Two days later,

The afternoon sun was high in the sky, lending it's last warmth before the cold winter nights began. Taehyung was standing by the railing of the terrace of Jung Sonbeok's mansion, which was decorated with some iron-scrolled chairs and lots of imported cactus plants. The orange sunlight highlighted his facial features smoothly, making him ethereal as well as heavenly.

He was holding a Ruger LCR-22 revolver in his hand and pointing it at a far by tree placed in the corner of their boundary wall. The colour of the gun matched with his black leather jacket and black cargo pants. His eyes got sharper, lips pressed together slightly as he aimed at his target and fired with a click. No sounds heard except the annoyed bird's cries from that pines tree's branches.

Hoseok came from behind him, clapping his hands to cheer his friend's valour. "Nice shot Tae but did you really have to kill that bird?" He put his hands on his friend's shoulder, leaning on the side railing.

"Killing is my job Hobi, it doesn't matter if it's a person or a bird." Taehyung said in a calm voice while putting the gun back into his pocket.

"Tae, are you feeling better now?" Hoseok was looking at his friend with concerned eyes. "If you don't want to do this mission, then then don't force yourself. I'll convince dad to let you rest."

Taehyung turned his whole body towards his friend, then said, "I am absolutely fine, in fact I'm the one who requested ahjussi to let me go with you." He assured him by patting his friend's shoulder lightly.

Hoseok sighed. "Alright, I won't stop you but we have to go downstairs now, dad is waiting for us." He tugged his friend's arm lightly and moved forward. Taehyung followed him on their way down to Sonneok's office.

Jung Sonbeok was sitting in his office room with two more people. Those men were dressed in white lab coats, one of them was holding a silver briefcase, another one was with an unfolded paper map. Both of those men greeted Hoseok and Taehyung when they entered the room.

"So let's start the discussion. Taehyung-ah, meet Dr Kang and Dr Lee. Both of them are underground chemists. They've made a super gas which can make anybody's nervous system numbed." Sonbeok said with a proud smile and clasped his fingers together. His eyes became double of their sizes as he continued speaking, "We can make tons of money with it. What do you say guys?" He looked at those chemists with a smirke.

"Yes sir, let us explain the plan to these gentlemen." One of the white coated men said, "First the inception, you have to lock the conference room in the parliament building with hacking it's master security lock. It is the hardest phase of this plan. You have to go into the basement office to hack their main security computer but there will be tight security, so we have to make them fall asleep."

"Fall asleep? How can that be possible?" Hoseok asked by frowning his eyebrows.

"I told you this is the hardest phase." The chemist said with a shrug. "We made a sleeping gas bomb, you just have to explode it in the middle of the room and make sure all of those security guards will be there, otherwise you know." He smirked knowingly.

"We have to kill the others." Taehyung said with a cold voice.

"Exactly. Now let's continue the discussion." The chemist pointed at the map and started talking. "Here once you hack their security system, you can lock the door easily. Then you have to stop the air conditioning system, the gas won't work in a colder room, so make sure to stop the ac machine first."

"There will be more than one hundred and fifty people, what if somebody smells it and tries to  alert others?" Hoseok asked this time.

"No, they won't know it for at least ten minutes, you have to be quick to do the next move." The other chemist spoke out this time. He opened the silver briefcase carefully and took out an approx eight inches long and thick cylindrical object. Then said, "this is our creation. It contains raw phosgene, arsine and hydrogen sulphide as the base and eight other toxic and filler gases. It is going to take almost ten minutes to enter their nervous system and RBC, to start destroying the cells one by one. Then they can't be able to control their nerves"

"What if some of them die?" Hoseok asked. He was still not sure about this unhealthy plan.

"No, they won't die easily, they will only face the nerves failures and if they don't take the antidote within six to seven days then they'll die for sure." The chemist said.

"What about the antidote, is it effective?" Taehyung asked.

"Don't worry about it, they've made it." Sonbeok said. His proud face was showing how much satisfied he was with this master plan.

"Yeah, we're checking on it. Now let me explain more about the second phase of the plan, since the door will be locked, the only source of the air in the Hall room will be the air conditioning panel on the ceiling. You just have to fit the cylinder into the crisscross hole then open the lid, so the gas can slowly fill up the room. It's colourless and odorless so it will start doing it's job before anyone notices." The chemist explained.

"I get it, next." Taehyung said, looking at him.

"Next is the third phase, you have to get out of there quickly." The other chemist started explaining this time. "We are talking about the parliament, so there will be tight security, so you can't come out of there easily, the only way you can escape without anyone's notice, is the manhole way. There's a manhole outlet under the main kitchen, you can only enter it from inside of the kitchen room."

"Why would they let me go into that kitchen room?" Taehyung again asked him.

"Cause you're going there as an assistant chef. Don't worry, we have already kidnapped the main chef's wife and children, so he will take you there as his assistant, as you don't have any criminal records, the security will let you in but you can't stay there any longer, the police will thoroughly investigate each person after they come to know about the blunder. You have to come out through the manhole entrance immediately." The chemist handed over the briefcase as he explained other details to them.

A shadow which stayed behind the door for sometimes, moved away slowly after the discussion was over.

