Fatal Trouble | Y.Jw

| 10 |

The next few days dragged on in the police station. No new leads gave anything and the local hospital was remarkably slow to return the test results of the most recent corpse and the old autopsy reports of previous victims of the possible pine murder.

"Things are getting slow," Heeseung remarked and twirled slightly back and forth in his office chair, waiting impatiently in the room beside the interrogation room. Looking in through the one-way glass. The person to be questioned already sitting in his chair. Defendant Jung was restlessly tapping his fingers on the tabletop.

"I'm changing case after my interrogation," Jake hummed quietly and checked his watch. Jiyeon was supposed to arrive within ten minutes to transcribe his interrogation, "I can't lull around here and wait like this."

"You wanna leave the case to the police department?" Jungwon frowned slightly, looking away from Defendant Jung. He had been leaning against a nearby wall for the past few minutes,  He had been studying his body language and anything that could reveal anything in the case. But he seemed to have been in police custody for so long that any blood traces on him or his clothes were questionable.

"There's a big case back home. Too many witnesses and suspects for Sunghoon to get through all of them," Jake nodded quietly and shoved his hands into his pockets, "I'm sure the police will get it at some point here. Trial for Defendant Jung next week. I know they have a plea deal on the way for him. Thing is, he needs to give certain information for that."

"You're leaving?" Jungwon frowned, "we never leave a case. We always solve it."

"More important things are waiting," Heeseung murmured and Jungwon snapped his head over to them.

"You mean to tell me, you both plan on leaving?" Jungwon questioned and the two older boys shared a glance, "We never leave a case."

"A few small-town murders are not on the top of the list right now. This is national safety we're going back to investigate," Heeseung murmured and rubbed his forehead slightly, "it's not a proud moment. But it needs to be done."

"More people will be murdered," Jungwon pointed out and they both just nodded, "you really wanna leave these people to die?"

"People die anyways," Jake pointed out, "if you burn for this case so badly, then stay. You can keep the noticeboard."

"I can't believe this," Jungwon murmured in disbelief and pushed himself away from the wall, "you're actually gonna leave just like that?"

They didn't get the chance to continue before the door had opened and Jiyeon rushed in. Her typewriter weighed down heavily in her arms as she hurried in and dumped it on the desk in the room. Immediately noticing the silence.

"Geez, if I didn't know better I'd believe I had walked into a divorce consulting," Jiyeon remarked and glanced around.

Eventually, she sat down and started adjusting the ink holder and got the roll of paper ready for the transcript. Jake glanced at his watch once again, quietly pouring up a cup of water for Jiyeon.

"Thank you," she murmured and got out a pair of glasses from her bag, "anytime you're ready Detective."

"A minute," Jake hummed and wandered over towards the door, opening it slightly before quickly turning to look at Jungwon, "before you start about us breaking habits. You broke our rule already," Jake pointed out and glanced at Jiyeon before leaving the room.

Jungwon only sighed before slumping back against the wall and sent Jiyeon a small glance before he turned his attention back to Defendant Jung in the interrogation room.

"Trouble in deductions?" Jiyeon questioned calmly and Jungwon spared her a glance.

"Mere disagreement," Heeseung excused and folded his hands across his stomach.

"And how's the rest going for you then?" Jiyeon snickered and looked over at Heeseung.

"I'm simply gathering clues," Heeseung pointed out and looked back over at Jungwon.

"I just need to find a way to meet the murder," Jungwon murmured quietly, a small frown on his face as Jake entered the interrogation room, "show's about to start. I suggest you get ready Miss Young."

"You're not gonna leave me be to do my work?" Jiyeon hummed and straightened her back, laying her fingers delicately on the letters of her typewriter.

"We'll watch this one," Heeseung shook his head and narrowed his eyes on Defendant Jung.

"The Defendants are the most brutal ones," Jiyeon shrugged, earning a small chuckle from Heeseung.

"We know," Jungwon merely stated.