[Fan-fic] Moon Thief [Chapter VI]
Title: Moon Thief [ fan-fic ]
Author: DragonMelodies
Pairing: JaeMin (main), Yoosu (much later), OT5
Rating (for chapter): pg-13 (language)
Length: Chaptered [6 / 20(rough estimate)]
Warnings: newbie writer, physical abuse
Genre: Angst, Fluff, super-natural
Disclaimer: I do not own DBSK (if I did there would still be 5 members), I only own the plot.
Summary: Wings like an angel. A cursed life of suffering. That was until he came. Five lonely souls meet and set out to reach their dreams, but as always there are certain obstacles in the way. Will they make it, or will they fall out of the sky? Nothing is certain in this life.
enjoy, comments are loved ^.^
[ Chapter I ] [ Chapter II ] [ Chapter III ] [ Chapter IV ] [ Chapter V ]
Chapter VI : Melting Feathers
I spun to see what Jae’s reaction was, feeling like a ping-pong match spectator. Jae’s face radiated surprise to rival my mother’s. I guess he was used to people thinking of him as a monster and the wings as something horrible. Boy was Jae going to get one heck of a wakeup call with my mother. She has a very… definitive view on beauty and such, if she said something was beautiful it was absolute.
My mom took a step forward but I stepped between them, this was a touchy situation and I was taking every precaution I could.
“Mom…” I said quietly, trying to warn her not to scare the living daylights out of him, for god knows she easily could whether she wanted to or not. However, as things stood, was I was promptly ignored.
“Dear, their beautiful, why didn’t you tell us?”
“Mom this isn’t really the easiest thing to bring up t the dinner table, and not really the easiest to prove either,” I answered for Jae who was in a bit too much shock to actually function properly right now.
“Minnie did you know about this?”
“No, not until tonight that is.”
“Can they fly?”
“Why does everyone ask if they can fly?” Jae finally piped in, be it at the volume of a mouse.
I tried to keep myself from laughing.
“Well, dear, you’ve got a pair of shining ivory wings coming out your back, the first question is of course going to be if they can fly.”
“Hum, somehow I think my first question was more along the lines of ‘Why me?’.”
“Hey, don’t beat on yourself dude.”
“I’m not, I’m just throwing it out there.”
“Why are you two drenched?”
“I kinda hit the shower tap thingy by mistake.”
“Ah, I see, you two stay here I’m going to go grab you change of clothes. Minnie do you think you two will still fit in the same room together?”
“Ya, I’m pretty sure we still will.”
“Mr Kim consider yourself lucky that this house was built with spacious rooms instead of too many.”
“Trust me, I can’t even believe how lucky I am to actually be allowed to stay,” he said under his breath as my mother turned about to head down the hall. I was pretty sure she wasn’t supposed to hear that but she did anyway.
“What, did you think we would throw you out for it or something?”
“Umm, pretty much ya…”
My mother laughed and turned her head to face us. “Dear, you aren’t going to escape us that quickly. Do you know just how difficult it is to find a talented little chef like you these day?” she told him with a wink “Oh and one last thing dear, are the wings going to disappear at some point?”
“Ya, they retract back into my body at sunrise.”
“Ah I see, good then let’s get moving then why don’t we,” and with that she took off down the hall.
“Was your mother a flirt in high school by any chance?”
“I dunno, but she sure sends that vibe,” I told him as I stared after my mother.
The rest of the night was spent watching after Jae. Which wasn’t really a big task. We just kind of manoeuvred him down the stairs (which was an interesting operation) and got him inside my room to spend the night. I had to clear some stuff away and push some of the furniture to the walls to make some space on the floor. My mom was planning on spreading out some futons for Jae to sleep on since neither my bed, never mind the sleeper sofa, were going to fit Jae and his wings. Jae also asked to wait on telling Izzy and Mark, and George so they were left downstairs with the promise that everything was fine and that things would be explained in the morning.
