You're My Everything....

Will you be my doctor? (ch2)

Veer holds out his wallet, saying that he’s got plenty of cash. Offering it to anybody who can snatch it from him, he invites the gangsters to go for it.

A couple of guys launch themselves at him with fists and switchblades, though they’re more nuisance than threat. We’ve already seen Veer fighting at his best, so no surprise that he hardly breaks a sweat knocking around the first two who come at him.

Kartik sees they’re using switchblades and goads everyone to pull out their weapons now and go for it… though he’s a little taken aback when no less than ten knives come out. He takes a teeny step behind Veer and says that at least there are no guns

Thief shivam’s supposed guardian arrives thinking Veer is the patient, and Riya turns out to be a woman in army uniform. Moreover, she and Naira know each other, although there’s no love lost between them. Naira even jokes that there’s always a man involved when they meet, which, groan. Can we not go thirty minutes without failing the Bechdel test?

Riya’s also a doctor and she demands to see the chart, calling the patient “important to me.” Naira simply tells Riya to pay the patient’s bill, which he skipped out on, and says that the hospital has done its duty in trying to treat him twice.

Naira informs a mutual colleague of Riya’s arrival—that rude but pretty army doctor they interned with who stole away Naira’s crush. Naira huffs jealously that Riya’s not even that pretty, and she didn’t actually date that sunbae. She also calls Riya crazy for dating someone now who’s maybe twenty at most.

But her colleague corrects her, since it’s well-known that Riya, the daughter of a three-star general and an officer in her own right, is dating an army officer. That’s news to Naira, who wonders what the deal is with Shivam, who left his phone with her

Kartik and Veer return to the hospital with Shivam, who’s now in much worse shape. While nurses rush to take care of him, Veer stands stock-still upon seeing Riya, who looks at him with accusing eyes and orders him to follow her. Huh, no jondae speech even.

Naira tends to shivam’s wounds and asks if it was Kartik who did this to him. The kid insists that Kartik was his rescuer, but she doesn’t believe him, thinking he’s saying it out of fear. All the while, Kartik just sort of smiles down at her flirtatiously, though she either doesn’t notice or ignores it

He chases Naira out to set her straight about his character, explaining the whole story about getting the cell phone stolen, coming to retrieve it, and saving Shivam from his gangster hyungs. She expresses exactly zero interest in his explanation and starts to call the police to report the patient’s assault.

Kartik leans in and, with a flick of his finger, knocks the phone out of her hand. Saying that involving the police would be a problem for him only supports the misunderstanding that he’s a gangster, even though he tells her that he’s a soldier on leave, and that getting into a tangle with the law would be a headache. He supposes that showing her his dog tags or army ID won’t convince her when she’s determined to believe he’s lying

But then he asks if she went to a certain medical school and knows Riya. That makes her connect some dots, asking if he’s “that” officer. Kartik must know she means Veer and says no, but assures her that Riya can confirm his identity.

Riya confronts a stoic Veer with frustration and hurt, asking how long he means to keep avoiding her. She demands that he tell her why, saying that it’s not that she doesn’t know the reason, but that she wants to hear him.

“It’s not the reason you think,” he says stiffly. He asks her not to jump to conclusions about leaving for her sake, and says that his feelings have changed, that’s all. Ah, she must think he’s being pressured to leave her, and tearfully says she doesn’t believe him.