pairings :: ot7 x gn!reader (if i accidentally slipped in a gender-related mistake please let me know!)
genres :: angst & fluff
warnings :: swearing, alcohol, mentions of food, sorta emotional cheating, reader being down bad ™️
word count :: 2.1k
author’s note :: thanks to ogs @sunoosill and @fandomgirl489 for helping me hehe love you guys! also i kind of tried something new with this one, they're actual little fics this time so let's see how it's recieved 😭 that being said i lowkey hate this. i started doubting all my choices once i was like 60% done but this took an embarrassingly long time. also this is unedited because i'm sick of this draft. i hope y'all enjoy though!
ni-ki as my boy only breaks his favorite toys
“i felt more when we played pretend than with all the kens cause he took my out of my box, stole my tortured heart, left all these broken parts, told me i’m better off, but i’m not”
ni-ki swept 👏 you 👏 off 👏 your 👏 feet 👏 when you first met
because he doesn't seem like he'd necessarily approach a relationship the same way as everyone else just because everyone else is doing it
so when he asked you out he was pretty nonchalant about it (even if that wasn’t how he was feeling)
&& it all felt so romantic because you’d do things like get dessert in the middle of the night & then drive into the hills together
especially because he didn’t treat you the same way as the other people he dated — a fact his friends confirmed.
he was passive about it all before you.
there wouldn’t be any doubt that he loved you because he most certainly did
not to be cliché but he made you see the world differently! & more importantly, he made you see romantic relationships differently
but you could tell that he had a sense of uncertainty around you
not because he was uncertain about his feelings for you
but an uncertainty that told him that he needed to spend each moment like it could be taken away from him in the blink of an eye
he knew he was feeling too much — he knew you were feeling too much
because ultimately, he was unsure about whether he was right for you.
so he left you, promising that you’d be better off without him.
you weren’t.
sunoo as down bad
“for a moment i knew cosmic love, now i’m down bad, crying at the gym”
sunoo would be such a good boyfriend on paper
he'd buy you flowers & give great hugs, of course, but he'd also be supportive & reassure you when you felt insecure and unsure about your place in the world
that being said, sunoo is not one to string people along
so the moment he realized that he wasn’t 100% in, he made a plan to end things & he did.
&&...losing sunoo fucked you up. it would fuck anyone up, to be fair.
finding out that he was leaving you when the relationship was everything to you would catch you off guard, to say the least.
he probably left feeling proud of himself for doing everything right too LMAO 😭
&& yes, i don't think it's anything he did that made it so bad
it's just that break-ups suck & you really loved him! even if he “did everything right”
no matter how it transpired, you were still in shambles at the end
you broke down in tears at the sight of anything that made you think of him
from the smell of gardenias in a grocery store
‘he bought me those 🤧! for our first anniversary 🤧!’
to the most upbeat song you’ve ever heard coming on shuffle while you work out
‘he loved that song’ (even if you couldn’t stand it)
&& you really hoped he was feeling a shred of what you were
but it sure as hell didn’t seem that way.
jungwon as fresh out the slammer
“all those nights, you kept me going, swirled you into all of my poems”
you & jungwon had a lot of your own problems to deal with the first time you dated
likely because he had a lot on his plate at the time as an idol & you were just at different places in your lives
&& even though your brain was telling you not to, you fell in love fast
he’d taken you to a quiet spot in his hometown that he used to go to when he was overwhelmed as a kid
it was an old swingset at the park where, somehow, everything else had been renovated
the two of you sat there for hours with your hands entwined, talking about your futures
&& the possibility of them ending in the same place.
it felt childish & implausible, but you wanted to believe it
&&, as the break up proved to you, it was, in fact, childish & implausible to believe that your lives could magically become compatible
you tried to move on, you really did. you dated other people for years.
one boyfriend stuck around for four years. a coworker. your future with him felt written in stone.
he was good to you, but there was a part of your heart that yearned for more
the part that yearned for the type of connection you had on the swingset all those years ago
you didn't spend that time waiting for jungwon — you accepted that you were going to spend your life content with your boyfriend
but you sometimes thought about what it would be like if you met jungwon under different circumstances or another life where his career wasn’t so controlling and demanding of him
you would smile listening to his music (that you subconsciously hoped was about you)
&& checked how he was doing online periodically
but then you were single. it was something your boyfriend said about not seeing a future here. not seeing a future with you. when you gave him four years of your life.
you knew you should have felt more, that you should have been torn apart for months
but a week later, you picked up the phone & dialed the number that had been seared into your brain for six years
“y/n?”
his voice was almost a whisper.
“do you think you could take me to that park again tonight?”
“i’ll be there in 10 minutes.”
“thank you.”
“y/n?”
“yeah?”
“i missed you.”
heeseung as the alchemy
“where’s the trophy? he just comes running over to me”
when you started dating heeseung, you knew it would be really easy for him to put you low on his priority list being an idol
&& you wouldn’t have blamed him for that
because your careers are important, especially at this point in your lives (also your exes probably did that with much less demanding jobs)
but he didn’t! he told you it would be tough but that he’d try his best to make sure you had time together even with his insane packed schedule
&& try he did omg 🤭 that man put in the WORK
he would show up towards the end of your workday just to whisk you off on a date 🫶
which you not-so-secretly loved for two reasons:
one: it reminded you that he loved you & valued your career as much as you valued his
two: he’s really hot. so it’s fun to see everyone’s reaction to him showing up heehee
&& after your workday he’d take you wherever you wanted
but you’re indecisive at times, so he’d just guess sometimes.
it was usually your favorite restaurant or a massage parlor, but once he literally took you to the airport for a getaway? who knows what he has planned lmfao
you loved getting surprised by your boyfriend, of course, but the nights when you were at his concert to support him? those meant the world to you.
