y/n.
a woman passing by smiles at you three because this is wholesome. only if she knew.
changbin is attached to you. physically. and he loves being attached to you. you’re on the couch? he’s pressed to your side. you’re cooking? his chin is on your shoulder. you’re brushing your teeth? he’s in the doorway just running his fuckass mouth or just watching.
you’ll just be existing and suddenly he’s wrapped around you from behind, chin on your shoulder, talking bout sum “you smell nice.” you are literally wearing a shirt you haven’t washed in two days.
but then there are also the nights when minho comes home with blood on his sleeve, his jaw, and you’re already in the bathroom, dry heaving.
you’ve thrown up more in the last few months than your entire life.
minho comforts you after those, rubbing your arm while you’re still dying around, but only after he cleaned himself up.
you’re their soft thing(because they don’t quite get how you work). they don’t shove reality in your face, not on purpose.
also, you leave the house? you will see at least one of them.
jeongin leaning against a wall: “wow, what are the odds?” you followed me, you freak. seungmin will “coincidentally” be at the cafe you go to. han once tried to follow you subtly and walked directly into a street sign. when you heard the clang, you turned around and he waved from the ground.
or when you’re at home, in the kitchen, and your door opens(you don’t remember unlocking it), an you just hear:
“BABY— oh shit sorry— YOU— HI—”
changbin and felix come in, felix trips over nothing. nothing. just air. slams into the wall. han follows and hits the same wall. same spot.
changbin is already hugging you from behind while you’re holding a boiling pot, saying “missed youuuu.”
same people who don’t feel things the way normal people do btw. same people who find brutal fun in absolutely ripping people apart btw. guilt? meh. fear? rare. empathy? not much. y/n? OMG HI Y/NNNN!!!!
they absolutely let you in on their lives though, no matter how much you want to keep them from yours. like, they would let you check their phones all times. they don’t have anything to keep from you, even if you were to see pornhub open, they wouldn’t mind. (well, some of them wouldn’t, and the others just wouldn’t have it open obvi) once while jeongin helped you make food and his hands were dirty, he asked you to read their group chat out loud for him. what you saw was changbin sending memes, seungmin the only one actually enjoying them, the others talking about where will they murder who the next time, and felix saying “wait what are we doing again”
they are brutally serious about what will they bring and for what, they’re GOOD at what they do, but then felix will send a voice message like: “GUYS I FORGOT MY WALLET DO WE NEED THAT” and the entire operation derails for ten minutes.
they are terrifying when murdering. they are absolute clowns before and after. there was one time they were gone longer than usual. you were pacing, trying not to think of the worst, when you finally got a text from changbin.
“delayed. han locked the keys in the car.”
you stared at the message.
they are serial killers. and your boys, unfortunately. because their emotional range used to be: irritation, boredom, thrill.
now it’s: you, and everything else.
changbin gets visibly anxious if you don’t text back. minho gets quiet and restless if you’ve had a bad day. seungmin picks fights with strangers online if you’re sad, which actually has nothing to do with you being sad so why did i even say it.
their killer selves bleed into weird places. chan likes to have a hand on your back in public so he can protect you if anything happens. hyunjin the same, just with his hand lower. it sometimes goes into a sneaky ass touch that you don’t really realize. seungmin clocks every person who looks at you too long.
you once teased them about it. “what, you think someone’s gonna kidnap me?”
eight immediate, overlapping answers:
“yes.”
“obviously.”
“people are awful.”
“we would kill them.”
you were speechless.
and what really tells most about these boys, is how they’re the happiest after sliming someone out. not just because of what they did, but also because they’re back. with you.
they sprawl all over your living room, loud and dumb and arguing like they didn’t just end someone’s entire existence. the disconnect is horrifying if you stare at it too long. so you don’t. you focus on han trying to open a soda and spraying himself. felix laughing so hard he falls off the couch. jeongin sliding over to press a kiss to your temple.
when they leave you alone though, when it’s just them, could be just hanging out or killing people, they… god, they’re just boys.
felix forgot why they’re there halfway through the plan explanation. han brought snacks. “thought we’d get hungry.” they are parked behind an abandoned building at midnight and this man has string cheese.
those two are brutal. like, cutting people up, they can do that, no, they’re good at that, but when they open their mouths… imagine hyunjin closing his eyes, chan pinching the bridge of his nose, and seungmin grinning at the bullshit they said. he’d also nudge minho or chan during serious moments just to see them get irritated. minho does not laugh. minho is all business.
jeongin, meanwhile, is talking. he should not be talking. he’s supposed to be intimidating, and changbin is the only one actually paying attention to the shit he’s saying.
half their operations would go smoother if felix and han had supervision.
once, han tripped over absolutely nothing during a very serious moment and just laid there for a second.
“okay but what the fuck was that.” seungmin whispered.
han, from the floor: “i don’t know.“
felix once got distracted by a cat mid cutting some random woman to pieces.
“aww. little guy.”
the woman is not alive anymore. he is trying to pspspsps a stray.
hyunjin threatens to leave them both behind at least twice a week.
chan’s always in on their bullshit though when there isn’t something more important going on. c’mon, he loves them so much. he supports their dumb little worlds.
they love hurting each other. i mean play fights and also playful little mean words. “felix, you have the situational awareness of a decorative pillow.” “thanks, man.”
han once walked into a door frame so hard everyone stopped what they were doing.
beat of silence.
seungmin: “natural selection is trying.”
but the second anything actually goes wrong? they close in. one of them gets hurt, even minor? yeah fucking around is over. priority shift.
sometimes they sit on the hood of some van after, passing a drink around, shoes dusty, clothes changed, the night like nothing happened.
felix kicks his feet. han leans back too far and almost eats shit. jeongin’s talking about a song stuck in his head, or you, who’s also stuck in his head. seungmin is arguing, just arguing. changbin is laughing too loud. minho smiles a lot more than he does in public. chan is actually joking with them, so is hyunjin if they give him enough to drink.
they’re not evil every second. they’re not always killers. they’re boys. dudes. friends. a tight ride or die circle.
who just happen to believe the solution to their lack of feelings is getting it by disgustingly murdering people.
uuuh wait lemme tell one time when they killed some guy. just so you know how that looks like.
they kill on different locations, actually. the one where they chased you wasn’t hyunjin’s actual place, of course, and now that’s not where they are. it’s a warehouse, typical killing place.
there’s a guy tied to a metal chair in the middle of the room, wrists bound, ankles strapped, breathing fast in that shallow, panicked way. y’know like in movies. he looks rough. sweaty. eyes darting between eight grown men who are, unfortunately for him, not behaving like the cinematic, silent assassins he probably expected.
chan is standing a few feet away, sleeves rolled up(woof woof bark bark grgrgr fuck yes), calm, focused energy coming off him. he looks strict but deep down he’s jumping around from joy, because, like, life’s good right now. he has a pretty girl at home waiting for them. and he also has a guy to torture to death! could it be better?
hyunjin is further back, arms crossed, eyes locked on the guy. god, he’s so pretty, how can he be so terrifying? at least he fucks good. which you don’t know yet, but you eventually will. if it’s up to me, you will.
and jeongin is sitting on a folding table, legs swinging, on his phone.
“okay.” he says, not looking up. “y/n says we have chicken, pasta, or that soup we like. we need to vote.”
the tied up guy blinks.
felix, who is crouched nearby rummaging through a duffel bag that absolutely does not contain sports equipment, gasps. “SOUP.”
han nods seriously. “soup.”
chan doesn’t look away from the guy, gaze dead serious. “soup’s fine with me.”
The man in the chair twists, ropes creaking. “what the fuck??”
seungmin, who is leaning against a wall, phone to his ear, raises one finger at him without looking. “yeah, grandma, i ate. no, vegetables too. … because i’m an adult, that’s why.”
han and felix crouch down in front of the guy like they’re examining a weird bug. they like examining weird bugs.
han tilts his head. “he looks different from the picture.”
“that’s because he’s scared.” felix says wisely.
“ohhhh.” a beat. then han leans closer. “do you feel scared?”
the guy tries to spit at him. misses.
felix recoils. “dude! that’s so gross! we’re indoors!”
han wipes his cheek with his sleeve. “that was uncalled for, man. we haven’t even started.”
“no, grandma, i ate. no, not junk—” seungmin kicks the tied guy’s chair casually when the dude tries to speak, sending it rocking. “—i said i ATE.”
the guy yelps as the chair thuds back down.
“sorry, grandma. some dude is being rude.”
pause.
“no, not you. love you.”
“dinner vote update.” jeongin continues, squinting at the screen. “y/n says if we don’t pick in two minutes, we’re getting whatever’s easiest.”
“chicken.” minho says immediately, pulling on gloves.
“soup.” felix repeats stubbornly.
han looks at the tied guy. “you a soup guy?”
“what the fuck.” the guy mumbles.
seungmin, still on the phone: “grandma, hold on.” he covers the mic. “say one more thing and i’m pushing you into a wall.”
the guy shuts up.
seungmin goes back to the phone. “yeah, sorry. no, nothing is wrong with your phone. yes, i’ll show you again how to send me pictures.”
chan finally steps forward to the guy. “okay. we’re aligned on who he is, what he did, evidence confirmed, timeline clear.” yeah, they like knowing who they kill. why they found you so fast after you escaped is also because they knew way more about you than you would’ve ever thought. so what’s the evidence and what he did part about, you will ask. well, this guy isn’t a good guy. (any crime you want, put it on him) and when they have a criminal, they love rubbing all his past crimes in his face.
chan looks at the others. “any objections?”
felix raises his hand. “i don’t want garlic bread with the soup now.”
“that’s not—” chan stops himself. breathes. “noted. irrelevant. sit down.”
seungmin pushes off the wall and circles behind the chair, knife in the hand that doesn’t have the phone.
“yeah, grandma, i took my vitamins.” he says sweetly. sweetly. while nudging the chair with his foot so it screeches across the concrete and the guy nearly tips over. “no, i’m wearing a jacket.”
the guy gasps as the chair jerks.
seungmin covers the phone speaker. “shut up.” then he turns slightly away, uncovering it. “sorry, grandma. yeah, love you too. okay. okay. bye.”
he hangs up and pockets the phone, then immediately kicks one of the chair legs.
“every time you talk i lose a year off my life.” he says.
hyunjin is standing off to the side, quiet, watching. he hasn’t said much, but every time the captive’s eyes dart toward the door, hyunjin’s head tilts just slightly.
don’t.
okay. cool. message received.
while minho is still fucking around with laying things out on the table, felix wanders over, and picks something up. “is this the sharp one?”
“yes.” minho says flatly.
felix immediately puts it back down. “okay! just checking!”
jeongin looks up from his phone. “oh, she said we’re not allowed chicken and soup.”
a collective groan fills the room.
minho, without looking up, says: “say both anyway.”
“THANK you.” jeongin says, typing furiously.
the guy in the chair tips his head back, groaning. “fuckers.”
changbin tilts his head. “you don’t eat?”
jeongin hops off the table. “okay focus, chicken or soup, final vote, because i’m starving.”
“SOUP.” felix and han shout together.
“chicken.” minho and chan say at the same time.
changbin looks torn. “soup… with chicken?”
seungmin shrugs. “i eat anything.”
all eyes slowly turn to hyunjin. he doesn’t look at them, just at the man in the chair. “whatever y/n makes.” he says.
minho steps forward, calm, prepared. unc has so much aura that changbin instinctively moves aside.
jeongin types one last message. “soup it is.” he announces. “y/n said you all are banned from voting next time.”
the guy takes a breath, sensing that he’s getting closer to death. “please, i— i’ll leave. i’ll disappear. you don’t have to—”
seungmin tips the chair back just a little. not enough to drop him. just enough to make his stomach fall.
“careful.” changbin says gently. “we don’t want him passing out yet.”
“YET?!” the guy yells.
jeongin snorts.
changbin stretches. “okay. let’s wrap this up. i’m hungry.”
minho nods once, taking one from all those weapons. hyunjin pushes off the wall, stepping forward too, presence swallowing the room. god, he’s too beautiful to be this heartless. seungmin flips his knife in his hand, bored again now that grandma’s off the line.
jeongin looks up again. “WAIT.”
everyone pauses.
“y/n says we are NOT allowed to come back bloody again.”
hyunjin takes his jacket off. “we won’t.”
and the last thing the tied guy hears before the boys close in, weapons in hand, is jeongin saying “okay but if we’re late, we’re dead.”
okay. they finished killing the guy. they took brutal pleasure in it of course, but let’s not discuss that now. now, they’re in the bathroom. not yours, luckily, it could be at one of their places, doesn’t matter really. what matters now is that the bathroom is not built for eight men.
the mirror is fogged, the counter is soaked, the floor has that damp humidity, and the air smells like soap desperately trying to fight for its life.
the shower is already running. hyunjin is in there, back to the curtain, water running pink. behind the curtain, they just hear him exhale once, long. otherwise he’s quiet, like he’s scrubbing paint off instead of… y’know.
chan is at the sink, sleeves pushed up, scrubbing his hands like he’s about to perform surgery instead of having just brutally murdered a guy. he’s got that focused, mildly annoyed look. it looks adorable tbh.
felix is also at the sink. with a toothbrush, brushing his teeth. you already know. brushing human remains out of his teeth. he’s the only one in the group who enjoys cannibalism. even the others are disgusted by that, and felix is brushing his teeth like he just had garlic bread, not… oh my god.
“bro.” seungmin says, watching him in the mirror. “every time. every time you have to do this.” he’s talking about the cannibalism. as i said, the others don’t tolerate it that much. they draw the line at some point too. BUT at least they make the effort to check on the victim’s health before they let felix eat from them. they don’t want him to die, obvi.
felix talks around the toothbrush. “mmmff need ff be thorough.”
chan sighs so deeply it could power a wind turbine.
han leans against the counter beside felix, watching with genuine curiosity. “do you use different toothpaste after, or—”
“STOP.” jeongin says, holding up a hand. “i’m fine with anything, but… this.”
felix spits into the sink, offended. “you guys are so judgmental.”
oh felix. sweetie. you are disgusting.
he grins at his reflection anyway, already thinking about what will he say to you when he gets back.
changbin is half undressed already, shirt gone, jeans unbuttoned, carefully dabbing at a spot on his collarbone with a washcloth. “she’d yell if she saw this.” he says.
“yeah.” jeongin replies. “but like, in a cute way.”
“she’d make that face.” felix adds before putting the toothbrush back into his mouth.
they all know the face. that scrunched, horrified expression.
there’s a weird collective quiet for half a second, which is brutally hilarious if you think about it with the right mindset.
then han elbows felix. “you got some in your hair.”
felix freezes. “ffwfhere.”
han just slowly gestures at his entire head.
minho is wiping down his arms, already in fresh pants, hair damp from the sink. “you’re disgusting.” he tells felix, not even looking at him.
felix gives a thumbs up with toothpaste foam on his chin.
jeongin grabs his phone again, hands wet, shirtless. smiles a little. “she said drive safe.”
changbin presses a hand over his heart then makes a dying noise.
the bathroom is fogging up fast. everyone’s talking over each other. towels are being stolen mid use. for an example, changbin reaches for one and jeongin snatches it first.
“bro.”
“finders keepers.”
“that was mine!”
they both raise their fists. slowly lower it, sensing that they don’t really have enough space to fight for it right now.
felix, still brushing his teeth, suddenly starts undressing. kicks off his shoes, yanks his shirt over his head one handed, toothbrush still jammed in his mouth, then holds the toothbrush between his teeth to undo his pants and pull down his underwear.
then he just… grabs the shower curtain. slides it open.
hyunjin is mid hair rinse.
they make eye contact.
felix, toothbrush still in, goes: “hey bwo.”
“hi.”
felix steps in under the spray. “bwaher’s nwife.” (water’s nice, if anyone can’t read it)
“because it’s hot. i made it hot.”
“hwanks fow thinhing of me.” (thanks for thinking of me)
hyunjin exhales slowly through his nose, but shifts slightly so felix can fit under the spray “you’re dripping toothpaste.”
felix spits expertly into the drain.
meanwhile outside the curtain, when chan says “okay. towels go on the rack, not the floor.”, a towel immediately hits the floor. he closes his eyes.
han is staring at himself in the mirror, turning his head side to side. “do i have something on my ear?”
minho walks past, towel over his shoulder, glances once. “yeah.”
han squints harder at his reflection. “where?”
minho grabs a wet cloth, wipes it off in one fucking swipe, keeps moving.
han smiles. “thanks, man.”
seungmin is perched on the edge of the counter, cleaning under his nails with concerning focus. he wouldn’t want to put bloody fingers in you anyway WHO SAID THAT
“she’s gonna be awake?” he asks.
jeongin shrugs, scribbling his shoulder with a cloth. “probably. she always waits up if we’re late.”
in the shower, felix is talking over the water. “I THINK SHE LIKES IT WHEN WE ALL COME OVER AT ONCE.”
hyunjin rinses his hair. “you don’t need to yell. also she doesn’t.”
felix tilts his head back into the spray. “YOU THINK SHE KNOWS—”
“dude, my ear. yes, she does.” hyunjin says.
“oh.”
changbin is now sitting on the closed toilet lid, hugging a towel around his shoulders, listening to the sounds coming from inside the shower.
“stop moving, you’re splashing.”
“you’re splashing!”
felix’s toothbrush flies out of the shower.
han is trying to wash something off his sleeve in the sink and somehow splashes water directly into his own face. he sputters.
then felix slips inside the shower, just a little skid, but he yelps like he’s been shot.
han screams in sympathy. changbin nearly tackles the sink. seungmin is laughing at him. minho makes eye contact with chan in the mirror and they both shake their heads. jeongin doesn’t even look up from his phone.
hyunjin grabs the back of felix’s arm automatically, steadying him without looking.
“feet.” hyunjin says calmly.
“right.” felix replies.
seungmin looks back down at his phone. “she said… wait i cannot read this. she said we better not track anything into the apartment later.”
collective nod. that is a rule.
chagbin is wiping down his arms. “we won’t. last time was an accident.”
“you shook your jacket like a dog.” minho mumbles.
“i forgot!”
jeongin wipes the mirror with his palm and looks at himself again.
felix peeks out from the curtain. “do we have mouthwash?”
“use the blue one.” chan says.
“there’s a green one.”
“that’s not mouthwash, that’s floor cleaner.”
felix nods. “so that’s why it tasted weird.”
OH MY GOD.
jeongin snorts into his hand, then hits seungmin’s shoulder, who’s shaking holding back laughter.
water shuts off. hyunjin steps out, towel around his shoulders, already mentally somewhere else. with you, by the way. felix stays in, humming, absolutely unbothered.
changbin tosses hyunjin a clean shirt, who catches it without looking.
the boys bump into each other, argue over towels, steal each other’s deodorant, shove each other away from the sink, seungmin is flicking water at jeongin just to be annoying, changbin trying to braid han’s damp hair, complain about water temperature like they didn’t just end a life two hours ago. boy shit. just… with a higher body count and significantly worse hobbies. gross assholes.
and late at night, you can hear your front door opening, the distinct sound of too many male voices talking over each other, shoes, someone laughing way too hard at something that absolutely wasn’t that funny.
you’re already walking down the hallway, ready to say something responsible like take your shoes off or don’t touch anything. god, you can never get used to it when all eight come over.
you open your mouth, and you don’t get a word out, because felix is the first one in your space, big grin, hands landing on your shoulders, and before you can even process it he leans down and presses a loud kiss to your cheek.
“hi!”
you squint. “you—”
hyunjin is right behind him, two fingers coming up to pinch your cheek lightly. god, he loves you.
chan gives your shoulder a firm pat. “good to see you.”
the second felix pulls away, changbin collides with you. full body hug, arms around you, chin nearly knocking your temple. “we missed you.”
“you were gone for like four hours—”
jeongin’s arm slides around your shoulders from the other side, pulling you into the side of him. “hey, pretty.”
CAN THEY LEAVE YOU ALONE FOR ONE FUCKING SECOND. yea clearly no, seungmin reaches as he passes and tugs your hair, then starts talking bout some “miss us or what?” asshole.
minho just gives you a one armed half hug as he passes, brief squeeze at your side. seems less than the others, but actually means a lot more.
when they come off you and walk past you, you stand there, in the hallway, having just been affection assaulted by eight grown men who absolutely have their own homes. but are currently in yours, more specifically in your kitchen. said hi to you and went there IMMEDIATELY.
“OOOH you made stuff.” comes from felix.
“yeah i do that.” you say, following them, seeing seungmin with a spoon already, reaching into the pot. “use a plate!”
changbin is leaning against the counter, looking at you. “you cooked a lot.”
then felix drops a lid on the floor.
“PICK IT UP.”
“ON IT.” he says, already crouching, bumping into han who is trying to open a cabinet that is very clearly not where the plates are. they both fall.
cabinets opening. fridge door wide. someone clanking a plate. someone else already chewing.
“long day?” chan asks you, like he didn’t just invade your home with a small army.
“you tell me. you’re the ones who—”
jeongin cuts in, mouth full from a spoonful of food one of them recently showed into his mouth. “okay but listen, tonight? we were so good. i’d easily give it a nine out of ten.” then he swings an arm around you.
you hold up a hand. “i don’t want to hear whatever the fuck you did.”
changbin is at the fridge now, pulling out drinks, handing them to hyunjin. “she doesn’t wanna hear the details.” he says gently.
“fine.” seungmin says. “but just know it was impressive.”
“UNCLEAR HOW THAT HELPS ME.” you try to step away from jeongin, who steps with you. “personal space.” you say.
“denied.”
seungmin walks past, plate in hand, and bumps your hip with his on purpose. “move, shorty.”
you are not that short. he just enjoys provoking you.
chan pulls plates from your cabinet like he knows where everything is. because he does. why does he know where everything is. he gives a plate to jeongin, who finally comes off of you, deciding that food is more important.
han is opening drawers. “where do the big spoons live again?”
“THE SAME PLACE THEY’VE LIVED FOR MONTHS.”
“right, right, the stabby drawer.”
“that is not what it’s called!”
then he walks past holding three spoons for no reason.
