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"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."
"What is grief, if not love persevering?"
"You kept me like a secret but I kept you like an oath"
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Minghao + Ocean Vuong
The most beautiful part of your body
is where it's headed. & remember,
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.
Ocean Vuong - night sky with exit wounds
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Thinking about these two quotes together and the idea of on/off-stage personas:
"Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful we tremble before it. And what could be more terrifying or beautiful, to the Greeks to to our own, than to lose control completely?" - Donna Tartt, the Secret Histories
"I am calm in everyday life but when I put on my in-ear device and step on stage, I can feel the tension and hear the cheers getting louder as the music gets louder. When the staff tells me it's time to step on stage, I feel something boil inside me. I feel it steaming inside and I think I have to give a burst of something, spill what is inside me." - Hoshi in Hit the Road Ep. 04
Any ship; "It's been so many years"
Hello, hello there, is this Martha?
This is old Tom Frost
And I am calling long distance
Don't worry 'bout the cost.
'Cause it's been forty years or more
Now Martha please recall
Meet me out for coffee
Where we'll talk about it all.
Tom Watts - Martha
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Prompt:
[FILL] love is a thing with teeth
Major Tags: hitman AU, depictions of violence, semi-explicit sexual content
Additional Tags: killing eve vibes, vernon the horniest hitman ever
Permission to remix: pls ask
a/n: this is,,, a very loose interpretation of the prompt
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Seungkwan is too good. He’s the type to soothe a crying child in public, help an elderly person with their groceries. Whenever Vernon meets up with him, he always asks if he’s eating well, if he’s taken his vitamins. Vernon lies, says he is, just to see Seungkwan smile.
“Where did you go this time?” Seungkwan asks eagerly, tugging at Vernon’s sleeve.
“New York,” Vernon says, indulgent. “Wanna see pictures?”
“Yes!” He spends the rest of the day with Seungkwan, answering his questions, taking him out for Thai Food and then fucking him until Seungkwan sobs his name.
“Can’t,” Vernon says when Seungkwan sleepily requests for him to spend the night. He presses one, two, three kisses to Seungkwan’s pouty mouth. “See you on Thursday?”
“Fiiine,” Seungkwan flops back into bed, waving Vernon away. “Goodbye, stupid boyfriend.”
Seungkwan really is too good to him.
–
Vernon wasn’t in New York. He was in Beijing, doing a job. A “job” as in -
“Messy,” he comments casually at the scene Jun’s left behind. Josh sent him in for backup because a member of Chinese intelligence that’s been tracking Jun’s movement caught up with him. It’s cool, Vernon shot him in the head before anything could happen.
Jun beams at him, a bloody Joker smile. “Vernonieee, you came to save me!”
Seungkwan thinks that Vernon travels for work, taking pictures for magazines. He does take a lot of pictures, but nothing that anyone would pay for. It’s an easy enough cover story though - he and Seungkwan aren’t at the point in their relationship where Seungkwan pries for details.
He thinks about it though. Spilling his bloody guts, and wondering if Seungkwan would still kiss in that tender way he does. The way that makes Vernon keep coming back to him.
–
This kind of life, you either inherit or get recruited.
Vernon is the latter, Joshua is the former. He thinks that’s why Joshua has no problem calling him up at the last minute to take care of things, even when Vernon is on a date with his very cute boyfriend.
“What’s wrong?” Seungkwan asks when Vernon hangs up. His poker face hasn’t budged, but Seungkwan can somehow read his displeasure. Huh. How about that.
“Work emergency,” he sighs. Seungkwan’s expression falls and Vernon reaches out to cup Seungkwan’s cheek. “I’m sorry,” he says, and means it. Whoever he has to kill is really unlucky, because Vernon has a personal vendetta against them now. “I promise I’ll make it up to you.”
Seungkwan pouts. “You better.”
Twelve hours later, Vernon is sitting in Joshua’s office, giving him the flash-drive they needed so badly. Vernon had strangled his mark, outside his usual MO. It was pretty satisfying, but he still misses Seungkwan. Little tease had snapped Vernon a picture of him stretched around a dildo, the perfect revenge, and Vernon is still recovering from it.
“Good job.” Joshua takes a better look at him and raises an eyebrow. “You’re unhappy.”
