Louder than Bombs | KNJ

Blair Spots Trouble

Namjoon talked to Seokjin and gave him the unenviable task of informing Ginny that Bangan thought the Sentinel servers had been compromised.

Jin cursed a thousand miles a second in his head before turning to Ginny who had been watching him avidly with a worried expression in her eyes.

"Oppa," she said hesitantly, and Jin paused as a multitude of fantasies he'd long buried inside his own head sprouted to life. He shook his head slightly to clear away his thoughts then turned to face her again.

"Ginny, Lara has a concern," he started, falling into the language that Bangtan used in explaining a mission. Thankfully, it was language shared between the two groups, unintentionally by Jungkook. Ginny understood and bent towards Jin to listen more carefully.

Jin sighed and prepared himself to ruin Virginia's world one more time.

"You are aware of Brock Collins," Jin said slowly in her ear and waited until he felt Ginny nod slowly, as though confused. "Ginny, we think Brock Collins is very aware of what we're doing here tonight. What we're doing, and who we're seeing tonight," he said.

Jin felt Ginny shake her head as if confused and he hurried into the worst of it.

"What we're all doing here Virginia," he said and felt Ginny freeze in place. Jin leaned away slightly and watched as he saw his Ginny process the information. Her eyes widened and she took back her phone he still had in his hands.

Ginny entered the kill code on the program and mentally said goodbye to everything she'd built in the last six weeks as she watched the server data be wiped away and a preplanned flood of false data enter her beloved servers.

She winced as she watched the program that she'd written act as a poison pill into her own data and then looked back at Seokjin who watched her with great sympathy in his eyes.

"How far back," he asked, and she sighed again. Taking the now useless glasses from her nose, she folded them carefully and tucked them into the small bag she carried.

"Six hours. Enough to not get anything from tonight," she whispered and looked up in time to see Seokjin wince. But he nodded.

"Better safe than sorry. Backups," he asked, and she gave him a stare and then just shrugged.

"Within the last, 24 hours. It depends, I'm not certain what time it is," she said, and he glanced down at his watch.

"It's just now midnight," he said and watched as a smile bloomed onto Ginny's face.

"How just now," she asked, and he showed her his watch face. Ginny looked up at him excited.

"It's 12:06. Server backup at midnight, two minutes to full backup. Oppa, we might still have everything from tonight, it's just encrypted and on a null server. One that's only connected to the network through the private ethernet cable inside the house," she said, and his eyebrow winged up.

"Then we'll have time later to go through everything you acquired tonight. Good job my Ginny," he said smiling at her and for a moment, she forgot everything.

His smile made the past five years melt away. His words tried to smooth down the rough edges on her opinion of him until she glanced away and shook her head. Just because he smiled at her and gave her kind words, didn't mean he wasn't still an ass. Didn't mean he hadn't shattered her heart. Didn't mean he was worth her time at all.

But she had to work hard to find her mad again. And it was a lot harder than she expected. Ginny had known that they both lived in Seoul. She'd hoped her sister would find Namjoon again, so it was a possibility that she and Seokjin would run into each other again. But she'd hoped to have more time to prepare her heart against that devastating smile.