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| Entry tags: | # crossovers, fandom: dbsk, fandom: super junior, rp: heechul, ship: siwon/heechul, year: 2008 |
(suju) love and beauty; siwon/heechul
love and beauty
(super junior/dbsk) 2590wds. pg-13; rps, au — heechul, siwon/heechul
(kyuhyun, kangteuk, kihae, hyuksu, yunjae)
he just really likes it because it allowed him to poke his pretty nose in everybody's business.
a.aoimidori
s. somewhere out there, there is a universe in which heechul is literally aphrodite reborn.
a/n. written forbiskett23 through ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif)
miracle_ss 2008; thanks: partypaprika for the base idea, crazychickencow for the beta, and kikiam for the much-needed hand holding. happy holidays, everyone. :)♥
d. i do not know, nor am i affiliated with, heechul, super junior, dbsk, or sm entertainment. none of the events depicted in this story happened.
- – —
Heechul knows he's always been more beautiful than humanly possible which is why when a man claiming to be Hermes comes to him in his dreams and tells him "Heechul, you are actually Aphrodite reborn in this modern day and age," he isn't really surprised. The guy goes on to tell him that there was a mistake at birth and that Aphrodite was supposed to be reborn in a female's body, because Aphrodite is the Goddess of Love and Beauty but at that point Heechul (or at least the Heechul in his dream) was already distracted and asking, "So does this mean I get God(dess)-like powers?" despite the fact that the so-called Hermes was still talking about "new responsibilities."
When Heechul wakes up the morning after nothing seems really different.
"I had the weirdest dream," he tells his roommate, Kibum, during breakfast.
"What was it about?" Kibum asks, staring at his cereal, still a little sleepy.
"Some guy telling me how I was actually the Goddess of Love and Beauty," Heechul grins at him.
Kibum stares at him, slowly chewing and swallowing his food. "I don't need this in the morning," he groans. And then he pauses, and chuckles, "Even though, it's kind of amusing how vain you are; you even have your dreams telling you it."
"Yah!" He tells Kibum off, but Heechul is kind of laughing anyway.
*
He forgets about it until he has a day off from work and he's just in the apartment being bored and lazy, and he's watching his cat lap up the milk in the saucer he's set up, and —
"Oh Heebummie," he sighs. "I wish you were more entertaining. Like, I don't know. Fly or something," he says waving his hand unthinkingly.
Heechul blinks just once before shrugging in acceptance when it actually happens that Heebum starts floating mid-air.
And so,
"I have magic powers," he informs Kibum when the latter comes home from university.
"What the fuck are you talking about, hyung?" Kibum asks as he takes off his shoes by the doorway.
"I mean I have magic powers," Heechul repeats with an exasperated tone.
Kibum is staring at Heechul with a look that's obviously wondering whether or not he has enough energy to humor the older man, that Heechul gets annoyed quick and rolls his eyes.
"Well, how do you want me to prove it?" Heechul asks.
"I don't," Kibum says.
Annoyed, Heechul waves his hands and sends the slippers Kibum was reaching for flying mid-air.
"Well?"
"Give me my slippers, hyung," Kibum says, unfazed, reaching out for them again.
Heechul rolls his eyes, waves his hand again and sends the pair flying straight out of the apartment.
"Pick them up outside if you're so keen on them," Heechul says, narrowing his eyes.
"OH, WOW, HYUNG HOW DID YOU DO THAT?" an excited voice exclaims at the doorway.
"Donghae?" Kibum, startled, turns around, and a thought about how adorable Donghae is flashes in Heechul's head.
Except, Heechul realises, it isn't really his thought.
"OH, FUCK, I CAN READ MINDS TOO!" he exclaims gleefully, a sparkle of mischief in his eyes, and a look of dread in Kibum's.
*
"So, wait, hyung, you mean you're like the Goddess of Love? Reborn?" Donghae clarifies.
