Fatal Trouble | Y.Jw

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Jiyeon leaned back in her chair and quickly cracked her fingers and stretched her back as it went silent inside the interrogation room. Even going as far as rubbing her eyes.

"I hope he isn't too long. I have classes I need to get to," Jiyeon murmured and glanced up at the clock above the door just in time for Jake to rush into the room and glance about.

"What's the time?" Jake questioned and Heeseung casually checked his watch.

"17 minutes past one," Heeseung murmured and Jake frowned as he glanced around.

"Midday or no?" he questioned.

"If a murder had taken place we would know," Heeseung reminded.

"Not if it was within the last hour or two," Jungwon murmured quietly and glanced back in through the glass, "give it a minute or two."

By the time Jungwon had shoved his hands into his pockets and pushed himself away from the wall he had glanced around the room with a smug smile. Barely a minute passed before the door flung open and Detective Ahn rushed in.

"Call of a dead body on the university campus," he rushed and buttoned up his coat, "you three come with me. Miss Young, you're off for the day. All your planned hours will be paid."

As Heeseung and Jake rushed out of the room Jungwon merely glanced at Jiyeon and sent her a knowing look as she started to pack up.

"Oh... get some officer to escort Defendant Jung back to his cell," Jungwon added quickly, "I don't think Miss Young should deal with someone like him."

"You don't get to decide who I deal with and who I don't," Jiyeon calmly reminded before sending back a smug smile as well.

"Home, Miss Young," Detective Ahn sighed as Jiyeon grabbed her coat and let her typewriter stay in the small room before pushing past both Detective Ahn and Jungwon on her way out the door.

"Hold up..." Jiyeon paused and turned to look at Jungwon, "did he say the next would be a journalism student?"

"Home you go, Miss Young," Jungwon repeated and turned her around by her shoulders and gently pushed her out, "we have a murder to get out to."

Jungwon made sure Jiyeon was escorted all the way out of the station before jumping into a car along with Detective Ahn and driving off. Jiyeon stood for a good second and stared at the car, watching as it turned on the siren and swung around the nearest corner.

Heeseung and Jake were already on the university campus by the time Jungwon and Detective Ahn finally arrived. A group of other officers at the scene as well.

"It's in one of the auditoriums," Heeseung shortly informed as Detective Ahn led the way with the help of whoever had phoned in the scene.

The door had already been barricaded off as a few people crowded around the door and watched in anticipation as the four detectives and a few officers in hazmat suits rushed into the auditorium, only one staying behind and glancing between the various people standing about.

"What faculty is the auditorium a part of?" Jungwon questioned and turned to an elderly woman standing nearby, clearly very familiar with the university judging by her stance and the small employee card sticking out of her cardigan's breastpocket.

"Communication and journalism," the woman shakily replied, taken back by the sudden confrontation, "sometimes the literature students-"

"Hm..." Jungwon hummed and turned on his heel, wandering into the auditorium and letting the door shut loudly behind him.

Heeseung was already kneeling around the body as the Hazmat-clad officers took away their tests and started photographing the surroundings.

"So?" Detective Ahn questioned.

"String marks around wrists and neck again," Heeseung murmured.

"Doesn't match with what Defendant Jung said," Jake remarked, "if they're lured into the places-"

"But has all the victims been lured?" Heeseung questioned and looked back up at Detective Ahn, "I want the full autopsy report on all six victims so far. I need to know if string marks were on all of them."

"What if there isn't?" Detective Ahn questioned.

"Then you've arrested a crucial part in the killer's system," Jungwon remarked and crossed his arms as he looked over the scene, "they're getting desperate. Tying up the victims with twine..."

"Deliver all results to our apartment tonight. Jungwon will piece it all together," Heeseung sighed and stood up, looking over the brewer's body thoughtfully.

"Sir... do you want a picture of the vandalism?" one of the hazmat officers spoke up a few rows back.

Immediately the four detectives turned and looked up at him.

"Vandalism?" Heeseung frowned and turned to the whiteboard where the usual pine tree was painted with the same precision as always, "new vandalism?"

"This table... right here, sir," the officer continued, "just says two weeks."

"I want one picture from down here where an officer marks the table," Jungwon added on, "the table can't be random. It simply can't."

"Get their pictures and get this body to the hospital. We need the autopsy asap," Detective Ahn sternly demanded as Jake glanced over at Heeseung.

Both boys obviously quickly came to a realisation and turned to walk off and up the stairs of the auditorium.

"We'll see you Jungwon!" Heeseung called out as Jake turned and sent one last glance at the dead body and Jungwon.

That was just about the exact time that Jake and Heeseung left the case. Apparently, a fresh corpse wasn't even enough to make them stay and finish their job.