codes. // a bts ff

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turns out, tae's team had to investigate the case. but they weren't going to make it harder for tae, so they just told him to take a week off and rest until the case was over.

when he came to his office the next day, which no one expected him to, he saw his sister's picture on the board. he didn't react even though he just found out that they were supposed to be investigating his sister's case but they did it without him.

seeing his sister's photo of her smiling, makes him want to cry again. but he stopped himself from doing so by avoiding the photo.

"tae, we thought you were resting." his team said.

"no." he simply replied and sat on his chair.

"look, if you want to investigate this with us, then come here. but if you don't-" before his friend get to finish, tae had already walked towards them with a blank face.

"what do you have?" he asked in a low voice. "o-oh right. so we found a suicide note, kinda." his friend, bongpal scratched the back of his head. "what do you mean 'kinda'?" tae frowned.

bongpal sighed and handed a paper to him. "that's the note we found in her fist yesterday. it was crumpled up." bongpal spoke.

tae sat back at his chair with tears in his eyes as he tried to read the suicide note. at first look, it was just gibberish.

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tae frowned, confused at what he was staring at.

"do you perhaps know what that is? she handwritten it, not type it so it must mean something... maybe?" bongpal spoke.

tae gulped, feeling like he had an idea of what it actually is. "no," he said and folded the papers. "it doesn't mean anything."

bongpal sighed. "sorry."

"it's okay. i wanna keep it." tae said. his team was confused as to why he would want to keep it, but they didn't question. "okay then, go ahead. i don't think it'll help in solving the case anyway." bongpal shrugged and continued with other stuff.

"well, since it's suicidal, i don't think there's anything to investigate." one of his team member spoke. taehyung's blood shot eyes glared at the person speaking.

"uhh we don't know for sure, it's all up to the boss.. i- i don't know." bongpal mumbled with a sigh.

"i'm leaving." tae said and left before anyone could say anything.

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"yes, come over. thank you." tae ended the call.

he's currently at home holding onto the note he had earlier, taeyeon's suicide note.

he looked down and after a while, let out a sigh. "base 64." he muttered to himself.

he took his phone again and searched "base 64" on Google. he then typed in the codes that was handwritten on the paper into his phone.

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