starboy interlude | jaywon☆

Jungwon looked at him then-really looked.

Not the careful idol gaze, not the practiced one he wore for cameras and crowds. This was stripped bare, quiet, dangerous in its honesty. His hands were still. His voice didn't shake, which somehow made it worse.

"Do you regret not ending it?"

Jay felt it hit somewhere deep-below instinct, below training. Right where the mission used to live.

"No," Jay said, too fast, like the truth had been pacing for days.
Then he swallowed, slower now, because this part mattered.
"I regret that I ever believed I could."

Jungwon's breath caught. Just once. Enough.

Jay stepped closer, close enough that Jungwon could feel the heat of him, the certainty. His voice dropped-not soft, not loud. Final.

"I'd rather die myself," he said, "than be the man who ends you."

Jungwon stared at him like he was memorizing a face he might lose. Like he already knew this was the moment everything split-before and after.

And Jay knew it too.

Somewhere far away, the world kept turning.

But right there-

Jay stopped being a weapon.

And Jungwon stopped being a target.

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