Louder than Bombs | KNJ

The Job

~Today~

Lara leaned back from the makeup mirror she was using and glared at her older sister.

"Look I know this isn't really the type of job we wanted to take, but we weren't really given a lot of choices here," she said yet again.

Lara pushed back her long brown hair from her face, trying to decide what to do with it. Her eyes were already smokey, the bright red lipstick still sitting in the tube ready to go on as the last touch, but her hair, she had barely thought about yet.

"It's got to be up Lala, otherwise you know what happens if he finds out you wore it down for someone else," came the teasing voice of her best friend, Blair.

Lara's older sister Virginia, sighed once and adjusted her glasses back up her nose.

"I have to wear the fake glasses, Blair has to wear that dress, Paige has to wear heels and you have to wear your hair up Lara," she said, and Lara stuck her tongue out in the mirror. Which really only caused the three women behind her to stick theirs back out.

Lara sighed again at the knowledge that they were right. She was going to be in deep enough shit with this job, she didn't need her... Well, how to describe Namjoon? Never quite a boyfriend, always more than a brother. Never did get to that whole benefit part anyway.

"Uncomfortable friends," she murmured to herself, and Blair chuckled behind her.

"What was that?"

Lara shook her head.

"Trying to classify my relationship with Namjoon," she said out loud and this time there was a bit of silence behind her.

"Any of our relationships, personal or professional with Bangtan defy definition," said Paige and the other three nodded slowly as they thought about the situation.

The job the General had contacted them about had eventually been accepted by Sentinel, and Brian Powell's office had ok'd it.

Except that it was his office and Brock Collins, not Mr. Powell himself, as he was still "busy."

Neither Blair nor Paige could remember him being in the field for quite this long, and at this point even Lara was starting to be a bit concerned. Mrs. Powell just kept smiling and told the girls that things were alright, but Blair thought her mom looked pretty worried when she thought no one was looking.

The job details had filtered in slowly over the last month and that also worried Lara. Normally things from the general came in a couriered package, but this time everything had come through in bits and pieces. It was as though the General didn't have all the information either.

Last week when things were seeming even more worrisome than usual, Lara had nearly broken her vow and contacted Namjoon for help. All she would have needed to do was mention her worry to her little brother, and she knew she could count on Namjoon for assistance.

She never used that card though. Always held it close to her chest, like it was a one time use thing. But Lara was getting mighty sick of never seeing Joon. She missed him, missed being with him.

It had been five years, and though Ginny didn't look like the zombie she had during those first few months after Jin broke up with her, it was still difficult for Ginny to hear anything about Bangtan, or Jin.

Blair and Lara had spent a Sunday afternoon in their still shared bedroom a few weeks ago while Ginny had gone to visit her mother. It was going to be a quiet day, running errands and meal planning for the week, but Yoongi had texted something to Blair that had made her chuck her phone across the room and muffle her scream of frustration into her pillow.