#hyunleo

[taohuameng]

that's what we tip the attendants for [heirs au]

Hyun Lee doesn't really like parties. He's used to them--the suits, the ties, the combination of thinly veiled malice in the chatter and the food that never seemed to fill him up. Parties make his mother crazy--Grace Lee, with her $10,000 dollar custom designer dress and her jewels worth ten times that, can smile and laugh with the best of them, but she spends three hours before hand saying things she doesn't mean and then taking them back hastily, changing her mind a million times and running around in circles. Parties make his father mean--Minho Lee, always precise, always easy and silent, sharpens at parties, says things by rote and uses his precision to pierce holes in his rivals, always calculating, never giving in. And Hyun doesn't know if he changes too--doesn't know if anyone can tell--but still. He doesn't really like parties.

He goes to them, though, like he goes to this one, Grace and Minho instantly head in opposite directions, face and posture changing instantly. Hyun, for his part, stands in the entryway of the ballroom, scanning the room, until--ah, there he is.

He goes to them, because Leo goes to them too, forced or not. Leo makes these things bearable, and unlike his parents, who have responsibilities and expectations, it is entirely alright for Hyun to spend the entire night with Leo. 

"Leo," Hyun whines, and Leo's mouth twitches upwards, the eternal fond affection that peeks out whenever he is around Hyun. The two of them revolve around each other, the abnormalities that appear, like solar flares, becoming stronger and more frequent at the same time. 

"Mm," Leo says, wordlessly, slipping into Hyun's space, their hands linking together, automatic, casual, laced with a thousand meanings and reassurances. "I hate these fucking things," Leo says, with a vague push of heat behind his words--enough to get his point across, not enough to make it seem like he will do anything about it. Hyun hums in reply, half agreeing, half considering, and then tugs at Leo.

"Let's go," Hyun says, and begins inching across the room.

"Where?" Leo asks, although he follows, easily enough. 

"Bathroom," Hyun replies, and Leo pauses, understanding immediately. He smirks, shakes his head, and Hyun smiles back, serenely, before tugging Leo along, each of them taking turns in leading the other to the bathroom, which is thankfully empty, except for the attendant, looking bored. 

"I'll give you three hundred bucks if you disappear for the next hour," Hyun says, pulling out three fine, crisp bills. The attendant looks boggle-eyed, before he slowly leaves his position and takes the money from Hyun's hands, bowing slightly.

There's a moment, where they listen to the sound of the attendant leaving, and then Hyun turns to Leo, pulls him in, drags him deeper into the recesses of the bathroom.

"We should stop fucking in bathrooms," Leo says, quietly, his eyes half-lidded.

"Yes," Hyun says, agreeing as he leans in, teeth grazing Leo's neck.

(He doesn't really agree at all.) 

[taohuameng]

[hyunleo] tweet tweet goes the bird

It starts when Leo accidentally takes Hyun's phone instead of his own. It was probably inevitable, between the two of them and their black block smartphones, which looked and felt similar enough in the dark. Hyun doesn't notice until the phone vibrates, startling him from his half-conscious state, and he feels blindly on the nightstand for it, face still buried in the pillows. He only turns it enough so he can squint to make out the message flashing on the screen, from...Kotenok. 

Hyun blinks, and then shifts around on the bed so that his face is no longer in the pillow, and he unlocks the phone to read the message, which says simply 'I have your phone.' Ah, Hyun nods to himself, mystery solved, and he texts back, simply, 'ok'

Now, however, Hyun is awake, and bored. Normally he would lull himself back to sleep with the sound of Leo's heartbeat and the warmth of his body heat or in post-coital afterglow, but Leo isn't here right now. Barring that, he would play games on his phone until he fell asleep--but he didn't have his phone right then. However, he did have Leo's phone. For a while, Hyun just clicked around, looking with interest at all the different apps and things, but after a while Hyun, as Hyun was wont to do, became bored again. 

And that's when Hyun moves on to Plan C, which involved taking selfies on Leo's phone for him to find later. Some of these selfies, Hyun thought, were actually quite nice, and deserved to be shared. On Twitter. Leo doesn't have a twitter, and Hyun knows this. If Leo had a twitter, all of Hyun's own tweets would be to him. As it is, a significant chunk of Hyun's tweets now do go to the Rebellion twitter. Leo doesn't even have the Twitter app on his phone, which is a travesty, in Hyun's opinion, and with a few decisive taps, he remedies that situation. 

When Leo comes home, Hyun is still in bed, sitting up against the pillows, the blankets wrapped around him. 

"I did a good thing today," Hyun says, blinking at Leo as he enters the room.

"Did you, now?" Leo raises his eyebrows, crossing the room to sit on the bed.

"You're trending," Hyun says, and shows Leo the screen, which proudly proclaims it is Leo Hartman's official twitter account. Complete with pictures of Hyun.