you swore that you’d never forget the look on his face when he realized you were in the crowd the first time you surprised him
but honestly? his excitement never faltered. he still wears that childish grin every time he sees you showing up for him
&& the post concert kisses are incomparable to all the others
because he kisses you like you’re the stars in a rom-com. every. damn. time — whether it’s backstage or in front of 20,000 people.
jay as chloe or sam or sophia or marcus
“if you want to break my cold, cold heart, just say ‘i loved you the way that you were’”
jay was hurting you
with every instagram post he uploaded with a woman you didn’t recognize,
at every red carpet appearance where he had someone else on his arm,
with every polite smile he greeted you with when you crossed paths.
you broke up with him. years ago, at that. you had no right to feel this way.
his mind seemed scattered in your time together & he was unsure about most everything
at first, it had seemed like you were the exception to that.
until you weren’t.
when you broke it off, you told him you loved him. & that maybe you always would.
he might have loved you.
but if that was the case, he never told you.
on occasion, you thought about how he felt seeing you date around aimlessly.
had he done the mature thing & moved on?
did his jaw clench seeing another man kiss you the same way it did before you dated?
did he care about what you were thinking as much as you did about him?
there were times that you’d stare at his contact, finger hovering above the ‘call’ button
almost hoping your finger would slip so you’d have the chance, the smallest chance to hear him say
“i loved you the way that you were.”
(i really want to write a oneshot about this actually? maybe?)
jake as so high school
“get my car door, isn’t that sweet, then pull me to the backseat, no one’s ever had me, not like you”
jake was so obsessed with you before y’all started dating HEHE probably from the first time that he had a conversation with you!
he was so enthralled by the way you think & see the world
&& he blushed and stumbled on his words every time he talked to you for months & his friends would tease him RELENTLESSLY
he got so nervous before following you on social media that he had to employ his friends to help.
“guys, just press it for me. i can’t look!”
he probably thought about asking you out on many occasions but chickened out for one reason or another every time
but then he saw you at the local convenience store while he was out getting ramen at 2 a.m. — or rather, you saw him.
"jake?" he'd know that voice anywhere. oh god oh god oh god oh god
he needed a moment to compose himself, but he pulled himself together enough to look up at you & greet you properly <3
his stress slipped away fairly fast after that & you found yourselves shopping for your respective midnight snacks together
"have you tried this one? it's probably my favorite limited edition flavor" you had said, pointing to your favorite candy
which, naturally, he responded to by pulling a handful into his basket 😚
you didn't know whether he wanted to try it because you liked it or he was buying it for you, but either way, you found it endearing
after you both paid, jake took your groceries in his other hand, declaring that he'd carry them to your car for you
which, of course, wasn't possible. you had walked.
😧...😟...😶...🤔...☝️😲 "i could give you a ride! i don't want you walking home alone at this hour. or i could call you an uber if you're not comf—"
"i'd really like that"
&& then his heart would damn near explode at the sight of your smile. because how could it not.
he fumbled with the bags before opening the passenger door for you
&& on the drive there he'd stare at you with heart eyes while you talked at every red light
you'd have to tell him it turned green because he was just so distracted hehe
oh my god not this being my second fic about jake driving you home,, 🫣 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE I DON'T PLAN THESE I JUST GO WITH WHAT FEELS RIGHT
i'm just hilarious, this does not show anything about what i want irl, absolutely nothing.
sunghoon as i look in people’s windows
"what if your eyes looked up & met mine one more time?"
you & sunghoon had a mutual break up, but it didn't feel that way a month after it happened
especially not when you were walking alone down the street his friend lived on & noticed the light shining through the large window
contrary to what you told yourself (i don’t even care if he’s in there) you approached the warm light warily
you didn’t really know whether you were hoping to see him in there, but you did — he was laughing with a few people, glass of wine in hand
&&…you weren’t expecting a flood of memories to overcome you in the way they did.
memories from when you were invited. memories from when you called them “our” friends & not “his” friends. memories from when you were the one making him laugh.
you didn’t notice your mouth fall agape or the tears welling in your eyes until sunghoon met your gaze with a tilt of his head, his smile falling as he registered your presence
for a moment, your mind rushed to decipher the look on his face — the way his eyebrows were slightly furrowed, the way his mouth fell agape too — the same expressions you used to be able to read so well.
finally tearing your gaze from sunghoon, you noticed his friends turning back to look out for whatever it was that made their friend so unsettled
they never saw you. you ran before they could.
perhaps if you had stayed a moment longer, you would have heard the front door open.
how you get the girl
part iii: jake’s not-so-secret admirer
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your neighbor, heeseung, gets on your nerves. he’s full of himself, makes more noise than all of your neighbors combined in the middle of the night, spreads anti-superhero propaganda in your political science class, and, unfortunately, is the most attractive man you have ever laid eyes on.
pairing :: lee heeseung x fem!reader
featuring :: jake sim, jeon somi, kim sunoo, yang jungwon, & more!
genres/au’s :: superhero au, neighbors to lovers, sorta-enemies to lovers, college au, fluff, angst, nightwing!heeseung
chapter warnings :: mentions of and references to sex, minor violence, suggestive, intoxication
chapter word count :: 4.8k (including the texted parts!)
tag list (open) :: @thejjrl @grace1852 @tsunchani @hanniiesuckle17 @mjr4fnaf1997 @goldenhypen @3nh4luvr @hobistigma @ditzie-s @nomy0520 @koroktsuya @beansworldsstuff @ronnierites @simplhee
author’s note :: posting this early because i can't help it YAY i had missed writing this <3. please let me know if you liked this or have constructive criticisms (or if you have predictions 👀) because they really help me. i hope you enjoyyyy
beta reader :: @fandomgirl489 thank you for your help!
playlist :: here's to you
3. Gestures of Appreciation
No one likes to have their effort and affection gone unnoticed — show her you care and appreciate her being in your life.
