Chasing You..

Ch- 18 Comfort

Jungkook's pov

As I suspected, my workmates found my newly acquired body art extremely hilarious. Even now, four days on, they were still ribbing me about it.

On Thursday we were called out for a job. We were briefed on the way there. Eight men had gone into a bank intending to rob it, but the robbery had gone wrong when one of the clerks managed to press the silent alarm. Now, seventeen hostages were inside, and they were currently in negotiations to get them out of there. The on-site Captain had called for backup and I had a gut feeling that things weren't going to go our way with this one.

I sat on the edge of the van, across the street from the bank, listening to the officers all talking about how best to approach the situation and get the hostages out unharmed. A couple of things that the lead perpetrator had said, led them to believe that they had no intention of letting all the hostages live. They had already shot one hostage to prove they were serious, and were threatening to kill another if the helicopter wasn't here within the next thirty minutes.

Captain Ryu, the officer in charge of the operation, shook his head. "I think we need to send in a strike team. We can't get the helicopter here within the time frame. I've already tried to buy more time, but he's not having any of it. If we don't give him what he wants within the next," he looked at his watch, "twenty-three minutes, then he's going to take out another hostage."

Captain Eun nodded, frowning and looking over the schematics of the bank again. "There just doesn't seem to be any way in there without them seeing us. Surveillance shows that they're covering all entrances into the building. We can't get in there undetected."

I looked over at the building again. There had to be some way in there. "What about the roof?" I suggested. "Don't they have roof access in case of fire?"

The two captains turned to look at me before they both looked back at the schematics again, thumbing through pages until they found the top-floor ones.

"You're right, Jeon. There's a security hatch up there! If we could get in there, we could work our way down the building. There's a good chance they would have overlooked the roof entrance."

I nodded. Even if they just sent in some tech guys to set up some cameras it would be an advantage. At the moment, we were blind. They'd boarded up the windows so we couldn't see in. My sniper team was useless because they had no visuals. I had positioned three guys on the two buildings opposite, covering the two exits in case they tried to break free. Other than that though, we could do nothing to help, it would all be down to a ground team and negotiator.

I listened as they started planning the best approach. They were sending in a ground team through the roof access; cameras would be set up to feed intel while they played out the remainder of the time they'd been given. Hopefully, they'd be able to do something before the deadline was up and they killed another hostage.

When everything was arranged, I walked up to Captain Eun. I wanted to help; I hated being stuck on the sidelines. "Sir, can I go in too? I could just cover the team, be backup in case the ground team needs it," I suggested. It wasn't my usual job, but I had done this occasionally if there was a better vantage point inside then I would take it.

"You want to go in?" he asked. I nodded, and he patted me on the shoulder. "I'm not gonna lie, Jungkook, you'd be helping out a lot doing that. You could lead the team in there, they'd benefit from your experience. We could split the strike team and have you lead half and Jacob lead the other half."

"Absolutely, sir." I headed over to Jacob, who was planning with his team and ordering the tech guys around. I joined in the plans, excited to be seeing some action for the first time in three days.