Reveal
ERA ― Pre-Sticker
CHARACTERS ― Chae Yerina Isabella (The Bloody Roses), Johnny Suh (NCT), Lee Taeyong (NCT), Kim Dongyoung/Doyoung (NCT), Jung Yoonoh/Jaehyun (NCT)
AUTHOR'S NOTE/WARNINGS ― “Italics” means they are speaking in English. Hints of Mental Issues, Mention of Emotional Abuse, Mention of Blood
SUMMARY ― Rushing to the hospital with the news of Yerina being hospitalize after catching a sasaeng, ‘Yerina’s Supporters’ team finally found out about Yerina’s past and current situation.
“Hey, have you seen the text from manager hyung?”
Johnny approached Jaehyun, who was chilling on his own bed, after receiving a very triggering and worrying message from their manager saying their female bodyguard, Yerina, has been hospitalised.
“What message?” Jaehyun quickly sat up as soon as he saw Johnny basically towering over the view of his own phone - the young one wasn’t the type to check a group message that had 40+ messages and he knew the other members would personally message him to remind him of a schedule.
“You didn’t see our convo did you, Jae?” Johnny raised his brow, seeing Jaehyun chuckling awkwardly after hurrying scrolling the long conversation.
127 Manager hyung
Forwarded message from Eunhee-nim
The situation regarding a sasaeng fan has been successfully handled by Yerina herself. I just wanted to inform you and I hope you could inform the NCT boys that their bodyguard, Yerina, has been taken to the hospital.
Do take note, everyone.
“Yerina is in the hospital? What happened?” Jaehyun questioned while looking up towards Johnny who was typing on his phone. “I don’t know, I’m asking manager hyung now……”
Jaehyun somehow became a little anxious. “Can we see her? I mean we have a few hours left before our next schedule.” Jaehyun added, seeing Johnny texting since his fingers were moving fast.
Jaehyun decided to personally text Taeyong about this, asking the leader if he might know what had happened to her since he is close with the now-well known enforcement group, The Bloody Roses’ members - Eunhee and Yeonji.
“Manager hyung said this was sent by one of the representatives of TBR Agency, ‘quote - it is best if the NCT members didn’t know what had happened. It was Yerina’s request for us not to tell you or the other members.’,” Johnny read the text that was sent by his manager.
“Great.. More secrets,” Johnny muttered while sighing.
“...And I believe there will be more,” Jaehyun added, seeing Johnny’s little frown. Both of them knew by now that Yerina isn’t just a normal bodyguard - they just couldn’t figure out what she is working as.
“Guys!”
Taeyong’s head appeared out of nowhere at Jaehyun's door, making both of the two guys look towards the leader.
“I received an approval from Eunhee and manager hyung that we can visit Yerina in the hospital! In fact, Yerina is awake by now!” Taeyong said excitedly and Johnny quickly got out of Jaehyun’s room to get himself a hoodie to get ready.
Jaehyun just brought a jacket with him and a hat.
Once they were ready, they gathered in their living room.
“C’mon–
“Wait! I-I’m coming too!”
There came Doyoung wearing a full black clothing, while gripping onto his phone - he just saw the message from Taeyong, saying he is bringing Johnny and Jaehyun to the hospital to see Yerina.
Doyoung felt bad the other day for what he said about Yerina, this was the chance for him to redeemed himself to her and to Jaehyun - although he looks like he is unbothered but honestly, he was a little pissed at Doyoung for saying such things about Yerina.
“C’mon,” Taeyong pulled Doyoung hurriedly, since someone was waiting for them downstairs.
“Thank you for driving us there, noona.”
“Your welcome, well - I am seeing Yerina too. I have some books to give her at the back,”
Taeyong sat on the passenger seat, while Chaeun, one of the members of The Bloody Roses who is driving them to go to the hospital where Yerina is at.
Johnny, Jaehyun and Doyoung were at the back seat, with Doyoung being in the middle while the other two were looking out of the window.
“How is Yerina so far? Do you know what happened to her?” Taeyong asked out of worry, his head slightly turning towards Chaeun - seeing her frowning slightly.
