Stranger feelings ✔️

#20

It was around noon. The faint winter sunlight illuminated the room with its golden glow.

All the hybrids except Yoongi and Jin, Shenaya, and I gathered in the lab around the desktop, watching the results getting printed. The cracking sound of the printer kept on breaking the silence. It has been about half an hour since we were waiting for Jin and Yoongi to join us. They were supposed to be here with the virus they made, which I suppose is successful, according to what Namjoon informed us last night.

We haven't broken the news of the presence of the drug and the test which we conducted. Witzie sure knew that we were here in the lab. But he hasn't made a move yet, which proved that something kept him away from us for now. Provoking him was the last thing on our to-do list. I do not trust any alien after what happened to Taehyung. So do the others. Therefore, the news of any other soul knowing about our mission was nearly impossible, but never zero.

But they gave me the task to get Ms. Skar Raziel to reveal these papers. She was on our way to the High ministers. All the other High minister's lived in their home planets. Ms. Raziel was the only one who stayed on Earth, which marked her as our vector in this task.

A few minutes later, the duo- Yoongi and Jin- walked into the room. The room went a few shades to the warm spectrum when they walked in. They held their Orthrux and some other things new to me.

"What took you so long?" Namjoon asked as soon as they placed the computer on my desk.

"Ms. Raziel caught us on the way," Yoongi said. "She asked about your progress with Taehyung." He added, pointing me.

"Well, we know she is here. Why don't we try our plan A right now?" Hoseok added without giving me a chance to speak.

Namjoon gave an elongated nod and looked at me, motioning to brief about the results we've found.

I took the papers, which came out of the printer, hot. Arranging them in the order, I shared a few copies among the hybrids and one to Shenaya.

"So as you see in the paper, we found the drug in the juice sample that Hoseok brought. We don't know how it ended up there, but I have my fair guess." I said walking towards the desktop. "Fertilizer used in our plantation; the only reasonable cause. Witzie would've known this, but he did nothing. After the chemicals in fertilizers gets into the soil, they undergo several reactions with the ones in soil and make this chemical. Or there is a fair share of this chemical in the fertilizer. Either way, it is true."

"So we'll inform Ms. Raziel now?" Jungkook asked. He looked as if he is about to do a sprint to get her here.

"Inform me what?"

We all turned towards the voice which came from the door. Ms. Raziel stood by the threshold with a few stacks of paper, checking them. She walked towards the table.

"Where's Taehyung? I have to ask something to him." She placed the papers on my desk.

"Before that, look at these." Shenaya passed her the papers in front of us.

She raised her eyebrows and placed the papers side-by-side. Both looked similar. The graph, the conclusion, the wordings. Vaguely similar.

She chuckled, "you were late. He gave this before you. I've already given a copy to the High Minsters. They are here, we need to find Witzie. That's all that we need to do."

"Taehyung is with Mr. Witzie," I said. "We went to my parents' lab a few days before he got captured then."

"What?" Her eyes went wide. "But Witzie went back to his planet last week."

"His planet?" My voice was an octave higher.

"Hana, that explains why he has pulled no strings since you came back," Namjoon explained.

That made sense. But if Witzie went back to his planet, where was Taehyung. Zargon told the last day he found his location. Something's not right.

"What happened to Taehyung?" Ms. Raziel asked.

"Shenaya, Jungkook, Taehyung, and I went to the Lab of Mutagenic Studies a few weeks before. I wanted to see if there was any data about how to correct Taehyung's errors. That time Witzie and a group of guards barged in and took Taehyung with them. We don't know his whereabouts." I briefed the incidents to Ms. Raziel.

"Well, Taehyung is much far-sighted than what we thought. He had enough time to report these to me after experimenting." She said. "I thought you must have helped him, Hana." She looked at me.

"I didn't know that this was why he was captured until now. Maybe Mr. Witzie came to know about him reporting it to you. But he was late, as Taehyung had already reported even before he was kidnapped." My voice was soft as I found the answers to some questions.

"What exactly were you doing there in your parents' lab?" She asked again.

"There were no other intentions. Just to get some records that might help us. I remembered that only my parents' lab was completely burned down. So they must have preserved the archive. I wanted to make him better." My voice was cracking as I spoke. Shenaya held my arms, comforting me.

"Well now that things are going to end, hopefully, Taehyung will be back soon and you can get him tested again." She patted my back as she said.

"The others, Witzie, will be arrested soon as he is on his home planet. Things are more advanced there. They might have already tracked his location. So which means Taehyung will be back soon." She smiled and added, "don't worry. Things will work out well. I have to go then. See you guys later."

The golden portal opened near my lab door, and Ms. Raziel disappeared behind the golden glow.

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