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In The City - Chapter 3: Dark Secrets

🏢 What are you hiding? 🏢

💕Pairing: Jimin x Reader

✏️Genre/au: Non-Canon, Action, Smut, Sci-fi, Supernatural world AU

✏️Rating: PG 18+, explicit

📝Wordcount: 3270

⚠️Chapter warnings: explicit smut

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Dawn breaks in the horizon with candy-pink notes that bring your mood to a bust. With your face over your arm at the edge of the window - without poking out- the last days of summer seem to have come too fast.

“Do you think we should do a last round before heading home?” says Jimin, gently, as he eyes the incognito car behind his.

“I think that would be great,” you say, drawing an imaginary heart in the sky.

“Who is that for?” he says, making you move to look at him, although it doesn't seem as if he has turned your way.

“Summer. I’ll miss it.”

“Ahh, me too. It was nice to have a week for us and go visit Rome, though.” He then puts a hand on your leg and turns a second to wink. “A practice for our honeymoon.”

“For that,” you say, pulling his hand away from its ascending trip. “We should get married. And I see no ring in this finger, Sir.GropyHands.” you tell him and he starts giggling.

“I have been thinking about it,” he says, getting shy all the sudden.

“Oh, I didn't mean-”

“No. Even if you did it would be right. I-” he stops for a second and makes a turn, steering the wheel in the next lane. “I acknowledge that we have dated for a really long time and it's probably due.”

He then turns in the direction of the Haeundae Beach.

“Jimin…” you say with concern.

“No, listen. I just wanted to make sure that I could have the means to settle down. A career and the skills to maintain it before I could take that step.”

The last turn is to take a parking spot with views at the first line of the beach but your eyes are glued to him as he finally stops the engine.

“My parents have now known you for quite a while and I’d dare to say they see in you the daughter they didn't have.” He takes your hand in his. “I promise you, that by the time I take you here again, to my hometown, you will have a pretty ring on this finger.” he adds, rubbing the empty spot. “In the meanwhile, hold the thoughts that even if there hasn't been a ring on it, I have always had it clear that you are the one.”

With that, he leans forward and kisses your lips gently before deepening the kiss in that way that makes you feel the connection between your two beings.

Then the buzz of your phone interrupts your moment.

“I should…” but before you finish the sentence he is nodding and you take the call, stepping out of the car, under the attentive eyes of the two bodyguards parked in the spot behind you.

“Miss Urey,” a voice you know well, pronounced at the other side of the line.

“Yes.”

“We are sending a taxi to your location,” instructs the voice. “A folder will be waiting for you in the back seat.” says the voice before hanging the phone and drains the colour out from your face.

The lie you have to tell starts its way from your brain to the muscle inside your mouth as you open the door and enter the car to tell Jimin that you will have to leave for a bit.

Jimin has never really questioned these sudden calls for duty. You told him from the beginning that you were taking side deals so old posh ladies would feel safe going shopping with their pomeranians and you would be adding up to your savings with it.

This time however, feels different.

He would never ask you to not go. With how cutthroat workspots are in this country, having two good ones is a privilege and he knows that. But it’s evident it bothers him that work cuts short the nice moment you were living.

The only thing you can do is promise him that you will be there as soon as you are done and resume where you left off which he responds to with a gentle smile and a kiss but no shift of energy.

As you sit on your spot in the taxi, accompanied by him, his eyes land on the brown envelope laying at the other side. He says nothing before planting a kiss on your cheek and saying goodbye.

Inside the car, as it moves, you open the folder, ignored completely by the driver who is most likely in the business conducted by the secret society you are part of and who has sent him your way.

What Jimin doesn’t know is that you have never accompanied a single old rich woman to do anything and that what holds you away from him this time is just what has always done.

The folder shows you the details of the subject you are meant to take care of. This time, like others, the job is simple: use your special sight to see who is whispering in his ear to commit the atrocities he is accountable for and get rid of them. The police will take him in after you have taken care of the master who is pulling the strings.