My mom helped me spread out the futons, while Jae sat on my bed watching. He had attempted to help and almost managed to kill all three of us, hence he had been told to sit, stay put and not move unless necessary. I started to realise why Jae had liked his childhood. Instead of being inside, trapped by walls and expectations he had spent his time outside, with freedom to come, go and do as he pleased. There was no awkward banging around, both with wings or without (physically and physiologically). Once the room was set up he moved off the bed and settled himself on the futons, I sat down beside him, iPod in hand, and handed him an ear bud.
Even if you leave me, even if you throw me away.
With my crime of loving you, I’ll only have to hurt.
Leave me far, far away and go,
Very far, far away, to a place where you can’t see
Because I know the one person I can’t love is you
It’s a very, very sorry heart because I couldn’t make you happy
I’m not sure when we’d started to sing but somehow it felt right. A quite melody to drive away the awkwardness, and two voices, one soft beautiful and worth of a world stage and the other an amateur attempt at singing. I swayed slightly in time with the music.
Its great how music can just take everything in life, through it out the window and paint your heart with a completely different emotion. I think that’s probably what I love the most about it. Music and books are the only two things that you drown yourself in and change, you can become anything; the most powerful man on the planet, a beggar, or even a dragon rider. You can forget the worries of today, yesterday and tomorrow and just be whoever.
The song ended and the room turned quite. I felt a light pressure on my shoulder and turned my head to see Jae’s silver blond hair. His shoulder was glued to my own while the mop of silver balanced itself there seemingly almost too comfortably. I didn’t really mind the contact, and surprisingly pretty light (does he have hallow bones like a bird? I thought to myself). My arm found its way around his shoulders, careful not to get anything caught in the feathers bellow and I lightly let my cheek fall on the soft hair. He snuggled in closer, seeking comfort and I complied letting him snuggle as close as he wished, he deserved it after a life time of being alone.
The music kept going, jumping from one song to the next and Jae quietly fell asleep. I levered him off my shoulder and onto the sheets, awkwardly tucked him in and moved over to lean against the back of the couch tuning into my music. I didn’t really feel all that tired but I guess my body had different opinions as I soon knocked out as well, not having moved at all.
~ * Just Before Sunrise * ~
I slowly came around to a familiar voice muttering incoherently.
“I like kimchi…”
... So should have seen that coming, I thought as I slowly came around. Of course he’s be dreaming of kimchi it was Changmin after all. He didn't sleep until he had shuffed round his bed for at least an hour and when sleep did finally find the boy it would never be peaceful sleep. Oh no, he would sleep talk, walk, sing, you name it he’s probably done it in his sleep at least twice. I even caught him having a nightmare about a giant sandwich eat him the other day (ended up waking him up, laughing for a good five minutes, then going down and making him a sandwich just to prove that it wouldn’t eat him). For the most part though it didn’t bother me, I was the opposite I knocked out within 5 minutes and slept like a log. However, when he’s half yelling at sandwich not to eat him at 2in the morning it’s kind of hard to ignore.
I propped myself up on an elbow and cracked my eyes open to go and way him up. I quickly froze as I realised that my wings were still there and I remembered last night’s events. I breathed a deep sigh, it still hadn’t quite sunk in that I’d actually been allowed to stay. My own parents couldn’t deal with my mutation, yet these half strangers had the heart to understand and take me. I really wasn’t ready for this at all, so I decided to do what I usually do with things I don’t understand. I ignored it (yes, I know horrible strategy).
I looked around trying to find Min who was still making more noise than should be made at this unholy hour (7am) and found him rolled up in a ball against the back of the couch, music still plugged into his ears. I shuffled over and pulled the music out.
“Min, wake up, your sleep talking again.”
I voice pulled me out of my dream of kimchi palaces. I cracked my eyes open, and registered ivory hair and wings of shining, white feathers floating somewhere ahead in my blurry vision. I rubbed my eyes and got them to focus, only to find Jae sitting in front of me looking at me with tired amusement. My heart speed up for some reason and I felt myself blush yet I couldn’t tell you why for the world. When a hand started waving in front of my face I decided to put my thoughts aside and pay a bit more attention to the real world. Which, mind you, was not all too difficult considering I was just slightly annoyed at being woken up. It not every day you dream of living in a kimchi palace.
“Stop that I see you.”
