Stealer [Hyungwonho]

III

"Can you remember anything about the burglar that attacked you? Or his accomplice?" The police officer looked at Hoseok with a serious look on his face and was ready to write down everything Hoseok tells him.

But the black-haired boy just shook his head. "I haven't seen the one who attacked me. He was behind me and knocked me down before I could turn around. And I only remember the eyes of the other one. It was extremely dark in the room. Only the moonlight had shine through the windows. I couldn't see much." The officer nodded and wrote down what Hoseok had told him. It wasn't much though.

"Would you be able to recognise him?" Hoseok thought about it for a moment and then shrugged his shoulders. "Maybe. But I'm not sure."

The fact that the eyes of the burglar had been etched into his mind was something Hoseok didn't wanted to mention. He didn't wanted the boy to be arrested. He wanted to find him. So he stayed silent about this part.

The questioning went one for a few minutes until the officer finally closed his notebook and looked at Hoseok with a smile. "That will be everything for now. We will call you if there's something new. Thank you for your time, Mr. Lee."

They both shook hands and then Hoseok left the police station. It was around lunch time and the sun was burning down merciless on everyone who needed to be outside right now. But despite the heat, Hoseok decided to walk back to his workplace.

It was 15 minutes walk to the hospital where he was working at but he took his time and let his thoughts wander.

A few days had passed since the burglary and ever since then Hoseok had tried to remember anything else than the eyes of the tall boy. But there was nothing. So it would be extremely difficult to actually find him because, let's be honest, most of the earth population has brown eyes.

He also still hadn't figured out what exactly had fascinated him about that boy. It was more than just his eyes. His whole presence was fascinating. On a whole different level. Even though Hoseok hadn't seen him in full day light, he knew the tall boy was beyond beautiful.

But his eyes were filled with such a huge amount of pain. It had kindled the urge in Hoseok to hug him immediately. An urge he couldn't explain to himself.

Hoseok stopped at a crossroad and waited for the traffic lights to change. His thoughts were still by the tall burglar. Suddenly he heard screeching brakes and loud honking. He turned his head towards the sounds and saw a bus hitting a young man.

He gasped and started running to the accident scene. A few people had already gathered around the man and the driver just got out of the bus, visibly shocked.

Hoseok tried to fight his way through the people to reach the young man, who was lying on the ground. "Let me through! I'm a doctor!"

The people made way for him and he could finally kneel down next to the boy. His eyes were closed and his head covered with blood. His right arm and leg stuck out in an abnormal angle from his body. Both obviously broken. He felt for the boy's pulse. He found it but it was extremely low.

He got his phone out of his pocket and called the ambulance. Then he looked through the boy's pockets in the hope of finding something that would tell him the name and the address of the patient. He found his ID and looked at it.

His name was Chae Hyungwon and he was 25. Hoseok looked at the photo on the card and a shiver went through his body. He looked at the lying boy and then back at the card to assure himself. But it was true.

The injured boy on the street was the burglar he was searching for.

From afar he heard the sirens of the ambulance and quickly put the ID back into the boy's purse. He then shoo the curious people back onto the sidewalk.

The paramedics greeted him quickly but respectful and then took care of the boy. One of them looked at Hoseok.

"Did you find any Information about him?" The older nodded. "Yes. His name is Chae Hyungwon and he is 25. He lives only two streets from here."

The paramedic nodded before he helped his colleague to lay the boy onto a stretcher.

"I'm coming with you." Hoseok climbed into the ambulance after the paramedics had carefully shoved the stretcher into the car.

He carefully sat down, always trying not to block the paramedics. The boy had several infusions on both of his arms and an oxygen mask was covering half of his face.

He looked calmy but Hoseok knew that he was fighting for his life. Without the paramedics noticing he was able to connect their pinkies.

"Stay with me. I need you. I want to know who you are, Chae Hyungwon", he whispered, not knowing if the boy was even able to hear him.