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"Y/N?"
You flinched and looked over at Hyeon. "Yeah?"
"I woke up in the middle of the night and saw that you weren't asleep. Did you sleep at all?"
"Uh," you sighed. "No."
"Are you okay?" She asked.
You nodded, when in reality you definitely weren't. This case was driving you mad, it was driving the guys mad, and you kicked yourself for not being able to make any ties. You ran every single message, phone call and email you could think of, and there was just nothing there. You couldn't even imagine letting this case go cold, but in the direction it was going, it seemed that way.
"Oh, you know what?" You looked at Hyeon. "I got a call last night from Director Yoon. Your aunt heard about what happened as soon as she got back into the country, and she wants to become your legal guardian."
"Really?" Hyeon smiled. "That's great news!"
"She said that she'd be at the agency at any given time to pick you up. Are you okay with that?"
"Yeah, of course. Let me go grab my things."
"Take your time, Hyeon. I still need to shower."
She chuckled nervously. "Right. I got excited."
Hyeon ran up to her aunt and gave her a big hug. You smiled to yourself and joined them, and Ms. Min held her hand out to you, so you shook it.
"Agent L/N, thank you so much for looking after Hyeon. I truly appreciate it." She said.
"It was my pleasure. She's a wonderful young lady."
You smiled down at her as you patted her back. She wrapped her arms around your waist, hugging you rather tightly.
"Thank you for taking care of me, Y/N. I'm glad I have a role model like you." She said.
"As am I." Ms. Min added.
"If the two of you ever need anything, please don't be strangers." You told them.
Hyeon's aunt nodded. "Of course. We'll see you around."
Once they were in the elevator, you took a deep breath and turned to your team. "We need to figure this out. This case is too cold right now, it needs to heat up fast."
"Y/N, Y/N, Y/N!" Blade exclaimed as she ran into the squad room. "I finished my full autopsy- well, it's been done for a couple hours now, I've just never caught you- but I've caught you."
"Why didn't you tell Chan?" You asked.
She tilted her head and gave you a look. "You know you're my one and only, Agent L/N."
You laughed and leaned against Jisung's desk. "Okay, let's hear it then."
"Okay, so Mrs. Kim did in fact die due to the stab wound she obtained. I didn't find any fingerprints on the knife. However, there were traces of Diazepam in her system, but she doesn't take it."
"Same killer, same MO, just in small amounts." You said.
Blade hummed in agreement. "Exactly."
You shut your eyes and groaned loudly. "We never checked to see who has bought a Zero Tolerance lately! Run it down, if it's a name we recognize, we bring them in."
"Oh, here's a name!" Jeongin said. "Her name is Moon Ara. She was one of the people that called Mrs. Kim the hour prior to her death."
"Okay, tell me everything you can about her."
Minho and Jisung got up, fighting over the remote to the plasma for a moment before Jisung won. "She is twenty seven years old, she works for the same law firm office that Mrs. Kim worked at, and she does not have a criminal record, but she does use Diazepam."
"Where is she right now?" You asked.
Seungmin raised his hand to get your attention. "I pinged her cell, she's at the... Royal Hotel Seoul?"
As soon as you pulled up to the hotel, you saw Ara. She was staring up at the blackened and burnt side of the building, almost admiring it. Her body language was off, and that made you uneasy.
"Stay in the car." You said.
"No."
You turned to Felix with an eyebrow raised. "No?"
"Y/N, you can't do everything on your own. That's it. You have me and Changbin for a reason, we're going with you." He said.
"You're right." You sighed. "Watch your six."
The three of you got out and slowly approached her, guns drawn and aimed at her. "Moon Ara?"
She looked back at you slowly. "Who's asking?"
"Federal Agents."
She bit her bottom lip and narrowed her eyes at you before running. You grumbled under your breath and the three of you split up to cut her off. She went down an alleyway, which made it easy on you, so before she could turn the next corner, you stepped in front of her. When she turned to go the other way, Felix and Changbin were already blocking her.
She rolled her eyes and put her hands up, so you cuffed her and took her back to the car. "It might just be me, but the runners are always more suspicious."
Changbin was lost in thought as he looked through the glass of interrogation. He couldn't stop thinking about the alleyway and what it reminded him of.
"That's right. Man up and face your problems."
How nervous he was when he hit Sang-Ki with that stolen gun.
"Get him home and give him some ice. I'm giving this back to the owner."
"Hello? Earth to Changbin?"
Changbin blinked a few times and looked over to see Jisung. "Sorry."
"You're good. I was just asking where Y/N was."
"I can imagine she'll be in interrogation in any-" he cut himself off as you opened the door and sat in front of Ara. "Second."
"She's so good at interrogation." Jisung said. "I wonder why she always goes in alone?"
"Director Yoon said she's always been that way, even before she was an official field agent."
You moved the chair out from underneath the table and moved it back, keeping your distance from Ara. "Tell me why you were at the hotel."
"I don't think it's any of your business."
"Oh, it's my business. Tell me if I'm wrong, but you were just admiring the damage the bomb did. I guess you like admiring things that are wrong, hm?" You questioned. "You bought a Zero Tolerance lately."
"So?"
"A Zero Tolerance was found in our murder investigation."
She leaned forward and held her hand up. "I did not commit murder!"
"Prove it. Our evidence points to you in this case. You use Diazepam, there were trace elements of Diazepam in our victim when she died- she doesn't use it. You bought a Zero Tolerance and it was found at our crime scene. Where were you three days ago between six and eight p.m?"
"I was working. You can call my boss, and he will vouch for me. I did not kill anyone."
You raised your hand up, telling one of the guys to check her alibi, and they did. "Tell me why you were at the hotel."
She groaned. "We're still on that! Maybe I was just looking at the damage!"
"Except your body language was telling me that you were pleased." You whispered. "That makes me think you're hiding something."
"I want my lawyer."
You hummed and grabbed your file, pushing the chair back under the table aggressively and making Ara jump. You slammed the door to interrogation, aggravated more than you should have been.
You took a deep breath as Jisung walked up to you. "Her alibi checks out. Her shift that night was two to ten p.m."
You shook your head and walked past him, back to the squad room where you threw the file down and stood in the middle of the open room. "I want to know why we aren't getting the correct suspects! How are they all checking out and why! I will not let this case go cold."
"Y/N."
You turned to see Changmin walking up to you. "Sir?"
"If you can't get this case figured out in the next week, we're setting it aside. Not my idea, my superiors are telling me to pass this on." He said.
You nodded. "We'll figure it out."
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