Blaze

Heavy Confusion

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Outside in the hallway Kris could hear endless phones ringing, the fan on the ceiling spinning loudly, voices swirling into the air, and doors continuously swinging open and shut. Suddenly annoyed he pushed the heavy metal door shut suddenly encasing himself into a room of silence.

Surrounded by five foot drawers withholding cubicles of information all stashed and carefully organized into manila folders, Kris had gone through almost two drawers in the past couple of hours. Searching for all files that might contain Eunhyuk's name was quite the job. It was far more of a difficult task than he'd expected.

There were quite a few Eunhyuks and after failed speculation and more digging, Kris discovered he'd been looking into the wrong person. His fingers fiddled with each folder easing each one forward as he dug further into the folders at the back. The afternoon sun gleaming through the blinds behind him was becoming hotter against his back before it would set for the day.

Almost half an hour went by like this before he finally pulled out a folder. Kris ran his eyes over Lee Hyukjae's name a.k.a. Eunhyuk. Dismissing the biography on the front, he flipped the first few pages over before discovering a file on him as a victim of physical assault. Kris' eyes scrolled down the page to see that Eunhyuk had chosen not to file a complaint toward the guys who had been brought in with him that night.

Finally shoving the drawer shut he opened the door and walked out. After a few hallways he opened the door to an office and walked up to a man sitting behind a desk with a PC in front of him. More than just a couple of heavy files and yellow envelopes sat on the side of his desk.

"Oh...Kris," the man greeted, already looking burnt out from staring at the computer screen all day.

"I need you to check someone out for me," Kris began.

"Not now," he pushed him off, "I'm very busy..."

"You owe me," Kris immediately reminded forcefully," that night on the twentieth when you needed to leave for a couple of hours..."

Panic stricken the man cleared his throat and took the folder, "What do you need...." Then with a twitch of his eyebrow finished, "Kris?"

With a satisfied smile Kris said, "His records, background, friends; everything, and a.s.a.p."

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"Suho said he sent some pencils in last week for fingerprint testing," Victoria spoke with the woman behind a long white counter, "have those been completed yet?"

"Ah..." the woman with short curly hair nodded her head after finally understanding what Victoria was there for, "there's quite a few fingerprints smudged on those pencils, it's going to be difficult. They would have been done already, but since Suho specifically asked to look for a child's fingerprints it's going to take some more time."

Victoria left the center discouraged. With Eun Bin's disappearance from Yeongwol she didn't know where to start. There was supposed to always be a beginning at an ending, but where was this little girl's? How was Victoria supposed to start finding her?

After quite some time sitting in her car she finally headed back toward headquarters. Looking up some current events on missing child might lead her to something. At least she hoped so.

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"Where'd you get it?" shocked, Donghae rose to his feet and snatched the picture out of her hand.

Literally choking on his breath, his eyes zoomed in and out of the two Eunhyuk's faces. Which one...right or left was his friend? The blood coursing through his veins seemed to be all he heard; loud echoes within his ears. An erosion of confusion hazardly flowered through his entire being.