FANFIC: "Playing God (Ch 21: A Farewell, Confrontations & Threats)" (Pairings Listed)
Title: "Playing God" Ch 21: "A Farewell, Confrontations & Threats"
Pairings: DBSK: YunJae (YunhoxJaejoong), YooSu (YoochunxJunsu); Se7enxRain (Past/Implied); KAT-TUN: AKAME (AkanishixKamenashi); BIGBANG: GTop; The GazettE: ReitaxRuki, AoixUruha; (More Pairings/Bands to Come)
Featuring: Se7en, Rain, Changmin (DBSK), Lee HongKi (FT Island), Tatsuya Ueda (KAT-TUN), Taeyang (BIGBANG), SHINee (More to come)
Writer: black_prophet (Midsummer_Slave)
Genre: SciFi/ Fantasy/ AU
Rating: PG13 (Language & Sensuality)
Warning: Fluff, Angst/Drama, Experiments/Medical, Weirdness, Rich Assholes, Sadistic Scientists, Captive Angels, Sensuality
A/N: This fic is dedicated to myeyeswillclose. This Chapter is Co-Dedicated to thesilveramazon because I don't want her feeling left out!
Disclaimer: THIS IS A FANFICTION, as in I do not own the Main Characters (who are of course real people that belong to themselves and each other). All Technicians/Doctors/Executives/Billionaires/Random Assholes are created by me. I reserve the right to throw the names of all you sexy people in if I need them. Ok? Y/Y? I can't even prove Angels exist, this is just for entertainment purposes, and the idea is mine so please don't steal. Feel free to wave at the suspiciously familiar OCs when they arrive (chances are you've seen them commenting on previous chapters). Etc.
Previous Chapters: "Biographies" "Chapter 1" "Chapter 2" "Chapter 3" "Chapter 4" "Chapter 5" "Chapter 6" "Chapter 7" "Chapter 8" "Chapter 9" "Chapter 10" "Chapter 11" "Chapter 12" "Chapter 13" "Chapter 14" "Chapter 15" "Chapter 16" "Chapter 17" "Chapter 18" "Chapter 19" "Chapter 20"
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Jaejoong bid Ueda a warm farewell, feeling part of his awareness chase the other into the night until he could no longer sense the other Angel’s presence. It was better that Ueda kept his gifts so tuned down, Kame and Jin too. Better that the rest of Haven didn’t sense them, he knew, but it still hurt to feel his friend ‘disappear’.
As the graceful Kin straightened with a sigh, one last message skated across his awareness, make him smile even though he had to blink away tears. ‘Love you, pretty Jae.’
‘Love you, Ueda. Please take care of yourself.’
‘That’s why I have a mate, dear one. You just keep yourself safe until we get you out of there, alright?’
‘I’ll be a good boy, I promise.’ He could sense laughter before Ueda even replied.
‘You’ve gotten better at telling me lies, Little Brother. I almost believe you.’
‘If you think I’ve learned nothing here, you’re sadly mistaken. But that will have to wait. Be safe.’ His attention turned to the two speaking just across the courtyard.
‘Make sure to keep yourself out of trouble, Pretty Jae. We have a lot of catch up to do, and I want to meet that mate of yours.’
Bitterness lapped at him, pulling a sigh from his lips before he could edit the impulse. ‘So do I… Believe me, Ueda, so do I…’
Ueda was well on his winding way through the more wild terrain before he turned his attention to finding his fellow J-Res Agents. Brow furrowing slightly he traced the faint impressions of their minds to somewhere far ahead, something in him relaxed slightly as he sensed they were both well. There were days he felt like he couldn’t let the other two out of his sight for even a moment without disaster befalling them.
Being so close to enemy lines made that instinct all the worse.
Wings of pearl white and gray unfurled, and as soon as he was sure it was safe Ueda launched himself, flying low and swift. Flight made the miles-long hike mere moments of memory, and with a smirk he soared upward and then cut into a sharp dive that landed him in the midst of five bodies standing near black vehicles.
