Wangxian Prompt/Self-fill Dump

Mafia AU

Prompt:

The Heiyu is a name well known throughout the underground and even across national news, but no one has ever seen him. He strikes fear without much effort and no one dares to cross him. However one stormy night, the Heiyu stumbles into an Arts and Crafts store, badly injured from an ambush and passes out just inside the door. When he wakes up he is met with the sleeping figure of an angel sitting on the floor beside his bed, his injuries treated and bandaged in colorful bunny printed wrappings. He silently gets up and leaves, but not before leaving a rather large sum of money, a card with only the name of his exclusive nightclub and a jade token with blue clouds engraved into it...

Wei Ying is a normal everyday worker, running a small but popular art store called the Yiling Patri-Art. He works night and day making beautiful pieces of art to showcase as well as commissions for some his customers, teaching arts and crafts either in his shop or in after school programs during the weekdays. He loves his life and job, ignores the ranting from his rather abusive aunt about how art is not a proper career and that he is 'spitting on her late husband's kindness!' He enjoys calling his older sister and tries to have lunch with his little brother at least once a week. So he's fairly average all things considered. He wasn't expecting to find a man passed out and bleeding all over his workroom floor one stormy night.

Wei Ying's life is about to get a bit interesting now that he's on the Heiyu's radar.

What does the Heiyu want with a skinny artist? Will Wei Ying accept the handsome, yet dangerous man or will he flee to the furthest reaches of the earth?

Snippet:

Wei Ying smiled as he finished ringing up the purchases for the young mother and her three kids, winking at them as he said that the best part about home made slime is making it yourself as well as coloring it yourself. He waved bye as the door opens and closes, the set of chimes above it ringing softly. Sighing he checks the time and decides it is time to close up for the night. He flips the sign to closed and begins by reorganizing his shelves, making not what he needs to restock in the morning when he comes in. Sweeping up the floor of some of his afternoon student's leftovers and some of the more 'hands-on' children who ran through his shop, he blinks confused when he hears the chime and turns around. He grows a bit nervous seeing a few men in very expensive black suits with shades on at 7:30pm. They surround a man in s shimmering golden suit, who is looking around his shop, half his face hidden behind a golden, jewel encrusted fan. It was clearly expensive, but looked incredibly gaudy and it was offending Wei Ying's artistic sensibilities.

"I'm sorry, gentlemen, but I'm closing up for the night. Perhaps you would like to come back tomorrow or would like to shop online from our website?" He says in his best charming little shop owner's voice. Coupled with a small apologetic smile, it has worked many times on some of his more stuffy and uppity customers and even a few snobby high end artists.

"Oh, no, I'm not interested in shopping... I'm looking for a Wei Wuxian..." The man in gold says, his voice was pleasant, almost like a lover's caress, but it did not make Wei Ying feel comforted or even remotely attracted. It set his nerves on edge and like a rabbit sensing a predator, he went into high alert.

"I'm him... I'm sorry but do I know you?" Wei Ying answers cautiously, holding his broom a bit tightly. It was an old bamboo and straw thing, but sturdy, as long as no one pulls a gun, he can beat them all back and out of his store if they cause trouble.

The men seemed to come to attention then, all of them laser focused on him. On second thought, running sounds good right about now. Wei Ying moves slowly and calmly as possible, making it look like he was going to his cash register.

"No, you don't know me... but you know someone very important... The Heiyu." the man with the fan coos and Wei Ying trips and catches himself on the counter as he chokes on air for a moment.

Regaining his footing and his breathing he looks startled at the man, "Are you kidding me!? There is no way I would know such a person! No, nuh-uh!! No way while I am still alive!!" He shakes his head and crosses his arms in an X as extra emphasis. "I do not mess with people like that! I run a shop and teach art, I live a nice quiet life with the odd hyper child for excitement! I do not know anyone shady, let alone the Heiyu!"

The man blinks at the rather extreme outburst and then begins laughing, his pale gold eyes crinkling like a sly frog about to devour an unsuspecting butterfly.

"Oh I know, I've run a thorough background check on you. You're an orphan, adopted into the late Police Chief's family and currently live alone above this very shop. You have a small group of friends, have only two other employees working here and are remarkably boring... But you see a few days back you helped someone who broke into your shop. An injured man... that was the Heiyu... ooh, you remember now..." the man coos evilly as the young man blinks and pales.

"I didn't know! I just saw someone injured and tried to help them out, he was gone by the time I woke up and I haven't seen him since! Now please leave, I know nothing else!"

"Ohh, I don't care about that... What I care about is why the Heiyu is interested in you? You are admittedly a beautiful young man, but you're average, you're mid to low working class, you're not from a well off family, biologically, and as I understand of your former guardians, while a well to do family, have disowned you. Not that you would have anything to gain if they had kept you." The man mocks. "I also want to know what he looks like, you have seen him and I know you can draw a rendition of him... do it willingly or I will force you to..."

"Ok, creeper, I have had enough." Wei Ying says, reaching discreetly under his counter and pressing the silent alarm. "You can kindly piss off or I will call the police. I already told you what I know. I found a man injured, treated his wounds and he vanished sometime in the middle of the night. I wasn't paying attention to his face, too busy making sure he didn't bleed to death on my floor. I also reported him to the police because while I did help him out, he did break into my store. Now please, get out."

"You can stop pressing your silent alarm. I had that disabled before we came in." The man casually says fluttering his fan as he laughs.

Wei Ying stiffens, not sure if he believes him or not and then he turns to flee only to bash right into a hulking goon, who had snuck up silently behind him. Wei Ying didn't get a chance to react before he felt prick in his neck and his world began to swim and dim. As he slipped into oblivion, the man in gold swam into view, finally lowering his fan as he smiles down at Wei Ying.

"You should have simply done as asked... but then again I still would have taken you... you're far too pretty to pass up... put him in the car."