“Really? You were gone for a bit there.”
I ignored the smirk and glared at him.“Why is it that it had to be today that you would wake up before me? As much as appreciate you not throwing crap at me I’d also like to sleep in every now and again.” (Jae does not take lightly to being woken up in the morning, he likes to through stuff at anyone who has the guts to try.)
“Oh suck it up buttercup, and you can go back to sleep.”
“Then why did you bother to even wake me up if you’re just gonna tell me to go back to sleep?”
“I didn’t feel like listening to you talking to kimchi?”
I grunted and glared at him. He chuckled up and got up.
“Hey, I’m gonna go get cleaned up,” he murmured.
“Umm dude… I don’t think you’re gonna fit in the shower with the wings.”
“Nah I’ll be okay, don’t worry,” he said lightly and made his way toward the bathroom attached to my room.
“Didn’t you say they’d go back in at sunrise? Why not just wait ‘till then and then you can clean up properly and changed and stuff?”
“I’ll be fine -“ Jae cut off his words abruptly and doubled over. I jumped to my feet and half ran to him. By the time I’d gotten there the guy was on his knees, head down, making some painful sounding, chocking noises. I knelt down beside him and tried to get a look at his face but his hair was doing way too good a job hiding his features from me.
“Jae? Jae! Are you okay?!”
Another chocking sound came from the man which sounded suspiciously like a strangled attempt at saying ‘yes’. It was cut off by a bout of coughing. He was rocking from side to side and I placed a hand on his shoulder to steady him. I watched as his wings straightened themselves out, pointing at the ceiling, starting to give off a light silvery glow. A shudder ran through his body, so intense that he was literally shaking. His arms gave out at this point and I just barely managed to catch him before he face-planted into the floorboards less than 30 cm from his face.
My arm found its way around his midsection and I pulled him up to lean against me. Evidently, he thought I was a wall or something because he just threw his weight on me without any reserve. I wrapped an arm around his shoulder to support him as I watched the wings on his back started to shake and straighten out. In the back of my mind I also registered the light starting to flood in through the window and I realised that it was time for Jae to go back to being the prince of black.
The wings were folding in on themselves in front of me and the junction between them and Jae’s body began to glow. The glow intensified within seconds to a blinding light and the white feathers began to melt into his skin sending ripples of colour through his body. By this point Jae was practically boring holes into my shirt with the grip he had on it. He was plastered against me and by the half way point he had stopped shaking, instead he had now turned as ridged as to stone. I could feel his heart pounding against his ribcage and his cloths were starting to soak in sweat.
What surprised me most was that through the entire thing Jaejoong made almost no noise. For as painful as the process looked I would have expected him to have screamed at least once but all he did was whimper and huff. Somehow that made it even worst to watch. It made me feel even more useless; I couldn’t even give him a proper let out for the pain so he had to hold in all by himself. I shut my eyes and hugged him tight. I have never wanted to protect someone as much as I wanted to protect Jaejoong right now. I don’t know why. It was like some kind of primal instinct.
As I scavenged my mind for some sort of explanation I felt Jae relax in my arms. I put my thoughts aside and opened my eyes to find a head of raven black hair leaning against my chest. I could feel Jae breath in ragged huffs noticed as he shivered in his sweat drenched clothing.
“Sorry.” The word was so quite I just barely caught it.
“It’s fine,” I told him and pulled him closer, if that was even possible.
A peaceful quite settled over the room.
We stayed like that for what felt like hours, mutually feeding off of each other’s strength and emotions. Somewhere in the back of my mind I register that this should have been very awkward and embarrassing, yet it wasn’t. If it was Jaejoong it was fine and so I let things be and relaxed into the touch. I felt my heart whisper inside me to stay like this forever, and I quietly agreed with it.
