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part seventy two

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This is how they end up in the basement, at the far end of the firing range. A cluster of S2s gathers around in the air-locked corridor and watches them with undisguised curiosity as Baekhyun gestures at the mounted weaponry on the walls, rattling specs off the top of his head.

When he turns around again, Kai's tucking earplugs in his ears. He grabs two sets of earmuffs, tosses a pair to Baekhyun before hefting a Berettar in each hand.

"Are we really doing this?" Baekhyun asks. "You haven't even seen your office yet."

"We're already here," Kai says, lifting his eyebrows. The look on his face says he doesn't really care much if Baekhyun stays or not. He sighs and shakes his head, plucks a Smith & Wesson off the wall for himself.

Kai empties his rounds into one of the stationary targets on the other side of the range, thirty bullets straight through the heart. It leaves a grapefruit-sized hole in the corrugated plastic. Baekhyun glances over; Jongdae's face has gone slack on the other side of the glass. Baekhyun grins and raises his pistol, hits six precise pressure points on his target before the cylinder clicks.

"Not bad," Kai says. He sounds like he might even mean it, though that may just be the dampening effect from the earmuffs warping his tone.

Later, when Baekhyun's back in his office and Kai's poring over the personnel files in his own, Lu Han comes by. "Is it true?" he asks, an animated sparkle in his eyes.

Baekhyun levels him a guileless look and resumes typing on his computer. "I have no idea what you mean."

"I heard the new S3 is one scary motherfucker," he says, planting his hands on Baekhyun's desk and leaning forward. "Chenchen told me he threatened a couple of S1s down in the basement earlier today. Frankly, I'm concerned for the caliber of our assassins if just one guy can make them piss themselves with fear, but I haven't actually met him yet, so—" he shrugs, here, "I'll reserve my judgment till then."

"There's something wrong with you people," Baekhyun says primly.

"Stop trying to act like you're above all of this," Lu Han returns, eyes twinkling. His mouth stretches out into a wide grin. "An active gossip mill builds morale. You don't want the workplace devolving into mindless monotony, do you?"

"Only you could think killing people for a living is boring."

"It's the daily grind," Lu Han says. He presses a hand to his chest in typical dramatic fashion. "The tedium gets to me sometimes, Baek. It really does."

"Take what you came for and get out of my office," Baekhyun says, but there's no heat in it. Lu Han wiggles his fingers and mouths a final keep me updated before disappearing again.

Next Tuesday finds Kai sprawled on the sofa in Baekhyun's office when he walks in. There's a crumpled comforter from God knows where crushed into the leather and Kai's shuffling through Baekhyun's personnel reports, one leg hooked casually over the armrest.

Baekhyun collapses into the chair behind his desk and takes a sip of his coffee. "Do you not have a place to live?"

Kai stares at him blankly. "No. I just got here last week."

"I'm sure the company could find suitable arrangements for you."

If it's possible, Kai's expression closes even further. "More convenient to just be here all the time, isn't it?"

Baekhyun chews on his thumb. "I could have a couch sent up to your office—"

"I like this one," Kai mutters.

"Okay," Baekhyun says slowly. "You can have it. I'll get Chanyeol and Lu Han to move it across the hall for you—"

"Tell me about these people," Kai cuts in, abrupt.

Baekhyun's a little thrown at the sudden change of topic, but he takes it in stride. "Um. What would you like to know?"

"Anything." Kai shrugs noncommittally. "We can go down the list." He pulls a sheet of paper out. "Park Chanyeol."

"S2, specializes in controlled explosives," Baekhyun says, ignoring the irritated expression on Kai's face and curling his fingers around his mug. "Honestly, everything you need to know is in his file."

"Who are his friends? With whom does he work best? How am I supposed to be an effective S3 if I don't know this shit?"

Baekhyun frowns and nods. He isn't wrong. "Highest success rate is with Kim Minseok. He's also pulled successful hits with Jongdae and Lu Han."

Kai makes a note and moves on. "Zhang Yixing."

"Best when paired with Lu Han, Zitao, or Kris—but that was before Kris moved up the chain of command and got pulled off the regular roster. Lu Han works well with everyone, really."

"Kim Jongdae?"

"Communications technician, mostly, but handy with a semiautomatic when push comes to shove. Fantastic forger. He and Joonmyun—they were involved in the Rashomon job two years back."

Kai doesn't hide the expression of surprise that flickers across his face quickly enough. "That was them?"

"With Zitao and Lu Han."

Kai worries his lower lip between his teeth. Baekhyun bends down and pushes the power button on his computer. "Tell me about Lu Han."

Baekhyun takes another sip of his coffee. "He's a good assassin."

Kai scans his file. "His specs are off the charts. What about this stuff in Macau, though?"

"Job went bad, got a couple of good people killed. Lu Han took a couple of months off, but he's fine. One of our other S2s transferred to a branch in China."

"Oh Sehun."

"He's coming back at the end of the month," Baekhyun says, and Kai looks up sharply.

"Will that cause problems?"

His stupid intel training kicks in. "I'm not going to participate in baseless speculation. All I can tell you are the facts."

Kai presses his thumb to the center of his mouth and regards him quietly. Then: "That isn't what I asked."

Baekhyun sighs, scrubs a face over his hand. "It shouldn't be a problem."

"Good." He flips to another page and Baekhyun relaxes his shoulders. He hadn't even known they were tense. "What about the replacements?"

"I'm not as familiar with them," Baekhyun says, apologetic. "But Sehun is good at what he does, if rather lackadaisical. Kyungsoo patches people up when they get their asses blown to hell and back. It's not in his file but he's also very good with knives. Moonkyu's coming as a demolitions expert. Soojung's fond of grenades."

"You remember all that," Kai says, an odd quality to his voice. He's staring at Baekhyun with a level of focus that has him shifting uncomfortably in his chair.

"Just doing my job," Baekhyun says. His mouth goes a little dry at the scrutiny.

Kai's eyes dart away again. "I see," he says. He turns back to his paperwork.

They subside into a sort of companionable silence, punctuated by the occasional splutter of the printer or the click of Baekhyun's fingers against his keyboard, a rustle of paper from Kai. The morning flies by in a flurry of emails and post-kill reports. At noon, he pulls a bagged lunch out of his bag and tosses the apple across the room. Kai catches it with one hand, eyes still glued to one of the reports. "I hate apples," he comments, before biting into it with a loud crunch.

Baekhyun smiles into his sandwich.

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