“why do you have those?” you ask.
“in case.”
“in case of WHAT.”
you’re standing there, hands on your hips, fully prepared to be done with all of them, when suddenly there’s an arm around your middle. it’s hyunjin. he pulls you slightly back against him. someone, you don’t even see who, hands him a plate without a word. he takes it. still doesn’t move his arm. multitasking king.
you look up at him. “you could go sit.”
he shrugs. “i’m fine.”
meanwhile the others crowd your kitchen island, plates in hand, talking over each other. felix is mid story, acting something out.
“and then he goes—” he makes a dramatic face “—and hyunjin just looks at him like THIS—” he tries to copy hyunjin’s expression. he can’t. he looks horrible now.
seungmin dies laughing.
hyunjin’s arm tightens just slightly, thumb brushing once against your side.
chan finishes first, sets his plate down, and looks at you. “thank you, y/n.”
you’re about to answer him, but then you look past him, and felix is licking sauce off his thumb. you point to him instead. “don’t.”
he freezes. slowly wipes his hand on a napkin.
hyunjin finally speaks near your ear, low. “we didn’t bring anything in. did you see?”
“yeah.” you nod. “good job.”
his chin brushes the top of your head briefly. almost a little kiss.
animals. they have their own apartments. their own lives. but every time, they end up here. eating your food. touching you. arguing. playing.
and oh, if they weren’t violently, irreparably, cosmically fucked in the head, it would actually be unfair.
because they are stupidly beautiful.
maybe felix is the worst, because he doesn’t even know. i mean, he’s confident with himself, but is not smart enough to actually think about if he’s good looking or not. he can decide if other people are hot, he thinks he’s hot, but he’s not aware of how striking his looks actually are.
and when you go out, he always insists on coming with you. god, he doesn’t even realize that everyone has to double take when he passes. he doesn’t know, he just lives his thoughtless little life in public. like, you say you’re heading out and he’s already grabbing his jacket.
“i’ll come.”
“you don’t even know where i’m going.”
“i like outside.”
that’s his entire reasoning. and somehow it works, you let him come with you. and he’s… a pretty good accessory, we can admit that. he walks beside you, hands in the pockets of a jacket that costs more than your monthly rent. he’s so effortlessly beautiful, and he dresses good. maybe that’s where all his intelligence went, fashion. that’s proven by how strangers glance. twice. thrice.
he doesn’t notice. he’s too busy smiling at you, watching you, that resulting him in walking into things repeatedly. unless he’s carrying your bags, then he’s careful with them so your things don’t get hurt. and he always carries them. not in the try hard way, he doesn’t even process the movies he watches so he can’t take it from those. he just genuinely wants to do it for you.
perfect man behavior. disqualified only by the… you know. you forget, sometimes. you really do.
after doing the whatever you went out for, you decide to sit at a café. you sit across from each other, late afternoon. it’s nice. he looks insane sitting there, expensive clothes, gentle little face like he’s not a fucking murderer. and a cannibal. but you don’t know that yet. yet. you’re about to, though.
he orders first. doesn’t even look at the price. then orders for you, but checks first.
“you still like the caramel one, right?”
you blink. “yeah.”
“cool.”
he pays before you can even reach for your wallet. it would be romantic if you didn’t know what he does on weekends.
you watch him across the table, sunlight through the window catching in his hair, sleeves pushed up, fingers long and clean and pretty, stirring his drink slowly. it’s actually stupid. stupider than him, which is a big word.
“what?” he asks sweetly, curiously, realizing you’ve been squinting at him for a while now.
“you’re annoyingly pretty.”
he blinks. then smiles, shy and pleased in a way that does something violent to your heart. “thanks.”
but also, you’ve been sitting on a question for days. weeks, maybe. it’s been rattling in your head ever since… flashback timeeeee!!
you were in your kitchen, grabbing water. you didn’t mean to eavesdrop, you swear on hyunjin’s life, but you overheard changbin and chan anyway.
changbin sighed. “dude, it’s okay that he eats people, but talking with his mouth full? i swear last time some of it got on me.”
chan’s voice was next. “felix… lacks the feeling of ‘too much’. he doesn’t really sense that we don’t want to see it. that’s different.”
changbin snorted. “yeah, well, try telling him that.”
you froze, glass in hand.
chan sighed. “it’s not like he hunts for that. it’s just… sometimes. let him have it. look away if you have to.”
“still weird.” changbin said, but not judgmental.
flashback ends. in front of you, felix is happily eating cake. sometimes drinking his little coffee. staring at nothing for a second, then at you, then away. god. he’d be perfect. perfect. and then your brain connects dots you’ve been aggressively ignoring. the teeth brushing. the comments. the way the others react.
you narrow your eyes. “…felix.”
“yeah?”
you lower your voice. “there’s something i’ve been meaning to ask.”
he leans forward immediately, attentive. “it’s okay if it’s weird.”
okay. you hesitate. then “you don’t… eat people, right?”
“oh. yeah, i do.” he says it immediately. effortlessly. fork goes to his mouth right after.
you stare. “i’m sorry— what?”
he swallows. wipes his mouth. “i eat people sometimes.” said with brutal confidence. he looks at you, eyes big and no brain behind them, concerned now. “you didn’t know?”
“i— uh—“
“are you mad?”
“i don’t know what i am!”
he puts his elbows on the table like this is a serious talk. “i don’t do it all the time.” wow. praise for you. “i just like the taste. and crave it when i see a dead body. and i’m like huh. okay.”
“…that’s your internal thought process?”
he shrugs. “i don’t think a lot before stuff.”
you know.
he looks genuinely worried now. “i brush my teeth after.”
“i have seen.”
“and i don’t, like, keep any remains after. that’d be weird.”
“THAT’S where you draw the line???”
he nods seriously. “yeah. i also wanted to eat from the mailman but you said no hurting him so i didn’t.”
you drop your face into your hands.
across from you sits the physical blueprint of a perfect boyfriend. gentle. beautiful. has money. pays for your coffee. carries your bag.
cannibal.
he reaches across the table and pokes your wrist gently. “you okay?”
“no, felix, i am not okay, you just casually confirmed the most insane thing i’ve ever heard.”
he tilts his head. “but you asked.”
“…but i asked.”
he shrugs a little, sheepish, smiling.
you lean back. “i heard changbin and chan talking about it, that’s where i know it from. i didn’t mean to, it just… it clicked. figured i’d ask about it.”
“oh.” he nods. “yeah, they worry about it.”
“…i can see why.”
he shrugs. “i don’t know. i just like the texture.”
you make a noise “felix. baby, please. i’m still drinking.”
“oh. sorry.” he sits back, watching you like you’re the confusing one. “i didn’t think it was a huge deal.” he admits. “the others think it’s gross but they think lots of stuff i do is gross.”
“they are correct for once.”
he smiles, sheepish, not offended at all. “okay.”
you shake your head. “you would be the perfect man.”
he perks up. “yeah?”
“yeah. you’re an angel.”
he beams. “thank you.”
“and then this.”
he thinks about it. “…yeah.”
NO DEFENSE. NO SHAME.
you both sit there. then he gently nudges the cake toward you.
“you want the rest?”
you stare at it. then at him. then at the cake. then back at him. then you wordlessly slide the cake over to yourself, leaning back in your chair, staring at him.
god, he’s beautiful. he has that himbo blankness behind his gaze like the lights are on but the thoughts are optional. something is deeply, fundamentally wrong with this man. if you haven’t realized that yet.
he smiles at you, warm, oblivious. “you still wanna hang out after this?”
you exhale slowly. “unfortunately, yes.”
his smile widens, pure sunshine, no idea that sentence should have hurt. “cool.”
and you sit there, across from the most confusingly perfect, brutally defective man alive, wondering how the universe had the audacity to make him look like that and think like… that. tragic. honestly.
and once one of them casually drops “oh yeah btw i’m a cannibal sometimes” over coffee, apparently the rest of them take that as a green light. you don’t notice it at first. then one day you wake up and realize you are, somehow, in the “we can be honest about our worst habits” stage of a relationship with eight serial killers.
you’re at home, sitting on the couch, half watching a show while changbin is basically folded into your side, head in your lap, arm around your waist, fully comfortable. you’re playing with his hair absentmindedly.
then he says, casually: “i like following people.”
you pause. “you mean like… online?”
“no.” he says, smiling up at you. “in real life.”
you blink. “changbin.”
“yeah?”
“that is called stalking.”
he considers this. “i don’t do it in a scary way.”
“THERE IS NO NON SCARY WAY.”
he props himself up on his elbows, earnest. “i just get curious where they go. like, what their routine is. it’s interesting.”
you stare at him. he’s smiling ear to ear.
he kisses your wrist. “but i don’t follow you. anymore. that’d be weird.”
OH GOOD. THANK YOU FOR DRAWING THAT LINE.
next, you and jeongin are walking together, his arm loosely around your shoulders, and he’s in a good mood, talking lots.
“…so yeah, i have three fake identities.”
“you have what.” you whisper.
“three. well. two and a half. one’s kind of retired.”
“for WHAT PURPOSE.”
he shrugs. “so i’m not caught. like, one of me is really into fitness. one’s into crypto. one’s just some guy with a boat.”
“…you have a boat?”
“oh, no, not at all.”
you stare at him.
he smiles and kisses your temple. “you know the real me though.”
you don’t know whether to feel special or deeply unsettled.
one evening han is in your lap(who tf cares anymore), arms around your neck, chin on your shoulder. he is heavy.
“i like going alone sometimes.” he says quietly.
you blink. “alone where.”
“murder stuff.”
you tilt your head to see his face. he looks almost shy.
“it’s easier. less noise. i can think.”
YOU. CAN. THINK???
“i thought you liked being with the others.” you say carefully, keeping your earlier thought to yourself.
“i do.” he nods. “but sometimes i wanna see if i can do it myself.”
this man once got stuck in a revolving door.
you stare at him, arms still around your neck, holding you.
you pat his back slowly.
hyunjin has a habit of having his face way too close to yours. smiling, eyes shining, he can’t keep that distance. then manages to say something so brutally creepy that it ruins the whole vibe. shit like “when you sleep, you breathe calmer. that calms me down too.”
you always look at him for a while before answering to them. “that’s not romantic, hyunjin, that’s serial killer autism.”
he smiles a little.
seungmin is worse because he knows he’s bad and still says shit like he’s proud. you’re sitting on the floor, back against the couch. he’s next to you, shoulder to shoulder.
“i like pushing people’s buttons.” he says.
“i’ve noticed.”
“no, like… strategically. i can tell exactly what makes someone insecure in, like, two minutes.”
“and you do what with this information?”
“depends if i like them.”
you narrow your eyes. “and me?”
he bumps his shoulder into yours, gentle. “i don’t use it on you.”
then once, you’re in the kitchen late with minho. he’s drying dishes.
“i don’t sleep much.” he says when the conversation goes to that.
“i know.”
“no, like. ever.”
you look at him. “that’s not healthy.”
“i know.” he shrugs. “but it’s fine.”
that one’s not gross, that’s sad.
when you’re out shopping again, chan is carrying bags. you pass a hardware store. he doesn’t slow down, but you see his eyes flick to the window.
“i hate cheap materials.” he says.
you look at him. “you say that way too casually.”
he looks back, calm.
you both just keep walking.
by the end of the week, you’re sitting there thinking: wow. gross. one kills alone, kills in general. the other uses top quality shit to do the same. then light stalking hobby. identity fraud for fun. psychological torture as a pasttime. staring problem. doesn’t sleep. cannibalism.
but it means a lot when they tell you those. this is trust for them. this is vulnerability. this is, in their language, intimacy.
you’re horrified. concerned. touched, too.
they are, objectively, terrifying men. such yearners tho. it’s humiliating for them, honestly.
and it’s not just the sweeter ones anymore. chan started slipping too, and that one surprised everyone. because… c’mon we all know how he is.
now? you sit on the couch and suddenly his hand is on the backrest behind your shoulders. then it slides down, rests lightly against your arm. casual. but not.
he adjust your hair out of your face mid conversation. thumb brushing your temple for half a second too long. he pretends he doesn’t notice when he does it. everyone else does, though. seungmin once went “brooooo” under his breath and chan told him to shut the fuck up without looking away from you.
hyunjin is manlier with it. his hand at your waist feels protective, not needy. when he pulls you away from the street, from a corner, from anything, it’s firm. this fucker knows what he’s doing.
the others are just outright pathetic bro i won’t even make anything up. they’re hopeless. changbin melts if you lean into him even slightly. jeongin gets flustered if you hold his gaze too long. han and felix cannot stop smiling when you talk to them. minho looks fucking terrifying when he’s behind you, but he does the death stare at everyone with a good intention. well, good intention towards you. seungmin keeps tripping you, because to him even that is physical touch.
and… they started to slowly realize that they might like you. that this isn’t normal friendship. that the way their stomach flips when you smile isn’t platonic. that the possessiveness, the softness, the constant pull toward you, it’s not just finding a new person who loves them the way they are. it’s want. well, some of them realized it. we all know how far han’s and felix’s brain capacity goes.
one night they’re at some dim, empty place, killing done, air heavy. they’re quiet, breathing. the victim made them run.
felix is crouched next to the body, doing his gross little side quest. which is eating another human. the others really try to close the sound out but they don’t want to leave him alone, that’s why they don’t just leave.
suddenly he looks up mid… whatever the fuck, holding… some part of a human. like insides, you can’t even tell, god there’s so much blood. it’s in his HAIR, covering his pretty little face. “do you think she’d like this?”
all heads snap toward him.
seungmin: “felix.”
chan: “no.”
jeongin, horrified: “put it DOWN.”
han squints. “that’s not a gift.”
changbin actually gags. “dude.”
hyunjin actually covers his face with his hands. “no.”
minho shakes his head, grabbing his water already. “absolutely not.”
felix frowns, confused. “it’s, like… thoughtful?”
“it is not.” jeongin says, horrified. “that is the LEAST thoughtful thing i’ve ever seen. remember when han brought her the hand bouquet? think about that, man.”
hyunjin closes his eyes. “put it down.”
felix looks confused, lowering his hand slightly. “what? i just thought… she likes when we bring stuff back sometimes.”
“that means food.” seungmin says. “normal food. not… that. what— what is that, even?”
felix frowns, glancing between them. “kidney. but i just wanna make her proud.”
changbin rubs his face. “she’s proud when we don’t traumatize her, man.”
“oh.” felix processes that. nods. “okay. that’s good too.”
now they can all sense that this was never friendship shaped. it was always hunger. just not the kind felix has. the kind that makes them check their phones mid kill to see if you texted. the kind that makes them memorize your coffee order but forget their own birthdays. the kind that makes men who don’t feel things… feel.
now. it’s late. like really late, and you’re FINALLY home alone.
then, what you hear from your front door, is BANG BANG BANG BANG. knocking like a fucking police raid, man.
“IT’S ME. OPEN BEFORE I FORGET WHY I’M HERE.” han’s voice comes through the door. who else.
“coming— jesus—” you open the door just in time to watch him almost eat shit on your doorstep. his foot catches on literally nothing. you grab his arm. he crashes into you anyway.
“hi.” he says, way too cheerful for a serial killer, arms immediately wrapping around you. it’s a full, crushing, both arms, face in your shoulder hug.
you laugh, stumbling back a step, closing the door behind him. “jesus, hi, what happened to hello?”
“this is hello.”
alright.
you hug him back automatically. but when you would expect, he doesn’t loosen his grip. he tightens it. his body is going tense, then warm, then… jittery. a weird little breathy giggle escapes him, muffled against your shoulder. he’s vibrating.
“han?” you say carefully.
he squeezes again. you can feel his heart. it’s pounding. fast. not scared-fast. just fast, because you’re here. his breath keeps hitching like he just ran up stairs.
he feels adrenaline, warmth, that dizzy, floaty rush. something is happening inside that empty, sunshine filled skull. he doesn’t have words for it, so he just clings and giggles. kinda giggle that comes when someone’s overwhelmed and doesn’t know why.
“baby?” you murmur.
“i feel weird.” he says into your shoulder, words muffled, plus your little nickname just added to it. “like— like when we run but i didn’t run. and my chest is weird.”
he pulls back. and there’s no dramatic pause that you would normally expect for a scene like this. no eye contact build up and no cinematic slow lean.
he just kisses you.
direct hit.
just goes for it. soft. a little off angle. entirely unplanned. but really, really real.
you freeze for half a second purely out of shock.
he pulls back immediately, but only a little, then he giggles again. then, he kisses you again, a little messy.
okay. okay, you have to admit. it’s cute.
he pulls back again, grinning, cheeks pink.
you stare at him. “…han.”
“yeah?”
“…why did you do that?”
“i dunno.” he thinks. you can see the effort. gears turning through peanut butter. “i just felt like i really really wanted to.”
you stare. “that was a kiss.”
“yeah.” he nods, still holding you by the waist. “i liked it.”
“i did too, but— that’s, like… romantic.”
oh. you can see that he didn’t plan that. he didn’t flirt his way there. he didn’t know what he was doing. his brain just saw “feeling big” and hit the kiss button.
instinct.
he tilts his head. processing. “oh.”
you soften. “did you maybe just… act on feelings without realizing what they were?”
he considers this. “…maybe. i just felt weird. here.” he thumps his chest lightly. “fast. and when i saw you i wanted to do that. wanted it for a while now.”
“…do you think you could have a crush on me?” you keep your voice gentle. easy. “and that’s okay if you do.”
you can see it. the gears turning in his head. slow. sticky with the earlier mentioned peanut butter. fighting for their lives.
“crush means…” he starts.
“you like someone in a not just friends way. you wanna be close. touch them. kiss them. be around them more than usual.”
he looks at you. then at your mouth. then back at you. then his eyes light up, both with realization and relief. “ohhh. that makes sense.” first thing about this guy that makes sense.
you blink. “that makes sense?”
“yeah. i like you the most. and i want to be near you all the time. and when other people stand too close i feel stabby but not in a murder way.”
romantic. somehow.
“yeah.” he says, nodding. “yeah. i think that.”
you smile at him. “okay.”
beat.
“can i kiss you again?”
god.
“yes.”
he doesn’t hesitate, just leans in again, more confident now that he knows this is allowed. now his arms fully slide around you, holding you. this is his way of expressing the pure, overwhelming need for contact his brain doesn’t know how to label.
his arms tighten. one hand slips under the hem of your shirt, on your back, warm, wanting maximum contact. you can feel how innocent the intent is. he just presses closer, forehead bumping yours clumsily before he finds your mouth again. he hums, pleased.
at some point your shirt gets tugged upward in his effort to get closer, fabric bunching as he tries to eliminate the barrier. there’s zero dirty intention behind it, just instinct screaming closer closer closer.
you gently catch his wrists before things go further, laughing softly against his mouth. “okay, hey— slow down.”
he immediately stops, looking at you with big, confused eyes. “did i mess up?”
“no.” you smile. “you’re just… enthusiastic.”
“oh.” he looks relieved. then thoughtful. “i just wanted to be as close as possible.”
you cup his face, thumb brushing his cheek. “i know.”
he leans into your hand immediately. serial killer. currently purring, basically.
“that’s nice.” he says quietly.
you brush your thumb over his cheek. “yeah?”
“yeah. you feel nice.”
“thanks.”
god, he’s cute. it’s actually unfair. pretty face, dark eyes, zero brain activity behind them, just feelings bouncing around.
he’s still wrapped around you when he mumbles a “m’hungry.”
you lean back a little to look at him. “okay, i’ll make you something.”
he nods automatically, then immediately shakes his head. “wait.”
you blink. “wait?”
he looks down between your bodies, then back up at you with the most unbothered expression in human history. “gimme a minute.”
oh. he has a hard on. pffft.
and then he just… stands there. very close. very warm. very aware of himself.
you tilt your head. “…han.”
“don’t rush me.” he says. “and don’t look down.”
you look down.
ooooh okay.
“y/nnn.” he whines. pathetic motherfucker. was swimming in blood just days ago.
you bury your face in his shoulder, laughing. he huffs but his arms tighten, chin resting on top of your head. he rocks you slightly side to side without realizing he’s doing it.
“stop laughing.” he mumbles.
“i’m not laughing at you.”
“you areeeee.”
“okay, a little.”
there’s something stupidly tender about this, just standing there in the quiet, bodies close, waiting.
he peeks down again. “…almost.”
it’s weirdly intimate, just… waiting. no rushing. no awkwardness from him.
“you smell nice.” he says randomly.
“thanks.” you smile.
five seconds of silence.
“…your lips are nice.”
you shove his shoulder lightly. “han.”
he giggles again, the sound muffled as he presses his face into your neck for a second, not even kissing, just existing there. his heart’s still going a little fast. you can feel it through his chest. he has absolutely no map for this. no past experience. no emotional vocabulary beyond “good” “bad” and “hungry.” but his instincts are locked the fuck in.
he pulls back slightly, studies your face again. “you’re not mad?” he asks.
“no.” wrong answer. well, it’s true, but you should be. HE. KILLED. PEOPLE.
“you didn’t hate the kissing?”
“no, han.” you’re hopeless, y/n. utterly in the wrong, and so is he.
“okay good. i’d be sad if you hated it. because i wanna do it more.” direct. honest. zero game.
you run your hands up his arms, slow.
“so…” he says after a moment, thoughtful. “i have a crush.”
“seems like it.”
“and kissing is part of that.”
“yep.”
he nods, satisfied he understands the rules now. “okay. good.” beat. “…can i keep doing it sometimes?”
“…yes.”
“nice.”
yeah. nice.
“…okay.” he announces after a while, nodding to himself. “we’re good.”
you raise a brow. “crisis averted?”
“yep.”
you start to step away, but he doesn’t let go right away. his hands linger at your waist, just for a second longer, because he doesn’t want to disconnect. then he lets go and follows you to the kitchen anyway, holding into your hand.
halfway there he stops again.
you groan. “han—”
“not that!” he says. “i just—” he looks at you, serious, but still so empty in the head. “i like this.”
“standing in my hallway waiting out your boner going down?”
