"Huh! Where am I?" Milan asked as she woke up.
She looked around to see she was on a hospital bed with drips attached to her and bandages around her head and body.
"Ouch! What happened?" She questioned nobody in particular.
Three men came in; the doctor, Dylan, and the DGP.
"Please relax and don't move too much, you don't want to rip your bandages" The doctor said concerned.
"Oh Milan, are you alright?" Dylan asked worriedly as he moved to her side.
"What happened? I can't remember anything expect the day we were planning to go to the bank. Wait! Did we succeed?" She asked hopefully.
Dylan bit his lips sadly as he sighed.
"I am sorry but we lost him. I went out of the room cause I heard a suspicious sound but then Hidden must have bombed the vault. Tsk! He almost killed you since you were still in the room. I am sorry I wasn't there with you" He lied smoothly with a pleading gaze.
Milan sighed in disappointment due to the fact that she failed.
"It's alright, it isn't like you are the one that set the bomb, so it is alright" She said with a small smile.
Dylan eyes flashed with an unreadable emotion before it quickly disappeared.
"Thanks"
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"What do you mean I can't continue working on this case?!" Milan asked angrily facing the DGP.
Two weeks has passed and Milan had healed enough to go back to work when the DGP said she was off Hidden's case.
"You see how injured you got, you might be killed next time. This is for your safety so please adhere, after all, you are still very young and inexperienced" He sighed as he looked at her worriedly.
'Inexperienced'
The word that Milan hated with passion, she couldn't agree with the man just because of that word.
"Then let it be on me, after all, it is me who may die, not you. Just give the case back to me, I promise I will reveal and catch Hidden" She said resolutely.
The DGP sighed and finally agreed after several persuasion from Milan.
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"So you are my partner again?" Dylan asked with a small grin.
"Normally my partners don't want to work on this case again after one of this missions but I guess you are a stubborn one" He continued with an unreadable emotion in his blue eyes.
"Well, I guess I am. I won't stop till I get Hidden. Trust me" She replied as she looked at him with a smirk.
He just looked at her in silence while a million thoughts passed through his mind but of course, the most important one was;
'Is this girl going to be a hinderance to me?'
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Milan was now standing in front of a psychiatric hospital.
"One of Dylan's past partner was sent here because she was believed to have gone crazy, she was always yelling 'Hidden! You are hidden?!' She is the best place to start from" She mumbled as she entered the hospital.
She went to the receptionist and held up her badge.
"I am looking for Miss Gwen. Can you tell me her room please?" She asked after putting her badge back in her pocket.
They told her the room and she went there. She didn't tell Dylan that she was coming here as she was doing her own private investigation.
She got there, looked at Miss Gwen who was sleeping now, and spotted a piece of paper on the table.
It read: '#¡00£N ¡$ 0YL^N'
Milan smiled as she called a nurse.
"This note, did this woman have it before she came here?" She asked gesturing to the note.
"Yes, but no one knows what it means" The nurse answered
Milan smiled as she thanked the nurse.
The nurse left and Milan put the paper in her pocket.
"Well, thank you very much Miss Gwen, you have helped a lot" She muttered before leaving.
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One month later, they finally received another letter from Hidden, he was going to the vault in XYZ bank.
They arrived there on that day and were in the room next to the vault as usual.
"Hey Dylan" Milan called with a smirk
"Yes, what happened?" He asked wondering how their roles had reversed.
"Haven't you ever doubted whether I genuinely lost my memory?"
"I have, several times even" He answered with a blank face.
"Well, then you were right to doubt me. I never lost my memory, I just wanted to be able to catch you" She said with a smile before raising her gun towards his head.
"Have you forgotten what happened last time? I removed all the bullets in your gun this time too" He said with a small smile.
"I know, that is why I brought two identical guns. You removed the bullets for one but this one is full of bullets, plus, I removed the bullets in yours. You were careless this time Dylan" She said with a smirk still present on her face.
"Well, even if you do this, there is no proof that I am Hidden"
"Maybe? But that is only because you had a really dumb plan" She said taunting him
"Dumb?! It wasn't dumb. I was first an ordinary police man till I got bored of it two years ago and decided to come up with this alter-ego 'Hidden'. Since I am a police officer, people will at most just think that I am an accomplice and won't suspect that I am Hidden. It was a genius plan with no holes." He said arrogantly as he smirked.
"It might have been. If not for the paper that Miss Gwen left. It said '#¡00£N ¡$ 0YL^N' which means 'HIDDEN IS DYLAN'. Also, since I knew who you were, it was more easy to get clues. Oh right! One more thing, I was recording our entire conversation and they were sent directly to the Headquarters so you just directly confessed" Milan smiled as she finished her explanation before dragging Dylan out to the police waiting for them.
"Good job Officer Milan" The DGP praised as she smiled.
'I finally got the respect I deserve' She thought happily as she faced the police car that was driving away.
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"Hey" Milan said as she faced Dylan who was in his cell.
"You really shouldn'thave done that, you were a good policeman and could have had a good life" She continued as she sighed.
"You think i didn't notice that you were recording our conversation that time. I noticed almost everything you were doing, I confessed on purpose. I actually liked your's and my previous partners' company" He said with a soft smile.
"But why would you do that?" She asked confused
"Because I was forced to be Hidden by that organisation, they have my sister under their supervision and will kill her if I refused. This was the easiest way to protect her and also stop being Hidden." He said with a slightly relieved tone.
"Which organisation? Why are they doing it? How come they want those money? What are they up to?" She asked worried.
"I am not sure, they were very secretive. I want you to promise to keep my sister safe, cause even if I don't reveal them, they might still hurt her. Will you promise?" He asked desperately.
"I promise but can't you tell Chief or some higher ups? They could help." She advised worriedly
"They won't know how to stop the organisation. I don't know much about them, but I know one thing, this is just the beginning"