i realised i never showed you how i imagined the death park tattoo to look like so here it is, but feel free to imagine it in a more beautiful way if you don't like that one!

(as a reminder, all the members of the gang have the tattoo on their chest, between their pectorals)

jeno was sitting on the living room couch, his eyes struggling to stay open as the news played on the tv in front of his eyes. he wasn't the type to watch the news at 8 in the morning. jeno would rather watch cartoons or anything childish that could entertain him. but with chenle being kidnapped, he hoped the police would have found something to help the case and would announce it over the news in the morning.

"anything about lele?" jaemin asked, plopping next to jeno with his cup of coffee in hand.

"nothing..." jeno shook his head, not paying attention to the women presenting the weather on tv.

jaemin sighed, keeping his eyes on the television as he took occasional sips from his deathly brew. jeno was doing the same, his eyes fluttering close because of his tiredness.

at some point, jeno's eyes had closed fully, and he was about to fall into dreamland when jaemin suddenly spit out all of his coffee, staining himself and jeno as well as the couch they were sitting on.

the feeling of burning hot droplets against his skin made jeno jolt awake.

"jaemin, what the hell?!" he exclaimed with a frown, wiping his leg and looking at the other boy. his frown intensified when he saw how mesmerised jaemin seemed to be by what was displayed on tv.

jeno followed jaemin's gaze, his eyes falling onto the television as his eyes widened.

"i-is that... j-jisung...?" he stuttered. "a-and... chenle?!"

the tv displayed a live video of jisung holding a bloody knife in his hand while chenle was tied to the ceiling behind him, obvious tears cascading on his cheeks as his stomach was bleeding.

"it's not possible..." jaemin murmured, his eyes as wide as saucers.

"one more move and you're dead, young park!" a voice called before the camera changed angle, showing an unknown man, much older and holding a gun that he was pointing at jisung's head. "we all knew death park was immoral, but i never imagined you would go all the way capturing one of your members to milk money from all of your fans. how much of a monster are you?"

the man holding the gun approached jisung, now standing a meter away from him.

jeno and jaemin saw jisung glancing at the cameras that were filming him and then giving a glance to the boy hanging by his wrists behind him.

"put your weapon down or you're dead."

jisung obliged, the blade he was holding falling to the floor in a loud noise.

the man holding the gun then approached jisung with a devilish smile, his hand reaching for the hem of the boy's shirt before lifting it up and revealing his bare chest, decorated with the gang tattoo.

"who would have thought park jisung, youngest member of nct, was in fact the head of the worst mafia in south korea...?"

jeno and jaemin gulped in unison, glancing at each other before concentring on the tv again.

it all seemed so surreal to the point both boys asked themselves if they weren't still dreaming.

but no, it was true...

the police barged in the room, holding shields and guns as they asked everyone to lower their weapons before they would need to use force.

a few other people entered the room pushing more people in. jisung glanced at them – recognising his mafia members.

"mister policemen, here are the members of death park, the mafia responsible for the recent massacres as well as the kidnapping of zhong chenle from nct." the man who was pointing the gun at jisung stated. "you can lift their shirts and you'll find the skull tattoo on there, sign of their belonging to this criminal organisation."

"take them." one of the policemen declared as the others obliged, running towards the death park members.

a few of them tried pushing the policemen off and getting out of their grip, but a single word from jisung made all of them stop struggling.

"don't." jisung spoke loudly, looking at the people that were apparently members of his mafia.

everyone looked at jisung, as the boy walked towards the policeman, holding his hands out for them to be cuffed.

without further words, jisung got handcuffed as well as the other members of his mafia, and they were then taken out of the room, and surely to the police office.

then, the paramedics came in, rushing towards chenle before removing the chains that were holding him up and placing him on a stretcher to bring him to the hospital to receive urgent care.

this left the journalists and the unknown group of people alone in the dark place.

once the wave of shock that everybody had went through passed, all the journalists rushed towards the man that had pointed a gun at jisung, bombarding him with questions.

"sir! sir! who are you?"

"did you know jisung from nct was in a mafia?"

