| Midnight | NCT |

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Taeyong could feel his head spinning as he and Johnny walked down the halls of the college aiming to leave and skip their second class and go get lunch early when some student had tripped another up causing him to fall and sent all the books in his hands flying everywhere, the two boys that caused the incident laughed high giving each other.

It was your typical college cliche, some douche jocks thought it'd be ok to pick on the first year art major, the jock who had tripped him laughed and circled around him taking his classes off the poor boys face and dropping them crushing them with his foot, Taeyong's eyes furrowed.

"Hey, leave him alone!" Johnny yelled from beside Taeyong causing him to jolt at the sound, the group of jocks ignored Johnny's warning and continued to torment himself the closer they got Taeyong could feel his adrenaline spike.

"Hey guys, leave him alone, don't you have anything better to do?" Johnny protested nearing the group, the group spread out watching as Johnny helped the first year asking his name.

"It's Renjun, Thanks"

"Buddy we were just having some fun, no harm done" a jock said placing his arm around Johnny a smug smile gracing his ugly face, Taeyong grimaced at the gesture.

"I'm not your buddy" Johnny raised an eyebrow shoving the boys arm off him and tending to Renjun helping him with his things, Johnny and Taeyong had bent down to pick up his things when Taeyong's ears perked and everything seemed to stop and play in slow motion.

The jock shook his arm off staring at Johnny as if he had just disrespected his mother, he turned to his friend mumbling a watch this, his sneakers made a squeaking sound as he turned and jerked forwards aiming to jump at Johnny and as if everything started playing faster the boy found himself being pushed up against the wall, held by his collar.

Taeyong stared at the boys stupidity, holding him higher his arm across his throat threateningly, Johnny was a quick second behind in reacting when he saw how Taeyong was much faster to defend him not only confirming his suspicion but causing him great worry.

"Now why would you make things harder for yourself?" Taeyong asked applying more pressure on the base of this throat hearing him choke slightly, he lifted his arm a little feeling his friends crowd behind him, Johnnys eyes widened quickly texting his friends and standing up yelling Renjun to leave, Renjun muttered another thank you and bolted but stopped at the end of the hallway watching from afar.

Taeyong turned his head slightly seeing Johnny grab at the other jock who wanted to jump in and shook his head.

"Kids these days" he mumbled sighing dramatically turning and shoving the boy into the ground near Johnnys feet, Johnny gulped watching Taeyong press harder against his throat a loud choking sound startling everyone left his mouth.

"Taeyong, calm down he's not worth it" Johnny shoved the jock in his arms to the side and rushed to Taeyong who glared harshly back at him, Johnny took a step back instantly, Taeyong could feel his eyes burn and he knew that was a bad sign, blinking harshly feeling his eyes water Taeyong dropped the boy without a second thought turning to Johnny.

"Johnny, I need to go now" Taeyong whispered, Johnny nodded quickly knowing what he was meaning and looking around to find a path out of the crowd that had formed, the boy Taeyong had nearly choked out coughed harshly standing up, Johnny caught the sight of Doyoung and Jaehyun trying to push through the crowd and pushed Taeyong towards that way.

"get fucking back h-" and before the words could leave the jocks mouth a solid punch had knocked him towards his friend who was about to get up startling the whole crowd.

Johnny watched as Areum shook her fist out raising an eyebrow and yelled at everyone to mind their own business watching them all leave one by one, Taeyong had already slipped out with Johnny being shoved into the boys bathroom, their friends following, Areum watched as the three jocks got up, rubbing his jaw one stepped forward wanting to hit whoever had punched him but froze, Areum glared at him harshly and they ran off making her roll her eyes, boys are stupid.

...

Taeyong's eyes burned and he could barely breath properly, his lungs burned and he couldn't help but let the tears leave his eyes, Areum made sure to lock the door while they tended to Taeyong.

"We need to cool him down" Taeil said turning on the sink watching as cold water filled the bowl, Taeyong was in the corner animalistic sounds leaving his mouth, Doyoung left the bathroom grabbing a bucket from the janitors closet beside the boys bathroom and came back inside filling it with water and dumping it straight onto Taeyong.

Taeyong growled eyes turning red scaring the whole group but Doyoung ignored it repeating his action watching as the water drenched Taeyong's body and the floor, Taeyong shivered at the cold sensation feeling like he could finally breath easy again, His breathing calmed down and his eyes changed back to their normal colour, while his teeth that were on the verge of growing shrunk back to normal, no one said anything for a minute or two watching their friend sit with his face in his hands, shivering from the cold.

"I fucking told you all!"

...

Mark was quick to take the two teenage boys they found in the woods back to his house, using his skills in the medical field to help aid the boy, Mark noticed the supernatural smell that were surrounding them but he also couldn't help but be curious as to why the injured males wound hadn't closed up already.

Mark finished his job and left to wash his hands of the dried blood after stitching up this boys wound, the unharmed boy sat beside the bed where his friend was placed, in the guest room, Mark finished cleaning up and made his way back to the room instantly earning the attention of the stranger that was unconscious.

"You gonna tell me your names?" Mark asked crossing his arms over his chest and leaning back into the door, the boy was hesitant but Mark couldn't help the red that wiped him of his brown eye colour making the boy gulp.

"Na Jaemin, this is my friend Lee Jeno" Jaemin had finally spoke after a couple seconds looking over at Jeno who was fast asleep and breathing better than when Mark found him.

"Ok and what are you two?"