Blaze

Meet & Greet

"What team?" Namjoo questioned. "I wasn't aware we were a team or ever worked as one."

"Me too." Suho agreed.

Tao eyed the two and turned to look at Donghae with what looked like another glare.

"Well from now on, we are," Donghae spoke, "most of the time from now on it'll be the four of us." Donghae paused then continued, "A new team is joining us tomorrow morning."

"What?" Suho frowned.

"Tomorrow?" Namjoo asked as if it was an absurd idea. "Since when do we work with others?"

"Starting tomorrow." Donghae finished.

Namjoo felt the urge to roll her eyes.

"But who are they?" Suho calmly questioned.

"I'm not sure. I wasn't specifically told." Replied Donghae.

"I hope it's not the cops," Namjoo uttered, "I hate their ways. They take forever to make any move. Not only that, but they're slow with emergencies as well."

"You seem to know a lot." Tao remarked.

"Of course I'd know better than you. Look at where you ended up." Namjoo commented.

Tao began to jump to his feet, but Donghae quickly pressed him down.

"Namjoo!" Donghae scolded. "Watch your mouth. I won't permit fighting between us."

"Ugh..." Tao groaned. "She's so annoying."

Namjoo made a face at him.

"What the heck was I brought here for?" Tao questioned almost furiously. "To equal out the numbers with the other team?"

"No," Donghae denied, "I wanted another member to work with us and maybe you could also enter the field to fight. Most of us only know guns and that makes us weak with combat. I thought you could also be of help to Namjoo. Martial arts require strategy, right? Tactical work requires too much of her staying here overnight."

"So what?" Tao asked ignorantly. "You're asking me to take half of her work?"

"Are you calling me incapable?" Namjoo asked Donghae with a tone of offense.

"Calm down, guys," Donghae tried. "Working together would be much easier than you working alone. You're the only one in this field, Namjoo."

"What about Suho?" Namjoo pointed at Suho who looked almost lost for a second. "He's the only one doing his job."

"Analyzing situations isn't as tiring as figuring out formation, location, estimating the number of peoples, and deciding when to attack." Donghae tried to pinpoint the differences before turning back to Tao. "You fought a lot, didn't you?"

"Yes."

"I'll leave the tactical work to you and Namjoo to deal with."

"But what exactly are we doing?" Suho asked before Namjoo and Tao could bicker again. "I'm confused. I thought we were just focusing on drug trafficking. What's with this new team? Is something going on?"

"I'm getting to that," Donghae told patiently. "According to the drug trafficker we nailed, there's a ring leader behind all this and he also controls a circle of human trafficking, which means we also need to turn our attention to that."

"Human trafficking?" Namjoo repeated, her attention now on Donghae instead. "Like prostitution?"

"What else do you think that is?" Tao glanced at her.

"Are you always glaring, because if that's how you always look like, I can't help but feel sorry for you." Namjoo retorted.

Tao made a face at her before Donghae spoke, "We're going to nail them with the team coming tomorrow."