[yourskinnyjeansanyway]

How did Hyun even begin to write about the tiny scar that appeared on his left forearm one day? He was used to the random bruising, alarming bruising that spread across his hands and arms, shoulders, back, legs, stomach, occasionally his face, or the random cuts and wounds that came too. It was alarming, but never life threatening. 

It'd always just been cuts and bruises, and they died down a little bit for a few years. The bruises weren't so frightening anymore, and the cuts were something more superficial, like a paper cut every once in a blue moon. And then one day he found a series of cuts on his right elbow, like shattered glass, a smattering of scars that were there to stay. By then, Hyun was at Hogwarts, and the bruising wasn't as bad as it had been a few years previously. 

The sudden appearance of a burn scar on the side of his left hand during the summer after fourth year was definitely alarming. Not quite as alarming as the cuts that came next, three years later, followed by more a few weeks after. A multitude of alarming bruises came with it, colouring the side of his ribs, as well as other places, but there was now a scar across his collarbone, and one that stretched from his ribs to his shoulder blades, and he couldn't imagine what anyone would be doing to get a scar like that. The other cuts, like an afterthought, were also alarming. They scarred across both wrists and the inside of his forearms and the inside of his elbow, and he hadn't figured out if it was someone in the castle or if his soulmate was actually a world away from him, but it was worrying. 

It was only when he caught a glimpse of Leo Hartman's uncovered arms did it all make sense.

[taohuameng]

hyunleo AUs, part i

cross-country train ride AU

When the door to the compartment opens, Hyun startles, chin slipping off where it had been propped up on a hand. "Can I sit here?" the boy at the door asks, and after a pause, Hyun nods towards the opposing seat. They're silent, for an hour, two, as the scenery rolls by, but by the time the sun sets, Hyun is curled up with him--Leo--fast asleep as the train continues its journey. 

police procedural AU

"What did he look like?" Leo Hartman, sketch artist, sits across from Hyun Lee, crime scene investigator, who is wrapped in a blanket, the only thing visible his neutral face and his fingers, clutched tightly around the edges of the blanket, keeping it together. Hyun doesn't say anything, but his eyes flicker--up to look at Leo's face, and then away again, half a conversation without any words.

"I know who it was," Hyun finally says, quiet, "I know exactly who it was who attacked me." 

"Who?" Leo asks. 

"Your father," Hyun replies. 

bookstore au (DID YOU MEAN, BOOKSHIP?)

It becomes almost absurd, after a certain point. Hyun learns more in the three weeks following his first encounter with Leo than he has the rest of his entire life, browsing the internet for subject ideas on everything from 'how to raise chickens' to 'baking with physics!'. Eventually, though, Hyun comes in one day, and asks Leo for a book on 'how to ask someone on a date.'

Well, sort of. 

reluctant teammates who save the world AU

"HYUN," Leo yells, "IS THE BOMB DISARMED?" 

"ALMOST," Hyun yells back, hands shaking just a little, "JUST GIVE ME A FEW MORE SECONDS." 

"HURRY UP," Leo yells again, turning and swinging his sword through an impressive number of zombie-like creatures, "WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME." 

[yourskinnyjeansanyway]

It's dark when he wakes up and he doesn't want to go back to sleep because he doesn't want to relive that memory for a third time. Though he's probably sobbing too hard to sleep anyway and he can't curl into any smaller of a ball, and he can't be any closer to the wall. It's pressing into Leo's spine painfully and he knows if he looks later, there'll be a row of purple bruises down his back.

He forces himself to stop, taking a deep breath and holding it before he edges out from under his bed and stands up. Leo's clutching Dragon with one hand and wiping at his face with the other, not sure if he trusts himself to breathe without breaking down again, but he barely gets a few steps out of the doorway before he does.

Leo gets to Hyun's room, lurks at the door for a few seconds. The only noise is his shaky breathing before he tries to compose himself with little success and pushes the door open enough to creep in, and beelining towards Hyun's bed, though he pauses before he steps up onto it. Leo settles down on the mattress, his back against the wall and his legs up in front of him. Eventually, he moves so that he's laying down, mostly calm and still curled up in a ball with Dragon before he finally falls back asleep at the end of Hyun's bed.

[yourskinnyjeansanyway]

Hyun was out. Leo didn't know when he'd be coming back, but now was as good a time as ever to chug a glass of bleach. Although the moment he steps out of the kitchen, the front door opens and Hyun comes in. Leo was feeling a little like he was regretting his decision to drink bleach. On the bright side of things (and he always looked on that, didn't he?) he still had the full use of both arms. Drinking bleach...probably not one of his better ideas, then.

His mouth tastes like a combination of bleach and blood. Not good. Though he didn't know what he'd been expecting. If he went and brushed his teeth now, how much of it would be blood, and how much would that corrode his toothbrush?