“Wow, this childhood friend is super rich, isn’t he?” Y/n peered inside the sizable truck in awe as Heeseung opened the door, its lights turning on the moment he did. The truck itself wasn’t too flashy, but Y/n could immediately tell that its contents cost more than her tuition.
“Yeah,” Heeseung replied sheepishly, offering his hand for Y/n to brace herself as she stepped in. She took it, giving him a small smile of gratitude.
“Alright, first thing’s first — let’s see if we can get a visual on Somi,” Heeseung began, closing the door behind him, “I, uh…I think Jungwon can access security cameras from his set-up,”
Perhaps Y/n could have detected how odd that was if she wasn’t blinded by gratitude for Heeseung’s friend, but she didn’t.
“Okay,” she nodded as Heeseung sat down, gesturing for her to do the same before unbuttoning the top two buttons on his shirt. In front of them were five to six monitors, all mounted to the side of the truck.
“Lee Heeseung,” he stated, bending over slightly into the microphone. Y/n’s eyes widened in astonishment as the screens turned on simultaneously.
Heeseung typed persistently, ignoring her gaze, but it felt like she was burning holes in his neck. He didn’t want to know whether or not gears were turning in her head — that was tomorrow’s problem.
Y/n had several questions, but she knew that would slow everything down, and ensuring Somi was okay was the priority.
“Okay…” Heeseung mumbled, “here…is the live fee—”
“KNOCK, KNOCK,”
Y/n’s hand flew to Heeseung’s arm, instinctually moving further from the door and closer to him.
In the future, Heeseung would insist that she felt safer with him, to which Y/n would roll her eyes. And maybe secretly agree.
“It’s alright,” Heeseung stood up, Y/n’s hand grazing down his arm as he did so, “it’s probably just Jungwon,”
Y/n nodded, looking back at the door in anticipation while it swung open.
“Heeseung!” Jungwon grinned, engulfing the man in a hug, “Ah, I’ve missed you!”
“I’ve missed you too,” Heeseung replied before hushing his voice to a lower volume, “remember what we talked about,”
Jungwon nodded as he let go of Heeseung, redirecting his attention to a now-standing Y/n.
Jungwon was shorter than Heeseung, definitely younger, but carried himself in a similarly confident way. He didn’t seem to cross over into cocky like Heeseung did, though.
“Y/n, Jungwon. Jungwon, Y/n,” Heeseung gestured between his “friends”. He wouldn’t label either of them with that term.
“Hi,” Jungwon walked over to Y/n excitedly, extending his arm, “I’m Yang Jungwon, an old friend of Heeseung’s from Gotham,”
“Y/n,” she replied, shaking his hand, “Heeseung’s neighbor,”
“Ah, that neighbor,” Jungwon nodded, his smile turning to something of a smirk.
Heeseung cleared his throat, “So, Jungwon, where’s Jake?”
“He’s coming,” Jungwon was almost wincing, “but there’s been…an unexpected complication,”
“Jake’s here?” Y/n tilted her head in confusion, “Why?”
“I just can’t believe that I never noticed how kind and handsome you are, Jake,”
Y/n’s eyes narrowed. Sure enough, Jake and Somi stood a few feet from the truck, her arm wrapped around his.
Jake stared down Heeseung as he stepped into the truck with his new admirer, eyes wide as if to say, “What the hell is happening?”
“So…how did this happen?” Heeseung asked, closing the door before pointing at the two of them with an amused expression.
Somi grinned, “Well, Jake was so brave and rescued me from those horrible people. And then I realized how much I’ve overlooked him while pursuing a lover. But here he is. My perfect man,” Somi touched his face with her left hand, brushing her finger over his cheek.
Y/n’s mouth fell agape in disbelief, “Somi, what the—”
“Somi, let’s have Jungwon give you something to change into,” he cut Y/n off, gently pushing her towards the boy.
“Oh — okay,” Somi frowned but followed Jungwon to the back of the truck.
“Wow, you’re quite the ladies' man,” Heeseung joked as soon as Somi was out of earshot, earning a punch to the arm from Jake.
“Not funny,” Jake heaved a sigh, crossing his arms, “something’s wrong with her. I don’t know why she’s acting like this. I didn’t even save her, I just told her to follow Jungwon and me when she was already out of the building,”
“Yeah, she didn’t even act like this with old boyfriends,” Y/n added, glancing at her friend with a look of concern.
“Well, I’ve seen this happen with—” Heeseung stopped himself, “I mean, I’ve seen this happen in movies. It’s usually an aphrodisiac of some sort,”
“Oh my god,” Y/n rubbed her forehead, “Phenylethylamine. It’s phenylethylamine,”
“What’s that?” Heeseung asked, crossing his arms.
“You know, the love molecule? Just look it up,”
Jake pulled out his phone as she continued, “It’s what Somi and I think was stolen from my biochemistry professor’s lab,”
“Web MD says…” Jake began, “phenylethylamine is a chemical with stimulant effects — it’s found naturally but can also be made in a lab. Phenethylamine stimulates the body to make certain chemicals that play a role in brain chemistry,”
“Okay, but on its own, there’s no way one of those goons could just spray some diluted phenylethylamine on her and make her act all heart-eyes over Jake,” Heeseung countered, “They must have done something to it to make it an actual love potion,”
“True,” Y/n nodded, “plus, we know they don’t have the exact sample from the lab because Nightwing stopped the robber. Who knows whether the original sample was even an attempt to make a love potion?”