"And beauty, obviously," Heechul says.
"Since when did you believe in dreams, hyung?" Kibum rolls his eyes.
"Well, obviously ever since I can do this." Heechul smirks, turning the lights on and off with consecutive finger snaps.
Donghae looks at Kibum pointedly as if to say, well, duh, and Kibum feels as if he's been transported into some weird alternate universe.
*
The next day, after work, Heechul comes home to three pairs of shoes by the doorway. Two of which he recognizes as Kibum's and Donghae's, but he has no idea who the third pair belongs to.
"I'm home!" he cries out.
"Oh hey, hyung." Kibum's head pokes out from the living room. "I brought a friend from University over, I hope you don't mind. He seemed pretty excited when I told him about the new console games I bought last weekend."
Heechul raises an eyebrow and goes directly to the living room to check out whoever this new face is.
"Yah!" he exclaims, genuinely startled when he sees the person playing in front of his tv set. "You!"
"You know Kyuhyun, hyung?" Donghae asks as he animatedly presses on console buttons, his eyes never leaving the screen.
There are very few things in this world that catch Heechul by surprise and this person is kind of one of them.
"Yah, you!" he repeats.
Because the so-called Hermes from his dreams is for some reason playing video games in his living room.
The boy just nods at him absent-mindedly in between taking down Donghae's character on screen.
*
Later, when they're all seated around the table eating instant ramyun, Heechul stares at the new kid.
"What are you doing here?" he asks, straight to the point.
"You know Kyuhyun?" Donghae repeats his earlier question.
Kibum looks at him for an answer but doesn't say anything.
"What do you mean Kyuhyun, this is the guy in my dreams," Heechul says flatly.
"You and your dreams again, hyung," Kibum says. "Why in the world would you dream about a friend of mine from school?"
"He's not your friend from school," Heechul snaps. "He's Hermes from my fucking dream!"
"It's because you're not doing what you're supposed to do," Kyuhyun answers much to Donghae's and Kibum's surprise.
"Do tell what it is I'm supposed to do," Heechul says sarcastically.
"Well, you know setting up people and all that." Kyuhyun cringes. "That soulmate stuff."
"You can't even say it properly." Heechul rolls his eyes.
"Hey, it's not like I want to say it," Kyuhyun says. "I'm just the messenger. Everyone up there expects you to do your job, the same way they expect me to do mine."
"This is so cool," Donghae suddenly pipes up. "Can I be Cupid? Isn't he like Venus's assistant or something?"
Kibum looks like he's about to bang his head on the wall, and Heechul just smirks because he can read exactly what the former is thinking anyway. He winks at him, and Kibum just looks even more distressed.
*
"So what are my powers again?" Heechul clarifies with Kyuhyun-AKA-Hermes.
"Oh, you know, the usual. Telekineses, the power of wishful thinking..." Kyuhyun trails off, killing the zombies on the screen.
"Which is?"
"Oh, basically making everything you want come true." Kyuhyun shrugs.
"And this mind reading business?"
"Only thoughts connected to love and/or lust."
"Oh, but that's just perfect," Heechul says gleefully.
Kibum is shaking his head, and Donghae is taking in every word of the conversation.
"Oh, by the way, you just can't use your powers for your own love life," Kyuhyun says.
"Oh pssh, it'll be fun messing with others' in the first place." Heechul grins.
*
"I have a couple for you hyung!" Donghae tells him a few days later.
"A couple?" Heechul asks.
"You know, for this whole Goddess of Love business," Donghae says.
"And beauty," Heechul asks, because of course he's never going to let anyone forget the last bit.
"Yes, hyung, that," Donghae goes on impatiently. "Kyuhyun said you have to get soulmates together, right? I know a couple."
"Who?" Heechul asks.
"These two guys in the same soccer team as me in school," Donghae explains. "They're always bickering but everyone knows they just want in each other's pants."
