Intro // Pt. 1 // Pt. 2 // Pt. 3 // Pt. 4 // Pt. 5 // Pt. 6 // Pt. 7 // Pt. 8 // Pt. 9 // Pt. 10 // Pt. 11 // Pt. 12 // Pt. 13 // Pt. 14 // Pt. 15 // Pt. 16 // Pt. 17
Word Count: 1,585
Genre: angst, bit of fluff, Mafia au
Summary: well, not spoiling anything but its so different from what i usually write because like angst so yall get ready
You trudged towards the small coffee shop you worked at, the morning sun just barely peeking above the horizon. Don’t get me wrong, you loved your job, it was well paying and a calm place to work, getting few customers throughout the day. The shop only really picking up during the usual busy hours for any other coffee shops. You pushed the glass door open, causing the little bell hanging from the handle to tinkle, echoing through the quiet shop.
“Good morning!” you said to your manager after you had dropped your bag and coat off in the back room.
“Good morning (y/n).” She replied, passing you your brown apron. You thanked her and took it, making your way to the front and took your spot behind the counter as you tied the apron around your waist. You messed around with a few things behind the counter, preparing for the long day.
You glanced at the clock, noting that the shop had just officially opened. You sat around the shop for about two hours, serving a few customers here and there eager to get their caffeine to get them through the long day, but nothing to tedious. As usual, around ten thirty, a tall man who was always dressed in a suit would walk in and order the same drink. He was always extremely friendly and had a bright smile that complemented the wrinkles that appeared at the corners of his eyes when he did smile. He always came at the same time, ordered the same thing, sat at the same seat, and always had that bright smile.
You stood behind the counter and smiled at him, waiting for him to take a few steps closer before you started to speak.
“The usual, sir?” You asked when he finally got closer, already grabbing the coffee mug.
“Of course.” He said with a chuckle. You smiled, and while you made his drink the two of you talked for a bit. You didn’t know much about this man, even though he had been coming to your shop for almost a year now, you had no clue what his name was, or even where he worked, as you usually found out with your other regulars. Due to the streaks of grey that were taking over his dark hair, he had to be in his late forties or fifties, and obviously held some kind of formal job seeing as how he was always dressed so nicely, but beyond that you knew nothing about him.
He happily accepted the warm drink and paid in exact change, making your life as a cashier ten times easier. The man went towards his usual table in the back corner of the shop, pulling out his laptop to do something, you had yet to learn what he was always doing. Honestly, you didn’t want to know, his whole demeanor changed when he opened his laptop. A scowl would come across his face and his eyes turned cold.
You went back to your usual business, cleaning a few dishes and wiping down the counter. The ringing of the bell caused you to look up, finding a tall, handsome guy stroll in. He glanced around the room, his eyes landing on the older man, but quickly turning to look up at the menu board above you.
“Hello…” His strong voice rang out, followed by a beautiful smile. You were almost left breathless from his appearance alone, but his voice as almost to perfect to be real. His hair was styled up in a messy yet perfect way, and his eyes sparkled. When he smiled, it revealed his cute little canines that seemed a bit sharper than most people’s.
“Hello! Can I help you?” you questioned, leaning on hand against the counter and smiling.
“Well…what would you recommend?” He asked, still looking up at the menu board that hung on the wall behind you. You turned to look at the menu yourself, thinking about the various drinks you’ve tried and liked. Eventually you rattled off a few drinks you liked, and he ordered one of them. Like with most customers you had expected him to go sit down at a table and wait for you to bring the drink out to him, but he stayed right by the counter. In fact, he went as far as to lean against the counter and watch you as you made his drink.
You tried to ignore him, but you could feel his deep brown eyes following your every movement. Your movements become clumsy from the sudden attention, and you rushed to finish making the drink and hand it over to the tall boy. You practically shoved the warm drink into his hands, praying he would hurry up and go over to one of the tables so you could finally relax.
