Breakup with Taehyung had affected me more than I thought it would. Days were dull and nights lifeless. I hoped it'd lift a weight off my shoulders and it did. It did lift away the weight, along with a large part of me. Tears dried after the first week of not receiving a single call or text from the man and by the next, I found myself walking out of my office, to meet Jackson.

He'd left a message the previous night and I read it once more to confirm the location. It was a busy place, right beside the Daegu market. It didnt surprise me though, Jackson liked to be among thousands of people where he could easily go unnoticed.

When I walked on the street, the Golden hour reflected yellow light on the window panes of the little shops I strode past, and before I reached the end of the street, I felt a cold hand land on my shoulder, accompanied by a shreek "Ji Ji baby!" making  me whip around.

"Jackie!" I laughed, reached forward to embrace the boy in a warm hug.

"Come on, let's go somewhere private" he smirked and I rolled my eyes at that. It was so much like him to stand in one of the busiest streets and look for a private spot.

It was an alley on the side, the smell of rotten eggs made me cringe as I tried not to step on vegetable peels and pieces of animal bones recklessly disposed. Two street dogs fed on the decaying matter as I distanced myself from the wet wall behind me and that's when Jackson pulled a pendrive out of his jacket. "Here, everything is in this one" he handed me the little metal piece of technology, "I'd prefer to not talk about it out loud" he smiled and I nodded understandingly.

"I tried to dig out as much as I could from whatever I took away" he rubbed his nose, shoving both his hands into his pockets, "the Chitauri will kill me if they find out I meddled with evidence".

Loving how he still referred to CIA as Chitauri, "Nobody's going to find out anything! This will stay between the two of us" I smiled, tucking the pendrive in my pocket and zipping it shut, "and the dogs" Jackson added making me chuckle.

"Thank you" I placed one of my hands on his shoulder and he narrowed his eyes, smirking slightly as he said "pay me back".

"What's the payment?" I raised a brow pretending to not know what he was asking for, and the answer came sooner than I'd expected, "Ramen! Your place?"

It had been so long since mother had made ramen for Jackson and I, and it felt refreshing and nostalgic at the same time to take him home for a cup of hot noodles while it rained outside.

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-Midnight -

Pushing myself off the bed, I walked over to my laptop which laid untouched for the past few days, before I inserted the drive Jackson had handed me.

Please enter the password

I squinted my eyes, "What the hell?". Instinctively, I grabbed my phone to call Jackson and ask for the password but the idea soon slipped away when I suspected his phone being tapped by the CIA themselves. The man was already working on a case and it'd be a huge risk to involve him more than he already was.

Pursuing my lips, i typed "Jackie", and it said 'password incorrect'. I had only two more tries to go before whole of the pendrive formatted itself. "Ramen" i bit my lip waiting, and it was incorrect again. "Good lord" I swallowed before quickly typing the last one out, "JiJibaby" I'd be damned to hell if this wasn't right. Taking a deep breath, I tapped 'enter' and the computer beeped, "Access Granted!" making me smile.

The file was a detailed report on every single piece evidence Jackson had scraped away.
According to the report, fingerprints of importance included Jihyun's, mine and a few other co-workers'. A strand of hair which belonged to Nanhee was found stuck onto cat's blood.

The blood which was used to decorate the walls, as Jackson so eloquently put it, belonged to more than one cat, but all of the same breed. There were details regarding the cat family and it's current habitat but I skipped all that to get to a file which spoke about Jackson sneaking into the dark web to bring out some 'juicy info'.

It spoke clearly of Taehyung's brand sign, a black, bold 'V' carved onto everything that belonged to him. 'Hotel Vionel' where I first hung out with Taehyung belonged to him. I almost facepalmed at how none of us ever bothered to look into the hotel's documents for once.

'The dark web also contained information about Suga, who owned a place called Sugarland, which was basically a drug abode. You name the drug, they have it. Everything illegal, of course. Suga's brand sign is a cat paw, which does make him a primary suspect in this case, but there's a difference. The paw that Suga uses as his signature is that of a jaguar which is clearly different from that of a domestic cat. The imprint is usually large and colored gold, unlike the red one's we've found all this time'.

I gulped down some water from my bottle before leaning forward towards the computer again. 'Suga is too laid back to launch an attack at the police department and clearly shows no signs of interest in them. He is either really smart or really stupid and knows that the department cannot lay a finger on him. The chances of him being a genius are higher if you ask me'.

'Even though we can't completely rule Suga out from the case at hand, I think, someone is trying really hard to steal his identity and become him. It also very much looks like Suga and V are working on getting their hands on this catpaw weirdo'.

The rest of the file was all about the blood stains, shoe pattern, make and the damage done to the property with attached pictures. It didn't take a genius to realise that Min Yoongi who Taehyung spoke of so dearly was Suga himself. It was no surprise that he went with two names too.

A few minutes later, I hit bed, looking at all the information that'd fallen into my hands. Since I had very little to do with this case, I decided to let this slide and pretend to not know anything at all. Atleast that's what I thought I'd do until I recieved a call the next morning, from CIA themselves, "Agent Ji Yeon, the director has requested you to come in. Your meeting has been scheduled at 7.00 am, tomorrow."

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