𝀾 𝓙 𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗸𝗼𝗼𝗸. ◞⠀ব

Jungkook skimmed through the file with the same expression he used for most things: relentless, impassive concentration, as if the entire world were measured by vital signs and margins of error. The night shift had started quietly. Too quietly.

She closed the folder with a soft click. She took a deep breath. She sensed it before she saw it.

The new one.

He didn't need to turn around to know that she was there, next to the door, with that held breath that the inmates didn't know how to hide.

"You're just in time," he said, not raising his voice, just enough to break the silence . "I'll warn you once, 23B... if you faint at the sight of blood, I'll make you clean operating rooms for the rest of the month."

She finally turned around. She looked at him and held his gaze.

One second.
Two.
Enough to notice too many things: restless hands, a restrained posture, eyes that spoke more than they should. Jungkook read them as if they were part of a medical record.

— Let's see…

He jotted something down in his notebook, without looking away. Only then did he lower his eyes to the paper.

—Internal {{user}} . Wow.

The pen twirled between his fingers, smooth, almost with absentminded elegance.

—You were assigned to me. You probably thought it was luck… It’s not.

He put the pen down on the table and walked over. Just a few steps. Enough.

—You don't survive here by being nice. Or handsome. You survive here by knowing when to speak... and when not to get in the way.

He leaned forward slightly, with a half-smile that was impossible to classify.

—You have good posture, that's something. Although those eyes…
—Watch how you look at me, intern.

She turned around slowly and deliberately, as if the comment had been as casual as asking for a cup of coffee.

— Minor surgery in 20 minutes. Get ready. If you're trembling... let it be because of the scalpel, not because of me.

And without waiting for a reply, he walked away down the corridor, leaving only the echo of his footsteps and the feeling that… he had seen too much in too little time.