IN A HEARTBEAT ⋮ nomin

𝟮𝟳: Jaemin's power

They wake up naked in Jeno's bed. The half-demon knows that everything went well even whe he doesn't remember much.

Jaemin is on his usually low battery, and his boyfriend knows that he needs to make coffee. He tries to get up but gets pulled back. Right into Jaemin's embrace.

"You little devil," Jaemin speaks in his husky voice. "Why was it so good?"

"That's how my powers work," Jeno smiles as he turns his head to face his boy. "So now I have to ask you. Did you feel any difference between your lust and mine?"

Jaemin hums and Jeno accepts that as "yes." But then the pink-haired boy speaks up.

"There's a big difference... My lust is natural and weak compared to yours which is why it took me a long time to give in to it. But yours... It was hard to resist."

"A few centuries back, such lust was used on people to sin, to take them away from God. It's a powerful lust indeed."

"You said that it didn't work on me before. Did it work this time because I'm in love with you?"

Jeno nods, "I guess so. Because when I did all of this in the past, we were strangers or barely knew each other. Remember when we first met? When you talked to Renjun, I tried to make you lust."

Jaemin slaps Jeno's shoulder.

"Why would you do something like this in public?" he scolds. "It's good that I didn't react, but what about other people? What did you do to them?"

"The same thing I did with you, but I left them all to deal with it themselves," Jeno laughs. "It was fun to see their reactions. After a minute or two, they all end up running to the bathroom."

"You're a villain," Jaemin pouts.

"I had to do that for my own sake. Remember I told you that I produce lust? If I don't give it to someone else, it all stays with me and I get sick and horny at the same time."

"Wait... Had? You're speaking in past tense now... Does that mean–"

"I won't use my powers anymore."

"Nooo!" Jaemin wails, taking Jeno aback. "If that means we have to fuck like that every day... Have mercy on me! I'm exhausted as never."

Jeno burst into a laugh. Jaemin is glaring at him.

"You can use your powers on other people, I don't forbid that as long as you're not joining them," Jaemin explains. "Just don't leave me to deal with your powers alone."

"If you say so, boss."

Jeno steals a kiss from Jaemin, but the boy doesn't get angry. Instead, he gets deeper with his thoughts.

"I can believe I'm dating a half-demon who controls lust... We're a weird combination..."

"Trust me, I can't believe it either."

➷

Now that Jaemin knows why Jeno looks weird in the photos, the half-demon doesn't have to run away whenever his boyfriend takes out his phone or camera. However, when Jeno stays, Jaemin never misses a chance to capture some moments. And, of course, that means he's taking photos almost every twenty minutes.

"You will run out of storage if you keep doing that," Jeno rolls his eyes.

He feels like a model as Jaemin takes photos of him even on their way home. The pink-haired boy never stops snapping pictures, even when he almost trips. If not for Jeno, he would have hurt himself.

"I'm taking photos of everything pretty," Jaemin explains, snapping one picture yet again. "Pretty and significant."

Jeno hears thousands of compliments when he's with Jaemin. But he still blushes.

"Stop. It makes me not as angry as I was before."

"No, but really," Jaemin lowers his phone and catches up with his boyfriend. "We missed lots of times to take photos, now it's time to take it all back."

"So you're just capturing every moment?"

"Exactly."

"But I'm barely seen..."

"Just you wait!"

They return home and Jaemin rushes to his laptop. Jeno thinks that his boyfriend is about to study, so he does the same. But after an hour or two, Jaemin asks Jeno to come to him.

The half-demon does, but he expects to see some med stuff like terrifying photos of surgeries. But instead, he sees a photograph of himself Jaemin has taken today. Surprisingly, the photo isn't blurry at all. Jeno looks like a normal person.

"How did you do it?"

"If I ever turn out to be a plastic surgeon, tell people that I can fix faces with photoshop too," Jaemin laughs.

"You photoshopped me?" Jeno gasps.

"I erased the blur and sharpened your face. Nothing else. You're completely natural."

"That's... That's so touching, Jaemin. No one has ever photoshopped my photos so well! All my school IDs, my driver's license... They did a terrible job. I looked like a ghost in those."

"I had to," Jaemin smiles. "I want to have at least one good photo of my boyfriend."