Kame and Jin greeted him with smiles even as they pulled pistols on the three startled Koreans. Two of the three strangers fell back from Ueda while pulling their own pistols, the third actually aiding in the fall of one as he swept the slighter male behind him and drew a lethal looking knife.
“Stand down.” Jin ordered with lazy amusement, the fingertips of his free hand still threaded in Kame’s hair and posture relaxed. “TOP, this is Ueda. Ueda, this is TOP, Taeyang, and GDragon… Our little friends from earlier.”
“Friends?” Taeyang muttered, chest heaving with adrenaline as he put his weapon away and offered a hand to the fallen GDragon. “Yeah, sure…”
“You made things rather tense for us on our trip down.” Kame murmured, grinning as he leaned into Jin’s hand. “We weren’t sure which side you were on.”
“We didn’t see you until you’d already staked out a place.” GDragon admitted as he caught Taeyang’s hand and stashed his pistol in the same moment. Reaching up, he caught TOP’s belt and drew himself to his feet with a slight tug from Taeyang.
Ueda grinned as he watched the combative TOP finally stow his weapon in favor of freeing GDragon’s fingers from his belt. The Korean caught the look and gave him a warning narrow of eyes, but Ueda didn’t mind it much. “That was the idea. Nice to meet you all.”
GDragon bumped TOP in mute disapproval of the earlier shove, brushing dead grass and leaves from his clothing. “You and I need to talk.”
“Don’t we always?” TOP replied in a low voice.
“No, I’m really talking to you this time.” GDragon argued, his eyes flashing. “Not the ‘usual’. We have to do something about your tendency to shove me out of sight.”
“And if I don’t want to talk about that?”
“You don’t really have a choice.”
“You can’t tell.” Taeyang murmured to the three Japanese Kin, smiling faintly as he spoke. “But GD is our Leader…”
‘… and TOP is his mate.’ Ueda replied, smiling as Taeyang gaped at him. ‘Trust me, we can tell…’
‘Actually… We didn’t even really know that for sure.’ Taeyang admitted with a faint smile. ‘But thanks for the heads up.’
‘In the Courtship Dance, things always get worse before they get better…’ Ueda tilted his head slightly, considering the two that had subsided into a ‘silent’ argument that was no less fierce for all that the other four could not hear it. ‘Be on your guard…’
‘Around these two, I usually have to be. Some things don’t change, I guess…’
“Now that this is over for the moment.” Jin murmured, considering them all. “Shall we move to friendlier ground for this conversation?”
GDragon tilted his head, a predatory nature flashing in his eyes. “Actually… We need to take care of someone who shot one of our younger brothers.”
It was Kame who hissed softly, though both Jin and Ueda tensed. “Need some extra hands?”
TOP smiled slightly. “I guess we wouldn’t mind letting you three help out…”
Jin smirked. “I was hoping you’d say that.”
*
Jaejoong tsked inwardly; amused that SaeNa had been so easily distracted by the changing of guards. Even while speaking to Ueda and dimly sensing Jin and Kame, he’d noticed the younger male’s departure and the arrival of this older one. While the younger man had viewed Kin with an obvious dislike and tangible hatred, this one’s presence was quietly neutral.
Attention caught by this, Jaejoong turned his gaze to the newer guard, considering him carefully. The guard was lean, his overall frame perhaps a bit more slightly built than Jaejoong’s own. That and the fact that he was shorter by a good eight inches could have made him seem delicate, but it didn’t. He was muscular enough to prove there was a delicate lethality to his body; a beauty in him like a katana rather than some heavier weapon.
He was grace and fluidity rather than bulk and brute strength. A different kind of deadly beauty, but no less lethal. Jaejoong smiled faintly as Ueda’s voice sounded in his head, a message he received once long ago that seemed appropriate for the current situation. ‘That is someone to be careful of, Little Brother... Be very careful.’
As he spoke to SaeNa, the guard’s soft tones were accented, a strangely comforting sound to Jaejoong’s ears. “I am honored that you would make such an offer.”
