SEVENTEEN

Chapter 7

Chapter 7

It took them 3 weeks to plan everything out to make sure that there was a minimal chance of anything going wrong. The team worked 24/7 for almost 3 weeks preparing everything for this night. Tonight was the night of the drug release party. If they fail tonight then the drug will hit the market and many people will end up dead. And it had every single member on the group on edge. This was one of those jobs that hit just a little bit too close to home. And things were being done differently this time around since Jeonghan was still benched from his stay in the hospital. He was taking things better at the moment than anybody thought that he would. He was really cooperative throughout all of this. He didn't fight with anyone or try to go on the job at all. He was very helpful in preparing everything. It kind of scared everyone. In all of the time that they have known their Hyung they have never seen him this docile when it comes to going on missions. Jeonghan is normally the one who volunteers to go on everyone and is adamant that he's going rather they like it or not. This is just freaky.

Since Jeonghan was benched, that meant that they were sort one grifter. So Seungcheol told him to pick one of the other members to train for it in place of him. He ended up picking Seungkwan as his stand in. He was going to pick either Joshua or Vernon since they seemed more likely to remain calm in the situation. But Josh had to work and Vernon ended up being pulled as extra muscle. So that either left Jihoon or Seungkwan. Seungkwan was less likely to go off and kill someone or cause them bodily harm. It took a while since every time Jeonghan tried to teach him about grifting Seungkwan just sort of freaked out. Another thing about Seungkwan was that he was a horrible liar and has a tendency to be very over dramatic. It took a while to get down the basics enough to where Jeonghan was confident enough that Seungkwan wouldn't go in and choke. And he had a very simple role in all of this. All that he had to do was go in and pretend to be an inspector of the government coming into double check that the drug was safe to be released into the market. He just had to place nice with the mark long enough for them to get in and leak the information about the drug and get out. It was as simple as that. But that still didn't keep Seungkwan from freaking out about the whole thing. He was really starting to make Jeonghan's blood pressure rise servely.

Despite the obstacles that they have encountered during the planning for this Jeonghan had no doubt in his mind that they could do this. He fully believed that Seungkwan would be fine as long as he knew that he wasn't alone in the situation. So he had talked Seungcheol into letting him get on the comm links to communicate with them. He was going to be on the line with him the whole time. If Seungkwan had any problems, Jeonghan would be right there to tell him what to do to fix it. And that fact alone made Seungkwan feel more and more sure about himself now. And that brought a little smile to Jeonghan's face at the thought. Now, all he had to do was spend the whole night worrying about the rest of his dongsaengs. The only 3 that he didn't have to worry about were Joshua, Seokmin, and Jihoon. Jihoon would be at the apartment running opps from his office where Jeonghan could keep an eye on him. And the other two would be on call at the hospital. That eased his worries just a little bit though. He was still filled with anxieties over the rest of them going on the job without him. Jeonghan can't help it, he's the mom friend of the group and he always has to make sure that they're ok. He just wants everyone to get through this job without anyone getting hurt.

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"Now, are you sure that you have everything that you need?" Jeonghan asked Seungcheol. The two of them were standing in the middle of their kitchen talking in hushed voices. They had about 30 minutes until everyone had to leave to get in place for their job. Some of the members had already gone on ahead to get in place to set everything up. So it was just Seungcheol, Seungkwan, Minghao, Soongyoung, and Chan left. Vernon, Mingyu, Jun, Wonwoo, had already gone ahead to get in position. Jeonghan was so worried that at more than one point he thought that he was going to throw up more than once. Seungcheol could tell that he was freaking out so he had pulled him aside to check on him one last time before they took off.