“no.” he squeezes your hand. “you.”
your chest tightens a little. aw. “you just figured out what a crush is ten minutes ago.”
“yeah.” he says, completely unbothered. and off he goes, dragging you toward the kitchen, happy, hungry, brutal serial killer, and still somehow the most clueless creature to ever cross your path,
absolute evil.
absolute baby.
(an: guys it’s important that outside my aus i don’t baby idols!! i’m not that weird i promise, even when i say baby here i’m not completely serious about it. like i don’t mean it in the cringey way where ppl just don’t take idols seriously.)
it sits with you after. the hallway. the kisses. how honest he was, how… himself. and also, a serial killer, zero empathy, passion for hurting people, and he feels like this towards you. that means a lot to you.
meanwhile, the boys are gathered at their new little “let’s kill here” place, scattered around like usual. jeongin’s eating cereal out of a mug because they’re men and god forbid they touch the dishes unless it’s you telling them. but you’re not there, so all the plates stay dirty until one day hyunjin will brutally crash out over it and make them do it like a fucking drill sergeant.
but right now, he’s just talking to chan and minho. changbin is on the floor. jeongin is upside down on the couch, his cereal mug on his slutty little stomach, and his chest is soaked in milk because he’s lifting the spoon from there to his mouth. felix is poking at a bruise on his arm. seungmin is leaning back in a chair that absolutely cannot support that angle.
the door slams open. han bursts in, late, breathless, hoodie half on. “I DID A THING.”
seungmin doesn’t look up. “you found a new way to fall down?”
“no. better.”
“impressive.”
felix perks up immediately. “did you find a big rock.”
han points at him. “close, but no.”
the room goes quiet in that wary, here we go way.
han looks like he’s about to announce he learned how to whistle. which he still can’t do btw. “i totally kissed y/n.”
silence.
chan looks at him. “hm?”
jeongin slowly lowers himself upright. “you what.”
han nods enthusiastically. “mouth.”
seungmin blinks once. twice. “…explain.”
han, proud beyond belief, points at himself. “me. did that.”
changbin sits up straight. “like— on purpose?”
“yeah.”
minho and hyunjin look at each other.
jeongin blinks at him, face blank. “define ‘kissed.’”
“like this.” han says, grabbing felix’s face and loudly smacking a kiss on his cheek as demonstration.
felix lights up. “AWWW.”
han wipes his mouth with the back of his hand. “mouth, though. not cheek.”
the room goes deadly still.
“i went over and felt weird and then i hugged her and then i kissed her and then i did it again so we kissed twice and then we talked about crushes and i have one.”
“TWICE.” jeongin repeats.
changbin clutches his chest. “he learned a word.”
minho just stares at the floor. that, that spot he’s looking at? that’s where he want to lay dead. hyunjin looks away, thinking. thinking a lot. chan runs a hand through his hair, listening to the sound of jeongin’s cereal mug hitting the floor.
felix tackles han in a hug. “YOU DID IT!!” he yells, lifting him slightly. they start jumping in place, clinging to each other.
across the room, seungmin stands up very slowly. picks up an empty glass from the table. throws it directly at the wall. it shatters.
“that’s fine.” chan says calmly. “i didn’t like that glass anyway.”
jeongin runs a hand through his hair. “before me, bro.”
“LET’S GOOOO—” felix screams.
jeongin collapses back onto the couch, staring at the ceiling. “i flirted for MONTHS.”
chan pats his shoulder.
felix is still holding han’s face. “i’m so proud of you.”
“thanks.” han says, glowing. “i also learned about crushes.”
“yeah you did, buddy.”
they are absolutely not helping.
han looks around at the tension. he notices hyunjin chewing on his own lip, and it gets the poor little gears in his brain running again. “…are you guys mad.”
“no.”
“yes.”
“shut up.”
“i need air.”
“happy for you.”
“not happy.”
felix squeezes him again. “i’m happy.”
han smiles, relieved. “okay good.” he pauses. “…can i tell her you guys reacted like this?”
“NO.” they all shout.
god, you can feel that deep, ugly jealousy that comes from wanting the same thing and being too fucked in the head to reach for it. and this FUCKASS got it before them.
seungmin sighs, and goes outside. from inside, you can hear “FUUUUUUUCK—” a car alarm goes off somewhere in the distance. “FUCKING—” a metal clang. probably kicked a dumpster.
inside, felix has both hands on han’s shoulders. “i can’t believe you did that without tripping first.”
“i did trip first.”
hyunjin, the only one who doesn’t look like he’s about to chew through drywall, takes a step towards han and puts a hand on his shoulder. “good.” he says. “i’m glad.”
and he means it. which is absolute bullshit because you can see it in his eyes that he’s fucking heartbroken and he doesn’t have that many emotions, but now, he does.
he was first. he knows it.
he feels like someone ripped some of his ribs out. and not even the ribs he could suck himself off without. life is cruel. and let’s face it, feeling this much for a man like him is a big word already.
“you did something i didn’t. that’s on me.” he says.
seungmin’s distant voice from outside: “IT’S BULLSHIT IS WHAT IT IS—”
han beams at him. “thanks, man.”
hyunjin squeezes his shoulder once more, then steps back before his face betrays anything.
jeongin slides off the couch and onto the floor. he curls into himself, arm thrown over his face. “don’t talk to me.” he announces.
baby, nobody was.
chan pinches the bridge of his nose. “you’re gonna get dirty.”
“GOOD.”
all while minho is leaning against the counter, arms crossed, looking at the ceiling. it looks brutally hilarious if you think about it.
changbin plops down beside jeongin on the floor. “i mean… i’m glad she’s happy…”
“but?” minho asks.
“but my chest feels like someone stepped on it.”
“same.” jeongin mumbles into the floor.
the door SLAMS open. seungmin comes back in, hair messy, and… his shirt is ripped down the front like he fought a bear.
“YOU KNOW WHAT.” he shouts. “GOOD FOR YOU.”
“what happened to your shirt?” changbin asks.
“i needed to feel something.”
“great.”
han looks around at all of them, finally sensing the emotional bomb he set off. “…did i do bad?”
changbin is immediately up, hugging him from the side. “no! no, baby, you did great.”
chan looked at han, serious. “do you like her?”
“yes.” no hesitation.
seungmin gestures wildly. “okay cool yeah so DO WE.”
han blinks. “you do?”
“yes, you absolute goldfish.” seungmin throws his hands around. “for months now.”
jeongin lifts his head just enough to point weakly at himself. “i literally changed my cologne.”
they all nod along. hyunjin even mumbles a “yeah.”
han looks between them. processes. “oh! that’s nice.” he’s genuinely so happy.
seungmin crouches down, hands in his hair.
“you’re not threatened??” jeongin cries into the floor.
han shrugs. “no.”
“…why?” minho genuinely looks so fed up. genuinely. he’s ready to flip a table.
han looks confused. “she’s great. of course you guys like her.”
they stare at him. this man has no concept of rivalry. no jealousy. no possessive wiring in that big empty head. okay, this is reasonable though, they don’t really have emotions in general. it’s no surprise that this asshole only feels pure, open affection, now that there are feelings in the picture.
felix crouches next to jeongin. “you wanna be little spoon later?”
“shut up.” jeongin whispers.
seungmin goes into the kitchen. everyone tracks him with their eyes. cabinets slam. something clatters. he comes back thirty seconds later. shirtless.
one hand: bottle. other hand: gun.
he sits down in a chair backwards and just starts drinking straight from the bottle.
felix wanders over to hyunjin and just hugs him from the side. hyunjin stands there, arms at his sides, staring straight ahead.
felix squeezes tighter. “big feelings day.”
“i can tell.”
seungmin snorts into the bottle.
jeongin peeks up from the floor at seungmin. “you good?”
“no.” seungmin says.
“thoughts and prayers.” chan says flatly.
“i’m just really proud of you.” felix says to han meanwhile, still half hugging hyunjin.
seungmin hurls a spoon across the room. it hits the wall. “HE EATS PEOPLE.” he yells.
nobody reacts.
changbin keeps talking to han. “what happened after?”
“we ate.” han tells him. “then we talked. then i slept there.”
seungmin throws the bottle cap this time. “CANNIBAL.”
felix shrugs. “sometimes.”
seungmin looks around like HELLO??? nobody is paying attention to him. this is killing him. minho checks something on his phone. hyunjin checks himself out in his own phone’s camera.
chan gestures toward seungmin. “pass that.”
seungmin turns his head slowly. eyes narrow.
chan continues, hand out. “just a sip, i—”
seungmin leans forward and spits the mouthful of alcohol directly into chan’s open mouth.
dead silence.
chan freezes. processes. swallows.
“…okay.” he says calmly, wiping his mouth. “that’s one way to share.” he says flatly.
“you’re welcome.” seungmin replies, equally calm, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand.
changbin looks at han again. “so like… was it soft?”
han nods. “yeah. warm.”
jeongin makes a noise.
another object flies from seungmin’s hands. nobody checks what it was.
changbin daps han up. “that’s my guy.”
seungmin points the gun toward the wall and fires. BANG.
jeongin rolls onto his back on the floor, staring at the ceiling. “he kissed her, man.” he says weakly. “with his mouth.”
“yeah.” han says helpfully.
seungmin throws a glass at his head. han dodges purely by accident because he leaned down to scratch his ankle. the glass shatters on the floor.
felix claps. “nice reflexes!”
seungmin fires another shot into the wall.
chan closes his eyes, sighing.
it’s brutally fucking hilarious that seungmin keeps throwing shit and they just don’t gaf. he throws a spoon. nobody reacts. he throws a book. minho catches it and puts it back on the table.
he points at felix again. “YOU EAT HUMANS.”
felix, to hyunjn: “do you like my pink shirt better or the white one?”
“white. obviously.” hyunjin nods.
seungmin throws one last object weakly in their direction. it doesn’t even reach them.
aaaand that’s how he got himself drunk enough to show up at your place the same night. well, at your door. you’re currently in your kitchen when you hear his knocking. no, not knocking. there’s a slow, uneven thud… scrape… thud against your door.
you walk over and open it. and you get a drunk, shirtless seungmin at your door.
“…hi.”
you blink. “you are hammered.”
he nods slowly. “uhum.”
no denying it. respect.
he tries to step forward and immediately trips on absolutely nothing. you grab his arm out of reflex.
“whoa, okay— easy—”
he latches onto you, arms around your shoulders, face buried near your neck. “you smell good.”
there’s a long pause where he just stands there breathing. all that until you push him up, letting him stand there while you close the door after him.
“i heard…” he says, spinning around to face you. “that you and han are MARRIED now.”
you blink. “what??”
“don’t lie to me.” he slurs, pointing in your direction but also slightly at the ceiling. “you and han are… doing stuff. you know. mouth activity.”
you stare at him.
“…you got together.” he whispers.
you shake your head. “no. we kissed yesterday. he was confused.“
“…so you’re not married.”
“no.”
“engaged?”
“NO.”
seungmin stares. processing. “…but you kissed.”
“yes.”
“okay.” he says weakly. “cool. cool cool cool.”
that is not a cool tone.
“…but… not together.” he repeats.
“no.”
“okay. good. because i would’ve had to fight him and he’s weirdly strong.”
“he’d win.”
“yeah.”
beat.
he looks at you again. different now.
“i don’t like it.” he mutters.
“what.”
“this.” he gestures between you and the air. “the chest feeling. it’s dumb.”
“feelings usually are.”
yeah, feelings usually are. he just learned that too. well, he actually learned it when he got to know you, now it just… escalated. got dumber.
he looks around. “so there’s still… a slot.”
you grab the pepper spray off the entry table and hold it up.
he SCREAMS.
yeah. ptsd from you spraying him so many times already.
“OKAY OKAY JESUS CHRIST—” he stumbles backward, hands up like you pulled a gun. “i am peaceful. i am gentle. i am a houseplant.”
you stare. “…you have a gun.”
he looks down at his waistband like he forgot. “…okay.” then he takes the gun out and throws it on the floor.
you lower it, laughing. “you’re such a baby.”
his shoulders drop, seeing that you mean no actual harm, and he looks around. walks to your couch and slumps down on it.
he turns his head toward you, hair falling into his eyes. “come here.”
you cross your arms. “what.”
“cuddle me.”
“magic word?”
“please cuddle me.” he corrects, squinting with effort.
you sigh and sit beside him. he instantly rolls toward you and drops his head into your lap. he’s warm. heavy. ridiculously affectionate for a man who threw a glass at a wall six hours ago.
you look down at him.
he looks up at you.
“hi.” he says again.
you sigh. “hi.”
there’s a bit of silence where he just looks at you. then he pokes your thigh lightly. “so. hypothetically.”
“mm.”
“if a person. a very cool, very attractive person.”
“debatable.”
“shut up. if that person maybe had feelings but was, like, bad at… normal.”
“normal?”
“all of it.”
you hum. “go on.”
“and that person maybe wanted to, i don’t know, kiss you at some point.”
you look down at him, expression calm. “not tonight.” you say gently. “you’re really drunk. but i’m not against it, if that counts.”
his entire, brutal serial killer body relaxes. “okay. that’s fine. i can work with future.” he murmurs. for a while he just breathes there. heavy. slow. drunk but not sloppy now. then he shifts, face turning into your side more, voice muffled. “you’re not mad i came over?”
“you almost got pepper sprayed.”
“yeah but like. be honest.”
you think for a second. “…no. just don’t make it a habit to show up blackout.”
“copy.” he says immediately.
beat.
“…can i live here.”
“no.”
“okay.” a bit of comfortable silence, then: “do you like him?”
you tilt your head. “i like all of you.”
“cop out answer.”
“it’s the truth.”
he sighs.
every day with these assholes is surreal. but right now, you’re happy that they happened to you. his warm weight, his slow breathing, this is fine.
you sit there in the quiet, him draped over you, and you’re weirdly calm. you glance down at him. he’s half asleep already.
“…you’re cute when you’re not breaking furniture.” you mutter.
his mouth curves slightly without opening his eyes.
you let him sleep there. you didn’t move him. didn’t have the heart. also didn’t have the circulation in your leg by morning, but that’s not the point.
and after these, you and han get… all lovely dovely. that’s exactly the best way to say it. imagine it’s valentine’s day, the love of your life just broke up with you, and you see some fuckasses making out right in front of your face. in this scenario, you and han are the making out ones, and the other boys are the fresh singles.
he was already clingy before, but now? bro. he’ll come up behind you, wrap his arms around your middle, and just exist there. just humming a little like a human space heater. or whining. or he’s just pathetic in general, but you let him do it. you caress his head, his little face, whatnot. you two basically act like a couple.
he’s big on face kisses. this brutal serial killer likes giving you little kisses on the face. but the second he leans toward your mouth when the others are around, you put a hand on his face and push him back. “mm. not here.” he accepts this immediately every time. no embarrassment. he’s too dumb to feel it anyway. when it’s just the two of you though? whole different story. he loves kissing you now that he knows it’s allowed.
seungmin changes too, of course. i mean, still an asshole, actually, bigger asshole. but all meanness that used to just exist everywhere is aimed almost entirely at the others.
with you, he’s cuddlier now. but with the boys? mean fuck. like, meaner than before. especially to han. not cruel, not actually hurting him, just constant sabotage. brutally. he keeps using this poor guy’s lack of brains.
you once watched seungmin move han’s shoes to the other side of the room so he’d trip.
han did trip. got up. put the shoes on. “thanks, i was looking for those.”
seungmin looked like he wanted to die.
“why does seungmin keep bumping into me?” han asks once, genuinely confused.
you just pat his arm. “he’s going through something.”
the others are fed. the. fuck. up.
hyunjin especially. i mean what did we expect.
seungmin walks by? suddenly “accidentally” tripped. han gets too sappy with you? back of his head lightly smacked.
“watch your balance.” hyunjin says calmly as seungmin eats floor for the third time that day.
“this is harassment.” seungmin grumbles from the ground.
“get better footing.”
physical fights are more common now, but not in the actual fight way. it’s… boy logic. shoving. headlocks. someone getting dragged off a couch by the ankle. someone crashing into a table.
jeongin has brutal fun with it, always talking while the others are going for blood.
“and seungmin goes DOWN— phenomenal leg sweep from hyunjin, really—”
“shut up.” seungmin snaps, trying to bite hyunjin’s arm.
“using teeth… ow.” jeongin continues.
by the way, he has not stopped flirting. not even slightly. leaning in too close when he talks. fixing your hair that doesn’t need fixing. smiling like he’s got a secret.
“just keeping options open.” he says when chan tells him to knock it off.
“you’re making it difficult for everyone.” chan replies.
“attitude like that is why you’re single.”
changbin is still clingy but in a sad, gentle way. hovers a lot. if you’d ever give him a chance, he’d be so down. without hesitation. tf is bro code. so all he can do now is wait for his chance.
minho just decides to look away and hope it’ll get better. it doesn’t.
felix is just happy love exists in the room at all. he has this… weird feeling when he sees han all over you, but he can’t identify it, so he just lives with it.
and while killing, the only thing supposed to bring them happiness in theory, they’re distracted. arguing. slipping up. fuck. seungmin nearly forgets gloves once. jeongin checks his phone in the middle of something serious because you texted. hyunjin has to physically redirect han who zoned out mid task because he was smiling to himself. sloppy.
a whole group of dangerous, dysfunctional men who can dismantle a situation in minutes… doing this. embarrassing. truly.
if han is near you, he’s touching you now. hand on your arm. chin on your shoulder. fingers hooked in your clothes. his feelings are simple but huge. first time really feeling btw.
and god, those biiig, big eyes? shining when on you.
yeah you let him hit because of those. so what? he’s cute. he was cute the whole time. total virgin btw, so the whole thing was more sweet than hot. he fumbled around with the condom. he was excited. he was a little shy too, but really sincere about everything. obviously all over the moon that he was going to have his first time and he was going to have it with you.
he wasn’t bad. he just needs a few more times to get the hang of it.
hyunjin feels responsibility. loving you automatically means he wants to protect you from the world, including, in some fuuuucked up corner of his mind, from them.
that conflict eats at him.
he wants you close.
he also knows what they are.
when you touch jeongin’s arm absentmindedly while talking? he rides that high for hours. he’ll never say it straight, but he wants you to choose him one day.
felix is just pathetic. he thinks you’re amazing. no complications in his head about it. you’re pretty, you’re nice to him, you laugh at his dumb jokes.
you disturb chan in many ways. you’re always in his mind. always in front of his eyes. always in the conversation. he can’t get rid of you, and he doesn’t want to. he really, really wants a chance too.
minho is almost the only one who didn’t start acting out. changbin, for an example, started showing off more, getting you things, whatnot. so did the others. minho doesn’t do that. he wants to. he just can’t, for some reason. maybe he’s not strong enough for it.
they are still capable of doing horrific, irreversible shit with the emotional range of a brick wall when it comes to literally everyone else on the planet. but with you? they’re a mess.
the peacocking is unbearable. truly. they are grown men with criminal records. and yet, put you in the room and suddenly it’s: “did you see how fast i did that.” “hey, i fixed that thing you didn’t ask about.” “do you like this shirt.” “watch this.”
it’s a zoo.
jeongin is unbearable about trying to look good for you. new shirts. better cologne. hair always done. he rehearses talking to you in mirrors.
seungmin rolls his eyes so hard. then five minutes later he’s doing push ups on the living room floor mid conversation.
“are you okay?” chagbin asks.
“strength is important.” seungmin says, not breaking rhythm.
“for what?” minho mutters.
seungmin doesn’t answer. just does push ups angrier.
hyunjin solves problems for you so fast that you didn’t even know there was a problem.
felix tries too, bless him. he brings you things. not good things. just… things. a cool rock. a hoodie he thought you’d like. maybe food. han backs him up always.
chaangbin just hovers closer and laughs at your jokes a little too fast.
minho pretends he’s above all of it but starts dressing nicer.
but like… chan starts getting closer too. he’s always within arm’s reach now, and he’s doing it on purpose. sits beside you instead of across the room. stands behind you when you’re at the counter. it’s subtle, but chan does nothing by accident.
these assholes are detached. violent. they step over lines most people can’t even look at. they don’t feel things the way other people do. but something still locked onto you. it’s not healthy, it’s fixation, attachment, the thing that’s not dull in them.
hyunjin chose to drink more. i mean, not falling over and blackout drunk, but he was always lowkey an alcoholic, and this situation doesn’t help that.
and i mean by situation, remember what i said about han needing a few more times to get the hang of having sex? yeah you made sure he got those few times.
so the bottle appears more often. glass refills quicker, and hyunjin’s eyes linger longer than they used to when he looks at you and han in the same space.
he sees everything. han already at your place when hyunjin comes over, hair messy, shirt half buttoned wrong, looking dazed. he can’t hide the post sex glow to save his life. but he doesn’t have to, why would he?
