[FIC] Soulmates: Selene

Title: Soulmates: Selene
Characters: Eunhyuk, Jo Kwon, SJ, 2AM, OC
Rating: PG
Chaptercount: 18/22
Summary: One unexpected yet scheduled meeting brings with it the start of so much more.
A/N: The first story I wrote with Super Junior in it lol. I was a bit of a fan at that time and Hyukjae was the first member of Super Junior I knew. I gradually learned more about them as I wrote this story so if some things don't add up at all, don't blame me lol.

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“I’ll announce on my Cyworld that I have a girlfriend. We’ll let them get used to the idea for a month or two, before revealing your real name and such in an official interview with the press or something. Maybe we should even make it a little conference that fans can attend as well. If we do it that way, the hate or whatever towards you will probably be much less or even non-existent.” he then explained. Throughout his talking, he obviously calmed down a lot again and he even started to sound very lively.

“You have really thought a lot about this, haven’t you?” she asked, eyeing him with an investigating look, yet feeling surprised about his sincerity over the whole subject. He nodded in answer, smiling a little.

“How can I not have? I want to show my wonderful girlfriend to my wonderful fans.” He was beaming while speaking. “Besides. It could work great. We won’t be able to see each other for the next months anyway, so even if they follow me around all day long for a whole month straight, they won’t find out anything. Then when your schedule gets less busy I’ll arrange the meeting and we’ll tell them everything and reveal your identity.” She felt a smile breaking through on her face as she listened to him talking. He sounded really enthusiastic and was obviously really looking forward to being able to do something like that. In the end, when he finished talking, she took a step closer to him and softly stroked his cheek. She looked him right in the eyes, before turning away and walking towards the bed.

“If this is really what you want, then I won’t be the one stopping you.” she said, sitting down on the edge of the hotel bed. He had followed her with his eyes, but now also walked towards her to hug her.

“Saranghae, Lene.” he whispered in her ear, obviously very happy about the outcome of their conversation. She chuckled softly. Seeing him happy made her happy as well.

“Saranghae, Hyukkie.” she replied, whispering as well for no reason at all. “Jeongmal.”

“Aishiteru.” She chuckled upon hearing his cute Japanese again.

“Wo ai ni.”

“I love you.”

“Chan rak khoon.”

“Okay, I give up. You win. You know more languages.”

She laughed out loud upon hearing those words, but like that it was agreed. After sharing a short kiss, she got up to get her laptop. They moved to the couch to be able to make use of a table. While he was busy starting up the computer, she observed him a little. She had forgotten how much faith and belief he could give her by simply being sure of himself. Those moments had rarely appeared in the few past months. Even though whenever he was like that, she felt safe and taken care of, something she really liked and needed.

When he had the laptop running and connected to the internet, he logged in on his Cyworld account. Before doing anything more, he motioned her to sit with him. She smiled and went to sit right next to him, hugging his arm and letting her head rest against his upper arm. He pressed a little kiss on her hair, before going on with his Cyworld inspection. He browsed through comments he had gotten from fans, answering a few as he thought them funny or very sweet. He read every single one of them to her. However, some comments really made a sick feeling come up in her as she heard them.

Things like ‘Eunhyuk-ssi, are you well? I hope you are. Stay healthy. I wouldn’t want my future husband to feel sick. Kekekeke. Saranghae.’ made her want to kidnap Hyukjae to a faraway place where no one knew him or it made her curse the day she fell in love with him. Not that she knew which day that had been. In fact, she had simply developed a loving feeling towards him throughout their numerous dates, which had, at some place in time, reached the point of not wanting to be without him.

Luckily there were also other comments like ‘Eunhyuk oppa. Always be happy. I want to see you smile often. Stay healthy and take care. Bring us some good songs and shows. Saranghae.’ that made her smile and appreciate the fans even though they were constantly swarming around him. Still, she tried to read as much as possible of what he answered on the comments to make sure he didn’t answer weird stuff. It was a pity that she didn’t know how to read Korean that well, though. After answering some more comments, Hyukjae finally opened a new entry.

“You write it.” he said, looking up at her. She gave him a surprised look.

“What? Why? This is supposed to be your confession, not mine. Besides, I hardly know any Korean writing.” she protested. Luckily he could only see the truth in her words, so he started writing it himself. She tried her best to read it.

