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Yoongi doesn’t like to exchange his shifts, he prefers when his schedule is well organized and has enough time to decently sleep, at least a couple of days a week. Most importantly, if he ever exchanged them, it would never be in the middle of the weeK.
But here he is, with Hoseok pleading at him with puppy eyes, and Yoongi can’t say no to Hoseok when he is using puppy.
“I’ll cover all your patients, I promise”
“I’m not trusting you with any of my patients” Yoongi walks to his locker to grab the bottle he was looking for.
Hoseok stays next to Yoongi for a while, using his charms to attack the poor soul of the shorter one.
Yoongi isn’t whipped for Hoseok.
“Just tonight?” Yoongi asks, raising his eyebrows with a very tired face.
Again, Yoongi isn’t whipped for Hoseok.
“Yes! I promise I’ll make it up to you” Yoongi chuckles.
Maybe Yoongi is a little whipped for Hoseok.
“You better do it”
“I promise, hyung” Hoseok hugs him out of excitement, startling Yoongi.
Yoongi is, in fact, very whipped for Hoseok.
And he is a fool.
The nights at the hospital are always very random, sometimes they are calm, sometimes they are a wild hustle. As a resident on call, he just makes sure to check all patients as regularly as possible without falling asleep.
Thankfully Hoseok is coming back in the morning to take the rest of his shift. Yoongi hopes he gets to enjoy at least a few of his free hours of sleep.
He walks through the hallway checking all the rooms that are part of Hoseok’s list, he tries his best not to bother the people that are already sleeping and just smiles shyly at the ones that are still awake.
Hoseok works mostly with underage patients, which means that a lot of teenagers are in this section, and they are not Yoongi’s favorite type of patient.
Teenagers like to judge the hell out of others and are annoying as fuck when a doctor enters their room to do their job.
Perhaps they believe they are at a hotel, but either way, Yoongi can't stand them. They are arrogant little shits and Yoongi has no patience to deal with stuff like that after long hours of work and lack of sleep.
Once he finally finishes his rounds, he enters an empty room and lies down for a bit. He can’t fall asleep, he reminds himself, but he can close his eyes for a couple of seconds at least.
His body is so exhausted due to the previous hours of his shift, that he can’t help but let his mind go to dreamland for a couple of minutes. If it weren’t for the noises coming from the hallway, he would have stayed there longer.
After standing up a little grumpy, he walks to the forming crowd full of interns and other residents that are peeking over some people on stretchers.
There is a lot of noise outside the hospital as well, Yoongi can detect many journalists and cameramen pointing at them.
Many of them are trying to get inside like wild animals while the guards scream at them to get out. The hospital has become a zoo.
“Where is Hoseok?” Yoongi hears Dr. Park screaming, Yoongi shivers, preparing himself to get scolded.
“He had an emergency, Dr. Park, but I am here instead” Dr. Park gives Yoongi an unfriendly gaze which makes the young doctor feel smaller.
“You don’t take teenagers, I need Hoseok, call him”
Yoongi is about to nod when a short guy joins their conversation.
“Dr. Park, I can take him”
Dr. Park stares at Jimin with another tired and unfriendly look, Yoongi rolls his eyes. Of course, that little spoil kid would like to take this case, it looks like a very good case, Hoseok wasted a huge opportunity here.
“Don’t mess this up” Jimin nods and takes one of the boys with him to the section he belongs to, his interns follow him.
“You” D.r Park murmurs, staring at the younger with petrifying eyes. Yoongi pays attention to him, closely. “You are taking this one” Yoongi nods right away as he watches him move around with a clipboard probably given by the paramedic.
“Do you have a diagnosis?” Yoongi asks, checking the poor man that stays unconscious on the stretcher. He has a lot of blood all over his face, a few cuts on his eyebrow and lips, and his clothes are a mess.
“Just read this” He hands the clipboard to Yoongi, he reads it right away. “I’m trusting you, Dr. Min”
Yoongi raises his gaze and nods to his chief. He has always been thankful to Dr. Park for trusting and encouraging him. Although, sometimes it was a bit overwhelming like if they were trying to make him fail or something. It's all part of the learning process, no big deal, Yoongi thinks.
There is a wild noise that startles all doctors. Some journalists break into the hospital entrance which makes the interns run in their direction to keep them away. Yoongi takes it as his sign to leave. He doesn’t really understand what’s going on yet, but he follows his instincts and takes the unconscious man away with him along with Hoseok’s interns.
He does all the necessary tests as quickly as possible after discussing them with his attending, Dr. Lee; while waiting for the result Yoongi notices the man doesn’t look any better but thankfully he’s still alive, and he wants to keep it that way.
The brain of the boy looks injured by the car accident as he was the one driving and his head got smashed against the window. Dr. Lee and Yoongi need to take him into surgery right away to avoid the glass from getting any deeper making more damage.
An X-Ray exam also shows that one of his ribs has been damaged and needs surgery as well. Poor thing.
Yoongi pages all the people he needs in the surgery and moves to the O.R running through the hallways. He meets Dr. Park in the middle talking with Jimin, both of them stare at Yoongi who just bows and moves to attend to his patient.
“Are you getting into surgery right away?” Dr. Park screams in his direction, Yoongi stops running and nods. “I’ll give Hoseok’s patients to another intern for the night, then. Is the boy coming back tomorrow?”
“Yes, sir, he is coming back to his shift in the morning”
“He better have a very good excuse, then”
Yoongi nods, Dr. Park always scares the shit out of him. Jimin gives him an apologetic smile which Yoongi doesn’t buy. No one likes Jimin, you have to be blind not to see the different treatment he gets just for being the son of the chief.
Well, that’s half the truth, they used to have a very good relationship. However, things can’t stay nice forever when you face injustice.
“I’ll make sure he goes to see you as soon as he arrives” Yoongi murmurs, before turning away to the O.R direction.
The surgery takes about three hours, almost four. Dr. Lee is a perfectionist, and so is Yoongi. Both make sure every movement is done properly. Even when he is tired as fuck because he hasn’t slept more than a few hours in the past days, he still makes sure his work is perfectly done and all the details are checked.
He takes the man to his room himself, as he always does with all the patients. The man is still unconscious, and his face is half-covered with bandages, but for some reason that Yoongi doesn’t understand, they still catch the attention of the people around them, which makes the doctor feel observed.
He is grateful when he gets to the room and closes the door.
“Hey, how does it feel to be treating a celebrity?” Yoongi turns to the door, Jackson, another resident from another team, is inspecting his patient’s bandaged face curiously.
“Sorry?” Yoongi takes the updated record of his patient to read the name again.
“You don’t know him?”
“I think I don’t” Yoongi tries to remember if he has ever heard that name before.
“Come on, do you live under a rock little meow meow?”
Kim Seokjin. He reads.
He is sure he hasn’t heard that name before.
“I don’t know the guy but that explains the number of journalists going crazy outside the hospital” Yoongi closes the medical record and leaves it over the table.
“Do you think he is going to have scars on his face? He is handsome”
“I hope he doesn’t” Yoongi isn’t sure what to expect from this recovery, but now that he knows that the unknown man is a damn celebrity he feels a lot of pressure over his shoulders.
“Anyway, Dr. Park said that you should visit him in his office when you finish here”
“Wait, I can’t leave him alone” Yoongi frowns, taken aback. “He just had a ridiculously delicate surgery, I need to check on him constantly, at least until he wakes up”
“That’s why I’m here Yoongi, he sent me to take care of the pretty boy” Jackson adds with a tired face “Go and talk with the chief, I’ll make sure that he is fine”
Yoongi doesn’t want to go, he is always careful with all his patients, he is very devoted to them, even on his days off he calls to check how his patients are doing in case they need his help.
“I’m not going” He finally says, Jackson whines next to him.
“Come on! You are already in trouble for trying to cover Hoseok, you don’t want to fuck up your position more”
Yoongi knows that’s true, besides, Dr. Park never calls them into his office so maybe this is important indeed. He rolls his eyes and faces Jackson.
“Don’t move your eyes away from him” Jackson nods “No one can enter this place without my permission, just Eun noona because she is the assigned nurse for him, but no one else” He points out to the celebrity boy still asleep. “If he wakes up you page me, are you listening to me?”
