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1. Try Again by musicdisc13

   Fandoms: ATEEZ (Band)  

   • Not Rated
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Gen, M/M
   • Complete Work

   12 Aug 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Kim Hongjoong/Park Seonghwa
   • Kim Hongjoong & Park Seonghwa
   • Jung Wooyoung & Park Seonghwa
   • Choi San & Park Seonghwa
   • Choi Jongho & Park Seonghwa
   • Kang Yeosang & Park Seonghwa
   • Jeong Yunho & Kim Hongjoong
   • Kim Hongjoong & Song Mingi
   • Jeong Yunho & Song Mingi (ATEEZ)
   • Choi San/Jung Wooyoung (ATEEZ)
   • Kim Hongjoong & Park Seonghwa & EDEN
   • Kim Hongjoong & EDEN
   • Park Seonghwa & EDEN
   • Kim Hongjoong
   • Park Seonghwa
   • Jeong Yunho (ATEEZ)
   • Song Mingi (ATEEZ)
   • Jung Wooyoung (ATEEZ)
   • Choi San (ATEEZ)
   • Choi Jongho (ATEEZ)
   • Kang Yeosang
   • Eden
   • Italian Mafia
   • Kim Hongjoong as a Mafia Boss
   • Park Seonghwa as a Mafia Boss
   • Best Friends Kim Hongjoong & Park Seonghwa
   • Mutual Pining
   • for years
   • Long-Distance Friendship
   • just for the beginning - Freeform
   • ATEEZ as a Mafia Gang
   • established woosan
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Friends to Strangers to Lovers actually
   • Park Seonghwa Needs a Hug
   • Kim Hongjoong is Bad at Feelings
   • Slow Burn
   • Morally Grey Characters
   • EDEN is in charge and not great
   • Violence
   • Gun Violence
   • Blood and Injury
   • Fluff
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • temporarily
   • Domestic Fluff
   • Not Beta Read
   • Eventual Relationships
   • Yunho is a business man
   • Mingi is also a business man
   • Hongjoong is a pathological liar to them
   • Oops
   • EDEN causes so many problems
   • Childhood Friends
   • Kim Hongjoong/Park Seonghwa-centric
   • you'll see - Freeform
   • Inspired by Ice On My Teeth (ATEEZ)
   • but more insane
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • The gory isn't crazy gory but the warning is there
   • Panic Attacks
   • Seonghwa has a panic disorder
   • seonghwa and hongjoong are parents tbh
   • Blackmail
   • tiny tiny smut
   • Fluff and Smut
   • author is aromantic
   • slow burn isnt that slow now that i think about it
   • led candle burn

   Summary

   Park Seonghwa and Kim Hongjoong have been leaders of their own mafia gang, ATEEZ, for many years, and have known each other even longer.

   One day, Hongjoong leaves Seonghwa and their gang behind, severing all forms of communication for 4 years.

   When he makes the uncomfortable decision to finally come back, what will happen to their failed friendship and the blossoming romance he left behind all those years ago?

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   122,342

   Chapters:

   12/12

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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