#mafiau

for mine and @lostcephalopods mafiau

Summary: The journey of Roman learning to fight including Summer growing an interest in fashion and his husbands trying not to let him fight.

I have reread some of our posts and may have shifted how Summer gets his name, oops, but it fit the story and his interests

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As much as Roman dreamt of being the hero and saving someone, this hadn't been something he'd taken the time to learn. The most he had ever needed to know about fighting was how to escape Remus when his twin got into a wrestling mood.

Then he'd wanted to learn when Remy finally shared some of the things that were happening around his brother's marriage. It seemed sensible, and a way that his boyfriends might actually tell him more information over what was going on. Besides, if he could convince Janus to teach him how to fight there must be plenty of touching involved.

mafia au - fake marriage dukeceit, real dukexiety and roceit, possibly rosleepceit?

setting: chicago because we needed a setting and it was the first american city i thought of (what do you mean i just want them to vandalize the bean statue)

The Chicago Mafia is involved with fun things such as drug cartels, weapon dealings, black-market auctions, money laundering, and prostitution. They have two ways to ensure absolute loyalty (and to avoid pesky matters such as people snitching or attempting to sue them) - firstly, to make sure all members of the mafia have legally binding ties to the family such as marriage, and secondly, to use androids for all the shit jobs (like manufacturing drugs, going into dangerous places, being prostitutes... bodyguards!)

Obviously, they don't want to advertise that androids exist. So androids are a very black-market thing. They look and act just like humans! But you can force them to obey! And hurt them however you want! Fun for the whole family.

Anyway, they don't use androids to actually deal the drugs, just to make them. Which means that maybe sometimes the drugs get into the wrong hands. Like, in the hands of Virgil's dealer. And maybe this gets Virgil into trouble and he has to work for a drug cartel for a while because his dealer sold him out to save their own skin. (It didn't work. Obviously. The dealer disappeared - unclear if it was the mafia or Janus.)

Virgil and Janus go way back. They're ride-or-die. They had shitty upbringings, found each other, and have stuck together since. Janus has lots of experience keeping them out of trouble.

Except then Virgil accidentally overhears something juicy. Maybe an android override code. Maybe something about how the hierarchy is falling apart. Whatever it is, it's big, and he could definitely lose his life if anyone found out that he knew.

So of course Virgil shares this extremely dangerous information with Janus during a panic attack. Janus immediately gets onto doing whatever they can to make sure the mafia leaves them alone.

One interesting way of making the mafia leave them alone in the long run? Marry someone in a high position. Which is exactly what Janus does.

Remus accidentally wandered into an important deal that took place over a game of poker. To be fair, the restaurant front would usually have been open at that time of night, and the back entrance was unlocked. Remus knows one of the non-mafia staff and has chilled in the kitchen with no problem multiple times in the past.

This time, however, Remus ends up not only participating in the poker game but also winning, and one of the two mafia branches immediately claims him. The one with a higher standing in the hierarchy, which would have more to lose if it was found out that Remus was a nobody.

So now Remus is apparently a part of the mafia. He knows enough that they can't tell for sure that he's a nobody or not, and it wouldn't be the first time that someone in a low position gets an extreme promotion. But Remus is enough of a question mark that they have to ensure his loyalty, and so Remus suddenly has a folder of potential spouses to look through.

Marrying someone in the mafia would mean having to stay in the mafia, so Remus decides that marrying a stranger is the best way to get out of this. Good for him then, that Janus says yes.

It's during their impromptu wedding that things start to fall apart. Remus had invited his twin Roman as his witness, and Roman falls immediately for Janus. Janus had invited Virgil to be their witness, and Virgil and Remus definitely click. It could all have easily been solved with some exchange of identities - Roman's idea - if not for the mafia connections that three of them have.

At first, Janus and Remus agree to keep Virgil and Roman in the dark, but Virgil also has to be under their protection. Roman ends up being excluded, and he has no idea why. Remus is his twin, and he thought he had something with Janus, and he was at least friendly with Virgil, so why was he suddenly the outsider?

Enter Remy. He's secured a good position in the mafia after spending years undercover; he knows who Remus is, and from there it's not hard to find the connection to Roman. So Remy offers Roman a deal - he'll give Roman information in exchange for coffee.

It's a suspiciously one-sided deal until Remy follows Roman to introduce himself to Remus, Janus, and Virgil.

