THE DEAL

17 No hard feelings

When Lisa had secured the briefcase and Bambam had once more disappeared, not wanting to be caught up even more in the FBI's business than he already had, she took the little black transceiver out of her pocket. 

"Haein? Come in?"

The little device crackled the slightest bit but Agent Jung Haein's voice came through quite clearly.

"Lisa, I copy."

"D'you hear everything? I got the briefcase."

"I did. One hell of a stunt you guys pulled there. Who's your friend?"

Lisa sighed with a hidden smile and an eyeroll because Haein was just as much an agent as Jennie. Of course he couldn't just let go what he had audibly witnessed. 

"Classified." Lisa smirked while quickly making her way to the car that Jackson had provided her with, her arms swinging the briefcase back and forth with the speed of her walk.

Haein snorted. "Classified, my ass. But whatever! You got the briefcase!"

"Yang walked..." Lisa told the agent in a tight voice. She knew what catching a guy like him would do for the FBI and for Jennie. It would have been a huge accomplishment. 

Haein shook his head on the other line, seemingly understanding Lisa's unasked question. "You did the right thing. He is a big fish, but right now, Jihyo is our priority. Jennie will be proud of you."

Those words did something to the con-woman and she couldn't help but take a somewhat relieved breath in and then bit her lip. "Anything from Jen and Jisoo? They find her?"

"Not yet... don't meet Jackson too soon. You might need to stall till last minute."

"Getting in the car now." Lisa informed him while she carefully lay the shiny silver briefcase on the passenger seat.

"Copy that. I got your location. We'll stay out of sight. Be careful."

"Yeah..." And Lisa let the device fall back into her pants pocket before she drove off.

*

Jennie, Jisoo and Nancy swept the whole waterfront that was in a twenty-minute radius from The Water Dragon restaurant, looking for things that looked or sounded familiar from Jihyo's randsom video when Jennie's phone suddenly started vibrating.

"Haein?" She clicked accept immediately.

"Lisa got the briefcase."

"Is she-"

"She's ok. She had someone with her though. A ... contact or something..."

Jennie snorted out a relieved and at the same time amused breath through her nose and looked at Jisoo next to her who was also listening to the conversation as well as she could with her ear pressed to the other side of Jennie's phone.

'Bambam' she mouthed to her best friend who nodded. Now that they knew Lisa's friend, things became a lot clearer to them concerning how and from who Lisa got all that street intel. And apparently not just that. Jennie wondered if Bambam had been involved in cases before. Even if it was just passively. 

"Yeah, we know him. Don't worry about it." Jennie shut the slight suspicion in Haein's voice down instantly. "Is she on her way to Jackson now?"

"Yeah, but I told her to stall as long as she could"

"Good. Cause once Wang gets his hands on that case, Jiyho's life is redundant." Jennie spoke through tight lips. "And Lisa's probably too..." They had to find the girl quickly. They just had to!