Marionette

21. Bandit. Free Zone. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy is when men are afraid of the light.

[ohxing]

[lionbaek]

chanbaek shopping for groceries ^^

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Lunatics || Baekhyun x Heesun

[daxboxian-blog]

ddxheesun:

(…)

“You think you’re real cute huh, boy?”

Heesun scrambled to move quickly to cut off the hunter’s path. He couldn’t watch. Two hunters had to hold him back the time they made him a witness of his loved one’s death. With no one restraining him now, there was no point to just watch. Despite his hands bounded back and mouth muzzled, he stood in front of the hunter. 

He swallowed hard, counting himself rather lucky that half his face was covered up yet wishing the visible half didn’t betray his determination right now. The hunter moved forward and Heesun closed his eyes tightly. A hard push struck his shoulders and knocked him off balance. As he stumbled backwards a couple steps, he heard the hunter chuckling. 

“Alright, enough play time. Our ride’s here. No more funny business from the two of you.”

“I think I’m adorable,” Baekhyun replied, deadpan. His words were a complete contradiction to his flat tone and expression. It was evident that at this point, he was just trying to rile the hunters up, to take out his frustration with the situation the only way that he could. 

He watched the hunter crack his knuckles, unimpressed. 

His eyes widened when the other captive suddenly stood and moved between them. Baekhyun was instantly on his feet as well, stepping forward as if ready to shoulder his way in front of the other man. Baekhyun could take a beating if he pushed these guys too far, but he wasn’t about to have a complete stranger take it for him. 

The hunter’s shove sent the other man stumbling backwards. Baekhyun mirrored his steps, falling back in surprise before bracing himself and letting the man back into him, steadying him as much as he could given Baekhyun’s still-bound hands. “Are you okay?” he demanded, stubbornly ignoring the laughter coming from the hunters. 

He wasn’t given much of a chance to get an answer. A rough hand curled around Baekhyun’s bicep and tugged him off balance. He had no choice but to stumble after the hunter that was dragging him towards the waiting truck. Of course, Baekhyun still shook off the man’s grip with a harsh jerk of his arm the second that he had his feet back under him. 

When he spotted the truck, his expression twisted. 

“An ice cream truck. Really?”

[mixchanyeol]

Darkshines || Baekhyun & Chanyeol

[daxboxian-blog]

ddxchanyeol:

Chanyeol took a shuddery breath through his nose, his muscles going taut as he felt the stranger’s hand land on his head but his body immediately went lax as he felt nails slighty scrape at his scalp.  

“I don’t know,” he breathed out again, tilting his head to look back up. “I don’t really remember what happened that night.  The doctors keep saying amnesia but I think I just blacked out.  One minute that… that wolf was attacking me and then it’s morning and it’s just gone and I’m covered in blood and they’re all just….-” and Chanyeol sucked in another deep breath, feeling the panic start to bubble in his chest as he stared up at the pale man with wide eyes.  

"Okay," Baekhyun interjects, suddenly regretting having even asked. He hadn't meant to work the other boy up, especially when he was so clearly exhausted after his run beneath the full moon. "Okay, I get it. You don't remember. That's..." probably for the best, he doesn't say, even though it's exactly what he's thinking. But then another thought occurs to him and Baekhyun's hand stills in the other's hair as he stares at him in surprise. "Wait. Was this your first full moon?" he demands, incredulous.

[chensoomyun]

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Lunatics || Baekhyun x Heesun

[daxboxian-blog]

ddxheesun:

“Werewolves?” The cloth around Heesun’s mouth muffled up his speech once more. That would mean their captors were… Hunters? He stood there dumbfounded that this entire set up boiled down to him crossing paths with these assholes again. Over werewolves of all things. Heesun would much rather side with the werewolves despite only meeting one in his whole life.

