📍 Working-Class Mr. Ahn’s Unscheduled Visits to Dr. Yeon’s Clinic continues…
⚠️ Just a casual warning – if you’re following along with Asuka and Jen’s fictional arc and delusion interior series, consider yourself warned. Everything under my fanfiction tab is totally fictional. There’s no need to get overly serious about any of it.
Intro
J: Hi Asuka,
My sinus headache has been torturing me all day, but strangely it disappeared only when I was tasting your soup *** haha ***
A: Yikes, I really hate headaches. I can’t work with them around. Hope you’ll be free of them soon.
I saw your lovely blog post 🔗 “Is Suho In Love With Si-eun Romantically or Friendly?” that summarized our discussions on Si-eun and Suho’s filmverse love. And I saw Elaine’s perfect comments, so perceptive and beautifully phrased. I’m in full agreement with her.
Kaloba was recommended to me by an Ear-Nose-Throat specialist. I drink it the moment I get a sniffle. It tastes really great. Like, it’s good enough to add to cocktails with ice. If I ever overdose on it, it’s because of the taste.
I suddenly have the image of Si-eun-Suho overdosing on each other, because of the taste…
J: While savouring your soup spoonful by spoonful, I kept thinking… You really, really should post this on a fanfiction site. I know people come read on my blog, but I want you to get more comments!
A: Haha yeah, I think I might do that when I hit the 20k word mark (getting there, this universe is expanding…)
I suspect the dark arc—already testing some base sauces heh heh—will be quite a serving.
J: This is totally the scene that reflects our deep imaginings about Dr Yeon’s obsessive paranoia over Suho’s health. Picturing Suho shirtless sitting on the bed edge, obediently still like a child while Dr Yeon does whatever he says… it’s too adorable.
Weirdly enough, my headache already vanished from this first sentence hahahaha Does this make me sound like I was faking it?
Suho shirtless in just grey sweatpants, sitting on the bed edge… how on earth do you paint these pictures, chef?!
A: Oh…the image of Mr Ahn shirtless in grey sweatpants is quite often in my mind hahaha
J: In our deluluverse, Dr Yeon is generously wasting his medical knowledge and skills on his favourite person in the world. Too lovely…
Having a young doctor with cult-level surgical skills as your personal physician… Why is all this simultaneously adorable AND sexy?
Suddenly remembered that line from the early Yeon Clinic series about Dr Yeon not charging his favourite patient a single penny, not even a dime, and I laughed out loud hahaha
Listen… Mr Ahn seems like such a well-behaved ‘child’…
When Dr Yeon uses that stern voice, saying ‘Open your mouth wide so I can see how swollen your throat is’
he’d go ‘yessss’ and go ahhhhh with his mouth wide open…
This well-muscled guy all over his upper body, following every word from this handsome doctor (kind of frail-looking since he’s lost all his baby fat) without a single complaint…
Come to think of it, this whole clinic setting is basically you and me living out our fetishes hahaha
A: I’m sure Mr Ahn loves the fussing and the checkups. What a shameless malingerer.
J: Isn’t Suho too cute?
Dr Yeon teaches the defibrillator usage in this serious attitude and tone, and when there’s a particularly difficult part to understand, Suho makes a candy bulge in his cheek by pushing his tongue
A: This cutie isn’t particularly used to cramming in dry facts. I mean, we’ve all seen him in deep thought at Byeoksan…
Right in Ep1, after he passes the test papers backwards to Si-eun, he just deforms into a mound of pure relaxation. Like, it’s a continuous camera shot, so this means in less than 15 seconds after he receiving his test paper, he goes to sleep hahahaha
The only preparation he does is bringing his sparse stationery, probably just to write his name.
I remember your clear cultural explanation that they were seated according to their surnames. So this was a sight Si-eun must have seen all the time during tests; it was his turn to look at Suho’s back.
Little would he know that seeing Suho sleep could also bring him so much pain…
(But In deluluverse, seeing Suho sleep brings him so much peace.)
