Soul Breaker {Kaisoo § Chanbaek}

Chapter 5

"You're what's called a Soul Breaker, darling" Baekhyun coos, his fingers twitching with the need to touch. He wants to comb through Kyungsoo's short hair, which is physically impossible, seeing how he doesn't have enough. But Baekhyun never was a rational being. He aches for impossible things, which is what makes him so interesting.

Jongin smiles, delight coursing through his veins. Immense satisfaction.

Kyungsoo has performed above all hopes. He came back with barely a scratch on his first fight.

Jongin has never had anyone come back with barely a scratch on their first fight.

The house doctor is patching him silently, her hands skillfully stitching back the skin together while Kyungsoo sits on the bed of his room. He is in pain, Jongin can tell, but he barely moves. His posture tells him more than he wants to know.

He's endured this more times than one. He's used to it.

His mind is beautifully raging with questions and guilt. It is stirring underneath the surface like a fire kept hidden. But Jongin can see his hesitation, the realization of what he has become.

People usually resign after their first kill, coming to term with their fate. Not Do Kyungsoo.

Kyungsoo questions his every move, his every decision, playing the moment over and over again in his head. He lays it all bear to Jongin's eyes without knowing. He can see how easily he has accustomed to his newly acquired powers, how perfectly he moves, how decisive his every action is.

Jongin leaves his mind alone, enjoying the moment himself.

He has found his Soul Breaker at last, he is sure of it.

"What does that mean?" Kyungsoo asks Baekhyun.

His brother is roaming around the smaller man aimlessly. Jongin can feel the annoyance emanating from Kyungsoo, praying wordlessly to be left alone. But as usual, Baekhyun is oblivious to the message.

He senses something else as well, something that surprises him. Catches him off guard. Kyungsoo, however annoyed, is finding comfort in his brother's presence, in the constant background noise of his babbling and the touches he tries to steal from the Soul Breaker without success.

Something has happened between them, something that has settled their relationship.

It makes Jongin's eyes flare, a spark neither of them spot. It's fleeting but it's there.

If Baekhyun has defied his order...

But no, he hasn't. If he had, Kyungsoo would have been unable to resist. A simple human cannot resist a fallen angel. A Soul Breaker might but not for long.

Once again, if Baekhyun wanted to claim him, Do Kyungsoo would be claimed. No resistance possible.

Jongin settles back then, reassured. He watches as Baekhyun explains Kyungsoo's role, the meaning of his name.

"You break the souls that belong to Heaven from their connection to the light. They have nowhere to go and they are still too pure to be swallowed by the darkness so they find their place into this." He takes the stone Jongin had placed inside Kyungsoo's coat in his delicate fingers and makes it gleam softly to the light. "It's unique, the only one to ever exist."

Kyungsoo remains quiet, watching the stone sternly. His mind is stilling slowly, beginning to grasp what he is, what he has to do.

"It changes color with every owner. I have never seen it take this particular shade," Baekhyun adds. He leaves the stone in Kyungsoo's hand, the back of his fingers brushing Kyungsoo's in a far from innocent manner.