“why does he look like that?” seungmin mutters once, watching han stumble into the living room looking suspiciously content.
it fucks han’s little empty mind up that something else can bring him happiness too, not just killing and blood. it’s weird. it’s nice. he can compare this feeling to… how he thinks felix felt when he almost caught the mailman. the “almost” brings this sentence down, but it did feel pretty good for felix, he couldn’t shut up about it. han feels the same about you. (and about finally getting pussy)
the others see it, and it’s driving them insane. because now they want it too. not in the same way, not with the same softness, but they want you. your attention. your acceptance. your willingness to not recoil when they get close.
but… you see, these are not men who see a closed door and go “ah, okay, i’ll respect that.” they see a closed door and think: interesting obstacle. not in a creepy way, okay, maybe in a lil creepy way because they’re creepy in general, but in a deeply dysfunctional, emotionally illiterate, “i don’t know how to stop wanting this” way. because for maybe the first time in their lives, they want something that isn’t about control, thrill, or distraction. they want you.
the peacocking escalates. seungmin suddenly learning how to cook one (1) dish and acting like he earned a michelin star. jeongin doubles down with the flirting. felix saw the others do push ups(he was the only one who found it cool) so he tries too and immediately loses count. minho tries to be quicker than the others. changbin is always feeding you. would spit the food into your mouth babybird style if you asked, like seungmin did into chan’s mouth. pfft. chan makes sure to look manly. he succeeds too. hyunjin shows off his handyman skills. they are not subtle. at all.
the tension between them ramps up too, not hatred, not really being angry at each other, just pressure with nowhere to go. hyunjin trips seungmin more often, who shoulder checks jeongin “accidentally.” and jeongin flops dramatically onto whoever is nearest when he’s “emotionally overwhelmed” but in reality he’s blocking them from talking to you. felix and han are still the only ones not fully drowning in it, mostly because they share one collective brain cell and it’s busy playing elevator music.
sooo yeah, they keep trying, because the feeling exists, and they don’t know how to kill it. which, ironically, is the one thing they’re usually very good at.
and while you want to get your alone time with your boyfriend who is not even really your boyfriend, just han, and also a serial killer, but you kiss and fuck sometimes and not even because you’re horny but because it’s intimate, but not your boyfriend, the others have absolutely started “accidentally” showing up at your place more.
just again, not subtle. knocking once and walking in. texting “you home” while already on the stairs. suddenly all needing something from you specifically.
the first time they came over unannounced(well, not first time and we know that damn well, just first time since this you letting han hit thing), and han was shirtless, hair messy, looking dazed and soft in a way that screamed yeah they fucked, the room was silent.
han just waved. “hi guys.” no shame. no awareness.
you were the one flustered. han genuinely does not understand why his friends seeing him half dressed near you would be weird.
“put a shirt on, romeo.” seungmin snaps at han once.
han looks down at himself. “why?”
“because i said so.”
“okay!” han says, and goes to put a shirt on. which is in your room. seungmin looks like he might start shooting the wall again. or try out felix’s going after the mailman thing.
you’ll be talking and jeongin will just lean in, grinning in that evil way of his, saying something like “still my favorite person in the room, by the way.”
the others keep telling him to shut up. chan mostly does that by touching you in some way while jeongin is hitting on you, stealing you.
they try to interrupt on purpose after that one time they came over and realized you and han were up to some shi. not to be cruel, but because they think they can stop shit from happening that way. and also, maybe a little bit, because they hope they’ll get to see you naked too.
“oh we just needed to talk.” “didn’t know you were busy.” “we thought you’d be up.” their acting is good, they do that to function between humans after all, but you simply just see through them by now.
changbin once barges in meanwhile han’s mouth is so obviously going down on your body. you’re still clothed, luckily, but you weren’t far away from being.. not clothed. that’s also explained by han’s hands currently in your pants, pulling them down.
and changbin just stands there. looks at han. looks at you.
“…what are you guys doing.”
you stare at him.
han, still with his mouth on your stomach where your shirt is pushed up. “kissing.”
changbin nods slowly. “…okay.”
doesn’t leave.
you point at the door.
he leaves. kicks the hallway wall on the way out.
the other time, when you’re on top of this absolute baby of a man(ruthless serial killer) you hear the door open and assume it’s just one of them dropping by. you ignore it, continuing to dryhump han, thinking about maybe taking your shirt off too, but you don’t get to that because your bedroom door swings open.
jeongin, seungmin and felix stand there. mid conversation. mid argument. mid dap up. and mid you and han very clearly being busy.
you freeze. han does not. he turns his head, still shirtless, hair a mess, expression calm. sweet. empty behind the eyes. “oh hey.”
“OUT.” you shout.
jeongin blinks a few times before he physically grabs seungmin’s collar and drags him back out. “yep. yep. that’s on us. sorry y/n. love you.”
felix just waves. “hi.”
“felix.”
“going!”
door shuts.
you bury your face in your hands.
han kisses your shoulder. “they’re bad at doors.”
“that is not the problem.”
since those, you’re alert. careful. door locked. allat. and it’s mostly peaceful, just you and han in your room, it’s steamy, you’re about to go at it too—
handle rattles. then stops. then knock knock knock knock knock.
“WHAT.” you yell.
“it’s chan.”
you pull the blanket tighter around yourself. “give us a minute!”
pause.
“…why.”
han calls out, helpful as always: “we’re naked.”
silence.
you hear chan inhale through his nose. “…understood.”
footsteps retreat.
you drop your head back against the pillow. han smiles at you.
god, they’re insufferable. you’ll hear footsteps outside the bedroom door. you open it to find jeongin leaning against the frame, smiling ear to ear.
“wow.” he says, eyes flicking between you and han who’s sitting in your bed, waiting for you to go back to him already. “didn’t knock. my bad.”
han waves from behind you. “hi.”
jeongin steps inside. “you know, i was just thinking—”
“out.” you say.
he laughs. “relax. just saying hi.”
he sits in your bed.
han shifts closer to him, delighted. “oh!” he says. “sleepover?”
pfft. let’s not even talk about when he invites them to stay for dinner. the first time he did it was when some of them, let’s say seungmin and changbin(i’m using them so much bc they’re the more social ones in these situations, dw the others will get their little turns too later on in the story) walked in on you two again, and instead of leaving, they laid down into bed next to you two. han is always so delighted that two of his favorite things(third is killing) are getting combined that he keeps asking them to stay. brutal.
but when they’re not currenly walking in on you two? when they make their little psychopathic moves on you at any other given moment? you don’t… shut them down. no, you don’t say no to them at all.
so in their heads? that means there’s a chance.
hyunjin starts lingering longer when he drops you off. seungmin gets cuddly when you’re all together, leg pressed against yours. jeongin dials the flirting up to ridiculous levels. chan offers you rides, help, time. changbin buys you things. minho pretends he’s not participating while absolutely participating, walking with you everywhere. felix brags about how he attacked the mailman.
they want you so badly it’s almost painful. and now they’ve seen it’s possible.
and… you don’t shut them down. sure, when they walk in on you about to ride their friend into the afterlife, that can be frustrating, but otherwise you’re obviously not against their tries.
you hug chan a lot. god, he always liked hugging you. always pretended it was casual. friendly, nothing else. it never was to him. wasn’t really to you either. and the fact that you still do it, when you could choose someone else, already at your feet, over him? chan’s empty little heart beats a lot more these days.
if you ever gave him the chance, even a small one, he’d fold immediately. he’d be your dream man, behind han’s back, or right in front of his dumb little eyes. either way.
you don’t slap hyunjin’s hand away when he’s drunk and reckless and his touch gets heavy, careless, wandering. you let him.
god, you let all of them.
one evening, you’re standing at the counter, distracted, and minho comes up behind you to grab a glass. his hand brushes your lower back.
he leans in, whispering to you. “you’re doing this on purpose.”
you glance at him. “doing what?”
“you know what.”
he doesn’t elaborate. no need to.
he steps closer, crowding your space just enough to make a point, looking down at your mouth, then back up at your eyes. then he scoffs quietly, steps away, grabs his glass too hard.
“fuck this.” he mutters, and leaves the room.
but later, when you sit down, he sits beside you without comment, thigh pressed to yours. wanting your touch.
you are doing this on purpose. and you know you shouldn’t let this happen. these are not men built for healthy attachment. their affection is obsessive, so fucking wrong and violent and fucked up.
but you do let it happen. you let them sit close. you let them touch. another cleans his weapon obsessively while watching you from the corner of his eye.
pick me.
choose me.
let it be me too.
they will try. they will try to get you, no matter what.
if han got there by accident… maybe they still can on purpose.
author’s note: THERE WILL BE A PART 3!!! in the next part, the others will get their own little romance too. maybe not all of them, in that case a part 4 will come. tumblr has a writing limit sadly. anyways, everyone who didn’t get their spotlight eventually will. love y’all!!
genre: crackfic, dark comedy, dark romance, thriller
summary: hyunjin invites you over to hang out with him and his friends. they try to kill you. you survive! aaaand now they’re obsessed with you.
warnings: non idol au, attempted murder of protagonist(reader), violence, blood, stalking, obsessive behavior, mentions of death/murder/dismemberment/(implied)rape(it’s just in a conversation, it didn’t happen to anyone in the fic!!), cursing, homicidal behavior/psychopathy, dumb han and felix, people die, the love interests(skz) are the problem, nobody here is okay, english is obvi not my first language
word count: 13k
you almost got murdered.
by eight gorgeous men.
yea, y/n. you got yourself into that situation. but how?
you were walking home once, minding your own business, chewing on some thought. could have been anything. from dinner to what you need to do tomorrow, let’s not act like it matters. none of these little details matter, what does, is that a man was walking towards you. (an: guys i’ll clarify it now that it’s hyunjin. i just hate when fanfics try to describe looks when we don’t know names yet)
the man passed you. smelled great. nothing more.
“is this yours?”
that was him. his voice. he talked to you.
you stopped then and turned around. he was also standing still, looking at you. holding a single airpod.
no. it was not yours. at all. not your airpod.
“shit. yes, it is.” you smiled. a hundred percent aware that the single airpod was not yours.
hyunjin smiled, relieved in a way that suggested he had not planned beyond step one: talk to pretty girl. he asked your name. you asked his. he pretended he wasn’t internally rehearsing how to introduce you to the worst decision of your life.
and that’s exactly how you got yourself into the situation before your getting murdered one, where you kept seeing hyunjin, never really revealing that the airpod was not yours. you didn’t want to, he was just so cute.
and also a serial killer, not like you knew that though.
hyunjin was always the best with the women. or with the people in general. the other seven guys were… doing alright with them, sure, some better and some worse, but hyunjin always got what he wanted. he was the one collecting the people, another person to kill.
which did not happen to you, duh it’s in the first line, but how? how, when the eight of them, eight little nobodies who only got through life because of each other, are so good at killing? how, when it’s the main thing that bonds them together and gives them their sick little dosage of joy? how, when that’s the thing they can do best? how, when they’re fit? lucky? hot?
yea i’ll just stop with all the questions. i’m boutta explain, obvi.
so. you two started meeting up. you not telling him that the airpod wasn’t yours, him not telling you he was planning on sliming you out.
once, he invited you out. you two have been out hundreds and thousands of times(like five times), so it didn’t seem like anything out of the ordinary to you. not a date, he said hang out. his place. “a few friends might be there” he added. you went. fucking idiot.
the place was so fucking cool. big. looked good. kinda place where you immediately lost cell service and your sense of direction.
“that’s just the guys.” hyunjin had also said when you two got there, gesturing inside.
you met them all in under three minutes, which was about two minutes too many. chan was a gentleman. he smiled. he shook your hand. he had huge arms and was gorgeous.
minho and seungmin both looked like they hated you. looked you up and down. acted like bitches. acted like they didn’t understand what you wanted when you said hi and introduced yourself. acted like you were beneath them. hm.
changbin saved the moment by immediately knocking over a chair and laughing at himself. he was sweet. he asked you if you wanted a drink. that was nice, because he meant that. he wanted to get you something to drink, even if he wanted to kill you after. wanting to absolutely murder you wasn’t personal, so he wasn’t going to make it personal.
felix and unfortunately han, two sunshine or whatever you heard the guys say about them(why were there two?) were sweet, but dumb. han tried to shake your hand and missed. felix complimented your shoes and then apologized to the floor.
jeongin bowed. he asked if you were real. he told chan you were out of his league. chan was about to smash his head into a wall. he seemed intelligent though, a little playful, a little flirty. sweet guy. (also a fucking psychopath y/n run run RUN)
through all of it, hyunjin, the liar, the asshole, stayed near you. calm. watching. soooo fucking hot, man. everyone else was loud or mean or deeply stupid, but hyunjin looked at you like he didn’t quite know what to do with you.
which was funny, because the rest of them clearly knew exactly what they wanted to do with you.
they were bad at hiding it. terrible, actually. chan kept whispering. minho and seungmin stared too long. felix dropped something sharp and went “oops”. jeongin asked, loudly, if you were good at running, then immediately said he meant marathons.
you thought they were weird. intense. hot, unfortunately. you had no idea you were being sized up.
so. like two hours into the hang out. you didn’t have your phone with you, it was in the living room somewhere. you were in the kitchen with hyunjin, leaning against a counter, listening to him explain, calmly, something about the cabinets.
“uhuh.” you said, opening three drawers and finding nothing but knives. so many knives. “oouukay.”
from the living room, something heavy scraped across the floor.
“alright.” chan’s voice came. “enough foreplay.”
you frowned, no idea what he was referring to. yet. “that’s a weird thing to say out loud.”
hyunjin hummed. then seungmin appeared in the doorway, posture lazy, swaying a lil, with a fire poker in his hand. i repeat, fire poker.
you had just enough time to think oh that’s new, before he swung. clean. aimed at your head.
you ducked on instinct. the poker smashed into the cabinet behind you, splintering wood, sending a drawer of knives exploding onto the floor.
everyone froze for half a second.
“jesus.” changbin said from somewhere nearby. “we just fixed that.”
you stared at seungmin. he stared back. you two stared at each other for a while.
“…huh.” you said. “okay.”
then you ran.
the boys just… got into it immediately. switched. getting up. listening to your footsteps. laughing. jeongin whooped. they all obviously had done this before. they were so boyish, all of them. and so fucking evil.
you ran down a hallway, heart slamming in your ribs. a door on your left? locked. on your right, open.
you ran into a study and immediately regretted it. felix was there, sitting on a desk, holding a crossbow. WHERE. DID. HE. GET. THAT. FROM.
“oh!” he said, genuinely delighted. “hey.”
“move.” you said.
he winced sympathetically. “can’t.”
the shit that he shot out of the bow that i don’t know the name of thunked into the wall beside your head. close enough that you felt the vibration in the air, from the ground.
“fuck you.” you said, accepting it surprisingly quick that you were getting hunted down.
you burst back into the hall and nearly collided with changbin. he caught you by the shoulders automatically(so like without thinking about it), steadying you.
“okay.” he said, quick and quiet. “left stair’s blocked. right one buys you maybe twenty seconds.”
“why are you telling me?” you panted.
he shrugged. “i like you.”
then he leaned down, pressed a quick kiss into your hair, oh, and shoved you forward by the middle of your back.
“go. before i change my mind.”
you went.
behind you, he called out cheerfully: “she went right!”
“YOU FUCKING LIAR.” minho yelled.
you ran up the stairs two at a time. at the top when you turned, han was waiting, holding a bat.
“oh shit.” he said. “hi.”
you grabbed the bat midswing, yanked it free, and cracked him across the shin. you fucking rock y/n.
he screamed, fell over, yelled “timeout! timeout!”
you ditched the bat(DUMB bitch) and ran into what looked like a… whatever room. it was big, pretty big, too open, too much of a bad choice.
chan stepped into your path. was this bitch there the whole time? no, he couldn’t be. could he?
you spun, only to find minho closing in. you kicked him in the knee, hard. he lunged. you ducked, grabbed a chair again and swung blindly. the thing is, you were extremely weak tho. the chair could have been a fucking pillow at this point, because he just stepped away from it. and you… kinda went with the chair. but you stood up! luckily.
they loved this, they loved the way you fought, the way you adapted. it was cute, girly how you didn’t scream, just swore and moved and made it harder than it was supposed to be because they know their shit in this field. it made them better, sharper, more playful.
you ran out the door you came in thru and shut it behind you, jamming a heavy table against it. the boys could have prevented that, they just didn’t. you were way too fun, and they knew that you were getting tired. they knew they were going to win this. again.
you waited a bit.
the door shuddered. once. twice.
then stopped.
silence.
your stomach dropped. that was never good.
“okay.” hyunjin’s calm voice came, suddenly close, from behind you.
you spun.
for a bit, you just stared at each other.
“yeah. so. the airpod?” you said breathlessly.
he winced. “yeah.”
“figures. sorry for lying about it.”
“it’s fine. i lied too.” he stepped aside, gesturing toward a side door. gentlemanly. “run. i’ll count to five.”
“why?”
he smiled, beautiful. “because it’s more fun when you almost make it.”
you didn’t wait for five. you ran again, heart in your throat.
“YOU’RE DOING GREAT!” felix shouted when he saw you run past him. “I MEAN—STOP!”
yeah. pfftt.
the house stopped making sense after a while. corridors doubled back on themselves, which was fucking brutal. there were rooms you swore you’d already crossed. you ducked into a side room and slammed the door, immediately realizing, too late, that it didn’t lock.
“fuck.” you whispered, hands on your knees, trying to quiet your breathing. and you listened. footsteps walked past. someone laughed, a really… loud laugh. jeongin’s voice echoed from somewhere far off. you could hear how unserious his voice was, talking bout sum “she’s still upright, folks, which is honestly impressive” genuinely just making fun of the situation.
“keys.” you muttered. “i need keys.” because you clearly remembered hyunjin closing the front door after you.
from behind the curtain came a soft, confused, very close: “…huh.”
you froze.
the curtain moved. it was han, holding a knife and a flashlight upside down, blinking at you.
“oh. hi.”
third hi he said tonight. hi to you too, han.
you stared at each other.
“uh.” he said.
“yeah.” you replied.
a beat passed.
another.
he frowned at the flashlight, turned it the right way up, blinded himself, and yelped.
“sorry.” he said, rubbing his eyes. “didn’t mean to corner you.” serial killer btw.
“you did. that’s literally what you did.”
“right.” he nodded. “yeah. so. i’m supposed to, uh—” he made a weak stabbing motion with his hand that held the knife. missed entirely. “—do the thing.”
you glanced at the knife in his hand. them at him. then back at the knife. “you don’t look super confident about that.”
he shrugged. “i get nervous.” he hesitated. then leaned in and whispered: “hyunjin gave his keys to chan, i saw it.”
“…thaaanks.”
he smiled, shy. “okay.” he said, stepping aside. “i’m gonna count to… uh… what’s fair?”
“ten.”
he nodded seriously. “ten.”
you bolted.
“ONE—THREE—WAIT—”
you ran out. didn’t get far though, you heard too many noises, so you did what made sense at the moment. hide again. and you did hide again, at least tried, you were soon interrupted by seeing felix, who was crouched behind a couch, chewing on a cereal bar.
he looked up mid bite. “oh. hello again.”
“move. again.” you said.
he scooted instantly. “yep.”
you walked past. paused. looked back. “why are you hiding?”
he swallowed. “i forgot what the plan was.”
“oh. i’m sorry.”
“it’s alright.”
from the hallway, heavy footsteps. chan, probably. he walks confident. you can just… hear his walk. he walks like it’s heavy, grr. felix heard it too, grimaced.
“he’s gonna be mad. he hates when i lose track.” felix whispered.
you looked at felix. then at the hallway. then back at felix. “you’re fine. it’s not your fault. i think so, at least.” you looked around. “he just feels like the fucking star of the show, having the keys and all that”
felix’s eyes lit up. “oh! yeah, he’s got those.”
boom. that was your plan. sneak the keys into the conversation. get to know about it. you’ll be out of there in no time, y/n.
you looked back at him. “can you distract him?”
felix thought for a second, then shook his pretty head enthusiastically. “absolutely not.”
“…fair.”
he stood anyway, shook himself together kinda, and ran into the hallway yelling “HEY BRO I THINK SHE WENT—”
you didn’t hear the rest, you ran. climbed stairs, ducked under a railing(just being extra for no reason pfffft), slipped through a door that led into a laundry room, and locked it. the blessed, beautiful click of a lock nearly made you cry. then you crouched between machines, shaking, trying not to laugh or scream or do both.
minutes passed. nothing. then, a knock. polite. gentle.
you stared at the door.
hyunjin’s voice, calm and exactly what made you like him. “i’m not coming in.”
“yeah? promise?”
“cross my heart.”
“don’t have one.” jeongin added from somewhere farther back.
hyunjin sighed.
the fact that jeongin heard you talk and didn’t go to the laundry room says a lot about them though. tells you that they’re doing this for fun, that they’re not in a hurry at all.
you edged closer to the door, careful. “i need the keys.”
“i know.”
“give them to me.”
a pause. you imagined him leaning against the wall, hands in pockets, watching the floor. “you almost deserve them.” he said. “that’s the problem.” from down the hall came a crash, followed by changbin yelling. hyunjin continued anyway, softer now. “if you get them, though… you’re really leaving.”
“yes.”
“shame.”
fucking manipulator. that’s what he is. “you’re really leaving” oh boo fucking hoo. sappy asshole. not one sincere bone in his beautiful body. he said this cringe shit on purpose.
the doorknob jiggled once.
“five minutes.” he said. “that’s what I can give you.”
then footsteps retreated. you sagged against the dryer, adrenaline basically ripping your muscles, like ripping. we all know the feeling. anyways, five minutes. okay. you had to get out for sure, otherwise you would be so dead. so, next, run. you were going to run. open the door and… go… some… way. anyways, that’s what you did after about one minute of sitting on the floor and thinking about how will you do that. you got out, and didn’t stop running so much as you failed forward into the next hallway.
somewhere behind you, han shouted your name wrong, twice, then tripped over absolutely nothing and went down with a sound that sounded like multiple things falling with him.
“FUCK. i’m okay! I’M OKAY.”
you risked a glance back just in time to see him scramble up, only to immediately collide with minho, who had come around the corner too fast. they hit the wall together, tangled, swearing.
you burst through a door and nearly slammed straight into seungmin. both of you froze. like actually froze. inches apart. his breath was loud. yours was worse. he stared at you. you stared at him. his grip tightened on whatever sharp thing he had in his hand.
“…hi.” you said.
“sup.” he said. “you’re shorter up close.”
“fuck you.”
“later.” easily.
you looked at him, furrowing your pretty brows.
he glanced down at the knife in his hand, then back up at you. “this is awkward.”
“yeah.”
he tilted his head. “you okay?”
“no.”
“hm.”
there was a beat where neither of you moved. somewhere far away, something crashed, probably han.
seungmin tilted his head. “you gonna run, or are we doing this weird staring thing?”
you lunged left.
he lunged right.
you both smacked into the same doorframe and recoiled in pain.
“fuck.” you mumbled, rubbing your pretty head.
“shit, okay, that one’s on me.” he admitted, rubbing his shoulder. his pretty shoulder. that sweater looked good on him, by the way. yeah. hm. really good. but that didn’t fucking matter when he lunged again.
you screamed, slipped on a rug, and fell, only for minho to come in from the side and tackle seungmin directly into a glass table. the table shattered.
you stared.
they stared back.
