✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* mark & haechan *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧
Mark's biggest worries used to be what he'd say in his prom king acceptance speech, or whether his soccer team would win their next game. Then, one day, he sprouts a set of claws and everything changes.
Suddenly, he has to worry about keeping his claws hidden from his boyfriend, and about why the boy with the fiery eyes at the back of the classroom seems to know more about what's happening to Mark than he's letting on.
Donghyuck cared about nothing, and Mark cared a little too much about everything.
their band has been going great until mark, their guitarist, shares his plan for graduation.
he's leaving the band.
Lee Donghyuck is the vocalist of rookie group Tende.
Mark Lee is the leader of rookie group Boss.
stealing the sun is not enough
Mark Lee is a demigod with a knack for terrible decisions and a crush on Donghyuck from Apollo's cabin.
for someone who studies brains, donghyuck sure acts like he doesn't have one
i see my name in shining lights
Donghyuck fights with (and crushes on) rule-abiding student council president Minhyung Lee, while simultaneously becoming obsessed with golden-voiced SoundCloud rapper Lee Mark.
Donghyuck has been pining after Mark Lee since the first year of high school, and now they’re four years deep and Donghyuck’s feelings are still hurtling towards imminent heartbreak. He's always been an impulsive decision maker, but he should have thought a bit harder on this one.
Mark takes Donghyuck home with him to Vancouver to meet his parents and to propose. It's all sunshine and rainbows, except they aren't actually together.
doctor says i’m lacking vitamin u
Donghyuck lives and breathes Mark, and it's a problem if Mark doesn't live and breathe Donghyuck as well
just looking out for you tonight
Mark watches his brother fall in love everyday, but he can’t deal with himself doing the same.
we look for stranger things (cause that’s just who we are)
Just a bunch of strange teenagers finding home in one another.
today, too, the policeman sits (by the busker’s empty pitch)
Seoul Police Officer Mark Lee is reassigned to a quiet town, population ~1k. Which is, of course, where he meets the most troublesome (read: annoying) repeat offender of his entire career: street violinist Lee Donghyuck.
Alternatively: Mark is a cop, but who exactly is pursuing who is anyone's guess.
In Donghyuck's second to last year of high school, his childhood best friend Mark moves back home. After four years apart, their relationship dynamic has changed a lot.
Hyuck hatches a plan to get revenge on the asshole who shattered his best friend's heart. He really should've made sure to check the car he was egging though.
or where hyuck somehow ends up egging mark's car
Donghyuck fixes cars by day and drives them by night. Mark wouldn't know a Thorium core from an exhaust pipe, but he's still the best racer that Donghyuck has ever met.
Every summer Mark has to go back to Canada and every summer he has to watch from afar as Donghyuck falls in love with someone else. That is until the summer he finally gets his chance.
"What changed?" Donghyuck asks softly. His thumb rubs the back of Mark's hand gently.
Donghyuck's close. Too close. The washing machine stops, indicating the end of the wash cycle. The two of them are surrounded by an eerie silence. It rings in Mark's ears.
"I grew up," Mark replies. He holds Donghyuck's gaze, watching as Donghyuck leans in. His heart rattles in his chest; he's past the speed of hummingbirds now. His hyperactive, buzzing, washing-machine heart.
mark lee is the youngest son and heir to the largest corporation in south korea.
donghyuck is his brand new personal assistant.
His voice is rising now, much more than a whisper. “So what if I love you? You want me to get all lovey dovey, Mark? I’ll be sappy whenever I want, I don’t give a shit. I love you. Fuck off.”
Mark is frozen.
A heartbeat later Donghyuck realises that he’d slowly progressed to yelling.
In the next heartbeat Donghyuck realises exactly what he just said.
Donghyuck knows that the universe is infinite, somehow an empty house still feels bigger.
“Oh my God,” Mark finds himself whispering to no one in particular, air effortlessly escaping his lungs as he stares at the boy from across the room.
or, in which Mark becomes hopelessly infatuated with the regular at the café.
upon the stars (through the years)
“So you’re telling me, that in the first fucking Quidditch match you showed up to, you basically distracted Mark Lee so he lost his focus and got hit by a Bludger? And now he’s passed out and in the Hospital Wing.”
“Did you hear a word I said, Jaemin? It was a rogue Bludger and he turned around when I accidentally called him useless so he ended up getting hit by it. It’s not really my fault.”
“It literally is though.”
Or: Donghyuck and Mark fall in love during their time at Hogwarts.
the five times lee donghyuck was chased out (and the one time he got his revenge)
Donghyuck loves his best friend, Na Jaemin, and Jaemin’s boyfriend Lee Jeno.
He really does.
At least, that’s what he tells himself when Jeno and Jaemin ignore him for the nth time that week in favour of being gross with each other.
Alternatively: Donghyuck annoys Mark into liking him
set my heart high (like a volleyball)
Mark and Donghyuck belong to rival high schools and they hate each other's guts — they're not even subtle about this statement. They think the universe must be playing a joke on them when they end up in the same university, auditioning for the same volleyball team.