“Of course, man” Jackson puts his masks in place and moves closer to check the patient.
Yoongi still hesitates for a while before finally giving up and leaving the room.
He knocks on the door until he hears Dr. Park telling him to come inside the office. Yoongi is a very introverted person, he doesn’t get along with a lot of people, not because he hates them or anything, but he prefers to enjoy his time alone. If it wasn’t because Hoseok tried for weeks to get along with him, he would probably be completely lonely.
He is surprised to see Jimin in the office as well, as the introvert he is, he just sits next to him, facing Dr. Park and feeling small again, he doesn’t speak at all.
“Thank you for coming” Dr. Park closes his notebook leaving a pen next to it on the table. “I called you both to talk about your new patients”
“Because they are celebrities?” Jimin asks with a tired tone.
“Don’t interrupt me, Jimin” He stands up and moves to sit on the sofa with a cup of coffee in his hand. “I’m pretty sure you saw the press out there, there are a bunch of people outside because both guys are well-known celebrities. I don’t know if you know them”
“Of course, we do” Jimin answers right away.
“I don’t know them” Yoongi murmurs and Jimin turns in his direction with a judging look.
“You are kidding”
“I am not”
“That’s why he is the best resident of his generation,” Dr. Park says “He doesn’t waste time with mundane things, he is focused”
Yoongi doesn’t know how to take that, doctor Park always sounds way too aggressive, even when he says something nice.
“One of them, Kim Seokjin” Yoongi pays closer attention when he hears that name “Is an actor, he is currently working in a drama”
“Very famous drama, he is also having a new drama on Netflix, soon”
“We get it, you’re a fan” Yoongi whispers, rolling his eyes.
“And the other boy, Kim Jungkook, is an idol”
“He is part of a kpop group” Jimin adds “Very famous too, it’s called BTS”
Yoongi has no idea what Jimin is talking about but he assumes the boys are brothers because they share their last names.
“Which means their fans might get here soon” It’s obvious Dr. Park isn’t happy with that, but he is never happy, so his harsh voice doesn't have any effect. “We already contacted their managers, and they are on their way. Both of you have to update their current states to them, so they can talk with the press. None of us will be dealing with any interview, I don’t want those people in our hospital”
Dr. Park stands up again and opens the door “Needless to say that no one can enter their rooms without yours and their managers’ permission”
“Not even their families?” Yoongi asks, standing up.
“They haven’t mentioned any family, so I guess they aren’t coming”
Both Jimin and Yoongi frown at that, it doesn’t make sense.
“And tell Hoseok to come and see me when he gets here” Dr. Park murmurs when Yoongi is about to leave. He nods respectfully and walks fast away from the office.
When he gets closer to the celebrity room, as he calls it in his mind, he notices a lot of noise from a boy that is arguing with the nurses in the middle of the reception of the floor. They are in a recovery area, there are a lot of ill people around trying to rest, it’s almost 5:00 am, and he has no right to be making such a fuss in the place.
The closer he gets, the most his blood boils.
“What do you think you are doing?” Yoongi asks, frowning at the boy who is taller than him.
“Excuse me?” He looks down at Yoongi. It’s obvious the boy has been crying, he looks worried and scared, and part of Yoongi pities him. He sighs.
“There is a lot of people recovering here, you can’t be screaming, if you keep that behavior, you are out,” Yoongi says in a sharp tone, he is too tired to deal with these situations.
“Who do you think you are to talk to me like that?”
“I’m doctor Min, who the hell are you?” Yoongi reacts, maybe not as professional as he should be, but he is running out of energy right now.
“Doctor Min” the nurse calls him. Yoongi stares at her “He is Kim Taehyung, Kim Seokjin’s boyfriend”
“So, you are the doctor in charge of my boyfriend? Where is he? I need to see him!”
“Calm down, you can’t see him now, he is recovering from the very delicate surgery he just had. Please, show the people here some respect and stop screaming”
Taehyung chuckles “I want to talk with your boss”
“He can’t take care of you now. He is working on important things. Now, one scream more and you are out, I’m serious about this”
The tall boy is about to argue but Jackson joins them first, frowning at both of them.
“What are you doing here?” Yoongi asks rudely. “I told you not to move away from him” Yoongi whispers taking Jackson away from the dramatic boyfriend.
“I think he is waking up, like soon. I’m glad you’re back”
Both walk fast to the celebrity room but when they enter Seokjin is still unconscious. Yoongi checks his state again, everything seems to be in order, lungs doing their job, heart doing its job, all the numbers tell him he is stable.
Jackson observes how Yoongi moves with ease across the room, getting every detail checked. He is, in fact, a very dedicated doctor.
Most interns and residents are jealous of Yoongi for always taking the best cases, like this one for example. However, that’s just because he deserves them, he’s the best resident out of all of them, and used to be a very efficient intern too.
This year everything seems to have turned worse, though. It is especially difficult because all the interns and residents want to stay, however, getting a job in this hospital is a competition and everyone knows Yoongi is the favorite one and that he is going to win.
Him or the spoiled brat Park Jimin.
“What was that about?” Jackson asks, sitting on the sofa that is normally used by the families.
“Don’t you have other stuff to do?”
“Yes, actually a lot of checking because Dr. Park gave me Hoseok’s patients” Yoongi looks at him, suddenly feeling kinda sorry since he was supposed to be doing that job. “Anyway, I told the nurses to page me if there was an emergency”
“I’m sorry about that” Yoongi answers, inspecting the monitor again.
“So?”
“You mean the handsome boy fighting outside?”
“That was quite a fuss” Jackson murmurs grabbing one of the magazines on the sofa. Yoongi walks and sits next to him, resting his head on the back pillows.
“It was his boyfriend”
“No way” Jackson’s mouth falls open and his eyes get ten times bigger “No freaking way!”
Yoongi’s eyes are closed but he still feels the surprise in Jackson’s voice.
“What’s the matter?”
“The matter is that I’m pretty sure no one knows that boy right there is gay” Yoongi opens his eyes right away.
“What?”
“This is top-tier information, Min Yoongi” Jackson stares at Seokjin resting in the bed, he doesn’t move at all.
“You can’t tell anyone” Yoongi murmurs, feeling kind of scared for letting that information slip. In his defense, he didn’t know it was unknown information.
“That’s obvious, I’m a huge fan of him actually, this just makes me love him more”
Yoongi stares at Jackson, he knows he is a good guy and won’t tell anyone. It doesn’t change the fact that he feels uneasy about giving that information.
“Probably you don’t know, but that guy outside is also famous” Yoongi rolls his eyes.
“That explains a lot, he has a huge ego”
“Is he that bad? I have never liked him, probably because he always plays the bad guy”
“He is an actor too?” Yoongi asks, trying to get as much information as possible. He still thinks that he should look up his name on Naver.
“Yes, they have worked in the same dramas many times, they are good friends. I mean, boyfriends” Jackson says confused.
One of their pagers sounds startling both of them, is Jackson’s.
“God, I hope is nothing too bad. See you later little meow meow” He stands up and leaves Yoongi alone in the room, closing the door behind him.
“I hate when they call me that” Yoongi whispers to himself.
Nothing changes until 8:00 am when Yoongi is almost asleep and someone knocks on the door. Yoongi opens his eyes a bit disoriented, before opening the door he checks Seokjin’s state. Everything seems to be still in order, he should be waking up soon.
Yoongi groans when there is a second knock. He walks to the door and to his surprise the one and only Jung Hoseok are standing in front of him. He just laughs and moves aside to let him in.
“I hope you had fun last night” Yoongi mocks, walking to the bed so he can stand next to Seokjin.
“Don’t lecture me, I have been scolded already” Yoongi chuckles at that. “Was it that bad here?”
“Kind of” Yoongi stares at Hoseok, his eyes are focused on Seokjin.
“So, it was true” Hoseok murmurs surprised. “He is really Kim Seokjin, huh?”
“The one and only”
Hoseok checks the monitors as well, trying to figure out his state without reading it down. “He hasn’t woken up yet?”
“No, but don’t need to worry, is normal. He should wake up in a couple of minutes more”
“I hope you gave him enough medicine for that pain because that shit must hurt like hell. I would never wake up if I were him”
“Shut up”
A small groan comes out from Seokjin’s throat, startling Yoongi and Hoseok. The shorter quickly moves the oxygen mask away to hear what he is trying to say. Hoseok keeps an eye on the monitors for Yoongi.
