The Tiger King (Chaelisa)

81| The Secrets of Our Fathers

Previously:

chaennie escaped from Burning Sun club and got involved in a high octane car chase with police. jennie crashes the car to break the connection with jinyoung. hani retrieves them. the information rosé downloaded from the dead drop needed to infiltrate the showcase is successfully extracted and they learn it is going to be held at the Slammer. chaennie also view some disturbing photographs of tortured lisoo that jinyoung had passed on to rosé.

 hani promises to talk with chanyeol about using the photos as evidence against jinyoung. chaennie reminisce in bed together, especially about lisa since the plan is to extract her first and use her as leverage to get jisoo back. jennie expresses her doubts about lisa's state but rosie is tentatively hopeful that things will turn out ok. in the face of her optimism, jennie feels guilty for treating lisa inhumanely before but rosé comforts her.

trigger warning: mature and graphic scenes of violence. I'm not kidding, things get dark.

"I'm not liking this, Dasoni," Chanyeol frowned, poring over the data in front of him. The low light of the lamp wasn't helping his pinched eyes. But his paranoia had ramped up lately and since a notorious mob boss was presently sitting in his kitchen, he was wary of flooding his apartment with light, as though it were a beacon to call attention of all the neighbourhood that he was up to something illegal.

"Well, good thing I didn't come here for your opinion, Channie," she purred, impertinent as always. He closed his eyes, trying not to breathe in too deeply. The foul cigarette smoke clogged his lungs but he suppressed the urge to crush her awful cigarettes beneath his heel.

He was only tolerating her brazen behaviour because she had summoned him for an emergency meeting at his apartment, no less than an hour after the disaster on the motorway. He had seen the fiasco go down and left while the office was still rife with speculations and furious condemnations of terrorists. 

Chanyeol looked down again at the papers strewn with numbers and information. "Let me get this straight, your plan is to sneak in and steal Tiger King? Just like that? Sounds flimsy, coming from you."

"Jennie knows the Slammer so she will be an asset during infiltration. The twins will make up for her inexperience and support her to locate her sister."

Her sister. Chanyeol gave himself a little shake for forgetting that crucial detail.

"I know but still, going in there like that..." The knot of anxiety in his stomach tightened as he scanned the information obtained from the file Rosé had downloaded. "There's so little time to prepare."

"Lucky you, you're not involved this time." She dropped her light tone. "I admit it's not ideal, but it's the quickest option for the time we're working with. Not to mention, the best opportunity. Jinyoung will be forced to show us Tiger King. Your boys in blue haven't had much success finding her. Wherever he was hiding it, he was hiding it well. When else are we going to get such an opportunity where it's out in the open?"

He had to concede she had a point. The secret raids had only served to piss off Jinyoung, according to Jennie and Rosé, who had returned with a message for Dasoni to back off.

"The longer Jinyoung has Tiger King in his clutches, the more he solidifies his claim over it. Remember, TK-Ultra is addictive. It's a race against time. There's more at stake than just Tiger King too," she added.

"Kim Jisoo," Chanyeol said heavily, finding the gruesome photos amongst the loose sheets. It was enough to make even someone as hardened as himself wince from the senseless cruelty.

Hani paused, tapping the ash from her cigarette on the edge of a ceramic plate he had never used. "The longer that snake has her, the longer she'll suffer. Her and Ace."