Tears Dry On Their Own - Character Profile and Prologue
Title: Tears Dry On Their Own
Pairing: JaeMin (Main), HoMin, HoSu, Yoochun/OFC
Rating: R
Length: Chaptered
Genre: Romance, Angst, Drama, Fluff, Humor, AU
Warnings: Language, Mentions of Adultery
Disclaimer: This is a work of pure fiction. The characters belong to themselves. The plot-line is mine. Do not translate this fic or distribute it without permission.
Summary: Two stunningly powerful individuals; so hopelessly in love. They had everything anyone could ever want - fame, money, love and a family worth more than all the happiness in the world.
But something happened. Something wrong.
One half of their whole committed a mistake that the other could never accept and, thus, unleashed a story of discovery, understanding and forgiveness.
Character Profile:
Shim Changmin
Age: 29
Occupation: Designer, Model
Husband: (Ex) Kim Jaejoong
Bio: Married Jaejoong at the age of 19, gave up modelling at the age of 20 after adopting their new-born son - Kris.
Used to be known as the Ice-Prince or Demon of the modelling industry and tends to be ruthless and cut-throat in his profession. He is fiercely loyal to people he considers friends and family.
Divorced Jaejoong at the age of 26.
Kim Jaejoong
Age: 31
Occupation: Former Idol-Singer, Present day CEO and owner of KS Entertainment - The largest and most influential Entertainment Company in the Asian market.
Husband: (Ex) Shim Changmin
Bio: Married Changmin at the age of 21, gave up singing after their parents merged their entertainment companies together in order to learn the mechanisms of the industry. He insisted on the adoption of Kris at the age of 22. He is incredibly well respected and a tough, intelligent and powerful person to go up against in the industry. He is incredibly protective about those around him.
Divorced Changmin at the age of 28.
Other Characters:
Jung Yunho
Park Yoochun
Kim Junsu
Kim-Shim Wu Fan (Kris)
Prologue:
Beautiful, smart, powerful, strong. We were everything when we were nothing. We became nothing when we became everything.
Was it fate? Was it a mistake? Were we really just wrong from the start?
A gorgeous and intelligent son. A marriage that we’d fought so hard to get. A love that was never supposed to end.
Then why?
Why has the winter of our love arrived?
Why has it ended before the spring has subsided?
Can you answer?
Or are you the answer.
I don’t hate you.
I can’t.
Tell me, Jae, where there’s a place for hate in my heart, when all I have ever had is love?
Undying,
Faithful love.
Faithful.
I want to laugh.
I want to cry.
I won’t lie.
There is so much resentment in me, Jaejoong.
I resent you. I can’t look at you. I don’t hate you.
But I want to.
You cheated on me, my love. Right there, on the floors of the world that we both built together.
You were wrapped so tightly in each other’s arms, so enraptured, so unaware.
I didn’t know who she was.
Does that make me the unaware one?
Hearing her cry out your name as you plunged deep into her feminine depths, I could only wait for you to call out hers.
But that wait proved too long.
My heart couldn’t take it.
I had to run.
I needed to.
So forgive me.
Just as I have forgiven you.
Even though my heart has not.
Forgive me for giving up on our marriage.
Forgive me for taking away our son.
Goodbye, my love.
I hope you never have to find this letter. I hope you’re happy with her. Whoever she is. I hope she makes you happier than I ever could.
Yours,
Forever and ever,
Changmin.
“Changmin?”
I sigh as I slip the letter between the pages of our wedding album, putting the book back on to the shelf.
“Changmin, where are you?” Jaejoong calls, his voice resounding around the house.
I look at my sleeping son as I reach down to pick him up into my arms.
“Min Appa?”
“Go back to sleep, baby. We’re going out.”
“Mmm.”
“Changmin, answer me!” Jaejoong shouts as he looks into every room of their massive mansion.
I grab our suitcases and walk determinedly out the door, promising myself to never look back again.
“Changmin, this isn’t funny! Where are you?!"
It's then that Jaejoong realises he can't find his son either.
"Kris?! Kris?! Kris, answer me, dammit!”
I start the engine of the car and drive away. My heart torn. My life destroyed.
“What is this?” Jaejoong exclaims, running shaky fingers through his hair, as he spots painfully familiar papers lying on top of the dining table.
“Divorce papers...”
A note under the papers draws his attention.
I know where you were last night. I just wish you hadn’t been there.
Goodbye.