Donghae introduces them as Hyukjae and Junsu, and the first time Heechul meets them when Donghae brings them over to their apartment (because for some reason Donghae has been hanging out more at theirs and less at his ever since the entire Goddess of Love and Beauty debacle) they're too busy with their verbal foreplay to muster up even just a proper greeting.
"You idiot, even in video games clearly I'm superior," the one called Junsu declares.
"Keep dreaming, buttface," the one called Hyukjae shoots back.
"Donghae." Heechul rolls his eyes in exasperation. "I don't even need to use my powers for these two. They already are together. I think even longer than the time they've known you."
*
The next couple he encounters is slightly more difficult but also slightly more necessary if Heechul wanted to keep his wits around. Eeteuk was the head waiter at the restaurant he worked at, and Kangin was the sous-chef.
Heechul actually likes Eeteuk — they practically started working the job around the same time together. Except Eeteuk had the most annoying tendency to mother everyone. Also, the most annoying, most obvious crush on Kangin. Kangin who was loud, obnoxious and was always arguing with Heechul, so Heechul figures if he gets Kangin laid, maybe he'd stop being so annoying.
Heechul just magics away Kangin's car keys one night (and it's true, he could've done it without using his powers, and before this whole Goddess business, but then it's not like he was required to do it before, and besides, where'd the fun be without the magic?) and subtly sets it up so Kangin hitches a ride home with Eeteuk. If Heechul just happened to have given their hormones a little magical boost, no one really needs to know about it.
The next day Eeteuk is glowing, and Kangin sort of is too, even though he keeps complaining about Eeteuk's traumatizing driving skills.
*
One time he asks Kyuhyun what happens if he refuses to set people up.
"What the fuck do I care about people's love lives anyway?!"
"You vanish," Kyuhyun answers with a shrug.
"You mean my powers vanish?" Heechul asks.
"No, I mean you cease to exist," Kyuhyun clarifies.
"Yah!" Heechul exclaims, but then Kyuhyun just goes back to the game he's playing.
If he was going to be honest, Heechul will admit to liking setting people up because it makes him feel like people owe him. If he was going to be really really honest, he just really likes it because it allowed him to poke his pretty nose in everybody's business.
*
Siwon was the owner's son, and every other employee in the restaurant was, in one way or another, attracted to him.
"It's just because you love being contrary," Eeteuk always tells Heechul when he shrugs off Siwon's charms. "Shame too, because it looks to me he only has eyes for you."
Fact is, Siwon annoys Heechul because he's too nice, too good-looking, too religious, too fucking perfect and too in-his-face. He's always following Heechul around with that infuriating lost puppy dog look, saying "well, I need to know how to run the business, you see?" and it's stupid, because it's not like Heechul is the manager, he's just a fucking waiter for Christ's sake (and Don't use the name of God in vain, Siwon would say every time Heechul curses like that).
"You have way too much free time," Heechul snaps at him. "Get yourself a fucking girlfriend. Or a boyfriend. Just get someone so you stop following me around."
And then Heechul berates himself inwardly because duh, isn't that what he does anyway?
*
Heechul figures setting Siwon up with someone should be easy, since it's Siwon and girls (and boys) everywhere are practically throwing themselves at him. Once Heechul puts his mind to doing it though, he realises it's harder than he first envisioned it to be because suddenly no one seems good enough.
He starts a list of qualities he thinks Siwon's appropriate soulmate should possess and Kibum tells him in that matter-of-fact way of his, "You're way too into this project, hyung."
When Donghae nods his head in agreement, he kicks both of them out of the apartment.
"You don't even live here," he snaps, looking straight at Donghae, who pouts at him uselessly — they can stay at Donghae's next door. He figures he's actually even really doing Kibum a favor, so it's actually hitting two birds with one stone: less annoying people in his household, and yet another happy couple in the works.
*
Heechul very rarely acknowledges other people's physical beauty but even he is taken aback by the new kitchen recruit.