Donghyuck, or Captain Haechan as most refer to him, is the most feared pirate in the Caribbean Sea. His sworn enemy, Admiral Mark Lee of the King's Navy, has made it his life goal to take him down. In an unexpected and unfortunate series of coincidences, their paths converge once more, chaos ensues, and everything is just a little more complicated than it appears.
Alternatively: Donghyuck is a pirate, Mark hates him, and nothing can go right from them being stuck together to deal with a common enemy.
Ravenclaws usually don't mix with Slytherins; and the Big War between the blues and greens, all caused by a impulsive raven and a snobbish pure blood Slytherin, perfectly proves the statement.
Alternatively, the love story between Mark and Donghyuck during their seven years in Hogwarts.
our hearts are connected (under the same sky)
Resident insomniac songwriter Mark Lee finds two things that help him fall asleep. The first is listening to Haechan, one of the hosts of NCT Standard FM's nightly radio show Sun & Moon.
The second is Lee Donghyuck.
crush culture (makes me wanna spill my guts out)
donghyuck thinks relationships are gross and lame and he definitely doesn't have a crush on the cute football player
if i were a bell (i’d be ringing)
Mark Lee was stupid for assuming his last show would be like the first, or the second, or all the ones after that.
(or: Mark's leaving for college and it's really not his college applications and decisions that are making him so antsy about SMHS's production of Guys and Dolls, their last show with him as stage manager).
country (club) boy, I love you
Mark can't decide if the heat or his tennis instructor is more insufferable spoiler: it's the heat
your magnetic field being a little too strong
Mark Lee is Korean, but he was born in Vancouver. He released his debut album two years ago after his first few singles topped the charts. He first started to get popular posting covers and original songs on Youtube. His second album was critically acclaimed for truly showing his worth, not just as a pop singer, but as an artist. He’s been linked with everyone from models to singers to Korean idols.
Donghyuck finds all this out within five minutes on Wikipedia.
It takes a year, an unhealthy obsession with Lord of the Rings, and a few unexpected video calls with Mark’s mother before Donghyuck realizes that he’s somehow managed to literally fuck his way into an actual relationship.
(Or: ‘101 Ways to Fail at Being Friends with Benefits’ featuring Mark and Donghyuck.)
Nothing about the letter. If Donghyuck hadn’t seen the two of them together with his own two eyes, he wouldn’t have known it had happened at all.
He wonders if this means Jaemin is the one.
(In which Donghyuck is in love, Jaemin writes a letter, and Mark is endearingly oblivious.)
Donghyuck’s the youngest competitor on this season of Project Runway and determined to win, not letting anything stand in his way. He’s got youth, impeccable taste, and a killer aesthetic on his side. None of these designers are going to prevent him from proving himself to both the judges and the world, and winning himself that $100,000 cash prize.
What he doesn't account for is Mark Lee.
“I mean, we both know I have a big, fat, throbbing crush on him.” Renjun retches involuntarily on the other end of the phone line.
“We won’t be fucking calling it that. Can’t you just say you have a crush on him? Leave it there, for fucks sake.”
(Where Donghyuck has been in love with Mark from afar since the 8th grade but now 'afar' has become 2 feet away from him as they walk to school together every morning and he doesn't quite know how to handle it.)
Mark realizes how at home and in love he feels when he watches his best friend put on his t-shirt.
‘Wait, how do you know my name?’ He eventually questions, his face contorted into something equally confused and horrified. ‘I’ve never told you what it is.’
‘Well, if you insist on getting personalised stationary, people are going to figure it out eventually Donghyuck.’
Fuck.
He knows what Mark's like. If you gave him the choice, he’s sure Mark would jump at the chance to marry him.
And that thought absolutely terrifies him.
Donghyuck knows that you don’t need to be married to be happy together. Especially since being married doesn’t always necessarily guarantee you happiness in the long run anyway. He doesn’t understand why everyone expects them to, not when their relationship isn’t anyone else’s business but their own.
Mark’s life turns on its head on a Friday afternoon in the non-fiction section of his university library.
beyond the glass wall (i see only you)
The one where Mark is a chemistry student and Donghyuck is on the soccer team. Somehow Jungwoo manages to rope Mark into tutoring Donghyuck, who also happens to be the person Mark has the biggest crush on.
A long ass one shot of how Mark and Haechan go from best friends, to being an old married couple without realizing, to realizing it.
i was lowkey (that’s the old me)
donghyuck is going to start prematurely greying because of mark lee
alternatively, mark gets glasses
baby, you’re brighter than the sun
Where Donghyuck starts to get cute notes and gifts from an unknown person
for his eighteenth birthday, donghyuck receives handmade coupons from his best friend.
”make me laugh no matter what. apologize no matter what. do something on my behalf. do anything i ask for.”
he's dead set on making sure he makes every single one count before mark moves away, possibly forever.