J: Or when he gets told off for fiddling with seonsaengnim’s belt buckle, he pouts his lips out…
A: This is bloody cute as hell haha
J: Potato must’ve looked so cute like a hotteok pancake (in Dr Yeon’s eyes)
A: He couldn’t resist. Dr Yeon had to administer hard punishment immediately.
J: If I ever get the chance to have the raw steak version about the paddles’ creative techniques, I’d die happy
Suho, receiving Dr Yeon’s creative techniques, was probably hugging Dr Yeon tightly while facing him as he sat on the bed edge.
With that adorable chin resting on Dr Yeon’s shoulder.
Every time he gets disciplined, he’d nuzzle that fox-like chin into Dr Yeon’s neck, and whether Dr Yeon found Mr Ahn so cute that he ‘properly’ disciplined him all the way through remains a mystery
Hahaha
He’ll probably never learn how to use it until he dies.
When it comes to his own safety, Dr Yeon completely spoiled this child… implanting this concept of ‘my hero will appear like Superman and rescue me somehow’
Since whenever he acts whiny when he’s slightly sick, Dr Yeon forgives and overlooks everything.
A: Oh he totally does. This is really believable to me hahaha
Blue Light Therapy
J: Really spoiled him rotten, at least in this department, Dr Yeon completely buttoned the first button wrong. Of course, Suho’s whining when sick has no expiration date.
Maybe somewhere in Si-eun’s unconscious mind, he’s wishing Suho would stay sick… because it’s the moment when Suho needs him most. Of course, Si-eun himself doesn’t even know this underlying unconscious. Since he’s a kid who’s been obsessed with being ‘needed’ since childhood…
This kind of obsessive notion formed from very early on.
No matter how much Suho tells him, ‘I love you for you,’ some unconscious part keeps tormenting Si-eun that he can only be loved if he’s needed… It’s a stupid unconscious, but he can’t fix it? hmm…
A: Ahhh…nice! Yeah, in “Blue Light Therapy”, after Si-eun tucks Suho safely into the nook of the sofa, he has whispered into Suho’s ear more than once “Stay with me.”
There is a lightness to Suho, a cheekiness and a playfulness that is so effervescent, it’s like he might just float away anytime.
Si-eun loves this side of Suho, but it feels hard to grasp, hard to control, hard to plan for. It is unpredictable, uncertain. What if he just left one day? Loss can come with no build-up, no portents.
Beomseok’s words “what would you do if something happened to Suho?” had echoed endlessly in Si-eun’s mind. Uttered in desperation, they were never meant as an accusation, but over the years they had hardened into one.
And Si-eun had long decided on his answer: I will die.
(I might lift this into the dark arc haha)
So whenever Suho comes pattering to Dr Yeon with some kind of phantom pain, I think it is highly possible that there is a secret part of Si-eun that breathes a sigh of relief. “He’s still here. And he still needs me…”
J: Yes, as I always think, in the deluluverse interior, Dr Yeon gets by on a few almonds and coffee for meals.
Even as an adult, he never becomes a big eater or foodie, so there’s no way he’d gain weight
From top to bottom, drawers one to five were originally for Mr Ahn’s t-shirts, jeans, underwear, socks, and toys in that order.
Toys go at the very bottom, naturally hahaha
There’s no need for Dr Yeon to keep a separate place when he comes over every day to sleep together anyway.
In Bricklayer’s Interior Design, Suho’s two-story house near Anguk Station was already set up as their honeymoon spot when Dr Yeon returns from Iraq *** setting overload *** *** giggle **** the happy deluluverse where all imagination becomes reality.
A: Indeed, thanks for your fine architecture. You’ve made for our soldier-doctor a forever home. I have very conveniently housed him there now haha
J: I’m infinitely grateful that this soup was specially catered by chef to satisfy my subtly specific fetishes *** crying ***
A: Oh this stuff scratches a lot of my own vulgar itches hahaha
J: Already, those big eyes looking at him must be full of affection when Dr Yeon gazes at him, and even his actions are all aligned solely for Suho, so I think Suho’s feeling the happiness of being ‘loved without gaps’
I read on Twitter that if you look at Si-eun’s study schedule from Byeoksan days, there are no ‘gaps’ and every study action plan is broken down by the minute.