Thankfully he accepted the drink with a simple thank you and made his way over to one of the tables in the front of the shop. Little did you know this guy, who you eventually learned was named Mingyu, would be visiting like this every day for the next few weeks. You soon got use to his strong gaze and the hours he would spend at the shop long after he had finished his drink. You often found yourself wondering why he stayed so long. He wasn’t doing any sort of work, or reading a book, he was barely on his phone. He just sat there, staring around the shop, watching the various customers that came in, and watching you.
When the shop wasn’t busy, you often found yourself talking with Mingyu. His bright smile and puppy like appearance and personality sent butterflies through your stomach. He was friendly. A lot more friendly than most customers. You liked it, it was a breath of fresh air.
The bell tinkled for the second time that day. You looked up to see Mingyu walk in. You started to prepare his drink before he even made it to the counter.
“Good morning (y/n).” Mingyu sang as he walked up to the counter.
“Good morning Mingyu…Don’t you ever get tired of coming here?” you questioned, almost finished with his drink.
“Nope! Not when you are here!” he chucked. You almost spilled the hot coffee onto your hand.
“Mingyu are you flirting with me?” you asked, a small chuckle of disbelief following it. Mingyu shrugged, flashing that bright smile of his as he handed some money over the counter. You took it and quickly dealt back the change as he sipped on his drink.
“Do you ever have a day off? You are always working when I’m here. And i’m always here.” Mingyu pointed out. You thought for a moment. Well, there were a lot of thoughts going on at this moment. Did Mingyu really just admit to flirting with you? Why is he asking about your days off? Is he going to try and ask you out? There is no way he would. Should you lie and say you don’t ever get days off, or just say you don’t know? You finally just answered him.
“I think I have off in two days, what day is that, Thursday?” Mingyu nodded, then slowly made his way over to his usual table. Well that wasn’t the reaction you were expecting. But it’s not like you were looking for something in particular. Alright, no that’s a lie, to be honest after all the flirting he had done, you really thought he was going to ask you out. Whether the fact he didn’t was a good thing or not, you didn’t know. But life goes on, and you must keep working.
As you continued to work, serving the few customers that came in, Mingyu did his own thing, and the friendly middle-aged man did his. You had grown use to both their company. Mr. Well-dressed, as you had taken to calling the middle-aged man, never said much other than the normal, friendly conversation the two of you held while making his drink, but he was friendly enough in those short encounters for you to grow to like him. He had been frequenting the shop since you first started working there a year ago. You had never known an early morning without him sitting in the back corner of the shop.
Mr. Well-dressed left at his usual time, and Mingyu left not long after, leaving you and your coworker to wait the last couple hours before closing. The usual procedures occurred before closing. Your coworker finished before you, so you let her know you would finish and lock everything up and she could head home if she wanted to. So within a few minutes you were left alone in the dimly lit shop, putting away the last few things and grabbing your stuff before turning out the lights and locking up the shop.
The next few days flew by. You looked forward to your rare day off, and it kept you going the next two days. The usual customers came in and ordered their normals, and nothing to extreme happened. You didn’t have to deal with any rude customers, demanding stupid requests and being difficult. You smiled and laughed with your coworkers behind the counter when no one was waiting to be served. Everything was calm and peaceful, almost too peaceful. It made you uncomfortable. It felt like the calm before the storm. And you were right, but you hadn’t expected it to be this big of a storm.
am i tripping or was there a svt concert back in the day where some crazy fan cut off a girls pony tail or something because she couldnt see the stage???
Intro // Pt. 1 // Pt. 2 // Pt. 3 // Pt. 4 // Pt. 5 // Pt. 6 // Pt. 7 // Pt. 8 // Pt. 9 // Pt. 10 // Pt. 11// Pt. 12 // Pt. 13 // Pt. 14 // Pt. 15 // Pt. 16 // Pt. 17
Word Count: 3,745
Genre: Svt Mafia Au
Member: Mingyu
Note: it’s been a solid year but I’m really trying to bring this fic back to life and finish it off well! I’ve put so much effort into this it deserves to be finished lol
You weren’t even this determined to escape when Seventeen had taken you. Maybe it was because this time around you actually felt like you had people that would look for you, you had someone you desperately wanted to get back too. Just thinking about Mingyu getting back from his mission only to find you gone, and him potentially thinking you left on purpose was enough to make your heart feel like it as going to shatter into a thousand pieces. Sure, you wanted freedom, but you wanted Mingyu more. If staying in that house for the rest of your life was the price you had to pay to be with Mingyu, you were ready to pay it. And thanks to Hoseok, you could confidently confirm you would rather have Mingyu over freedom. Silly how being kidnapped for a second time was what it took for you to finally make this decision.