“A.. An.. N.. Annyeong?” she read, guessing the last half of the word because she didn’t feel like deciphering more of the signs. He grinned.

“So you can read it.” he said.

“Very slowly. And I’ll only understand it when I say it out loud most of the time.” she replied, making him smile even more. He finished writing his entry in not that much time, after which she demanded for him to read it out loud to her. She had to do some convincing, because he wanted her to read it herself, but after showing some of her cute and puppy-eyed side, he gave in and started reading it out loud for her.

“Annyeong my wonderful E.L.F. How are you all? I hope you are well. Anyway.. Today I have a confession to make, because I promised to always be honest to you all about everything. So, yah.. Here is my confession.. I am in love. In fact, I have a girlfriend. For real. I’m not tricking you. There are no cameras hidden in my Cyworld. Kekeke. I’m very sorry to have to bring it to you all in this way, but it is my only option. To be honest, not even the company knows about it, so you E.L.F are the first to know. Apart from my girlfriend and the members, that is. I hope you will all still support Super Junior and the other members even if you don’t like me anymore for this. But what can I say. Love is unpredictable. Saranghae, E.L.F.”

Even though she didn’t really like some parts, she did not say anything about it, because it was his entry and all. She simply nodded when he finished talking and smiled a little insecure. He simply pressed a short kiss on her lips, before sending the entry. There was no going back now. She felt partly scared, partly relieved. It would be official and they would at some point be able to get out of the door without having to look out for company people or whatever. Yet on the other hand, Hyukjae would be getting in lots of trouble with his company and management. Somehow the two of them had been able to keep their relationship a secret, even though she came over to visit way too often. Luckily, she had been close with almost every member, so everyone had always assumed her to be a general friend or something.

Suddenly feeling a little unsure and small, she moved closer to Hyukjae, hiding herself against him. He gently put both arms around her and hugged her. She smiled and closed her eyes, letting herself relax completely in his grip. Because of the quite late hour, it didn’t take her long to be carried away into dreamland, where every image and every thought was about Hyukjae.


She woke up by the sound of people talking and her ‘bed’ moving. At first she felt a bit disoriented, but she kept her eyes closed, not wanting to get up just yet. Her schedule was so busy lately, she always had to get up early, but she wouldn’t get up if her alarm clock didn’t go off. Yet, when her head was carefully lifted and then laid down again, she started to listen to the voices. They were suddenly talking a lot more silent, yet one of them was still clear enough.

“Shush a little, she’s asleep. She looked so exhausted, so let’s not wake her up, okay.” The boy’s voice was soothing. Right when she had decided that his words must have meant she didn’t have to get up and that she could sleep on, someone else answered.

“Why? I’ll take the hits when we wake her. I love it when her temper shows.” The name of the speaker flashed through her head. Heechul. Without a doubt. Immediately fully aware of her surroundings again, she realized her alarm clock would not go off that day and she had probably only slept a few hours, if it was that much. She decided to keep pretending to be asleep out of pure curiosity. Because after all, what was Heechul doing in her hotel room?

“Come in and sit down.” the first voice, being Hyukjae’s of course, said. The commotion that followed his words made her correct her own question. What were all the Super Junior boys doing in her hotel room? Wasn’t that a bit too obvious? Had they gone brainless running into a hotel with the twelve of them? Or maybe even fourteen.

Her head was carefully lifted again as someone took on the job of pillow again. She tried breathing as slowly and evenly as possible.

“Okay, so why are you here?” Hyukjae asked. His voice came from much closer now, so she figured he must be the one taking up the job as her pillow.

“Why? Isn’t that obvious!?” Again Heechul answering, showing her that he was genuinely excited or upset about something. If not, he would have let someone else do the talking. “I read your Cyworld entry. Together with a few hundred fans who are bombing it with comments.” Of course. The Cyworld entry. How could she have forgotten that? So they were even more stupid coming to her hotel room all at once. Were all Korean boys this big of idiots?

“Hush. Not too loud. Don’t wake her.”

“Oh come on. If she hasn’t woken up yet then she won’t because of some talking either.” She wasn’t quite sure who had said that, but the voice came from further away.

“But look at her. Doesn’t she look cute, not giving us sarcastic or angry looks and not spouting her witty comments?” That was Heechul again. She had to really put an effort into staying still and especially into keeping herself from smiling. Luckily, she managed. That’s when she realized the person she was resting on was not Hyukjae. The smell was totally different.

