"Rose? You're staring?"

Rose was in the practice room watching Minho dance. It was late at night, but Chan was still working, so she was still at work too.

"Huh? Sorry."

"It's late. Why don't you go home?"

"Why don't you?"

Minho sighed and crossed his arms after turning off the music.

"I'm going over the new choreo for the Japan concerts."

"Well, it looks awesome. I love watching you dance."

He stared at her with wide eyes.

"What?"

"Um, ha, I must be more tired than I thought. I'm going to go before..."

She moved to get up but before she could leave the room Minho's voice stopped her.

"Do you dance?"

"Do I or can I? I can't I'm afraid."

"I don't believe that."

"No, it's true. It's like I have no control over my body. I wish I could though, it's always fascinated me."

The dancer walked over to her so that they were only an arm's width away from each other. His penetrating stare still made Rose nervous around him.

"Maybe I could show you a few things."

"I wouldn't want to waste your time."

"You wouldn't be."

"I know how busy you are. I handle your schedule."

"We're free now, aren't we? You can always make time for things."

"I don't think I'm up to dancing tonight."

"No, not tonight. Go on. You're going to see Chan, aren't you?"

"What? How'd you know?"

Minho raised an eyebrow.

"That you don't go home until he does? Was it a secret? If it was, you didn't do a very good job of hiding it."

"He forgets to eat when he's working."

"I know. I'm glad he has you to look after him."

"Well, it is my job..."

"I didn't know being a soulmate was a job. Anyway, you've had an impact on him. He's been coming home earlier recently. Perhaps that wasn't for his benefit."

"What do you mean?"

"You should go. He looked exhausted in his V Live earlier."

"I noticed. Hopefully, he won't get angry at me for telling him to go to bed. Poor STAYs."

"Good night, Rose."

"Night, Minho. Don't stay up too late, okay?"

The dancer had already turned the music back on before Rose left the room.

When she reached Chan's studio, she found her soulmate just the way he was when he ended his V Live. Barefaced and wearing a cap, Chan was sitting at his desk working. He was rubbing his eyes when she came in.

"Hey, Baby."

"Hey, handsome."

"Are you teasing me?"

"What? Why would you think that?"

"I know you watch my V Lives."

"I do, and I spent this one thinking how handsome you look today."

Chan stared up at her, a conflicted expression on his face. With a frown, Rose stood in front of him, took his hat off and ran her hand through his hair.

"You don't believe me. You don't believe your own soulmate?"

She leant down so that her face was close to his.

"You look tired."

"Now, that I believe."

Rose stood up and moved to sit on the sofa.

"Lie down with me?"

"I can't, I've got work to do."

"Please. Just for a few minutes."

Chan couldn't say no to his soulmate's pout and puppy eyes. He was sure Felix had been giving her lessons.

"Okay, but only a few minutes."

Rose arranged them so that Chan was lying on his side with his back against the back of the sofa. She laid down in front of him and he had to wrap his arms around her to make sure she didn't fall off.

"Cosy."

"You just wanted cuddles, didn't you?"

"Guilty. This is nice."

"Come here. I keep feeling like you're going to fall on the floor."

Chan shuffled them around a little and pulled her closer so that she was half laying on top of him. Rose was glad that her makeup hid the blush she felt on her cheeks. He guided her hand to rest on his shoulder and kissed the top of her head before stroking her hair.

"I'm going to fall asleep on you so that you have to rest."

"You're going to fall asleep? I thought I was supposed to be the tired one."

"You're so comfy. Could you be any more perfect?"

Rose was mumbling but Chan could still hear her. As he played with her hair, he felt her drift off. The Idol didn't know how long he basked in this moment of closeness with his soulmate, but eventually work was calling him. Only he had a little problem, he couldn't move without waking her up.

While he debated whether he could manage to move them so that Rose was lying on the sofa, there was a knock on the door. Chan managed to stop himself from calling out and covered his soulmate's ear first.

"Come in."

It was Changbin and Jisung. The younger rapper stopped dead when he saw the couple on the sofa, his eyes wide.

"Whoa, Hyung, if we're interrupting something then we can do this another time."

"Yeah. Come on, Chan-Hyung. We don't want to see this."