A: Fans must have freeze-framed his schedule for analysis. I shall check it out myself too hahaha there’s always something to unpack. The original filmverse Weak Hero is still the finest, thickest, richest soup there is. I shall drink it till it leaks out of my pores.
J: It’s really an incredible obsession. But I read this tweet that said ‘Si-eun, who poured all his energy into studying, started pouring energy into knowing and studying Ahn Suho’, and I totally agree.
A: Me too.
J: Given Si-eun’s nature, even his object of affection is something his ‘brain’ needs to study
In the Yeon Clinic deluluverse, it leans toward Mr Ahn having slightly more fashion sense, probably inferred from his t-shirt sense during Byeoksan days and his Apple Watch with a square case. Si-eun would’ve just worn whatever achromatic clothes his parents bought him. I get the feeling he’s the type who doesn’t want to waste energy picking out clothes.
A: Yep, I think that is in harmony with the idea that he just wears whatever Suho buys for him. I believe Artist-nim agrees. In her drawings, I remember Suho picked out a bright yellow thing for Si-eun, who just accepted it hahaha
J: He could’ve kept that mushroom hair, and Yeon Clinic would still have a line of nurses wanting to apply hahaha
A: Yes. That mushroom bob is so cute to me, hahahah. I’ve wanted so badly to reach through my screen and pat his head. That said, if I could do that, I would have also divinely slapped Yeong-bin. And helped Suho scrub the small of his back, since it’s kind of hard to reach.
J: If it’s Dr Yeon, he’d totally create a mini-clinic in Suho’s second-floor living space and have plenty left over. Even after setting that up, he’d check if the labels are properly attached to quickly locate those tools in emergencies.
He has the ‘brain’ capacity to spend energy on that and have plenty to spare.
It’s not unrealistic at all. So very Si-eun-like.
People might think Si-eun would say ‘don’t wear my underwear’ but in reality, he’s ‘not picky’ enough to share underwear and socks with his live-in partner without distinction, which is so very Si-eun-like, isn’t it?
Or maybe he’s originally picky, but sharing stuff with Suho feels totally natural.
A: I highly suspect guys in the army have seen and experienced the depths of poor hygiene. Do you have guy friends who have gone through military service to confirm this?
In deluluverse, with 3 years of experience in Iraq, I think Dr Yeon isn’t afraid of sharing washed underwear with Suho.
Suho probably did it first to shock him, since that’s one of his pet hobbies, but this time it didn’t work. Dr Yeon may have even been looking for an excuse to do this hurhurhur….
J: For socks, you’d be the head nurse, and I’d be the trainee, but this eagle-eyed trainee definitely wouldn’t be me because I’m really dense about this stuff. If it were me, I wouldn’t have noticed. I’d definitely be one of the Yeonnies waiting for new hot gossip hahaha
A: Oh that’s a very active and giggly chat group.
J: No space, and they need to grab them easily when excited, so keeping them in the wardrobe would be inefficient hahaha
Yeah, they need to be openly piled on the blue porcelain dish to be ‘easily’ usable?
A: Yes. And Mr Ahn is just like that. The entire adult display on a dish is some kind of flirtatious gesture. It’s like, every time Dr Yeon walks by that desk, it feels like the desk is winking at him, with Mr Ahn’s expression.
“Can you please keep them somewhere more private?” Dr Yeon had nagged.
“Well, I can hide this one in you tonight, if you wish,”
J: Kyaaa!!!! *** haha ***
Mr Ahn had replied, fishing out and waving an impressive truncheon modeled more likely on horses than men.
“I don’t know why you bought that. It’s two inches more than yours, I’d die.”
Wondering where Si-eun got it. Online? Yeah, probably ordered online. During office hours. When there were no patient appointments. While watching out for the nurses.
