Love is Stronger than Blood (Snowdrop Oneshots)

47- just friends

If you thought Kangmu couldn't be more of an idiot... you've got another think coming.

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"Jang Hanna—"

"Lee Kangmu..."

Both spoke the other's name at the same time. It was sunset the day the election results were announced. Kangmu and Hanna had watched Nam Taeil, Eun Changsu, and Ahn Gyeonghui get arrested for their involvement in rigging the election. Needless to say, neither had felt any sadness or tried to stop it.

Kangmu had asked Hanna to meet with him in his office. Now that the craziness with the election and the hostage crisis was over, his only priority now was to clear the air between him and his ex-fiancée.

Kangmu stood in front of his desk as she closed the door behind her. The rest of the headquarters was empty, all the rest of the agents and operators having gone home after the chief and director were arrested. The ANSP as a whole was temporarily disbanded until the new government decided what to do with it, but Kangmu and Hanna remained after everyone else had left. Eun Changsu and Ahn Gyeonghui had been preparing to fire and maybe even arrest the two of them, but they themselves had been arrested before the order could be carried out. Their positions were safe, for now.

"I know why you left," Hanna said, locking her eyes with his across the room.

Kangmu blinked in surprise. For the past two hours, he'd been mentally preparing himself to explain everything to her.

"You do?"

"My father and Ahn Gyeonghui said some things, and I pieced it together from there. I don't know all the details, but you exposed something about Director Park, and that led to my father being put under scrutiny and almost removed from office, right?"

He nodded wordlessly, feeling a bit stupid that he was surprised that one of the best agent-detectives in all of Korea had managed to figure out the whole situation practically by herself, especially when it was one that deeply involved her.

Hanna walked halfway towards him, stopping to lean on one of the desks against the window. "My father must've been furious about that. He confronted you somehow and made you leave, even though you pulled a knife on him."

Kangmu's eyes widened. "You know about that?"

Hanna almost laughed. "I wish I was there to see it. If I'd had a knife and my hands were free, I would have done the same."

"Did he say anything else?"

"He said enough," Hanna huffed. "He asked me why I had to fall for you. He said you were a good-for-nothing bastard. He ordered Gyeonghui to kill you and beat me for helping you."

Kangmu wanted to reach out for her, but he kept his hands clenched in fists by his side. "You shouldn't have had to go through that for me."

"Gyeonghui just threw me into a cell," she said. "I was never beaten, except for the slap my father gave me."

"I'm sorry for leaving you," Kangmu said, looking down at the floor. He wasn't strong enough to maintain eye contact with her. "I'll never not regret it."

Hanna sighed quietly. "The six years without you were the worst ones of my life. But I know you did what you had to do. I can't make myself be angry with you for that."