#i love how porsche is just read to beat the shit out of vegas meanwhile chay: maybe a small basket with fruits or a watermelon ?

[wikfan]

@asoulunbound

„Dope! I’ll send you a friend request later when I have wifi at the hospital.” Macau never had any problems making friends among his peers. He was popular at school and on his soccer team, but none of his friends knew about his family’s business. Everyone had always thought it wise to keep that a low profile, so his friendships rarely went deeper than surface level. He never had a best friend besides his brother. Vegas had been his role model ever since he’d been a toddler. Not so much because of the things he had to do for their father but because in Macau’s eyes Vegas was effortlessly cool and excellent at everything.

“I was going nuts. I came home from a friend’s house to find two of uncle Korn’s bodyguards packing my bags and telling me I had to come here with them. No one even told me why or what happened. And then they brought me to uncle’s office and said that Pa was dead and Vegas at the hospital and that I had to stay here now!” Hands balled into fists at his side. Those moments had been the worst in the boy’s life. He hated the uncertainty and he would never forgive his uncle for not allowing him to go to his brother immediately. No, they had practically imprisoned him in his room for three days until Pete brought him to Vegas. And then they had made a big farce of Pa’s funeral where he had to play the grieving son, while his killers stood around speaking their condolences. But Porchay’s offer put a smile back on his face and lightened the grim expression. “Pete usually brings food to the hospital. But thanks for the offer.”

“You’ll get used to nobody telling nothing!” He replied half joke, half serious. No one had ever told Macau what really went on around him. He had to make his own assumptions about the way everyone was behaving. By the number of bodyguards running around the compound. By the expression on his father’s face and by the bruises on Vegas’. Over the years he’d become pretty good at assessing the state of relations between minor and major families. It had become important for his survival. “You’ll just lose sleep trying to figure everything out. Vegas never tells me details. It just means he cares and wants to protect me.” He shrugged. Then he wrapped an arm around Chay. “And meanwhile Macau Senpai is gonna teach you all his tricks on how to read the fuckers around here! My cousins are not as hard to figure out as they have you believe.” He winked.

"dope!" chay mimicked, excited to be able to finally have made a friend around his age in this place and yet he fell silent again. something about this place just kept intimidating him. he nodded along to the boys words. it's hard when you only have one family member left and that turns out to be your brother. although chay and porsche were quite different, it felt like to him that macau and vegas were a lot like them too, just that they grew up similarly while chay had the softer version of a childhood and visible love. maybe chay could sneak to the hospital, after all pete and his brother did get along well, and since he did already considered macau his friend it would only be nice to show up to macau's older brother wishing him well, right ?

" can you take me with you next time you visit your brother ? " at least if he'd agreed, he could get out of here for a while. and pete would be there too. he knew the fronts were not on quite good terms but it did have nothing to do with him and maybe macau would notice that chay only meant well with that. he noticed that trust had to be earned in this place no matter who you were so maybe that could be a starting point ? if that was even the right way to think of it? was it even necessary for him to do that just so he could have a friend in this dark place ? maybe not, but he was just a simple boy doing nice things for others. it was in his nature.

chay was taken a back for just a moment when the arm came to rest on his shoulders just to be surprised by the way of speech he heard. he guessed if you grew up like this, you were surrounded by such words and just threw them around easily like it's nothing. he grinned, knowing he'd be in good hands. " thank you, i'll be a good student senpai. " with that he just laughed, a bit of the stress taken from him, finally. it was a little relieve knowing he could laugh in this place too. " you think ? maybe i am just easy to fool.." chay spoke quietly, unsure what else to say.

#asoulunbound #MACAU SENPAI STILL SENDS ME HOWLIN ASJD #i love how porsche is just read to beat the shit out of vegas meanwhile chay: maybe a small basket with fruits or a watermelon ? #*ready #chay. verse: one

[daswarschonkaputt]

so the ending of between the sheets just left me gasping. literally! like it was so fucking powerful?! especially the last line. i was reading it at 3am in complete darkness and it was quite an experience.

i particularly love this part from your end notes for chapter 8:

This is Khun Korn's final miscalculation: Porsche isn’t a pawn, or a queen. Porsche is the player on the other side of the board.

so i was wondering if you would ever continue this with a sequel or maybe a oneshot set in the universe? or will you wait for s2 and see what happens?

either way, ill be cherishing this fic for a long long time. i can't wait to read your abo fic! especially cause porsche has a HUGE leverage over korn so the game has to end if korn wants a grandchild.

i get this question a lot, lol.

as of current, there are no plans for a sequel to sheets. i'm enjoying that it's finished, and i don't want to start another massive wip yet. if there is a season 2, and it inspires me, there might be a sheets sequel. but. we'll see.

but i've been thinking lately about what would go into a between the sheets sequel, even if it wasn't about porsche's war game with korn. so here are a few things i've been playing with in my head:

the wik fandom freaks out about their idol's injuries (bandaged hand, and cut on forehead) which is how chay finds out that kim and porsche had a Chat

chay goes to porsche about it, prepared to yell at him for beating up his boyfriend, only to be shocked to discover that porsche seems to get on with kim??? and is trying to get kim and kinn to make up????

