Prologue

“Yes… Dr. Im what can I help you with?”

Dr. Im steps into chief Park’s office with such a terrible disdain look on her face, but despite that the young doctor still manage to look stunning. No wonder every member of their department just fall helplessly for her.

Sir? I just want to discuss to you about the news about this bizarre attacks. I know we reported it to the public as a severe reaction to the street drug, but there was no indication or evidence in the toxicology reports that the suspect have ever taken or had a history with substance abuse…”

As intelligent and ambitious as Dr. Im is, her idealistic view is going to be her ultimate downfall.

“Dr. Im? Do you have any better way not to alarm the public about these bizarre attacks?”

Even with how determine Dr. Im is to solve these uprising in this bizarre cases, she have to admit that right now, she and her team are stumped with the lack of evidence and resources.

“Well…for now sir I haven’t. But isn’t it our responsibility to inform the public of what is truly going on? If we cannot give them the truth of the situation, wouldn’t it be best if we don’t say anything at all?”

The gorgeous doctor wasn’t going to let her and her team’s integrity be tainted by false public reports.

“Our team has been working on finding the answers. I know that it looks like were at a dead end sir, but with further research and more evidence, I’m sure we could find an answer. Every question has an answer, you just have to be patient and work for it.”

But the chief only scoffs at the naivety of the young doctor.

“Right now there is no plausible explanation on what is happening, Yes everyone thinks of it as a zombie outbreak. And you think that would have made things better if we told them we are seeing cases of something, no one would ever think possible than guarding the truth? If we tell them this then all were going to do is put our city in panic. And that’s worse than any zombie outbreak. For now, we need to…”

“What? Hide the truth?” Dr. Im says without apprehension.

“No… Doctor… Just to guard it…”

“I don’t think-”

“Your job doctor is to find out what the hell is going on, my job is to keep this city from going into chaos. Why don’t you do yours and stop telling me how to do mine?”

*

“Doctor Im…”

Yoona just closes her eyes, trying to be in a happy place as Sergeant douchehead's voice just rings in her brain. Yoona found name calling offensive and tries hard to refrain from it. But the moment she joined the squad years ago, people only refer to the sergeant as douchehead. She had no plans on calling him that until the first conversation they had obviously pointed out how he wants to jump inside her skirt.

And from then on, the sergeant has been doing what he can to get Yoona to bed with him.

But still the polite and well mannered person that she is turns around and wastes her precious time with him.

“I heard the news report today and I know that the chief is covering up some major crap, but don’t worry Yoona? I can call you Yoona, right?”

“Well…”

“Yoona… I will do everything in my powers as sergeant to get the truth behind it.”

All talk and no game that’s what this d0uchebag is.

“Thank you sergeant.” Yoona’s patience was running very low right now.

“Don’t call me sergeant Yoong…”

Yoong? What part of their conversation made him believe that they’re buddy buddy?

“My friends call me Taec”

“We work together that’s all sergeant…”

“Well, how about we discuss this case over coffee and maybe we can.”

Yoona purposely raises her hand to show off her engagement ring. Taecyeon's face quickly scrunches into a deep cringe at the sight of it.

“D-did she gave you that?”

“Yes… Yuri proposed to me and it didn’t take a second for me to even say yes…”

“Oh…”

The sergeant slowly back off, but not before trying again.

“Well… Doc… if you…”

“I don’t think coffee will help make this case go any faster. So, I’m going back to my lab, good day Sergeant…”

Taecyeon could only growl lowly as he watches the gorgeous girl walking back to her lab. Even from behind she was deadly, those curves, how her hips sway as she walks and that fitting perfectly in her tight skirt.

A scoff woke him up from his erted thoughts.

“I heard she likes chicks…” Daesung pointed out. “So, I was wondering why she doesn't like you.”

“Get back to work!”

*

“Kwon!”

What does the douchehead want now?

“Yes sir?”

“It takes you more than two hours to get a woman who was lock inside her car?”

He was completely mocking her. Even with her detective status, he thinks she’s incapable of being in the force and of course he hates her for ending up with the girl he has been eyeing on.

And they say that women equal men in the workplace that was hardly the case for Detective Kwon Yuri and her partner/bestfriend/enemy/ drinking buddy Det. Choi Sooyoung. Even with the detective title attach to their names, still they’re assigned the ridiculous cases. Like today, they were sent to investigate a woman who got herself lock inside her own car. What should have taken just ten seconds, took them almost all their morning to get her out.