At some point, he'd stopped moving, wondering if this was what the edge of death felt like.

"I have a painful burning sensation," Leo says finally.

"When did this start?" Hyun asks, "you don't appear to be on fire. You'e not on fire, right?"

"No, I drank bleach."

Hyun looks like he's going to do something like call his mother.

"My mouth tastes weird," Leo observes, mostly to himself, "bleach tastes bad." Actually his tongue felt kind of numb right now. That was weird. And his mouth feels like it was filled with blood maybe.

"Why did you drink bleach?!" Hyun wants to know.

Leo shrugs, "wanna know what happens."

Hyun moves past Leo into the kitchen, locates the bottle of bleach and turns to show Leo what the label says. "It says exactly right here what will happen."

Leo looks at it, looks at Hyun. "I don't think I count in that."

"Leo, you are human, you count."

He shrugs again, debates the aftertaste of blood and bleach, assumes he still has a tounge. "I'm still alive." Hyun doesn't seem happy about Leo's experiments.

"I have no idea how you are," Hyun tells him.

"I was experimented on as a child," Leo says, leaving the room to go and test out the toothbrush thing, and fix the fact that his mouth is now actually rapidly filling up with blood. It takes him a while to get through, because painful burning sensations are actually quite painful, and there's a lot of blood. At least Hyun is used to having Leo's blood everywhere, right?

A while later, Leo's still alive and going back to find Hyun. His mouth is done bleeding, everything is still intact, but his throat feels like he swallowed razorblades still and he can't do shit about that. Assuming he hasn't fucked everything up completely, it should fix itself in a while.

Hyun has prepared a powerpoint for Leo on things that Leo should try and things he shouldn't, and why not. Lame. Leo didn't see anything wrong with his collection of hobbies. Drinking bleach was only a bad idea in that it hurt and he was throwing up blood every ten minutes or so. But again, he was still alive.

The slides from the powerpoint got taped to the fridge. Leo pointedly ignores them whenever he's in the kitchen.

He doesn't have a lot to do in the meantime...not that he can do a lot when he's busy bleeding a lot. So he winds up sat on the floor in front of the tv, alternating between staring at the screen and throwing up more blood. It seems to happen practically every time his throat stops hurting. Leo doesn't know how much blood he's lost, but it feels like a lot. Maybe because he's practically watching himself bleed.

Six hours and a lot of blood later, Leo's so done with the tv. But he's also kind of done throwing up blood. It's been forty five minutes since he last threw up blood though he's expecting it to happen again. Ten minutes later, it happens and he's tired of tasting blood and whatever the fuck else it's mixed with. He doesn't know if he can eat yet, but he kind of wants to sleep as well.

Eight hours later (or was it nine?) he's pretty certain he's fixed. It's dark, Hyun is either asleep or pretty close to it so Leo goes to rinse his mouth out again, find ice cream and eats it slowly, figuring that drinking bleach is a Questionable Life Choice and shouldn't be attempted again.

That was fun.

[yourskinnyjeansanyway]

Hyun comes home later that night and the first thing he does was tell Leo that it wasn’t funny, but he’s laughing at the same time and Leo can’t help but laugh too but it’s so ridiculous they just end up clinging to each other trying to breathe. Every time they so much as calm themselves, it just takes one look at each other and they start again, eventually ending up collapsing onto the sofa together.

They have to stop after a while, focusing on the ceiling in silence to keep those thoughts away and then Leo speaks up. 

"I can’t believe you read that out." He says. "On television."

And that just ruins it for them again. 

[yourskinnyjeansanyway]

There’s a time when Leo knows Hyun is doing a live interview. What else is he going to do other than watch it? Leo ends up sprawled across the sofa, watching and waiting for his boyfriend to show up on the screen. Eventually, Hyun is there, talking about the band and music and then the subject slowly derails onto Leo which prompts him to sit up and find his phone from the floor, opening a new text. 

i can hear you he sends and then looks back to the tv. 

Somewhere miles away, Hyun’s phone goes off and he pulls it from a pocket to see a new message from Yeobo.

Leo waits as Hyun stops to retrieve his phone and reading the text aloud, which spurs laughter, but Hyun doesn’t text back, distracted by more questions. Leo tilts his head to the side, bringing up another new text, still listening to the answers Hyun gives.

hyun lee cries his way through sex

And he looks up to watch Hyun look at his phone again and read the text aloud, causing a silence and more laughter. Hyun gave one of his Hyun-pauses and Leo waited yet again for him to say something.

"Well, I mean I do but not in the way you’re probably thinking?" Hyun says, and it takes very few seconds for Leo to send another text to Kotenok though he’s smiling stupidly as he types the two characters and hits send again.

;D

On the screen, Hyun takes one look at the phone screen and dissolves into giggling.