chay's life is very hard

speaking of chay, i want an inevitable showdown between chay and macau where chay runs into him at a function and is an incredibly petty bitch to him, because if porsche can figure it out, chay can too

the other chay scene i want is chay learning self defence with chan and arm, because he doesn't want to be a liability to porsche. he keeps this a secret from porsche, though

meanwhile, kinn and porsche are incredibly in love, and incredibly steady

i think khun korn probably tries to test their devotion a few times, and kinn and porsche don't even flinch. they are committed to this and to each other.

porsche spends probably the next few months after sheets establishing himself as a credible threat, and also as kinn's man. porsche and kinn are a very good combined force -- porsche has a lot of the soft people skills that kinn lacks. people like and respect him. people fear and respect kinn.

one scene in particular i want to have is porsche talking to chay about the fact that kinn wants him to go back to university. porsche's degree was in hospitality and management, and kinn wants him to convert it into a straight up business degree, which isn't insane, there's a fair bit of overlap of the classes, but porsche is uncertain. it would help him from a reputation perspective, in the theerapanyakul business, but... as difficult as porsche found the adjustment, porsche has excelled as kinn's bodyguard in a way he never did at university. chay points out that porsche has never been able to prioritise his studies before. chay tells porsche it's up to him, but he thinks porsche should do it.

i think porsche probably does in the end, and i think he turns out to be better at it than he thought he'd be. it probably helps that kinn proofreads his assignments for him.

the other thing i have definitive thoughts about is the huge main family vs. minor family showdown, but that ties into the vague plans i have for vegas/pete in this universe

without going into too much detail, pete forms a connection with vegas that's basically vegas being literally tied to a chair as pete spits straight facts about vegas's mental state and childhood to him

vegas: you think i'm scared of you? my own father's done worse to me than you have!

pete: have you considered... your father's a piece of shit?

vegas: shockedpikachu.jpg

i think the reversal of the dynamics from canon would be interesting, because pete would have a more dominant role in the relationship. i think pete's feelings towards vegas become less about empathy and connection than they do... i guess protective? he feels responsible for vegas, like it's on him to take care of him. i also think pete would be less tolerant of vegas hurting him.

i think vegas tells pete a lot of things to try and incite pete into hitting him, or hurting him, because that would put the situation back into something he's familiar with and knows how to handle

vegas telling pete that he drugged and assaulted porsche is one of these things

pete's very placid and nonreactive during most of these, just sort of takes what vegas says and doesn't react much, even if he thinks the shit that's coming out of vegas's mouth is awful in the extreme

much like pete would have preferred to be torturing people, i think vegas would have preferred to be tortured

he doesn't know what to do with this

he doesn't know how to handle someone who listens to his worst actions and doesn't flinch

he doesn't know if he can keep believing the lies he's told himself his entire life, about what he's worth, and how his father treats him, when it turns out that he's almost living a better life as the main family's captive than he did as his father's heir

i think the romantic/sexual part of their relationship probably hangs in a tortured limbo, a bit

because i think vegas would definitely try to kiss pete, and start something, even chained to a table, just to try and provoke a reaction out of him

because pete has a position of absolute power over his life at this moment

and nothing vegas does has any effect

and he gets desperate, he needs to have something he can do, some leverage he can have over pete

and i think pete would not be... unaffected, but that he would misread this a little, and see it as evidence for the way he has completely and entirely shattered vegas's world, and forced himself into a position of absolute focus there

i think vegas tries to leverage the fact that they kissed and pete kissed back to try and escalate things further, maybe imply that chan won't like to hear about it and pete's just plain, "i already informed him about it."

the other small thing i want to have in this section is pete, as like, a reward for good behaviour to vegas, taking news of vegas to macau, and macau trying to kill him. (he doesn't get that far.)

i do think lines get crossed, a little. i don't think it's entirely about the interrogation, at times, for pete. i think a lot of the compassion is genuine -- one abuse victim reaching out to another.

just as this fucks with vegas's head, it fucks with pete's, too.

okay MEANWHILE, porsche and kinn have been ruminating over the minor family issue, because with vegas in their captivity, the instability is getting worse

gun's barely holding onto the reins.

so porsche is like, "we need your father to fake his death."

so that's what they do.

the attack goes down a little differently in canon, because the main family are fully prepared. big's with chay, in a safehouse outside the city. chan and porsche are commanding the troops, so to speak.

during the attack, the cells where vegas is being kept are breached, and they break him out. on his way out, he runs into pete, who has a gun, and they point their guns at each other. and then vegas lowers his, and walks until pete's gun is touching his forehead. he dares pete to kill him.

pete can't.

vegas kisses him, sticks his hands in his pants, they get a bit frisky, but then someone calls out for vegas, and he goes.

pete sits there, clothes a mess, gun in hand, and he sobs. and then he gets up and does his job.

anyway, that's about all i have. gun probably dies, and korn would have even more reason than in canon to offer porsche the minor family ring (probably as like an engagement gift or some manipulative shit), pete definitely resigns, but the casualties are almost certainly lower. tankhun and chay are almost certainly not in the compound.

most of this is very up in the air, to be honest. shit like this i wouldn't know fully until i wrote it. so, you know. take it all with a pinch of salt. but those are my very messy and incomplete thoughts about an immediate sequel for sheets.

#fic: between the sheets #asked and answered #sheets dvd commentary #the sequel question #i get this so often guys #please let me enjoy it being DONE for a bit #canon typical content warnings apply #including consent issues #but now in a new flavour! #consent issues cw #torture cw #nothing graphic it's just bullet points