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Title: Eight Months
Series: 태양의 후예 / Descendants of the Sun
Characters: Yoo Sijin
Summary: Eight months is a long time to be apart.
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"Then save him!"
Everything moved so fast. One minute she was hearing his voice. The next, all guns were raised... and the five Special Force soldiers as well as the Arabic Special Service officers were facing off at gunpoint. Her heart raced, as she could sense her other colleagues being alarmed as well. The looks on the Arabic Special Service officers were grim. And it seemed everything around her grew silent.
To the point, she could almost hear her own heart beating rapidly.
"We're... moving him to the OR."
"Get back!"
Her legs shook so much she thought it would lose strength anytime soon. She couldn't imagine how terrified the others were.
"As of now, protecting the medical team and the patient is our priority. Everyone, stand in front of them."
She could barely comprehend what she was seeing. Yoo Sijin... his stance remained firm as he spoke in a commanding voice, and the rest of his men followed his orders.
"From this moment on, you can open fire at anyone who threatens these people."
It felt unreal. Were they really going to shoot each other in order to complete their duties? Just because one side refused to allow her team to operate on this dying man and another trying to protect them so that they could perform surgery?
"Look, Captain. You better know what you're doing."
"You do your job. The doctor will save the patient... and I will protect what I have to."
Yoo Sijin gestured for her to move on, and she told him that she would proceed with her actions. She gestured for the others to follow her lead but as she pushed the patient towards the operating room, she glanced back towards the soldiers. Or more specifically, to Captain Yoo.
"The doctor will save the patient..."
He was putting his trust on her that she would do her job. Even after she made him believe that she was no longer the hardworking and diligent surgeon that he used to know. She remembered him looking at her feeling disappointed, which did make her feel bad for him and to herself. Yet this man was putting his trust on her now, while risking his own life.
Moyeon turned away as she proceeded towards the OR.
She has to save this man!
xxx
He made his decision... and he has to stand by it. There was no turning back.
Sijin turned his head for a moment, as he watched Kang Moyeon leave. Her eyes seemed focused, like the time he saw her at the Haeseong hospital before. It was the same eyes. Not of the doctor who was only good on TV, but a surgeon who knew what she was doing. He turned his glance back towards the men before him.
He remembered the things his father used to say to him. That sometimes, you need to make tough choices that involved the fate and lives of many. And sometimes, making the right decisions means that you have to risk your own to make it. Even if you have to... defy the orders that you were given.
He used to ask his father if he regretted his decision. During that one time when his father had been demoted for not following the orders given to him; because his father decided that the lives of his men were more important than completing his mission. He remembered his father telling him that he had no regrets. Because to him, what he did was honourable.
There was no guilty conscience. His father used to say he was better off that way. A measly medal won't ever worth as much as the lives of his men. There won't be parents who would cry over their dead sons; or families who would lose their sole breadwinner and father.
"If anything goes wrong, you will pay for it."
He made his decision. And regardless of whichever gods out there, he prayed that everything will be all right. Whether the chairman was fated to live or die; or whether he was fated to continue on his path of a soldier or have it end here. He left it up to fate.
"Insha'allah."
"It's all up to Allah."
Series: 태양의 후예 / Descendants of the Sun
Characters: Yoo Sijin
Summary: Eight months is a long time to be apart.
-------------------------
"Then save him!"
Everything moved so fast. One minute she was hearing his voice. The next, all guns were raised... and the five Special Force soldiers as well as the Arabic Special Service officers were facing off at gunpoint. Her heart raced, as she could sense her other colleagues being alarmed as well. The looks on the Arabic Special Service officers were grim. And it seemed everything around her grew silent.
To the point, she could almost hear her own heart beating rapidly.
"We're... moving him to the OR."
"Get back!"
Her legs shook so much she thought it would lose strength anytime soon. She couldn't imagine how terrified the others were.
"As of now, protecting the medical team and the patient is our priority. Everyone, stand in front of them."
She could barely comprehend what she was seeing. Yoo Sijin... his stance remained firm as he spoke in a commanding voice, and the rest of his men followed his orders.
"From this moment on, you can open fire at anyone who threatens these people."
It felt unreal. Were they really going to shoot each other in order to complete their duties? Just because one side refused to allow her team to operate on this dying man and another trying to protect them so that they could perform surgery?
"Look, Captain. You better know what you're doing."
"You do your job. The doctor will save the patient... and I will protect what I have to."
Yoo Sijin gestured for her to move on, and she told him that she would proceed with her actions. She gestured for the others to follow her lead but as she pushed the patient towards the operating room, she glanced back towards the soldiers. Or more specifically, to Captain Yoo.
"The doctor will save the patient..."
He was putting his trust on her that she would do her job. Even after she made him believe that she was no longer the hardworking and diligent surgeon that he used to know. She remembered him looking at her feeling disappointed, which did make her feel bad for him and to herself. Yet this man was putting his trust on her now, while risking his own life.
Moyeon turned away as she proceeded towards the OR.
She has to save this man!
xxx
He made his decision... and he has to stand by it. There was no turning back.
Sijin turned his head for a moment, as he watched Kang Moyeon leave. Her eyes seemed focused, like the time he saw her at the Haeseong hospital before. It was the same eyes. Not of the doctor who was only good on TV, but a surgeon who knew what she was doing. He turned his glance back towards the men before him.
He remembered the things his father used to say to him. That sometimes, you need to make tough choices that involved the fate and lives of many. And sometimes, making the right decisions means that you have to risk your own to make it. Even if you have to... defy the orders that you were given.
He used to ask his father if he regretted his decision. During that one time when his father had been demoted for not following the orders given to him; because his father decided that the lives of his men were more important than completing his mission. He remembered his father telling him that he had no regrets. Because to him, what he did was honourable.
There was no guilty conscience. His father used to say he was better off that way. A measly medal won't ever worth as much as the lives of his men. There won't be parents who would cry over their dead sons; or families who would lose their sole breadwinner and father.
"If anything goes wrong, you will pay for it."
He made his decision. And regardless of whichever gods out there, he prayed that everything will be all right. Whether the chairman was fated to live or die; or whether he was fated to continue on his path of a soldier or have it end here. He left it up to fate.
"Insha'allah."
"It's all up to Allah."
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