“Hey, Seokjin, can you hear me?” Yoongi asks with a soft tone, he doesn’t want to scare him.
Seokjin opens his eyes slowly, his eyelids seem to be very heavy, and is difficult to move them. After a few minutes of trying very hard, he opens his eyes just a bit.
The first thing Yoongi can see his fear, Seokjin doesn’t know where he is, doesn’t know what’s going on, and can’t even talk properly to ask. Yoongi takes off his mask to show him his face with a shy smile, trying to look friendly but failing.
“Now I get why you don’t work with kids” Hoseok whispers, Yoongi rolls his eyes in his direction. “Sorry” Hoseok chuckles. Seokjin moves his eyes in his direction too, catching Hoseok’s eyes. “Hello, sleeping beauty”
Yoongi has always admired Hoseok’s aura. He is a ray of sunshine and his smile is the brightest one in the whole hospital. The kids love Hoseok, and his energy fits very well with kids as well. He was born with that angelic and innocent charm.
One of the reasons Yoongi fell for him.
“Don’t flirt with my patient” Yoongi whispers mockingly. Seokjin is still very disoriented but the fear in his eyes is not as evident as before.
Hoseok’s pager beeps, he checks it and gives Seokjin an apologetic smile “I’m going to be back, soon” He smiles brightly and even Yoongi falls for him, as always. “Fighting, young man!”
Yoongi rolls his eyes and waits until Hoseok is gone to move away from Seokjin, he needs to keep an eye on the monitors now that his friend is gone. Once he moves away, Seokjin’s eyes are alarmed again, and raises his hand.
Yoongi stares at Seokjin’s hand and takes it between his own without hesitation, his hand is cold, so he squeezes it softly. “I’m not going anywhere, sorry for scaring you” Seokjin nods weakly. “I’m your doctor, my name is Min Yoongi”
Suddenly, a tear falls from the corner of Seokjin’s eye, Yoongi moves one of his hands to rub the tear off his cheek.
“I know you are scared right now, but you are fine. I’m taking care of you”
Seokjin nods once again and tries to speak. He can’t speak though, during the surgery he had a tube down his throat, which is why now it hurts when he tries to make any sound. He makes a couple of noises but can’t communicate at all.
“Please relax, Seokjin, you are in good hands, this hospital is really good, we have good doctors here, trust us”
Seokjin nods, looking less alarmed now.
“Now let me check how is your pretty brain working”
Yoongi spends about thirty minutes checking Seokjin’s reflects, memory, among other aspects but is difficult since he can’t speak and has little to no energy. Both of them try hard to finally communicate even if Seokjin only uses his fingers to do it.
Just as they finish there are a few knocks on the door, Dr. Park appears making almost any noise, he quickly realizes Seokjin is awake and bows respectfully in his direction.
Yoongi stands next to Dr. Park to report the current state of Seokjin and he only nods while listening. His eyes keep focusing on Seokjin all the time.
“I guess he needs to stay here for a couple of days, then” Dr. Park murmurs, reading the medical record. Yoongi nods. “You’ve done a good job Yoongi, Thank you. Although, I have to inform you that he won’t be your patient anymore” Yoongi is shocked for a moment.
“Excuse me? Did I do something wrong?” He looks at Seokjin, trying to maintain his professionalism. Seokjin’s eyes are alarmed again.
“We need to talk about it in private. Namjoon will take this case”
“Namjoon?” Yoongi rolls his eyes. Jimin’s boyfriend is not Yoongi’s favorite person.
Yoongi is mad, extremely mad, he has been devoted to attending Seokjin since the first second. He did the surgery and has been taking care of him all night, it doesn’t seem fair to be cut off like that with no clear explanation.
He tries his best not to seem bothered, Seokjin is looking at him, and he looks very scared.
“I’m taking this with me,” Dr. Park says, waving the papers in his hands. Yoongi nods “Get the patient ready for Namjoon, I’ll wait for you outside. Nice to meet you Seokjin, you are quite popular around the place”
Yoongi’s blood is boiling, he gets closer to Seokjin again, checking the monitor one last time. He grabs Seokjin’s arm to check his IV, it's crucial to keep him hydrated.
He can’t look at Seokjin in the eye but obligates himself to do it when he hears Seokjin is whispering something, trying very hard.
“Don’t do that, do you need something?” Seokjin finds a way to grab Yoongi’s hand, and Yoongi squeezes it.
“What’s… what’s… your… name?” Seokjin finally whispers out. Yoongi raises his eyebrow.
“Oh, my name is Min Yoongi”
“Min… Yoongi” Yoongi nods.
“Do you need something?” Seokjin shakes his head slowly. “A new doctor will come here to check you, his name is Kim Namjoon, he is a really good doctor. I hope you recover well, Seokjin”
It seems like Seokjin wants to say something else but is still very difficult so Yoongi stops him. He leaves Seokjin’s hand over the bed carefully.
“Please, rest a little more. I’m sure you are tired” Yoongi places his mask properly to leave without looking back.
The first thing he hears is people arguing in the reception area, Yoongi frowns when he sees Dr. Park discussing with the overdramatic and arrogant guy from last night, that Kim- whatever his name was guy, the boyfriend. He walks in their direction; he needs an explanation of why he is out of his patient’s case.
“Doctor Min is already out of the case” Yoongi hears Dr. Park says. Now the situation is even more suspicious. “He won’t be a trouble anymore.”
Trouble?
“Dr. Park,” Yoongi says in an unfriendly but respectful tone. The old man faces him right away, Namjoon bows in Yoongi’s direction as soon as he sees him but Yoongi doesn’t bother to acknowledge him.
“Doctor Min, please follow me,” Dr. Park says.
Before leaving, the chief shakes hands with the boyfriend guy which just makes Yoongi want to beat their ass.
They walk in silence until they reach the elevator. Yoongi needs coffee, he is about to pass out while he waits for the red numbers to show his floor.
“I know you are mad and think this is unfair, it is unfair, Yoongi,” Dr. Park says, pressing the -1 floor button. “However, you do deserve some rest so please go home”
“With all due respect, why did you tell that guy that I won’t be any trouble anymore?” Yoongi asks staring hardly at the door, he doesn’t want to face his chief for now.
“That guy made a fuss during the night, he told me that you were disrespectful with him and he wanted another doctor”
“Since when do we listen to family empty concerns? I mean, he isn’t even his family per se” Yoongi asks, losing it. “I did nothing wrong; he was being disrespectful with all the patients, that guy was screaming like crazy in the middle of the night”
“I believe you, and I know we don’t do this, Doctor Min. The problem is, Seokjin is not like any other patient”
“Because he is a celebrity?” Yoongi asks, almost feeling insulted.
“Well, yeah, the press is important. I can’t have his annoying boyfriend making problems over nothing. He didn’t want you so you can’t be part of the case. Now, go home and rest, you have been here for like a week already and you are tired”
Dr. Park leaves the elevator first. Yoongi doesn’t walk out right away, he presses his back against the wall and practice some breathing exercises to calm himself down. Injustice is something Yoongi will always be against, there is no way he would support special treatment of any kind, especially when people don’t even deserve it at all.
When Yoongi arrives home, Holly, his cat, welcomes him from his spot by the window. Yoongi says hi and pets it for a while, almost falling asleep standing next to his pet. He takes Holly in his arms and walks upstairs to take a shower and finally rest.
“Are you sleeping with me?” Yoongi asks Holly when he sees it over his bed after the shower. “Because I would love that” He uses his brother’s hairdryer to remove the water that is still falling over his bare chest.
Yoongi loves his bed, is the best place to be after long hours at the hospital, he falls asleep as soon as his head touches his pillow. Holly resting right beside him.
Is not until dinner time that Geumjae arrives home. He isn’t surprised to see his brother completely dozed off in his bedroom. He softly calls Holly to feed him, trying his best not to bother Yoongi, but the cat doesn’t have the same plans and starts crying from his spot in Yoongi’s bed.
Geumjae curses and walks inside the bedroom to finally take the cat with him, Yoongi feels the hassle and wakes up a little startled and lost.
“Hey, sorry” Geumjae murmurs, Yoongi just nods in his direction with too much sleep in his eyes. “Go back to sleep, when does your shift start?”