It was now light outside, so you must have been out for the whole night. You peered out the window and were surprised to see a city around you. Monsta X had made their base in a city? Part of you wanted to know the reasoning as to why they made camp here, but your thoughts were overpowered by something more important. This means if you did escape from their house, you would be able to disappear a lot easier than if you were just in some open land. There were enough people and just city chaos in general that would make good cover if you were able to run away. No, scratch that, when you run away. You were going to get out of there, you were going to see Seventeen again.
There wasn’t much in the small room you had been placed in. Just a bed, a small nightstand and a wardrobe. Naturally you snooped through everything, trying to find anything that you could use to your advantage, but as you had suspected; nothing. It occurred to you while snooping through the draws, even if you were able to break out of this house, you wouldn’t know what to do from there. You don't have any sort of cell phone, you don’t know anyone's numbers and you have no clue where the base is actually located, so it's not even like you could just find you way back to seventeens base. Monsta X had to have some sort of way to get in contact with your boys. If they are actually as close as they had made it seem, they have to be in contact pretty often, right? Maybe your first step was to try and figure out how they got into contact with others. Seventeen all had cell phones, but you rarely saw them messaging anyone outside of their own group. Honestly, a majority of them just seemed to use their phones to play games. Then again, if Jihoon really was that good at tracking down people, maybe all you needed to do was get in the view of some sort of security camera and he would be able to find you. While that might make it look like you ran away, at least they would have a rough idea of where you were? Maybe Mingyu would come and find you? You decided this would be your first plan of action.
You stayed in the room for what seemed like an hour or two. If you wanted to make this plan believable, you couldn’t jump into action to fast. You heard a few of them in the hallway a couple times, but no one came to see you. Not even Hoseok. You finally decided it was a good time to get the ball rolling, so you ventured out of your room. You eventually found Hoseok in the kitchen, messing around with something in their fridge. The house itself wasn’t that big compared to seventeens. Afterall, Monsta X’s base was more or less a fancy apartment, but it was definitely on the small side. Hoseok stopped what he was doing when he saw you.
“If I’m going to stay here than I expect to be treated like a normal person and not someone you kidnapped.” You declared, making Hoseok straight up and close the fridge.
“Of course,” Hoseok said, “I never planned on treating you like anything other than a normal person.”
“Good. Then if that’s the case I want to go shopping and get some stuff for that plain room. It’s too depressing.” You said. Hoseok thought for a moment, a tiny bit of skepticism dusted across his face. “Oh come on, even seventeen let me go outside every now and then. How else do you think I was able to go to the ball. On top of actually needing things I just want to soak up the city life. It’s been so long since I’ve been around other people. Plus, where am I going to go? You’ve been stalking me for years apparently, it's not like I’d be able to run away…” you mumbled. Hoseok seemed to be wavering a bit. Your plan was working. “Come on Hoseok! Let’s go out! I might not mind it here if we do fun stuff like this!” You say in a sing-songy voice.
“Alright, alright fine. Let me go tell Shownu and then we can go.” Hoseok finally agreed. You jumped up and down and clapping your hands.
“Yay! I’m excited! It’s been so long since I was in the city.” you say before he heads out of the room to find Shownu. Your heart was pounding in your chest. This was actually going as planned; you honestly couldn’t believe it was going this well. Something had to be wrong, there was no way it was going to work this well. Maybe it was going to go so well because Hoseok knew seventeen wouldn’t actually be able to find you.
When he got back, he passed you a black baseball cap to stay “inconspicuous” but you seriously doubted that was going to stop Jihoon from noticing you. You headed towards the front door before you noticed a minor issue.
“Uh, I don’t have any shoes…” you pointed out.
