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zhng96 · 1 year ago
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IS THIS A SOFT LAUNCH? — tiot
↳ soft launching them + bonus ig story :)
↳ pairing: ot4!tiot x gn!reader
↳ warnings: nothing!!
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— KIM MINSEONG.
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(rest of the members under the cut!)
— KUM JUNHYEON.
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— HONG KEONHEE.
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— CHOI WOOJIN.
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wannaeatramyeon · 3 months ago
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Gitae Kim x Reader: Half Sibling
G/N. Testing out some characterisation... Masterlists
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"He looks like you," you comment, leaning over into Gitae's space.
Anyone else and those words would have earned a beating. Maybe a brutal killing. You can already imagine the reaction, his blank face as he reaches for his axe.
But you-
You usually never receive much more than some glares for your insolence, if he acknowledges your insolence at all that is. Which you use to your full advantage. Pushing his buttons and toeing the line, testing to see exactly how much you can get away with.
The photo is pixelated. Not pixelated enough that you can't recognise the same angle of the eyes, the strong jaw and nose.
Another half sibling then.
Gitae ignores you and continues to study the candid shot. Eyes roaming over the scar on the bridge of an almost familiar nose and on his lips. The brown leather gloves adorning his hands.
"He's cute." You feel like pushing your luck today. And this guy really is cute.
Half lidded and lazy, Gitae's gaze is finally turned towards you.
"What do you want?"
"Nothing." You shrug and continue looking at the picture, refusing to glance at him, fighting to keep the smile off your lips.
"You wanted my attention, now you got it."
The photo is thrown aside with a flick of the hand.
He pulls you into his lap, moves your whole body without needing to even use a fraction of his monstrous strength. "Make it worth my while."
Gitae's fingers dig into your hip. Your words haven't gone unnoticed and your bratty attitude won't go unpunished.
"You think this one is cute?" He asks.
You still avoid his eyes, though you can feel a poorly concealed grin creeping over your face.
"Don't make me repeat myself,” His voice, low and silky, pours into your ear.
Calloused fingers grip onto your chin, harder than usual but not as hard as you deserve, angling your face to his. Until there's nowhere else to look except into his eyes.
He's amused with your antics. Then again, he usually is. Although there's something else lurking in his features and you think it might be-
You think it is-
"You jealous?" You ask with a smirk, ignoring the way his hold tightens on you.
"No."
You think that's a lie. You know it is when-
Gitae leans, dips forward and captures your lips with his.
He kisses you like a man possessed. Fierce. Dominant. Overbearing. Almost too much to take. Leaves you bruised and swollen, half panting into his mouth and grinding into his lap.
His hands, you're sure, are going to leave marks. You can feel his annoyance from the pressure of his touch but you relish how it sears your skin.
It's all a warning. You get the response you desire.
You are told, without any shadow of a doubt, that you are his and to watch your goddamn tongue.
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zhng96 · 1 year ago
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BF TEXTS — kim minseong
↳ rq: woojin br texts AND junhyeon bf texts?!?! ong would it be too much to ask for my pookie bear minseoung too.... ure soo funny omg i love this SM!!!!
↳ pairing: k. minseong x gn!reader
↳ warnings: none!
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zhng96 · 1 year ago
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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐒 — zhng96’s tiot archive.
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— 𝐎𝐓𝟒 !
✵ is this a soft launch? - fluff, smau
— 𝐊𝐈𝐌 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐄𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐆 !
✵ bf texts - fluff, crack, smau
— 𝐊𝐔𝐌 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐇𝐘𝐄𝐎𝐍 !
✵ bf texts - fluff, crack, smau
— 𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐊𝐄𝐎𝐍��𝐄𝐄 !
✵ bf texts - fluff, crack, smau
— 𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐈 𝐖𝐎𝐎𝐉𝐈𝐍 !
✵ bf texts - fluff, crack, smau
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wannaeatramyeon · 5 months ago
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Jake Kim x Reader: Right Person
G/N. 5.2k. Childhood friends to lovers, sorta canon compliant.
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The first time you meet Jake, you are the right person at the right place.
Almost.
Both precocious pre-teens and families already intertwined.
Your father does something with his father, but that always seems to be the case, everyone knows Gapryong. Works with him in one way or another. He has all sorts of connections.