The Japanese flavoring his words proved he was a transfer from another branch of Haven, and a recent one of Jaejoong were to guess.
“We will have to discuss such things later.” He smiled faintly as he bowed to the Tech, softly accented tones making her smile in return. “Until then, Technician SaeNa.”
Jaejoong made sure to give the chain-link fence a light slap when he moved away from it, the sound attracting the attention of the Tech. He was not foolish enough to believe that even for a moment the guard had stopped observing him, the man had tolerated far too much of SaeNa’s blatant adoration to actually be paying attention to her.
The idea made him smile as he stalked closer, hands in his pockets and shoulders curled as though he were bracing against the chilled air. The breeze was a pleasant stroke against his jaw, tugging at his dark hair and the hood of his jacket.
“Jaejoong, are you ready to go in?” SaeNa murmured as she left of her flirting with the guard.
Moving over to them with graceful strides, Jaejoong inclined his head at the guard with an internal mocking smile, noting the other man carefully watching him. “Yes, I believe so.”
“Very well then.” She murmured, turning away and moving back to the doors.
Jaejoong hesitated in following her, considering the guard. “Good evening.”
“Good evening.” The shorter man replied, a frown just behind his night-darkened eyes. The black of his uniform bled into the night, the crest of The Haven guard over his heart, his last name was stitched across his left pectoral: “Takarai”.
Swiping her badge over the reader, SaeNa tossed him a glance and gestured. “Jaejoong, come on.”
“I wish you a pleasant watch, Takarai.” Jaejoong smiled as he passed the other male close enough to feel his warmth and smell the cigarettes the older male had been smoking, their scent almost covering the underlying cinnamon of his skin.
Takarai frowned, tilting his head slightly in a gesture what was filled with watchful distrust. His hair was dark -a deep brown in the light Jaejoong guessed- and smelled of fresh dye. Tolerance run short, the guard gestured to the doors. “Inside, Kin.”
Jae tsked disapprovingly at the poor manners, but obeyed the order. Flowing strides carried him to the doors and past SaeNa, quickening to carry him through the halls ahead of her.
“Wait, Jaejoong!” She squeaked and scurried after, leaving the doors to close behind them as the guard watched from his post outside. “Slow down.”
“Move faster.” Jae suggest coolly. “I’m tired.”
“Why were you like that?” She asked as she caught up to him, notes clutched to her chest. “With Takarai outside.”
“Afraid I hurt your boyfriend’s feelings?” He purred sarcastically. “He’s new here, better get used to if you ask me. There are harsher creatures than I caged in these walls.”
“He’s not my boyfriend.” She replied quickly.
He rolled his eyes at the correction and suggested something new with a wicked flash of amusement. “Your mate.”
“Only Kin ‘mate’ like animals.” The words flew out before she could stop them, prompting them both to stop dead in the hall and stare at each other.
Jaejoong recovered first, his smile flashing harsh and cold, a fierce flicker of rage in his eyes. “Ahhh, so finally you begin to spout their rhetoric. It will not be long now, then.”
“I didn’t mean- I…” She shook her head. “What is that supposed to mean?”
“I said exactly what I meant.” Jaejoong replied with a low grow. “You’re starting to be exactly like them, SaeNa. Soon you’ll be making the same stupid mistakes, and then you’ll wind up just like HyunAh did.”
HyunAh, his previous Tech. SaeNa’s eyes got wide when she stared at him. “What do you mean?”
“You’ll push me, and I’ll push back.” He growled, turning away and resuming his stalking pace to the arriving elevator. “When that happens, SaeNa, you will die for whatever you try to do to me. Consider yourself warned.”
Watching the elevator doors slide closed on his harshly beautiful visage, SaeNa remained rooted to the spot. She believed every word.
Kim Jaejoong wasn’t the sort to lie, after all.
