Namjoon slams his mug onto the counter.

"Fuck!"

Why? Why is it so hard to catch this psycho!? Cameras all over South Korea yet none of them catches this freak!? That don't make no sense!

"God damn it. Every time I take one foot forward I have to take five steps back!" Namjoon says as he rubs his forehead in irritation.

"Are you back to that 'Fork Stabber' case?" Yoongi asked as he enters the kitchen.

Namjoon sighs. "'The Chopstick Slayer', Yoon. If anything, that name is stupid, even the reporters in America give their serial killer great nicknames." Namjoon whines. His case shouldn't be made fun of.

"Yeah, whatever. Just let this go already. You didn't come to bed last night and you promised you would! Joonie, I miss you."

Namjoon sighs for the umpteenth time today. "I know and I'm sorry. Let me clean up." Namjoon started to pack his case back into his files and placed them all in his briefcase.

"Huh, this guy looks familiar. Where did I see him from?" Yoongi's voice breaks Namjoon out of his trance.

"Huh?"

Yoongi hands over a photo of the killer's recent murder. "Oh, him. Yeah, he is really important, his family asked us to keep his death under the wraps, suspicious if you ask me."

Yoongi nods. "Ok, so you think this involves the same killer? Maybe his family killed him for his money?"

Namjoon shakes his head. "Yeah, we thought that at first but we noticed his eyes were stabbed by the same fucking weapon, chopsticks. I really want to catch this guy."

Yoongi raised an eyebrow. "Guy? For weeks you've called this person, well, person, why a pronoun so suddenly?"

Namjoon smiles. "A camera caught sight of him after the murder. After killing a man, a series of cameras followed him and we managed to get him taking his hood off. Now we have a gender."

Yoongi smiles. "That's one step closer!"

Namjoon sighs into his chair. "Yeah, but we still don't have a face, motive, hell we don't even have a murder weapon."

"So, the same thing just a gender is now known? Got it." Yoongi turns back around and resumes his cooking of breakfast. "How do you want your eggs?"

"I don't care, anything is perfect."

Yoongi smiles, he really did get lucky with this guy.

"Here you go. Sliced steak with eggs, diced potatoes, and pancakes. I don't have work today so here is a big breakfast." Yoongi finished with a kiss to Namjoon's cheek.

Namjoon shies away from the affection, he's not used to the love just yet. Yoongi loves when Namjoon gets shy, he's cute that way.

"Do you have work today or is this it?" Yoongi asked, pointing at the briefcase.

"Yeah, but I don't go in until 1."

"Hmm." Yoongi checks the clock on the wall. "Well, it's ten right now. Do you want to go to bed before showering?"

Namjoon finishes up his food. "Bed? Why would we go to bed?"

Yoongi just stares at his idiot boyfriend. Namjoon stares back in confusion before it hit him, "oh. Oh! You mean!?"

Yoongi nods.

"Ok!"

Yoongi chuckles and pulls Namjoon up to their shared bedroom.

~~~

"Good afternoon, detective." Jung Hoseok says, smirking at his limping partner.

Namjoon just glares at his friend. "Shut up."

Hoseok laughs at his friend's embarrassment.

"Did the captain give us anything new?"

Hoseok leans back on his office chair. "Yup, a man and his girlfriend were attacked by a group of men who robbed and assaulted the woman." Hoseok takes a sip from his coffee. "Boyfriend is in surgery and she is getting check out at the hospital."

Namjoon skims through the files then sighs. "This is awful."

"Yeah, it's hard with this job. Hey! Did you manage to get any close with the cold case?"

"It's not a cold case, just a confusing one, and no, but have you met with the girlfriend?"

Hoseok nods. "Yeah, but she was too traumatized to answer any questions. So I just told the nurses to call when she becomes more stable."

Namjoon nods. He checks the photos in the file again, he noticed something stuck out. "Let's go."

Hoseok jumps out of his chair, trying to keep up with his partner. "Wait, what happened? What did you see?"

Namjoon continues walking to their car, "did you not see the car in the photo? The dashboard has a necklace that is only giving to a certain gang."

Hoseok stops, he was astonished. "Wow, that fast?"

"Of course. Now we just have to find the people who hurt this nice couple. That is where the problem starts."

Hoseok chuckles. "Yet, you still have nothing on the chopstick killer."

Namjoon glares at his friend. "Fuck you."

~~~

"I'm home." Namjoon says as he plops down on the couch.

Silence.

Namjoon raised an eyebrow. "Yoongi?"

Walking upstairs, Namjoon opens his bedroom door only to see it empty.

Huh, where did he go?

/Slam/

Namjoon makes his way downstairs to see Yoongi walking in with groceries. The man didn't notice him yet.

Yoongi places his bags on the counter and sighs before putting the groceries away. One item caught Namjoon's eye though, red chopsticks.

"Ah! What the fuck!?"

Namjoon covers his ears in fear and shock. "I'm sorry!"

Yoongi clutches his pearls. "God damn it, Joon. You scared the shit out of me."

Namjoon looks down. "I'm sorry."

Yoongi chuckles, it's fine. Want to help me with this?"

Namjoon nods. They both put away the groceries, that was when Namjoon asked. "Why did you buy these?"

Yoongi turns around from the fridge. "I needed a new one."

Namjoon nods. "Ok. Why?"

Yoongi groans. "Because I needed a new one."

"What happened to your old ones?"

"Joonie! Am I the suspect to the case 'The Person Who Buys Too Many Chopsticks?!'

Namjoon looks down. "No."

"Then why are you treating me like a criminal? I broke my chopsticks trying to clean out the garbage disposal. Look." Yoongi pulls out his blue panda chopsticks, one snapped the other bent. "I added this to the list."

Namjoon nods and placed the new chopsticks into the silverware drawer.

"I think this case is getting to you." Yoongi speaks after a while. Namjoon looks at his boyfriend. "What do you mean?"

"See, you don't even know what you did? You saw me with the chopsticks and you instantly went back to that case. You started to ask me questions and when you didn't like the answer, you rephrased it. I don't like this case being in your hands, you, y-you need to give it to someone else or give up on it."

Namjoon watched as Yoongi finishes his speech halfway up the stairs. He felt bad. So, after calculating his mistakes and managed to find the perfect equalizer, he walks to their shared bedroom.

"One more week."

Yoongi scoffs.

"Just one more week and I'll give it to someone else."

"Yeah, like last week? Namjoon, just, go finish that case. Leave."

Namjoon felt his tears forming in his eyes, but he wipes them away. Why do I always do this? Maybe my job is too much for everyone.....

"Ok...I'm...I'm sorry."

Yoongi turns around at the cracking of Namjoon's voice, he'll be fine. Maybe this is what he needs.

The front door closes. Yoongi stands and looks out the window, watching the love of his life walk away. He needs to stop this. Before he gets into trouble.

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