His new kidnapper took his arms and bent them back behind them. A piece of cloth bounded them together. The sleek feel of the threads against his skin was about the same as the one tied around his face. He wriggled his jaw from one side to the other. He repeated this motion until he discovered the sliver of space between the cloth and his mouth. The excitement died down quickly though. Even if he could get it off his face, then what? He could scream but that wouldn’t get him to the other side of the planet so he could be far away from these people.

He looked at the other captive with a curious look. “Do you know what they’re going to do to us?” His voice, thankfully, came out clearer than before now that the cloth didn’t cling to him so tightly. “Are they going to kill us?”

Baekhyun’s eyebrows raised at the lack of reaction from his new companion to the word. He’d expected his explanation to be laughed off, or ignored, or maybe earn him a sharp reply from a terrified hostage that wasn’t all that appreciative of his humor. Instead, he saw a flicker of recognition in the other man’s eyes that said plenty in itself. 

The other man knew about the supernatural. 

Well, that made things easier. At least Baekhyun hadn’t accidentally resigned himself to explaining the existence of werewolves to a complete stranger. Though that would imply that Baekhyun intended to hang around here long enough to do so-- which he didn’t. He was still weighing his options on how exactly he’d go about getting the hell out of here. 

He watched as their captors tied up his new companion. At his questions, he sighed and leaned back against the metal wall behind him. “They’re not going to kill us,” he assured, though his voice was deadpan. “They’re protecting us. Right boys?”

The question was directed at the man who had just finished with the other captive’s bindings. There was a challenging edge in Baekhyun’s words that the hunter apparently wasn’t fond of. At least judging by the scowl he threw Baekhyun. 

“Shut up before I gag you,” he warned, rising to his feet. 

Baekhyun’s lips tilted into a lazy smirk. “As fun as that sounds, you’re really not my type.” 

[mixchanyeol]

Darkshines || Baekhyun & Chanyeol

[daxboxian-blog]

ddxchanyeol:

Chanyeol took a shuddery breath through his nose, his muscles going taut as he felt the stranger’s hand land on his head but his body immediately went lax as he felt nails slighty scrape at his scalp.  

“I don’t know,” he breathed out again, tilting his head to look back up. “I don’t really remember what happened that night.  The doctors keep saying amnesia but I think I just blacked out.  One minute that… that wolf was attacking me and then it’s morning and it’s just gone and I’m covered in blood and they’re all just….-” and Chanyeol sucked in another deep breath, feeling the panic start to bubble in his chest as he stared up at the pale man with wide eyes.  

"Okay," Baekhyun interjected, suddenly regretting having even asked. He hadn't meant to work the other boy up, especially when he was so clearly exhausted after his run beneath the full moon. "Okay, I get it. You don't remember. That's..." probably for the best, he didn't say, even though it's exactly what he was thinking. But then another thought occurred to him and Baekhyun's hand stilled in the other's hair as he stared at him in surprise.

"Wait. Was this your first full moon?" he demanded, incredulous. His fingers continued to thread through the other’s wild hair absently. The gesture was habit, and he didn’t really realize he was doing it. 

[mixchanyeol]

Darkshines || Baekhyun & Chanyeol

[daxboxian-blog]

ddxchanyeol:

Chanyeol tensed.  

He couldn’t help it - not with the way the man tensed underneath him or the sharp edge his voice took.  The urge to flatten himself out was quickly growing but all he did was shake his head, hair flopping on to his face as he refused to look up.  

“I don’t know,” he cut the other off a little desperately, not even sure how he was supposed to answer any of those questions.  "I don’t know alright.  I thought it was gonna kill me… I thought it was just a wolf.  I didn’t know it was a ….“ and he trailed off, not wanting to give a name to the monster that had attacked him or to what he’d just become.

It wasn't until the stranger cut into Baekhyun's angry monologue that he even realized he'd began ranting. He’d even managed to miss the man going completely still in panic. There was no missing the frantic edge to his voice when he finally began to speak over Baekhyun, though. 