“...Do you really want to know? I mean, what I am about to tell could traumatise you,” Chaeun straightforwardly said, earning both Johnny and Jaehyun’s attention - their heads turning to the front.
“She is our bodyguard, we know she left out of nowhere.” Johnny added, “Besides, didn’t MMG terminate her contract with us?” Doyoung added, looking toward Chaeun.
Chaeun raised her brow slightly. “She didn’t leave.. Although she managed to hack into MMG’s systems but…. She was forced too, not by MMG though - by her ex boyfriend.”
“She has a boyfriend!?!?” The four boys slightly yelled in unison, Johnny and Jaehyun looked towards each other - seeing their very funny reactions while Doyoung had his mouth open slightly.
Chaeun giggled seeing their faces at the back. “She had one. But her ex wasn’t a very nice ex. He basically threatened Yerina to leave whatever she was doing and return to him. If she doesn’t, let’s just say he would personally come to her.”
Chaeun’s voice was serious, there was no hint of her joking around.
Silence filled the air next and Jaehyun was biting his inner lip nervously, before deciding to break the air. “I noticed previously, when she accompanied me for my schedule, she is different.”
Chaeun’s eyes moved towards the rear-view mirror - seeing Jaehyun’s eyes. He looked serious. “You can blame the serum for that,”
Doyoung turned towards Johnny with a frown, “Serum?”
“....Serum? What serum?” Johnny questioned, his brows furrowing deeply and he didn’t like where this was all going.
Chaeun sighed loudly before stopping the car because of the red light. “...During the 3 years when she was with her ex boyfriend, Yeirna was basically being locked in an apartment,” Chaeun paused slightly, gripping onto the steering wheel.
“He did a lot of cruel things to her, one of which was injecting random experiment serums on her. I received the analysis from Nara that most of the chemicals in the serum actually affect her mental well-being.” Chaeun added, before continuing driving.
Taeyong could only look back towards Doyoung, seeing the guilt on his face for what he said while Johnny and Jaehyun were already feeling terrible for some sort of reason.
“Noona, what did you mean it affects her mental well-being?” Doyoung questioned this time, wanting to know more.
“I don’t know how to explain it to you but the chemicals that dickhead put on Yerina somehow made her see flashbacks of her past, on what she had done - more like the past where she isn’t proud off.” Chaeun explained.
“At the same time, those flashbacks mixed with her happy ones. She actually wrote in her reflection journal that she sees a few faces of happy guys then seeing blood and red. I assumed that those happy looking guys she is talking about, is you guys,”
“.... I don’t know how to react to what you have told us,” Johnny commented at the back, and with his comments, silence decided to fill the air till their destination.
The four men actually had deep thoughts, they didn’t know how to react to what Chaeun had said to them.
They didn’t know Yerina suffered badly - and here she is still trying to do her job, which is protecting idols.
“You guys look like you guys just lost a dance battle or something,” Chaeun joked towards Taeyong, seeing him smiling slightly.
“I didn’t know Yerina suffered this bad,”
“We didn’t know either,” Doyoung added and Chaeun’s face softened, seeing that they genuinely cared for her teammate. “It’s okay, we feel bad for her too,” Chaeun muttered while leading the four men towards Yerina’s room.
And there is their female bodyguard who was sitting on the hospital bed, crossed leg while reading a book with an earpiece on. It seems she didn’t notice the four NCT members along with Chaeun, who revealed themselves at the clear glass window.
Doyoung’s eyes fell towards her face, she looked like she was really concentrating - her brows slightly furrowed as she moved along with what she was reading.
Guilt was just written all over Doyoung’s face and Jaehyun clearly sees it now, him patting Doyoung’s back as an encouragement.
“We’re going in, okay?” Chaeun turned towards the boys, they could only nod while following Chaeun’s lead. The woman knocked the door, slowly pushing the door slightly.
“Yerina..?” Chaeun called and Yerina’s head turned upwards before looking towards where the group was. There was a slight smile on her face after meeting Chaeun’s eye contact.
