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Jaewon bolted up, being awakened by the sudden ringing from his phone. He grabbed his head, again bumping that part of his body against the ceiling. Jaewon massaged the sore spot, ironically thinking if he kept hitting his head like that, he might end up being the patient himself, suffering from brain damage.

“Yang Jaewon from the Trauma Center.” Jaewon answered, barely holding his yawning in. He quickly looked at the clock, sighing internally at the time. He laid down in bed near 3 am, when he was done with his check-ups with the trauma patients. He barely got an hour of sleep. “Alright, I’ll be right there.”

The second Jaewon gets down from the bunk bed, he gets light-headed momentarily. He holds himself upright by his hands on the railing. When it finally passes he grabs the first coat from the hangers, not looking to who it belongs to. Jaewon is too exhausted to care about it right now.

Jaewon quickly ran to the ER. The patient admitted today suddenly worsened. His condition had been stable earlier that day. The patient woke up for a moment but almost immediately fell back asleep after answering all the questions, which was predictable in his condition. After all, his body needed that rest to heal.

The patient got a concussion from hitting his head against the ground as he had fallen down the ladder. He lost a good amount of blood too, as his head received a serious cut. The X-rays and CT scans they ran to check for any other injuries, didn’t come up with anything particular to worry about. His brain wasn’t swollen and there wasn’t any bleeding. Although they kept the patient for further observation, there wasn’t the need to hold him in the ER for longer than 2 days. They were going to discharge him tomorrow if his condition remained unchanged.

Jaewon hoped that the patient's condition wasn’t anything serious. If he has to go into surgery right now, he is afraid he might make a dangerous mistake, a mistake that will cost a patient's life.

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“Professor, is it alright to lie like this to Dr. Yang? He might get angry at us for joking about the patient’s condition.” The nurse Agnes asked, who called Dr Yang for an emergency at Prof. Baek's command.

“It’s okay, I need to keep him on his toes. We don’t want him to slack back, do we? Besides, if No.1 gets angry I might know an effective way to calm him down.” Kanghyuk reassures the anxious nurse.

They stand near the entrance to the patient room, waiting for Jaewon to turn around the corner.

Kanghyuk hears the sound of running footsteps before he sees a figure lose his balance as he shows up around the corner. Jaewon quickly finds his balance and heads towards the patient room, not wanting to waste more seconds. In their ward, every second is worth gold.

Kanghyuk’s heart skips a beat as he takes Jaewon all in. His tousled and tangled hair from sleep, crooked glasses on his nose, and imprinted pillow on Jaewon’s left cheek. Worry for the patient’s life is visible in Jaewon’s whole face.

To Kanghyuk, at this moment Jaewon looks extremely adorable and at the same time attractive.

His eyes wander up and down Jaewon’s body, noticing that his No.1 in a rush must have mistaken their coats. His coat looked too big on Jaewon, nearly swallowing his whole body. Jaewon must be dreadfully tired that he didn’t notice anything yet.

Kanghyuk must admit that the sight of Jaewon in his clothes awakens something primal inside him, the possessive side that wants to grab Jaewon, toss him over his shoulder and carry him somewhere private. Where Kanghyuk would have Jaewon just to himself, where no one else would look at him.

He smirks, ready to tease the younger doctor. As he opens his mouth to speak, Jaewon beats him to it.

“P-Professor…, h-how is the patient…? Did you manage to stabilize him?” Jaewon leans against the wall next to Professor Baek, trying to catch his breath.

“There weren’t any emergencies at all. Just wanted to see how fast you could run from the on-call room to here.” Kanghyuk explained, amusement heard in his voice. “Yah Anus, where were your eyes…”

He doesn’t have a chance to finish his sentence. Jaewon looks at him with a stern look in his eyes, as he cuts Baek Kanghyuk’s sentence off.

“Professor, this isn’t a place for people to go around joking like that. Every call is meant to be taken seriously, if you start calling for non-important matters like this, some doctor or nurse might not take your next call seriously and the patient that would need that immediate attention might end up dead. Now if you excuse me, I have other matters to attend to.” As he said what was on his mind, he turned on his heel and left the emergency room, without looking back.

Jaewon didn’t raise his voice even once in his speech, but Kanghyuk could hear clear as day that his subordinate wasn’t happy with him. He stared with shock in the now empty hallway, where Jaewon was a second ago, not being able to command any of his muscles to follow after Jaewon.

