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beach day // mark lee

mark’s always been strong - the dreamies even confirmed on camera multiple times that he’s by far the strongest of them. you hadn’t expected him to be this strong, though.

“mark!” you squeal as he laughs, running on the beach with you thrown over his shoulder. you and haechan had dragged mark over to the ocean a few moments ago, and had pushed him in the freezing water. mark hadn’t protested much as you dragged him - besides warning the two of you that if you actually pushed him in, you’d both be in the water in no time, as well. haechan knew that mark could actually lift and throw both of you in, so the traitor had dashed away as soon as you pushed mark into the water headfirst. unlike haechan, you were laughing and didn’t have enough time to run before mark caught up with you and threw you over his shoulder.

you hadn’t known mark was strong enough to do that. you smack his back, thrashing and laughing as he tickles you to make you stop. “nooo! mark, the water’s cold!” you yell in protest, clinging onto the back of his shirt.

“oh, so you pushed me in even though you knew?” mark teases, his feet at the brim of the water.

“sorry,” you quickly apologize, a large grin on your face. “sorry!” you squeal again as he pretends to start to run into the water. “mark! i’ll help you get haechan, please?” you beg, and you’d give him your best puppy eyes if you weren’t folded across his shoulder, facing his back.

mark almost pauses. “... i know you’re gonna help me get haechan anyway,” mark grins, knowing you’d want to get your revenge on the boy who ran away without you. “here we go!”

you shout and cling onto mark’s shirt uselessly as he runs into the freezing ocean, gasping as the cold water laps over your feet and calves. mark is chest-deep in the freezing water, and you yell as he takes a deep breath and ruthlessly throws you in.

after a few seconds, you appear at the surface of the water, neck-deep and teeth chattering from the cold. “you’re heartless,” you glare playfully at the taller boy.

“you’re the one who pushed me in first,” mark lets out that endearing laugh you love to hear. “here, want to hug me? i’m warm.” he holds out his arms with a joking smile.

you hesitate for a moment before thinking, screw it, and wading into his arms. mark’s definitely warmer than you are, and it feels nice to have someone else’s body heat help you adjust to the freezing water temperature.

mark freezes for a moment. “o-oh, i didn’t actually expect you to, like,” he scratches his head nervously. “um, yeah.” he can’t seem to make eye contact with you, and his cheeks redden slowly.

you giggle at his flustered expression. “you just got even warmer,” you joke, “can i use your cheeks as hand warmers?”

mark laughs at your joke, and practically lifts you off your feet - making you squeak in surprise - to hold you bridal style in the water. mark starts to walk. “let’s go find haechan,” he says with a mischievous grin. just as he ends his sentence, a wave comes, and you almost swallow salt water from your low elevation. mark notices. “hey, put your arms around my neck.”

“i-it’s okay. i can walk, you know,” you say timidly. it seems that you’re the one who’s flustered, now, your cheeks heating up. “you can let me down.”

“you’re the one who hugged me first,” mark says, and uses the hand supporting you on your back to tickle your ribs. you squirm from his grip in laughter.

“mark! stop!” you giggle, burying your head in his chest as you squirm to avoid his hands and to stay above the water, your pre-existing back support now gone.

“i’ll stop if you put your arms around my neck,” mark laughs, and you immediately throw your arms around his neck to make him stop. he grins. “that wasn’t that hard, was it?”

was mark always this smooth? you’re suddenly very conscious of how close your faces are. you can feel mark’s breath on your arms - you can almost smell the coffee he’d had minutes before. his neck is warm from the hot sun and wet from the water, and his long eyelashes flutter as your eyes meet. what you thought were his dimples are actually a masculine lack of cheek fat, dipping beautifully from his high cheekbones.

you’re tempted to press your lips to his cheek, and you’re suppressing the urge to do so when mark lands a swift peck on your own cheek.

both of you are immediately flustered.

“i, um,” mark says, “i don’t know why i did, um, that,” he stammers as he looks down, his cheeks flaming. “i, um, you just- you looked so pretty and i really like you and i f-forgot to stop myse-” mark freezes, his eyes widening in realization at what he just said. “oh shit. i’m sorry, (y/n). i understand if you’re offended and um, i just... i’m sorry.” he bites his lip anxiously. “i-i know you don’t like me back and i’d be happy to just be friends if you’re okay with-”

you shut him up with a kiss to his lips, practically beaming. “i like you,” you tell him, your arms tightening around his neck. “i like you, mark lee.” you feel like the happiest girl in the world.

