ANL - mark lee

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"well, I don't think we've met officially, but i'm jungwoo," he stated, holding his hand out to aeri.

mindlessly, aeri went to shake his hand, revealing the wound on her stomach more clearly.

"holy shit, you're bleeding a lot," jungwoo exclaimed, grabbing her hand, starting to walk at a faster pace.

they quickly exited the factory and ran over to the fence line where johnny was on the other side.

"can you climb it?"

"I climbed it earlier didn't I?" the girl replied, scaling the fence before dropping down on the other side. jungwoo watched, slightly offended by her rude nature.

in all reality, aeri never meant to be rude. she was more so annoyed that she couldn't help jaemin when she was the reason he was gone.

"okay so what happened," johnny asked, seeing the girls blood start to seep more heavily through her shirt.

"I don't know, some guy came out of nowhere and he had a knife and then this happened," aeri explained.

"where was mark?" kun asked.

"he was checking another room and the guy came from behind me. he shot him though, just before the others got there".

johnny nodded in response to the girl before taking her over to the edge of the van and opening up a small medical kit.

"can you lift up your shirt, I need to see how deep the cut is,"

julia complied and lifted her shirt, exposing her bloody abdomen, slightly wincing when the shirt pulled away from the areas that it had stuck to.

"i'm gonna pour a treatment on it so it'll probably sting,"

"yeah, whatever just do it quickly please," aeri hissed. her adrenaline rush was wearing off and she was starting to feel the pain of her injuries.

johnny was quick to clean and bandage the cut, thankfully it was shallow enough where she didn't need stitches.

johnny was starting to inspect the cut on her cheek when the fence rattled and six people dropped over.

as the group got closer their faces came into view. aeri squinted before locking eyes with the dark haired boy, immediately moving towards him. she was quick to engulf him in a hug which he quickly returned.

"oh my god you're such an idiot na jaemin," she breathed out, releasing him from the hug.

"sorry to ruin this reunion, but we gotta go. there's no doubt they will find that room empty soon and when they do they won't be happy," taeyong interrupted, gesturing them all into the cars.

they all quickly complied and were quick to drive off.

johnny rode in the car with jaemin and aeri, checking on any injuries. once the returned back to their estate, he brought the both of them to his medical room, followed by taeyong, jaehyun, and mark.

"i'm telling you hyung, they were inexperienced. any time they would threaten to try and get  information all they would bring is a gun. who the hell brings a gun to intimidate someone, if they were going to kill me they would have done it already so I had no reason to tel them anything," jaemin explained to the group.

"did they seem to know anything at all? names?" taeyong asked back.

"they didn't know a thing, I don't even know how they knew I was in the gang,"

"okay, so they didn't know nor get anything out of jaemin. now what about you two," he asked turning to mark and aeri, "how the hell is one of you all cut up and the other doesn't have a scratch?"

"she was grabbed from behind and he had a knife to her throat. I couldn't do anything until he let her go, but before he did that he decided to cut her. once he let her go I shot him," and that's all that happened," mark explained.

taeyong and jaehyun both nodded and left the room, leaving the three teenagers and johnny.

upon their leaving mark quickly turned to aeri, who's cheek was being inspected by johnny.

"where the hell did that 'blackbelt since I was ten' shit go?!" he exclaimed.

"who told you she was a blackbelt," jaemin exclaimed, laughing in the midst.

"she did! she told all of us. so not only is she useless she's also a liar!" mark exclaimed.

"yeah, I lied. to save my best friend," aeri replied, trying to keep a level head as she was being yelled at.

"I don't care who you were trying to save! what we do, isn't a game. that guy had a knife! he could have easily killed you in a split second if he wanted to and there wouldn't have been anything we could do to stop it!"

"good! he should have killed me, then I could be dead just like the rest of my family!" aeri had finally lost it.

"ri, calm down," jaemin tried to interject, but it wouldn't work. all he and johnny could do is watch as the scene went down between the two.

"you're not the only one with issues in here princess, so i'd shut your mouth," mark stated stepping closer to the girl, only a few feet apart now.

"or what you'll kill me?" she taunted, standing up.

"I would if I could, sweetheart," mark said coldly, exiting the room, leaving the door to slam behind him.

"I cant be here right now," aeri mumbled, slowly walking out of the room, her head spinning.

jaemin quickly got up to follow but was blocked by johnny, "she needs space," he stated. the younger obeyed and sat back down on the medical bed, worry for his friend overtaking him.

A/N: mark handing out death threats??