“Nah,” he says. He knows that everyone is aware he has a civilian in his life, but they don’t know too much about Seungkwan. Which is how he likes it. Vernon is quiet about him for a reason. “Can I have a bonus? Since it was last minute.” If he has extra cash, maybe he can buy Seungkwan concert tickets for that girl group he likes so much.
Joshua eyes him for another minute before conceding. Vernon texts Seungkwan the ticket confirmation, grinning at the barrage of heart emojis that he gets in reply. Forgiven.
–
“Oh no, you’re too cute for this,” Jun groans the first time he meets Vernon. It’s standard for the “babies” the ones with less than five years in the field, to shadow a more experienced hitman before taking jobs on their own. “What are the bosses thinking?”
“Sorry hyung,” Vernon says politely. Jun curses under his breath in Mandarin and Vernon doesn’t bother telling him that he can understand him.
Later that week, Jun takes it back after Vernon comes up with a way to hit their mark with poison in a cologne bottle. “You’re kinda half-plastic aren’t you,” he says, ruffling Vernon’s hair.
Wonwoo, who’s driving their getaway vehicle, looks back with a frown. “What the hell does that mean, Jun?”
But Vernon gets it.
–
He can’t pinpoint the exact moment he decided he wanted to keep Seungkwan. He picked him up randomly at a club one night, desperately horny, wanting to bury himself in a warm body and stay here until morning. But Seungkwan had been too nice, and didn't let him go too fast that first time, softening Vernon with sweet kisses and caresses. It had been too long since Vernon had been touched in such a tender way, that he melted instantly.
“I’ll take care of you,” Seungkwan had said, an angel on his knees. Speechless, Vernon let him.
He’s been a sucker ever since.
–
“Your skin looks really nice,” Wonwoo says, bewildered, the next time Vernon sees him. Vernon blinks, and touches his own cheek.
“Oh. Thanks. I drink a lot of water.”
He texts Seungkwan what Wonwoo said on his personal phone after he stabs a prominent member of Japanese parliament in a subway, stepping out right where the cameras are dead. He tosses the blade, just as Seungkwan texts an ecstatic, I told you so! Skincare is important, Vernonie!
–
Vernon knows he’s a bad person. Good people don’t kill other people. The ‘half-plastic’ label is something that he clings to. He’s bad, but not all bad. Nice, but not too much. Good enough to touch Seungkwan with his dirty, dirty hands because Seungkwan wants him to. Seungkwan, who deserves a better, sweeter romance. Preferably from a person who hasn’t killed twenty people in the past year.
The truth is, Vernon would probably kill anyone else that tried to touch Seungkwan.
After all, he’s only partially a nice person. He’s not good enough to let Seungkwan go.
–
Seungkwan kicks him when his work phone buzzes at two in the morning. Vernon slowly blinks awake, looking at his angry boyfriend. Even like this, Seungkwan is cute.
“Tell Josh Hong to respect peoples’ sleep schedules!” Yeah, as if Vernon is going to tell Josh that a civilian knows his name. He kisses Seungkwan lazily, before getting up. Seungkwan melts back into bed, with a huff. “Ridiculous. You’re lucky I love you.”
Vernon pauses in the middle of pulling up his boxers. Seungkwan loves him?
He thinks about it. It’s been a year. Wonwoo has found him a cover at a magazine company that one of the bosses has his hands in, to make his photographer cover easier. Seungkwan knows Wonwoo and Jun are his closest coworkers. Outside of his job, Seungkwan knows practically everything about him. He definitely knows everything about Seungkwan.
Well, shit. He loves Seungkwan too.
“You don’t have to say it back,” Seungkwan says shyly, misinterpreting Vernon’s silence.
“You’re too good for me,” he says honestly.
Seungkwan scoffs. “You’re the sweetest man in the world.”
Vernon smiles, Seungkwan’s words echoing in his skull, as he goes into work.
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MISHI!!!!! this was just!!! just SO GOOD!!! horny hitman vernon i never knew how much i needed you until now. im in love with the pacing i think it suits the genre so well it definitely gives off killing eve vibes, like, perfectly. i loved jun's "half-plastic" line and how you incorporated it because it makes SO much sense in this au. this half-plastic guy falling in love with lovely, lovely seungkwan. oh it's always so fun when there's a killer in the equation! thank you for sharing <3
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Rose x
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