“The woman was hyperventilating sir… She wasn’t capable of taking any instructions…”

“Pfft… here…”

He slid more of threw a bunch of folders at her desk.

“We have a call report in the Servers Avenue, about some dead body, something stupid like that…”

He waves it all like a dead person doesn’t really matter to him, and since it's probably at the Servers avenue it could only mean one thing. As sad as it sound, the dead bodies in Servers avenue are usually the ones who are unclaimed and some people say was better left off dead. If it was some high profile case or an intriguing murder, Sergeant would have jump right at it, but because it's just probably some dead hooker or addict, they are just ignored.

“And bring your two puppies with you…”

Sooyoung lays down her cup noodles obviously annoyed with that nickname.

“Keke… he called you a puppy,” Hyoyeon jokingly points at Sooyoung…

“You’re the other puppy he was talking about.”

Hyoyeon’s amused face immediately scrunches up to an annoyed scowl.

“Pffft.. jerk.”

*

Yoona was in the midst of discussing the case matter before them with the rest of her team when Tiffany has a teasing smile playing on her lips.

“Yes, Doctor Hwang?”

“I think someone is waiting outside for you…”

And everyone in that room notice how the tension suddenly fades away as Yoona saw the gorgeous girl patiently waiting outside for her.

“Hi…”

“Hi… I’m sorry, did I bother you?” Yuri asks worriedly as she peeks at the room of trained doctors. But from the way Yoona jump excitedly to meet Yuri’s lips it was obvious that she didn’t bother her at all.

“I needed some of that…”

And despite how crappy Yuri’s day was one sweet smile from Yoona completely turned everything around.

“Well… I just want to say I might be late tonight…”

“Why?”

“I have a case right now in Servers avenue so I…”

“Servers avenue?”

Yoona couldn’t help but feel a tinged of guilt, how her lover has to bear the brunt of a jealous admirer.

“And I didn’t see you today so I miss you terribly,” Yuri playfully rubs her nose against Yoona. “Well, I did see you on TV. You’re so pretty, you look like you belong in there.”

Yoona heaved an exhausted sigh. “Oh don’t remind me.”

“Hey… don’t worry about work too much.”

“Look who’s talking…”

“Keke… well…” Yuri puckers her lips, kissing Yoona’s worries away. “I got you some pad thai and tom yum goong for dinner.”

Yuri happily lifts up the to go bag, but instead of getting a smile, Yoona only pouted.

“I don’t want to eat alone…”

“Well… Why don’t you invite Seo or the girls over tonight? And hey if you’re still awake when I get back, how about we go out for some midnight snack, huh? What you think?”

Yoona would stay awake all night if she had to.

“I think we can manage that…”

They kiss their goodbyes and just when Yuri is about to walk away, Yoona pulls her back.

“Hey… be careful, okay? I know you’re my super girl and all but… still…”

“Don’t worry, I’ll be okay…”

*

“I’m too pretty for this,” Hyoyeon complained as Yuri parks in a decrepit, dark alley. “Couldn’t you park in a nicer place?”

“This is Servers, the word nice doesn’t exist here.”

“ACK!”

The three girls jump back as an old pot bellied cop starts knocking on the car window.

“Hello… I’m Detective Kwon.”

“Pfft… great, they send chicks for this case.”

The three girls just ignored the ist comment and follows the man to the building.

“Yah! Yah! Yah!” Pot bellied cop waves her off and walks ahead of them. “Where’s the good old days where the women just stayed home and take care of the kids?”

He mumbles loud enough for the three girls to hear as he continues to walk inside an abandoned building.

“Well if you men were so amazing, then we might have decided to stay home.”

“So, sir, what’s our situation here?”

“Isn’t that what you’re here for? To figure out what happened?”

Yuri just lets out a heaving sigh…

“Jesus Christ! What the hell is wrong with this people?! Killing in such a dump?!”

The officer continued to rant, Yuri just tried to take it in when she felt another figure moving in an alley behind them.

“What’s wrong with you?”

“Ummm… Is there anyone here besides us?”

“Probably some junkie or ****… Now move on! I don’t have all day!”

The three follows the officer down a dark narrow staircase with only a flashlight as their source of light.

“Hold a second-“ Yuri looks at the steps with darkish red splatters on it. “I think this is blood…” Yuri bends down.

“Get used to it, buildings like this are where most gang wars happen and stuff.”

Yuri ignores the man’s ranting and focuses on the weird noise.

