ONE-on-ONE | nct crackfic

when super m hotline needs workers ft. exo hotline's kai

taeyong was simply minding his own goddamn business when he was pulled into the side of the hall, large but tiny hands holding his shoulders flat and square against the dry wall.

"mark, what the hell?!"

taeyong gasps out for air but mark only shushes his, bringing a quick finger to the older male's lips.

"shush. we shan't be so loud."

the manager raises a brow.

"did you just say 'shan't'—"

"shut up, t-yong. it's about supermane..."

mark begins, not even able to bring up the topic without feeling so emotional and distressed.

"what about supermane? spill it!"

"h-he forced me to do these things, all these things... i didn't want to do them and he... he made me do it... he made me practice dancing to a song with exo hotline's kai and i can't believe he really did this to me... but he told me he liked the way i performed and he... he... he put... he put me in a new building."

mark eventually breaks out into a sob and this time taeyong wraps his arms around the young latter, giving him rubs on the back and pats on his head to assure him.

"everything will be okay, i promise."

the young boy stops his crying and returns back to normal but instead held serious intent in his eyes when he looked at taeyong again.

"NOW HE'S COMING FOR YOU, TOO!"

but little did they know that behind that very same corner was a man and not just any man but a mane and not just mane because he was super and they called him supermane.

taeyong shudders at mark's words down the hall but returns back to normal when he pops inside the nct 'u' room.

"yo jae, wanna grab some burritos?"

• • •

kai didn't know where he was stumbling into now because all the while he was standing inside the building of nct hotline, there was no kyungsoo anywhere to be found.

but like not as if he was expecting kyungsoo to be there anyhow.

the insanely attractive man continued on, earning glances from all the workers and he knew what they all had been thinking.

"close your mouth, babes. i'm only here for an hour."

kai says, smugly, hitting a pose similar to a little tea pot.

"but we didn't say any—"

"quiet now, tall one. i'm trying to find my aura here."

the guy kai had been referring to was suddenly crossing his arms defensively.

"kai, i'm johnny."

"—and your fly is open."

kai jokes but johnny is forced to drop his eyes just in case he had been misled.

"it's not!"

he defends.

how embarrassing because johnny was wearing sweats where flys did not exist on comfortable clothes.

"but yours is."

it was the way johnny had said his comeback that made everyone in the room break out into laughter even if it hadn't even been that funny.

"this is why your contact name is frosted flakes. it's ironic because you're not sweet, but you are dry."

kai rolls his eyes and continues on, leaving johnny with his jaw wide and leaving chenle a dolphin gasping for air.

"now i'm here because supermane has informed be that i will be working alongside some nct hotline members in the new building they've just constructed called 'superm'."

"do you mean 'super m'?"

someone asks in a tiny voice.

"mark, shut up. if the king says it's 'superm' then it's superm, okay?"

haechan says, not wasting a single breath of his while telling mark off like he always does.

for a while the room goes silent, including kai because perhaps he had run out of words to say or maybe he was only dawning the nct hotline members for a moment of silence.

just so you know, to make everything more dramatic and extra.

that is, well, until lucas opened his mouth.

"oh my gOSH! wouldn't it be amazing though?! if i could be in superm and like we all could get perms because superm and like i think that would be really nice but except i'm still not that fluent in korean or mandarin or english and i can't believe it but i was learning a bit of thai from ten, i mean the only thing i can say is 'chittaphRRR' but still that's progress, right?"

everyone stares lucas down but only kun's eyes remained on lucas's.

"okay, now say that in human."

he was so fed up with his bullshit that he could have bursted right then and there but he decided to save it for another day.