artist | wanna-one + p101

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the hoarde of young officers ran eagerly back to the office in an attempt to please dongsu, which resulted in a fail as dongsu was talking in hushed whispers to namhyung, both of them turning their heads to the door when it was slammed open.

taehyun had his nose buried in jaehwan's case file and glanced up at the sound, then beckoned the boys over with a hand, subsequently having dongsu and namhyung gather to his desk as well. taehyun closed the file and tossed it to shihyun, who barely caught the pack of important papers.

"i reviewed the information on jaehwan's case and i have reason to believe minhyun is currently or in progress of meeting with jung sewoon, especially with how mentally unstable he's been acting recently."

"mentally unstable?" dongsu inquired, staring into taehyun's eyes. taehyun nodded, stretching his neck.

"my partner studies states and forms of the mind, he often tells me about what he learns. from observing minhyun's behavior, he's been irrational, isolating himself from others, been more aggressive, and very obviously cannot focus. it's really not that difficult to see he's changed quite a bit since jaehwan was murdered."

samuel's jaw dropped in surprise. "you could tell that all? i couldn't decipher anything from what he's done..."

taehyun smiled softly, standing up from his seat at his desk. "sam, you don't have to feel like you know everything, you're plenty intelligent. let me figure something out for once."

"it is reasonable," dongsu mused, then his eyes went wide, "if that is the case, we must hurry and find where sewoon is, minhyun has been deadset that sewoon killed jaehwan and will most likely harm him."

namhyung sighed, wrapping his black jacket around his broad shoulders. "i'll take a few of you to find sewoon."

"i, uh," shihyun stepped forward shakily, "i saw minhyun running earlier in the direction of your building, if that helps any... i'm sorry if it is not..."

namhyung laughed loudly, ruffling the younger boys dark hair. "you gotta be more comfortable, kid, be sure of yourself. that's very helpful. taehyun, shihyun, and jihoon, could you join me in finding sewoon?"

jinyoung started shaking, and he grabbed namhyung's hand tightly, looking into the older boy's eyes. "l-let me join you, i run fast. i can help you."

namhyung glanced over at dongsu, the older boy nodding. "okay, jinyoung, you can join us. let us go now, can't waste any time."

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donghyun and youngmin were ecstatic at the return of daehwi and woojin, but unfortunately youngmin had to quickly run off to his job while donghyun had made plans to visit his twin brother many months prior to the boys going missing, leaving them with myunghoon.

"don't go missing again, i don't think myunghoon will care as much as i did." donghyun told them sternly with a smile, glaring at myunghoon over daehwi's shoulder.

myunghoon pouted, shoving a handful of chips into his mouth, crumbs falling. "i do care," he complained, his words muffled, "i just expect them to know the way home."

"how is woojin supposed to go missing with a cast on?" daehwi asked the chubby faced boy, laughing.

"i forgot he had the cast," myunghoon admitted, "he walks around without crutches so much that it slips your mind he's fucked up."

donghyun smacked myunghoon's shoulder. "language! now i'll be back tomorrow in the afternoon, sihoon will be back later tonight with kyungheon, be nice to them, they'll probably be tired."

"alright mommy, i got it all," myunghoon told him, "i think we can all live a single day without you, youngmin will be here to help as well."

"youngmin is almost useless," donghyun rolled his eyes, "anyways, everything is in the fri-"

a honk from outside took donghyun's attention. "oh, that's my uber! alright guys, don't go missing, don't kill each other, and do not invite jaehee over at all."

myunghoon waved off the younger boy with a smile, then as soon as he shut the door, he gave a sly smile to woojin and daehwi. "jaehee is coming over anyways. you guys can do whatever you want, just no wandering out of town again."

woojin laughed, throwing himself onto the pillow covered couch without a care for his leg, snuggling into the fabric. "that jaehee boy, i don't think he likes us or you."

myunghoon huffed, stomping into the kitchen to grab a soda. "jaehee is my best friend, why would he not like me?"

"dumbass," daehwi muttered under his breath, walking upstairs, almost falling from one of sihoon's game cases strewn across the stairs. he always suspected that jaehee was a snake, he couldn't understand why myunghoon was so attached to the small faced boy.

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while rushing over to namhyung and dongsu's building in an expensive car, taehyun called sewoon just to see what would happen and was shocked when the call was answered.

"hello? sewoon?" taehyun inquired cautiously, holding the phone close to his ear.

"ah, taehyun!"

instead of sewoon's lazy yet happy voice, he was greeted with minhyun's cold tone that faked care. taehyun looked in the backseat of the car and gave a pointed look to jihoon, who leaned closer to listen.

"minhyun? why do you have sewoon's phone?"

minhyun laughed. "taehyun, sewoon won't have anything for a long time. i figured i should answer calls for him."

"can i talk to sewoon?"

minhyun looked at sewoon laying on the tiled floor, blood seeping from a cut on his forehead. "sewoon is resting, call later, he can't talk right now."

taehyun sighed. "minhyun, your position or whatever justice you believe in won't let you get away with hurting or killing sewoon. you won't come back to us if you keep it up."

minhyun laughed, a real laugh this time. his giggles went on a long time, setting off an alarm within taehyun that minhyun's mentality was completely gone.

minhyun inhaled a deep breath, his laughter having stopped. "who said i was going to be alive for that?"

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