The peculiar thing though, at least to Jake's pre-pubescent mind, was that he met you.
Few of his father's underlings or 'business partners' have a child that tag along. Fewer still that are seen as an equal.
Apart from being told to call him Oppa, you don't have any other formalities to follow. You stick your tongue out at him, tease him, laugh at his jokes. He in turn shares his candy and sticks of gum and saves all his best punchlines for you.
Minseong, or Auntie as you call her, always smiles at you; calling you precious and talking about how you and Jake would be a great match to join the families.
That could have been a possibility. If fate had been kinder his childhood crush could have blossomed into puppy love and everyone would have been thrilled at the development.
But before anything was allowed to flourish, fate had other plans.
Gapryong is murdered, and your and Jake's life take a different course.
You attend the wake, offering your condolences and saying all the right things in these unfortunate occasions.
Holding Auntie's hand in yours and telling her you're sorry. In the quiet of his bedroom, you wrap your arms around Jake's shaking body, rubbing circles into his back, kissing his forehead, even as he tries to hold it together.
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For a brief moment of time after, you and Jake are like glue. Joined at the hips, never seen without the other.
Staying by his side as he gets his irezumi tattoos, oohing and aahing as he unveils the healed ink to you. Pouting as he shoots up like bamboo, puberty taking hold; growing tall and gangly and a full head or three taller than you. Walking each other home from middle school, him waiting for you outside your school gates. Dropping the bombshell that he has to stay behind for another year; besotted as you lecture him about his awful grades.
Eventually, time moves on.
Your family find better connections and ventures - respectable, creditable, without any of the Kim family's gangster past, and quietly and without fanfare remove themselves from the late Gapryong's inner circle.
They distance themselves, and though you ignore their request to do the same - Big Deal's boss, Sinu Han finds Jake Kim and so does Samuel Seo and the distance naturally grows.
Jake stays in the periphery of your life.
The occasional text, and rarer run-ins.
But he always keeps an ear out for you. Looks for you in every reflection. Hopes for you round every corner.
Right person at the right place but at the wrong time.
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.
He does purposely seek you out once.
When he is on the cusp of joining Big Deal and needs someone sane to talk to.
To decipher his thoughts and feelings with the one person who knows him best.
It's you, it's always been you but-
After, he fully realised how different you both are. The trajectories you are on. You, untainted by all this gang shit, and him about to dive head first into it.
He can't marr you with this.
Wrong place, wrong time.
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.
You sought him out once too, in the form of a letter as he serves his time in juvie.
Jake marvels at your handwriting, chicken scratch somehow turned graceful and elegant with time.
Yet-
Awkward silences punctuate the end of each sentence, and disappointment is found between the lines. Your tone is almost pleading, and there's a desperate yearning for yesteryear.
Jake chooses instead to focus on the crumbs of your life you offer. Thinks at least you're happy and safe and ignorant to the sort of life he leads now.
He keeps your letter under his pillow. Reads it over and over until he can recite it off by heart. Drafts a different reply in his mind every night though he can never bring himself to respond.
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.
"Jake?"
The next time you see him again, he barely recognises you. Whether that was due to seasons apart or his focus on other priorities, he isn't sure.
He turns his head when you call his name, Johan Seong following suit.
"You look different," you comment and he does. Jake finally fills out his tall frame, lean muscle showing through his suit and a scar now adorns his lips.
He tilts his head, trying to place you until you frown. A familiar look of impatience, rolling your eyes-
"Y/N?" Your name feeling rusty on his tongue and his eyes widen at your appearance. How well the years have treated you, how kind puberty has been and how amazingly you clean up.
"Too important now to remember me?" You say, folding your arms but smiling.
"Me? I'm a nobody," Jake grins, relaxing in your presence as Johan mutters his agreement somewhere in the background. "What are you doing around here?"
In the end, he rejects your entrance to Club Vivi.
"Aw Jake, cmon for old time's sake!"
"You're underaged!" He says, but what he wants to tell you is this place is bad news. The further you stay away from anything to do with the Four Crews, from himself, the better.
"Shit!"
You manage to refrain from stomping your feet like a bratty child, distracted by the way that Jake smiles at you. Even with the pulsating music spilling out onto the street, the heaving queues of people, it feels just like it used to.
A wave of nostalgia hits you.
