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——————Go Hajoon——————————————————
Asan Medical Center, South Korea
May 19th 2017 — Evening
Hajoon had been in the process of cleaning up his desk to go home when his cellphone rang.
Earlier that afternoon all police stations in South Korea had been placed on high alert in the after-math of this afternoon’s simple act of terrorism as the government has called it. The President had even called a live press conference to speak to the nation about it. The incident had caused international ripples.
(author’s note: The moment I realized that to bring our Soo/So couple together I created an international/political incident… I was like “what have I done and what do I do now???” o_o… author hand wave it away… >_>)
A live bomb placed in the Seoul Art Museum had exploded while the EOD team was inside trying to find and disarm it. The police had been anonymously tipped off early enough to evacuate everyone from the premises —only they hadn’t. He’d heard the alert that a Jane Doe had been at the location of the explosion and had only just been saved by the Captain of the EOD squad who serendipitously just happened there at the right moment to protect her.
What wasn’t expecting was the voice on the other side of the phone was the voice of an ER nurse telling him that his sister Go Hajin was that Jane Doe.
He’d panicked and babbled at the nurse about coma and memory loss until the nurse calmed him down enough to explain; Hajin, had only sustained a good amount of bruising and was in a neck brace —but other than that —she was stable, awake and alert.
His legs had nearly collapsed under him out of relief when he’d heard those words.
Jinnie is fine. Battered —but fine.
Chun-ja had been working late with him that day, immediately began waving him out the door while grabbing her own cars keys after he’d mouthed the word “Noona in the hospital.” with a worried expression.
She’d driven him to the hospital and again he’d rushed up to the nurses station identifying himself as Go Hajin’s younger brother and once again the young nurse had given him the directions to her bed.
Why? Why were you in there Jinnie?! After all we’ve been through why did this have to happen to you too? Ahh… East wing bed number five… that one…
Hajoon, quickly approached the curtained off bed, and just as he was pulling the curtain back he vaguely heard someone say the words,
“…be my… wife?”
“Jinnie!
“Joonie!”
Hajoon, would have said more, but just as he was about to speak he suddenly became very aware that someone else was sitting on the hospital bed very, very close to her… with one hand resting comfortably too comfortably on her shoulder, and the other holding his sisters.
The other person wiped around facing him.
Hyung?!?!
Hajoon’s head had to worked at a speed it had never worked at before to try to put all the information his eyes were bringing together… What… what was Jeon Kai of all people doing in here with Noona… Noona in a head and neck brace. The nurse had said —Hyung couldn’t have been the one that just said “be my wife.”??? —Breathe Joon. This is all makes perfect sense. Jeon Kai is the Captain of a SWAT team. He… he… just saved Jinnie—
Hajoon watched Kai clear his throat glance back at Jin, and awkwardly remove himself from both Jin and the bed.
“I ahh…—“ Another throat clearing and another quick glance over at his sister and return of an apologetic glance and then a blush when she noticed Hajoon still quietly looking between them.
“—I was brought into the ER with Soo—your sister…. Jin-ya—”
Here Kai stupidly smiled.
Since when did the Jeon Kai he knew act like that around anyone?
“—I’ll… let you two talk… I’m going to go…”
Ya. Hajoon blinked. Ya. They're already that aquatinted? How long has she been seeing —Captain Jeon?… She told me she was only going out on a few dates since Chun-ja had officially agreed to go-out with me —how long have the been a couple —BEHIND MY BACK?!
“Wait!” He held out his hand to prevent Kai, from taking another step out of the curtained off pod.
Hajin that had been silent for the small interchange between the two men finally spoke up.
“Joonie. Calm down. Captain Jeon was… uhh…”
Hajin, pulled a face appealing now to Jeon, now for help in trying to explain themselves to her younger brother.
“Captain Jeon was the officer that save my life in the Museum.” Her already high voice rose another octave as it faded away on the last word.
Well that ticks that off my list of probabilities, I guess —but it doesn’t explain why they seemed so… intimate… Just a moment ago.
The thought that there might be more going on between the two than what he just caught caused a spike in his blood pressure.
“Yahhh!! What did I just walk in on between the two of you?! Hyung —Did I really just hear you propose to my Noona?! How long has this been going on between the two of you behind my back?!” As a second thought tacked onto the end of what he was trying to make sense of Hajoon added with a full bow, “Kamsahamnida, Captain, Kamsahamnida for saving Hajin —but what on earth is going on between you two?!”