Her eyes then fell towards the boys at the back, she looked slightly surprised after seeing Doyoung - knowing that he had said some words about her, but Yerina truly didn’t care at all.
“Hey, what brings you here?” Yerina’s eyes turned towards Chaeun seeing the older one smiling while standing at the side while gesturing towards the NCT members.
“I drove them here, a small favour from Yeonji and your books that you told me to bring….if you forget,”
Chaeun gave the tote bag that was filled with the books hse mentioned towards Yerina -hearing a soft thanks from her.
“How are you..?” Taeyong questioned softly.
“Does it.. Still hurt..?” Johnny pointed towards his own chest, knowing that he meant Yerina’s own chest.
“Painkillers helped with the pain so I guess it’s not that bad, but I’m trying not to depend on painkillers,” Yerina looked towards the boys.
The day after her schedule with Jaehyun, Yerina somehow avoided a few of the members, because of Doyoung’s comments. But she still carries on her work by accompanying some of the NCT members - mostly the Dream boys.
“But you should still drink it, if the pain is still there,” Jaehyun commented and Yerina nodded with a small smile. As soon as Jaehyun made eye contact with her, there was a feeling on his stomach - for the first time, in so long.
‘There is no way I still like her,’
“Yerina-ah,” Doyoung called out of nowhere, and that made Yerina break eye contact with Jaehyun before turning towards Doyoung with a small hum.
“I.. I wanted to apologise to you for what I had said. I mean, I didn’t mean that I don’t trust you…” Doyoung trailed off slightly, his eyes glancing towards Yerina’s face - seeing her looking far away, as if she was in a daydream.
“I was just suspicious of you. You left for 3 years and came back out of nowhere. You didn’t even tell us and just.. left,” Doyoung said his reasons, he was trying his best not to whine or start any argument but how could he?
She left for 3 years without saying anything, and made them worried.
“I know.” Yerina whispered - her eyes downcast, “I didn’t just leave, by the way,” Her eyes slowly looking towards Doyoung in the eye.
“I was threatened that if I didn’t come to him, he would eventually come to me. Do you really want that to happen in Mexico, in their hotel where the 127 members were there and cause massive trouble which could lead to stopping the concert?” Yerina raised her brow, then turned towards the other 3 members.
“Do you want that to happen?” She then turned towards Doyoung who looked like he was going to cry any moment. “I didn’t text or informed you guys because I knew he would know so I just shut my phone, leave everything that might made my ex find SM’s personal information in a box and sent it to MMG,”
Yerina explained smoothly, she didn’t sound emotional at all compared to the four guys who were trying their best not to shed tears - well except for Doyoung who was already sniffing.
“So it is understandable if you don’t trust me. Even the other staff in SM doesn’t trust me,” Yerina shrugged while turning towards Chaeun who had her face downwards.
“We trust you though,” Taeyong muttered, his big eyes staring into Yerina. “...Wasn’t asking for you to trust me,” Yerina answered with a sad smile.
“No but we really trust you. I mean the moment you wrote the letter to Mark… I kind of accept it, I don’t know about the others but I did. You must have left for a good reason, you’re a good person, Yerina.” Johnny commented and Yerina shakes her head, letting out a slight chuckle.
'A good person? Me, a good person?"'
“You don’t understand, I’m not a good person, Johnny.”
“But you didn’t have a choice, Yerina. You were being forced, being trained that way. That doesn’t make you a bad person,” Taeyong softly advised her - after Yerina, with the help of Johnny since she had told her about her family history, told them about her past - how she grew up into a family of assassins.
“I killed innocents,”
“You did that because you were angry, they killed your brother.” Jaehyun commented, receiving a slight frown from Yerina.
“Jae is right, Isabella. Besides, I don’t think those people who are family members of NROVERO are called innocents - since they knew what they had done to others.” Johnny shrugs and Yerina lets out a sigh.
“I don’t know why you guys are seeing me in a positive light. You should be hating me,” Yerina muttered to herself, looking at her bare hands.
