safe and sound • markhyuck

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Here was the dagger, what Mark would have wanted so much never to hear, what he was deeply ashamed of: the psychological bullying that had inflicted him until a few years before.
Mark wasn't at all proud, he realized over time that despite all the bad things he had done, Donghyuck was always next to him, looking for him, defending him and helping him if it was necessary.
Mark had never apologized for what he had done, and felt responsible for the unstable mental condition of the youngest, did those words really hurt that much?
"What are you thinking about?"
His pangs of guilt were interrupted by Donghyuck's weak voice that, still lying on Mark's legs, was looking at an indefinite point of the ceiling of that warehouse, his sight had probably already failed.
Mark sighed before talking, not knowing if it was appropriate to say something like that at that time. If Hyuck had escaped in another memory while he was already trapped in one, Mark will have lost him forever, accelerating only his death. The younger's brain would go haywire, but Mark did not want to let him go without first apologizing to him, whether that sped things up or not, Mark had to apologize for all the harm he had done.
"I think... that you're a good person..."