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Title: Famiglia
Series: 빈센조/Vincenzo
Characters: Vincenzo Cassano/Park Joohyeong, Hong Yu-chan
Summary: When he decided to come back to Korea again after five years, he certainly wasn't intending to get close to anyone. Yet things... never do tend to happen as planned.
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He wasn't planning to stay long in this god-forsaken place. He definitely wasn't planning to cosy up to anyone in this Geumga Plaza.
All he wanted... was to recover the gold that was hidden underneath the lot that currently served as a Buddhist temple at the Geumga Plaza and he hoped to be able to do that without any unnecessary and bothersome casualties, which would've made it even more troublesome JUST to recover the said gold stash. And then he'll live the rest of his life elsewhere, without a care about whatever the rest of the world would be doing. He's certainly wasn't planning to get close to anyone from the plaza, much less acting like some do-gooder adults scolding kids from doing bad things or pretending to be some benevolent saint or righteous lawyer.
Yet this old guy... this Hong Yu-chan old man! Why couldn't he stop himself from worrying about this old man?
"May I ask you something? What's the story behind your law firm's name?" "I don't defend my clients. I become their last straw, their 'jipuragi'. When they don't have anyone to lean on, they can still grab onto me. I'm their last straw."
He never intended to get himself deeply involved with anyone when he came to this country. He just wanted to finish his business here, and set out on a totally different life elsewhere and live a carefree life! He already had enough of this country anyway, ever since the first day he stepped into this Republic of Korea and get robbed without any warning. Why would he want to have anything to do with anyone here... when almost every single bad memories he had ever experienced had happened while he was in this country?
"If she was on the final stage... she must've been in a lot of pain, right?"
"If you were curious, you should've asked your mom yourself."He hasn't planned to start caring about anyone... much less this old lawyer who also happened to be the same public defender that tried to help his mother find justice. It's wasn’t also because of his mother. Like who would want to care about the mother who had abandoned him as a child, much less someone who didn't even want to be helped? Who would want to care about someone who worried more about his mother's wellbeing than he was?
But he was still annoyed. Because seeing Lawyer Hong recklessly diving into danger bothered him a lot!
And as much as he didn't want to think about it, day by day... Lawyer Hong kept reminding him of things about a certain someone whom he didn't want to think too much now. Because it still hurt him so much. To remember.
Why did Lawyer Hong have to have so much similarity to that person? To his 'Papa'?
"Joohyeong, I know that this may be hard for you to accept. While my wife and I are not your real parents, both of us will try to love and care for you as if you're our own son."
"We'll wait. If your mother still did not come back for you... will you come home with us?"
"Remember Vincenzo... even if you and I lived this kind of life, there are certain values that we must uphold. The other family may not hold the same values as us... but we shall not lose ours in favour of some shortlived glory. It's what makes us... the Cassano family who we are."
He had almost forgotten everything about his old life, all of the memories he had when he was still a child. But there was one memory that he couldn't quite erase from his mind. Ever.
The day when the then head of the Cassano Family, Fabio Cassano, walked in into the orphanage he was in with his wife... to take him in as an adopted son. Of all the kids in the orphanage, the couple chose him to become their adopted son. No matter how much he cried and insisted on wanting to wait for his mother to get him, Fabio and his wife had persisted.
In the end, he decided to follow the couple back to Italy. Because his mother never came back since.
From then on, he decided that the only families he had were Fabio and his wife. Even when Fabio and his wife had their own kids after having him, he only ever considered the two of them as his family.
Yet later, Mr Hong Yu-chan came into his life.
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The truck hit them without a warning. Something like this... wasn't quite uncommon, or unfamiliar to him back in Italy. Such a ruse was something... that even he had done towards a rival family in the past.
Yet, he never thought that he would be caught unawares in this very situation in Korea now.
As his consciousness started to fade, Vincenzo struggled to move as he tried to see if he could find any sign of Lawyer Hong alive somewhere. And he saw him. He could faintly see the old man on the other side of the truck. But the man wasn't moving.
Please be alive! Please... don't die!
This can't happen. This can't happen to him now! He already suffered the loss of his Papa not so long ago—he can't... lose yet another of 'his' person now.
He cannot lose another person whom he only just started to become closer to. He doesn't want—
—he didn't want to lose anyone anymore now. Someone... whom he could consider...
A part of his family.
