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It is currently 12:41am on august 29, 20■■, if you were wondering why we needed to define the date…well, it was Agent Choi’s birthday! Now, he wasnt one to get excited about his birthday since most of the time he would be extremely busy with saving lives or filling out reports that he’s been neglecting… to be honest he never really enjoyed celebrating it but this year was special!
Choi was currently making his way into Hyunmoo 1’s office, he was late..but give him some space okay? He just couldn’t sleep and when he did he overslept…but it’ll probably be fine, I mean, what’re the odds that during the 45 minutes he wasn’t in office that there was a distress call?
…during the 45 minutes he was late there was a distress call.
Agent Choi, the sunbae of his team, was running his way to the site where his two hoobaes were. They were probably fine, but he still couldn’t help but worry about them since this line of job always involved danger. Fortunately, when he arrived everything just concluded and he made his way over to the two agents currently talking with the clean up crew.
“aigoo…I leave for not even an hour and look what happened to you guys…”
His two very cute and adorable juniors turned to look at him in surprise?? Huh..that wasnt the expression he thought was coming.
“Agent Choi, what are you doing here?” Jaekwan-ie asked in surprise, Choi could see him exchanging a confused glance with Grapes-ie. Agent Choi was not a man that was easily confused(outside of disasters) but this was odd.
“Hmm~ what do you mean? Am I not wanted here…you’re breaking my poor fragile heart.” To be frank, this was kind of upsetting, I mean it’s his birthday for god sakes?! What happened to the ‘birthday magic’ youngster’s were boasting about??
“ah well, we thought you would be resting at home?..” Agent grapes looked up and smiled a bit, “It is your birthday right?” Agent Bronze nodded in agreement, “Happy birthday Agent Choi.”
…woah. Hearing those words come out of his junior’s mouth hits differently in ways he doesn’t really want to figure out. He stood there dazed for just a little too long where the two in front of him started to have expressions portraying confusion and concern.
“You guys remembered?! Awee my hoobae’s are so cute ^^” he started exaggerating his movements, moving closer and throwing an arm around the shorter agent, which was the (un)fortunate soul Agent Grapes, “aishh, I’m so happy I feel like I aged back 10 years!”
At this point Bronze-ie would probably start going off like ‘Agent Choi, please refrain from disturbing Agent Grapes’ or ‘Please stop your antics, we are still basically involved in a rescue’ but no! None of that happened besides Bronze-ie giving him an exasperated look!! Birthday magic was real after all huh?
He heard Grapes-ie sigh next to him before patting his arm. “I'm glad you’re still full of energy at your age—…..”
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hey—HEY?! WHAT’S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?!? HE WASNT THAT OLD YET???
“ack!!! S-sunbae what I meant was—” but it was too late. Agent Choi was currently sitting far away making circular motions in the ground with a stick from who knows where.
“hahahahaha it’s okay grapes-ie I know this sunbae has been in this line of work for a while. I know what you mean, it's fine.” He’s not that old was he? I mean he was only turning ■■….oh my god he is old old.
Behind his back Agent Grapes, or Kim Soleum was currently spiraling because of the accidental slip of tongue. Agent Bronze next to him was unsure whether to comfort him or Agent Choi. “WHY DID I SAY THAT??” Kim Soleum felt his ears warm up in embarrassment. He felt a pat on the back as Agent Bronze leaned closer.
“Don’t worry too much about it…every year on his birthday someone always accidentally reminds him of how old he’s getting..this year it was just unfortunately you who reminded him.” That made Kim Soleum feel a little bit better, he should really make it up to him soon before Agent Choi holds this above his head.
“erm…can I ask how old he’s actually turning?…” Agent Bronze quite literally froze up for a moment as soon as the question was asked. He nervously glanced at the one who was still sitting far away on the floor drawing circles. “ahem, well…too my knowledge he’s turning..”
‘Oh wow. Their sunbae is old. If Choi fans from his world actually knew his exact age there would probably be a riot.’
“…I see, thank you for telling me” Agent Bronze nodded robotically before turning and deciding to talk to the clean-up team dispatched onto the scene to get away from…whatever is going on. He hopes that Agent Grapes is able to use that information he just shared and think of a way to cheer Agent Choi up. He is a man with a strong principle, so he wishes luck to Agent Grapes.
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It’s been approximately 5 hours, 14 minutes, and 16 seconds since the incident. Hyunmoo 1 is currently in their (sort-of) office, sitting quietly in a comfortable mood. Agent Choi decided to not go home and spend the rest of his day alone in a quiet apartment and instead spend it hanging out with his favorite people!! He’s currently leaning back and forth on his extremely squeaky chair while Bronze-ie is sorting through paper and Grapes-ie is diligently typing out the report about what happened in the morning.
He really enjoys the relaxing atmosphere and all but he is boreddd… He needs something to do other than paperwork or anything work related to do today and what better thing than to annoy his juniors?
“Grapes-ie~ you misspelt a word over there!” The newest member was the first on the target list due to what happened in the morning, “‘No heavy injuries were sustained’?! Didnt I see you with a bleeding arm when I first arrived??”
He could see Grapes’ expression grow more and more embarrassed and tired. Hearing a sigh he suddenly found himself staring right into his eyes, “Agent Choi, let’s go get coffee.” Well that was unexpected??
Bronze-ie looked up from his desk filled with paper and casts a questioning glance towards Grapes-ie, some telepathic thing happened between the two before bronze-ie just nodded…
“If you’re going to the coffee shop down the road, please get me a small black coffee with sugar.”
“okay~~ we’ll be back in a flash” he winked at bronze-ie before getting pulled up by grapes-ie and they walked down the hall, out the building, and allll the way up to the cafe while grapes-ie was still holding onto his arm.
Choi was really loving the birthday magic. The moment he stood in line, it somehow disappeared and he was able to basically get their drinks for free! He grabbed onto the 3 drinks and the 2 scones he bought for himself and walked towards grapes-ie.
“Grapes-ie, hope I didn’t keep you waiting too long?”
“Not at all,” Kim Soleum started moving his arm to grab the bags Choi was holding but he evaded the touch. “Nuh-uh! Don’t worry your precious head off, this is easy to carry~”
“Sunbae, it’s your birthday, let me hold it for you.”
“hmm? Is it because you think I’m too old to have enough strength to carry these bags?” Kim Soleum looked up in disbelief, the expression on his face was comical.
“..I apologize for my comment this morning….” It’s kind of cute seeing his hoobae whose face always looked to be expressionless look away in embarrassment and have his ears glow red from the shame.
“Pfft!! Haha it’s fine!! I know the years are finally catching up to me”
“Ah, I disagree, you look…. Late 20s at most.” oh, that caught me off guard.
Snapping out of his stupidity he started grinning, “really? I didn’t know you were so good with words Soleum-ah” Choi didn’t expect the person in front of him to turn so red.
Kim Soleum groaned in mortification and he coughed once, “..let’s bring these back to Agent Bronze, he has been waiting a while now..” ah, his hoobae really is cute!
During the walk back they didn’t say anything, maybe he shouldn’t have called him by his first name like that…. They stayed like that until the two of them almost made it back to bronze-ie. He almost bumped into his hoobae, when did he get in front of him??
Kim Soleum turned back around with a shy gaze.. “ahem..I know this is probably not the best birthday gift but…” he leaned up and KISSED CHOI’S CHEEK. “Happy birthday sunbae-nim.” As Choi stood there dazed, Kim Soleum quickly grabbed the drinks and the snack before walking quickly into the room.
Yep. This was the most special birthday ever!