YOU WERE BEAUTIFUL ── hyunlix

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Three days after the other agents brought in the girl- Yamaguchi Mako, Hyunjin had learned after a while of waiting -Felix had finally gotten comfortable with the idea of staying in Hyunjin's house alone. And while that was a really good thing for the both of them, Hyunjin couldn't help but feel unsettled. Not because of Felix, no.

He trusted Felix. Which, with any other person, wouldn't have been the case. But he did- Felix didn't show him any signs of even wanting to cause him harm, wanting to run off with anything he owned. But he was unsettled by the fact that Felix had no one there to protect him if he needed it.

Kkami was a small dog- the worst that could be done is ankle nipping, breaking a little bit of skin and getting dots of blood. And Hyunjin didn't leave him with a gun. He left him with a taser, sure- but unless it could penetrate clothing, or get close enough, there wasn't anything that it would even do.

And Hyunjin knew that from experience.

The most protection Felix had was the set of fancy kitchen knives he had, and the few pocket knives that he had laying around. Though, they were small- 'small enough to poke out an eyeball at the worst' as Felix seemed to claim after finding one of them the day before.

He just couldn't help but be worried. Even if he didn't particularly know what he was worried about when only Seungmin and Eric knew about his situation with Felix living in his house.

"Hyunjin, you're spacing out again,"

Hyunjin shook his head slightly, scrunching up his nose as he released a breath and glanced down at the paper he had in his lap. "Oh. Sorry. My bad."

Seungmin shook his head slightly, giving his arm a soft nudge with his fingers. "What's on your mind that's keeping you from focusing on where we're going? I asked you the same question about what you think happened three times, and each time you ignored them."

It was like his words got caught in his throat without reason. He didn't know what to say.

Seungmin noticed his faltered silence and sighed loudly, the car coming to a stop after a second. "Is it about that Felix kid?"

"He's our age."

A hum.

Hyunjin cleared his throat, and turned his chin down towards his chest as he shook his head- a lie. "No. I'm just thinking about them. Carlson brought in one of their songbirds."

"Which is what's leading us to this apartment building, right?"

Turning his head up, he glanced at the building that they were parked in front of. He inhaled, rolled his tongue in his mouth, and then exhaled as he nodded. "That's right."

The truth about what they were doing there roped back to Felix, though. Hyunjin knew that much. They didn't get any specific location other than a children's playground from Mako, which led to something similar to a dead end when they couldn't find anything.

Seungmin didn't know this, though- that Hyunjin hoped. He made sure to try and link it back to Yamaguchi, even though it was a very fibbed plan of doing so, just to make sure Seungmin didn't know that he was working so hard to find who was going after Felix.

Hell, he didn't even want Felix knowing that he was going to an apartment building to try and figure out just who it was he had taken a ring from. But, the fact that he had asked for a room number and a description of a building just proved that he couldn't hide it from him.

He was just glad that Felix didn't try and tag along. Hyunjin was positive that it was because he mentioned Seungmin going with him, though. There was always that issue when it came to Felix, and there was no lying when Hyunjin said he noticed how uncomfortable Felix got whenever Seungmin's name was so much as mentioned when he was around.