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Baby want to go sit with daddy?" Jin asked taking the little to the living room away from everyone. He would be leaving as soon as he said goodbye.

He sat on the couch pulling Jiminie to his lap and holding him close to his chest in a desperate cuddle session. "You know daddy loves you?"

"Yesh and I wove daddy," Chim said giggling.

"You know daddy only protects little ChimChim, right?" Jin asked bouncing him on his knees.

"Couwse," Jiminie giggled kissing his daddy's cheek and neck.

"Daddy is letting you stay here for a playdate with Joonie and TaeTae and Yoonie," Jin said trying to sound happy when in reality he was anything but.

Jimin pouted lightly "b-but I don' want to. Stay wif daddy," he said smiling and hugging him.

"Daddy has to be a superhero for everyone," Jin said doing the superhero pose.

"No," Minnie said and hugged around his neck "aways supewhewo nevew wif Chim," he grunted wiggling closer.

"Baby, Daddy loves you lots, okay. It won't be that long I promise," he said kissing his mouth. Jimin ignored him and locked his limbs around him.

"Baby, Daddy has to go," he said patting his back "I'll call you every day," he said.

"Don't go," Minnie squeaked and Jin could already feel the shudders of him crying.

"I'll always come back to you, baby. Some bad guys want to hurt your uncles," he said.

"You huwt me," Jimin cried "don' leaf me,"

"I love you," Jin kissed the side of his head and started to pry him off.

"No!" Jimin screamed much like a toddler would if a parent left. "Staw da s'ay," Jimin sobbed clutching his shirt in his fingers.

"Baby, I'm not leaving forever," Jin said rocking the sobbing boy. "Da no guh go,"he hiccuped.

"I'm sorry tot," he said kissing the top of his head. He calmly removes Jimin's clutches on him kissing his cheeks and nose.

He picked him up and rocked him back and forth on his shoulder trying to get him to sleep. But even when sleep came he still clutched him waking up every few moments to make sure he wasn't left.

"Da'a don' leaf," he whimpered out sleepily.

"I'm not leaving you, Jiminie. I'll always be here. I'm protecting you," he said soothing the little into sleep. He laid him down in his room with Namjoon who was dead to the world.

He quickly left not wanting him to wake up. He picked up his phone dialing Jungkook.

"Hello,"

"Jin, we have a problem," Jungkook's voice very serious.

"What?"

"Just get back as fast as you can. I'll explain later,"

//

Jimin woke up in a different bed. He blinked his tear crusted eyelashes and looked to his left. Joonie...

He'd been left.

Large crocodile tears started spilling from his eyes. He saw his stuffed puppy and grabbed it. The small noise alerted Joonie to look at him.

"Come here, baby," he said opening his arms. Jiminie sniffles rubbing his nose with his sleeve shaking his head.

"Come on, Joonie needs cuddles," he said reaching his hand across the small room.

Chim threw his head back crying loudly. His daddy left him. "No wan," he said pushing Joonie's hands away from him. His eyes squished shut and mouth parted letting the whole house know he was in despair.

"Minnie, baby," Taehyung said walking into the room and sitting by him. Chim yanked himself away from the larger hands.

"Wan daddy, wan daddy," he repeated making himself hyperventilate. 

"Minnie, calm down," Yoonie's voice broke through his crying. He opened his bloodshot eyes at the elder whimpering pitifully.

"Yoo," he said making grabby hands. Yoonie picked him up on his lap stroking his hair.

"Daddy didn't leave you forever. He's gonna come back, want to call him?" He asked reaching for his phone after he nodded.

"Hello?"

"Jiminie wants to talk to you," he held the phone to his ear.

"Da?" He asked trying to refrain from hiccuping.

"Yes, baby? Are you being a good boy?"

"Da wan da," he rubbed his eyes roughly. "No leaf,"

"I'll be back before you know it, baby. You're having a giant sleepover while daddy is stuck doing adult work. I'm so jealous," he dramatically said.

Jimin sniffles "no wan sweep ofer,"

"Minnie, be a good boy for daddy or you'll get in trouble. You don't want to make daddy sad right?"

"Wite," he mumbled his tears ceased leaving ugly red marks on his face.

"Okay, I'll call you later bub,"

"Bye bye dada," he whispered.

"Bye bye baby," his daddy replied.

He left the line go dead still leaning his head against the phone until Yoonie took it away.

"Let's get you fed," Taehyung said picking him up from under his armpits. He whimpered lightly, yet he let the man do it.

//

"Holy fuck," Jin gasped.  Looking around at the array of what was supposed to be a body.

"Yeah, seems Valentine wants to play dirty," Jungkook said nudging his secretary's destroyed corpse. She was shaped as the letter V and the letters alentine carved through her flesh.

"What the fuck?!" Hoseok said obviously panicked. There had been a cloth covering her head with a predator chasing after a bird. Hoseok was the bird.

"Fuckin' crazy," Jin muttered under his breath. The murder didn't happen here, it happened elsewhere. There wasn't enough blood for it to have been done here. She had her uniform on and everything so it happened this morning. The outfit yesterday was different from now.

"Do you suppose he hired a hitman?" Hoseok asked.

"Unlikely, I've never seen a hitman go this far to do a job unless the pay was good," Jungkook said "I bet Valentine has a henchman that does this sort of thing. One of the more loyal members in his ring," he said walking around the room.

Jin nodded "what does Valentine have that makes a man this loyal?"

"Perhaps a promise of a greater future, or of an object. In Valentine's case Hoseok. He may be offering other members to his ring in exchange for loyalty," Jungkook replies momentarily flickering his eyes to Hoseok.

"I'm not gonna be anyone's bitch," Jin grunted standing up and smoothing his pants.

"I won't have to worry about it if he wins, I'll be dead," Jungkook calmly stated.

"I'm gonna go contact the other branches to keep their guard up," he said leaving their leader.

He went to his office writing up a quick report of the incident and sending it to the branches and even a few of the better dealers.

He closed his email and was greeted with a picture of him and Jimin. It was of one of their first dates when Jimin slipped into little space. His was on his back while holding out a selfie stick with a wide-open mouth smile.

He fondly smiled at the memory. He would be going to an empty home tonight, and the next, for who knows how long.

Jimin had called him earlier and he already felt guilty as hell. It was for his own protection especially when they didn't know this guy's name.

//

He went home later that day collecting the mail. He flipped through it bills, junk mail, and an unmarked letter.

He tore the orange wax seal open finding it a bit odd.

Your little puppy is mighty cute~

He furrowed his brows dumping out a stuffed animals eye. More specifically the one that fell of Jimin's puppy stuffed animal.

He grabbed his phone after sending several pictures to Jungkook he called him.

"What the fuck?" He said before saying hello.

"What is that?" Jungkook asked.

"Jimin's missing eye for his stuffie," Jin said.

"Nothing more we can do. They are in a safe location and you're the one and only Seokjin. People would be crazy to mess with you," Jungkook said ending the call.

Jin growled low in his throat holding the almost transparent eye to the light making sure it wasn't rigged with anything inside. Luckily it wasn't and he left it by the front door to sew onto the puppy.

He ate instant ramen alone and went to bed cold with no one to hold.