Backup

-Jisung's POV-

He took a cab back to his apartment and sat down on his bed, trying to think.

Jisung stared at the picture of Y/N, trying to figure out why the background around her seemed so familiar. Perhaps, he'd seen this place, before, but he just couldn't figure out where and when. And that fact annoyed him. Y/N's life was on the line and all he could do was hope. Hope wasn't going to get him anywhere.

*Think, Jisung, think!

A familiar thought popped in his mind. An old friend of his had once told him that if he needed anything, to just drop him a message.

He scrolled through his contact list and searched up the name Lee Taeyong. The contact popped up and the youth tapped on his name before shooting Taeyong a quick message.

Jisung: Taeyong hyung

Jisung: I have a big favor to ask from you. This is urgent.

Taeyong: wow, it's been a long time since I've heard of your name.

Taeyong: What can I do for you?

Jisung: A friend of mine was kidnapped. I need to find the location and I only have 3 hours or she will be killed. The captor sent a picture of her, earlier and the place in the background looks familiar, but I can't place where? Do you think you could help?

Taeyong: is the maknae getting into trouble again? You really ought to stop being a hitman. It's going to kill you or someone else, one day...

Taeyong: Anyway, send me the picture. I'll get Johnny to analyze it for you.

Just as Jisung put his phone down, his roommate, Renjun, walked through the door talking to himself.

"Maybe I should take a shower...I wonder when Jisung will be back from his assignment-" Renjun looked up and jumped when he saw his roommate sitting on the bed.

"When did you get here? I just got back from the library. Do we have anything to eat? I was going to ask the others to come over to our place with takeout..."

Jisung gave his hyung a grave look and Renjun stopped midway through his sentence, sensing that there was something terribly wrong.

"What's going on?" He asked his friend.

Before Jisung could reply, his phone buzzed with a new message from Taeyong.

Taeyong: Johnny managed to find where your friend might be. It's at a location in a neighborhood that no one recognizes. Perhaps, you know?

Taeyong sent a picture of an all-too-familiar house. Jisung took one glance at the image and his mind blanked out.

*My- house? My old home? But why?

The realization hit him. He knew who the kidnapper was. Who else would be alive to know where Jisung used to live? One person. It was the owner of one name that he never wanted to hear again for the sake of protecting his past from the present.

*The only piece of family that I have left has gone insane.

A feeling of dread bubbled up in the pit of his stomach. With his hands now shaking, he quickly answered his friend's text.

Jisung: I know where it is.

*I know where it is. But I'll need backup to deal with this matter.

*I'm not going back to that place, alone.

Taeyong: Okay, good. I'm glad that helped you. Now, is there anything else that you need?

Jisung: actually, yes. Hyung, do you think you could get a crew together? I need some backup.

Taeyong: OHOho, now you're talkin 😈

Jisung: thank you so much, hyung. I owe you for this one

Taeyong: owe me nothing. don't worry. We'll help you save your friend.

Jisung put his phone down and looked back at Renjun, "go ahead and tell the others to come over. But tell Chenle to bring the–supplemental materials."

"Supple-what?"

Jisung sighed. "Guns. Just tell him to bring the handguns, ASAP."

Renjun gave his friend a serious expression, "okay, but you better have a good explanation before I ever touch a gun, again."

*Don't worry, hyung. I have the perfect reason why.

*It starts with Y/N.

*And ends with my brother.