Where were you all my life? 48/?
Chapter 48 - Anxiety
Pairings: Yunjae, little hints of Yoosu
Warnings: mention rape and abuse, some violence, smut.
Summary:
Kim Jaejoong is forced to do business with the mafia who keep threatening him. Changmin, Junsu and Yoochun are responsible for his security. Jung Yunho is a cop investigating a paedophile/mafia man named Kim Jaejoong and the mafia is blackmailing him to do one job for them: kill Jaejoong. And so their paths collided. A week later, Jung Yunho is more than a prisoner in Kim Jaejoong's house and both mafia and cops are getting near the two men. Now Taemin is back and there's a race to find him first.
Chapter 47 - Today Is The Day,
Oska stopped on the entrance of the police station and looked across the street at the firemen station. Lee Hong-ki was already outside in uniform but no sign of Jung Yong-hwa.
-Hi, Hong-ki.
-Oh, hi, Mr. Yoon. How are you?
-Hong-Ki, I’ve already told you to call me Oska. Is Yong-hwa around?
-Hummm… Let me guess, Geun Suk is missing too?
-He still hasn’t answered his phone.
-Neither has Yong-hwa and he was supposed to be here already.
-Oh…
-Don’t think Geun Suk finally got lucky. It’s more likely that Yong-hwa is just helping him after too much to drink or something. Wouldn’t be the first time. That partner of yours can be a bit of a stupid jerk and he doesn’t even know it. I still can’t believe he put out an arrest order for Jung Yunho. Yong-hwa was very annoyed about that.
-Well… yeahh… ah… Will you call me as soon as you hear from Yong-hwa?
-Sure.
…
Donghae helped the cops to identify the cars bringing more of Siwon’s men. A few road blocks and some STOP operations were created but they allowed at least two of the cars to pass by with no problem, not wanting to alert Siwon that he was being watched.
…
Eric was driving as fast as he could. He had a feeling that he needed to bring Jaejoong to Changmin and Yunho as fast as possible, he was sure only those two would be able to keep his boss from harm’s way.
…
Park Ri Ho had stayed late in his club the previous evening and decided not to even go home and take advantage of the room he always kept reserved for such occasions. The man’s sleep was peaceful, his plans of taking over TOP going in the right direction.
An alarm clock rang loud in the early hours of the morning but Park Ri Ho remained inside, much to his men’s surprise since their boss would usually be working already. A couple hours would pass until anyone noticed that Park Ri Ho was sleeping for too long. A little more before any of his men took the courage to try to wake up their boss. And so it was a long time until anyone found out that Park Ri Ho had never even woke up, one single bullet right between his eyes.
…
Jonghyun approached the market in the middle of the square. It was full of people doing their shopping. The stands were a colourful mess, food, clothes, knickknacks, everything was for sale and the sellers were loud, trying to attract buyers. He pretended to look in the direction of every teenage boy as if he was searching for someone, while trying not to get too scared. There were a lot of Park Ri Ho’s men around and he knew they had to be under Siwon’s orders. He caught sight of Yoochun in his hiding place and, once again, decided that he was trusting the right people before moving to the stand where he knew Taemin would approach him.
Taemin went from stand to stand, until he reached the jewellery stand at the same time as Jonghyun. Holding out a map, Taemin pretended to ask for directions in a flirty way. Following a suggestion from Yunho, Jonghyun held out a pair of earrings from the stand and put them on Taemin’s ears, using it as a cover to place a radio ear piece on the teenager. Then he continued to pretend to try other earrings on a pretty girl. Taemin was surprised to feel the strange thing inside his ear but quietly waited until his friend would explain.
-I need to be fast. Please try not to act surprised. So far I doubt anyone will have recognized you. Even I had trouble recognizing you and I’d seen you try drag on as a joke before. I know you’re running away from Siwon. Jaejoong’s men contacted me, they’ve been trying to find you for a long time. With that ear piece you’ll be able to hear them and talk with them. I think you know some of them. Yoochun? Changmin? Junsu?
Taemin barely nodded to each name, still too surprised to grasp what Jonghyun was telling him. Then his friend grabbed the forgotten map and started pointing at streets with a pen.
