The Lie You Keep

Is It True?

Picture NOT MINE! Came from goggle

"Hyung, thanks again for all your help," Taehyung says to Namjoon, bowing.

He does the same, and he smiles at Jimin.

"You rascals take care alright? Have fun!"

The door snaps shut, and Taehyung thinks about taking Jimin back home.

"You ready to go?" he asks, offering a hand.

Jimin takes it with no complaint.

"Yeah! Let's go."

They climb down the stairs, talking of various different topics. All the while, Jimin smiles whenever he catches sight of that animated face, glad that they were still in this through thick and thin. He's really thankful to have met someone like Taehyung, and he loves his company so that was a bonus.

"So I was wondering," the agent slowly starts as their feet pad on the streets. Jimin hums in question, eager to know what he was thinking. "If- if all this ends and we're still in good terms," he continues nervously, his tongue darting out to lick his lips.

Jimin just stay silent, wanting to hear his thoughts.

Taehyung spares him a glance.

"Would you want to go skydiving with me someday?" he finishes, hope tinging his voice.

Jimin's smile widens and his eyes crinkle shut.

"I'd love to!"

As they reach Jimin's street, Taehyung's ears pick up on a new presence accompanied by stomping of shoes.

"Park Jimin-hyung!"

Said boy was then enveloped in a fierce hug, Jimin hugging back just as tight and laughing a bit.

"Ohh Jungkook I missed you so much! Even your front teeth!"

"Yah hyung! That's all?" Jungkook bites back, though there's no malice in his tone. In fact, he was laughing.

But when he caught sight of Taehyung, standing there in a pullover and jeans, red hot anger overtook him and he pulled away from the hug to deliver a well-deserved punch to Taehyung's cheek.

Jimin gasps, going over to pull back Jungkook's arm as Taehyung staggered from the blow, nursing his left cheek, blood on the corner of his mouth.

"Jungkook what the hell?! Why did you punch Taehyung?" He spun him around to meet his dark eyes. He was surprised by that cold expression but he didn't make it affect him. "He did nothing wrong!"

"Oh he's everything wrong alright!" snarls Jungkook, veins rushing with anger and hate. He points a finger to the secret agent. "He's assigned to kill you!"

A horrified gasp leaves Jimin's lips, unable to process such information.

His eyes were welling with tears, but he refused to admit the lie.

"You're lying! All he's ever done is save me!" he shouts.

Jungkook walked closer to hold his hyung by the shoulders, shaking him for good measure.

He scoffs.

"Him? Save you? I was the one for that!"

Jimin's tears continue to flow out of his eyes, his world teetering over the edge. Were all those moments lies? He was just happy a couple minutes ago. Now he isn't sure about anything anymore.

His brows pull, and he shoves Jungkook away.

"You mean you're a spy, too? Huh Jungkook?"

"I-" he stops, licking his dry lips. "I wanted to save you. I wanted to protect you."

"But you did that by lying to my face?" he screamed.

"What choice did I have?!" Jungkook yells back. "I could do so much more if I had weapons, and look where that got me!" He shot Taehyung a hateful glare. "He's the one you should be mad at, he tried to kill you for goodness' sakes!" He gives another spiteful glance. "If not for him, I didn't have to be so on edge! But you're always with him!"

Jimin's mouth was parted, and it opened and closed a few times, not knowing what to do or say.

With all his mind could understand, he stares at Taehyung with glassy eyes, cheeks stained by the path his tears took.

"Taehyung, is it true?" he whispers. He swallows thickly. "Is it true you tried to kill me?"

There was a tense silence, Taehyung choosing to remain quiet, the other two waiting for either confirmation or denial.

When he didn't speak, Jimin nearly yells "Tell me the truth!"

World falling apart, Taehyung can't bring himself to lie anymore. He's said too much, did so many empty promises, and his tongue can taste the bitterness of it all.

And so...

"Yes," he says with the same whisper as Jimin. "Yes, I'm assigned to kill you." He looks straight into Jimin's eyes, which were brimming with so much tears Taehyung just wants to kiss it all away.

"But please-"

"NO! You lied to me Kim Taehyung!" Jimin shouts, body racking with all the broken sobs as he tries to convey his hurt. "I trusted you! And this is how you repay me?!"

"I had no choice!" he roars back, desperate and breaking apart. "Yes, I threw the knife, I put poison in your drink, I set some explosions but after all that, you're alive, aren't you?"

Jungkook just held Jimin, who refused to show his face at the moment. The younger's eyes were sweet to his neighbor, but was filled with hate once they landed upon Taehyung.

"Leave now, before I punch your eyes in so you can't see."

Taehyung glares back at the nosy boy.

"Mind your own business, Gold," he growls with contempt. "You don't know how much I've gone through to keep him alive."

"Keep him alive?" Jungkook parrots. "You didn't have to do that if you just stayed out of his way."

Jimin then pushed Jungkook away, eyes also glaring at his neighbor that was also a secret spy.

"It doesn't make you any better!" He points to his chest. "You still lied to me, and you reveled in the safe haven the gadgets had! Couldn't you protect me in your own way?"

"It was better that way!"

"It still made you lie to me!"

Without another glance, Jimin runs away from both boys, away from his house, away from the deceit, away from the pain.

But what he didn't know, he was going toward even more danger ahead.

"Boo!"

"ARGH!"

He was knocked out with just a single blow, body falling limp against the unknown man.

With a deafening screech, the black van rode away with an unconscious orange-head, just as the two agents reached the area.

"JIMIN!" yells Taehyung through the night, knowing that he couldn't even hear him.

Crap.

It's his agency.