[JAEJOONG] after the end
Fandom: TVXQ
Pairing: Jaejoong/BoA
Rating: PG
This one took me SO LONG to write. I had actually finished every up until the last 2 paragraphs on a plane ride home to Toronto, but something just didn't fit with my original ending. I like this one a lot more :3 ALSO - Jae/BoA is like my pet OTP. I ♥ it to death, but there simply ISN'T ENOUGH. Last thing - pure romance, no angst. I think this is the first pure romance piece I've EVER done. Angst has a way of ninja-ing itself into all my writing *sobs*.
02．Kim Jaejoong
Jaejoong has just turned 27 (and she has not even turned 26) when TVXQ disbands. There are no more endless days and sleepless nights, but they are still considered the one of the most influential and successful boy bands in Asian entertainment history, and that is enough for him.
Junsu has eloped and his work hours are nine to five instead of whenever to whenever, so Jaejoong thinks “what the hell”, and falls into a habit of picking up the phone whenever he’s bored.
It’s somewhat hard to believe, but Jaejoong’s already forgotten about things like jetlag and time zones.
“…”
“Um…hello?”
“…nnn”
“Hey, are you there? It’s me, Jaejoongie.”
“asdfjkl;asdfjkl;”
“Oh. Well. If it’s more convenient for you, I can call back later.”
“…beep beep beep”
Jaejoong says goodnight to a dead line, but that’s okay because he’s only 27 (and she’s not yet 26), and he waited 2 years to debut, 3 years to reach the top in Japan, and 6 years to finally make it to Tokyo Dome, and his phone will be on all day in case she calls back.
He frequently wakes her up at three in the morning because he never remembers that America’s just cool like that. When she’s had a good day, she tends to hang up or fall asleep on him thirty seconds into the conversation, but on nights when the entire day has gone wrong and there was a call from her manager informing her of 2 cancelled TV appearances, she will stay up and talk with him.
Sometimes though, she will have a spare moment or two during noontime when manager-oppa is rearranging her schedule, stylist-unnie is texting the boyfriend, and the friendly talk show host is sitting on the other side of the room and has no intention of leaving her seat, and then she will be the one to call him.
He’s never asleep yet but always pretends to be, and she plays along because she likes his sleep-masked voiced. It makes you sound more masculine, she tells him, and he laughs, the sound deep and throaty.
The day she turns 26, he dismisses his morning vocal class early (and Changmin, who totally saw this coming, isn’t surprised) and calls her right at twelve.
He calls her four times before she finally picks up, and when he wishes her a happy birthday, she laughs - high and trilling and fake, and he thinks he can hear the tears in her voice and wonders how much she has drank.
He asks her what her wish is for the coming year, and she is silent; he remembers wishes from a thousand past lifetimes - a successful follow-up album, a chance to write my own music, more time, a collaboration with the Backstreet Boys, another CF, more time - before she answers in a voice he can barely hear: “I want to go home.”
Jaejoong doesn’t answer to that, because he had always known how it would end.
Four days later, Korea’s scandal of the year erupts when a source close to TVXQ’s Jaejoong sells his phone records for the past 2 years to Seoul’s largest tabloid magazine. Rumors and different stories pop up, and no one really knows the truth, but he was (still is) Korea’s Prince Charming and she was (still is) Korea’s sweetheart Cinderella, so course people would talk.
She is furious when she calls him, because she knows him well enough to be certain that the source was none other than himself (and she is right).
He listens to her scream for half an hour until she runs out of breath, and then he asks, “You never wanted to go to America, did you?”
And then she cries, because yes, she had wanted to go the States, but not to sing, no, and now she’s so famous there that there’s no way she can comfortably enrol in any university, and it kills her because all she ever wanted was to be like her older brothers (and they both went to university, didn’t they?), and even that dream is gone now. At the end of it all, she only has one thing left to say.
“I want to see you.”
He knows, and had known it for a while, so he tells her that there’s a plane ticket booked under her name for Seoul the very next morning, and she swears something fierce at him and then tells him she loves him.
“I know,” he answers, because it’s true and it’s about time someone told her the truth.
He sees her pretty face in person for the first time in nearly 3 years and something in him heals so quickly that it tears at him from the inside out; he isn’t sure who kisses who first, but the paparazzi will have a field day, they’ll both get their asses handed to them back at the company, but it’s okay because it took them twelve years to realize what they truly wanted and they aren’t going to let go so easily.
The Korean nation is predictably scandalized, but her Western fans are delighted, and for a while Lee Soo Man doesn’t even know what to do. He takes the easiest (and most face-saving) way out by deciding not to extend her contract (“but you’re welcome to stay on as a dance coach for the debuted groups, like Junsu and Donghae”) - which suits her perfectly, because she’s seen too much of the entertainment industry and now she wants to see something different for a change (“ah, no thanks, I think I’ll take a break for a while”).
They buy an apartment together above her favourite coffeeshop, and on their moving day they pop open a bottle of champagne and toast to new beginnings and full circles.
On the night she turns 29, she tells him she wants to give America another try - only this time, she wants them to be just another Korean family wanting to give their future second generation the chances that she never had.
“Are you sure you’re okay with this?”
“Anything for you.”
“Forever?”
“For always.”
Notes:
[1] No, she's NOT pregnant at the end, but YES, I am alluding to immigration.
