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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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"By the way, what if he doesn't wake up?"
"There'll be a case report about hepatic artery aneurysms and the history of the world will change a little."
Moyeon raised her head as she watched Chihun leave, and then noticed that the men outside appeared to have relaxed a bit. Curious about what happened outside, she exited the IC unit and noted that Yoo Sijin was not present.
"Excuse me...' she started asking one of the soldiers still standing nearby. "Did Captain Yoo went somewhere?"
The young soldier turned towards her, looking somewhat in dismay. It surprised her, seeing him like that. Suppose even a soldier gets shaken after a tough situation too.
"Captain Yoo... he's being detained,"
She gasped. That was not something she expected to happen.
xxx
"I made a rational decision as a doctor when I diagnosed and treated him."
"You seem so proud. If you get fired, you can start your own clinic. Because you're a famous doctor."
She... never thought herself to be a prideful person. But perhaps she was, without realising. Of course, being prideful about one's own ability was not bad... but she thought she had been quite modest about it. Then again, given her current position, perhaps she was being arrogant. After all, she didn't really care at the possibility of being fired from her—she's planning to do it anyway when she gets back—and she did believe that she would do well if she opens a new clinic by herself.
But hearing those words coming from that colonel didn't make her feel good.
"You don't care what you did to Yoo Sijin."
"His career as a soldier for the past several years has been completely ruined. If the chairman doesn't wake up, the rest of his life will be gone. Thanks to your rational decision."
It never crossed her mind, that what Captain Yoo did to allow her team to operate would affect him in this way. Because all he ever did was protecting her team. Why was that wrong? Was there something she wasn't aware of?
Moyeon turned her head almost by instinct as Sergeant Seo walked in to see her.
"You have until 20:50. 10 minutes."
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As Sergeant Seo made an about turn towards the jeep, Moyeon stopped him. Because it still bugged her about the reason Sijin was being locked up. And everyone was being too tensed about the situation, it felt off. Not that she thought that the life of the Arab chairman wasn't a serious issue.
Sergeant Seo turned to face her, his face not showing any kind of emotion.
"Captain Yoo was ordered to be locked up because he did something he was not ordered to do. That is all," he said before leaving.
xxx
She stopped walking, as she turned around to stare at the storehouse again. Somehow she couldn't understand it how that person could be so calm.
"I think what you said in the past was true."
"You said you were sexy in the OR."
She thought of the time earlier; when they were facing each other at the beach, surrounded by the walls of an old shipwreck. She had assumed that Sijin was just making a quip based on her words back then; when she told him that she was sexy when she was doing surgery. But hearing him mentioning it again, she wondered if he had also been asking her if she was still the same person as she was before.
Looking back at the situation now with this line of thought, it dawned on her as to why he snapped at her before. When she told him off regarding the treatment of the boy suffering from lead poisoning.
"It's my philosophy that I protect beautiful people, senior citizens, and children."
"I had a beautiful lady and a senior citizen. How could I not protect them?"
"That's what I do. I fight to save lives. But you protect lives while killing people. That's what you do."
She had been wrong about him. Her thoughts about his job before had been so shallow. And it wasn't as if she was able to live up to her own words with her own job too. Especially during these past eight months, since all she ever did during that period was doing talk shows and tending to trivial requests by some rich and powerful people. In that kind of position, she had no right to say anything regarding ethics or morality.
It was disheartening that it took her so long to realise this.
"You were very brave today. Do you know that?"
Perhaps being sent to Uruk and meeting Yoo Sijin again after eight months wasn't so bad after all.
xxx
In the end, he was still feeling troubled. Then again, what he did... was not something trivial. Yet despite that...
"It's me... Kang Moyeon."
Perhaps something good would come despite all of this. After all, Kang Moyeon that he used to know before was still the same Kang Moyeon now. And this was a chance for them to start all over again. Then perhaps, a relationship that he thought would never work before... might end up being possible now.
He could only hope.
Series: 태양의 후예 / Descendants of the Sun
Characters: Yoo Sijin
Summary: Eight months is a long time to be apart.