“Tomorrow night” Yoongi murmurs, turning to the opposite side, trying to go back to sleep.
“Are you hungry? Maybe you can have dinner and go back to sleep later”
“Actually, I’m fucking starving,” Yoongi says, sitting on the bed, his eyes haven’t opened properly yet, but he can still see Holly looking at him from his brother’s arms.
“I brought take out, I even bought some lamb skewers for you” Yoongi smiles at that.
“Do we still have ice cream?” Yoongi asks yawning with his mouth fully opened.
“That was a good nap huh?” Geumjae chuckles. “And yes, we still have a bunch of ice cream. Wash up your face and come down”
“Thank you, hyung”
The dinner tastes delicious, a little bit too spicy maybe, but their parents raised them to handle spicy food, so they can take it.
Holly is eating his special and very expensive food right next to Yoongi’s foot. According to Geumjae, that food will make Holly’s fur shine. Yoongi is not so sure about that.
“Do you wanna watch some drama?” Geumjae asks, he moves from his sit on the sofa and turns the TV on.
“I’m not a drama man” Yoongi murmurs, getting more meat in his mouth.
“Neither am I, but Yuna loves these things and got me stuck with the spy one” Yoongi chuckles, he is happy that Yuna noona changed his brother, for the better.
“I have no idea what you are talking about”
“The day you get a girlfriend, you will understand” Geumjae murmurs in a funny tone. Yoongi just stares at his food, not feeling that hungry anymore. “Look, Yuna is in love with that guy”
Yoongi raises his head to look at some familiar eyes on the screen. He frowns when he sees Seokjin’s face on the huge screen in his living room. His mind automatically paints his face with the blood and cuts that covered Seokjin’s features last night.
“She could seriously dump me for that man, and you know what, I don’t blame her” Geumjae puts more food in his mouth while he speaks to the TV, “I think is unfair that you get to born with such genetics”
Yoongi looks at his brother, he has always thought that Geumjae is very handsome, that he got the best genes from their parents, unlike him. It doesn’t make sense when people say that they look alike because for Yoongi they don’t.
“Anyway, it is rumored that the guy is dating her” His brother points out, distracting his train of thoughts.
“Like, in the drama?” Yoongi asks, slightly confused.
“In real life, Yuna told me, I have no idea. I think she is pretty, though”
The girl on the screen is, in fact, very pretty. Yoongi doesn’t know who she is but he knows for sure that the girl is definitely not Seokjin’s girlfriend.
“Crap, it ended, we turned it on too late,” Geumjae says as he starts cleaning the table, taking all the empty food containers to the trash. The news program starts after the drama is over. Yoongi makes himself busy and moves to the kitchen to grab some ice cream as dessert. He serves two portions, one for his brother and the other one for him.
When Yoongi is back in the living room, his brother is holding the small trash can in one hand, but his eyes are stuck frowning at the TV. He seems concerned, Yoongi sits on the sofa to eat but as soon as he faces the TV, he sees Dr. Park on the screen. In the background, he can see the front of his place of work.
The screen says “Actor Kim Seokjin and Idol Kim Jungkook currently in delicate state at Asian Medical Center” Yoongi gulps, leaving his ice cream on the table.
Dr. Park explains the current state of both Kim brothers, he says that Jungkook’s recovery is doing well, that he should be fine in a couple of days. Yoongi is happy to hear that, as the case went to Jimin he didn’t get many updates about the boy.
“However, Kim Seokjin’s state is very delicate. He is getting another surgery soon; we are doing everything we can to help him” Yoongi’s mind goes blank.
“Another surgery?” Yoongi whispers to himself. “What is he talking about?”
Geumjae finally sits next to him, removing the gloves and putting them in the trash can. Yoongi closes his eyes, remembering every detail in Seokjin’s diagnosis, why would they put him in another surgery? It doesn’t make sense to him. He evaluated Seokjin, he knows what he saw and what he needed. Seokjin is supposed to be in perfect condition in a couple of weeks.
“Isn’t that your hospital?” Geumjae asks Yoongi, grabbing the ice cream before it melts. Yoongi nods. “Do you think he is gonna be fine? It sounded really bad”
Yoongi stares at his brother, it did sound absolutely bad.
Seokjin might not be his patient anymore, but he was until this morning. Yoongi worked in his head less than a day ago. If Seokjin needs another surgery, he better scrub in.
He runs upstairs and takes a shower in a matter of minutes. As soon as he is clean and dressed, he takes his phone and his car keys.
“Yoongi? Where are you going? You have to sleep”
Yoongi looks at his brother from the front door of their apartment, he says a simple goodbye without further explanation and runs to the elevator.
As soon as he gets inside the car, he calls Hoseok, who is late so he might have some time free. He has to call four times to finally hear Hoseok’s voice.
“Hey” Hoseok’s voice sounds off, like if he was having a nap.
“Are you doing well?” Yoongi asks, trying to be polite.
“Are you calling me to ask if I am doing well? You damn freak” Hoseok whines, he was probably taking a nap.
“Wait! Don’t hang up. I was just trying to be polite with you”
“What do you want?”
“I was watching the news and I saw Dr. Park’s interview-
“Dr Park in national TV? You are kidding” Hoseok starts laughing as it was the funniest joke in the world.
“Shut up, moron. He said Seokjin needs another surgery, do you know anything about it?”
“Why are you asking me? He is your patient”
“Doctor Min removed me from the case”
“Fuck, what did you do?” Yoongi groans.
“It doesn’t matter now. I’m just concerned, I checked him, and I know he doesn’t need another surgery. I’m driving there now”
“Wait, he is not your patient anymore”
“And?” Yoongi asks, completely annoyed.
“You can’t just get involve if you have been removed, you know that”
“Please go to Doctor Lee and tell him I’m on my way, I mean I was in the surgery, I did most of it, I deserve some sort of respect. I need to check their exams to understand why they are giving him another surgery.”
“You are so problematic, hyung” Hoseok groans. “I was comfortably sleeping, but is fine, just because your patient is a hot celebrity and I owe you, I’ll do that for you”
“Thank you Hoseokie”
Yoongi drives as carefully as possible, the last thing he wants is to be stopped by the police. Nevertheless, as soon as he gets to the hospital street, he speeds a little more.
He parks the car and runs upstairs; he doesn’t wait for the elevator since there are a few people already in line. He still sees some cameramen around their vehicles, all from different channels.
When he is finally dressed in his uniform he runs upstairs again, he hopes Seokjin is still on his floor.
The reception is quiet, he doesn’t see any of the nurses around which is already suspicious. He walks fast to the “celebrity room”, which is at the end of the hallway, and just hopes Seokjin is still there.
When he opens the door there is a lot of noise that slaps his face, two tall men are there, arguing with each other. Dr. Park is there as well, Namjoon is there as well, arguing with the other two tall men. Three nurses are covering Seokjin, he also spots the egocentric boyfriend next to the bed.
He walks inside to see Seokjin better and finds out he is crying and screaming desperately which scares Yoongi right away. His voice is broken, it’s obviously painful for him to speak, so screaming must feel worse.
“Dr. Min, what are you doing here?” Yoongi hears Dr. Park asking.
Seokjin looks up, away from the nurse, at Yoongi. He starts pouting and tearing up again as soon as he recognizes him, his eyes are so red.
Maybe Yoongi is crazy, but he feels that Seokjin is asking for help.
“What’s going on here?” Yoongi asks, moving one of the nurses away, Seokjin IV’s isn’t connected to him anymore, is hanging on in one of the nurses’ hands. He frowns and puts on a pair of gloves to take it away from her. Seokjin keeps crying and Yoongi doesn’t know what to do, this morning he was scared but right now he is freaking out.
“What do you think you are doing?” The boyfriend asks, grabbing Yoongi by his shoulders.
“Stop!” Dr. Park screams, crossing the room quickly to move the guy away from Yoongi. “Dr. Min, he is not your patient anymore. Dr. Kim is going to do it”
Yoongi stares at him, offended. “Dr. Park, please let me do my job and take this guy out of here” He points at Taehyung. “You know what? All of you get out of here!” He screams at the rest of the people in the room.
