«Dr. Kim, Don't Fear Me» [K.n.j & K.s.j]

45 ⸸

Namjoon returned to the hospital and everything was different. Everyone was different.

The people weren't as nice as before, the workers didn't greet him like robots, they just passed him by as if he were a ghost, and the patients were twice as scared as before.

"What could have happened the day I left?" The doctor didn't put too much attention to it: He didn't come to make friends, especially not monsters like them, he came to cure the sick and help them out.

He saw Yoona and Bohwa walking towards him, but as if magic, they passed him by without saying a word. They looked terrified and he noticed how they kept on cowering away from him.

As the hours went by, the doctor couldn't help but to stare at his cellphone.

"When will he call..." He ate carefully, staring at everyone around him. A familiar stranger sat down next to him along with a machine that was hooked onto him.

"Dr. Kim, it's so good to see you again." The doctor was partly shocked, but happy.

"Hoseok. How have you been?"

"Could have been better in these past few days. You haven't been here in almost a week, how are those vacations going?" Hoseok seemed a little bit odd. His smile was there, but the doctor couldn't help but find something strange about him.

"They've been going well. I actually took a few days off because I got sick, really really sick." Hoseok got up, readjusting himself in the seat he was in. The doctor could tell he felt uncomfortable.

"Are you okay?" The young man agreed, but his eye bags say otherwise. Namjoon knew something was wrong with Hoseok.

"It's a beautiful day out, isn't it?" Namjoon spoke, trying to change the subject.

"Beautiful." Hoseok repeated with a suspicious voice that reminded Namjoon of Bohwa's voice whenever he was hiding something from him.

Hoseok wanted to say something, but his voice was too shaky. Every time he spoke, he would shake or mess up his speech by twitching, and that worried the doctor. So he suggested for Hoseok to meet him in his office to talk in private without anyone around. Hoseok agreed.

The doctor left first, to not make it look obvious. Hoseok left a few minutes afterwards.

He opened the door to his office and let Hoseok in. The patient was walking with fear. He kept looking behind him every minute.

"Please tell me, how have they been treating you here ever since I left?" Hoseok got quiet.

The doctor watched as Hoseok untied his hospital gown and exposed his back and chest.

"You tell me: How have they been treating me here, Namjoon." There were stitches on his back, that looked badly stitched from the small rips in them. On his chest, Namjoon noticed there was a machine hooked onto Hoseok. It looked like a life support machine, but as he got closer to it, he noticed that it was a monitor.

"They hear us. They hear everything." Hoseok's words reminded Namjoon of the words that were written in the lab. Was Hoseok about to become another victim of the crazy doctors?

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