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ANOTHER NAME ON THE PAPER

He smirks and there's something so sly in his smirk that makes Jisoo tighten her hold on her wand. He may not have the Dark Mark but she should still have her guard up. "Miss Kim, I thought you'd be more professional than that. Though, I suppose that one year off has hindered your skills and work etiquette drastically."

She would have snapped, but because she had more important things to do than to confront this imbecile, she calmed herself down and tried not to break his neck in half. Instead, she raises her wand.

The man before her tenses and is about to move until he realizes she's pointing it at herself. She lifts the tracking spell he had placed on her before shooting him a deadly glare and turning around, walking back to the wreckage in the center of the Alley.

Jisoo tried to focus. She tried to imagine in her head what the confrontation here had been like, what the Aurors - some of them her friends, all of them her coworkers before - had felt in their final moments. They were here to protect the bank, they probably protected it with all their might but still, they had failed to do so because any wizard who came across Kim Taehyung always ended up dead.

Taehyung slayed anyone, wizard or muggle, who got in their way. How ruthless. She wonders if he'll still keep his end of the deal if she ever did meet him face to face, wand to wand. She reckons he probably knew by now that she was back in the scene, all thanks to Jimin and Taeyong's plan. There was no escaping her task now, their own final confrontation would happen soon but Jisoo just needs to figure out where he's hiding and how to efficiently capture him when the time does come.

"Why are you following me?" Her voice is like a low growl. She looks back over her shoulder, at the Confederation spy walking over fallen columns and large chunks of stones just behind her. Why wasn't he leaving yet?

The man rolls his eyes and kicks a rock to the side. The clouds above their heads hung low and gray, it was going to rain soon. He looked up at Jisoo, hands clasped in front of him. "If I were to be very frank with you, you know what intrigued me the most when I read the profile of the most notorious Death Eater in history?" he said all of a sudden, and he said all of this while looking at Jisoo. He didn't wait for her response. "It certainly wasn't the number of people he killed over the past years or his entire family's allegiance to the Dark Lord's cause."

He pauses, still looking at her dead in the eye. Jisoo already knows what he's about to say next.

"What intrigued me most is that the Auror assigned to him by the Ministry is the same Auror who let him escape in their 'almost capture' over a year ago." His lips are a thin line, he's waiting for a reaction.

Jisoo refuses to give him one, even if she feels like he had struck her. She doesn't know how or where he got this information from because even Jinyoung and the Minister were unaware of this as far as she knew, or were they?

No, they must be oblivious to it because they still wanted to recruit her. She remembers that night in Nottingham a little more vividly now; they had been on his tail, on a chase and suddenly Jisoo is knocked off her broom by a spell and Taehyung was standing right in front of her with a killer look in his eyes that he couldn't act on and Jisoo's hand was trembling like how it was trembling right now.