“shit, really?” mark says, his head whipping up and his beautiful dark brown eyes meeting yours. “like, really? you like me back?” you can’t believe he doesn’t believe you - how could you not like mark?

“really, mark,” you giggle, pressing another kiss to his flaming cheek because his endearing shocked expression is so adorable. “i would never - i could never - lie about that.” you can see yourself in mark’s round irises, and you almost gape at how lovestruck you look - how lovestruck you are. 

a big smile spreads on his face. “oh shit, i’m so in love with you,” he says, kissing your cheek, and pulls you closer to him in happiness. “wow.”

“let’s go, lovebirds!” haechan’s teasing shout snaps the both of you from your daze. haechan is on the beach with jeno and jaemin, with all your things packed. it’s probably time to head back.

“we’ll be there soon!” mark yells happily, and you squeal as he starts treading through the water quickly. you expect him to let you down once you reach shore, but mark carries you bridal-style all the way to the rest of your friends.

“mark!” you say, playfully smacking the back of his neck and burying your face in his chest. “let me down! this is embarrassing!”

mark giggles, but doesn’t let you down even as he greets the rest of the dreamies. you groan, accepting your fate of embarrassment as you relax into mark’s chest. your cheeks are flaming and you bury your head in his chest, not being able to look jeno, jaemin, and haechan in the eye while being carried bridal-style by mark.

jaemin sighs as he hands haechan a twenty. haechan pats mark on the back in thanks, and you and mark exchange confused looks. mark shrugs. i don’t know, he mouths.

jaemin rolls his eyes. “really, you two couldn’t wait to confess until we got back to the dorm?”

did you delete your johnny fic? :( i liked it

aww thank you so much! i’m assuming you mean my 13k word one that i’ve been whining about losing haha. i don’t know if you scrolled through my blog already, but tumblr suddenly deleted it and i don’t have any way to recover it. i have broad bullet points on it, though, so i might re-write it later. thanks for asking again! it means so much to me that you remembered it.

um article title translations if you guys want more info (from top to bottom):

NCT DREAM, statement that there will be no member change but instead a fixed unit -> team name NCT U

Mark, returns to NCT DREAM

NCT DREAM, reorganization of team system after April activities [official]

NCT DREAM, changement of system plan after April comeback “7 member NCT U activities”

(i’m so happy we get to see 7dream again but i just hope they balance out the units’ comebacks and don’t overwork mark and haechan 🥺)

hi everyone just wanted to share the news that nct dream is (kinda) FIXED UNIT!! as in they’ll be doing activities under nct u but with the same members as nct dream right now + mark!

this is really recent news bc it came out less than an hour ago 😳 and probably hasn’t been translated yet but i just wanted to share it with you all 🥺🥺

[10:21 pm]

you laugh uncontrollably as boyfriend!jeno tickles you, thrashing on the sofa.

you’d promised you would give jeno a kiss if he made you ramen as a midnight snack, and jeno had quickly scampered off twenty minutes ago to do just that. when he came back with the ramen, though, closing his eyes and pouting his lips in playful anticipation of your kiss, you giggled and pressed the back of your hand to his lips instead. jeno whined childishly, leaning into you with his beautiful smile and slight aegyo as he waited for a peck again. you’d refused, though, giggling - and jeno’s eyes flashed mischeviously as he tackled you to the sofa, tickling you mercilessly from above.

“jeno!” you gasp in between laughter, “stop!”

jeno grins, his pretty eyes curving into evil crescent moons. “not unless you keep your promise,” he says, and the hands that are ruthlessly attacking your ribs momentarily pause as he puckers his lips.

you grin playfully and lean forward to kiss his forehead instead. “you wis-“ you break out into laughter before you can even finish your sentence, jeno’s fingers attacking your ribs once more. “okay! okay!” you yell in surrender. jeno relaxes his hands and closes his eyes with a smile. you lean in to kiss him, then quickly launch yourself off the sofa, trying to escape through the gap his torso creates above you.

you think you’ll make it until jeno’s firm hands grasp your waist, and you squeak in surprise as he pulls you into his lap, facing him.

