Pied Piper

6. Make Over

"How long has he been in there?" asked Adelaide as she plopped down on the right side of Kora; Eve already seated on Kora's left on the fluffy queen sized bed.

The three of them were staring at the bathroom door that Taehyung had disappeared behind as soon as they entered the hotel room. They had been in the room for at least five minutes, and there hadn't been any sort of motion behind it the whole time. Kora sighed as she pushed herself off the mattress and walked over to the bathroom door, rapping her knuckle on it.

"What's going on in there?"

What was going on was that Taehyung was staring at his reflection in the mirror. He kept looking at what the girls had put on him to help get him away from the police and couldn't be more mortified if he tried. He wondered what the other guys would think if they were here right then, and those thoughts spiraled him into a slight panic again at not knowing where they were or what was going on.

"Is there no other way I can blend in then to dress this way?"

Kora smirked a bit before sighing.

"I have an idea," she said. "Stay there."

Kora walked back over to where she had left her purse on the bed by Adelaide and Eve.

"I'll be back," she said. "Stay here with him in the meantime."

The two of them watched Kora slip out of the room. She left the hotel, walking towards a shop nearby. She found a tacky white tourist t-shirt and some tan knee length shorts. While there she also picked up some white sneakers, underwear, and socks. She had no idea what size he was, so she was making educated guesses. Right before she was about to check out, she noticed a hair styling kit complete with scissors and a comb, adding that to her purchases last second.

When Kora arrived back in the hotel room about fifteen minutes later, she moved to knock at the bathroom door again that was still shut.

"What?"

"It's me again," said Kora. "Are you still decent?"

"If you mean am I still wearing this dress, then yes. For whatever reason, I'm having a hard time taking it off. Think it is stuck on my sheath."

"Let me in," said Kora with a small chuckle.

There was a click from the lock as it turned; Kora moving to slip inside with her purchases. Taehyung looked the same as he did when they had walked to the hotel except for the fact that the lipstick was stained across his entire face. Kora shut the door behind her, taking off her purse and putting it on the counter by sink along with her bag of purchases. She grabbed up a tissue, wetting it with some water before coming at his lips with it. She gently brought the tissue across it as she wiped it off.

"I have a better disguise in mind for you. Do you trust me?" asked Kora.

"Do I have a choice?"

"Not really," she said as she looked at him. "Just like I didn't have a choice earlier with you protecting me. Now it's my turn."

"Fine."

"Just don't turn me into a lizard if you don't like it."

Taehyung smirked then as Kora brought the tissue away from his mouth, throwing it away. She went around to the back of him, trying to help him get the dress off the top of his garb.

"You'll still have to change out of this," said Kora as she nodded at the outfit he had appeared in, "And the weapon..."

She trailed off as she watched him detach his sheath, setting his weapon so that it leaned up against the sink. He looked over at Kora, noticing that she was staring at it.