Welcome to my newest fan fiction. This one was created as a part of the GOT7 Writers' Club December Challenge. I hope you like it.
Prompt and Challenge: #Utropea
Difficulty Level III - 2 AU (Soulmate and Coffee Shop) plus 2 tropes (hurt/comfort and slow burn)
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Jaebeom saw people as colors. To be specific he saw their colors. Everywhere he looked each person was surrounded by an aura of color unique to them. Some were blue hues, others red, green, yellow. You name it, but they all had unique characteristics. Some were similar but each had slight differences at least.
When he was very young he didn't realize that he was the only one who saw the auras of others. He must have been about four or five when he was found by his mom hiding in a closet. When she asked him why he was crying and seemed scared he was confused that she didn't know.
"Father is black today instead a dark red," he said simply.
His mom cocked her head to the side implying that she needed more information, as she didn't understand.
"You know," her young son said in his child like voice, "He's usually a dark red except when he's drunk or angry it gets darker. Tonight he is black and that usually means he'll hurt us with his words or his fists. Come in with me," he offered while moving to the side of the closet space making room for his mom. "I don't like being around him when he's black, as my grey becomes darker. When I'm with you alone my grey gets lighter because of your white."
While his mother didn't understand the color references, she realized in that moment that her son was sensitive to his father's abuse of alcohol and resultant abusive treatment of them. That night she began making plans to get her son away from him and, as soon as she could, she found herself a single parent raising her son as best she was able.
When Jaebeom was eight years-old, his mom met a man that he came to call his dad. Unlike his birth father, his dad was firm yet kind. He also liked the fact that his mom's aura, as he'd come to refer to the colors around people, melded with this dad's. His mom's pure white aura blended and swirled with his dad's ice blue aura, with hers taking on flecks of blue and his flecks of white. This was unlike his biological father's aura which seemed to bang and fight against his mother's white sheen. Also, no matter how irate his dad might become with Jaebeom's rebellious pre-teen and teen behavior, the ice blue never darkened, and definitely never turned black, something that gave Jaebeom the confidence to become a trainee without fear for his mother in his absence.
Jaebeom soon realized that no one else saw the colors like he did. Most people instinctively knew what their aura color was, though they may never have seen it. It was usually what they claimed was their favorite color. There were a few people who said their favorite color was something different from their aura, but if he carefully pressed, he found that their stated preference was often a way to hide and protect themselves from others. His best friend, Jinyoung, was such a person. He claimed his favorite color was white, but his aura was royal blue.
"Jinyoungie," Jaebeom ventured sometime after their debuted as JJ Project, "I know you like white, but for some reason I always see you as a royal blue kind of person."
This prompting ended up with Jinyoung admitting that he loved royal blue but wanted to maintain an air of mystique. More importantly he was a bit under confident because of a lisp he was working on fixing and also concern that he would be gifted everything in royal blue if he let their relatively small group of fans know. White allowed them to give him things of their favorite color and didn't diminish his joy when he did get something that was royal blue.