"He's too good-looking to be in the kitchen, don't you think?" Eeteuk says.
"Tsch, he looks too much like a girl," Heechul rolls his eyes, annoyed for some reason.
"Look who's talking," Eeteuk laughs.
And then he catches Jaejoong laughing at something Siwon just said, and Heechul's eyes narrow in annoyance. He's beautiful, he admits to himself, but he has an annoying laugh.
*
The more time Siwon spends with Jaejoong, the more irrational Heechul gets towards the latter.
"Is that him?" Kibum asks one time when he drops by the restaurant. "You're right, he's pretty."
Heechul rolls his eyes, "But still not pretty enough for Siwon."
"I think you think you're the only one pretty enough or good enough for him, hyung," Kibum says.
"But I don't even like him," Heechul spits.
"You're way too into finding him a partner then," Kibum points out.
"I just want to do my fucking job well," Heechul says.
"Since when have you cared about doing this well?" Kibum questions.
"Fuck you," Heechul snaps.
*
Heechul tries using his mind-reading powers on Siwon every time he spots him talking to Jaejoong, but he keeps drawing a blank.
"My powers aren't working," he tells Kyuhyun. "What's the point of being a God or Goddess or whatever if my powers refuse to work."
Kyuhyun shrugs. "How should I know? I told you, I'm just the messenger."
*
The day he realises that maybe he does kind of like Siwon that way is also the day he almost sets the restaurant kitchen on fire. Siwon is looking over Jaejoong's shoulder, tasting whatever dish the latter was working on, and Heecul can't even really remember his thoughts, just that he frustratedly waved his right hand and the next thing he knows, Jaejoong has a huge burn on his arm and Kangin has rushed over with the fire extinguisher.
Siwon is looking at him like he knows it's his fault, and Heechul thinks he really really hates that wounded puppy dog look.
*
"This is stupid, what's the point of being the God of—"
"Goddess," Kyuhyun interrupts Heechul mid-rant.
"Goddess, fine, of Love and Beauty, if I can't even fall in love?!" Heechul screeches.
"I didn't know you wanted to fall in love? I thought you thought yourself too good for everybody else." Kyuhyun smirks.
Heechul glares at him.
"Although I never said anything about not being allowed to fall in love."
"Yes you did!" Heechul exclaims. "You were all 'oh but you can't use your powers for your own love life' and if you ask me that's just annoying bullshit."
"So you mean you love Siwon, hyung?" Donghae pipes up.
"That's not my point!" Heechul exclaims.
"Yes, it is," Kyuhyun says. "And I never said you're not allowed to love anyone, I just said you're not allowed to use your powers to get together with anyone."
Kibum is very obviously trying to repress a smirk.
*
"Who the fuck is he?" Heechul demands when he catches Jaejoong with someone else outside the restaurant one day.
"Hi, I'm Yun—" the tall man moves in to introduce himself.
"I'm not talking to you," Heechul cuts him off.
"He's my boyfriend," Jaejoong smiles, and motions to the arm he is wearing in a sling. "He brought me my pain medication for my arm."
"What about Siwon?" Heechul snaps.
"What about him?" Jaejoong asks, puzzled.
*
"So, how do I fix this?" Heechul asks.
Kibum shrugs, Kyuhyun rolls his eyes, and Donghae, with a bright smile answers, "Just tell him properly, hyung. That's what Kibum did, and we're happy."
Kyuhyun is laughing as Kibum almost chokes on his saliva.
*
"I like you," Heechul tells Siwon plainly. "Now I need you to tell me what you think about that, or you need to just go away."
"Oh, but I like you too," Siwon answers, looking somewhat surprised that Heechul even needs to ask.
Inside, Heechul's stomach is kind of turning with joy, but he just says, "Well, good then. You can be the Adonis to my Aphrodite now."
"Err, okay," Siwon laughs, and Heechul can't help but think the he really is like an adorable little dog, and even though he's really more a cat person, he won't mind keeping this one forever.