It was like a splash of ice water in Baekhyun's face. Just like that he deflated, instinctively combing his fingers through the stranger's hair in an effort to soothe the fear that was so evident in his voice. The moon was still too close and the other was still acting more wolf than human, so Baekhyun didn't think twice about the contact. 

“Okay," he cut in, voice softer now. "Okay, I'm sorry. You don't have to tell me anything. Forget I asked."

[dailyexo]

Baekhyun - 150801 Exoplanet #2 - The EXO’luXion in Chengdu

Credit: Galaxy_yueya.

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Lunatics || Baekhyun x Heesun

[daxboxian-blog]

ddxheesun:

(...)

“What are you guys doing??” He shouted against the cloth when he saw another person being grabbed as well. He was soon thrown down and dragged over to the other captive.

The other captive looked young. Scared. Even a little angry. His emotional state matched everything boiled under Heesun’s skin from the looks of things. A silver necklace was then placed around his own neck. He pulled away as forcefully as he could but no luck. 

He looked back at the other captive with a look of resignation that seemed to say, “I wish I could help you but I can’t even save myself.”

Baekhyun’s hands were bound behind his back with some sort of cloth. A tie, maybe. Though the knot itself was impressive, the fabric was too slick, had too much give to be truly effective. That meant Baekhyun could get himself out of the bindings if he could only get a few moments alone. 

Not that it seemed like that would be happening anytime soon. The hunters-- he’s figured out that’s who the morons that grabbed him were thanks to their chatter about the blue moon-- seemed to be waiting on one of their partners to bring a truck around for the ‘next load’. By the sounds of things, they were rounding people up off of the streets to stash them somewhere for the night. 

Which wasn’t the worst idea a hunter had ever had, but Baekhyun didn’t have time to deal with them right now. He had to get home to Chanyeol before the moon rose. Which it would. Soon.

He glanced up when he heard footsteps approaching. He’s not particularly surprised to see that one of the hunters has returned with a new captive, but he isn’t particularly thrilled by the sight either. Baekhyun watched on, expression pinched, as the hunter placed a necklace identical to the one that now hung low on Baekhyun’s chest on the neck of the newest captive. 

“Silver,” he volunteered as explanation, voice mocking as he glared at the nearest hunter, “to ward off the werewolves.” 

[mixchanyeol]

Darkshines || Baekhyun & Chanyeol

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ddxchanyeol:

“I don’t know,” Chanyeol said slowly -still not used to the way his jaw moved as he spoke. 

“I don’t remember what happened the first time… I wasn’t even sure there had been a first time.”  He laughed bitterly at his own admission, dropping his achy head back down. 

“Wild animal attack my ass,” he muttered mostly into the boy’s jeans.

It took a moment for the boy's words to click. "Wait," Baekhyun barely resisted the urge to scramble back in surprise-- mostly because he had a feeling the stranger would take it as a sign of fear rather than the awkward flail it would be. "You were turned? And not by choice? Someone attacked you??"

Baekhyun's voice was hardening as he fired off one question after another. He could feel his blood beginning to boil at the thought of a rogue werewolf prowling the forest and attacking innocents. Unconsciously, the hands that were hovering over the boy's skin were now curling into fists. "Did you get a good look at them? What about their human form? Could you--"

[daxboxian-blog]

Lunatics || Baekhyun x Heesun

ddxheesun

The sun was already too low in the sky for Baekhyun’s liking. 

He needed to make it back to the house before nightfall. Tonight would be Chanyeol’s first blue moon, and there was a lot of preparation that needed to happen before that moon had a chance to rise. Things like getting the new werewolf somewhere remote and confined, preferably. The last thing that his new roommate needed was to wake up covered in blood-- whether it was his own or not. 

So Baekhyun had been running around town and trying to gather supplies needed for tonight. He figured the chains he bought would be near useless, especially given the fact Chanyeol was probably an alpha, but it didn’t hurt to try, right? 