Silence takes over the place, the only remaining sound is Seokjin’s sniffing. Yoongi faces him again, completely focused on Seokjin. He wants to talk to him but the presence of all those strangers is bothering him. He turns to face them again.
“I wasn’t clear enough? Get out!” He says, looking at the strangers next to Namjoon.
The nurses move away but don’t leave, they wait until Dr. Park nods in their direction.
Everyone takes that as their sign to leave, even Namjoon which gives the furious Yoongi an apologetic look. Yoongi wants to burn him alive for allowing this mess near his patient.
Dr. Park takes Taehyung out himself, the guy still having clear desires to kill Yoongi and the feeling is mutual.
Once everyone is finally out and the door is closed, Yoongi dares to look back at Seokjin. He is still tearing a bit, Yoongi quickly takes one of his gloves off and removes the tears with his bare hand. Seokjin’s face is cold which is a huge contrast with Yoongi’s warmer fingers, actually, Yoongi’s whole body is burning inside.
“Don’t cry Seokjinssi” He says softly. Seokjin sniffs a few times more until he finally stops. “Have you drank any water during the day?” Yoongi asks, his fingers still removing Seokjin’s remaining tears.
“No, it was too painful” Seokjin whispers, his voice sounds off and cracked.
“I understand. However, you seem to have cried a lot, I can’t have you here dehydrated. I’m going to give you some water and you are going to drink it” Seokjin looks at him with scared eyes. He looks like a lost puppy.
“Please, no” Seokjin whispers, and Yoongi’s heart shifts, he feels sorry for the guy.
“Please do it, you were screaming when I arrived. I think a little bit of water will be helpful for your throat too”
Yoongi stands up, Seokjin follows all his movements until he loses him in the bathroom. When Yoongi appears again, he is holding a gigantic cup, Seokjin eyes almost fall off his face.
Yoongi chuckles “You are not going to drink all of it” He assures Seokjin.
“Please don’t make me”
“I want you recovered,” Yoongi says standing next to Seokjin. The actor only nods, defeated, and opens his mouth a bit.
Yoongi grabs a chair to sit next to Seokjin’s bed, carefully putting the cup of water in Seokjin’s mouth. Is the first time he has seen Seokjin looking a little alive, there is a bit of blush on his cheeks that Yoongi can’t stop staring at.
Seokjin’s lips are plump, they have a few cuts that are starting to dry and close, but they are still red and pretty. Yoongi reminds himself that he is looking at a celebrity face, an actor, to be more specific. Yoongi doesn’t remember meeting a celebrity before, or maybe he has but he didn’t even know.
He didn’t know Seokjin was an actor after all.
Seokjin closes his lips after a couple of seconds, he didn’t drink much water, not even half the cup, but Yoongi can deal with it later.
“Good boy,” Yoongi says, smiling at Seokjin, it makes the actor chuckle.
“Thank you for being nice to me” He murmurs very weakly.
“You are my patient; I want to be nice to you”
Seokjin looks up at Yoongi’s eyes, both of them seem to be genuine with each other and that calms Seokjin’s fears.
“How was your day?” Yoongi asks, moving away to get everything he needs to put another IV in Seokjin’s arm.
Seokjin isn’t stupid and starts shaking as soon as he sees what Yoongi is doing.
Yoongi looks back at Seokjin, noticing how scared he is of needles, he sighs, and sits back next to Seokjin, holding his hand as support.
“The sooner you recover, the sooner I will stop putting needles in your arm,” Yoongi says, Seokjin doesn’t seem convinced at all. “Do you want me to do something for you?”
“Don’t let them come back” Seokjin whispers taking Yoongi aback. “I’m gonna do anything you want if you keep them away from me until I’m fully recovered” Seokjin assures him.
Yoongi frowns but after the mess he just saw, he understands it.
“I’ll do my best, but before I get to do that, I have to win you back as my patient”
Seokjin frowns “What is that about? Is there a problem with me that you can’t be my doctor?” Yoongi starts sanitizing his hands, avoiding looking at Seokjin. He wipes Seokjin’s arm as well.
“Not really. I am the problem” He murmurs, putting the white tourniquet in Seokjin’s arm.
“You seem like a very good doctor” Seokjin whispers, his eyes focused on what’s Yoongi is doing.
“Really?” Yoongi looks up, sees Seokjin staring at his arm. “Look at me” Seokjin raises his gaze, locking his eyes with Yoongi’s. “You have nice veins,” Yoongi says smiling at the actor, Seokjin chuckles. “Let me put these things on first” He grabs a new pair of gloves and puts them on.
He moves to remove the cannula from its package, he can feel Seokjin staring scared as hell at him. “Seokjin, please trust me, I’m not going to hurt you,” Yoongi says, Seokjin nods slightly, doing his breathing exercises.
Yoongi removes the cover from the needle and makes sure Seokjin isn’t looking at it, he smiles when he sees Seokjin with his eyes closed, preparing himself for the pain. Yoongi thinks he is adorable; at the same time, he doesn’t want to hurt him.
“You are going to feel a sharp scratch, but that’s it, I promise”
Yoongi does it quickly, to avoid any pain, when Seokjin opens his eyes the IV is right in its place and Yoongi’s job is done.
“Was it too bad?” Seokjin shakes his head, it wasn’t.
“Thank you for having patience with me, I’m 27 years old and I still freak out with stuff like this” Seokjin covers his embarrassed face with his other arm. Yoongi takes off his gloves while he smiles at the dork in front of him.
“You are not that bad, you still let me do it. Many patients wouldn’t let me at all, most of the time I make them sleep with anesthesia first” Yoongi says, removing his face mask.
“Can you do that?” Seokjin asks desperately, removing his arm from his face. Yoongi laughs hard at his reaction.
Seokjin stares at Yoongi’s face for a fair amount of minutes, until Yoongi feels way too observed and starts to move around the room.
“Do I have something on my face?” He asks, a bit insecure.
“No” Seokjin answers quickly moving his eyes away, his cheeks turning pink again.
“Oh, great, I’ll let you sleep then,” Yoongi says, once the room is clean again. Seokjin smiles.
“Thank you. You will come back, right?” Seokjin asks, hopefully.
Yoongi isn’t sure about it, he knows he can’t make promises as a doctor. However, at this point, he wants to take care of Seokjin, so he will fight to get him back.
“That’s my plan” He answers instead. “Are you comfortable?” Seokjin nods. “Great, I’ll turn off the lights so you can sleep. Please call the nurses if you need anything, Seokjin.”
He closes the door carefully and sighs as soon as he is alone in the hallway. He has a million problems now, what he did was in no way allowed, he screamed at everyone, even at Dr. Park. He already has an awful relationship with the boyfriend and now with his chief too. He could even get kicked out; he is just a resident.
When he gets to the reception, Dr. Park and Namjoon are there, clearly waiting for him. Both of them raise their heads as soon as they hear Yoongi’s steps.
Yoongi is fucked up.
“I know what I did was wrong, but he was desperately crying, he was scared, and I had to help him”
Dr. Park stops Yoongi’s monologue raising his hand, he turns to face Namjoon and asks him to leave before he bothers to answer Yoongi.
“I know you had no bad intention, I wanted to put you back as his doctor” That surprises Yoongi, “He asked for you, he didn’t allow Namjoon to do his job, he didn’t let the nurses come near him, that man has no manners”
Yoongi wants to laugh, Seokjin has been nothing but kind and a little scared, he hasn’t been disrespectful with Yoongi at all so it’s hard to believe they are talking about the same person.
“So, I’m back?”
“Yes, but your shift isn’t until tomorrow night”
Yoongi wants to protest but Dr. Park scolds him.
“Why was he crying earlier?”
“The managers were fighting in the room with the boyfriend and Seokjin. I don’t know what the matter was but one of the nurses called me and when I entered the room he was already freaking out, the nurses tried to calm him down but no one could until you arrived”
Yoongi sighs, he won’t allow any of those people to get into that room unless Seokjin asks for them specifically.
“Namjoon will keep an eye on him until you come back” Yoongi nods.
Just then, Taehyung enters the floor and calls Dr. Park with his unfriendly and arrogant tone giving a fatal look at Yoongi, he is unhappy with him being his boyfriend’s doctor, but it doesn’t bother Yoongi, he is happy he got his patient back.