***
"Chapter 22: Memories & An Elevator Ride"
Just so you know... "Playing God" will be coming to an end in fairly short order. This seems as good a time as any to announce the actual decision to write 'The Angel Chronicles'. "Playing God" is only Book 1, my darlings. I have only just begun. Please to comment, and does anyone want to guess at the Guard? Anyone? *wibbles*
Pairings: DBSK: YunJae (YunhoxJaejoong), YooSu (YoochunxJunsu); Se7enxRain (Past/Implied); KAT-TUN: AKAME (AkanishixKamenashi); BIGBANG: GTop; The GazettE: ReitaxRuki, AoixUruha; (More Pairings/Bands to Come)
Featuring: Se7en, Rain, Changmin (DBSK), Lee HongKi (FT Island), Tatsuya Ueda (KAT-TUN), Taeyang (BIGBANG), SHINee (More to come)
Writer: black_prophet (Midsummer_Slave)
Genre: SciFi/ Fantasy/ AU
Rating: PG13 (Language & Sensuality)
Warning: Fluff, Angst/Drama, Experiments/Medical, Weirdness, Rich Assholes, Sadistic Scientists, Captive Angels, Sensuality
A/N: This fic is dedicated to myeyeswillclose. This Chapter is Co-Dedicated to thesilveramazon because I don't want her feeling left out!
Disclaimer: THIS IS A FANFICTION, as in I do not own the Main Characters (who are of course real people that belong to themselves and each other). All Technicians/Doctors/Executives/Billionaires/Random Assholes are created by me. I reserve the right to throw the names of all you sexy people in if I need them. Ok? Y/Y? I can't even prove Angels exist, this is just for entertainment purposes, and the idea is mine so please don't steal. Feel free to wave at the suspiciously familiar OCs when they arrive (chances are you've seen them commenting on previous chapters). Etc.
Previous Chapters: "Biographies" "Chapter 1" "Chapter 2" "Chapter 3" "Chapter 4" "Chapter 5" "Chapter 6" "Chapter 7" "Chapter 8" "Chapter 9" "Chapter 10" "Chapter 11" "Chapter 12" "Chapter 13" "Chapter 14" "Chapter 15" "Chapter 16" "Chapter 17" "Chapter 18" "Chapter 19" "Chapter 20"
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Jaejoong bid Ueda a warm farewell, feeling part of his awareness chase the other into the night until he could no longer sense the other Angel’s presence. It was better that Ueda kept his gifts so tuned down, Kame and Jin too. Better that the rest of Haven didn’t sense them, he knew, but it still hurt to feel his friend ‘disappear’.
As the graceful Kin straightened with a sigh, one last message skated across his awareness, make him smile even though he had to blink away tears. ‘Love you, pretty Jae.’
‘Love you, Ueda. Please take care of yourself.’
‘That’s why I have a mate, dear one. You just keep yourself safe until we get you out of there, alright?’
‘I’ll be a good boy, I promise.’ He could sense laughter before Ueda even replied.
‘You’ve gotten better at telling me lies, Little Brother. I almost believe you.’
‘If you think I’ve learned nothing here, you’re sadly mistaken. But that will have to wait. Be safe.’ His attention turned to the two speaking just across the courtyard.
‘Make sure to keep yourself out of trouble, Pretty Jae. We have a lot of catch up to do, and I want to meet that mate of yours.’
Bitterness lapped at him, pulling a sigh from his lips before he could edit the impulse. ‘So do I… Believe me, Ueda, so do I…’
Ueda was well on his winding way through the more wild terrain before he turned his attention to finding his fellow J-Res Agents. Brow furrowing slightly he traced the faint impressions of their minds to somewhere far ahead, something in him relaxed slightly as he sensed they were both well. There were days he felt like he couldn’t let the other two out of his sight for even a moment without disaster befalling them.
Being so close to enemy lines made that instinct all the worse.
Wings of pearl white and gray unfurled, and as soon as he was sure it was safe Ueda launched himself, flying low and swift. Flight made the miles-long hike mere moments of memory, and with a smirk he soared upward and then cut into a sharp dive that landed him in the midst of five bodies standing near black vehicles.
