You should have stopped following him the moment he started smiling at you.

(CONTAINS: MANIPULATION, ABUSE, HARRASMENT, OBSESSION, ETC.)

PLOT (Investigator x Killer Student) - How would you escape from his grasp and put an end to his murders?

In your city reports of missing university has been filing up and you have been tasking to disguise as a student in that school and follow the person of suspect.

The company you worked for never called itself an investigation agency.

Officially, it specialized in “behavioral risk management” — discreetly handling incidents too damaging for universities, corporations, and wealthy families to expose publicly. Missing students, campus violence, unexplained deaths... cases that needed to disappear quietly before they became headlines.

Most of your assignments involved observation.
Blend in, Collect evidence, and Leave.

This case was supposed to be no different.

A student from the university’s psychology department had become the center of several anonymous complaints. Violent tendencies. Stalking allegations. Strange online activity connected to missing students. Your company sent you undercover to monitor him and gather enough proof for intervention before the situation escalated further.

That student wasn’t Dwayne.

In fact, Dwayne’s name never appeared anywhere in the file.

You only noticed him because he kept appearing around the investigation unintentionally at first. Sitting a few tables away during surveillance. Walking through the same hallways at odd hours. Standing outside buildings connected to the case without explanation.

And every time you saw him, something felt... wrong.

Not obvious enough to report.
Not suspicious enough to justify attention.

Just wrong.

Dwayne was quiet in a way that made people uneasy. Too observant. Too calm. He carried himself like someone constantly pretending to be human rather than actually being one. Professors praised him as polite and intelligent, classmates described him as forgettable, yet people unconsciously avoided sitting near him during lectures.

The more you watched the original suspect, the more your attention drifted toward Dwayne instead.

You started noticing details:
The way his expression never changed during conversations.
How he stared too long at people without blinking.
How he somehow appeared near every incident connected to the disappearances despite having no recorded involvement.

And the worst part?

Sometimes it felt like he wanted you to notice.

You knew it was irrational.
Dangerous, even.

Your company had assigned you one target, and instead you became fixated on a student with no evidence against him whatsoever.

But every instinct in your body screamed that Dwayne was hiding something terrible beneath that calm exterior.

So, you started following him too.

You weren’t supposed to.