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Treasure/Hunter

This wasn't a department store. This was a high fashion library.

Tae cleared his throat to get their attention, then gestured toward a short row of barbershop style chairs arrayed before a vanity wall.

In one of these barber shop chairs sat Doctor Jin with his chin in one hand. He looked bored beyond belief. He was clad in a white blouse shirt and black pants, and had one leg cross lazily over the other.

Next to him sat a golden haired man with piercing eyes and a smile as soft and radiant as twilight, who wore a glittering silver jacket over an all-white ensemble. This second figure ran his hands through his swoopy golden hair and smiled brilliantly at Ava and Shae, warm with enthusiasm.

This radiant young man was Park Chimin.

"What delightful helpers you and Joonie have delivered to us," the golden man beamed. Shae and Ava felt the suspicious tension in their chests melt away a bit from the genuine warmth of the man's voice.

"You would say that—as you're the one who picked them out in the first place," Jin grumbled.

Park Chimin sent a satisfied smirk at their chief medical officer. "I am the master treasure hunter for a reason. I have an eye for the truly valuable."

Jin eyed Ava and Shae suspiciously. "I've seen better, Chimin." Then the sasspot doctor jumped to his feet and walked forward, beginning to circle Ava and Shae where they stood. He shrugged and admitted, "I've also seen worse."

"Well aren't you the gentleman," Ava sassed, her eyes narrowing at Jin.

"Someone has to be the realist."

"Or in your case, the asshat," Ava clarified.

"Well I never...!"

Shae stepped forward between the electric glare that Ava and Jin were now exchanging. "You're the doctor, aren't you?"

Jin puffed up beneath his prideful smirk. "Indeed, indeed. I am the one and only."

"One of many," Tae mumbled as he stepped more fully into the room, closing the double doors behind him.

Shae chose her words carefully. She wanted to make a good first impression on these new faces. Friendliness could be key to survival, she thought. "I just wanted to say thank you. I heard you were responsible for making sure I was in good shape yesterday after I... yeah."

Jin's eyebrows arched high in pleasant surprise. "Someone around here knows how to appreciate greatness." Then Jin stretched his hand towards Shae and, to her horror, began to pull her by the forearm towards the ocean of clothing racks.

Ava snapped, fists clenched, "Hey, whatcha think you're doin', handsy?"

Shae sent Ava an SOS look over her shoulder as the sasspot Jin led her to a small circular platform, then helped her step upon it. A row of three standing mirrors arched around it and now glistened with Shae's long reflection.

Jin peered at Shae's stature in the mirrors, holding his face in one hand and thinking. "Chimin, I'm thinking the Cleo style for an evening gown. What do you think?"

The golden man flowed gracefully from his chair to stand next to Jin, also assessing Shae's figure inside of the mirrors. He said with a sugary voice, "Oh no, I'm thinking Demarco. Far more elegant and suitable to her long features."

"Bold choice. I like it." Jin snapped his fingers, and a small army of attendants appeared out of nowhere and started their way through the menagerie of clothing, miraculously knowing exactly what the men were asking for.

Shae looked at the captivating golden haired man through one of the standing mirrors, as she stood and waited for the attendants to return, "If Jin is a doctor, what is it that you do around here... it was Chimin, right? Are you a stylist or something?"

Chimin laughed, and it sounded like breaking wind chimes. "You're welcome to just call me Chim. And no I'm not a stylist or anything, I only find this fun. My main job around here used to be as a treasure hunter, always scouting fresh resources for Noon Mool. These days I do a lot more with coding and security. But I'm very good at finding things." He winked, and Shae couldn't help but blush a little bit. "Joon requested I lend a hand today with the two of you, so here I am."

Shae noticed that this Chim fellow bubbled over with enthusiasm as he spoke, but she couldn't help but grumble, "Does everyone do what Joon tells them to do around here?"

A stiff tension fell over the room at her words. The girls glanced at each other in confusion.

Chim smiled apologetically after a slight pause. "Joon is our leader. Where he leads, we follow—and where he is unsure, he is gracious to seek our counsel."

Jin scoffed from where he stood on Shae's other side. "Gracious, indeed."

The comment earned doctor Jin a frightfully scathing look from Chim. Shae wondered how a man with such a warm voice and inviting smile could have such terrifying eyes.

Jin folded his arms and walked back towards the barber shop chairs, sulking at the rebuke from his subordinate.

Chim's features turned baby-soft quickly again as he smiled into the mirror towards Shae. "It's a bit early for you to be worrying over the headache that is Noon Mool politics, don't you think? There's a lot for you to learn before you can really grasp all those dynamics."

Shae thought to herself, Well, I do love defying a man's expectations.

On the stylist work and pampering went until....