/ fin.
# originally published: 2008.12.20
(super junior/dbsk) 2590wds. pg-13; rps, au — heechul, siwon/heechul
(kyuhyun, kangteuk, kihae, hyuksu, yunjae)
he just really likes it because it allowed him to poke his pretty nose in everybody's business.
a.
aoimidoris. somewhere out there, there is a universe in which heechul is literally aphrodite reborn.
a/n. written for
biskett23 through miracle_ss 2008; thanks: partypaprika for the base idea, crazychickencow for the beta, and kikiam for the much-needed hand holding. happy holidays, everyone. :)♥d. i do not know, nor am i affiliated with, heechul, super junior, dbsk, or sm entertainment. none of the events depicted in this story happened.
- – —
Heechul knows he's always been more beautiful than humanly possible which is why when a man claiming to be Hermes comes to him in his dreams and tells him "Heechul, you are actually Aphrodite reborn in this modern day and age," he isn't really surprised. The guy goes on to tell him that there was a mistake at birth and that Aphrodite was supposed to be reborn in a female's body, because Aphrodite is the Goddess of Love and Beauty but at that point Heechul (or at least the Heechul in his dream) was already distracted and asking, "So does this mean I get God(dess)-like powers?" despite the fact that the so-called Hermes was still talking about "new responsibilities."
When Heechul wakes up the morning after nothing seems really different.
"I had the weirdest dream," he tells his roommate, Kibum, during breakfast.
"What was it about?" Kibum asks, staring at his cereal, still a little sleepy.
"Some guy telling me how I was actually the Goddess of Love and Beauty," Heechul grins at him.
Kibum stares at him, slowly chewing and swallowing his food. "I don't need this in the morning," he groans. And then he pauses, and chuckles, "Even though, it's kind of amusing how vain you are; you even have your dreams telling you it."
"Yah!" He tells Kibum off, but Heechul is kind of laughing anyway.
*
He forgets about it until he has a day off from work and he's just in the apartment being bored and lazy, and he's watching his cat lap up the milk in the saucer he's set up, and —
"Oh Heebummie," he sighs. "I wish you were more entertaining. Like, I don't know. Fly or something," he says waving his hand unthinkingly.
Heechul blinks just once before shrugging in acceptance when it actually happens that Heebum starts floating mid-air.
And so,
"I have magic powers," he informs Kibum when the latter comes home from university.
"What the fuck are you talking about, hyung?" Kibum asks as he takes off his shoes by the doorway.
"I mean I have magic powers," Heechul repeats with an exasperated tone.
Kibum is staring at Heechul with a look that's obviously wondering whether or not he has enough energy to humor the older man, that Heechul gets annoyed quick and rolls his eyes.
"Well, how do you want me to prove it?" Heechul asks.
"I don't," Kibum says.
Annoyed, Heechul waves his hands and sends the slippers Kibum was reaching for flying mid-air.
"Well?"
"Give me my slippers, hyung," Kibum says, unfazed, reaching out for them again.
Heechul rolls his eyes, waves his hand again and sends the pair flying straight out of the apartment.
"Pick them up outside if you're so keen on them," Heechul says, narrowing his eyes.
"OH, WOW, HYUNG HOW DID YOU DO THAT?" an excited voice exclaims at the doorway.
"Donghae?" Kibum, startled, turns around, and a thought about how adorable Donghae is flashes in Heechul's head.
Except, Heechul realises, it isn't really his thought.
"OH, FUCK, I CAN READ MINDS TOO!" he exclaims gleefully, a sparkle of mischief in his eyes, and a look of dread in Kibum's.
*
"So, wait, hyung, you mean you're like the Goddess of Love? Reborn?" Donghae clarifies.
"And beauty, obviously," Heechul says.
"Since when did you believe in dreams, hyung?" Kibum rolls his eyes.