-Yoochun is here, Changmin is here. Junsu is high up in this building. More of Jaejoong’s men are placed all over the place. These streets here have cars and bikes with the keys under the front tire, ready to be used if necessary. There are Ri Ho’s men here, here and here and there may be more coming. They are under Siwon’s orders, Tae. You need to go over to where Jaejoong’s men are before anyone can recognize you. I’m going to keep walking around the square as if I’m still waiting for you. Good luck, my friend.
With that, Jonghyun placed a kiss on Taemin’s cheek, making the younger boy immediately pretend to be embarrassed and hiding a blush. The older boy then moved along the market, looking once more at all the young boys as if searching for someone.
…
Inside his car, Siwon studied the people, still with a cold smile on his face. Min Joon-gook who was in a nearby car called him to indicate who Jonghyun was. The lawyer followed the young man’s steps around the market with a half interested gaze. He was too anxious, almost shaking to finally have Taemin in his hands. Still he enjoyed how his blood seemed to be flowing faster in anticipation.
Still on the phone, Joon-gook asked if he could get the girl as a prize for finding Taemin. Siwon frowned and looked at the petite pretty girl near Jonghyun. Not to his taste. Girl’s screams always offended his ears. Still he gave his approval, barely paying attention as Joong-gook ordered one man to follow the girl around, he didn’t care much what Joon-gook did as long as he had Taemin again. This time the boy would not get away, not alive at least.
…
Taemin stayed back for a little longer, pretending to be undecided about earrings before buying a random pair and moving in the opposite direction to Jonghyun.
As Taemin placed the earrings he touched the radio ear piece and a voice answered him.
-Taemin? Hi, I’m Changmin. Do you remember me? Tall and grumpy. God, we’ve been so worried about you. By the way, can I just say you are one very smart kid?
-Hi, this is Yoochun. Super smart.
-As soon as you can, please come over to where Jonghyun pointed. Preferably to my location, Yoochun still needs to look after your friend to make sure he stays safe. We’ll be waiting. We need to get you out of here fast. We suspect Siwon might be around here as well.
Taemin almost took off running in fear when he heard that Siwon might be in the square. He couldn’t help a scared look around him. Stopping near a clothes stand that had a place to try on clothes he got inside it.
-Hello? - He whispered.
-I can hear you. Go ahead.
-Siwon wants to kill me. I saw him kill one of his men. He pinned it on a cop, Jung Yunho. He’s crazy, he really is. Even more than I thought possible. If he catches me, he’ll kill me.
Everyone who was listening to the conversation on their ear piece gasped in surprise. Yunho and Changmin silently stared at each other. For a few moments all that could be heard were the teenager’s soft sobs.
-Taemin, it’s gonna be ok. This is Junsu, remember me? We’ll get you out of here. We won’t let Siwon get near you, ok? Yunho is helping us too. We knew he’d been set up but…
-Yunho? But Siwon was going to blackmail him to…
-Hi, this is Yunho. He did try to blackmail me but he sent me to the wrong people. I can’t believe he was the one who shot that guy. No wonder he had the building demolished. Dear God, you were there at the same time I was.
-He… he didn’t hurt me. When you arrived he got distracted and I was able to get away.
-Thank heavens.
-Taemin, it’s Changmin again. I’m sorry but please hurry up. Please? We can all talk later.
…
TOP arrived at his own club in a happy mood. At first he wasn’t disappointed. The night attack on Ri Ho had gone as planned and apparently hadn’t even been detected yet. But then he was informed of an abnormal amount of movement in Ri Ho’s neighbourhood. It seemed that most of the men were stationed on surveillance to catch some kid and it wasn’t even under Ri Ho’s orders but from Choi Siwon, the lawyer who had been helping him.
-That’s it. This is my territory. Time to remind everyone of that.
…
Eric slowed down to talk to Donghae and get ear pieces as well. Jaejoong didn’t calm down finding out that Taemin had showed up, he just got more anxious to get to the boy. Putting the ear piece on he tried to contact Taemin right away.
-Taemin, are you ok?
-Mr. Kim?
-Oh, God! You’re alive. Ren has been worried sick about you. We’ve looked everywhere for you.
-I… I couldn’t contact you. Siwon was watching you.
-I’m coming to get you. I’ll be there soon.
