ONF (currently on military hiatus) has released a 2nd set of individual teaser images for their upcoming special album âStorage of ONFâ which is scheduled to be released on August 16th.
info: jeonghan/reader, fluff, pg
word ct: 500 | warnings: suggestive
summary: never trust your hot roommate
If thereâs anything youâre good at, itâs getting yourself in way too deep. Usually by inserting your foot directly into your mouth. This timeâs no different. No matter how silly it seems. Youâre sitting across the table from your roommate, Yoon Jeonghan, narrowing your eyes at him as he finishes seasoning his fresh bowl of ramen. The ramen that you bought.
âYouâre telling meââ You start with a sneer. âThatâs the last package of ramen in the apartment. The ramen that I paid for with my own money? For me to eat?â
His lips twitch as he tries not to smirk. âYep. And thereâs nothing you can do about it.â
âPut down the ramen.â You demand.
âNo.â
âI said put it down!â You persist, your tone rising.
âAnd I said no.â
Your frustration gets the better of you and you smack the table. âSo help me God, I will tackle you to the ground and rip my ramen from your cold. Dead. Fingers!â
âYou?â He laughs humorlessly. âTackle me to the ground? Donât make me laugh.â
You raise a finger to him. âDonât tempt me, Jeonghan.â
âMore like Iâm calling your bluff.â He smirks. âYou wonât do it.â
The tips of your ears start to get red as you stand and stare him down. âThatâs it, youâve messed with the wrong girl!â
Without hesitating, you practically leap across the table, knocking Jeonghan out of his chair and onto the ground. Youâre sitting on top of his hips, your hands pressing his shoulders into the ground, and a triumphant smile on your lips.
âTold ya.â You taunt him, brushing your hair out of your face. âThatâll teach you toâwhat are you doing.â
His hands suddenly find themselves on your waist, and heâs got that devilish smile creasing his lips. âI have no idea what youâre talking about.â
âYouââ You start, huffing in anger. âYou totally let me tackle you.â
âMhmm.â He agrees, smirking up at you. âIâve got you right where I want you.â
Before you can get a word out, Jeonghanâs flipped the tables and you find yourself on your back, his hands keeping your wrists secured to the floor.
âJerk!â You spit at him as you force back laughter. âYou couldnât let me have this one? Just this one?â
He shook his head. âNope. Not today.â
Pouting, you puff out your cheeks, resisting your roommates exuberant charms. âYouâre so mean.â
âI think youâre just a sore loser.â He says, his voice hushed and mildly sexual. âThereâs only one way you can beat me.â
âOh?â You feign ignorance. âAnd howâs that?â
âDo I really have to spell it out for you?â He asks quietly, slowly getting closer, and closer, untilâ
With everything you have, you manage to roll over once more, putting yourself back on Jeonghanâs waist. You offer him a mischievous and knowing smirk, leaning in close to his ear and whispering seductively.
âYâknow, Iâve never been too good at spelling.â
word count: ~ 1800
a/n: scifi au that isn't meant to be an mv explainer but still part inspired by an absolute obsession with THE hyojin scene in "popping".
âI know what youâre doing with him.â
Hyojinâs fingers are cold against your skin as they run against your sides, arms enveloping you from behind. The kitchenette is dim despite the morning hour on the clock. Whatever light makes it through the curtains in the living space side of the room couldnât make it here. His lips tickle ever so slightly against the shell of your ear as he murmurs, âGood morning.â
Your hands stay busy with preparing the cup of tea on the single square of countertop beside the unitâs narrow oven. âMorning,â you reply customarily.
You know better than to offer him anything by now. It took a while for you to kick the habit of offering something to eat or drink. Hyojin had been patient through the weeks reminding you androids donât get their sustenance that way; he said heâd take it as a compliment that you so fully mistook him for human. Of course, androids for a long time now have been designed precisely to be indistinguishable from a distance without a detector.
âDid you sleep well?â
You hum an affirmation before nudging, signaling Hyojin to unwind his arms so you could step away from the counter. âYouâre okay?â
âOf course,â Hyojin replies, moving to the side so you can head back over to the unmade bed. âMaybe a bit nervous,â he admits by the time youâve settled back onto the mattress, mug cradled in your hands.
âWhyâs that?â As you ask, your gaze is on the way that sunshine tries to reach into the room, on the flecks of dust that float through the air and the floorboard where light switches to shade. His feet come into your vision first. You look up to see him approaching.
âIt could be today that the files come in at your office, right?â
The bed dips where he sits beside you. âYouâre thinking about that already?â you ask, the rim of your cup just below your lips. Steam drifts up over your lips and brings the aroma to your nose faintly. Itâs warmer than any touch of his. By no fault of his own, you add to the thought.
âItâs hard not to.â Hyojin watches you take a sip. You wonder - not for the first time - if he envies humans of the littler things. If he even has time to with his eyes set on the bigger problem. âYou donât know whatâll mean if we can get a hold of it.â
His words are a little too accurate, considering the role youâve agreed to play in getting them to him. âCould you remind me again? How data from some station habitats is going to help with making things fair for androids down here?â
And he tells you that and more. The good reason he has to believe studies done there have indisputable proof of android sentience that organizations on Earth have been invested in keeping buried. The ways youâll expose it together, and the world will change for the better.
In your time as a functionary, youâve never once peeked into the files being transferred between the space stations and the office you worked in. It isnât part of your job description. Youâre just a step in the encryption process; a step intentionally left unautomated to keep the information out of nefarious, non-human hands. It had never occurred to you as an injustice until you met Hyojin.
