• cards | nct 2018 •

two || trouble

A/N: interesting (?) chapter ahead
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mark sits calmly at his desk that oversees his other members'. he flips a page of documents he received from doyoung the other day about the unknown powers of joker.

the room was in a silence, until a loud ring could be heard across the room. jumping, he gets surprised at the sound of his own mobile phone.

he unlocks his phone and realises that it is an unknown number.

he narrows his eyes, being extremely careful. it could be from joker, who knows.

heart thumping nervously in his chest, he picks up the phone call and pulls it to his ears.

"hello...?" he croaks his greeting.

"ah, yes, hello mark-ssi. this is Mr Kim calling from Hanlim."

"uh...sorry, what?"

"i am calling since you are the guardian of jeno and donghyuk. it appears that the two has attempted to cheat on my test."

"what???" flustered, he doesn't say anything else.

"i would like you to come down and collect them. they cannot go home unless you come."

"um, uh...okay. im coming over now."

"thank you, mark-ssi. they will be in the school's office."

with that, the call is ended.

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"seriously, can those kids at least cheat, without getting caught?" mark sighs as he stands in front of their school office.

he enters the air conditioned room and speaks to the clerk there. after signing some papers, donghyuk and jeno are seen exiting a room.

"thanks for coming, heck, i need the toilet." donghyuk says as he urgently looks at me.

"uh, i don't think so. you owe me an explanation." he deadpans.

"please! i've been in that room for hours and the teacher doesn't even allow me to leave the room!" donghyuk pleads.

sighing, "fine, whatever you want," mark gives up. "i thought i told you guys to behave, though. even jaemin doesn't do this. learn from him. as punishment, go home by yourselves." mark rolls his eyes before leaving the duo alone, exiting the cold room.

as he treads towards the school's exit, a crowd catches his attention and he walks towards it curiously.

"what the hell...?" he murmurs under his breath as he sees a group of girls poking fun at another poor girl. she was pushed onto the ground.

his foot automatically steps forward, however, his mind tells him to stop. he's not supposed to attract any sort of attention.

pursing his lips in thought, he looks around the area, finding a trash can that was filled with paper balls.

an idea sparks in his head and he smirks joyfully. focusing his mind, he lifts a paper ball from it, aiming it at the girl who was yanking on the poor girl's hair.

he shoots, and successfully scores. he grins triumphantly.

however, the girl seemed angered and threw her head back, screaming. "who was it? that stupid person?!"

mark chuckles lowly, letting no one but himself hear it. his lips curve into a lopsided grin as he aims and shoots another paper ball to another girl.

this time, in this havoc, mark boldly lifts the remaining paper balls in the bin and threw them all at what seemed like the leader of the gang.

in their anger, they storm off in a flurry. seeing that, mark smirks once more and begins to walk away.

the girl that lay on the ground slowly got up and looked towards the dispersing crowd. she narrows her eyes at mark.

"he's not normal," she whispers under her breath. "who is he?"

thinking nothing else, the girl walks towards the boy, very curious.

"hey, thanks for just now." she begins, and mark turns around.

"for what?" he cocks an eyebrow.

"you threw those paper balls, didn't you?" her lips crack into a tiny smile. "i'm lee hye ji. thanks for that."

"hye ji? it wasn't me, you're thanking the wrong person." he shrugs and walks away yet again.

"i know you're not normal." with that sentence, he freezes on the spot and slowly turns around to look at her.

"what do you mean, I'm not normal?"

she flashes a smile. "You know what I mean...you're probably a telekinesis user."

mark widens his eyes.

how does she know? is she from joker?

"how...do you know?" he carefully questions as he discreetly contacts jeno through telepathy. he's the closest right now.

"because I have powers like yours. want to see?" she grins, and it felt like a split second before she suddenly appears before him.

he cautiously takes a quick step back.

jeno, where the heck are you? you have to see this, and get me out of here! she's likely to be from joker.

omg, just wait. i'm coming as quick as I can!

"teleportation?" mark tries to stall time as he returns his attention to her.

"you think? i don't think it's teleportation. to be honest, i only found out about this last week," she says, and a voice enters my head again. 

at the same time, hye ji also tries to speak. "i wanted to ask if you know why i–"

im here, invincible. don't say I didn't warn you, but i just did, so, brace yourself!!!

right after jeno's words, a gush of wind passes mark, and before he knows it, he's carried off, away from the mysterious girl.

she never chased them.

"damn, that was really weird."

"sorry, you did tell me to get you out of there. that was the fastest way. we're lucky she didn't use teleportation to chase us though."

"hmm, right. jeno, we're heading back to blackjack. we need to report this." mark tells jeno as they make their way to headquarters.

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A/N: hey! fun fact. this story is inspired by 'Charlotte', and certain powers are what I found on the internet, as well as the webtoon 'Dice'.

However, disclaimer,this story does not have a similar storyline to Dice.