5 au meme fics
pg13 - tablo/henry
//for
ishougen.
1. Give me a pairing.
2. Pick 5 AUs you want me to write that pairing in. It can be a movie/book/etc I've seen/read before, or an AU I've created, or an AU that you created, or a general AU.
3. I write them!
1.
alchemy au hyukjae brings home a tiny body one day, not crying, but sniffling softly. you take the body from him, and hyukjae buries his face into your arm. "he was just laying on the side of the road, hyung. he looked so small and lost..."
you kiss hyukjae's forehead and push him gently into the arms of the waiting boys. "i'll take care of him."
the surgery is long, mostly because- you can't find what's wrong with the boy. his body isn't broken, there is no blood or hidden stabs to be found. his clothes are dirty and his limbs are too thin, but whole.
it isn't until you open his chest that you see it. his heart is tiny and weak and thin; you can see now that it couldn't have possibly been enough to keep his body going.
you sew the light inside of his heart as carefully as you can, but you don't know if it'll help.
-
he wakes up the next night, eyes big and cheeks puffy with baby fat. "where am i?" he asks you in accented korean.
"home," you tell him, running a hand through his hair.
"i don't have a home," he says. he looks down at his hands. "my home didn't want me."
you take his chin with your fingers and tilts his head up to look at you. "this will be home now, and we will always want you."
he nods, but you know he doesn't believe you. you're not worried, he will. your boys will take care of him.
-
henry is the youngest of your boys, and the others make sure he knows it. his name disappears into calls of "magnae~!" from the older boys, and you don't question the way they make him run to and fro, errands and pranks and games, because he doesn't seem to mind. his smiles get bigger and more genuine.
it turns out that his tiny baby heart is strong enough with love and light.
2.
anyband au "are you okay?" henry is breathless as he falls by tablo's side, the two leaning against each other as they sit leaning against the wall of the building.
tablo nods, taking in short sharp breaths. "all good. didn't touch me. you?"
henry makes a small face as he lifts his arm. there's a bright red patch where the bullet grazed his arm. "just a flesh wound." he laughs quietly, and tablo flashes him a quick grin before pulling himself up, taking henry's hand and pulling him up with him.
"we've gotta go, can't let those bastards get us. boa's supposed to be singing soon." tablo's eyes get a faraway look. "we're so close to freeing everyone."
henry swallows hard and touches tablo's hand. "come on then," he says softly.
tablo seems to fall back into himself. he holds henry's hand tight, tugs him to him to press a fast kiss to his mouth. "anywhere you go."
henry laughs again, eyes bright. "i'll be there."
3.
Lux Æterna au yunho brings back only two survivors from the outermost towns. he pats one on the shoulder, a small man with big glasses and bloodshot eyes, before steering him towards henry and ryeowook and donghae.
"this is daniel hyung. take good care of him, okay?" he gives ryeowook a soft smile, and henry likes how he's no longer jealous.
"i will, yunho hyung. you go finish work." ryeowook pushes yunho gently away with a laugh, before turning back to the other man. "daniel hyung? are you hungry?"
henry watches half behind donghae's back, curious.
daniel nods slowly, blinking like he's waking up from a dream. "please."
-
henry likes to sit alone and play his violin sometimes, without anyone near. he can play what he feels then, and not what they want him to play. no one ever comes with him, so he's surprised when he turns his head and daniel is sitting feet away from him, listening with his eyes closed. "d-daniel hyung?"
daniel opens his eyes, smiles a bit. "sorry. i just- i heard you playing, and got curious. you're amazing, by the way... sorry, i'll leave now-"
"stay." henry is surprised at himself, but he nods, says it again. "stay, it's okay."
he plays slow sweet songs, and watches the way daniel's eyes brighten more and more.
-
daniel doesn't talk about what he's lost with the sky falling, and henry doesn't push. they sit side by side on the roof of one of the buildings, swinging their legs into open air.
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henry kisses daniel one afternoon, and daniel makes a soft noise and runs away. henry does to donghae sniffling back tears, and donghae kisses his cheeks and rocks him to sleep.
-
daniel kisses henry the next after noon, soft and full of apologies. "i was scared," he admits.
henry doesn't ask why, only curls his fingers into the fabric of daniel's shirt. "don't be scared anymore, hyung."
daniel nods, smiles real and alive. "i won't."
4.
sunshine [zombie] au tablo stumbles into a quiet clean town, half asleep and half dreaming about the boy he left behind. he needs to hurry, needs to hurry and find other people because he needs to save the boy waiting to die.
he takes a few stumbling steps before he falls to his knees. his throat is dry, his hands shaking, his body weak, and he's so tired, he can't even bring himself to care that he could be killed.
"a-are you okay?"
tablo blinks up, and face blurs in and out of sight. "no-" he manages to grind out, before his body falls slack and he falls forward, into blissful dark.
-
when he wakes up, someone is squeezing water into his mouth with a towel, little drips that makes him ache for more.
"oh, you're awake."
tablo blinks his eyes, sighs softly. "thirsty," he rasps.
"here, you can only have a little. you're dehydrated." soft hands touch his face, brush back his hair, and that towel is back. it's not enough, but it soothes the burn in his throat.
"where am i?" he can finally focus on the person helping him. it's a young boy, cheeks still plump with baby fat, and eyes that curve into a smile.
"my house. you're lucky, we're one of the few towns unaffected."
tablo shakes his head. "i have to keep going. i need to reach the city."
the boy runs his fingers over his hair again. "you can try when you're better. drink, eat, make yourself human again before you go."
tablo shakes his head, but he doesn't have the energy, so he falls back into the bed, closing his eyes and letting the boy's soft hands lull him back to sleep.
soon. soon he'd be on his way again.
5.
your sin is honesty au the newest case involves a boy just barely turned twenty, whom tablo find in the middle of the crime scene, tears down his face and blood splattered more on him then anyone else.
when tablo touches his shoulder, he almost screams. "i did it i killed her i did it i did it i did it!"
it's hyukjae who calms him down, who rides with him in the ambulance.
his name is henry, this boy, and he insists that he killed the teenaged girl in the dirty hotel room.
hyukjae shakes his head, watching the boy sleep fitfully on the hospital bed. "i don't think he did it."
tablo crushes out the cigarette he's not supposed to be thinking. "he didn't."
-
"please, god, har-harder-" hyukjae falls apart under tablo's fingers and lips as if he were made of building blocks. tablo holds tight onto his hips and drives him higher, races up to meet him.
they both seem to fall like shooting stars.
-
when henry gets out of the hospital (the day he's acquitted of the murder), tablo and hyukjae are there to pick him up.
"w-why?"
hyukjae slides an arm around his waist and pulls him to the car. tablo follows with a cigarette between his fingers. "we're going to get you back on your feet."
henry blinks up at him, turns to look at tablo. tablo shrugs, smiles. "what the red-head says."
hyukjae's laughter makes henry smile. tablo just opens the car door for them.