Seek With Me? | chanbaek

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The police station was a cold and life-sucking place. Everyone either moved around lazily or in a hurry, and they all looked very cross.

Sehun walked up to the front desk where a receptionist sat, quickly typing away on her keyboard. Sehun cleared his throat and tentatively said, "Excuse me? My name's Oh Sehun, and yesterday one of your officers brought in a suspect concerning the assault of Byun Baekhyun. I was just wanting to talk to him and I also know one of the officer was wanting to ask questions as well...?"

The receptionist's eyes lit up in recognition as Sehun spoke, and she said, "Oh, yes. I was actually the one who answered that call. And just one moment, I'll call someone to come back for you."

Sehun nodded and said a quiet "Thank you" before walking away to sit beside Chanyeol. It was a moment before someone appeared and said, "Oh Sehun?"

Sehun raised his hand as he got up and replied, "Yes, that's me!"

"Alright then, follow me," he said.

Sehun nodded and followed; Chanyeol trailing behind them.

"So," the officer said as they walked, "the suspect is refusing to talk. He keeps demanding that he wants to talk to . . . Baekhyun, was it?" He shook his head. "Anyway, since he keeps insisting upon that, we have our suspensions that they know each other. Maybe you can help us out?" he said as he opened a door leading them into what looked like an interrogation room.

And sitting at the metal table with his hands cuffed in front of him was a man Sehun always prayed he'd never have to see again. Fire burned in Sehun's gut as the man glanced up, a slow smile forming across his lips when he recognized his visitor.

"Hello, Sehun. Long time no see," he purred.

And Sehun lost it.

He charged at Kris as he screamed, "You fucking son of a bitch! I'll kill you!"

Both Chanyeol and the police officer were too stunned to react at first, it was only when Sehun had punched Kris across the jaw, knocking him out of the metal chair beneath him that the police officer came back to life. He quickly stepped forward to restrain Sehun as he yelled, "Don't make me arrest you too! Control yourself!"

Sehun ripped away from his grasp as he yelled, "How can you tell me to 'control myself'?! He hurt my brother, twice now, and I won't let him get away with it again!"

Sudden realization dawned on Chanyeol in that moment, and he mentally slapped himself for being so slow to realize. He took a half step forward, his movements predatory as he asked in a quiet —- deadly —- voice, "So it's you . . . You're the one who hurt him a year ago, and you've decided to do it again? What kind of sick human being would do that? You've followed him —- stalked him —- all just to hurt him again? Why?" Chanyeol hissed.

Kris's eyes narrowed as he replied in a voice like steel, "You're the boyfriend. The one who took his heart away from me. And I stalked him, as you say, because he left me without saying goodbye. He took my heart with him, and destroyed it when he met you. So I wanted to hurt him back. I wanted to take his heart —- his love —- just like he did to me . . ." Then a slow smirk curved Kris's lips as he continued on by saying, "And from your appearances, I'd say I succeeded."

~ ~ ~

After seeing Kris, both Chanyeol and Sehun went back to the hospital. Chanyeol had been hoping that maybe there would have been a change in Baekhyun's condition while they had been away, but there wasn't. He still laid too impossibly still.

Chanyeol took his seat by Baekhyun's bed side and gently held his hand again as he glanced over at Sehun, who occupied his previous position.

"When do you think he'll wake up?" Chanyeol murmured.

Sehun sighed and stood up, approaching the bed as he muttered, "I don't know, but I hope it's soon. Life is too quiet without his laughter and his constant poking fun at me."

Chanyeol chuckled and softly murmured, "Yeah, he loves making your blood boil."

Sehun playfully rolled his eyes and retorted, "Yeah, I noticed." Chanyeol chuckled again. "Hey? What if we just talk to him like normal? Maybe he'll wake up....?" Sehun hoped.

Chanyeol nodded and said, "Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. Should we tell him about today?"

"Well, we kinda have to now because of your big mouth. And if he can hear us and we don't tell him now, he'll beat us when he wakes up."

Chanyeol chuckled. "That is more than likely. Our little firecracker," Chanyeol softly murmured as he caressed Baekhyun's cheek with the back of his hand.

"Okay, Baek," Sehun began, "today we went to the police station and met your attacker . . . Kris." When Sehun said that, the heart monitor started to pick up.

Sehun gasped and Chanyeol leaned forward. He started to stroke Baekhyun's cheek and hair as he softly murmured, "Baekkie, wake up, sweetheart. Please, wake up for me?"

The monitor began to slow down, Baekhyun calming down at Chanyeol's voice and touch. It was a good reaction, but not the desired one. Chanyeol sighed and muttered, "Okay, that both worked and didn't work."

"Should we talk about you know who again?" Sehun quietly asked.

Chanyeol shook his head and continued to stroke Baekhyun's forehead as he replied, "No, I don't want to upset him again . . ."

Sehun sighed. "I just wish he would wake up . . ."

Chanyeol sighed too and laid his head down on Baekhyun's stomach as he gazed up at him and softly muttered, "Yeah, me too . . ."