After Dark (Prompts)

Confidential Assignment - 4

Note: So sorry for the delay! Work is really busy this week. Also, I realized I can't make this as dark as I initially thought because I'm not in that headspace. So, this will be a little like Mr. and Mrs. Smith-ish.

Warning for this part. This is very suggestive.

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"There are new CCTV cameras here and here," Baek Jang-mi was telling Agent Kim at the NIS office as Min Tae Gu looked on, rubbing his index finger across his lower lip. On the table in front of them was the layout of the office, which Jang-mi had drawn for the agents during the first week she was there and improved the longer she worked in that space.

"I saw an invoice that went out today," she continued. "There will be fingerprint scanners installed but I don't know which rooms it will be put in yet."

"Do you think they're worried about a mole in the office?" Min Tae Gu asked.

Jang-mi pondered the question carefully. "I don't think it would be any more than a criminal's usual paranoia, at least from what I could tell."

Turning to the NIS agents, Min Tae Gu asked, "Is it still safe to have her go to work there? With all these security measures, there's probably not much information to gather anyway."

Jang-mi threw a pen that hit him squarely on this shoulder. "Ya! I'm here. It's my life. You talk to me." Staring at all the men in the room, including her pretend fiancé, she said, "I will continue. I still have another option -- spy on the documents on the secretaries desks and then go from there. Min Tae Gu is right about one thing though and that's information might start to dry up on this channel."

Min Tae Gu, who was still massaging the part of his shoulder that she hit, nodded. "I received a meeting request for next week. All I've been told is that it would be some big business proposal." He handed them a piece of paper. "This is the location. It's just outside the city and we're meeting outdoors. Maybe that would be the next step for us."

The agents agreed to discuss the plans separately. Min Tae Gu and Baek Jang-mi told the agents at the beginning that they did not wish to know detailed plans so they won't inadvertently give anything away. They just wanted to know enough information that they needed, nothing more, nothing less.

"Are you sure you still want to continue working at Cho's office?" Min Tae Gu asked, now addressing Jang-Mi.

"Yes, for now," she said. "Oh, by the way. I need to find a guy." She went on to explain her plan to warm up to one of her colleagues.

"Pyo Chi Su. I'll look him up," Min Tae Gu said, muttering the man's name.

The agents promised to look into it and give them leads. Then, Agent Kim suggested, "Would you want to go on a trip this weekend?"

Baek Jang-mi's eyes widened. "At beach? Please tell me it's a beach!"

Min Tae Gu chuckled which she caught, earning him a glare.

"It does have a beach front," Agent Kim told them. "But the facility is primarily a training area. We feel like you guys need more training now that we're ramping up plans."

Min Tae Gu regularly went to a shooting range where the agents were so he was still skilled; Baek Jang-mi also often threw around her knives at their basement, using them like darts, so she felt like she can protect herself. However, both of them agreed that it wouldn't harm them if they received additional skills and trained in a different environment to prepare them for any scenario they may find themselves in.

Jang-mi's shoulder suddenly sagged. "Oh, but then I have to miss the girls' Kdrama weekend we planned."

"When did you care about watching dramas?" Tae Gu asked.