Lucas curiously eyed the tastefull decorated penthouse (Yuta’s fashion sense wasn’t limited to clothes, mind you), a light bounce could be found in his steps which revealed his excitment and nervousness as he walked with uncle Doyoung (who he had met once at the hospital), towards the living room.

On a purple dark big couch were two stunning man: one with a very sly look in his eyes had a tanned boy on his lap who eyed him with curious weary eyes, while the other who possessed Chinese feutures lightly but warmly smiled at him.

On the greyish carpet stood a Chinese child, picturebook in hands with two younger children on both of his side, all eyeing him with curiousity. And just next to them stood…

“MARK GE!” Lucas shout starteled everyone (besides his dads who stood behind him, they just smiled softly, long used to his loud behaviour), as he happily ran towards his hyung, who had an surprised expression on his face; the older couldn’t even reply back before Lucas wrapped his arms around his neck, crushing on his side to avoid the child that stood in his hyung’s lap with a smartphone.

“Xuxi? They allowed you to leave the hospital?” Mark’s confused voice was nevertheless very happy, as he had thought that Lucas recovery wouldn’t be so fast.

Lucas nodded excitedly, smile goofy and eyes shinning as he tried to speak in a mix of self learned Korean and Chinese:

“My body is strong, Lucas is completely healed! Hyung must keep your promise! Noeun Haeyahande!”

the last part of his sentence was so cute that that Kun and Taeyong laughed, cooing internally at the Chinese acesent, while Winwin smiled as he remembered his Renjun’s old times, when the child had spoken his first words in Korean.

Jisung who didn’t like the fact that his pillow was currently being sharred (and right in front of his own salad!), glared lightly at Lucas, as he lightly pushed the elder out of their proximity trying to detach the stranger from his hyung’s neck.

But Jisung’s strength was very weak, while Lucas eventhough still recovering, was much stronger thanks to his age and frame, so he just curiously looked at Jisung not understanding what the younger was attempting, with his arms still strongly gripped around his hyung’s neck.

This earned the snicker of Doyoung and a soft smile of Kun and Winwin, while Taeyong sighed in defeat at his maknae's attitude.

Mark softly took back Jisung’s hand, a soft “Sungie don’t be mean” left his mouth, which angered Jisung who pouted back at him, with puffed cheeks in annoyance.

Lucas eyes shinned seeing the round cheeks, and before he could control his urge, his hands slidded down his Hyung’s neck to pinch those cute cheeks that looked fluffly and stretchy…

Which they were. “woah so stretchy”, he thought in amazement as he stretched them, not seeing Jisung eye’s in shock before the younger’s hands swatted his hands off, glare stronger then ever.

Mark wanted to laugh as he eyed Lucas who looked wronged for not being able to stretch Jisung cheeks but seeing Jisung sulky glare he still pacified his baby brother by rubbing his back discretely, bringing him to snuggle closer to his chest as he said towards Lucas: “Don’t pay attention to him; Jisung doesn’t like to be pinched by everyone.”

Seeing Lucas shining eyes droop like a puppy, Renjun who had watched like everyone else how the stranger had jumped to his hyung, resisted the urge to laugh as he curiously asked: “Hyung, is he your friend?”

Lucas perked up, looking at the boy, then back to his Mark hyung with shinning eyes again, with a clear message that could be read as “Introduce Me!”

Mark chuckled at the sight, but he still hesitated briefly, not knowing how to introduce Lucas in front of his sibilings.

Taeyong who had watched the entire interaction with a soft smile on his face, could directly see that his eldest son was thinking too much, and he responed with a very warm tone to his second oldest:

“That’s Lucas, he is Johnny’s and Ten’s son, “Taeyong pointed out the two adults that had discretely taken a seat on the dark sofa, Ten and Yuta already lightly bickering with their eyes.

“Ah Appa’s friend!” Jeno who finnaly realised Johnny’s precense stood up, running towards the man who had promised him a play of foorball next time they would meet;

Johnny chuckled as he ruffled Jeno’s hair: “Hey buddy, long time no see.”

Jeno eyesmile greeted him back as he asked hopefully: “Can we play football?”

Johnny smiled but remembering Ten's plead he softly aplogised: “I am afraid that today won’t do, but if your dad and appa are okay with it, I can bring you out an afternoon to the park near your home. We can play as long as you wish.”