Jake and Heeseung took a wary glance at each other. The conversation had turned to Nightwing. Of course.
“What did I miss?” Somi sang, making a beeline toward Jake, now wearing a large graphic tee and sweatpants.
“Not much,” Jake started, feeling especially grateful for her now, “we were just talking about going back home for the night, it’s late,”
“It’s only 10 PM, Jake,” Somi reasoned. “If we’re not gonna storm back in there to demand to know what the hell Mr. Kim is up to, then let’s go have fun! We could do karaoke or something!”
“Somi,” Y/n took her friend’s hand, “Jake will still be around tomorrow. He’s not going to disappear. Right, Jake?”
“No, I won’t disappear,” Jake smiled, “in fact, I’m spending the night at Heeseung’s with Jungwon,”
“Oh, perfect! I can see you first thing in the morning then,” Somi replied, “I’m staying with Y/n tonight,”
Y/n shook her head with a grin, “the minute we figure out how to snap you out of this, I’m teasing the living daylight out of you,”
“Says the one who gave Lee Heeseung a lap dance,”
Jake gasped, an unmistakable grin on his face as he looked at Heeseung, “She did?!”
“Did what?” Jungwon asked, approaching the rest with a neatly folded pile of Somi’s angel get-up in hand.
“Please, in his dreams!” Y/n scoffed.
Well, it would be after today.
“I just…sat on his lap so no one got suspicious,” Y/n explained, hoping Heeseung wouldn’t notice her cheeks growing hot, “it wasn’t a real lap dance at all,”
Jungwon raised his eyebrows as he looked over at Jake, but decided to let them have the win.
“Oh and Y/n,” Jake began, “Do you want a change of clothes too?”
“I think I’m okay for now, thank you” she replied, stuffing her hands in the pockets of Heeseung’s suit jacket, “We’re going home now anyways, right?”
“Yeah,” Heeseung smiled, pushing the sleeves of his button-down shirt up to his elbows, “Let’s get home,”
“Poison Ivy’s victims were infected with a kiss,” Jake began, staring up at the ceiling. “Unless I planted one on Somi without being aware of it, they can’t be related,”
The boys had fought briefly over who got the bed, but Jungwon ultimately won, being ‘the guest’. Jake may have acted annoyed, but he had missed Jungwon just as much as Heeseung did.
“That may be true, but figuring out what’s in the antidote could help us, right?” Jungwon asked.
“Yeah, maybe Jungwon could look into that tomorrow while I work on the antidote using the lab sample,” Heeseung proposed. “I have a bad feeling that Somi will only fall further in love with you until we find a solution for this,”
“What should I do?” Jake asked, “Stay away from Somi, I presume,”
“Well…maybe,” Heeseung clenched his jaw slightly, “but I think you should still see her once or twice so she doesn’t get mad. If she does get worse, I don’t want to endanger Y/n,”
“Heeseung, Y/n will be fine,” Jake reassured his friend, “she can handle it,”
“I don’t wanna find out that she can’t,” Heeseung swallowed, taking a deep breath, “and Somi is in danger now, too. They know what she looks like. They know what all of you look like,”
Jungwon peered down at Heeseung from the edge of the bed, a small smile of sympathy on his face. “They’ll be fine, Heeseung. I’ll make sure of it,”
Heeseung nodded, muttering a small thank you before the room grew quiet. The curtains on Heeseung’s window were far from opaque, so Jake found himself watching the array of lights dance across the room intently as his friends drifted off to sleep.
“Jake,” Jungwon whispered after a few minutes, “does Heeseung know about…”
“What? Why?” Jungwon sat up to look down at his friend.
“Even if I’m lucky and Heeseung and Y/n get over themselves and start dating, it just feels so odd to say, ‘Hey, I’m in love with your ex-girlfriend! Who probably doesn’t even think of me in that way, so I’m jeopardizing both of our friendships for fun!’”
Jungwon lay back down, letting the quiet sounds of Bludhaven traffic fill the room momentarily. “I’m sorry, Jake,”
“Don’t be. I get some damn great friends instead,”
Y/n woke up to the smell of something burning. “Somi?” she asked, still groggy.
When she got no response, Y/n pushed the comforter off her feet and stood up, making her way to the kitchen. “Somi, whatever you’re cooking is definitely bur…ning,”
Okay, now she was awake. Somi stood in the kitchen with a bowl in hand, peering over a pan filled with butter that had likely already turned black.
“Oh, good morning, Y/n,” Somi smiled, “I’m just making some pancakes to bring to Jake and his friends,”
“Okay…” Y/n came closer, tying her hair haphazardly, “Do you need some help maybe?”
“Nope, I’m alright,” Somi insisted, continuing to pour way too much batter into the pan as she dismissed her friend.
“Somi, don’t you have work to do?” Y/n inquired, tilting her head in disbelief.
“Eh, I’m thinking about quitting,” Somi shrugged, “if I’m going to be devoted to Jake, I need to give him more of my time. And my job takes up way too much of that time,”
“What?! You’re going to quit your job over a guy? Before a single date, too?!”
“You know what, you’re not being very supportive right now!” Somi yelled, waving her arms around, “I am head-over-heels in love with Jake Sim and if you cared about me you’d see that!”
Y/n sighed in defeat. “I do see that. Just please take a day off of work before you decide to quit altogether,”
“Fine,” Somi nodded, her voice lowered, “and I really do need help with these pancakes,”
Y/n smiled mischievously, scooting in next to her friend to remove the possibly ruined frying pan, “so Jake, huh?”
“Yeah. He’s sweet, isn’t he? For saving me?”
