The Motive || NeoMark x TayNew (discontinued)

two: kidnapping

"Bye-bye!"

Tay said to the two people waving their hands at him, as he stepped outside to board his trip to Bangkok.

On his way, Tay was pretty concerned about his plans, though he had set them straight. He worried whether or not they'll go according to him. Tay was a person with a clear mind who liked to have his things sorted out organized, and just the thought of an unpredicted incident would make him distressed. He tried to ignore his paranoia and just stared out of the plane window.

As it landed, Tay disembarked the plane and gathered his luggage. It was around nine in the evening, and as he walked down the airport aisle, nobody seemed to notice him. There was some crowd but most of the people were busy with their own work. Tay exited the airport building, looking around in search of a taxi, lucky of him for one came and stood right next to him.

He sat inside the taxi and told the driver to take him to his clinic, where he had saved New's documents. Soon, it had been two hours since he was in the taxi. His clinic was pretty close to the airport and the maximum time that took to reach there would be an hour and a half, considering the traffic. 

But Tay was tired from his journey, and he fell asleep as soon as he sat in the taxi. He expected the driver to wake him up when he reaches, bold of him to assume that from a Bangkok taxi driver. Little did he know, the person driving was not an actual driver, and that the apparent driver wasn't taking him to his clinic, and that he was being kidnapped, and that there was nothing good to be made out of him, and all his hopes and plans were coming to an end. The driver stopped the car, turning around to open a small bottle containing valerian, and made Tay inhale it during his sleep.

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Tay blinks his eyes as he tries to get a hold of his vision, adjusting to the new light environment after a deep sleep.

"Where am I?" He said.

"Who are you? Why have you brought me here?" He said to the only person in his sight, who was a man wearing a black shirt and pant, a pair of black glasses to go with it. Tay looked around himself, found himself seated on a wooden brown chair, with his hands tied at back, as he tries to untie himself, continuously jerking. He was inside a room, a big room in fact. The room had a lot of natural light coming through it from a large window with a view that indicated he was in a tall building, 22 floors at height. He was really confused as to what was happening but he for sure knew that coming back to Bangkok would not be an easy task for him.

"Wait until ma'am comes, she'll tell you everything." said the suspicious-looking man.

After listening to the man refer to the person as "ma'am", the first thought Tay had was Prim. He had a strong feeling that Prim kidnapped him to know what was up with New, and if he did something then. He was anxious to face her, but he had already sorted out what he'd say to Prim when he meets her, he just didn't know it'd be that soon.

Waiting for a while, still tied on the uncomfortable chair, Tay let out a big sigh of frustration and impatience, right when the door opened and a confident woman stepped in. Tay was surprised to see the person in front of him, it was certainly not who he expected it to be. Luck was on his side.. or maybe not, nothing could be said for sure.

"I'll talk to him alone." She said to the guards around her, signaling them to get out of the room.

"Khun Neen." said Tay. "You brought me here, is there something I can help you with?" Tay knew Neen, obviously, but he didn't expect her to know him, so he played fool. "Are you mistaking me for someone else? I can swear I've done nothing wrong I know of." He tried explaining himself.

"I know you've done no wrong, that is why I got you here." Neen said, and with a pause after that, she continued. "That is why I've got you here, you are of use, you've got some information and I want you to say that to me."

Tay was caught off-guard at what he heard. He figured that the only reason Neen would kidnap him would be to know New's whereabouts, but he just hadn't prepared himself to answer such questions yet. "Information? what kind of information? I've got knowledge about medicine because I'm a doctor, if that's what you wanna hear of, I can help." He decided to not back off yet.

"Are you sure you're not giving up yet?" she said, and after receiving a strong desperate gaze from Tay she knew exactly what to do. She exited the room without saying anything, and a while later Tay heard the door open again, but this time, it was someone else.

"Khun Tay, I'm Neo, nice to meet you." was what the new man had to say. "Khun Neo..", Tay continued "I was thinking of making contact with you, thank you for bringing me here.. in this, amazing form." he said as he looked at his helpless self, with sarcasm so that Neo would get on to untie him.

"Oh, I'm sorry about that. Neen did it because she knew you were an eager man full of integrity, you wouldn't come to us easily unless you were forced to." Neo replied to Tay as he proceeded to untie him. "Well, that sounds about true.." Tay said as he continued "New told me that whatever I need to do here in Bangkok, I need to do alone, and the only help I could take must be from you and only you." Tay finished and got up after finally being set free. "How did you find me though?" he asked Neo as he replied "We checked New's room after he disappeared and found a doctor's receipt, we searched about you online and our men found out that you took a flight from Phuket to Bangkok and you were landing today."

"Oh, I see.."

"Wait a minute.. if you landed to Bangkok already, why's New not with you? where did you leave him while you were away to Phuket?" Neo asked him, in confusion. "Leave him? He wasn't in Bangkok with me. He was, initially, but I took him to Phuket with me to keep him there. He's still there while I came back to find evidence in support of him." Tay replied, only to make Neo more confused.

"Huh? What? I still don't get you! Evidence? What kind of evidence? Explain it to me clearly." Neo said as he made his usual confused expression and exhaled out in frustration loudly. "Well, your brother was assaulted, and.." Tay explained it all to him. From how New started coming to him, until when New and Tay bid their byes at his house in Phuket.

"All of that happened to my brother and I didn't even know of it? Oh such a bad elder brother I am! That poor kid must be going through a lot!" Neo said in worriment as an elder brother who loved his family a lot and didn't want anything to happen to any one of them.

"So, do you have any plans on how to save New?" he asked Tay. "Yes, I do. But I want you to not say any of this to anyone, even Neen. New asked me not to, he's uncomfortable with it." Tay said which made Neo hyper again. "Huh?! and how else do you think we're going to save him? He's just a stupid kid who doesn't know about anything, he doesn't know what he's got himself into. There's no way we can do it without Neen! Go put something in his brain! She is the one who does the main monopoly of this house! We can't do anything without her. Without her, even this big house that you're inside of right now would be no more than an anthill!" He speed-talked in frustration showing no signs of a calm head.

"Chill, man. Okay, we're going to get help. Just don't get this in the knowing of the media or else we're all screwed for sure." Tay said trying to calm Neo down. "It's settled then? I'll explain everything again in front of Neen and I'll tell you both the plans I've made." Tay gave a strict smile as he raised his palm forward to shake it with Neo's.