Now Roman also has to be protected. Which means that Roman and Virgil end up spending a lot more time together. Usually, Roman would spend his time going to auditions, but it's too dangerous to go out alone and Virgil refuses to come with him. Roman's new creative outlet is to channel the whole situation into his writing. The problem is, for whatever plan Janus is putting together with Remus and Remy to work, there can't be manuscripts detailing everything. Virgil offers to edit Roman's writing with the intention of sabotaging it; it kind of works. Kind of.

While Roman and Virgil are... "bonding". Remy and Janus have started a game of seducing information out of each other. Making Roman even more confused about his relationship with Janus. And of course, Remy has been flirting with Roman too.

Besides that, Janus and Remy are working on an actual plan. They need to figure out who the head of the family is, and they can use Remus' position to start sabotaging. It would be too dangerous for Remy to get directly involved in sabotage.

Remus takes to playing up being a human disaster while continuing to do the work he's assigned. If the people around him start getting harmed... then wouldn't it be a good solution to exchange them for androids? Then Remus can do less direct damage.

But! Who said that androids can't gain sentience?

INDEX

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5 

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 8

CHAPTER 9

CHAPTER 10

CHAPTER 11

CHAPTER 12

CHAPTER 13

CHAPTER 14

CHAPTER 15

CHAPTER 16

CHAPTER 17

INFORMATION:

ALL PARTS - THE FAMILY

BTS, EXO & NCT mafia au

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P R O L O G U E

[ 11 FEBRUARY 2019

- ONE YEAR FROM PRESENT DAY ]

HARRISON

A shiver. Cold fear running down my spine, my body's inability to maintain a healthy temperature as I inhaled a deep breath of damp mould.

My eyelids were heavy but I still managed to force them open, panicking at the realisation that everything was still dark.

“Help.”

My voice was hoarse and barely anything above a whisper.

And that’s when I felt the pained pull of a zip tie on my wrists, followed by the sore stretching of my arm muscles as they were held up in the air, something tying me so I was still barely standing, balanced on my tiptoes and straining my upper body.

“This isn’t happening.” I choked out, recognising the item blocking my view as a bag that had been shoved over my head, my forehead throbbing from where it had been hit against the wall.

That I had remembered. Everything since then was blank.

I choked back against my dry throat, thrashing my body around in attempts to loosen the zip tie or at least get the bag off my head and allow me to visualise my plan of escape.

I froze upon hearing the sound of shallow breathing, the sniffles of another person becoming evident as I turned my head towards the sound.

“Who’s there?” I whispered, my own voice causing me to jump slightly as the other person whimpered.

“Harri?”

I recognised the voice. A hint of relief washing over me before the panic settled in, if they had Claribelle they may have Trixie.

“Where’s Trixie?” I asked, pulling against the ties even harder now with more motivation.

“I don't know.” Claribelle sobbed, “The last thing I remember was the airport, and then somebody hit me and I was dragged away from her.”

“The airport?” I frowned, “Why were you at the airport?”

“You left us tickets to Venezuela.” Claribelle said, “You said you’d meet us there, for our safety.”

“Belle, I never bought any tickets.” I said, shaking my head “I was on my way to confront him myself and get a confession but someone came up behind me and knocked me out, the next thing I know I wake up here, tied up like cattle.”

“Why would they do this to us?” Claribelle choked out, “How could he do any of this to me? He wasn’t that kind of person… I know him, I can’t believe this, he wouldn’t do something like this.”

“He’s not some bad boy you can just turn good, Belle!” I scoffed, “He’s not Tristen. He’s the real deal, he’s a criminal and he’s dangerous and now him and his friends have kidnapped us so get a grip and stop defending him!”

“She’s right in defending him.” Another voice spoke up, this one deep, threatening “Because maybe you’ve accused the wrong guy.”

“Who’s there?” I demanded, spinning around in different directions to try and pinpoint the sound location “What do you want from us?”

“Where is he?!” Claribelle demanded, “I want to talk to him!”

“He’s not here right now.” The man replied, tutting slightly “But I can pass on a message?”

“If you hurt my daughter, I will kill you!” Claribelle threatened, her voice strained in anger and fear.

“Don't worry,” The man said, his voice already full of amusement, mocking the situation “She’s with her dad now.”

“What did you do to her?!” I screamed as Claribelle started sobbing, choking on her tears at how horrific this situation was “I will rip you to pieces! You’re dead!” You’re all dead!”

ALESSIO: "THAT IS NOT THE POINT"

(( This might have happened at some point in the story and you know that //slapped ))