Y/n knitted her brows. She had been so caught up in all that happened last night that she never stopped to wonder — why did Jake save Somi? Why was Jungwon there? Sure, they were probably there to help Heeseung find out who attempted to steal from his professor, but why would a guy like Heeseung care enough to do that? And now that she thought about it, as much as she thought she was commanding the situation, it was Heeseung who had the cards in his hand all night.
So…either Lee Heeseung is hiding something, or he’s secretly…a good guy?
Y/n had meant to thank Heeseung for whatever the hell happened yesterday, but he had already left for class by the time she and Somi delivered the pancakes next door.
Throughout the day, she found herself checking her phone more often than usual, especially since she and Somi were both working from her apartment. She didn’t know what she was waiting for — after all, Heeseung never texted her. Why would that change today of all days?
She’d just have to trust him and his friends to knock on her door with a cure for her best friend in the next few days. Y/n knew she could be useful in that pursuit, but they insisted she stay with Somi for the day and make sure she didn’t get into any trouble. Trust him. Why was she trusting him with something so important? Someone so important?
She didn’t take the time to rehash her questionable thought process, choosing instead to immerse herself in her classwork and article for the Scoop once she managed to convince Somi that Jake would come over after his classes.
He and Jungwon both came to see them around dinner time, which came as a surprise to Y/n. They even managed to get Somi’s favorite type of pizza and played board games with her until she fell asleep. Damn. Was that making Y/n the slightest bit…bitter?
Y/n stared down at her laptop screen intently — it was now nearly 10 PM. Though she managed to finish her work for her midnight deadlines, she had made an embarrassingly small amount of progress on the article she offered to take on for Somi. Out of the Five Ways to Win a Girl’s Heart Y/n had to come up with and write about, she had only completed two. Sincerity and Reliability.
Y/n scoffed at herself. ‘Hm. That’s funny. The two things you can’t decide whether Heeseung has,’
She didn’t even bother lying to herself this time. Y/n was interested in Heeseung. Sure, she’d always had the tiniest urge to make out with him, but the more she started to question everything she knew about him, the more she enjoyed his company.
Y/n shut her laptop with a soft groan before glancing at her watch. Somi was fast asleep. Heeseung should still be awake — at this time a week or two prior, he was probably making his and his girlfriend’s sex lives the whole floor’s business.
This was a bad idea, right?
Ah, who cares? No one was awake to tell her it was.
Okay, so there was no response to Y/n’s knocking. Maybe Heeseung was asleep. Maybe he was working late. Maybe he was just listening to music. Maybe he was…with someone else?
No matter what the case was, Y/n wasn’t going to let this rattle her, even if she did leave feeling a bit dejected.
With hand warmers in her pockets and her trusty pepper spray and taser on her lanyard, she looked back at her door in consideration before turning around and heading up the stairs. She wasn’t in the mood for walking tonight.
Luckily for her, there weren’t any of the usual smokers on the roof — it was too late for them and too early for the drinkers.
Somehow, she felt colder in her parka now than she had in her stripper corset and shorts from the night before. It was probably a result of not having the time to notice the temperature while running from fugitives, but now all she could think of was how bitter it was. This night, she decided, did not feel like a synth-pop album. She missed home and Sunoo and her warm bed. The quiet one. The one that wasn’t attached to the thought of Lee Heeseung and all the subsequent thoughts. And it was nights like these that made her so eager to graduate early and get the hell out of Bludhaven.
The ground was still damp from the previous day’s downpour, but Y/n sat against what she assumed to be a broken air conditioning fixture (summers were hell in this apartment for a reason) anyway. There was too much light pollution to see any stars, but she liked getting to look at the sky regardless. She sat there for several minutes, taking note of the planes passing overhead and which lights turned off through the course of the night.
“Uh, Miss?”
Y/n jerked her head toward the source of the gravelly voice, grabbing her pepper spray instinctually. Her eyes widened. “It’s…it’s you,”
“Yeah, it’s me,” Nightwing put his hands up defensively. “No need for pepper spray then, right?”
“Oh, yeah, sorry,” Y/n dropped the bottle from her hand, letting it dangle from her lanyard once again. Her heartbeat could’ve powered a freight train. “W-what brings you here?”
“I was wondering what you were doing all alone out here this late,” Nightwing explained, “It’s not safe for — for anyone,”
Y/n furrowed her eyebrows. “I’m just fine, thank you very much,” she sat back down, returning her hands to her pockets. She wasn’t in the mood to listen to anyone, especially not the man who was (sort of) the reason Somi may never have free will again. Okay, Y/n, that’s a bit of a stretch.
“Do you…have something on your mind?” Nightwing offered, looking down at her while she avoided eye contact, “I’m a pretty good listener,”
“No…” Y/n lied, gnawing on her lower lip. “You can stay if you want, though,” she added, half-expecting him to turn around and leave.
“Sure,” Nightwing smiled and sat down next to her. “I can stay,”
On their last encounter, Y/n hadn’t gotten closer than 20 feet to Nightwing. Now, he was right beside her. Wait. Now, he was right beside her.
“I don’t want to talk, but I’d like to listen to you,” Y/n quickly pulled her phone out from her pocket, “Would be willing to interview for the Scoop? I’d have to record it, but only for formality's sake. I only use quotes, so no one would be able to hear your voice,”
Nightwing smiled at the ground for a moment before nodding. “I’ll agree to three questions, but no recording. Only transcriptions,”
“Okay, I’ll take it,” Y/n beamed, “let me just pull up Somi’s — er, my colleague’s questions,”
“You never told me your name,” Nightwing reminded her as she searched her pockets for a piece of paper.
“Y/n L/n,” she replied, scrambling to retrieve a creased paper from her pocket sitting against her knee and a pen in hand.
