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' the criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic '
TWO: there's more to this than meets the eye
the grey moon illuminated the dim, starless sky as if the stars positioned themselves behind the angry clouds. it was late at night and the only detective still wide awake in the department was jaebum. his fingers typed against the keyboards rapidly, searching for something that could relate to the carvings etched into the poor souls that no longer lived. his lamp perched on the corner of his desk dimmed the whole room, giving off just enough light for jaebum to see.
jaebum would flip through the pages of the files of the other victims and would frown. jaebum would have to look at the bodies in person. sitting in his desk all day having gone no where is really taking a toll on him. now suddenly getting sleepy, jaebum looks over at the time and sighed as he noticed it was now 1:25am.
"i need to stop staying up so late." he mumbled to himself, running his fingers through his hair in frustration. he closes his laptop and gets up from his seat and walks out. as jaebum was walking, he walked past the mini caféthat the department had and noticed familiar platinum blonde hair just swaying subtly within every step the tall lanky boy took. jaebum smiled at this and walked over to him from behind.
"hi."
"shit!" bambam almost fell, but caught his balance, and was quick to turn around with his hand placed on his chest while taking in deep breaths. "what the heck man! you scared me!"
jaebum laughed and patted bambam's shoulder. "sorry, i didn't think you'd be that scared."
"you know i get scared easily." bambam hugged himself and pouted making jaebum pat bambam's upper arms a few time.
"i said i was sorry!" jaebum whined which made bambam give in and sigh.
"do you want something to drink? you look exhausted."
"it's okay, it looks like you just cleaned up and closed the shop so i wouldn't want to make you do more work. and plus, it's almost 2am, we should be heading home now."
"mhm, let's go out together then since i'm just leaving anyways." bambam suggested which jaebum agreed to. bambam made sure the café was closed before the two headed out of the building. "i heard you and jinyoung took the goyang city killings case." bambam brought up, making jaebum nod his head.
"yeah, we did just this morning."
"no wonder you look so tired."
"honestly, when do i not look tired? i'm always up till 3am solving cases that i forgot what proper sleep feels like."
"wow, relatable. but instead that's me with making coffee's or making sandwiches for you guys. but in all honesty man, you should take a break. maybe even go on a vacation and spend some time on yourself."
