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Junsu drives without really knowing where he's going. He gets on the freeway and, after checking that Yoochun isn't following him, Junsu reduces his speed to normal, blending in with the traffic.
There's a draft in the back of the car and plaintive meowing can be heard throughout the SUV.
"Thank god that Yoochun still had those cat crates in here", thinks Junsu. Because he had only managed to bring the two cats with him by stuffing them into the hard shelled crates in the trunk.
"Poor babies" Junsu calls out. "U-kno, Hero~ Poor babies."
When Junsu arrives at his destination, he realizes that he's come to his work place. The tall sleek building in front of him houses the headquarters of his operation. One that he had led successfully until things had started crumbling around him just two weeks before.
"If only i hadn't taken that Thailand mission" Junsu muses aloud.
But he quickly shakes his head clear of that thought. Yoochun had shot at him. Yoochun had shot at him. Junsu feels his eyes getting hot, but he forces himself not to cry. Instead, he lugs the cat crate to the elevator, saluting the security guard in the front as he goes.
When he reaches the twenty fourth floor, the elevator doors slide open to reveal an onyx tile lined hallway.
"Name please" an automated voice says.
"Kim Junsu" Junsu says, voice echoing in the hall. There are two distinctive meows, upon which Junsu coughs and adds, "with guests."
///\\\///\\\///
"So what. Kim Junsu was an agent?!" Jaejoong asks in disbelief. "God. I mean. Just GOD!"
Yoochun gives Jaejoong a look.
"So we gonna take him down or what?" asks Jaejoong as he cocks his sniper rifle (the same as Yoochun's favorite; they've always shared the same tastes in guns). "I bet he's holed up somewhere in a private retreat. I bet I could track him. I bet..."
"Jaejoong. Come on. I'm tired."
"Right. Right. Sorry. But shit. If Kim Junsu was responsible for that Thailand gig then...this could be really serious... ho shit he knows where I live! He probably knows you're here! He..."
"Jaejoong???" comes a high toned voice from upstairs. Jaejoong cocks his gun.
"Noona!" Jaejoong yells. "Not right now! We're on high alert here okay?! I almost just shot you right then!!!"
"Whatever. Just keep it down."
Jaejoong rolls his eyes and hikes up his pajama boxers.
"Now, what were you saying?"
///\\\///\\\
It's no surprise to find that some of his team are still working. But Junsu still finds it awkward when they stare at his cat crate.
"I couldn't keep them there. Who knows what Yoochun might do to my poor babies!"
Taemin, the newest member, comes and claps Junsu on the shoulder.
"It's okay hyung. Here, I'll feed them and keep them warm."
Junsu's shoulder relaxes somewhat. He can trust Taemin to feed them. Unlike a certain Park Yoochun.
"Hyung. So he shot at you huh?" asks Jonghyun, eyes wide. "I can't believe it. I mean, we ID-ed him from the footage, but still...takes some time to sink in you know?"
Key elbows Jonghyun in the ribs. And Minho steps forward.
"He was probably just following orders. It's protocol. Since he and his team have probably already ID-ed you, he's under orders to kill you. Am I right, Junsu hyung?"
Junsu nods. Minho is one of the smart, eager ones on the team. But he can be so deadly right sometimes.
"And now Junsu hyung has to terminate Park Yoochun too" says Key, sighing. "What. A. Pain."
Though Junsu's team members are all helpful in their own way, it's Onew, who's been working there the longest, that leads Junsu to a comfy couch in a more quiet place. It's Onew who gives Junsu a blanket and tells him to please rest, if only for a few hours.
"You'll need the energy" Onew tells Junsu.
"Why?" asks Junsu wryly. "So I can kill off my former lover?"
Onew shakes his head gently. "We're supposed to do re-con on the house tomorrow, remember?"
///\\\///\\\
Junsu sips on his ultra-syruped americano as he watches the neighborhood at dawn through his shades. His team is doing the reconnaissance so he doesn't want to admit that he's arrived early in hopes of catching him.
Junsu just bets that Yoochun's gone to Jaejoong hyung's house. That good for nothing hyung who still lives with his older sisters and crashes parties all the time.
"Ugh", thinks Junsu. Because he'll never really forget the time that Yoochun got drunk and admitted to the "one hot night" he spent with Jaejoong in Madrid.
"I was really really drunk" Yoochun had pleaded.
But the fact of the matter was that it still had happened. And Junsu had never liked Jaejoong since he'd found out about it.
Well, it didn't matter anymore.
Junsu finishes his coffee and surveys the damage. The curtains that he so painstakingly picked out are in ruins on the floor. All the lamp shades have come off and there's some video playing upstairs.
Junsu follows the noise. As he does, he sees his favorite pink dolphin doll in tatters on the top of the staircase. Junsu bites his lip.
There could have been a bug planted in there, he tells himself. This is for the job. But he can't help but remember the day the doll was given to him. The day Yoochun had proposed...
"To the groom and...the groom!" a tinny voice says from the next room. There is applause and a chant of "Kiss him! Kiss him!" from a crowd.
Junsu enters what was formerly his bedroom and witnesses Jonghyun, Minho, Taemin, and Key watching his wedding video.
"What are you doing?" Junsu whispers.
Key fumbles with the remote after Taemin gasps. Jonghyun has the decency to look abashed while Minho stands, straightening his sunglasses.
"This is evidence too hyung" Minho says sadly. It's the first time Junsu has ever heard anything like emotion in Minho's voice.
Or maybe it's his imagination. Because immediately, Minho starts ripping through his pillows.
"Enough!" says Junsu. "This room is wrapped."
"But--" Minho starts to say.
"I said, this room is wrapped. Move on elsewhere."
The four silently file out of the room. And Junsu is left with broken, scattered, and torn memories.
"Everything was a lie anyway", an evil voice in the back of his mind tells him. Yoochun had been using him. All lies.
But then Junsu sees their honeymoon photo album sitting on the floor with tears in the pages. And it's then that he's glad he's worn shades.
///\\\///\\\
Jonghyun had disappeared first, lowering his sunglasses and watching the neighbor's daughter ride away on her bicycle.
"I'm going to question the neighbors. Just to...ahem...you know, make sure Park Yoochun wasn't here already" Jonghyun says.
Key follows close behind.
"Taemin and I will go sift through what we found here" Minho reports.
A few hours later, Onew and Junsu are the only ones left.
It wasn't as if Junsu was waiting for anything.
He'd told the others to go ahead. Only Onew stops to look at Junsu one last time with a worried look.
"I'm fine" Junsu tells Onew. "I'm just... making sure we didn't miss anything."
And it was true. Junsu hadn't at all thought that he'd see Yoochun again just by staying a little longer at the house.
But Yoochun had come just the same.
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