Quantities and Abnormalities
Title: Quantities and Abnormalities
Rating: G
Focus/Pairing: Daehyun/Youngjae
Words: 600+
Summary: One million seconds is eleven days. One billions seconds is thirty-one years.
Youngjae misses the train by a second. In that second, his schedule is set back by an hour, in turn stopping his life one year earlier. Things begin to move in reverse. Actions that would have been set into motion, thanks to his presence, halt momentarily. Others will never start. Everything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
And it is all because of that second, which allows for everything else to shift out of place.
But none of this is any of Youngjae's fault, of course. Because from another standpoint, time is relative. Relative to us. Relative to him. Relative.
The second that Youngjae misses and the second the conductor spends starting the train is different. Their timing is essentially not the same, but impact each other dramatically. Those on the train are in motion with their lives, reaching a destination faster than Youngjae. The hour they spend on there and the hour Youngjae spends waiting is created different. The passengers will see time pass with a few shuffles of a song while Youngjae's will be a dozen and one.
The way he would have affected the ride for the others is permanently altered. Shared conversations fall onto deaf ears and sights will never be seen. Perhaps lives even changed.
Daehyun, who moves faster than Youngjae, lives in a world one second ahead. But, because of Youngjae, he is now five years behind where he's supposed to be. He is still one second ahead of Youngjae, though. However, it could be said that he's almost two hours ahead now. So, really, he's seven years from the point he strives for at the moment.
The furthering cause of missed opportunities, enhances this ever widening gap, until there is nothing to fill it.
The time Youngjae would have spent on the train, fumbling for a seat, does not exist. And never will it this time stream, assuming it is linear. That awkward crashing of bodies and strangers and apologies, fade with proceeding events.
Youngjae never sits next to Daehyun.
There is no unfolding romance with the passing of scenery. By four pm, the two are not together on the train. Neither will they both feel the sparks that fly and the turbulence they feel in their stomachs that may or may not be the train's tracks.
The dinner that was supposed to happen, doesn't.
The subsequent dates and meetings don't fall onto their respective calendars.
The apartment they were going to share is rented by another person.
The wedding set to take place on the April of the fifteenth leads to an empty chapel.
There continues to be a string of more heartbreakes than necessary.
They miss each other by a second.
But the two don't understand time or the idea of what could have been. They continue on in their ignorance, never knowing of the different life that could have been led. You can't dwell on something that never happened.
Which is good.
Because they enjoy the world they have right now.
They missed each other by a second. But time is irrelevant when it comes to those that don't care for it. Time stops and goes when they choose it.
Not even a fraction of a second escapes them. Or it does and they don't notice. Timing will not dictate their happiness. Whether something happens sooner or later is but a passing detail.
Daehyun doesn't step onto the train that day because he chooses not to. While the train continues onward, the two are both stuck. It's that cheesy scene where time ceases to flow because quite possibly you've met someone that just seems to suck away all your attention.
It's their own world. They'll do what they please with physics and their decisions.
And their wedding is pushed back to December of the eighth.
Rating: G
Focus/Pairing: Daehyun/Youngjae
Words: 600+
Summary: One million seconds is eleven days. One billions seconds is thirty-one years.
Youngjae misses the train by a second. In that second, his schedule is set back by an hour, in turn stopping his life one year earlier. Things begin to move in reverse. Actions that would have been set into motion, thanks to his presence, halt momentarily. Others will never start. Everything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
And it is all because of that second, which allows for everything else to shift out of place.
But none of this is any of Youngjae's fault, of course. Because from another standpoint, time is relative. Relative to us. Relative to him. Relative.
The second that Youngjae misses and the second the conductor spends starting the train is different. Their timing is essentially not the same, but impact each other dramatically. Those on the train are in motion with their lives, reaching a destination faster than Youngjae. The hour they spend on there and the hour Youngjae spends waiting is created different. The passengers will see time pass with a few shuffles of a song while Youngjae's will be a dozen and one.
The way he would have affected the ride for the others is permanently altered. Shared conversations fall onto deaf ears and sights will never be seen. Perhaps lives even changed.
Daehyun, who moves faster than Youngjae, lives in a world one second ahead. But, because of Youngjae, he is now five years behind where he's supposed to be. He is still one second ahead of Youngjae, though. However, it could be said that he's almost two hours ahead now. So, really, he's seven years from the point he strives for at the moment.
The furthering cause of missed opportunities, enhances this ever widening gap, until there is nothing to fill it.
The time Youngjae would have spent on the train, fumbling for a seat, does not exist. And never will it this time stream, assuming it is linear. That awkward crashing of bodies and strangers and apologies, fade with proceeding events.
Youngjae never sits next to Daehyun.
There is no unfolding romance with the passing of scenery. By four pm, the two are not together on the train. Neither will they both feel the sparks that fly and the turbulence they feel in their stomachs that may or may not be the train's tracks.
The dinner that was supposed to happen, doesn't.
The subsequent dates and meetings don't fall onto their respective calendars.
The apartment they were going to share is rented by another person.
The wedding set to take place on the April of the fifteenth leads to an empty chapel.
There continues to be a string of more heartbreakes than necessary.
They miss each other by a second.
But the two don't understand time or the idea of what could have been. They continue on in their ignorance, never knowing of the different life that could have been led. You can't dwell on something that never happened.
Which is good.
Because they enjoy the world they have right now.
They missed each other by a second. But time is irrelevant when it comes to those that don't care for it. Time stops and goes when they choose it.
Not even a fraction of a second escapes them. Or it does and they don't notice. Timing will not dictate their happiness. Whether something happens sooner or later is but a passing detail.
Daehyun doesn't step onto the train that day because he chooses not to. While the train continues onward, the two are both stuck. It's that cheesy scene where time ceases to flow because quite possibly you've met someone that just seems to suck away all your attention.
It's their own world. They'll do what they please with physics and their decisions.
And their wedding is pushed back to December of the eighth.