Chapter Text
Minho and Changbin, as planned, reached the college area at the break of dawn.
"In this photo, the place is.....ummm....." Minho tried to match the exact place that was shown in the photo from that cams.
"Is here...?" he kind of questioned himself.
"Alright, I'll go and check the other places." Changbin said and went to the opposite direction.
Meanwhile, Minho tried to predict the activities that his suspect and his potentially next victim might be doing while this photo was taken. He positioned himself in that exact same position and direction.
"Got anything, boss?" Minho turned his head to see Jeongin standing beside him.
"Jeongin! What the heck are you doing here?!" Minho whisper scolded him as he turned that boy to the direction of their van.
"Don't call me by my real name..!! Just I.N!!" Jeongin nagged.
"Fine!" Minho rolled his eyes, "I.N, I already gave you a job. Why are you here then?!" Minho said in a tired voice.
"Weeellllllll, I already finished that case and have handed over to my senior. I was bored, so I decided to pursue you guys!" I.N clapped his hands at the end
Minho sighed deeply and dropped his shoulders.
"I.N, I don't think you can help in this a-year-old-cold-case...." Minho said, eye brows crooked.
"Boss, please... I can! Trust meeeee!!!" I.N started to nag.
"Urgggg! Fine, shut up!" Minho said.
"Go and help Changbin!" he order.
Hearing this, I.N jumped in the air in happiness. "Thank you!!"
Minho sighed. He rubbed his temples with his first two fingers. Looking in front of him, he decided to move forward and ask some people around from different apartments.
It was just a five minute walk from his last location.
To his surprise, there was only one apartment in that whole area. So he knew that the new guy might be staying here. Without wasting another moment, Minho knocked on the door of the landlady.
The door opened after a minute.
"Yes...?" a middle aged woman came out from the other side of the door.
"Umm...hello, I'm the chief detective of the Seoul Investigation Department... Mr. Lee..." the face of the woman immediately became worried.
"How may I help you...?" she said.
"Actually, we are looking for this guy..." he showed her the picture. "We believe that his guy-"
"Yes!! He used to live here! In this apartment!!" hearing this, Minho's eyes sparkled, but...
"Wait...used to?" Minho repeated.
"Um, yes. He left three days ago..." she said with a worried face.
Minho's concern increased immensely.
By that time, Changbin also reached that place and stood beside Minho.
"Found anything?" he asked, placing a hand on his shoulder.
Minho looked at Changbin with concern.
"To which date does this picture belong?" Minho asked.
Now Changbin also became worried. He quickly took out his phone from his pocket and searched for something.
Looking at Minho, he opened his mouth.
"1 day ago, at 1 pm..." he said, making Minho's jaw drop.
He immediately looked at the woman in front of him.
"We got his picture from the nearby CCTV footage... He was walking in this direction..." Minho said.
After a moment of thought, the woman shook her head in a 'no'.
"I can assure you that this boy left 3 days ago. He forwarded me a message, saying that he needed to return home due to some important family matters..." she completed.
"Can we perhaps see that...?" Changbin asked immediately.
"Hang on a minute." the woman went inside and brought her phone with her. "Here...." she handed her to the officer.
Changbin nodded after a moment, reading all the messages.
Minho was now very shocked and worried. He was taking deep breaths to calm himself down. Looking to the opposite direction, he supported himself on the edge of the stairs and looked around, think something.
"Mam, perhaps you saw this guy by any chance..?" Changbin asked, showing the same picture but a different guy.
Looking closely, the woman took a moment to remember.
"T-this guy... Oh yes! This guy used to live here!!" hearing this, Minho immediately spun around and looked at her.
"What?!" he almost yelled.
"Yes! But he left last year... Since then I have never seen him..." she said, making Minho worried again.
"Um...thank you... Can you please tell this guy's name?" Changbin asked.
"Sorry...I don't remember..." she smiled apologetically.
"Hmm... It's alright... What about the other guy...? Who left three days ago...?" Changbin asked again.
