Chan scared up. He was bathed in sweat and didn't know where he was. Tears poured over his cheeks.

"Binnie? Where are you?"

He panicked and tried to recognize something in the dark room, but it was difficult for him to concentrate.

"Where am I?" he whispered quietly.

"Ssssh baby, I'm here. It's all good."

He heard steps coming closer and felt Changbin's strong arms lay around him.

"Where have you been? Have you heard of Minho?"

Changbin pulled Chan with him and let himself sink back to bed.

"Yes, I just spoke to him on the phone. He probably finally has a trace of Ji and is about to follow it. But he has to go all the way to Gimpo, so it may take some time before he finds him."

Chan cuddled close to his boyfriend and buried his face in the crook of his neck.

"Gimpo? What's there?"

"The Van that Minho pursues with whom they took Jisung away from the place where they were hiding before," Changbin replied with a suffocated voice. Minho had not gone into detail with his description because he did not want to disturb the younger, but Changbin had already heard from his voice that it must have been really bad.

"Can't we help him? Aren't we closer to Gimpo than he is?"

Changbin had to laugh.

"And what do you want to do then? Fighting with possibly armed guys? Let Minho do that! He knows what to do and can get help from his team if necessary."

"Can we still go there? We can stay in the car again... But then we will at least be there if Minho needs us... or Ji if he really should be there."

"All right... then let's take a shower and then we'll go."

Smiling, Chan pulled Changbin into the shower with him. He was incredibly grateful that the younger one was with him. Normally, he had a better control about his feelings and actions and an overview of all possible situations. The leader who took care of everything for his team.

But now he felt more helpless and useless than ever before in his life.

"Everything will be fine! We'll find him!"

Twenty minutes later, they sat in the car on their way to Gimpo.

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Minho drove like the devil. The route to Gimpo was long and he didn't know why they had taken Jisung away from the old hiding place. He absolutely had to reach them before they took Jisung further away and he lost his trail altogether.

The possibility that they took his fiancée away from Gimpo with a boat existed and scared him insanely.

He had already completed a good deal of distance when Jimin finally called him again.

"They have finally stopped. Although I don't know if that means something good or something bad. The van stands in the backyard of an old, long-forsaken factory."

"Send me the location, I'll be there as soon as I can!"

Minho ended the conversation and pushed the accelerator. He knew that if he somehow drove against something now, it would be his end. But he was still a long way from Seoul and he didn't want to leave Jisung to the arbitrariness of these people any longer.

His phone rang again, but this time it was Chan who called.

"Hey Min... We're on our way to Gimpo... Not to be in your way, but to be there for you... for you and Ji when everything is over..."

Minho throttled his pace minimally and shook his head angrily.

"That's really not a good idea Chan. I have to be able to concentrate and I don't have the slightest idea what could come to me. Turn around and drive back to our apartment!"

"Min, I'm going crazy if I only have to sit in your apartment for a second longer! We will also be waiting for you at the other end of the city if you thing that's necessary. But I... I can't just sit somewhere anymore and wait for something to happen."

Minho sighed and was tempted to hit the steering wheel... which would not have been a good idea at his pace. He understood Chan all too well. If it had been the other way around, he couldn't have waited at home.

And even though Jisung was his fiancé, Chan and Changbin had their own special relationship with him.

At the beginning, Minho hadn't understood this and it was really difficult for him to keep his jealousy in check.

But over time, he had managed to see something below the surface of their relationship and to understand how much the three were bonded with each other.

And how naturally they had taken him in. With all of his sometimes strange habits.

He was a part of them long before he even realized it. Even if he liked to tease them and threatened them to imprison them for a variety of reasons.

But if he was completely honest with himself, his heart would tear apart if something would happen to one of them. Probably not as much as with Jisung, but enough to unhinge his world.

"Damn Chan...! Okay... I'll send you a location where you'll wait. Inconspicuous! Without light in the car or anything else! I still need some time till I get there."

"Thank you Min...! See you later!"

After hanging up, Minho stopped briefly and sent Chan a location from which Minho assumed that it was safe enough that the two could wait there until everything was over.

He didn't feel really comfortable doing it. He felt unnecessarily endangered the two, but he also knew that it would be impossible to stop Chan from doing so.

Chan reached very close to Minho's protective instinct. And he was incredibly grateful to the elder for always keeping a watchful eye on his fiancé.

He would have liked to have hugged Chan and cried until he had no more tears. He had found it difficult to maintain hope when he hadn't found any news or useful traces at all. But he had to persevere and have been strong for them.

He took a deep breath and continued driving. He couldn't afford to break down right now. Only when he had Jisung safely in his arms again would he be able to break down.

Because he knew that Chan and Changbin would be there and catch them.

That if he managed to find Jisung in time that they would held each other.

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