health | jungkook

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I am in no shape or form a medical professional; this chapter is based on sole research and how I interpreted this procedure.

"Alright Taejin-ssi, we're about to put you to sleep, okay? So just relax for me," Jimin said calmly as he put the mask on the patient who nodded in understanding. He injected the propofol into her arm. Soon, her eyes were drooping shut and her breathing was stabilized.

Yoongi and Hoseok entered a few moments after, masked up and sterilized. Jimin and another nurse named Seokjin moved towards them with their scrubs, assisting them with sliding it on. Then, Jimin and Seokjin grabbed a pair of gloves for each doctor before putting them on their hands as well.

"Is she out?" Hoseok asked as he securely tied his gown.

Seokjin nodded. "She's ready when you are."

The group of medical staff gathered around the bed, Hoseok and Seokjin on one side and Yoongi and Jimin on the other. "Hoseok, begin with the incision please," Yoongi instructed.

Jimin handed Hoseok the scalpel quickly, and said doctor began to cut all around Taejin's abdomen. Soon, the procedure started. They began to remove each organ carefully, examining every inch of each. Yoongi furrowed his eyebrows. "This thing is everywhere...but it's just small pieces. We need to find the original host tumor."

"What do we do with the bits on the organs?" Seokjin asked as he took out the small intestines.

"You and Jimin need to quickly remove them all. Dr. Jung and I will keep looking for the host," Yoongi instructed and the two nurses quickly began their tasks.

***

"Jungkook, you need to sit down," Taehyung said. Said boy had been pacing back and forth ever since Taejin was wheeled out of her room. "I've been here for three hours waiting so we can go play video games and you're pacing back and forth like your wife is giving birth."

Jungkook glared at his best friend. "Tae, I don't think you understand the depth of this. She is my girlfriend. And she's on that operating table with a huge risk of fucking dying and you're telling me to go play video games with you?"

Taehyung exhaled and shrugged. "I mean, you've been cooped up in this hospital for all these years and right when you get the chance to leave, you don't want to? I just want to catch up on all these years that I missed being with my best friend."

"And I get that, hyung. I want to as well. But we wouldn't need to do so much catching up if you had remembered I existed," Jungkook argued. "If I didn't upload a story on Snapchat every once and while you would've thought I died."

"Jungkook, it's not like that. I just didn't have time-"

"She was getting eaten alive by a damn cancer tumor and she still had time for me after we met."

"You haven't even known her for a full year and you're prioritizing her over me - and I've known you for all my life!"

"Time doesn't matter, Taehyung!" Jungkook raised his voice and felt his blood begin to boil. "The type of person she is and the impact she made on my life is what matters. Hyung, you don't get it. I would be dead right now because I didn't want to get the surgery."

Taehyung's face softened.

"I really thought no one remembered me," Jungkook said softly, feeling his throat tighten. "My parents are dead. You were all I had before I got into this mess, and you would leave me deserted for weeks on end. I had no one."

"Jungkook-"

"But I met her, in quite a weird way. And she made me want to stay here, to be with her," Jungkook felt his eyes sting. "And now she's fighting her life with this scary surgery. Tae, I could lose her."

"I know-"

"So I'm sorry if I can't go play Overwatch or whatever games you have. I have to be here."

Taehyung didn't say anything for a moment, he only moved to hug the younger male. After a few seconds feeling his shirt get damp with tears, he began whispering apologies and words of comfort.

***

"There you are," Hoseok muttered and began to extract the original tumor from its location.

Yoongi felt a smile tug on his lips. "Good job, Hoseok. Did you guys finish cleaning up the organs?"

Seokjin nodded. "Ready to put back in when you are."

Hoseok put the tumor in a sealed container, grinning to himself. "Finally, she's okay. Let's start putting everything back where it belongs."

The medical staff were approaching the end of the surgery, having just placed the stomach in it's space when suddenly, Taejin's heart monitor begins to go off.

"Shit," Yoongi mumbled. "She's going into cardiac arrest, give me the defibrillator!"

As Jimin ran to grab the equipment needed, Hoseok pulled out his pager, beeping a code blue.

***

Jihye was walking down the hospital corridors, she stopped by Taejin's room where she found Jungkook still pacing with a distressed expression and an unknown male attempting to calm him down.

"Jungkook?" Jihye spoke and said boy looked up at her with wide doe eyes. "What's wrong, kid? I told you everything was going to be okay with her." She moved to hold his hands tightly, thumbs rubbing circles in an attempt to calm him down.

Jungkook shook his head, barely whispering, "Something's wrong. I can feel it. My chest hurts, Jihye."

Jihye released her grip on his hands and grabbed her stethoscope to hear the boy's heartbeat, which was palpitating faster than usual. She then led the boy to Taejin's bed and sat him down. "I think you're just worried, hm?"

Jungkook shrugged.

"It's okay to be worried, I am too. But she's a fighter. She's the strongest person we've ever met, right?"

Jungkook nodded slowly, swallowing.

"She's got this. So take some deep breaths, dear-"

Jihye's pager began to go off. She frowned, looking down at the screen, reading the code blue message. Jungkook peered over as well, and read that it was sent by...Dr. Jung?

"Oh no," Jihye said breathlessly as she turned off her pager and rose to her feet.

Jungkook looked up at the nurse with a terrified expression. "Was that Taejin?"

"Jungkook, I need you to stay here. I'll go check it out-"

The boy got up from his seat. "Jihye, please go save her."

"Jungkook, I can't go in there, I'm not verified for that yet. But I can go see what's going on. I need you to stay here and remain calm, okay? Deep breaths, everything will be alright," Jihye sat him down on the bed again and pressed a kiss to his head. She then spun around and looked at Taehyung. "Make sure he doesn't leave this room."

Taehyung nodded with wide eyes and Jihye sprinted out the hospital room following other medical staff, slamming the door shut.