another mark-centric au!

the motel gang finds out the st johns’s secret before dinnertime, but can’t figure out a way to collect mark before dipping (a few people think he’s already dead, but lee vehemently denies that), so they promise to come back for him and blow that popsicle stand.

problem is, the st johns up their security by a hundred when they find out that their guests booked it back home, so now mark is being held hostage.

he’s treated like family they never had by brenda and her sons, but is forced to eat human meat with the cannibals in order to survive. slowly, he loses all sense of personhood, learns to love the taste of human flesh, and takes a life for the first time while serving his captors.

eventually, lee does find him and save him, but he remembers nothing of the past except for his friendship with his saviour — and he still retains his cannibalistic desires.