Experiencing Love & Lies [Jeong Jaehyun FF]

Chapter 16- Thank you for coming back to me

Jaehyun's POV:

I slowly opened my eyes to the effect of anesthesia was yet to go which is why I could see everything blurred but after blinking a few times, I could see better. I found myself lying on the floor and when I attempted to get up, I felt as if something had tightly held my arms together. It was a rope... someone had tied me up with the rope. 

That was when I remembered what happened at the hospital earlier. A man entered my cabin... and for some reason... he knew my name... my real name. I stood up from my seat to ask him who he was when he started attacking me with a scalpel... that belonged to my dad. Seeing the scalpel after so many years, triggered me... it triggered me... and made me a monster. I attacked him back with a pen on my table but he overpowered me... and knocked me out. The only thing I remember before fainting was what he said,
"I finally found you... Yun-oh"

 I looked around and found myself in what seemed like an old rundown building judging from the fallen debris and other materials. The wind blew inside the room through the window while I looked around trying to find out where exactly I was when I heard footsteps. I looked ahead and found the same man who attacked me at the hospital, walking toward me. He had the same scalpel in his hand and I tried my best to not look at it.... because... I did not want to be a monster... not again. 

"Why... why do you have that?" I asked and he laughed as if he immediately knew what I meant

"Let's say... I borrowed it from your dad? but Yun-oh... shouldn't you question be... why are you kidnapped by me? What exactly do I want from you?" He asked leaning in with a smirk but to his surprise, I scoffed at his statement which made him frown.

"They say people of a similar kind tend to recognize each other... when you attacked me at the hospital, I could see the same emptiness... I saw in my and my dad's eyes years ago... you are one of us... a crazy psychopath" I replied and he replied somewhat satisfied with my answer but I still had one question

"But I don't get this... why didn't you kill me yet?" I questioned as he clicked his tongue as if he was waiting for me to ask this question

"Because I don't get you," He said and walked and stood in front of me. He spread his arms and closed his eyes and inhaled before he started speaking,

"I was named Hyun-Chul... Im Hyun-Chul... which means someone mysterious as well as firm. I was someone who was loved by all... unless one day while I was crossing the road, a bird fell in front of me from the tree... usually, I'd help the bird but that day... I had this sudden urge... I had the urge to crush the bird's head... because it looked so vulnerable in my hand. When I killed my pet cat by drowning it in a lake nearby... I wasn't scared... I felt relaxed... it felt thrilling. That was when I realized that I was different from the others... I was someone superior to them" All of a sudden, he punched me and kicked me in the stomach causing blood to drip from my wounds

"But as I grew up... the urge grew with me... the urge to constantly kill someone... at the age of 14, I killed my mother and younger sister and portrayed it as a suicide and everyone believed me because... who wouldn't believe a 14-year-old? I was in my 30s when I heard about the Yeongam Gurim serial murder case... I was fascinated... Jeong Min-ho, your dad fascinated me. He was like an idol to me... a god whom I worshipped" He said while laughing while I coughed and tried to untie my ropes but they were tied too tightly

"I looked into his family and that was when I found out about you.... believe me I've read every article on which you were on and I laughed every time I imagined how you managed to fool your wife for so long... but I don't get this... how can you be a good person and help people when your dad was a psychopath? No matter how many patients of yours I met, they all said that you were a good person... HOW! HOW CAN YOU BE A NORMAL PERSON? HOW CAN YOU HELP PEOPLE?!" He yelled as my eyes slightly widened when I realized what he meant

"So you are telling me that... you killed all those innocent people... just because they said that I was a good person? Just because I am not a murderer like my dad... you killed those people?!" I yelled only to get hit by him. Grabbing me by my collar, he punched me several times. He looked at me with anger in his eyes as he took out the scalpel from his pocket and held it at my neck. I was close to losing consciousness.

"You are a murderer's son... you should be like your dad! A psychopath... A PSYCHOPATH! A MONSTER!" He yelled and he was about to cut open my throat when all of a sudden, I felt his grip on my collar loosen until he finally let go of it causing me to fall. I had almost closed my eyes but with a blurred vision... I saw another person behind Im Hyun-Chul. The only thing I could hear before I lost my consciousness was,

"How dare you try to kill my son... you asshole" 

End of POV

[Time skip: 8 pm]

I buried my face in my hands as I sat on my desk. I had stains of dried tears on my cheeks because I felt helpless... why? I don't know. Is it because Jaehyun was kidnapped... or me finding those photos in his room? How did everything end up like this? Why did it have to be Jaehyun out of all? Why him?
My thoughts were interrupted when Jaemin opened the door of the room, huffing. I looked at him confused before he said,

"Sunbae... your husband... they found him" 

[Gyeongju City Hospital]

The moment Jaemin parked the car in the parking lot, I got off the car and rushed inside the hospital to the reception. Upon asking about him, they informed me that he was on the second floor in room number 214. I didn't waste any more time before I ran to the second floor as fast as I could. His room was guarded by the officers but upon seeing me, they allowed me to go inside.

I gasped and covered my mouth when I went inside the cabin. He lay on the bed, unconscious and he had bandages on his face and a cast on his arm. The doctor informed me that they put him to sleep and that he had a minor fracture on his right arm. I walked to his bed and took a seat next to him. I slipped my hand into his and kissed it. 

"Thank you... thank you for coming back to me" At that moment, I didn't think of anything else... I was happy... happy that he was with me... because without him... I felt incomplete. I smiled when I looked at him and just then my phone started ringing. Checking the caller ID, it was from Minjun sunbae. 

"Hello? Minjun Sunbae?"

"Y/n... Im Hyun-Chul... he is dead"