A/N
After 84 years, the bitch is back lol.
@martins_words here's your bday present, a whole ass month and almost a half late hahaha. Forgive me, our girls short circuited my brain after the concert. Better late than never?
Everyone that's been begging me to update this can thank @jennieahy for winning our bet and making me update sooner than I had been able to.
Carry on blinks.
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Yang Hyun-suk walked the long corridor to the cell pod he had been assigned to. He stuck close to the guard. Ever since he had come here he felt like all eyes were on him. He had only been here a little over a week but so far he had managed to find out the inner workings of the prison.
Most importantly, he had found out the leader of the notorious ruling prison gang's name was Yoongi. He had been a member of the Chilsung-pa, one of Korea's biggest crime syndicates on the outside, and the Chilsung-pa now had control of the prison, having the most influence on prison life as they had the most members in this particular facility.
He was supposedly the gang's highest ranking member in the prison, so Yoongi, who also went by Suga, though only his members were allowed to call him that, was pretty much king. If anybody who wasn't part of the Chilsung-pa, or hadn't earned his respect, called him by that name—it would earn that man a beating if they were lucky, a shanking if they weren't.
Unfortunately for him, this man, Yoongi—though Hyun-Suk would hardly call him a man because he was probably in his twenties at most, also just so happened to be housed in the same pod as him.
Hyun-Suk had to be extra careful not to piss him off because from what the other prisoners would often whisper, Yoongi, despite looking bored and sleepy most of the time was not someone you wanted to cross.
Hyun-suk kept his head down, and for the most part the other prisoners left him alone. There had been the usual questions initially, at least he assumed they were the usual questions, he had never been to prison before to know for sure.
He was addressed by his bunk mate on the very first day, asking what he did to land himself in here within seconds of the guard closing the door to their cell. Hyun-suk answered as vaguely as he could and had let him assume he had solely committed fraud and other kinds of white collar crime. The next time someone asked him, they more insinuated than asked and he let them run with it. If anybody knew why else he was in here, the true reason, he knew he was sure he'd be in trouble.
Sunday came around again and while he hated it in here, he was confident he could find a way to get his charges reversed. He still had a lot of money, he'd already put another two of the best criminal lawyers in the country on the case.
They were men who he knew had even gotten guilty people out of murder before on a technicality. They were sharks and Hyun-Suk refused to rot in jail, a man like him did not deserve to be caged in like an animal. Both men had already promised to get the tapes thrown out on appeal upon their first meeting. Hyun-suk agreed with them, he was sure if those tapes hadn't surfaced he would have walked a free man.
He knew those girls had broken in, Jennie's friends. He had heard one of them call Lisa's name. The disgusting girl he had tried to painstakingly wash out of Jennie's mind with his therapy. They had broken in and beaten him up and he was livid because if they hadn't done so they would have never found his sacred tapes. Besides, how dare they touch him, women were weak and they humiliated him. They emasculated him.
He hated that they made him part from the tapes. He'd been collecting and recording those memories for years, even before he became the director of the camp. No one understood. No one could see that all he had been doing was the right thing.
Only men belonged with women. Same sex relationships were unnatural. Women were inferior. Man could take whatever he wanted because he was stronger, God made them that way for a reason, because men were supposed to dominate and women were supposed to serve.
He made sure to be strong enough. He was rich and powerful and they would soon see their mistake. They took advantage of him in a weak moment but they would see he wasn't the weak man, beat up by young girls and sent to prison like they expected him to be. They would see. He would get out and he would take whatever he wanted by force and make them all pay.
As usual, he kept to himself while the other inmates played cards or watched t.v once they were all allowed out of their cells during free time. He sat in a corner and pretended to read a book like he always did and scanned the room, making sure no one noticed him as he took in all of the inmates' body language and tried to eavesdrop on the conversations around him.
This tactic was how he had learned so much just within that week. He was an expert at blending in and his training as a therapist allowed him to know just from one look which conversations where the ones worth listening in on.
He tried not to smirk as he heard a couple of inmates talk about how they had a phone stashed in one of their cells. He could use this to his advantage later. Either for blackmail or for personal gain. He was so elated at this tidbit of information that he almost missed it—his name coming from one of the communal t.v's.
His eyes snapped to the screen and his heart immediately dropped when one of Yoongi's gang members grabbed the remote to bring the volume up higher as soon as they all recognized that the man being pictured on the news was him. The group of guys in front of the t.v almost seemed to snap to attention as they proceeded to listen in to the reporter talk about his charges.
"Yang Hyun-Suk, director of a religious conversion therapy camp, once respected by the religious community was finally convicted last Wednesday.
Most notably, allegations of sexual abuse against at least 30 minors and counting, one apparently as young as twelve years old, was brought up during the trial proceedings. While only one count of sexual abuse towards a minor, several counts of negligence, fraud, forgery, among others gave Yang a lengthy sentence, it is likely he will face trial again for the remainder of the sexual abuse allegations—should those minors decide to brave trial and step forward."
Every single one of the inmates watching the broadcast collectively looked at him once the reporter mentioned the allegations of sexual abuse. He felt like shrinking, the fear striking him immediately.
The other inmates that were still inside the cell pod, who had either been playing cards or conversing with each other had noticed the sudden shift in the mood of the room and had also turned their attention to the t.v as well to see what the fuss was about.
"....Yang has been sentenced to a 10 year sentence thus far, but should the allegations prove true in further proceedings, he is likely to face at least double that.
However, experts in the matter believe that it is unlikely any other of the victims would brave to bring the case to court themselves. We have several sources, choosing to remain anonymous, that have provided documentation to prove the allegations against most, if not all of the minor's abuse are true.
However, due to the gruesome trial Jennie Kim endured during her own trial against Yang, the other victims fear stepping forward would put them in the same traumatic situation and—"
Hyun-suk felt like the air left the room as eyes glared at him and faces hardened. Several men cracked their knuckles and looked at him menacingly. He especially felt like panicking when Yoongi stood up, walking in his direction and looking at him with piercing eyes and then smirking. He paused for a second, staring him down before motioning for the rest of his boys to follow him outside to the basketball court, not sparing Hyun-suk another glance.