Doctor Demon

He held Kyuhyun by the arm and slowly led him towards the inner office, away from the corpses. Putting Kyuhyun on a chair, Hobin took out his torch and stethoscope from his briefcase to check on Kyuhyun.

"Look into the torch," he said calmly. He lit the light into Kyuhyun's eyes. Kyuhyun winced but Hobin checked his pupils. He then put his stethoscope on and checked Kyuhyun's heart beats.

"Do you suffer from anxiety attacks?" he asked. Kyuhyun nodded slightly.

"You do realize I'll have to report this to the Commissioner, right?" Hobin sighed. "By law, I'll have to report to him if a team member exhibits any sort of mental decline."

Kyuhyun did not reply but was in his own world. He was thinking of Yisub who died such a horrible death. After spending long hours of nonstop autopsy on Yisub's body, Kyuhyun was severely affected because he felt he had lost a kindred spirit. But it was hard for him to express it.

"You should go home and rest," Hobin advised. "I'll prescribe you a mild sleeping pill. You need to sleep well. Make sure you take them for the next three nights. Only one after dinner."

"Five centimeters deep cut," Kyuhyun repeated. "Jugular vein…"

"I know," Hobin said, snapping his briefcase shut. "We'll take over from here."

Just then Jina entered the inner office. "What's going on?" she asked them. "Why is Kyuhyun so pale?"

"Nothing," Hobin lied. "He didn't sleep for a few nights so I told him to go home and rest. He'll be fine after some sleep."

Kyuhyun slowly stood up. Like a robot, he took off his coat and hung it on a wall. Jina and Hobin watched as he meticulously washed his hands with soap, wiped his hands and then arranged his desk in such a way that everything was put in exactly the same place as he wanted. He was doing these tasks as if in a routine which he had not broken for years. 

He slowly shuffled out of his office, not looking back at them.

"What was that?" Jina wondered out loud.

"He's traumatized," Hobin stated. "Seeing the corpse of a boy who is a lot like him has traumatized him. He feels as if he had lost a friend."

"But they didn't even know each other," Jina pointed out. "And Kyuhyun has been doing this work for years-"

"Both of them suffer from Autism," Hobin explained. "For a person like Kyuhyun, Yisub was a kindred spirit. They share similar pain and woes. Seeing Yisub in that state had triggered Kyuhyun's anxiety and he reacted badly to it. You can say that it's his way of grieving."

Jina's heart went out to Kyuhyun after hearing that. No wonder the doctor was acting stranger than usual. They did not speak as they went outside to collect the reports. On their way out, they glanced at the bodies one last time.

"They'll be buried tomorrow," Jina muttered. "I can't help thinking how bad Yisub is going to feel once he sees his body being buried. He goes to his house everyday to see his parents but they can't see him. And his sister is just the dumbest girl I have ever met…"

She quickly recapped what Eli told her. Hobin was not surprised that Eli had the urge to do something as foolish as this. What he was intrigued with, however, was her complete apathy to her brother's death and how she was scared after they found the body. It was not a normal reaction for any sister to her sibling's death.

"I don't think she's the culprit," he said thoughtfully. "But I think she knows something about the death of her brother."

"What do you mean? Did you talk to her?"

"No. I didn't get the chance to do so. But her reaction to the death of her brother gave it all away. Minjoong's sister was distraught at her brother's murder but Eli was scared as if she knew a secret. Definitely a warning sign."

"She only told me about the Blue Fish," Jina sighed. 

"But it is strange that she believed her friend Laura after the girl slept with the most popular guy," Hobin shrugged. "Maybe this Laura did enter the site and did something to make the boy sleep with her. But is it enough to convince someone that she used demon magic to accomplish her task? Nah. I didn't believe any of the supernatural stuff until I saw in the memories how that kid Minki possessed the woman back at the orphanage. If I hadn't seen his memories, I'd have never believed it."

"I know," she agreed. "But we'll have to take it slow with Eli."

"Or," Hobin smirked. "I can speed up the process by reading her memories."

Jina sighed. Even though Hobin's method was an illegal method to extract information she had no choice.

"Fine," she said. "But only in front of me."

Hobin's eyes twinkled and before Jina could react, he leaned over to steal a kiss from her. She blushed hard, fully aware that the receptionist behind them had spotted their kiss.

"What are you doing?" she hissed, feeling shy at the PDA.

"I felt I haven't kissed you today," he winked. "So I kissed you now."

"You did way more than kissing this morning," she murmured, moping at the fresh hickeys on her neck. Thanks to him, she had to wear thick turtleneck shirts even in this sunny weather.

"Why? You want more now? Where do you want to do it then?" he asked, feigning innocence. "The car? Or the washroom? Or-"

"Nowhere!" 

So shameless! She moaned inwardly. But she smiled and wrapped her hands around his arm.

"I want lunch!" she insisted. "I'm starving. And you're paying this time."

"Fine but it'll be ramen only."

"How mean! At least treat your girlfriend to an expensive steak! Or a romantic meal."

"I would if your miserly grandfather had paid me for the therapy sessions I conduct with your sister," Hobin grumbled.

"Yeah...you can never make him pay for that," Jina nodded. "We always believe that helping family should be for free."

"Says the family who's extracting free babysitting services from a demon," he muttered.. They playfully bickered all the way to the car, walking hand in hand.