If there's someone who would evaluate someone as a loyal person, Jimin would be one of the candidates for being loyal to her loved ones.

Since she knew about Minjeong's horrible experience, she never left the younger woman side, holding her hand tight just enough to ensure Minjeong that she is there to provide her support and safety.

Minjeong doesn't know why Jimin made her and treats her like this, but she is extremely thankful to have Jimin right now.

Every day, Jimin was there, talking to Minjeong with her cheery and playful demeanour, trying to pull Minjeong away from the memories of her traumatic experience.

She wanted to heal the wound inside Minjeong. All of it.

"I need to go, Minjeong. I got works to do", Jimin said as Minjeong grip on the older woman's shirt tightened.

"But, I'm scared", the younger woman said softly. Eyes begging, don't want to be alone after everything she has gone through.

Being alone has been absolutely hard for Minjeong since that day.

"I'll be gone, only for thirty minutes. I promise", Jimin held the younger woman's hand on her shirt before he turned around, facing that pleading expression on Minjeong's face.

"I asked Aeri for help to take care of you for a while. You probably know how strong she is", the woman chuckled. "That friend of mine is an athletes after all".

"Will Ningning come too?", Minjeong asked. Her hand never leaves Jimin's.

"You want to meet your friend too?", Jimin questions, and Minjeong slowly nodded her head to confirm. "It's been a while since the last time I met both of them. I don't want to be alone while you're gone, Jimin", she continues to plead.

Jimin smiled in assurement before she slowly let go of Minjeong's hand, sitting right back on the chair beside the bed.

"Alright then. I'll ask Aeri to bring her girlfriend with her. I'll stay here with you until they came".

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nine:
the undercover

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As soon as Jimin got to the headquarters with a cap and mask covering her face, Jimin rushed to meet her chief on the fifth floor.

"Have you found him?", Jimin asked as she took her seat across the big office table.

"Not yet. I'm afraid that he realized someone saved and helped Minjeong out from the house, so the biggest probability is that he is on the run", the chief explains, tobacco in his hand. Jimim just nodded her head with the new information.

"How is she? I bet she is terrified with all the stuff", the chief asked again before Jimin answered him with a low sigh.

"She's too afraid to be all alone. She won't let me leave her sight at all. Why not, when someone has been going through such hell. If I'm her, I would become like that too", she ran her finger on her hair in distress.

Minjeong's physical and mental state worries her. Sure, Minjeong is currently being treated, and her physical health might be able to overcome the pain. But would her mental health be able to?

Jimin just knows she can't leave Minjeong.

If she did, she wasn't a human. She might be the shittiest human ever alive on this planet.

"When will you tell her that this is not a hospital?", her chief asked, but Jimin eyes still sticking on the floor, thinking for every consequence of her actions.

Yes, Jimin actually lied to Minjeong.

As soon as she saved Minjeong from that house of hell, she didn't actually bring the younger woman to a hospital.

It is actually the headquarters infirmary, where injured agents were treated here, like a safe house.

To be honest, currently, Jimin is in the same building as Minjeong. Only is that, the infirmary is on the second floor, while Jimin right now is on the fifth floor.

"I don't know. Probably after she got discharged", Jimin sighed heavily.

"She deserved to know, Karina. She was saved by the national spy, after all. Also, later, we need to put her under our protection program. We would provide her a safe house for you and her to live in temporarily. Don't you think that she should know?", he asked.

Instead of the long question from his chief, Karina's mind was on something else. "How dangerous is he?".

"You couldn't tell how dangerous someone is with our current crime records. Looking at his actions towards your poor friend, I can conclude that we are currently dealing with a drug user with psychotic and sadistic behaviour. I won't say that he is as average as the other criminal out there. He might even kill someone. Who knows? He wasn't in our record for now".

Jimin sitting quietly, thinking. Sure, living with Minjeong is a good idea. Even if the agency won't offer her that, she would personally offer Minjeong to live with her.

Her captor is still out there. A psycho, sadist maniac. A drug user. That popular singer. He might be on the run, but Jimin could guess that he got many people behind him. He is a star, after all.

"I hope you will tell her soon, because in two days, she will be moved to our safe house. She might question you, and I suggest that you just need to be honest about it. I approved your identity revelation to her. She is a client to be protect", his chief walked away with the smoke of his tobacco filling up the room.

"Also, make sure, Karina", he said before he inhaled the tobacco once, exhaling it again into smokes.

"Keep your gun with you all the time. He might be everywhere, waiting to claim back Minjeong for his own", his tone is stern, serious with his every word.

Jimin's fist tightened with his words. Who the hell did he think that Minjeong is owned by anyone?

"I'll make sure to protect her with my own life", Jimin assures confidently.