You reach out, yanking him down by his tie until he is eye level with you.
"Whatever." You thought you might be more upset with the rejection but you can't bring yourself to care right now. Not when Jake Kim is right there. "Text me, ok? I don't hear from you anymore. I miss you."
Jake's throat is suddenly dry.
How many years has it been since he's been eye to eye with you. He remembers his mother's fondness of you, your tinkling laugh in his ear. You by his side, the kisses on his cheek and soothing strokes on his back.
"I miss you t-"
Then Johan Seong clears his throat, uncomfortable at being caught up in this scene and wanting to be literally anywhere else, and Jake's eyes dart towards him.
God Dog.
One of the four gangs.
A mess of underhanded dealings involving Gun Park and Goo Kim. God Dog and Big Deal and Hostel and Workers.
The current situation draws sharply into focus, and Jake is reminded of his main goal - Sinu Han.
The spell is broken and Jake's mask as Big Deal Boss slams firmly back on.
"Sure thing," Jake straightens up again and you have no choice but to release your grip.
He doesn't plan to. Doesn't want to drag you into his mess. Swallows down any regret and feelings and offers you a wink instead.
Still the wrong place, wrong time.
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Despite Jake's best intentions you are reunited.
You join Big Deal.
...Or more accurately, you find employment on Big Deal Street.
"Y/N?" Jake calls out to you and today your role is reversed.
It takes you a while to recognise your Jake dressed in his suit, a new scar across his nose and flanked by intimidating looking men. Body language serious, powerful and domineering.
Goddamn.
"...Jake?!"
"Everything ok, Boss?" Someone asks and your eyebrows quirk at 'Boss'.
"Fine, Jerry," Jake dismisses any concerns from the hulking man to his right and turns his smile on for you once more, "Just nice to see an old friend."
He lips says friend but his heart wonders if he has the privilege of calling you that anymore.
Are you barely even acquaintances? Someone you might bump into and give a polite nod to. Was he that teenager that you used to hang with once upon a time who you occasionally reminisce about? Do you ever think about him and wonder how he is doing? Do you think about the moments that you had together and the lives you could have had?
Turns out it doesn't matter anyway.
Jake catches the softness in your eyes and he sees that friend is enough.
It could be enough.
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Now working part time at the restaurant Jake likes to frequent, you bump into each other time and time again. You become a regular fixture in his life once more.
Serving him extra large portions with a grin, offering up pickle juice with every stew.
"You still add this to all your jjigae, right?" You pull a face, it was never to your taste even if Jake acts like it's the most delicious thing in the world.
Jake blinks in surprise. "You remembered?"
You wipe your hands on your apron, then rest them on your hip. "Duh."
The other faces you gradually put a name to.
Jerry, Brad, Jason, Lineman, and later Lua.
You join them occasionally for the odd drink, perched at the end of the bench next to Jake and soaking up the warm atmosphere, or more likely the boys getting a telling off from Lua even as she throws you a small sly grin every so often.
Sinu and Yeonhui join the group now and then.
The latter takes a liking to you and the former gives you unsubtle glances, elbowing Jake and murmuring things in his ears that causes him to blush and bat Sinu away.
He's talking about you, that much is obvious but you wonder what it is exactly that turns Jake that cute shade of pink.
"What are you saying about me?" You whisper into Jake's ear one time and he jerks sharply at your proximity. Banging his knee against the table so hard that it topples some drinks.
"Shit!"
"Jake!" Yeonhui tuts, "Be careful."
Sinu, arm around her, just grins like a maniac.
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You: Sooooo...
You: What is Sinu always whispering about?
Jake: Don't worry about it 😘
You: 😒
Jake: Sorry we didn't get to talk much today.
Jake: Hope you're ok
You: Don't worry about me!
You: I know you're super busy
You: It's just nice being around you again
Jake: Same 🙂
Jake: Are you going to get fired for giving me that free lunch?
You: You look like you needed it
Jake: I'm fine 💪
You: Nuh uh. You're tired. And stressed. I can tell
Jake: ...
Jake: Thanks for looking after me
Jake: I've missed you
You: I've missed you too
You: I've still got your jacket!