…
From his vantage point on top of a building, Junsu noticed how two cars kept going around the square. They would sometimes go into nearby streets but soon would return and park for some time before taking off again. He wondered if he should alert everyone but Taemin was also listening in and the kid sounded near panic. It also didn’t help that Jaejoong didn’t sound very in control. Grabbing his phone, Junsu sent text messages to the other men on the roof tops and to Changmin and Yoochun. They send him texts confirming they would pay attention.
…
Eric stopped near Changmin and Jaejoong almost run from the car into the square. It was Yunho who grabbed him. In the middle of the confusion, Changmin turned off both men’s ear pieces so Taemin wouldn’t hear them.
-Jae, stop. You’ll alert everyone to where Taemin is. Calm down. He’s in disguise, he’s safe for now.
Jaejoong struggled for a while but then he looked up at Yunho and all his body sagged against the taller man.
-I’m sorry. God, I’m so sorry. I wasn’t thinking. God, what was I going to do? I…
-It’s ok, Jae. We’re here.
-I didn’t notice who Siwon was. I allowed him near Ren. He hurt Ren, almost killed him. And that cop, Il Woo, he said that… that Taemin said it was Siwon who killed that man on the demolished building. Oh, God, he actually killed someone.
Yunho kept his arms around Jaejoong who was almost gagging from being too nervous.
-Taemin’s testimony will put him away for a long time. He won’t hurt anyone else.
Changmin turned Jaejoong’s and Yunho’s ear pieces back on. His relief that Jaejoong was calmer was replaced with fury when he noticed Jun Ki also stepping out of the car.
-What are you doing here?
-I couldn’t let Jae come here alone. - Jun Ki softly answered, surprised at Changmin’s angry tone.
-You should not be here, damn it.
…
Out of everyone’s view, during one of his tours on the back streets, Min Joon-gook noticed a van. He got out of the car to check it. The van seemed too well kept for such a neighbourhood and it had a strange looking contraption on the top. Ten minutes later, the radio ear pieces became useless. Unfortunately, it would be some time until Jaejoong’s men became aware of that.
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Chapter 49 - Aim! Fire!,
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Great, now even I am nervous.
Pairings: Yunjae, little hints of Yoosu
Warnings: mention rape and abuse, some violence, smut.
Summary:
Kim Jaejoong is forced to do business with the mafia who keep threatening him. Changmin, Junsu and Yoochun are responsible for his security. Jung Yunho is a cop investigating a paedophile/mafia man named Kim Jaejoong and the mafia is blackmailing him to do one job for them: kill Jaejoong. And so their paths collided. A week later, Jung Yunho is more than a prisoner in Kim Jaejoong's house and both mafia and cops are getting near the two men. Now Taemin is back and there's a race to find him first.
Chapter 47 - Today Is The Day,
Oska stopped on the entrance of the police station and looked across the street at the firemen station. Lee Hong-ki was already outside in uniform but no sign of Jung Yong-hwa.
-Hi, Hong-ki.
-Oh, hi, Mr. Yoon. How are you?
-Hong-Ki, I’ve already told you to call me Oska. Is Yong-hwa around?
-Hummm… Let me guess, Geun Suk is missing too?
-He still hasn’t answered his phone.
-Neither has Yong-hwa and he was supposed to be here already.
-Oh…
-Don’t think Geun Suk finally got lucky. It’s more likely that Yong-hwa is just helping him after too much to drink or something. Wouldn’t be the first time. That partner of yours can be a bit of a stupid jerk and he doesn’t even know it. I still can’t believe he put out an arrest order for Jung Yunho. Yong-hwa was very annoyed about that.
-Well… yeahh… ah… Will you call me as soon as you hear from Yong-hwa?
-Sure.
…
Donghae helped the cops to identify the cars bringing more of Siwon’s men. A few road blocks and some STOP operations were created but they allowed at least two of the cars to pass by with no problem, not wanting to alert Siwon that he was being watched.
…
Eric was driving as fast as he could. He had a feeling that he needed to bring Jaejoong to Changmin and Yunho as fast as possible, he was sure only those two would be able to keep his boss from harm’s way.
