It was hot. Too hot in the room.

The lights were out, only soft pants and small moans could be heard, bouncing off the walls and resonating throughout the room. Illuminated by the moonlight, two figures could be made out on the bed, pressed against each other tightly.

Dongwoo was in bliss when he felt his boyfriend's soft skin under his fingertips, warm and soft lips against his own and a pliant tongue tangling with his. Sighing, he gripped the other's waist tighter as he felt slim fingers tangling in his hair and soft moans against his lips. Trailing his hands up his partner's shirt, feeling the soft, pale skin revealed to him, Dongwoo sighed.

, he was .

It had been too long since he had felt his love's lips, had tasted him, just had felt him like that. Sunggyu. His Sunggyu.

It had been pretty hard for them with their tight schedule, barely having time for a short peck in between practice and performances and radio shows and whatnot.

What complicated the situation was also that Sunggyu had refused to tell the other's about them, leaving them even less opportunities to be affectionate, since there was always at least one other member around. He was scared, his boyfriend once admitted. Of rejection, of being looked down on, of being hated.

Dongwoo understood.

But lately he had felt something weird building up inside his chest when he saw Sunggyu with Woohyun, doing their usual fanservice, or when his boyfriend paired up with Hoya for their new show, even when he noticed their stylists flirting with him shamelessly. Especially when he noticed their stylists flirting with him. ing es.

It wasn't only jealousy, no. It was possessiveness. He was freaking angry that nobody knew that Sunggyu was his. His and his only.

Property of Jang Dongwoo. Touch and you will die.

How much he wanted to yell those words out, to tell them into everyone's face with a smirk, oh, how he wanted to tattoo those words into the soft skin of his boyfriend, to make sure everybody understood that Kim Sunggyu was ing taken, was his.

Dongwoo had a problem, alright. And he was desperate.

He desperately wanted to mark Sunggyu as his, in any possible way.

He wanted people to know. He wanted to be sure.

And exactly that led him to bite that wonderful and slender neck of his boyfriend, creating a small bruise.

Sunggyu immediately yelped and jumped away, holding a hand over the slightly aching spot. Confused, soft eyes were staring into Dongwoo's dark ones and the younger couldn't help but smirk and pull the other into his lap again, pressing a short kiss to the elder's lips.

“W-what was that, Woo-yah?”, Sunggyu's voice was hushed, soft voice lowered down to a mere whisper, trying not to wake the other members.
 

“It's a hickey, Gyu.”, he smirked and pulled the other's hand away from his neck to take a good look at his creation, lapping at the purpling mark softly with his tongue. He was shoved away and he faced a rather disgruntled looking Sunggyu.

“Why did you do that? Now I have to wear a scarf.”, the elder glared at him and got up from the bed, mood ruined completely. Dongwoo stared after him, dumbfounded.

“Why, you ask? Cause I want to mark you as mine, Gyu.”, he stood up too, approaching the older male and wrapping his arms around his waist. Just to get pushed away again and glared at.

“Didn't we agree that we don't want anyone to find out?”, Sunggyu crossed is arms, glaring at the younger accusingly. That was when Dongwoo snapped.

Gritting his teeth, he ran a hand through his hair, glaring at Sunggyu full force, who shrunk back after seeing his boyfriend's furious face.

“ing hell, Sunggyu. We didn't agree on that. I didn't agree to that! We are going out since when? Three months? And I'm not even allowed to tell anyone you're my boyfriend! When all I want to do is scream it out to the world and tell everyone that I ing am in love and I found my perfect person and haha, in your face, you haven't but I'm ing not allowed!”

Dongwoo was pacing up and down, agitated to the core and seething. Sunggyu looked confused and concerned.

“I told you already that we should wait! What if they didn't approve? What if-”, Sunggyu reasoned, approaching the younger.

“What the do I care if they approve?! I love you, Sunggyu! And I want everyone to know it! I want Woohyun to know when he hugs you, I want Howon to know when you go eat lunch together, and I want every single person who tries to flirt with you to know that you are mine and nobody but me is allowed to touch what is mine!”

Sunggyu's eyes widened when hearing this, but being the stubborn hamster he was, he went on with his reasoning.

“Look, Dongwoo. We just can't risk getting caught. It's our career, the thing we worked so hard for. We can't give that up just cause you are too jealous and possessive and can't be content with what we have!”

There was immediate silence after Sunggyu finished his sentence, panting.

Dongwoo looked like he was hit in the face, hard. And like somebody ran over his dog afterwards, before stealing his candy and burning it in front of his eyes.

“So I'm too possessive and jealous, huh?”

The elder's eyes showed regret, but Dongwoo couldn't see them with the way he was facing his feet. Slowly, the older approached his boyfriend, but the latter backed away.

“Listen, Woo, I'm sor-”

“Cut it out, hyung. I got what you mean. I think I'll go to sleep now.”

Sunggyu didn't like the feeling of coldness while sleeping alone, no warm arms wrapped around him. All he could do was bite his lips out of regret and stare at a broad back, the younger male being turned away from him.

