Sandcastle

FIVE

Jungkook plucks at the light blue button down shirt that spans over his chest, while they walk back to the conference room. Taehyung side eyes his boyfriend, admiring him in the sudden color. The most colorful he had seen him before was in a light gray button down and tie, when their parents met for the first time. Apart from that, Jungkook always wore fashionable dark gray or black suits, tone in tone.

„The color suits you, you know," he says quietly.

Jungkook raises an eyebrow at the dark green pullover Taehyung is wearing. „I know what you did there," he grumbles.
„I absolutely don't know what you mean," he feigns innocence.
„I still think there was my gray henley in the back of your locker." Jungkook raises one eyebrow. „The one I've been looking for, for ages now," he says intently.

„Don't be ridiculous," Taehyung replies. „Why would I have your shirt," he snorts. „But you can go back and change into the police issued tracksuit, if you want," he offers again and points back to the locker rooms.

Jungkook narrows his eyes now. „I still know what you did."
„Yeah, yeah. Keep telling yourself that," Taehyung murmurs and opens the door to the conference room.

Four pairs of eyes watch them enter. First in amusement, but their glances slowly transform into surprise.

They place their files and notebooks on the table, ignoring the eyes following them.

„I don't wanna hear it," Jungkook grumbles finally after several seconds of silence and pins a picture of Yoo on the board. „I will hurt you, if you say something. I promise you that," he further threatens and takes a pen to scribble notes under it.

„I really like...," Yoongi begins nonetheless „the color of your eyes," he continues and grins smugly. „They are so colorful. I never noticed before."
Jungkook turns back to them and crosses his arms. The fabric stretches over his muscular biceps and the top button over his chest barely holds on. „You are childish," he grumbles.

„Very dreamy," Jimin agrees and takes out his phone. „I seriously have to take a picture. The station won't believe it," and he snaps two and hides his phone, when Jungkook unwinds his arms.
„Yeah," Yoongi agrees. „But we enjoy it." And he leans back in his chair and interlaces his finger in waiting. „I believe you wanted our consultation on something, we were told." And he gestures with his head to Nam-Joon and Seok-Jin.
The prosecutors sit in front of several thick binders, smiling broadly as well. „We took the liberty to ask them here, since you ... were busy," Seok-Jin winks. „Hope you don't mind."

Taehyung shrugs. „Yeah, that's fine. Speeds up the process. Did you send the footage of the abduction?"
„We sure did," Nam-Joon says. „Work before pleasure," and he snorts nonchalantly.

Taehyung contemplates telling them, for a moment, that they are just jealous and Min is a gossip, but refrains from it. Further engaging in the teasing wouldn't help, so he wakes the laptop up and logs into the system, pulling up their investigation. He gets busy, adding the CCTV footage, while Jungkook takes his notebook and goes back to the board to add further details.

When the video starts to play, Jungkook turns around to watch. They can see the parking garage where Yoo walks along a row of parked cars. The footage is in color, so they know that the van is a dark gray, that suddenly drives by and stops, hiding Yoo behind the dark windows. It just takes a few seconds and the van takes off and no Judge Yoo is in sight anymore.

„Are there cameras at the entrance or where you pay for the ticket," Jungkook asks, irritated.

Seok-Jin makes a face that looks like he ate something sour. „There is no camera that takes pictures of the drivers when they enter the parking garage, and we couldn't find where the van was parked," he explains. „We just got the license plates. We viewed the footage at the paying stations, but we couldn't make out who the drivers may be."