Series: 빈센조/Vincenzo
Characters: Vincenzo Cassano/Park Joohyeong, Hong Yu-chan
Summary: When he decided to come back to Korea again after five years, he certainly wasn't intending to get close to anyone. Yet things... never do tend to happen as planned.
---------------------------------------------------
He wasn't planning to stay long in this god-forsaken place. He definitely wasn't planning to cosy up to anyone in this Geumga Plaza.
All he wanted... was to recover the gold that was hidden underneath the lot that currently served as a Buddhist temple at the Geumga Plaza and he hoped to be able to do that without any unnecessary and bothersome casualties, which would've made it even more troublesome JUST to recover the said gold stash. And then he'll live the rest of his life elsewhere, without a care about whatever the rest of the world would be doing. He's certainly wasn't planning to get close to anyone from the plaza, much less acting like some do-gooder adults scolding kids from doing bad things or pretending to be some benevolent saint or righteous lawyer.
Yet this old guy... this Hong Yu-chan old man! Why couldn't he stop himself from worrying about this old man?
"May I ask you something? What's the story behind your law firm's name?" "I don't defend my clients. I become their last straw, their 'jipuragi'. When they don't have anyone to lean on, they can still grab onto me. I'm their last straw."
He never intended to get himself deeply involved with anyone when he came to this country. He just wanted to finish his business here, and set out on a totally different life elsewhere and live a carefree life! He already had enough of this country anyway, ever since the first day he stepped into this Republic of Korea and get robbed without any warning. Why would he want to have anything to do with anyone here... when almost every single bad memories he had ever experienced had happened while he was in this country?
"If she was on the final stage... she must've been in a lot of pain, right?"
"If you were curious, you should've asked your mom yourself."He hasn't planned to start caring about anyone... much less this old lawyer who also happened to be the same public defender that tried to help his mother find justice. It's wasn’t also because of his mother. Like who would want to care about the mother who had abandoned him as a child, much less someone who didn't even want to be helped? Who would want to care about someone who worried more about his mother's wellbeing than he was?
But he was still annoyed. Because seeing Lawyer Hong recklessly diving into danger bothered him a lot!
And as much as he didn't want to think about it, day by day... Lawyer Hong kept reminding him of things about a certain someone whom he didn't want to think too much now. Because it still hurt him so much. To remember.
Why did Lawyer Hong have to have so much similarity to that person? To his 'Papa'?
"Joohyeong, I know that this may be hard for you to accept. While my wife and I are not your real parents, both of us will try to love and care for you as if you're our own son."
"We'll wait. If your mother still did not come back for you... will you come home with us?"
"Remember Vincenzo... even if you and I lived this kind of life, there are certain values that we must uphold. The other family may not hold the same values as us... but we shall not lose ours in favour of some shortlived glory. It's what makes us... the Cassano family who we are."
He had almost forgotten everything about his old life, all of the memories he had when he was still a child. But there was one memory that he couldn't quite erase from his mind. Ever.
The day when the then head of the Cassano Family, Fabio Cassano, walked in into the orphanage he was in with his wife... to take him in as an adopted son. Of all the kids in the orphanage, the couple chose him to become their adopted son. No matter how much he cried and insisted on wanting to wait for his mother to get him, Fabio and his wife had persisted.
In the end, he decided to follow the couple back to Italy. Because his mother never came back since.
From then on, he decided that the only families he had were Fabio and his wife. Even when Fabio and his wife had their own kids after having him, he only ever considered the two of them as his family.
Yet later, Mr Hong Yu-chan came into his life.
xxx
The truck hit them without a warning. Something like this... wasn't quite uncommon, or unfamiliar to him back in Italy. Such a ruse was something... that even he had done towards a rival family in the past.
Yet, he never thought that he would be caught unawares in this very situation in Korea now.
As his consciousness started to fade, Vincenzo struggled to move as he tried to see if he could find any sign of Lawyer Hong alive somewhere. And he saw him. He could faintly see the old man on the other side of the truck. But the man wasn't moving.
Please be alive! Please... don't die!
This can't happen. This can't happen to him now! He already suffered the loss of his Papa not so long ago—he can't... lose yet another of 'his' person now.
He cannot lose another person whom he only just started to become closer to. He doesn't want—
—he didn't want to lose anyone anymore now. Someone... whom he could consider...
A part of his family.
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