A/N: so I'm back from my hiatus finally. school is done for the year so i should be able to update regularly from now on. i should also apologize for this chapter, it feels sub-par to me, (and its kinda short compared to the previous chapters) but i decided that this was probably as good as it was gonna get anyway and that you guys have been waiting for a long time for this update so ya. thanks for sticking with me so far and waiting i really appreciate all your comments and support thank you~~~ *bows* and i hope you enjoy ^.^
Author: DragonMelodies
Pairing: JaeMin (main), Yoosu (much later), OT5
Rating (for chapter): pg-13 (language)
Length: Chaptered [6 / 20(rough estimate)]
Warnings: newbie writer, physical abuse
Genre: Angst, Fluff, super-natural
Disclaimer: I do not own DBSK (if I did there would still be 5 members), I only own the plot.
Summary: Wings like an angel. A cursed life of suffering. That was until he came. Five lonely souls meet and set out to reach their dreams, but as always there are certain obstacles in the way. Will they make it, or will they fall out of the sky? Nothing is certain in this life.
enjoy, comments are loved ^.^
[ Chapter I ] [ Chapter II ] [ Chapter III ] [ Chapter IV ] [ Chapter V ]
Chapter VI : Melting Feathers
I spun to see what Jae’s reaction was, feeling like a ping-pong match spectator. Jae’s face radiated surprise to rival my mother’s. I guess he was used to people thinking of him as a monster and the wings as something horrible. Boy was Jae going to get one heck of a wakeup call with my mother. She has a very… definitive view on beauty and such, if she said something was beautiful it was absolute.
My mom took a step forward but I stepped between them, this was a touchy situation and I was taking every precaution I could.
“Mom…” I said quietly, trying to warn her not to scare the living daylights out of him, for god knows she easily could whether she wanted to or not. However, as things stood, was I was promptly ignored.
“Dear, their beautiful, why didn’t you tell us?”
“Mom this isn’t really the easiest thing to bring up t the dinner table, and not really the easiest to prove either,” I answered for Jae who was in a bit too much shock to actually function properly right now.
“Minnie did you know about this?”
“No, not until tonight that is.”
“Can they fly?”
“Why does everyone ask if they can fly?” Jae finally piped in, be it at the volume of a mouse.
I tried to keep myself from laughing.
“Well, dear, you’ve got a pair of shining ivory wings coming out your back, the first question is of course going to be if they can fly.”
“Hum, somehow I think my first question was more along the lines of ‘Why me?’.”
“Hey, don’t beat on yourself dude.”
“I’m not, I’m just throwing it out there.”
“Why are you two drenched?”
“I kinda hit the shower tap thingy by mistake.”
“Ah, I see, you two stay here I’m going to go grab you change of clothes. Minnie do you think you two will still fit in the same room together?”
“Ya, I’m pretty sure we still will.”
“Mr Kim consider yourself lucky that this house was built with spacious rooms instead of too many.”
“Trust me, I can’t even believe how lucky I am to actually be allowed to stay,” he said under his breath as my mother turned about to head down the hall. I was pretty sure she wasn’t supposed to hear that but she did anyway.
“What, did you think we would throw you out for it or something?”
“Umm, pretty much ya…”
My mother laughed and turned her head to face us. “Dear, you aren’t going to escape us that quickly. Do you know just how difficult it is to find a talented little chef like you these day?” she told him with a wink “Oh and one last thing dear, are the wings going to disappear at some point?”
“Ya, they retract back into my body at sunrise.”
“Ah I see, good then let’s get moving then why don’t we,” and with that she took off down the hall.
“Was your mother a flirt in high school by any chance?”
“I dunno, but she sure sends that vibe,” I told him as I stared after my mother.
The rest of the night was spent watching after Jae. Which wasn’t really a big task. We just kind of manoeuvred him down the stairs (which was an interesting operation) and got him inside my room to spend the night. I had to clear some stuff away and push some of the furniture to the walls to make some space on the floor. My mom was planning on spreading out some futons for Jae to sleep on since neither my bed, never mind the sleeper sofa, were going to fit Jae and his wings. Jae also asked to wait on telling Izzy and Mark, and George so they were left downstairs with the promise that everything was fine and that things would be explained in the morning.
My mom helped me spread out the futons, while Jae sat on my bed watching. He had attempted to help and almost managed to kill all three of us, hence he had been told to sit, stay put and not move unless necessary. I started to realise why Jae had liked his childhood. Instead of being inside, trapped by walls and expectations he had spent his time outside, with freedom to come, go and do as he pleased. There was no awkward banging around, both with wings or without (physically and physiologically). Once the room was set up he moved off the bed and settled himself on the futons, I sat down beside him, iPod in hand, and handed him an ear bud.
