.so we escaped the weight of darkness
and if you’ll be my star, i’ll be your sky you can hide underneath me and come out at night when i turn jet black and you show off your light i live to let you shine || @jihyoxmi
Most kidnapping cases of his were, despite all the preperation for the opposite scenario, ultimately very short affairs. He took the person, brought them to a nondescript place, called their parents, waited a few days for the money and returned the kid and never looked back. Or he took important people to avoid having them be in the place where they needed to be for an assassin to get their shot, wait for an all clear and set them on their way. All in all, jobs rarely took him longer than a week.
As soon as Ji Sukjin’s name had been dropped, he knew this particular case would not be like that. Time had faded his memories of the man, until nothing much but a bitter, cold hatred survived, until he only remembered those eyes full of contempt and disdain as he arrested him, how all his attempted explanations just caused those eyes to grow colder until eventually, shame had overtaken Jongkook and he’d stopped trying to explain at all.
He remembered that, a man like a rock, unwavering and unbreakable, even when he was wrong, even when all he stood for was wrong. This is his son, they said, he’ll cave for his son. Jongkook isn’t so sure. He doesn’t think a man like that caves for anything. (He thinks there are people in the world who didn’t give everything they had for someone as wonderful as Jihyo, so how does this kid measure up to that?)
Even so, the way he sees it, he wins either way. Either Sukjin breaks and Salvatore wins, or he gets to put a bullet between the eyes of Sukjin’s son and get rid of at least something related to the man. And if Sukjin doesn’t resign over this and the kid ends up dead, there is always the media to smear his name until he gets fired for dragging down the already abysmal reputation of the SPD. (He thinks he likes that option even better. Let Sukjin try to explain his worth to people with cold eyes filled with only with disdain, let Sukjin feel that hopeless silence gnaw its way into his bones.)
The only downside of the assignment was that it took him away from home and for her own safety, he couldn’t contact Jihyo much. Not that she cared much or let it stop her, and maybe he should’ve pretended to be surprised when she showed up at the door, but mostly he’d just been amused. What had surprised him was Jihyo requesting to talk to the kid. He’d allowed her, of course, given that she took all the necessary precautions so he couldn’t name her. He’d always give her anything she wants.
So he is currently in the kitchen, cooking up some healthy snacks for Jihyo when she’s done (it’s been days since he last saw her, lords know she took the time to eat every single piece of chemical filled garbage junk food this earth had to offer.)