It takes five years, a whole Triwizard Tournament, and an embarrassing incident with Amortentia before Donghyuck finally stutters through the l-word.
honeymouthed and full of wildflowers
“Honestly, losing a war might almost be a better option than this.” Mark is marrying Donghyuck to save his kingdom, but he wonders who will save him from his husband, or his husband from him.
donghyuck was bored with high school boys. cue mark lee, another high school boy.
truth is like blood underneath your fingernails
They don’t get to do this very often, both extremely busy as they finish up their senior year of high school. They see each other every single day but it’s not the same. Other people are around. They don’t kiss. They don't cuddle. They barely even touch, unless Donghyuck is feeling especially needy that day.
Mark and Donghyuck have been dating for two years. No one knows.
Mark takes up an internship at Neo Biologics for the summer and gets a whole lot more than he bargained for.
“You want to know why we can’t be together?” Mark asks Donghyuck. He shakes his head ruefully, head rushing. “I can’t even begin to count the reasons.”
“Do you think you can debate me out of my feelings?” Donghyuck asks, scathing. He crosses his arms. “Fine, try me.”
(Or, Mark has known Donghyuck for a third of his life. He's still figuring things out)
The first night Mark arrives in his new hometown, he dreams of Haechan, the boy with the sharp smile and an even sharper tongue. When Mark finds out that Haechan is the same boy who went missing the night after Mark arrived, he's willing to do anything to find him.
And Donghyuck really didn’t need to see that, because now the only thing he can think about is Mark’s dick.
(or, mark's nudes get leaked and hyuck has a crisis thirsting over his best friend)
"As far as summer jobs went, working part time at the mall’s Sephora wasn’t the worst."
In which Donghyuck falls hard for the boy in a muscle tee who walks into his Sephora not knowing the difference between a pan of blush and a palette of eyeshadow.
when donghyuck learns that mark is in love with someone, he's determined to find out who it is at all costs.
only in the name of investigative journalism, of course.
“What are they?"
“Things,” the boy says, cocking his head slightly to the side. “Dangerous things.”
Mark swallows. His heart hasn’t slowed, like it knows more than his mind, his eyes. “And what are you?”
The boy smiles. It’s a childish expression, young and unpracticed, but so pretty it hurts to look at, made for stronger eyes, a stronger being. “What am I?”
Mark asks again. “What are you?”
“A thing,” the boy says. “A dangerous thing.”
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If Jeno was the angel on Mark’s shoulder, then Donghyuck was the devil, and Mark wanted to do something that felt wrong, even just once.
Mark knows that his soulmate is real. He’ll search the world for them, if he has to.
But as far as Donghyuck’s concerned? Soulmates don’t exist.
Or: AU in which some people seem to have soulmates and others don’t, but everyone deserves to have good things.
It’s Friday night in San Diego, California, and Donghyuck and his friends have two weeks left before summer ends and the autumn winds come to scatter them across the country.
(alternatively: the end of the world is here. it’s also the start of one. you are young and you’re in love with being alive and the sky has split open for you, the stars have been hung in your honor, and it is time to go. you may not ever be ready, but you will try anyway.)
being someone's best friend for years, mark learns, means most things stay the same.
the key word here being most, because there's always an exception when it comes to lee donghyuck.
alternatively: the sun turns donghyuck gold, and mark discovers that the hardest truths to face are often the most important ones.
Donghyuck is way too cool to be friends with Mark Lee, transfer student slash nerd extraordinaire with twinkling eyes.
“Wait,” one of the other members pauses. “We’re reading?”
“Yeah!” Mark pulls out a copy of the book he mentioned and passes them along. “We’ll do a reading in a bit, but I think we should start with introductions first— say your name and your favorite book.”
This, Donghyuck thinks, is definitely not a drinking club.
In which Mark and Jaemin have been dating for two years but aren't yet soulmates and Donghyuck is just the new waiter.
Donghyuck is not a jealous person, but there is something about other people wanting to get close to Mark Lee that makes something inside him twist uncomfortably.
Or alternatively, Donghyuck grows up and realizes that his feelings for Mark might not be as platonic as he’d always thought.
Mark thinks it would probably be easier to figure out if his best friend likes him back if said friend wasn't also set on clinging to people like it was going out of style.
Or alternatively, Donghyuck and Mark have different concepts of personal space and misunderstandings ensue.
Fourteen-year-old Donghyuck thinks that Mark Lee probably hung the moon.
Eighteen-year-old Donghyuck wishes that they'd never met.
“What are you talking about?”
Renjun looks back at him, confused.
“Prince Mark, of course. You can say that he was sent to live with you on peaceful terms all you want but the real reason is pretty obvious.”
In which Donghyuck is sure that Mark is his enemy until he isn't anymore.
Love at first sight, Mark discovers, is difficult when it's with a boy he's supposed to hate.
It is especially difficult when a hidden danger strikes from the shadows, threatening to tear their city to pieces and all they hold dear, and even more so when they discover they may be the only ones that can stop it.
(alternatively: civil blood makes civil hands unclean, and the vampire loves the witch anyway.)
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