Even if you leave me, even if you throw me away.
With my crime of loving you, I’ll only have to hurt.
Leave me far, far away and go,
Very far, far away, to a place where you can’t see
Because I know the one person I can’t love is you
It’s a very, very sorry heart because I couldn’t make you happy
I’m not sure when we’d started to sing but somehow it felt right. A quite melody to drive away the awkwardness, and two voices, one soft beautiful and worth of a world stage and the other an amateur attempt at singing. I swayed slightly in time with the music.
Its great how music can just take everything in life, through it out the window and paint your heart with a completely different emotion. I think that’s probably what I love the most about it. Music and books are the only two things that you drown yourself in and change, you can become anything; the most powerful man on the planet, a beggar, or even a dragon rider. You can forget the worries of today, yesterday and tomorrow and just be whoever.
The song ended and the room turned quite. I felt a light pressure on my shoulder and turned my head to see Jae’s silver blond hair. His shoulder was glued to my own while the mop of silver balanced itself there seemingly almost too comfortably. I didn’t really mind the contact, and surprisingly pretty light (does he have hallow bones like a bird? I thought to myself). My arm found its way around his shoulders, careful not to get anything caught in the feathers bellow and I lightly let my cheek fall on the soft hair. He snuggled in closer, seeking comfort and I complied letting him snuggle as close as he wished, he deserved it after a life time of being alone.
The music kept going, jumping from one song to the next and Jae quietly fell asleep. I levered him off my shoulder and onto the sheets, awkwardly tucked him in and moved over to lean against the back of the couch tuning into my music. I didn’t really feel all that tired but I guess my body had different opinions as I soon knocked out as well, not having moved at all.
~ * Just Before Sunrise * ~
I slowly came around to a familiar voice muttering incoherently.
“I like kimchi…”
... So should have seen that coming, I thought as I slowly came around. Of course he’s be dreaming of kimchi it was Changmin after all. He didn't sleep until he had shuffed round his bed for at least an hour and when sleep did finally find the boy it would never be peaceful sleep. Oh no, he would sleep talk, walk, sing, you name it he’s probably done it in his sleep at least twice. I even caught him having a nightmare about a giant sandwich eat him the other day (ended up waking him up, laughing for a good five minutes, then going down and making him a sandwich just to prove that it wouldn’t eat him). For the most part though it didn’t bother me, I was the opposite I knocked out within 5 minutes and slept like a log. However, when he’s half yelling at sandwich not to eat him at 2in the morning it’s kind of hard to ignore.
I propped myself up on an elbow and cracked my eyes open to go and way him up. I quickly froze as I realised that my wings were still there and I remembered last night’s events. I breathed a deep sigh, it still hadn’t quite sunk in that I’d actually been allowed to stay. My own parents couldn’t deal with my mutation, yet these half strangers had the heart to understand and take me. I really wasn’t ready for this at all, so I decided to do what I usually do with things I don’t understand. I ignored it (yes, I know horrible strategy).
I looked around trying to find Min who was still making more noise than should be made at this unholy hour (7am) and found him rolled up in a ball against the back of the couch, music still plugged into his ears. I shuffled over and pulled the music out.
“Min, wake up, your sleep talking again.”
I voice pulled me out of my dream of kimchi palaces. I cracked my eyes open, and registered ivory hair and wings of shining, white feathers floating somewhere ahead in my blurry vision. I rubbed my eyes and got them to focus, only to find Jae sitting in front of me looking at me with tired amusement. My heart speed up for some reason and I felt myself blush yet I couldn’t tell you why for the world. When a hand started waving in front of my face I decided to put my thoughts aside and pay a bit more attention to the real world. Which, mind you, was not all too difficult considering I was just slightly annoyed at being woken up. It not every day you dream of living in a kimchi palace.
“Stop that I see you.”
“Really? You were gone for a bit there.”
