wingate gardens -got7 ✓

20- too late

it all happened so quickly, mark didn't have time to think.

one minute yugyeom was stood next to him, startled fear wiped across his face, the next he was being tackled to the floor by at least 3 police officers.

seeing the handcuffs click into place behind yugyeom's back only launched bambam into another hysterical cry and mark had wanted to go over and hug him but a paramedic began escorting him away.

he was placed on a stretcher, one young woman fumbling with the knife in his leg as she tried to quell the onslaught of blood. and then bambam was gone, out of the warehouse.

when mark looked around, he saw jaebeom and jackson had been taken away too, just leaving him and park, who for some reason had entered the warehouse with the police. perhaps to spread more lies about what had really happened in the warehouse, clearing jaebeom's name, making him look like the victim.

just looking at park made mark want to stab him. his eyes locked on the gun that yugyeom had used, kicked under a rusty pipe and barely visible, and for a split second he thought about using it on park. his hand shook with the need to do something.

but the feeling quickly subsided when park collapsed to the floor. it seemed to mark as though he was crying more than bambam had been, which had seemed almost impossible.

it was weird seeing park cry, he was meant to be the strong, fearless one. seeing such a fierce man flooded with tears made mark's heart bleed for him.

he knew what it was like to cry like that.

but still, it was hard to feel bad for him.
he had betrayed everyone.
he had betrayed mark, and bambam... and yugyeom... poor yugyeom who was being shoved into a police van and sent careening off to the nearest precinct.

yet mark found himself walking over to where park was kneeling. he wrapped an arm around the boy's shoulders, at once feeling how they shook and shuddered with each shiver of tears.

"mark..." park choked out, looking up to face mark with his blotchy red face, "... mark i'm so s-sorry... i-i,"

"it's okay.. just i-... yugyeom's gone park," mark paused to take a shaking breath, wincing as the sound of tears crackled within it, "you made him leave... h-how could you?!"

park stared at the floor, wiping away tears as soon as they sprung to his eyes. he didn't want to be the weak one, "i wanted to start again. with you. and i ruined everything,"

"yeah.. you did."

"i-i've ruined his life too. i sent him to prison,"

mark saw things beginning to click into place in park's head, he could practically see the cogs turning.

"oh god..." park jumped up from the floor, pushing mark off him, "OH GOD I'VE SENT YUGYEOM TO PRISON,"

he was pacing now, not even flinching when the police came back in, he just kept walking. mark told them they'd come to the station to give statements in a few minutes, and that they just needed to sort some things out.

meanwhile, park was descending into chaos, his small sobs becoming breathless wails that filled the whole warehouse. he was becoming panicky and from what mark could see, the man could hardly breathe.

"park!" he said, but park barely acknowledged his presence, "park! just tell me why you did it."

park stopped in his tracks, head whipping around suddenly. his eyes were wild and tear-stained, making him look more than slightly insane.

"b-because i love jaebeom..." his breath hitched, "... i love the worst person on earth,"

"can't argue with that,"