Both of them spoke at the same time, “A ye—A litt—r—wi—r…” Their voices faded away as they realized they were very clearly trying to come-up with two different stories…
(authors note: Just how exactly do you explain to your younger brother that the year while you were in coma here —you were living out 10 years of your life in ancient Goryeo. How do you explain that without being sent to a funny-farm? Haha.)
Kai stared at the floor running the tips of his fingers along his lips to think.
Jinnie coughed and patted a wrinkle out of the hospital blanket.
They exchanged a couple of side glances.
What is the secret between them?
Jeon took a step forward spoke first, “Joon —we have been seeing each other behind your back for sometime. And yes —you just heard me asking if you’re sister was interested in… marriage.”
Stupefied at the blatant honesty Hajoon blinked. Of course.
“Joonie… uhh… I’m really quite sorry I didn’t tell you sooner… I would have told you —but… I couldn’t…” Hajin uncertainly apologized.
“But… but… what about those dating app dates that you’ve been going on —you said you needed to get back out there and find a guy now that me and—“
Hajin coughed and tried to cut him off with a look, “Those were—uhhh….”
However, too much had been said to stop the conversation that followed from happening.
“Soo—Jin-ya, what is Joonie saying…?” Kai turned back towards the bed.
“Pyeha, I’d lost my memory of Goryeo when… I woke-up”
“Majesty?” What. What the fuck did my sister just call Hyung? "Pyeha?!" Is this the new “Oppa” trend in pet names? …oh Goryeo... again… Not again… God —she’s been so good for the past few months…
“You forgot… everything… you even forgot… me?” Kai’s voice broke with emotion.
“…Nae… I think... I remembered some parts of my time there just after I woke up here —but… I was here… and it all suddenly felt like a long nightmare. I would have memories from the palace and Damiwon would appear strangely in my dreams —in my dreams you always had your back to me or you were wearing your mask —and silently staring at me… you never said anything…”
Hajin’s voice shook and Kai, knelt down next in to the bed until they were face to face.
Goryeo. Palace. Damiwon. Oh god… no not again… Hajoon had to look around Kai's figure to see his sister's face, “Jinnie —do you remember the steps the councilor told you to do whenever you feel one of these episodes coming—”
“Joon. I’m NOT having another ‘episode’ —Do I look like I’m spiraling out of control or having a hard time breathing!?”
Kai’s expression darken for a moment as he glanced between the two of them.
“Hajoon, These… ‘episodes,’ were these —the one's your older sister had during the Mao case?”
“…Nae.” Hajoon, nodded his head.
Kai, was silent again for moment before he turned back to Jin, “how did you remember —How long ago? When I ran into you in the club you hadn’t even gone to Goryeo yet—“
“Beak Ah’s paintings… just before you saved me.” Here Joon, saw a look in his sister’s eyes that he’d never seen before, “Looking at those paintings was like re-living all the best moments there… and that’s when I remembered… it was like I’d found myself again —I knew who I was because of what I’d gone through.”
“If you… had to go through it again with the knowledge of what would happen to you… would you?”
Jinnie with the type of resolution Hajoon had never seen from his sister replied, “Nae… I would. Just to meet you again —4th prince —and accept your first proposal …at the sea… I might have actually had a chance to see our Seol-ah grow-up…”
First proposal?! What? How long has Hyung and Noona known each other? Seol?! Child… they had a…. How?? WHEN?? DOES MOTHER KNOW THIS?!?
Hajoon spluttered and coughed hard as he tried to inhale more air while only managing to choke on his own spit. He couldn’t believe what he’d just heard coming out of his sister’s mouth.
“CHILD?!” Joon, practically levitated off the random piece of hospital equipment he’d been using as a stool and pointed a finger back and forth between them, “You… you two… have a… secret child?!! This isn’t just a few on going dates behind my back —There is a child involved now!! Does eomma know about this?!”
Jin’s face went white.
“Joon. If you ever loved me —Don’t you dare breath a word of what I’m about to tell you or about Seol to eomma.” Jin, inhaled and looked back at Hyung, who silently nodded in a reassuring manner, “you probably won’t believe what I’m about to tell you —but this is not another 'episode' This is real. This really happened to me --I’m not crazy…”