“…go.” seungmin shook his head, waving you off.
you did not need to be told twice. behind you, minho yelled smth like “WHY ARE YOU LETTING HER GO?”
a crash. a thud.
then seungmin, very calmly: “because you’re pissing me off.”
you ran straight into han and felix arguing at the end of the hall.
“i said left.” han insisted, holding a crowbar upside down.
“you always say left.” felix argued, holding a taser and clearly forgetting how it worked.
you skidded to a stop.
all three of you froze.
you were panting. “can you both—”
felix lunged. han lunged. they lunged into each other. they crashed, arms everywhere, legs everywhere, clothes everywhere, the smell of men everywhere, tangled up, the taser going off uselessly into the air.
“STOP STABBING MY JACKET.” felix yelled.
“I THOUGHT YOU WERE HER.” han yelled back.
you stepped over them. “thank you.” you said sincerely, and ran.
you rounded a corner and slammed straight into chan, full chest to chest. you both stumbled back a step. he held you automatically, hands on your arms. you stared up at him. he stared down at you.
he almost smiled.
then han came sprinting in, tripped over nothing again, and took chan out at the knees.
“OH MY GOD I’M SO SORRY.” han yelled, tangled in chan’s limbs. “I DIDN’T SEE YOU.”
seungmin and minho found you again. jeongin leaned on a wall, wiping dust off his knees. han just got up and felix came in late, and they tripped over each other again. chan just sighed at this point.
you backed toward the door, hands up.
then while getting up, felix slipped. took han down with him. again. they crashed into minho, who slammed into seungmin.
jeongin smiled. “DOMINOES!”
that was your chance to do something. something to even just slow these guys down, anything, bro. so, you did. when chan stood up finally, you lunged for him.
but like… that asshole just laughed in your face and twisted away easily, shoving you past him. “go.” he said. “you’re warmer when you keep moving.”
weirdo. but you ran again anyway, down a side corridor, thru a door and immediately ate shit. your foot caught on something, and you slid, palms burning, your pretty little skin they want to cut so bad just gone like that.
behind you, there was a collective “OOHHHH.”
you rolled your eyes. sighed. thought about just lying there because they would probably still miss even if you were completely still. you decided maybe not. so you scrambled up and ran again, swearing, adrenaline making everything feel fucking crazy. unreal. is this really happening?
you didn’t know how long you ran, time stopped somewhere around the third near death experience.
you went downstairs and upstairs and downstairs again, back and forth, hoping to find something that could save your life. when you were back at the stairs for the seventh time that night, you took the stairs three at a time, only to find han at the top, again, wheezing, holding a knife backwards.
“WAIT.” he said. “hold on—euh—my lung—”
you ran past him.
he tripped over his own foot and tumbled down the stairs alone, screaming “I’M FINE—I’M NOT FINE—TELL MY MOM—”
you didn’t look back. you burst into a bedroom and slammed the door, locking it just as something heavy hit the other side.
silence.
your chest heaved. sweat slicked your now skinless palms. you pressed your back to the door and slid down until you were sitting on the floor, brain finally catching up enough to think.
okay. door. big house. front door has keys. keys are on someone. they told you it’s at chan but he could have gave it to anyone since that.
that was bad.
you stood, looking through the room. window. too high. bathroom. connected. closet. tiny but usable. fuck yes. you hid in the closet just as the door opened.
footsteps. slow, manly. so confident in himself.
“you know, i really thought we had something.” jeongin. sweet. acting, obviously.
you clapped a hand over your mouth.
he paced the room, dragging something metal lightly along furniture. an axe, maybe.
“like, don’t get me wrong. i love the chase. big fan. but the eye contact earlier? intimate.”
you heard him stop in front of the closet.
“…you in there?”
you didn’t move.
he sighed. then, dropped to his knees. you could see him through the slats now, sprawled on the floor.
“y/n.”
you could hear your breathing. you could also hear his. which meant…
“come out.”
…he could hear yours too.
okay. fuck. your only option was to make a run for it. so, after taking a biiiiig big breath, you burst out of the closet and kicked him in the shoulder. was it successful? was it a good kick? who knows. it knocked him down, that’s what matters, but it was a pretty lame kick after all. he only went down because he wanted to, not because you actually kicked him good.
anyways, you ran again. out the room. then immediately skidded to a stop when seungmin opened a door in front of you.
he stepped aside immediately. “after you.” he said, gesturing inside.
you stared at him.
he stared back.
you could hear hyunjin make a noise, talking with changbin.
seungmin raised his brows. “i insist.”
he knew that you needed an escape route and this was your only option. you knew he knew.
you sighed. ran through it, and it slammed shut behind you. you could hear a snicker(his voice), then silence. maybe he left. maybe not.
the room you were in was darker. storage. boxes. is this place even owned by these guys? or do they just come here to… play?
you hid behind a shelf, crouching, heart in your ears.
okay. think.
front door. locked. too obvious. you needed keys. you needed a person.
but they were playing. this wasn’t about killing you quickly, it was about the fun. about testing themselves. about proving, again, that they were smarter, faster, better. the teamwork thrilled them, having prey thrilled them.
footsteps approached.
door opened. han stepped into the room, tripped, and fell into a stack of boxes. why always this guy?
“oh COME ON.” he groaned. “i wasn’t even chasing her!”
neither of you moved.
“…you okay?” you asked.
“yeah.” he said, looking up, nose bleeding. “yeah. you?”
“living the dream.”
he nodded. then, very gently, he pointed back towards the door. “they’re coming.” he whispered.
in the doorway, felix appeared, pointing at han. “dude. again?”
you took the chance and got out of your hiding place, quick, and bolted past them both.
felix gasped. “oh shit—sorry—sorry—”
han tried to follow, slipped again, and yelled: “WAIT FOR ME!”
a crash. a curse. someone else falling over him.
you ran down the hall toward what you hoped was the front of the house. behind you, shouting, laughter, whooping, bodies colliding, someone yelling “WHO LEFT THIS CHAIR HERE?” you rounded a corner and skidded to a stop in front of the front door. you tried the door. locked. you didn’t know where the keys are. your chest tightened. behind you, footsteps slowed. confident. chan, seungmin, minho, jeongin, closing in.
you turned around. the wall met your back hard enough to knock the air out of you.
“okay.” you said, breathless, girly, the prey they wanted you to be. “okay. this is—yeah. alright.”
the other four found you too. felix, panting. han, limping. hyunjin and changbin obviously not affected because they didn’t really take part of the chase. blocking off every possible exit.
chan didn’t take his eyes off you. “everyone good?” he asked, calm. so fucking calm. knowing he won.
“peachy.” jeongin said.
“bit winded.” felix added. “but spiritually fulfilled.”
changbin gave you an apologetic little wave. “sorry.”
then seungmin lunged.
you fought, harder than they expected, apparently, elbowing, kicking, swearing. but they were sure now, hands grabbing wrists, legs hooking yours, pressure applied. you went down. not slammed, though. controlled. that fucking pissed you off more.
seungmin had your arms pinned. minho had a knee on your thigh. chan crouched in front of you, looking down at your pretty face.
the second you were fully restrained, jeongin shrieked. “oh my GOD we got her!”
he leapt into felix’s arms. felix caught him, squealing back.
“we did it!” felix yelled.
they spun once. almost fell. han clapped wildly and then tripped into changbin, taking them both down.
you laid there, chest heaving, heart pounding, really feeling your body, not knowing what the fuck was happening. because they didn’t seem dangerous, but you knew they were.
chan tilted his head. “you ran well.”
“thanks.” you said.
jeongin crouched down to your face. “so. how you feeling?”
“fuck off.”
hyunjin tilted his pretty head, hands in his pockets. “you did really well.”
you forced yourself to breathe slower. think. keys. chan’s jacket pocket. right side. you’d seen the outline earlier when he caught one of the boys midfall.
jeongin tilted his head at you. “are you afraid? like, i’m actually asking, because i need to know what to do differently next time. are you afraid of death? did we make you feel like you’re going to die? how would you rate it out of ten?”
you sighed, looking down at the floor. “getting killed is, like, the last thing on my list right now.”
they paused.
seungmin grimaced. “yeah, no.”
“oh, no.” felix said, shaking his head
“dude.” minho murmured.
“we would never.” changbin whispered.
“ew.” han blurted, horrified.
you narrowed your eyes. “ew?”
“no—no—not ew you. i mean—fuck—you’re hot—shit—sorry—what i meant was—”
jeongin smacked the back of his head. “stop talking.”
seungmin pulled his mouth up. “we’re not… that evil.”
minho crossed his arms. “jesus.”
chan straightened slightly. “that’s not our thing.”
you watched the discomfort, the immediate correction, the way the tone shifted. interesting.
“relax.” you said, rolling your neck as much as the hold allowed. “i know.”
“thank you.” han said, sweating. “sorry. respectfully.”
“you’re fine.” you murmured.
“yeah?”
“yeah.”
but something had changed, you saw it. that weird line you’d dropped, (half joke, half truth because it’s horrible that we have to live in a world like this), went somewhere they didn’t like. their version of evil had rules. sooo fucking weird ones, but still.
“okay. wait. wait.” you said.
…
“what.”
“i think i’m gonna throw up.”
“fuck—” changbin recoiled.
“not on me.” minho said, backing up.
“turn her head!” felix yelped.
jeongin scrambled backward on his hands and feet.
chan watched seungmin loosen his grip. “are you actually nauseous?”
“yeah.” you croaked, gagging for effect. “stress. adrenaline. it hit now that i’m still.”
hyunjin crouched beside you, studying your face. “you might want to give her space.”
“THANK you.” you gasped.
they got off you. you rolled to your side, clutching your stomach dramatically. and in that shuffle, arms moving, balance adjusting, you shoved your hand straight into chan’s jacket pocket. your fingers hit metal.
keys.
you grabbed them and curled them into your palm just as jeongin leaned back in. “you good?”
you scrambled to your knees, pushing past them, one hand over your mouth, the other clenched tight around the keys.
“don’t run.” chan warned.
you made eye contact with him.
and ran.
“FUCK.” seungmin yelled.
“GO GO GO.” han screamed, even though he was on the wrong side.
you sprinted down the hallway, heart about to explode, keys biting into your palm. behind you, footsteps. but now… less playful. more oh shit.
han tripped. felix ran into a wall. changbin yelled: “STAIRS—CUT HER OFF—” and jeongin was just shouting around for fun. just hootin n hollerin.
you ran down the hall.
behind you, hyunjin’s calm voice said: “don’t panic.” which was because they finally were.
you ran away from them, deep into the house again. you heard the footsteps disappear from behind you. good. good.
you slowed just enough to think. you couldn’t outrun eight of them forever.
chan and hyunjin were walking together on the halls. hyunjin had a small, neat folding knife now loose between his fingers. chan had taken a syringe with him. already prepped. yes, he can do a lot with only one syringe. his other hand kept brushing the empty space where the keys used to be.
he didn’t like that.
“she took them clean.” chan said.
“yeah. good hands.”
“you sound impressed.”
“i am.”
“you like her?”
hyunjin didn’t answer.
“if we lose her, we change locations.” chan said, ignoring that his earlier question didn’t get an answer. he already knew it.
hyunjin nodded. but there was something under it, for the first time, the outcome wasn’t certain. that was unusual for them, because they usually did really, really good at this. once someone was caught by them, there was no escape. you were the first one who lived to a second round. he found that interesting. and yeah, he might have started developing a tiny little crush on you, back when you two were just meeting up normally. so what? he’s allowed to!
jeongin moved alone. still with his axe that he’d twirled into familiarity. he swung it lightly as he walked. he checked corners, smiling. as if he was dancing.
“y/n.” he called, singsong. “be honest, was it the flirting? too much? i can dial it back. slightly.”
he stepped over a fallen chair.
“i just feel like we had chemistry.”
he grinned to himself. he loved this part, the story, the tension, the almost. he knew you were thinking now. they got a thinker. he loves that. ohohohoooo
he paused, listening. then grinned. “oh, you sneaky girl.”
seungmin had the fire poker again. holy shit??
he liked the chase because it stripped people down to instinct, survival. that’s what he respected.
“c’mon.” he murmured. “don’t go quiet on me.”
you were irritating him. he barely got irritated. ever.
changbin and minho moved together. changbin carried an injection case now, plus a heavy flashlight he could swing if needed. minho had a hunting knife.
they turned a corner. empty.
“she’s doing something.” minho realized.
changbin’s smile(that came upon his face while he was thinking about you, hehehe) faded. “oh.”
they heard a noise and both spun, only to slam into each other again.
“FOR FUCK’S SAKE.” minho snapped.
“shit.” changbin said, steadying the other guy by his shoulders. “let’s just go.”
you moved through hallways. your lungs burned, but your head was clear now. you slipped into a side room and crouched low, listening.
footsteps passed. voices echoed elsewhere. they’d spread too wide.
you waited, then moved when you judged safety.
back at the hyunjin chan duo, hyunjin stopped in the hallway. “she’s heading back.” he said quietly.
chan. followed his gaze toward the front of the house. “you sure?”
“yes.”
“how?”
“it’s what i’d do.”
meanwhile, at the front door han sat on the floor, back on the wall, holding a shovel. felix sat beside him on the other side of the door with a frying pan he absolutely did not need to be trusted with.
“…we guarding?” han asked.
felix looked at the door. looked at the hallway. looked back at the door.
“…yeah.” he decided.
they both nodded.
“you think she thinks i’m cute?” han asked, adjusting his grip on the shovel.
“bro. absolutely.”
“really?”
“yea, mate.”
they dapped each other up.
“if she makes it back here, i call saying something smooth.” felix said thoughtfully.
“what’s smooth?”
“i don’t know yet.”
while they talked, you grabbed a metal… something from a side table. and started walking back toward the front door.
“she definitely liked when i said she was hot.” han said.
“respectfully.” felix said.
“respectfully.” han looked away, then back at felix. “she’s gonna be so impressed when we catch her.”
“dude. literally.”
they fist bumped.
then, a loud sound came from down the hallway, and a metal object rolling fast across the floor toward them.
they screamed, then scrambled to their feet, immediately abandoning the door.
“dude. we’re gonna fucking die.” han cried.
felix grabbed his arm. “if y/n was here right now, she’d hold my hand.”
“yeah. she’d be so brave.”
“should we check?”
“no.”
“…we should get the others.”
“yes.”
they ran away from the door, deeper back into the house, yelling for backup.
the front door stood unguarded.
you waited three full seconds after their footsteps faded. then you moved. silent. you didn’t run, that was important. you didn’t want to make noise.
behind you, distant voices.
“FRONT DOOR!”
“THEY LEFT IT—”
you walked to the door quickly. put the key in. wrong key. tried another. wrong key. another. unlocked it. opened it.
now, you ran. you ran, and didn’t stop. you didn’t look back. already past the gate. past the trees. gone.
for the first time ever, they’d lost.
the boys regrouped at the front door. empty. door slightly open.
silence.
chan looked at the door. then at hyunjin, who stared at the gap, face blank. he felt respect. and relief.
seungmin looked at the lock. then at chan’s empty pocket. then back at the lock.
for a second, nobody spoke.
“you’ve got to be fucking kidding me.” minho said, sneering.
behind them, han and felix jogged in, out of breath and pale.
“okay.” felix panted. “so—update—there’s a hallway demon—”
they stopped when they saw everyone standing still, all backs turned to them.
felix looked around. “anyone else feel a breeze?”
chan walked to the door in three steps and shoved it open the rest of the way. empty driveway. dark trees. no you.
jeongin blinked. “…no.”
seungmin made a sound like someone had just run over his foot. “noooo.”
minho rubbed both hands down his face. “no no no no—”
jeongin looked at the ceiling. “oh that’s embarrassing. that’s so embarrassing for us.”
han gasped “shit, she did it!”
felix nodded. “i always believed in her.”
they high-fived.
every head turned.
“are you two serious right now?” seungmin snapped.
han immediately jumped into felix arms.
chan stepped back inside slowly and shut the door, quiet. too quiet. “no one moves.” he said.
seungmin was already halfway to the threshold, fire poker still in hand. “we can still see the road—”
chan grabbed his arm. hard. “i said no.”
seungmin yanked free. “she’s on foot.”
“she has a head start.”
jeongin crossed his arms, shifting his weight. “so we just—what—clap?”
“use your brain for once.” chan, voice low. “you’ll make mistakes.”
“oh, i’m sorry.” seungmin snapped. “did your pocket make a mistake?”
OHHHHH.
minho swore and kicked a chair across the room. it smashed into the wall. “THIS is why we don’t get cute.” he said. “this is why we don’t play with our food.”
chanbin winced. “okay, that phrase—”
“not the time.” seungmin cut in.
hyunjin leaned against a table, arms crossed, watching the boys.
seungmin looked at him, suspicious. the level of angry where he gets suspicious at anything. “you’re quiet.”
“thinking.”
“about?”
hyunjin didn’t answer.
“you liked her.” minho accused.
hyunjin’s eyes flicked to him, calm and flat. “irrelevant.”
“bullshit.”
chan stepped between them before it turned physical. “enough.”
“no, not enough.” jeongin shot back. “she got past eight of us. eight.”
“seven.” seungmin muttered. “i was close.”
“YOU HIT A CABINET.” changbin screeched.
felix, still holding han bridal style, raised a hand. “i think we should acknowledge that she was very good.”
everyone stared at him.
han nodded seriously. “and brave.”
minho looked like he might actually kill them. “put him down.”
felix gently set han on his feet.
han immediately pointed at minho. “your energy is aggressive.”
minho grabbed a glass off a table and hurled it into the fireplace. it shattered. “THIS is aggressive.”
“billy badass over there.” changbin murmured, crossing his huge arms.
minho didn’t hesitate to turn towards changbin and shove him. changbin shoved back automatically.
“don’t start.” chan warned.
too late. seungmin grabbed minho’s shoulder and pulled him back. minho shook him off. jeongin stepped between them, not to help, just to watch. “god, you’re all so emotional.” he muttered.
seungmin started toward the door again, fury radiating off him. “i’m going after her.”
now, chan didn’t just stop him but actually pushed him away by the chest. a confident, violent push. manly. frustrated. “no.”
seungmin rounded on him. “she’s RIGHT THERE.”
han raised his hand again. “i still think she likes me.”
everyone yelled at once: “SHUT UP.” “READ THE ROOM.” “YOU WERE AFRAID OF THE DARK.” “SHE HIT YOU WITH A BAT.” “YOU LEFT THE DOOR.”
“we were investigating a threat!” felix said defensively to the last one.
“you are the threat, you idiot!” seungmin barked, then grabbed the front of his own shirt and screamed into it.
minho kicked the wall.
chan exhaled through his nose, centering himself. “no chasing into the dark.” he said. “not like this.”
“she’s getting farther.” jeongin argued.
seungmin made a noise like something dying. chan folded his arms. thinking. hyunjin stared into the night air like he could still see the path you took.
behind them, han whispered to felix: “when we catch her, i’m gonna ask if she thinks my eyes are pretty.”
felix nodded seriously. “they are.”
eight dangerous men. outplayed. and every single one of them wanted you back.
so yeah. that’s what happened, like… two weeks ago now? yeah. about two weeks. now you’re living your life. you hadn’t told anyone. what would you even say? you decided to just leave it. process it. give yourself time to get over it.
now you are standing in line for coffee. life’s been fine since that after all, you deserve it. you slept. eventually. not well, but enough. you changed routines. new routes, new locks, pepper spray, therapy waitlist, the works. you tell yourself you’re fine.
your name gets called.
“hey.”
your stomach drops before your brain catches up. you don’t turn around. because you know that voice. so you grab your coffee and walk. behind you, footsteps.
“okay, so don’t freak out.” jeongin says.
you keep walking.
“that’s actually a terrible opener, sorry, ignore that.”
you cross the street. he crosses too. you don’t look at him. you don’t run. at least you try.
“you look good.” he adds.
“go away.” you say calmly.
“working on it.” he says, which is not how that phrase works.
you turn a corner toward a busier street. people. noise. couples. kids.
“no.” you say.
“i just want to talk.”
“no.”
“did you get a haircut?” he tries.
you stop dead and turn. “how long have you been following me?”
“today? or—”
“jeongin.”
he winces. “okay. today today? like twenty minutes. but not in a creepy way. i was building courage.”
you resume walking faster.
he matches it, breath puffing a little. “listen, i know we didn’t end on a great note.”
“you chased me with an axe.” you cross the street without looking. a car honks. jeongin grabs your sleeve and yanks you back just enough to keep you from getting hit.
you stare at him.
“i didn’t come to hurt you.” he says. “if that helps.”
you keep walking. he groans softly and follows. people passing by just see two hot twenty somethings having what looks like a mildly tense situationship talk. it’s kinda crazy that they have no idea what happened two weeks ago.
you walk faster. he matches it.
“you dropped something.” he blurts. when you give no reaction, he tugs at your sleeve. “really.” he says, pointing behind you.
“that only worked once.” you say, yanking your hand out his grip.
“yeah.” he sighs. “worth a shot.”
a florist stand is set up on the corner. without stopping, jeongin leans sideways, grabs a small bouquet, tosses a crumpled bill onto the table, and keeps moving. he shoves the flowers toward you.
you stare at them. then at him. you don’t take them. but you stop walking and finally look at him.
he looks… normal. hoodie. messy hair. no axe. no grin that clearly tells he’s in animal mode. just this pretty guy.
people move around you, annoyed at the sidewalk blockage.
“you have five seconds.” you say.
he nods, serious now. “okay. we’re not going to hurt you.”
you stare. you start walking again.
he follows. “the boys haven’t shut up about you.”
“that’s not flattering.”
“it kind of is.”
“i don’t know what you want. i’m not coming back.” you say.
“i know.”
“you can’t follow me.”
“already am.”
you reached your apartment building. this is bad. this is very bad. you stop again, turning to face him fully now. his eyes shine.
“we don’t want to kill you.” he says quietly.
you search for anything that could say he’s lying. you can’t find it.
“that doesn’t make you better.” you say.