Jake: No worries I'll get it tomorrow
You: Thanks for letting me borrow it
You: and walking me home
Jake: M'lady
You: 😒
Jake: Good morning 😁
You: Too early 😪
Jake: It is. But i'm looking forward to seeing you later
You: Still can't believe you sprayed jjigae out your nose
Jake: You caught me off guard!
You: It was just an innocent comment
You: Who knew where your filthy mind went
Jake: 😒
Jake: You made Brad blush!
Jake: brad!!
You: 🤭
You: Can you ask Jerry to stop calling me ma'am?
Jake: Will do
Jake: Sorry ma'am
You: 🙄
You: Do you always train like that?
Jake: Yeah why?
You: Oh 🫣
You: Why does everyone in your crew keep bowing to me
Jake: Who knows why they do what they do
You: And EVERYONE keeps calling me Ma'am!
Jake: 🤷🏻‍♂️
You: Shirtless was unnecessary
Jake: 😉
You: 🙄
Jake: you try running laps around the street
You: can't put those abs away can you
Jake: not when they get so many admirers
You: 🙄
Jake: I had the weirdest dream about you last night
You. Go oooon
Jake: 🤐
You: Stop distracting me! You're going to get me fired
Jake: Who's gonna fire you?
You: Jake!
Jake: I'll speak to the owner don't worry about it
You: Jake NO
Jake: Now who's distracting who
You: Well who's gonna fire the boss?
Jake: 😒
You: Besides I didn't even do anything
Jake: That uniform cannot be regulation 🥵
You: 🤫
You: Thanks for taking me to see Auntie!
Jake: Moms so happy to see you
Jake: Found someone else to slander me with
You: It's all from a place of love
Jake: Sure 🙄
Jake: You working tonight?
You: Yeah and you better keep me company 😚
Jake: Always
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During your closing shifts, when Jake is around, your boss and owner, is frequently nowhere to be seen.
You wonder if Sinu is responsible for this but you can never bring yourself to mind when Jake stays behind, offering to help.
Removing his jacket and rolling up his sleeves as he wipes down surfaces with you, loads the dishwasher, clean the floors.
"Isn't this beneath the Big Deal leader?" You ask tonight, mopping as he clears and re-organizes the counter.
Jake shrugs, "I don't mind."
(Truth be told, Jason and Brad had given him a questionable look through the shop window once, when they were patrolling the streets at night and found their beloved boss performing menial duties.
Then they saw you grinning next to him and the way Jake looked at you.
And they got it. They, and no other Big Deal member, had questioned it since.)
You resume focus to your task at hand, wringing out the filthy water and scrubbing with earnest.
Damn, this patch of floor is dirty.
Despite pouring all your strength into this section, the mysterious grey splodge, which has likely accumulated from years of slipshod mopping, still has not shifted.
Noticing the sheen of sweat along your brow, Jake plucks a napkin from the holder and offers it to you. "Here."
"I'm fine."
"Your sweaty face says otherwise."
"Nah, I'm good."
You narrow your eyes at the stain, so absorbed in your task you don't notice his approach.
Contemplate getting on your hands and knees to examine it when Jake's hand edges forward, gripping your chin gently, and disrupts your train of thought.
"Come here." He huffs with amusement, angling your face to his.
Your eyes widen comically large and he chuckles. He brings the napkin up to your brow, dabbing attentively. Your temples and down the side of your face, the tip of your nose, before cupping your cheek.
"There."
There indeed.
You lean into his palm and sigh. A sigh built up from the depth of your being, that started from years ago, and your eyes flutter close when you feel Jake's thumb run along your bottom lip.
It's more intimate than you have ever been before but doesn't feel anywhere close to enough.
"Y/N-" he murmurs. Your name feels rusty no more.
Jake leans closer. LIke a moth to a flame, and your flame burns undying and gold.
Knuckles rap on the window, shattering the moment. You both turn and see Jerry with a solemn look on his face.
"One moment," Jake says, eyes apologetic and he exits.
The moment stretches as you watch Jake talking to Jerry outside. Both their expressions growing more fierce, exchanged more heated, by the second.
Jake sighs, and his sigh is nothing like yours only minutes ago. His eyes catch yours. He thinks he might regret this forever, wondering about the lingering what-if, but he thinks about your safety and the safety of Big Deal, and he leaves. Striding off into the night.
Jerry comes in, contrite and bows. Tells you sorry but Jake has somewhere else to be.