Yoongi decides to ignore them and moves to the reception area to search for Seokjin’s updated medical record, he wants to inform himself on why they are giving him another surgery. He tries to focus but still hears a bit of the conversation taking place a few meters away from him.
He is glad Seokjin asked for him himself, otherwise there’s no way Taehyung would let him stay in the same hospital as his beloved boyfriend.
The way to the hospital is a bit of a hassle tonight as there was an accident and is cramped with cars everywhere. He has been almost ten minutes stuck in the same avenue but it’s finally reaching the end of the traffic jam, he can see the ambulance lights and siren going over and over again.
He stares at the time on his phone, he left the apartment at a good time but now his shift is about to start, and he is still stuck in the middle of that dreadful street.
He reads over his schedule one last time while he waits, Mr. Park seems to be completely biased towards the actor Kim Seokjin because it’s almost the only patient he has to take care of tonight.
Yoongi still thinks he will visit the rest of his patients, especially the ones that have been in the hospital the longest. He might be removed from most of those cases but Yoongi still feels responsible for them.
He leaves the phone in the seat passenger when the car in front of him starts to move. He moves too, finally getting closer and closer to freedom until he gets to the final part of the crowded line.
Yoongi makes it to the hospital about ten minutes late, he says sorry to Dr. Lee who just dismisses him because he is Yoongi after all.
“There was an accident, do you want to help?”
Yoongi is about to answer when Dr. Park arrives, putting a hand over the younger’s shoulder “Sorry Dr. Lee, Yoongi is in charge of a particular patient for now. Besides, he is already late for that patient”
Yoongi bows to the two doctors before he runs upstairs to reach his floor. When he arrives Seokjin isn’t in the room he left him last night which bothers Yoongi because he wasn’t notified about it.
When he finally opens Seokjin’s door, Yoongi is almost knocked out by the gorgeous smile that the older offers him as soon as he enters.
“Finally,” Seokjin murmurs, and his voice sounds better than yesterday. Still cracked, but better.
“I’m sorry I’m late” He murmurs, entering and closing the door behind him. “How are you?” Yoongi asks, checking the monitor.
Seokjin stares at the monitor too, he doesn’t understand a thing. “I feel better, sort of hungry”
Yoongi stares back at Seokjin surprised “Are you?” The actor nods shyly. “That’s great, although I don’t know if hospital food would be that tasty for a celebrity”
Seokjin chuckles and shakes his head “I’m still just a person, you know.” He rests his head in his pillow and focuses his eyes on the white ceiling.
Yoongi updates the heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, among other things in Seokjin’s medical record taking his time in silence. The actor doesn’t bother him and lets him do his job. However, eventually, when Yoongi glares at Seokjin again, he sees the actor staring back at him with an inquisitive look.
“What’s the matter?”
“I was wondering…”
Yoongi closes the folder in his hands and leaves it over one of the wooden shelves, waiting for Seokjin to find the courage to speak again.
“Honestly, I want to ask you a favor”
Yoongi turns his head to Seokjin and sees him biting his bottom injured lip.
“What?”
“Can I see my brother?”
Seokjin is particularly shy when he asks the question and Yoongi wants to squeeze his cheeks because he looks ridiculously adorable and small. He removes the thoughts from his head and nods.
“I will call his doctor and see if we can do something about it”
Seokjin raises his eyebrows in surprise, he wasn’t expecting a positive answer.
It amazes Yoongi how different Seokjin is from the other people that surround him. Yoongi remembers the actor’s boyfriend attitude, how arrogant he was all the time, and the managers too, he hasn’t talked much with them, but he has eavesdropped on a few of their conversations and they didn’t sound nice at all.
Seokjin, on the other hand, is nothing but a sweet and gentleman, he is respectful most of the time, maybe he freaks out a bit when he is scared but besides that, he has been nice with Yoongi and the nurses and they love him.
It is surprising because Seokjin wasn’t an ordinary person, you could tell how powerful he was when you stared outside your window to see that bizarre number of journalists waiting for some news about him.
Seokjin probably knows about it too, he knows he only has to say what he wants, and he will get it. Nevertheless, he always asks politely when he needs something and never sounds demanding about anything even though he has the influence to do so.
“Have you heard anything about him? I asked Tae, but he told me he didn’t know anything”
“I heard he was doing better than you” Yoongi answered easily.
He still remembered what Dr. Park said about them on TV the other day. Yoongi is glad he was back at his job as his doctor because it’s obvious the actor doesn’t need another surgery, for now, they debated about it a lot with Yoongi’s attending and eventually decided to postpone said surgery and wait until Seokjin was recovered from the one he already had.
“Really?” His voice sounds relieved, and maybe a little emotional. “That’s good news, I was scared about it”
“You just had to ask”
Seokjin smiles shyly at Yoongi “I was scared of the answer, he is my little brother, if something happens to him, I wouldn’t be able to handle it”
Yoongi nods, he has a brother too, if something happened to Geumjae, he wouldn’t handle it well either. “I’ll call his doctor and see if we can arrange something”
Seokjin nods eagerly, following Yoongi’s movements with his eyes.
Someone knocks on the door then, Seokjin stares at it right away while Yoongi crosses the room to open it.
Hoseok is there smiling brightly at the door, both the actor and Yoongi smile back at him automatically as he walks in. It was like a superpower, it didn’t matter if you know Hoseok beforehand or not, his pure presence will light up your mood.
“Hello, I’m Hoseok,” He says, walking closer to Seokjin.
Yoongi stares at his friend before asking him what he was doing there.
“Relax, little meow meow” Yoongi crunches his nose at the nickname, seeing Seokjin trying hard to hide his sudden smile. He feels his cheeks getting pink. “I wanted to hang out, I assumed you were boring your gorgeous patient” He murmurs, winking at Seokjin.
The actor chuckles, although he quickly switches his eyes to Yoongi to express how that is untrue.
Yoongi opens the door he recently closed and murmurs “Get out of here”
“Yah, hyung! I just want to hang out, I’m bored myself, my floor is dead”
“Hoseok works in the pediatric floor” Yoongi murmurs to Seokjin who nods. The doctor closes the door again and takes a seat on the couch. “I don’t get how is that boring? Just go and talk with them!”
“They are teenagers hyung, they are stuck with their phones watching Netflix”
“Wait, teenagers? Have you, by any chance, seen my brother?” Seokjin asks hopefully.
Hoseok turns his head to Seokjin “Jungkookie? Sure! He is an adorable young man”
Seokjin smiles softly at that and Yoongi thinks he has the most precious smile; how can a person be so good-looking?
“He is cute, isn’t he?”
Hoseok nods “He is doing well too; I think he is doing better than you”
Seokjin glares at Yoongi, who is staring back at him with an “I told you” look on his face.
“I’m really happy to hear that”
“I think you should sleep, Seokjin” Yoongi finally says, standing up from his spot on the couch. He hears Seokjin whining. “What?”
“I’m not tired,” He says in a pout.
Yoongi stares frozen at him for a couple of seconds, the sudden desire of squeezing his cheeks and cover them with soft kisses makes him unable to speak.
“You are so ridiculously pretty,” Hoseok says unfiltered. Seokjin chuckles, shaking his head. “I’m serious, isn’t he pretty, hyung?”
Yoongi frowns at him without knowing what to say, “Get out, he needs to sleep” He says half joking half serious, Hoseok laughs, and walks closer to his friend.
“Don’t be jealous, you are also really cute and pretty” He whispers on his way out, and Yoongi thinks he is about to faint.
Seokjin seems to have heard the whisper too because he stares at Yoongi with a raised eyebrow.
“Oh god, are you dating him?” Seokjin asks as soon as Hoseok leaves, taking Yoongi aback.
“What? No, I’m not” Yoongi murmurs, walking to Seokjin’s bed to check the monitors once again, just for the sake of doing something.
“But you like him” Seokjin insists.
“I don’t,” Yoongi says, his whole face going red.
Seokjin laughs and shakes his head “Look at me, you are tomato red” He keeps laughing at his doctor for a while until Yoongi finally faces him.
“This is so unprofessional” He whispers shaking his head.
“Don’t worry, this is like a holiday to me”
Yoongi stares at him confused “A holiday in the hospital? Are you serious?”