“Did you hear that?”

“What is with you?! Do you hear every freaking noise?”

“I’m just…”

Hyoyeon stops Yuri…

“Don’t argue with an idiot, Yul…” Hyoyeon warns…

“Ummm sir?”

Everyone steps forward at the man hunched over a corpse…

“Sir?”

UAAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHH

The girls took a step back, stunned at the sight in front of them. The suspect skin was a disgusting kind of gray, his cheek peeling off his face, an eyeball almost hanging out of its socket and his mouth bloody from his recent meal.

GRRRRRRRR!!!!!

BANG.BANG.BANG.

Despite of the gun shots, the man still limps towards them, black pus oozing from his entry wound.

“What the hell are we dealing with?” Sooyoung has her gun out, but with how badly she was shaking, it was obvious she can’t aim at anything at all.

The girls were fast enough to evade him but the monster was able to take hold of the cop’s leg.

“Let him go now!!!” Yuri commanded as she aims her gun out at the monster.

“Yul!”

The monster didn’t heed Yuri’s warning and instead take a huge chomp of the officer’s leg. The blood curdling scream from the officer was enough to give the girls nightmare.

BANG. BANG. BANG.

Yuri was quick enough to aim her gun straight between the cannibal’s forehead, The impact of the gunshot was able to throw him off a couple of feet away with his brain matter splattering throughout the room.

*

The once dead Servers avenue was brought back to life as sirens, wailing lights and camera news team starts flooding the scene of the supposed “zombie attack”

“OW!” Yuri glares as Sooyoung smacks her hard at the back.

“Look… it’s your girl, go try impress or something.”

From the looks of it, Dr. Im wasn’t just Yuri’s but everyone else ideal girl in that whole unit. Her beauty standing out amongst the hellish place.

“What’s up doc?!”

Yuri quickly waves away Sooyoung, motioning her to be quiet.

“Yul?!” Yoona quickly runs to her lover’s side, her hand running on Yuri’s face. “Are you okay?”

“Oh no… it was like the scariest thing I have seen in my life,” Sooyoung was talking in such an exaggerated manner, that she just sounded fake “Good thing, detective Kwon here was such a badass.”

Yuri couldn’t look at anywhere else but the asphalt

“I ummm… well… ummm…” She knew how worried Yoona might have been.

“You should have seen her doc! She was like wrestling with it, punching, kicking, she caught it in a headlock before she put the gun on its forehead then bam! Brains everywhere… Your future wife is badass!”

Instead of getting impressed Yoona looks worried.

“I didn’t do that…” Yuri tries to reassure her.

“Oh don’t be so humble…”

“Detectives! Nice job, now go home and take a rest, I’ll handle this…”

He eyes every inch of Yoona smugly.

“Doctor… I think we need to be working on the case now.”

“W-wait…” Yuri still has a hold on Yoona’s hand “You’re not going back there, are you?”

“We have to Yul, we need to investigate it.”

“No… no… ummm…” Yuri’s hand was firmly holding Yoona’s now, refusing to let her lover go back. “You can’t go back there, it’s not safe.”

“Pffft… Don’t be such a paranoid, detective…” Taecyeon emphasizes the word to make sure Yuri knows that she was beneath him.

“It will be ok, Yul…” Yoona leans close and brushes Yuri’s hair. “I’ll be alright…” She presses a kiss on Yuri’s head.

Yuri wraps her arms around Yoona.

“ALRIGHT! CUT IT ALL OUT! YOU GUYS ARE NOT PAID TO BE ALL LOVEY DOVEY AND CRAP!”

“I’m sorry.” Yoona pulls her gaze away from Yuri “Stay safe.”

“Don’t worry Doc, now that I’m here nothing is going to happen to you.”

Sergeant douchehead pats Yoona’s back leading her away from Yuri.

How come that didn’t make Yuri feel any better?

Daesung turns back around and gives Yuri a reassuring smile.

MOVE AWAY! MOVE AWAY! MEDIA COMING THROUGH!!!”

“Slow your roll, Ms. Jung…”

“No its you who need to slow your roll, every roll you ate just make you 10 lbs fatter…”

The gorgeous yet biyatchy news reporter spats on her heaving overweight cameraman.

“Oh…” Her smile turned ily at the sight of the gorgeous dark haired detective. “Detective Kwon…” Her pitch hitched up a notch as she waves flirtatiously at the detective.

