The Frost

6.

"What? What did he say? Fired? Going to pack your things?" Soojin teased Jin right after he came out of the chief's room.

"Fired?" Jin looked at Soojin, "he said I can take you out if I want any day. Heard you want to go out for dinner with me?"

"In your dream!" Soojin rolled her eyes.

"Too bad!" Jin shrugged, "Your loss. I was craving seafood lately!"

"Want a kick?!" Soojin was shooting arrows with her eyes.

"Don't keep up this boxer mood at dinner," Jin took the pen and wrote down a number in front of Soojin,
"Romance should be sweet."

"Get lost!" Soojin frowned at the time,

"I'll let you pick up the time and place this time" Jin was still unbothered,
"call me."

Soojin stared at the tall figure disappearing behind the door of the opposite side and sighed a little.

"What just happened there!" Jihyun's voice was almost a whisper shout.

"I lost. That's it."

"Was he flirting with you openly? Seriously? Or did I just see wrong?"

"Flirting?" chuckled Soojin, "He just made fun of me for the millionth time. And I lost the teasing game. Lame."

"You two seem close. Are you two dating?"

"Dating? With that one? Oh no! I have better taste in men."

"You know...he is the hottest topic among the girls here? Such a... "

"Dream? Tell me about it," Soojin rolled her eyes, "the perfect gentleman, mysterious, cold yet the best agent there to exist, the bitter snow, the lonely eagle, the most handsome guy you've come across?"

"You are saying like these are not true!" Jihyun frowned.

"Oh no, they are true!" chuckled Soojin.

"You are confusing me now unnie," Frowned the secretary, "but it's true, I have never seen him talk this much."

"It's not true that he doesn't talk at all," Soojin shrugged, "he talks, but when he is in his works. It takes a lot of talking, you know."

"And killing," the secretary was calm.

Soojin looked at her face, "Indeed."

"But how you two are this close?" the secretary was still in her denial.

"He was my wingman," Soojin again shrugged.

"Holly! You are the..."

Soojin smiled proudly.

"Then...why..." Jihyun was confused,
"Why does he call the lonely eagle?"

"Being my wingman doesn't mean I could make him any less lonely," Soojin was sarcastic.

"Is it true unnie, that while he was in the academy, he used to..."

"Rumors are rumors, honey," Soojin patted her shoulder, "See that face of that beautiful man? It hides a lot. He never expresses what he wants or knows. You all are whipped for this mysterious man, but I just pity him."

"Why?"

"Why? Cause it's just that. He is mysterious, but nobody wants to know that mystery. Everyone puts him on a pedestal that he is too lonely high up there. Coldness? I just think it's a coping mechanism to shut the world out and survive."

"But you are there, unnie."

"Oh! No no no...I am just barely there. There is a huge "No Entry" sign in his zone. And I dare not go there, though I wish I could go there."

"Does he have someone?"

Soojin smiled at her.

"Is it Jungkook?"

"Jungkook?" Soojin widened her eyes, "why does Jungkook come here?"

"You know, there is a rumor, that maybe he likes men as he avoids girls. And Jungkook is the boy he only cares about or at least that shows."

"Avoid girls?" Soojin's voice was heated, "He doesn't avoid girls, he avoids humans in general!"

"Why are you being pent up about this? Do you like him?" Jihyun smirked knowingly.

"I'd if it wasn't..." Soojin stopped abruptly.

"If?"

"Don't mind me. Give me that file." Soojin pointed at a file suppressing a sigh remembering Jin's complaints about her way too much talking. She needs to stop that.

"We have very little information about her," Namjoon placed a thin file in front of Jin.

No one can guess this young handsome man as the head of operations of NIS at first glance.
He was tall, built, and had a very elegant look in his every movement.

Jin didn't seem to notice him, he took the file and opened it.
His brows knit a little seeing only two pages inside with lots of blackened lines.

"Hyung, I am sorry, we can't disclose much about her now. It will be easier if you don't know much about her. Just make sure to do what you have to."

Jin shut the file and put it down.

"You'll have to sneak in Libya without getting caught, reach her before MOSSAD does, locate the documents, kill her. Don't get engaged in any trouble with local intelligence or MOSSAD. You'll not get any help that will blow up the covers of our sleeper agents there. So make it neat."

Jin waved a finger a little.
Namjoon caught the gesture and gave him a piece of paper, "It's the probable address of our target. Eliminate her as soon as possible. No pictures of her, sorry. Had to erase all her records from our interface before we infiltrated her into North Korean intelligence. Had to made her nonexistent in NIS so that they trust her."

Jin's brow flattened the mild crease formed in between his brows. He looked at the address one more time and put it back on the desk. He memorized it.

"You'll fly today. Your passport and everything are ready. Meet with Taehyung before you leave. He'll give you everything you need."

Jin looked at his watch one more time, it was way past his meeting time with Nari.

He took out his phone only to see several missed calls. It was important to meet with her.

"Hyung," Namjoon was calm.

"You'll have to go off the grid now," he extended his hand towards him, "you know the drill."

Jin looked at his phone at which he was about to press the call button to call back Nari.
He retracted his thumb slightly away from the green call icon, waited for a second, and then put down the phone, pulled out the SIM card, broke the SIM card without a word, placed the phone on Namjoon's palm. Then he pulled out a Walther PPK from the shoulder holster covered by his suit, pulled out his wallet, had a look into the ID card, driving license, credit cards, and placed both on Namjoon's table.

"Jungkook is doing good hyung. In case you wanted to know," Namjoon showed his Dimples with a nice smile.

"Good," Jin stood up and nodded before heading out.