Inertia

Description

"Before I can tell you anything I must first offer you a choice." He said, quickly, breathily, an edge to his voice that sounded almost like excitement.

"What kind of choice?"

"A choice that, once you have decided, you can never come back from."

 

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Minseok had resigned himself to a life of routine and safety; a nameless face amongst the masses. That all changed when he met a mysterious stranger, and he offered him a choice that would alter his life forever.

False normalcy or cruel reality?

Red, or blue?

Foreword

Title: Inertia
Pairing/Members: Xiumin-centric, slight!Tao/Xiumin
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Matrix!AU, drama
Wordcount: 7.5K
Summary: "Before I can tell you anything I must first offer you a choice." He said, quickly, breathily, an edge to his voice that sounded almost like excitement.
"What kind of choice?"
"A choice that, once you have decided, you can never come back from."
Prompt: Prompt 1
A/N: This was written for aideshou's fifth challenge, it's hurried and was written in bits and pieces while stressed out so it's going to be really spotty, sorry ;; I think I changed styles and tense several times in this as well and uh, yeah, my apologies ;A;
Also a huge thank you to karshortcake for aideshou'ing with me and lending me moral support and advice, good luck to you!! And to calarina for help as well. ilu ;;

 

This is the longest fic I have ever written so far, My original post on lj is all in one, but I decided to split it up into chapters since it's in 5 distinct parts. Some of them are pretty short and some are pretty long, so um yeah.

Enjoy?

 

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inertia [ in-ur-shuh ]
noun
1. inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.
 
"You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes." - Morpheus, The Matrix

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anti-fragile
#1
i enjoyed this ; ;
anti-fragile
#2
i enjoyed this ; ;
Littlelamblulu
#3
Chapter 5: Wow, just wow! This amazing. What a different world, the matrix, I never like that movie... I thought it was scary but this makes me see it in a softer light especially with Tao xiumin which I find very relaxing. The fluff only was there for the ending T.T it was so sweet seeing Taos other side and them just together, ugh. It's so cute, so fluff. This I really something I've never read before and it's really interesting! :D
eternalmask
#4
THIS THIS THIS THIS OMGG I'm still not over the Taomin fluff I EAGERLY AWAIT MORE OF YOUR BRILLIANCE