Winter Hearts

Confluence

*Apologies for the very long delay. I found this difficult to write - or rather, writing the next step in this story, was difficult - probably because I feel things are coming to a head at last. I have alse been revisiting past chapters and am itching to "fix" things I see are glaring, from my style, to phrasing, to plot mistakes and holes. I am eternally grateful for all your positive feedback and how you overlook those things I now see with embarrassing and annoying clarity LOL. Thank you for your patience. This is fairly short considering the long break, and I foresee with the comeback tomorrow, that I may be delayed in updating with a new chapter after this too. 

However I feel this point in LEo and Siana's story is important after the whirlwind of their romance and it needed to happen:) Thank you again!

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Leo looked over Hyuk's shoulder as they crowded around him, checking all the pictures that they had taken. He wanted to finish. Now.

He glanced around the group. They seemed to be happy with what they had gotten so far.

"The light is so nice," N murmured. Leo nodded as well, if a little too enthusiastically.

"Pinkish glow excellence," he said drolly, his eyes darting up to meet Hyuk's who had looked at him with a smirk. He knew what was on Leo's mind.

He snorted and looked back down at the pictures.

"So are we done?" he asked, putting a hand on N's shoulder and squeezing slightly.

"I am happy, what about you guys?" N said, cocking his head at Ravi and Hyuk.

"The light is good, the mood is good, we look good." Hyuk nodded, looking at Ravi. "Hyung?" he asked. "Is there enough purple?"

Ravi nodded, grumbling his agreement.

"Kkomae-ssi, what do you think?" N asked through a voice message on the group chat.

"We're done," came the reply, and they all smiled and clapped. They broke off into groups, some walking down towards the sea view, others posing for selfies and making videos.

"Coffee! Coffee! Coffee!" Ken yelled, divesting himself of his over coat and slouching down the hill.

Leo walked towards Siana, who had started towards them when they had split, leaving Min to walk back down to the car with N and Hongbin.

She smiled at him as he neared her, and he couldn't help it, he reached out to pull her into a hug and kissing her hair at her temple.

She sighed, hugging him back.

"That was surprisingly interesting," she murmured as he straightened up. He smiled down at her smirk. "Considering you looked bored out of your mind."

He laughed. "I was going for intensely sexy."

"Well," she paused, 'that too." He felt his breath hitch as she dropped her gaze and turned away with heated cheeks. In a split second, his fatigue from an afternoon of languid posing disappeared, replaced by a rather impatient, familiar energy.

The next few days without her in his bed were going to be very difficult, it suddenly seemed.

He cleared his throat, exasperated. She turned, her eyes averted, pulling him along by the hand as she followed after the others who were now making their way down towards the parked van. Kkomae had already packed away the open cases at the back of it, and was moving out of the way to let Min Seok tidy up and close the back doors. He grabbed the camera Min Seok handed him and went to sit in the front to look through the pictures carefully. The others seemed to melt towards the car, their bodies relaxing after holding their poses, various over-clothes slipping off shoulders and buttons being undone. They seemed to let momentum carry them into the car as they slouched into their seats and came to rest.