#by desire has flashbacks to dong sik's teen years so there's a fair amount of yu yeon in that fic

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I have to say that I'm really intrigued by "delicate" and "2:by desire".

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Delicate is a jwds fic inspired by the song Sweet Nothing by Taylor Swift. The fic focuses on the early stages of Joo Won moving in with Dong Sik post-canon, and him coming to terms with being in a relationship. It currently has some major tonal issues, and I don't really know what to do with it. But I'll share the opening paragraphs with you

Dong Sik doesn’t wear gloves when he washes the dishes and Joo Won can’t stop staring. 

This isn’t the first time Joo Won has noticed him doing it, if anything, it’s far more common than one might think. Dong Sik doesn’t use any foresight when washing the dishes and even allows the foamy suds to creep into the calluses on his knuckles, causing them to dry his hands out until they crack with speckles of flaky skin. After every time, it’s Joo Won who massages moisturiser into the brittle patches to help soothe his raw hands. Joo Won is starting to believe that the older man is doing it on purpose. Right now, though, with the winter sun's harsh glow casting their home into an auburn haze of warmth and safety, Joo Won can’t help but just watch. He knows he does it too often - “it” being his insistent observing - and he’s not entirely sure why he can’t take his eyes away from the man in front of him. It’s been this way since the first time he came across Dong Sik’s picture in a case file, and only escalated and grew with intensity with each passing day. But why would he want to look away? Why would he want to miss a possible clue that could lead to a hint, a piece of evidence, a lead, or just something that might mean that Joo Won knows him more than he already does? 

By Desire is an ongoing canon-compliant wip that is a part ii of my fic Indoctrination. It follows the events from episode 9 to episode 13, and all the in-between moments we didn't get to see. It's basically just Dong Sik falling in love with Joo Won and struggling with it, because... well... for obvious reasons. There are already two chapters published- I didn't mean for it to be a wip but... I'm... letting it marinate (yeah, we'll go with that lol)

Yu Yeon was wearing one of her nicer tops, an off-white short-sleeved thing that wasn’t frilly per se, but it definitely was far more girly than the usual boxy t-shirts she sports.  That top paired with her light blue jeans and the butterfly clips in her hair, made her look nice... as if she was making an effort. Which was silly because they were only meeting up with Jung Je and Ji Hwa at the fishing lakes, there wasn’t any reason to look nice. 

“We were meant to be having a nice day,” she mutters, hugging herself for warmth. That’s when Dong Sik noticed that her off-white top and its synthetic material had become almost completely see-through from the rain. He shrugs off his teal sports jacket and hands it to her. 

She pauses with a questioning look, he just shrugs and replies, “your- Uhm, you’ll be cold like that.” She looks down and gasps when she sees the state of her top. She ripped the jacket from her brother’s hand and was quick to cover herself, zipping the oversized jacket all the way to her chin. She didn’t need to thank him, the blush on her face was enough.

Dong Sik sat down with a heavy sigh, unzipping the bum bag tied around his hips and fished out a metal container. They were going to be stuck here for a while, he might as well be comfortable. “Come sit down, you’ll wear yourself out. We can’t go anywhere until the rain stops anyway.”

Thanks again for sending me this ask! I hope you enjoyed the snippets! 😊

(I know that "bum bag" is a term more commonly used in the UK, if you don't know what it means, it's a fanny pack... Fanny has a very different meaning here...)

#tag game #ask answered #by desire has flashbacks to dong sik's teen years so there's a fair amount of yu yeon in that fic