# ⁞ warehouse 210

@☾ Karinaᵉ Hongjoong listens for her voice and focuses on it, following the sound and moving quite quickly. Considering how close he'd gotten, he caught a glimpse of her rushing away. There was no one else there but them so it wasn't that hard to figure out who it was. He shuffles quickly in her direction, feeling what he'd learned to be some form of agitation. He wanted to be done with this. If nothing else really reached him, Hongjoong could say that he grew irritated every single time a target made things this difficult. Fighting back was one thing, even pleading for their life but the running was more an annoyance than anything else. Honestly, he would have given up chasing her had she not been someone wanted by the Kwon family. A mission was a mission and his only goals were to just complete them.

@♔ Hongjoong² One bullet got on leg and retreated to the other platform, "Oh I would wish they should have kept your comrades in their pockets, now look what happened to them?" She laughs and peeks for another time and shoots at Hongjoong again before she rushes towards the other room to go upstairs as she tries to think of a way to escape from the stoic man wanting her dead.

@☾ Karinaᵉ "You're making me repeat myself. I told you not to misunderstand anything. And I do not recall any instance of me trying to hide anything. Most people find out quickly. It's not a secret," he tilts his head to the side, face twisting up a little at the mention of love. He can't understand why Jimin would have any sort of love for him as he doesn't think he's done anything special for her in the time they've known each other. As his target starts firing at him, he glances down as one bullet catches his thigh.

"I don't understand why people fight to live when you're giving them the chance to do so. It's such odd behavior," Hongjoong utters the thought aloud, noting where the bullets are coming from before walking in that direction. Gun aimed again, he ends up catching sight of her again. "If you wanted to die, you should have just stayed still instead of running off. It would have been quick," he dodges a crate as it falls from her firing shots before aiming at her arm and shooting to make her drop the gun first. His next couple of shots are aimed her torso and leg. "I kind of wish they wanted you dead. It would make this easier."

@♔ Hongjoong² Jimin smirked, "What a loyal dog you are, no wonder you killed your parents." She mocked and leans against one of the crates, "You think I didn't know-- or if you put it this way, you think she didn't know?"

"Yeah, she knew. But she kept quiet, tight-lipped. Because she loves you very much." She chuckles and turns her body to hide herself behind the crate, "What a bittersweet love she has with you." Then she draws out a small gun from pocket, it's been there with her as Karina subconsciously put it as Jimin had wanted before she peeks from the other end of the crate to aim and starts shooting at him.

@☾ Karinaᵉ "Don't misunderstand things. It complicates things. Orders were for you, it seems. I have to be sure I have the right target," he responds calmly, "It's also a waste of time for me to repeat myself. Had you not revealed yourself, she still would have died." He shrugs off her words, "Orders. They would prefer you alive. If you make it difficult and I have to kill you, it wouldn't be a problem either. As long as they have you, that's all they care about. I am following orders as is my duty."

@♔ Hongjoong² "Me? Need to die?" Then she lets out a laugh, a laugh with twisted reality. She moved her hand and motioned her fingers to act like a gun and points it on her head with a twisted smile, "You hesitated to pull the trigger, I know you're the one who swiftly kills people. But you hesitated the moment you saw 'her'." Then she makes a puff sound like a gun and chuckles.

"You know I don't make things easy." Jimin told him, "Tell me one good reason why you want to brought me in alive or put a bullet on my head and die?" She asked him as she stayed on her ground.

@☾ Karinaᵉ His body reacted but he wasn't sure why. His fingers brushed over his lower back before pulling out a piece of glass and tossing it to the floor. He turned to face her and the logic somewhat clicked. Same face and voice but he could see in her eyes that this wasn't the same person.

"I don't know anything about you. I have heard things," he shrugged, "If she wasn't the person everyone was looking for, she simply would have died right there. I guess her having whoever you are is some benefit."

Raising his gun again and aiming it at her, Hongjoong shrugged once more, "Orders are you need to die or be brought in, preferably alive. Are you going to just come along or am I going to have to kill you?"

@♔ Hongjoong² 'You're so weak.' Jimin whispered and her eyes opened wide. What Karina doesn't know, she never had an asthma, it only kept her from bringing Jimin back.

Jimin slowly rose from the ground and grabbed a broken glass before throwing it with precision towards Hongjoong's back, "You missed one thing." She said with a cold, manic tone. Her eyes glistened with madness. She then pulls her hair up into a bun, recognizing one of the feared assassins under moon family.

"Don't worry, Karina doesn't know about this whole thing." She smirked and took off her blazer revealing only her tank top. "You are hunting me, no? But you doubted the second you see Karina's face." Jimin laughs a bit.

@☾ Karinaᵉ Hongjoong felt it was kind of drawn out. He kept the bag out of her reach and proceeded to walk away. At least he could let his gang family know that she was taken care of. That would be the end of that. There wasn't much more that he could do. Should she somehow reach her bag, get whatever it was she was reaching for, he still had his gun in hand. It wouldn't take much to shoot her dead. Hongjoong didn't bother at the moment though. He didn't want to bother with having to clean up a mess or get blood on his clothes. That would be a whole trip home to change, not that he had anything else to do but it just seemed unnecessary.

