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' a detective must not rest; the man who has done wrong can sneak past you without you knowing. so stay alert '
SIX : don't close your eyes
"hey wang," jaebum called out the man dressed in his security guard outfit, a baton dangling down to his side. jaebum's startling voice caught his attention making him look towards the source of the voice.
"jaebum, hey man." jackson, the security guard of jaebum's part of the department along with a couple others, smiled brightly as his friend made his way towards him. "what brings you here?"
"listen, something weird is going on in this city, and i was thinking that we should get our team back together."
"okay, i'm listening."
jaebum looks left and right, making sure no one was around but luckily for him there was no one in plain sight. he lowers his voice now and speaks. "jinyoung and i believe there is someone amongst us who could possibly be the killer."
"the killer?"
"yes, of goyang city."
"what makes you so sure jaebum? do you have proof?" he sighs and shakes his head.
"unfortunately no, but we came to the conclusion that it's someone here only because, well, they're always one step ahead of us. it's like they know our every move."
"so you want me to keep an eye out, correct?"
"yes, exactly. you know all the in's and out's of this building, and you have the key to every single door. you're the only person i can trust to keep an eye out." jackson nods his heads to the urgent yet hushed words that poured out of jaebum's mouth.
"don't worry man, you can count on me. things have been feeling strange around here anyways, and i'm glad it's just not in my head and that you know it too. i'll report back to you asap if i see anything suspicious... or if i get lucky, even the culprit."
jaebum places a firm hand upon jackson's shoulder, giving it a gentle pat and a determined smile. "thank you jackson, i can always count on you."
"of course you can. i'll talk to you later then, yeah? it's pretty late now you should be heading home."
"actually i was planning on staying here for another hour. i just want to do some cleaning up on my own before i head home. everything is just a mess in my office so it'd be nice to just have things organized."
"alright sounds good, be careful though man."
"you too." and with that the two parted ways. jackson kept a wide eye everywhere he walked, while jaebum went back to his office to look through the piles of pictures and documents scattered across his desk to organize them.
it was a night filled with complete silence. just about 15 people remained in the department at this time of night. the occasional hearings of footsteps would echo throughout the hallway and the sounds of papers flipping, but other than that it was silent. and not the comfortable kind.
just knowing that the killer could be here right now in the same building made jaebum sit on the very edge of his seat. hell, he couldn't even sit. he paced around his room and chewed on the end of his pencil instead of saying what he was going to do which was clean up the place. it's been no more than 20 minutes when jaebum pushed himself off of the counter he was leaning on and walked over to his desk.
his eyes fell to the pictures and papers displayed on the surface of his now messy desk and lets out a rather tired sigh. he drags his hands down his face, a small groan making its way up from the back of his throat.
"what am i not seeing?" he mutters to himself once he dropped his hands down to the surface of his desk. there were pictures of the victims to pictures of the crime scenes. jinyoung luckily took good amounts of pictures of each crime scene they had gone to, however there was nothing out of the blue. even while investigating the crime scene in person everything didn't seem strange or out of place.
the only strange thing of each victim was the signature embedded in each body. the meaning of it is yet to be known. he's even searched through books and books and even searched the internet for the meaning, but there was no information that would come to help. three circles with a line going down each one. there's no meaning to it. it could just have been how the killer marks his victims. it could just be his own unique signature.
jaebum takes a picture taken of one of the first victims they had gone to investigate; it was a picture of the signature marked into his arm. he held up the picture, squinting his eyes a bit as he tried to take a better look at it. he decided to take all of the pictures taken of each marking on each victim and placed them side by side upon his desk. once they were all placed on his desk, jaebum crosses his arms across his chest and scans each photo with his eyes.
there was nothing different to each marking. the only difference was, was the placement of each signature. otherwise they were just the same.
he looks up at the clock on the wall and rubs his eyes with his knuckle. 12:33 am. he sits down on his chair and leans his back against it, eyeing the pictures some more before he felt his eyelids go heavy.
i can just sleep for a bit here, there's no point in going home anyways. he thought to himself. and with that, he crosses his arms across his chest and leans his head back as he let himself drift off to a rather deep slumber.
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"jaebum! jaebum! shit... wake up!" his body was shaken roughly by strong hands. his eyes squinted open and it was rather difficult to lift his head to see who it was since it felt like he was sleeping for a long ass time. "jaebum, it's important wake up!" the voice that went through his ears was familiar, and it was no other than jinyoung. eventually he finally managed to open his eyes which seem to have been sealed shut, and his body finally came back to its senses.
"what's going on?" he said with a raspy voice. his throat was dry and it did hurt to talk. he rubbed his eyes before he could finally open them wide.
he wasn't expecting to see jinyoung look so frantic and scared. his breathing was heavy and quite honestly it looked like he had just seen a ghost. but this worried jaebum so he quickly got up from his seat and placed a hand on jinyoungs arm. "jinyoung! what happened?"
"jackson... he..."
"speak to me. jackson what? what did he do? did something happen to him?"