"why did you save chenle?"

"are you in a mafia too?"

"ladies and gentlemen, i am willing to answer your questions, but one at a time please." the man stated, smiling at the cameras as he put his gun away as if it was normal.

"who might you be?"

"well, i am hu ilsung, i am a member of the secret organisation called 'dark danger'. and before any of you ask it again, yes, it could be identified as a mafia, but our main goal isn't to make money over crimes like other mafias such as 'death park' or 'blood ruby' do. 'dark danger' is trying to make the world a better place, by dismantling the existing criminal organisations that have been causing lots of damages these past years." the man explained, speaking very professionally in front of the cameras.

"what do you know about 'death park'?" another interviewer asked, catching the attention of ilsung.

"well, they have been one of our targets for long. they're one of the oldest mafias in south korea, and they have been dramatically deathly and unethical in their practices. that is why we made our priority getting them. but because they had been doing it for long, they obviously were very good at it, and the secrecy of their mafia was very well-managed. thankfully, we had found the identity of the leader months ago, and we did manage to get rid of them. but before we could dismantle the mafia fully, another leader was chosen for them, and they were back to their criminal activities. but thankfully, my organisation and i managed to find them and hand them to the police. it is the end of 'death park' and we're proud of it. we'll all be able to leave in a much more peaceful world."

another interviewer spoke right after. "it has been revealed just now that nct member park jisung was a member of the mafia. did you know about it? and why do you think he kidnapped chenle?"

"well..." ilsung thought for a second. "i wasn't aware that jisung from nct was in the mafia, and i was rather surprised to discover that not only he is part of it, but he also is its leader. but at the same time, everything makes sense. 'death park' was named after the family who founded the mafia, and the people we found being leaders of this mafia were people named 'park', just like jisung. in fact, jisung could actually be their son, explaining while he became the head of the mafia. and for chenle, jisung must know a lot more about chenle than we all do, so there could be more motives behind this kidnapping. money, for sure, because 'death park' has always been obsessed by it, not caring if their ways to earn it were unethical; but there could also be something like revenge over something that could have happened between them. mafia members tend to get irritated quickly."

"mister lee sooman!" someone yelled, catching the attention of all of the interviewers who suddenly rushed towards the ceo of sm entertainment who approached ilsung and stood beside him.

"mister lee sooman, how do you feel about all of this?"

"i am, just like everyone else, utterly shocked about nct member park jisung being the head of a well-known mafia. this was something i never expected and never realised before. and now that i know his secret, i never imagine he would go all the way to kidnapping one of his group members for money."the ceo spoke truthfully, his face giving out that he was shocked by the events.

"what about chenle? what did you do in order to find him?"

"actually, mister hu and i have been business partners for a while." sm's ceo explained, looking at the leader of dark danger. "so, as soon as the news of chenle being kidnapped were announced, i contacted him, because i knew he would be more competent than the police to find him."

"and..."

neither jaemin nor jeno moved a muscle for long minutes as they watched everything unrolling in front of their widened eyes.

this had to be a big joke.

there was no way any of this was true. jisung couldn't actually be part of a mafia. he couldn't actually have planned to use chenle as a bait. it was impossible...

but they had seen it with their own eyes.

jisung was holding that bloody knife, and chenle was bleeding behind him.

jisung had the gang tattoo on his chest.

jisung did order the other members of the mafia around.

and jisung had held his hands out to the police for them to take him, as if he knew he was a criminal who deserved all of this.

the two boys were startled by jeno's phone who rung loudly.

he didn't wait a second to pick it up and accept the call, immediately putting it on speaker.

"manager-nim?" he asked.

"wake the others up right now, we're bringing all the members to the dream dorm. we'll all be there in 20minutes!" the managers yelled in the device before hanging up.

jeno and jaemin looked at each other sadly.

this was all true.

⇄

jisung paced back and forth, taking quick steps from one end of the room to the other, not paying attention to his surroundings.

"jisung, come and sit down..." jihu sighed, looking at the younger boy.