“i know.”
“you’re still—”
“yeah.”
“…if you come near my place again, i call the cops.”
he nods immediately.
“if i see any of you, i run.”
“mhm.” he holds the flowers out again, then seems to think better of it and just sets them on the sidewalk between you. “i just needed you to see that i’m not… only that.”
“…you are that.” you say. you’re not even being mean, just honest. brutally honest.
“yeah.” he says.
you go inside without looking back. not caring about where will he go, when will he go, why will he go.
the next day, you change your route. different coffee shop. different street. hoodie up, headphones on, just really fucking trying to stay away from them in general. you’re in that coffee shop now. then you step out of the café with your drink, and nearly walk straight into a guy. you flinch back hard.
“whoa—sorry—sorry.” a voice says quickly.
you look up. it takes your brain a second. glasses. plain black frames. simple gray t-shirt that does absolutely nothing to hide the fact that this man is fucking fit.
changbin.
he gives you a small, awkward wave like you ran into each other and not like he… he found you. “hi.”
you just stare.
“i come in peace.” he adds, lifting both hands.
you close your eyes. “you’ve got to be kidding me.”
“okay. before you walk away—i deserve that—but just—hi.”
you glance around. public. morning rush. safe enough. “why are you here.”
he adjusts his glasses. “i just wanted to talk. like, normal talk. not chase talk.”
you sigh, and start walking. “you have two minutes before i start screaming.” that’s more time you’ve given jeongin, though.
he falls into step beside you immediately. “you could’ve called the cops.” he says after a moment. genuinely confused. “you still could.”
you look at him. “you don’t think i’ve thought about that?”
“i figured. but you didn’t.”
you sip your coffee, buying time. “you’d disappear before anyone got there.”
“…yeah.” he admits.
“and then what? i spend the rest of my life wondering if you’re gonna show up mad?”
he nods slowly. he can’t argue that.
“also, i don’t want to tell that story out loud. figured it would be the best for me if i just lived through it and got over it. eventually.” you add, quieter.
changbin nods “okay. yeah. that makes sense.”
you study him. he looks the same as in the house, almost friendly. that makes a question pop up in your head. “have you done that before?” you ask. “like. killing people.”
“yeah.”
“how many?”
he blows out a breath through his teeth. “i don’t keep a number.”
“and why?”
he takes a breath, thinking. actually thinking. “it’s not the killing part.” he says slowly. “not for me. that’s just… the end of it. it’s the before. i dunno. i like the teamwork. but that’s just me, ask the others if you want their version.”
you’re confused. “…did something happen in your past?”
he shrugs. “no. grew up rich. had friends. i have a great job. my mom calls me on sundays.”
you stare at him.
“i’m serious.” he says. “i’m just… like this.”
you hate how calmly he says it. “when did you start?”
“early twenties.”
“why didn’t you stop?”
he gives you a small, almost embarrassed smile. “i’m good at it.”
you don’t answer. a car horn blares down the street. someone laughs nearby. the world keeps going, oblivious. “you scared me.” you say.
“i know.”
“you still are.”
“i know.”
you swallow. you check the time on your phone. “i told jeongin i’d scream if any of you came close to me ever again.”
“i heard.”
“you got lucky.”
“i’m glad.”
a bit of silence.
you meet his eyes. “i don’t trust you.”
“you shouldn’t.”
“but you still came now. why? why can’t you leave me alone?”
he shrugs, small and helpless. “i liked talking to you in the kitchen. before we… started.”
ow. sounds bad. so bad that you take a step back. away from him. you’re scared.
“i don’t feel things the way other people do.” he says finally. he wanted to spit that out for a while now, he just couldn’t scrape the courage together. “it’s like everything’s gray unless it’s intense.”
you sigh. “…at least you’re honest.”
he nods. “i just… i wanted one interaction with you that wasn’t you running.”
you watch him. he’s still scary. “you got it.” you say. “now what.”
he shrugs. “now i go away.”
you study him. glasses slightly crooked. trying very hard not to look threatening. failing, because he looks like he could lift a car.
you almost smile. almost. “don’t follow me.” you say.
“i won’t.”
“tell the others.”
“i will.”
you start to walk off.
“hey.” he calls.
you turn, tired.
“you were really impressive.” he says. sincere. really.
you hold his gaze. “i know.”
then you leave him standing on the sidewalk, alone. alone with his horrible, evil soul. alone with this weird dumb crush he recently developed on you. alone with his biceps, flexing because he feels a lot and it just… happens when he feels a lot.
it’s the next day. normal day. sun’s out. people walking dogs. a delivery truck is parked. blablabla anything that says world goes on. you were paranoid this day, sure, but you survived so far. you’re currently locking your apartment building door after yourself so you could go grocery shopping when a voice behind you says:
“okay, don’t be mad.”
you close your eyes. slow inhale. you turn.
it’s felix. and this guy literally tried to shoot you once, you remember clearly, but he looks… perfect. perfect hair. expensive jacket. shoes that cost more than your phone. holding… a container?
you stare.
he smiles, so sweet. “i made you muffins.”
“…you what.”
“blueberry.” he says proudly.
you look at the container, suspicious. “i’m not eating that.”
he frowns a little. “that hurt my feelings.”
“you tried to kill me.”
“sorry.”
you rub your face. “why are you here.”
he shifts his weight. he’s nervous. it’s cute tho. “we voted.” he says.
“you VOTED.”
“yeah.”
“ON WHAT.”
“on not killing you.”
you just stare at him.
he brightens. “it was almost unanimous.”
“WHO voted no?”
“…minho.”
yoy try to step around him toward the street. he mirrors you accidentally.
“felix.”
he freezes. “yeah?”
“move.”
“oh. right. sorry.” he sidesteps so fast he almost falls off the curb.
“you cannot come here.” you say. calm. really hoping he’ll understand. “you cannot follow me. you cannot bake for me. do you understand how insane this is?”
he nods immediately. “yes.”
“then why are you here.”
he looks at the muffins. then at you. “okay. so. we— i— baked.” yes baby, we know. you told us already.
“i see that.”
“for you.”
“i gathered.”
he nods, satisfied that the point has been made.
you start walking. he starts walking. directly into a street sign. it’s loud.
he recoils. “ow.”
you pinch the bridge of your nose.
“is it bleeding?” he asks, pointing at his face, but he immediately goes cross eyed as you push his face away instead. his skin is warm. feels nice tbh. he blinks at you, unbothered. “you have strong hands.”
“go away.”
“okay.” he says.
he does not go away.
you reach the crosswalk and the light changes. felix steps forward without looking. a car honks.
you grab his hand and yank him back.
he stumbles into you.
“jesus.” you mutter, still holding his hand as you cross. “you’d be roadkill in five minutes.”
he looks down at your joined hands, his big eyes shining, absolutely taken aback by the fact that you would do this for him. well, all that until you drop his hand on the other side of the street.
“thanks.” he says cheerfully.
a man wearing a watch worth a month’s rent, carrying something he made for you that you won’t eat, who could absolutely overpower you, and instead just almost died to a car.
“don’t follow me.” you say.
“okay.” he says, still following.
you glance at him. “you’re unbelievably stupid.”
“thank you.” he says.
“that wasn’t—”
“i’ve been working on self-acceptance.”
pffft.
you stop. “felix, listen. i don’t want you guys here.”
he looks at you, tilting his pretty head in confusion.
“you scare me.” you clarify.
“oh.” he says quietly. that, he understood.
you point at the muffins. “those could be drugged.”
“they’re not!”
“i don’t know that.”
silence hangs between you. street noise fills it. someone laughs across the road. life just keeps going.
“i liked talking to you.” he says finally.
“you didn’t talk to me.” you reply. “you hunted me.”
“yeah. i’m sorry.”
you watch him. disappointed that something this beautiful can be this cruel. “you need to leave.”
he nods. but he doesn’t move yet. “do you…” he starts, then stops. tries again. “do you hate us?”
you don’t hesitate. “yes?” of fucking course bro???
his little brain absorbs that. shoulders drop a little. “okay.”
he holds out the muffins one last time, hopeful in the dumbest way possible.
you just look at him.
he lowers them.
“just go, felix. bye.”
“yeah. bye.”
he turns the wrong direction.
you grab his hood and spin him around. “that way.”
“right.” he says, walking off.
he makes it three steps. turns back. holds up the muffin container. “do you want—”
“no.”
“okay.”
he walks into a bike rack.
you watch him go. he looks beautiful.
you hate him.
you check to make sure he crosses the next street safely before you turn away.
that passed too. a few days later you are leaving a pharmacy in the afternoon, receipt crumpled in your fist, focusing on your surroundings now.
and across the street, leaning against a lamppost, is chan. he raised a hand, giving you a little wave, mouthing: you good?
you mouth back go away.
he nods once, then pushes off the pole and walks in the opposite direction. not chasing now. actually walking away.
then you’re in a grocery store, looking at pastas, deciding which one you want to eat tonight. a hand reaches past you and places the more expensive one in your cart.
you turn. it’s seungmin. black hoodie. baseball cap.
you immediately pull it back out. “no.”
he takes it. puts it back into the cart.
“no.”
back in.
“stop.”
it went on for a good five minutes.
at checkout, you unload your stuff, and when you’re about to pay, seungmin comes up behind you and wordlessly uses his card. do you process that in the head? no, only when he is already at the exit, hands in his pockets, not looking back.
he walks straight into the automatic door before it finishes opening. you hear the thud.
you rub your temples.
then you’re walking through the park because that’s the shorter way home. peaceful. sunlight. children playing. then the bush next to the sidewalk starts shaking.
you stop. you kick the bush. han tumbles out directly at your feet. face in dirt.
“…hi.” he says into the grass.
you look down at him. “were you hiding?”
he looks up at you, leaves in his hair, expression hopeful. “no.”
you start walking again. he scrambles up and follows, then trips on the sidewalk edge.
you catch his sleeve before he eats pavement. “use your brain.”
he nods seriously. “i keep meaning to.”
next time about days later, you see felix before he sees you. he’s staring into a store window, clearly confused by mannequins.
you walk past.
noticing that, he turns and his pretty little face lights up. “hi!”
“hi. don’t.”
“okay.”
he walks into a mailbox.
you only see hyunjin once, at a distance. not close enough to speak. just standing outside a train station, hands in his coat pockets, watching the crowd, not just you.
when your eyes meet, he doesn’t smile, just gives a small nod. then he leaves.
days after that it’s seungmin again. at night. parking lot. you only came with car because it was too far. you’re unlocking your car and a shadow leans against the hood.
“you’ve been avoiding me.” seungmin says, casual as hell, like he didn’t once swing a fire poker at your skull. “man.” he continues “small world, right?”
you turn, pepper spray in hand, and spray it directly into his eyes.
he screams, drops to his knees, clawing at his face. “OH MY GOD IT’S LIKE SATAN PISSED IN MY EYES—”
“stop finding me!” you yell.
he’s laughing through the pain. laughing. “you look good today.”
you drive off while he’s still swearing.
the next time minho follows you through a bookstore. keeps pretending to browse. picks up a book upside down. so you turn a corner and wait. he walks right into it. he also gets a taste of your pepper spray.
“SON OF A BITCH.” he chokes, doubling over between romance and self help. “you fucking—”
“YOU’RE STALKING ME.”
they find you in different places. weeks apart. or days apart. but they always come back.
something is clearly wrong with them. like, all eight are sick in the head. but it doesn’t seem like they’re following you around to kill you. they talk too long. they get distracted. they bring you things. they absolutely eat shit every time you fight back. and you do fight back. diva.
minho and seungmin have been pepper sprayed so many times they flinch when you reach into your bag. jeongin tries every possible pickup line on you. han once tried to sneak up on you and got hit in the face with your tote bag and apologized.
it’s ike they’re still in hunting mode. after you. into you. but now they’re… unsure. they don’t seem to want you dead anymore. they just… want you around now. or to just be around you, at least.
it’s the middle of the night right now. you’re in old sweatpants, hair a mess, waiting for the food you ordered. and soon enough, the doorbell rings. you shuffle over and look through the peephole for a second. delivery uniform. cap. bag. seems normal. so you open the door.
it’s felix. smiling ear to ear, holding your takeout, wearing the uniform jacket and cap. “hi!”
“absolutely not.” you say, already closing the door.
he sticks his foot in. “wait, wait—don’t slam it, the soup’ll spill—”
that’s when you see it, behind him, in the hallway. a man on the floor. the delivery uniform pants still on him, only his jacket gone, the one on felix right now. there’s blood under the man.
your stomach drops. your organs drop. after staring for about a minute, you slowly look back at felix. “…is that—”
“okay.” he says quickly. “before you freak out—”
“BEFORE I FREAK OUT?? YOU KILLED THE DELIVERY GUY?!”
jeongin leans into view, coming next to felix, hands in pockets. “it wasn’t him who killed the guy.”
you point wildly, not even concerned about the fact that there’s two of them now. “THAT IS A PERSON ON THE FLOOR.”
“yeah but like…” minho says, stepping into the doorframe, arm around felix’s shoulders now. “he’s not using the uniform anymore.”
your mouth opens. nothing comes out.
and then, without a word, chan walks past you. into your home. into your fucking home. felix shrugs and follows him. the other six too, actually taking their shoes off.
YOU ARE STILL HOLDING THE DOOR. THEY JUST WALK AROUND YOU.
“what—no—no—no—” you manage, backing up as they enter.
han closes the door gently behind them. “heat’s nice in here.” he says.
hyunjin looks at you and mutters a quiet but confident “hi” before going further into your living room.
changbin walks past you and spins slowly, taking in the room. “oh this is cute. this is very you.”
“YOU BROUGHT A CORPSE TO MY DOOR.” you choke.
felix is still holding the food bag. “your noodles are getting cold.” he says softly.
you make a noise that doesn’t exist in human language. (imagine something close to a windows crash sound)
seungmin tosses his jacket over a chair. there’s a smear of blood on his sleeve.
you gag.
he notices. “oh, relax. it’s mostly the delivery guy’s.”
“OH MY GOD.”
“hey, where’s the hand soap?” han asks, already at your kitchen sink, washing blood off his fingers.
you stare at the red swirling down your drain.
jeongin flops onto your couch. “i like what you did with the lighting in here. mood.”
“GET OUT.” you say, voice coming back in bursts. “GET—OUT—OF—MY—APARTMENT.”
they all look at you. it’s obvious that they don’t really understand what’s your problem.
chan gestures toward the takeout bag. “eat first.”
“I DON’T WANT THE FOOD.”
felix looks devastated. “you picked the combo meal…”
changbin is by your bookshelf now. “you alphabetized? that’s hot.”
“a— i— eugh— what is HAPPENING.”
minho leans against the wall. “okay, in our defense—”
“there is NO DEFENSE.”
“—we didn’t come to kill you.”
“YOU’RE TRACKING BLOOD ON MY FLOOR.”
they all look down.
han lifts his foot. “…shit.”
jeongin points at him. “mop boy.”
han salutes and grabs paper towels.
“listen.” chan says, turning to be in front of you. “we just wanted to see you.”
you stare at him. then at the door. “…you couldn’t text?” you ask hoarsely.
eight grown ass serial killer men exchange glances.
jeongin shrugs. “didn’t have your number.” that’s alright sweetie, not like you can’t find a phone number when you can find an address perfectly. not like you can’t ask for it from HYUNJIN.
you make another sound.
changbin steps closer, hands up, gentle. “okay, hey. we know this looks bad.”
“LOOKS—”
“bad phrasing.” he admits.
seungmin rubs the back of his neck. “we didn’t plan the delivery guy part.”
“that’s WORSE.” you sag against the wall. “you have got to be shitting me.” you whisper to yourself. then you look at them. all of them. in your apartment. on your couch. at your sink. in your life. “out.”
they don’t move.
jeongin tilts his head. “we just got here—”
“OUT.”
changbin actually flinches.
seungmin raises his hands. “okay, volume—”
“you killed someone. again, i assume. and brought it to my DOOR. do you understand how fucking insane that is?”
silence.
“i can’t sleep normally. i check reflections everywhere. i don’t walk with headphones anymore. do you get that? do you get what you did to my brain? i couldn’t function for weeks. every sound was footsteps. every guy walking behind me was one of you. i have three different hiding spots in my own apartment.”
han raises a hand slightly. “this one’s not great.”
“NO IT IS NOT GREAT.”
felix looks genuinely confused. “we didn’t think about… after.”
“YEAH. THAT’S THE PROBLEM. you don’t think about after. you don’t think about people being PEOPLE. you think about adrenaline and teamwork and your little murder club hangouts.”
changbin crosses his arms. “okay when you say it like that—”
“how else is there to say it??” you gesture wildly at the room.
they don’t look guilty. they look… attentive. they’re paying attention. trying to understand you.
you swallow. “no, seriously. i want to know. when you followed me for weeks? when you showed up at my job? when i thought every man walking behind me was about to grab me? that was fun for you?”
seungmin shrugs. “engaging.”
you grab the nearest thing, a throw pillow, and launch it at his face. then relax your shoulders and sigh. “i am a person. with a nervous system. i had a normal life before you guys.”
there’s a long pause.
felix raises a hand slightly. “your food is still warm.”
“READ THE ROOM.”
he lowers it.
han whispers to him: “she’s upset-upset.”
“no shit.” you snap.
chan has his hands on his hips. “you’re saying we made you paranoid and ruined your life.”
you stare. “…are you fucking for real right now.”
“trying to understand the damage.”
“DAMAGE???”
jeongin leans forward on the couch, elbows on knees. “we don’t feel fear like that, or guilt the way you do.”
“yeah, i noticed.”
“but we’re not dumb.” hyunjin says quietly.
your eyes flick to him.
he meets them. calm. honest in a deeply unsettling way. “we know we changed your life. we can see the behavioral shifts. we know what we did. we just don’t care.“
you blink. does this fucking asshole hear himself.
he continues. “and what you’re saying is that our continued presence equals harm.”
you blink “yes.”
“even without immediate violence.”
“YES.”
he nods once. processing. filing it somewhere in his terrifyingly organized brain.
chan takes over. “we’re saying, we understand the outcome. even if we don’t experience the emotion attached.”
changbin rubs his neck. “we didn’t think about the after. usually there isn’t one.”
you let that sit. “yeah.” you say. “because people die.”
quiet.
han finally says, softly: “you didn’t.”
you look at him. “no. i didn’t. and now i have to live with what you did.”
there’s a long silence.
then jeongin claps his hands once. “so. solution. anyone? ideas?”
you point at him without looking. “you are on thin fucking ice.”
he mimes zipping his mouth.
seungmin rubs his face. “okay, but question.”
you glare.
“when we stopped trying to actually kill you… that didn’t help?”
you just stare at him. “…you hear yourself, right?”
he thinks about it. “…yeah.”
felix looks like he’s actually using his brain for once. “we thought… not finishing the job was growth.”
“that is the lowest bar i have ever heard in my LIFE.”
but you see, the thing is, this is a system error for them. you’re not prey right now. you’re not running. you’re furious, first of all. human. loud. hurt. they don’t know this game. they only know the killing and manipulating one, but they want to have you. they just… don’t know how to get you.
chan clears his throat. “so the correct action would be… removal of our presence.”
“yes.”
“immediately.”
“so fucking immediately.”
“we don’t want to kill you.” minho cuts in, hoping that this saves their situation a bit.
“yeah, you told me a hundred times already. your point?” you ask
“we like you.”
you make a face like you bit into soap. “that is not how liking works.”
“for you.” he agrees.
chan exhales. decisive. “we adjust behavior.”
you cross your arms. “into WHAT?”
silence.
felix brightens. “dinner?”
you stare at him.
han nods eagerly.
you look around the room at eight serial killers in your living space, one of them holding a roll of paper towels covered in someone else’s blood. “…dinner.”
changbin shrugs. “low pressure environment. public. you feel safer. we practice acting normal.”
minho adds: “exposure therapy. for all parties.”
“i just gave a speech about how you ruined my sense of safety.” you whisper, voice defeated.
hyunjin nods. “we heard you.”
“and you want to take me to DINNER.”
“yes.”
“why.”
he doesn’t hesitate. “because harming you is now counterproductive to the thing we want.”
you are actually taken aback by the words this guy uses. “…which is?”
he holds your gaze.
“you.”
the room goes quiet.
then han whispers to felix, way too loud: “is this flirting?”
“yeah.” felix whispers back. “i think this is the good kind.”
you drag a hand down your face. “…get the fuck out of my apartment.”
they stand, immediately obedient. getting their shoes on and whatnot.
changbin gives you a small wave. “we’ll text?”
“you do not have my number.”
jeongin points at hyunjin. “he’ll give it to us.”
“I WILL CALL THE POLICE.”
they walk out.
han pauses at the door. “sorry about the sink.”
door closes. silence. your apartment is a disaster. your life is worse.
but… they looked weirdly sincere, actually. and they were.
soon, they stopped showing up unannounced. mostly. they also stopped bringing weapons into your line of sight. mostly. and they stopped treating you like prey. completely.
how were they about you, comes the question.
obsessed.
and they did not process attachment normally. if they processed it. they did not understand love. but they understood preference, and if you told them enough times, then eventually they understood your emotions too. well, not understood, but they processed the fact that you feel the way you feel and they can do something about it if they actually try.
han once fell down an entire staircase because someone said your name and he turned too fast. chan pretended he wasn’t competitive about board games and then absolutely lost his mind over monopoly. hyunjin brought you flowers all the time. you learned that seungmin always had to sleep on his stomach.
you started to understand the function of them. not excuse, no. absolutely not. just understand and process the fact that they’re how they are. and you couldn’t do shit about it, and you couldn’t get rid of them now. so you lived with it.
they still killed, of course. that was one of the few things that brought them happiness in life, so you couldn’t expect them to stop doing it. they didn’t kill around you, though.
but you knew they still did it. and you could feel when the tension built when they haven’t hurt anybody in a long time.
it also… what’s the right word, scared? impressed? took you aback? could be either, what matters is that when you saw that all of them had it in them, even han and felix who behaved like total angels throughout the day, it… upset you. or just moved something in you, seeing that each of them has that empty place where fear or guilt or empathy should go.
they didn’t kill out of anger. it was release. their brains were wired wrong. thrill, control, mastery, stimulation, those hit the reward centers. violence scratched an itch they couldn’t reach any other way.
and after, they were calmer. lighter, like they’d gone for a run. when they were satisfied with themselves, they tried to tell you about it. you always stopped them, because you did NOT need to hear the horrible things they did. no matter how much they wanted to brag about it, how much they wanted to make you proud.
you weren’t safe in the world, but you were weirdly safe with them. and they would have died for you.
but you had to set rules. actual rules. “do not follow me into bathrooms.” “do not threaten my coworkers.” “do not kill anyone within a five-mile emotional radius of me.” the basics. and they tried. god, they tried. but they didn’t really… do well.
once you opened your door to seungmin at one in the morning, and he stood there, breathing a little heavy, COVERED in blood.
you just stared.
he stared back.