Leaves you even more bewildered and confused, wondering what has happened.
.
.
Workers storm the street only a few days later.
The Hunt for Big Deal peaks when Eugene, not able to get his way, calls in his favour.
Holding back the police, intrusive thoughts of his failure as a leader enter Jake's mind. The state of the street, the crew. Members of Big Deal lie bruised and bloodied around him.
The one silver lining, at least, is that you're nowhere near.
You're not tangled up in this.
.
.
Maybe it could have been the right place.
But the time cannot be more wrong.
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You and Jake had left your friendship hanging at an odd place that night.
Then he never called, never texted.
(Neither did your boss, but you didn't care about that.)
You glumly scroll through your text chain with him. All the flirtatious words that you had assumed were building up to something.
You sent him one message asking if he was ok, an olive branch and permission to forget everything if it made him uncomfortable and he didn't respond.
The silence said everything you needed to hear.
You are left to wallow and mope in your gloom.
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Jake is awake. Broken and bruised but alive.
Left to deal with the aftermath, the pieces of his crew, with the ever loyal Lineman by his side.
Forces himself to push on when all he wants is to curl up in a ball somewhere. Put on a brave face because what else can he do? Recollect his thoughts, rethink his strategy.
Lineman and Lightning Choi are very little comfort to Jake during these hours. Even as both their loud personalities fill in the silence, camaraderie building between them by the day, Jake feels fragile. Stretched thin and strained.
Regardless, he plasters on his plastic smile. The one he used to wear when he was looking for Sinu and trying to hold on to his sanity.
Funny how life comes full circle.
In his heart and head, he knows that all his focus should be on getting stronger, on saving his crew.
But your latest text, left on read and left hanging, haunts him.
.
.
The Wanted posters capture your attention and snap you out of your mood.
'What the...?''
Pictures of your friends pinned up in the convenience store. Bounties in stark black font show beneath their faces.
You abandon your goods, your treats and pick-me-ups mid purchase and make your way to Big Deal Street as quickly as you can.
Navigating public transport and running until you're panting and out of breath and sweat blurs your vision.
Everywhere is shuttered and closed.
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.
Everything Jake does, tastes, drinks is tinged with bitterness.
Nevertheless, a routine forms and with each passing day he feels more like himself.
Determination returns.
He trains alongside Lineman even though Lightning Choi insists that he can't teach Jake anything.
Feels his strength returning and muscle growing. Busies himself with preparation in all forms.
“Here,” Jake sets down fresh cooked ramyeon in front of Lineman who looks up at him in surprise. “Eat up. You need it with all your training,”
Lineman wells up with gratitude, “Boss!”
It's a simple meal.
Packaged noodles Lineman has had thousands of times before but it's the best thing he has ever tasted.
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In return, Lineman does something for Jake.
He's not sure it's the right thing to do at first, but anyone with eyes can see Jake moping around like a lovesick puppy.
He extends the reaches of his network.
Calls in long owed favours, reconnects to people in his old Monster Crew, people he trusts that won't spill his whereabouts. Asks everyone to keep an eye out, keep their ear to the ground.
Gold is struck when Lineman manages to locate Jerry.
Encouraged by agreement from Lua, who has stayed in contact with the No.2, that this is what the boss needs-
Lineman sets forth his plan.
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“Boss?” Lineman knocks on Jake's bedroom door, a makeshift backroom full of cobwebs with a rickety sleeping cot.
Where Jake currently lies, face illuminated by his phone.
Lineman refrains from rolling his eyes. Probably going through his texts again.
The guy thought he was being subtle, but it's obvious as hell whenever he's looking at past messages with you. It's the only time a genuine smile graces his face before it inevitably turns forlorn.
“Hmm?” Jake clicks the screen off and sits up as Lineman pokes his head around.
“You got a sec?”
“Sure thing.”
“Ok.” Linemans head disappears again.
There's some minor commotion behind the door. Hushed voices squabbling and-
The door cracks open again and you step through.
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When you got the call from Lineman, you leapt at the chance of seeing Jake again. To see that he's ok with your own eyes.
Give him a piece of your mind for icing you out, probably under some misguided sense of chivalry.
For not explaining a single thing to you and keeping you in the dark even as this huge shit storm rained down on him.
