two worlds: jaeyong

17

the car ride back was quiet, as jaehyun wasn't speaking and taeyong knew that he had a lot on his mind. he was how jaehyun's face turned dark when talking to the dark haired man.

once at the base, jaehyun takes the car to the portable for the medical team.

"it's late and it's going to be busy tomorrow so rest well," jaehyun tells taeyong in his usual calm voice.

"thanks and good night," taeyong gets out and waves to the captain.

once he saw that taeyong went inside safely, jaehyun drives himself to the general's tent, where he luckily was still there.

"general park," jaehyun enters the tent and salutes.

"ah jaehyun you're back. how was the meeting with the president?" general park asks as he goes through the papers on his desk.

"it went fine but that's not why i'm here, it's about arnold davidson," and that makes his superior stop what he was doing.

"private ryan? what about him?"

"he's here in chasa, i saw him in the city."

"well, if he's here, wouldn't the usa have told us something about it. afterall, he does have close ties with us with all the missions he's done."

"he's here as a weapon dealer. nothing he's doing is connected to the us military."

the general stands up and looks at jaehyun with disbelief.

"how sure are you about that statement?"

"the man that was arrested during our collaboration mission was there and he was also working for arnold. the police were on arnold's side the whole time," jaehyun ruffled his hair in frustration.

"it's too late right now but after breakfast, i want you and your whole team in the conference tent right away, understood?"

"understood," and after saluting, he exits.

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in the empty space, taeyong steps out the bathroom, towel on his head as he had just washed up. going to his bed, he takes out his glasses and starts reading his book. but unlike other days he just couldn't concentrate.

"you are an important person to him and you mean a lot to him. you may not know in which way now but time will eventually have him open up to you and your eyes will open on your own feelings as well."

the words from the woman replay through the doctor's mind and when it comes to be too much, he sets his book down.

"i'm going crazy," he tells himself. it was a time like this he needed a cup of coffee.

walking to the kitchen, he takes out the water boiler and plugs it in, looking for the tea bags while waiting.

"is someone in here?"

a tall figure walks over to where taeyong was and the doctor smiles at the familiar face.

"hey johnny, did you need something?"

"no, i was just on patrol and i saw the lights were on so just to make sure," the soldier answered. "by the way, how was the meeting with the president? did he give you guys anything?"

"it went well and we aren't in trouble so that's good. and yeah, he gave us each some kind of golden card that will apparently help us in any situation he said," taeyong passes the taller the object he was describing.

"wow, is this actual gold?" johnny runs his fingers over the cool surface of the card before giving it back to the doctor.

"yeah," taeyong takes his possession back and puts it back in his wallet. "so what are you here for?"

"could be asking you the same thing, it's 10pm and you should be in your cabin."

"i wanted tea so i came here, do you want some?" taeyong pours the now hot water into a mug with a tea bag and passes it to johnny.

"thanks," and he takes a small sip of the drink. "did jaehyun take you into the city?"

"yeah, and he brought me to the cafe owned by a grandmother. turns out that she's akeem's grandmother!"

"that's a really cool coincidence," johnny took another sip. "did she give you a talk?"

"she did, how'd you know?"

"cause we like to joke she's a fortune teller. she can read any of us and tell us what will happen in the future and it happens. she foretold that ten and i would get together?"

"who's ten," taeyong sips his tea?

"a couple weeks ago, before you guys came, we had a collaboration mission with our team from china and i met someone named yongqin there. his call name is ten so we all just call him that since he had like 3 different names. anyways, grandmother could tell that the both of us liked each other so she kind of just forced us to confess to each other. and here we are, ten and i are still going strong."

"wow," taeyong just looked down and fiddled with the cup in his hand. johnny noticed and decided to ask the million-dollar question.

"she asked you about jaehyun right?"

the doctor looked up surprised and had has jaw opened.

"yeah, how did you know?"

"lucky but obvious guess," johnny shrugged. "but what did she tell you?"

"just that jaehyun considers me as a special person and that i should open my eyes to my own feelings."

"sounds to me she's trying to make jaeyong happen," the american winks.

"jaeyong?"

"it's the ship name for you and jaehyun, it's become quite a popular thing at the base."

"what!? you guys are so weird!!"

"well what can we do? we're tired of seeing you two act like two panicked gays around each other. especially you, jaehyun might be a panicked one but you're worst than he is."

"i did not make you tea so you can attack me like this."

"not my fault for telling you the truth. anyways, i have to go back on patrol, but thanks for the company!"

"i should be the one saying that but be safe, it's really dark out there."

the two wave to each other and taeyong closes the door. once again, the space is quiet. feeling awkward, taeyong walks around the whole space, adding in a bit of skips and hops here and there.

then his walkie goes off, a voice calling.

"dr. lee?"

taeyong's heart flutters at the voice and he picks it up.

"yes, this is dr. lee. what is the emergency?"

"where are you?"

"i am in the kitchen, why?"

"stay there, i'm going to go there," and the line goes dead.

the doctor just stands, confused and in a gaze at what just happened. then, a knock on the door is heard and when he opens it, it reveals jaehyun, in a black shirt and sweatpants, holding 2 bottles of peach-flavored soju.

"i needed a drinking buddy, are you up for it?"