“It gives me inspiration for my designs. Doesn’t it have the same colour as the tiles I recommend? That’s why I leave all of those on my desk.”
Ack, Suho’s so shameless and adorable!!!
“Don’t let your clients find out please; they’d die.”
The clients are innocent, they just received recommendations from this harmlessly handsome tile specialist, Mr Ahn hahahahaha
A: I think if some of his rich ajumma clients found out the truth of their tile colours, rather than being outraged and scandalized, they might think he was sending them some kind of signal, and they would be sure to come to the next consultation a few buttons loose.
I myself would really like to see a jealous Dr Yeon’s glare hahaha
Auscultation
J: The act of auscultation being this long and sexy, who knew? 10 minutes of auscultation feels like Dr Yeon’s putting way too much personal interest into this?
Imagining two otters clinging close together *** happy ***
His auscultations were conducted to perfection at medical school, but when it came to Mr Ahn, some part of Dr Yeon’s mind mercilessly reminded him of confident high school plans gone wrong.
He remembered how his strategy to handle Gilsu and his gang had ended in near failure, with Suho bloodied and battered; the sun could have set on his fight career then, with his brain concussed and his left forearm fractured.
Right, at the police station, he apologised to Beom-seok right away, saying, “You were right. Suho was really in danger”
I remember that line.
A: It’s such a simple line, but that scene was so well-acted. So rich with unspoken thoughts. Why are these boys so talented? I feel my acting is only good enough for malingering out of those damned drinking parties…
J: This ‘what if’ scenario will follow Si-eun until he dies.
Even though the original sin wasn’t his, he can’t escape the guilt of feeling like he’s the original sin because of this scenario.
Right, Si-eun never forgives himself, so I imagine how tormented he must’ve been while Suho was in a coma. At least when Suho woke up, he could somewhat escape that guilt
Suho can’t possibly miss the gloom rising in Si-eun’s eyes during auscultation, even though he can’t hear the grim recitation happening inside…
A: Suho is not academically inclined, but it is definitely filmverse canonic that he is sharp-eyed.
J: “I swear you’re just trying to play with my nipples,” chimed Mr Ahn abruptly, startling Dr Yeon, who was focused on the sounds of life behind Mr Ahn’s firm chest. He jerked his head back and took the stethoscope out of his ringing ears.
Brain-canon-wise, I think Suho made that playful joke after hearing Si-eun’s grim inner vows.
A: Yeah, he senses Si-eun has ‘gone inward’ again.
J: It’s a cute joke, but the narrative’s too sad
When he makes this joke, I don’t think Suho’s face would’ve gotten red at all, which makes it so cute. He’s good at making jokes, but when they actually start happy time with toys, I think it’s Suho whose face turns bright red.
A: I imagine it’s partly due to the way Dr Yeon delivers sexy lines. It’s not sensual. There’s a directness and an odd, descriptive quality to his bedspeech that just shocks Suho pink.
Kind of like, “I am putting my penis in now.”
This sort of bluntness can feel like someone tearing off the bed covers. In a way, Suho gets back at Si-eun by constantly trying to startle him, in the kitchen, in the toilet, at the clinic, any time.
“Suho, I really will whip you with this.” Dr Yeon shook the stethoscope with theatrical intimidation.
“In that case, remember to place it back in the dish when you’re done,” replied Mr Ahn casually, gesturing to the cornucopia of toys on the desk, and leaving Dr Yeon speechless from the subtle insult.
Right, Suho couldn’t have missed Si-eun’s gloomy heart…
But he was quietly glad for Mr Ahn’s interjection. His guardian had yanked him out of a spiralling whirlpool of self-doubt. He went again to the drawers to take out a reliable, old-school thermometer.
J: I don’t use this stick thermometer anymore either.
A: Ear therms are definitely faster and easier. But Dr Yeon is of the idea that old school things work best. And he is extremely cautious when it comes to Mr Ahn’s health. There’s actual research that supports the use of these old stick thermometers.