Worse of all, the audacity for leaving you on read.
Unfortunately, at seeing Jake-
The bruises, now mottled green and yellow, the cuts and scratches littering his skin, body bandaged and tender, the way his eyes have lost their light.
-Everything you planned to say and wanted to say goes out the window.
And you burst into tears.
Lineman, taking that as his cue, clicks the door shut.
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Jake is stuck somewhere between elated and miserable.
You're here? You're really here?
But fuck. You're here.
Caught in this chaos.
When he thought he had managed to at least protect you if no one else, you show up when he's at his most powerless.
Then your lip quivers, and your nose lets out a telltale sniffle and-
Shit.
None of that matters.
Jake tries for a smile of his own but feels his own lips turning down.
“What you crying for, dummy?” Tone aiming for jovial, his own voice betrays him and cracks at the last syllable.
A small voice in your head is outraged. Who exactly is he calling a dummy, has he even seen the state of himself.
But you don't move, stay standing by the door, staring as the tears come thick and fast.
Until-
Jake opens his arm, an invitation, and you throw yourself at him.
He winces feeling your weight collide into his body and disturbing his injuries. Luckily your arms coming to hug him around the neck quickly dulls the pain.
He embraces you, one arm holding you close and other hand stroking your hair while telling you it's fine, he's fine, everything's ok.
God. He didn't even realise how much he missed you until you're here. Even the scent of your hair, the feel of your clothes.
Nevermind being able to touch you and hold you.
“Don't you dare ditch me again,” you growl into his shoulder.
Jake opens his mouth, about to argue-
Then you squeeze him tight, lips brushing along his skin and all fight leaves him.
“Ok.”
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The initial reunion is sweet. Glued at the hip once more, one never seen without the other.
You forgive Jake with little drama and he is extra attentive. If he's not next to you then he seeks out your eyes in every moment, every scenario.
Quietly checking you're ok, you're happy. That this situation isn't more than you can handle.
When your eyes meet his, your face lights up and you give him a smile that melts his heart and all his defences.
“I will go with you anywhere,” you tell him one night, sitting on some dusty stairs.
“I know,” he grins.
Realistically, it's a problem. The other problem is that he always wants you with him too.
.
.
However.
The patience from others is short lived.
Lineman is pleased to have his leader back. See the bounce in Jake's step, the grin on his lips that reaches his eyes.
And who is Lightning Choi to get in the way of young love?
Watching you two laughing together, talking in hushed tones, sharing inside jokes warms his heart
Except.
You and Jake are a thorn in his side.
The incessant giggling is annoying. The constant whispering is distracting.
“Get a room!” He shouts over one day, at the end of his rope when Lineman mishears an instruction and ends up face planting.
That did the trick. Both of you avert your gaze and blush furiously.
Hmph. Young idiots in love.
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“You're leaving for Gangnam tomorrow?” You ask, lying beside Jake and resting your head on his shoulder.
“The First Affiliates,” he confirms, clipped and tense.
With D-Day drawing closer, Jake has grown more on edge. Doubt creeping in if he's strong enough to infiltrate and reach Jinyoung Park. Even with the temporary alliance with Daniel Park, he's not sure if it's enough.
After all, the last team up with Charles Choi should have proved sufficient.
With 1A, Jake has given you information on a need to know basis. Kept the details light lest the worry extends to you. Despite his best efforts, you're concerned.
Although, for other selfish reasons.
You prop yourself up on your elbow and face him.
“You said you're not going to ditch me again.”
“Huh?”
“You said!” You jab at his chest with your free hand. “You said you wouldn't ditch me again. No matter what happens.”
Jake pulls a face, and it's one you recognise as regretting his words. Weighing up if being together is worth the potential danger you're put in and trying to worm his way out.
You cut off his spiralling thoughts with another jab and scowl at him. “Promise, asshole.”
His eyebrows shoot up in affront, “Who you calling asshole?”
With one swift movement, he flips you over. You lie flat on his back as he smirks down at you.
“Don't distract me, asshole.”
“It's not my fault you're getting distracted,” and the cocky little shit has the audacity to wink at you.
Ugh. You're serious and he's treating this like a joke. This position is also causing your thoughts to run away with itself.
“Jake,” your gaze dips down to his lips and you angle your face up to his.
