Sungmin woke up in a cold sweat. The dream was always the same. He went after Jongwoon and found him asleep in the stairwell, all of his energy spent. Sungmin reached over to wipe Jongwoon's tear stained face, but was stunned by a shock of cold. Sungmin looked down at his hands in bewilderment and they were drenched in blood. He screamed in agony and clutched onto Jongwoon's lifeless body. He begged Jongwoon to open his eyes, but his pleas fell on deaf ears. Jongwoon was dead and it was all Sungmin's fault.    He would be pulled out of his nightmare by the sound of his own screams. The fear left him breathless and ragged, triggering sharp pains that pierced straight through his chest. When his mind finally cleared, he would be alone in a cold bed and that was the way it was always meant to be. It was dangerous for anyone to fall in love with Sungmin, he was destined to be alone. He suppressed all of his feelings for Jongwoon and stored the precious memories deep inside his heart. He had to forget in order to return to work and continue on with his life.   Two weeks had passed and Sungmin still felt pains in his chest. His injury was healing slowly, but he was certain that the pain would never really go away. Sungmin's heart just wasn't into his work anymore, his mind often wandered and it would drift back towards the photographer. He would catch himself lingering around the warehouse district, trying to take a sneak peek through that third-story window. He wondered how Jongwoon was doing, he wondered if Jongwoon even remembered him, he wondered if Jongwoon ever spared a thought for him. Heechul noticed that Sungmin was withdrawn and tried to ask him about his injury, but Sungmin shrugged it off saying that he would be fine as soon as his ribs healed. Heechul wasn't a fool though, Sungmin came back a different man after he had went missing for three days. He wasn't taking as many jobs as he normally would and he didn't seem as ambitious or as confident as he used to be. Heechul thought the ambush and near death experience may have traumatized Sungmin a little bit, but what truly broke Sungmin was something else entirely.    The organization let Sungmin take his time to get back into the game. They had larger concerns, namely the security breach that led to the ambush. Siwon was missing. The heads suspected that he had been turned and set up the botched mission. Sungmin hated Siwon, but he would have never suspected that the boss' favorite could be a traitor. Sungmin was the only other person to survive the mission and he wondered what Siwon's purpose truly was. Why did Siwon request Sungmin's addition to the team? What did Siwon gain by betraying everyone in broad daylight? Most of the rookies suspected that the golden child wanted to expose the organization by getting caught by police, but that felt too simple and it made no sense after Siwon had escaped on his own.    Everything that had happened on that mission left Sungmin feeling restless. A part of him resented Siwon for pulling him into that mess of a mission. That fateful day had brought Sungmin his fair share of heart ache, but he didn't regret a single moment that he spent with Jongwoon. Sungmin smiled wistfully, he could have been spared so much misery if they had never met. He used to find solace living alone, he used to feel free having his own private space, but now he felt suffocated by the crushing silence and he felt lonely in his empty bed. Jongwoon had changed everything for him in the span of two nights and Sungmin would never be the same again.    Another three weeks had passed and Sungmin had finally returned to his missions as usual. Usual meaning that he was bottling in his emotions and executing jobs with cold precision. They were no longer people to him, they were just marks, assignments that needed to be planned and carried out in a timely fashion. Sungmin ran on auto-pilot and did the bare minimum required to complete his missions. He no longer interacted with others. He no longer waged friendly competitions with Kangin or talked back to Heechul.  He rarely smiled and Heechul was beginning to worry that his best assassin was getting burnt out.    “What's wrong with you lately?” Heechul hissed when he had the chance to pull Sungmin aside one day.   Sungmin avoided Heechul's gaze. “What are you talking about? My numbers are the best they've ever been. Other than Kangin, no one can match my completion rate.”   “That's not what I'm talking about and you know it!”   “There's nothing to worry about, Hyung.” Sungmin wrenched his arm free o