“Good to know,” Nightwing nodded. “You have a lovely name, by the way,”
“Thank you,” Y/n contained a smile, “First question: What do you have to say about the accusations that you’ve caused an increase in crime in Bludhaven?”
“Are you asking if I believe them?” Nightwing began, “Because if so, the answer is no. The crimes that usually go under the radar are being accounted for now rather than just muggings and violence. That’s why crime rates have gone up,”
Y/n nodded, not taking the time to look up until she had finished writing his response word-for-word. Somi would kill her if she got an interview with Nightwing and somehow fucked it up.
Heeseung Nightwing, on the contrary, was smiling to himself as he noticed how Y/n knitted her eyebrows in focus as she wrote.
“And…” Y/n finally looked up, “why did you choose the name ‘Nightwing’?”
“I was inspired by a hero Superman told me about. From his home planet,” he explained, eyes darting away to avoid suspicion, “Nightwing was the great rebuilder; the catalyst of change. So that’s where I took the name from,”
“Oh,” Y/n tilted her head in surprise, “that’s interesting. I’d love to hear more abou—”
“HELP!”
Y/n’s eyes widened at the distant cry for help.
“Duty calls, Ms. L/n,” Nightwing stood up, backing away from her as he spoke, “I promise to answer that last question that I owe you if you go back to your apartment now,”
“Uh, sure, yeah,”
“Perfect,” Nightwing gave her a wink before disappearing off the edge of the building with a jump.
Oh. Wow. These were foreign feelings.
“Hi,” Y/n blinked in surprise — how many times was she going to be surprised today? Heeseung at her doorstep.
“Hey,” Heeseung gulped, trying to suppress his nervous energy as he lifted the plastic bag he had in his hand. His hair was disheveled and seemed slightly damp, which, as Y/n noted, was not a bad look for him. “I, um…I got some Thai takeout to eat after work if you maybe…wanted to join me,”
Y/n knew better than to take anything other than the words “I want you” as a sign, but the thought of the overconfident and flirtatious Lee Heeseung being nervous because of her made her giddy.
“Yeah, sure,” Y/n nodded before looking down at herself, suddenly self-conscious of her Bat-symbol pajamas, “Let me just change real quick and I’ll be over in a minute,”
“Don’t worry about it,” Heeseung stifled a laugh, “I think they’re cute,”
“Thanks,” Y/n smiled, hesitantly pulling the key out of her pocket and locking the door, “My friend Sunoo got them made for my 16th birthday because the guy doesn’t sell them himself,”
“Oh yeah?” Heeseung asked, pushing open the door to his apartment.
“Yeah!” Y/n continued, following him inside, “It seems like an untapped market, but I know selling stuff with the Bat-insignia would make it less meaningful. That didn’t matter to me when I was 15, though,”
“Well, legally sourced or not, I like them,” Heeseung declared as he started to empty the plastic bag on the table.
Y/n raised her eyebrows — Heeseung took what seemed like ten boxes of food out of the bag.
Heeseung only noticed her expression once the bag was empty. “What? I didn’t know what you liked,” He shrugged. “I’ll just donate the rest tomorrow before class,”
Y/n pretended not to be as (oddly?) touched as she was by that, nodding in agreement before picking up a box of flat noodles and a plastic fork. “Do you donate food often?”
Heeseung seemed to hesitate at that question; as if he was going to admit that he just said that to impress her. But to Y/n’s surprise, he said, “Yeah. I do,”
“Oh. That’s kind of you,” she continued, “Where should we sit?”
“Well…we could sit right here,” Heeseung gestured toward the table, “Or we can sit on the couch and put on a movie. Whatever you’re comfortable with,”
“Okay, pause,” Y/n put down her fork to place her hand on Heeseung’s shoulder, “I know that willingly spending time together isn’t something we’re used to, but you don’t have to walk on eggshells around me now that you’ve seen my legs. I know you liked what you saw,”
Wow. Y/n didn’t know what came over her to be confident enough to say that, but it worked — because the Heeseung she knew was back. “Oh, I liked what I saw?” Heeseung scoffed, his cockiness returning with a vengeance, “You nearly choked on your saliva when I unbuttoned my shirt like a Victorian woman,”
Y/n glanced at Heeseung’s chest momentarily, only making his smirk widen. “So, the couch then?”
“Yeah,” Heeseung grabbed a box and a fork, “the couch is great,”
The neighbors, despite their arrogant smack talk about being unaffected by each other, sat on opposite edges of the couch in silence as they started eating. The two of them were far too busy overthinking the implications of the conversation that just finished to find it awkward.
“So…you like Batman but not Nightwing? What about Superman?”
Heeseung shook his head, eyes fixed on his food. “I’m not a huge fan of any of them, to be honest,”
“Oh,” Y/n said softly, an air of disappointment filling the room. Right. The other reason they weren’t friends. She could ask why, but she already knew why. He had listed all the reasons just a couple of days ago in class. Y/n noticed him clench his jaw in the slightest — he was biting his tongue.
After a moment of silence, Y/n continued. “Nightwing got me coffee too, once,”
Heeseung broke a smile. “Are you trying to make me dislike him more?”
“Nope,” Y/n shrugged, “Just gauging your reaction,”
“Oh my god,” Heeseung’s mouth dropped open in faux disbelief, “You don’t care if I like Nightwing, you want me to be jealous of him,”
“No, no, I do,” Y/n replied. He was half-right, so she wasn’t really lying. “Besides, you’re the one who assumed I was trying to make you hate him,”
At this point, the two of them had put their food on the coffee table and gotten considerably closer to each other. It was very intentional.
