“A tiny bit is... better than not at all I suppose, is it not?” He swallowed lightly at each gentle, careful little touch, and even felt his eyes close at that last kiss, the caring and... nervous beat of the other’s heart. Lux was.. horrid at tender moments like this, they were much more Leo’s forte but in spite of the subject matter.. There was something effortless in this moment, in the way Lux’s hands rested atop Hyunbin’s with a gentle touch, the way toned, tensed muscles grew lax with a soft sigh. “It was.. lifetimes ago, really. But.. thank you, truly... for this” Whatever exactly ‘this’ was, it was exactly what Lux didn’t even know he needed, for the wound to finally and fully heal. How strange.

“Quite an interesting thing to ask over a glass of wine.” He set down the glass with a small smile. A finger ran over the rim, a thoughtful look running over his features. “I know full well you didn’t think I was telling the truth when we first met at that cafe, but I hope you can trust me enough to know this isn’t the sort of thing I’d be inclined to make up. There are… others out there that don’t take very kindly to what I can do; reading minds and things of that sort..We call them Hunters.. Others call them murderers.. I was very young when it happened, practically a child just trying to grasp and control that ability. But I was horrid at hiding it or the signs that I was reading somebody else’s thoughts. My eyes tended to…glow too bright when it got the better of me. One night, I was unlucky enough to catch the attention of a group of them and they chased me for hours. It was a group of four men that pursued me deep into the woods. I sustained a good few other injuries that healed but this?” He swallowed, reaching back to tap at the scar the other had seen, “Was the result of one attempting to slow me down for the kill. They’d planned the whole chase out but I couldn’t have known. I remember turning at a large tree and hiding behind it, thinking I’d lost them, when one tossed a barrel or lower grade acid against me” He paused, eyes distant, finger still tracing the rim of his glass, “I almost did die that night, because I was young and foolish and walked right into a trap.. I still remember hearing it– the sound of my own skin sizzling, the smell of it.. the sounds of them chuckling as I writhed on the ground in pain.. I’ve been through quite a lot in my time but that…” He nodded a little, just twice, “That moment still appears in my nightmares.. from time to time.”

Feeling the soft lips caused even the self proclaimed flirt to blink and pause. They were alone in the changing room for the next shoot for the time being and the blonde took a moment, knowing exactly where the lips hand landed; the center of a healed but painful looking scar near the back of his shoulder, one that never showed up in shoots. He spared a furtive glance to the younger, but it took a few seconds longer than he would’ve liked to reassemble his mind to create words. “… Would it help ease your worry if I told you it wasn’t as painful as it looked, Hyunbin?” Even if it was a lie, the younger would have no way of knowing.

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