Operation: Ghost | ×Taegi×

Payback's a...Snitch?

"Agent Kim? We thought you were at the festival with your friend so why are you here?" One of the co-workers asked, noticing how the man was still wearing a dinosaur costume. "I thought I'd spend the night with my wonderful co-workers." Taehyung flashed a fake smile, before slumping into a chair.

"You know, earlier we found two dinosaurs getting off their float and running on the camera footage. That wouldn't have happened to be you by any chance?"

"Right can I just say I didn't intentionally get off the float? My friend just started running and I didn't know why so I followed him until he told me he needed to go because he had to do something important." Taehyung looked at the footage they were replaying and noticed three guys chasing after a boy who looked oddly familiar. "Isn't that Park Jimin and Kim Seokjin?" They zoomed in on their faces, realising that it really was them.

"Why would your friend go after them though? Is he in the police force or something?" One person commented. "I don't know his kind of work. But probably? Maybe he was trying to catch them. Anyway, do you know how hard it is to catch Ghost? Finding him once was pure luck but he wouldn't even talk to me." Taehyung felt frustrated, not at Ghost though --- at himself.

"Just keep trying Agent Kim. Remember that in order to save Ghost and protect him before he gets caught by the police force who will most likely end up torturing him, we have to try all methods. We can't let anyone else catch him. Life itself hangs in the balance."

"Yeah I know...I'll try again tomorrow. I'll get going now." Taehyung got out of his seat effortlessly, trudging his feet to the exit.

"Enjoy the rest of the festival!"

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"Yoongi." A voice kept calling out to him, pulling him out of the sleep he had previously fallen into. "Boss?" He's confused, creeped out slightly, sad as well but a part of him, feels happy. That he's alive; all organs functioning and heart still beating.

"Yoongi, you're so lucky you already had the injection otherwise you would be dead right now." His boss breathes out. It's not like he was lying, he was in fact going to die if he hadn't been injected with their special serum. It's the way he said it that struck a cord with him. As if torturing a human being was enough, that serum made him almost indestructible but it was painful. Agonizing.

Just seeing the serum work its way into his veins, making them stick out of his skin and making them change colours. It was repulsive. But the pain was worse. Imagine this; you're being crushed by a bus but somehow you're still alive. On top of that, your lungs feel like they're collapsing in on you while your heart is rapidly beating. Now imagine how you'd feel. Still questioning how painful it is?

Instead of focusing on that, his attention looked at the other body beside him. Hoseok. "...Did the serum work on him?" Yoongi asked, not sure if he was imagining Hoseok's chest rising up and down.
"Luckily. He came around faster than you did, but it's barely sustaining him. He's just a kid. Maybe we should just send him back home." His boss looked over at the boy, seeing how bad the kid got it. "I'd agree with you but you know he can't go home. His parents would lock him in that basement again and beat him. You know that. Let's just not involve him in any of our messes anymore."

"You two really think I'd let you do all of this fucked up shit alone?"   

"Hoseok! You're awake." Their eyes lit up, hurrying to his side. "I wouldn't let you go through any of this by yourselves. I'd take a thousand bullets if it meant I could lessen your burden." Hoseok smiled sincerely but what he didn't know was that if he did take another bullet, he would die. When Yoongi first got his injection, he wasn't anywhere near Hoseoks condition. In order for the serum to act as an 'indestructible' power, you had to be in 'good' condition which obviously means if you aren't close to death your chances of it working were higher.