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"If you're that worried about the ratings," Maki says, "we could always kiss at the top of Castle Hill tomorrow morning."
"You don't say things like that!"
Somewhere in a production office in Seoul, a PD watched forty hours of &TEAM content and decided the two members who never quite make it into the same frame need to be sent to Nice, France for a week with nothing but a loose itinerary and a camera crew.
Euijoo thinks it's a content opportunity. Maki thinks it's about time.
(or: Nice, it turns out, does not care about Euijoo's blueprint.)
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nice, to see you (i have to look again) by ohwarmth
Published: 2026-05-10
Work ID: 84440321Relationship Tags:
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"If you're that worried about the ratings," Maki says, "we could always kiss at the top of Castle Hill tomorrow morning."
"You don't say things like that!"
Somewhere in a production office in Seoul, a PD watched forty hours of &TEAM content and decided the two members who never quite make it into the same frame need to be sent to Nice, France for a week with nothing but a loose itinerary and a camera crew.
Euijoo thinks it's a content opportunity. Maki thinks it's about time.
(or: Nice, it turns out, does not care about Euijoo's blueprint.)
(Approximate) Last Read: 2026/08/24
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Maki turns back to the kids and says something else, and whatever it is, it involves gesturing at Euijoo with an expression that Euijoo, from this distance, can only describe as pitying. The kids look at Euijoo. Then at Maki. The smaller one puts her hand over her heart, saying something with what appears to be genuine sympathy. Maki nods gravely.
Euijoo has a very bad feeling.
I laughed out loud
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Euijoo stares at him.
"You told two French children I was sad."
"You're always a little sad, hyung. It's part of your charm," Maki teases.
lololol
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“Of course. You’re the maknae. That’s my job.”
Maki feels himself flinch before he can stop it, something tightening just under his ribs. He looks at Euijoo, who is still absorbed in the menu, unaware that he once again has placed them neatly back into a shape that no longer fits.
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Euijoo knows Maki.
He just knows him through a version that has started to fall slightly out of sync with time, one Maki has been watching quietly drift off course for the better part of two years, a version with a specific expiration date that Euijoo keeps refusing to acknowledge. It's not a wrong version exactly. It's just not the whole picture anymore. It hasn't been the whole picture for a while.
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Euijoo stands in Place Masséna with the fountain behind him and the crowd around him, and Maki singing Jyuugoya at him from across a square in Nice, France, and thinks:
I'm looking now. I'm looking.
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"I'm just Maki. I've always just been Maki. You can let that be enough."
I know, Euijoo thinks.
Because Maki is right. Maki has always just been Maki. The distance was never Maki's fault, never Maki's doing, never anything Maki needed to fix or adjust. Maki has just been standing there, unchanged, waiting to be looked at directly.
my thoughts
truly a wonderful read. funny, but also achingly vulnerable and human. the descriptions are immaculate and it just feels so real, like something that actually could've happened. this is just one of those fics where the world feels like it really exists in this way, and you want to be a part of it. the setting really elevates this work, and makes traveling to nice with your loved ones so appealing it could almost be a travel ad. i'm so glad i gave this fic a chance.
on seeing and being seen for who you are.
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"The story of what has to happen inside a person before feelings become something they can be honest about."
Take the pink unicorn floatie and get in the water, Byun Euijoo. :)
(Not sure it's possible to nail it harder than this. It's going to stick with me a long, long time.)
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