Sunggyu ed up. Big time.

*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*

The next morning was bad. Really bad.

Just as the mornings of the following week.

Sunggyu woke up alone and cold every day, immediately reminded of what happened. He barely had gotten sleep, too used to sleeping in a warm embrace. Also, his guilty thoughts and regrets kept him up all night long, wondering about what a ing idiot he was.

Why couldn't he just tell them? He trusted the members. He trusted Dongwoo. He knew that he could count on them, no matter what. They were his life and he they surely loved him too, especially Dongwoo.

So what was the ing problem?

It was Sunggyu. Always has been Sunggyu. He was a coward, a bastard and an idiot. The problems were his fears and his insecurities.

He knew he loved Dongwoo. But he never could accept that he was gay. Didn't want other's to know, because he was ashamed of himself.

He wasn't a homophobic. Sunggyu never really cared if a person was gay. But when it came to the situation that suddenly he was gay, that he was different, that society would look down on him, Sunggyu couldn't help but be scared less.

With a somber expression, the leader trudged into the kitchen, where he came face to face with his object of affection.

Before he could open his mouth and say sorry a thousand times, before he could fall to his knees and beg for forgiveness, Dongwoo immediately passed by him without even glancing at him.

For a minute he just stood there, mouth still opened to speak, blankly staring into space. Then he nodded weakly to nobody, he nodded to himself, nodded that sure, how else could it be? And lowered his head, biting his lips, holding back the tears desperately.

“Good morning, hyung! Did you...sleep...well...?”

As Woohyun walked into the kitchen, he immediately knew something was wrong when he saw his hyung's crestfallen expression.

“Hyung? What is wrong?”

The worry could be heard clearly in the younger's voice and when Sunggyu looked at him pleadingly and with desperate eyes which were screaming sadness, Woohyun didn't hesitate and crushed his hyung in a warm embrace, rocking back and forth, cooing sweet nothings into his ear and rubbing his back, his other hand buried into the leader's soft hair.

Sunggyu pressed his face into the younger's neck, letting the tears out, crying from the guilt, the regret, crying from how he felt like a worthless piece of . Those thoughts only led him to tighten his grip on the main vocal, needing comfort desperately.
 

“O-oh g-g-god, I n-nev-ver w-wanted h-him t-to-”

“Shh. It's okay, hyung.”, the younger shushed the older, not understanding his sobs and not wanting the older to tire himself out. But Sunggyu just kept on rambling about a “He” and about “How he didn't mean that” and other things.

Woohyun directed his gaze onto the ceiling, blinking back tears, because he had always been a crybaby and , he had never seen Sunggyu like that before, dissolved in tears, choking on his sobs and small cries, grip on the younger as tight as if he was gripping onto a lifeboat, trembling. Woohyun couldn't help but hold the other tighter, desperate to bring the older some comfort.

For the love of god, who had made their leader like this?

*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*

Meanwhile a certain dino had been sitting in the living room, biting his lower lip and eyeing the kitchen door, which Woohyun disappeared through not too long ago, worriedly. He could make out muffled sobs from the other side and Woohyun's low voice soothing.

He couldn't help but wonder if he had gone too far the other day. It's not like his boyfriend had been entirely unreasonable. Dongwoo could understand why the leader was afraid, he knew that Sunggyu was full of insecurities, so he wasn't to blame when he was afraid of telling the members, even though Dongwoo knew that the older trusted them with all of his heart.

Sunggyu was made of worries. Everyone knew that.

So Dongwoo decided to apologize to Sunggyu, immediately ripping open the kitchen door, making it slam against the wall loudly. Woohyun look at him with shocked and teary eyes.

Dongwoo swallowed the feeling of jealousy when he saw his Sunggyu wrapped tightly in the main singer's embrace, face buried into the younger's neck and trembling with light sobs. He resisted the urge to punch Woohyun for touching what was his and instead slowly approached the elder.

“Sunggyu-hyung...”

The sobs and the sniffling stopped, but Sunggyu didn't pull his face away from a now confused Woohyun's neck.

“D-dongw-woo?”, his voice was raw and shook from all the crying he had made, but it was still so soft and like honey, was still the voice Dongwoo had fallen so deeply in love with. Dongwoo had to swallow so as not to break into tears himself.

“I. Hyung, I'm so sorry.”

“What? Did you make hyung cry, Dongwoo?”, Woohyun's angry voice could be heard clearly, resonating throughout the small kitchen, leading the rapper to lower his head in shame.

He wanted to say that yes, it was me that made Sunggyu cry and now please beat me up for it cause I deserve it.

He chose not to say anything, instead keeping his head lowered. Woohyun took that as a confirmation, but as he let go of Sunggyu to give the rapper a piece of his mind, the eldest tugged on his shirt sleeve and shook his head.

“I-it's not his fault, Hyun. Actually I should be the one to say he is sorry. I...I'm sorry, Woo.”

Shocked, the rapper lifted his head and stared at his lover incredulously. Why was he apologizing? He had done nothing wrong.