“You’re blushing,” Heeseung added, still grinning. “You totally have a crush on me,”
“What are you, 14?” Y/n scoffed, touching her right cheek instinctively, “I don’t get crushes. I either date someone or I don’t. And clearly, this is an ‘absolutely not’ situation,”
“Huge crush,” Heeseung repeated, leaning in closer to Y/n as his gaze trailed down to her lips.
Y/n, despite acknowledging that it was a huge exaggeration, knew that already. She knew she liked Heeseung. But she found it odd that he only started being nice to her the night of the stripper fiasco…all she knew was that he was attracted to her. And maybe nothing else.
She winced. “No,” Heeseung’s eyes darted back to hers in surprise, his flirty energy dying on impact. “I won’t be your week-long rebound,”
“Y/n you’re not a—”
“I know what a rebound is, Heeseung,” she continued. “Don’t feel guilty. I just uh, can’t be that for you,”
Heeseung furrowed his eyebrows, “I…I like you, though, I mean that,”
Y/n scoffed. “That doesn’t carry a lot of weight considering when you started acting like…” she moved her hand up and down to gesture, “…like this. The night after you got dumped, you saw your kind of hot neighbor in a strip show — I get it!”
“So you don’t believe that I like you?”
“I think you’re into me, but no. I do not think you like me,” Y/n crossed her arms protectively, “I think you’d date me for a month or two, realize you’re still in love with your ex-girlfriend, and then dump me because you ‘don’t wanna string me along’ as if that wasn’t what you were doing the whole time,”
Y/n watched as Heeseung swallowed, struggling to come up with something to say in return. He opened his mouth for a moment, but closed it again. Giving Heeseung a pity-laced smile, Y/n stood up, touching his shoulder as she did. “Thank you for the food. That was sweet of you,”
She walked out. He didn’t follow her.
She wished he did.
3. Gestures of Appreciation
No one likes to have their effort and affection gone unnoticed — show her you care and appreciate her being in your life.
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it feels like it's been ages (because it's been nearly NINE MONTHS) since i've done an enhypen x taylor post but here it is! i feel kind of nervous posting this but whatever, i just gotta hit the button at some point.
sunghoon as snow on the beach
"you wanting me tonight feels impossible, but it's coming down, no sound, it's all around, like snow on the beach"
falling for sunghoon would feel so tragic at first because you'd think there's just no way he likes you back?? 😭
&& it'd consume a lot of your time just thinking about what it would be like if it did
so when you'd realize that he does when he finally tells you?? it'd feel magical
&&, not to be extremely literal, but a kiss on a snowy beach with sunghoon?? that WOULD be magical
initially, i considered having sunghoon being maroon instead of this song, so tell me what you think!
jay as midnight rain
"he was sunshine, i was midnight rain"
jay is ambitious. so for the record, i'm not saying that he isn't.
however, if you were dating him while he was already successful (aka now) & you weren't where you wanted to be, i think it'd naturally cause a rift like this song describes
&& sometimes, you'd look back & think about the life you would've had together
but ultimately, it may be for the best that you broke up because you wouldn't have been able to pursue your dreams together
(i do not wish this fate on any of you.)
ni-ki as question...?
"i don't remember who i was before you painted all my nights a color i've searched for since"
seeing ni-ki after you broke up would f with your head
not because he did anything on purpose, but because it would be really freaking hard to see him and think about him being with someone else
&& you'd hope that no one compares to what you & him had for him, because that's how you feel
but in reality, you'll never know
&& eventually, hopefully you'd move on. or run back to him? there's no moral of the story here.
sunoo as karma
"karma's a relaxing thought, aren't you envious that for you it's not?"
this song focuses on good things karma has brought to him rather than bad things it’s brought others
&& i think that’s a mindset sunoo would/does share
sunoo minds his business & good things come to him (in this case, you! you're the good thing that came to him!)
it’s been happening since i-land era we KNOW 👏(idc he was popular for a reason)
jungwon as sweet nothing
"outside, they're push & shoving, you're in the kitchen humming, all that you ever wanted from me was sweet nothing"
is anyone surprised by my choices for jungwon anymore? because these are so predictable i swear LMFAO
so i chose this song because jungwon seems like the type to not hold you to the same high standards that everyone else does
&& you'd be able to do the same for him, especially since he probably feels a lot of responsibility as the leader of the group
he'd give you that feeling of it not mattering what everyone else thinks because you have each other 🤧
heeseung as paris
"romance is not dead if you keep it just yours"
having a private relationship with heeseung is probably in the top 10 most romantic things ever 🫶🏽
so romantic that it feels like everything else fades away when you’re together & you’re somewhere else 😭
&& you wouldn’t have to put a ton of work into keeping that up because yeah, sometimes the relationship doesn’t feel like paris
&& that’s okay. it’s worth it for the good times :)
jake as glitch
"a brief interruption, a slight malfunction, i'd go back to wanting dudes who give nothing"
falling for jake when you're used to people who treat you like trash would feel so unreal
because that man would be such a good boyfriend <3
&& when that happens you'd kind of second guess whether you deserve to be treated that well
&& it would feel like something that isn't supposed to happen & you'd suspect that you'll return to the pattern of trash guys "after him"
but you deserve him & you deserve to be happy,, & he'd make that very clear to you in his actions and words
"i'm gonna see sabrina today YAY <3"...is what i wrote as the caption for this in APRIL when i started writing this. she was AMAZING though. enjoy!
beomgyu as read your mind
"you say that you wanna be alone, but night & day, want me at your beck & call"
beomgyu is 100% cryptic but (hopefully) only until you actually start dating
so it might be very hard to read him & figure out whether or not he wants you
he definitely thinks of a partnership as a team (as he should)
but...he might have trouble doing that if he hasn't dated anyone in a hot minute
(yikes)
i think he'd be kinda unintentionally hypocritical & be like "just tell me" when you're hiding something from him
&& then turn around & do the same thing LOL
hueningkai as already over
"how am i supposed to close the door when i still need the closure?"