He peers down, half-lidded and playful.
“Yes?” He inches closer.
“Stop it.”
"Stop what?” And closer.
“Promise me,” you murmur, lips gently brushing against his. Tips of your noses grazing, his hair falling out of place and breath, minty and sweet on your skin.
“I promise.”
Jake pulls back, enough to look into your eyes. Searches and searches, warm brown eyes boring into yours for what feels like an eternity.
Then finally-
Finds what he's looking for.
And he kisses you, hard. Pours everything, his heart, his hopes, fears and doubts, into the one kiss.
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.
Jake finds Jinyoung but loses Samuel.
Finds out more than he expected about Samuel’s background. Pieces together his background with their falling out, his complexes. At least Jake is able to understand him a little more.
Jerry is safe, if not further wounded from his fight with the Fifth Affiliates - no, with Hostel.
But he's safe. So are Brad and Jason and Lua.
Overall, he considers it a success even if it's middling at best.
.
.
Jake has promised you.
Yet-
He wonders if some promises are better to break.
He thinks it would break you too. A little. In a way that you can recover from, he lies to himself.
He opens his mouth, wanting to ask Lua a favour, a huge goddamn favour. Maybe she can be the one that tells you.
Jake would be indebted to her forever. Probably get eaten alive by the guilt, but surely it's the kind thing to do.
Lua glares at him before he even gets a word out. It's the most angry she has ever looked.
Jerry is the one who responds. “Don't you dare, Jake.”
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.
The thing is, there might never be the right place and right time. At least not in Jake's foreseeable future when there's danger lurking around every corner.
He had initially assumed you and him weren't meant to be, life destined to run on different paths. Had given up at first, when you were both just kids, then given a sliver of hope when you met again.
Except isn't that worse than having no hope at all. To get a taste, a glimpse of what he could have?
He has tried to be so good, so selfless.
A good son and a good friend and a good leader. Tried to give everything his all and come up short and weak.
But for you, it never really mattered. You didn't want him to be anything but himself. Didn't care that he was Gapryong Kim's son or Big Deal No. 1.
With you - it's painfully uncomplicated. Even as all other areas of his life crumble.
You're still the right person. Even if nothing else had been right or felt right, you did.
You do.
And in the end, isn't that all that really matters?
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Jake lets his selfishness take over.
Watches you from the doorway, pacing back and forth and is surprised you haven't worn a path into the floorboards.
Reasons with himself that he deserves this, deserves you. Thinks that he would go insane if he doesn't allow himself this.
This one thing, the most precious thing.
Something he held back and repressed for years. Putting everything but himself and his happiness first.
He's weak. He's simple. He wants to, needs to give in and he wants to be happy.
“I'm back,” he calls over, and your face snap to his in shock.
You ignore his new scars and fresh bandages. It doesn't matter because he's here. He's come back to you.
Jake opens his arms, an invitation, and you take one step, two, three-
And throw yourself at him. Clinging on. Feeling his skin, his body against yours.
“I was worried.” You say, voice muffled into his t-shirt.
“I can tell,” Jake is grinning. Whenever he thinks he may never smile again, you always tease it out of him.
“Don't make fun of me,” you say, lifting your head and frowning up at him
“Sorry.” And he is. For a lot.
Jake gently grips your chin once more, angling your face towards his.
He wonders how he managed to resist for so long, impressed at his own control because how could he ever say no when you look at him like this.
(He knows he looks at you like this too. Seen pitying glances from Lua and heard sniggers from Sinu.)
Jake surges forward.
Captures your lips with his, feels your body turning stiff with surprise and then-
Feels you sag with relief, with happiness, with pleasure. Melting and leaning forward, seeking out more.
His free arm winds around your waist and pulls you close. Pressing the lengths of your body together and promising never to let go again.
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.
During Jake's worst days, he didn't think he would have the privilege of growing old.
No family of his own. And though you were just friends, instead of a faceless partner, he would still imagine it was you by his side and the kids were the perfect mix of you and him.
Dark thoughts would turn to lamenting letting you slip through his fingers. Thinking about what could have been.
On his best days, he dreamt of growing old with you.
In time, Jake will come to know that fate will be kinder to him, his dreams will become a reality.
From the start you've always been the right person, at the right time, at the right place.
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