"Well, obviously ever since I can do this." Heechul smirks, turning the lights on and off with consecutive finger snaps.
Donghae looks at Kibum pointedly as if to say, well, duh, and Kibum feels as if he's been transported into some weird alternate universe.
*
The next day, after work, Heechul comes home to three pairs of shoes by the doorway. Two of which he recognizes as Kibum's and Donghae's, but he has no idea who the third pair belongs to.
"I'm home!" he cries out.
"Oh hey, hyung." Kibum's head pokes out from the living room. "I brought a friend from University over, I hope you don't mind. He seemed pretty excited when I told him about the new console games I bought last weekend."
Heechul raises an eyebrow and goes directly to the living room to check out whoever this new face is.
"Yah!" he exclaims, genuinely startled when he sees the person playing in front of his tv set. "You!"
"You know Kyuhyun, hyung?" Donghae asks as he animatedly presses on console buttons, his eyes never leaving the screen.
There are very few things in this world that catch Heechul by surprise and this person is kind of one of them.
"Yah, you!" he repeats.
Because the so-called Hermes from his dreams is for some reason playing video games in his living room.
The boy just nods at him absent-mindedly in between taking down Donghae's character on screen.
*
Later, when they're all seated around the table eating instant ramyun, Heechul stares at the new kid.
"What are you doing here?" he asks, straight to the point.
"You know Kyuhyun?" Donghae repeats his earlier question.
Kibum looks at him for an answer but doesn't say anything.
"What do you mean Kyuhyun, this is the guy in my dreams," Heechul says flatly.
"You and your dreams again, hyung," Kibum says. "Why in the world would you dream about a friend of mine from school?"
"He's not your friend from school," Heechul snaps. "He's Hermes from my fucking dream!"
"It's because you're not doing what you're supposed to do," Kyuhyun answers much to Donghae's and Kibum's surprise.
"Do tell what it is I'm supposed to do," Heechul says sarcastically.
"Well, you know setting up people and all that." Kyuhyun cringes. "That soulmate stuff."
"You can't even say it properly." Heechul rolls his eyes.
"Hey, it's not like I want to say it," Kyuhyun says. "I'm just the messenger. Everyone up there expects you to do your job, the same way they expect me to do mine."
"This is so cool," Donghae suddenly pipes up. "Can I be Cupid? Isn't he like Venus's assistant or something?"
Kibum looks like he's about to bang his head on the wall, and Heechul just smirks because he can read exactly what the former is thinking anyway. He winks at him, and Kibum just looks even more distressed.
*
"So what are my powers again?" Heechul clarifies with Kyuhyun-AKA-Hermes.
"Oh, you know, the usual. Telekineses, the power of wishful thinking..." Kyuhyun trails off, killing the zombies on the screen.
"Which is?"
"Oh, basically making everything you want come true." Kyuhyun shrugs.
"And this mind reading business?"
"Only thoughts connected to love and/or lust."
"Oh, but that's just perfect," Heechul says gleefully.
Kibum is shaking his head, and Donghae is taking in every word of the conversation.
"Oh, by the way, you just can't use your powers for your own love life," Kyuhyun says.
"Oh pssh, it'll be fun messing with others' in the first place." Heechul grins.
*
"I have a couple for you hyung!" Donghae tells him a few days later.
"A couple?" Heechul asks.
"You know, for this whole Goddess of Love business," Donghae says.
"And beauty," Heechul asks, because of course he's never going to let anyone forget the last bit.
"Yes, hyung, that," Donghae goes on impatiently. "Kyuhyun said you have to get soulmates together, right? I know a couple."
"Who?" Heechul asks.
"These two guys in the same soccer team as me in school," Donghae explains. "They're always bickering but everyone knows they just want in each other's pants."
Donghae introduces them as Hyukjae and Junsu, and the first time Heechul meets them when Donghae brings them over to their apartment (because for some reason Donghae has been hanging out more at theirs and less at his ever since the entire Goddess of Love and Beauty debacle) they're too busy with their verbal foreplay to muster up even just a proper greeting.