I ignored the smirk and glared at him.“Why is it that it had to be today that you would wake up before me? As much as appreciate you not throwing crap at me I’d also like to sleep in every now and again.” (Jae does not take lightly to being woken up in the morning, he likes to through stuff at anyone who has the guts to try.)
“Oh suck it up buttercup, and you can go back to sleep.”
“Then why did you bother to even wake me up if you’re just gonna tell me to go back to sleep?”
“I didn’t feel like listening to you talking to kimchi?”
I grunted and glared at him. He chuckled up and got up.
“Hey, I’m gonna go get cleaned up,” he murmured.
“Umm dude… I don’t think you’re gonna fit in the shower with the wings.”
“Nah I’ll be okay, don’t worry,” he said lightly and made his way toward the bathroom attached to my room.
“Didn’t you say they’d go back in at sunrise? Why not just wait ‘till then and then you can clean up properly and changed and stuff?”
“I’ll be fine -“ Jae cut off his words abruptly and doubled over. I jumped to my feet and half ran to him. By the time I’d gotten there the guy was on his knees, head down, making some painful sounding, chocking noises. I knelt down beside him and tried to get a look at his face but his hair was doing way too good a job hiding his features from me.
“Jae? Jae! Are you okay?!”
Another chocking sound came from the man which sounded suspiciously like a strangled attempt at saying ‘yes’. It was cut off by a bout of coughing. He was rocking from side to side and I placed a hand on his shoulder to steady him. I watched as his wings straightened themselves out, pointing at the ceiling, starting to give off a light silvery glow. A shudder ran through his body, so intense that he was literally shaking. His arms gave out at this point and I just barely managed to catch him before he face-planted into the floorboards less than 30 cm from his face.
My arm found its way around his midsection and I pulled him up to lean against me. Evidently, he thought I was a wall or something because he just threw his weight on me without any reserve. I wrapped an arm around his shoulder to support him as I watched the wings on his back started to shake and straighten out. In the back of my mind I also registered the light starting to flood in through the window and I realised that it was time for Jae to go back to being the prince of black.
The wings were folding in on themselves in front of me and the junction between them and Jae’s body began to glow. The glow intensified within seconds to a blinding light and the white feathers began to melt into his skin sending ripples of colour through his body. By this point Jae was practically boring holes into my shirt with the grip he had on it. He was plastered against me and by the half way point he had stopped shaking, instead he had now turned as ridged as to stone. I could feel his heart pounding against his ribcage and his cloths were starting to soak in sweat.
What surprised me most was that through the entire thing Jaejoong made almost no noise. For as painful as the process looked I would have expected him to have screamed at least once but all he did was whimper and huff. Somehow that made it even worst to watch. It made me feel even more useless; I couldn’t even give him a proper let out for the pain so he had to hold in all by himself. I shut my eyes and hugged him tight. I have never wanted to protect someone as much as I wanted to protect Jaejoong right now. I don’t know why. It was like some kind of primal instinct.
As I scavenged my mind for some sort of explanation I felt Jae relax in my arms. I put my thoughts aside and opened my eyes to find a head of raven black hair leaning against my chest. I could feel Jae breath in ragged huffs noticed as he shivered in his sweat drenched clothing.
“Sorry.” The word was so quite I just barely caught it.
“It’s fine,” I told him and pulled him closer, if that was even possible.
A peaceful quite settled over the room.
We stayed like that for what felt like hours, mutually feeding off of each other’s strength and emotions. Somewhere in the back of my mind I register that this should have been very awkward and embarrassing, yet it wasn’t. If it was Jaejoong it was fine and so I let things be and relaxed into the touch. I felt my heart whisper inside me to stay like this forever, and I quietly agreed with it.
A/N: so I'm back from my hiatus finally. school is done for the year so i should be able to update regularly from now on. i should also apologize for this chapter, it feels sub-par to me, (and its kinda short compared to the previous chapters) but i decided that this was probably as good as it was gonna get anyway and that you guys have been waiting for a long time for this update so ya. thanks for sticking with me so far and waiting i really appreciate all your comments and support thank you~~~ *bows* and i hope you enjoy ^.^