Cheaters' Game [Prologue]
Pairing: Hyukjae/Donghae
Side Pairings: various
Genre: Angst, Romance, Casino!AU
Rating: PG (for now)
Summary: After all, cheaters never do win, do they? But then again...there really isn’t another like Donghae.
Disclaimer: EUNHAE BELONGS TO US /slapped
Note: First chaptered fic! So be nice please (: Collab with my lovely, angelrielle because she is awesome and I love her. Hope you enjoy! Geography is also fictional. LOL Mokpo isn’t that close to Seoul. But bear with me~
It is a calm, action less evening on this particular night sometime during the fall. A beautiful, clear sky, save for the small puffs of clouds that float by, and the beginnings of the crescent moon that peeks out behind them.
There is the occasional vehicle that drives by, cruising past the thin trickle of pedestrians strolling on the sidewalks. It’s as if no one needs to hurry anywhere; no appointments to catch, no meetings to rush to; the pace of life moving as smoothly as the weather is changing. Really, this is not unlike any other night along the ever-quiet streets in the small city of Mokpo.
The weather only shifts ever-so-slightly each day; perhaps picking up a small breeze, or giving a couple more leaves that transition from green to golden yellow; those subtle, insignificant differences that go unnoticed by the casual passer-by.
One man stands at the edge of it all - he is all too familiar with the slow-moving environment, too used to this emptiness from his days in which he’d roamed the streets. He merely stays on the outside, away from the city-goers; observing each individual, watching every motion that happens in a blur before his eyes.
Donghae chuckles to himself, wondering how he’s managed to put up with this kind of life all this time. It’s boring, he thinks. It’s all too repetitive, too automatic; that all his years of drifting around have made him want to see the world and he thinks that maybe… it’s time to get away from it all.
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Somewhere on the other side, just to the South past the outskirts of Mokpo, sits a certain man, waiting. He is dressed in prestigious attire, complete with a silken black bowtie and his usually soft brown hair slicked back.
Sighing, he drums his fingertips impatiently against the leather seat of the limousine in which he is currently sitting, checking his watch as the minutes tick by. The lane of vehicles to his left and right are whizzing past, leaving the middle the only one stuck, unmoving. He sighs again, probably for the ninth time that hour, calling to the butcher accompanying him today. “Tell the driver to hurry, I have schedules to meet.”
To hell with traffic, he thinks, slumping back into the feathery cushions. “Right away, Hyukjae-sshi.” His destination today is one that he frequents - so much that he is already widely known - the casino.
And as the limousine finally escapes the rush hour traffic, journeying through the busy streets of Seoul, Hyukjae sits there and wonders if this crammed, hectic life will ever change for the better.
- Chapter 1-
A/N: Tell me what you think! Any kind of feedback is always appreciated ^^