You let the folder slide from your fingers and then close your eyes, remembering what brought you to this point and the hundred lies you have told your soulmate.

Born with eyes that could see what others couldn’t, you tried to ignore it as soon as you were conscious of how unusual your behaviour was to neurotypicals. One thing you understood really quickly was that you were not supposed to see the face behind the human mask that the seeds of hell had.

Such as in the times, where you got inside a crowded train or a busy street, and they would stare at you intently to scare you. Nor did the grey wings, opening from a very selfless firefighter who surprisingly had come out of a building eaten by flames on your way home, scare you. People would talk about those things as fantasy, as the made-up stories from movies, and nothing more.

So you looked away. Over and over. Until you could no longer see them.

The sudden atrocity of a man going berserk and killing his family was just one of those things that happened sometimes. Attacks on the street by people who everyone had seen as good up until that moment. The incredible fast action of a policeman saving a full room of hostages. A woman giving her kidney to a complete stranger to save their life. Those were just things that happened–“the balance of life” for everyone else- how the world works.

One afternoon when you came back from school, you left your friend in front of her house, just a couple of blocks away from yours. A man was standing next to a streetlight, smoking a cigarette. He wore a suit; that's probably what caught your attention. He looked really neat, really posh. He didn't match the normal office man visual, and that's probably what stuck with you. You didn't even look at him in the face. You wish you had.

As you walked, you felt eyes on you, but he didn't follow, and you didn't dare to look. Right as you were taking the corner to your street, a man running grabbed you with a knife to your throat and took you to another street. He tried scaring you into giving him your wallet, which you did. But his greed was not satisfied with that, and looking at you up and down, he closed the distance in that dark hallway. Without a word, he stabbed you in the stomach, or so he thought.

He had pierced one of your ovaries, and it had to be removed upon arrival at the hospital. But that wasn't the biggest problem.

A neighbour had seen the events happen from the window of their bathroom and called the emergency services before coming from his house screaming for help. He had tried to apply pressure to the wound with his shirt, to no use. The blood still flowed from the wound, soaking the clothing in a way that was horrifying to him. Before the ambulance arrived, you were dead for a whole minute.

Dying, however, felt like hours. It was like time slowed and suddenly came to a halt. You saw your grandma extend her hand and a lot of light, how she walked you through a dazzling path where you couldn't distinguish anything. She spoke to you in silence and with even more love than you had perceived from her when she had been alive. Before everything rushed back into place, you remember fluttering your lashes and then falling into a dreamless sleep. It was during your recovery that you realised what you had seen as a child was indeed real. A nurse who patrolled the ward extended her wings as she gave good news to a patient, and you saw the relief in their face.

Jimin thinks you had cysts when you were younger, and that's the reason for a single oophorectomy; that’s what you told him. Nothing else. He doesn't need to know the truth. Or so you have always thought.

Now you question whether you should tell him. Will he understand that you were protecting him? Will he understand you had a blood-sealed pact to keep quiet unless someone is in danger? Will he still love you after knowing how much of your life is made up? Seeing how tense he was earlier, maybe he won’t.

Grasping the immensity of these issues turns some people insane to the point they lose themselves. You decide you won’t risk it. Not unless he finds himself facing that reality by himself.

There’s a van and a normal-looking car in the deserted park where the taxi drops you. As you enter the van, you are greeted by Exa and Hak-Kun with a set of clothes and a wig on a bag.

“Long time no see,” she says, gesturing for Hak-Kun to step out of the vehicle and when he does, you start pulling off your t-shirt.

“I didn’t choose to fall in love,” you joke and she smiles at you. Then you look at the clothes before taking more of what you wear off.

“I can only imagine how difficult it must be to have to keep this from him,” she says, looking at the screens attached to the structure of the van. She looks sad and you know she probably thinks it’s better than losing a partner the way she did.

