The Brother. [5]

Outside the emergency room with dried blood on his hands, Sun-Jae sat down on the cold floor as he waited for the surgery on Jin-Ah's grandmother to be concluded.

Footsteps echoed around the corner as Kang In-Hyuk and the other members of team three arrived.

"Sun-jae." One of them called out as soon as they saw him sitting on the floor. Sun-Jae stood up and slowly took two steps as they were already in front of him.

"Jin-Ah, did you find her?" He asked, extremely worried.

"No, she was most likely taken by her brother." Kang In-Hyuk replied in a soft voice.

The emergency sign above them went off which indicated that the surgery was over as a surgeon wearing light blue walked out of the sliding doors. He took off his mask, showing his face that seemed to be in his late thirties as he spoke.

"We managed to stop the bleeding and reduce the swelling, but the damage is too severe." The surgeon spoke.

Sun-Jae tried to ask him what he meant but his voice would not come out, before Kang In-Hyuk asked in his stead.

"I mean that she won't make it past this week. I'm sorry but you should get ready to say your goodbyes." The surgeon spoke before he left them standing there.

Everyone stood quietly as they watched Sun-Jae who was silent as he looked at the floor with a blank expression on his face while his bloody hands shook both in anger and sadness as he clenched them.

***

Jin-Ah woke up in a dark and enclosed space that often shook.

'Where am I?' She thought. Her hands and legs were still tied up as she moved around, looking at nothing but dark as the vibration stopped with a slow squeak.

'A car?... Grandmother! Where's grandmother!' Jin-Ah began hyperventilating in the dark and enclosed space as she heard the opening and shutting of the car door.

"You're here!" A distant and unfamiliar voice called out from a distance.

'Who is that?' Yeon-Hee thought as she heard a familiar voice replying.

"Yeah. I brought a gift." The voice replied, smacking the trunk of the car twice, right above Jin-Ah where she was tied up.

Immediately, she understood what had happened as the trunk opened to the face of her brother who smiled at Jin-Ah with a spray of blood visible on his cheek.

Jin-Ah's face turned from shock to boiling anger as she stared at him with bloodlusted eyes.

"I'm going to kill you, f**king bastard. You heard me." Jin-Ah said in cold anger.

Her brother let out a dry laugh as footsteps came close to the car with a creepy chuckle. A skinny man with an ugly, dirty face with scars appeared, standing beside her brother. He wore an old beige bucket hat and some light navy construction clothes with holes in them.

"You brought a feisty one, huh?" The man said, lewdly gazing at her body with his narrow brown eyes as if he saw through them as he added, "You taking her with us or are you going to sell her?"

Jin-Ah felt a cold shivering sensation travel up her back as she slightly trembled at the cold stairs of the two dirty men in front of her.

"Yeah. Where are the boys?" Her brother asked, looking around the empty and dirty space, filled with crushed and abandoned cars as only the two small fireplaces lit up the area.

"What the f**k are you talking about?" Jin-Ah asked the both of them as they ignored her questions while conversing between themselves.

"Shut your mouth, unless you want to end up like your grandmother." Her brother said to Jin-Ah in silent spite, before going back to conversing with the man.

Eventually, the man in the bucket hat left and her brother looked at Jin-Ah with his dirty face with a spray of blood as his eyes were cold.

"And don't worry, you'll know very soon." He simply answered her question from before, shutting the trunk and leaving Jin-Ah in darkness as she began screaming profanities while tears began to well up.