2 The Longest Hours

-Yunlan-

Taking a warm shower was supposed to ease his tired muscles, especially after been sat for long hours listening to an old man giving them a very boring seminar of the complexity of the human mind. Given the recent murders, the higher-ups were trying to train more members of the police to give his very little unit, more manpower. However, he already had a very competent psychologist that would have turned the same conference into something more interesting, not to mention that his strikingly handsome face alone, would had been enough to hypnotize him for hours without even noticing as they went by.

Ah, his Xiao Wei, he had missed him so greatly, but it was about time he give him a call to ask for his help once more. He knew he was a professor with a busy schedule, especially when it was only two months until the end of the semester, but hell was going to freeze over before he worked with the old man that would bore him to death before he could catch the murderer. He already had a good insight of the criminal mind, working with Shen Wei, listening to his every word and memorizing them to heart.

He looked at the clock, to see just how late it was. There was a curfew in the university, but he was the Chief of SID and pretty much everyone knew him, from the many times he came looking for Shen Wei. The Dean even loosed some hair every time he saw him, fully knowing he will ask for a collaboration, which meant losing the favorite professor in the whole University for days or even weeks. Zhao smiled just thinking in how much chaos Shen Wei's absence will cause in such a busy time, by the time he returned his beloved Wei back to his professor's duty, maybe the man will be already bald.

"Oh well... public safety comes first..." Zhao murmur as he dressed and dried his hair with a towel. "And he had an assistant." Her name was Wang Zheng, pretty women, but happily married, which was the reason he liked her and didn't mind her staying around his man. Well... he was not his man yet, because Shen Wei was hard to catch, not to mention stubbornly shy and way too fixed in family relationships.

To be honest, he didn't give a damn about his father approving or not of their none existent relationship, but Shen Wei had a hard past and very bad experiences with his own father. He was fourteen when his lovely mother, which he resemble, die of an illness and he was separated from his twin brother in a very prejudice decision of the selfish father.

Shen Wei could see ghosts of all kinds since a child, which his father disliked and was the reason he divorced his wife and when she die of an illness, after he had married again, he decided it was best to send Wei to his grandparents from his ex-wife side, only saying that the new wife will leave him because his eldest son was too weird because he could see things no one else could, and Zhao suspected that Shen Wei cold also use some PK (Psychokinesis), because honestly, when he focus on something for too long, some things moved around on their own, which was what the father was scare off.

The idiot... how could a father abandon such a perfect son for another woman, leaving him in the care of his ex-wife parents? He was such a dedicated kid and learned how to deal with his six sense and be like any other kid. It was because of the rejection that Shen Wei became obsessed with books, he skipped a few grades in his high school, as he teaches himself many subjects in a nearby library and end up choosing phycology as his mayor and a genius on his own right, loved by all who knew him.

He was in fact the most perfect man he had ever known, with only one flaw... his stubbornness. If he says no, it means no, no matter how hard he try to convince him he was fine with the idea of been disinherited if his father so desire after hearing he was in love with another man, because he was worthy of that and more... And so, a second later, he felt a very badly urgent impulse to call him.

"My Wei... someday I will break that wall of yours." Zhao said taking his cellphone from a nearby table. The thing ringed twice and at the third, he heard a strange noise from the other side. "Ah, Xiao Wei I was wondering if you..." But as soon as he concentrate in the regular noise, he knew there was something wrong, and his heart begin to quicken, even before Shen Wei answer with an agitated voice. He knew, his Wei was actually running.

"Yunlan, come here to the university as soon as possible, I think another student had been murder, you can trace my phone to the exact location..." He said hastily and a second later, the noise was muffle.

"Wait... Shen Wei! Shen Wei!!! Shen Wei, damn it!!!! Aahhhhh..." Zhao wasted no time in taking his keys, while holding his phone for dear life and go out of his house, practically running toward his red Hummer. He should had known that something like that was going to happen when he felt the impulse to call him. For some reason, when Shen Wei was in some kind of danger, he will unconsciously know. The first time it happen was shortly after they meet, while working on a case.