“Well, I don’t remember having so much time to just rest and do nothing else, I think I’m always working even when I’m not on set”
Yoongi nods, understanding, he has an overworking schedule himself, but he still has some private time as he isn’t a celebrity. It might be tiring being Seokjin.
“I guess your work is very demanding”
“Yours look demanding too” Seokjin murmurs and Yoongi chuckles. “And difficult, you save lives, I’m not even close to that”
Yoongi thinks about it for a couple of seconds, taking a seat next to Seokjin on his bed, very inappropriate but Seokjin doesn’t seem to care. “I’m pretty sure you have helped people in your own way too, I mean, the public loves you for a reason”
Seokjin smiles weakly at that, and eventually, Yoongi notices his ears turning red.
“Huh? Look who is turning tomato red this time”
Seokjin snorts.
The actor falls asleep about one hour later after Yoongi gives him his last medicine for pain. He has to receive a new antibiotic dose in a couple of hours more, so Yoongi lets him sleep in peace and heads out of the room looking for some coffee.
After finishing almost half the cup, he walks to the pediatric floor looking for Jimin so he can arrange the meeting between Seokjin and his brother. He doesn’t find him in the staff lounge but one of his interns inform him that he just went to the on-call room a few minutes ago.
Yoongi walks there in no time, hoping Jimin isn’t already asleep.
He wishes he didn’t go there, once he opens the door and turns on the light the only two people there, Jimin and Namjoon, are fucking in one of the beds. Yoongi sighs, not bothered by the act itself but mostly because now he has to wait for them to finish to finally speak with Jimin.
“Fuck, what are you doing here?” Jimin asks, frozen in his position over Namjoon.
Yoongi crosses his arms and gives them a tired look “I need to talk to you; can you just finish quickly so we can talk?” He asks, taking a sip of his coffee.
“Well, I don’t think we will finish with you here staring at us, I didn’t know you were into that”
“Do you want to join us?” Namjoon asks, still frozen with his hands on Jimin’s hips over him.
“Just come out quickly, it’s important” He murmurs throwing his empty coffee cup on the trash bin and exiting the room.
It takes like ten minutes for Jimin to come out of the On-call room fully dressed, Yoongi doesn’t comment about how long or how little it took them to finish and goes straight to the point.
“Well, I think he can go and visit him, he has been asking about Seokjin a lot”
“That’s great news, maybe tomorrow after breakfast you can take him there”
“Sounds good to me” Jimin murmurs, buying a coffee from the vending machine. “That was it?”
“Yes, I thought it would take you longer” He murmurs, Jimin eyes him from the corner of his eye “To say yes, I mean, I thought you would say no”
Jimin chuckles “Why would I say no? They are brothers”
“Don’t know”
He does know, it’s not a secret the bad reputation Jimin has. Even if they used to be “friends” when they were interns, he never got to know Jimin well. Jimin always had this special position in which he wouldn’t even have his meals with other interns, he used to hang out with attendings and residents daily.
He has this arrogant reputation that Jimin is a doctor that’s difficult to deal with, you have to beg him to do something for you because there is nothing he needs from you so you can’t pay him back.
And this is a favor, taking into consideration that it’s against the rules of the hospital to move patients from one floor to another just to pay a visit. He thought he would have to fight for it a bit more.
“Why didn’t you just call me to tell me this?”
“I’m sorry for ruining your moment there, but I don’t really have your number and Seokjin is sleeping so I just came here”
Just then, Hoseok appears in front of them by surprise, eyeing Jimin suspiciously when he sees him walking so close to Yoongi. The blond doctor says goodbye and returns to the on-call room to probably take a nap or fuck his boyfriend again, who knows.
Hoseok takes Yoongi by the hand and walks with him to the staff lounge to spend the rest of Hoseok’s break in one of the couches talking about music and a concert they want to attend next month.
Seokjin tears up the first time he sees Jungkook in his wheelchair, he tries to stand up as soon as his brother enters the room but Yoongi quickly stops him, Seokjin’s state is worse than Jungkook, and rough movements would make him faint or throw up.
Jungkook’s face is still very injured, his eye is purple and green, his lips injured too with dried scars, his nose still covered in bandages after the surgery he had because he broke it. He is also wearing a collar cervical to keep him in place which scares Seokjin the most.
The good thing about Jungkook, is that there wasn’t much internal damage, most of his injures are very superficial and he will recover faster than Seokjin who got glass in his head, face, and neck and a damaged rib that took him to surgery.
“Hyung” Jungkook cries, his eyes are watery making Seokjin cry too.
“Can I hug him? please?” The actor asks Yoongi who, with a broken heart, shakes his head and whispers a small no. “It would take a second”
“Seokjin you can’t even sit properly yet”
“Hyung, give me your hand,” Jungkook says, giving his hand to Seokjin who takes it right away. “I was so scared,” He says in a pout, Yoongi thinks both brothers communicate very similarly.
“Yoongi, can you keep an eye on Jungkook while I make a call?” Jimin asks, Yoongi nods and moves to sit on the couch to give the brothers some privacy. He can’t leave the room because, one, Jungkook isn’t supposed to be there. And two, he thinks he knows Seokjin a bit to know that he will ignore his state and stand to hug his brother.
“Does it hurt?” Seokjin asks.
“Sometimes, but they give me medicine when I’m in pain. Dr. Park is a very good doctor” Jungkook smiles which makes Seokjin smile too. “How is your doctor?” He whispers, Yoongi still gets to listen to it.
“He is cute” Seokjin whispers back, knowing that said doctor is listening to them. Yoongi glares at Seokjin frowning because he knows the older is clowning him. It makes Seokjin chuckle “He is a good doctor too”
“By the way,” Jungkook says, unsure. “Taehyung hyung went to see me”
“He what?” Seokjin huffs hard “What’s his problem? Does he feel responsible for this shit?” He asks annoyed.
Yoongi tries his best to play dumb but it surprises him how Seokjin talks about his boyfriend.
“Hyung, you should talk to him”
“No Jungkook, we broke up, it’s over, I don’t know why he keeps coming here”
“He loves you”
“He cheated on me, Jungkook,” Seokjin says in a hard tone.
Yoongi hisses unintentionally. Seokjin raises his eyes to stare at him and Yoongi goes red.
“Sorry” Yoongi whispers, embarrassed.
“It’s okay, I hope it’s clear that I don’t want him near me”
Yoongi nods “I wish I knew that before I had to deal with him the first day,” He says, more to himself than to Seokjin but both Kim brothers laugh at the sudden confession.
The brothers talk a bit more about their experiences in the hospital and about their plans now that they will be out of business for a couple of weeks to recover. They make deals to get better soon and Jungkook promises he will try to come again if Dr. Park lets him.
“I think Jungkookie has to go soon, it’s almost time for his dose, the nurses will freak out if they don’t find him in his room”
“Right, I also will play video games with Hoseok hyung in less than an hour,” Jungkook says excitedly. “Hyung, he is so pretty!”
Seokjin laughs “Isn’t that your boyfriend, Yoongi?”
Yoongi rolls his eyes and Jungkook ears go red, it might run on the family.
“He is certainly not my boyfriend,” Yoongi says, preparing Seokjin’s medicine with the syringe.
“Oh, come on! I know you like him” Seokjin insists again “Although, if you don’t make a move my handsome brother will steal him”
“Hyung!” Jungkook whines, embarrassed.
“Do you like him Jungkookie?” The doctor asks, following Seokjin’s joke so the attention wouldn’t be on him. Sorry, Jungkook.
“N-no!” The younger says with big eyes.
“Are you sure?” Yoongi asks, injecting Seokjin’s medicine in the small cannula in his hand. “Because you have a strong competition, most kids on your floor have a crush on him”
Seokjin laughs at his brother who looks visibly jealous with the comment.
“I don’t like him like that!” He protests. “When is Dr. Park coming back? I don’t like it here anymore”
The two oldest laughs hard at that and Yoongi thinks Seokjin is shining more now that he saw his little brother is alive and doing well. He likes it.
After almost two weeks later, Seokjin is taken to the X-ray room to check his injured rib. The results are good, not enough to be discharged, not even close, but his recovery is going well and those are amazing news for everyone.
They do a brain scan too, Yoongi spends a while discussing it with Dr. Lee and Dr. Park until they decide to treat the rest of the damage with medicine and not take him to the O.R again.
