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by SilverDragon
Ella’s phone vibrated noisily on her desk, slowly crawling its way across the surface as she looked up from her paperwork. Letting out a tired sigh, she picked up the phone without bothering to check out the caller ID.
“Hello?” she answered, rubbing her eyes with her thumb and index finger tiredly. She had been staring at page after page of forms and she was ready to retire for the day.
There was a small silence before a voice she hadn’t heard for a couple weeks spoke. “You haven’t been picking up my calls for over a month now, Ella. Is everything alright?”
Hearing Chun’s voice over the phone startled Ella out of her dreary state, sitting up even more uptight in her chair. “Ch-Chun?” she stuttered, unsure of how she should talk to him. Truth be told, the reason she hadn’t been picking up his phone calls was because of the ‘date’ he had taken her out on. She just didn’t know how to react to his sudden confession, and even more so to his kiss which she found she had enjoyed.
“Are you alright, Ella?” repeated Chun in concern. Ella felt a pang of guilt for having ignored him for so long, hearing him so worried about her.
“Ev-everything’s fine, Chun,” she managed to reply after a short silence. “If there isn’t anything important, I guess you’d better hang up now because I’m actually rather busy at the moment.”
Ella waited for his reply but was met with silence. As the quiet seconds ticked by, she wished that he would just say something already, rather than leave her waiting. Finally, he said, “Is that how everything is?” Ella felt guilty as she heard him say that and the feeling only intensified when he began to laugh disappointedly. “I should have realised you weren’t interested in taking things further after avoiding my calls for so long. I suppose I shouldn’t bother you any further seeing as you’re ‘busy’ with work. It was nice knowing you, Ella. You won’t see my annoying face or hear my annoying voice any more.”
“Wait!” blurted Ella out before she could stop herself.
There was a pause as Ella mentally kicked herself before Chun said, “Yeah?”
An awkward silence fell between them as Ella struggled for the right words to say to Chun, although she had no idea what it was that she wanted to say to him. This was a very new and unique situation to Ella, something she had never been through before. Hell, she never expected to go through such a situation.
“Err…” she began, trailing off as she scratched her head nervously. This was not easy stuff. She had to admit that although she had been avoiding Chun, she had also missed his small teases and general good nature whenever he was around her. But whenever he rang, the image of him kissing her that night at the zoo would surface to mind and she found herself too embarrassed to answer the phone.
“Err… It’s not that I don’t like you or anything…” she said after some time, trying to calm her fluttering heart. Already, the memory of him kissing her rose to the surface and she blushed profusely. Growing flustered, she snapped nervously into the phone in an attempt to hide her embarrassment, “I don’t care anymore! Do what you want! You don’t have to chase me anymore if you’re gonna give up that easily!” She then proceeded to hang up the phone, throwing it onto the table as if it had burned her hand. Pulling up her legs into her chair, she hugged them as she nervously chewed her bottom lip, staring at the small mobile which lay on her desk. Then suddenly it vibrated once more and Ella jumped slightly in her chair, spooked, before she hurriedly picked it up.
“I told you to do whatever you want!” she whispered furiously, aware that the other officers in the station were staring at her. “And stop calling me already!”
Chun laughed merrily on the other end of the phone. “And here I thought you had begun to hate me!”
“Who said anything about hating you, jerk?” she snapped, her earlier embarrassment gone in light of her anger. “What I feel for you is more than hate. I despise you, Mr Arrogant.”
“Oh? Is that so? Then if I am so arrogant as you so suggest, may I assume that right now you are thinking about that kiss we shared at the zoo, which is why you’re suddenly snapping at me to hide your embarrassment?” he asked, a mischievous hint in his tone.
Ella’s face flushed a deep shade of red at those words, embarrassed that he had managed to guess right. Then, recovering, she said, “Who remembers such a thing? That wasn’t such a memorable moment! And why would I yell at you because of that?”
Again, Chun just laughed at her outrage. “Oh, maybe because you actually enjoyed it but aren’t willing to accept the truth yet.”
“Why, you-” began Ella but she was cut off.
“Don’t start ‘why, you’-ing me, Ella. Admit it – you’ve already fallen for me, haven’t you?” When Ella remained silent at a loss for words, Chun’s smile grew wider at his end of the phone. “You have fallen for me, Detective Ella Chen. Otherwise, you probably wouldn’t have spoken so softly with me earlier when I was acting so dejected.”