"You idiot, even in video games clearly I'm superior," the one called Junsu declares.
"Keep dreaming, buttface," the one called Hyukjae shoots back.
"Donghae." Heechul rolls his eyes in exasperation. "I don't even need to use my powers for these two. They already are together. I think even longer than the time they've known you."
*
The next couple he encounters is slightly more difficult but also slightly more necessary if Heechul wanted to keep his wits around. Eeteuk was the head waiter at the restaurant he worked at, and Kangin was the sous-chef.
Heechul actually likes Eeteuk — they practically started working the job around the same time together. Except Eeteuk had the most annoying tendency to mother everyone. Also, the most annoying, most obvious crush on Kangin. Kangin who was loud, obnoxious and was always arguing with Heechul, so Heechul figures if he gets Kangin laid, maybe he'd stop being so annoying.
Heechul just magics away Kangin's car keys one night (and it's true, he could've done it without using his powers, and before this whole Goddess business, but then it's not like he was required to do it before, and besides, where'd the fun be without the magic?) and subtly sets it up so Kangin hitches a ride home with Eeteuk. If Heechul just happened to have given their hormones a little magical boost, no one really needs to know about it.
The next day Eeteuk is glowing, and Kangin sort of is too, even though he keeps complaining about Eeteuk's traumatizing driving skills.
*
One time he asks Kyuhyun what happens if he refuses to set people up.
"What the fuck do I care about people's love lives anyway?!"
"You vanish," Kyuhyun answers with a shrug.
"You mean my powers vanish?" Heechul asks.
"No, I mean you cease to exist," Kyuhyun clarifies.
"Yah!" Heechul exclaims, but then Kyuhyun just goes back to the game he's playing.
If he was going to be honest, Heechul will admit to liking setting people up because it makes him feel like people owe him. If he was going to be really really honest, he just really likes it because it allowed him to poke his pretty nose in everybody's business.
*
Siwon was the owner's son, and every other employee in the restaurant was, in one way or another, attracted to him.
"It's just because you love being contrary," Eeteuk always tells Heechul when he shrugs off Siwon's charms. "Shame too, because it looks to me he only has eyes for you."
Fact is, Siwon annoys Heechul because he's too nice, too good-looking, too religious, too fucking perfect and too in-his-face. He's always following Heechul around with that infuriating lost puppy dog look, saying "well, I need to know how to run the business, you see?" and it's stupid, because it's not like Heechul is the manager, he's just a fucking waiter for Christ's sake (and Don't use the name of God in vain, Siwon would say every time Heechul curses like that).
"You have way too much free time," Heechul snaps at him. "Get yourself a fucking girlfriend. Or a boyfriend. Just get someone so you stop following me around."
And then Heechul berates himself inwardly because duh, isn't that what he does anyway?
*
Heechul figures setting Siwon up with someone should be easy, since it's Siwon and girls (and boys) everywhere are practically throwing themselves at him. Once Heechul puts his mind to doing it though, he realises it's harder than he first envisioned it to be because suddenly no one seems good enough.
He starts a list of qualities he thinks Siwon's appropriate soulmate should possess and Kibum tells him in that matter-of-fact way of his, "You're way too into this project, hyung."
When Donghae nods his head in agreement, he kicks both of them out of the apartment.
"You don't even live here," he snaps, looking straight at Donghae, who pouts at him uselessly — they can stay at Donghae's next door. He figures he's actually even really doing Kibum a favor, so it's actually hitting two birds with one stone: less annoying people in his household, and yet another happy couple in the works.
*
Heechul very rarely acknowledges other people's physical beauty but even he is taken aback by the new kitchen recruit.
"He's too good-looking to be in the kitchen, don't you think?" Eeteuk says.
