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"Wait, which Taehyung?" Namjoon squinted a bit, expressing his confusion.

Hoseok had run up to him after snapping out of his trance in the office kitchen, managing to catch Namjoon before he left the East Wing for lunch. Namjoon had been rather shocked when Hoseok told him about his ideas, and what he'd heard.

"Kim. Doctor Kim Seokjin's A&E junior. There's only one Taehyung in this whole hospital."

"No way. He doesn't look like one to kill somebody- much less four people- maybe you saw the face wrongly, or something."

Hoseok turned his head behind him briefly, trying to see if anybody was eavesdropping on the conversation they were having in a corner.

"That's what I thought. But he's the only one here with blonde hair- and the voice sounded like his. He was talking to somebody he called Dad."

"And they were discussing Min Yoongi's case?"

"Yeah. Taehyung said that he 'did it for the family' or whatever. The other guy seemed to disagree." Hoseok's fingers flew up beside his ears to quote the words he heard.

Namjoon reached up to slide off his glasses, pressing his fingers on the bridge of his nose in a concentrated-if not distressed- expression.

"And what do you plan to do about it?" he asked, keeping the fingers pinched and his eyes closed.

"Shift the date of the plan forward. Get the truth at a faster pace. Send Taehyung to jail."

He might have scared himself with the tone of the words, too cold. Too harsh. Not...him. Hoseok was not a harsh person- never was, never willed himself to be. He never wanted to send anyone to jail. His thoughts on those cold metal bars were that they were a sign of getting caught. A sign that you'd done something to violate a powerful national law that held prowess over everyone.

But he'd never thought that it was a sign that you didn't hide well enough. Until, of course, he found himself thinking exactly that. Taehyung was careless to let himself be heard so easily.

"We can't be sure that he did it, though. We need concrete evidence-"

"I heard his own father saying that he killed them. Isn't that enough?" Hoseok interrupted, exasperated and honestly rather annoyed at how defensive Namjoon was getting. He was probably just making sure Hoseok wouldn't jump to conclusions and cause a big calamity, but everything seemed to be getting on Hoseok's nerves that day.

He could see Namjoon's Adam's Apple bobbing as he swallowed deeply.

"Let's see what Min Yoongi says, then we'll draft our conclusions. Can we schedule the meeting for tomorrow?" he began to put his glasses back on, adjusting them to fit his nose ridge.

Hoseok could tell he was a bit sceptical about the whole thing, and for a few simple reasons he knew and had even thought about for a point of time.

For starters, Taehyung was a junior resident like him. People at such a low rank would risk nothing, moreover something as big as a scandal that would get them fired. Secondly, the situation and atmosphere he was in made no sense. A killer would never work at a hospital, much less for the A&E department. Thirdly, and only specific to Namjoon, he knew someone in the department- someone that would make his thoughts change in just a snap of his fingers. Seokjin probably filled him in about how nice a kid Taehyung presented himself as (Hoseok assumed) so it was forgivable for Namjoon to not believe him.

But what Hoseok needed was for Namjoon to break himself out of that box of ideas he was caught in to see what he was talking about, what he was trying to warn Namhjoon about. The junior knew he needed to show some proof to his mentor, and he knew exactly how. His proof was Min Yoongi's testimonial, and everything was reliant on what he said.

In some way or another, Yoongi held the fate of everything in his hands. If not, Hoseok was accusing someone of multiple homicides and that, he knew, was a criminal offence in itself.

At least, to the conscience.

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