Shen Wei had a stalker back then and one night he go out to buy some groceries, he was follow. That night he had felt the impulse to call the professor out of nowhere and it was so strong that he leaved his team in the middle of a gathering to call him and just like right now, Shen had answer telling him he was been chased. Back then, he was half drunk, but sober in the second he knew Shen was targeted.

It was just his good luck that the professor was an expert in self-defense and by the time he arrived, Shen Wei had subdue his stalker and was patiently waiting for him to arrive, while reading a pocket book. There was a second time, when he had an accident. Just like before he had called him by impulse just before a drunk driver invaded his lane. He heard the impact as clearly as if he had been there, but once again, Shen Wei was unharmed. The drunk man impact his car almost in the back right side and not as hard as it sounded.

However, this time, as he drove like crazy through the streets with his police light on, he had the feeling this time was going to be different. He could still hear Shen Wei's steps, then a pause and he guessed he enter a classroom or office, then as his heart pumped tons of adrenaline, making him sweat with anxiety, he heard when the fight begin.

"Shen Wei!! Shen Wei!!! Damn it!!! Just wait for me!!" There was a table broken as well as some glasses and by then, he was trying to surpass the speed record of a racing car. Deep worry was eating him up as he keep hearing Shen fight. Then the fight stop.

"Oh, come on Shen Wei... I'm almost there!!!" Zhao yelled, but there was silence, then it came the sound he feared the most, the horrifying sound of Shen Wei's slight cry... he knew... Oh, he knew that he had been wounded.

"You..." Shen said, just before he heard something get hit.

"Oh, no, no, no.... Oh noooo. Shen Wei!!!" After that he didn't even remember where he leaved his car, nor where he was going. He only knew that he ran as fast as he could toward a building he was sure Shen Wei was in and his instinct had proven to be correct, because there were a few police patrol as well as an ambulance.

He passed them all and kept running until he was in front of classroom. Someone try to stop him from going in, but he pushed the man away, then an older man recognize him and told the other guards to let him in. With his heart in his throat, he saw the paramedic's treating Shen Wei, who had part of his beige jacket cover with his blood.

"Shen Wei!" He yelled and a police officer stop him from reaching him.

"Hey, back off... this is..."

"I am Zhao Yunlan, Chief of the Special Investigation Department. This is my case and the man who lies in there was talking to me just before he was wounded." Zhao said angrily.

"He is right, he is the Chief of SID and the professor his collaborator..." The old guard confirmed.

"Even so... he is no condition to give a statement. Move, he needs surgery..." A paramedic said.

"I will go too, he is a friend..." Well, more than a friend to him, but that wasn't important for now.

"You will have to follow us then, only fami..."

"Let him go with us Yu..." The other paramedic said, as he saw the Chief's expression. He had worked in such cases long enough to recognize desperation with a single glance. There was also an unmistakable hint of threat in his dark eyes. That was a man who would not tolerate a no for an answer and he was probably armed.

Fifteen minutes later, Yunlan was first shooting instructions to his team, which had taken over the case, while he waited for Shen Wei's surgery to finish. Then he paced right and left while holding back tears, then he recline his back over the wall and let himself slide to the floor in which he covered his face with his hands and prayed. He loved the man way too much and just the thought of him dying, broke his heart in hundreds of pieces.

Then, the surgery ended and the doctors assured him he will recover from his stab wound, but there was a risk that he may have some brain damage for the hit over his head. They had controlled the internal bleeding, but the effect of the hit will only be known when he became conscious again.

So as Zhao watched Shen Wei sleep under the many layers of pain killers, he promise himself just one thing. When his sleeping prince wake up again, no matter his state, he was going to take him home, his home and never let him go away from him. This time, it was time for Shen Wei to give in, because he was not going to hold back any longer... and as for the one who put him on that bed, he was going to hunt him down and make him pay... for sure.

AN: Thanks for reading, this story will be very emotional, but the relationship between our Weilan will be equally beautiful, because Yunlan will be very caring and gentle with the wounded professor.