“Ah right,” Hoseok sighs, “you can borrow an old pair of mine, they might not fit but it’s better than nothing. We’ll get you a new pair first thing when we go out.” He finally decides, already on the hunt for a pair. You nodded, and then suddenly felt like you had been struck by lightning. Of course! You only had one pair of shoes back at seventeen, you only ever needed one so there was no need to have more. They would see your shoes by the front door still and know you didn’t leave on purpose! They were going to be looking for you for sure! At least you knew Mingyu would at the very least. You felt like you could explode with joy upon realizing that there was a solid clue as to what had happened to you. Because of this you weren’t that bothered Hoseok's shoes didn’t fit you at all. All that mattered now was to find some surveillance cameras to stand in front of.
Of course, as soon as the two of you headed outside, Hoseok began taking you through dark alley ways and sketchy back roads that wouldn’t have any sort of camera set up. It’s only natural that someone from the mafia would know how to avoid the cameras on the streets around their own house. You had sort of figured this would happen. However, there had to be at least one functional security system set up at the various stores you would be going too. One of them was bound to pick you up. Also, in order to get to these stores, you had to leave the back alleyways eventually. Sure enough, the two of you emerged from the dark streets and slowly started to enter a more populated area. You kept your eyes out for any sort of camera as well as possible without being too noticeable about it. You figured looking around at a new town was only natural, so you weren’t to lowkey about it in the end.
“It’s a cute little city, isn’t it?” Hoseok said, clearly noticing you looking around. You only nodded, eyes flicking from him and then back to examine the area around you.
“I think you’ll like it here. You always talked about how you wanted to live in the city back when we were in school together.”
“You remember that?” You questioned. You don’t even remember much about what happened back in those days. After all you had been through it didn’t even feel like your past. You felt as if you had always been forced to live in someone else’s house. always trying to earn people’s trust to have a little bit of freedom. Always on the verge of being in a dangerous situation.
“Of course, I remember, you were special to me even back then.” Hoseok exclaims. You gave him a weak smile back, trying not to show just how uncomfortable you were when you started to think about just how long he’s been stalking you.
As promised, your first stop was to get new shoes. Thankfully, there were cameras installed in multiple places throughout the store, and you made sure to tilt your cap back just enough to reveal your face without catching Hoseok’s attention. You stared straight into each camera and prayed Jihoon would somehow see. After paying for the shoes, you were starting to think maybe looking into them wasn’t enough. You had seen in some tv show one time that someone had blinked sos to people until someone finally noticed. Thankfully, Morse code for sos was something you had picked up after watching so many true crime shows. You decided the next time you found a camera you’d try that.
Throughout the entire shopping trip, you were able to find a good handful of cameras. Some were in stores, and some were outside along the roads. You weren’t sure if all of them were actually recording but it was worth trying anyways. Whenever Hoseok wasn’t looking you were blinking sos at them. There had been a terrifying moment when Hoseok had turned around to see you blinking up at the sky weirdly and asked you what you were doing. Thankfully your brain was feeling extra quick today, and you quickly lied that something had gotten in your eye and you were trying to get it out without rubbing it. You even went as far as to ask him if he could see anything just to be on the safe side. Had you not been secretly trying to get a message through to Seventeen, the outing would have been really nice. The city was pretty, and it felt so nice to be able to walk for a long time and get a constant change of scenery. You had really missed your freedom and being able to walk around like this. Your mind drifted to your coffee shop. How was everyone doing there? What would they say if you went back all of the sudden? You missed making all the different drinks and meeting new people every day. Deep down inside you knew there was no point in pining after it, because even if you could free yourself from both Monsta X and Seventeen, your life would never be the same. You weren’t even sure you would be safe if you left the country. Someone would find you eventually, so you were just going to have to make the best of it. And the best of it was with Seventeen.
Wonho paid for the last bit of shopping the two of you had done, and then you started the journey back to the apartment. Please, you thought to yourself, please god let one of those reach seventeen. Hoseok must have noticed your change in attitude as the two of you got closer and closer to the apartment.
“We can go outside a lot more often than when you were with Seventeen. We’re a lot closer to stuff than they are, so it isn’t as big of a journey.” Hoseok pointed out. You faked a very weak smile and nodded a little, your mind somewhere else entirely.