Kame and Jin greeted him with smiles even as they pulled pistols on the three startled Koreans. Two of the three strangers fell back from Ueda while pulling their own pistols, the third actually aiding in the fall of one as he swept the slighter male behind him and drew a lethal looking knife.
“Stand down.” Jin ordered with lazy amusement, the fingertips of his free hand still threaded in Kame’s hair and posture relaxed. “TOP, this is Ueda. Ueda, this is TOP, Taeyang, and GDragon… Our little friends from earlier.”
“Friends?” Taeyang muttered, chest heaving with adrenaline as he put his weapon away and offered a hand to the fallen GDragon. “Yeah, sure…”
“You made things rather tense for us on our trip down.” Kame murmured, grinning as he leaned into Jin’s hand. “We weren’t sure which side you were on.”
“We didn’t see you until you’d already staked out a place.” GDragon admitted as he caught Taeyang’s hand and stashed his pistol in the same moment. Reaching up, he caught TOP’s belt and drew himself to his feet with a slight tug from Taeyang.
Ueda grinned as he watched the combative TOP finally stow his weapon in favor of freeing GDragon’s fingers from his belt. The Korean caught the look and gave him a warning narrow of eyes, but Ueda didn’t mind it much. “That was the idea. Nice to meet you all.”
GDragon bumped TOP in mute disapproval of the earlier shove, brushing dead grass and leaves from his clothing. “You and I need to talk.”
“Don’t we always?” TOP replied in a low voice.
“No, I’m really talking to you this time.” GDragon argued, his eyes flashing. “Not the ‘usual’. We have to do something about your tendency to shove me out of sight.”
“And if I don’t want to talk about that?”
“You don’t really have a choice.”
“You can’t tell.” Taeyang murmured to the three Japanese Kin, smiling faintly as he spoke. “But GD is our Leader…”
‘… and TOP is his mate.’ Ueda replied, smiling as Taeyang gaped at him. ‘Trust me, we can tell…’
‘Actually… We didn’t even really know that for sure.’ Taeyang admitted with a faint smile. ‘But thanks for the heads up.’
‘In the Courtship Dance, things always get worse before they get better…’ Ueda tilted his head slightly, considering the two that had subsided into a ‘silent’ argument that was no less fierce for all that the other four could not hear it. ‘Be on your guard…’
‘Around these two, I usually have to be. Some things don’t change, I guess…’
“Now that this is over for the moment.” Jin murmured, considering them all. “Shall we move to friendlier ground for this conversation?”
GDragon tilted his head, a predatory nature flashing in his eyes. “Actually… We need to take care of someone who shot one of our younger brothers.”
It was Kame who hissed softly, though both Jin and Ueda tensed. “Need some extra hands?”
TOP smiled slightly. “I guess we wouldn’t mind letting you three help out…”
Jin smirked. “I was hoping you’d say that.”
*
Jaejoong tsked inwardly; amused that SaeNa had been so easily distracted by the changing of guards. Even while speaking to Ueda and dimly sensing Jin and Kame, he’d noticed the younger male’s departure and the arrival of this older one. While the younger man had viewed Kin with an obvious dislike and tangible hatred, this one’s presence was quietly neutral.
Attention caught by this, Jaejoong turned his gaze to the newer guard, considering him carefully. The guard was lean, his overall frame perhaps a bit more slightly built than Jaejoong’s own. That and the fact that he was shorter by a good eight inches could have made him seem delicate, but it didn’t. He was muscular enough to prove there was a delicate lethality to his body; a beauty in him like a katana rather than some heavier weapon.
He was grace and fluidity rather than bulk and brute strength. A different kind of deadly beauty, but no less lethal. Jaejoong smiled faintly as Ueda’s voice sounded in his head, a message he received once long ago that seemed appropriate for the current situation. ‘That is someone to be careful of, Little Brother... Be very careful.’
As he spoke to SaeNa, the guard’s soft tones were accented, a strangely comforting sound to Jaejoong’s ears. “I am honored that you would make such an offer.”
The Japanese flavoring his words proved he was a transfer from another branch of Haven, and a recent one of Jaejoong were to guess.
