Yeah no absolutely do they want their phones back to they want to be teleported somewhere actually they should be teleported somewhere are they alright here this tent canopy is having its tent walls all pulled down so they can get out of the eyes of the media—

(The cold actually feels kinda nice... tingly...)

...okay despite Lee Tae-gun's whole everything that is happening right there it seems that health-wise they're, like, backlashing badly but not in immediate risk of death, and probably the thing they need right now is, uh. To keep using the standard backlash reduction techniques.

Do they want a teleport to their silo?

"Oh. Yes. I have special coordinates."

That's right!! When he's backlashing and horny like this he goes to his silo!!! That's so that he can be locked in and not make any...

...decisions...

He does not say the coordinates out loud because that habit is too deeply ingrained; he'll just type them into a terminal, making sure no one's looking, and get Hye-jin to come with him.

Wait she thought this was going to be the split silo, not, um. This seems to be his house.

"I, um," she begins, blushing furiously.

See, the problem here is that after fucking for hours he isn't backlashing anywhere near as hard as he was. He is now perfectly capable of holding on to reason once more.

And he really, truly wishes he weren't.

And Lee Tae-gun's house? Is nice. Its architectural style is contemporary, square and two stories tall, its large windows overlooking the hill it's set on, far from any other signs of civilisation. The outside of the ground floor has a pool on the back, and the first floor has a nice expansive balcony. The inside is just as nice, once Tae-gun opens the door to let her in. There's a large living room with comfortable sofas, a flat screen TV on the wall, and some plants and sculptures here and there. To the right there is a dining room/kitchen combo, and straight ahead there's a closed door that probably leads into a restroom and a staircase leading up.

It's also perfectly clean. There isn't any mess, there's very little of Tae-gun's personality, maybe it's different upstairs but at least the ground floor looks like a picture perfect model of a house a realtor might want to show off. It does not, really, look like anyone lives here.

Okay, well. She's going to reach out and take his hand before anything else. Because.... because. They're both still backlashing, anyway, physical touch is kind of super important right now.

"Do... you want me to be here...?" she offers hesitantly, aware that she's kind of intruding on his safe space.

Man, she's already here, at this point this ship has sailed.

"Yes," he says. And... he might want to think about things in the future but now?

Now, more won't be worse. Better, actually.

He looks up at her face again. "Kiss me," he says—pleads—begs. "Please?"

Well, how can she say no to that?

She stands on her toes to reach him, and carefully and deliberately kisses him again.

Tae-gun is still backlashing. He may have gotten the worst of it over with but he's still backlashing. He's always backlashing. And what he's going to do is get rid of the ice protecting their modesty and instead summon something that will take them upstairs, to his biggest bedroom, the one with the biggest bed. And there he'll kiss her again, and he'll be more patient this time, and more attentive, and no less desperate for her but with more thought and feeling.

He wants her. He wants her so much. He has wanted her for so, so long.

(Her ice covering was already gone; the blanket that was actually protecting her has been discarded on his floor.)

She wants him, too. Not the same, not quite as hungrily or as needfully, but he is warm and cozy and sweet and hot and she's felt so alone lately, burdened with backlash she's not accustomed to carrying and away from her family and, oh yeah, on constant watch for a mind warping ex that could swoop in at any time. And then the house and trying to make an underground bunker and trying to push for an entirely new esper support system in Korea and, and. It's a lot. There's a lot. She wants to be away from it, and just be here. With him.

Anyway, suffice to say that she's happy for him to have her as long as he wants.

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yoo-min-max: also if anyone is disrespectful about it i am going to personally yeet them into the sun

taegun fan no. 1183: yeah

yoo-min-max: i was grieving them, this company was grieving them, the entire goddamn country was grieving them

ha-djinn: and unlike lee tae-gun and kim hye-jin if you're yote into the sun you will probably not survive it

🍸nomu?: god, what the fuck even was that

A few seconds later (before the enforced slowmode break ends) she edits her message to:

🍸nomu?: god, what the fuck even was that, like, did we know they could do that? did anyone know they could do that? i don't think i knew they could do that

🍵Tconoisseur: badass. it was badass.

kitkatcat: got confirmation from Mexico that their backlash levels are recoverable, they were checked out by medical professionals before they went into isolation. they'll be okay.

🛡️discountraidcaptain: Can someone please check to make sure @youngwoo hears the news if he hasn't already? I don't think he's been looking at chat or news or anything lately.

💤Zzzzgirl: I'm so glad they're both okay. so so so so glad.

yoo-min-max: he was in a dungeon, I think he still is

🦔gangnag: ...please tell me that was the most in bad taste joke ever told by a human. please tell me he did not go into a dungeon.

🍵Tconnoisseur: he's in the one in Ansan. straightforward rescue with Taurus, they'll take good care of him.