43. Preparations

The Blood Brother Code
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It was unclear whether Suho was unhappy about the deal or delighted at a chance to piss Luhan off.  What was clear was that he didn’t trust the police.

“He says no bodyguard, no electronics, no weapons,” Jongin read off the list.  “Does he think she’s a princess or an assassin?”

Kyungsoo looked up from the fake tooth cap he was testing to make sure it worked and then shrugged.  “What time is he picking her up?”

“Between midnight and one in some park.”

Kyungsoo put the gadget aside and looked at the paper.  “You’re kidding.  That’s drug central.”

“And right in the centre of his territory.”

“We can’t leave Semi alone there at that time of evening.”

“We’re going to have to unless we call the whole thing off and come up with a better idea.  Or try to negotiate through Xiumin.”

“Lay’s right; I don’t particularly want him trying to screw us over.”

There was silence for several moments as Jongin absently started dusting the paper for fingerprints, even though he’d already done it twice before and they knew that they would get nothing from it.

“Was trying to give Luhan a fake phone ruled out, then?” Kyungsoo asked.  “I missed this morning’s meeting.”

Jongin looked up and rolled his eyes.  “I know, hyung, I was there.  And yes, it was.  Luhan’s probably expecting us to try that, which is probably why he tried to target Semi specifically so that he could lure her away when Sehun was kidnapped.  Yixing and I reckon he’s going to demand Semi and Xiumin when he gives us his terms.  Then he was probably going to focus on the phone once that was all sorted.  And speaking of the phone, I need your help.  I was trying to rip the video file so we had a backup just in case anything went wrong, but there’s some kind of data corruption and I can’t.  I can’t get it off the phone whatsoever.”

“And this is an iPhone.”  Kyungsoo his bottom lip between his teeth.  “Weird.  And the video’s not stored on the iCloud or anything?”

Jongin shook his head.  “Semi mentioned it had been malfunctioning when I first met her in America, but she was absolutely paranoid about letting the phone out of her sight for even a couple of seconds, especially after the assassins started coming, so we never got it fixed.  I mean, it still worked fine as a basic phone, but something had gone funny with its ability to recognise what the internet was, so there wasn’t an automatic backup system in place.  She only actually told us what was on the phone after it was stolen.”

“I’ll take a look at it when I have time, then,” Kyungsoo promised.  “Apple products aren’t really my forte, but I’m sure I’ll be able to do something.”

“That would be great.  Has Xiumin been up to anything interesting?”

Kyungsoo shook his head.  “I’m actually quite disappointed in his lack of reaction.  Taemin said he was stressing last night, but now he just seems to be enjoying the alone time.  He probably figured she went to a friend’s and that she’ll be back.”

“That’s pretty much what I told him, though I said nothing about staying overnight.  What’s he doing now?”  Jongin craned past Kyungsoo to look at the computer screens.  “Surfing the internet?”

“I think he’s working on the third of the cases Chen gave him.  He fixed Semi’s phone earlier, too.”

“How long do you reckon it’ll be before he starts to freak out?”

Kyungsoo just shrugged.  “No way of telling, really.”

“I want to know what’s going on inside his head,” Jongin muttered.  “I want to know how much of his charming Semi act is down to his nature or because he’s trying to use her.  Or if it’s potentially because he’s not an unemotional robot towards her.”

 

“We have no idea what’s going to happen to you once Suho picks you up,” Kyungsoo told Semi, “and he’s said no electronics, so you’re pretty much going to be without communication until he decides to give you back again—”

“We were thinking about giving you a hidden mic of some kind,” butted in Lay, “but we suspect he’ll have you strip-searched on entry and he might consider it a deal breaker.”

“Right,” agreed Kyungsoo.  “So I’ve got two things for you.”  He opened his hand.  On his palm lay a pair of earrings and something that looked like a natural-coloured tooth crown.  “It’s worth a go with earrings because they might be overlooked, so they’re both miniature microphones – not very powerful ones, but they should be able to catch anything somebody says to you within a two-metre radius.  The tooth crown is a transmitter.”

“Oh!”  Semi brightened up a little.  “That’s why you took a mould of my teeth yesterday!”

Kyungsoo nodded.  “It should fit nice and snug over the first molar on the left side of the top row, where it’s unlikely to be noticed.  We’ll have your location at all times and we’ll make sure people are as nearby as they possibly can be.  If things tu

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jojojoana
#1
Chapter 7: this is the nth time I read this fic because I often think about it :D I just can't get enought and my imagination always has a good time creating a movie in my head haha ! thank youuu a million times for this
Mitsukiii #2
I have returned years later on a new account but my goodness, this story was so intense. I loved all of it and the sequel too. Honestly they could be published and I still stand by that.
matokicookies
#3
Chapter 105: Reached here 😎 and just want to put a comment again...
The scenes I love the most probably whenever Jongin/Kai is there. He's one of my fav characters in the story, alongside Lay plus the two main characters. One of the other scenes I like was when Semi met Baekhyun at her apartment. The guy being a maniac and Jongin came as a hero fighting the psychopath head to head and that included that first kiss scene between Semi and Minseok. This story innitially was hard for me to read, your english and writing are remarkable and I was struggling to understand it all bcs I'm not good at english but in the end I got it 😆 This story is not just any entertaining fiction story, this is very serious plot and have very deeper meaning. It is fun, I had fun, with all the criminal and law stuff ❤️
Ofc, my fav group is exo and all of the characters you used are written awesomely 🌻 Everyone got time to shine, everyone is shining and have value in their characters. This is one of my fav fanfic stories and I've been coming every year to reread this again 🤗 Will now continue to read blood sister
matokicookies
#4
Chapter 25: Been going to read this masterpiece for the how many times already and I'd say Wendy is really my least fav character 😅 really I hate how nosy (I know she's the overly caring type) but it just urghhh stop it. Like she threatens and forcing her bcs if I'm semi I would say it at her and do what I want to do. I know she ended up good after she knows about Minseok and the truth,though i just don't like how she had been before that. Hahahaha ok enough rambling and complaining 😆
BaekhyunnieBun94
#5
It’s been nine years and I still love this fanfiction. Thank you Korey for writing an amazing Xiumin fic.
yoochuniee
#6
This series has become a classic for me🥰
Baembi
#7
Chapter 3: Man, I just love Lay’s character so much. From the part where he said “What, are there spiders here? They’re only insects Chen” he broke the tension and allowed Jongdae to cool himself down. And then when he said to Minseok “You’ll be the one proposing” I just completely lost it lol His dialogues in this chapter were hilarious.
jazzmine98
#8
Chapter 106: Goodness. Just finished binge rereading the fic for about a week straight. Even lost few hours of that good night sleep just to continue reading it 🤣💀 I really just wanna say thank you so so much for writing this gem. There’s no other words I’d put up to it other than Perfection 🤍 all things aside, I hope you are doing great ✨
walkingirony
#9
Chapter 105: I love this fic so much!
walkingirony
#10
Here to reread this! This is one of my fave EXO fanfics ever. I stopped reading fanfics but I guess I will still comeback to this one from time to time. I love this so much!