Monsters (Big Bang fanfiction)

Monday April 6th

My first day at work.

I guess Jo wasn't kidding when he said I would be surprised. Apparently, the reason why he kept it all a secret before I went to Korea was that he was afraid I would tell anybody. "Not that I don't trust you, but we never know." Of course it was upsetting to hear him say that after going out with him for more than 2 years, but it was understandable (plus it made me more curious than ever). First of all, I was certain that whatever it was, it would definitely involve the military since I knew they were the first to finance his research, so of course, when we headed to his/our workplace, I was not surprised to see it was a military base called Camp Humphreys with guards everywhere and soldiers training in the inner court. The one thing that surprised me though, when we went inside one of the three U-shaped buildings* was that we had to go through dozens of halls and turn dozens of corners with dozens of doors locked with codes. Every time we would meet Korean scientists on the way, Joseph would barely say a word to them. I thought it was rude of him at first but now I know why. They are not involved. Yet at the moment I thought: what kind of project was it that has to be protected by such tight security?

*the one dedicated to biology, I'll just call it the "Science" building ^3^

We finally took a huge elevator down one of the halls. The ride was so long I imagined it was taking us to the center of the earth. Needless to say, being the biggest American military base of Pyeontaek and one of the biggest of South Korea, Camp Humphreys is a vast installation. Like, vaster than vast. But when the elevator opened its doors on the minus X floor with a quiet beeping sound, I could not believe my eyes. From what I could see from the small iron bridge we were standing on, it was like there was a whole other building under the Science building O_O And the whole floor was filled with Caucasian guys in white coats only. I know it's what I expected but it was still a shock! I also saw a few black guys and girls but they were maybe 2 or 3. I can't wait to befriend them and joke with them about how to survive in a wasp scientist-only environment XP

When we walked next to them, each of them stopped whatever they were doing and greeted Joseph, calling him "boss". Deep inside, I couldn't help but think it was still weird to hear him being called that. Yet I thought it was rather cool. Can you imagine? I'm "the boss' " girlfriend ^^ How cool is that? He introduced me to some of his colleagues as his assistant -which I was- but the title didn't sound so awesome :-/

Then came the most amazing part. After he showed me some of the rooms and equipment I would work with from now on, we dressed in rubber coated aprons and put on gloves and goggles before we went to the main research lab –well, our research lab now-. There he headed towards one of the steel refrigerators, opened it and extended a hand towards the chemicals inside. He then grinned as he took out a small, thick glass bottle filled with a black, syrupy liquid, carrying it as gently as a mother would with her newborn baby. When I asked him what it was, a strange light suddenly filled his eyes and from his warm smile came a cold, solemn voice as he stared at it:

"This," he said, "is Superman's blood in a bottle."

He kept looking at it as if it could respond to what he had just said. For some reason, the atmosphere was a little less comfortable around him now. When he looked back at me, his face went back to normal.

"I tried to look for the perfect formula for decades. This is the closest I got."

He then explained to me how he came to it through theories and equations he and I are probably the only ones to understand and would be too tedious to report since I can already access to it in my professional file (I copied it from Jo's computer just in case since I know my knowledge in computers saved us more than once in the past ^^).