“Here, take your temperature at least thrice and find the average. Let me know what it is. Don’t hide if you have a fever, ok?” cautioned Dr Yeon, although he himself did not detect any raised temperature when he brushed against Mr Ahn’s skin.
“Don’t you want to take it for me?”
The stress had upset his stomach, so Dr Yeon needed to relieve himself.
“I’ve got to prepare for work,” Dr Yeon answered as he shuffled to the bathroom.
Temperature taking was a fairly quick process, so Dr Yeon had braced himself for Mr Ahn bursting into the bathroom while he was either on the toilet seat or in the shower, as he had done countless times before.
He would wrench open the door and call out some frivolous inquiry loudly, such as whether Dr Yeon wanted his eggs scrambled or whether he wanted Spam or would he prefer burnt omelettes or should they go out to Macs or why was he taking so long or “Hyung’s coming in!”
J: They’re really like an old married couple hahaha
A: What they have is far beyond a “first romance, fling, or sex.” (Elaine’s words.)
When that didn’t happen, Dr Yeon deduced that Mr Ahn must have been very carefully checking the thermometer repeatedly. The bathroom doors were never locked, not even when they were having the worst diarrhoea. This had been Dr Yeon’s insistence. “There’s an increased chance of strokes happening in the toilet you know?”
J: Oh my god, right, this is also true. Lots of people get concussions from slippery bathroom floors. This is actually a fact rather than just Dr Yeon’s neurosis.
A: Oh yes. And when this fact is coupled with paranoia, it sends Dr Yeon into caution overdrive. But he thinks it’s a bit too much to ask Mr Ahn to hack out the stylish bathroom doors in Mr Ahn’s own house.
He had intoned matter-of-factly. “Not to mention an increased risk of slipping and sustaining head injuries. Promise me you’ll never lock the doors?” And his round eyes had widened so earnestly with pure concern, Mr Ahn had agreed without hesitation.
J: But there’s actually an emergency protocol in homes with chronic conditions recommending not locking bathroom doors. I live alone but removed the pin from my bathroom doorknob just in case
A: Very wise, please stay safe.
Help me
Silence, and not a trace of cooking going on in the kitchen.
“Suho?……SUHO?!”
J: If Mr Ahn’s big cough sets off his nerves this much, if Suho fell off a ladder at work… *** sigh ***
A: I think he would hyperventilate, cancel all appointments on the spot, and fly off to the rescue.
Si-eun’s neurosis totally exploded here, oh no what do we do???
“Si-eun-ah…” the reply was weak. “Help me…”
Dr Yeon spat out the toothpaste violently and dashed out, foam still lining his upper lip. ohno ohno ohno
J: Come to think of it, their breath would smell the same from toothpaste. Is it bamboo salt toothpaste by any chance?
A: Ah, is that very popular in korea?
Dr Yeon is currently just using some generic mint thing. To him, it’s the frequency and timing of brushing and flossing that counts.
And then he caught sight of Suho naked and lying on his side on the bed, face red as beets, breathing hard. His pants had fallen to the floor.
Fuck! It’s his heart! Nononono not before me, don’t go…
He reached Suho’s side quicker than he could blink, clad only in a bath towel.
“Hey! Hey!! Stay with me!! What’s wrong?”
His training kicked in. A palm went to Suho’s forehead, and two fingers went to a point on Suho’s neck under his jaw.
A little warm but not burning. Pulse elevated but not unstable. Face red, not white, not internal bleeding. Allergy?
J: I’m crying HAHA as a customer who entered a 5-star hotel Michelin kitchen without paying, seeing Dr Yeon’s emergency protocol I’d always imagined unfold before me
“Are you in pain? Did you eat something just now? What’s the temperature on the thermometer? Can you move?”
It’s heartbreaking because of the neurosis but why does Dr Yeon love Suho so desperately? I love it so much
“It’s not…I, I’m fine…no I’m not it’s stuck.”
He’s not making any sense. He’s becoming delirious.
Dr Yeon whirled around to the drawers and yanked out the defibrillator, preparing for the worst. His mind was spinning with worry and he could not form a diagnosis.