The tragic night in which Lloyd died, almost six years ago, you were happily celebrating Christmas with your parents and hadn’t been working in the society long enough to know all the hunters that were under its wing. But Lloyd's death was big news all across the country and even out of it, and you found yourself driven by your parents to the funeral the day before the new year poked in.

He had been smashed on and on by an invisible force when they were trying to exorcise a demon-soldier out of a young man’s body. He had broken almost every bone in his body and had internal bleeding so severe he had been dead before the blows stopped.

The casket was closed during the ceremony and his parents and Exa were unconsolable.

“It is. But I also think it’s for the best. My parents still struggle with it and it wasn’t new to them,” you respond, putting on the wig carefully and spraying cologne to mask your scent to any being who may recognise you by it. “Ok. Done.”

“I’ll see you at work on Wednesday,” comments Exa, and you respond with a nod before you jump out of the ban.

“May you be seated in this carriage, Milady,” says Haku with a bow, opening the back door of the car you will be taking on the mission.

Always teams of at least two during research. At least four in confrontation. Never alone.

“Kh, cut it off.”

There's a certain dread that has your back better than your teammate. The city center is so full of people going about their summer day, that walking with Haku as your black-wigged fake-boyfriend makes you feelless safe than being alone.

Cambions, half-breeds of demon and human, are smart and will never call attention upon themselves by attacking directly. They whisper in the air aiming for any weakness a human has and exploit it to condemn their soul, so it later can be harvested by hell when that person dies.

Nephilims, on the other hand, are born of humans and angels. They try to counteract the influence of cambions by whispering in the moment that a person may make a decision. These whispers cause regret, second thoughts, and a call to self-awareness, and allow the soul to make a decision that will keep it safe, keep their destiny going towards Heaven.

If you have to pick a side, you’ll say that you are for the latter but things don't always work out that way.

Since the free will that was provided to humans is unbreakable for any of these creatures, there's only so much the good side can do to counteract the dark and venomous influence of evil.

Their lack of active involvement irritates you and so, you don't exactly love Nephilims either.

Here, however, in the crowd you have to be so aware of everything that your whole body is in distress. You don't show it, but everything is under your scrutiny.

You meet up after lunch with Jimin in Magnate, his dad’s café to have some tea and pastries as dessert.

He sits at a table in the furthest corner with a stern face that you haven't seen on him for a long time.

“How was work?” he asks, without changing his expression.

“Boring,” you tell him, with a small smile. “I thank the fact that your mom was home and I could take a shower because this last bit of heat has done me dirty.”

He chuckles at the comment and looks at you more tenderly.

It is true that you went to his parents’ house because you can't really lie about something like that and also that you were sweating profusely. But it wasn't just the heat.

The anxiety of feeling the perfume wear off as you sweated, still looking for the man and therefore the near entity, wasn't boring. Making it through further streets to the darker spot of the city, wasn't either, but gave you time to reapply.

The good thing about half-breeds was that they normally work alone so it only took a while for you to find the criminal, in his frequented area, and the ugly putrid-faced bastard acting as a customer at the money-laundering restaurant.

Hakun was supposed to take a picture of you and capture them both, as if two tourists had lost their way and found the old buildings fascinating. But you couldn’t resist the urge to grab the sanctified pocket-sized bible in your bag and hit him across the face and multiple spots of his body as you saw him walk near the subject with his eyes fixed. He was doing the so-called “whisper” and you couldn't just wait for backup.

The few criminals occupying the restaurant and the criminal got alarmed the moment that smoke started coming out from the places where the religious sacrament had hit him. She then took the enochian knuckleduster and started hitting it as Hakun called for backup.

The element of surprise had been your best weapon.

Now, the thing was barely able to defend itself against you and Hakun’s combos. Less even, when Hakun took out of the back of his trousers the most effective replica of the cross-handgun Constantine used to destroy the great threat that Baltazar was, and blew out the part of it that was most human: the brain.

Just as Constantine described in his second book, the thing was still able to speak, paralysed and disintegrating as it was and you could see the confusion in its expression before stepping on his face to end the job.

