markhyuck baseball au. donghyuck the catcher with sharp eyes and sharper wit & mark the ambitious ace pitcher with incredible skills. they’re on different teams but donghyuck wants to try catching for mark cause he thinks it’d be fun. mark thinks hes trying to gather intel

it becomes a running gag for donghyuck to ask mark to pitch for him and mark to refuse

they start accidentally running into each other everywhere, which leads to them hanging out more often, which leads to mark warming up to hyuck. hyuck’s never hidden his interest in him tho (whether it’s in a baseball way or.... something else, mark doesn’t know)

hyuck saying weird things that could either be interpreted into baseball related things or flirting. it’d be in the middle of a convo with baseball context but then sound like he’s hitting on him
hyuck: ur the only one for me (that i want to catch for)
mark:

mark catching feelings but then being confused by the weird could-be-flirting-could-be-baseball stuff hyuck would say. like is he doing it on purpose? is he knowingly flirting? or is it just baseball and mark’s just overthinking

and as much as it sounds stupid...is hyuck just sticking around to figure out how to beat his team in the upcoming tournament? ....no, he wouldn’t do that. he’s not the type of person to do that. mark knows. but still.... he can’t help but think

some other shit happens

they play against each other. mark’s team wins

somewhere along the way mark’s mind started looking like this: baseball = romance. he finally accepts pitching for hyuck as his ultimate act of romance

hyuck teases him for this, and then he sees the ball they were using has “i like you a lot, lee donghyuck” written on it, and then laughs harder. but mark’s just standing there, whole face red, earnestly waiting for a reply

they kiss on the pitcher’s mound and hyuck goes “i guess i like u a lot too” which makes mark immediately respond with “i like u so much.” hyuck snorts. some more things happen, like their teams finding out they’re dating. the end

mark-centric, focuses a lot on mark’s team and development despite this thread focusing on the romance lmao