Summary: Joohyun was just doing her job, Seungwan thought. Nothing more, nothing less.

Tags: fluff, bodyguard au, idol!seungwan + bodyguard!joohyun

It had soon become Seungwan’s unspoken mission to tease Joohyun, for reasons she was not aware of, yet.
 

She bumped her shoulder against Joohyun’s in jest, eyes sparkling more from mirth than the blinding flashes of a dozen cameras as they moved a snail’s pace across the airport terminal.
 

No one else could decipher what she was whispering to her bodyguard, how she was teasing Joohyun about how overprotective she became when a pretty fan had handed her a lavender-scented letter.
 

Joohyun’s form barely budged from the light pressure, eyes remaining stoic and facing forward, and Seungwan laughed again.
 

Seungwan’s gaze flew to Joohyun’s fingers that were twitching against nothing, like she was imagining wringing Seungwan’s neck, and her grin dropped.
 

It was Seungwan’s unspoken mission to tease Joohyun, but it was never her mission to anger her. Never for her to leave Seungwan behind and find a different idol to protect.
 

Not having Joohyun beside her, fiercely silent and strong, was something Seungwan couldn’t fathom.
 

Her eyes kept to the ground, the guilt weighing them down, and she murmured out a ‘sorry,’ chastised by Joohyun’s body language. She realized her fingers were crumpling the letter she was holding, and she hastily shoved her hands into her jacket pockets so that no one could see them shaking.
 

(She didn’t notice the way Joohyun glanced at her in surprise at her apology, how Joohyun’s lips tried and failed to form words, how her brows furrowed in frustration while her fi