Ella opened her mouth to retort back but nothing came out. Her mind was a blank right now, all except for one treacherous thought that echoed across her mind – he was right. She realised that she had grown to enjoy his company, even in those few moments they had shared together. She had indeed felt sorry for him earlier at hearing how disappointed he was, and was indeed afraid that he would stop seeing or calling her. But then she realised something. He just said that he was ‘acting’ dejected.
“You jerk…” she growled out in a low voice. “You were just pretending to be disappointed before, weren’t you? You lied to me!”
“Well, I wasn’t exactly lying. I was disappointed that you might really want to never see me again but somehow… I just knew you wouldn’t be able to resist me,” he laughed into the phone.
“You bastard!” shouted Ella, feeling as if she just wanted to strangle the idiot to death. “You think it’s alright to play with someone’s feelings? Just you wait, Wu Chun. I’ll-”
Her retort was cut off by the beep on Chun’s end of the phone that indicated he had an incoming call. Chun pulled the phone away from his ear and noted the caller ID that said the incoming call was from Jiro. Placing the phone back to his ear, he said, “Well, it’s been nice playing with you, Ella. We should do this again some other time. Don’t disappear for another month okay, ‘darling’?”
Ella was about to shout something nasty at him in retaliation when he suddenly hung up the phone. Fuming slightly, she snapped her phone shut once more and dropped it onto her desk. Who did he think he was, calling her something so sickening as ‘darling’? As she began scribbling furiously on the back of a piece of scrap paper to relieve her frustrations, Li Lang suddenly stepped out of his office.
“Everyone involved with the Dawn case, come into my office now,” he announced, a grim expression on his face.
Surprised at the sudden announcement, Ella glanced over at Danson and saw him as pale as a ghost. She watched as he slowly stood and made his way over to Li Lang’s office, walking as if his spirit had left his body. Puzzled, Ella just stood and headed over to the superintendent’s office with the few others who were working on this case with them.
Once everyone had gathered in the small office that belonged to their boss, Li Lang looked up at his men with that same grim look on his face. “Dawn is finally back, killing two women in a flat this afternoon.”
And at that exact same moment, Chun heard Jiro say, his voice cracked and on the edge of tears, “She’s… she’s dead, Chun. Rainie’s dead and it’s all my fault...”
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Aaron sped as fast as he could towards his mother’s flat, his father following close behind after parking the car some distance away from the police barricade. He managed to slip past the police with ease, leaving his father behind to explain that they were relatives of the ones who were murdered. Aaron’s heart pounded wildly in dread, unable to believe what his father had just told him, mere minutes ago in the ice-cream parlour as he was about to finish his shift. That gnawing feeling in the pit of his stomach that had been bothering him for most of the day grew into a sense of panic at the news, and he instantly regretted not going with Rainie when she had asked him along. ‘If only I had just gone with her, maybe…’ Aaron shook his head as he tried to shake that thought out of his head. Now was not the time to think of ‘what if’ scenarios.
His feet pounded up the stairs towards the third floor, shoving his way through the other officers and personnel that were milling about in the hallway, his mind set on reaching his mother’s room to confirm with his own eyes the horrible news. Jiro watched from his position at the end of the hallway past the scene of the crime, his face appearing blank and giving off the impression that he wasn’t affected by the events around him. But if one were to look closely, one would notice the red tinge to his eyes that indicated he was on the verge of crying.
Aaron skidded to a halt as several police staff carried two stretchers out from within the room, the bodies lying on them covered with a white sheet. He took a dazed step towards the bodies, shoving off the officer who had come to restrain him as he ripped the white sheet back. Tears broke free of their hold as Rainie’s pale white face met his eyes, bringing home the truth that she was, in fact, dead. He stepped over to the second stretcher, pulling back its sheet to reveal his mother, also lying dead on the stretcher. Then, walking back to Rainie’s stretcher, Aaron fell to his knees beside his older sister, his tears flowing like a river down his face as he wailed like an injured animal.
“Jie… Jie, how could you? How could you suddenly leave me like this? How could you, how could you, how could you?” he cried painfully, seeking out his sister’s cold, dead hand. He inhaled sharply at how cold it was, the hand which had always seemed so warm to him was no more. Looking up, into her face once more, his eyes then travelled to her throat where he noticed the horrifying welt and the congealed blood which covered the front of her body. His gaze hardened as his fist tightened, his sadness giving way to rage. He stood up, gazing around wildly for someone who could answer his questions. Then, spotting Jiro standing at the other end of the hallway, he stormed over to the man, gripping him tightly by the front of his shirt.