"Felix. Lee Felix." she said.
Both the officers looked at each other.
"Thank you very much!" they both left.
Ascending down the stairs, Minho sighed as he remembered what the woman said.
"How is this even possible?!" Minho asked, completely frustrated.
Changbin took a deep breath and shoved his hands inside his pockets.
"I don't know... But whoever is involved, is very clever. We gotta think about our next move quickly..." Changbin replied, pressing his lips into a fine line.
Minho sighed again.
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Pain...a sharp blinding pain... Wrists hurting...
"Urg..." Felix groaned.
"My...head... It hurts..." he mumbled.
Slowly straightening his neck, he opened his eye lids very slowly.
Dark...gloomy...
Felix was sitting in a room with almost no lights. Suddenly he felt something. Looking down, he saw his both wrists tightly bound to the arm rest of the chair, he was sitting on.
"Urg...what the hell..." he said.
He tried to pull his wrists away, but the bindings were too to tear them apart. His wrists got brushed in the process.
"It's of n-no use..." Felix almost jumped hearing the unknown yet familiar voice.
Looking in front of him, he dimly saw another chair, same size, someone was sitting on that.
His wrists were also bound, just like his.
"You'll hurt y-yourself..." the unknown boy, who was sitting in the dark said.
The room was so dark that Felix couldn't see the boy in front of him. The room just had a hole in the wall, beside them through which a stream of light was coming. There was also a bulb which was of course not on.
Felix was too stunned to say anything.
"I thought you r-ran away from him..." the boy said.
Felix crooked his brows.
"W-woah are you?! Um... I heard your voice somewhere... You sound familiar..." Felix said finally.
The boy slightly chuckled.
"My name is Han Jisung..." Felix gasped as soon as he heard the name. "And yes, you heard me somewhere. I was the one who told you to run away the first night you stayed with that maniac, when you lost your key to your apartment door...." the boy completed.
Felix was so surprised to hear so much from someone whom he never met.
"Y-you are the boy who got-"
"Abducted..." Jisung completed his sentence. "I know there are new officers who started to reinvestigate my case... But...-"
Suddenly the door in that room, busted open, startling Felix and Jisung badly.
"Seems like someone just woke up~~"
Felix knew to whom that voice belonged to. Hwang Hyunjin.
*Click!*
That bulb in that room turned on.
Now Felix could clearly see his ex-boyfriend's face but...
He was shocked to see the different appearance. Hyunjin noticed it.
"What? Surprise? To see my 'new' appearance?~" Hyunjin stretched the word 'new' to emphasize it.
Hyunjin was having red hair which Felix never saw. His eyes were unnaturally a bluish colour. He was wearing makeup.
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To be honest, it freaked Felix.
"H-Hyunjin... Why are you doing this...?" Felix asked, scared for his life.
Hearing this, Hyunjin chuckled sarcastically.
"To be honest..." Hyunjin paused, "I don't know! Ha Ha!!" Hyunjin cracked a loud unnecessary laugh, scaring Felix to the core.
There was silence, dead silence.
Hyunjin kept his weird wide smile plastered on his face.
Felix's heart was beating painfully against his ribcage.
The deadly silence finally broke.
"Ok!! So guys! I'm gonna let you stay here till tomorrow morning when I'll bring some food for you!!" Hyunjin said in a cheerful voice, as if he did nothing wrong.
Felix was so utterly confused to see his ex-boyfriend like this. This somewhere broke his heart. A single stream of tears slid down his cheek, he still kept his glance straight at Hyunjin.
Hyunjin clapped his hands once and went out of that room, jumping a little bit on his way, in a cheerful manner.
Felix kept his eyes straight at the disappearing shadow, face; emotionless.
As if he saw a ghost, right in front of him.
On the other hand, Jisung was quiet, as if it was a usual thing for him. It was indeed...
Felix broke down.
"Why...why lord?!" he sobbed.
Although he was extremely broken from inside, he knew one thing, clean and clear.
"We need to get out of here..." Felix said in a low tone.
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