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Summary: Jung Yunho, youngest Senior Associate in the firm, passionate advocate, is sipping on his morning coffee, leaning against the wall of the elevator when a tall, handsome young man stumbles in, crashes into him and spills his coffee all over his Armani suit.
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It starts like this.
Jung Yunho, youngest Senior Associate in the firm, passionate advocate, technically brilliant, a favourite amongst the Senior Partners, is sipping on his morning coffee, leaning against the wall of the elevator when a tall, handsome young man stumbles in, crashes into him and spills his coffee all over his Armani suit.
The young man's name is Changmin, freshly admitted to the law, determined to hide the fact that his father is the Shim in Shim & Park Lawyers. Changmin is usually graceful and generally a good performer under pressure. Today is his first day at work and like the meticulous person that he is, Changmin leaves home an hour early in order to account for any unexpected traffic. What he couldn't account for is some bird flying into the subway tunnel and causing an underground mayhem of ridiculous proportions (all the while Changmin is chanting If I get fired on my first day, I'm gonna sue you all in his head, like the good lawyer that he is).
So there they were, Yunho stumbling onto the floor of the elevator from shock and from getting scorched by hot liquid, Changmin repeating apologies again and again and attempting to wipe at Yunho's chest with his scarf (new season Alexander McQueen, Changmin mourns briefly). And just as they are both about to raise their heads and take a good look at one another, the lights in the elevator go out.
You have got to be kidding me, Changmin thinks. He's frozen, hovering over some stranger with a very firm chest (his hand is still against the man's chest, albeit separated by a thin silk shirt and the material of his own scarf). Yunho on the other hand, is thinking hard about where to place his hands – currently they are just kind of suspended in mid-air. He wants to reach out, steady the man and tell him that it's fine, and maybe pull him back a bit because Yunho can't get up with another body pressed so close to his own. Only it's all dark and his eyes haven't adjusted yet and what if he accidently pokes the guy's eye out or something? He's pretty sure that his professional indemnity insurance doesn't cover situations like this.
A moment later Changmin finally loses his balance and falls onto Yunho with a soft umph. Yunho's arms automatically go around him for the catch, and then there is awkward silence.
'eerr...um......' Yunho says coherently.
Changmin swears.
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As luck will have it, Changmin is assigned as Yunho's junior. Yunho is ecstatic because this is the first time he's had a junior of his own; someone who he can mentor and train and guide in the pursuit of justice. Changmin is glaring at the Partner who has just made the assignment (and who is coincidently his own father) and thinks rude thoughts in his head, because he is secretly still embarrassed about the elevator incident and besides, this Jung guy seems like a bit of an idiot from the way he keeps grinning at Changmin, all bright-eyed and stained shirt.
'Best of luck for your first year of photocopying, I'm sorry I mean lawyer-ing,' his father says with a look that says he's simultaneously laughing at Changmin's expense and resisting the urge to ruffle Changmin's hair.
After his father leaves, it's just him and Yunho standing there and Changmin can hear people around them whispering. Yunho has taken his suit jacket off and the ugly brown patch of drying coffee is clearly noticeable against the stark white shirt. Changmin's own scarf is stained, not to mention his favourite Ferragamo shoes are now ruined from when he had accidently stepped into a puddle of spilled coffee in the dark elevator.