@♔ Hongjoong² Karina is still struggling to breathe as the asthma gets worse and worse, she tries to reach for her inhaler, her vision starts to black out as she slowly crawls for her medicine. She had never been perfect in her life, she's asthmatic and she's very good at hiding it from everyone, they always thought her as a healthy individual but they never know what is under the iceberg. She was weakened and eventually lose consciousness, she closed her eyes as her breathing kept making difficulties on her, she's dying... or so she thought.

@☾ Karinaᵉ He doesn't let up with his aim. In an ordinary scenario, this would be considered a scary scene, to see their friend collapsed on the ground like that and wheezing. Hongjoong's mind didn't work like the average person. This was work. If she didn't die by his hands, it seemed that there was a chance she would die either way. It would relieve his gang of the hunt at least. Life always went on when people died anyway. "Slow, painful deaths just waste time. Should I just go ahead and kill you now to get it over with," he questioned, realizing that there was no point in him asking questions anymore since she wasn't going to answer them.

@♔ Hongjoong² She gasped and screams a bit, once the gunshot sound exploded she automatically crouched down but she slipped on the floor, causing her bag to fall on the ground as well as the things inside. The tightness of her lung made her struggle to breathe, she has to get her inhaler quickly, she looks around as tears starts to build up from her eyes then she sees her inhaler, rolling towards hongjoong. "o-oppa--" she wheezes as her asthma attack gets worse and worse every second. she tries to reach for her inhaler as her surroundings starts get darker.

@☾ Karinaᵉ Hongjoong wasn't the type to be swayed with words. He never had been. It was just a part of him that was broken. He tended to take a lot of what people said at face value, at least he did when he was younger. Over the years, especially after having killed his own family and then working with the gang for as long as he has, he'd learned that you shouldn't listen to everything people say. Some people have the will to lie just to save their own behinds, even when they know they've done wrong.

He held his stance even as she came closer, not flinching in the slightest bit with his gun still aimed at her. "There's nothing to work out. I said that I want answers," he fired near her, the bullet purposely flying just past her head, "You're wanted for a reason, and you've killed some of my men. I am giving you the chance to explain so that I can explain it to my superiors but, otherwise, you'll die here."

@♔ Hongjoong² karina looked at him with disbelief and shaking her head, "i-i don't know what you're talking about, oppa..." she said with a shaky voice, "my family doesn't have any connections with your gang or others, why do you have to target me?" then she looked at her group of friends back in her college, "did one of my friends paid you to kill me?" karina asked before looking down, then she made a bold decision. "listen, oppa. i don't want you to do this, we can sort things out, okay? just you and me." then she slowly walks closer to him.

@☾ Karinaᵉ He shook his head, making it clear that he wasn't doing any sort of joking around. "You know I don't 'play,'" Hongjoong kept his gun aimed at her, wanting the question to be answered, "It's for your own safety that you didn't tell anyone about me. I wouldn't have had to come after you. They would have." He kept his amber eyes locked on her face, "I knew something wasn't right. Every single clue kept pointing back to you, even though there were no clear connections. They're after you for a reason and I want to know why."

@♔ Hongjoong² the blonde girl turned around to see the other with his gun aiming at her, then she felt the tension in the air and her heart starts beating fast. "w-what do you mean i'm hiding something from you?" she replied, "oppa, i didn't tell anyone about you and your affiliation to a gang... i told you all my secrets, what more do you want me to say?" karina added before sighing and looked down. "i know you're just playing with me, this is a joke, isn't it?"

@☾ Karinaᵉ “I’m right here,” Hongjoong called as Karina finally arrived, stepping out from where he was. He kept his distance though, gaze clear as he stared at her for a moment. “So, you were lying… You’ve been hiding something from me,” he warned, taking out his gun and aiming it at her, “I’ll give you a chance to clear up things or else you’ll just end up another mission completed. Who are you really?”

@♔ Hongjoong² karina was texted by hongjoong after class, she smiled when the other asked to come to somewhere and unknowingly enough the blonde girl smiled and agreed on meeting up with him. despite the other people looking at hongjoong, he is stoic and unable to cope with emotions, karina knew from the very beginning that he is a good person. she went to a warehouse where she was told to meet up with her, karina didn't noticed something was odd but for a few moments, she realized that hongjoong isn't here yet. "oppa...?" she called him out while looking around, "please don't surprise, i'm so bad at getting surprised." she said while blushing a bit. it has been years since the two childhood friends meet, karina has been trying to make up to him as she has been secretly crushing over him.

@☾ Sabrina² @☾ Karinaᵉ It was unfortunate but it was his mission, and he put his missions above everything and everyone else. He wasn't sure what he has with Karina would be called. Hongjoong was aware it was some sort of association, probably what some would consider a friendship by definition. He'd yet to really unlock that side of his brain, not that he was trying to anyway. At the moment, he was masked, but he knew she would recognize his eyes. They were hard to miss after all. Nonchalant to drawing attention, he'd caught her walking home and immediately drew his gun. Once he was close enough, he drew his gun but this was so the same instant they made eye contact. He wasn't sure what her next move would be but he was prepared to do what he needed to complete his mission.