signed | choi seungcheol

➢thirty-one

-Jiyeon-

"Oh god," I groaned as my legs gave way, leaving me on the floor, "How do we stop this?" Seungcheol picked me up so I could stand properly, "Well, I don't know myself."

"I think we should stop and collect some evidence first before firing at him," I suggested, looking at Seungcheol, but he shook his head, "But he's watching us. We have to catch him in the act to get him quiet down but meanwhile, we need to keep the members safe."

I nodded in agreement, "We need a strong security while we think about what to do next. I doubt telling police officials will help though. I do know one thing."

"What is it?" he asked as he looked around, "Should we look at security cameras?" I laughed and shook my head, "No, let's eat first. I definitely know that I'm hungry." 

He laughed lightly and patted my head, "Okay sure, Chinese food? I'll go out and buy while you stay here with the others." I nodded as I placed a kiss on his cheek, making him blush and look around for spectators, "Okay then, I'll go check on Soonyoung while you go."

I turned around and walked to the emergency room to find the rest of them sitting there, I sighed as I held my head, "Ugh, what are you guys going to do about the meeting? Did someone contact the CEO?"

They all nodded slowly and went back to staring at the air. I couldn't help but feel guilty, I knew they were all thinking about all sorts of things, some of them hating on me, some of them just blanked out others worried about what would happen next. I couldn't blame them for thinking such things though.

After about a half an hour, Seungcheol came back with food and we ate while waiting for news about Soonyoung's surgery. The two of us finished first along and excused ourselves to go check out the surveillance cameras. We managed to get a footage of the camera that was filming the incident but it was too hard to see anything.

"Do you think we could get other cameras?" I asked Seungcheol as he lifted his eyebrows, "What do you mean?"

"Sir," I asked the man who showed us the video, "Do you know where we can see clips of the public cameras at the junction?" the man explained where we were supposed to go but it didn't seem easy. We had to get permission in order to look through it.

I sighed when we got out of the security room, "Let's go check out the possible areas the guy could've come from or left to." We headed out to look around the area and found an estimate of where the culprit went.

We reached a junction and looked around the area for cameras when I suddenly stopped Seungcheol and pointed at the camera nested on top of the traffic lights, "There." Confused, Seungcheol looked at me weirdly as I slapped his fore head lightly, "If Lee Jungsoo was to hire someone to do it or do it himself, he would avoid the cameras right? So according to my kdrama knowledge, there is a blind spot to this camera here."

"Oh," Seungcheol gasped, "So we just need to find a building that records that area to get a better idea of who it was that attacked us." I nodded and pointed at a row of buildings across the street, "Those buildings have the best view since, looking at this street, not a lot of stores have good quality cameras so we need."

We crossed the road quickly and entered the first building, bumping into a man who was hurrying away, "Oh I'm sorry." he apologized quietly.

"No it's okay. I'm sorry about that." I told him, he quickly bowed at me and went on his way. But something in my mind shook me. I pulled out my phone and took photos of him just in case. I walked back in to see Seungcheol talking to the lady in the front.

"We just need to see the recording outside just for a minute." he begged as the lady shook her head, "Someone came by and said we can't show it to anyone."

I furrowed my eyebrows, "Ajumma, who said that?" She sighed, "That man who just left." My eyes widened as I looked at Seungcheol and the lady at the counter, "Ajumma, could you check your recording yourself? Did he perhaps delete it?"

She excused herself and went to the back to check. When she came back she didn't look very happy, "I'm sorry, it seems like it was deleted when I wasn't paying attention."

I sighed as I tugged at Seungcheol's shirt, "Let's check the other buildings." Unfortunately, all clips of him were deleted and even recording was turned off so he could leave the building quietly. After all the store managers thanked us for getting them to check, we left with nothing but photos I took.

"Is it enough to get an idea of who it was?" Seungcheol asked as we walked up to the traffic lights and pressed on the cross walk button. I shook my head, "I should've filmed a video of him walking away, it would've been better."

Suddenly Seungcheol's phone rang and it was an unknown number, he pressed record as he picked up the call and turned the sound up a little for me to hear, "I know you are recording this." said an unfamiliar tuned voice, "And I'd just like to tell you, you better stop being detectives and delete those photos and stop the recording."

"Or what?" Seungcheol asked as the man on the other side chuckled, "Stupid kids. Look across the street." We looked across the street to see only a pregnant woman ready to cross the road the opposite direction. I looked up to see the sign change, letting us walk across.

"I'm going to shoot her." I gasped as I heard him, I fumbled for my phone and deleted the photos as Seungcheol stopped the recording but he was too smart for us, "You idiots, I know you guys have it saved in other places. I'll shoot her in three. Countdown starts now."

I couldn't yell at her so without thinking, I dashed over to the other side, ignoring Seungcheol's shouts. And just in time, I dived right in front of the women as a sharp piercing feeling spread through my body from a muscle at the back.

When I tried to stand, my body didn't let me as numbness spread through, freezing me in place. Before I could do anything else, I blacked out.

xxxxxx

I woke up to see Seungcheol sitting there, staring at me and I knew something was wrong, "What happened?" I asked him. He looked at me with no emotion, "He shot you with a tranquilizer."

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There was silence before Seungcheol decided to speak up, "We should stop this." I blinked at him, "What?"

"I said we should stop this. We are harming so many other people right now." he growled dangerously, suddenly I was afraid of what he was going to say next, "Let's stop investigating all this. We have two people in the hospital and he just threatened to kill our family next."

"He did?" I asked as Seungcheol passed me his phone, showing me a text but it seemed suspicious. I looked at him, "So are you giving up now?" He nodded sternly, "And I also have something else to add."

Just then his phone dingged and I looked down to see part of a text his mom had sent, Okay I'll tell dad to terminate the... And it stopped there. My heart suddenly froze as Seungcheol took the phone away from me.

"No way..." I whispered. He nodded, confirming my fear, "Contract terminated. I can't deal with this stupid nonsense with you and your dad anymore. It's all in the past I don't get why you are doing this." I bit my lip as I quietly said his name, "Seungcheol..." but he ignored me.

"We're breaking up."