*Sips Wine*

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Joon was outside of Shae and Ava's suite, pacing back and forth in front of the doorway. He was dressed in a slimming midnight blue collared shirt, black dress pants, and his white crew cut of hair was more casually coasting to one side around his tan face.

He kept muttering to himself to take deep breaths as he paced, his hands fidgeting.

The door opened.

Out stepped Shae in a knee-length white dress with her blonde hair in slight waves around her cheeks, and her round blue eyes properly pronounced beneath artful eye shadow and mascara.

"You think this is good?" she asked uncertainly. "It was what Jin and Chimin picked out for me."

He nodded and swallowed. "Yeah. Good." His eyes took their sweet time studying the whole of her.

"Joon?"

"Hmm?" He looked back up at her face and saw slight amusement there.

He's into it. Shae couldn't help but feel a little bit pleased.

"Are you ready to go, then?" she asked innocently.

"Right. Yeah. Time to go."

Really into it. Shae smirked, but Joon seemed too distracted to notice.

Without a second thought, Kim Namjoon reached for Shae's hand and started to lead her along the hallway from the ladies' suite and towards the shuttle bay.

Shae liked that he hadn't just cupped his palm around hers, but that he'd slid his long fingers between hers instead. She gave his knuckles a light squeeze of reassurance.

He turned towards her flickering a kind smile. But it didn't last long. A shadow fell over his face in its place.

It was time to go have that talk with Petra.

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The flight was quieter than Shae expected. Joon was clearly tense. He kept double checking and triple checking information on his dashboard as he piloted their tiny transport shuttle between Noon Mool and the direction of Petra's fortress.

"It's going to be alright, Joon," she said in a soothing voice, reaching out a hand and placing it gently on his shoulder. "It's just one meeting."

Joon tilted his head, leaned in and kissed the top of Shae's hand where it rested on his shoulder. Shae's pale hand against the midnight blue fabric made her seem as if she were made of porcelain. Be careful with her.

He said in an even tone, "You're right. It's just one meeting." His eyes were warm as they flickered in her direction, then his gaze and attention turned forward again.

Shae couldn't help but ask, "What have you decided? About making an alliance or not?"

"Well, to be perfectly honest, I wish that this meeting were happening AFTER the others were back at the base with a healthy dose of our Mysterium along with them."

"But you already know what you're going to say right?"

"Yes." And it's the right thing to do, for once in my god damned life.

Shae didn't understand the range of emotion in the look that Joon was giving her just then, but it made it difficult for her to breathe. Those sharp eyes gone soft. That serious brow turned in sorrow, joy, delight.

Those lips.

Shae cleared her throat and looked away from Joon's gaze, back towards the front of the ship. She sat strapped into the copilot's seat next to Joon, with the X-shaped seatbelt crinkling the folds of her white dress around her.

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