'Til We Meet Again | Taekook AU

Chapter 17

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Jimin watched Jungkook, lost in his thoughts and eyes fixed on the passing landscape.

He hadn't talked much after they had left the parking lot, and Jimin hadn't poked him further. But the worry and questions in his head wouldn't rest until he asked.

Jimin sighed.

"You're awfully quiet JK. What happened?" Jimin paused and licked his lips. He was nervous and in two minds about hearing Jungkook's discovery, but he had to find out. "What...What did you find at Taehyung's place?"

Beside him, Jungkook stiffened. His eyes were still glued to the meandering road on the other side of the window, as they sped away, but the muscle in his jaw tightened.

Jungkook was holding back on telling him the details, and this small reaction set off warning bells in Jimin's head.

Whatever Jungkook had found at Taehyung's apartment couldn't be any good.

"Jimin-ssi?"

"Hmm?"

"Are you sure we haven't met Taehyung before?" Jungkook asked after a spell of silence.

The pause was so long that Jimin had believed he wouldn't answer, but when Jungkook spoke, he noted the cautious tone in his voice.

"No. We haven't met at all. I would have remembered that handsome face, if he had."

Jungkook's jaw dropped open, the comment from Jimin unsettling him. "You-"

"What? He has a nice face, you can't deny that!" Jimin defended himself and Jungkook didn't stop him.

"Anyways, the answer to your question is no - no I haven't met him previously."

"Are you sure?" Jungkook asked again, and the way he pressed on made Jimin's skin prickle with goosebumps.

He wasn't ready for answers, and it was a stupid move to instigate this particular conversation with Jungkook, but Jimin couldn't wait. If Taehyung was indeed the guy in the photo he had got from Adora - if he had been spying on Jimin and Jungkook long before their brief meeting a couple hours ago, then they needed to take action.

They needed to act quickly and make themselves safe against Taehyung and hopefully, his powers as well.

"Why do you ask?" Jimin threw the question back at Jungkook. He had somehow sensed the younger wanted him to do it.

"Because-"

"Because what?"

"Because I saw canvas paintings, pictures, and photographs of us at his apartment."

"No..." Jimin had been right about Taehyung. He had been spying on them.

"Yes. I saw pictures and photo frames of us three in his room...this room-" Jungkook stopped, as if caught in the middle of a memory. What had he seen?

"So...did you find out for how long he had been spying on us?" Jimin asked, but it came out as a whisper. He cleared his throat and tried again.

"I knw it! He has been spying on us. I was right!"

"What?" Jungkook snapped out of his thoughts. "No. I don't think we can call that spying."

Jimin frowned. "What do you mean?"

"If he has our pictures, then of course he's been spying on us! How else would he get his hands on those photographs?"

"Jimin-ssi-" Jungkook's voice took on a serious note. "These paintings and photographs weren't just random clicks of us, or when we were on tour and somehow Taehyung managed to take snaps of us."