You In The Rain Vol.1
Too Close

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Rio stood in front of the white board where he put all the clues to his case, his latest case at the moment was the attempted murder of Cody.

Tony's approaching.

"Rio, the DNA test results on Cody's body are out, but Anna says finding only the DNA of men in their twenties to forties doesn't narrow the search"

Rio took a heavy breath, his brows furrowed sharply.

"Heh those people are so desperate, even dare to kidnap and try to kill people in broad daylight, they've been flabbergasted apparently"

"What, does this mean that Cody's search is coming to fruition? He's getting close to the mastermind of the organ thief gang?"

Rio nodded.

"It can be"

Rio returned to his seat, shifted his chair to Cody's work desk, looked up and in Cody's drawer, who knows find a clue.

"How many days do we have to keep an eye on Cody, even if he can follow him, that guy hasn't been caught yet so he'll come back to harm him, really brash, criminals now have no limits"

Tony's approaching.

"Lucky Edward was around, he claimed to see Cody out of the restaurant where he also had lunch with his friend, originally just wanted to follow and say hello to Cody but he actually saw the man carrying Cody with his car"

Rio glanced at Tony.

"He followed the vehicle? Edward is quick to respond once well, he even contacted us, heh it is indeed lucky he saw Cody and saved him on time"

Tony looked at Rio for a long time, it made Rio frown, not usually his junior partner was serious with a gaze that he rarely found.

"What's Ton? What are you gonna say?"

Tony shifts his body closer to Cody's desk, picking up something in Cody's desk drawer.

"Cody's been asking me a few days to find out who Edward really is" a map in which are some of Tony's papers.

Rio grabbed the map, looking at some information on the paper sheet that Tony had printed out.

"Why did he ask you to do it? He suspects Edward?"

Tony nodded.

"Well, actually he just asked for my help and thought this was a small thing, he just wanted to know more closely, nothing else, but, uh, I don't know why I feel like it's more than Rio"

Rio raised his head looking at Tony, further frowning his forehead.

"What do you mean? How can you think like that too?"

Tony approached his desk, pulled out something behind a pile of files on top of his desk, handed it to Rio, a piece of photo he had printed quite large, and then handed it over, she wrapped some faces around the photo of several people lined up wearing graduation uniforms and taking photos together, there was a face that Rio recognized.

"This, Edward?" Rio asked, Tony nodded, he pointed also at the photo of some people beside Edward's photo.

"This, Irsan, I didn't recognize him because he was so thin here, but after finding information about the photo I found out, then, do you know who this guy is?" Appoint Tony on the third photo in the circle.

"You used to show me the photo alma mater, this is another one?"

Tony nodded, though,

"This is the full version"

Rio sharpened his gaze, looking at the photo that might have been taken more than a few years ago carefully.

"Here, the victim who fell from the building yesterday? Ray?"

Tony nodded.

Rio glanced at Tony back.

"So, you mean they know each other like that? An alma mater in high school?"

Tony nodded.

"Well right, but do you remember what Ed answered when we asked him if he knew the victim or not? He said no, when they were this close, I was just about to give this picture to Cody, but it was delayed because of this incident, did you think, what Cody was thinking, what Cody was thinking, about Ed's relationship with this case? The question of how could it be a coincidence that some of the students who died in a terrible way were his acquaintances"

Rio took a deep breath, placed the photo sheet onto the table, he sat in his chair lightly massaging his dizzy forehead.

"Heh, you guys did this behind my back without telling me a single bit, what if what Cody thought was true? You should understand that what's in Cody's head isn't without cause, it's all worth it"

Tony lowered his head, claiming he was wrong for not telling Rio about anything.

"Sorry, I think this is just Rio's usual thing"

Rio was silent for a moment, until propped his shoulders onto the shoulder of the chair still kept thinking.

"Heh, there's nothing unusual about Cody, whatever he thinks, all are clues, but even if Cody suspects that we can't deny that Edward saved him, either, anyway I don't think Ed had any ill intentions towards Cody, that's all we know, not knowing what's behind all this"

Rio came out from Cody's desk, grabbed his jacket preparing to come out.

"Come on Ton, we're back at the hospital, who knows if Cody still has any leads on Dian's case"

Tony followed.

"Cody's laptop and cell phone have been taken by that person, whether Cody still keeps his journal elsewhere or not"

Rio stopped next to his car, opened the door and ducked in, Tony too.

"That journal may be very important, but what Cody got could have been much more important, he must have started getting leads until those people started acting now"

The small vehicle exited the headquarters parking area, passed through a gate guarded by several officers and glided smoothly down a large road, mingling with many other vehicles that already filled the city's middle streets.

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Arrive at the hospital.

Rio and Tony who had just stepped out of the suite floor elevator stopped their steps.

The floor became so crowded by several uniformed officers, police officers from where? Thought Rio was approaching Gus who was standing not far in front of the door of the suite room, the only outpatient room on that floor.

"Let's quickly put it up there, call another team to help!"

"Eh sir Gus, this, what's wrong? How crowded" asked Rio, he also saw from his place where in the room some people were also busy passing by, making Cody who was sitting on his bed look uncomfortable. Hervant and Riana were inside accompanying him.

Several times Riana woke up from her seat to take her luggage that the officer was about to move.

"Where is that going to go? it's Cody's clothes" the girl snatched a medium-sized bag under the table that had not been put in the closet.

Cody just leaned his head against the tired pillow.

"He's a hassle"

Gus pulled Rio's hand aside as two uniformed officers, like technicians were about to pass by.

The man scratched his head.

"Well, this is a direct order from the commissioner, he immediately ordered all relevant sections to increase security in Cody's room, since Cody was almost a victim of kidnapping and murder"

Rio and Tony held back, both of them were afraid of mishearing.

"Huh? What was?"

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