-----------------------
"By the way, what if he doesn't wake up?"
"There'll be a case report about hepatic artery aneurysms and the history of the world will change a little."
Moyeon raised her head as she watched Chihun leave, and then noticed that the men outside appeared to have relaxed a bit. Curious about what happened outside, she exited the IC unit and noted that Yoo Sijin was not present.
"Excuse me...' she started asking one of the soldiers still standing nearby. "Did Captain Yoo went somewhere?"
The young soldier turned towards her, looking somewhat in dismay. It surprised her, seeing him like that. Suppose even a soldier gets shaken after a tough situation too.
"Captain Yoo... he's being detained,"
She gasped. That was not something she expected to happen.
xxx
"I made a rational decision as a doctor when I diagnosed and treated him."
"You seem so proud. If you get fired, you can start your own clinic. Because you're a famous doctor."
She... never thought herself to be a prideful person. But perhaps she was, without realising. Of course, being prideful about one's own ability was not bad... but she thought she had been quite modest about it. Then again, given her current position, perhaps she was being arrogant. After all, she didn't really care at the possibility of being fired from her—she's planning to do it anyway when she gets back—and she did believe that she would do well if she opens a new clinic by herself.
But hearing those words coming from that colonel didn't make her feel good.
"You don't care what you did to Yoo Sijin."
"His career as a soldier for the past several years has been completely ruined. If the chairman doesn't wake up, the rest of his life will be gone. Thanks to your rational decision."
It never crossed her mind, that what Captain Yoo did to allow her team to operate would affect him in this way. Because all he ever did was protecting her team. Why was that wrong? Was there something she wasn't aware of?
Moyeon turned her head almost by instinct as Sergeant Seo walked in to see her.
"You have until 20:50. 10 minutes."
xxx
As Sergeant Seo made an about turn towards the jeep, Moyeon stopped him. Because it still bugged her about the reason Sijin was being locked up. And everyone was being too tensed about the situation, it felt off. Not that she thought that the life of the Arab chairman wasn't a serious issue.
Sergeant Seo turned to face her, his face not showing any kind of emotion.
"Captain Yoo was ordered to be locked up because he did something he was not ordered to do. That is all," he said before leaving.
xxx
She stopped walking, as she turned around to stare at the storehouse again. Somehow she couldn't understand it how that person could be so calm.
"I think what you said in the past was true."
"You said you were sexy in the OR."
She thought of the time earlier; when they were facing each other at the beach, surrounded by the walls of an old shipwreck. She had assumed that Sijin was just making a quip based on her words back then; when she told him that she was sexy when she was doing surgery. But hearing him mentioning it again, she wondered if he had also been asking her if she was still the same person as she was before.
Looking back at the situation now with this line of thought, it dawned on her as to why he snapped at her before. When she told him off regarding the treatment of the boy suffering from lead poisoning.
"It's my philosophy that I protect beautiful people, senior citizens, and children."
"I had a beautiful lady and a senior citizen. How could I not protect them?"
"That's what I do. I fight to save lives. But you protect lives while killing people. That's what you do."
She had been wrong about him. Her thoughts about his job before had been so shallow. And it wasn't as if she was able to live up to her own words with her own job too. Especially during these past eight months, since all she ever did during that period was doing talk shows and tending to trivial requests by some rich and powerful people. In that kind of position, she had no right to say anything regarding ethics or morality.
It was disheartening that it took her so long to realise this.
"You were very brave today. Do you know that?"
Perhaps being sent to Uruk and meeting Yoo Sijin again after eight months wasn't so bad after all.
xxx
In the end, he was still feeling troubled. Then again, what he did... was not something trivial. Yet despite that...
"It's me... Kang Moyeon."
Perhaps something good would come despite all of this. After all, Kang Moyeon that he used to know before was still the same Kang Moyeon now. And this was a chance for them to start all over again. Then perhaps, a relationship that he thought would never work before... might end up being possible now.
He could only hope.
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