Yoona turns around at the sound of the flirtatious voice calling out her lover. She couldn’t help but bite her lower lip in irritation for there she is again, that news reporter who constantly throws herself at Yuri.

“Oh ummm hi…” Yuri was too worried about Yoona to even think of a reply to the woman.

“Remember me, Detective? I’m… OW!”

The news reporter stumbles towards Yuri as she was purposely shoved out of the way.

“Ooopps… sorry…” The midget triumphant smirk just proved that she wasn’t sorry at all.

And Ms. Jung couldn’t help but growl, there she is again that silly honey haired dwarf just ruining every chance she have of getting close to the hot detective.

“You’re here…”

“Of course” The midget puffs her chest proudly “I’m the lead forensic agent in this whole squad. I’m always here…”

“Are you sure you’re not a little kid pretending to play detective?!”

“HEY! I’m not a detective! I’m a forensic agent! Big difference there you tabloid reporter!!!”

“Oh heck no!!! you did not just call me a tabloid reporter! I report the latest and ground breaking news in this whole damn city!”

“Hmmm… I don’t think anyone would consider dog shows news…”

“Alright! Alright! Cut it out!” Yuri steps in between the two, separating the two obviously in love with each other enemies.

“So, detective,” This time it was the midget who was shove aside as Ms. Jung almost jumps on top of Yuri. “Is it ok if I do an interview about what have happened there?”

“Well… I’m not in a position to say anything, please talk to our officers for this first.”

“But detective…”

“Pfft… Don’t you get it? She doesn’t want anything to do with you!”

“Shut up! Was I talking to you?!”

Yuri sees this as the perfect time to move away as the two were busy trying to snap their heads off.

*

“Grrrrrr…”

Yoona could only pat her unnie on the back to calm down. Every time she and the reporter who keeps on clinging on her Yul sees each other, sparks fly and not the good kind.

“Calm down, unnie…”

“How could I?! When that- what the fu- is going on?”

Yoona covers despite of the horrific scene in front of her. The corpse with half his brain blasted off and another man with his entrails oozing out of his torn belly. It wasn’t that which scared Yoona, it was the thought of what might have happened to Yuri during the incident.

While Taeyeon examines the blasted brain guy, Yoona takes a shaky breath, walking over to the other body. She tries to stomach the pungent smell lurking out of the dead body and tries to focus on examining the body. Yoona’s eyes widened when she sees the chest, what was left of it heaving, a low growl coming from the man.

“AHHHHHHH!!!!”

Yoona let out a shriek as the dead body suddenly resurrected, grabbing a hold of her arm.

“UNNIE!!!!”

“AHHH crap!” Taeyeon quickly panics as she sees the monster trying to take a bite out of Yoona. “HELP! HELP!!! DO SOMETHING!!!!” Taeyeon tries to pull Yoona away, but somehow the man’s grip was too strong.

The rest of the police force was panicking, most of them too stunned to do anything. Yoona could even hear Taecyeon shrieking…

“KANG! KANG! DO SOMETHING!!!” Taecyeon shrieks…

“I’m trying, I’m trying!” But Daesung’s shaky hands kept him from trying to shoot. One wrong aim and he might end up shooting Yoona.

With her free arm, Yoona hurriedly fumbles out anything from her forensic bag. Her hand ending up with a scalpel, she took a firm grip of it, stabbing at the arm that has the hold on her. Her fear stricken as the man didn’t even flinch no matter how much she jammed it, still determine to bite her.

Yoona closes her eyes, fighting her tears as she tries to pull away. She knows the last thing she needed to do was panic, but right now her fear was taking a strong grip of her. Her fight for life sinking as her strength starts to dwindle.

“Yoona…” She could hear her Taeyeon unnie screams fading out.

She was getting too weak, but right before she shut down she utters her lover's name.

“Yuri…”

Just when she starts to lose hope, relief drifts towards her as she felt someone pulling her close to her chest. Even if Yuri’s hand was covering her ears, she still heard the three gunshots before she felt Yuri’s lips kissing her reassuringly.

“It’s ok darling, I’m here,” Yuri pulls Yoona closer to her, kissing Yoona on the forehead. “It’s ok, it’s ok… I’m not going to let anything happen to you.”

Yoona quickly wraps her arms around Yuri, clutching tighter in Yuri’s shirt as she sobs. Yuri was cooing her, cradling her in her arms to make her believe everything will be ok.

But it looks like it won’t, not when this nightmare has finally become a reality.


TBC