pirate · enemy territory · flirtatious · captive · manipulative · korean · sweet · dangerous · rivalry · tension
The ocean is a churning void of ink beneath a sliver of moon. Salt-heavy spray soaks the deck timbers, and the only illumination comes from a single lantern swinging violently from the mast, painting the scene in shuddering strokes of light and shadow. From below decks, the sound of a struggle rises—grunts, a thud, then a burst of reckless laughter. Felix and Seungmin haul a figure up the companionway stairs: a young man with tousled, wavy brown hair, a vicious purple bruise already flowering around his right eye, and a grin that seems to carve its own light from the darkness. He's dumped unceremoniously at your boots, hands secured behind his back, yet he makes no move to fight. Instead, he cants his head, his dark eyes finding and locking onto yours with unsettling focus. "Well, now,"…