"Shh! You'll wake her up."

Jisung tiptoed closer and leaned over to see Rose's face.

"Aww, did you tire her out, Hyung?"

"Ew, Han!"

Chan just rolled his eyes at his younger members' antics.

"Can you two help me? I don't want to wake her."

"Why not? Just wake her up so she can go home and sleep."

"Didn't you know, Binnie-Hyung? Rose doesn't go home until Channie-Hyung does."

"Yeah, but surely not all the time. I mean sometimes you're here until... Hyung, seriously?"

"I know. I know. You see why I don't want to wake her. At least if she's asleep here, I know she's getting some rest."

The leader rolled his soulmate into Changbin's arms, who lifted her while he got off the sofa. The rapper tried to ignore the way he felt when Rose leaned into his body as he held her. Gently, he placed her back on the sofa.

"Where am I going to sit?"

The other just stared at Jisung until he grumbled and perched on the armrest of the sofa while Chan sat in his desk chair and Changbin took the spare chair.

"So, let's get to work -"

Jisung interrupted his leader's whispers with his own.

"Hyung, how are we going to work without waking Noona up?"

"Quietly."

Changbin said it with a deathly serious face but couldn't help breaking out into a smile afterwards.

Somehow, they did manage to work without waking Rose, at least for a while. When she did wake up it was to the sound of music. It wasn't a track she recognised but it had that recognisable Stray Kids vibe. Suddenly it stopped and was replaced by voices.

"You see! There's still something missing."

"Play that part again."

Rose snuggled into the material of whatever item was draped over her. It smelt like her soulmate, so she guessed it was one of his hoodies. She listened as they played the same part of the song over and over, trying different things, but not liking anything that they came up with. Unconsciously she started humming along.

The boys were close to pulling their hair out in frustration when they heard it. Looking at each other they tried to figure out where the new sound was coming from. When they realised it wasn't any of them, they turned to Rose and Jisung leaned down to listen.

"It's Noona!"

The sudden shout jolted Rose out of her sleepy headspace and made her physically jump too.

"Jisung!"

"Sorry!"

"Hello, sleeping beauty."

"Um, when did you two get here?"

"When you and Chan-Hyung were -"

"Shh! Let me add this before I forget it..."

The two younger boys sat in silence as Chan fiddled around on his computer. Rose sat up properly and shivered as the air conditioning hit her blouse. It occurred to her that maybe she should have a set of comfortable clothes to change into for when she works late. For now, she picked up the hoodie that had been her blanket and after a moment of consideration put it on.

"How long was I -"

"Done! Listen to this."

Chan played the part of the track they had been working on. He had added the extra part that was inspired by Rose's humming and was happy with the result.

"Awesome! Thanks, Rosie-Noona."

"Huh? What did I do?"

"Can we go home now?"

The leader ignored Jisung's pouting face as he smiled at Rose's confused one.

"Sure. I think that's a good idea."

Rose happened to be in the dance studio while the boys had a group practice when the music video for Your Eyes dropped. She put in her headphones to listen to, but she had no idea what to expect from the video as the filming had been a closed set.

At her first gasp, the boys didn't pay her any mind, but when she started squealing, she caught their attention.

"Noona?"

Seungmin, who was closest, walked over to where she was sitting and glanced at her screen. He wrinkled his nose once he saw what she was watching but walked away without a word.

"Minnie? What is she watching?"

"One of our music videos."

"But why would that make her... oh."

"Music video? What - did it get released today?!"

"Oh no! She's watching Your Eyes!"

"Ah!"

Felix started running around the room with his hands over his face. He only stopped when Rose called out his name.

"Felix! How could you? You tease!"

"Noona!"

"We should have warned her not to watch it."

"No! You want to deny me seeing the best music video ever! I bet your fans are dying."

"We didn't choose our scenes! The scenarios were given to us."

"Really? But they fit each of you so well."

"Noona! How can you say that? Mine was so embarrassing!"

"Perhaps it was a little forward of you, Lix, but I can't imagine anyone pulling it off quite as well as you."

"What did you think of Chan-Hyung's part?"

"That's how he acts normally."

All the other boys burst out laughing.

"What about everyone else's?"

"I'm never going to be able to think of you all the same way again."