Fallen

Truth

"Why are you doing this? What did we do wrong?" Mark asked as they are being shoved inside the basement room. Mark was thrown inside after Yugyeom and Bambam. "You dare ask me that question?" Youngjae said as he approaches Mark and held him by the cheeks tightly. "You, pretty boy is the cause of all my misery," Youngjae said as he pushed Mark's face aside. "If you haven't shown up in the picture I would have been happy," he added as he pointed his gun on Mark's temple. "I could kill you right now, but that wouldn't be fun, would it?" Youngjae said in a threatening tone. Mark's heart raced like a bullet train when he heard the word "kill". Was this really who Youngjae is? Mark was pulled out of his thought when he heard Jackson's voice saying "I'll kill you if you even lay a finger on him." He struggled under his captor's grip. "Ohhh, I'm scared Jacks, try if you can," Youngjae replied mockingly. "You will pay for what you did to me, and those closes to you will be the payment, starting with him" Youngjae pointed at Mark and walked towards the door and exited the room, locking them in. "Don't even try to escape cause soon you'll find it futile," Youngjae said before closing the door. Mark ran towards the door trying to stop Youngjae from closing it. "We need to get some help," Yugyeom said and he reached for his handphone. "You won't get any reception here, this place is designed so that anyone locked up in here will remain locked up," Jackson said.

"If you're not in that situation right now, I swear I would have strangled you already," Mark said as he approached Jackson and stood in front of him. "I know I owe you a lot of explanation," Jackson said. "I will tell you everything you need to know, about who I am, who Youngjae is, and what happened between him and Jackson," he said. "Why do you refer to yourself as a third person," Bambam asked. Jackson disregarded this and continued, "everything that you will hear from now is the whole truth, even though it sounds impossible, it is the truth." He added. Mark and the others nodded. Jackson sighed heavily and begin his story, "First thing you need to know is I'm not Jackson," he said. "Wait, what did you say?" Yugyeom retorted. "I'm not the real Jackson, I'm just an imitation, his clone," Jackson calmly said. Mark felt nervous about what Jackson is saying. He suddenly remembered the dream he had a few days ago. What if the dream was real and Jackson is somewhere struggling to survive? "Jackson is in the US right now, he's currently in a coma. Mark's fears were confirmed by what Jackson said. His knees weakened as he fell bended knee on the floor. He grabbed Jackson by the collar and said: "Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Tears falling down his cheeks, "Why didn't you say anything?" Mark continued to sob which cause Jackson to tear up as well. "I was going to tell you everything from the moment I came here but Youngjae was already lurking around, I had to be careful or you will be in danger." Jackson hugged Mark and let him cry out. On the corner of the room, Yugyeom is also hugging a sobbing Bambam. When Mark has calmed down a bit he asked: "What was your relationship with Youngjae?" Jackson sighed and answered "Youngjae is the son of a mafia leader, Jackson was one of his bodyguards. Jackson was an orphan his parents died when he was three years old at age six Youngjae's father took him from the orphanage and raised him as his own. He thought him everything he knows about survival and how to protect Youngjae. Youngjae was the same age as Jackson when they met. Needless to say, they've become friends, in fact, Jackson was Youngjae's only friend. They grew up together and Youngjae started to have feelings for Jackson but Jackson fell in love with someone else, and that was you" Jackson said referring to Mark. "Youngjae learned about Jackson's relationship with you and threaten to kill you if Jackson doesn't break up with you," Jackson added. "Is that why he suddenly broke up with me without giving me any reasons?" Mark asked. Jackson slowly nodded. "What happened to Jackson? Why is he in a coma?" Yugyeom asked. "Youngjae thought that Jackson would come back to him after breaking up with Mark, but Jackson hated him, he decided to quit his job as Youngjae's bodyguard and tried to live a normal life, little did he know that Youngjae will not leave him alone. One night Jackson received a call from Youngjae begging him to come back to him, telling him that he will die if he doesn't come back. Jackson knew he won't be happy with Youngjae and told him that he wouldn't come back. One night Jackson was supposed to meet Jinyoung and Jaebum when he got into an accident. He was with Youngjae earlier and they had an argument he still hasn't give up on Jackson, he was obsessed with him. Youngjae decided to take things with his own hand. He tried to kill Jackson by stabbing him with a knife but Jackson being trained with self-defense easily dodge the first attack. Being the mafia bosses son Youngjae was equally quick with his moves. He tried to slash Jackson, everything happened so quick Jackson was able to block the attack but instead of blocking the knife sideways the knife when straight to Youngjae's shoulder down to this hips which caused a big scar. Jackson scared of what could happen and called for help as he was crossing the street a runaway truck was passing by and hit Jackson. I was a miracle that he wasn't killed on impact, but he was in a coma since then." Jackson finished his story. Everyone was silent after he finished, Mark was beside his looking spaced out, while Yugyeom and Bambam were just staring at Jackson.

"Is that all?" Mark spoke after a while. "There's one more important thing you need to know," Jackson said with a sad face.