“…you good?” he asked.
“are you good??”
“oh. yeah. not mine.”
you almost slammed the door. he stopped it with a hand, but gently. always that now.
“didn’t come here for that.” he said.
“for what, seungmin, WHAT possible reason makes this a normal social call.”
he shrugged. “adrenaline crash. didn’t wanna be alone.”
that did something weird to your chest. not forgiving, just… information. because you realized that now they wanted you. your company, your voice, your hands. and it felt good.
anyways, you told him to take a shower, then you let him hang out with you.
they also fought each other more than they ever fought you.
once minho and jeongin, two extremely capable men mind you, actually went for each other’s throats in your kitchen while hyunjin and chan tried to separate them.
you yelled at them then. they paused and looked at you.
jeongin, bleeding from the lip, grinned. but like in that hot way. “sorry.”
“take it outside if you’re gonna be like this.” you told them.
“fair.” chan said, dragging minho back by the collar.
you weren’t scared of them like prey anymore. you were scared of the capacity. the strength. the speed. the way the air changed when something in them flipped.
you’d seen what they could do, you just weren’t the target now.
they were on your dick constantly, though. emotionally. socially. existentially. texting wasn’t their thing, but presence was. which meant they showed up unannounced a lot. but the reason for that was that they didn’t want to lose access to you, to be honest. didn’t like the thought of that.
one night you opened the door to changbin. he told you he was going to come over later. well, it was late. around midnight.
when he saw you, his eyes lit up, and wrapped you in the warmest, most affectionate, full-body hug of your life.
you froze.
because he was sticky.
wet sleeve. iron smell. your cheek against his skin. your hands touching the back of his shirt.
he squeezed tighter, cheek against your hair. “missed you.”
you pulled back.
looked down.
this boy was covered in blood.
he smiled, soft, relieved. “hi.”
you shoved back, stumbling, hand over your mouth, already shaking your head like that would stop it. you barely made it to the sink before you threw up in it.
from the hallway, jeongin yelled: “did you forget again??”
“I GOT EXCITED.”
hyunjin was the only one who followed you then, already grabbing a towel, turning on the sink. he didn’t look at changbin, and he didn’t look at the blood. he looked at you. “i’ve got you. you’re okay. breathe.”
they kept forgetting what you were. alive. normal. human. that for you it was a body, a person, a life.
it wasn’t the only time, of fucking course. they’d be loose, relaxed, calm. you’d be staring at hands that had done something irreversible two hours ago. there were a few nights like that, a sleeve not changed, a stain not noticed, you throwing up in your own kitchen while eight men who could disassemble a human being panicked because they’d upset you.
not because they felt guilt like you did. because they’d hurt something important in the environment. you. you, who sometimes made it to the sink, sometimes didn’t.
they did learn, though. slowly. painfully. they didn’t feel what you felt, but they learned it mattered. which, for them, was the closest thing to empathy available in the system.
you fell asleep on the couch once while they were over. you didn’t mean to. how could you mean to, when you knew what they were capable of?
and you woke up pinned. well, luckily not trapped, just surrounded. han was hugging your ankle. felix was using your shoulder as a pillow. changbin had an arm across your middle. jeongin was half off the couch but anyways. seungmin pretended he wasn’t involved but his foot was hooked under your leg.
they didn’t experience comfort like most people did. but proximity? pressure? familiar scent? that, they liked.
they were really, really glad that you survived them. and because of that, somewhere in their broken little predator brains, you became home. and what do predators do? bring things home.
once han showed up beaming, holding something behind his back.
“i got you flowers.” he said.
you blinked. that was… new.
he revealed it.
you stared.
it was technically arranged like a bouquet. the only problem was that… they were human lower arms. a lot of them. like flowers. just… arms.
you made a noise. you looked away, then back at it, then had to look away again.
“i thought it was romantic.” he said, crushed.
“honey, i appreciate that, but—“ you gagged. held the doorframe. teared up.
he watched you throw up then. patted your back after.
felix once brought you a wallet because “you’re always losing yours.”
you opened it. immediately closed it. “felix.”
“yeah?”
“return that.”
chan was… fucking brutal. he didn’t bring objects. he brought information.
“found a guy who’d been stalking women in your area.” he said once.
you went cold. “…what did you do.”
he met your eyes calmly. “took care of him, of course.”
you didn’t know whether to scream or say thank you. this one wasn’t bad, actually. you just had to sit down for a minute.
they were not house trained though, not even a little. one time you caught seungmin about to piss in your giant houseplant.
“seungmin.” you sighed.
he froze midzip. “…yeah?”
“if you water that plant with your BODY i will end you.”
“okay, okay.” he said, offended. “god. boundaries.”
felix once wiped his hands on your curtains. han sat on your coffee table. minho had to be told three separate times that knives did not belong “wherever feels right.” changbin once tried to “air out” your apartment by opening every window during winter.
and jeongin was just really spontaneous in general. if a guy talked to you, he would insert himself into the conversation, no matter what. “bro.” he’d say, arm slung over the stranger’s shoulders. “i love your confidence. truly. quick question, how attached are you to having kneecaps?”
you hit him. he’d grin. the stranger would evaporate.
hyunjin was the only one who got you normal gifts. they were… brutally expensive, yeah, and you had no idea where he had that kind of money from, but you appreciated every gift from him.
and oh my fucking god, the mailman. felix hated the mailman. for no reason. the man was fifty something and friendly. still, every time the mail arrived, felix would appear at your window, talking bout sum “he’s back.” ???
“felix, that’s his job.”
“yeah but why is he always here?”
“because i live here. that’s how mail works.”
the suspicion remained.
but beneath all the insanity, the red flags, the daily reminder that they could bring a corpse to your doorstep any day, they were sincere. they never played with your feelings. never lied about what they were. never pretended.
they just… adjusted their behavior around one central rule, which was not to lose you. to keep you safe, even if they didn’t understand why they wanted to keep you so safe. or why did you find so many things they did wrong.
you had, at one point, physically grabbed felix by the hair and yanked him backward because he was halfway out your front door, whispering “i just wanna talk to him.” about the mailman.
“NO.” you barked, fist in his hair.
“he’s BEEN HERE THREE TIMES THIS WEEK.” felix insisted.
“THAT IS HOW MAIL WORKS.”
he did not agree with you.
changbin loved cheek kisses. loved them. unfortunately, changbin also had a chronic issue where he just… forgot he was holding things. knife. wrench. crowbar. gun.
you’d feel a gentle kiss on your cheek and open your eyes to see cold steel six inches from your face.
“baby.” you’d say.
“oh, shit.” weapon would go on the table like car keys. “sorry.” he’d say, and kiss your other cheek, now technically unarmed.
then once you mentioned to hyunjin that you were cold and he wordlessly took off his jacket. it had a suspicious stain. he saw you notice.
“…i’ll get another one.” he said immediately.
because he really didn’t want you to be cold. not like he understood what your problem was with a little blood, but alright. anything for you.
now that i’m getting carried away with the stories, i’ll tell you that han did not understand personal space.
for an example, if you scolded him? immediate cling. you’d finish saying “you cannot threaten the barista for writing my name wrong” and suddenly he’d be attached to your side, rubbing his face into you, arms around your shoulders, chin on your head.
“okay, but we’re good though, right?”
“sweetie, i’m trying to pay.”
he’d nod against your hair, not moving. that went on for twelve minutes until a woman asked if he was concussed.
they clung like that a lot, they didn’t understand a lot, they acted up a lot, they hated a lot, but they loved one thing.
you.
they didn’t understand jealousy as an emotion. they understood it as something wrong with their insticts, and you in danger. how did that make sense? it didn’t. it just sounded horrible. because it was. but it was also the most sincere attachment they were capable of.
you were still scared sometimes, still human, compared to them(they’re literally almost not human in their senses). still deeply aware of what they were, and reminded of it a lot of times, of course.
but they’d learned one thing with absolute certainty.
you were not a victim anymore, you were something new to them, to their lives, something…. let’s say home.
and they were trying, badly, incorrectly, concerningly, to deserve to be there.
ɞ . abstract. they’re used to sharing their lives with the world, but they aren't interested in sharing you. eight times the members reminded a stranger exactly where the line was drawn.
ɞ . warnings / tags. fluff. suggestive. jealous!skz. established relationship. possessive & territorial behavior. intimidation of others. unwanted attention/harassment. encroachment on personal space. mentions of alcohol/drinking.
BANG CHAN
the studio was crowded, way more crowded than it usually was during a late-night tracking session. you were perched on the edge of the leather sofa, tucked into the corner with a drink in your hand, while the rest of the guys milled around. it was supposed to be a low-key wrap party for the new album, but some of the producers had brought friends, and the room felt small.
chan was across the room, leaning over the console with changbin and a couple of senior engineers. he looked good—focused, his sleeves pushed up to his elbows, a pencil tucked behind his ear—but you could tell he was keeping one eye on the door and one eye on you. he always did that. he called it being a good host, but you knew it was just his nature to keep track of his people.
"so, how long have you known the group?"
you blinked, pulling your gaze away from chan to look at the guy who had just sat down next to you. he was one of the guest track-makers, someone you’d seen a few times but never really spoken to. he was leaning in close, his arm draped over the back of the sofa, effectively carving out a little bubble for the two of you.
"oh, a long time," you said, offering a polite smile. "i’ve been friends with chan since before the debut."
"lucky guy," he chuckled, his eyes scanning your face in a way that felt a little too lingering. "i can see why he keeps you around. you’ve got a really great energy." he introduces himself, giving you some name that you can't recall. can't bother to.
he didn't pull back. if anything, he shifted closer, his knee brushing against yours. you tried to shift subtly, but the sofa was deep, and there wasn't much room to move. "thanks," you murmured, taking a sip of your drink to avoid further conversation.
"you know," he continued, lowering his voice to a tone that was definitely meant to be intimate. "we’re headed to an after-party at a club nearby in about twenty minutes. chan’s probably going to stay here and obsess over the master tracks for another five hours. you should come with us. i'd love to actually get to know you without all this noise."
he reached out then, his fingers grazing your forearm as if to emphasize the invitation.
before you could even open your mouth to decline, the atmosphere in the room shifted. you didn't even have to look up to know chan had noticed. you could feel the weight of his stare from across the room.
a second later, the heavy footsteps approached. chan didn't walk over; he converged.
"everything okay here?"
chan’s voice was low, smooth as silk but with a jagged edge underneath that made the hair on the back of your neck stand up. he didn't wait for an answer. he stepped right into the narrow space between the coffee table and the couch, placing a firm, heavy hand on your shoulder. his thumb rubbed against the base of your neck in a slow, possessive rhythm.
the man pulled his hand back quickly, clearing his throat. "oh, yeah. just inviting your friend here to the after-party. you’re probably too busy to go, right?"
chan tilted his head, a small, tight smile playing on his lips that didn't reach his eyes. he looked incredibly calm, but the grip on your shoulder tightened just enough for you to feel the tension vibrating through him.
"actually," chan said, his voice dropping an octave, sounding like that deep tone he got when he was serious. "we have our own plans. and i’m never too busy for her."
he looked down at you then, his expression softening for a split second before he cut his eyes back to the other man. the look was icy—a clear, unspoken warning that said you're overstepping.
"is that right?" he stammered, looking between the two of you. "i didn't realize... i mean, i thought you guys were just..."
"we're a lot of things," chan interrupted, his voice steady. "but available isn't one of them. you should probably go find your group, man. i think they're leaving."
it wasn't a suggestion. he got the message, mulling out a quick "right, see ya" before making a beeline for the door.
the moment he was gone, the room seemed to regain its oxygen. chan didn't move his hand. he let out a long, ragged exhale, his shoulders finally dropping from their defensive hunch. he turned toward you, his eyes dark and swirling with a mix of leftover adrenaline and something that looked a lot like guilt.
"sorry," he muttered, though he didn't sound particularly sorry. "he was being... a lot."
"channie," you said softly, reaching up to cover his hand with yours. "were you jealous?" you don't bother to hide the teasing lilt in your voice.
he let out a dry, sheepish laugh, rubbing the back of his neck with his free hand. he looked away for a moment, watching the door where the guy had disappeared. "was it that obvious?"
"you looked like you were about to growl," you giggle.
chan stepped closer, moving until he was standing between your knees, his presence completely enveloping you. he leaned down, his face inches from yours, his eyes searching your face with an intensity that made your heart hammer against your ribs.
"i don't like the way he was looking at you," he confessed, his voice a rough whisper. "and i definitely didn't like him touching you. i know i shouldn't be so... yeah. i know you can handle yourself."
he paused, his fingers sliding up to cup your jaw, his thumb tracing your lower lip.
"but the thought of someone else taking you away from here—even for an hour? i can't handle it. you're the only thing in this room that keeps me sane, okay? i'm selfish. i want you right where i can see you."
you smiled, pulling him down by his collar until your foreheads rested together. "i wasn't going anywhere, channie. i like it right here."
he hummed, a deep sound in his chest, and finally let out a real smile—the one that made his eyes crinkle at the corners. "good. because i’m done with work for the night. let’s get out of here before someone else tries to talk to you."
he pulled you up from the sofa, his fingers interlacing tightly with yours, refusing to let go even as he grabbed his jacket. he led you out of the studio, his body positioned slightly in front of yours, a silent shield against the rest of the world.
LEE KNOW
the dance studio was freezing, the air conditioning humming a low, mechanical tune that usually helped minho focus. but today, his focus was completely shot. he was leaning against the mirrored wall, a towel draped over his shoulders, watching you talk to one of the new backup dancers near the sound system.
minho didn't do loud jealousy. he didn't storm over or start a scene. he was more surgical than that. he just watched, his eyes narrowed, tracking every movement.
the guy—some kid who was way too confident for his first week—was laughing, leaning a little too close to you. he reached out to adjust the strap of your bag that was slipping off your shoulder, his fingers lingering on your skin a second too long.
you were just being friendly, smiling at his jokes, but minho’s jaw tightened. he felt that familiar, sharp prickle of irritation. he hated when people didn't know their boundaries, especially when those boundaries involved you.
"so, you're here every tuesday?" the dancer asked, his voice echoing in the quiet room. "maybe i could take you to that cafe downstairs after we wrap? i heard their lattes are actually decent. or, you know, we could always go anywhere else, too."
minho didn't wait for you to answer. he pushed off the wall, his sneakers squeaking sharply against the wood floor. the sound was intentional.
he didn't say a word as he walked over. he simply stepped into your space, sliding his arm around your waist and pulling you back against his chest. it wasn't a gentle hug; it was a firm, grounding weight that made it very clear where you belonged.
the dancer jumped slightly, his eyes widening as he looked up—and up—at minho.
"she’s busy," minho said. his voice was flat, devoid of any emotion, which was always when he was the most dangerous. he didn't look at the guy; he just stared at your reflection in the mirror across the room, his chin resting lightly on your shoulder.
"oh, i—we were just talking about coffee," the guy stammered, his confidence evaporating under minho’s cold gaze.
"get your own coffee," minho replied, his tone clipped. "and get back to the floor. chan wants to run the bridge again in five minutes. don't be late."
it was a dismissal, plain and simple. the guy scrambled away, practically tripping over his own feet to get to the other side of the room.
the second he was gone, minho’s grip relaxed slightly, but he didn't let go. he turned you around in his arms, his expression still unreadable, though his ears were tinged with a faint, stubborn pink.
"you're scary when you do that," you whispered, reaching up to smooth the stray hairs on his forehead.
"i wasn't doing anything," he mumbled, looking away. "he was just annoying. talking too much."
"he was just asking for coffee, minnie."
minho’s eyes flicked back to yours, sharp and intense. "i don't care what he was asking for. he was touching you. i don't like it."
he let out a small, frustrated huff, his fingers digging into the fabric of your hoodie. minho wasn't big on emotional confessions, but in the quiet of the studio, with the rest of the members occupied at the far end, he let the mask slip just a fraction.
"i know i’m difficult," he said, his voice dropping so low you had to lean in to hear him. "i know i don't say the right things all the time. but you're mine. and i’m not good at sharing."
it was the closest you’d get to an 'i love you' in a moment like this—a raw, possessive honesty that felt more real than any flowery speech.
"i'm not going anywhere," you promised, leaning your head against his chest. "you know that."
"i do," he whispered, finally letting a small, smug smirk tug at the corner of his mouth. he pressed a quick, firm kiss to the top of your head before pulling away, his usual cool exterior snapping back into place. "now go sit down. you’re distracting me, and if i mess up this choreo, i’m blaming you."
he swatted your shoulder playfully, ushering you back to the bench, but as he walked back to the center of the floor, he caught the eye of the new dancer.
minho didn't say anything, but the look he gave him—cold, steady, and utterly territorial—made sure the kid didn't look your way for the rest of the afternoon.
CHANGBIN
the gym was mostly empty, the rhythmic thud of weights hitting the rubber mats the only thing breaking the silence. changbin loved this time of night—the overhead lights were dimmed, and he could actually breathe without people hovering.
he was currently finishing a set on the bench press, his muscles strained and glistening under the low light, while you sat nearby on a weight bench, scrolling through your phone and occasionally cheering him on.
everything was fine until a guy from the late-shift training staff wandered over. he was big, almost as big as changbin, and he had that swagger of someone who knew exactly how much he could lift.
"hey, mind if i hop in for a set?" the guy asked, but he wasn't looking at changbin. he was looking at you.
changbin sat up, wiping sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand. he didn't miss the way the trainer’s eyes dragged over you, or the way he puffed out his chest a little more as he stepped into your peripheral vision.
"just finished," changbin said, his voice coming out a bit rougher than usual. he didn't stand up yet; he just sat there, arms resting on his knees, watching.
"cool, cool," the guy said, turning fully toward you. "i haven't seen you around here before. you a member or just lucky enough to watch the show?" he flashed a grin that was clearly meant to be charming, leaning one hand against the rack right next to your head.
you looked up, giving him a small, polite nod. "i'm just waiting for him to finish."
"well, if you ever get bored of waiting, i'm usually here around this time. i could show you a few things. you look like you've got good potential for some real strength training." he chuckled, his voice dropping into a lower register.
he didn't move his hand. he stayed leaning over you, his shadow completely covering where you sat.
changbin didn't say anything at first. he just stood up. slow. deliberate.
when changbin stood, he looked massive. the pump from his workout made him look twice his usual size, and the intensity in his dark eyes was enough to make the air in the room feel heavy. he walked over, not stopping until he was standing directly behind you, his presence looming like a mountain.
he didn't shove the guy. he didn't have to. he just reached out and placed a heavy, solid hand on the back of your neck, his fingers tangling slightly in your hair. it was a grounding, heavy touch—one that claimed every inch of the space around you.
"she’s good," changbin said, his voice a low, dangerous rumble that seemed to vibrate in the floorboards. "she’s got the best trainer in the city. she doesn't need another one."
mark’s smile faltered. he looked at changbin, then at the way changbin’s hand was draped over you, his thick arm practically acting as a barrier. the power dynamic in the room shifted instantly.
"oh, yeah, no doubt," he stammered, taking a half-step back. "just being friendly, man. no harm meant."
"right. friendly," changbin repeated, his voice dry. he didn't blink. he just stared until the guy started to look physically uncomfortable. "we're done here anyway. go ahead and take the bench. it’s all yours."
mark didn't stay to chat. he muttered something about a good workout and practically scrambled to the other side of the gym.
changbin let out a sharp, hot breath. the tension in his jaw didn't fade immediately. he looked down at you, his thumb tracing the line of your jaw, his expression a mix of irritation and something softer that he tried to hide behind a scowl.
"you're all red," you teased gently, reaching up to touch his arm. "was he that bothering?"
changbin grunted, finally sitting back down next to you, though he kept his arm draped over your shoulders, pulling you firmly against his side. "i don't like it. i don't like the way he was hovering. like he was waiting for me to look away for one second."
"binnie, i wasn't going to go anywhere with him."
he looked at his lap, his fingers subconsciously flexing. "i know that. i do. but..." he trailed off, his voice losing its aggressive edge and turning into something much more vulnerable. "it’s just... i work so hard to be strong, to be someone you can rely on. and then some guy walks up and acts like he can just talk to you like that? it pisses me off."
he turned his head, burying his face in the crook of your neck for a second, his breath hot against your skin. changbin was all bravado and muscle on the outside, but with you, he was always just a guy who was terrified of losing the one thing that made him feel soft.
"i know, i know. i'm selfish," he mumbles against your skin. "i want everyone to know that you're with me. i want them to see me and realize they don't even have a chance. is that bad?"
"it's not bad," you whispered, leaning your head against his. "it's just you. it's also, like... really hot."
he pulled back, a small, genuine smile finally breaking through the scowl. he leaned in, pressing a hard, lingering kiss to your temple before standing up and pulling you with him.
"come on," he said, his voice back to its usual confident tone, though he didn't let go of your hand. "let’s go get food. if i stay here any longer, i'm going to end up staring that guy down until he quits his job."
he led you out of the gym, his chest puffed out just a little bit more than usual, his grip on your hand tight and unshakable. he walked you to the car, and even as he opened the door for you, he shot one last look back at the gym windows—just to make sure the message had been received.