You spent the rest of your day milling about the house. None of the other members tried to talk to you, and you certainly didn’t go out of your way to talk with them. More often than not if they walked into a room that you were in, you would just end up leaving. You could tell they were all on edge because of you. Rightfully so too. You had practically become a member of Seventeen at this point, and they just kidnapped you. It wasn’t going to be received well. If they were all so on edge, why would their boss let you leave? He had to know that Jihoon was good at tracking people, right? Maybe he was purposely trying to have you found, or maybe he was just that confident no one would be able to pinpoint their base, let alone break in. You eventually found yourself in your room and ended up staying there for the rest of the night. You didn’t go down when Hoseok invited you for dinner, and you didn’t eat anything when he brought some food up for you. You had no reason to fake being overly complacent with them anymore. If your camera idea didn’t work, there was nothing else that would work. All that was left to do was to wait and see what came of your hard work. You were just going to have to survive a couple days with them, and then everything would go back to normal…hopefully.
When you woke up the next day, there was no reason for you to get out of bed, so you just laid there. You drifted back in and out of sleep, but the time you were awake was spent looking around the small room or listening to the movements around the house. After about an hour or two of lying there, you got hungry so decided to get up. Your entire journey to the kitchen you didn’t see any of the members, so you ended up helping yourself to a bit of food. You could have sworn you had heard the members walking around earlier this morning, but know the house was silent. You shrugged your shoulders and headed back to your room. You climbed back in bed and grabbed one of the books Hoseok had gotten for you and stayed that way for a long time.
This wasn’t like when you had first been taking by Seventeen. Then you were scared to do anything, scared to even move. You had felt betrayed and had no hope. But now, there was nothing but hope in you. You were positive Mingyu would come bursting through the doors at any minute and come rescue you. Having a reason to be hopeful in this situation really made everything different. You made it through the first time okay because everyone in seventeen was nice to you, or rather, almost everyone. Most importantly you had Joshua there to help. You had no idea how he made it through his kidnapping, without the comforting thought of being rescued or nice people.
Your second full day at Monsta X’s base had almost passed by. You still hadn’t heard anyone else in the house since early morning and were starting to wonder if you should go investigate. If no one was home, who was going to stop you from just walking out the front door? Eventually, you decided you should do just that. First, you checked all the other rooms upstairs. As expected, they were empty. Then you headed downstairs and started checking the other rooms. Absolutely no one was home, unless there was some secret room you didn’t know about. Hesitantly, you headed towards the front door. This was almost too easy, it had to be a trap. You slowly twisted the doorknob, as if at any second it was going to electrocute you. The doorknob twisted, but the door didn’t budge. You adjusted the various locks on the door, but even then, the door didn’t move. Of course, it wasn’t going to be that easy. It’s not like you could just slip out of a window either since you were so high up. You let out a loud grown and began pacing around the room. Within the next five minutes, noise began to come from the door. Someone was outside. All your senses went on red alert. You heart was in your ears and you felt like your breathing was the loudest thing on earth. If it had been one of the members, they would have just unlocked the door and walked in already. Was it someone else? Were you finally being rescued, or was it a third party all together? You didn’t know what to do, so you just stood there like an idiot.
There was more rattling at the door, as if someone was trying to pick the lock. You could make out some murmuring, so it had to be more than one person. The rattling felt like it was going on forever, and then the voices raised.
“Come on, we don’t have time for this! Here, move over.” The voice said. Your heart felt like it was going to explode. You knew that voice. Before you could do or say anything, there was a huge BOOM, and then the door creaked. One more strong BOOM and the door flung open, a part of the lock clattering to the floor. Along with the swinging door came none other than Mingyu. You instantly ran forward and tackled him with a hug, catching him off guard and making him stumbled back slightly. As soon as he realized it was you, if being tackled had bother him, it didn’t anymore. He wrapped around you and clung on as if you were going to disappear into smoke at any second. You were instantly surrounded by his warmth and comforting scent, and all your worries and stress melted away instantly.
