Sunghoon's POV

"So you both were anyways going to go with your plan even if I hadn't swapped places with Thea?" I asked to the pair in sitting in front of me. Heeseung nodded in response, while Thea just yawned, adjusting her injured hand which was in a wrapped in a cast.

We were back at Thea's house after a small visit from the hospital. Since both of us were too tired to stay back and decide what we were supposed to do next with our new prisoners, Jay offered that he would handle it along with Yonghwa and Mr. Brown.

Jayoung and Jake unfortunately had to leave since they had their own work to take care of, but the former had promised us that she would come back to have dinner with us.

"You both would have got captured either way." He stated, shrugging his shoulders. "The plan we told you was complete crap, to be honest." He added, giving a look to Thea which clearly meant 'you-are-lucky-I-didn't-decide-to-kill-you-after-hearing-that-bullshit'. She just rolled her eyes at the older and gently pushed his shoulder in protest.

"We got out alive. What else do you want?" Thea retorted, making me burst out into peals of laughter while Heeseung just sat there, staring at her as if she had just declared that the aliens were opening a brand new clothing store on earth.

"I can see that your boyfriend is rubbing off on you." Heeseung muttered not-so-quietly, loud enough for the two of us to hear. Thea chuckled, shaking her head at his statement.

"What can I do? My fate wants me to date this idiot." She replied much to my annoyance. I let out a yell in protest, hitting her with the pillow which I had in my hand.

"And I have to date a bubble-gum addict." I retorted, sticking out my tongue to tease her. Her smile disappeared in a second, only to get replaced by a small frown.

"What's so bad with being addicted to it, huh? At least I'm not much of a pain in the ass like you." She snapped, slightly pissed off. Heeseung let out an exasperated sigh, pinching his nose bridge.

"Guys, stop. It's been barely four hours since you both started dating—" He began, but unfortunately I was too immersed in the argument to hear him out completely.

"But she's insulting me as if I'm a pair of old shoes!" I protested, glaring at Thea.

If a glare could stab someone, she would have been ripped into pieces by now.

"Don't insult the entire species of shoes like that— you are much worse." She muttered, squinting her eyes at me and showing me her fist which was her causal way to say 'shut-up-or-begone'.

"Says the person who already is worse than a flying cockroach." I stated, rolling my eyes and pushing down her fist which was dangerously placed in front of my face.

"Your arrogance makes me sick!"

"Yeah? And your funky hair makes me wanna claw my eyes out!"

"Don't you dare Dipshit—"

"I just did. What are you going to do about it?"

"Enough!" Heeseung yelled, pushing both of us apart moments away things got bloody. "For fuck's sake, stop behaving like small kids." He added, his face clearly telling us he was sick and tired of pulling us both away from each other in an argument.

Thea cursed under her breath and stood up, leaving the room. I sighed, letting my upper body fall on the mattress of the bed with my front side facing the ceiling.

"So?" He spoke up, raising his eyebrow questioningly at me.

"Life sucks." I answered, followed by the older letting out another sigh of sheer frustration.

"Dude, I know you both got things for each other. Don't ruin all of that because of these petty arguments." He stated, his voice surprisingly quite calm and composed unlike three seconds ago. I hummed in response, knowing that he was right.

Thea's POV

"I see that this has become your favourite place." I heard Sunghoon speak out of blue, closing the balcony's door behind him and then sitting down on the floor beside me, his back resting against the wall just like mine.

"I thought my hair makes you feel like clawing your eyes out." I said softly, glancing at him and then going back to staring at the scene in front of me. He sighed, rubbing his temples while perhaps trying to come up with an apology.

"Look, I'm—" He began but stopped mid sentence, confusion written all over his face after seeing me break out into peals of laughter like that.

I swear to God this guy is so stinking cute, it's going to make my heart explode.

"I'm joking. Don't bother." I finally managed to say, my laughter dying down to breathy chuckles. He placed his hand over his heart dramatically and let out a huge sigh of relief, making me laugh all over again.

"Come here." He muttered, stretching out one of his hand and pulling me into a side hug while being cautious of not hurting my hand.