…
Park Ri Ho had stayed late in his club the previous evening and decided not to even go home and take advantage of the room he always kept reserved for such occasions. The man’s sleep was peaceful, his plans of taking over TOP going in the right direction.
An alarm clock rang loud in the early hours of the morning but Park Ri Ho remained inside, much to his men’s surprise since their boss would usually be working already. A couple hours would pass until anyone noticed that Park Ri Ho was sleeping for too long. A little more before any of his men took the courage to try to wake up their boss. And so it was a long time until anyone found out that Park Ri Ho had never even woke up, one single bullet right between his eyes.
…
Jonghyun approached the market in the middle of the square. It was full of people doing their shopping. The stands were a colourful mess, food, clothes, knickknacks, everything was for sale and the sellers were loud, trying to attract buyers. He pretended to look in the direction of every teenage boy as if he was searching for someone, while trying not to get too scared. There were a lot of Park Ri Ho’s men around and he knew they had to be under Siwon’s orders. He caught sight of Yoochun in his hiding place and, once again, decided that he was trusting the right people before moving to the stand where he knew Taemin would approach him.
Taemin went from stand to stand, until he reached the jewellery stand at the same time as Jonghyun. Holding out a map, Taemin pretended to ask for directions in a flirty way. Following a suggestion from Yunho, Jonghyun held out a pair of earrings from the stand and put them on Taemin’s ears, using it as a cover to place a radio ear piece on the teenager. Then he continued to pretend to try other earrings on a pretty girl. Taemin was surprised to feel the strange thing inside his ear but quietly waited until his friend would explain.
-I need to be fast. Please try not to act surprised. So far I doubt anyone will have recognized you. Even I had trouble recognizing you and I’d seen you try drag on as a joke before. I know you’re running away from Siwon. Jaejoong’s men contacted me, they’ve been trying to find you for a long time. With that ear piece you’ll be able to hear them and talk with them. I think you know some of them. Yoochun? Changmin? Junsu?
Taemin barely nodded to each name, still too surprised to grasp what Jonghyun was telling him. Then his friend grabbed the forgotten map and started pointing at streets with a pen.
-Yoochun is here, Changmin is here. Junsu is high up in this building. More of Jaejoong’s men are placed all over the place. These streets here have cars and bikes with the keys under the front tire, ready to be used if necessary. There are Ri Ho’s men here, here and here and there may be more coming. They are under Siwon’s orders, Tae. You need to go over to where Jaejoong’s men are before anyone can recognize you. I’m going to keep walking around the square as if I’m still waiting for you. Good luck, my friend.
With that, Jonghyun placed a kiss on Taemin’s cheek, making the younger boy immediately pretend to be embarrassed and hiding a blush. The older boy then moved along the market, looking once more at all the young boys as if searching for someone.
…
Inside his car, Siwon studied the people, still with a cold smile on his face. Min Joon-gook who was in a nearby car called him to indicate who Jonghyun was. The lawyer followed the young man’s steps around the market with a half interested gaze. He was too anxious, almost shaking to finally have Taemin in his hands. Still he enjoyed how his blood seemed to be flowing faster in anticipation.
Still on the phone, Joon-gook asked if he could get the girl as a prize for finding Taemin. Siwon frowned and looked at the petite pretty girl near Jonghyun. Not to his taste. Girl’s screams always offended his ears. Still he gave his approval, barely paying attention as Joong-gook ordered one man to follow the girl around, he didn’t care much what Joon-gook did as long as he had Taemin again. This time the boy would not get away, not alive at least.
…
Taemin stayed back for a little longer, pretending to be undecided about earrings before buying a random pair and moving in the opposite direction to Jonghyun.
As Taemin placed the earrings he touched the radio ear piece and a voice answered him.
-Taemin? Hi, I’m Changmin. Do you remember me? Tall and grumpy. God, we’ve been so worried about you. By the way, can I just say you are one very smart kid?
-Hi, this is Yoochun. Super smart.
-As soon as you can, please come over to where Jonghyun pointed. Preferably to my location, Yoochun still needs to look after your friend to make sure he stays safe. We’ll be waiting. We need to get you out of here fast. We suspect Siwon might be around here as well.
Taemin almost took off running in fear when he heard that Siwon might be in the square. He couldn’t help a scared look around him. Stopping near a clothes stand that had a place to try on clothes he got inside it.