Jeno’s eyes shined as he looked at his dad, who looked first at Jaehyun and Kun.

Kun lightly smiled (he was fairly unused that Taeyong seeked his approval for Jeno, but was nonetheless pleased with it as he felt he was truy being treated like Jeno’s dad), and Jaehyun nodded, so Taeyong agreed, which made Jeno happy.

Renjun looked at Lucas with warry eyes, feeling a mix of emotion as he carefully asked: “So he is hyung's…brother?”

Lucas beamed, as Mark nodded: “He is hyung’s didi.”

He then turned to Lucas, as he introduced him to the others: “This is Renjun.”

“Ah, the one who helped with hyung’s letter!” Lucas remembering his Hyung’s letter mentioning Renjun help with writing the correct characters, beamed as he had been curious who the mysterious helper had been; He wanted to thank Renjun for helping his hyung to write him that letter he treasured so much.

“Letter?” Renjun blinked before it dawned to him that for a little while his Mark hyung asked him how to write Chinses characters, though Renjun had never seen a letter. It had been mostly his Mark hyung typing on his phone, so Renjun had thought his Mark hyung had been writing a song again.

Mark nodded, as he pointed to Jeno who came back to him, eyeing his hyung’s dongsaeng curiously.

“And this is Jeno”

Jeno’s face was a bit confused, but he nevertheless smiled his famous eyesmile to the big child, who repayed him back with an even brighter smile. “The one who plays a lot of sports!” Lucas nodded to him while Jeno asked curiously: “You play sports too?”

Lucas grinned, pointing towards himself full of confidence: “Basketball and football; Xuxi is the best, even dad can’t beat Xuxi!”

Ten snorted as he teased his son: “That’s because your dad is a loser who is soft to his own son”, which earned the protest of Johnny.

“I AM LELE!” Chenle who liked the excitement, introduced himself spontaneously to the little giant, who didn’t even flinch in front of his dolphin pitched like voice; instead Lucas smile became brighter as he instantly liked the loudy charcter of the cute boy.

“And I am Nana” Jaemin too introduced himself, as he eyed the newcomer with curious eyes.

“Nana?” Lucas was pretty sure there was no “Nana” mentioned in the few letters (three to be exact) his hyung and him had exchanged.

“They are hyung’s cousins. This is Jaemin, but you can call him Nana… and this is Donghyuck” Mark pointed towards the tanned boy who looked at Lucas warringly, still sitting on the Japanese model’s lap. Yuta feeling the tense body of his son, shook his head helplessly as he softly caressed his soft locks, to calm him down...ah his poor son, he got another Jisung like character to deal with now.

Lucas smiled back at him, which made Donghyuck frown even deeper, while Yuta eyed the tall boy with a glint of interest in his eyes.

Doyoung seeing his son sceptism, rolled his eyes; that boy should stop eyeing every boy that was to close to Mark as a rival, ah!

As if arguing with Jisung wasn’t enough extreme…Doyoung smiled, as he couldn’t help but think those arguments were actually very cute, if you knew how Donghyuck could really argue when he was truly angry.

Jeno curiously asked: “How old are you?”

Lucas chest puffed as he said in Korean with a thick Chinese accent: “12 years old, I am Hyung!”

Renjun’s eyes became bigger as he had tought the giant was at least as old (frankly even older if he hadn’t heard his hyung introduce him as didi) then his Mark hyung.

Lele finding Lucas accent funny giggled: “Hyung speaks weird!”

Lucas hearing this, defleated lightly like a kicked puppy, and Renjun panicked as he quickly tried to control damage his brothers’ words: “Hyung isn’t Korean, right? But Hyung’s Korean is quite good, so Lele didn’t notice it.”

Lucas perked up again, chest high as if Renjun had told him he had won an Award for speaking perfectly Korean and Kun, Winwin and Taeyong laughed lightly at the sight of it.

“Of course, Hyung has to speak good Korean!” he added as he looked back at his Mark ge, eyes shinning that asked for a compliment.

Mark surpressed a giggled as he lightly smiled: “Everyone here can understand Chinese too, so if its too hard just speak comfortably.”

Lucas pouted, puppy eyes grand looking like a kicked puppy again, as those weren’t the compliments he was looking for.