“Heechul-ah.” a calm voice sounded from right above her. “Don’t be such a mean person. She’s very sweet to you, seeing how you treat her.” Soft fingers stroke her hair out of her face. Even if the voice hadn’t already given away his identity, the fact that Heechul didn’t react on the comment with an angry response would be enough proof as well. It was Hangeng sitting with her. Suddenly she felt the need to open her eyes and move away from him. Why had he taken Hyukjae’s place? Why did Hyukjae allow him to do that? Hadn’t he always been quite jealous when other people, even his members, treated her that way? Why wasn’t he now? Her discomfort grew as she thought about those things, but right when she wanted to move, another comment stopped her from doing so.

“It’s nice to see that you have finally listened to us.” Heechul said. Listened to them? What did he mean? Was there something Hyukjae did that they had told him to do? “I told you it shows more backbone to tell the world about your relationship. Now you finally did. Great job.”

“Like he did it because you said so. It probably took him so long just because you said he should.” The teasing tone of the voice, the lack of response from Heechul’s side and the closeness of the person made it obvious that it was again Hangeng who had spoken. It also made Selene aware again of the fact that he was sitting so close and her head was resting on his leg. She would have to change that. Very subtly change it. With a little sound which she imagined people would make while sleeping, she turned a little and rolled her head from his leg. Her action made them all become silent all of a sudden. Even when she had stopped moving they remained silent and she could imagine them looking at her. Finally someone spoke again.

“Hangeng hyung, can I have my seat back, please? You’re kind of stealing my girlfriend and it looks like she doesn’t like it.” Hyukjae said, using very formal language. She had to do her best not to smile. He seemed to have understood her move as if he knew she was awake. Yet, if he did, he would probably have said something about it, so she decided to keep up her comedy.

“Stealing your girlfriend?” Hangeng asked, sounding shocked. “This simply was the only couch left I could sit in. I can’t help it that your girlfriend just had to take up all the space. At least she moved over a little now.” His answer caused her to have some trouble holding back her laughter, but since her face was now hidden away from their gazes a little, the slight smile that appeared wasn’t that much of a problem. She did know that if she didn’t get better control over her expression, she wouldn’t be able to keep this up much longer. Even though Hangeng didn’t move, she did feel how someone came to sit on the little bit of space next to her middle, at the edge of the couch.

“So hyung, how are you and Afreya doing?” someone suddenly asked. It took her a few moments to figure out it had been Kyuhyun who talked. It was only after that that the real meaning of the question came to her. What? Heechul and Afreya? No way. Afreya would surely have said something to her about it if that was the case. Or would she?

“Oh, great. I called her yesterday and she gave me her number.” Heechul replied calmly, however. He seemed to be totally serious.

“Eh..? If you didn’t have her number yet, then how did you call her?”

“I mean her personal number. I used to only have the one she uses for professional purposes. She doesn’t give her personal number to just everyone, of course.” Selene knew the truth of those words. It would be strange for Heechul to know about these things if he did not really get Afreya’s personal number. Selene felt a knot in her stomach because of the tension, but she refused to betray herself, so she did her best to keep her body relaxed. She did let out a little sigh, turning her head again to make her position a bit more comfortable.

“That must be a good sign then..” Hyukjae said, but he sounded surprised, like he didn’t know about the whole situation before either.

“Of course it is. She now also calls me Heechul-oppa or just oppa instead of Heechul-ssi.” The words were spoken with a certain tone in them that made it clear Heechul thought of that as something big.

“Wow.” Hangeng replied sarcastically. He still sounded way too close to her liking, but at least she knew now that he didn’t mean anything with it. “Then you must really like her if you allow her to do that. Have you asked her out for dinner yet?”

“No, not yet. But I might soon. I’ll take her to my favourite place then.” Heechul replied. Selene felt how her heartbeat sped up. Luckily no one was close enough to hear or feel that change. There was a short silence after her words, before Heechul spoke again. “Well, Selene seems deeply asleep or she would have already responded.”

“So you weren’t serious?” Hyukjae asked surprised. To Selene, he also sounded a little relieved. Maybe he had been wondering how to bring the news to her. There was another silence in which Heechul probably answered by shaking his head or nodding, something she couldn’t see. It frustrated her not to know the answer. “Would you really date her?” Hyukjae then continued, making it clear that Heechul’s answer had been negative.