HYUNJIN
the gallery was hushed, the kind of quiet that made you feel like you had to whisper even if you weren't saying anything important. the walls were covered in abstract pieces that looked like explosions of color, and you were currently squinting at one particularly confusing canvas. you couldn't tell if it was supposed to be a sunset over the ocean or just a very vibrant bowl of fruit.
hyunjin had wandered off a moment ago to look at a charcoal sketch in the far corner, leaving you to your own devices. usually, he walked right beside you, his hand resting in the small of your back, murmuring his own interpretations into your ear. those were your favorite moments—hearing him talk about brushstrokes and color theory in that soft, passionate way of his. it was the best way to spend a date.
"it’s the duality of existence, don't you think?"
you blinked, snapping out of your thoughts as a random guy stepped into your space. he was dressed in a turtleneck that looked way too tight and was holding a brochure like it was a holy text. he didn't wait for you to respond before he kept going, leaning in closer than necessary.
"the artist is clearly grappling with the fleeting nature of light," he said, gesturing vaguely at the red splotch you thought might be a cherry. "most people just see the surface, but i bet you have an eye for this sort of depth. i can tell by the way you’re looking at it. you have that... artistic soul."
you bit the inside of your cheek, trying desperately not to laugh. you didn't have an artistic soul; you were just wondering if the painter had been hungry when they made this. "oh, i'm not sure," you murmured, stepping back an inch. "i was just—"
"no, don't be modest," he interrupted, flashing a practiced, flirty grin. "i could spend the whole afternoon explaining the subtext of this wing to you. a girl like you shouldn't be wandering around such complex work without a guide."
he reached out, his hand hovering near your waist as if he were going to guide you toward the next painting.
"she already has a guide."
the voice was cool, smooth, and laced with a sharp underlying tension. you didn't even have to turn around to know hyunjin was back.
hyunjin didn't look at the guy at first. he kept his eyes on the painting, but his hand found yours instantly, his long fingers sliding between yours and squeezing tight. he didn't just hold your hand; he anchored you to him.
"actually," hyunjin said, finally turning his head to look at the man. his gaze was icy, his dark eyes narrowed in a way that made him look incredibly intimidating despite his beautiful features. "it’s not about the duality of existence. it’s a study on chaos. and she doesn't need you to explain depth to her."
the guy blinked, taken aback by the sudden shift in atmosphere. "i was just offering some insight—"
"your insight is unsolicited," hyunjin cut him off, his voice dropping to that low, velvety tone he used when he was genuinely annoyed. he stepped closer to you, his shoulder brushing yours, effectively erasing any gap the other man could have filled. "and your subtext is wrong. maybe read the artist's statement before you try to impress someone else’s girlfriend."
it was a total shut-down. the guy’s face turned a mottled red, his mouth opening and closing like a fish before he muttered something about "just being nice" and scurried off toward the sculpture garden.
hyunjin didn't watch him go. he turned to you immediately, his expression shifting from cold to pouting in a split second. he let out a dramatic sigh, dropping his forehead against your shoulder.
"i leave you alone for two minutes," he complained, his voice muffled. "two minutes, and someone is already trying to guide you."
"he was just being annoying, jinnie," you laughed, reaching up to run your fingers through his hair. "i was fine."
"he was touching your space," hyunjin muttered, pulling back to look at you. his eyes were still a little stormy, his jaw set in a stubborn line. he reached out, adjusting your scarf even though it was perfectly fine, just so he could have an excuse to touch you. "i don't like it. i don't like the way he was looking at you like you were part of the exhibit.”
he wrapped both arms around your waist then, pulling you flush against him right there in the middle of the gallery. hyunjin was always a bit dramatic, a bit more sensitive to the energy around him, and when he felt someone overstepping with you, he became incredibly territorial.
"you’re mine to explain paintings to," he whispered, his lips brushing your ear. "i’m the only one who gets to see your 'artistic soul,' okay?"
you smiled, leaning back into his embrace. "okay. so, what is this one actually about then, mr. expert?"
hyunjin looked at the painting again—the one you thought was fruit. he went quiet for a second, his head tilting as he studied it. "honestly?" he whispered. "i think it’s a bowl of fruit. but i’m going to keep pretending it’s deep so we look more sophisticated than that guy."
you burst out laughing, and he joined you, his jealous mood finally melting away into that bright, beautiful smile you loved. he didn't let go of your hand for the rest of the day, leading you through the halls with his fingers locked firmly in yours, making sure everyone knew exactly who you were with.
HAN
the arcade was a chaotic mess of neon lights and overlapping synth music, exactly the kind of place jisung loved. you were currently focused on a racing game, your hands tight on the plastic steering wheel as you tried to beat the high score. jisung had gone to the counter to trade in a stack of tickets for some candy, leaving you alone at the machines for just a few minutes.
you were doing pretty well until a guy leaned against the side of your console. he was wearing a leather jacket and had a smirk that suggested he thought he was the best thing in the room.
"you’re taking that turn all wrong," he said, loud enough to be heard over the game’s sound effects. "you gotta drift earlier if you want the boost."
you didn't look up, eyes glued to the screen. "i'm doing fine, thanks."
"i'm just saying. i've got the top score on this cabinet," he continued, completely ignoring your brush-off. he shifted closer, his arm brushing against yours as he pointed at the screen. "here, let me show you. move over a bit and i'll handle the pedals for you."
the suggestion was weird and way too personal. you felt a surge of annoyance, but before you could tell him to get lost, a familiar presence appeared on your other side.
jisung didn't say anything at first. he just leaned in, dropping a heavy bag of sour candy onto the dash of the machine, right between you and the stranger. he didn't look like his usual hyper, joking self. his shoulders were tense, and his eyes were fixed on the guy with a look that was uncharacteristically sharp.
"she doesn't need help," jisung said. his voice wasn't loud, but it had a sudden, firm authority to it.
the guy blinked, looking jisung up and down. "just giving some tips, man. don't get worked up."
jisung stepped into the gap, effectively pushing the guy back by a few inches just by claiming the space. he draped an arm over your shoulders, pulling you into his side so tightly that you had to let go of the wheel.
"she's winning," jisung noted, his voice dropping into that lower, slightly raspier tone he got when he was feeling protective. "and she’s winning without you hovering over her. so unless you’re planning on playing the machine next door, find somewhere else to hang out."
the guy looked like he wanted to argue, but the sheer, focused energy coming off jisung was enough to make him think twice. jisung wasn't the biggest guy in the room, but when he was set on protecting something, he had a way of making the air around him feel electric.
"whatever," the guy muttered, pushing off the machine and disappearing into the crowd near the air hockey tables.
the second he was out of sight, jisung’s posture deflated. he let out a long, shaky breath, burying his face in your shoulder for a second. he was still holding onto you like you were the only thing keeping him upright.
"hanji? you okay?" you asked, leaning your head against his.
"i hate idiots like him," he whispered, his voice muffled by your jacket. "idiots that act like they can just walk up and touch you. my heart started doing that weird thing where it feels like it’s vibrating."
you turned in his arms, seeing the faint flush on his cheeks. jisung dealt with a lot of anxiety, but when it came to you, his protective instincts usually managed to override his nerves—even if he felt the crash immediately afterward.
"you handled it perfectly," you said, reaching up to cup his face. "you were very cool."
jisung let out a small, embarrassed laugh, his eyes finally meeting yours. "i didn't feel cool. i felt like i was going to vibrate out of my skin. but then i saw him leaning on you and i just... i couldn't stay over at the counter. i don't like people in your bubble. that’s my bubble."
he pouted slightly, his thumb tracing the hem of your shirt. "i'm not good at the whole tough guy thing, but i really don't want anyone else thinking they can take my spot. is that too much?"
"no," you smiled, pulling him into a hug. "it's not too much."
jisung squeezed you back, his chin resting on your head. he stayed like that for a long moment, letting the noise of the arcade ground him again.
"okay," he said, pulling back with a sudden, forced burst of his usual energy, though he didn't let go of your hand. "now, move over. i'm going to beat your score and then i'm going to buy you a stuffed quokka with the rest of these tickets so everyone knows you’re taken by the best gamer in this building."
"i don't know if they'll have quokkas," you giggle.
"a squirrel, then!"
he spent the rest of the night glued to your side, his hand either in yours or resting on the small of your back, making sure that anyone who even looked in your direction knew exactly who you were with.
FELIX
the beach was beautiful, the salt air thick and warm as the sun began its slow dip toward the horizon. you were lounging on a wide striped towel, the sand still warm beneath you, while the sound of the waves provided a steady, rhythmic soundtrack. felix had been sitting with you for hours, his laughter ringing out every time a seagull got too close to your snacks, but he’d headed up to the boardwalk restrooms a few minutes ago.
you were closing your eyes, soaking in the last bit of the afternoon heat, when you felt the sand shift beside you.
"hey there. you look a little lonely for such a nice day."
you didn't notice the guy walking toward you until the sun was blocked out, casting a long shadow over your face. you squinted up, expecting to see felix, but it was someone else—a guy in board shorts with a surfboard tucked under his arm. he sat right down on the edge of your towel, kicking a bit of sand onto your book in the process.
"i'm fine, thanks," you said, sitting up and pulling your knees to your chest to create some distance. "my boyfriend just went to grab something."
the guy laughed, a slow, easy sound that felt entirely too confident. "boyfriend, huh? well, he's a lucky guy to leave someone like you alone on my beach. i’m a local—lived here my whole life. i know all the hidden spots, the ones the tourists don't know about. if you ever want a real tour of the coast, i could show you around."
he leaned back on his elbows, encroaching further into your space. his name rolls off his tongue, smooth and confident. too confident. "and... you are?"
"not interested," you replied, your voice firm, but he didn't seem to take the hint. he just grinned, looking you up and down in a way that made you feel exposed.
"come on, don't be like that. just a friendly offer from a local."
"she said she isn't interested."
the voice didn't sound like the felix most people knew. it wasn't the bright, bubbly tone you normally heard from him. it was deep—unnervingly deep—and it carried the weight of the ocean behind it.
felix was standing a few feet away, his silhouette sharp against the setting sun. he was wearing an open linen shirt and shorts, his blonde hair tousled by the wind, but his expression was anything but breezy. he looked down at the surfer with a cold, steady gaze that made the guy’s smile falter instantly.
felix didn't wait for a response. he walked over and stepped directly between you and the stranger, effectively shielding you with his body. he sat down right in the middle of the towel, his back to the guy, and pulled you into his lap. his arms wrapped around you, his chin hooking over your shoulder as he locked eyes with the surfer.
"you’re sitting on our towel," felix said. his voice was a low vibration against your back, the kind of sub-bass that you felt in your bones. "and you’re bothering her."
the surfer cleared his throat, suddenly looking much smaller than he had a moment ago. "man, i was just talking. no need to get aggressive."
"i'm not being aggressive," felix countered, his tone clipped and icy. "i’m telling you to leave. now. take your board and get out of here."
the guy scrambled up, grabbing his board and muttering something about "crazy tourists" before jogging off toward the water.
the second he was gone, the tension in felix’s frame snapped. he let out a jagged breath, his grip on you tightening. he buried his face in the crook of your neck, his nose cold against your skin. he didn't move for a long time, just held you there while the waves crashed in the distance.
"lixie? you okay?" you whispered, reaching back to stroke his hair.
"no," he murmured, his voice muffled. "i wasn't even gone for that long. what a dipshit. can't even take no for an answer."
he pulled back just enough to look at you, his eyes searching yours. the usual spark was replaced by a raw, protective vulnerability. felix was usually the sweetest person you knew, but he had a territorial streak that came out whenever he felt like your safety or comfort was being threatened.
"i don't like being that guy," he admitted, his thumb tracing your bottom lip. "the one who gets all possessive and weird. but when i see someone looking at you like that... like you're just something for them to win... it makes me feel like i’m losing my mind."
he sighed, his forehead dropping against yours. "i want to be the sunshine for you, always. but i’ll be the storm too, if i have to. i just want you to be safe."
you smiled, pulling his face closer to yours. "i’m always safe with you, baby. you don't have to worry. besides, it's very sexy."
his expression finally softened, a tiny, shy smile tugging at the corners of his mouth. he pressed a soft, lingering kiss to your nose before leaning back, though he kept you tucked firmly under his arm.
"good," he whispered. "because i’m not leaving your side for the rest of the night. we’re staying right here until the sun is completely gone."
he spent the rest of the evening exactly like that—glued to you, his hand never leaving yours, watching the horizon with a quiet, steady gaze that made it very clear to anyone passing by exactly who you belonged to.
SEUNGMIN
the bookstore was quiet, smelling of old paper and vanilla coffee. it was the kind of place where seungmin could spend hours, his eyes scanning spines with a focused intensity that you always found endearing. he’d spotted a specific edition of a poetry book he’d been hunting for and had disappeared into the back corner of the store, leaving you in the "new releases" section.
you were standing there, tilting your head at a row of thrillers, not exactly sure what you were looking for. you picked one up, reading the jacket blurb, when a guy stepped up beside you.
"that one’s a bit overhyped, honestly."
you looked over to see a guy who looked like he spent a lot of time in libraries—thick glasses, a slightly pretentious hoodie, and an air of confidence that felt a bit forced. he was leaning against the bookshelf, blocking your view of the next row.
"the pacing is all off in the second act," he continued, not waiting for you to ask. "if you want something with actual literary merit, you should be looking at the historical fiction section. i could walk you over there and give you some recommendations. a lot of people struggle with picking the right novel."
you gave a small, awkward laugh. "oh, i’m sure it’s fine. i just liked the cover."
"style over substance," he sighed, shaking his head with a condescending smile. "typical. look, i’ve got a pretty curated list of must-reads. if you give me your number, i can send you a few titles that are actually worth your time."
he leaned in a little closer, his hand reaching out as if to take the book from your hand to put it back on the shelf.
"she’s keeping that one."
seungmin’s voice was like a cold splash of water. it was sharp, precise, and completely devoid of his usual playful teasing. he appeared at your side, not with a flourish, but with a steady, quiet presence that immediately shifted the air in the aisle.
he didn't look at the guy at first. instead, he tucked the poetry book he’d found under his arm and reached out, taking the thriller from your hand and looking at the cover.
"it has a 4.2 rating on most platforms, and the prose is noted for being accessible yet punchy," seungmin said, his tone incredibly dry as he looked at the stranger. "but i’m sure your... curated list is much more impressive."
the guy blinked, his face flushing. "i was just offering some help. she seemed a bit lost."
"she isn't lost," seungmin replied. he didn't raise his voice, but there was a biting edge to it—the seungmin that the members were always wary of. he stepped into the space between you and the guy, his shoulder subtly pushing the stranger back an inch. "and if she wants a recommendation, she’ll ask someone who actually knows her taste. which isn't you."
the guy opened his mouth to say something, but seungmin just raised an eyebrow, his gaze steady and unimpressed. he looked like he was ready to dismantle the guy’s entire personality with a single sentence. the stranger clearly decided it wasn't worth the effort, turning and disappearing into the biography section.
the second he was gone, seungmin let out a quiet scoff. he didn't move away, though. he stayed right in your space, his hand sliding down to grip your wrist gently, his thumb rubbing against your pulse point.
"you were going to let him talk for ten more minutes, weren't you?" he asked, looking down at you. his ears were red, a tell-tale sign that he was much more bothered than he was letting on.
"i was just trying to be polite, min."
"you're too polite," he mumbled, his grip on your wrist tightening just a fraction before he pulled you closer to his side. "he was being a condescending prick. and he was trying to get your number right in front of me. well, almost in front of me."
seungmin let out a frustrated sigh, looking back at the shelf. he wasn't usually the type to make a scene, but when it came to you, his patience for other people was non-existent. he was territorial in a very intellectual, sharp way—he didn't like anyone acting like they knew you better than he did.
"i'm the only one who gets to recommend books to you," he said, his voice dropping to a softer, more private murmur. "because i’m the only one who knows you hate sad endings and that you always skip the middle of long descriptions. i don't need some guy in a scarf trying to fuckin' curate your life."
you smiled, leaning your head against his arm. "are you jealous, kim seungmin?"
"i'm observant," he corrected, though he couldn't hide the small, smug smile that touched his lips when you didn't pull away. "and i don't like people hovering. especially when they’re wrong about the pacing of that thriller. it’s actually very well-regarded."
he led you toward the checkout counter, his hand sliding down to lock fingers with yours. he didn't let go, even when he had to pay, making sure he was positioned between you and the rest of the store. as you walked out, he tucked the bag under his arm and pulled you closer.
"next time," he said, "just tell them you’re with a very mean singer who has no problem being rude in a quiet shop."
"i think they got the message," you teased.
"good," he whispered, pressing a quick, firm kiss to your temple. "they were supposed to."
I.N.
the night market was a blur of neon signs, the smell of spicy rice cakes, and the constant roar of a thousand different conversations. it was loud, crowded, and exactly the kind of place where you could lose someone in seconds.
jeongin had been holding your hand tightly the whole time, but he’d let go for just a moment to elbow his way through a crowd at a street food stall to grab the skewers you’d been eyeing.
you were waiting by a brightly lit claw machine, watching the mechanical arm fail to grab a plush bread roll, when a guy drifted over. he looked like he’d had a few drinks—not enough to be stumbling, but enough to be loud and way too confident.
"man, these things are a scam," he said, leaning his shoulder against the glass of the machine, effectively blocking your view. "you’re never gonna catch that. but hey, if you want something to take home, i’m right here."
you didn't even look at him, keeping your eyes on the joystick. "i'm just waiting for someone."
"he must be a slow guy to leave a girl like you standing in the middle of a crowd," he laughed, reaching out to tap the glass right in front of your face. he was hovering in your personal space, his shadow cutting off the light from the machine. "come on, let me buy you a drink instead of wasting your money on a toy. i know a spot just around the corner that’s way better than this mess."
you started to step away, but the crowd was thick behind you, trapping you between the machine and the stranger. "i said i'm waiting for someone. please move."
"don't be like that," he said, his hand moving as if to reach for your shoulder. "i'm just being—"
"she asked you to move."
jeongin appeared out of the crowd like he’d been launched from a cannon. he didn't look like the baby bread the fans joked about; he looked sharp, his feline eyes narrowed and his jaw set in a hard, uncompromising line. he stepped directly between you and the man, his shoulder knocking the guy back a couple of inches.
he didn't say it loudly, and he didn't make a scene, but the sheer coldness in jeongin’s voice was enough to make the air around you feel brittle. he stood his ground, his height and the sudden, intense presence he carried making him look much older than he was.
"hey, man, back off. we were just talking," the guy snapped, trying to regain his footing.
jeongin didn't flinch. he didn't even blink. he just reached back and grabbed your hand, his fingers interlacing with yours with a grip that was borderline bruising. "you were bothering her. she told you to move, and you didn't. so i'm telling you now. get lost before this becomes a bigger problem for you."
the man looked at jeongin—really looked at him—and saw the silent, icy resolve in his gaze. jeongin had a way of looking through people when he was angry, a sharp, piercing stare that made it clear he wasn't playing. the guy muttered a curse under his breath and disappeared back into the sea of people.
the second he was gone, jeongin turned to you. the "scary" version of him evaporated instantly, replaced by a look of pure, frantic worry. he dropped the skewers onto the ledge of the machine and took your face in both of his hands, his thumbs frantically brushing over your cheeks.
"are you okay? did he touch you? i was only gone for a minute, i shouldn't have let go of your hand," he rambled, his voice high and breathless. the adrenaline was still surging through him, making his hands shake just a little.
"innie, i'm all good. you got here before he could even do anything," you said, trying to calm him down.
jeongin let out a long, shaky exhale, leaning his forehead against yours. he closed his eyes, his hands sliding down to rest heavily on your shoulders. "this is crazy," he whispered. "some drunk bastard thinks that he can... that's crazy."
he pulled you into a crushing hug, burying his face in your neck. jeongin was usually the one being pampered by the older members, but when it came to you, he had this fierce, almost desperate need to be the protector. he hated being seen as "young" or "harmless" when it mattered most.
his grip tightening, he mutters against your skin; "i don't want anyone to look at us and think they can just take you away because i’m not enough to keep them back. you’re mine. i need them to know that."
he pulled back, his ears bright red but his eyes steady. he reached down, grabbed the food, and then locked his fingers with yours again—this time, he didn't just hold your hand; he held it like his life depended on it.
"we’re going home," he said firmly, though a shy, dimpled smile finally managed to peek through his serious expression. "and next time, if you want skewers, we’re going together. i’m not letting go of you for the rest of the night."
he led you out of the market, navigating the crowd with a new, confident stride, his shoulder always positioned to block you from anyone else’s view.
alright, i'll be the one to say it. ao3 and tumblr becoming "mainstream" did so much damage to the community and the writers. i have seen loads of videos and posts about:
1. people hating on writers and fics. writing is something we do for free and for fun. if you stumble upon a fanfic that isn't necessarily your cup of tea or you just don't like, scroll. dont read it. literally leave their page. you don't know if this could be the author's first work that they're so excited about, you dont know if the language they're writing in isn't their first language, you dont know that the writer could be a literal teen and loads of other reasons. fanfictions don't HAVE to be perfect. you write what you want to write because we do it for fun and enjoyment and we want to share that to the world. seriously, what is the wrong with that?..
2. x reader consumers getting WAY too entitled. the number of tiktoks i've seen that say "i run a strict program when it comes to reading fanfics." girl you aint running shit. this is FAN FICTION you're reading. F A N F I C T I O N. there is no denying that most fanfiction writes are beyond talented but just because you read one fanfic that exceeds your expectations doesn't give you the right to talk down on others that don't. people have their own personal writing style, their way of doing things and you talking shit on that isn't right.
at the end of the day, we are all humans, reading and writing is what we do and what we're meant to do. and for you to talk shit about a person WRITING is so insane. we are humans. not some robots that you can tell what to do so you can consume it.
i've seen so so many authors take down their fanfics and losing all motivation to write because of a hate comment. DONT LIKE DONT READ‼️
and to every author reading this, this community values your work and your contribution. we love u and, please, never let anyone's negative words have an effect on you.
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