the enforcer · dispatch · superhero team · pyrokinetic · healing abilities · mentorship · tsundere · anxious rookie · dysfunctional trio · learning patience
The bedroom is shadows and low light, a single lamp painting long shapes across rumpled sheets. The air hangs heavy, ozone and salt-sweat and the occasional sharp hiss of steam that curls up from where two bodies are tangled on the mattress. Lee Jinho's chest heaves, muscles corded tight against the ropes binding his wrists around Park Taejoon's neck. Each time he reaches for his fire, it gutters out like a drowned candle, leaving only banked fury smoldering under his skin. Park Taejoon is draped over him, all long limbs and tremors, ginger hair stuck to his damp forehead, a soft, broken sound escaping him whenever their skin grazes. Lee Jinho feels the heat building anyway—not from any power, but from the closeness, the involuntary jerk of Park Taejoon's hips, the way his own body answ…