A does of salt • jjk + pjm

Chapter 2: taste of your own medicine

Jimin opens his eyes and looks up at the base of the top bunk. Another 12 hours to go. Should I go grab a sandwich instead of just eating ramen today? I wonder how Mr. Sohn is doing with his catheter; he hardly urinated this afternoon, the bag wasn't even halfway filled. God, I really need to drain all that fluid out of him, think I'm gonna up his diuretics maybe switch him over to torsemide instead of the furosemide. Hope Karla managed to get the MRI done successfully, ugh I really need that MRI. If not again ahh... I don't know what I'm gonna do. I wonder why the MRI was made to be so coffin-like I mean I don't blame patients for getting claustrophobic and getting panic attacks. I hope Mia's getting through the Potassium IV okay, why does Potassium have to take so long to drip and I don't understand why the potassium pills have to be so damn big, poor thing. If should could just swallow pills she wouldn't need to go through like 2 hours of that burning IV. Haha bananas, that was cute; she thought she could just eat a bunch of bananas in lieu of getting the fluid. Adorable. If only it was that simple. Jimin's mind is already swarmed with thoughts of all his patients the second he opens his eyes from his 20 minute nap. He's stressing over what to do for all his patients once he's off this one hour lunch, when he hears someone sneezing.

He looks to the left and sees Jungkook sitting at one of the desks studying. He picks up his coffee to drink some but finds it's empty; he throws his head all the way back with the cup literally a 180 degrees trying to drink every single last drop of the coffee. 

"Bless you," Jimin says quietly as he sits up ready to get out of the bottom bunk bed.

"Oh. Hey... thanks." Jungkook says a bit startled when he sees that Jimin is awake. "Sorry did I wake you."

"Oh, no. I was already awake."

"Okay," Jungkook says and goes back to reading his book on diffuse axonal injury. Jimin gets out of the on-call room bunk bed and goes to his desk to grab a cup ramen from his drawer. He's dispensing the hot water from the water dispenser when Jungkook suddenly gets up, tosses his empty coffee cup in the trash, and leaves the room without saying a word.

Jimin looks over at Jungkook's desk and sees the book is still open and desk lamp still on. He shrugs. Maybe he's going to the bathroom—the cardiac surgeon could care less. He takes a seat at the communal circle table in the middle of the room and checks his email on his phone while awaiting his spicy shin ramen to cook.

He's responding to emails when a cup of coffee is gently set down on the table. It's not Starbucks or anything fancy but just the small paper cup of coffee from the vending machine right down the hall. Jimin looks up and Jungkook is already getting settled back in his chair at his desk sipping his own fresh cup of coffee.

"Oh, thanks," Jimin looks around the small room as if he's confirming this coffee was indeed for him, even though he knows there's nobody else in here. He's just so surprised that Jungkook actually did something... nice for him.

"It's nothing. Figured you'd need it too," Jungkook says nonchalantly without even looking at Jimin when he speaks. When he came into the on-call room, he saw Jimin was passed out, in deep sleep, snoring, mouth open and everything. It was annoyingly cute how cute he looked. Nobody was supposed to look cute when snoring in their sleep. Jungkook hated that the colleague who dislikes him (or so he thinks), was so annoyingly cute. Jungkook understood how tired Jimin must have been for him to be sleeping that deeply. The work in the hospital never stopped or got less intense.

Sleep was a luxury for the surgeons.

"Thanks. Yeah. Appreciate it," Jimin says. "Hey," he says and pauses. Jungkook spins his chair and looks at Jimin. "Yeah?" He replies.

"You want a ramen?" Jimin smiles, "I have more in my desk. A variety too. Not just this kind. If you want?" Jimin offers warmly.

"Oh, I'm good. But thanks," Jungkook says.