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“Fucking crazy asshole off a man, just who he thinks he is? Right now I could be asleep, finally having a sweet time for much-needed sleep. The bastard could have joined me, but no! He got a time for fucking dump jokes right now, that aren’t even that bloody funny. See if I let you sleep with me now, you old prick.” Jaewon curses the Professor, not knowing that the person responsible for his anger is right behind him.

Kanghyuk just smiles to himself, not affected at all by the mean words. Jaewon sounds right now like an angry kitten, hissing right and left. Wanting to bite but not doing any real damage.

He grabs Jaewon by the collar of his coat and gently throws him against the nearest wall. Kanghyuk puts his hands on the wall, next to Jaewon’s head, successfully caging Jaewon in. He looks at Jaewon’s blushing and shocked face, feeling proud of having elicited such a reaction from him.

Jaewon looks nervously around, searching if there are any people around them. “I don’t want to talk to you right now, let me go.” Jaewon lightly pushes his boyfriend, his hands on the older man’s chest. As Kanghyuk doesn’t move an inch, he tries harder, but with no effect at all. “Hyuuung, let me go. I’m too tired right now to deal with you.”

Kanghyuk just nuzzles closer to Jaewon, ignoring Jaewon’s attempt to push him back. He brings his face closer to his lover’s ear. “I’m sorry Jaewon-ah, I didn’t want to make you angry, please forgive this man.” Kanghyuk whispers, noticing how Jaewon shivers at his tone. He starts placing kisses from Jaewon’s ear, down to his neck and up to Jaewon’s cheek.

Jaewon tries not to react to Kanghyuk's action, but his body betrays him, moving his head aside to give Kanghyuk better access to his neck. As his eyes flutter shut, he remembers Professor's smirk just from minutes ago. When he was leaning against the wall, waiting for him to show up just to torment him for a little more.

Jaewon opens his eyes and tries to wiggle out of the other person’s embrace with new vigour, remembering why he was angry in the first place. “Hyung, if you want to have a chance to sleep and cuddle with me in the same bed, I suggest letting me go now.” Jaewon seriously says.

Kanghyuk pulls back slightly, his hands finding their spot on Jaewon’s waist. “But you look so cute right now. I can’t stop touching you even if I tried to.” He leans over again, to whisper: “I like seeing you in my clothes. You should wear them more often.” Kanghyuk smiles at the shocked face of his younger subordinate. He quickly takes advantage of those slightly open lips by pecking them.

Jaewon just stares at Kanghyuk thinking about what nonsense he is spewing. He is so deep in thought that he doesn’t notice when Kanghyuk kisses his lips. As his boyfriend pulls back, Jaewon follows after his lips, kissing him back. After all, he can indulge himself a little, even if he's still angry at the older man.

When Kanghyuk’s hands wander under his coat he recollects what his older partner said about him wearing the other person’s clothes. Jaewon pulls back to look at his work clothes. His face quickly turns red as he notices a coat that is way too big for him to be in his possession. He quickly hides his blushing face behind his hands.

Jaewon can’t believe that he made such a mistake. Just how many people saw him wearing Professor’s coat?! He wishes for the earth to swallow him whole right now.

Jaewon looks through his fingers at Kanghyuk's face, still embarrassed. He removes his hands from his face - now indignant - as Kanghyuk's face is filled with amusement at the expense of his embarrassment.

“I’m still angry at you, so you know! And you are sleeping in your bunk bed from now on.” Jaewon punches his professor's chest, quickly speaking again when Kanghyuk opens his mouth. ”I don’t want to hear any of your excuses and complaints. You must lay in your bed now as you made it. If you behave I might reconsider your punishment. Now let me go.”

Baek Kanghyuk only sighed heavily before stepping back and letting his younger partner go. “As you wish. But I have one condition.” Kanghyuk knew he was stepping on thin ice, as he tried to retain some control over the situation, not knowing he lost it the moment Jaewon got angry at him.

“And it is?” Jaewon asked with his brow raised.

“I get to sleep in the lower bed.” Kanghyuk said as if he had the right to negotiate in this situation.

Jaewon searched the Professor's face for something, raising hope in the other person. He didn’t think about switching their usual places, but now he feels like getting a small revenge at Kanghyuk.

“No, you are going to the upper bed.” Jaewon enjoyed the shock on Kanghyuk's face. He smiled as he left the Professor and went to the breakroom. Soon enough he heard footsteps following him, Jaewon shot a glance behind him to see a defeated look on his partner’s face. He smirks, thinking of ways to wind Baek Kanghyuk more when they reach the breakroom.

Yang Jaewon feels quite pleased with himself, after a moment. He managed to get a few days without banging his head against that stupid ceiling.