Joke's On You - Charlotte Lawrence

"Yeosang! Glad to have you- Oh shit."

The Spawn pushes through the wooden door of the familiar warehouse, not even saying a proper greeting to Wooyoung who opened the door. Instead he moves as though a pit of fire is burning his body, going to the weaponry room to get whatever his shakily hands can get their grasp on.

After that call with Woosung, Yeosang has completely lost his mind. He didn't even give his parents a proper excuse to leave, he just did with Hwanwoong chasing after him. No matter how much his brother pleaded for answers to his aggressive behavior, Yeosang didn't give him any, only ordered him through a very husky and growling voice to call the meeting.

Guess their reunion will be sooner than he thought.

"Woah! Yeosang what's going on?"

He could hear Felix's voice but he couldn't react to it as he pours guns after guns with bullets to the table, even a fucking bazooka just for the hell of it too.

He fuming with so much rage that he can't fucking even talk, he knows he would explode if he did.

"I spoke to Woosung and he filled me in," Hwanwoong states as he stares at his heaving brother before looking at a very worried Felix, who glances at him, "I'll explain when everyone gets here-"

"The squad is back together! How joyful!"

The family squeak of that voice was what made Yeosang get mildly side track from his packing and move his gaze up, seeing a familiar psychopathic man waltz into the room with the brightest smile on his face.

Even Hwanwoong smiles when he looks at the madman climbing up a cabinet and sits with legs crossed on top of it, "Good to see you too Ten."

Pretty and psychotic, perfect way to describe him and nothing more than that.

"So, who are we missing?" Wooyoung questions as he sits on the counter beside the guns Yeosang is stacking, "Kinda worried why our leader looks as though he's going to commit genocide."

"Who's committing genocide?"

Soobin enters the room now while texting on his phone, earning a squeal from Ten in excitement to having an almost full room of their crew.

Almost.

Woosung said he would stay back to do a bit of tracking, meanwhile.... One is still missing.

And he's definitely not going to come now.

With the room now with somewhat all the members, Yeosang puts his gun down and leans on the table, catching the attention of everyone to look at their leader.

That same respect still filling their eyes.

"I know it's been a while, and I'm sorry our reunion can't be more joyful as I wanted it to be," Yeosang says, looking to everyone with a twitching frown to how familiar this all feels right now, "But at the moment I need your help."

And he takes out his phone and pulls out a picture of Jimin. He's looking at the camera a bit clueless, and honestly that's one of Yeosang's favorite pictures because he didn't really have to try to look pretty.

Yeah, Jimin pretty, he'll admit to that.

Now is not the time to overthink it.

"This guy went missing, kidnapped by who knows who but I'm guessing someone after me. I need your help finding him, and to have a little fun torturing those who took him of course."

"WOOOOAHHH YES!" Ten gleams giddily, clapping his hands enthusiastically, "I'm in!"

Felix gently takes the phone from Yeosang hands, studying Jimin's face. If there's anyone able to find any person in this planet, it's Felix.

He's a hacking genius. Easily he can find someone with just a few clicks on his laptop, all he needs is a face.

"I'll find your boy in an hour but I need this phone for the picture," Felix says assuringly, making Yeosang nod without hesitation.

Wooyoung and Soobin stared at all the weapons on the table before Wooyoung hums under his breath, "If we're going to be on a rescue mission, we're going to need much more of the big boys."

In charge of the good stuff in weapons is Wooyoung. He can be able to make and enhance weapons easily. Tech genius in a way, making him and Felix marvelously great together when making things when they actually don't fight. He knows everything there needs to know about guns and knives, which one would be best suit to use for which occasion, and he's always right.

He's very much the brains of everyone here.

So he organized the weapons to which one to use on the table, meanwhile Soobin sighs and turns to Ten, nodding his head, "Need help in mechanics."

Soobin, the mechanic in a way. His specialty is cars and motorcycles, or anything he can drive really. His family revolves around shipment business, so best believe he's very good at escaping any situation as long as he has something to drive; Car, motorcycle, boats, planes, etc. And he makes sure whatever they're going to use to travel won't exactly explode on the way there.

Best source of travel now is motorcycles in case they need the separate, so he's going to polish them up for the road.

As for Ten, he's near the same level as Yeosang; The torturer. He's the one who has the delight in causing people to suffer without thinking twice about it. He has fun with it, quite a lot actually. He'a very bright when it comes to it too, but he's almost like the perfect hit man cockroach because he never dies, not matter how badly he gets beaten. He plays with death often by being incredibly risky, but he doesn't care.

If anything he lives for the adrenaline.

So when Yeosang does his business, Ten is there to make sure the job is done.

It's ironic really how his boyfriend, Woosung, being the medic makes sure his sanity is in check most of the time. Making them a really dangerous couple when put together.

Hwanwoong is mainly security, keeping track of the cops and making sure they don't get caught. Not only that but the money too, he makes sure they have enough money to keep them in check in case of any emergencies.

Meanwhile Yeosang is in charge of everything. He knows how to do everything, so if any of them ever needs assistance than he's there to do it, but of course he knows his crew is bright and they know how to do their job efficiently.

That's their specialities after all.

Lastly, the one not here, well-

"And do I have a task, Spawn?"

Yeosang's heart stopped beating.

He spoke too soon.

It was as though a shift in the room switched on quickly, filling it with this tension as though a ticking bomb was ready to explode at any moment.

Oh.... Wow....

He came back....

He's here..... Right now.