Jungkook opened the entrance door of his house as he came back from his office. It was already ten in the night. As he felt hungry he ate a hamburger on his way home so he didn't even give a look at the kitchen place, straightly went to his bathroom.

He tried to wash away all of his stress, tensity, anxiety and dirt that he felt throughout the day but when he entered the shower stall he couldn't hold himself back anymore. This is the place where he made love to a beautiful boy not so long ago, the boy whom he was searching like crazy since past two days but failed to find any traces of him. He sat down on his knees as the water touched his stiffened skin. Tears were forming in his eyes as he remembered his lover more. His delicate touches, soothing voice, warm body and his beautiful face, these are all Jungkook was thinking about, while the other things of the world just faded away from his mind.

He fell asleep on his bed eventually after sometimes when his tears dried down and his body felt extremely whacked.

In the following morning, the meeting hadn't started yet, the respected members of the parliament had just started talking their seats according to their name tags. The police were thoroughly checking out the whole area with some trained police dogs. They were allowing only their invited guests through the main gate after checking them from top to toe.

Hoseok was dressed in a security guard's uniform, he lowered his cap a bit to cover his face more. A fake mustache was neatly glued under his nose, making him more older than his usual age. He was checking the control room from time to time from the gate and waiting patiently for the right time to enter the room.

The kitchen area was at the end of the main hall. Not many people had the permission to enter there. Everyone was busily doing their work inside the big kitchen room. Taehyung's hands were finely chopping the vegetables as the main chef told him but his eyes were scanning his wrist watch from time to time to stay updated.

After ten more minutes he quickly put down those chopped vegetable pieces in a big pan then went to the main chef, "I've to go in the bathroom, stomach problems, please tell someone to replace me." The main chef just nodded in response. He remembered his son's face and got himself busy again.

Taehyung threw his apron into a dustbin as he took out the silver briefcase from the vegetable bucket, which he hid into the storeroom. He carefully opened the briefcase and pulled out the stainless steel cylinder from it. "F*ck this is heavy." He muttered in annoyance as he saw the cylinder has only one thin handle to hold.

Mina was strolling in her room restlessly. Last night she heard her husband's conversation with her father in law and others. She couldn't believe at first that they were planning such a reckless way to earn money. She couldn't sleep in that previous night, even told her husband not to do this kind of risky job but her husband didn't listen to her. He and his friend both of them went out in the early morning to complete their task.

Mina thought once, she should request her father in law to cancel this mission, if his son got arrested, both of them had to suffer from it but she also knew it would be nothing but a waste of time. Mina was sweating heavily as she wasn't able to do anything. She bit her lips and took her phone in her hands. She dialled one, one, two but cut it immediately as the thought came out in her mind. The police would first ask who she was and her connection with the underworld. Her husband would also get caught or might be killed, thinking this, her hands trembled, breathing got faster and she closed her eyes as they became teary.

Soon after she opened her eyes widely as a thought came up in her mind. She again unlocked her phone and dialed a number. The call got connected within a second, "He- hello!" She gulped.

"Yes, who is this?" She heard from the other side.

"Are you Mr Kookie?" Mina asked in a shaky voice.

The person on the other side took some seconds to answer her. "Yes, who are you and how can I help you?"

"Are you- are you a close friend of Taehyung-sii?" Mina bit her lower lip hardly, she wasn't sure about what she actually wanted to say.

"Yes, do you know where Taehyung is?" The man on the other side spoke out loudly.

"Umm, yes, he's in the parliament, he-" Mina hesitated for some moments then said, "they are going to spread a deadly gas inside of the conference Hall to make people ill. Please stop him but don't do any harm to him." Mina panicked when she didn't hear anything from the other side, "Hello?"

"Yeah, please continue, who is with him now and when they're planning to do this?" The man asked in a firm voice.

"Around 11 am, he has a gas cylinder with him and please don't call the police, I'm begging you. Just note down his phone number and tell him not to do this job, ok?" Mina let out a broken sob and gave him Taehyung's number. The connection got cut but at the same time her door opened with a loud thud.

"What the hell are you thinking of doing Kang Mina?" Sonbeok was standing on the door holding the door frame. His eyes were cold as he stormed inside, "I've warned you to not leak any information out of this house, then why did you not listen to me?" He growled in anger.

"I'm sorry dad, I-" Mina was too scared to form a proper excuse.

"Shut up you bitch, how dare you to call a person outside of this house? Didn't you know everyone who lives in this house have their phones tracked? Do you want your husband to get caught by the police this badly?" Sonbeok raged out.

"No, I don't want to, but what you're forcing him doing, is not right." Mina said the words with great difficulty.

Sonbeok's eyes lit up with anger, he serged furiously and slapped her on her face without a word. Mina couldn't keep her balance against that force and she fell down on the floor. Sonbeok pulled her hair to turn her head towards him, "listen, I'm not killing you because you're carrying the Jung family's successor in your womb but I won't easily let you go. You're not allowed to go outside of this room, also you're not allowed to meet anybody from now on, " Sonbeok tugged her hair more and Mina screech with pain. "Not even your husband. Understand?" He left her on the floor and told his goons to seal the room.

