Shuffling and running inside the police station, she was striding towards only one person. Jungkook.

As she spots him holding some files near the reception going inside further but before he could, Ria gave a hard push to Jungkook resulting the papers from the file to scatter on the ground.

Jungkook looks back angrily to whoever had the audacity to do that. His gaze fall on a fuming Ria, Eliana's best friend. She doesn't stop as she throws hands at him ready to fight. "You bloody bastard, she was with you!!! I left her in your care!!!" She shouts on him, and he hold her wrists and free his collar from her grasp and jerk her.

"Behave yourself Miss Ria! You might face consequences for putting a fight in between a police station." She laughs as she claps her hands sarcastically and then reply mockingly. "Oh officer, let's wait for some time that a fuck can fall into my hands so I can give it to you!"

Everyone gasped except Jungkook who remained calm to her incoherent behavior. She was straight off insulting him in public, but he had a case to solve, and he can't be bothered by it. He sighed and said, "We can keep this unnecessary behavior for later. Miss Ria, I have some important work to do. You being here holding my collar doesn't bring Eliana back, does it? So be mature for her instead."

Ria snarl at him and near him and said, "The day I find her dead, you know what I mean right? I'll kill..." She said so hatefully. Her best friend looked so angry and broken and more like feared.

Jungkook ordered to escort her out and not let intruders' barge in on him again. He was struck on her words, she said like she meant it. Jungkook can't be wronged in anything. The way she said it as if she holds the power to do so...

"I'll kill you..."

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Taehyung was walking in a hidden alleyway; he looked fresh and clean. No trace of blood anywhere as if he was just a mere stranger walking past normal people. He entered a small one room shop and show a card to the shopkeeper. He nods at him and open the stairs in the middle of the shop for him to go underground.

He makes his way down; he had been here a thousand times at least. Every time for a new reason. He pushes his hood back and ruffle his hair back as he reaches down looking at the bodyguards in all black. He easily passes them, and they also don't bother to stop him.

Entering a glass door, he spots a blonde-haired young man in his mid-twenties, face flawless, hair slicked back, wearing a navy-blue suit, a gun in his hand as he plays with it. Taehyung sat down and then the young man smile at him.

"Taehyung-ah! Nice to see you again safe and sound!" Said the man with a high-toned voice. Taehyung although doesn't smile back as he throws his head back on the soft sofa and rest against it.

"Straight to the point. What is the next mission Jimin?" Taehyung said, his voice tired.

Jimin smile at his blunt statement. He knew Taehyung didn't liked unnecessary conversations apart from work. Jimin was happy with this behavior too because at last it is what profits him more than anything. They were bad people. Apart from Taehyung being mentally ill and a criminal, he also had a hand in underground crimes thanks to Jimin.

That wasn't his consent, he only worked for Jimin here, he had his reasons too. Taehyung didn't like these works; it was like someone would turn on his medulla whenever he was told to do a task. Jimin in a way was a friend of Taehyung but what is a friend when it is made in the pressure of debt, right?

Jimin always treated him differently from his other men. Taehyung was difficult to deal with. At times, he would be sitting listening to you giving him instruction but if your any word struck a nerve in him, the next second he would be up thrashing and destroying things.

There was some people Taehyung never even tried to touch when angry such as Jimin. He had done something so grateful for Taehyung, he can never forget that. That's a story for another time. Jimin always looked forward to Taehyung working for him.

In other words, Taehyung was his right hand. Jimin was a mafia, a dirty one, he never cared if he is going to large extents for something. He believed nobody should keep lines of formalities once they enter a passion to discover, whether it be good or evil.

Just as everyone says people have their good and bad side in them, Yin and Yang. Jimin was once an angel, truly an angel. But when people pull your strings too much when playing with you, they break it resulting in breaking every hope, every little good in you. Jimin have one perspective; I was good, I was kind, too much for my own good but nobody gave a shit. Now I'll be what they made me, I won't disappoint them but surprise them and I'll be worse than they can think

He was blinded for anything that can give him power. Once you taste it, you can never go back and so he did and went too deep in it. In the journey of this path, he found Taehyung, and he gave him something Jimin was dependent on. Jimin trusted Taehyung in every mean. Jimin would give him a task and dare anyone even say that Taehyung won't complete it. Jimin was dependent on this. The victory Taehyung brought to him in every step.

In return Jimin would sweep every dirt off Taehyung's tail. He made sure Taehyung remained safe and sound in every way, nobody can discover him. He was the secret weapon of Jimin. Making him passports and flying him over the world so no one would even reach him if he gets into something. Cleansing people who would file a case against him. Kill people who would see his face.