“Let’s go for that bastard,” you told Hakun. But he stopped you.

“He isn’t going anywhere,” he spoke and rubbed his face, “the way Reign knows you… You could have fucked this up, you fucking brat.” He was so disappointed and angry he walked out of the restaurant and lit a fire with shaky hands.

“I’m sorry, I-”

“Not right now, Reyna,” he said, taking a step forward then turning around. “It’s shit like that that gets us killed. Do you have nothing to worry about?” he added, raising his brows with a little shake of his head. “What about us? What about your family? Your boyfriend even? What the fuck where you thinking!?” The more his brain processes, the angrier he gets and the more he speaks, the more you realise he is right.

“All that training and discipline you have. The responsibility you always show, blown just like that.” He takes a drag and lets it out before chuckling humourlessly. “I know this is a tough case… Who was going to be named The XXI Reaper for his methods and victims but once we and the police have them there is no chance for them to harm anyone again and you know it.”

He speaks fast but the way the place is filled by the sound of a patrol car makes it all make even more sense than the words alone.

“If you have a death wish, or even if you are just tired of the fucking job and want to play houses with your boyfriend, do us all a fucking favour and step out,” he added as he got near you and past you throwing the cigarette to the floor. The words he had just let out in the air burned in you just like what he was smoking and you stomped on the item as you walked out of the place and called a taxi to get to Jimin’s parents’ house.

Needless to say, the taxi driver looked at you like a three-headed dragon when you took off your wig and started washing the perfume away with an odourless wipe.

“I don’t believe you,” Jimin says, and you can tell he has let out a bit too much seriousness for what he had intended. But you can now tell he is troubled or at least concerned. “I mean. It can’t be that boring… you even get folders.” At those last words, his smile is all but gone and you know he has caught on to the lie.

“I can’t talk about it, Jimin,” you tell him, reaching for his hand but this time he pulls away, sitting back.

“Secrets?” He looks disappointed, upset and he is being even more emotional than you would expect of him on this matter.

“What do you think this is, Jimin?” you ask him trying to get to the bottom of it, since you know he didn’t ask you to meet in a semi-public place to cause a scene or have any kind of argument.

The way he puts his elbows on the table and covers his face tells you his mind is racing and he is trying to control the rareness of an outburst, so you wait.

He rubs a hand over his face before crossing his fingers in front of himself but he still doesn’t look at you and you know better than to push him.

“There was a moment during that call that I thought you were cheating on me,” he admits.

You can’t avoid gasping.

“I know that was stupid of me to think,” he admits. “But it felt like you were lying to me and I could only guess so much. That or your jobs not being the kind you were talking about.” He rubs his face again. “I decided to have you followed. In fact, I even thought you could be selling me.” You pale at that. “I know it was stupid of me and I apologise for both those thoughts. I feel guilty up to this day for it and I will understand if you are mad at me for that. There was so much going on with the fandoms and the rumours that I felt I wasn’t safe anywhere.”

You give a confused nod, surprised at how slowly you are processing it. But this comes from Jimin after all.

“Worse part. I was told by the investigator that you were definitely not cheating nor selling me. But he had discovered something that was best left alone. I asked for more details,” he pauses. “He told me I was safer not knowing. That I should just keep on going with my life as if nothing happened and not dig deeper. That you were safe to have around. Wanna know what? I did.” he says. “I buried that in the back of my mind, but..”

“But…”

“Today… You lied and you fucking sucked at it. I think it was probably because of what I said to you. That indeed it has such an effect on you that you lowered your defences with me about something you shouldn’t have. Likely.” he rubs his face. “I saw the folder and I suddenly got so concerned.” He takes a deep breath. “Are you ‘intelligence’ or something like that?”

Your eyes widen. ‘Oh my god…’

🏢 Who are you? 🏢

I hope you enjoyed this first chapter! Let me know your thoughts and reblog if you liked it. 😊 See you!

I want to thank @lunarelle1013 the beta of this work 💜

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