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Dec. 8th, 2021 12:37 pmso this prequel is set 5 years after "blood red breeze" and 3 years after "oceans to part" (which i'll be working on later!) and sets up some of seungcheol's and jeonghan's backstories. at this point, seungcheol is a lieutenant in the joseon navy and jeonghan is the fearsome "scourge of joseon" (soonyoung came up with the title and jeonghan loved it so). historically, at this point in time, the taiping rebellion has been going on for about three years, flooding ports like shanghai and ningpo (where this fic takes place) with refugees (it hasn't been mentioned yet but junhui has been personally making sure the refugees are being fed and clothed and housed as best as can be). meanwhile, overseas, joseon has been a tributary state of qing for just over 200 years. every so often, joseon officials send a tributary shipment to qing officials... and that is what seungcheol and his squad are tasked with doing.
[This is technically a free port (as free as a port can be nestled this deep into Qing lands) but they’re far enough away from Joseon that he can’t be too careful. Not when he’s heard the stories of the tributary runners that came before him. Not when this port is crawling with pirates.
“Keep an eye out,” his commanding officer had said before they departed, motioning to the wall of wanted posters behind him. And so Seungcheol had studied said wall, until he knew the faces and names of those terrible men by heart.
Captain Kim Hongjoong and his crew of - of boys, really. Cha Hakyeon and his band of naval defectors, wandering the seas loyal to a black flag, or so the rumors go. And of course, who could forget Captain Yoon Jeonghan? The most fearsome pirate to ever come out of Joseon, sailing under Wen Junhui’s colors. Of course, Wen Junhui is on the wall too, handsome features etched in an eternal smirk, but it’ll be much easier to capture one of his men. Or so Seungcheol hopes, since catching a pirate like Yoon Jeonghan will no doubt make him a captain of his own squad almost immediately. Perhaps more.
But that means he would have to find the man first, and Ningpo is a sprawling mess of a port.]
i'm just DYING at the thought of 22 year old ateez just wreaking havoc across the sea.... little tiny babies just kicking ass and taking names so much so that the joseon navy as a whole is like "hey watch out for those little kids" bro... anyway, seungcheol just walking around thinking about capturing a pirate........... sure bby[Staring back at him is a smirk he knows so well, one he’s studied for days straight. He’s seen it staring him in the face, sunk onto yellowing parchment in thick black ink, countless times. Framed by big eyes that never seemed as mischievous as they are in person and a sharp, slender nose. Pieces of his golden hair have strayed from the braid the rest of it lays in, and they border his handsome face in a way that leaves Seungcheol rather breathless.
It is a handsome face he knows well.
“Yoon Jeonghan,” he manages in his shock.]
knowing that, the entire time, this is just a seduction ploy on jeonghan's part only makes it so much better. but i mean of course he's already In Love with seungcheol, who wouldn't he? he's almost Too himbo for his own good[Yoon Jeonghan is here, sitting in this tavern, right in front of his face. Yoon Jeonghan ordered food for him. Yoon Jeonghan is smiling at him, the epitome of beauty, and Seungcheol doesn't know what to say, what to do. The soldier in him itches to arrest, to battle, but finds itself evenly matched by the curious part of him.
Wondering why, exactly, Yoon Jeonghan is speaking to him.]
of course, seungcheol is in love with jeonghan already too heh[“What’s to stop me from arresting you anyway?”
“As if you would, lieutenant.” He turns towards his own bowl of tofu and takes a bite. Swallows it. The muscles in his slender throat work rather beautifully and Seungcheol finds himself unable to speak. Perhaps just the way Yoon Jeonghan wants. “You follow regulation to the letter, Choi Seungcheol, or so Junhui’s naval informants have told us. And with Qing-Joseon relations as shaky as they are right now, you wouldn’t dare break a single rule. Even in a port like Ningpo.”]
GOD-UH pirate jeonghan is so hot so hot so hot i love him. like he's so smart and dangerous and capable i'm -[Despite his best judgment, he ends up agreeing - a drink sounds nice. As it turns out, this tavern has soju (or so Jeonghan informs him with a shine in his eyes that makes Seungcheol think he has something to do with it) and sometime later, Seungcheol finds himself rather tipsy. Sometime between the first bottle and the fourth, they moved to a table tucked in the back and now Seungcheol’s eyes are closed, blood thrumming through his body as Yoon Jeonghan kisses his neck.]
we love to see it
[“You don’t do this often, do you, lieutenant?” Jeonghan breathes against his ear, hand expertly skimming down Seungcheol’s chest.
“What makes you say that?” Then, around a breathless chuckle, “Or is that something your informants knew about, as well?”
Jeonghan laughs softly and nibbles his earlobe; it strikes a pang of desire through Seungcheol's body, like a bolt of lightning. Hot and quick and unforgiving. “I’m a lot smarter than the navy and the crown give me credit for. Your breath is coming quick, and all I’ve done is kiss you. My hands, even, have stayed at an appropriate level." And then his voice drops even lower, an enticing whisper right into Seungcheol's ear. "Even with your cock hardening the way it is."
Desperately, Seungcheol grasps for any semblance of dignity and sanity left in his mind but finds it all cast aside when he realizes that Yoon Jeonghan is thinking about his cock.
“You’re right,” he murmurs in a thin voice, wrapping an arm around Jeonghan's waist, keeping him close. “I’ve never kissed a pirate in a free port tavern before.”]
you've also never had sex before you fuckin virgin anyway yes you heard it here first, it's official, it's canon[Seungcheol sighs and reaches up to tuck some strands of Jeonghan’s hair behind his ear, hoping the silky sensation imprints itself into his fingertips. “If I see your ship on our return - “
“Would you really shoot me down, lieutenant?” There’s a sultry bite to his voice that is hardly fair. “Or put me in chains?”
He tries to imagine it and comes up with the vision of Jeonghan naked in a bed, bound in cuffs and smirking up at him so divinely. It does things to him he wishes it wouldn’t, cock stirring in his pants as if he could get any harder. “Perhaps, if I didn’t think you’d enjoy it so much.”]
you know they've roleplayed before lmao (except i think sc got too sad at the thought of jh actually tied up/in trouble with the navy heh)[“You’re back,” Jisoo says monotonously, focused on his work. “Thought you’d be gone all night.”
“Is that why you’ve taken up residence in my quarters?” He stops stripping when he reaches his underclothes and pretends like there isn’t a soft wet spot rubbing against the head of his dick.
Jisoo sighs but doesn’t look up from whatever he’s doing. As usual. “I had business to finish and Jihoon said he’d cut my right hand off if I continued working down in the crew’s quarters. So I came here. Besides,” he finally glances up, a tiredness to his features Jeonghan’s never found among other first mates, “you were supposed to be gone till morning.”]
lmao jisoo don't be fucking rude[A snicker crosses Jisoo’s lips. “I can hardly believe it; the infamous Scourge of Joseon bested in a sexual battle by some twenty-four year old naval lieutenant?”
“Watch your mouth,” Jeonghan snaps, annoyance rising in him - but he’s not certain why. Is he upset that Seungcheol rejected him (not once but twice) or is his pride simply irritated by Jisoo’s words, and the insinuation? “Or I’ll drop you off in Fukuoka and leave you there for Nakamoto to deal with.”
“Who’ll keep your men in line, then? Soonyoung?”]
bro yuta would just leave him there 💀so hmm all in all i didn't make many changes which is a good sign? i think? i mean, it's fun, it's sexy, what more could you want, right?
as always, thank you for reading, i hope you enjoyed! <3