It was balanced. Jimin was cunning and Taehyung was foolish. Their minds were different from one another. But the goal was same, they both wanted power. They both were thirsty for vengeance. Which vengeance? Yes, that's for another time to tell too ;)

As Taehyung stood up to leave, Jimin holds his arm. He turns back frowning. "Take care, Taehyung-ah!" He pat Taehyung's head and he head out after that.

Jimin was restless, because someone had snatched his peace from him, and he couldn't find who.

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Jungkook tore open the envelope, taking out the forensic test results out. The forensic test of the blood that was in the crime scene. He read it and with a whimper he slumps in his chair his hand over his face. It matched Eliana's blood.

"Where would she be hurt. Head? Stomach? Back?" He thought. What did he even expect? This blood to be that criminal? That was a really big go. He shouldn't have left her home that day, he should've trusted his guts.

A police office barge inside without knocking and was panting, Jungkook was about to scold him but the look on his face made Jungkook stop in his tracks.

"We located V!"

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Taehyung wasn't prepared for this, the police barged in on his exchange with the other team. Taehyung snatches the money bag from the other man's hand and throw the packet of drugs at his face, the sirens of police loud in the area, he was at the bar.

He doesn't know how the police succeeded in catching up to him. He gets inside one of the back rooms, his gaze straight went to the naked people making out inside and the girls scream because Taehyung had a knife in his hand. Groaning, he makes a run towards the window, the height was medium and easy to jump but that's not the problem.

Jeeps of the police surrounding the area, this was not supposed to happen this way. Damn it, they really would catch him now. His mind not working at all. Vulnerability was not a choice for him ever, he would find a way and Jimin was never out of plan, he would rescue him.

Little did he know, Jungkook was filled with venom and seething anger for him, he would not let him live another day if he got the opportunity. Jungkook had gathered and brought a big team with him, this was out of ordinary for Taehyung. Cold sweat breaking down his forehead making it shine as he thinks fast.

Jungkook burst in the bar with his team, and everyone had guns in their hands as they carefully push everyone out. Thanks to V case, more illegal crimes were also caught in the bar. Jungkook was wearing a safety black vest, his gun tightly gripped in his both hands.

Meanwhile Taehyung takes out his knife in the back rooms ready to attack whoever came his way. Taehyung slowly opens the door a little to peek as he notices officers' faces but one familiar face caught his attention. He smirks.

"Time to play!"

As they continue checking every corner of the bar, they move to the back rooms lastly. As the officer open the room, it was empty. The officer gets inside and as he turn, Taehyung slams the fire extinguisher on his head and the officer drop down with the extinguisher fogging the surrounding.

Jungkook run inside without hesitance and cough instantly. A groan leaves his lips as he felt a cut on his bicep. He clutches his own bicep and with the other hand he grips the gun waiting for any sound or any movement so he would fire him.

A kick on his hands made the gun fly out of his hand and Jungkook was disarmed. Soon, he saw the black jacket of Taehyung. His eyes stinging but he won't give up as he reaches for his hood and pull him back with a tug. Taehyung who was running as the coast outside the window was clear gets pulled back to Jungkook.

Jungkook took him in the headlock. Taehyung coughs out as he was suffocating, he tried to swing his fist to Jungkook's face multiple times, but Jungkook kept his head away from his reach. Taehyung chuckle mocking, "And you think you won?"

"Where is Eliana?" He growls as his arms tighten around his neck and Taehyung cough and wheeze in return, his face full flushed, unable to breathe. "That...bitch...?" Jungkook slam Taehyung into a wall earning a painful groan from him as he holds him on the wall trying to cuff his hands.

"Oh...officer! I'd like to wear that cuff, but I still have some worms left to kill." And with that a knife was stabbed into Jungkook's lower pelvic making his grip loosen from Taehyung.

Taehyung took action and kick him off himself and make a run for the window. He was ready to jump off but a sting on his neck made him instantly weak and lightheaded. His vision was encircled by black ants as he falls out of the window.

Jungkook look back to his co-officer who had shot Taehyung with the tranquilizer gun. Jungkook nod at him in appreciation and stand up while grunting and groaning, he makes his way to the window to see Taehyung sprawled down on the ground unconscious.

He orders the other officer to make a run for it. Jungkook was satisfied that he was able to catch him this time. Jungkook went down to the place where Taehyung had fallen out of the window. Officers were surrounding that place. He jogs there with a hand on his bleeding abdomen. His jaw drops open.

V wasn't there...










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