The lithe man reaches in panicked distress for his phone and dials his husband’s number.
This number is out of service. Please check the number you have dialed and try again.
“Yunho?”
“Changmin?” My best friend exclaims in surprise, “Which number are you calling from?”
“Yunho…”
“Changmin, are you crying?! Are you okay?! Where are you?!”
“Yun, I’m coming home. I’m coming back to Japan.”
“Changmin, what the hell?”
“My flight lands there at 4.15. Pick me up, please?”
“I-Okay. But you better have a good explanation for this.”
“I’m getting divorced, Yun. He cheated on me.”
“I’ll pick you up.”
“Fuck, Yoochun, what do I do?!”
“You messed up, Jae. You messed up good…”
“I know, damn it, I know…and he’s taken Kris with him. He took my SON!!”
“Not permanently, apparently…” Yoochun whispered, his eyes tearing up for his best friend’s husband.
“What do you mean?”
“He’s filed for joint custody.”
“Min-Appa, where’s Jae-pa?”
“He’s at home, baby.”
“When are we going home?”
“I won’t be going back, Krispy, but you will, just after a little while, okay?”
“Why won’t you go home?”
“Because I don’t want to see your Jae-pa, baby. He wants to see you, though, so you need to go back sometimes.”
“Did Jae-pa do something bad?”
“He did to me, love. But he loves you, so that’s all that matters right now, okay?”
“No. I won’t go back if he hurt you.”
“Let’s talk about it when the time comes, Krispy. Go back to sleep.”
“He’s been gone for five fucking days, Yoochun! I don’t even know where the fuck he is!”
“I do.”
Jaejoong whirled around in shock and stared at his friend.
“I know where he is, but I’m not telling you.”
“What the fuck, Yoochun? How can you not tell me?!!”
“Because he told me not to.”
“Whose side are you on, you bastard?”
“Changmin’s, clearly.”
“Why would he tell you, but not me?”
“Because I’m your lawyer, Jackass.”
“What did he say?”
“He wants you to sign the divorce and custody papers soon. He’s dealing with the press from wherever he is.”
“Shit.”
I opened the newspaper and shut my eyes against the prickling behind them. It’s real, I whispered. God, why did it have to be real?
The power couple falls.
Famous former top model Shim Changmin and former Idol-Singer turned Entertainment Industry Tycoon Kim Jaejoong file for divorce. Reasons stay under wraps.
“He let go.”
“You made him,” Yunho whispered, wiping a stray tear from my cheek.
“I couldn’t take it anymore, Yun.”
“I know.”
“It’s done, you’re officially single, man.”
Jaejoong stared frigidly out the window.
“Just think, Jae, you can fuck that tight assed, bimbo of a secretary whenever you want now.”
Yoochun didn’t even blink as he stopped his best friend’s fist from hitting his face.
“Feeling guilty?”
“Get out.”
“Oh, grow the fuck up, Jaejoong. You lost the best thing you ever had in your life, because of what?!”
“Get out of my office, Yoochun.”
“No. I will not. Not until you realize how fucking stupid you are! How filthy, disgusting, depraved-“
“I KNOW, OKAY?!”
Yoochun looked at him pityingly.
“You lost something great, Jae. And you’re never going to get it back. Do you realize what you’ve lost?”
“Yes,” The man gritted out.
“You lost, Changmin, Jae. You lost your beautiful, amazing, snarky, witty husband, for a cheap stress-fuck at the office. And I’m not even sorry that you did.”
“I want to start modelling again,” I whispered, looking through all my old portfolios, my heart aching with an emptiness I'd long forgotten.
“I think that’s a good idea.”
“I want to stand on my feet again. I want to be invincible again.”
“Then it’s time you bring Max Changmin back. It’s time you return to being the Ice-Prince of the fashion world.
“But that’s the thing, Yun, I never went away.”
Yunho watched warm brown eyes turn into frigid, murky depths of untamed passion.
He felt a shudder run down his back as an almost palpable power radiated out from the man in front of him.
The demon of the industry was back.
He was just sorry that it had to be this way.
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A/N Yes, I do realise I have two other on-going fics. No, my muse does not understand this concept.
But i will finish everything, so don't worry too much.
I hope you guys found this one interesting, because this particular story has been murdering me from the inside for the last 4 months, but I kept putting it off because of the other two stories.
Clearly, I couldn't stop myself and needed to get this out.
Don't forget to comment and let me know what you'll think.
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