Both of us sat there huddled together, watching some stray clouds floating in the evening sky, some occasional flock of birds flying across the sky in order to return back to their homes.

"Back there," He began, turning his head around and looking down at me. "You pushed me away when Jessica was about to shoot."

I sighed, knowing that he was going to ask me this question sooner or later.

"I felt it was the right thing to do." I replied, my lips curving up into a smile. He hummed in response, his gaze going back ahead. I stared at his face, his arm that was hugging my shoulder pulling me closer to him; the action making me feel he had already understood my reason.

Internally, I wanted to tell him so many things which reasoned why I didn't want him to get hurt and if this situation happened again, I would gladly repeat the actions.

Gosh, I hate being this bad at expressing myself.

"This place gives a feeling of what we are missing out on, right?" He asked, earning a nod from me. A comfortable silence surrounded us, only the sounds of birds chirping audible.

"These past few weeks have been so hectic and tiring, I could really use a break right now." I spoke up softly, grabbing his attention. "Anyways, I can't work with this." I chuckled, tapping at the hard cast on my hand.

Can we like just talk about how hard that shit is? I can just bonk someone on their head with it and they will literally pass out cold with only one strike.

"Three weeks?" He suggested, waiting for me to answer.

"Perfect." I agreed, knowing that by the time our break will end, my hand would been already healed just like before. "Even Heeseung would probably agree with us, considering the fact that we pulled out the poor guy out of hospital and made him work overtime." I added, shaking my head after recalling the series of events.

"Trust me, that man is in for a holiday anytime." Sunghoon commented, making me laugh.

"We already have a mission on our hands, you know? But considering the fact that Jayoung and Heeseung are already whipped for each other, I don't think we would have to spend much energy in accomplishing it." I stated, the male bursting out into peals of laughter at my casual observation.

Well, maybe I could have been a successful stand-up comedian at this rate.

"Man, you're right." He admitted. "Anyways, I won the challenge though." He spoke up after some time, earning a very confused "Huh?" from me.

"What challenge?" I asked, slightly perplexed at his statement.

"You need more than this to make me flustered, Agent Park." He mimicked me, dramatically flipping his non-existent hair and looking at me sassily with his eyes narrowed.

"When the hell did I flip my hair after saying that?!" I exclaimed, disgusted at his poor quality mimicry.

"But you said that, right? And I won." He said, winking playfully. I scoffed, moving my index finger in the air sideways to indicate that he had got it wrong.

"I let you win." I stated, pointing proudly at myself.

"You will never admit defeat, will you?" He asked, raising one of his eyebrow questioningly.

"Never." I replied with an amused smile on my face. "But honestly, I'd like to see you try win against me." I added, my smile now turned to a sly smirk.

"Another challenge, hmm?" He asked, his face inches apart from mine. "Well in that case, be ready to lose." He added, right before pulling me into a soft kiss.

Being an agent, you have a very vague relationship with love and trust.

You have to love your work and trust your colleagues and instincts but on the other hand, never believe that the world is working in your favor. Even if you trust someone, you always have to be on your toes in case that person whom you call your friend turns out to be someone from whom you were supposed to keep your distance.

Love was something which has to be in control after you become an agent. On duty, you have to pretend you are on your own in this world, fighting the same war as your colleagues.

After loosing my best friend at the hands of my own senior, even trusting the people I was supposed to had become too difficult. Fortunately, Mr. Brown had got the hint after he had gone through my files and history because he was the one who suggested I'd talk to Heeseung first before coming to South Korea.

It was very hard at first but eventually, I understood that the male who was my new guide agent was actually a good man.

After meeting Sunghoon for the first time, he seemed indifferent to me. But when I started working with him, I realised he was an amazing person on the inside but preferred to keep his distance from others for personal reasons.

One thing led to another, and then I saw myself calling these people my 'home'. I gave my heart to my associate, who later on trusted me with his own.

Honestly speaking, if someone apart from Heeseung had said that we both will fall in love with each other on my first day, I would have broken some teeth and bones.

But now, it seems fate had something else planned for us all along.

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