“Hyunnie, thank you for comforting me. You're the best.”, Sunggyu hugged the younger with a shaky smile, then grabbed Dongwoo by his wrist and pulled him out of the kitchen into their room, leaving behind a confused Woohyun.

“What...was that?”

*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*
 

As soon as the door of their room fell shut, Dongwoo attacked Sunggyu's face with kisses, apologizing in between, cradling the older against him. And Sunggyu fisted his hands in the younger's shirt, afraid that he will leave him again, that he will be left all alone again, with his guilt and his thoughts and nobody else.

Dongwoo didn't intend to.

“I'm so sorry, Woo. I know that you want to tell everyone-”

Sunggyu was interrupted by a kiss against his lips, the younger's hands cradling the back of his head and the older can't help but cry again, fresh tears rolling down his cheeks.

“Don't apologize. I understand. I've been so selfish. You just wanted the best for us and the group.”
 

Dongwoo smiled lovingly and wiped the tear trails away with his thumb. Sunggyu eyed him guiltily, but as he opened his mouth to disagree, the rapper shushed him again and pulled him out of the room to talk to a probably totally bewildered Woohyun.

But...I am the selfish one, Woo.

*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*

A few weeks had passed and it was as if nothing had happened. Dongwoo and Sunggyu kept up with their secret relationship and Woohyun forgot about the incident.

Everything was normal. Well, on the outside.

Dongwoo still yearned to tell other's about them, but kept it in, afraid of how Sunggyu would react.

And Sunggyu?

Sunggyu was thinking all the time. At daytime, at night, during practice, during shows, even in his sleep he kept thinking and thinking. Was he ready to tell them? Could he face it?

It was time to come over those irrational fears of his, Sunggyu knew that. The other's deserved to know and so did Dongwoo deserve to finally have Sunggyu all to himself. Just like Sunggyu wanted to have Dongwoo all to himself.

So after two weeks of continuous thinking and thinking and thinking, Sunggyu made a decision.

*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*

It was a schedule free day for the group, everyone lingering around in the living room, watching TV, chatting, laughing, having fun.

Well, everyone except for Sunggyu, who didn't come out of his room yet. Dongwoo couldn't help but cast glances at the closed door repeatedly, wondering where his gorgeous boyfriend disappeared to.

Immediately, a smile grew when finally the door to their room opened and out came a dishevelled Sunggyu, looking determined. His gaze was fixed on one person only, marching over to the couch without hesitation.

Dongwoo's eyes widened as their leader made a beeline straight to him, sitting on the couch, and plopped himself into the rappers lap.

All eyes were on them and Dongwoo tried laughing it off, skinship being common in their group.

His efforts went to waste when Sunggyu rolled his eyes before pressing his lips against the younger's, effectively shutting him up and then it was silent. Dongwoo widened his eyes even further, helplessly waving his hands around until Sunggyu growled against his lips, captured his arms and placed them around his back firmly. The younger gave up and closed his eyes, enjoying the kiss thoroughly.

They broke apart when they heard an embarrassed cough, immediately turning their heads to the members, smiling sheepishly.

With a huff, Sunggyu stood up and pulled the rapper with him, entwining their fingers and holding them up, showing their clasped hands around.

“Guys. Dongwoo is mine. Has been for four months already. You touch him and I shall use my leader-ly powers to let you die a slow and painful death.”

He finished his declaration with a playful glare and Woohyun was the first one to laugh, followed by the other members.

“Seems like you got over yourself, hyung.”, Sungyeol snickered and hugged Sunggyu, earning a small glare from Dongwoo. Sungyeol just started laughing at that and hugged the eldest tighter.

“What do you mean, got over myself?”, Sunggyu asked, face scrunched up in confusion.

“It wasn't hard to tell that you two either had something going on or you both murdered somebody accidentally. Dongwoo was acting all suspicious around you. It was clear that you would be the one not wanting to come out. We know you, hyung.”

The dino blushed and hid his face in his boyfriend's hair, who he pulled into a tight embrace. Sunggyu laughed, shaking his head, kinda relieved.

“Yeah, I guess.”

Afterwards, all of them fooled around for a time, having fun like they never had before, with Sunggyu and Dongwoo holding hands the whole time and sneaking kisses here and there.

Suddenly the blue haired rapper got up and off the couch and pulled a confused hamster behind him to their room. They barely could make out a “Yeah, hyung. You give it to him!” from Sungyeol and a “Don't be too rough!” from Hoya and Sunggyu was blushing so much that probably his whole blood was in his face.

*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*

Dongwoo was in bliss. He had his gorgeous boyfriend straddling his lap, hands tracing the older's fair skin under his shirt and trailing into tight pants and squeezing, making Sunggyu moan breathlessly.

Sunggyu didn't say anything this time when Dongwoo bit and on his neck, his collarbone, his thighs, leaving behind purpling marks in his trail.

Dongwoo was content with those, marking Sunggyu as his. But he was still going to talk to Sunggyu about that tattoo he mentioned once before.

What could he say? Hickeys don't stay forever.

The End (You must be happy now. Bwahahaha.)