You bend down to set your now empty mug on the floor. Once youâre upright again, your hands are occupied again quickly. This time with Hyojinâs hands clutching yours. âNo one will ever be able to be grateful enough to you,â he professes. âI still canât believe I found you.â He brings your hands towards his mouth and dots small kisses against your knuckles. His lips travel up, one just above your elbow and one at your shoulder before they finally meet with your own. You donât need to see scientific evidence to know Hyojin truly has his own mind and heart.
Your back meets the mattress gently, and your arms wrap around his neck as theyâve done so many times before.
âI know heâs sweet with you. Makes it so easy for you to believe him. But you canât.â
Hyojin walks you to work as he often does. Which is to say, he only ever takes you as far as two blocks away from your office. Once upon a time, you thought it was just the most convenient turning point for him to get to his own job. You know better now.
On most sidewalks, the two of you are afforded the same treatment as any other couple would be. No one really says a thing about it. Itâs only in those parts of the city with scanners for bionics that Hyojin ever appears on edge. Otherwise he moves through the streets with a confidence thatâs easily enviable.
A squeeze of your hand draws you out of your thoughts. Traffic serves as a good excuse for him to come to pause with you on a street corner.
âI just want to say - itâs okay if you canât,â Hyojin says softly. The abstraction is intentional. Outside of the apartment, itâs impossible to know whatâs safe to say.
âNo, if itâs there, I will,â you promise. âI know how much it means.â
His grip tightens again. âDonât do anything thatâll get yourself in trouble, though.â Itâs difficult to believe he could prioritize you over his grander cause, but there his words are. âThatâs the last thing I want.â
âI know. Iâll see you later.â
Hyojin smiles at you. His fingers hesitate to untangle with yours when the traffic pauses for crossing. As a substitute for a goodbye kiss, he simply reaches his other hand up to your face and brushes lightly over your jawline. For half an instant, youâre angled as if he really would kiss you on the street corner. You would let him, as indelicate as it would be in this city. But then his touch is gone, and heâs reminding you one more time to be safe before you hurry across the street.
âHe makes it all sound so promising, but he isnât telling you the truth. If you go through with it, youâll be horrified with yourself. He isnât looking for data to convince people of androidsâ humanity. It doesnât exist. Itâs an excuse.â
You struggle against the hold of the stranger, half wondering if this would be the end. Youâll go missing, or be found in this alley in a few hours time. The accusations against Hyojin shouldnât have surprised you - heâd told you from the start that he had to keep his presence in the city a secret. But still, you refuse to let it slide. âYou donât know what youâre talking about,â you say with clenched teeth. âOur plan-â
Your words are cut short by an abrupt pull and a push. Your shoulders slam against the rough wall, an arm presses up against your throat. The stranger is in front of you now, pulling their hood down quickly before returning the hand to restraining you.
If not for all the pressure locking you into place, you would mistake it for being in front of a mirror. Shock puts a halt to your attempts to break out of the hold. âItâs his plan. Not ours,â the assailant with your face hisses. âGet that through your head now. We canât let this be the reality where he actually gets his way.â
You come back to the apartment only slightly later than usual, your shoulders slightly sore but your throat feels fine. The lights in the small studio are off, and thereâs a part of you thatâs grateful to have gotten here before Hyojin. The other part of you is angry to even have that first thought.
The light buzzes on, flickering for a moment before turning steady. With a sigh, you sit down on the edge of the mattress and pull the small, square drive disc out of your pocket. It feels like youâve just woken from a nightmare. Heart still racing despite being able to look around and say youâre fine.
Youâre fine, you repeat to yourself. You ought to treat the whole ordeal as a bad dream. Odd and confusing but inconsequential. It isnât so easily done when thereâs proof it was real.
Real - but it makes no sense. Thereâs no other you. Not even an android modeled to your likeness. Itâs impossible, but it happened. You sigh shakily and slip the disc back into its place.
Before you can try to clear your head, the lock of the door turns and Hyojin is coming in. He looks the same as when you left him. He smiles when he sees you, but it only lasts for a moment. âWhatâs wrong?â Hyojin is in front of you in an instant, his hands brushing over your arms and eyes looking you over closely. âWhat happened?â
You smile weakly, endeared by how easily he can read you and how concerned it makes him. You know Hyojin. If you lied and told him you couldnât get the files, he would sweep you into his arms and tell you it was fine; that he was just glad you were safe. If you told him the truth - that someone had found out about the plan, and was trying to convince you itâs far more nefarious than you knew⊠Then heâd be hurt. Heâd wonder if youâd really believe a stranger over him. If you really could be so easily convinced that androids werenât trustworthy. That he wasn't.
âIt was nothing,â you try to assuage him. âJust something weird on the way home.â His expression angles into confusion. Thereâs a flash of a dark misgiving; but then breaks his gaze from yours and looks to your hand as he cradles it.
âDo you want to talk about it?â
You shake your head and hum refusal. âItâs not important.â
âYouâre sure?â
âThereâs something more important.â
An optimistic curiosity lights up Hyojinâs face. You pull your hand away from his and reach into your pocket.
âIs thatâŠ?â Hyojin only starts to ask when his eyes catch the black plastic of the memory card. You nod, and he grins. When you hand him the drive, it feels like a bolt locking into place. Thereâs no changing your mind now.
âI love you,â Hyojin says as he pockets the card. An instant later, his hands are cupping your face as he leans in to reaffirm the statement with a kiss.
âHeâll keep hopping timelines until he can find a version of me that goes through with it. And not because he loves me- you - us. You understand, donât you?â The strange reflection - this not-you - struggles for a moment before holding a disc out to you. âGive him this instead. You can put a stop to this for good.â
âI love you, too,â you tell him when his lips leave yours.
You can only hope you wonât regret what youâve done.
i've been watching some of the stages for "thrill ride" and one of the boyz inexplicable gives me the hyper-specific vibes of actor hired to play peter pan at a disney park who is harassed out of his job after going viral on the internet