something about the yeehaw energy in this song screams hueningkai to me
but beyond that, i low-key think hueningkai wouldn't have the guts to break up with you
&& i don't mean that solely in a the way that he strings you along, but rather the "i like you a lot so i'll keep making out with you but this is not working & we both know it" way
you could sense it too but you'd kind of be the same way 😭
that's not healthy though!! we all know that right?!
yeonjun as bet u wanna
"hurts to see me out of your reach, bet you wanna touch me now"
i can see this going both ways, no matter who dumped who, one of y'all would probably regret it!!
if it was you regretted it, it would be sparked by just seeing him him again
whereas i can picture yeonjun having terrible timing and realizing he still wanted you after you were already moving on with someone else
either way, you would not get back together after this fiasco. because damn.
also. something about the yeehaw energy in THIS song screams YEONJUN to me.
soobin as skinny dipping
"it'd be so nice, right? right? if we could take it all off & just exist"
soobin wouldn't want to go no-contact after your break up, but that's just how it works out sometimes
it's hard to see someone you still love & not be with them!
so naturally, you'd stop going to your coffee shop at the same time & texting him about your family drama
but you'd miss each other
so naturally, you'd think a lot about meeting him again under different circumstances when you could forget about the unintentional pain you caused each other
i think if you did meet each other in the future, friendship would definitely be on the table
&& maybe more further down the line :)
taehyun as things i wish you said
"i waste my time, i waste my life on idiotic things, like things you never said, things you'll never say to me"
taehyun may be honest with you when you break up but,, that doesn't mean that the truth is what you want to hear
so he'd tell you as much of the truth he thinks you can "handle" but that just hurts you more because you fill in the gaps yourself
&& afterward you'd just kind of be hoping it's hurting him as much as it's hurting you
when it isn't — & you have to remind yourself that he would have told you if it did
this ask was from JUNE i'm so sorry 😭 i didn't do as many mutuals as i could have but alas 🤧
@sunoosill :: stray kids felix. sal needs someone funny bc they love to laugh. but also kind. i think felix is a good choice.
@fandomgirl489 :: enhypen ni-ki. kristin is silly enough to handle ni-ki but MORESO ni-ki is silly enough to handle HER.
@unlocktxt :: bts jungkook. this feels so random but i hope you can get what i mean HAHA you guys would be cute tgt and i still remember her telling me about how much she loves his voice.
@binniebutter :: stray kids i.n. no further comment.
@hanniiesuckle17 :: stray kids changbin. they'd treat each other so well. and everyone (me) would love them tgt.
@simplhee :: enhypen heeseung. i would feel immense guilt if i didn't give her heeseung, but beyond that, i think they'd make a good pair ;)
@petrichor-han :: seventeen vernon. i think he'd get her. and maybe he'd be able to convince her how gorgeous she is since i can't 🤨.
@goldenhypen :: enhypen jake. i changed my mind from sunghoon (i shipped her w him in a post from over a year ago lmfao), i think em needs what jake can bring to the table :)
@ashxxgyu :: txt soobin. give ash the sweet boy she deserves!! she'd also treat HIM right so. and yes i'm fully aware i also said she was most like him SHHHHHH.
AAAAA okay ive got IDEAS, SURELY!! (i had like 2 ideas this took so long please forgive me. but also it's not any better because of that,, please drop your expectations)
@hanniiesuckle17 :: stray kids han. i would be lying to myself if i chose anyone other than jisung for hunter.
@fandomgirl489 :: enhypen jake. SHE'S MY JAKE <3 and i love her for it! WHAT MORE CAN I SAY
@goldenhypen :: blackpink rosé. em is so sweet (& GORGEOUS) i cannot explain it further than that but i get such chaeyoung energy from her hehe.
@unlocktxt :: txt yeonjun. i know bc of the among us moas server when she private messaged me to make sure i was okay. but also danced around to everlasting shine within like a day of us talking. lexi is yeonjun end of discussion HEHE
@ashxxgyu :: txt soobin. it's the way she posts and texts and the fact that she's so caring and i never feel lonely when she interacts w me <3
@petrichor-han :: enhypen sunghoon. he'd have higher standards though. PICK THE BAR OFF THE GROUND, RAIN, YOU'RE TOO HOT FOR THAT!
@foreshadxw :: bts rm. hayz is such a great moot and always knows what to say <3
@heesnovia :: somi. sel is so funny and hot and i wanna talk to her so often :)
@hsgwrld :: enhypen ni-ki. i've already told meg this but it's so true HAHA just enough silly and sweet <3
@heetoldme :: enhypen sunoo. they're both kind and fun and i associate her with him SO MUCH. (also,, just saw your theme...LOVE IT!)
@heesterical :: seventeen wonwoo. idk man i could not tell you why but jae gives me that type of energy in my bones. sorry for the lack of explanation, babes ;-;
@full-sunnies :: stray kids felix. she is silly and kind and i love her for it. as i do felix.
hehe thank you for the tag~ i spent an embarrassingly long time on this one trynna figure out the right outfits 🥴 but it worked out in the end sdghfgjkjf
thank you for tagging me, rain! love you <3 you have wonderful taste ;) ESPECIALLY YOU AND I BY ANARBOR THAT SONG IS SO GOOD i remember hearing it in the 2009 scooby doo movie and being hooked
austin moon in the top 10 as usual BYE
tagging: @fandomgirl489 (andddd no one else because i'm too scared to bother y'all but you're welcome to do it!)