“(Y/n)! Are you okay? They didn’t hurt you, did they? I’m so sorry.” Mingyu gushed in a frenzy of words. You barely understood half of them he was speaking so fast.
“Mingyu, we need to go. Now.” Came Minghao’s voice. Mingyu didn’t wait for an answer from you. His brain was going a mile a minute. All he could think about now was getting you back to safety, he could talk with you after that. Before you knew it, you were behind pulled along at the speed of light by Mingyu, Minghao in front of the two of you, leading the way. The three of you were soon piled into a small car, and then Minghao floored it. Driving through a city can already be nerve wracking, but speeding through a city? Oh no, you were at peak anxiety. On top of that, you were still shell shocked they had found you. Even with all the hope that you had, there was still a part of you that had felt like no one would come to look for you, like the first time. Mingyu was talking in a stern voice with someone over the phone, relaying different bits of information to Minghao. You caught that they knew the current location of everyone in Monsta X and everything was going according to whatever plan they had come up with. All in all, you were safe now, you were going back home.
Mingyu didn’t end the phone call until you were well out of the city, concealed in trees that no doubt concealed the base as well. There was silence for the first time since they had come to get you. You could tell Mingyu had a lot on his mind and judging by the sympathetic looks Minghao was giving him, he could tell too. After what felt like years of driving through the bumpy forest road, you finally come up to the base and Minghao stopped the car. You had never been so happy to see a building before. You were finally starting to feel like everything was right in the world again. The three of you got out of the car, and Minghao headed inside. Mingyu lagged behind, and so did you. He turned to face you with a somber look on his face. Before he could actually say anything, your emotions finally caught up with you, and you lost all control. You burst into uncontrollable tears, in a state Mingyu had never seen you in before. He didn’t know what else to do other than to hug you close to him.
“You found me…” you finally manage to choke out, making Mingyu pull you closer. “I was so worried you would think I ran away and wouldn’t try to look for me.” You sobbed. Mingyu doesn’t say anything, but doesn’t stop hugging you, giving your back small pats until you calm down a little.
“How did you find me?” you ask, pulling away a little to look at his face in the dim light of nightfall.
“Well, first of all, who would run away without their shoes? And that would be thanks to your quick thinking and Jihoon’s skill.” Mingyu smiled as he wiped away a stray tear.
“My camera trick worked!” You smiled.
“We would have found you even without that, but we were able to find you a lot quicker thanks to that. Smart thinking!” Mingyu chuckled, pulling you in for another hug. “He shouldn’t have been able to get you in the first place though. You shouldn’t have had to gone through that.” He said, his voice suddenly becoming pained. He buried his face in the crook of your neck, and there was silence for a moment.
“It’s okay, because in the end you found me.” You said softly. The two of you stayed that way for a while before Mingyu finally straightened up.
“We should probably get inside; the others are all waiting to see you. They were all worried too.” He explained.
“Well, we can’t keep them waiting any longer now, can we?” you said, taking Mingyu’s hand in yours before the two of you headed for the front door.
Hey everyone! I finally got around to making a Redbubble! As of right now I have about 27 different pieces of work up right now and more coming! All different sorts of groups and even some non-kpop pieces. Please give it a quick look and share it with some friends!
I just binge read to love or not to love and I still love it. I am honestly using it as a distraction from college applications and from school and everything. Good luck and don’t feel to pressured to finish💕💕 take care of yourself stay heal💕💞
im glad you like it so much!!! honestly i was thinking about trying to finish it. its a good series i really should finish it. maybe when i have so much extra time over winter break in december ill try to work on it! keep an eye out for it :) i get random bursts of inspiration. i shoudlve planned it out better tbh. but good luck with your college applications! i remember working on them around this time and it was actually living hell lmao. it gets better!!! keep up all the hard work and you take care of yourself as well 💕💕💕 Good luck with your college apps and school!! (also thanks for leaving an ask that means a lot :) maybe ill try to get this blog up and running again)
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anyways it’s my 1-year anniversary here on tumblr and w o w it’s been such a wild ride!! I’ve made so many new friends here and it’s soso great, i love all u precious beans~ all 400 of you! im so happy i got to reach this milestone too, such perfect timing LOL
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