[ Stephen watches like a passenger, paralysed when wickedness steals warmly across Yujin's face and sparks a sharp frisson of anticipation somewhere behind his sternum. He snatches in a breath -
And then his hand is raised to lips and the glint in deep brown eyes makes perfect, too-late sense.
It's over as quickly as it starts, Stephen left blinking down at the planks of the deck somewhere behind Yujin where he'd started to follow his hand's descent and given up halfway. The other man's voice calls his attention again, lifts his gaze back to his face as Stephen tries to catch up to where they are, what was said, what it's his turn to say— ]
... Sure.
[ It's all he can manage. His hand is still warm from Yujin's, skin still tingling with the remembered impression of his lips, the faint soft scratch of a moustache. He's staring at him, he knows he is, but what else can he do? He's just been so thoroughly outplayed that he has no idea when the game started, let alone what the rules were or whether it's actually possible to lose.
This stretches on for too many seconds, Stephen staring at Yujin as he hyper-focuses on the parts of his hand that are apparently forming core memories - ]
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And then his hand is raised to lips and the glint in deep brown eyes makes perfect, too-late sense.
It's over as quickly as it starts, Stephen left blinking down at the planks of the deck somewhere behind Yujin where he'd started to follow his hand's descent and given up halfway. The other man's voice calls his attention again, lifts his gaze back to his face as Stephen tries to catch up to where they are, what was said, what it's his turn to say— ]
... Sure.
[ It's all he can manage. His hand is still warm from Yujin's, skin still tingling with the remembered impression of his lips, the faint soft scratch of a moustache. He's staring at him, he knows he is, but what else can he do? He's just been so thoroughly outplayed that he has no idea when the game started, let alone what the rules were or whether it's actually possible to lose.
This stretches on for too many seconds, Stephen staring at Yujin as he hyper-focuses on the parts of his hand that are apparently forming core memories - ]