17 Works by deadtime
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What was the punchline, Sungchan wondered. Would it be when he leaned forward? When doorbell rang, when Shotaro’s phone lit up with the notification that their food had arrived? When Sungchan finally stood in front a moment he wouldn’t be able to return from and still decided to move forward?
(Or: fresh grad, bad prospects, nursing an impossible crush on your best friend. Maybe it doesn't get worse than this.)
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abandon admission by lackadaisical (deadtime)
Fandoms: Boys Planet (Korea TV), ZEROBASEONE | ZB1 (Korea Band)
16 Apr 2023
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Under the weight of what must have been seven billion cameras, he’d smothered what he considered his most disagreeable personality traits. He budgeted his words, careful to blunt competitiveness into something that could be admirable instead of aggressive. To his dismay, he even found himself buying it, at least until he saw Hanbin and wondered if it was a moral failing to not be yourself.
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“Because Jungwon is my friend too,” Heeseung delivered, like Jay was asking him about the weather. Like it was a sane string of logic, to draw lines where reciprocation turned mutual as if context depended solely on what was black and white. For a second, Jay hated Heeseung for being selfish, then realized he was the same.
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But on camera, everything carried weight. An unintentional glance, when framed by a slant angle and the right lighting, could turn into anything. To be seen in the way you wanted, to be seen on your own terms, meant thinking ahead. Always with intention.
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“Wow, you’re a horrible liar. Okay, wait, let me reassess the situation: you like someone. They don’t like you back. As a result of this, you are channeling your repression into angsty fiction that I have to read every week and give feedback on. Correct?”
(Or, the only way Jay has figured out to deal with his feelings for his roommate Heeseung is well. Writing about it.)
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Here are all the facts:
1. Sunoo used to like Jake.
2. Sunoo might still like Jake.
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There are two things Sunghoon can't wrap his mind around: words and his inexplicable crush on Jake.
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Donghyuck looks the same as he did on TV, before all the channels turned into news channels that told Renjun stuff he didn’t want to know, like what time to expect the meteor. He looks the same as he did six months ago, before he went on tour, when he stood on Renjun’s doorsteps and told him that things weren’t working out. By things, he meant them. And by them, Renjun means Donghyuck.
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Everything is sharper now, the world narrowed to a pinpoint, and every time Chenle looks at him, Jisung can feel the blood sing under his skin, in his veins where he knows it sits and pools and doesn’t move.
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Jeno flies and Donghyuck remembers toy sized skyscrapers, golden clouds. The joy of soaring and the fear of falling, all in one.
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Donghyuck's reputation precedes him. If Jeno had any sense of self preservation, he should have known better.
The bigger problem? If he could go back in time, he would still do it again.
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It couldn’t be that simple. If it was, there would be nothing holding Donghyuck back from leaning across the faux leather seats and chasing Jeno’s mouth, tasting his mint chapstick while their plastered friends butcher Destiny’s Child and the strobe lights sparkle.
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Jaded boys don't learn new tricks and Donghyuck just kind of hates Jaemin's guts.
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The weather man had toted a blizzard and here it is, a cloud of white billowing from not the great mountains nor the Far East Winds, but the remnants of a boy blown to microscopic bits.
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two broken ribs and a pocket full of four leaf clovers later, donghyuck finds the miracle he was looking for.
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Doyoung doesn't think he gets paid enough to be Ten's getaway driver.
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There’s no point in working out the definitives, Donghyuck decides, when they round the block and he can see the light from his room that he must have forgotten to turn off. He’s spent too long worrying about the future, head hunched down on numbers and paragraphs instead of looking around, at what’s really right there.
And what’s really right here, right now, is Jaemin.