“you thought you could escape?” jeno teases, the hands on your waist starting to resume his tickling.

you blush, and playfully bop his nose, “yeah,” before pecking his lips.

jeno is momentarily stunned, not having expected you to kiss him so suddenly.

you laugh and press another kiss to his cheek. “let’s eat, the ramen is going to get soggy.”

you + nct127 as mafia members

disclaimer: i don’t know shit about mafia so everything is probably wrong

YOU: headquarters

you’re the living headquarters of nct127 - the communications base that links everyone together and the one who checks all the field members’ equipment. as the communications base, you hold a vital role in making sure doyoung - the strategist - and the fieldwork members can communicate. when the team works on missions in areas where wireless communication won’t work unless there’s a closer connector, you go out into the field yourself to maneuver the communication. it’s highly dangerous in theory, but you haven’t actually gotten badly hurt yet (besides that one time someone shot a bullet through your arm), so you think you can manage. you love the team and would probably take a bullet for them. 

TAEIL: the medic

taeil’s natural disposition discourages him from being physically violent. he would much rather stay out of missions but use his medical knowledge to treat his friends after missions. taeil gets really freaked out every mission, as at least one of you (you, taeyong, mark, winwin or yuta) comes back on the verge of death, but is just grateful he can help. taeil treats each wound as if it’s a fatal one because he believes he takes responsibility for anyone’s death. when not working, taeil is attending online school to get his degree (which is why he’s constantly tired). he also brings in stray cats once every month to nurse them back into health and drop them off at the animal shelter - something he dreads doing every time, but none of the members on the team have time to properly take care of a cat.

“finally, you’re ba- oh my god, yuta! what have i told you about not wearing your bulletproof vest?”

“can we-(grunt) can we talk about that later?”

JOHNNY: the hacker

johnny was actually a combat expert before he discovered technology. since he found his passion and talent for hacking, though, he spends his days locked up in the computer base with his stock of diet coke and twinkies. (he really needs to stop working - taeil recently confirmed that johnny lacks vitamin d.) johnny is an amazing hacker who can practically access any information the team requires, even if it is tightly protected or firewalled. he helps you manage communication between the team during a mission. johnny dislikes doing fieldwork because he hates seeing blood, but he will if the team really needs him to. he specializes in boxing. 

"please AT LEAST go grocery shopping with jungwoo, johnny. you need the sun!”

“...can i get twinkies?”

TAEYONG: the field leader

taeyong is a natural-born leader, and specializes in making good decisions on the spot. the team does its best to follow doyoung’s excellent strategies and advice during a mission, but sometimes taeyong’s rapid decision-making skills are necessary when unexpected circumstances occur - doyoung can’t always see what’s happening. taeyong is respected, especially by the physical combat members, because of his excellent physical abilities. he expertises in knives and shotguns, but is also extremely proficient in other forms of combat. he is not afraid to risk his life to complete a mission - something taeil hates about taeyong’s personality. when not on field, taeyong loves to cook and train with (usually) mark or other fieldwork members.

“yuta, pull out of there!”

“that’s what she sai-”

“(groans) NOW!”

YUTA: the sniper

yuta has always had great eyesight and amazing aim. he waits for the perfect moment and usually fires on doyoung’s cue - unless he can really feel that he needs to fire at a different time. yuta’s timing instincts have always been right, and have determined life or death for several of their members. he does not really have much talent in hand-to-hand combat, though, so is very vulnerable when he is discovered by the enemy. he hates wearing a bulletproof vest because it limits his mobility while shooting - the team worries about him, but yuta always manages to pull out alive. he loves playing shooting games at arcades to win his friends cute prizes - especially you because you love them and sicheng because BOY does he have a big fat crush on him.

“sicheng, look! i won you a teddy bear at that shooting game!”

“ANOTHER one??”

DOYOUNG: the strategist

doyoung has a great mind, and was studying to go to military school before he met the team and was instantly in - especially because he needed the money. doyoung plans for the physical/main portion of the mission: how the team will get in, who to watch out for, what to take, and how to get out. he works closely with you, jungwoo, and johnny for information. doyoung’s creative and tactical approach to strategies is essential to the team’s success. he’s not quite talented in physical combat or weapons, though, so prefers to stay behind the lines (in the headquarters with you and johnny). doyoung constantly wears an headpiece, with a microphone set to a slightly louder audio than you and johnny, in order to communicate with the entire team during a mission.

“... doyoung, that was- whoa... you’re like, really smart.”

“i know, babe.”