-Hello? - He whispered.
-I can hear you. Go ahead.
-Siwon wants to kill me. I saw him kill one of his men. He pinned it on a cop, Jung Yunho. He’s crazy, he really is. Even more than I thought possible. If he catches me, he’ll kill me.
Everyone who was listening to the conversation on their ear piece gasped in surprise. Yunho and Changmin silently stared at each other. For a few moments all that could be heard were the teenager’s soft sobs.
-Taemin, it’s gonna be ok. This is Junsu, remember me? We’ll get you out of here. We won’t let Siwon get near you, ok? Yunho is helping us too. We knew he’d been set up but…
-Yunho? But Siwon was going to blackmail him to…
-Hi, this is Yunho. He did try to blackmail me but he sent me to the wrong people. I can’t believe he was the one who shot that guy. No wonder he had the building demolished. Dear God, you were there at the same time I was.
-He… he didn’t hurt me. When you arrived he got distracted and I was able to get away.
-Thank heavens.
-Taemin, it’s Changmin again. I’m sorry but please hurry up. Please? We can all talk later.
…
TOP arrived at his own club in a happy mood. At first he wasn’t disappointed. The night attack on Ri Ho had gone as planned and apparently hadn’t even been detected yet. But then he was informed of an abnormal amount of movement in Ri Ho’s neighbourhood. It seemed that most of the men were stationed on surveillance to catch some kid and it wasn’t even under Ri Ho’s orders but from Choi Siwon, the lawyer who had been helping him.
-That’s it. This is my territory. Time to remind everyone of that.
…
Eric slowed down to talk to Donghae and get ear pieces as well. Jaejoong didn’t calm down finding out that Taemin had showed up, he just got more anxious to get to the boy. Putting the ear piece on he tried to contact Taemin right away.
-Taemin, are you ok?
-Mr. Kim?
-Oh, God! You’re alive. Ren has been worried sick about you. We’ve looked everywhere for you.
-I… I couldn’t contact you. Siwon was watching you.
-I’m coming to get you. I’ll be there soon.
…
From his vantage point on top of a building, Junsu noticed how two cars kept going around the square. They would sometimes go into nearby streets but soon would return and park for some time before taking off again. He wondered if he should alert everyone but Taemin was also listening in and the kid sounded near panic. It also didn’t help that Jaejoong didn’t sound very in control. Grabbing his phone, Junsu sent text messages to the other men on the roof tops and to Changmin and Yoochun. They send him texts confirming they would pay attention.
…
Eric stopped near Changmin and Jaejoong almost run from the car into the square. It was Yunho who grabbed him. In the middle of the confusion, Changmin turned off both men’s ear pieces so Taemin wouldn’t hear them.
-Jae, stop. You’ll alert everyone to where Taemin is. Calm down. He’s in disguise, he’s safe for now.
Jaejoong struggled for a while but then he looked up at Yunho and all his body sagged against the taller man.
-I’m sorry. God, I’m so sorry. I wasn’t thinking. God, what was I going to do? I…
-It’s ok, Jae. We’re here.
-I didn’t notice who Siwon was. I allowed him near Ren. He hurt Ren, almost killed him. And that cop, Il Woo, he said that… that Taemin said it was Siwon who killed that man on the demolished building. Oh, God, he actually killed someone.
Yunho kept his arms around Jaejoong who was almost gagging from being too nervous.
-Taemin’s testimony will put him away for a long time. He won’t hurt anyone else.
Changmin turned Jaejoong’s and Yunho’s ear pieces back on. His relief that Jaejoong was calmer was replaced with fury when he noticed Jun Ki also stepping out of the car.
-What are you doing here?
-I couldn’t let Jae come here alone. - Jun Ki softly answered, surprised at Changmin’s angry tone.
-You should not be here, damn it.
…
Out of everyone’s view, during one of his tours on the back streets, Min Joon-gook noticed a van. He got out of the car to check it. The van seemed too well kept for such a neighbourhood and it had a strange looking contraption on the top. Ten minutes later, the radio ear pieces became useless. Unfortunately, it would be some time until Jaejoong’s men became aware of that.
…
Chapter 49 - Aim! Fire!,
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Great, now even I am nervous.