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[DUŠAN NEMEC DRABBLE]

Warnings: a fight

Word count: 482

Prompt: Admitting something

You always believed Dušan would never hide anything from you - you loved him more than anyone in the whole world, and you felt so lucky that you've found him.

But finding out disturbing facts about his business - what Blume and CTOS really did, collecting private information from people and always having a huge risk for it to fall into wrong hands, which would make the city a mess - was a tough thing to swallow. And Dušan didn't even admit it at first.

"Y/N, listen to me. CTOS is the safest system possible, hackers won't get in. The police is immediately alarmed if.... DedSec, for example, tries to penetrate it."

You scoffed, showing him a screenshot from a video of a hacker sneaking around in a Blume's building, distracting guards by making their headset malfunction and sending text messages. "What's this then?"

"It's..." he pursed his lips, knowing very well you'd see right through his lies. "All right, that's a DedSec member, but we know who he is. We can catch him."

"If he's skillful enough to attack the system, why wouldn't there be others?" you laid the picture back to the table, still trying to process that CTOS could actually put the whole city upside down - cars malfunctioning, driving over people and to the sea, making false alarms to the police, distracting them from real crimes... the system was dangerous.

"Because if we catch Marcus, we can force him to tell us their methods - and we'll improve CTOS that way so hackers wouldn't get in ever again." he sounded frustrated, speaking quickly and his voice rising momentarily with some words.

"I can't believe you're still running the system even when you can clearly see it's not safe enough." you averted your eyes to the floor from the picture. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"Because it's none of your business!" he shouted, his frustration finally getting hold of him and you staggered back, turning your back to him. He was scared himself too, knowing that maintaining such system which was unsafe and collecting private information from people was against the law too. If he was caught, his whole life would be ruined. But he had too much money in it, he couldn't pull it back, couldn't give up.

But now when you had found out, was he choosing his company and money over you? You didn't approve it. He pondered a bit and approached you, rubbing your arms from behind.

"I assure everything will be alright." he muttered and you turned to face him. "I'll talk about this in a meeting tomorrow."

You smiled in relief, and Dušan felt a squeeze of guilt in his chest. It was a lie to protect you. He cared too much to let you go, but too little to get rid of his company. He just couldn't help but hope that you'd see that one day.