(The look that the sales clerk had given him when Baekhyun had placed his purchases on the counter was a small price to pay if it meant keeping his roommate and the rest of the city safe tonight.)

Arms loaded down with his heavy shopping bag, Baekhyun was only a few blocks from the house when he was grabbed by either arm and drug roughly away from the street. A hand clamped over his mouth before he could draw breath to shout. Baekhyun struggled against his captors with every ounce of strength he possessed, but to no avail. They kept his arms immobilized and no matter how hard he bucked, he couldn’t shake his assailants off. 

His bag of groceries fell to the sidewalk, where the contents spilled out onto the pavement, forgotten.

[mixchanyeol]

Darkshines || Baekhyun & Chanyeol

[mixchanyeol]

“Don’t feel okay,” he wheezed out uncomfortably, squeezing his eyes shut even tighter as one final tremor rocked his body. But it was only until he heard his own raspy voice amid the silence that he finally looked up.

Chanyeol blinked blearily until the boy’s strained face came into focus before looking back down at the his own arm that was currently wrapped around the other’s waist for support.   "I’m… back,“ he said a little numbly, staring at his fingers in awe.

[daxboxian-blog]

"You're back," Baekhyun confirmed with a smile that's only a little shaky. 

He wasn’t sure when the boy in his lap wound an arm around his middle, but Baekhyun was suddenly all too aware of how comforting just that little bit of human contact was after two weeks on his own. Perhaps he's a little more starved for touch than he'd given himself credit for. That was a problem for another time, though. "Is it always that rough?"

[mixchanyeol]

Darkshines || Baekhyun & Chanyeol

[mixchanyeol]

All Chanyeol could hear was the thundering of his own heart beat in his ears as he scrambled in the boy’s lap - his limbs bent at odd angles as bones started to rearrange themselves.  He felt horribly vulnerable - his skin too stretched out against his bones.  The only thing that was keeping him breathing was the touch against his overheated skin. 

“Make it stop,” he managed to grit out, pathetically rubbing his face against the jean clad thigh, fingers digging into the soil to keep himself steady.  "Make it stop, please.” 

[daxboxian-blog]

Baekhyun watched as the werewolf began to shift, the transformation from wolf to human slower and more painful than any he'd witnessed before. Whatever amusement he'd felt earlier at the wolf's whiney antics vanished. Guilt coiled tight in Baekhyun's gut as the boy's fingers clawed at the dirt beneath them, pleading brokenly for the transition to end.

"It's over," Baekhyun promised, voice a little higher, a little more frantic in the face of the other boy's agony. The hand that was once tangled in the wolf's fur now hovered over the boy's naked back, not daring to touch but yearning to offer some sort of comfort all the same. "You did it, it's over. You're okay."

[sebaeked]

[mixchanyeol]

Darkshines || Baekhyun & Chanyeol

[mixchanyeol]

Chanyeol squeezed his eyes shut, resting his head more heavily on the man’s thigh.  He hated the smell of blood… ever since that night a month ago.  Some days it felt like it was all that he could smell and no amount of scrubbing could get rid of it. 

But at least the boy had complied- the slight tug to his fur helping him relax as he continued to breathe in the boy’s scent.  It was slightly comforting, especially after a night were all his senses had been continuously assaulted.

And maybe it was because he was finally relaxing or because the sky was growing lighter and lighter but another ripple ran down his spine, his bones creaking uncomfortably as his whole body spasmed.  "Arrooo….owww.“

[daxboxian-blog]

Baekhyun was so preoccupied with inspecting the wolf's paw that he almost missed it when another whine dissolved into something a little more human. Almost. He did a double-take and his lips stretched into a slow grin. 

He caught himself just before he commented on it, though. Instead Baekhyun continued to comb his fingers through the wolf's fur, hoping to keep him distracted enough that he wouldn't startle out of the shift.

[yingtao]