"i fucked up completely." jisung declared, stopping his pacing to grip onto two of the metallic bars closing their cell before banging his head against them.

the mafia members had finished being interrogated by the police a few hours ago.

after being taken to the police office, every of the members present had been asked various questions, but jisung had requested all of them to stay silent for the whole questioning. thankfully, all of his members were loyal, and they had sworn on their life when joining the mafia that they would bring their secrets to the grave, meaning none of them had spilt any kind of information.

this had led them directly to jail, in a special unit behind thick walls and unbreakable bars, guarded by dozens of guards. thankfully, they were all placed next to each other. not necessarily all in the same cell, but they had been divided into different terraced cells.

"this would have happened one way or another, ji..." his godfather declared, glancing at jisung who kept hitting his head against the bars, under the guard's stare.

"but not that way!" jisung turned around. "now the whole world thinks we are the bad guys and that dark dangers are their saviours. and we all know that this is not good at all!"

"yeah, but we can't do anything about it now." namseon shrugged.

"how even did you guys get caught again? i though you were all guarding the doors!" jisung frowned.

"i sensed everything was going to get shitty so i called them for backup." heesun explained.

"yeah, and it was as if dark danger was waiting for us. we got outnumbered and yeah, there were dozens of cameras around, so we couldn't go all the way to killing them violently. so... here we are..."jaehui, the head of the gambling department told.

"and now we're stuck here for god knows how long, and we won't be able to contact the others to take us out of this shitty prison." jisung groaned. "we were so fucking close to get rid of dark danger i coud sense it. but these fuckers were one step ahead, and they fucking kidnapped chenle, and now we are accused of doing so... god i want to kill him... and this fucker even..."

the other members looked at jisung as he let out all of his emotion is a long speech.

it was no secret to them anymore that jisung had a soft spot for chenle and that this had been what had motivated him to have important members of the mafia at sm on that morning. but none of them could blame him.

jisung had been raised by a mafia leader and he was part of a whole mafia bloodline, he had it in his genes. he knew what he was doing, so, they trusted him.

it was not their first time in jail for some of them.

"jisung, whenever one of the members gets locked in jail, we always manage to get them out." myungki stated.

"this works when there's at least one of us outside. but now we're all locked in here and even if the others will know about it, no one will know how to get us out!" jisung let out another annoyed groan.

"hadn't you called killer tech this morning?" jihu frowned. "he could help, don't you think?"

"he could, but we have absolutely no way to communicate with him." jisung replied, emphasizing the 'no'.

"and what if we- "

"this won't be necessary."

all eyes diverted towards heesun who had just spoken.

jisung raised a brow, crossing his arms over his chest as he looked at his godfather sceptically.

"how won't that be necessary?" he asked.

heesun motioned for the others to approach so that he could whisper in order for the guards not to hear. "i called someone. they'll be able to take us out." he explained.

"you called- wait, you have your phone with you?!" jisung gasped.

"no. i called them when i sensed everything would get bad." heesun told. "i told them to come and see us when we'll be in jail so that they can take us out."

"who did you even call?" myungki raised a brow. "i can't think of any of our partners powerful enough to go against police's orders."

"he's not one of our partners." heesun stated. "not really..."

jisung heaved out a sigh.

"i don't know what you've been doing, but i trust you, heesun. it better allow us to get out." jisung told.

"oh, it will." he nodded.

"and when will they be there?" jaehui asked.

"sometime today. i'm sure of it."

"aright then. let's wait..."

a few hours passed, the mafia members killing their boredom by talking about each of their activities and what they had recently found that could be useful for the mafia.

thankfully, noise was heard from outside of the cell, sign that someone was approaching – well, judging by the voices, it seemed to be more than one person.

the mafia members all turned around, approaching the bars of the cell to look at who this person might be. they were all sure that this had to be whoever heesun had called to help them, and it was no secret that they all wanted to know who this mysterious person was.

after a few seconds, more policemen and guards entered the space outside of the cell, and soon, a man that everybody inside the cell recognised walked in, making their jaws drop to the floor in astonishment.

"heesun, tell me you didn't call the south korean president..."