… This close?﹙ Pulling him towards himself﹚You’re aware I want to give you my attention all day?
I would want you to feel that way even when I’m not around.
It feels that way for me.
The response that reverberates along empty concrete isn’t his partner’s but, Min-jae had never expected it to be, either— no, that hesitation, that placating… it doesn’t belong on anyone belonging to him.
With a furrowed brow, he keeps his gaze on the lights above.
“… Do not think the l— length of our distance is of insult ….” Both, obscured by the late night dark. Except, the one who did not belong could remember every etch of Min-jae’s face. “I prefer… ——you do not let your eyes upon my being.”
Yeobo … it’s your perfection that has me needing you so, even just ten minutes more, even ten years…
Has something I’ve done … made you think any less?
“I care for every single victim, detective— but there is only so much I can do, as a citizen . . .
Is the investigation going well . . ? Found anything?”
“…hm… didn't think you would care, I mean there had been dozens of murders in the penthouse that you seem to ignore.
Especially with all the shitty camera displays…”
Something akin to disappointment graces his features, removing the gift from sight— an exhale through the nose, then settled with a sly, “As you wish”.
Filling the silence with a small shift in his seat, enough time for Ha-joon to swallow down what he preferred to say. Instead, casting a reticent gaze on the performer;
“And you?”
And maybe Ha-joon’s impression of him isn’t truly wrong. Watching the other man so closely, giving some distance to catch it all, as if he could see what’s just underneath with enough time—
“What makes you so tense?” He asks, after a jaw-dropped and innocent blink— the laugh coloring his expression, fanning Ha-joon’s ear.
“I thought of you when I saw it— is there something wrong with that?”
The lack of awareness concerning the abrupt presence caused Ha-joon to still. The voice, giving realization into who it was didn’t make it any better. Still; his fist remained. “Keep it to yourself.”
Voice it’s usual haughty.
“I have to wish in talking to you tonight.”