"Tsch, he looks too much like a girl," Heechul rolls his eyes, annoyed for some reason.
"Look who's talking," Eeteuk laughs.
And then he catches Jaejoong laughing at something Siwon just said, and Heechul's eyes narrow in annoyance. He's beautiful, he admits to himself, but he has an annoying laugh.
*
The more time Siwon spends with Jaejoong, the more irrational Heechul gets towards the latter.
"Is that him?" Kibum asks one time when he drops by the restaurant. "You're right, he's pretty."
Heechul rolls his eyes, "But still not pretty enough for Siwon."
"I think you think you're the only one pretty enough or good enough for him, hyung," Kibum says.
"But I don't even like him," Heechul spits.
"You're way too into finding him a partner then," Kibum points out.
"I just want to do my fucking job well," Heechul says.
"Since when have you cared about doing this well?" Kibum questions.
"Fuck you," Heechul snaps.
*
Heechul tries using his mind-reading powers on Siwon every time he spots him talking to Jaejoong, but he keeps drawing a blank.
"My powers aren't working," he tells Kyuhyun. "What's the point of being a God or Goddess or whatever if my powers refuse to work."
Kyuhyun shrugs. "How should I know? I told you, I'm just the messenger."
*
The day he realises that maybe he does kind of like Siwon that way is also the day he almost sets the restaurant kitchen on fire. Siwon is looking over Jaejoong's shoulder, tasting whatever dish the latter was working on, and Heecul can't even really remember his thoughts, just that he frustratedly waved his right hand and the next thing he knows, Jaejoong has a huge burn on his arm and Kangin has rushed over with the fire extinguisher.
Siwon is looking at him like he knows it's his fault, and Heechul thinks he really really hates that wounded puppy dog look.
*
"This is stupid, what's the point of being the God of—"
"Goddess," Kyuhyun interrupts Heechul mid-rant.
"Goddess, fine, of Love and Beauty, if I can't even fall in love?!" Heechul screeches.
"I didn't know you wanted to fall in love? I thought you thought yourself too good for everybody else." Kyuhyun smirks.
Heechul glares at him.
"Although I never said anything about not being allowed to fall in love."
"Yes you did!" Heechul exclaims. "You were all 'oh but you can't use your powers for your own love life' and if you ask me that's just annoying bullshit."
"So you mean you love Siwon, hyung?" Donghae pipes up.
"That's not my point!" Heechul exclaims.
"Yes, it is," Kyuhyun says. "And I never said you're not allowed to love anyone, I just said you're not allowed to use your powers to get together with anyone."
Kibum is very obviously trying to repress a smirk.
*
"Who the fuck is he?" Heechul demands when he catches Jaejoong with someone else outside the restaurant one day.
"Hi, I'm Yun—" the tall man moves in to introduce himself.
"I'm not talking to you," Heechul cuts him off.
"He's my boyfriend," Jaejoong smiles, and motions to the arm he is wearing in a sling. "He brought me my pain medication for my arm."
"What about Siwon?" Heechul snaps.
"What about him?" Jaejoong asks, puzzled.
*
"So, how do I fix this?" Heechul asks.
Kibum shrugs, Kyuhyun rolls his eyes, and Donghae, with a bright smile answers, "Just tell him properly, hyung. That's what Kibum did, and we're happy."
Kyuhyun is laughing as Kibum almost chokes on his saliva.
*
"I like you," Heechul tells Siwon plainly. "Now I need you to tell me what you think about that, or you need to just go away."
"Oh, but I like you too," Siwon answers, looking somewhat surprised that Heechul even needs to ask.
Inside, Heechul's stomach is kind of turning with joy, but he just says, "Well, good then. You can be the Adonis to my Aphrodite now."
"Err, okay," Siwon laughs, and Heechul can't help but think the he really is like an adorable little dog, and even though he's really more a cat person, he won't mind keeping this one forever.
/ fin.
# originally published: 2008.12.20