“Such a little drama queen.” Doyoung snickered as he eyed Ten meaningfully.

Ten smiled back proudly, acknowledging its hidden meaning. Though, Lucas probably herited that dramaqueen side from Johnny; don’t let you get fooled by his composed appearance, he could be quite the little pouty dramaqueen as well!

He and Johnny looked at each other briefly, and both could read their gladness that Lucas was socializing well with his Hyung’s family.

“Guitar! Hyung quickly show Xuxi!” Lucas eyes had finally found the guitar that rested beside his hyung, and his eyes shinned brightly as he couldn’t surpress his excitement at the tought of finally hearing his hyung play.

Mark smiled and looked down at Jisung, yet the younger understanding he would have to leave his hyung’s lap glared back at him, hands already gripping his shirt.

“Jisung, let hyung play a bit, alright?” Mark softly coaxed, yet Jisung only shook his head.

Taeyong seeing this laughed, and he stood up, ready to take his pouting son into his arms; Jisung hated more then anything to share his hyung’s exclusive love (Mark maybe fair in his attention and affection, he treated Jisung with a bit more care, and the younger clearly knew) with other people, and Taeyong would be probably the only one able to coax him into his arms.

Once Jisung was settled into his arms (still lightly glaring at Lucas, as he nuzzled himself into his dad's chest), Mark took the guitar, asking Lucas: “Any song requests?”

“Hyung, do you know Chinese songs?” Lucas puppy eyes were shown again as he eagerly asked his hyung.

Mark nodded, and Lucas beamed happily as he asked: “Then do you know ‘Dream Launch’?”

Mark nodded again, as this one was one of Renjun’s favourite songs, the younger liked to hum from time to time.

Renjun was looking with a complicated expression at Lucas; the older one was so much brighter then himself, he seemd to make his Mark hyung smile a lot…. and when had they gotten so close?

Mark seeing Renjun’s expression didn’t seem right, softly nudged him: “Injunie, can you accompany me?”

Renjun snapped back from his dark toughts; Mark hyung didn’t forget about him, he was even trying to give him some attention the moment he frowned: Renjuun’s heart warmed at the thought of it, he scolded himself lightly for thinking bad of his hyung and he couldn’t help but smile brightly back as he stood up to pick the zither he had already placed away.

Taeyong seeing this smiled, as he too had observed Renjun’s expression. His second son was to much of a worry wart, though that was the first time Taeyong had seen his son jealous.

He couldn’t help but feel his son was being cute again.

Taeyong looked at Lucas, at his eldest son Mark and at his brothers, all sitting down in a circle; Jeno had taken a bouncy Lele on his lap, while Nana tried to drag his Devil hyung out of Yuta’s lap to join, and he for the very first time in so long; Taeyong felt very light as he looked forwards to the future in excitement.

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“Good, keep that face, different pose….Ooh ooh, perfect!”

Mark smile remained the same, his eyes a little bit forsty as there was still some warmth that was directed towards Lucas who was beaming at him with playfull eyes while holding closely on his arm.

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“Magnificent, another one.” Yuta’s eyes were shooting hearts as he looked through the big monitor screen, squeeling at the picture, while Ten excitedly took pictures with his own phone.

Lucas beamed, clearly enjoying it as he laid his head on Mark shoulder, smiling mischievously at the camera while Mark uncounsiously smirked at the act, eyes colder directed towards the lense.

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“Yes, yes, keep going!” Ten excitedly squeezed the Japanese model, who excitedly shouted too:

“That’s it, show them what you got!”

Jaehyun who was looking from the back, three meters appart from the monitor set, shook his head as he looked towards the two adults that were supposed to act proffessional, yet were in the middle of their fanboying act.

Johnny whose eyes still shined at the scene chuckled as he apologised: “Well at least thay are getting along well?”

Jaehyun chuckled as he looked at Yuta and Ten, having the time of their lives, forgetting how annoyed they actually are at each other presence, as the two happily fanboyesdtoghter; “I think they got along very well before this. Believe me, if you can anger and annoy Yuta yet still being able to argue with him alive, then that means that he quites likes you.”

Rembering those two bickering on their way to the studio, Jaehyun added:

“But yeah…we can say that they are at least on the same page for this.”

Johnny smiled: “I wante