“We would never hate you,” Johnny sat on her bed, tapping into her covered legs - earning Yerina’s attention, “You did so much for us when we worked together,” Johnny added.
“It will never be the same. I’m not the same person I used to 3 years ago,” Yerina whispered, her eyes still looking down to her own hands.
“Then we will try to adapt to the ‘new’ you. The boys still and will love you no matter who you are or your past, because they know that you are a genuine individual and you changed for the better,” Taeyong added with a small smile.
He wanted her not to blame herself at the same time to feel comfortable when she had to work with the others.
The NCT boys have always loved Yerina, even till this day - none of them showed any signs of hatred with the idea of her coming back, actually they were just excited and just wanting to know why she left.
Jaehyun could only nod to the older ones’ words, agreeing to what they have just said.
Doyoung on the other hand was watching Yerina, seeing how her face lit up slightly with Johnny and Taeyong’s words.
“As expected, the leader of 23 people… You have a way with words,” Yerina turned towards Taeyong, seeing him chuckling awkwardly.
“Yeah, he actually does. You should see his face when he is stressed out controlling 23 boys,” Johnny eyed Taeyong, knowing the leader understands English - seeing the leader slightly glaring at the taller one.
Jaehyun chuckled at their interaction, “Oh not to forget the times Doyoung hyung bickered with Taeyong hyung. Being a spectator is fun,” Jaehyun added, and it was Johnny’s turn to laugh.
“Speak Korean please!” Doyoung argued, whining towards the English speakers and Yerina could only turn towards Taeyong while smiling.
“Okay guys, I think we should go. We have to be at SM building in 45 minutes,” Taeyong announced and Johnny was the only one who said ‘aww’.
Jaehyun and Doyoung actually wanted to stay more but of course, work is work.
“I’ll probably be discharged in about a weeks’ time…?” Yerina turned towards Chaeun for confirmation as the older girl just nodded. “Yeah, a weeks' time. So if I have recovered well, I’ll return back to work. I’ll text you guys if I’m back,”
The four men faces lit up, with her mentioning that she would return back to work.
“Then you should be resting well. I’ll come and visit you after the schedules, get well soon, Isabella.” Johnny patted Yerina’s hands before standing up.
“Thanks,” Yerina muttered, smiling slightly towards him. Seeing him walking away while talking to Chaeun.
“I’ll probably follow Johnny hyung along, we will text you if we are dropping by. Until then, have a good rest.” Jaehyun smiled, his dimples slightly showing while waving at her.
Yerina could only wave at him while nodding his words.
“Have a good rest, okay? Again, I’m sorry for–
“Doyoung, please. Don’t apologise. I understand,” Yerina cuts him off, shaking her head slightly - seeing him smiling a little. “Have a good rest so that our bodyguard can return to us,” Doyoung added softly, before walking away while waving at her.
Yerina waves at him, with a smile.
“Don’t forget to eat the meals the nurses gave to you, and drink lots of water and do not forget to drink the medicines that–
“Taeyong, I don’t skip my meals nor the medicines.” Yerina cuts him off, her brow raising and Taeyong could only squint his eyes at her - seeing she doesn’t look like she is lying.
“You better, I’ll get mad if you don’t eat your meals,” Taeyong muttered, before patting her head out of habit but soon he froze. “Sorry, I shouldn’t–
“You used to pat my head, it feels nostalgic though,” Yerina muttered. It’s true, back when they worked together, Taeyong would always pat her head out of care. He treated her like a younger sister since Taeyong is a month older than Yerina.
“...So you are okay with us.. You know the gestures we used to do back then.. Like hugging, holding hands when we are cold...?” Taeyong tried to form his words correctly, knowing the other three guys were hearing their conversation.
Yerina nodded slightly, “..I’m cool.”
“I can’t wait until you are back as our bodyguard,” Taeyong cutely waved towards her, earning a chuckle from Yerina - watching the group walking away while having a conversation with Chaeun.
Yerina smiled to herself, “Me too, Tae. Me too,”
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