The air conditioning panel was much narrower than Taehyung imagined. He didn't have any problem entering into it with that heavyweight gas cylinder but it became harder for him to move forward. He still managed to get to the top of the conference hall in the particular time. The air was clilly around him and his thick mask was making it hard for him to breathe naturally.

He looked into his watch, 11:20 am. The perfect time to do some action. His hands moved faster than before as he opened the outer lid of the cylinder carefully. He knew Hoseok would never fail to do his job. The air was getting more warm around him as the minutes passed, this means his friend had successfully stopped the machine.

Taehyung slowly but consistently removed the small window of the air conditioning window. He was breathing slowly matching his pace because he knew even a small mistake can turn the whole game around. He could hear clearly the members chatting below him. He ignored their conversation, as it was useless to him.

Taehyung took a long breath before adjusting the cylinder in the middle of the crisscrossing grill. It was heavy so there was also a possibility that the thin layer of the crisscrossing grill couldn't keep it in place and fall down in the middle of the room but he had to take the risk.

He didn't waste any second after turning the knob of that cylinder and crawled back towards the outpass as fast as he could. The gas had began to spread like a colourless cloud but the people inside the room were still unaware of it. When Taehyung removed the outpass window and re-enter into the storeroom where he began, a policeman holding a revolver stopped him.

"Open your mask," The policeman ordered, "quickly."

Taehyung froze on the spot for a couple of seconds. He fisted his hands to compose himself.

"Can't you hear me? I know it's you Tae," The policeman's voice was breathy yet stable. "I can recognize you even from behind."

Taehyung didn't say anything, he was looking in the other's eyes like he had just accepted the challenge. Currently he was unarmed but the policeman had a revolver so he knew that he couldn't do anything against him.

"Tae, just remove the mask already. Give me the gas cylinder, please. It's dangerous" Jungkook forwarded his other hand for Taehyung but Taehyung didn't move a bit. His eyes flicked to the only escape of the small storeroom. He quickly calculated what to do next then sat down on the floor shaping his body like a ball. "Tae, what are you doing?" Jungkook came closer to him and touched his head gently.

Within a second Taehyung held Jungkook's legs and tugged harshly. This made the officer fall on the floor. Taehyung got up and started running like a released bullet. He didn't wait to watch behind and steadily entered the kitchen. He knew where he had to go so he ignored all of the chefs and helpers yells and glares and entered the pantry room. He quickly removed the floor carpet, pulled out the hard cardboard cover and finally he could see the manhole's iron lid. It was unused from over a decade, rusty but durable. He removed the heavy lid quickly and started climbing down in the hollow.

"Tae, wait, please." A voice came from his above room. The policeman was more quick than Taehyung imagined. So he gathered all of his might and climbed down all the way to the bottom. "Tae, I told you to stop." Jungkook also started climbing down to reach that boy sooner.

The underground tunnel was huge but it was empty. It was created to carry out all the dirt from the city but when the government set up the parliament house on top of this tunnel, they closed it to protect the building.

Taehyung started running quickly but Jungkook was faster. He grabbed Taehyung by his arm and made him turn around, Taehyung gave him a hard punch on his nose, earning a light growl from the policeman and again turned to go away. Jungkook was fast, he held Taehyung's both hands, folded them in his back and slammed him hard against the cold wall. Taehyung was unable to move at that position but he managed to give a quick kick on Jungkook's legs by bending his knees but Jungkook moved his own legs away from Taehyung's kick. His hands also moved faster, he put his palm on his captive's face and snatched the mask in one go.

Taehyung was panting heavily, his eyes got narrowed as it rested on that policeman's intense stares. "Let me go." He said without blinking.

"There's no way that I can let you go this easily." Jungkook's voice was just above whispering. "Tell me, why are you doing this risky job? Why are you listening to a crazy criminal Jung Sonbeok?" Jungkook brought his face extremely closer to the other boy, his heavy breaths were fanning on Taehyung's cheek and lips. "Tell me that you remember me Tae." Their lips were almost touching, Taehyung slowly closed his eyes. Jungkook also mirrored him and closed his eyes but Taehyung hit him hard with his head and moved away from him. "Tae?"

Jungkook's eyes got bigger in panic when he saw Taehyung taking the police gun out of his pocket and aimed at him. Jungkook stilled on the position. Taehyung started moving backwards, his one hand was holding the gun at Jungkook, his eyes were emotionless, lips pressed together. He reached to the other ladder quickly and started climbing up. He knew Hoseok's car was standing on the road by the outlet.

Seeing the other boy climbing up quickly, Jungkook started chasing him, "Tae, stop there, the police van is outside, you can't escape." Jungkook screamed but his screaming stopped when he saw Taehyung, raising his armed arm towards him and released the bullet with a bang.

Jungkook felt a sharp pain in his chest when the bullet hit directly on there. Holding his chest tightly he fell down on the dusty hard mud. His pained eyes looked up at his lover once, who was running away from him with every step he was taking but Jungkook couldn't say anything to stop him. The pain in his chest got his whole body numb, it didn't take him long before passing out on the spot.

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