Others in the series:
Junsu - Jaejoong - Changmin - Yoochun - Yunho
Pairing: Jaejoong/BoA
Rating: PG
This one took me SO LONG to write. I had actually finished every up until the last 2 paragraphs on a plane ride home to Toronto, but something just didn't fit with my original ending. I like this one a lot more :3 ALSO - Jae/BoA is like my pet OTP. I ♥ it to death, but there simply ISN'T ENOUGH. Last thing - pure romance, no angst. I think this is the first pure romance piece I've EVER done. Angst has a way of ninja-ing itself into all my writing *sobs*.
02．Kim Jaejoong
Jaejoong has just turned 27 (and she has not even turned 26) when TVXQ disbands. There are no more endless days and sleepless nights, but they are still considered the one of the most influential and successful boy bands in Asian entertainment history, and that is enough for him.
Junsu has eloped and his work hours are nine to five instead of whenever to whenever, so Jaejoong thinks “what the hell”, and falls into a habit of picking up the phone whenever he’s bored.
It’s somewhat hard to believe, but Jaejoong’s already forgotten about things like jetlag and time zones.
“…”
“Um…hello?”
“…nnn”
“Hey, are you there? It’s me, Jaejoongie.”
“asdfjkl;asdfjkl;”
“Oh. Well. If it’s more convenient for you, I can call back later.”
“…beep beep beep”
Jaejoong says goodnight to a dead line, but that’s okay because he’s only 27 (and she’s not yet 26), and he waited 2 years to debut, 3 years to reach the top in Japan, and 6 years to finally make it to Tokyo Dome, and his phone will be on all day in case she calls back.
He frequently wakes her up at three in the morning because he never remembers that America’s just cool like that. When she’s had a good day, she tends to hang up or fall asleep on him thirty seconds into the conversation, but on nights when the entire day has gone wrong and there was a call from her manager informing her of 2 cancelled TV appearances, she will stay up and talk with him.
Sometimes though, she will have a spare moment or two during noontime when manager-oppa is rearranging her schedule, stylist-unnie is texting the boyfriend, and the friendly talk show host is sitting on the other side of the room and has no intention of leaving her seat, and then she will be the one to call him.
He’s never asleep yet but always pretends to be, and she plays along because she likes his sleep-masked voiced. It makes you sound more masculine, she tells him, and he laughs, the sound deep and throaty.
The day she turns 26, he dismisses his morning vocal class early (and Changmin, who totally saw this coming, isn’t surprised) and calls her right at twelve.
He calls her four times before she finally picks up, and when he wishes her a happy birthday, she laughs - high and trilling and fake, and he thinks he can hear the tears in her voice and wonders how much she has drank.
He asks her what her wish is for the coming year, and she is silent; he remembers wishes from a thousand past lifetimes - a successful follow-up album, a chance to write my own music, more time, a collaboration with the Backstreet Boys, another CF, more time - before she answers in a voice he can barely hear: “I want to go home.”
Jaejoong doesn’t answer to that, because he had always known how it would end.
Four days later, Korea’s scandal of the year erupts when a source close to TVXQ’s Jaejoong sells his phone records for the past 2 years to Seoul’s largest tabloid magazine. Rumors and different stories pop up, and no one really knows the truth, but he was (still is) Korea’s Prince Charming and she was (still is) Korea’s sweetheart Cinderella, so course people would talk.
She is furious when she calls him, because she knows him well enough to be certain that the source was none other than himself (and she is right).
He listens to her scream for half an hour until she runs out of breath, and then he asks, “You never wanted to go to America, did you?”
And then she cries, because yes, she had wanted to go the States, but not to sing, no, and now she’s so famous there that there’s no way she can comfortably enrol in any university, and it kills her because all she ever wanted was to be like her older brothers (and they both went to university, didn’t they?), and even that dream is gone now. At the end of it all, she only has one thing left to say.
“I want to see you.”
He knows, and had known it for a while, so he tells her that there’s a plane ticket booked under her name for Seoul the very next morning, and she swears something fierce at him and then tells him she loves him.
“I know,” he answers, because it’s true and it’s about time someone told her the truth.
He sees her pretty face in person for the first time in nearly 3 years and something in him heals so quickly that it tears at him from the inside out; he isn’t sure who kisses who first, but the paparazzi will have a field day, they’ll both get their asses handed to them back at the company, but it’s okay because it took them twelve years to realize what they truly wanted and they aren’t going to let go so easily.
The Korean nation is predictably scandalized, but her Western fans are delighted, and for a while Lee Soo Man doesn’t even know what to do. He takes the easiest (and most face-saving) way out by deciding not to extend her contract (“but you’re welcome to stay on as a dance coach for the debuted groups, like Junsu and Donghae”) - which suits her perfectly, because she’s seen too much of the entertainment industry and now she wants to see something different for a change (“ah, no thanks, I think I’ll take a break for a while”).
They buy an apartment together above her favourite coffeeshop, and on their moving day they pop open a bottle of champagne and toast to new beginnings and full circles.
On the night she turns 29, she tells him she wants to give America another try - only this time, she wants them to be just another Korean family wanting to give their future second generation the chances that she never had.
“Are you sure you’re okay with this?”
“Anything for you.”
“Forever?”
“For always.”
Notes:
[1] No, she's NOT pregnant at the end, but YES, I am alluding to immigration.
Others in the series:
Junsu - Jaejoong - Changmin - Yoochun - Yunho