THE DEAL

33 New Beginnings

Author: Sorry for being absent for such a long time guys! I will not abandon this story though. We're almost at the end here ;) It's time to power through!!! I love every single one of you who is still here with meeeee!!! xo

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"I will miss Seoul..." Bambam said quietly as the privat jet they had chartered, ascended up into the air, bringing them closer and closer to the sky.

Lisa silently agreed with him but said nothing, looking out the window of the plane and feeling the worst heartbreak of her damn life. The moment when Jennie had told her to run kept playing and re-playing in the con-woman's mind. She had been in survival mode when Jisoo had pushed her out of the elevator and told her to get away. Lisa hadn't even had time to tell the other agent how much of a friend she had become to her lately and how much she appreciated that. They didn't even say goodbye.

The life Lisa had made for herself in Seoul during the past six months had shaped into a real life predominantly because of the people who had surrounded her. That was Jisoo and Rosie. Naturally Bambam. Jessie. Even Jung Haein. And most importantly, Jennie. 

And now Lisa was sitting on a plane that was taking her far far away from the place she really believed she could call home this time around. She stretched her legs on the comfy seat. The familiar weight of the anklet was gone. Bambam had cut it off with a bolt cutter earlier.

They were leaving Seoul behind fast and neither knew if they would ever see it again. 

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Three weeks later

"Are you two still going with this?" Jisoo sighed as she stepped through the door of her home to find her wife and Jennie staring at a huge map of the world that was pinned to a cork board and leaned against the TV. It had places crossed out in black, while other places were circled in red. 

"It's not like I have anything else to do." Jennie scoffed back sarcastically as a greeting. 

When Lisa ran, her anklet had triggered a fugitive alarm the moment she had crossed her two-mile radius and naturally the whole bureau had been alerted and swarming out immediately, since Jennie had no explanation as to why Lisa would leave her radius unsupervised. 

The high-risk union trying to snatch Lisa up for their own purposes was mad as hell and the first one under suspicion, apart from Lisa herself, was Jennie. The bureau had a few cameras here and there and one of them inconveniently caught Jennie's face clear as day when she told Lisa to run. It didn't take a lip-reading specialist to figure out what she had been mouthing. Luckily, there were no cameras pointed at the elevators. So Jisoo, who had been the one pushing Lisa to leave as quickly as possible, had not been caught on camera. 

Jennie was suspended indefinitely only one week later. Under the suspicion of having helped Lisa escape. There was no hard evidence though, so she wasn't charged with aiding and abetting a wanted fugitive, which, Lisa was now again in the eyes of the Seoul FBI headquarters.

Jisoo tapped the map with a long finger while stepping over the colourful array of take-out food her wife and Jennie had accumulated on the floor. "You think she might be in Madagaskar?"

"We can't really rule it out just yet." Rosie defended immediately, puckering her lips for Jisoo to get the hint. She got her kiss a second later and Jisoo noticed Jennie purposefully looking away. She knew her friend's heart was broken but they hadn't really had a chance to talk about it yet. 

This had become a familiar set-up during the past two weeks. Jisoo came home to find Jennie and Rosie eating take-out on the floor while staring at their map and spinning stories and theories about where Lisa and Bambam where.