dreamsaremadeof.

 

I kind of get really tongue tied around her. It's awful that I owe her a story. But hey, maybe I can write what I had in mind to write.

So err,

Tentative Title: Rouge et Noir

Pairing: GTOP (if dreams read this, would it be an absolute sin if I made this TOPDara going to GTOP. Hahaha. OMG.)

Special Specs: Set in the 1940's, in LA, Seung hyun is a detective hunting down a killer, GD is a familiar looking informant,  the world is in black and white

Mandatory elements: Wine, loaded pistol, a ring, the line "He knows"

Outline:

Seung hyun dreams in technicolour, like a memory of colours, a world expressed in a dull mix of red and green. His dream would begin with him staring at the black of his shoe then the colours bleed under his foot, of a dull brick red. Then he look up to a darkness, then brick by brick the walls materialize from the thick, cloak of darkness. Seung hyun begins to hear his breath, and dull beating of his heart, and he idly lifts his leg, and begins to walk through the own maze of his unconscious. In technicolour, like a memory of a life that was not black and grey.

His pace matches his heart beat, each beat accompanied by the dull thud of his feet. The wall creates a creates a fork, he chooses the left branch without thinking. As soon as he commits to the decision, he hears a familiar whisper, "Wrong turn."

He looks back but there were nothing back there. Only thick, impenetrable darkness.

This was a reoccuring dream, but when he reaches a dead end, that voice still always surprise him. It begins in slow drawl,

The King of Hearts brought you tarts

coming from behind, from the impenetrable darkness...

One hot summer's day

This is when Seung hyun feels the lazy crawl of chill along his nape, the hairs on the back of his neck beginning to stand on end.

But you,

He hears footsteps echoing from behind him. He wanted to turn. His feet rooted on its place. His heartbeat escalates.

the knave of hearts

He feels a body behind him, then a gentle tickle of breath on his ear.

Did not eat those tarts.

A hand presses on his stomach, gliding through his torso, to the middle of his chest pounding as if it wanted to jump to the grasp of this ghost hand.

So the kingdom could only hear the king say,

On his peripheral vision was a glint of gold, then silver, as a sliver of steel winks at him. He fills the chill kiss of the knife on his throat,

"Off with your head!"

Seung hyun bolts up in cold sweat, waking to his world of normal grey walls and normal black and white newsprint stuck on them. Each of the headlines had the name "King of Hearts" as subject. He buries his hand in his sweat-matted hair, airing the heat of his scalp. He takes a number of breaths staring at the pinstripe of his pants, and watches the white chase black chase white until his head begins to see a swirl. He puts pressure on his throbbing temple.

 

 

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Note: Okay, wait... that's not an outline, is it? OTL But any who, this is an opening scene. He kind of lives in his office. I still don't think it gives a black and white feel. Perhaps my word choice is wrong.

But here is the plan, SH is obsessed with the King of Hearts, a notorious serial killer who harvest hearts by slitting his victims' throat diagonally. Opening them up throat to chest cavity, then harvesting their hearts. The world is black and white but blood is red so that makes up the rouge part of Rouge et Noir.

So like all serial killers this was sensationalized by a journalist, who I want to be Dara but I dunno if I should... because dreams may kill me. Because this will be a lot TOPDara at this point.

So Dara is this really obnoxious journalist who hounds TOP for details about the King of Hearts who she named by the way. But secretly she likes him... and well they pursue a relationship after TOP agrees to have coffee with her being misled to think that she had a lead for the King of Hearts.

I came up with this idea because Noir films always had a femme fatale but she isn't really fatalish. OTL but yeah. So she kind of plays with his obsession and he falls for "you need a distraction" bit... and "what distraction?" is answered by a simple point to herself and a smile.

So yeah, they enter a relationship but he's still rather embroiled in his obsession with the king of hearts, sometimes leaving her in his bed to stare at the newsprint that sings to him his morbid lullaby. Dara finds him and tells him she's not as a good distraction as she thought she'd be at that point he feels guilty and asks her to move in with him... This is the first time he admits to himself that his dara has a faint glow about her. Like the sheen of dawn.

So yeah, she goes to a grocery store, all happy and yeah, she meets GD, who smiles at her and she smiles back. And I dunno yet, but he uses her to lead him to SH... Maybe she picks up an article about the King of Hearts... and reads it enthusiastically, tells GD that her boy friend is the detective assigned to the case proudly

So anyweee... GD becomes this secret informant and asks her to bring SH to a bar and yeah... whatever... he wears a hoody all the time but then when he meets SH he draws the hood down and for the first time, outside his dreams, he sees gold.

GD orders wine and yeah... Um. Sandara refuses, which is important detail to me. She chatters to herself, but is basically ignored by the two mean engaged in some internal reunion. But GD notices SH stray smile when he finds Dara's hand straying to his.

 

So GD leads them to a dark building where he says rumours of the King's hideout. And in the basement, they find jars that held suspended red hearts. Of course, SH has instincts telling him to not go with this person... not with Dara at least but Dara is adamant of wanting to close the case, because she wants him free. Free for her. But then that was an impossibility. It just lead them there and he keeps her with him, but when they reach the basement she wiggles free to inspect the jars and well... guess who gets killed. OTL

But yeah, um then it just winds down to a stare off, SH holding a loaded gun while GD watches her bleed. I'll be morbid and say he makes a comment about voiceboxes. And GD smiles at him and tells him, he is unfair. That in this lifetime when it was him making his trail so starkly noticeable SH gets distracted. Now, they can't be together, because SH gave a part of him to that girl... then he asks him, if SH thought the girl cried for SH or for the life she carried inside her. Then SH watches that faint sheen of dawn around her fade. GD asks if he wanted to kill him. Or shall he be the one to do the honors. SH admits to himself that this life is not their life because in this life he could never love GD who had killed someone who had he had learned to love. So he says, you do it, and the loaded gun drops unused on the floor. Then GD comes up to him reciting the morbid lullaby. As SH stares at Dara's lifeless body. He apologizes to her, to their child he never meets. And he a part of his soul dies with them. He looks up to GD and says casually,

"I still love you."

Then a trickle of tear from GD's eyes. And it ends with the kiss of steel on SH's neck and he smiles because GD still knows. He knows.

 

 

>>> That is basically what  had in mind but then I don't quite feel like it would fit the GTOP AU Fest... though I like it a lot. I just don't think this is something they're looking for... Maybe I should take all Dara parts out but then why would GD kill him... /vomits. OHHHHH Maybe I will just have to rethink everything OTL

 

So basically I just wasted my time. Hahaha. OMG