“Wait, wait, listen to hyung. I’m ok, I don’t think I have a fever, it’s not a heart attack or something I ate. It’s not a stroke. It’s just, I…the thermometer…erm…I can’t get it out.”
J: If he’d swallowed the thermometer, Suho would’ve already suffocated hahaha
A: I think Dr Yeon would have fainted. That would have required emergency stomach surgery at a hospital. I can imagine Dr Yeon bugging the surgeon in charge with requests and warnings…
Suho is quite naughty
“What are you talking about? You swallowed the thermometer?” Dr Yeon’s mind raced to the worst-case scenario. Poisoning.
“What? No, no. I…I was playing around and it went all the way in and I can’t get it out. I’m a little worried about moving. Can you help me… please?” Suho pointed vaguely at a spot behind his thighs.
J: I started coughing while reading this part and had to get water hahahaha
Is Suho insane? Why would he play like that hahahaha
A: Suho is quite…naughty, yes.
That aside, some pediatricians are of the view that oral thermometers can be used rectally as a last resort for children.
But Suho was definitely Not thinking very medically when he decided to conduct his little experiment.
Dr Yeon stood stupefied, his mouth hung open in disbelief, topped with a moustache of toothpaste. His auburn-dyed hair was still dark and straight with dampness, hiding his eyebrows and softening his shocked expression. Just then, the towel finally unfastened itself, but Dr Yeon was clutching the defibrillator with both hands, and he let it fall around his ankles in a soft clump.
The two stark naked friends stared at each other.
Red-faced Suho was the first to smile. Sheepish and embarrassed, he chuckled out, “Sorry seonsaengnim, please don’t be mad. I won’t do it again. Can you help me take it out, please?”
Dr Yeon placed the defibrillator back in an adrenaline induced trance.
His chest heaved heavier and heavier, he squinted and rubbed both his temples with his fingers. He had a tirade pent up and it flew out hotly:
“Yah Ahn Suho! What the fuck! Why…”
But his temper quickly deflated. His voice had started trembling and cracking and he couldn’t continue. He could never maintain enough anger at Suho.
J: This is my expression right now
Why not the armpit but ‘there’ with the thermometer hahahaha
A: Given the girth of the things they have played with, he believed he could stomach a thermometer with no problem.
He was right, it was easy. Too easy.
J: Isn’t this basically not a newlywed couple but Dr Yeon’s ‘childcare diary’???? hahaha
A: Yes, caring for this child is not doing wonders for Dr Yeon’s weight gain.
He was rather annoyed but he was much more relieved, and also puzzled, and also wildly tickled. As a result, his stony face, often unreadable to all but Suho, broke into a melange of colours that no one thought it could express. He frowned, he laughed, and he started crying, all at the same time.
Suho watched the display with fascination.
There’s still so much to learn about him, thought Suho. He wished he could take a picture of the scene, but he knew Dr Yeon would bark at him to stay still, and so he could only save it in his mind, already so full of his favorite frozen moments with Si-eun.
***
“You know, these cases are fairly common amongst guys aged 20 to 40. It’s usually with food like carrots, cucumbers, bananas. But sometimes also with things like remote controls. There was this guy who came in and told me he slipped and fell on a small shampoo bottle, so it got stuck,”
Dr Yeon said while in operation, to keep Suho distracted from the discomfort.
J: Did Suho play around just to make Si-eun laugh? Too funny
A: Ahhh! From my private director’s notes, there was indeed a deleted scene where Suho says ‘I wanted to see you smile.’ It’s just that he didn’t expect it would go in so easily and be so hard to extract…
But I didn’t include it in the end hahaha
Moronic excuse
J: Why on earth do guys play like this???? I’m genuinely curious, gonna ask GPT hahaha
A: They really do!! I have no idea why. And I didn’t make up the case of the guy who ‘slipped onto a shampoo bottle.’
One of my juniors, an extremely smart girl who quit the arts to become a plastic surgeon, told me she’s seen all sorts of funny things guys stuff into themselves.