“We will have to discuss such things later.” He smiled faintly as he bowed to the Tech, softly accented tones making her smile in return. “Until then, Technician SaeNa.”
Jaejoong made sure to give the chain-link fence a light slap when he moved away from it, the sound attracting the attention of the Tech. He was not foolish enough to believe that even for a moment the guard had stopped observing him, the man had tolerated far too much of SaeNa’s blatant adoration to actually be paying attention to her.
The idea made him smile as he stalked closer, hands in his pockets and shoulders curled as though he were bracing against the chilled air. The breeze was a pleasant stroke against his jaw, tugging at his dark hair and the hood of his jacket.
“Jaejoong, are you ready to go in?” SaeNa murmured as she left of her flirting with the guard.
Moving over to them with graceful strides, Jaejoong inclined his head at the guard with an internal mocking smile, noting the other man carefully watching him. “Yes, I believe so.”
“Very well then.” She murmured, turning away and moving back to the doors.
Jaejoong hesitated in following her, considering the guard. “Good evening.”
“Good evening.” The shorter man replied, a frown just behind his night-darkened eyes. The black of his uniform bled into the night, the crest of The Haven guard over his heart, his last name was stitched across his left pectoral: “Takarai”.
Swiping her badge over the reader, SaeNa tossed him a glance and gestured. “Jaejoong, come on.”
“I wish you a pleasant watch, Takarai.” Jaejoong smiled as he passed the other male close enough to feel his warmth and smell the cigarettes the older male had been smoking, their scent almost covering the underlying cinnamon of his skin.
Takarai frowned, tilting his head slightly in a gesture what was filled with watchful distrust. His hair was dark -a deep brown in the light Jaejoong guessed- and smelled of fresh dye. Tolerance run short, the guard gestured to the doors. “Inside, Kin.”
Jae tsked disapprovingly at the poor manners, but obeyed the order. Flowing strides carried him to the doors and past SaeNa, quickening to carry him through the halls ahead of her.
“Wait, Jaejoong!” She squeaked and scurried after, leaving the doors to close behind them as the guard watched from his post outside. “Slow down.”
“Move faster.” Jae suggest coolly. “I’m tired.”
“Why were you like that?” She asked as she caught up to him, notes clutched to her chest. “With Takarai outside.”
“Afraid I hurt your boyfriend’s feelings?” He purred sarcastically. “He’s new here, better get used to if you ask me. There are harsher creatures than I caged in these walls.”
“He’s not my boyfriend.” She replied quickly.
He rolled his eyes at the correction and suggested something new with a wicked flash of amusement. “Your mate.”
“Only Kin ‘mate’ like animals.” The words flew out before she could stop them, prompting them both to stop dead in the hall and stare at each other.
Jaejoong recovered first, his smile flashing harsh and cold, a fierce flicker of rage in his eyes. “Ahhh, so finally you begin to spout their rhetoric. It will not be long now, then.”
“I didn’t mean- I…” She shook her head. “What is that supposed to mean?”
“I said exactly what I meant.” Jaejoong replied with a low grow. “You’re starting to be exactly like them, SaeNa. Soon you’ll be making the same stupid mistakes, and then you’ll wind up just like HyunAh did.”
HyunAh, his previous Tech. SaeNa’s eyes got wide when she stared at him. “What do you mean?”
“You’ll push me, and I’ll push back.” He growled, turning away and resuming his stalking pace to the arriving elevator. “When that happens, SaeNa, you will die for whatever you try to do to me. Consider yourself warned.”
Watching the elevator doors slide closed on his harshly beautiful visage, SaeNa remained rooted to the spot. She believed every word.
Kim Jaejoong wasn’t the sort to lie, after all.
***
"Chapter 22: Memories & An Elevator Ride"
Just so you know... "Playing God" will be coming to an end in fairly short order. This seems as good a time as any to announce the actual decision to write 'The Angel Chronicles'. "Playing God" is only Book 1, my darlings. I have only just begun. Please to comment, and does anyone want to guess at the Guard? Anyone? *wibbles*