on opposite ends | vsoo

STATIC COLLISION

Jisoo clears her throat and crosses her arms, looking straight at him. "Why are you still keeping up our deal?"

"Excuse me?" He looks momentarily thrown off by her sudden question.

She narrows her eyes. "You know what I mean."

Johnny gives her the same level of attitude. "Shouldn't you be thankful then? Isn't this what you wanted in the first place?"

He's right of course, but Jisoo wants to think that her intuition is right too. "I know, but you're holding something back. If we want to continue on, we need to come clean to each other." She continues to stare him down. "I've already told you all my intentions and reasons for striking up the deal, you need to tell me all of yours."

"But what for? All we should know about each other's intentions and reasons is that we have a common enemy, right?" He said, using her own words against her.

"Quit that," Jisoo shakes her head. "You're after him for more than one reason, you said that the Confederate wants to prosecute him for his crimes. I can feel that you're holding something back, you're being too... what's the word, clingy? Desperate? With this deal and with me. You even showed up to my house today and -"

"Woah, woah, woah okay, slow down there." Johnny raised his hands and smirked at her but there was nothing playful about it. "I thought you wanted me to keep my end of the deal."

Jisoo rolls her eyes at him. "I do, I just want to know why you're keeping your end up until now."

They're not going anywhere until he spills, and he can probably see the stubbornness in her eyes and in the way her face contorts because he eventually succumbs. "The Confederation can't prosecute him unless we're the ones who catches him."

She raises an eyebrow at him and uncrosses her arms, placing her hands on her hips. "And by 'we', you mean 'you', right? So, if you catch Taehyung, he'll go to the Confederation? He's going to be in your custody."

Johnny nods at her words.

"And if I... catch him, then you can't take him," she says out loud slowly, as what Johnny said started to make sense. "Because then he'll be under the Ministry's custody. So, you're trying to steal my target?"

He actually snickers at that. "Either options are favorable, Miss Kim. Wherever he ends up, he's going to pay big time for his crimes."

Jisoo looks at him and feels that there's something wrong. Not with Johnny, but with what he said. She did want Taehyung to be imprisoned and punished for all he's done whether it be by Ministry or Confederation standards, but there's something else bugging her.

She bites her lower lip and sighs. "Can I ask you a favor?"

"Haven't you asked for enough favors already?"

She ignores the annoyed tone in his voice. "Let me be the one who catches him." She says, her words falling into the space between them and casting a more serious atmosphere. Johnny looks at her with a changed facial expression. "Let me be the one who confronts him in the end."