One of her early assignments as junior plastic surgeon was to design a surgical approach to remove a rubber octopus tentacle. I saw a picture of it. It was huge and painfully shaped, oh my lord yikes.
Then she recounted the case of the stuck shampoo bottle. The guy, in his early twenties, told her he had slipped and fallen onto it. She told me she had to try her very, very best to sound convinced and understanding so as not to insult the patient.
By comparison, Suho’s misuse of the oral thermometer is quite mild…
“Really? Hahaha what a moronic excuse,” laughed Suho.
“Shhh! Don’t talk, your abdomen is moving,” Dr Yeon warned.
J: Oh my god, how deep did the thermometer go into Suho hahaha
A: Enough to give a very accurate reading. That’s why Dr Yeon could confidently pronounce him fever-free.
J: Why would you take temperature ‘there’ in the first place ahahaha
A: Oh there is actual clinical consensus across the board that rectal thermometers give the most accurate reading of the body’s actual temperature. They are still widely used today, especially on children and on patients who have a biting risk.
(They may also be misused by mischievous young men who mistake these for toys that can be used without supervision.)
He continued, “I think most of the time it’s caused by a mixture of curiosity with mischief, but then these guys underestimate the difficulty of extracting their experiment because of the poor grip and the bad angle. I’m sure you’ll agree, Ahn Suho-ssi.” Suho remained in hot silence, as instructed.
Although he had already informed his nurses he would be very late for work because of a high-level emergency, it didn’t take the savant more than 15 minutes to remove the thermometer, mucid with improper use. Dr Yeon had done it with a pair of tenaculum forceps and a blinding torchlight.
J: High-level emergency hahaha
How could this be explained to anyone?
If not each other, it’s something they’d keep in their hearts alone until they die, like how Armstrong kept his neighbour’s secret alone until they died
No way, this thin stick couldn’t have torn up Suho’s insides.
Because even when Si-eun tears it up during rare fun time, it’s fine according to brain-canon.
No bleeding, good. No fever either, apparently. Red face was due to shame, elevated pulse due to stress. So his cough is probably due to sinus back drip and his stuffy nose is likely due to dust. I should get him to remove the carpet.
J: See, I had this brain-canon that in actual practice with toys, Suho would be the shy one
A: Hahahaha yes yes
J: Asuka, do you have some medical knowledge too?
A: Ah no, it’s probably because I’ve watched too much Dr House.
And I’ve read stuff by the very reflective surgeon Atul Gawande (“Better” and “Being Mortal”). There was also the very sad “When Breath Becomes Air”, written by a young dying doctor (he’s gone ).
I’ve also read some of neurologist Oliver Sacks’ entertaining and fascinating case studies, widely available in most major bookshops, and the deliciously grumpy Bad Science by Dr Ben Goldacre.
Aside from that, my practical medical knowledge is limited only to cpr. And er, I know how to use band-aids.
I cannot dress injured people up in bandages. I cannot pull out thermometers from places where they don’t belong. I’m very clumsy with my hands, and if someone like me had used the tenaculum forceps on Suho, he would have sung some very high notes and entered the emergency room in the next scene.
You’ll have a better chance of survival with me praying for you…
“Are you still gonna use that?” asked Suho.
“It’s a mouth thermometer. I should really stuff it in your mouth right now,” Dr Yeon threatened. But he went to the sink and washed it clean with clinical-grade antiseptic soap. Then he dried it, exited the bathroom, and calmly placed it together with the toys on the desk.
J: Such a cheeky, funny, and delightfully perfect ending ahahaha
Asuka, as always, it’s such a shame that only I (and the hot country unnies) get to enjoy this feast.
As we keep laying bricks little by little when we have time, you’ll make a whole book.
Whenever you feel like it later, I hope you can post it on a bigger site so other people can laugh reading this delightful omnibus fiction too.
It’s really so delightful that my headache completely disappeared!
A: I’m happy and honored to have been part of your therapy.
Asuka, wishing you full health
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