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Namjoon's POV:
"Mmm, morning already?" I groan, still half asleep. Surprisingly, I feel so refreshed and energized.
"Ow!" Maybe a little too energized since I banged my head against the door, not realizing I had left it closed last night. Is that why I felt so warm in my sleep?
What ever it was, I'm thankful for it. This sleep was necessary for me to get in order to strengthen my muscles again from the recent sickness I had previously began incubating.
I check my temperature after eating breakfast.
"Normal. Completely normal. If only I would have felt this good yesterday, I would have worked overtime." I laugh to myself, then hear a laugh from outside of my apartment.
"Good morning, doctor." Yoongi teases, letting himself in.
"Yoongi, please don't call me doctor. Call me anything else except for doctor, you know how many times in one night I hear the name "doctor Kim"? Huh?" The guys sit on a couch and snack on popcorn which Yoongi had brought for Namjoon.
"Hey, don't complain. At least you're popular. I can imagine how proud everyone must be about you and how successful you've become. Remember how long you studied to become what you are now?"
"So many struggles, Yoongi. You know what? You're right. I worked so hard for this career, so call me doctor Kim. In fact, I'm going to illegally change my name to Dr. Kim."
I brushed my messy hair back while fidgeting with a stethoscope I had in my hands. I had left it in the living room yesterday when I arrived home and didn't even bother to pick it up from the floor until now.
"I'm so tired. You have no idea how relieved I am that I have the day off today."
Yoongi furrowed his eyebrows at me, with confusion.
"No sleep, I'm guessing?"
"You guessed right. Just when I was having the best sleep of my life, flashbacks pop into my head and turn into a nightmare." I took a sip of the warm coffee I was holding in my hands to keep me awake.
"If it weren't for the amount of caffeine and energy drinks I'm consuming, then I would be a good cast member for The Walking Dead, that's for damn sure." I laughed.
Yoongi chewed on his popcorn before speaking.
"Flashbacks of what?"
Third person's POV:
Namjoon explained everything shortly before showing Yoongi the video he took.
"Have you watched it yet?" Yoongi asked before the younger hooked up his camera to the TV so they could have a better view of the recordings.
"No. I was so tired that I didn't even bother seeing one minute of the footage." He replied with a yawn.
While watching the video, nothing strange appeared so far.
"You really do need a tripod, it'll help you support your device and avoid potential accidents." Yoongi spoke.
"I'm thinking on getting one today. It's nice out, so I'll just head to the mall and see what I can find."
Namjoon got up.
"I'll go with you, I need a new pair of headphones to help me sleep at night."
The older man followed him outside of the apartment.
"Music helps you sleep at night, huh? I should consider giving that a try then."
"Yeah, I don't listen to music. I usually listen to relaxing rain sounds or classical piano music to ease my mind." On their way there, they ate something at the food court.
The mall was packed with so many people, so many faces, and so much movement and noise. Namjoon kept dozing off every five or ten minutes, so Yoongi asked him if he wanted to sit down on a bench for a while as he entered a clothing store he was very fond of. Namjoon agreed, knowing he needed the rest, and smiled at a sweet little boy who he sat down next to. He spoke with Namjoon for a long time, not once stopping.
"My sister knows you." His words made Namjoon wiggle his eyebrows out of curiosity.
"Oh, she does?" The little boy nodded.
"I'm her little brother, but she's only four years older than me. She's fourteen and I'm ten. You're a doctor, right?" Namjoon nods, smiling.
"Oh, here she comes now. Sis, look!" The familiar looking girl's eyes lit up when she saw Namjoon.
"Hello, doctor Kim." She greeted him along with her mother.
"How has everything been? Is your ankle better?" This patient had sprained her left ankle when Namjoon first met her, she's a very nice girl, so he felt so bad for her when she looked at him with a sad expression on her face.
"It took me a while to heal, but I'm all better now, thanks to you." This made the man feel happy.
"I'm happy for you. Don't injure yourself, alright? Make sure to never ride a bicycle down a hill, or down a ramp to decrease the chance of a fracture in your bones." The mother nodded along with her daughter.
"That doctor of yours is quite handsome, isn't he?" He overheard the mother whisper to the girl as they left.
Namjoon laughed in silence as he saw Yoongi walking out of the store with over ten bags in his hands.
"Shopping spree, sales, or is the store going out of business." Namjoon asked.
"Shopping spree, sales, and the store is leaving in a month. Look at all this I bought for fifty percent off! Everyone looked at me like I was some sort of a lunatic: Spending money like it's the end of the world. You should have seen the look on their faces when I walked out of there with all of this. By the way, can you give me a hand?"
"Only if I get to keep the bags." Namjoon teased.
"Alright, which ones you want: Plastic or fabric?"
The man playfully pushed his best friend while carrying his stuff to the trunk of his car.
Namjoon felt free for once, not feeling trapped or work filling his head. He was enjoying his day like there was no tomorrow.
The sun set shortly after they headed back home. Yoongi was going to sleep over for the first time since he moved out which brightened up Namjoon's mood because it meant that he wasn't going to be all alone in that huge apartment.
"I missed it here, but let me tell you, the new house I moved into feels very welcoming. I don't think I'll be leaving it any time soon."
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In no time, those two were fast asleep. Namjoon didn't wake up once, he didn't even move. His sleep was better than before.
The next week of work, Namjoon hadn't seen Seokjin. In a way it cured his state of mind, but in another it cursed him. Not knowing whether or not the man was alive or not was messing with Namjoon's head.
"You're a doctor, but you are also human. Humans have the right to explore." Just as he was going to enter the lab, a woman ran up to him with a child in her arms.
"Dr. Kim, please help me. My son's leg is infected and he won't stop crying from the pain."
While carefully cradling the young boy in his arms, the doctor sat him down and looked at him.
"I'm going to remove his shoe to check his leg." He warned before slightly lifting the boy's pants and taking his shoe off. The problem wasn't a fracture or a sprain as the mother feared, it was simple a..."Splinter?" Namjoon focused on the boy's leg.
A long wooden splinter had gotten lodged inside of his leg. No wonder the boy was crying so much.
"Hold still while I get pull it out, okay?"
"Mommy, I'm scared. Is it going to hurt!" The boy pouted.
Namjoon tilted his head down at him and opened his bag to get his gloves and tweezers.
"I'll put a little bit of numbing cream around the area so you won't feel that much pain." The boy agreed as his caring mother gently combed his hair down.
In no time his splinter was painlessly removed and the boy was able to walk normally again without pain or discomfort.
"Thank you, Dr. Kim." The boy sweetly thanked him. Namjoon opened up his bag once more and took out a lollipop. He usually keeps a sweet treat on him whenever he's hungry but doesn't have time to eat anything. It might not be the healthiest thing to consume on an empty stomach, but it's not like he skips breakfast every morning either.
"Thank you for being such a brave little solider, here you go, sweetheart." He kindly smiled. Namjoon loves kids, he's always wanted to have a little brother or sister, however, he does have one brother who he cherishes very much.
And seeing his young patients happy makes his day any day of the week.
"You're the kindest doctor ever. Mom, I love doctor Kim!" The doctor was taken back when he was hugged by the small child. "I love doctor Kim!" The words melted his heart.
As the mother and son walked out of the hospital, Namjoon was happier than ever.
Nothing could ruin his day.
"Dr. Kim, what are you doing here?" Except for Bohwa's presence...
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