When Yoongi announces the big news to Seokjin he almost cries of happiness, surgeries terrify him, so avoiding them sounds like heaven to the actor.
As Seokjin is not in critical condition anymore, Dr. Park lets Yoongi go back to his old patients too, it’s a win-win situation for everyone it seems.
That’s until one night when before Yoongi’s shift is almost finished, he goes to Seokjin’s room to check him and notices the actor is almost ignoring him the whole time.
Yoongi moves around the room, trying to make some small talk about Seokjin’s day but the older ignores him and stares at the window the whole time and the doctor assumes that Seokjin is just having a bad day.
“I’m going home, please call the nurses if you need anything” Yoongi finally says, Seokjin sighs deeply. “Is there something wrong that you want to talk about?” He asks, slowly sitting beside Seokjin.
“No”
“You sure? Why are you ignoring me?” He asks, Seokjin pouts with the question, that does no good to Yoongi’s heart.
“I’m the one ignoring you?” Seokjin asks in a harsh tone.
Yoongi frowns “Yes? I’ve been here for like twenty minutes and you just ignored me the whole time. Are you mad at me?”
Seokjin finally faces Yoongi, locking his eyes with him “Why are you ignoring me, then?”
Yoongi doesn’t understand the question, he hasn’t ignored Seokjin at all. “I don’t know what you are talking about”
Seokjin’s jaw drops “You haven’t even come to see me for like two days, Yoongi. Aren’t you, my doctor?”
Yoongi gasps, finally understanding what’s going on “Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t notice”
“Well, I did”
“I’m sorry, I just got my other patients back, I can’t hang out here with you that much anymore, I’m sorry”
Seokjin pouts “So you prefer to be with your other patients than to see me?”
“What?”
Seokjin’s eyes get watery and he hides his face with the pillow.
“Seokjin? Please don’t cry. I’m sorry, I just have lots of work to do”
Seokjin sniffs for a while with his face hidden, Yoongi’s shift is over already, but he doesn’t want to leave yet, he thinks there’s more than Seokjin isn’t telling him, his reaction can’t be only because he hasn’t come to see him for a couple of days. Seokjin isn’t a selfish person, he knows Yoongi has work to do.
“Jin” Yoongi whispers, slowly closing the distance of his hand and stroking Seokjin’s hair softly. “What’s wrong?” He whispers, moving his hand to Seokjin’s shoulder and back, trying his best to comfort him.
Seokjin keeps his face hidden for a while until he speaks again.
“Would it be too inappropriate if I asked you to hug me?” Seokjin whispers, removing the pillow from his face.
“I guess, but who cares” Yoongi whispers back, he moves his body to hug Seokjin and the actor makes himself smaller on Yoongi’s arms.
Seokjin moves his right arm shyly putting it over Yoongi’s waist, applying some pressure for the doctor to get closer to him. Yoongi is resting his right forearm on the pillow next to Seokjin’s head and stroking the actor’s back with his left hand.
Yoongi has never been in such a position with a patient before, it’s not correct to do such a thing, he is basically lying in bed next to Seokjin.
However, he feels he and Seokjin have got closer these past days to the point Seokjin, this extremely private person, allows himself to be vulnerable in front of him. Yoongi knows that means a lot for the actor.
“Will you tell me what’s wrong?”
“Everything is wrong” The actor whispers, hiding his face in Yoongi’s neck. “My body hurts all the time, I miss my brother, I miss home, I’m here all alone all day” He murmurs, Yoongi rubs Seokjin's back and gets closer to him. “I have so much stuff to do, I’m supposed to start filming a new drama in about a month and I’m so useless and weak that I can’t even stand properly yet”
“Hey” Yoongi distance his neck from Seokjin’s face a bit, rubbing the tears away from his cheeks. He notices how swollen the actor’s face is and how he will probably get a headache in a few minutes. “You are not weak Seokjin, and not useless, you had an accident, you could have died in that car but fortunately, you are here, for you and your brother”
Seokjin inhales, Yoongi’s fingers still on his face caressing his skin softly.
“Sorry for being a bad patient” He murmurs, staring at Yoongi’s eyes “I know you are just working here; you shouldn’t be dealing with my mental breakdowns. Please ignore what I said about your other patients, I know I’m just one of them and that I shouldn’t be making a big deal out of it”
“I’ll come more often, okay?” He murmurs and Seokjin is about to shake his head but Yoongi stops him “You were right, sometimes I forget that you are here completely alone twenty-four hours a day and not by choice. It doesn’t feel good, does it?”
Seokjin shakes his head “But that’s not your job, I should have more friends, but I honestly don’t have many, my closest friends are enlisted, they can’t come here”
“I can be your friend if you want, I don’t have many friends either, maybe just Hoseok which is depressing,” Yoongi says making Seokjin chuckle.
The actor moves a bit to give Yoongi more space and the doctor ends up lying in bed more properly. Seokjin rests his head on Yoongi’s chest and slowly closes his eyes with the feeling of the doctor’s fingers going softly through his hair.
“Do you want me to come tomorrow?” Yoongi asks.
“It’s your day off, please enjoy it and do something you like,” Seokjin says “I don’t want to see you near my room tomorrow, have fun out of here”
“Are you sure?” Yoongi asks again, Seokjin raises his eyes to look at Yoongi.
“Of course I am, forget my ranting, I was being selfish and childish. I’ll be okay here, just have fun”
“Okay, I’ll have fun,” He says, although he is sure he might spend the whole day sleeping and maybe playing some piano, that’s it. “Maybe I’ll play with Holly tomorrow and take some pictures to show you. I haven’t been giving her much attention these days, I bet she is mad at me”
Seokjin frowns and moves away a bit to stare at Yoongi more properly “Who’s Holly? Do you have a girlfriend? I swear I thought you liked Hoseok”
“Holly is my cat,” Yoongi says with a funny tone, and Seokjin chuckles embarrassed.
“You should have stated that before,” He says in a pout “So, what I said about Hoseok, stays”
“Hoseok is just my friend” Yoongi murmurs for the millionth time. “Just that”
“You can’t fool me Yoongi, you like him,” Seokjin says softly, “I think it’s cute”
“Well,” Yoongi says unsure, staring at the ceiling “Maybe, just maybe, I like him a bit”
“I told you!” Seokjin screams in victory “Oh god, it’s adorable, you always get red and all fake annoyed when he is here”
“Oh, shut up. Everyone is in love with Hoseok in this hospital, is not a big deal”
“Well he is really pretty and funny,” Seokjin says “I bet having Hoseok as your doctor is a blessing, he lights up your mood and gives you a good view every single day”
Yoongi stares with a raised eyebrow at Seokjin “He can be your doctor if you want to, you just have to say it”
“I already have the best doctor,” Seokjin says, hugging Yoongi by the waist “Don’t be jealous”
“It didn’t sound like it” Yoongi murmured, turning his head away from Seokjin, playing around.
“Oh, come on, did I hurt your feelings?” Seokjin caresses Yoongi’s cheek with his finger playfully “Did I hurt my favorite doctor feeling? Huh?” Seokjin asks in a cute mocking tone.
Yoongi turns his head back at him and Seokjin’s finger ends up on Yoongi’s lips, he doesn’t remove it, he keeps moving it and caressing Yoongi’s lips now.
Yoongi stares at Seokjin right in the eyes and unconsciously moves his lips leaving a small peck on Seokjin’s crooked finger. It’s a reaction none of them saw coming, however, Seokjin doesn’t bother and just smiles, drawing Yoongi’s lips shape with his fingerprint.
“You’re cute,” Seokjin says with a smile “If you like Hoseok, go for it, I think he likes you back” He murmurs caressing Yoongi’s cheek now, and his chin, and eventually his eyes and eyebrows.
“You think he likes me? Because I think he is seeing someone” Yoongi finally says, closing his eyes and relaxing on the bed. He doesn’t remember someone taking care of him like this, no friend, no girlfriend. No one. It feels nice.
“Fight for him then, go out of your shell”
“I will one day, thank you for your advice Seokjin”
“You’re welcome”
The next time Yoongi opens his eyes, Seokjin is deeply asleep in front of him with their legs entangled under the covers, and he loves the feeling so much to the point he almost falls asleep again forgetting they are in the actual hospital bed.
It just seemed perfect for him.
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