“You fucking bastard! I trusted my sister to you and you let such a thing happen! I thought you said you loved her? Then why is the woman you love dead? Answer me, damn it!” shouted Aaron, furious as he shoved Jiro against the wall.
Jay was about to step in to intervene but Jiro held up a hand to stop him. “I deserve this, Jay. Let him do whatever he wants to with me.”
That passive comment only served to fuel Aaron’s rage further and he raised his hand to deliver a punch into Jiro’s face. Jiro slumped against the wall as Aaron released him after the punch, breathing deeply as his rage died down slightly. “You bastard!” he shouted, the tears beginning to fall again as he stared at Jiro, helpless. “Why aren’t you fighting back, damn it? Why aren’t you denying that this is all your fault? Why?” he shouted as he punched the wall next to him.
Jiro remained silent in his spot on the ground, slowly looking back up at Aaron. Aaron’s eyes then connected with the man’s and he was startled by the devastated look he saw in them. “It is my fault, Aaron. I knew that this would happen to her one day but I still kept her by my side. So please, beat me up for the worst mistake I ever made in my life.”
Those words only made Aaron feel even more frustrated and angry but he restrained himself from kicking the man, instead turning away to attack the wall. “Why did this have to happen? Why, why, why?” Turning back to look at Jiro, he snapped, “Who did it?”
Jiro only turned away, refusing to answer. “You don’t need to know. I don’t want you to get involved in this matter. Rainie would hate me for it.”
Aaron rolled his eyes in frustration, leaning down to grip the bigger man’s shirt once more. “I said, ‘who did it’? You don’t need to judge whether I should get involved in this matter or not because that is for me to decide, not you. Now, tell me,” he said, his voice lowering to a deadly note. “Who killed her?”
Jiro met the younger boy’s eyes and was impressed by the strength of spirit and desire for revenge he saw within them. However, before he could answer, someone stepped up to the trio to intervene.
“I can see that we’re all getting along well here,” said Ella sarcastically as she stared at the two guys on the floor. Danson peered over her shoulder at the scene with a blank look, his face revealing nothing of what he was thinking.
Aaron reluctantly released Jiro as he stood up and faced the two detectives. “Who are you guys?” he snapped, annoyed that he had been interrupted in his interrogation with Jiro.
Ella looked taken aback at Aaron’s curt remark and frowned slightly. “We should be the ones asking that. But judging from what we heard of your little argument with Mr Wang, you must be Rainie Yang’s little brother, Aaron Yan Ya Lun.”
Aaron’s eyes narrowed slightly at Ella’s comment. “How do you know who I am?”
This time, Danson was the one who replied. “We are the detectives in charge of this case. Our department has been chasing this assassin for years, but with no luck.” He then stepped out from behind Ella, walking over to help Jiro back onto his feet. “And we would like to ask you guys a few questions in relation to this latest murder.”
Jiro pulled his arm out of Danson’s grip, adjusting his suit calmly as if he had not just been beaten up by Aaron. “I do not need to answer any of your questions, Detective. I’ll get my lawyer to issue you a statement of my involvement in this matter and we shall leave it at that. Just my presence here at the murder site is more than enough damage to my reputation than I need.” As he made his way past Danson, he sent one last glance over at Aaron. “If you wish to continue our conversation, Aaron, then you are free to visit me anytime. I am willing to help you in any way regarding your sister’s death, and believe me; I will not let the matter of her death rest until the culprit is brought to justice.” As he said these last few words, Jiro’s glance travelled over to the two detectives briefly before he turned on his spot and continued off down the corridor.
Once Jiro was out of sight, Ella and Danson then turned to Aaron. “We have already interviewed your father regarding the matter of your sister’s untimely death. We just want to ask a few questions, just in case any piece of information that you may have will help lead us to the killer,” said Ella.
Aaron glanced warily between the two detectives, suddenly feeling exhausted as his grief returned to him once more. Closing his eyes painfully as he resisted the urge to breakdown again, he slowly nodded his head. “Alright, I’ll answer your questions.”
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A/N:
Okay, I meant to post this chapter up like, five hours ago but I got distracted with an episode of Bull Fighting and my jap obsession, Arashi. *step, step, step and go~~~* lol, enough fangirl-ing here. Anyway I must say that I'm a person who doesn't like to swear, but in this case, I suppose it suits Aaron's emotions perfectly. So please excuse the few 'f' words you see in here. And I put in that little Chun-Ella moment after you guys asked me to at least put one more scene about the pair ^^
Next Chapter: Selina's afterthoughts and Aaron pays a visit to Jiro...
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22nd February 2008
7:02PM GMT+09:00
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