• Mastermind • | NamJin || BOOK 3#

Twenty-Eight. Acting

The problems in Korea have been greatly amplified. Therefore, there is now a greater need for Jin to accompany Namjoon up and down the country and Jimin stays primarily in Korea. No one told Namjoon about Jin's crying and bleeding episode. He asked for it and they simply complied.

Nor did they see the need to report it. Much less that, perhaps, Namjoon would be angry. After all, if he feels that Jin is not well cared for in his absence, it is everyone's fault but his for being the cause of the breakdown. One understanding that all of Namjoon's Altered have, is that Jin, Jimin and Hoseok (in that order) are vital and anyone's blood will run if they harm them.

"Are you mad at me honey?"

"You were with Seokjin. You said you wouldn't be with him."

Namjoon doesn't stop himself from laughing. That was too fast. He thought he was going to have to push for this answer. Jin is still going about his business, trying not to overdo it and start bleeding.

He wants to convince himself that what Jimin said, that string of clarifications that made him feel so good at that moment, are true: Namjoon came back to him. He didn't do more with Seokjin either. He has limited himself to do oral and nothing more. On the other hand, with his person, as soon as he returned to China he was more excited than usual. Doing everything for a whole day without hardly leaving the room.

He is more important than Seokjin.

And here, now, in the mansion in Seoul, Namjoon wants to know if he is angry. He's worried about what he feels, what she thinks, if she's grumpy with him. That means he is worth more than Seokjin. Who he hasn't spoken to. He has Namjoon's calls on record. He is now his walking computer after all.

That includes phone.

And in conjunction with messages: there is nothing. There is no talk with Seokjin about anything else. There hasn't even been any hints. What there is with Seokjin is just as dry as a desert during the middle of the day.

"Honey, how many times do I have to tell you that I don't have the slightest interest in Seokjin?" Namjoon grabs him by the face and makes him smile. The blue eyes turn aquamarine within seconds. "He's a way to something, nothing more. He's not like you." gives him a kiss on his nose and Jin pushes him away with one hand, to Namjoon's surprise.

"He's thinking of injecting him with that thing you were preparing... the degradation Altered" Namjoon keeps a calm gesture. Of course Jin realized he was preparing that. The ingredients, listed, expectations What's Jin not to know? "You set him up as a test subject."

"Why do you know that?"

"Because I'm the one in charge of arranging all your listings Did you forget that you put me in charge of that?" reproaches Jin, irritated and Namjoon shakes his head, feigning insanity.

Now he has to psyche himself up that Jin is going to rummage through whatever traces and information there is, he already was, but not with such speed. He just made that list about ten minutes ago or less. He's not going to change it on the server, but he does need to keep an eye on it. After all: if Seokjin is involved, Jin is going to take it upon himself to throw it on him. Complain like a hurt boyfriend.

Or a husband who's being cheated on?

That's what we are... Maybe? Namjoon thinks, slightly distracted.

"Alright What do you want to feel comfortable with all this? Tell me. Something that doesn't involve killing Seokjin" Namjoon warns, Jin looks down. "I need him alive until I can get to the right point. It's not going to happen for several months. So... give me your no-no solution."

"I don't want you to sleep with him."

"Very well, take it as a compliment." Namjoon shrugs, unconcerned. Into the room Jimin enters, prancing and reaches Namjoon, stroking his hair and murmuring a vague: I want you to be blonde.