Disclaimer: I do NOT own PoT
Pairing: Atobe Keigo X Echizen Ryoma
Word Count: 420
Warning: Death, blood, description of wounds.
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Chapter 1
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The body is exactly how Atobe expected it would be. Torn, bloody, and gruesome.
It was partially hidden behind a dumpster on the north side of the park. Lying in a heap, it was not unlike a rag doll carelessly thrown aside - used, dirty, and no longer fun to play with.
The body was male, 14-15 years old, baby-faced, still in its school uniform. Yamabuki Junior High if Atobe correctly identifies the gakuran. It was stained reddish-brown now – the uniform - because of all the blood drying on it, but there is a small patch on the left shoulder where the material managed to remain clean and stark white.
There is no obvious wound on the outside. There is a small trickle of blood running down the thumb of the right hand but aside from that, both hands appear to be untouched. The face and neck is the same. Flawless and pale, not a drop of blood nor a smudge of dirt. Even the hair is clean. A dark mop of silk that have now lost its luster and shine because of death.
It was sickening, seeing the clean, undamaged skin. Because Atobe knew, that underneath the bloodied clothes, the body would be littered with cuts, long and short, deep and shallow, smooth and ragged. The placing of the cuts would be haphazard, close and far in-between, but still studiously clinical, if not professional. They were made for no real purpose but to hurt and to bleed, slowly and methodically.
Atobe knew because that's what happened to the body they found just two months ago. Similar profile: male and young and beautiful, and thrown to the side of the road after seemingly put through in a meat shredder.
Atobe and his team don't have a lead yet. But they knew one thing.
That first body is not an accident. This one is not a coincidence. But a third body would definitely establish a pattern.
Atobe thinks that the pattern will be like a mathematical equation. Once they have all the values of the variables, they'd be able to solve the problem. Right now, they have the values of y and z, but the x is still missing.
He's never been a math genius but Atobe thinks he'll be able to find the missing x just fine. Hopefully he'll manage to do it before a third body show up. Atobe would really hate to see a pattern just to be able to solve a case. That would be just tacky.
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