It was so hard now for Yeosang to even move a muscle away from gazing at the weapons, but he refused to look so awestruck or weak right now when he needs to get his head together the most.

So with a very confident head high, he sees the familiar silhouette leaning against the doorframe, arms crossed with a deep frown on his plump lips.

He hasn't changed a bit.....

"TAEMIN!" Ten suddenly squeals, practically flying off the top of the cabinets and attacking the familiar male with his arms around his body, "You came back for us! Yay!"

Yeosang's breath was caught in his throat, making him lose track to what he was thinking at all. He could feel Hwanwoong gazing at him from the side of his head with a twitching frown but all he did was give everyone a look to give some space to the two strangers now as they leave the weaponry room.

Well it was a bit hard to get Ten off Taemin at first, but Soobin easily yanks him off with a single arm and drags the whining man out the room with a closed door shut behind him.

Leaving the two alone.

It was.... Tense.

It all felt tense.

Yeosang feel it crawling his skin as Taemin finally looks at him in the eye, making him be slammed with memories of how much of a dick he really was towards him back then.

Yeah, they use to fuck around a lot, but Yeosang did a mistake in leading him on without that being his intention. He would act very affectionate with him, even would get him presents and take him out as though they were together. But then Yeosang rejected him when he asked if they wanted to make it official.

Things got messy from there.

Yeosang fucked around a lot with different people, almost like how Jimin is, and he began to treat Taemin more coldly when they would mess around.

The thing with Taemin is that he's not really the sentimental type, so he's never up for bullshit.

Business is business, and he knows that better than anyone else.

Doesn't mean he didn't catch feelings, but he knows how to make his priorities straight and is less grown to get attached. If anything he gets detached easily once he's no longer needed.

Stone for A Heart Soobin refers to him as, and that's a perfect way to describe him.

Now as Yeosang is face to face with him, he could feel the weight of their past level him down a bit. He observes Taemin's now silver hair brushed away from his face with his fingertips, the glittering black eyepatch still strapped to cover his left eye. His face, lips, body, everything is still the same.

Still...... Ethereal and.... Deadly.

Very deadly.

Taemin eye gives a one glance over to Yeosang as well, stepping forward with his arms still crossed, "So? Don't I get to have something assigned?"

There's a moment where Yeosang didn't say anything, rekindling his last bits of confidence before finally clearing his throat, "I'm trying to find someone. Once Felix finds something, we'll head out to it."

The other male only blinks, staying froze for a second or two, before placing his hands on the table, "I don't think I was clear enough," His voice is huskier than before, in a very stern and clearly not up for bullshit tone, "What do you want me to do in the meantime, boss?"

A feverish shiver runs down Yeosang's spine, gulping thickly but that even felt hard to do by how choked up he is. Taemin definitely has intensified that intimidating aura he always holds, clearly wanting a straight answer rather than wasting any more time.

Strictly only business.

Somethings never change.

And that's something Yeosang always found incredibly attractive about him.

Immediately shaking that thought away from his head, Yeosang clears his throat and challenges his look back, "What do you think, Taemin?"

There's this intense war going on between their stares that just shoots back and forth, seeing or anticipating who's going to win. No one ever does, and it's preferable that way that before these weapons here would actually be used to use.

Taemin's role within Phoenix is as just a killer, but don't let that title fool you. He has perfect aim for everything, never missing a shot no matter what weapon he uses. Not only that but also an excellent fighters, easily can get away from anything by his flexibility and also knowledge in nudging pressure points when fighting.

Almost like Tai Lee from Avatar the Last Airbender, but his opponents obviously don't drop to the ground paralyzed. However he does spare a second to think of his next move to finish them off.

Overall, Taemin is deadly, just like his stare with his intimidating eye patch.

Even Yeosang doesn't know the mystery behind the reason why he wears that, but he always found it really unique to who he is.

There's this uncomfortable moment where Taemin looks as though he's skinning Yeosang alive with his gaze, but then he leans back with his arms crossing his chest once again.

"In that case, I'll be sharpening my knives," He says briskly before turning around, letting Yeosang breathe as he walks away.

He's such a coward.

Maybe Yeosang wanted to apologize right then and there for his attitude, for pushing his best and closest friend away because of his childish behavior before. But now is not the time for that.

After he finds Jimin, maybe they can sit down together and discuss their horrible fuck buddy status over tea.

As of now, it's all about the mission, that's it.

"Oh and by the way," Taemin says, stopping by the door. Yeosang looks up from the guns to see a little more edge taken off Taemin's gaze, "Woosung sent me a picture of the missing kid, and if it makes you feel better he's not dead. They'll most likely sell him as a sex worker if anything."

To this Yeosang furrows his eyebrows, not thinking about that option really, "Why would they sell him?"

"To lure you in, obvious if he's alive. That's why it's best to think properly of a plan before jumping into it recklessly," And he was just about to leave the room but pauses once again, craning the side of his face to Yeosang with this time a twitching grin, "And because he's pretty."

A strong shiver runs down Yeosang's body to those words as Taemin leaves the room, along with goosebumps to brush his skin to the thought of Jimin's pretty face.

And the horrors that he might be going through right now.

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A/N:
Well.......

This got intense.

Let's see how that rescue mission goes!!

This is not going to be a Jisangmin book, just pointing that out there lol I don't know what can happen in the future chapters so if some things do happen, keep in mind that this is a Jisang book but you know..... Guess things happens lol I'm not sure if anything can happen for sure but just in case!

I PURPLE YOU! <33