JAEHYUN: the charmer

jaehyun knows he’s attractive, and he’s not afraid to use that for the team’s gain. as one of the many heirs-in-line to a very successful company, jaehyun is well-known to many elite groups for his oratory abilities, intellect, and looks. he keeps up his image to the public in order to casually dig up information about missions for the team. he is also proficient in using his attractive traits to get what he wants - always. the effect jaehyun has on people he consciously tries to charm - with a sideways glance, a dimpled smile, and a few words - is so crazy that it has the entire team wondering how the usually unimpressive man in his sweats and four-day unwashed hair can do such a thing. he also financially supports the team. jaehyun is still on field as he does research, though, so constantly trains to be physically adept in hand-to-hand combat.

“...why are you all looking at me like that?”

“um, it’s just weird. (laughs) you look like a totally different person, jae.”

WINWIN: the infiltrator

winwin is babie but he’s also deadly. with his agile and flexible body, sicheng - with the code name winwin - is the first one to enter the field. sicheng works closely with jungwoo in order to avoid missing any information, swiftly dodging any potential traps and security alarms when needed. jungwoo, doyoung, johnny, and you learned a bit of mandarin and winwin’s native district’s dialect in order to communicate with him as accurately as possible. everyone on the team adores him and is impressed by his 1000% accuracy in each mission. he’s everyone’s favorite. when off field, winwin spends his time learning dance in a nearby studio and avoiding the team’s persistent, suffocating hugs of affection.

“y/n, i can’t breathe-”

“i love you sichengie :)) ”

JUNGWOO: the researcher

jungwoo is amazing at his job, swiftly finding any information through his enormous network of people or searches with johnny on the dark web. he has such a huge human network that you could name someone and jungwoo probably knows that person or at least one person who knows them. jungwoo works especially closely with you, johnny, haechan, doyoung, and jaehyun, as the five of you are the ones working behind the lines with him. the entire team is given all the information that jungwoo gains, though - and jungwoo is the one with all the information. he is very competitive and has a talent for sniping, discovered by yuta during a playful bet at a carnival shooting booth. when not working, jungwoo spends his time working as a barista at a local café or internet shopping for comfy pillows to add to the headquarters’ living room-turned-comfort room (because jungwoo firmly believes even mafia need nap time).

“jungwoo, is this pillow yours??”

“it’s a bean bag shaped like a peach! it reminded me of jaehyun, do you guys see it??”

MARK: the versatile

mark can do anything you ask him to do - as in literally anything. when mark first showed up to the headquarters asking to be let in, the entire team (excluding johnny) was shocked. the location to the headquarters was very securely hidden to the public; in fact, only some of your wealthiest and most frequent clients even knew a physical headquarters existed. the team didn’t really have a choice but to let mark in - there was obviously a security leak and none of you would know what it was unless mark told you. it turned out that johnny had let it slip to mark, since johnny knew mark for a while and knew what it felt like to be starving on the streets. johnny had been convinced that the team wouldn’t trust mark enough to let him in unless there was an extremely compelling reason to. the team would have been upset with johnny, but you couldn’t deny that johnny’s assumption was true. and mark proved to be an amazing asset. mark is a hard worker, and believes in the phrase “practice makes perfect.” he is the versatile of the team, usually partaking in the main fieldwork with taeyong but also dabbling in medicine, coding, and communications. he’s eager to learn everything he can to help, and loves to hear praise for what he does. you make sure to compliment mark for every job he finishes, and he beams every time. when not working, mark likes to play guitar and watch netflix with haechan, often arguing over which show they should watch but ultimately settling for haechan’s show.

“okay fine! let’s watch your show. (sighs)”

“oh yeah! thanks hyung!”

HAECHAN: the spy

haechan plays an extremely important role in the team, as the one who digs up information for the mission. while jungwoo uses his human/digital networks and jaehyun uses his charming appearance and status to dig up information, haechan disguises himself as someone he is not to gain information for the team. he’s highly effective, as a very convincing liar and actor. he is amazing at impromptu, and will never forget a word he says on a mission in case he needs to revisit a story he told. haechan is only put on the field when it’s absolutely required, as a false identity can be easily exposed without significant proof. therefore, he tends to have a lot of free time that he spends learning about emergency medical procedures from taeil and watching netflix with mark. haechan is really skilled at what he does, though, and sometimes fools even the team on missions if he is covering his face. (he joined the team after mark, as the team was more open to younger members after mark was admitted.)

“haha! guys, it’s me!”

“holy shit, haechan??”